The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SLéSCRIPTION RATES: ALL—$#6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ §1.50 per year. 1 FRANCISCO ¥), Pacific States Adver- nder building, Rose and MAY 1, 1895 Don’t let yourself become addicted to the theory habit. The bituminous-rock project needs watching again. DOLG Sae The dollar limit has put San Francisco into very short pants. The need of a better City Government is now laid bare in every department. me people get into the social swim who haven'’t sense enough to get out of the wet. One after another the leaders of both the great parties are getting under the silver umbrella. S Nothing is left of Democracy but the lungs and , and it can do nothing but bray and kick, Ever since California became wide awake for v ess the silurians have been com- plaining of insomnia. Police corruption is New York is threat- ened with the oversight of Fred Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Parker. urd th is a free- 2 to proy son bill of the present revival in trade. The most trader tryi 4s the caus There has been no very cold weather lately, and yet the refrigerator-car com- panies stand a good chance of being frozen out. John Bull had better be careful how he feels the American pulse on the Monroe doctrine or he may stumble on an exhibit of ican musel He who is surprised that the City finances have gone to smash confesses the lack of what he might e done as a good citizen to elect officers of sense. ‘We should not be surprised at any sort of moral laxity in a community whose daily press encourages the pe away their money in lotteries. All good citizens are so full of aspira- tions for the good of California that their energies are in danger of being scattered over too wide and barren an area. The Hibernia Bank has given the first evidence, after the Valley road projectors, that the times are good by reducing the | rate of interest on loans from 7 to 614 per cent. The bicycle having demonstrated its use- fulness in holding up trains, the Sheriff of Santa Clara County has directed his depu- ties to test its efficacy in overhauling crim- inals. Pasadena is going to furnish a new evi- dence of the enterprise which has made her g0 beautiful by reconstructing the Ray- mond Hotel with her own funds to the ex- tent of $250,000. Eastern papers are predicting that base- ball wilt be restored to popular favor this | year, and that a regular old-fashioned season is before the cranks and the long- suffering public. The fact that prisoners in the jail may have to go without food because the Super- visors wasted the public money is another proof that the innocent often suffer for the fault of the guilty. stk 0 The defenders of the Wilson tariff make 8 great splutter over every little item of gain resulting from it, but they carefully ignore the tremendous losses to the coun- try.which resulted from it. The rumor that France, Russia and Ger- many think that the United States is “‘supporting” Japan will be followed next by the assurance that somebody is aching to give this country a thrashing. It has become so completely a habit to talk aboutpeople stealing the streets for this or that purpose that the next thing we know we shall regard as worth having only those things which have been stolen. An assurance having been given that it is not likely the Santa Fe system will again lease the California Southern lines, we must face either a complete Southern Pa- cific monopoly or a road of our own to Salt Lake. There need be no surprise_that some of our people buy Eastern-made goods when a better article of the same kind 1s made in California when we reflect that there are still those among us who buy lottery tickets and submit to being swindled by bucket-shops. In offering a reward for the best device for saving the lives of people who are in danger of being ran over the street railway companies should not lose sight of the fact that a reward in the shape of adequate salaries might secure an efficient life-saving device in the persons of efficient motormen. Now that the savings banks, by reducing the interest on loans, are showing their confidence in the soundness of our pros- perity and offering a special inducement for enterprise ahd improvement, it is hoped that the croaker may cease his pre- valence and be forced into the ranks of progressive men. A prisoner in Blackwell Island peniten- tiary in New York has been detected secreting plaster of paris from the prison shops, getting a liquid which would enable him to produce more perfect impressions of coins than the plaster alone would give, and running lead 10-cent pieces behind the friendly screen of a pair of bellows. The report that the Prince of Wales may visit America to witness the yacht races this year has recalled the fact that when he was here before the war he had the pleasure of shooting prairie chickens in a suburb of Chicago, which has long since been incorporated in the city and built over with houses. If the Prince wishes to find any game in that section now he will have to buck the tiger. It is said by the Westminster Gazette of London that a new shrub, the “Chimonan- thus fragrans,” which has been acclima- tized in England, is serviceable for making a beverage from the leaves that is not un- like green tea, and that it is expected to prove profitable for cultivation in that country. The subject is worth the atten- tion of Californians, as the plant might be & valuable addition to our orchards. A WELCOME HOME. The members of the Half-million Club of San Francisco who went to the south- ern part of the State two weeks ago re- turned yesterday afternoon, bringing with them as guests representatives of the Los | Angeles bodies which had so handsomely entertained them in the south. The Half- million Club members, with their distin- guished guests, were met at the depot by representatives of the various mercantile bodies of San Francisco, and were given'a pleasant welcome. To-day and the ensu- ing few days will be given over to the en- tertainment of these visiting strangers, and it is a safe assurance that San Fran- cisco will not be found lacking in an un- derstanding of the art of hospitality. These visiting strangers represent the two most vital ideas that concern the progress of the State. One of these is State unity, their very presence among us as our guests being a pledge from the whole region south of Tehachapi Pass that what- ever great work is to be done in the future for the advancement of the State shall be done by the State asa whole. The other is that they represent a spirit of progress which is so greatly needed among our own people. This latter consideration is as important as the other. However disagreeable the assertion may be, it is still a fact that the splendid progress of the southern end of the State has been more the work of new- comers than of the old residents; and itis also a fact that San Francisco has not greatly felt the stimulus of Eastern blood, energy and enterprise that has made the southern part of the State so beautiful and prosperous. For many years it has been so easy a matter to prosper in California that a departure from the old traditions was never deemed necessary. San Fran- cisco has grown more by reason of her nat- ural advantages than through the efforts of her residents. The Los Angeles region, whatever its natural resources, has been developed largely-by the application of Eastern capital under intelligent direction. It is partly for these reasons that the gentlemen from the south can give to the wide-awake men of San Francisco some important information concerning the ways and meansof advancing the material interests of & community. Their capabili- ties have been tested, and their judgment and suggestions therefore are valuable. It will not take them long to perceive and comprehend the remarkable natural ad- vantages which San Francisco enjoys, and as they fully understand that whatever is done for the good of this City will be a benefit to the State at large, it will be their pleasure to give us the full benefit of their experience and wisdom. Meanwhile every patriotic San Francis- can will remember with pride and grati- tude the intelligent work that has been done by the Half-million Club. These gentlemen left their business for the good of the State, and they have accomplished the full task which they set for themselves. If every San Franciscan were as intelligent, energetic and patriotic as they, only a very short time would elapse before the popula- tion of San Francisco would amount to a half million person: THE BOARD OF HEALTH. The situation of San Francisco with ref- erence to danger from the importation of malignant diseases from abroad is so ex- posed that the very highest ability and the broadest appreciation of responsibility are imposed on the Board of Health. In addi- tion to this peril, we have in the heart of the City a massed Asiatic population with a tendency to resist hygienic interference and a skiliful knack in concealing leprosy and other diseases which they contract in their native country. For these reasons the people of San Francisco desire that the board be com- posed of the ablest and most conscientious men. The appointment of the members of the board rests with Governor Budd, and it is more than likely that the high appreciation of responsibility which he has shown'in so many other ways will be put to a severe strain in this matter, and that he will be expected by those who may have been of political assistance to him to be guided in a measure by their suggestions in his selection of the members. If these sug- gestions should secure the appointment of men of undoubted fitness for this, the most responsibie of all the positions which it is in the power of the Governor to fill, there could be no reasonable complaint. On the other hand, if unworthy or incapable men should be nrged upon the Governor solely for political reasons he would be placed in the position of making a choice between offending some politicians and jeopardizing the health and possibly the life of every resident of the City. It is not difficult to imagine what would be the choice of such a Governor as Mr. Budd has given evidence of being hereto- fore. Nevertheless, should he be placed in this position he will have the sympathy of all good citizens and their substantial rec- ognition of his high worth if the graver and nobler consideration should govern his action. DEMOORATIO POLICY. The most amazing feature of National politics at present is the appearance of un- mistakable signs that some of the more as- tute Democratic leaders will endeavor to huddle the money question off as a side is- sue in 1896 and make the campaign mainly on the tariff question. We call this policy amazing, because, in face of the experience of the last two years, it would seem that the tariff would be the political issue which a prudent Democrat would be most eager and most anxious to avoid. Nevertheless the signsthat some of the ablest politicians in the party intend to take it up and press it to the front, be- come every day more numerous and more significant. The great organs of the party are busily engaged in collecting every scrap of evidence showing a renewal of industry or an improvement of trade, and these, after being spread broadly over local col- ums, are taken up editorially and com- mented upon with a lavish display of per- suasive rhetoric and delusive reasoning. ‘Whatever seeming argument in favor of the Wilson tariff has been discovered or fabricated in one city is reproduced and expounded in all. An article of this kind originated by a Democratic organ in Bos- ton or New York circles the country and is reproduced in San Francisco, and in re- turn whatever the Ezaminer can dig up or nail together on the subject in this State goes eastward to help the scanty argu- ments of the jaded brains in the Demo- cratic sanctums of the cities by the chill Atlantic shore. Despite the seeming folly of their course there is some wisdom in it. Democracy is between the devil and the deep sea and has to make a choice. Itis hopelessly di- vided on the money question. It has no hope of any strength in the West. The only fighting chance for it lies in the possi- bility of holding New York and the South together as of old and trusting to accidents of local politics to win a State or two in the Mississippi Valley. Tohold New York and the South together on the money issue is believed to be impossible, Therefore the leaders of the party are making earnest efforts now to revive the tariff debate, knowing very well that however desperate their chances are of winning on that issue, they have absolutely no chance atall on any other. Reduced to its one essential element, the whole policy is a scheme to win by fooling the people. American enterprise and en- ergy, which never fail to surmount all diffi- culties that lie in their way, have already given undoubted evidence of their ability to win prosperity even against the adverse conditions of the Wilson tariff. These evi- dences will be strikinely manifest by 1896, and the Democrats will then endeavor to persuade the people that all the prosperity isdue to their tariff. The success of the scheme will depend on whether the voters have by that time forgotten the experience of the last two years, and whether they will be again willing to dispose of the money question on some vague promise of a Democratic platform. It is not lkely, however, that either of these things will occur. The American people can be fooled on some questions sometimes, but they cannot be fooled on the tariff nor on finance in 1896. RESULTS OF THE TARIFFE. The publication in the CALL of a state- ment of Isidor Jacobs of the California Canneries Company that ‘‘the cannersin this City alone will save $250,000 in tin used in making cans, through the reduc- tion in the tariff,” has caused the Examiner to make a great splutter over what it con- siders a discrepancy between the editorials of the CALL and its news columns. The Ezaminer figures out that if San Francisco saves $250,000 in tin, the State will save $£250,000; and on this estimate concludes the CALL to be altogether wan- dering in error because it continues to de- nounce the Wilson tariff and to point to it as one of the most pernicious causes of the great depression in trade and industry which afflicts the country. In making this kindly effort to save us from the darkness of error by showing us the true light, the Eraminer overlooks two | facts. First, the effect of the Wilson tariff | was to bring down not only the price of imported goods but of all home products along with it. Seécond, if the McKinley tariff had remained in operation, it would by this time have brought about such a production of American tin plate that the home supply would have been equal to the demand, the price would have fallen, and our canners would have been able to get their canning material cheaply, without having to send their money abroad or to sell their canned fruit at rates so low the loss on them more than counterbal- ances all that is saved by the reduced price of tin. These considerations which the Eraminer overlooked are vital to the issne. The re- duced price of tin plate may have saved the State $1,250,000 according to the amus- ingly made estimate of our contemporary, but what would even this sum amount to in comparison with the amount lost to the State by the reduction in prices of nearly all of its staple products? It is not tin plate only that has fallen in price under the Wilson tariff. The prices of wool, grain, fruit and lumber have gone down. Moreover, wages have gone down, and along with them have gone the earnings and profits of nearly all classes of men. It is not possible to estimate accurately the full extent of the loss occasioned to California by the Wilson tariff, but it is certainly a hundred times greater than any benefits the reduced duties have brought tous; and in addition to the loss in this State there is to be taken into calculation the enormous loss to the Union. The peor ple of the other States furnish the best market for our goods, and when the pur- chasing power of that market is weakened we lose by it. These things we commend to the consideration of the Ezaminer to the end that it may keep its own editorial col- umns in touch and in harmony with the facts contained in the news of the day. SHIPPING FRESH FRUITS. One after another the difficulties of mar- keting the fruits of California have been overcome, and the latest accomplishment isone of the most important of them all. The Southern Pacific Company has an- nounced, experiment having demonstrated the fact, that most fresh fruits may be shipped overland in ventilated cars in as good condition as in refrigerator-cars; that it and the Union Pacific each will put on 500 ventilated cars for this service by the 1st of July, and that the fast time of five days from Sacramento to Chicago will be made. As this will do away with $125 a carload heretofore charged for refrigeration, and as with this initial equipment the company expects to forward this season between 4000 and 5000 carloads of green fruits, the saving to the fruit-growers of the State this year, other things being equal, will be between $500,000 and $625,000. For its en- terprise in this matter the Southern Pacific deserves all praise. But there will remain cherries and some other tender fruits which will have to be shipped in refrigerator - cars, which are owned by a company separate from the Southern Pacific. Itis believed that the refrigerator company has been making an enormous profit, as its cars are a monopoly and its charges heavy. It may prove very interesting to cherry-growers to know that adecision covering charges made by re- frigerating car companies has been re- cently made by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which places the whole sub- | jeet in an entirely new light, and offers an opportunity for California shippers to bring refrigeration charges under the operation | of the interstate commerce act, and possi- bly at the same time to oven competition with the Southern Atlantic States in the berry and vegetable trade. As strawber- ries ripen much earlier here thanin the Seuthern States which supply the early Northern market, this decision may prove exceedingly valuable to California. The Truck Farmers’ Association of Charleston complained to the commission that the railroads constituting the Atlantic Coast Dispatch line and other through lines were charging so exorbitant a rate on strawberries to New York and other North- ern cities that the crop could not be mar- keted. After hearing all the evidence, the commission ordered a reduction of the refrigeration charge from 2 cents to 134 cents a quart, leaving the freight charges untouched. This is a reduction of 32 cents a hundred pounds, which foots up heavily by the carload. The commission further decided as follows: 1. The railroad companies, and not the owners of the refrigerator-cars, furnish the whole service to the shipper, and there is no privity of contract between the car- owner and the shipper. 2. It is the duty of the railroad com- panies to furnish an adequate car equip- ment for all the business they undertake, and also whatever is essential to the safety and preservation of the traffic in transit. 3. The companies, being bound by the provisions of section 1 of the act to regu- late commerce, shall not permit or collect an excessive or unreasonable charge for refrigeration. ‘Where shippers deal directly with the refrigerator company, as they do generally in California, the railroad companies ap- parently, under this ruling, cannot be held responsible for the charges which the re- frigerator company makes. But it seems evident that if there is any present exces- sive charging for refrigeration, the com- pany can be forced under the upemfiqq of the interstate commerce act by requiring the railroad companies to furnish the re- frigerator-cars and to make one charge for the whole service. Then, in case of a com- plaint against the railroad companies for excessive charges, the Interstate Com- merce Commission may take cognizance of the charges for refrigeration and order the necessary reduction. e S S AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Ford, I was just thinking how it comes that most all men of any worth used to work ona farm when they were boys,” said a retired mer- chant to Senator Tirey L. Ford in the lobby of the California Hotel yesterday. The Senator pondered & moment and men- tioned over the names of several famous men Wwho used to rise with the traditional Jark and do four men’s work before noon. He then crossed his hands behind his back and mod- estly admitted that he used to bea farmer boy himself. “That’s it, Ford. It's only a question of time before the illustrated histories of the State will contain pictures of you in a peir of overalls driving a pair of broncos acrossa sugar-beet field with reference to the fact thatyou used to study Blackstone with a bunch ot matches in the ‘wee sma’ hours.’ Come now, Senator, tell the truth; have you ever worked on & farm?” “If you really want to know what it means to work on those linesI will give youa few pointers. When Iwas much younger thanI am now Ibought a piece of land in Colusa County and with a cousin set out to supply the section with anything that could be grown in the ground. I never worked so hardin my life as I did there, and for a time I could drive & six-mule team better than Hank Monk ever put & stage over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There was—" “That's right, Senator; you have all the symptoms of the hard-working boy who used to borrow books from the little country school- teacher and study fractions and long division. 1 really feel as though you were on the verge of declaring yourself a candidate for the Vice- Presidency from the Pacific Coast.” “Well, you haven’t heard half of it. Just quiet down and listen to the whole story. At noon the cook used to send us out some lunch- eon and a can of hot coffee, which we drank while the mules rested. This generally cen- sumed half an hour, and we went at it again to work until dark. Then we took the mules into the barn and curried them down better than any racehorse was ever curried, after which we had supper and went to sleep for & few hours. It scemed as though the instant we struck the pillow that some one called us BENATOR FORD OF AGRICULTURAL HABITS. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] again, and it meant another day of toil. Do you call that having happy days on the farm? Iam under the impression that the man who wrote so much farm literature and of the hap- piness that could be found there was simply doing it to get even on the Test of humanity for what he had suffered when he was young himseli. I finally got so tired of driving mules and loading header-wagons that I took to the law and left the harvest for some one who liked to gather it better than L.” “How many hours a day did you work at the farming business?” ““Iworked under what was known at that time as the ‘cight-hour system,’” which vir- tually meant eight hours 1n the morning and eight hours in the afternoon.”” “Ford,” said the doubtiul gentleman, “if you tell that story often enough before the conVention of 1896 you will stand a good show for the Presidency.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ‘With the advent of the new woman what will become of that old stand-by, the summer girl? —Philadelphia Record. “Don’t you think the man who marries for money is a fo0l 2 “He is nnless he gets it in advance.”—Indi- anapolis Journal. Men should really be in favor of bloomers. No matter how awkward they are they can’t possibly step on a lady’s train if she wears bloomers.—Atchison Globe. By forcing enormous advances in the price of meat the avaricious beef monopoly may yet succeed in meaking hash & household word, Even the lowly and unpretentious beei stew is rising to a new dignity in domestic economy.— New York Tribune, ““There’s one thing to be said in favor of the ‘pugilists that go on the stage,” said Mrs. Meek- ton, “You never hear of them quarreling and bickering like tenors and leading men.” “No,” replied her husband, “nothing seems to go as we expect it to. The actors all want to fight and won’t act, and the fighters.all want to act and won't fight.”—Washington Star. ‘Hoop'’s Sarsaparilla has power to give to the blood richness and purity, and npon the healthy condition ©of the blood the health of the whole system de- pends. Take only Hood's this Spring. St ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Te:thing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best yemedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teethin or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. ————————— PARKER'S Harr Ba1saM Is the favvorite for dressing the hair and renewing its life and color. PABKER’S GINGER TONIC cures inward palns. GLIMPSES OF THE STAGE. The theater-going public, generous critics in many things, yet harsh where least expected, were hardly prepared to find so much genius aud talent stowed away in one little body as is every day evidenced by Miss Maud Edna Hall, Morosco’s new leading lady. True, Miss Hall is not an amateur by any means, yet she has shown such wonderful versatility, com- bined with perfect dramatic finish, that all who have seen her are prepared to exclaim, “What next?” The subject of this brief sketch isa _Sonthem lady by birth, claiming the metropolis of the Pelican State as her home. It is not amiss to say thgt the lady is very proud of her nativity. Possessed of that elegance and grace and charming personality for which Southern women sre noted, combined with a gentle, sweet, yet flexible, voice that is capsbl_e of touching the whole scale of human emotions, it is not be wondered at that Miss Hall has be- come a pronounced success in the theatrical world. As a child Miss Hall gave evidence of won- derful dramatic ability, and when five years ago she essayed to make her professional deput in the leading role of “The Bells of Has- lemere” the theatrical world was somewhat amazed at the “audacity of Miss Hall,” as they were pleased to term the attempt of this lady to play leading parts before she had mastered PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH The “Call’'s” Fiesta Sketches Work an Epoch in Journalism. INTERIOR PRESS COMMENTS. Los Angeles, Stockton, Riverside and Other State Journals on the New Invention. IT MARKS AN EPOCH. Stockton Mail. A picture published in the San Francisco | CALL marks an epoch in the art of news- | paper illustration. It depicts the reception of the Queen of La Fiesta in Los Angeles, nufl was telegraphed to the CALL. Some experi. ‘*e MAUD EDNA HALL. [“While the Tea is Brewing”—From a photograph.} minor detafls. Regardless of the critics she was an instant success and has continued to play leading parts ever since. About two months ago Miss Hall made her bow before a San Francisco audience, and she at once wormed herself into the good graces of her hearers. Since then she has appeared in all sorts of lurid and pathetic melodramas and her clever work has made her a decided favorite. Last week Miss Hgll astonished the patrons of Morosco by assuming the soubrette part in the play then running, and what is more to her praise as a versatile actress, did a song and skirt-dance act in a very creditable manner. In the following letter Miss Hall tells some- thing of herself, and the only fault her ad- mirers will find with it is that she has been too brief: “I was born in New Orleans twenty-two years ago, and, like all true women Who can right- fully claim the ‘sunny South’ as their birth place, T am proud of the distinction that goes with being a Southern woman. My father is a Virginian and my mother & Louisianan. “There is very little to tell about my theatri- cal life, because so far I have been fortunate enough to secure leading parts in all the plays I have appeared in. When quite & child my | friends told me that I had some dramatie abil- ity,and as I grew older I cultivated it as best I knew how. “Five years ago I made my debut as leading lady in ‘The Bells of Haslemere’ at the Boston Theater, Boston. Iplayed there for a number of months, and then went to New York, creat- ingthe comedy part in the original production of ‘Niobe.! My next engagement was to play the leading part in Henry Guy Carleton’s ‘Men 01’76, and season before last was featured in Freaerick Bryton's play ‘Forgiven.’ Last year I was leading woman of the Temple stock com- pany, Philadelphia, and staid with them until I accepted my present engagement. “] am delighted with San Francisco and her people, and I must say that I have never been accorded more hospitable or courteous treat- ment than has been extended me right here. My work seems to please them, which, of course, is very gratifying to me since an actress lives ai the pleasure of the people.” PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weinstock of Sacramento are at the Palace. William J. Hunsaker, one of the prominent attorneys of Los Angeles, is paying & visit to this city. He is making his home at the Occi- dental. Mrs. George West, the wife of the well-known wine-grower of Stockton, came to town yester- day with her daughter. They are domiciled at the Occidental. There arrived in this City yesterday W.S. Stitt, the well-known member of the Denver Mining Exchange. He will remain at the Palace while here. C. P. Hall, at one time manager of the Bush- street Theater, and now guiding the destinies of the San Jose Theater, came up from San Jose yesterday and is quartered at the Bald- win. Among thearrivals at the Baldwin yesterday was O. A. Hale of San Jose, one of the members of the well-known dry-goods firm of Hale Brothers, who have stores in several of the leading cities ot the State. H. W. Wellington of Boston, one of the prin- cipal owners of the well-known Wellington coal mines, was in town for a few hours yester- day with his wife, son and two daughters. They took lunch at the Palace and then left for Los Angeles. By yesterday’s overland there arrived hers the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sayles, accom- panied by their daughter and Miss Miller, of Rhbode Island. The party put up at the Ocei- dental and will leave for a tour of the sights of the State this morning. Hon. Mr. Sayles is traveling for his health. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ———— - GEO. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* ———————————— MARk Hopkins Institute of Art, spring ex- hibition, open daily, admission 25 cents. Thursday evenings, admission 50 cents. . e BTRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b. Townsend’s.* ————e e PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. hd ————————— ‘WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, 5¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Mkt* ——————— MARK HoPkINs Institute of Art, spring exhi- bition, open daily, admission 25 cents, Thurs- day evenings, admission 50 cents. L2 ———————— London does not think much of New York society, New York does not think much of Chicago society, and Chicago does not think much of London society; and there you are.— ‘Washington Star. PEOPLE TALEKED ABOUT' James Harper of Hat Creek, Va., a widower, with seven children, and Mary Foster, a widow, with fourteen, have united their fortunes and families. Dr. James Martineau, who was 90 years of age on Sunday, is still in full command of all his faculties, and his review of Mr. Barbour's “Foundations of Belief,” in the April Nine- teenth Century, exhibits much of his old-time ability. Dr. Clancy of the Cambriage (Mass.) School Board has su in abolishing the use of slates, sponges an pencils in the schools of the town. Befo: 1y years, probably, the paper pad will have entirely supplanted slates in the public schools. | ments have been made in this direction be | fore, but our San Francisco contemporary is | the first paper to demonstratethe practicabil- | ity and value of the invention for the produe- | tion of telegraphic pictures. | A glance at the illustration indicates that | the invention has been brought to a degree | of perfection not hitherto suspected, and there | is little doubt that the inventor—a Mr. Wil- | loughby of San Francisco—will soon have im- | proved it to & point where absolutely exact | copies of pictures can be sent over the wires. Besides the advantage this process will prove to the mewspapers, it will be of inestimable | value in aiding in the detection and arrest of fugitives from justice. | Under present conditions much valuable time is necessarily lost by the authorities who, if they desire the arrest of an offender, have to send his photograph to the locality in which he is believed to be hiding by mail; or they | may forward a verbal description by telegraph. | The first method is slow; the second uncertain, | for it often happens that innocent men are ar- rested upon imperfect descriptions. But when the fugitive’s likeness shall be sent all over the | State Dy telegraph, there will hardly be any chance for him to escape. The CALL in being the first newspaper to avail | itself of this very useful invention again | demonstrates its extraordinary enterprise. Its new proprietor, Mr. Shortridge, is not content | to follow in the beaten path traveled by the | other metropolitan dailies, but has set a pace | of his own, which we believe his contempora- ries will find it difficult to keep up with. Young, enterprising and full 6f ideas, Editor Shortridge will very soon make his paper one of the best known in the country. COMMENT FROM THE SOUTH. Los Angeles Express. The pictures produced by the CALL 88 & re- sult of its telegraphing are certainly very fair, and no doubt, as it says, will improve with ex- perience. The idea is not exactly mew, as something of the same kind was done vears ago at the time of the international rifle matches between teams from this country and England, but this is the first time the idea has been applied to pictures for newspapers. It is pleasant to think that the first experiment in this direction should have been made in con- nection with & Los Angeles event; for un- doubtedly the system will be improved and extended until it becomes of general use. It is a pleasure too to know that the initial experi- ment was made by a California paper. The Express congratulates the CALL on the evi- dence of enterprise it has shown in this matter. THE PAGEANT PICTURES. Riverside Enterprise. The San Francisco CALL gave its readers tele- graphic pictures of the Fiesta pageant—not bad pictures either for a mere beginning of ‘what may prove in time an important adjunct to the making of a newspaper. Pictures by wire! It is enough tocause the Rev. Jasper to abandon his cherished theory about the sun and declare that after all it is the world that ‘““do move.” FIRST PICTURE BY WIRE. Petaluma Courier. In yesterday's San Francisco CALL could be seen the first picture ever transmitted by tele- graph to & journal. The system by which the picture was sent over the wires is the inven- tion of Charles Willoughby of San Francisco, Wonders will never cease. The world do move. THE FIRST TO ATTEMPT IT. Mountain View Reporter. The San Francisco CALL, ever up to date, is the first newspaper to try the new experiment of sending pictures by telegraph for long dis- tances, having received pictures of occurrences at the fiesta from its artist in Los Angeles, IN THE FRONT RANK. Fremo Republican. The CALL yesterday illustrated its enterprise by printing a telegraphic cut of Fresno's float ;vghn appe;:red in the Los Angeles parade. erever the procession goes the CALL is f right in the front ranks. N A SCIENTIFIC WONDER. et Gilroy Gazette, e CALL is publishing illustrations sent b: telegraph and the scientific wonder is Altrbc‘y- ing all eyes. —_— e ‘The Atchison Globe says that one can always pick out the new woman by the way she kisses. 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