The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—46 per year by mail; by carrler, 15e per weelk. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If £0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss yon for yon will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. MAY 13, 1895 Ysaye is sufficient of a genius to be a Bohemian. In the heat of the weather is the sweet~ ness of the fruit. A certificate of stock in the Valley road is a diploma of patriotism. Read of the enterprises in the State and see how California grows. The weather has been pretty warm, but the heart of the silurian remains unmelted. There is a great deal of excellence in San Francisco that has never been written about. The coming girl does not make half so much of a racket as the girl who dis- appears. There can be no doubt the man with a young orchard has a growing industry just st this time. Chico has a promise of electric lights and bas begun to brighten up at the thought of it. Society girls will set themselves up as models by posing as living pictures to give charity a show. Nobody suspected at first that the war in the Orient would lead to a readjust- ment of international policies in Europe. Although Victoria has worn the crown for many years she has never yet been able to consider it with feelings of resignation. Advertising for outside settlers does good only when there is enough home energy to prove to visitors that the advertisements were true. All prospects point to the conclusion that the coming decade will work almost an industrial revolution in Northern California. The controversy over the terms of the lease of China Basin has given the mon- opoly occasion for the first unforced grin this winter. People who eat generously of California fruits are taking into their system Califor- nia’s wholesome sunshine in its most con- centrated form. The hot spell has been only a little warning from the sun that if we complain about the climate he will give us a taste of Chicago and the hereafter. It is the opinion of a good many political leaders that notwithstanding the general discussion of the silver question the time hasn’t come yet for statesmen to talk. If China understands the true intent of Russia’s protest against the demands of Japan she may be pleased with the result, but she will hardly honor the motive. If Russia can compel Japan to keep off the mainland of Asia it would seem we ought to be able to make all the rest of the world keep their hands off our hemisphere. California’s sturdy young men who de- feated the Eastern athletes were merely giving a hint of greater conquests in other directions which they will achieve in the future. Visalia is talking of organizing a cavalry troop for the National Guard and claims to have a fine lot of young men who are not only able to ride the horses but are able to foot the bills. The San Jose Grange has developed an exceedingly valuable line paralleling the march of progress by arranging for a course of lectures for the instruction of horticulturists. A good many San Franciscans could spend their holidays most profitably and pleasantly in making daily trips fo the suburbs of the City and gettingacquainted with our picturesque environment. S e B The Monroe doctrine may not be law, but it is good sense, and if that element were removed from the conduct of Ameri- can affairs it would be found that the law could not bear the burden imposed upon it. The placid guiet of the season has given an Eastern reformer an opportunity to start an agitation ~for a constitutional amendment limiting the meeting of Con- gress to a six months’ session every two years. A silurian is a man who has money, but who not only is afraid to invest it in a way to benefit the community and him- self, but who is so fearful of being placed in a class by himself that he tries to make silurians of all with whom he comes in contact. It is reported in Vienna that the Sultan of Turkey intends to bring libel suits against the English newspapers that have accused him of being responsible for the Armenian atrocities, which goes to show that Viennese journalists are pretty good fakirs themselve: Aithough it is barely more than two months since the cheap production of acetylene was an experiment, factories for its manufacture are now very near com- pletion in the East, and in a short time it will be offered for general use to house- holders, and then either gas bills will have to come down or gas companies will go up. If it be true that Russia is to assist France in expelling England from Egypt in return for the support which France is giving Russia in the Japan-China settle- ment, there is no telling where the disin- tegration of England’s power abroad will end, nor what more vital relation than the present one may come toexist between the United States and the Australian colonies. The eagerness with which American newspaper interviewers invariably inquire of famous visiting actors and musicians how American audiences compare with those in Europe on the score of intelligence, and the answers satisfactory to our pride which the great artists always give, seem to make it worth while to inquire why the question is asked and what other answer could be E THE FUEL PROBLEM, That was a most important piece of in- formation published in the CaLL of Satur- day, in reference to the opening of new coal mines at Corral Hollow, on the east- ern slope of the Coast Range, about ten miles southeast from Livermore. Accord- ing to the report madeto the Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association of Cali- fornia by Louis Blankenhorn of the com- mittee on fuel, the fuel problem as it concerns steam-mdking in this part of the State is practically solved. The coalstrata are traceable over anarea six and a half miles long and a mile and a quarter wide, and there are 20,000,000 tons in sight. The Eureka mine, on this ledge, has run 7000 feet of tunnels, drifts, shafts and stopes, and are prepared to make a contract with the San Joaquin Valley road to furnish all the coal required for five years at §2 a ton, and to furnish it in San Francisco for $3 or $3 50 a ton. Of course this coal, like all the other so- called coals of California, is lignite and | not true coal; that is, it belongs to a geo- logical age much more recent than the carboniferous, where the true coals had their origin. Lignite, however, contains the combustible ingredients that make true coal valuable for fuel. The only trouble with it is that it generally contains a larger proportion of earthy matter and water than the true coals, and this means that in its transportation the expense of bandling much inert matter has to be borne. Unless there are peculiarly favor- able conditions for mining and transport- ing lignite it cannot be brought into com- petition with true coal. The report to the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, however, presents a condition of effairs entirely different from the ordinary. The association as yet has not been furnished with an exact analysis of the lignite, on which might be based an accurate estimate of its industrial value; but the assertions that it can be sold in San Francisco at $3 or $350 a ton, that it burns freely, makesa hot fire and leaves but a small proportion of ash, and that the Southern Pacific, after testing it on its Oregon line, declares that “it is entirely satisfactory for locomotive use,” indicate a most important bearing of this coal on the industrizl development of the State. Although we are not so assured, it is a reasonable inference that the eighteen miles separating the mine from the tide- water of the San Joaquin River is a steady down-grade, and hence that the cost of transporting the coal by tramway to the river and thence by barges to San Fran- cisco will be exceedingly small in compari- son with the necessarily high freight charges which we have to pay on coal im- ported from the British possessions in the Pacific, to say nothing of the import duty that foreign coals must pay. It seems, further, almost providential that this im- mense bed of superior lignite should exist in so close proximity to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. For it is clear that every dollar saved in the operation of that road will be a clear gain to the producers of the valley, in view of the fact that the develop- ment of the San Joaquin by encouraging the profits of industry therein is the mamn purpose of the road. We feel called upon to insist again that these great deposits of lignite, taken in connection with the abundance of bitumi- nous rock and with innumerable more di- rect evidences, indicate that underneath the fertile soil of the State lie vast stores of petroleum and natural gas. The Stand- ard Oil Company in the past has inter- fered to prevent the proper development of the petroleum deposits discovered to exist, but there ought not to be any power on earth which Californians should regard as sufficient to prevent them from using the vast stores of wealth of many kinds that at present lie locked up in the secret places of the earth AN ELOQUENT VICTORY. As a rule, in contests between ‘‘teams’’ of young men engaged in athletics the win- ning elements are found in a wise selection of men and in the intelligence with which they have been trained. To what extent these factors may have operated in the victory of the University of California ath- letes over the Princeton men there is no means of ascertaining, but the estimate on that score becomes worthless in view of other considerations. California sent eleven men across the con- | tinent, and ina strange and unsympathetic atmosphere, in a climate totally different from that to which they had been accus- tomed, and without being given time even for rest, let alone training, these eleven men were pitted against twenty-five fresh men who were playing on their own soil and under the inspiration of the cheering of their friends, and in spite of these tre- mendous disadvantages the California lads scored one of the most overwhelming vic- tories to be found in the sporting annals of the country. Boasting on the score of this victory would be easy and cheap, but if it hasan ulterior significance there might be profit in seeking it. Ifyfor instance, any reason apart from demonstration can be found for expecting that the young men of California should excel in those more vigorous quali- ties, it is our duty to seek it and study its meaning. Is it not reasonable to suppose that an environment which requires no expendi- ture of energy to secure comfort must bear an important relation to physical develop- ment? We are not sufficiently old to pro- duce vital statistics which can prove any- thing on the score of longevity, although we do have records of many Mexicans and Indians who have passed their centennial. As yet the actuaries of the insurance com- panies require us to pay premiums based on tables made up in communities which are troubled with distressing and injurious physical conditions that are totally lacking here. But it is clear to reason that absence of malaria, of epi- demics, of endemic disorders and of a struggle to secure physical comfort must make a tremendous difference in the vigor of a people. If, with the absence of these drawbacks, we should find climatic conditions induc- ing indolence and shiftlessness, asin the tropical regions, we should discover suf- ficient to offset the good which immunity from the discomforts of a harsh climate might create. But this is not the condi- tion here. On the contrary, the air is re- markably stimulating.. It conduces to restlessness and the finding of a means for exercising the vigor which the cimate implants. There is not a more restless or energetic people in the world than these in California; and with this tendency are found a clear brain and an eagerness to achieve beneficial results. Evidence of this is found conspicuous in the fine de- velopment to which rural oocupations have attained. It breaks a Kansas farmer’s heart to observe what he regards as the immeasurably superior intelligence with which fruit-growing is conducted in Cali- fornia. Hence, if dissipation is avoided, we should expect wéll-trained young men born in California to.be superior to their Eastern bro hers in vigorous manhood and that mental alertness which makes it potent. The victory of the Berkeley lads at Princeton, therefore, means vastly more than a triumph of one “team” of boys over another in athletic contests. These young men from our State University are the first installment of a type which hereafter will be regarded as the California type of man- hood. And it is not alone among the young men that evidence of this distinc- tive type is to be found. The most casual observer has discovered the conspicuous beauty and wholesomeness of the San Francisco girls—their bodily soundness and elasticity and the buoyancy of their spirits. He is a dull observer indeed who cannot find reason to believe that Califor- nia is producing a distinctive type of hu- manity. Andif the very first efforts pro- duce results so striking, what may we not hope for at the hands of the genera- tions to come? A POINTED REPROOF. Ysaye, the great Belgian violinist, comes to us as a refreshing breeze from infinitely remote Arcadia, and points so frank a finger at the scrambling, grinding, roar- ing sordidness that overwhelms us and all the gentleness and simplicity that nature placed within us for the embellishment of our lives, that we can do nothing more graceful than listen, even though we be past the hope of instruction. There isin every one of us—at least there ought to be —a dumb and aching regret that we have made standards of excellence in striving for which we grow hard and cold and nar- row, wringing our very hearts to get money or some small fleeting power out of them. And now, after all these pains and agonies and strivings and starvings, comes along this broad and overtopping genius, who is content because he teaches for $30 a month and good-naturedly laughs us and all our vulgar money-getting to scorn. That is to say, while Ysaye (he is too great a man to belittle with the title of Mister) could not really be scornful, being too broad and kindly and genial for that, he tells us why American schools cannot produce musicians and why those of Brus- sels, Paris, Berlin and Milan can produce them. Thus, as professor of the violin in the national conservatory of Brussels he is permitted to teach only eight pupils and to receive therefor only $80 a month, with the privilege of giving concerts on his own account three months in the year; and he frankly tells us that he would rather work for $80 a month in the Brussels conserva- tory than for $10,000 a year in Cincinnati. It is because the only true excellence in art can come from national support, for private management means commercial- ism, and under that blight no art can thrive. This is the language of the true lover of art for its own sake; and as there is so lit- tle of the spirit left since the wonderful days when men wrote and composed and painted and chiseled the masterpieces of the world, and as it is so evident that the modern idea of regarding art solely as one of the various means by which money may be made has been the cause of its deca- dence, it is delicious to find here at our fireside, talking to us in that friendly way which genius can afford to assume, so fine and simple a lover of art as the Belgian Ysaye. PERSONAL. Dr. F. W. Conn of Napa is at the Russ. L.P. Brant of the navy isat the Occidental. Dr. W. W. Eastman of Sonora is at the Lick. Dr. R. M. Haut of Nevada City is at the Lick. C. C. McCray, a capitalist of Denver, is at the Russ. Dr. H. R. Arndt of San Diego is registered at the Lick. W. 8. Hughes and G. A. Lung of the navy are at the Palace. H. B. Gillis, a_prominent attorney of Yreka, is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Sloan of Santa Paula are guests at the Grand. Louis F. Bremer, a merchant of Sacramento, is stopping at the Grand. R. T. Devlin of Sacramento, a State’s Prison Director, is at the Grand. H. Stowell, a stockman of Santa Maria, regis- tered at the Russ yesterday. Y ,D. F. McPhail, a merchant of Hollister, reg- i8tered at the Russ yesterday. D. Lubin, & prominent merchant of Sacra- mento, is staying at the Grand. Dr. W. O. Anderson of Eureks was among vesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. C. M. Weber, a Stockton capitalist, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. H. Chase, manager of the Hotel Nadeau of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Chase are at the Grand. H. M. La Rue, president of the Railroad Com- mission, registered yesterday at the Occidental. ‘W. J. Cheyney of Philadelphis, who is inter- ested in mining on this coast, is at the Palace. L. B. Crocker of Buffalo, N. Y., a relative of the H. 8. Crockers, registered at the Palace yes- terday. J. A. Barkham of Santa Rosa, 8 member of Congress of the First District, is a guest at the Occidental. E. W. Britt of S8an Diego, a member of the Supreme Court Commission, registered yester- day at the Occidental. | Louis Jacoby. a rich planter of Guatemala,and his family, came in yesterday on the Colima and are at the Occidental. E P. Colgan, the State Controller, from Sacra- mento, R H. Beamer of Woodland and George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, all members of the State Board of Equalization, came to town yes- terday and are staying at the Lick. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mistress (a widow)—Well, Johnson, I'm sorry you are going to leave us, but you're very for- tunate in having this money left you. (Pleas- antly) I suppose you'll pe looking out for a wife now!” Johnson (the butler)—Well, really, ma’am, I feel very much honored by what you propose, but I'm engaged to a young woman already.— Tid-Bits. Manager—How many characters in your drama? Playwright—Six at the beginning and five at the end. “How do you mean?” . ‘“The heroine loses hers as the plot develops.” uck. There is a future awaiting the theatrical manager who will provide & hat museum near the foyer where women may inspect each other’s bonnets between acts.—New Haven Palladium. The new man—*Look,” twittered the new man, “isn’t this just a lovely waistcoat? I made it myself out of one.of her old sleeves. Ain’t I saving?” And the other new man gazed al the garment in voluble admiration.— Indianapolis Journal. Dangerous symptom—*I fear that Maud is developing ‘new woman’ tendencies,” said the anxious mother. ““What has she been doing?” asked the father in genuine alarm. “Been wanting bloomers?” “Oh, not so bad as that. Butshe used a.but- ton-hook instead of & hairpin this morning to fasten her shoes.”’—Cincinnati Tribune. Boy—Mamma, who is that with the short hair and divided skirts and glasses on ? Mother—Hush, son; that’s the new woman. Boy—Oh, mamma, what & fib! She ain’t no new woman. She’s older than grandma.— Philadelphia Inquirer. E And this sign actually stares one in the face from & book shelf in one of the literary centers of a downtown store: “Damaged children’s books at half price.”’—Chicago Herald. A Memphis paper speaks of a *‘sad suicide.” These gay, insouciant suicides are not as com- mon as they used to be when our mothers were girls.—Minneapolis Journal. Cholly Chumpleigh—I want to see the world. Choily’s Disgusted I—I don’t object to your seeing the world, but I wonder what the world will think when it sees you?—Philadelphia In- quirer. s AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Yesterday morning a gentleman, about six foot three inches in height, could be seen com- ing out of the Palace Hotel with & linen duster on his arm. “Good-morning, Mr. Gill; which way?” in- quired a friend. “Sausalito. Guess I'll take a walk on the hills and work up an appetite.” “You do mot propose to walk very far this sort of weather?” “About eight miles. Anybody can do that. Better come along. Take the path along the bhills above the Pacific Yacht Club and go to Lime Point. From there we can goover to the old fort and then down toward the shore on the west side; best trip you ever saw. Nothing 1iké a good walk to liven & fellow up. Well, can I count you in?” “Ishould say not. Itmay be el right, Jim, to walk eight miles on the hot Sausalito hills, but I guess you will have to make the trip alone to-day—that is if you wait forme. You 3. B. GILL IN HIS WALKING REGALIA. [Sketched from life for the *Call” by Nankivell.) don’t mean to say that you ever get anybody to go with you on such a jaunt as that?” “Certainly,” answered the pedestrian, with an air of wounded pride. “Igot George Barnes over there once. If you are sure you don’t pro- pose to come with me to-day I'll tell you what happened to him.” “‘Rest assured, J. \B., you'll not geta chance at me. Proceed with your story.” “Well, Barnes found a prince, or a duke, ora baronet at the Baldwin Theater one night—this was two years ago—and brought him over to Seusalito toget a bowl of chowder at Charley Dexter's. It was a very hot day, and both Barnes and his friend were dressed a little heavy for such weather. I happened to be there, and Barnes took me off to one side to tell me that the Duke was a great lover of nature, & child of the field, and all that sort of rubbish, you know, and that he would like to have me take a little walk with them out among the wild- flowers and the green trees. Of course, I conld not refuse one of the nobility an opportunity to see the beauties of this coast, so I just gath- ered both him and Barnes in and started them for Dan O’Connell’s house, via Lime Point, a distance of fourtéen miles. Every time we struck a little hill Barnes would look at me with a pathetic 1ace and whisper, ‘Jim, are we nearly there? Iassured him thatwewereevery time he inquired. The perspiration was rolling off his forehead, and the Duke had taken off his collar and cuifs. His glasses kept slipping from hisnose, and he was unable to see the points of interest I constantly kept pointing out to him. I walked right on without resting, because I was used to the trip. Every once ina while I asked Barnes how he felt, and he gen- erally responded by lobking very hard at me and muttering something to himself about the absence of point to practical jokes. When we reached the top of the last hill the Duke made a spurt and threw himself down on a rock abso- lutely exhausted. Barnes urged him to brace up and come along, in order to hide his own condition. Finally I got them both down to Dan’s house, and there was no one at home. “Barnes was wild and sat down on the porch beside the Duke, who had taken off his coat, vest and suspenders. I suggested that we walk around to Waldo Point and return to Sausalito. ‘No!l’ roared Barnes, ‘I'll be hanged if I'll go. Iwill wait here until Dan gets home. Idon’t call on Dan often, and when I do, by thunder, T will eamp here until he showgup.” The Duke agreed that Barnes' idea about the ethics of personal calls was all right, and they both went t0 sleep on the lawn. “The next day I met both my friends on the street, but they were still so full of the won- drous beauties of nature that they could see nothing else, and forgot to speak to me. ‘“Well, here comes my car. I mustcatch the boat. Sorry you won't come. Good-by,” and the man of leagues and miles let out another button in his vest and took himself off. “Who do you think is the latest crank on wheels?” asked Sam Rainey, the manipulator of politics, of a crowd of friends who were con- gratulating him yesterday on his return from Santa Barbara; but before any one could reply he added, “It’s Denny, ana he’s a wheeler from Wheeltown.” The Denny he referred to is Dennis J. Sulli- van, the chief engineer of the Fire Department of this City, who returned with him froma month’s vacation in the lower country. “While down in the country,” continued Rainey, “he became a fine rider, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he gave up his horse and got & wheel to go to fires. You see, when Denny was down on the porch of the hotel he'd watch the fellers flying past on their bikes &nd he says to me, ‘Sam, how do you think I'd look on one of them things?” and I told him I couldn’t tell till I saw him on one. He said never a word, but the next thing I knew I saw him sitting astride of a carpenter’s horse ‘working his legs for all he was worth. I says to him, ‘What in Santa Barbara are you doing now, Denny? and he says, ‘Getting the motion.’ “The next I know I see my Denny a-coming up the road on somebody’s bike, and from the way he was making the thing scoot I con- cluded that he had got it down fine. Of course, you know, Denny always likes to show off, and he thought he had a show, 5o he put on & little more speed and went by the hotel like a shot, and the crowd gave him the grand hurrah. “Then he got ready for the grand finish. You who has been down to Santa Barbara knows that there's a fence alongside of the Arlington, and a carriage-way thirty feet wide in it. Well, Denny made a ‘header for this carriage-way, aiming for the dead center, but somehow or other the bike bucked like & yellow broncho, and he couldn’t manage it. He worked and worked, and finally got it to running again and struck the fence ten feet below the gate. ‘‘Where was Denny? Why, when he got up and looked around to see where he was at he {found himself sxteen feet sway from the fence. Itell'you, he's a great cycler, this Denny of ours.” And with that Sam turned from crowd to have a quiet talk with Moses A. Gunst. g THE PULPIT AND STAGE AS VIEWED BY A PROFESSIONAL. Recently some clergymen of San Francisco and Oakland have hurled sulphuric epithets against the stage. Being of malignant charac- ter, however, they have killed where they should have cured. No clergyman who “feels polluted in passing by the door of & theater” is competent to speak {rom the pulpit as to the ills or virtues of theatrical life, When he has acquainted himself as a spiritual physician with its disease he might assume to pronounce upon its virulence. The stage is denounced as the rival of the church. Not at the choice of either does such an accusation exist. The ome works unceas- ingly morning and evening of the six days of the week, and is most unfortunately obliged at the behest of society to continue its labors on the seventh. Who is responsible for the ob- session? Society, church or the theater? Not the latter. That the worker is worthy of his hire applies to six nightly performances of the week, never a dollar for the seventh night. If “charity covereth a multitude of sins,” and that charity consists of loving and giving, crystailizing sentiment and practice,many rents in the theatrical garb musé have been hidden Dby just one humble act of the profession at large when Rev. Houghton of New York City— 1t is an old story, but serves my purpose here— was forced to arouse his congregation to the debt that was crowding the church and ren- dering the burden as weary to carry. He was heard by a publican, who went forth and gave out the word of the good pastor and the needs of his lowly church, “the little one around the corner” (which, by the way, is & large one). The soliciting committee of the congregation had scarce time to say “Jack Robinson” before the despised profession of the church, trom its little and much, sent, tossing and tumbling and pouring from hand and through the mails, the shekels that freed the debtand created & fund, and astounded the congregation—it is probably surprised yet. The money did not represent stamped bullion alone, but the hum- ble prayers of every heart went also, and car- ried, let Christians hope, as pure & giit of love to the feet of the Almighty asif offered by & less abused class. Having, as many another member of the theatrical profession has, worshiped while en route in churches from the Canadas to Mexico, never have we felt as outsiders of the fold of Christ on account of our calling. Neither have we felt that our presence in these sanctuaries has left 2 trail of contamination to the resident worshipers as a legacy of our act of devotion. Iadvance the belief that goodness is not the heritage of those who cry “Lord! Lord!” and strike the heart as the Pharisee of oldina cry of “Mea culpa! mea culpa!” Iaver that goodness and purity are the attributes of ciy- ilization and enlightenment, and possessed alike by the theatrical worker as by the theo- logical expounder, with this extenuation for the former, which is surrounded by the worldly temptations of life, while the latter is hemmed in by saintly platitudes and precedents. If either falls, which is the greater descent? And that same thud from holy estate to mortal mud has splashed dirt on not a small number of whited sepulchres, according to the not in- frequent reports through the press. That the church should abuse a child of its own birth, a youth of its own rearing and adult of its own family seems unparental and wholly unnatural. It brought forth what we call the drama from its mystery plays. It sustains the same by awakening in the bosoms of the youths of its seminaries a desire to approach the correctness, the perfection, the effective- ness of the stage and its accessories as means will allow. In adolescence we have strained oratory, press headlines, secular music, and in the high church formula we have still further appeal to the eye for effect. When we arrive at the holy mass we have an exact reproduc- tion of the Christ drama in the beautiful por- trayal ot the life and death of the Savior; all appeal to the reverential intelligence of the beholder. The stage ever remembers its allegiance to its parent and seeks to inculeate moral lessons in all it presents. The name of God on the stage is treated with so tenaer a reverence that it is often *‘cut” from parts, least its pronounce- ment might savor of disrespect by its counle- ment with any incongruity of scene or busi- ness. Moral ethics at all times wield an omnip- LAYOLA O'CONNOR JOHNSTONE. otent sway in the drama, aiming to appeal to the instinets of the audiences, presupposing them to be pure and good. That the stage in its collective sense should stand excommuni: cated as 1t were from all savory graces of re- ligion becaute of the dereliction of a small part of its membership is an atrocious abuse of tne message given by Christ when he said: “Go preach to all nations, even as I have preachea unto ye.” Christ never hurled such anathema against erring humanity as many pulpits take upon themselves to cast at the theatrical profes- sional as an individual and at the callingas & whole. Jesus counseled moderation in all things. “Judge not that ye be not judged.” The stage in its resentment has never but bowed its neck to the contempt heaped on it by these exponents of Christian doctrine,when it might have asserted the right to pointin re- taliation to the number of black sheep serving in ministerial robes, from Iscariot down to our own times. Again, Jesus has said, “Let him who is per- fect cast the first stone,” and on such premises let it be prayed that neither faction assault St. Peter and wrest from him the keys of heaven to the exclusion of the other. However, we may but continue our orisons, trusting both shall find shelter, “for there are many man- sions in my father's house,” which belief can ‘but hold out that hope. who died lately in Con- cord, Mass., numbered Emerson, Thorean, Alcott and Bull, the inventor of the Con. cord grape, among his friends. He was at one time the town jailer, and he once had Alcott and Thoreau for prisoners, the former for a few hours, the latter for a night. Alcott’s offense was the non-pay- ment of a ::ul‘l_ x'.lx debt, which he refused on principle. “I never a man Boester, said Mr. Biaples. Samuel Stapl AN ELECTRIC LIGHT WAR: The Newly Established Com- pany Will Soon Be a Competitor. P. B. CORNWALL AT ITS HEAD. J. B. Stetson Says His Company WIll Meet Cut With Cut—He Talks of the Franchise. Electric lights will be cheaper .pretty soon, because war of competitiop in th.e supply of this modern necessity is immi- nent. The invader who will soon enter the field is an electric-light company, with Pierre B. Cornwall at the head of “the concern. f Cornwall, who was formerly president of the California Electric-light Company, had a business dispute with Roe, the general manager, and some time before the latter died Cornwall sold all his stock in that company and retired. Cornwall is the gentleman who seesa profitable investment in a competing elec- tric-light plant, and he is pursuing the idea in a practical way. £ For some time past the work of placu{g the necessary machinery of an electric plant on a large _scale has been going on, and the work will be completed in afew days. The plant is located on a portion of the site of the old Church of the Advent on Howard street, fronting on the south- ern terminus of New Montgomery street. The engine and a part of the machinery was used as an electric-light plant at the Midwinter Fair. ; Cornwall was seen and questioned on the subject of the new enterprise yesterday afternoon. He said: 5 : I am not now in a position to give full details of the business we expect to do; but I will say this, our plant, when ready for work, wifi be in a position-to compete with anything in the electric light line in San Francisco. We are putting in the best and latest improved machinery, and our facilities for future supply of electric lighting is practically unlimited, because we are putting matters in such a shape that we can add to our power supply to correspond with thedemands from time to time. When we are ready for work and open up for business—which will be very soon—we will be prepared to fill all de- mands and compete with anythingin the electric light and electric power lines. This is not an experiment ‘with me, itis a matter of pure, cold, unsentimental busi- ness.” “Have you taken any steps toward secur- ing a franchise?” was asked. : “I have nothing to say on that subject as yet,” replied Mr. Cornwall. ‘“There will be no trouble about a franchise when we are ready to show what we can do and will do. You can say this much, however. ‘We will compete for business in a business way and in a manner that will appeal to the public as a business proposition on an economic basis. No doubt there will be reduction 1n the cost of electric-l but it is impossible for me to say at the present time what the amount of that re- duction will be. There is ample room in this City for fair competition in thelsupply of electric-lights, and I consider that the investment of money in such an enterprise is absolutely safe and will be highly profit- able.” The advent of the new light company is a matter of great interest to the public of this City. * It will doubtless result in the saving of many dollars to those who use electric lights or gas, for if the tariff on electric lighting falls in_a considerable degree the price of gas will have to fall with it. J. B. Stetson, president of the Edison Electric Light and Power Company, in speaking of the subject last night, said: “If the new electric light company does what has been said it will do, if 1t has suf- ficient capital and puts up 2 plant with capacity large enough to enter into full competition, the people will get their lights very cheap, that is certain. In order to secure patronage the new company will have to cut the rates, and every cut so made will immediately be met by our com- pany. I think we are in a position tostand the strain as long as any of our competi- tors. Our plant is thoroughly equipped with the latest improved machinery, and our business and wire connections extend over the entire City. Thisfact alone places us in a position to make a strong com- petitive fight.”” “How much of a reduction can the elec- tric-light business stand and still remain a paying investment?” was asked. “That is something I could not speak of at present,” Mr. Stetson replied. “Iwould rather not discuss the profits of the busi- ness.”’ “The profits at present are large, are they not?” 8 “Well, yes; they are fair—very %aodf but Ican’t mention any figures. 1 will say, however, that the business can stand a considerable reduction from the prevail- ing rates.”’ i “'Would a reduction of 50 per cent still leave it as a paying investment?” *No, it would be a losing game under such a reduction—at least it would be a loss to any new concern whose equipments are in their infancy and whose business is not yet secured. Much depends on what kind" of a franchise the new company secures from the City. » «If the franchise provides for the placing of wires underground it will cause a great outlay of money. The best and most eco- nomic underground system, the Edison patent, is helE by us, and of conrse no new company can use it. If the wires are per- mitted to be strung overhead—which is doubtful—the new company will be subject to great loss of power by waste. The loss of power in overhead wires is about 48 per cent. In the latest improved system of underground wires, the kdison patent, the loss is’iesa than 20 per cent. Our company has many miles of underground feed-wires, and thisis in itself a considerable saving in power and fuel. On the whole, I am in- clined to think that the new electric light n?gl power company will have a hard time of it.” ON SOCIAL PURITY. Henry Varley Delivers His Third L ture Before the Young Men’s Christian Association. A severe arraignment of certain physi- cians of San Francisco was made by Henry Varley in his lecture yesterday afternoon before the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. His subject was social purity, the title of his lecture being “The Curse of Manhood.” The s;)enker declared that there was no excuse for social impurity. He denounced the doctors who advised their young male patients to consort with immoral charac- ters. He besought them to give him the names of such physicians, declaring that if they would do so he would hire ]&e(ro— politan Temple and there make known their names and upbraid them for what he declared was a wrong to civilization. Mr. Varley made a strong appeal to his hearers, speaking in the plainest of terms. The hall was well fllledp with men, who fre%nemly interrupted his lecture with applause. He gives the last lecture of his course next Sunday. gy This evening, and every evening this week except Saturday, he lectures at the church of Dr. Gibson on Golden Gate ave- nné‘?nd Polk street. His first subject will befi God’s History of the Devil. ¢ e will also hold Bible services every afternoon from 3 to 4:15 o'clock at the :'..m“t:h of Rev. Mr. Gillam on Mission reet. —————— The Donkey Rode, The strange and amusing sight of a man and & small gray donkey g by side ina carriage attracted wide attention on South Fourth street one morning last week. The man had been presented with the flunke{hy afriend, who suggested that - e it would a nice thing to take home to the children. The new owner attempted to lead the little beast with a halter, but the donkey wouldn’t have it that way, After coaxing and belaboring the recalcis trant animal without avail, the owner finally picked him “F bodily and put him in the carriage, where he sat on his haunches, soberly wagging his long ears, The man took his seat in the carriage, and this way drove to the Market-street ferry, and passed over into Jersey.—Philadelphia Record. ———— PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Emperor William is a little scattering in hig endeavors to ve a grand Among the untutored Indiansof the West General Ruger is known as“The Man Who Talks Once.” John Lincoln, aged 86, a cousin of the mur- dered President, isan inmate of the Almshouse at Reading. Dr. W. T. Harris, United States Commis- sioner ot Education, hasaccepted an invita- tion to visit Mississippi early in June and de- liver several lectures on educational topics. Count Zichy is leading a curious expedition of scholars and scien from Vienna into Cen- tral Asia. The object of the expedition is to find the original home of the Magyars, who peopled Hungary in the year 900, Cheret, the Parisian who started the artistia poster fad that is now raging, has grown to dislike that style of art. He is overwhelmed with orders for posters, but makes every possi- ble excuse to decline them. A marble statue of Dr. Martineau, who re« cently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, is to De placed in the library of Manchester College, Oxford. Itwas in this college that Dr. Mar- tineau was professor of moral and mental phil« osophy. Miss Beatrice Harraden, the woman who wrote “Ships That Pass in the Night,” is busily engaged ona new book dealing exclusively with English life. Dr. Conan Doyle includes her name among the twelve most promising writers of the dey. If one could believe all that s said about Prince Bismarck st different times, he would indeed be s most remarkable man. Among other curious characteristies related of him, it 1s stated that bis hatred of any {ancy drapery about his rooms is so intense that he cannot even bear the sight of a lampshade. Now it is the typewriter that seems to have met with royal fayor. The German Emperor composes many of his speeches at the same time that he is writing them with the machine. The King of Wurtenburg, York, Princess Maud of Wales and the King of Denmerk have attained considerable profi ciency in the use of the typewriter. Herod is the latest emirched celebrity of an- tiquity to have his character whitewashed. A historian named Vickers finds that there is no evidence against him—no contemporary ace count of the massacre of the infants, no men« tion of it in Josephus, and no reference to any injustice in his imposition of taxes.. Like Lu-~ crezia Borgia, whose characier was washed clean a few years ago, Herqd has had to wait s long time for justice. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ——— CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* — GEo. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* piiir b e PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, no open for summer swimming season. - A R TRY our ‘“Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.® ————— Marg HoPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART.— Spring Exhibition open daily. Admission 25 cts. 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