The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1895, Page 6

¥ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ 1.50 per year. $1.50 per year. office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL vand Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you gding to the country on & vacatfon ? If o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to 80, it your s. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given o the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market streei, will receive prompt atte MAY 15, 1895 Street improvement must not be made to wait forever. Prospects are never bright for those who have clouded Even a debt on the streets would be bet- ter than cobblestones We may have a feeling for Cuba, but we are not reaching for it. It would not be a very hard job to im- prove on the street-paving. For those who keep out of crooked paths the world is straight enough. ! Talk of enterprise may be nothing but wind, but it will turn somebody’s mill. New York will evidently have to do all her reforming over again on another basis. It is an easy prediction that during the coming decade Sacramento Valley will rise rapidly. San Francisco should set an example to the State in street work as well as in rail- road building. Princeton beat Yale in debate, but when it came to an athletic contest with Berke- ley her wind gave out. Since Mrs. Lease has exhibited her pos- session of the power of hypnotism, there is a wild demand for her to try it on Grover. | Even the silurians ought to understand that when the cobblestones are removed | from the streets they will have a quieter | time. The political reformer thinks he hasa - soft snap when he enters into non-partisan combinations, but they generally turn out to-be quagmires. Japan will have a sweet revenge in de- manding a right to have a voice in the set- tlement of the terms of peace after the next European war. The announcement that Cleveland has nine different lives of Andrew Jackson is | calculated to weaken the popular belief in | the influence of books. In disciplining Admiral Meade the Cleve- land administration will have the un- pleasant task of proving his insubordina- tion by his patriotism. Ysaye has fiddled his way into the hearts of the people here, but his bow is graceful or’ otherwise, according to the way in which we pronounce i The sincerest expression of sympathy which California can show to the frost- stri“ken fruit regions of the East is to sell to them better fruit than they have lost. The use of bicycles has become so com- mon in New York that the builders of new flat-houses are arranging to furnish each flat with a storage-room for the family wheels. Those who enjoyed Dean Hole’s humor during his visit to this country will appre- ciate his recent remark, “I was glad to note that athletics are not neglected in American colleges.” Some of the big Eastern papers are hav- ing a lively dispute as to whether it is the more correct to say ‘‘up to date” or *down to date,” and until they cease agitating the question it is safest to say “fin de siecle.” The information.that the Indians of New Mexico are about to “rise’” does not add that they will rise sufficiently high to serve as targets for army rifles and as elo- quent proiests against pilfering by Indian agents, The reduction of gas rates for lighting purposes and the promise of a still greater reduction for gas used in machinery is another of those torches which are coming fast to light the way of San Francisco’s progress. The President’sassurance to Mr. Ricketts that the mineral lands in the railroad grant will receive attention might be un- comfortable news for the Federal Land Department if it thinks that the President is in earnest. s £ T LR Dr. Parkhurst may be correct in saying “unless something is done at once to save the big cities they will go straight to the devil”; but we have always understood that things had to go crooked to reach that destination. One of the oddest causes of death on record is reported from Chicago in the case of a man who, while moistening an envelope, managed to cut his tongue slightly with the edge of the paper and died from blood-poisoning. It is not surprising that the Valley road directors who are looking over the ground are not saying anything with regard to the route which the road will take when we reflect that the directors expect the people of the valley to do the saying. The Brazilians being dissatisfied with Rio Janeiro as a capital city, because it is neither central, healthful nor well laid out, are tulking of building a new capital on a platcau of the mountains, and expect to make it one of the model cities of the world. .The enterprise of San Antonio, Tex., in bidding $40,000 for the dis‘inguished honor of having two bruisers fight for money un- der its auspices, is the kind that afflicted San Francisco in the recent years ante- dating the present reign of civilization, pride arid progress. Chauncey Depew asserts the main issue for 1896 will be neither the money question nor the tariff, but the duty of saving the Government from a continuance of Demo- cratic paralysis; and Mr. Depew would not be very rash if he should back his opinion by offering to bet on it. ‘When the London Times began a series of articles on American art galleries a happy serenity was noticed in the East over the expectation of compliments, but now that the writer says the Boston Gal- lery of Fine Arts contains “a roomful of Ttalian pictures mostly large and of doubt- ful genuineness” there is danger of a racket. 5 g DISCORDANT NON-PARTISANS. The way of the political reformer is hard at all times, but never so hard as when he unaertakes to reform things by means of a non-partisan movement. This truth is made evident by the condition of affairs now existing in New York. All other States in the Union have finished their legislative business, retired politics to the background, and are now giving at- tention either to the advancement of in- dustry, the revival of baseball or specula- tions concerning whom the Republicans will elect to the Presidency in 1896. New York, however, is still in the throes of political controversy, and the prospect of any good outcome grows dimmer every day. The situation is both interesting and in- structive. Never wasthere a greater politi- cal victory than that won by the reformers in New York last .ull. The people had been aroused to the need of reform and educated on the subject by a long cam- paign ‘against the prevailing evils. The public exposure of the iniquities of Tam- many made by the official investigation of the Lexow Committee, had furnished ample evidence to enable the reformers to purify municipal government in New York by convicting the guilty officials. An enormous majority in both the city and the State gave strength to the victors and clearly manpifested the force of the public sentiment that sustained them. Evidently an opportunity for the performance of great things was afforded by this unprece- dented success, and yet up to this time not only has nothing of note been done, but there is no promise of anything. Not even the Democratic majority in the last Congress was more futile than has been the reform majority in New York. There have been nothing but wranglings in the city and in the State all winter. Criminations and recriminations have been bandied back and forth by the leaders and by the presson both sides. Our New York exchanges are given up almost wholly to mutual arimosities and denunciations. Journals that agreed in advocating the re- form movement are now abusihg one an- other as bitterly as they once fought Tam- many. There is harmony of action no- where, but on every side discord and con- fusion worse confounded. We are too far away from the scene of | action to undertake to pronounce judgment between the contending factions. One thing, however, seems clearly evident. The reformers made the mistake of seeking victory through a non-partisan organiza- tion, and that organization has dissolved into its constituent elements. It exhibits itself as a conglomeration of factions in- stead of an harmonious party. It has fallen to pieces simply because it was never more than a rope of sand and because there was never in it any coherent force other than an opposition to the Tammany administration. In this respect it fur- nishes a political moral which all citizens who desire good government would do well to heed. Popular government to be effective must be a government by parties each having a well understood and clearly defined policy of action. Only in this way can majorities work together and carry out any needed legislation. Non-partisan move- ments are always failures in government, no matter how successful they may be at the polls, and the impotent conclusion to which the Lexow investigation has come in New York is only a glaring illustration of a truth which before this has been- dem- onstrated in many another experiment in American politics. MR. RICKETTS COMES HOME, A. H. Ricketts, a competent mining at- torney, who went to interview President Cleveland in the interest of the State Miners' Association of California on the subject of Government patents to railroad lands, has made a most encouraging report. He informed the President of the loose manner in which the Federal Land De- partment was issuing patents to the Cen- {iral Pacific for granted lands, which, had they been properly classified, would have been excluded from the operation of a patent by the fact that they bear deposits of precious metals. The President took a strong interest in his representations and gave direct assurances that the matter would receive the most careful attention. One of the oldest of the constant scan- dals which have afflicted the State is the matter of patents for railroad grants. This has taken the double form of patents with- held that should have been issued, and patents issued that should have been with- held. For many years it has been almost a byword in California that certain inferior attaches of the land department hive found the railroad land grant an exceed- ingly profitable matter. The game has been played with the most absurdly con- tradictory results, ana it began years ago. At this time the Southern Pacific has thousands of contracts with bona-fide pur- chasers of its granted lands for which it bas not yet received a patent. The com- pany declines to issue any deed until it has received a patent, although many of the settlers would be satisfied with a mere quitclaim. Meanwhile the settlers have | paid amounts rangine from one-fifth up- ward on the purchase price, and are paying interest at 7 per cent on the remainder. Not even the most rabid hater of the | Bouthern Pacific can show any reason why | the issuance of patents to the company is delayed from year to year, except in a few cases where the courts have not givena | final decision in favor of the company where contests were raised. It is con- ceivable that the various commissioners | of the land office might have been influ- enced in this perverse course, which has been so hurtful to California, by a desire to make political capital out of the railroad’s unpopularity; but it is not possible to ac- cept this as an explanation of the Gov- ernment’s course with regard to the pat- enting of granted lands which are believed to bear gold and silver. If President Cleveland 1s moved by a very earnest desire to investigate this mat- ter of patenting lands that the Miners’ Association is ready to prove are not pat- entable under the grant, one of his most profitable sources of inquiry might be the singular unanimity with which the special agents of the Land Commissioners have reported on the absence of precious metals in these disputed areas. Perhaps Mr. Ricketts, himself, might be able to en- lighten the Presidential understanding on this subject. Of course it is one thing to surmise the inspiration of these reports and another to prove its character, and Mr. Ricketts may not be in possession of such evidence as would convince the Presi- dent and open the doorsof the peniten- tiary to his agents; but we may be sure that if the President is sincere in his as- surances to Mr. Ricketts, the overhauling the conduct of the Government inspectors while here on this mission would be one of the clearest duties that confronts him. THE OROAK OF THE RAVEN. The unfortunate tie-up between the Har- bor Commissioners and the directors of the San Joaquin road over the lease of China Basin has given occasion to the Southern Pacific of Kentucky to utter its first raven croak of satisfaction this year. The croak of these reports and an investigation into | comes, of course, from the Record-Union, and takes the form of a column long at- tempt to prove that San Francisco is on the wrong side of, the bay; that it can never prosper, and that it ought not to be the terminal of any railroad, except, possi- bly, one for local traffic. The gist of the whole argument is in the assertion that San Francisco is on the wrong side of the bay, and, as the Record- Union puts it, *‘is practically on an island out at sea.”” The argument applies with much greater force to New York and to Brooklyn than to San Francisco. Those cities are not only practically, but actually, “‘on islands out at sea.” So the great East Indian city of Bombay is on an “island out at sea,” and Hongkong, the center of the commerce of the Orient, is on an “‘island out at sea.” It is evident, therefore, that some islands occupy positions which enable them to command the commerce of vast regions, and that if it be conceded that San Francisco is practically on an island, it would in no wise diminish her prestige or weaken the prospect of her future great- ness. She asks no higher destiny than to hold on the Pacific the rank which the island city of New York holds on the Atlantic. It is not worth while to consider in detail all the inferences adverse to San Francisco which the Record-Union draws from the premise that it is on the wrong side of the bay. Suffice it that not a single one of them applies to this City with any more force than to the other great cities we have named. To question the advantages of the site of San Francisco is foolish in the light of existing facts. This City wasnot founded by the decree of an arbitrary will like St. Petersburg, but it grew up naturally as the result of the position it held and the con- ditions surroupding it. No one compeiled merchants, bankers and manufacturers to settle here, and if they came to this penin- sula by common consent, it was because they recognized that here is to stand the metropolis of the Pacific Coast. Itis not, therefore, the arguments of the Record-Union that affect us much, though, doubtless if the article be reproduced by the railroad organs in the East, it will do a great deal todiscredit San Francisco and prevent capital and men of enterprise from coming here. That which really concerns us is the animus it displays toward the City. What the Record-Union writes the Southern Pacific desires. We could afford to smile at it if it were only as much of a newspaper as it appears to be, but when we remember that it is the avowed mouth- piece and organ of a great corporation having a monopoly of the transportation service of the State, this declaration of hos- tility to the City becomes a matter of seri- ous importance. With this raven croak of exultation over what that bird of ill-omen believes to be the approaching doom of San Francisco, ringing in their ears, surely the Harbor Commissioners can no longer conceal from themselves that they are playing into the bands of the monopoly by delaying the granting of terminal facilities in San Fran- cisco to the competing road in accordance with the desires of the people and the pro- visions of the act of the Legislature. San Francisco in this instance is fighting, not for herself only, but for the whole State, and none who desire the welfare of the State can oppose that of the City. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. Among the recent inventions is that of a check protector, which combines & flexible die with & yielding anvil, obviating thereby the necessity of sharpening the punches. When the perforator is to be used an adjust- sble guidepiece at one side makes the check take the necessary position to heve the figures punched at the right place. The dick on which are the figures is then moved in either direc- tion to bring the first figure to be punched un- der the punch lever, and is similarly moved for each succeeding figure. The check is auto- matically moved along by the feed device in front, the latter being raised by its finger-picce to release the check punch after punching, says the Scientific American. The action of the device is clean and accu- rete, and the moving parts instantly respond to the operating lever. By removing the cover, which 1s readily done by taking out the three screws in the base, access is easily had to the whole of the mechanism, which is not only quite simple, but duranle. Banks are always glad to see such devices as this used by their customers; they furnish a sure preventive against one kind of forgery. A check punched in this way cannot be “rased.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. It is & peculiar mixtnre of democratic idea and monarchism in the fiesta contests that elects a queen by the popular vote.—Fresno Republican. Just think of it, farmers, one solid million in cash goes East each year for hog meat. Why notstart & packing-house in the northern part ot California and use yeur own hog meat?— Corning Observer. The argument is made by some that issuing bonds to build good roads is an extravagance. Investigation proves that it is far more eco- nomical to build new roads on scientific prin- ciples than to spend $354,000 annually in patching very indifferent old ones.—Dixon Fribune. o Cheap power from the San Joaquin and cheap transportation to the competing road will bring to Fresnosome of the most important industries on the Pacific Coast. Mark the pre- diction and see if it is not fulfilled. The next two years will witness an {ndustrial revolution in this city.—Fresno Republican. The Government report showing an increase of 1,800,000 pounds in our imports of foreign hops at New York during the first six months’ operation of the reform tariff is another of Mr. Cleveland’s object lessons, which appeals with especial force to the Oregon farmers who have hops to sell at this time.—Astorian (Oregon). Take an honest pride in the community yon call home. No matter whether some one you may not love as a brother isholding an import- ant position over vou. Sustain him in doifig his duty and manfully fight for him when you see he isin the right. Be a man and rise above personal bickerings and little jeslousies when the welfare of your town is at stake.—Santa Clara Journal.’ Is this a truthful statement? If so, what's the matter with our farmers? According to the April reportof the Statistician of the De- partment of Agriculture the United States can- not produce sufficient potatoes for our own consumption, but must buy from foreigners to the tune of about 3,000,000 bushels & year. In 1888 a very large crop wes raised, yet we had to import 8,000,000 bushels that year.—Alameda Encinal. The holding of the National Republican con- vention at S8an Francisco would be a great thing for the coast, prove & great advertising benefit, and give a lot of Eastern peovle enlarged and correct ideas as to the immensity, resources and importance of the country west of the Rockies. It would also give the goldbug ele- ment of the party, or some of them, who live East, the benefit of the broad, expansive silver currency sentiments of the live and vigorous Republicans.of the West.—Shasta Courier. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “The people in Texas are hungry for Califor- nia fruits, fresh, dried and otherwise pre- served,” said H. F. Burton, 8 prominent busi- ness man of San Antonio, Tex., yesterday. «‘But for some reason or other the prices are so high that very few of the fruit-hungry are able to indulge in the luxury. “I am not in the mercantile business,” he continued, “but I know something of the ins and outs of the produce trade. WhenI think of the prices that the people in my part of the country have to pay for California fruits and the prices at which those fruits are sold here by wholesale I am almost appalled. I have figured on the matter for my own edification, 2nd I find that the California wholesale price for fresh fruits of all kinds is just quadrupled by the time it is delivered at retail to the Texas consumer, At the present time California oranges cost 40 per cent more in San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Galveston than they cost in New York. The reason for this is the freight charges and indifferent service of the Southern Pacific Railway Company as regards the South- ern trade. Much fruit is spoiled in transit by delay. The charges are very high, and the im- porters are forced to make up losses on spoiled fruits by tacking the amounts of such losses on to the price of the good fruits received. “Florida oranges are sold in large quantities in Texas and Louisiana, not because the people prefer them, but because they come cheaper. This is due to gulf navigation nd railway competition. In the matter of dried apples, Ppeaches and preserved pears the case is not so bad, but the products of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and other States whose products are in no wise equal to the California goodsare sold ten to one of the California article simply because the come cheaper. The peopie of Texas as a rule are fond of fruits. The hotand arid climate seems to demand a fruit diet, and they all want California fruits if they can get them—and are able to pay the price.” L. H. Griffith of Seattie, who is interested in the lumber business on the Sound, has just re- turned from Cerntral America where he has been for several monthsto see what could be done in the way of opening up trade relations for his own firm and several others in Wash- ington. Last evening at the Grand, in speak- ing of his trip, he said: It is asurprise to me that San Francisco does not do something to establish closer trade relations with Central America. You have here & large part of the things they import from other countries and which coula be laid down from here cheaper than from anywhere else on account of your position and the advantages you would have in freight rates and time. I took down a cargo of lumber and it was sold easily for a much better price than could be obteined here. Nearly everything used there is imported and most of it comes from Europe and the East and could be laid down there cheaper from here. But, of course, you would have to take coffee in exchange. Canned goods of all sorts, ex- cept fruits, are unsed there and sold at such high prices that there is a large profit in them. They come mostly from the East and Europe. Of course San Francisco could lay them down there cheaper. So it is with hay, potatoes and flour, all sorts of food products, tools, beer, wines and liguors. Some of these articles are shipped there and sold at very high prices, but the amount of the trade could easily be in- creased. Large quantities of beer are shipped in there, but it all comes from Germany and the East and is sold for much higher prices than Hjould be necessary to give San Francisco rewers & good profit. The profits on all goods sent down are double, at least, what would be expected here. Potatoes sell for $8 per 100 pounds, hay for §60 a ton and, although these prices give an immense profit there is always compleint of a scarcity of these articles that can be obtained only from California.” Major A. W. Barrett of Los Angeles is a dele- gate at large to the National encampment of the G. A. R., which convenes in Louisville, Ky., next September. The major has been sojourn- ing in San Francisco for a fortnight, and while reading and pondering over the achievements and purposes of the Hali-million Club has be- come convinced that a brilliant stroke of en- terprise would be an excursion to Louisville, and the establishment of California head- quarters in the Kentucky metropolis a few days before the encampment opens. It is the major's idea that such free scope should be given to the impulsesof California hospi- tality that the veterans of the Blue and the veterans of the Gray, the sons ot veterans and the daughters of veterans and all others won or the cause that was lost, should rise up and record a unanimous vote in favor of hold- ing another National encampment in San Franeisco. Meajor Barrett’s observation—keen, alert and wide ranging—convinces him that the encampment here in 1886 was the greatest advertisement California ever had and really accomplished great good for the State. So many pleasant memories of that celebrated en- campment yet linger with the passing veterans of the war that they would cheerfully under- take another journey to the Pacific Coast if California would only hold up her finger and beckon to them. St. Paul and Baltimore are bidding for the next Grand Army reunion, with Atlanta next in line, but San Francisco could capture the prize if the Half-million Club should invade Louisville. Hon. Charles Creighton, formerly Attorney- General for the Hawailan Kingdom and later the clerk of the Supreme Court of the nation, has many queer stories of the peculiarities of the native Legislature. ‘‘ Much confusion was occasioned by thedivorce laws,” he said. “Soon after they were passed, everybody began to take advantage of them. It became quite the rage for married people to separate. “Finally, the prevalence of the divorce habit became alarming. One of the old Hawaiian nobles thought something should be done. He rose in the Legislature and declared that the entire moral system of the nation was being destroyed by the frequency of divorces. It was deplorable, and, he thought, should be dls- couraged. The only proper way that he could see was to have people sure they could be happy together before they were joined for- ever. “To accomplish this he introduced & bill. Hisbill provided that persons who intended to marry should live together for six months. If at the end of that time they decided their tem- pers were not compatible the final ceremony need not be performed and they would stay unmarried. “It is needless to add,” Mr. Creighton con- cluded, after a moment'sTeflection, “that the bill was killed.” Al Truman, owner of the champion setter Dick Swiveler, and John B. Martin, secretary of the Pacific Fox Terrier Club, were looking at the fox terriers at the dog show together | the other evening, and Truman,jwho does not care much for those dogs, remarked that they ‘were wan ting in intelligence. “Why, man,” said Martin, “you don’t know them. Fox terriers are the most intelligent of all the smaller dogs. That is why I take so much interest in them. One of mine got jnto the habit of going to my bedroom and jumping upon the bed and lying down. I licked it once or twice for that and it soon knew that it was forbidden. One day I came home and from another room could see the dog in the bed. He had been lying on it and hearing me come in was busy smoothing out the counter- pane and blowing on the spot where he had been lying, to cool it o General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff is sojourning af the Palace. The general finds the surroundings of the Palace very agreeable, but if the current of events had taken the chennel in which he expected them 1o flow he would now be looking after the affairs of state in the capitol at Sacramento. General Chip- man goes to the National conventions asa delegate, and enters the arena where emolu- ments as well as honors are bestowed, with a Tegularity that attests his strength at home and widens his influence abroad. Obviously he is in San Francisco now_to atiend the elec- tion end banguet of the Loyal Legion at the Palace Hotel this evening. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The third centenary of the death of Tasso was celebrated in Rome, where he died on April 25, 1595. It appears to be well established that the “first Englishman to reach Chitral” was an Irishman named Kelly. Florence Nightingele, at the age of 75, lives with her sister, Lady Verney, at Claydon House, in Buckinghamshire. " Miss Julia Grant, daughter of Colonel Fred- erick D. Grant, Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of whether in sympathy with the cause that was | Jefterson Davis, and a number of other celeb- rities are expected to take partin a serles of “living pictures” now being arranged in New York under fashionable auspices. It is proposed to place a memorial to the late Lord Tennyson at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the birthplace of the post laureate. A spectroscope detector by which one part pi blood in a solution of 850.000 parts can be dis- covered has been invented by M.de Thierry. It will be of value in murder cases where the stains are very minute. The Empress Eugenie before leaving Paris for Cape Martin gave Lieutenant-Colonel Bizot, who is under orders for Madagascar, the cam- paigning kit of the Prince Imperial, and also that which she herself used in her sad pilgrim- age to the scene of her son’s death in Zululand. Colonel Bizot is the son of the late General Bizot, whose wife during the empire was one of the ladies of the Empress. e A notable feature of the celebration of the golden jubilee of Archbishop Williams in Bos- ton on May 16 and 17 will be the presentation to him of a magnificent gold chelice, studaed with precious stones and blessed by Pope Leo XIII on Easter Sunday. It was recently brought from Rome by Bishop Michaud, coadjutor Bishop of Burlington, Vt. The chalice is about 12}4 inches in height, of pure gold, and of Gothic design. The Key Monument Association of Frederick City, Md., is raising money for a suitable mon- ument to Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-spangled Banner,” and it suggests that on Flag day, June 14, the subject be taken up in the public schools. PERSONAL. Robert Effey, Mayor of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. William Law Jr. of Chicago is registered at the Palace. Dr. G. W. Cox of Brownsville, Or., is stopping at the Grand. Andrew G. Myers of Fort Jones is stopping at the Occidental. J. A. Verlaqueof San Diego is registered at the Russ House. Dr. M, Schnabel of-Newcastle is & guest at the Grand Hotel. J. P. Abbott, lawyer of Antioch, is stopping at the Lick House. Mrs. L. E. Mosher of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Baldwin. A. R. Lord, Sheriff of Nevada County, is at the Hotel St. Nicholas. J. M. Hale, a merchant of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Balawin. State Senator Alexander J. McCone of Nevada is at the Occidental Hotel. W. E. Duncan, a well-known mining man of Butte County, is at the Lick. H. J. Wilson, proprietor of the Butte Hotel, Butte, Mont., is at the Palace. Colonel J. W. Barlon, United States Engi- neers, San Diego, is In the City. James Mawhiney, wife and daughter of Ofl City, Pa., are at the Occidental. W. L. Pierce, presiding Judge of the Superior Court of San Diego, is at the Grand. S. 8. Badger, & prominent mining man of Denver, is at the Hotel St. Nicholas. Dr. W. B. Thornhill and wife of Lynchburg, Va., are registered at the Occidental. G. D. Plato, well known in mercantile circles of Modesto, is registered at the Grand. Ex-Senator Berry, a prominent farmer of California, is & guest at the Lick House. JohnJ. Roche, a leading real estate man of Bioux City, Iows, is at the Grand Hotel. Captain J. J. O'Connell, U. S. A., Benicia | Barracks, is registered at the California. 8. Farjeon, editor of the Concord Sun, is in the city as a delegate to the High Court of A.O.F. W. G. Hunt of Woodland, one of the leading fruit-growers of California, is registered at the Pleasanton. E. C. Davidson, a well-known resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., is registered at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. K. H. Wade, wife of the general manager of the California Southern Railroad, is & guest at the Palace. E. B.de Golyer of Salt Lakeisat the Occi- dental Hotel. He is posted on the mineral resources of Utah. Mark L. McDonald came down from Santa Rosa yesterday to attend the Ysaye reception at the Bohemian Club. John M. Thornton of Pittsburg, Pa., & man of riches, whose wealth was acquired in coal, is at the California Hotel. E J. F. Kidder of Nevada City, superintendent of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge Railroad, is & guest at the St. Nicholas. Mrs. 8. C. Balch of Portland, Or., and Miss M. R. Jacks, daughters of David .Jacks of Mon- terey, are guests at the Pleasanton. 8. J. Menzies of England, who represents a land syndicate, controlling valuable lands in California, is sojourning at the Palace. H. E. Owen and wife of Butte, Mont., are guests at the California Hotel. Mr. Owen knows a thing or two about mines in Montana. J.G. Waples and wife of Denison, Tex., are guestsatthe Pleasanton. Mr. Waples is largely interested in the lumber trade of the South- west. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee came to town last evening to attend a meeting of the Pacific Associated Press at the California Hotel this evening. ¢ Washington Porter, a fruit merchant of Chi- cago, is at the Palace. Washington Porter isa household name in Chicago, as he owns much valusble property in the lakeside city. John T. Sullivan of the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz; H. W. Chase of the Nadean, Los Angeles; 8. Reinhart, Hotel Arcadia, Santa Monica; W. E. Hadley of the Horton House, San Diego, and B. Hawes, a hotelman of San Andreas, are at the Grand. J. M. Walling of Nevada City, ex-department commander of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, is registered at the Russ House. Mr. Wall- ing carried a gun in an Iowa regiment during his term of service from 1861 to 1865 and his record as a soldier isof the highest order of merit. Colonel Henry C. Symonds has just been transferred from the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion to the California Com- mandery of the same military order. Colonel Symonds is living at Los Gatos. He was re- cently principal of a military academy at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dr. Chester C. Rowell of Fresno, a well-known public man of California, is registered at the. Grand. Dr. Rowell served as State Senator in the first session of the Legislature after the adoption of the mew constitution. He has made gallant contests for the Republican Con- gressional nomination in his district, and ‘while success in that line has not yet crowned his efforts he has a legion of loyal friends in the country about Fresno who stand ready to enter the field again in his support. Colonet F. C. Crocker, who has been journey- ing around the world in company with D. O. Mills, is expected to arrive in New York to-. day. He will leave that city soon for San Francisco. When heard from in Burmah the colonel was collecting rore and beautiful curios for his friends in this City. It is supposed that he will have a collection worth a study by the time he gets home. He intended to pick up a good many trifies for his own edification and agreed to remember some of his friends while about the task of collect- ing. Reports have not reached this country of any lavish expenditure of money by D. 0. Milis in pursuits of this character. SUPFOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ‘The woman who thinks before she speakshas to be 2 lightning thinker.—Puck. Literature is divided into the grand, the semi-grand and the Sarah Grand.—London Truth. A girl who can’t sing, and who dcesn’t want to sing, shouldn’t be made to sing.—Boston Courier. ‘The man who considers himself 211 wool and ayard wide wants to make himself felt.—Gal- veston News. If Solomon lived in these days the bright young men would ridicule him unmercifully. —Atchison Globe. The Manayunk ph;o;phar rises to remark that ng breath doesn't make a Sandow.— Philadelphla Record. A new industry is the supnlvine of chaverans for the new men; the new women have no use for them.—Philadelphia Record. One of the saddest sights in this world 1s to sce the erabbed man trying to smile when he meets the preacher.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and people there are who, because they are beyond being clean, fancy, as a matter of course, that they must be godly.—Boston Transeript. A professoy calculates that the earth is shrinking eHout two inches a year. That ac- counts for the nervous anxiety manifested by some people to possess it while it is some size. —=Tid-Bits. «] desire,” said the scientist, “to inform my- self as to the mean temperature of this re- gion.” “Well,”” replied the native, as he shook the rain off his overcoat, “you couldn’t have come ata better time. This is it.”—Wash- ington Star. A THE CIRCULAR CONCERNING DR. BROWN'S ADDRESS. To the Editor of the Call—DEAR S1R: As I read the CaLL I noticed in this morning’s edition a certain allusion to the address of Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown, delivered lately and mailed to the pas- tors of the prominent churches of the country. The circular, signed by the trustees of the First Congregational Church of San Francisco, caused me some surprise. The opinion of the honorable ex-United States District Attorney embodied in the eircular might have been wisely left out. It is strange that whenever men try to bring around some reform the good people in the community rise up in arms. Is it not & hopeful sign that evangelical pastors should seek light, and information on the great issues at stake? Is the vastor,even of a prominent church compelled to cater to the tastes or the wishes of his congregation? Is he not the representa- tive of a great cause, the friend of the weak? The best people in the land complain that polities run the whole machinery, and that those politics are corrupt and demomliz!nf, They still adhere to the very machine that is crushing them, and they are not afraid of maeking certain assertions in order to protect the machine. They pray for good government and pure politics, but they support the bad government all the time. I wish as a citizen to protest against the im- utation contained in that address and circu- ar. Iam neither an *“unbridled socialist” nor a ‘‘destructive one”; T am working for the bet- terment of human life in this land and for the salvation of souls, and I resent any such asser- tions, perfectly unsubstantiated. It it not very Christianlike to represent any would-be reformer as & traitor and an anti- patriot, The reply to the ex-attorney could be made in the same words. We will not use those weapo The church suffers enough from severe criti- cisms, not justified at all in many respects. Why then should not the church people seek and devise the best means of giving our be- loved country more prosperity and social health? The address of Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown may be scattered over the land, the results will be different from what he expects. Only it is hoped that, even if his colleagues in the min- istry adhere to Professor Herron or any other, Dr. Brown will bear in mind that all the truth is not on his side, and that the first duty is to be friendly and not so sweepingly bitter and harsh. Yours respectfully, E. J. DUPUY. San Francisco, May 14, 1895, Loyal Legion Contest. Companions of the Loyal Legion, California Commendery, will assemble according to orders in the maple rocom of the Palace Hotel this evening to determine whether the honor of leading the legion for the ensuing vear shall be conferred on Brevet-Major W. B. Hooper of the Subsistence Department, Second California Volunteer Cavalry. or Colonel R. H. Warfield, Engineer Corps, Fiftieth New York Volunteers. The election promises to be interesting if not exciting. Colonel C. Mason Kinne, the present | commander, is confldent of his ability to pre- | serve order and keep all the voters together | until the banquet begins, and then the ban- quet will do the rest. There has been some | talk of both Hooper and Warfield withdrawing, =0 thai the recorder might cast the vote for | Colonel Shaiter, U. 8. A., but late last evening it was given out that the principals would not consent to come down. —— Flags at Half-Mast. E. B. Griffith, secretary of the G. A. R. memo- rial committee, sent & communication to Mayor Sutro yesterday, which the Mayor transmitted to the Board of Supervisors,asking that the flags be raised on the City and County build- ings und in the park to halt-mast on Memorial ay. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ——.—— STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b. Townsend’s.* ——————— Raleigh said that he owed all his polite- ness of deportment to his mother. — - GE0. W. 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