The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1895, Page 6

Nicaragua. . sniiles of pretty girls will THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895. CHARLES ‘M SHORTRIDGE, Editor-and Proprietor. SUBSCRIRTION RATES: DAILY CALL—46 per-jear by mail; by earrier, 15c per week. P ‘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 Buresu, Rhinelander buliding, Rose and Duane streets, New York, = - THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon going to the Country on a vacation ? It 50, it i 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address.- Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given. to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market ‘street, will receive prompt attention. 2 SATURDAY AY 18, 1885 Unless sarcasm is genial it is mean. ‘Opportunity is the servant of enterprise. Thereé is no living picture so progressive as California. Finding fault is efisier than losing the opportunity to-doso. Healdsburg’s festival was the aurora borealis of the north. The sneer is gefiemfly a confession either of jealousy or failure. California this year is not only talking enterprise but acting it. Industry is the only thing that has mil- Jions in it for the million. The people who know how to love Cali~ fornia are going camping. Ships sometimes get half seas over by taking the Horn too often. Advertising lotteries is setting a bait for felly and a trap for avarice. Home industries are condemned when foreign goods are preferred. It has'heen decided that Fresno is to be on the main line of progress. A successful man can afford to have a kind word evei for his enemies. No intelligent consumer will object to a rise in prices if wages rise with them. While the reformers are pointing out the path the world goes the other way. Visalia-and Hanford will have to speak up.lively-in bidding for the people’s road. “The bombardment of Santa Cruz with roses will be. the reddest battle in history. 1t is evident that Uncle S8am and Colum- bia intend to have a silver wedding before long. Japan i§_gomething of a disturbing flea on the.far Eastern flank of the Russian bear. The ‘extremists may argue the money question, but conservative men will de- cide it. No money is truly Lionest that does not attend to its business and circulate among the people. 2 2 There mgy be something more than speculation in the jump which wheat has taken at Chicago. The.Half-million. Club might do some effective work by organizing a home mar- ket club.as an annex. : The man Wwho is too eager to laugh best by laughing last often :misses the oppor- tunity te laugh at all. No man rising from obscurity has in so short'a time won so.much fame as a fisher- man as Grover Cleveland. ' In addition to protecting our industries with a.tariff we ought to fight foreign £0ods with home market clubs. 1t is the. characteristic of the Demo- cratic party that it cannot even saw wood without monkeying with the buzzsaw. ./There are good. prospects that in the coming decade California will build up an industry as diversified as her resources. ‘What does it profit a man .to send his ritoney ‘out of the country for foreign goods.and ruin his neighbor’s industry ? “The seal-poacher may not be able to suminon spirits from the vasty deep, but ¥ie is liable'to raise the devii on Bering Sea. As. Jong as there are Eastern people to talk of running:€léveland fora third term, the foolkiller will never have time to come West.: - : 2 In these days of acquiring skill in theart of getting the most out of life, he is a sorry specimen of manhood who sacrifices life to ‘Pleasure.- % 8 ‘Those_ suc&asful newspaper publishers sho make ‘money by. advertising lotteries are too shrewd to invest their'own money 4n' tickets. - - When the Americans start the big bank in” Venezuela Great Britain will begin to figure' up the cost of her expedition to nal settlemént of the Oriental muddle méay be.an aliiance of China and Japan. to drive thie Europeans off the siatic coast altogether. ' Nicaragua-has paid her money debt to ngland, but grudges are hard to estimate in cash, and sometimes they. draw an out- eously usurieus interest. “The . most - broad-gauge thing that the " Sonoma Valley people ever contemplated . is the extension of a narrow-gauge road from Petaluia to Santa Rosa. 1t is cheering news that an Eastern news- paper-has been prosecuted for publishing . “the winning numbers in a lottery con- ucted for & ““charitable” purpose. H ‘the killing frost in the lake region - -teachies avy fruit-growers or fruit-packers to_come to California to do business, they will derive a lasting profit from the lesson. "It is befitting the spirit of local patriot- “ism rife among us that efforts to send our ~highest skyrockets heavenward on the _Fourth of July should be uncommonly No doubt the British are justified to fome extent in taking advantage of our folly in electing a mugwump administra- tien, but there is such a thing as over- doing it. Z i”’l‘hé, water carnival at Santa Cruz will . ‘begin June 11 with 2 grand onslaught upon the city’s defenses, in which roses and the be the deadly missiles employed.. L ‘ e AN IMPORTANT JOURNEY. Claus Spreckels started yesterday for Europe, intending a three months’ ab- sence from California, and combining business with pleasure as the pur- poses of the trip abroad. The pleasure which he anticipates is the sur- cease for a season of those labors and cares which are attendant upon men of his active temperament and which accompany the possession of vast and varied interests and great wealth. The enjoyment for a brief season by Claus Spreckels of that well-earned rest which comes with change of scene, and which may best be found in Old World capitals, no one with honest heart will envy or would deny him, especially in view of the public purposes which for the past several months have occupied his time and been the prime end and object of his care. The business which Mr. Spreckels con- templates as one of the objects of his visit to the East and to Europe is of a kind which makes his going doubly interest- ing to the people of California. He is the president and prime promoter of the project for a competing railroad. His efforts expended here for its advancement have already placed it be- yond uncertainty and among the prac- tical facts of the present and the realities of the near future. This great enterprise has been started upon the theory and plan of being essen- tially a people’s railroad, and as such of being built mainly for cash in order that there may be the smallest amount of a bonded indebtedness possible, and in con- sequence the least ground for any claim of & necessity for excessive freights and fares. It is desired also that the stock of the Valley railroad shall be widely dis- tributed and held in many hands in order that the largest possible number of people may be concerned in the success of the enterprise. The esti- mated cost of construction is about $6,000,000, of which almost one-half is already subscribed. It would not be at all a bad idea to have some of the stock of the Valley railroad taken in the Eastern States and even in Europe, so that there as well as here there might be that interest in the success of the railroad which comes from capital invested in it. 1f the road is to be built for cash it must be so mainly from the sale of its stock, and ifa portion of that stock could be so placed as to bring into California a good accre- tion of coin to aid our people in building this railroad and thus in a double sense increasing the wealth of the State it would seem a most desirable policy to pursue and end to attain. There is no man living better qualified to inspire Eastern and European confi- dence in a great California enterprise and to cause capital to thence outflow in its aid than Claus Spreckels, and we shall miss our guess if from his present trip to the East and across the Atlantic the people of California in general and the Valley railroad project in particular do not reap some large and very practical benefits in a business way. THE POLIOE UNIFORMS. The objections of Chief Crowley to police uniforms made from cloth manufactured in this State are its faulty dyeing and its failure to wear as long as the French beaver. It isnot supposable that the Chief in preferring the French material in the face of the opposition manifested by the Manufacturers' Association is acting on any motive other than a desire to secure the best material for the money. Com- pared with all the beaver cloth which the mills of California might produce for home consumption that required by the police may be a very small matter, for this cloth is used largely throughout the State by policemen, streetcar and railroad opera- tives, messenger-boys and generally all others who are required to wear a dark blue uniform, because beaver is the most durable material that can be used for this hard service. It is therefore important that we should be able to compete with France in this item of consumption. But Chief Crowley’s objections seem to break down under the very positive guar- antee that the local makers of this cloth have offered to give. - It is true that California produces many manufactured articles which are as good as those made elsewhere, and that our people foolishly neglect to buy them. It may be true also that Chief Crowley is innocently in error with regard to beaver cloth. Leaving this discussion and turning to certain articles which require the highest skill in their production we may ask, Have we taken sufficient pains to secure the tinest artisans for developing the char- acter of our peculiar products to the high- est possible form? Are we content with the fact that Crosse & Blackwell buy our dried apricots, ship them to London, make them into marmalade and then sell them back to us? Our restaurants and hotel- keepers for many years have been securing the most artistic cooks that France can produce, and in other ways we are pro- vided with the special skiil which it has required a very much older civilization than ours to produce; but if in any partic- ular we have neglected this exercise of ! wisdom we have fallen short in our task of developing our resources. This is not a matter in which the ques- tion of competition between American and European labor can be raised, but only of introducing from abroad, to serve as our instructors, such fine artisans as we may lack. Our duty requires that great care should be taken with regard to every one of our industries which gives the smallest evidence of deficient skill; and not only that, but wherever the slightest belief exists that the peculiar climate of the State might permit the manufacture of articles which we do not produce, but which are produced in foreign countries having peculiarities of climate approach- ing ours, and which articles are sold to us at a heavy price, it is one of our highest duties to bring hither the artisans who can produce them and thus exhaust the whole field of experiment. The Manufacturers’ Association, which is doing such excellent work in other directions, would be an ad- mirable institution for promoting these inquiries. FINE ENGINEERING. Since the recent consolidation of most of the street railway companies in San Fran- cisco the new company has made wonder- ful strides in pushing new electric lines in all directions throughout the City. Oneof its most important undertakings was the construction of a cross-town line on Fill- more street. This is a street of easy grades until, going north, Broadway is en- countered, when a precipitous drop thence to Vallejo and Green streets occurs. Even for a cable road the grade (2514 per cent between Broadway and Val- lejo) would be steeper than any other in the City, while for an electric road it is im- practicable. At the beginning there was some curi- osity, therefore, concerning the consolid- ated company’s plan of running an electric road northward on Fillmore street to a Ppoint beyond which it could not be pushed, and where a terminus would, have no meaning. The company has now ex- Pplained its intention by announcing that it will push-the road on down the steep hill to the cable line on Union street, whichis a proper terminus. It will ac- complish this by placing a cable in the two steep blocks between Broadway and Green streets, and operating it with the electricity which is supplied to the line, This makes a combination of electric motor and cable, and is a most ingenious solution of a puzzling engineering problem. The completion of this work will be a matter of great importance to the City. The one lack of streetcar facilities north of Market street has been the absence of a sufficient number of cross-town lines. Even as it is, Hyde street has the only direct line of this kind northward to the bay, the roads to North Beach and Harbor View being indirect and inconvenient for cross-town purposes. It does not appear that the Fillmore-street line is to run further north than Union street, which is along distance from the bay,and whose line is not a part of the consolidated com- pany’s facilities. But when the time comes for pushing the Fillmore-street road further northward, we may be sure that it will be done. The next improvement which we shall expect, at the hands of the consolidated company—after an eflicient fender has been devised for the electric lines—is a plan which will render longitudinal seats on steep-grade roads less uncomfortable. If the ingenuity of the company’s engineers is inadequate to produce an economical transverse-seat arrangement (which is the most comfortable under all circumstances), we have overestimated their ability. PETER H. BURNETT. Peter H. Burnett, the first Governor of California, is dead. To the world at large this announcement will hardly have any other effect than that of recalling the rapidity with which California has grown from the sparsely settled region with scarcely a town worthy of the name within its borders, toa rich and populous com- monwealth containing a metropolis rank- ing among the most noted cities of the globe. It is natural that this should be so, The growth of the State has been so mar- velous, and in his later years the life of the ex-Governor has been so quiet and se- cluded, it can hardly be otherwise than that to the general public the swift growth of the State should be everything, and the man little more than a name. To older Californians, however, and par- ticularly to the pioneers, the death of Burnett will recall much more than the growth of the State. They will consider the man himself, and do honor to his noble memory. California was fortunate in her first Governor. He was one of the brave men who came to this coast not merely to seek for gold, but to lay the foundations of a great commonwealth. In an interyview with a member of the CarL staff, a little more than a year ago, the venerable old hero himself stated this fact in these words: “When I left my home in Nashville, I had three objects in view: To improve my wife’s health, to pay my debts, and to help establish an important American community on the Pacific Coast.” Thus patriotism, combined with tender love and an honorable ambition for success in life, induced him to make his home here, and these commingled mo- tives made him the honest gentleman, the true man and the honored citizen in all the walks of life. It is hard to overrate the value of the in- fluence of such men as Burnettin the early days of California’s history as an Ameri- can State. In the license, the bravado and the lawlessness of the time, he and the men like him, who stood up manfully for obediente to law with a right reverence for religion, were the true builders of the com- monwealth. It is significant also that this man of Southern birth, who not only never fought a duel, but who never hesitated to condemn the custom and those who prac- ticed it, even at that time when it was most honored and observed, was elected the first Governor of the new common- wealth. This fact attests that respect for law and for men of high religious prin- ciples was more common among the early pioneers of California than is generally supposed. Themajority of them evidently were not mere adventurers, but sturdy law-abiding Americans, who came here to make, not a fortune only, but to found a State. From his first entering into the State, Burnett displayed a genuine California patriotism. He never cherished any ideas of making a fortune here and returning East to spend it as so many others desired. In his letter resigning the Governorship of the State he said: “‘In the humble sphere of a private citizen I shall still cherish for her that ardent attachment she so justly merits. Within her serene and sunny lim- its I expect to spend the remainder of my days, many or few, and should an unfor- tunate crisis arise when such a sacrifice might be available and necessary for her safety, my limited fortune and force and my life shall be at her disposal.” These words were not an empty protestation. They were the utterances of a brave and loyal heart and meant in all sincerity what was said. In the wonderful future that lies before California the succession of men who fol- low one another in the high office of Gov- ernor will soon produce a list too long to be remembered, and even history will do little more than record their names. He, however, whose high fortune it was to be first in the office will, by that very fact, be assured of more than ordinary remem- brance. Future generations will desire to know what manner of man California hon- ored in that early day, and to gratify that knowledge the career of Burnett will be not infrequently studied. His own pub- lished works will assist in making this study more interesting and more accurate. Fortunate it is for the honor of the State that our first Governor was a man whose career we can submit to the closest scrut- iny. He was a strong type of the best American manhood of his day and well deserved to be chosen as the first magis- trate of California. THE SUNDAY OALL To all who delight in the literature of the Pacific Coast, the most attractive arti- cle of the Sunday CaLy will be Dan de Quille’s story, “The Black Dog of the Bend,” a genuine romance of the mining eamps, involving crime and mystery, and interesting from the first line to the last. | It is needless to praise Dan de Quille to Californians, He is known to be one of the most forcible and original of Pacific Coast writers, and every story from his pen is a permanent contribution to our litera- ture. Hardly less interesting to the general reader—and even more 50 to the historians and men of science—than the tales of the mining camps are the records, few and faint, of the people who dwelt in America in bygone ages. Here, indeed, is one of the world's great mysteries involving the destruction of an entirerace and the loss of a civilization of no mean order. This sub- ject is treated in the Sunday CALL in an elaborate description of a valuable coilec- tion of antiquities of a prehistoric race of Central America—the Mayas. This race is ‘one of the oldest that have left traces on our continent. 1t preceded thie Toltecs, as the Toltecs preceded the Aztecs, and yet, as the discovered fragments of their work show, they possessed an artistic develop- ?ent superior to that of the ancient Egyp- lans. Lovers of animated nature will find in the Sunday CaLr another paper of the series of “Idyls of the Fields” that have charmed 50 many readers since the series began. The paper of to-morrow gives some delightful sketches of bird life, and is fully equal in interest and information to any that have preceded it. The special articles of the Sunday CaLy, however, are too many to be enumerated in detail. Every reader will find in it something suited to his particular taste. The news columns, while containing a complete record of the events of the world of the previous day, will be found particularly rich in matters relating to the Pacific Coast. No better compendium of family reading, either for amusement or instruc- tion, can be found, and every one, there- fore, can add another pleasure to his day of rest by ordering the Sunday CaLL. TWO0 PUSHING VALLEYS. ‘We announced the other day that a plan for constructing an electric road from Napa to Calistoga was in process of formation. This is followed by the cheering news that a company is being organized for the building of a narrow-gauge steam road from Petaluma to Santa Rosa. . The two valleys—the Napa and Sonoma —are among the most attractive and pros- perous parts in the State, but, like most other sections of California, they have been content {0 rest at the mercy of such trans- portation facilities as outside capital and enterprise might offer them. The Napa Valley above Nagpa City has only one line of rail and no competition, and this is true also of the Somoma Valley above Banta Rosa. This does not mean todeny that one line in either case is sufficient to handle the traffic. Thatis only a part of the question. Until the Southern Pacific has produced some evidence either of its willingness or ability to handle its lines with a main intention to develop the sec- tions which they penetrate, the mere pres- ence of one of its roads in any section must be explained on a very different ground. When the people themselves be- gin to build their own roads to tidewater they will be giving the first and most far- reaching evidence that they deserve to prosper. These transportation enterprises in Napa and Sonoma valleys are planned with great wisdom. Napa City,in Napa Valley, is at the head of navigation of the stream which flows down the valley to the bay, and hence an electric road thence to Calistoga so as to connect the extreme upper end of the valley with San Fran- cisco by rail and water lines owned by the people themselves will furnish complete exemption from transpottation monopoly, and will give the valley the one remaining thing needed to insure a larger prosperity of the present residents and a greatly in- creased number of settlers. Practically the same results will be se- cured by a narrow-gauge steam road from Petaluma to Santa Rosa; for Petaluma, like Napa, is on the tidewater of S8an Fran- cisco Bay, and such a road would placethe valley as far north as Santa Rosa wholly free to work out the bright destiny which awaits it. These two enterprises area part of the great forward movement which the whole State is making. Since S8an Francisco cap- italists of courage and enterprise threw down the gauntlet to the Southern Pacific and dared to invade with a railroad of their own the largest and richest territory over which it held sway in California the pride of all the people has been roused,and strength and courage have come into the hearts of our people. This is the begin- ning of victory and the death of silurian- ism in California. PERSONAL. Dr. J. Walshe of Irvington is a guest at the Rauss. B. C. Holly, a horseman of Vallejo, is at the Grand. Dr, and Mrs. A. Blair Shaw of Monticello are at the Baldwin. A.S.Bmith of ‘the Marysville Appeal is reg- istered at the Lick. A.F.Hinz, the miller, has gone to Europe for & three months’ trip. H. Stelling, a merchant of Davis, registered yesterdey at the Russ. Edward McGettigan of Vallejo came to town and put up at the Russ. P. A. Buell of Stockton came cown yesterday and registered at the Grand. J. J. Hebbron, a stock-raiser of Salinas, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. James W. Minturn, & mining man from Min- turn, is staying at the Palace. Frank Williams, & merchant of Colusa, reg- istered at the Grand yesterday. H.C.Lechner and Ben Leet, of Bakersfield, ‘were among recent arrivals at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of S8an Juan came in yesterday, and are guests at the Grand. George D. McLean, a prominent mining man of Grass Valley, was among yesterday's ar- rivals at the Lick, George H. Appel, the manager at Sacramento for the California Fruit Transportation Com- pany of Chicago, is at the Palace. H. A. McCraney, editor of the Lakeport Avalanche and deputy elerk of the Supreme Court, came down from Sacramento yesterday and registered at the California. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ‘Those who desire State publications to be a complete success should get the new editions 88 soon as possible and review them. Severity in eriticizing the work may be hard on the edi- tors, but it is kindness to the children, and criticism should be tempered to the shorn lambs, not to the old sheep who have hitherto disregarded even wintry blasts.—Stockton In. dependent, The man who wishes to own & home in Sac- ramento had better buy a lot somewhere and start in to build before the other man comes in ahead of him. Houses are going up in our midst like the historical mushrooms aiter the spring rain,—Sacramento Bee. The time is not so very far distant in the dim future when our ‘‘Greater Los Angeles” will extend in a continuous line from the present city limits on the east to Pasadena,and from our southernmost boundary to the sea.—Los Angeles Times. Educational influence and experience may be depended upon to overcome inherited ten- dencies. It is only s question of time when silurians in Yolo County will be & thing of the past.—Woodland Democrat. Let the people once thoroughly appreciate the possibilities of organized action and it will not be long until we can accomplish anything We start out to do.—Visalia Times. " A consensus of the country press, whether right or wrong, is the best obtsinable index of popular sentiment upon & given subject.—San Bernardino Times-Index. ‘When the Eastern cyclone gives a perform- ance it always brings down the house.—San Jose Mercury. ‘Why is it that California sardines taste better in a Spanish box than in s local one?—Pasa- dena News. ————————— THE cook should examine carefully the label of the baking powder and see that she is not imposed upon. If the grocer sends anything but the Royal send it back, as one ooofi did five times until she got the Royal. The only safe way is for the cook to have the finest things to work with, ana the tBoyal h‘ ;.l;twonfy- the fines:‘bnt the most econom; because it goes so much further, i AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “‘Good-morning, General Backus.” ““Good-morning,” answered the president of | the Union League Club, as he came out of the Palace rooms. ““What is the next thingon the programme?” ““We expect Tom Reed and Senator Allison in a few weeks, and we will entertain them as we did Senators Elkins and Cullom and Congress- man Joy. We expect to have quite an unusual time with the man from Maine and the man from Ohio. You see, it brings us together in such 2 manner that we ¢an depart from the long-winded speeches of the political world and the posing of demagogues; brings us right up ciose to each other—short talks. plenty of sociability and endless conversation of all va- riety. That's the only way to conduct a club and enjoy it. As we are situated now right in GENERAL BACKUS BELIEVES IN HIS CLUB. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] the hotel no man of any prominence can es- cape us,and few of them wantto. We have all the luxury ndcessary to make it pleasant for our visitors, and the result is they are glad to return and think well of us when away.” “So you don’t believe in long speeches?’ “We don’t allow it. Noone ispermitted to harangue there. If such a thing should be at- tempted it would lead to astampede. And it ought to. Who wants to go into his club, even if he is built on political lines, and listen toa long complaint about the tariff or some other equally weighty issue? Nobody!” “Do you not find it dificult at times to pull down the windy members?” “Never have the slightest trouble. Every one is congenial. It is the most cosmopolitan club in the world, One can slways find some person who is in sympathy with him and who is willing to go off in a quiet corner and talk the matter over without display. When the visitor from the outside precincts drops in he finds congenial companions, and he can get posted on any political issue before the people, quietly, of course. No hurrah—just plain, flat-footed information, such as any intelligent man would desire. Come in some afternoon. Make yourself at home. See how we conduct our club. “Oh, yes, our aim is good government, and any one who will assist the Republican party to the position it alone is able to hold will be given the kindest reception. “Another thing,” said the General, winking & sly club wink, ‘‘we make the most insinuating ‘punch ever brewed on the Pacific Coast or else- where. When an associate member drifte in from the districts and gets just one glass of our brew, he sends for his family and takes up a residence n the city. There is no gettingaway from its quality.” “I think there is not the least doubt of our raising the $45,000 necessary for the proposed narrow-gauge railway from our city to Peta- luma,” said Colonel Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa yesterday afternoon. “They want us to take $45,000 and Petaluma $25,0000f the $110,000 on fifteen years’ mort- gage bonds, and I feel certain there is enough enterprise behind our capital to insure the prrchase of those bonds without delay, provid- ing Petaluma does the right thing. John Mc- Near is the leading spirit in the movement at the Petaluma end of the line, and he is an in- defatigable worker. He has dredged a canal leading to Petaluma Creek at an expense of $75,000,and his large interests there are such a8 t0 guarantee his heartiest co-operation in the enterprise. But this road means more to Santa Rosa, perhaps, than to Petaluma. The latter town already has the advantage of water competition in transportation; but the mer- chants and manufacturers at the county seat, only sixteen miles farther from San Francisco, are ‘at the mercy of the railway com- pany. Our freight rates to San Fran- cisco are nearly twice those from Peta- lums, despite the fact that we have a compet- ing roed in the Southern Pacific branch from Vallejo. We are bound to build the line, and I think itisalsoin the cards tosoon have a road built straight through to Eureks, Humboldt County.” J. B. Crowley, an agent of the Treasury De- partment, who is on his way to the Seal Islands in Alaska to keep a watch on the summer's catch, does not think that all that has been at- tempted by international arbitration will ef- fect much toward preventing the rapid decrease of the seal herds. ‘ “I have seen a statement in the papers to-day that Great Britain has issued an order that all their vessels going into the Bering Sea may carry firearms,” said Mr.Crowley. ‘“Ii so, they cannot be very anxious to protect the seals. 1 hate to believe that Great Britain has taken that course, but if she has she is not acting in good faith. You can understand that when any of these sealing vessels are in the midst of @ herd of seals the average sealer will not hesi- tate to use firearms if there is no Government vessel within sight and hearing. “There might just as well be no restriction whatever in the use of firearms. However, there have been other methods of catching seals devised 8o that I think they will catch nearly as many without firearms as with them. The only remedy would be further interna- tional agreements to prevent the deep-ses seal- ing. The large decrease in the number of the seals now going on is due entirely to the deep- sea fishing. At the present rate the herds will ‘be almost destroyed in a few years,” General William B. Bate, United States Sena- tor from Tennessee, who has lately been visit- ing this city, went up to Yosemite several years #g0, and Reel Terry tells a story in connection with the trip. “Senator Bate isa man of unquestioned nerve and valor,” said Terry. ‘‘He was a major- general In the Confederate army during the ‘war and noted for his personal conrage, but it was almost impossible for him to go into the valley. On the trails along the precipices he had to sit down and wanted to give itall up and go back. But then he can take satisfaction in knowing that other brave men are filled with terror at much less dangerous sights, There is Lord Roberts, the most distinguished soldier in the British army. who cannot bear the sight of a cat. Do you know, I would like 10 see what Roberts would do'if. ke was - taken | into Haquette's and saw Kahler's picture of Mrs. Johnison’s cats.” - % o e ‘"PEOPLE TALEKED : ABOUT. James Whitcomb Riley writes very slowly and with painstaking care, Bjll Nye, his old associate and ftiend, says'that he digs his pen- cil into the paper 80 hard that the several sheets below form manifold copies of the orig- inal. Henry Arthur Jones' latest play holds the record for length of title. - It is- the “Triumph ot the. Philistines, and How Mr. Jorgan Pre- served the Morals of Market Pewbury Under Very Trying Circumstances.” -General Lord Wolseley -is greatly interested in the temperaice movement in the British army. He says there. never has been atime when there was so little drunkenness among soldiers as now. Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of the President, is gray-haired and. has a pleasant face. She is rather stout, but her taste in-dress is excellent, and she i invariably attired - according to the late:t Zashions. As soon ‘as it was announced that Henry " George had been named n the will of a wealthy English manufacturer he was besieged by call- ers asking aid and by begging letters. The Daughters of the Confederacy at Hous- ton, Tex., have named .their chapter Mildred Lee, aiter the daughtér of General Robert E. Lee. Albani’s gift of 62,000 francs for the poor school children of Paris has been accepted by thie Paris Town Counctl. Private Secretary Thurber issaid tobe cne of the cleverest narrators of dialect stories ever known in Washington. One of the members of Governor Morton's staff girds on a $4000 sword when he is.in foll- dress uniform. R ‘The Shah of Persia will not remain at & table on which salmon or lobster is placed. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Caddington—I was insulted to-day by Mad- dox. Fulljames—Has he-invented & new word?— New York World. Millionaire—Honesty, my son, is always the best policy. His Son—Well, maybe it is, father, but still you've done pretty well.—Bostan Post. He—Why does Miss Middleage persist in'sing- ing “My Sweetheart's the Man-in the Moon?" She—Because hé can’t come down and deny it.—Harper's Bazar. Bacon—I always sald that Mrs. Cross would make her mark sooner or later. Egbert—You don’t mean to tell me Cross has ablack eye?—Yonkers Statesman. “He has yielded his liie for me,” she moaned. The tempest tossed her hair in wet ringlets over her face. She heeded it not. “And this was & double life, too.”—Detroit Tribune. “Anyway,” said the cornfed philosopker, “when the women get into Congress you won't hear any more of that‘l pause for areply’ chestnut. They won't pause. No.”—Indian- spolis Journal. Great Editor—And did you write this essay all by yourseli? Literary Aspirant—Yes; it is all my own work.. Great Editor—Well, then, Charles Lamb, I am very mueh pleased to meet you.—Syracuse Post. Minister (at baptismal font)—Name, please? Mother (baby born aproad)—Philip Ferdi- nand Chesterfield Randolph y Livingstone. Minister (aside to assistant)--Mr. Kneeler, a little more water, please.—Cinginnati Com: mereial. SOLLY WALTER SELECTED He Will Superintend the Art Department of the Me- chanics’ Fair. : Tuitlon and Illustrative Work to Be Exploited—A Loan Exhibl- tion. The trustees of the Mechanics” Institute have selected Solly Walter, a well-known artist, to superintend the art department of the twenty-eighth industrial exhibition: to be held between August 13 and Septem- ber 14 of this year. Mr. Walter will make some changes in the method of conducting his department which will add much to its attractiveness. *The Art Department this year,” said Mr. Walter yesterday, “will consist of three divisions. In one will bea loan ex- hibition, including all tbe works of the great masters which are owned by private persons in this eity. It will include statu- ary, and that exhibit sheuld of itself be a most attractive feature. *‘Another division will show what San Francisco is doing in the way of art tuition, Specimens of work by members of the Art Association will be exhibited and studies from the art clubs and the Art League will be shown. The results of the outing trips of the Sketch Club will be included and a feature is to be made of the efforts of the pupils of private teachers, “The third division I term that of illus- trative art. It will include hook, maga- zine and newspaper illustration, litho- graphs, etchings, wood cuts, etc. The ress method of reproducing pictures will e shown step by step from the initial pencil sketch of the artist through the pen and ink drawing, the photographic nega- tive, the etched zinc plate, the matrix and the stereotflped plate to the printed page. Photography, amateur, club and profes- fessional, will be made a feature of this division.” During the exposition Mr. Walter will delivera series of three lectures on art following closely the divisions mentioned and devoting one lecture to each division. —————— Dr. Potter Angry. Suit has been commenced by Dr.Samuel O. Potter against Willlam R. Hearst for $50,000 damages for _libel alleged to have been con- tained in certain articles published in the Ex- aminer reflecflnz on his management of the Home of the Inebriates, which the Legislature recently sought to abolish, The doctor rests upon his reputation “as an intelligent, op, sud humane physician and nurge§n." Ll ——————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * PLAIN mixed candies, 10c 1b. Townsend’s.* ——— Mark HopPkiNs INSTITUTE OF Arr. Only one more week, PUREST imported cognacs, cordials for family use. Market street. Holland gin and Mohns & xntenbngh, ————— Everybody Going To Santa Cruz Mountains witk Iroquois Club. Boat leaves foot » the Round-trip tickets $1 of Market at 8:45 A. M. Straw Hats lh:: t111:em l{:: boys are in great demand this Weather. Largest stock and lowest prices at theold I.X.L., L.V. Merle, pmpmw]:iuw to 620 Kearny street, corner Commercial. b ——————— Thackeray adored the memory of his mother. Hesaid: ‘“Mother is the name of God on the lips of little children.” —_— s PURE, rich blood Is the basis of good health. and Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies and enriches the blood, This fact tells the whole story of the unparalleled success of Hood's Sarsaparilla. ——————— WE recommend the use of Dr. Siegert's Angos- :!u-!.‘ Bitters to our friends who suffer with dyspep- e FOR ALLAYING HOARSENESS AND IRRITATION OF THE THROAT, use *Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” 25c abox. Avoid imitations. ——————————— FADED hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of PARKER'S HATR BA1SAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents | buildings: FERRY SIGNS MUST @O. The Harbor Commissioners Decide Against Advertisements in the Y Buildings. People of this next generation seeking for a sign will have to seek for it in some other place than the ferry depot after June 1. The edict has gone forth from the State Board of Harbor Commissioners that the signs must go. Causes which led to this decision are stated in-the preamble and resolution adopted by the beard April 23: WHEREAS, The practice hitherto followed by this board in selling advertising privileges on the State property under the rd’s control has developed into a disfigurement of the ferry house and slips, which is offensive to the eye and an affront (o good taste; and whereas, it is not a legitimate province of this board to de- rive revenue from such a.source, the business belonging ‘bryJ»erly to the newspaper and other established adveriising agencies; thereiore Resolved, That from and aiter June 1, 1895, 1o advertising space shall be rented or sold by the board, and that after that date all existing advertisingon the State property. under this board's control shall be effaced, except suoh as relates to the passenger or freight business of the water craft docking at the wharves, and that in future all privileges of the latter kind be granted in the discretion of the board. The ‘practice of selling space for signs began in June, 1886, The first privilege was accorded to N. E. Shattuck, who paid $100 a month for it. Subsequently the value of the privilege enhanced until Swan & Stein paid for a part of the space $250 a month, and L. ‘D. Owen $100 monthly for the remainder. Swan had the depot and . Owen: the slips, During the past year Swan has only paid $200 a month. ~ He found the advertising business so dull that he did pot feel justified in paying a larger sum. PR SRR Turner Held to Answer, J.F. Turger, the real-estate man who was arrested several days ago and eharged with swindling, was held to-answer in th Court yesterday on a charge of grand His bonds were fixed at £1000. other charge of obtaining money pretenses, preferred b a Fisk: against him. A PICNIC FOR BUYERS OF TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES, ETC. ——AT ALL—— Great American Tmporting Tea Co.'s STORES. EXTRAORDISARY EXTRA LARGE PREMIUNS GIVEN AWAY To Purchasers of Fifty Cts. or One Dollar's Worth of Our Celebrated Teas, Coffecs, Spices, Ete. BEST QUALITY. LOWEST PRICES, COME SEE US. @~ Our Very Liberal Inducements will SURPRISE YOU. ye pending & No Peddler's Profits to Paye > Baying at First Hand--An Immense Say iy ) Goods Delivered Free, 52 Market Street 140 Sixth Street 1419 Polk Street | 521 Montgomery Ave. 2008 Fillmore Street 3006 Sixteenth Street 617 Kearny Street 965 Market Street 333 Hayes Street 218 Third Street 104 Second Street 146 Ninth Street. 2410 Mission Street 3259 Mission Street 917 Broadway 131 San Pablo Avenue 616 E, Twelfth Street } Gakla‘“d P e avenss 21| Mameda REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL. ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Réal Estate Clrcular.” REMOVED TO 4 Movntgomery‘ Street, _UN 0¥ TRUST BUILDLi€, CORNER MARKET. San Francisco INVESTMENTS, Rents $180: minke ofér $22,000; solid &-story building,.2 stores below: Foufth st., near- Folsoni} large lot. - NW. cor. California, heyond Lagunn: 53x80, and 3-2-st0ry ai2d planked hasement houges in finest of ent on them: réuts §120; price ted. nts $274 50; $30,000; 90x ory dwellings and-9 flats; covered with streets in good ord Corner on. Hawar stores and flats; $18.000. Post st., het.” Powell .and Mason: large lot and A st., near 3d; rénts $135:2 100. $30,000. . ‘Bargain: Fourth st.; $6500; 25x80;2-s{ory bulid: ing; store belaw, Rents $100; .$12,600; store property; Howard st., near 10th. " WESTERN ADDITION "RESIDENCES - ° AND HOUSES AND EOTS. 2 firfe-iearly néw houses anid lot 37:6 dlden Gatp ‘ave:and Turk st:: will be sold cheap.” . 5 Make offer; Vallejo and -Octavia ‘corner; 25% 112:6, and- ver; mfortable residence 9 rooms and every conveniente: fine view; $10,! NW. cor. on Jackson, near Laguna. x137:F and fine residence. 15 roomsand all mproverment ne view from er srory ; $20,1 3 Make offers tonta §80; ' Tfaight at., 5 fats, bet: ‘Webster and Fillmore: 27x137:6: houses: in firsts cliuss order; aiways rented: $10,000. 1 Bush si., bet. Poik and Van N 55x120 to Tear stroby; covered witli building: 120,000. WESTERN "ADDITION RESIDENCE 2 TTLOTS. % NW. cor. Pacific ive, and’ Broderick: -$5x127:8; very sightly.lot, with vieiv of bay: $10,500. Toadway, near-Octavias lot $4:6x197:8; only $4500. K . Pine and Buchanan: NW. corner; 55x81:3; both stroets sewered and Pine bitumiinised; $10,000. Cheap; Waller st. side: a few-feet from Mar- Ket; lo.s 25x13° v $8500 each, .. ide, near Green; ‘Tot 84x100; Devisadero st., W. fine view; $3400.. - Very chieap; 1ot 37 :6x9¢ Waller; one bl on Laguna st,, near lock from Market st.: oply $3750. REDUCTION The Pacific Gas fmprovement Co, will Re- duce the Price of Gas to Consiimers, BEGINNING WITH JULY For lluminating purposes to... For heating, cooking and ail manufacturing - purposes, ik Where a separafe meter is. used, Serunsn -o--n®1 60 prr M cu. ft. LER, Secretary pro tem. i DESKS. BT $24.00 —IRIPPiI— B 2400 GEQ. H. FULLER DESK CO, 638 and 640 Mission Stréets e y »