The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANC ISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: T- PSUNDAY 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 & vacation? Tt €0, it is no 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. MONDAY. .........MAY 20, 1895 In concentration is strength. Catch on to the best movement. Start your enterprises early and avoid the rush. The street-light question seems to be a dark problem. San Francisco must be made a home market center. Health is the only comfortable raiment that wealth can wear. Ysaye can draw a longer bow with his hand than with his tongue. If you don’t see any California products at your merchant’s ask for them. The awakening of San Francisco has aroused everything in the great West. A soft heart and a hard pocket have never made a successful business partnership. There is so much enterprise in the air that a good deal of blowing is unavoidable. The Missouri Democrats are looking for a Presidential candidate in a Vest pocket. General Campos is painfully slow about snuffing the candle of the Cuban insurrec- tion. It is hard nowadays to find & place in California where spiders are spinning their webs. Since we are following street improve- menton a bicycle we ought to catch up with it. Every one who grows a flower in San Francisco thereby writes a poem on the climate. It is a sad community in California that has not on foot some scheme for local im- provement. Sensible S8an Franciscans are beginning to think of springs, lakes, camping and matrimony. Healdsburg is now enjoying itself by sit- ting in the sunshine and combing the roses out of its hair. The only really unhappy people in the world are those who lack the industry to seek happiness. In the present revival of industry our raw material ought to be converted into something better. There are many people who will find their holiday trips mixed up with the financial problem. = 1t is not always a wise course to follow the crowd, but at the present time it isa safe thing in Californi; Ten years from now the Half-million Club will wonder why it did not stick its original peg at a million. Make up your mind to do your share toward bringing the next Republican Con- vention to San Francisco. No matter between what nations the European conflict breaks out both sides will carry the war into Africa. He is a hard-hearted husband who would permit his wife to be less prettily arrayed than the flowers of her garden. The happiest people in San Francisco yesterday were those who took the most outdoor sunshine into their systems. Eastern people whostay away from Cali- fornia for fear of earthquakes would hesi- tate to enter heayen for fear of ghosts. After the athletic success of Berkeley in the East we onght to hear no more about the decadence of the youth of California. To the extent to which Ysaye forgot his audience while fiddling did the audience become strongly impressed with his pres- ence, Although Miss Meiler, the Healdsburg Queen, has laid aside her crown, it was merely for the reason that Healdsburg might wear it. The Monroe doctrine has never been definitely formulated as a policy by this country, but the next Congress will prob- ably do the work. —— The seafights in the Oriental war are be- lieved to bave demonstrated that naval battles in the future will be literally for victory or death. America may not be able to turn out as fine musicians as France, Germany and - Italy, but it manages to turn out a pretty fair article of American citizen. If Cleveland had employed the time he has spent in fishing and shooting in visit- ing the different sections of the country he would haye been a wiser man and a better President. The measure of a California fruit-grower's success is the exercise of his brains and in- dustry in getting the most out of his land and out of the opportunities for enlarging . his market. If the Democratic Presidential nomina- tion in 1896 comes down to a choice be- tween Cleveland and Hill some Democrats will take to the deep sea and some will surrender to the ticket. Fresno has caught the spint of the day by arranging for an electric road which shall bring the products of her leading vineyards to the Valley road, and this is all the better when we reflect that the electric road is to be run by water-power stored in the upper San Joaquin River. For half a century such natural resources of California as have been touched by the people have merely been undergoing the storing process on the clock-winding prin- ciple, and now that the machinery has been’ started there is such a turning of wheels and striking of hours that weare m_rpr_inedto discover that we have been winding the clock all these shining vears. ‘| the prejudice of others, and it will be DAILY CALL-—4G per year bymail; by carrler, 15c” ‘week. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. Itis now pretty well usnfid thav at the next Republican convention every section of the Union except the South and the Pa- cific Coast will have some local favorite to support for the Presidential nomination. It will manifgstly be unadvisable to hold the convention in a city where any one candidate is overwhelmingly favored to equally unadvisable to hold it in any Southern city on account of the heat of the summer and the lack of hotel accom- modations. This condition of affairs will naturally incline the leaders of the party to look more favorably upon a proposal to select San Francisco as the convention city than they would otherwise do, and asa consequence the prospects of bringing the convention here in 1896 are so much better than they have ever been in the past that it would be foolish for us to neglect the opportunity, The arguments in our favor are many. This is the pleasantest city in America for a midsummer convention. The hotel ac- commodations are ample and excellent. Every other city of anything like equal rank in the country has had a convention, and itis now the turn of San Francisco. The trip across the continent would be full of pleasure and benefit to the dele- gates, and finally the nomination of a can- didate for the Presidency on the shores of the Pacific would so impress the mind with a realizing sense of the greatness of the Republic it could not fail to excite en- thusiasm among the people on the At- lantic seaboard, and generate a sentiment that would go far toward electing the ticket. Thus we have not only circumstances in our favor but good arguments to add to them, and, what is better still, there is every evidence that for once all the forces of the Pacific Coast will pull together and act harmoniously to accomplish the desired resuit. From Puget Sound to Arizona there will be co-operation among Republi- cans and Democrats to bring to San Fran- cisco either one convention or the other. Never before has the whole Pacific Coast acted as a unit, and in the very fact of that unity now there is abundant encourage- ment for the belief that it will not fail of its object, As all the known factors of the issue are thus propitious to our hopes, the work that is being done by the committee of the Union League Club and by others to bring the convention here will be watched with more than ordinary interest, and ought to receive the fullest measure of public sup- port. We can count upon generous aid from every part of the great West, but San Francisco must lead, and men of all parties must work together in giving to that leadership a spirit vigorous enough to excite enthusiasm among our allies. OUR POPULATION. The Federal census of 1890 gave San Francisco a population of 298,890—in round | numbers 300,000. The school census taken in the early part of this month reported a total of 93,558 children under the age of sevenieen years. Multiplying this by 314, the basis that has been gener- ally adopted in this country for estimating the population of cities, we find that the present population of the city is 327,453. We must therefore conclude either that the population of the City has increased 28,000 since 1890 or that the Federal census underestimated the number of inhabi- tants. The chances are that the Federal census did not fully report the population, for it is a notorious fact that many cities, dis- satisfied with the Census Bureau’s work, followed it up with census-takings of their own and found that the bureau had done its work imperfectly, Of course these lo- | cal censuses could not go into the National records, and hence there was no appeal from the burean’s bungling work. For certain local purposes, however, various cities of the Union have started the plan of taking a police census every five years. This is an admirable idea, for the police are manifestly the best agents to perform the work intelligently. They are familiar with the neighborhoods which they patrol, and, given two or three days in which to do the work, can perform the task accurately. We are now half way be- tween the last census and the next, and hence this would be the proper yearin which to take a police census of the City. No calculations based upon a partial cen- sus for any purpose can be as reliable as a direct census of the whole population. This is made conspicuous by the claim that a considerable discrepancy exists be- tween the number of names published in one of the City directories and those in another. It is not at all likely either that the Fed- eral census of 1890 omitted 28,000 persons, or that the population of the City has in- creased that much within the last five years. A rough averagingof these two conditions would place the growth of the City at about 3000 a year during the last five years. It could hardly be much less than that, and likely has been more. At the lowest estimate thisisa growth of 10 per cent a year, which, in view of the hard times that have prevailed during that period, makes a comfortable showing. One interesting feature of the school census is that of the 93,558 children be- tween the ages of 5 and 17, 91,215 are native born and 2343 foreign born. In view of the fact that the foreign population of San Francisco is very large, the small proportion of foreign- born children is an instructive fact. It means that the population of the City, al- though itis clearly growingata healthy rate, is not receiving an appreciable accre- tion from foreign sources. It has been remarked now and then the large number of “to let” signs in the City indicates anything but an increase of the population. Such calculations omit three important considerations: First, the rapid extension and multiplication of streetcar lines induce builders to find inexpensive lots, removed from the heart of the City; second, many new houses have been built, and as a rule they are more desirable ttan the old; third, rents in the more populous sections of the City have not as yet fallen in proportion to the reductions observable in the other items of housekeeping ex- pense. It isgenerally old houses that have the “to let” sign in the window. YSAYE IN SAN JOSE. Frank Loui King, dean of the King Con- servatory of Music in San Jose, has ar- proof that among our people the highest culture is not confined to large cities, and that even in the smaller centers of popu- lation there is a sufficient demand for what is best in art to call the greatest artists to respond to it. Of course in mat- ters of this kind, as in all others, much depends upon a community having a leader capable of comprehending the finer aspirations of the people and endowed with the courage to act upon them. In Mr. King San Jose has such a leader, and therefore manages to have her call re- sponded to by every eminent musician who comes to the coast. There is no reason why every town in California of any note should not have the advantage of hearing the best artists who visit 8an Francisco. Culture with us is confined to no locality, and wherever it exists there will be found a willingness to respond to the cost which the finest grati- fication entails. Each local center should provide its people with opportunities of testing their culture by standards of the highest excellence. From such evenings of pleasure permanent benefits are de- rived, and we may be sure San Jose will be moore than repaid for all that it costs to re- ceive Ysaye, THE SEATTLE SPIRIT. The most notable feature of the recent subscription in Seattle of a subsidy of $500,000 for the construction of the Lake ‘Washington Canal is that the greater por- tion of it was derived from contributions not exceeding $200 each. It was a popular subscription in every sense of the word. All the people, rich and poor alike, joined in it. Even the bootblacks of the town clubbed together and raised $25 as a cash donation. In a subscription of this sort the spirit evinced by the people in raising it, is more significant than the sum itself. In the way of recent American enterprises $500,000 is no very great sum and in fact is hardly sufficient to be accounted as an important news item; but it is a great sum to have been raised in these hard times by popular subscription; and when one recalls the class jealousies which exist in so many cities in this country, it is im- portant to note that they do not exist in Seattle and that men of moderate means are found in that city heartily assisting a great corporation to carry out an under- taking of such magnitude. ‘Where this spirit exists the growth of the community is certain. It will over- come every obstacle, because the very mo- ment & plan for overcoming it is devised there will always be among the people a sufficient energy and a sufficient capital to carry the plan into effect. Nomanin such a community will allow evils to exist for fear that any proposed remedy would benefit his neighbor more than himself. All men will work for the general good and each will rely upon his own industry and sagacity to get his proper share of the resulting prosperity. Nor can there be any doubt that prosperity will result. The spirit of local patriotism never fails to justify her votaries by the rewards she confers on them, and in every community where that spirit is honored there is found sooner or later work for every worker and use for every dollar. The region around Puget Sound is rich ina thousand elementsof industrial and commercial greatness. The great Sound itself confers an advantage which it would be bard to overrate and the natural re- sources of the country back of it are more abundant than can be calculated. Allof these things will have much to do in pro- viding for the coming greatness of the cities that have been founded there, but they will not supply everything. The dominant element of human prosperity is in humanity itself, and the surest proof of what the future of Seattle will be is to be found in this recent exhibition of what the Seattle spirit is. THE NEWSPAPER EXCHANGE. In a recent address Mr. Balfour, the leader of the Conservative party in England, referred to the part which the newspaper plays in commercial and industrial affairs, and in doing so made a statement which those who are now trying to advance the manufacturing interests of the Pacific Coast would do well to consider. “We habitually boast,” said Mr. Balfour, “of the extension of our railway, postal and telegraph facilities, but weareinclined to overlook the press as the agent, which brings into communication the different classes of soclety. In my judgment all the machinery used in communicating infor- mation to the public is not of really more importance to the community atlarge than the power of the people to communicate by advertisement, and bring the buyer and seller together, and to give them the machinery for communicating their wishes to one another.” The more carefully this statement is studied the more convincing it becomes. The newspaper is the greatest agency of commercial exchange in the world. No industry, however wisely planned or diligently conducted, can flourish that does not makeuseof its far-reaching mechanism. It is truly the machine that brings buyer and seller together. TUnless it is set into operation, the manufacturer will manu- facture in vain, and the consumer, kuowing not where to get what he wishes, will have to content himself with the first thing that comes to hand. The beneficial effect of this commercial service to the world well deserves the high estimate the British statesman placed upon it, and constitutes one of the chief claims of the press upon the attention of men. PERSONAL. Eugene D.Ryan of the navy is a guest at the Palace. J. 8. Brown, a big lumberman of Eureka, is in town. A. P. Halfill, a big fish-packer of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. T. J. Nichols, a leading fruitman of Auburn, is at the Palace. J. F. Kidder of Grass Valley registered at the Palace yesterday. Dr. A. G. Deardorff of Fresno registered at the Baldwin yesterday. George H. Kraft, a banker of Red Bluff, is staying at the Lick. Assemblyman Judson Brusie of Sacramento is st the California. F. Cooke Caldwell, an attorney of Bakers- field, is a guest at the Grand. W. D. Grady, a prominentattorney of Fresno, registered yesterday at the Grand. C. R. Mason, manager of the Byron Hot Springs, is registered at the Palace, 8. H. Fry, manager of the Pacific Lumber ranged to have Ysaye appear in that city on the 29th, and has thereby assured the music-lovers of that cultured community an opportunity to hear the great master without making a journey. ~ Itis not likely that Mr. King will lose by his enterprise. San Jose is not a large city in itself, but it hasa circle of populous suburbs to draw upon, and as the com- munity as & whole has long been edncated to appreciate and valne classic music at its true worth, an audience sufficiently large to repay the cost of even an Ysaye evening may be considered fairly certain to assemble. In a certain sense the visit of Ysaye to 8an Jose may be noted as 8 source of satis- faction to all Californians. It is another Company at Scotia, is at the Grand, J. J. Money, cashier of the Pajaro Valley Bank of Watsonville, is at the Grand. Charles Ericson, s contractor of San Luis Obispo, registered at the Grand yesterday. T. W. Patterson, & vireyardist of Fresno, ‘was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Baldwin. E. P. Colgan, the State Controller, came down from Sacramento yesterday and regis- tered at the Lick. . i, o L o 0 at] tel in Ne visa Fuestat tho Ll Senator Frank MocGowan of Humboldt ar- rived by yesterday's steamer from Eureks, and is staying at the Russ. William M. Houser, superintendent of the horse department of the great Vina ranch, came down yesterday to attend a sale of a lot of horses that have been shivped here. UP TO DATE IDEAS. A great many users of the telephone need the convenience of a desk and freedom to write down what they receive throngh the in- strument, but that is impossible when they have to hold the receiver to the esr, says the Philadelphia Times. The device shown in the eccompanying picture permits perfect treedom on the part of the user, for it is a transmitter and a receiver combined. It will be seen that when the mouth is placed to the transmitter the re- ceiver isautomatically held to the ear, so that the user may write, turn around, move about or lean on the desk, as he may desire. PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. The Princess Maud of Wales 18 a bicyclist, but does not rush into bloomers. She wears a neat and most modest costume, with & riding- habit skirt. Mme. Nansen, the explorer’s wife, has not seen her husband for two years. Her little daughter is now three years of age. Mme. Nan- sen is one of the most popular ballad singers in Norway. Andreas Haftas, the last veteran of the Greek wars of liberty of 1821, died in Athens re- cently, 116 years old. He had often expressed the wish to live till 1901 in order to beable to say that he had seen three centuries. E.P. Dwight of Philadelphia has given to the Young Men’s Christian Association a beautiful country estate of 465 acres near Downingtown, Pa. The association will make it a camping ground and summer resort for the members. Fru Marie Harder, a Danish lady, has pub- lished a volume called “Yule Star.” In this there is nothing wonderiul, but the publica- tion becomes somewhat interesting when one hears that it is her debut, and that Fru Harder is 70 years old. An English commercial trayeler named Browning has distinguished himself in Paris by buying & photograph of President Faure at the news stand and tearing it to pieces. His defense was that it bored him to see so many photographs of the President. Mr. Edison has an idea that the newspaper of the future will be published by phonograph. Hisreason for that is that the eyesight of the people is becoming poorer, time is more precious and that newspapers are so large that it is impossible for people to read them through. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. The cornerstone of a monument to Garibaldi ‘was laid on Monte Gianscalo, in Rome, & few days ago. The King and Queen and Ministers were present. It is said that Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale gained the experience embodied in his whim- sical story, My Double,” at Worcester, Mass. Agnes—I think Mr. Slowe is horrid. He asked me for & kiss the other evening, and of course I said no. Gladys—What did he do then? Agnes—That's just it. He gidn’t doanything, Yale Record. Mrs. Hojack—They say that our minister is one of the most eloquent after-dinner speakers in the country. Mr. Hojack—If that is true Iwish he’d eathis dinner just before the morning service.—Har- per’s Bazaar. “In my business, lady, it’s impossible to geta day’s work.” “You don’t say! What’s your business?” “-l’m & night watchman.”—Scribner’s Maga- zine. Fozzleton — Marie, thet boy of yours takes after you. Mrs. Fozzleton (with great satisfaction)— ‘What makes you think so, dear ? Fozzleton—I caught him this morning rum- maging through my pockets.—Brooklyn Eagle. First twin—This is my birthday. Aunt Jennie—And isn’t it Brother Willie’s too 7 “Nope. Ilicked him and made him give his half up to me.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Mamma—If Mrs. Smith gives you a piece of cake be sure to say “Thank you.” Freddie~What good is that? gives you any more.—Brooklyn Life. He—My views cn bringing up a family— She—Never mind your views. I'll bring up the family. Yougoand bring up the coal.— Yonkers Statesman. . “Do the twin sisters look much alike?” “Alike? Why, each of them can tell if her hatis on straight by looking at the other.”— Detroit Tribune. “8o your landlady is having the whole house redecorated? What tones predominate?” Bhe never Boarder—Oh, just the same as before—some- times the whezey old piano and then the cor- net and violin.—Chicago Times-Herald. ‘Weary Wiggins—Uneasy Walker is de luckiest feller on de road. Tired Traddles—How’s dat? ‘Weary Wiggins—He’s a somnambulist an’ does all his walkin’ in hissleep. Datgives him all day to loaf in.—Harper's Bazar. FLOWER SUNDAY. The Day Appropriately Celebrated by the Unitarian Children. The children of the Second Unitarian Sunday-school, corner of Capp and Twen- tieth streets, celebrated theirannual flower service yesterday. The church was beauti- fully decorated under the supervision of Mrs. 8. Fletcher. Nearly 200 children made a fitting complement to the scene. Rev. Leslie F. W. Sprague offered the thanksgiving prayer. Rev. Lila Frost Bprague, superintendent of the Sunday- school, answered the oft-repeated ques- tions: “Why do we celebrate thisday? How did the idea originate? What signifi- cance has it for us?” In the course of her remarksshe ex- plained that the association of children with flowers was inherent in every nature and for all time. The specific celebratian, which has become part of the Sunday- school life within the past few years, orig- inated under the Universalist branch. In the East, where roses are in their glory for 2 few days only, the children ave a keen appreciation of the signifi- cance of this day, It is there designated as Rose Sunday. She deprecated the fact that many objected io Unitarians giving a symbolic interpretation to forms which have had such distinctive meanings to the older churches. She urged the children to take this seryice, including the dedication which was to follow, in its full significance, and take from it the great lesson that she would have ever before them, that ““God is.”” Recitations, telling of the glory of the flowers, were given by Clarence Hobbs, Fernanda Oiprico, Ray 1rvin, Ruth Mit- chell, Miss Marsh's and Mrs. Smith’s classes. C%v‘gin'a “h'.l;mn to the Children,’” was sun; n; e offerto: Miss Partridge. "5 B Six children and two_young ladies were formally dedicated llr Sp‘um. Each one was presented with a bouguet of white swmrple)n. "Tha repe:l‘;i:egd & the Lord’s prayer, by all present, 8 Vi unique m‘v imvresaivg service. S AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Yui)::lm from Kentucky,” said B. A. Ostrom in the Palace yesterday. “How can you tell?” “Why,” announced the man who had made the discovery, “I can tell by the way you talk.” “Remarkable,” said Ostrom, laughing, “that the peculiarity of the Southern dialect should be s0 expressive in the matter of authenticat- ing my residence.” “Why is it we can always pick out the South- ern man in a crowd? There must be some cause for it.” ““It 1s not quite for the same reason that one can select a colored girl among & crowd of Albinos, but it is almost as distinct as that. They generally have a peculiar manner of sounding the ‘o’ and forgetting the ‘r.’ In- stance the word ‘spoat’ for ‘sport’ and the word ‘doh’ for “door.’ You can always piek outa Tennessean or a Georgian or a Kentuckian or an Alabaman. To be sure, it is necessary to be {familiar with them to do it at all,but one never forgets the difference. It is not always the in- flection placed on various syllables and words. Frequently it is the misconstruction of sen- tences and phrases or the repetition of words. The question of aialect is a very interesting study and is not confined to the Kentuckian. Take any sentence and permit a good dialec- tician to repeat it in several dialects and you Will see what I mean. Take the sentence, ‘What is the matter with me? as an American would say it, and & German would say, ‘Vad is do matter s vit me? The Frenchman, ‘Wha ze mattaire wisme? The colored man, ‘What Idone have happen me? The Italian, ‘Whaz ze mat? and so on throughout the different nationalities. Any one can tell the nationality of the person talking without seeing him.” “‘How 1s it possible then, Mr. Ostrom, to dis- tinguish the inhabitants of States so near to- gether as Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky?” “The same conditions prevail all over the world so far as section is concerned. It is fre- quently due to the climate. The people of one State may be very warm-blooded, active, quick- 7 e / B. A. OSTROM OF KENTUCKY. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] tempered, people prone to talk fast and with a rising inflection. The result is a deviation from true expression, resulting in what we are pleased to call a dialect. In another State the people may be cool, deliberate, indolent and happy, with slow speech and a careful way of expressing themselves, so much so that the rapid conversation of his next State neighbor would strike him as very peculiar in 1ts sound, and vice versa. I have a touch of the Kentucky manner, but haa I not traveled & great deal I would have more. The man from Kentucky is said to be a tall, lanky individual, but of late years we are rather inclined to be fat and good natured. The North and the South are becoming united, but not o strongly as the South and the West. We are all silver men there the same as you,and I am delighted to say that while the great National changes are going on we still retain our dialect.” Brevet Major W. B. Hooper, commander-elect of the Military Order Loyal Legion, Command- ery of California, returned from Los Angeles Saturday and was busy all day receiving the congratulations of friends who rejoice in his promotion. The ladies, in particular, were so delighted over the resultof the contest that Major Hooper is impelled to believe that they did effective electioneering work in his cause, He is sure that their captivating smiles in- fluenced votes in his favor. ‘Iregretted,’’ said Major Hooper, “the publicity given to the con- testin the newspapers, but one feature of it was decidly pleasing—that which gave the California volunteers credit for their bravery and endurance in the Bear River battle. It hasbeen the fault of many of our peopleto speak lightly of the frontier service rendered by Celifornians during the wer, and they have spoken so because they neglected to study the record of California Volunteers. The accounts taken from official sources and published in the CALL removed a false impression,” Chalmers Scott of San Diego, ex-candidate for adjutant-general, does not propose to pass his time in lamenting his illluck. He turns his gaze to South Dakots, where he goes ina few days to survey 8,500,000 acres of land at~ tached to the Rosebud agency. Some of this land will be reserved for the original owners, the Sioux Indians, but many acres will be thrown open to settlement. It is expected that four years’ time will be taken to complete the work, but Colonel Scott expects to retain his residence in California and pass several weeks at home each year. He met many friends at the Occidental Hotel yesterday, who expressed their regret that his military ambition was not gratified, but wished him the happiest lot im- aginable in the enterprise which calls bim to the Northwest. Commodore Henry M. Gillig of the Larche mond Yacht Club, New York, left San Fran- cisco last evening by rail and expects to go through to the Atlantic without stopping over enroute. On his tour around the world he arrived in this City from Asia twelve days ago end has since enjoyed to his utmost capacity the hospitality of friends in Bohemia. He an- ticipates much pleasure in yachting this year. Bpeaking of it yesterday he remarked: “Ishall go straight to New York without stopping at Chicago or any other place. Ishall g0 aboard of the Ramona at once without un- packing my trunks ashore.” Statistics of Duels in Italy. Duel statistics, gruesome though they are, are interesting reading. An Italian “man of figures” has taken the trouble to ascertain to what extent his country has contributed during the last ten years to- ward the increase in the army of ‘duelists. The following figures are the result of his researches: ‘‘From 1884 to 1894 no less than 947 duels were fought in Italy over newspaper controversies, 730 by rival lov- ers, 377 over political questions, 289 for in- sults, 183 for private reasons, and 19 over gambling quarrels. In 79 cases the cause of the duel was unknown. Journalists and officers in Italy are first among duel- ists. Of the 538 duels fought in 1584, 156 were fought by journglists and 165 by of- ficers in the army. Of dueling lawyers, there were 64; students, 63; professors, 22} deputies, 14; engineers ‘and architects, 13; Gurv“ :tl::!' 6, and "bankers, 8.—Westminster SOCIETY IN THE COUNTRY, San Franciscans Are Fast Filling Up the Summer Resorts. THE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. An Amateur Circus in Oakland. The Mills College Musi- cale. - The closing concert of the Conse'rvawry of Music at Mills College will be given on Monday evening, May 27, at 7:30 o’clock, and commencement exercises will be held on the 28th. 5 Commencement week at Stanford Uni- versity will begin on Friday next, with the baseball game between the faculty and the seniors. On Monday wil be class-day, Tuesday alumni day, and Wednesday commencement day. Oakland is to have a circus with ama.teEu talent on the 8th of June. The affairis in charge of Oakland Lodge of Elks, who are getting together a grand aggregation of talented performers from members of the Reliance and Acme Atbletic clubs and others who will take part as riders, ring- masters, clowns and acrobats. Among the late arrivals at Skaggs Hot Springs were the following: Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Haskell, Master Blanchard Cronise, Henry Kenitzer, Miss Minnie Weiss, Miss Lulu Simon, R.G. Horne, J. P. Thomas, Dr. J. Stow Ballard, Mr. and Mrs. John Sroufe, Mrs. A. M. Tiffany, Miss Zelda Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Kelly, Miss M. Kelly, C. L. An. gell, Mrs. G. Cipolloni, Mrs. J. R. Loosley, Mrs, L Haggard, R.C. O'Connor, Mrs. IL. 8. Morris, Mrs. B. Wood, Samuel Wood of Sacramento, Mr. and Mrs. George Friteh, Mrs. 1. M. Litch- field and son, Edward Healey, R.W. Martinoff, Captain F. Trask, John Haston, B. L. Plummer, Mr. and Mrs. V. K. Butler and Mr. and Mrs. L. Chartrand. The Tavern of Castle Crags will open on June 1, when a large number of people will leave here for thismountain resort. Among some of the guests will be: W. Mayo Newhall and family, W. F. Herrin and family, Mrs. C. W. Crocker, Miss Julia Crocker, Miss Fanny Crocker, D. N; Walter and family, W. E. Davis and family, Mrs. Ira Pierce, Miss Sophia Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey R. Winslow, Judge and Mrs. W. C. Van Fleet, H. 8. Foote, R. P. Whittell, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. A" Miller, John Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Ignatz Stein- hart, H. Schussler and family, Mr. ana_Mrs. P. N. Lilienthal and family, Mr. and Mrs.J. M. Cunningham, Mrs, R. C. Woodworth, Miss Helen Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Hellman and family, F. W. Van Sicklen and family, Mrs. William M. Gwin, Miss Mary Belle Gwin, Miss Cora Smedberg, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Talbot, Mrs. G. M. Goewey, E. H. Kittridge, Mr. and Mrs. Homer 8. King, Mrs. R W. Gorrili, James M. Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth Bruce, Mrs. Pope, Mrs. M. P. Morgan, Miss Ella Morgan, Miss Teres Morgan, Mr. and Mrs, F. A. Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Upham, Arthur Brown, Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Foute, E. G. Crane, Mrs. P. L. Barker, T. M. Hite and W. F. Taylor of Portland and D. V. Striker of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilshire will be at the Arcadia Hotel, S8anta Monica, during the month of June. The officers and ladies of the Presidio will give a hoY t0-morrow: evening in the mess hall of the post. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jarboe will be at Santa Cruz during the latter months of the summer season. 8. Konigstein and his family have left for a prolonged stay in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Himz and their nephew, J. C. Berendsen, left for a tour of Europe last week. Mrs. 8. Coleman of 915 Buchanan street has gone to Paso Robles for a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hall of Bing- hamton, N, Y., who have been visiting va- rious parts of this State for the past three months, left for the Bast last Tuesday. Edgar J. Mayers left Jast Tuesday on his bic; cfie for a trip to the Yosemite. he engagement is announced of Miss Essie Cahn and Sam Aufrichtig. They will receive next Sunday at 1224 Ellis street. The annual outing of the Occidental Kindergarten took place on Wednesday last at the Children’s Playground, Golden Gate Park. Owing to sickness and to the inclemency of the weather only 49 of the 100 little ones who attend the kindergarten were enabled to art.itiifam and to enjoy the hospitality of Mr. Murphy, manager of the grounds, to whose kindness much of the success of the affair is due. TLast Tuesday evening a party was held at the residence of Mrs, W. Hildebrandt, 108 Trenton street, in honor of her dsughter Carrie’s twentieth birthday. There were over & hundred people vresent. The rooms and hallways were beautifully decorated with palms and ferns. The evening was spent with dancing and voeal and instrumental music, followed by an elaborate supper. A surprise party was given to Mollie Skelly by Flora L. Mnller and Kittie G. Allen on Friday evening last at her resi- dence, 1313 Fell street. Among those present were: Mollie and Regina Skelly, Alice McGrath, Flora L. Muller, Kittie Allen, Zeta_ Rippon, Mamie and Jennie Cronan, Alice Williams, Agnes and Loura Wetmore, Doreatha Harboe, Winnie Gilkerson, May Gibson, Jeasie Armager, Florence McCoy, Ethel Lacy, Arthur,J. Over. holser, Charlie }McDonald, Charlie Mahoney, Willie Jacobs, Will Pitchford, Willie Hatteroth, Roscoe _Westover, Bert Kilpatrick, Julius Lange, Roy Whitrey, H“W Rees, Frank Har- rington, Charlie Hall, Rob Williams and George Healey. A surprise %uti was given to Miss Mag- gie O'Brien b er friends on Tuesday evening, April 30, at her residence, 433 Clementina street. An excellent literary and musical programme was_ carried ouf, and dancing was kept up until a late hour. Among those present were: Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. Hines, Mrs. Buttermore, Mrs, O’Connor, Miss M. O'Brien, Miss Emma Norton, Miss Mamie Hines, Miss May O'Brien, Miss Nellie Fitzgerald, Miss Maggie J. O'Brien, Miss Frances Walton, Miss Lucy Fitzgerald, Miss Georgiana O'Brien, Miss Kate Egan, Miss Swibina Hines, James P. Gaffney, Thomas O'Brien, Mr. Sheehan, Vincent Cullinan, G. Miller, J. Harris, George Walton, Daniel g‘lfil‘en, George Little, John O’Brien and J. e Branch No. 2, C. L. A. 8., will give a dramatic and social entertainment in Mis- sion Ogern-hlll on Tuesday evening, Ma 28. The Western Addition Club has vol- unteered to piay “The Rough Diamond.”’ Professor J. B. Francis and the Mondo- linata Club, Professor L. Merki leader, will give a concert and ball at the Mission Turn Verein Hall, Eighteenth street, near Valencia, next Tuesday evening. The Verdis gave their montth reception and ball at Union-square Hall last Thurs- day evening. The grand march was led by F{:nk J. Williams and Miss May Par- menter. THE BIBLE IN J TAPAN, Dr. Draper Tells How the Christian Faith Is Spreading in the Mikado’s Realm. At Grace Methodist Church the Rey. Dr. Draper, celebrated for his success as a mis- sionary among the Shinto devotees of Jgpln, preached yesterday morning on the nineteenth and twentieth verses of Mat~ thew xxviii: Go ye, therefore, and teach all tising them in the name of the Feriory od ot the Son and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I h: - manded you: and, 1o, I am with ’:;eu?.n; €ven unto the end of the world. Amen. : “Twenty-five years ago,” said the preacher, “no Japanese ggfed to openly avow his _conversion to the Christian faith. To-day we have eighty mission- aries in the field, and sixty of these are Japanese. Only a'few years ago a faithful native missionary who was lying of con- sumption and was ecoming” unable to frogerl attend to his duties, begged his amily for leave to come home to die, and they returned word that they would receive him @ renounced Christianity. He scorned the condition, and, his physical energy and voice being nearly gone, de- voted the remainder of his life to spreading the goapel by means of his pen. K “Buddhism is the religion of the coun- try, and in the Shinto districts morality is defined as loyalty to the Mikado. Ignor- ance and the worship of ancestors retard grenly the work of the missionary. The apanese themselves tell of fisherfolk along the coast who would have to consult the provincial birth records to give a cor- Tect answer as to their family name. ‘A converted Buddhist gave me a small wooden idol which he said had been wor- shiped in his family for mo}?"' and was worth a considerable sum. His conscience would not permit him to sell it, and he said he knew I wouldn’t worship it. In the late war between China and Japan the Mikado gave a native convert permission to distribute Bibles among the soldiers, and it is not at all unusnal to see the lgnorant vagabond who draws your jin- filkix;‘l:: seat;d ‘u‘u“ ];:nd reading some re- ] Work wi e i ADpear. e waits for you to REDEDICATED THE CHURCH, Bishop Goodsell Officiates at Very Impressive Cere- monies. The Enlarged Trinity Methodist Eplscopal Church Opened for Service. Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell, resident Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast, dedicated the en- larged Trinity M. E. Church, corner ot Market and Sixteenth streets, yesterday afternoon. He was assisted by Bishop John M. Walden of Cincinnati, Ohio, who is on his way to supervise the Asiatic mis- sions. 1 From a financial point of view alone it was a pretty successful dedication. It has cost $3500 to enlarge and properly fit up the church, and at the services a little over $1300 was subscribed in less than half an hour. Y Bishop- Goodsell’s sermon was more in the nature of a good talk than a pulpit dis- course, and he was followed in much the same fashion by Bishop Walden. “It was the bardest thing in the world,”’” observed Bishop Goodsell, “to get two Methodist Bishops at one service,” but he ascribed that unusual occurrence to the fact that Bishop Walden was opportunely here on his way to Asia, The words of Nicodemus to Jesus in the third chapter of St. John’s gospel, ‘‘Master, we know that thou art a teacher come from God,” furnished the theme of Bishop Goodsell’s talk. He dilated upon the char- acter of the church as a school of Jesus Christ, with the Bible for its textbook, the Holy Spirit for its teacher and good men and women for its examples. He exhorted the pastor and his church to constantly hold up Christ in preaching and in practice as the true ideal. Bishop Walden spoke of his love for the Methodist church and his zeat for its ad- vancement. *‘That church,” said he, ‘‘had been started as a great revival of Chris- tianity, and its work in the world was peculiarly of a reviving character.”’ Rev. A. C. Hirst of the Simpson Mem- orial Church, Rev. Thomas Filben of the First Methodist Church and_ Dr. John D, Hammond were present beside Bishops and the pastor, Rev. William S. Bovard. There will be revival services at the church every night for the next two ‘weeks. This is not the first time Bishop Waiden has visited San Francisco. He held the California and other conferences on the coast in 1887. He has traveled extensively, having been in almost every part of Europe and South America. This time, however, he will circle the globe, He will leave by Ihe steamer Australia Tuesday for Honolulu to supervise the missions of Hawaii. and thence he will go to Japan, Korea and China on the same line of duty. Return- ing home he will go by way of India and Egypt, incidentally visiting the missions there, and if he hastime he says he will try to go through the Holy Land. He ex- pects to be eleven months abroad. Like Bishop Goodseil, he was formerly a newspaper man, having gathered news for the oFd Cincinnati Commercial previous to 1858, at which time he entered the minis- try. From 1868 until 1884, when he was made a Bishop, he was connected with the publishing department of the church. There will be a reception to Bishops Walden and Goodsell at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Twenty-first and Capp streets, this evening asa sort of farewell to Bishop Walden. The pulpit of the Simpson Memorial Church was filled by Bishop Walden yes- terday morning. 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