The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, -1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—3$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. DAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation? If £0, it 15 0 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let It miss you for you will it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Oftice, 710 Market street, will receive attention. UNE 11, 1895 Santa Cruz is inviting. Another week for gayety. Water pleasures hurt nobody. Make gay while the sun shines. An able miser is still miserable. Vacant houses mean empty pockets. At the water carnival everything floats, The best co-operation is the productive kind. To make a failure it is simply necessary to trust to luck. Once mor can thrill the East with reports of a fiesta. Keep a lookout every day for advertise- ments of home goods. th the home market has ng powers. He that s! the best sta Fourth of July in S8an Francisco should be made a State festival. There can be no courage without a true understanding of danger. We may at least expect Olney to chill the blood of the Britishers. The charlatan finds his opportunity in the discontent of the masses. We neglect the Government when we overlook the wants of the poor. Whitney has wisely decided mnot to straddle a Presidential boom this year. That energy which is most beneficent in useful occupation is most dangerous in de- There seems 1o be room for improve- ment in every bureau of the City govern- ment. So long as there is one deserving man in the City good citizens have earnest work to do. The construction of the Valley road will cause prosperity to take labor under her wings. is the hardest test to which y or patriotism can be sub- Poverty either hone jected. Cleveland is still the only gold-money For the first week in June Philadelphia claims her weather was the hottest stuff in the Union. By extending her railroad system and increasing her population Denver is doing most for California. There will be good times for everybody when the intelligence of the country be- comes equal to its energy. It did not need Whitney’s assurance to inform us that the silver question would split the Democratic party. Olney may possibly achieve success in a foreign policy, but in home affairs he has never shown any diplomacy. There will never be an international agreement on the money question until some big nation leads the way. Give the Anzlo-Saxon half a chance and he will civilize the Chinese in China as he did the Indians in North America. It is consoling to reflect that the wind which at present fills the sails of our ship of state is not of Republican blowing. In the National conventions of 1896 both the silver men and the gold men will be willing to trade the platform for the can- didate. With enterprises on one side and frolics on the other the average Californian is forced to travel back and forth like a shuttle in a loom. You cannot leave California without getting into the desert, the wilderness or the deep sea. Some of the men who are so fond of spending their evenings at a club lack even the excuse of not finding one at home for their reception. ‘Whitney’s announcement that he is not a candidate for the Presidency leaves Democracy once more without a National Tacer on the track. Dubois warns Eastern Republicans that the gold standard cannot win, and Whitney warns Western Democrats that the silver standard cannot win, and there you have it. The Fourth of July is an occasion for celebrating the principles on which our liberties are founded and the ballot-box is an opportunity for reforming the Govern- ment which perverts them. San Diego proposes to make a pathway for progress by building a railroad to the East on the co-operative plan and the pro- ject has received sufficient indorsement to show that itis regarded as feasible by prac- tical men. There would be less idleness, poverty and distress, fewer calls upon the purses of the benevolent and a smaller cost for the support of peace officers, jails and peni- tentiaries if our people would buy what our own people produce. The people of Duluth believe if they had canals that would open a way through the lakes to the Atlantic for deep-sea vessels that in twenty years from now neither New York nor Chicago would be the metropolis of this country. Although the builders of the St: Louis were entitled under the law to import much of their material free of duty, nne_of them asserts that no foreign material entered into the construction of her hull, end the country, therefore, has reason _w be as proud of the builders as of the ship. Py THE SANTA ORUZ FETE. During this week Santa Cruz will be the center of the animation and the gayety of the State. There will gather youth, beauty, wealth, fashion and all that goes to make up the elegance and the joy of California life. The water carnival, in re- viving something of the splendor of old Venice, with the added attractions which American ingenuity suggests, will form a fitting culmination to the fiestas of the spring and begin the summer with a unique festival of its own. Reports that come to us of the arrange- ments made for receiving visitors to the | festival assure every guest a comfortable | as well as a joyous holiday. There will be ample accommodations for all. Santa Cruz has from the first been constructed with a view to entertaining large numbers of visitors. The homes, the boarding- houses and the hotels are largely in excess of what the resident population needs, for every summer a numerous gathering of | veople from all parts of the State assem- bles there to enjoy the surf-bathing, the drives, the picnics and the superb scenery | of mountain and sea. This equipment for pleasure-seekers serves the city well at this time, and with the increase of lodging- rooms and dining-halls, specially provided for the occasion, Santa Cruz will be well able to give every visitor not only a wel- come, but a pleasant place to stay. The festival itself will be a pleasing vari- ation from those that have preceded it. Water will lend its witchery to the enter- tainment. Flower-adorned carriages on decorated streets are fair, but flower- adorned floats on crystal waters are fairer. By daylight or by starlight, when illumined by the sun or when radiant in the flashing of innumerable electric lights, the grand lagoon will be a thing of beauty well fitted for scenes of pleasure and enjoy- ment. The resources of engineering skill | and artistic taste have been brought into service with tireless energy to render every detail of the scene worthy of the pageant that is to be enacted upon it, and it is more than probable that the result will be one of the most enchanting spectacles ever ex- hibited beneath American skies. ‘Witn such preparations made for the fete, there can be little doubt of the gather- ing of a company fully capable of appreci- ating all and enjoying everything. Santa Cruz has been the scene of many a notable assembly of men and women on pleasure bent, but this occasion will surpass beyond measure all that have preceded it. The brightest leaders of social life from every section of the State will meet there and out of the combination will come a gay confu- sion of merriment, dancesand happy laugh- ter. With such a festival to start the season and begin the holidays we can fairly count upon a happy summer, and even those who stay at home may with good reason join in wishing joy to all who are off for Santa Cruz. A Q0-OPERATIVE RAILROAD. The enterprising promoters of prosperity in San Diego have projected a scheme of co-operation more far-reaching than any ever yet undertaken. We use the phrase ‘‘far-reaching’ in its literal sense for the proposed project is a railroad which, starting from San Diego, is to reach east- ward continuously until it touches some line that will bring the Atlantic seaboard within reach. It is to be constructed, moreover, on the co-operative plan, and to be operated largely by men who own it. On leaving San Diego the line, as pro- jected, runs through a territory at least 500 miles square, which, while vich in all the resources necessary to maintain a prosperous community, is without ade- | quate railroad communications; thence it | crosses the northern end of Mohave Desert, passes through a rich minmng | region in Southern Nevada to the great coal fields of Utah, and from there will be extended to some connecting road that will make it a complete transcontinental line. The most interesting feature of the pro- | ject is the plan devised for raising money to construct it. It is claimed that the land bonus already pledged from reliable men show the amounts to be received from that source will be almost equal to the cost of | grading the road. To raise the rest of the money it is proposed to issue stock at a par value of $10 a share to be sold among railroad employes, it being the intention to make the line strictly a railroad men’s railroad. Provision will be made to pro- tect the stockholders against stock-jobbers, and also for the construction of the road without issuing bonds so that when com- pleted it will be owned absolutely by the stockholders, and all of its earnings will g0 to them in dividends. The project,which at first thought seems beyond the reach of co-operative work, has the indorsement of men of pracrical sagac- | ity. Among the indorsememts are several given by divisions of the Order of Railway | Conductors and lodges of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Such recom- mendations are calculated to give confi- dence in the enterprise, and with confi- dence and good management it would seem success is certain. It is beyond a doubt that the region through which the line is projected needs nothing but a rail- road to bring about within it a rapid de- velopment. Sooner or later such a road must be constructed, and it will be much better to have it built on the San Diego plan than by the usual process of selling the bonds in Europe and thus mortgaging the line to foreigners. There is a great future for co-operation, and if this enter- prise succeeds it would be hard to seta limit to what may be done, even at pres- ent, on the co-operative plan. AN EXCRUCIATING IDEA. The wheel of fate never took a more amusing turn than that which is an- nounced in a dispatch from Washington to the New York Herald. “‘China,” it says, “has become a land of promise to many Americans. Beliéving that Japan’s work has cleared the way for the advance of civilization into the Celestial Kingdom, numbers of citizens of the United States propose going to China to obtain the first benefits which will undoubtedly follow the opening of Chinese ports to the world.” A number of electricians have informed the State Department that they are going to establish electric roads, and it is as- sumed that they will be welcomed because one of the great difficulties which China encountered in the recent war was her in- ability to transport troops rapidly. At the same time we are reading that all the white persons attached to the English, French and American missions of Cheng Tu have been massacred by the natives, to whom, forgetting our own conduct at Rock Springs and elsewhere, some of us will probably apply the term “savage.” Human nature is as interesting as it is diverse. Following the very stringent laws which we enacted for the exclusion of Chinese from this country comes a move- ment on our part for the peaceful overrun- ningof China. Nothingappalls the Anglo- Saxon—rarely even his own conscience. In the face of his knowledge that the pop- ulation of China is so dense that the struggle for existence there is fiercer than in any other country of the world, his abounding self-reliance and his belief in his own superiority lead him to believe that he can wrest prosperity from con- ditions which bring starvation to another race. It was so to a considerable extent in the invasion of India by England, and yet where the Indians lived in poverty and squalor the British amassed fortunes. Japan, instead of being overwhelmed by the white barbarian when she opened her gates, drew profit and advancement out of his presence, and shrewdly keeps him out of the management of her great financial and industrial concerns. If China prove equally as shrewd, she will have nothing for a time to fear from the innovations which he will introduce; but it is as inevit- able as fate that wherever the Anglo-Saxon once plants his foot there in time will he rule. LET US REASON TOGETHER. The reasons given by the local labor organizations for their refusal to partici- pate in the patriotic demonstration on the Fourth of July disclose a spirit that is even more deplorable than the evil effects of hard times. The leaders declare that while they have all veneration for the principles on which the Government was founded, they see these principles so grossly perverted that until there is an effort to put them in operation their celebration is a fraud and sham; that workingmen will not make fools of them- selves by parading to dignify a mere abstraction; that in the application of these abstract principles ‘‘the rights of wealth are set above the rights of labor by the judiciary, and the Executive is ever ready to serve the interésts of monopolists rather than to protect and maintain the rights of citizens’”’; that ‘‘when the Gov- ernment of the country is in the hands of the people, and when the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are enjoyed in common, without favor on the one hand or suffering on the other, then will be the time for workingmen to turn out on a grand celebration of American freedom.” This discontent is aggravated, if not produced, by the distress which prevails among the laborers. ‘“Why,” said one of the leaders, “look at these men living on the dumps, subsisting on decayed oranges, and that in a so-called civilized country! It is a burning shame—a blot on our boasted civilization.” The outcome of all these matters is predicted thus: “The time is fast approaching when the neces- sity of a great change will be recognized. Until then we cannot expect much from the powers that be. I think another revo- lution is bound to come; in fact, I cannot see how it can be avoided, and I think if there is any one lesson which the stars and stripes, the Declaration of Independence and the Fourth of July should teach, it is that.” It is not supposable that such men, who formed the bulk of the armies which first won American independence and then prevented a disruption of the Union, and who have the numerical strength to over- turn the Government should they organize and determine to that end. are speaking idly now, or that a very deep bitterness and resentment are not likely to drive them to desperation. It is when great masses of men are in such a mental condi- tion as this that a master may step forth and lead them to the destruction of the intricate fabric hich we have been more than a century in weaving. While we may question their wisdlom in thinking that by ignoring the Fourth of July they are rebuking the Gov- ernment more than the principles upon which it is founded, and while it is evident that they could reform existing evils better by political organization and the establish- ment of industrial reforms than by hold- ing aloof from their fellow-citizens in the celebration of the Nation’s one great holi- day, that makes it none the less obligatory on all good and patriotic men and women to bend their energies toward relieving the distress which prevails, to provide in com- mon humanity for the needy, to patronize local industries which give employment, and to exert the strongest influence to establish the reforms necessary {o the prosperity and content of the laboring classes. Meanwhile we sincerely hope that the labor organizations will reconsider their determination, join with us all in this grand celebration, and then earnestly seek Wwise means for bettering their condition. THE NORTHERN GATE. Marysville occupies the same position with reference to the Sacramento Valley that Stockton does with regard to the San Joaquin; both are the gateways to the two great valleys of California, with their vast natural stores of wealth hardly yet in the beginning of their development. The growth of the San Joaquin has proceeded more rapidly than that of the Sacramento, but in time this will prove to have been only a temporary condition. One cause for the more rapid advancement of the San Joaquin has been the smaller number of enormous landed estates, which prevent a aenser settlement. The Bacramento Valley, including the fertile small valleys which open into it on the western side, produces the earliest and some of the best fruits in California. Marysville is more toward the eastern side, and consequently it is in contact with and is the supply point for all the rich fruit and gold-mining regions of the Yuba and Feather rivers and the Sierra foothills, and has the additicnal advantage of river transportation as well as railroads to San Francisco; and being on the line of the Southern Pacific Company’s northern overland route it is perfectly situnted to become one of the great interior eities of the State. ‘When to these considerations are added an uncommonly healthful climate, the ability to put oranges on the market mauch earlier than other parts of the Btate, and an exceedingly handsome and well-gov- erned municipality and popnlation far above the average in enterprise, intelli- gence and pride, we find all the best ew tials for a pleasant home and profitable in- dustries. As one of the pioneer citles of the State, Marysville has lost nothing of the fine old spirit that the early settiers brought with them across the plains, Energy and advancement are the Inspira- tion of ber people, the latest and best un- dertaking being an electric railroad to Auburn, which will tap the rich fruit belt of the foothills. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Baron de Cholsy and E. de Bourgade left for Paris on Sunday evening, taking with them bonds on several large quartz mines represent- ing a value of over 3,000,000, which the wealthy syndicate they represent will probably purchase. Before their departure they were given a farewell dinner by Douglas L. V. Browne, a prominent mining engineer from Colorado, who came out with them. In re- eponding to & toast one of the guests, L. L. Bailey, a Colorado millionaire miner who has been looking into the mining interests here, cailed attention to the opportunities for find- ing profitable investmentshere. *California,” he said, “can now point with pride to some of the largest gold mines in the world and its gonstantly increasing gold output. When we Come to consider that these mines have practi- cally all been developed by local capital and without the aid of any outside or foreign money, and when we come to consider further the fact that in all other gold-mining districts of the world the large properties have almost universally been developed end are owned and operated. by foreign or outside capital, then a comparison of these situstions will conclu- sively show that a judicious investment of cap- ital by competent engineers in the yet enor- mous field of undeveloped quartz mines in this State will certainly yield very handsome and in many instances fabulous returns. “While of course any estimate of what portion of the values of the quartz mines has been worked out would be at best & rude guess or spproximation, yet I will presume to muke such a guess or approximation. I am doing this after a careful stuay of ail the reports bear- ing on the subject and after conversations and interviews with competent mining men and mining engineers, and I will say that I believe that it would be a fair estimate of the propor- tion of the mines worked out to the total that will be produced to place it at from 5 to 15 per cent.” Colonel George W. Mactarlane of Honolulu came in on the Australin yesterday from the islands. He was King Kalakaua's chamber- lain, and says that, since his royal master's denth, he has taken no active part in island polities and will not discuss the politieal situa- tion down there. Speaking of the commercial outlook there he said yesterday at the Califor- nia: “Nearly all over the islands the rains have been abundent enough, and I believe that this year’s crops will be the largest ever harvested ontheislands. There has been quite an ad- vance in sugar and if it is maintained the rlantations give promise of large dividends. The commercial outlook for the coming year I Tegard as very promising. ““The sending of second and third grades of sugar around the Horn in sailing ships has in- terfercd with the trade between Honolulu and San Francisco, and decreased the number of sailing vessels which were owned in those two ports. It has deprived San Francisco of quite & considerable amount of shipping busi- ness All our sugars, &s you know, are under contract to the refiners’ trust, and there has been some clash between them and the railroad people on overland rates for suger. This has caused the refiners to order all second and third grades of suger to be shipped around the Horn. This s to be regretted, as it means & large loss in the shipping trade to both San Francisco and Honolulu mercantile houses.” PERSONAL. A.J. Harrell, a banker of Visalia, is at the Palace. Dr. R. E. Hartley of Lakeport is & guest at the Grand. W. R. Spalding, an attorney of Truckee, is at the Lick. Dr. G. W. Dwinell of Montague is a guest at the Palace. Superior Judge A. P. Catlin of S8acramento is at the Lick. Fred Searls, an attorney of Nevada City, is at the Palace, Timothy Lee,ex-Chief of Police of Sacramento, is at the Lick. E. Autenreith, & merchant of Yreka, is regis- tered at the Lick. George N. O'Brien of the Hotel Brewster, San Diego, is at the Palace. L. C. Jacobs, proprietor of the Union Hotel of Oroville, is at the Lick. E. J. Cahill, & civil engineer of San Martin, is stopping at the Grana. L. F. Moulton, a large wheat-grower of Colusa, is at the Grand. W. M. Gibson, a prominent attorney of Stock- ton, is & guest at the Grand. E. P. Lathrop, a merchant of Hollister, reg- istered yesterday at the Grand. John Haupst, & prominent Inmberman of Arcata, is staying at the Grand. Rev. John Reynolds of Marysville was one of yesterday’sarrivals at the Grand. Dr. E. L. Baxter of Baker City, Or., was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. Ex-Judge R. B. Saffold of Napa Valley was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. W. A. White, Deputy Sheriff of Los Angeles County, registered yesterday at the Lick. W. 8. Leake, Postmaster of Sacramento, came down yesterday end registered at the Palace. Senator B. F. Langford came down from Stockton yesterday and is a guest at the Palace. Lieutenant-Commander Clover of the navy and his family registered yesterday at the Palace. George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, & member of the State Board of Equalization, is staytng at the Lick. A. F. Abbott, an attorney of Marysville, and Mrs. Abbott came down yesterday and regis- tered at the Lick. 0. P. Posey, & wealthy mining man of Den- ver, and Mrs. Posey were among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. H. M. La Rue, president of the Railway Com- mission, came down from Sacramento yes- terday and is registered at the Occidental. Colonel George W. Macfarlane, ex-Chamber- lain of the late King Kalakaua of the Hawa- iian Islands, and his family came in on the Australia yesterday and are staying at the Cal- ifornia for & few days. Colonel Mactarlane will leave for the Eastshortly on business. Unike his brother *“Ned” he is out of island politics and has been since the death of the King. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. If this Btate is to become the orchard of the world, #s by right of natural conditions and vprolific yield it should, then there must be sought, in fact obtained, markets commensu- rate with its possibilities of production. When it hes become evident that every part of this country can be reached at a fair cost of trans- portation the question of what to do with the enormous fruit yield of this State will be fully solved. Itisnotadreadof over-production, but ameans of general distribution that faces the fruit-growers of California.—San Diego Union. The new life which is waking in Southern California bears no resemblance to the life that formerly filled it. That was slow, inert and full of drowsy contentment. But we of to-day have begun to reach out for a grand future. We have planted everywhere the school, the printing press and the church. We have set about the work of farming on scientific prin- ciples, and the sgriculturistis makinga labora- tory of his farm.—Los Angeles Times. Wherever you see a live, prosperous and growing community there you will find its citizens puling together for the common good. Dissensions, jealousies and bickerings In whetsoever line not only hurt the indi- viduals engaged in them, but injure the town a8 well.—Escondido Times. One way to make Lodi attractive is for every- one who owns property to put it into decent shape. Ifitisalot witn only acheap shanty on it, a little whitewash and a small amount of lsbor with a spade will accomplish wonders. ~Lodi Sentinel. To be relentless is an instinct of savagery; to be magnanimous is the noblest impulse of ad- vanced clyilization.—San Bernardino Sun. The poll tax has been in service long enough to deserve a place on the retired list.—Los An- geles Herald. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, the novelist, lives in a quaint little cottage in the quiet little town of Georgetown, one of Washington's suburbs. Sheis quit2 advanced in years, but has not wholly abandoned literary work. Dr. D. Frank Powell has the unique distine- tion of being Mayor of the town of La Crosse, Wis., and chief of the Winnebago Indians. His Indian name is “White Beaver.” For many years he was a surgeon in the United States army, and he is a man of fine personality, Mrs. Phil Sheridan issaid to be one of the prettiest of the numerous young widows in Washington. She was married when only 19, and she is still of slender and youthful appear- ance. Mrs. Sheridan has four children, the eldest of whom, his father’s namesake, is a fine boy of 14. Napoleon always had a watchful eye for the spoils of war, and after his Venetian campaign he seized all the booty he could lay his hands on and neglected to part with it. Professor Sloan says that at this time Napoleon had nearly 30,000,000 francs in cash and commis- sary stores to the value of several millions more. Captain E. G. Stevens of Burlington, Ia., says that he saw General Gresham receive his worst wound of the war. It was ina battle just out- side of Atlanta, near the Chattanooga River, on July 20, 1864. General Gresham was on his horse, about thirty paces in the rear of Crocker’s brigade, when a minie ball struck him. WOMEN ADVANCE AGENTS. Women seem to be invading all the trades and professions, but there is one occupation that so far, I think, no woman has tried but myself, and that is the businessof advance agent. A few years ago, when I was playing in the same company with Carrie Turner, we used to talk a good deal about the coming tourin which she was to star, and one day Iseid, in a moment of enthusiasm: “I wish I could go ahead and tell the people what & success you are going to be.”” S “Well, go ahead as my advance agent, answered Miss Turner. “The very novelty of the thing would get us good notices.” The idea seemed a gond one, for 1 had had a little newspaper experience in writing stories for my father, who wes editor of a Phila- delphia mnewspaper. Miss Turner’s manager consented, and a couple of weeks befor_e the opening of her tour Iset out ahead with & number ot carefully written articles, all setting forth the merits of the company and the suc- cess it was sure to meet with. The first place I stopped at was Syracuse. The newspaper men had heard of my coming, and I think they must have expected some one gorgeously dressed and made up to go on the MISS ARCHER. stage, for it was evidently a surprise to them to find the actress, advance agent quiet and business ke. They were wonderfully polite—put out their pipes at once and made a rush for their coats assoon asI appeared, and they promised me plenty of spacé when I handed in the notices of the company. This looked so much like success that I grew quite impatient for the next day to see the papers. Well, those men kept their words, as far as space was concerned; but you can imagine my feelings, &5 the representative of Miss Turner, when I found all ‘the space devoted to an ac- count of the advance agent, and scarcely a line about the company. I went at once and remon- strated with the editors, but they all excused themselves by saying that a woman advance agent was & novelty, and that there was noth- ing new about a traveling theatrical company. All along the route it was the same story. The newspaper men would insist on writing me up, because I was a novelty. I certainly succeeded in getting plenty of notices, some- times, when companies ahead of ours could onlyobtain a line or two, buton the whole there was too much about the advance agent, and too little about Miss Turner for the manager's ideas of how the business ought to be con- ducted, 5o at the end of the tour I resigned, as I had always intended to do. But there really seems no reason why women should not succeed as advance agents when the novelty of seeing them in that position wears off. BELLE ARCHER. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ““False! false!” he sai It gave her quite a start: She thought he meant her hair, He only meant her heart. —Philadelphia Times. A West Philadelphian had a pet baboon which he has taught to black his shoes. This is a real case of monkey shines.—Philadelphia Record. Uncle Allen Sparks is learning to ride a bicy- cle. “The difference between Colonel Davy Crockett and me,” he muttered, wabbling from side to side while taking his third lesson, “is that I've got to go ahead before I am sure I'm right.”—Chicago Tribune. Doctor—You see, wify, dear, T have pulled my patient through after all; a very eritical case, I can tell you! Wify—Yes, dear hubby; but then you are so clever in your profession. Ah!if I had only known you five years earlier. I feel certain my first husband—my poor Thomas—would have been saved! A Unique Class—“And what is that build- ing?” iquired the visitor in the great twen- tieth century metropolis. “Oh, that,” replied his host, “that is the asylum for people who refuse to ride bicyeles.”—Chicago Record. George—Well, life is worth living, after all.” Jack—“What's happened?” George—I went to arailway station to see my sister off, and by some chance Harry Handsome was there to sec hissister off, and in the rush and noise and confusion we got mixed, and I kissed his sister and he kissed mine.”—Tid-Bits. There are times when man would be alone, Far from the madding crowd, ‘Where he his privacy can own And think his thoughts out lond. One of these times, without a doubt, Is when he first bestrides A bike, and neighbors all come out. To see how well he rides. —Kansas City Journal. ANOTHER COUNTRY CLUB The “Mira Monte” Incorpo- rated to Operate in Marin County. Milton S. Latham Will Be the Presi- dent— Prominent Soclety Members. The Mira Monte Club has been incor- porated for the following purposes: The encouragement, support and mainten- ance of all kinds of field and outdoor sports and for the promotion of social intercourse among its members. Also to acquire, hold and manage real property for shooting and hunting grounds anywhere in the State of California, and to acquire and own all personal property incident to the uses and purposes of the cor- poration. The place where the principal business of the corporation will be trarsacted is Burdell's, Marin County, and the directors of the association will be Milton 8. Latham, Fred 8. Follis, James B. Burdell, Nathaniel N. Wilson aud William H. Fairbanks. The caf)hal stock will consist of $5000, divided into twenty shares of the par value of $250 each. ‘Of this $3000 has been actually subscribed, each of the followin, having taken one share: James B. Burdell, Novato, Marin County; William H. Fair- banks, Petaluma, Sonoma County; Na- thaniel N. Wilson, San Rafael, Marin County; William K. Hill, Trenton, So- noma County; Fred F. Follis, 119 Bush street; James H. Follis, Nevada block; Lawson 8. Adams Jr., 825 Bush street; Milton 8. Latham, 216 Bush street; J. Downey Harvey, Phelan building; Henry B. Houghton, 212 Sansome street; Robert D. Fry, Mills building; William K. Whit- tier, 214 Pine street; ail of San Francisco, Milton 8. Latham will be president and James B. Burdell secretary of the new organization. ———— The reports of the official Goyernment investigations of baking powders show th Royal fi be stronger and purer than :n; other, | ALONG THE WATER FRONT, A Sea-Wedding Fee That the Parson of the Katie O’Neil Wanted. SAILING OF THE SAN JUAN. The Australia’s Passengers-A Horse Drowned in the Jackson- Street Slip. The aftermath of the marriage at sea on the bridal tug, Katie O’Neil, last Friday, is the complaint of the ex-officio parson that the young managers of the affair did not put up the fee. Captain Frank Morley, who was skipper of the tug, besides being the minister who joined the happy, though very seasick, couple together, felt thatso good an act deserved a greater reward than gratitude and kicked, if not like a parson, like a sailor. Mr. Frank Faircloth being notified of the captain’s complaint produced the follow- ing bt of paper which forever silences all tongues which might question his ability to manage satisfactorily everything he tackles: SAN FraNcisco, June 10, 1895, $15. Received of Frank T. Faircloth the sum of $15 in full of all demands for services performed by me, viz.: in performing a mar- risge ceremony between Maud E. Freer and Ine O. Heydenfeldt, on the high seas (on board steamer Katie O'Neil), June 8. 1895. CapraIN Mr. Frank Faircloth say Frank Morley, in the capacity growls at that $15 fee, then in his capaci as parson he must look above for greater recompense. He intimates that he will take no more sea-wedding troupes on the road, and he wants to know how much of the atmosphere the State of California holds jurisdiction over; declares he will next try a balloon and go up in the sky where tug captains and fly reporters will ne’er be found. Mrs. W. R. Lambert, who, with her hus- band, ex-City Clerk of Oakland, left this port for Honolulu several months ago to escape the wrath of that trans-bay town, returned on the Australia yesterday. She was non-committal, but stylishly dressed in black silk dress and a yellow waist that vied with her hair in its golden tintings. Mrs. Lambert will testify at her husband’s trial in Qakland next week. The Pacific Mail steamer San Juan sailed yesterday afternoon for Panama and way ports, with a passenger list of 29 in the cabin, 19 steerage and 65 Chinese. Among the former was Eugene de Sabla, an ex- tensive coffee-planter of Guatemala, also the three Donnelly sisters, teachers in the public schools of this city, who will spend their vacation at the De Sabla plantation. J. Diaz Duran, formerly Consul-General here for Guatemala, also returned to his native land. Yesterday a team belonging to the Pacific Transfer Company backed off Jackson- street wharf, and in the childlike confusion one of the horses was drowned in the sight of all. The other was with great difficulty dragged on to the wharf. On all the v front there is not a gang- plank, derrick, or any contrivance for lift- ing an animal out of the bay. When one falls overboard it drowns or is worried, pulled and hauled around the slip for an interminable period before some one finds a plan for rescuing the unfortunate. The schooner Garden City had some difficulty in getting herself and crew to sea Sunday. Several of the men refused to go at the last minute, and a small wharf fight took place between them and the captain. Several other vessels experienced the same difficulty. The Oceanic steamship Australia arrived yesterday from Sydney and Honolulu with the following cabin passengers: M. T. Herrick, wife and son, Miss L. Ward, Mrs. Scott Elder, J. J. Egan and wife, Mrs. C. Ahlborn, Mrs. H. 8. Golden, George H. Paris, Fred Raynor, F. Hustace and wife, Miss L. C. Robertson, Mrs. A. Mackintosh, Mrs. M. de la Vergne, Mrs, J. A. Hopper and daughter, Mrs. D. Mc- Nee and_child, Mrs. Dr. Hilderbrandt, George Bucklin, J. T. McDougall, G. W. Maciarlane, wife and child, Dr. R. W. An- derson, wife and child, M. 8. Curry, wife and two daughters, Mrs. W. R. Lambert, G. 8. Fraser and wife, G. R. Rand and W J.J. Williams, K. McDonnell, T. J. Higgins, B. Lathrop, J. B. Heitman, E. H Baker, Miss Paty, Dr. S. Koboyaski. There were thirty-two in the steerage. FRUIT AND CATTLE. Traffic on the Southern Pacific and At- lantic and Pacific Lines. Fruit in considerable quantities is going forward in refrigerator-cars from Vacaville, ‘Winters and Sacramento to Chicago. Ven- tilated cars are also used for handling fruit that does not require ice for its preservation. General Manager A. H. Towne says the equipment of the So_uthern Pacific is sufficient to transport all the fruit offered for shipment. So far the schedule time promised has been made on the Central and Union Pacific. The first through fruit train last week met with a mishap, however, on the Chicago and Northwestern, and was delayed two hours by a wreck. At last accounts the second train was making schedule time. The third will leave Sacramento at midnight on June 12. The Atlantic and Pacific is doing a fair business in shipping orchard products, but the rush has hardly begun. “The first shipments in the package of fruitcars were not as successful as the shippers ex- ected. It seems that delay occurred in oading the cars, and the fruit did not reach its destination in as good condition as it would have been had the packers understood the proper methods of packing. The _cattle-shipping business on the Atlantic and Pacific from pointsin Arizona and New Mexico and Kansas City and Chicago is quite active. ——————— Military Travel. The San Francisco and North Pacific Railway Company is now doing an active business in transporting troops of the National Guard to ;u:nm‘er e;cnmpmem. Companies of the Fifth nfantry Regiment from San Jose, Alameds, San Rafael and é‘amofexa(::klf:?gé carried fo Petaluma on time last Saturday evening. NextSaturday the seven companies of the Second Artillery Regiment in San Fran. cisco will be taken to the summer camp ground at Ukiah. H. C. Whiting, general manager of the company, is encouraged by the season's business, and notes that travel to the springs of Lake, Mendocino and S onoma counties is that if Captain of a sailor, —————— Acquitted of Burglary. A jury in Judge Belcher’s court yesterda: acquitted Ed Smith, charged with bnrglnry’; and William Sierp, accused of the same offense. oT:fy evidence against both was circumstantial ——————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ————a— Pineapple and cherrics, 50¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* : —————a ' WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, 5¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 29 Mkt* Several Indian tribes had a very i i 2 n trib 'y ingenious goevr:ce ior mtnkmg fire, a stake being made revolve at a high rate of speed until it: point burst into lame. i - —_— e THE way to give strength to the weak and tired body is to purify the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla the only true blood purifier, makes pure blood and gives health. 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