The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—4G per year by mail; by carrier, 16 T week. SUNDAY CALL—#$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—#$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally 2nd Weekty), Pacific States Adver- tising Burcan, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If £0, it 18 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 Marker street, will receive prompt attention. Bust the lottery games. It is our turn to festivate. 1 Don’t speculate in crime, Remember Bunker Hill to-day. The lottery prize is a forlorn hope. Going to the springs makes one elastic. It is well to be cheerful, especially in lying. The balm of patriotism is healing to sore hearts. The sunshine of California cures even laziness. To those who take part in it every picnic is a fiesta. Sometimes a willowy maid makesa bil- lowy jade. Help the police haul in the swindle ticket-sellers. No silurian can stay the march of prog- ress with a squirtgun. All who can should go camping on the trail of health th | Is San Francisco too big to play at “vot: ing” for a goddess of liberty ? As a Fourth of July resort San Francisco | ht to enrapture the country. ou Half the lottery tickets sold in this City are forgeries, and all are swindles. The eagle is fairly packing itself with | screams to be let off on the Fourth. In the new California no reputable | journal will publish lottery notices. A grudge too sedulously nursed isa viper | which bites the bosom that warms it. It is a bad citizen who never obeys the law until it gets a dead cinch on him. Never complain of the world; it is good enough for you as long as you are in it. The lottery is a warm swim for the managers, but a cold soup for the public. Buying lottery tickets bears a very close resemblance to throwing money to the dogs. The progress of the water {ront has com- manded Telegraph Hill to step out of the road. “Eureka!”’ is what the grizzly bear ex- claimed when he encountered his first | dude. The British bimetallists are doing their best to keep up with the American pro- cession. i By catching some of the small-fry lottery fiends we may get evidence to convict the big ones. Every San Francisco industry of im- portance should be represented at the State Fair. Santa Cruz comes out of her carnival robes just in time to don her bewitching bathing suit. Bicycles have set horses trembling be- tween the joys of idleness and a fear of the sausage factory Out of the wreck of the Colima there should surely come an improvement in our marine law: California is leading the world in the manufacture of goddesses and queens, and | they are rcal meat ones, too. The patriotic airs in the Park yesterday were as full of warmth asthe sunshine and us stimalating as the ocean breezes. Money spent in celebrating American independence is a wise investment that will yield a generous return in pride. The celebration of the Fourth of July in this City should be made inviting to people in all parts of the Pacific Coast. Instead of saying of a man that he has slipped his trolley, it is better form now to announce that he has punctured his tire. If the Fish that Got Away had record of the lies told about him he would probably feel as small as the Fish that Was Caught. All the Eastern summer resorts are busy informing visitors that the weather this year is a misfit and won’t happen again. A ‘We manufacture a good deal of our sun- shine into wholesome articles of susten- ance, but the raw material is the best of tonics. The poiite declination of the Oakland wheelmen to join our parade on the Fourth because of our execrable pavements was the cruelest cut of all. The Berkeley lads will know how sweet is victory as, upon their arrival, they will hear the noble anthem, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” It would be a fitting thing if the celebra- tion of the Fourth of July, which began with the Atlantic States, should find its greatest glory on the Pacific Coast. If all California journals would devote to home industries the space they now sell to outside lotteries they would benefit them- selves by promoting the prosperity of the State. Now that we have the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association in the interest of home consumption we should havea consumers’ association, pledged to patron- ize home industries. The State Agricultural Society should have the assistance of the progressive ele- i gambling game in which the cards are | goes everywhere in the light of day, their | oxtent, it commands & view of extraor. | for the public good, and | note in the State will hold a celebration of | effort to make ours sufficiently brilliant START THE CRUSADE. The time seems propitious to begin a vigorous crusade for the suppression of lottery gambling in this City. Public sen- timent, aroused by the report of the Grand Jury and the statements made through the CALL by the District Attorney, the Chief of Police, the chairman of the late Grand Jury and others having knowledge of the subject, is fully prepared to support any action that may be taken to enforce the law and crush the infamy. For the lotteries there is nota word of defense to be spoken. It may be this evil that it involves wheels w wheels of frand and crime. In the first place, all lotteries are violations of morality and of law. Within this wrong is found the further wrong of fake lotteries, in which the swindling is unmitigated, and, as if this were not enough, there is still another wheel in the nefarious trade that grinds out forged lottery tickets and re- duces the game of swindling to outright and complete thievery. According to Chief Crowley’s estimate, based upon facts brought to light by the investigations of the police, fully one-half the lotrery tickets sold in this City are rank counterfeits. Even those that are not counterfeits are worthless. To purchase tickets in any lottery is to enter upon a shuffled, cut, dealt and the result an- nounced by unscrupulous sharpers out of sight of the victim and safe from any pos- sibility of a revision of their work. Itis a clear case of knavery on one side and folly on the other, and the results are all one way. There is, however, a deeper depth to the evil than that which appears on the sur- face. The lottery sometimes forces money from its victims. By givinga large per- centage of the price of tickets to those who sell them, the lottery sharpers have been able to induce avaricious and domineering employers or foremen to act as agents for the sale of tickets, and dispose of them to employes who for fear of losing their posi- tion dare not refuse to part with their honestly earned dollars in exchange for these dishonest bits of franduient paper. To put an end to these evils and redress these wrongs is a cause that may rightly claim the assistance of every upright ci zen and every earnest worker for general good. We are aware the contest will be hard and a complete victory dif cult to attain. The lotteries are powerful, nsidious, secretard strong. Their agents are found equally among hali-starved wretches, who tak chances of peddling the tickets for a living, and rich bankers, who handle the coin for a liberal consider- atien. From the sly dodger sneaked about in the dark to the great newspaper that advertisements enticing the unwary find a way into almost every home. These things while attesting the power of the lotteri should arouse the moral forces of the instead of discouraging them. The time, as we have said, is propitious for the crusade to begi The officials of the City and County wiil find in the contest an earn- est support from all associations organized theend we are sanguine they will also have the aid of the other papers of the City as well as the Carrin exposing all the iniquity of the trade and revealing its unlawful, criminal and swindling practices. OUR FOURTH OF JULY. The festival spirit which, finding delight in brilliant pageants, stately processions and the joy of a holiday including pleas- ures for all the people, has swept over the State this spring with such a marvelous series of fetes and carnivals, ought to find in San Francisco its culmination and crowning glory on the Fourth of July the bygone carnivals we have been pl at mimic royality with courts of fancy, but on Independence day we can exult in the true American spirit and hold a festival in which the rejoicing and the loyalty will be as earnest as they are spontaneous. The fact that every city and town of any its own should in no wise detract from the and inviting to attract outsiders. As the day is a general holiday thousands of peo- ple will be inclined to profit by the oppor- tunity of visiting the City, and if it is known that the celebration is to be con- ducted here on a scale commensurate with the wealth of the City and the greatness of the occasion, there can be little doubt thas despite the local celebrations we will have aslarge a throng of visitors as we can well accommodate, The plans for the celebration outlined by the committee in charge afford scope enough for a really noble display. If sufficient money and popular support are afforded the observance of the day can be carried out on the lines propo with a degree of splendor and enthusiasm that will make our celebration noted through- out the Unjon. It would be a fitting illus- tration of the greatness of the Republic and the far-reaching spirit of American patriotism if this National holiday, whose observance was begun by a people living along a narrow strip of the Atlantic coast, should find every year its greatest and most splendid celebration on the shores of the Pacifie. San Francisco should under- take the task of lifting her Fourth of July observances out of the common run. She should make them a feature of her civic life and adorn them with such excellencies of parade, pageant and oratory that they would win for her a renown above that of all gther cities in the country. THE OLEVELAND CONVENTION, The principal political event of the week will be the assembly at Cleveland on Wednesday of the National convention of Republican League clubs. This organiza- tion, which has representatives in eve: State in the Union aad which is expected to have in the convention 2200 delegates, will be fairly representative of the National Republican party, and while, of course, it will not speak with the authority of the convention which is to assemble next year to draw up a platform and nominate a Presidential candidate, its proceedings will nevertheless be taken as an expression of Republican sentiment and an evidence of the course the party will pursue next year. The object of the convention is not to formulate a platform of principles, but to perfect the organization of League clubs, draw the membership into a closer bond of union, stimulate activity in work for the party during the off year, and in other ways make preparations for the coming of the Presidential campaign. It is certain, however, that some discussions upon the money question will take place and some resolution concerning it be adopted, and for this reason the public generally will watch the whole proceeding with more interest than that shown in other conven- tions of the year. That Democrats and Populists not only hope, bus confidently expect, some evi- dence of dissensions and divisions in the conyention over the silver issue, is beyond ment of every county in the effort to make the State Fair a truly representative display of the awakened energy and enter- prise in all the industries of California. a_donbt. .The!e expectations, however, will be futile. Of course, in a convention | been accomplished San including _more than 2000 members there are quite likely to be some extremists, and these may be so dissatisfied with the con- servative course sure to be adopted by the majority that they will indulge in some talk of bolting the party. Such men, how- ever, will count for little. The general tone of the convention will make it certain that on the money question, as on all others, the Republican party will avoid extremes and seck the welfare of the people and the prosperity of the country by united action in support of a policy ap- proved by sagacious statesmanship. San Francisco has a local interest in the convention, inasmuch as this assembly of active and influential young Republicans from all parts of the Union gives us an op- portunity to work very effectively to build up a sentiment in the party favorable to holding the next National convention in this City. The Cleveland convention, as a body, of course will have nothing to do with the selection of the location for the Presidential convention, but the men who compose it will havea great deal of influ- ence in determining the decision of the National Committee. For that reason it is important for us to have energetic work done to make our claims for the honor known and our advantages for entertaining the convention thoroughly understood. A MELTING EMINENCE. That is 2 singular fate which is over- taking Telegraph Hill—it is slowly going into ships as ballast, to be thus distributed all over the world, For this striking eminence, by far the most picturesque of all the hills in the City, is steadily melting away under the pick, and in the years to come will have passed away forever. With the extension and development of the northern water front it becomes more and more a barrier to progress, and is shoulder- ing the City out along the level reaches of Market. When its removal shall have Francisco will have a splendid quay stretching from the military reservation to the Potrero. In o it seems a pity that this wonderiul hill be destroyed, but it is but right in view of the singular neglect that it has alw; received. When the Casino was erected on the summit some years ago and a cable road ran to the top there were gay times for awhile, but it was too tempt- ingly convenient to be resisted by the hardy hill-climbers of the Barbary Coast, and when it became their resort it no longer had charms for the general citizen. Now it is abandoned and desolate, but none the less charming for that. There is no other hill in the City that has so strange a variety of charms. It is the only one that stands wholly isolated and that has so sharp a declivity on all sides. Rising thus sharply nearly 300 feet to a peak hardly more than an acre in dinary splendor. Yet this noble eminence is doomed, for it stands in the highway of progress, whose sharp and untiring teeth are gnawing per- sistently at its eastern flank. The attack upen this sturdy obstruction which is now proceeding brings to notice the many im- portant ways in which the character of the water front is undergoing vital modifica- tions. The construction of the seawall was the first long step toward the develop- ment of an adequate sea front. Even this, extensive though it seems at present, is only the beginning of the initial and essen- | tial improvement. In time it will be ex- tended as far south as China Basin, and still beyond that as the commerce of the City grows. In doing this it will follow the offi- | cial shore line, which in places is far out in the bay. Thus vast new areas of land will be formed for warehouses, factories and the | like. So long as thisimmense territory is to be developed as far south as the Potrero the City will remain in its infancy. There is a kind of instinct in the move- ment of the City southward through the Mission and South San Francisco districts, for population follows the best facilities for commerce, and the extensive marshes about Mission Bay and China Basin will | be filled and populated very quickiy after | the construction of the seawall to those points. At the same time the development of the northern water front is steadily progress- ing. The mooring of ships along the chan- nelcan never be as safe in winter as along the eastern front, but as there are only three months in the year when storms may come the remaining nine months of per- fect safety will be sufficient to develop an extensive dockage business in that region. Between it and the busy quarter already developed at the foot of Market street is reared Telegraph Hill, between which and the bay there is only a narrow passage at its eastern base. It is this passage that is now being steadily widened—not for the purpose of making room for streets and houses, but to get material for concrete and ballast. The streets and houses will come with the development of the north- ern front, and then the towering hill will come tumbling down with a mighty roar. THE GERMAN CANAL. The German Government will have the satisfaction this week of formally opening the great canal from the Baltic to the North Sea, on which it has been working so long, for which it has expended so much money and from which it expects such great results. All the leading nations of the earth have been invited to take part in the celebration, and the naval display at the opening will be beyond all compari- son the greatest, the most brilliant and the most 1mposing ever seen, The work was projected originally mainly for war purposes, and while it is now considered chiefly as a benefit to com- merce, the possible use of it in case of war will not be overlooked by any nation. It will enable Germany to harbor her fleets in the comparative security of the Baltic and yet launch them speedily npon the North Sea to attack the coasts of England or France. To reach German ports French or British warships would have to make the long voyage around Denmark as of old, while those of Germany, by the short cut of the canal,can be readily shifted from one sea to another as occasion de- mands. The advantage thus gained is enormous and adds immensely to Ger- many’s prestige as a naval power. Some of the more emotional French Dep- uties have already made manifest the hos- tility with which they regard the new canal, and the congratulations which France will extend to the German Kaiser are not likely to be very warm or very sin- cere. The British are not so free in the expression of thought as the French and have said nothing of any dislike of Ger- many as a neighbor on the North Sea, but it is probable they also will have some mental reservations when they declare their pleasure in it. Meantime it is possi- ble that all war fears may be unfounded, for before Germany ever finds occasion to send a fleet benton destruction through the canal the flying machine may have rendered the canal, if not the fleets them- selves, useless for such purposes. The opening of this great waterway will naturally recall the undertaking at Nicar- agua. France has had her triumph of this kind at Suez, England at Manchester and Germany is about to have hers at Kiel. The next and greatest triumph will be ours. It is for usto connect the two mightiest oceans by a waterway between the two continents of the New World where the destinies of men will have the fullest ex- pansion. The glories achieved by other pations sheuld be a stimulus to us to prosecute the work, and our official repre- sentatives at the great international _dls- play in Germany ought to feel authorized to announce that the United States will soon begin the work at Nicaragua an_d put the crowning glory on the enterprise of canal building. PERSONAL. F. G. Osirander, & lawyer of Merced, is at the Lick House. Walter Raymond and wife of Boston are reg- istered at the Palace. James G. Wells and wife, of Philadelphia, are registered at the Lick. J. W. Johnson, & dry goods merchant of Chi- cago, is registered at the Russ. John D, Spreckels and Samuel M. Shortridge have returned from the Santa Cruz carmval. John F. 0'Shea of the Union Meat Company, Portland, Ore., registered at the Lick yester- day. Commodore Cornelius 0’Connor has returned from the Santa Cruz carnival refreshed in body and mind, Samuel Langabaugh, merchant, millman and mine owner of Carson, Nev.,is a guest at the Russ House. Barbour T. Lathrop, newspaper writer and tourist, who arrived in the City from Indiaa few days since, wiil leave for Chicago to-day. Walter N. Brunt, versemaker of the Mystic Shrine, came home from Santa Cruz yesterday. The Shriners had joy unbounded at the car- nival. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett of Sacra- mento is registered at the California Hotel. He will go to Ukiah to visit the Becond Artil- lery Regiment Encampment next Tuesday. He will be accompanied by Captain Carrington of the First United States Infantry, who has been detailed as inspector of the National Guard of California for the encampment season. The adjutant-general reports that Governor Budd is deriving much benefit from his sojourn at Klamath Springs. Therheumatism is yielding to the healing power of the water. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Lotta, now a retired actress, was the guest of honor last Monday of the Professional Woman’s League of New York. Jim Fisk’s widow is living in very humble circumstances in Boston, but is not in dire want, as reports have stated. Mr. Wanamaker has increased his life in- surance to the remarkable aggregate of $2,000,000. Heis certainly the most heavily insured man in America and possibly in the world. The late John J. Bresnan, chief of the New York Fire Degartment, killed on duty last December, 1s to be honored by a bronze sculp- ture portrait to be placed in one of the public buildings, Mrs. Cornelia Walter Richards, who was one of the first editors of the Boston Transcript, celebrated her eightieth birthday last week. Her brother, Lynde M. Walter, was the founder of the paper. Major Henry Stanton, “the Sweet Poet of the Elkhorn,” who is dying in Kentucky, had the singular distinetion for & poet of being a prac- ticel inventor. He devised the iron tie for binding cotton bales, and it was a success. The forthcoming auction sale of the largest hotel in Kansas, the Throop House at Topeka, recalls its builder, Colonel H. P. Throop, who, in 1888, was the most enthusiastic boomer in the State, worth §500,000; to-dey he is pen- niless. Dr. W. L. Abbott, who has been traveling in Central Asia, has forwarded to the National Muscum at Washington a collection of the skins of 228 birds and more than & hundred mammals. The greater number of these are species new to science. =The latest social lion in Gotham bears the jaw-cracking name of the Chevalier Garibaldi Coteletti. He arrived recently on the steam- ship Kaiser Witheim, and was immediately put upatall the leading clubs. He is the vice- president of the Royal Yacht Club of Italy. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “Ah,” remarked Mr. Quilp, “but women haven’t the play of intellect that men enjoy.” “No, of course mot,” snapped Mrs.Quilp. “Woman’s intellect works.”—Cleveland Plain- dealer. Trivvet—I hear that you have been spending some time at a health resort. Dicer—Well, I'm just out of the hospital.—~ New York World. Weary Higgins—Dusty, I've a awful pain in me stomach. Dusty Spriggins (sadly)—That's more than I has in mine, cully.—Judge. Timmins—TI belfeve after this that I shall not send any one my autograph unless he gives satisfactory evidence of having read my poems. Simmons—Oh, I wouldn't be so severe as that. Why not let him off on giving proof oi having merely bought & copy.—Indianapolis Journal. Cabby—Hansom, gent? Hansom? Jay Green (in from the woods)—I may be handsome, young fellow, but I am dead onto all the games of you city sharpers, too.—New ! York World. Mr. Brownstone—There is one thing I wel- come in the adventof the cmancipated woman. Mrs. Brownstone—What is that, dear? Mr. Brownstone—It will settle the servant- girl question forever.—New York World. WADE FMPTON HRRIVES On a Tour of Inspection as United States Railroad Commissioner. He WIll Collect Considerable Data for His Report to the Gov- ernment. General Wade Hampton, who gained renown as a leader in the Confederate army during the war and who has since been Governor of South Carolina and is now United States Railroad Commissioner, arrived in this City last evening on the Oregon train and registered at the Palace, He is accompanied on his Western trip by Colonel W. J. Green and Clay E. Thomas of South Carolina. General Hampton was escorted to the Palace by W. G. Curtis, assistant general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad who met him in Portland, Or., and also by other friends residing in San Francisco. In the line of his duty as United States Railroad Commissioner "he inspects from time to time the roads which have received subsidies from the Government. He pre- scribes a system of reports to be rendered to him by the railroad companies whose roads are in whole or in part west, north or south of the Missouri River, and to which the Government has granted any loan of credit, or subsidy, in bonds or lands. He is required to ex- amine the books and accounts of each of the railroad companies at least once in each fiscal year, and at any other time that he may deem an examination neces- sary to determine the correctness of any report received from them. He is ex- pected to furnish the departments of the overnment information in regard to tariffs for freight and passengers. General Hampton has visited San Fran- cisco_several times since he received his appointment as United States Commis- sloner to succeed General Joseph E. John- son. The Commissioner looks well after his trip across the continent and expects to remain in California for two weeks. Amon, others who called at the Palace to gree him was Colonel Mosby. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “The feat of playing chess blindfolded is not such a difficult one after all,” £aid Joseph Red- ding to some friends in the Palace Hotel yes- terday evening. “There was . Zukertort in this City some years ago—a_Pole, I believe. Died three and a half yearsago. Champlon of the world at one time.. He played at Irving Hall, and conducted sixteen different games at one time without looking at the board. He kept the game in his mind’s eve, 5o to speak.” “How did he do it. Joe,if he hadn’t s re- markable memory?” inquired Harry Grey. “Pll tell you. You must understand that there are two kinds of memory—photographic and panoramic. Now, the photographic mem- ory is one which retains the changing scenes on & chess-board, and as a new move is made it takes the place of the former one, practically blotting it out. Therefore, there 15 new ar- rangement of things before the plaver. As various moves are made he is told of it, JOE ‘REDDING RECALLS SOME CHESS GAMES. [Sketched from life for the *Call” by Nankivell.] being familiar with the move, he pictures the board in his mind. So it was with Zukertort. There It was constantly before him, and he knew just what to do next. A good story is told of his wit. It seems thata young man, who was one of the sixteen players, approached him auring the 12 o’clock inferim and said, in & bold, loud voice: ‘Doctor, do you think I am playing a pretty good game?’ ‘Yes,’ replied the chess-player, ‘your first twelve moves were book moves, and they were good ones, but your thirteenth was an original move, and it wes a bad one.’ “There wasa young fellow named Morphy wholived in the South about the fifties who afterward went to the American Chess Con- gress and wiped out Paulsen, at that time an American champion. After that he went ebroad and walked through the chess centers like Cesar through Gaul, beating everything in sight. There was an attempt to get Stanton, the great English player, to meet him, but Stanton always gave as an excuse that he was busy getting out his great edition ot Shake- speare. Morphy then went to Paris. Professor Anderson of Berliu was sent for and came. Anderson was the man who wrote the treatise proving that the great Evans gambit opening was worthless, and consequently he was looked upon as an authority. Well, when he sat down to play Morphy, much to his astonishment and chagrin the American began by opening with the Evans game. Anderson asked him whether ornothe was offering an insult, but Morphy merely urged him to proceed with the game. The result was that Morphy beat the life and the reputation out of him, thus proving that one opening was asgood for him as another. Anderson, who was an immense man, reached across the table, picked up his youthful op- ponent and hugged: him, exclaiming, ‘Great Jupiter, how in the world didyou do it?” And 50 it goes. A master of the game is prepared for any kind of an onslaught.” “Say, Joe, how about the panoramic memory you were talking of?”” inquired a bystander. “Why, a panoramic memory is one which can retain a few yards of poetry or prose and reel it off and forget itasit passes by, seldom retaining any of it. The politicians possess this kind of a memory—seldom remembering what they faid. That includes promises and platforms.” Alexander G. Fisk of New York, member of the firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons, bankers, is vis- iting California for pleasure and recreation. With Frank Hatch of Visalia he visited the water carnival at Santa Cruz, returning to San Francisco Jast evening. Both have seen carni- val displays at Venice and Geneva, and do not hesitate to declare that the spectacle at Santa Cruz surpassed in many respects the old world exhibitions on the water. “The electric dis- play,” said’ Mr. Fisk, “was the finest I ever saw, and the damming of the river was nnique in its way. Ipronounce the Santa Cruz Water Carnival a great success.” Mr. Fisk will visit Yosemite Valley next week. General R. H. Warfield returned from Santa Cruz last evening. He speaks of the carnival as the Queen of Bheba spoke of her visit to a wise man, asserting that half has not been told. He says that his judgment in this regard is verified by tourists from older countries who saw the illuminations and attractions of the scene. Reports come from the scenes of pleasure and Tevelry at Santa Cruz saying that George T. Bromley is still there. When last seen he was on the ground where he opened a hotel thirty years ago explaining to a bevy of young and alluring beauties the excellence of ths clam chowder on that famous occasion. EXCURSION TO PAOIFI0 GROVE. The Young Men’s Christian Association Will Go There Soon. The Young Men'’s Christian Association will give an excursion to Pacific Grove and Monterey June 27. On the evening of that day in Assembly Hall, Pacific Grove, Rev. C. O. Brown will lecture on Abraham Lin- coln. There will also be special music for the occasion and the lecture will be iree to ail excursionists. The tickets, which will be good for five days. will be sold at greatly reduced rates, and the committee of arrangments of the association are putting forth every effort to make this excursion one of the mest en- joyable of the season. Children under 12 years wiil go for half rates. There will be ample accommodations for all who desire to attend and positively only 500 tickets will be sold. ——————— In Honor of Father Varsl. A meeting of ladies and gentlemen will be held this evening in the Sodality Chapel of St. Ignatius Church, on Hayes street, for the pur- pose of forming a fund to perpetuate the name DID FAIR AUTHORIZE [T Much Speculation Concern- ing the Famous Syndicate Wheat. FAIR IN MEXICO AT THE TIME. Many Think There Was a Deal Between Bresse, Crothers and McGlauflin. The dissolution of the firm of L. W. Me- Glauflin & Co., grain brokers and manipulators of the Fair wheat, has caused an immense amount of talk and speculation as to the causes that led to such action. Some hold to the opinion that Bresse was let out simply because Mc- Giauflin had got out of him all that he wanted. In other words. Mr. Bresse was simply taken into the firm to be used as a catspaw, and when he had raked the finan- cial chestnuts from the fire, there was no further need for him in the office. Some color is given to this theory when it is remembered that Louis C. Bresse, Fair's private secretary, was formerly bookkeeper for McGlauflin, and that when he went with Fair, he secured for his brother, Eugene Bresse, his old position. Later on this last-named gentleman was admitted to a limited partnershio with McGlauflin. Then it was that the sng- posed combination, if such really existed, was made, Fair unwittingly supplying the cash for one of the biggest wheat deals in the history of the country. Thisis accor- ding to the theory of Dr. Levingston, and there are hundreds who think the same way. “It is certainly one of the strangest cases I ever heard of,” said Dr. Levingston last night. “Some day the whole story will come to the surface, and you will find that Fair's money was used without his knowledge and, 1t is of course needless to add, his consent. Fair was liberal in some respects, yet it is well known to any one who had the slightest business dealings with him that he thought as much of a nickel as many mendo of a dollar. He was not a man to trust his business to others, unless he was right on the spot to see that his instructions were obeyed to the letter. At the time all this was going on Senator Fair was in the wilds of Mex- ico, fifty miles from the nearest telegraph station or postoffice. It is preposterous to suppose that a man of Fair's well-known sagacity woula enter into a speculation in- volving $5,000,000 and leave the entire mat- ter, signing of” checks and all, to outside parties. No, sir, he did not do it, and right there is where the mystery lies. “When Fair returned from Mexico I said to him: ‘Senator, you and your wheat speculation have been raising the very devil in financial circles during the last few months.’ ‘“‘Wheat? Why, I know nothing of wheat, I assure you,’ replied the Senator. ‘I had enough ‘of that when Flood got tangled up in the business and I loaned him a couple of million. I saw then that it was too treacherous a game for me to | touch.” *‘There are other things about the Fair estate that need investigation. Not a tele- gram, letter or record of any kind belon ing to him has ever come to the surfaci All his papers disappeared the day of his death, and no effort has apparently been made to locate them.” McNEAR ON THE DEAL. The Big Dealer Gives Another Aspeot of Tts Operation. *‘The alarmists will find themselves without an occupation if they turn their attention to the present condition of the wheat market,” said George W. McNear yesterday. ‘“‘Perhaps I had better modify that,” he continued, “and say the outlook for wheat. The producers” have no occasion to get alarmed. I know the CALL is ac- cepted as the most authentic fuide among the farmers of the State, and [ should like very much to have them properly informed on the true situation. There has been so much sald about the effect of the synui- cate wheat deal on the condition of the market, that the producers have gathered the idea that they are to suffer loss through that transaction; that the market is going way down and that the buyers, shippers and ship-owners are going to clean up a fabulous profit. “I think the men who grow the wheat should know the truth, that is, as far as any one is able to give it to them who is engaged in the commission business. Understand, this is not the truth from the shippers’ view point alone, but as it affects the industry and the market. There has been talk about the shippers chartering all the available vessels {;efore buying this syndicate wheat, in anticipation of the coming deal. Well, what was more nat- ural? Was it not necessary? It would certainly have been very foolish for any shipper to have bought an immense quan- tity of wheat without knowing whether he could secure enough tonnage to handle a portion of the wheat, at least. I bought 60,000 tons of the Fair wheat, and auring the last five days 1 have sent off five ship- loads, or about 13,000 tons. One ship was loaded at Port Costa yesterday. Aeain they talk about the ship-owners making the largest money on the carrying of this wheat. “Let me give you some figures. The ayerage tonnage of the ships that carry wheat is about 3500 tons. Suppose a ship carries 4000 tons at $8 40 a ton, That amounts to about $32,000. The smaller ships get about $24,000, and it costs them at least $8000 to get in and out of this port. ‘When you come to add the same amount for the port where they unload, and in- clude the wages of thirty odd seamen, you can see that there is not much left for the ship’s owner. An extensive ship-owner, who lives here, told me the other day that he had not drawn down a dividend from his ships in three years. They figure that 35 shillings a ton is not a living rate for carryinf wheat, and if the shippers had bought this syndicate wheat without secur- ing a number of ships, we would bave been at the mercy of the ship-owners, and they would have put up the rate on us to 40 or 50 shillings. Instead of $8 40 a ton, we would have had to pay $10 and $12. “It does not seem that an explanation was needed to shew what the result would have been. If the shippers had been cluglht in such a squeeze they certainly would not have kept up the market for the coming crop. As to the Chicago quota- tions, all that I can say is that it is impos- sible to institute a” comparison. he Chicago market is necessarily speculative. Its quotations are not governed by the same causes and conditions which operate here. 'We can take only the Liverpool market for our guide. Asa matter of fact, it controls the markets of the world, though Chicago, for obvious reasons, is less beholden. “‘Speaking not merely as a shipper, I must honestly say I think the outlook for the farmers in wheat is very encouraging. The movement of this immense bova of syndicate wheat is the best thing that could have been done for the market. As long as it remained in an intact bulkit was a constant menace to the market. Iex- pect to have all my wheat shipped by the end of the fourth month fiom now, and I am pretty sure the rest of it will be out of the country by that time. You see by securing enough tonnage for our immedi- ate needs, we were placed in an casy posi- tion where we could wait for ships return- ing to this port. Otherwise we must have Of Rev. A. Varsi S.J., who will celebrate nis | been at the mercy of the ship-owners, and golden jubilee this ionth. ‘A netice has been | the farmers wonld have. been the ones to sent out by the committee that friends of the | gyffer,’” reverend gentleman wishing to subscribe to the fund may send their offerin urer, James D. Phelan, Phelan the president of St. I&n.lfln! College, Hayes street, not later June 21, 1o the treas- 1ding, o;lw: n the sfternoon of Young Woman'’s Suffrage Club. At the open meeting of the Young Woman's Buffrage Club, to be held on Tuesday evening at 909 Market street, the principal event on | | | dustry and the programme Will be an _address on Y, Women' by Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, Tabita Primrose wiil tulk on “Woman's Rig| Up to Date,” and Dr. F. C. Treadwell will ren a paper on “Women as Dentists.” There be a taking musical programme, to be fol], by dancing. THE UNKNOWN DEAD, An 014 Man Stricken With Apoplexy Dies at the City and County Hospital. There is an unknown dead man at the Morgue. Where he came from and the canse of his death are known, but who he is and what his occupation was are un. known. He was taken with an apoplectie fit on EEain Folsom street and removed to the Receiy- ing Hospital on the 14th inst. After a careful examination, Dr. Somers decided to se]nd]l;lm to the City and County Hos- pital. Everything possible was done for Ixim there, but he d it ied this morning with- usness. If not iden- be buried b, i d1 out recovering con titied to-day he will The decease: CEL e FEASTED IN BEAR VALLEY, Country Club Men Royally Entertain Pacific Union Members. } Besldes the Toros and Trimmings There Was Much to EnJoy. The Country Club's invitation to the® | members of the Pacific Union Club an. \ some friends outside of that organiza- tion to feast on the head of the bull with them on their preserves in Marin County yesterday was liberally accepted. About 120 tourists boarded a special train at Sau- salito at 8:30 A. M. and were carried to the Point Reyes station, where coaches, rock- aways and vehicles of every description were in waiting to transport them to the clubhouse at the head of Bear Valley Throughout the week Will Kittle, Fred Tallant and Fred Webster had been busy preparing for the fifth annual bullshead breakfast of the club. A circular tent ninety feet in diameter was pitched on the slope below the club buildings and under this canvas the tables were laia. A few yards to the southward Senor Valencia, a veteran high priest at the bullshead shrine, had dug his_pits the day before—one for the beads of the toros and the other for the asado or roasted beef. Beans, salsa and the other accompaniments of this characteristic California banquet were pre- pared so as to escort the main features of the feast to the tables. At noon the bulls’ heads were dome, and to the music of an excellent band brought from the City were disinterred and carved. They were cooked in the highest style of the ‘art and washed down with generous goblets of still and sparkling wines. ‘When the clatter of the knives and forks indicated a lull in the important business of the day, Alick Hamilton, the presi- | dent of the Country Club, was honored by an enthusiastic toast. Mr. Hamilton made a modest but eloquent response a*". mentioned the names of his co-worker, Fred Tallant, Will Kittle and Fred Webster in_terms of praise for their in- taste, They had devoted days to this entertainment, and every- thing had been done under their imme- diate su?er\'is m. Mr. Webster ha camped all of Saturday night alongsi the pit where the bull’s heads lay, s Will Kittie had taken his life in his in pitching the big circular tent in of wind. a gale Mr. Cheesebrough, who is an after- dinner speaker of Tno megiocre talent, proposed the health of k Sprague, responded to by William |Berg. Many toasts were drunk when the members and their guests adjourned to the grounds where an impromptu clay-pigeon shooting tournament was inaugurated. A portion of the guests, who were not interested in this sport, were driven about the club’s preserves and driven to the ocean, return- ing in time for a second collation before the cornet sounded the return. The County Club is a most unique or- ganization. It leases 70,000 acres and has within its confines deer shooting, quail shooting, brook and lake fishing. The clubhouse is not alone a comfortable but { an artistic building. The cuisine is beyond reproach and the wine cellars are not per- mitted to languish. And all this within two hours of San Francisco. There is not a country in the world that can produce its parellel. The membership of the club is now ninety, and the progress made with this comparatively small list is remarkable. The dog kennels, the stables, the coach- houses, the broad lawns and|flower beds all dispiay the utmost industry and taste. The culture of fish and the protection and propagation of game, not alone on their own grounds, but throughout the State, are the component parts of the creed the members believe in and practice. 1t isan organization of sportsmen who do every- thing on their part to make the honest pursuit of field sports popular. Among those who breakfasted in the shade of the great tent were: A. E. Magill, A. G. Edwards, Max Sloss, J. A. Cadmon, J. B. Leighton, W. H. Martin, L. J. Vassanet, A. Gerberding, Dan O’'Connell. A. Cheesbourgh, E. M. Crawlord, E. T. B. Mills, Arthur Page, W. B. Chapman, H. H. Sherwood, Lewis Weinmann, H. K. Pichon, W James Rowe, Edgar B. Carroll, W. 2. Hale, . Worden, E. R. Hutchins, Osgood Hooker, James A. White, George Meyer, Abraham Halsey, Dayten Jr., R. G. Ash, Reel Terry d H ton, Edwin B. Holden, Platt, Thomas P. Hawley, J. W. . Channcy R. Winslow, James Hamilto! | 'x McKenna, Dr. Vowinkel, William Berg, 3 Sperry, George D. Boyd, 'Donald de V. Graham and others. Three Fingers Crushed. George Nelson, 11 years of age, who lives with his parents at 511 Broderick strees jumped on an Ellis-street car at Broderick Hayes yesterday afternoon and was chased oft by the conductor. In jumping off the boy fell, and his left hand went under the wheel of the car. Threeof the fingers were badly erushed. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, and Dr. Somers said he hoped to be able to save the three fingers. George bore the pain of the stitching like a little hero. e The Death Rate for May. In the monthly circular of the California State Board of Health the mortaiity reports from sixty-five citles, towne, villages and sani- aggregating a population of 746.923, & mortality of 844 is shown for the month of May. Thisis at the rateof 1.18 per 1000 for the imonth, or 14.16 per annum. 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