The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISOO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ per week. BUNDAY CALL~$L.50 per year. WE! LY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Buk Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation * 1f 0, it is 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Oftice, 710 Market street, will receive Pprompt attention. JUNE 24, 1895 The Colima’s ghost still groans, Mojave desert will soon blossom as the kose. The Berkeley boys return with a full bag of game. —_— Denver was badly scratched by the Berke- tiger. Painting the town red is a sorry remedy ¥or the blues. The silence of the Cleveland convention #peaks volumes. L San Francisco has as many views as Boston has ideas. Drop a nickel in the lottery slot and get & disappointment. The proceeds of industry are a sufficient rebuke to idlen: The bicycle is creating a revolution in elothes as well as in highways. Cleveland has all the fishing and his pecretary has to tell all the lies. There is no wholesome enterprise that lacks every element of patriotism. It is not necessary to rake the City treas- ury in order to get the streets swept. Maryland is making her campaign on . the tariff issue all by her little lonesome. By organizing a home-market club you can get your neighbors into a good thing. The CALL’s subscription list is the most | eloquent praise that the paper is receiving. They say Rosebery is troubled with in- gomnia, but the Conservatives caught him napping. The man who wrote the song: “I Would Not Live Aiwa never tried life in California. According to the ideas of society people the resort that has the most fun has the best climate. @ladstone’s voice is not so feeble but that it can still be heard from the Baltic Sea to London Bridge. What would it profit California Demo- Trats to hold a State convention when they Inight go fishing? Kaiser William talks of peace, but he always wears a helmet and keeps his sword by his side. No matter how great the wealth of the State, like a lump of gold, it will not grow of its own volition. There are many good sites for summer Tesorts in California, but the biggest sights are in the Metropoli It is a poor town in California that is not going to have a bigger celebration this year than ever before. The Cleveland wing of Democracy is tied to the gold standard and the other wing flaps in the empty air. Health, I me, blithe and rosy-cheeked, sits demurely in the mountains waiting for somebody to court her. In the general racket over the silver question, it is easy to be noted that the Statesmen are not talking. Oaklana commauters are muter since they have Jearned that they travel on ‘“con- tracts’ and not on tickets. Science has not yet solved the problem of utilizing the vast store of natural energy indicated by the giggling of a girl. The next President of the United States should be nominated in San Francisco and return East along with a tidal wave of en- thusiasm, N Buffalo invites the Republican National Convention to a free view of Niagara, but we will give a free view of the Pacific and 8 swim in it. Angels Camp has already raised $3000 for its Fourth of July celebration, and San Francisco has subscribed—something less than a million. By way of preparation for the grand ex- position at Atlanta, Macon, Georgia, is arranging for a peach carnival that prom- ises big things. Now let the country profit by the action of the Cleveland convention and postpone political discussions until next year, and 8!l will be well. The Merchants’ Association and the Manufacturers and Producers’ Association are the twin powers to guide the prosper- ity of the people. The Philadelphia Record says: “The beauty of genuine Democracy is like the beauty of holiness,” and it might have added, it is also as scarce. ‘When our festal ideas are fully developed we will have a ring of roses all round the bay,and a grand procession of decorated yachts instead of gondolas. The bloomer girl, delightfally deaf to the clamor she has raised, opens her heart to the sweeter graces of nature and keeps her {ace turned to the rising son. There is a sort of public service that rcould be rendered by the renomination of Cleveland, for it would give the people a much desired chance for a kick at him. The determination of the Merchants’ As- Bociation to keep an eye on the investment of public funds in improvements marks one of the highest applications of its use- fulness. : The Southern Pacific’s rumored willing- Dess to “‘arbitrate’’ the dispute of mineral lands within the granted belt has set the Miners’ Association to wondering whether it isjan admission or a snare, A TEST OF MERIT. The interviews with a number of the most intelligent residents of the City, pub- lished in yesterday’s Cavy, concerning this paper, are vparticularly gratifying as proving the fact that the distinguishing characteristics of the CALL are heartily welcomed as a benign innovation. These peculiar features, as mentioned by the persons interviewed, are as follows: *‘The CarL has broken away from the traditions of the daily press and is now seeking the news through new channels. The change, from a news standpoint, is an improvement.'—Deputy Postmaster Doyle. “I have noted many telegraphic items of interest to me that I have not seen in the other papers. I think with the increased telegraph facilities which the United Press gives the CarL it will distance its com- petitors in foreign and domestic news.”— Johu H. Wise, Collector of the Port. “I like the United Press telegrams. There is a snap in them that carries con- viction.”—Louis Loupe, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. “The Cart’s telegraphic news has im- proved.’—Internal Revenue Agent Mc- Glachlin. “I have noticed with great interest the steady march of improvement in the paper.”—A. E. Pryor. “With a combination like the one it has it ought to be the greatest newspaper on the coast.”—Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne. “The Carn has been printing more Pacific Coast news thanany other paper on the coast, and with the New York Herald, Sun, Times and Tribune to draw from for the news of the world I should imagine that in a very short time it would be right in the front ranks of journalism in the United States. Its reputation for local news is already established.”—C. C. Bruce. “I have maintained right along that the CaLyL was the peer if not the superior of any paper published in San Francisco. It ives the news in just the shape that the business man wants it, and to my mind one of its greatest qualifications is its cleanliness. No man need to be afraid to take it home into his family. There is never anything in it to offend a man’s sense of decency, and you can always find the news in it.”—Harbor Commissioner Cole. “Its improved service since the new management took hold and its generous devotion to the affairs that interest the people of the Pacific Coast are winning friends for it daily. The determination of the CALL to give space to the news of the world in general and to the Pacific Coast in particular, in preference to the unsavory sensational stuff that is interesting to only a small number of readers, will give the paper the prestige when the public gets done with trash.”’—Congressman Hilborn, These ntterances have been selected from many of a similar kind, ana are introduced merely to give substance to a prevailing opinion. A summary of them is this: First, the CaLL gives the best mews service; second, it pays supe- rior attention to the interest of California and the Coast in general; third, it does not give up its columns to degrading sen- sationalism. Those who were interviewed might have enumerated other points of excellence, but as they did not we shall not discuss them, depending fully upon the intelligence of the community to observe and appreciate them. The people of Macon, Ga., are prepairing a fair on lines that it might be well for some enterprising city to imitate in this State. It is called a “‘peach carnival,”” but in its more important features will be es- sentially an exposition of th& peach i dustry in all its branches, from the culti- vation of the tree to the manufacture of the finest forms of jellies and confects from the fruit. From a recent report we learn that ex- tensive preparations have been made fora practical exhibit on the ground of the best canning factory, the best fruit-drying ap- paratus, the best crates, best ventilated barrels, best ventilated fruit cars, best ex- hibits of fruit in glass, with special induce- ments for display of home-made preserves, and also for exhibitions of the most ap- proved methods of packing and preparing peaches for shipment to market. An exhibit of this kind, restricted to a single industry, does not sound big. It does mnot appeal to an imagination like some high-sounding “International Ex- position of the World’s Industries,” nor does it promise so much even as an ordi- nary county fair devoted to all the re- sources and products of the locality. Nevertheless it has its advantages. Such exhibits can be made thorough and ex- haustive in their scope and therefore really educating and instructive to those who visit them. Moreover they can be undertakén by cities of moderate size. Any community can provide in this way a really comprehensive exposition of the in- dustry which employs the greater portion of its people, and thus enable them to see and learn all that the whole world knows concerning the mechanism and methods of that particular work. Nor are such expositions likely to be too small to be interesting to the general pub- lic. Modern industry has become a very complex mechanism and an exposition which takes up any single department of it with the aim to make a thorough and exhaustive display of all the machinery and methods of business used in its per- formance from first to last will be no small or insignificant affair when put into run- ning order, The peach show in Macon is likely to prove a much bigger thing than even the managers had any idea of when they began it and the benefit to the peach growers is sure to be considerable. It would be a good thing for some progress- ive city in the fruit districts of California to take up this Georgia idea and develop it to the fullest extent. We know already a great deal about the fruit business, but there is yet a great deal for wus to learn in the art of preparing our peaches and apri- cots so as to be able to put them into the market in the highest and most finished form of table luxurie: NEGLECTED INDUSTRIES. The energies which are being directed to the use of articles of home production have made a good beginning, and that is neces- sary to all great achievements. Our own people produce an astonishingly wide range of articles to which our consumers give no preference over similararticles pro- duced in other parts of the world, and this in the face of the fact that the home-made ‘articles are generally better and cheaper than those produced in distant States and countries, But it is equally true that our manufac- turers are neglecting certain lines of fancy goods in which the largest profits are made, This is stated clearly by the San Jose Herald as follows: “When tbe dried apricots and other fruits of Santa. Clara Valley can be sent to England and made into choice jellies with attractive labels, shipped back to the United States and even to California and sold at fancy prices, there should be no question about the profitable investment of capital in manufacturing such things at home. And this has been done for years and wili doubtless be done again this year. No wonder that times are said to be hard when such opportunities of making money and employing labor are pexsistently ignored. Any country would soon be poor if it shipped all its raw materials to foreign countries to be manufactured and then bought them back again. And yet that is just what we aredoing in Santa Clara Valley all the time. Somebody will come here some day and show us what we are losing by this policy. They will take our splendid fruits and convert them into essences, jellies and such like that will command the wonder and admiration of the whole world, and bring such profits as our present fruit-growers and fruit-driers have never even dreamed of. Surely there ought to be somebody in this valley even now with energy and intelligence enough to show that old settlers can do as muchas newcomers.”” The CaLr has frequently drawn atten- tion to the fact that Crosse & Blackwell buy California dried apricots, ship them 6000 miles to London, manufacture them into marmalade and ship them back 6000 miles to California to be consumed. Isit possible to imagine anything more deplor- able? If this industry were one requiring a capital of prohibitory size, or if there were some secret or occult process in the manufacture of the article, there would be some excuse for our dejinquency ; but there is nothing of the kind. One manifest reason why the manutac- tures of California are not preferred by our people is that they are staple, and thus are not easily distinguishable from the manu- factures of other parts of the country. This is unayoidable, and the remedy for the in- difference in choice is to be found in the education of the people on the lines pur- sued by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. But this will never relieve our manufacturers of competition with out- siders, and while this isa wholesome state of affairs it will always keep the profits of our manufacturers within the bounds which competition creates. The great profits are to be sought in the production and manufacture of articles, mainly luxuries, from which the element of ordinary competition is eliminated by the monopoly of a peculiar climate. Thus, while we have a monopoly in America in the growing of apricots we might establish a practical monopoly of their manufacture into confects. Itisin the intelligent and persistent pursuit of this idea, applicable in more ways than we can at present con- ceive, that the large profits of production and manufacture are to be secured. He who has the originality to open new lines of development upon this idea is the most useful citizen, as well as the one who will secure the most generous returns from his enterprise. A TUNIQUE LAND SCHEME. The plan of the Columbia Colonization Company for bringing 200,000 acres of the Mojave plains under settlement introduces a new idea into the work of developing Cali- fornia. It is constructing an irrigating canal fifty-two miles long, seventy-five feet wide and ten feet deep for bringing water upon the desert from the Colorado River. The 200,000 acres which it is thus bringing under irrigation are owned by the Govern- ment and as such are subject to entry by settlers on the ordinary terms of the Gov- ernment, $1 25 an acre, one-fifth of which is payable at the time of entry and the re- mainder at the time of proving up. The company is to pay the $1 for the settler. In consideration of this and of a perpetual free water right the settler is to agree to enter a desert land claim of 320 acres and deed to the company all of his land except forty acres, which he is to keep, the com- pany receiving 280 acres. Thus the set- tler’s land will have cost him $80, or $2 an acre, and will be worth easily $2000, or $50 an ‘acre, the moment water is turned upon it. It has not yet been asserted that the Government will indorse this collusion be- tween the settler and the company, but as there is no posible evil in the contract, and as therefore the spirit of the law is not violated, we may safely suppose that the company has thoroughly informed itself on this point. It is composed of strong Eastern capitalists and has the Field, Farm and Fireside, which has an enormous circu- lation in rural communities, as its organ. The settlers which it will secure will come from the East. The 200,000 acres can be taken by 625 settlers, who will represent an added population of 3125. As the land is now absolutely worthless its irrigation will add'at least §10,000,000 to the wealth of the State in land values alone, to say nothing of the property that the settlers will bring or of the annual product of their industry. The scheme ie original and peculiar and seems to solve the whole problem of irri- gating the arid lands of California and the whole West. The Mojave desert is at pres- ertt a desert in the truest sense and of the most forbidding character, but irrigation is all that it lacks to make it a paradise. Its soil is largely volcanic, the mountains on either side being voleanic cinder cones and extinct craters, but decomposed vol- canic matter makes the richests of soils. The water of the Colorado River is per- fectly clear and being melted snow is pure, cold and wholesome. There is far more than sufficient water in the river to irri- gate the whole of the Mojave Valley, of which these 200,000 acres are merely an insignificant patch, and also the entire Colorado desert, lying in the southeastern part of the State and far greater in extent than the Mojave basin. In the Colorado desert the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany owns 3,000,000 acres of land under its Government grant, half of which is irri- gable from the Colorado, and as the com- pany owns only every other section there are 1,500,000 acres of Government land that could be made fit for settlers by irrigation. In the Colorado and Mojave plains all of the finest and most expensive semi-tropic fruits could be produced, and as the soil in_ both is of marvelous fertility the yield would be enormous. ‘We shall watch the development of the Mojave undertaking with great interest and the highest of hopes for its success. The actual work of constructing this great canal will begin to-day,and it is notun- likely that we shall live to regard the day as marking one of the most important happenings in the history of the State. A PLAN FOR PROGRESS. The scheme proposed by the advisory and publication [committees of the Mer- chants’ Association, although consisting of about twenty specifications, is confined to thesc principles: First, encouragement of such enterprises as will benefit the City; second, co-operation with the City authori- ties in enforcing the laws and the faithful performance of contracts; third, keeping the City clean, and fourth, paving the streets and protecting them against injury. In addition to this the committees submit anumber of questsons to the association and the taxpayers which can receive con- sideration hereafter, Putting these aside for the present we have to consider the “‘plan for progress” proposed by the com- ‘mittees. Sty It makes no radical departure from the general understanding of the Association’s plans, but it does enlarge and expand them. The most important feature of the scheme is the ‘‘co-operation’” which it pro- Poses to establish between the Association and the City authorities. When we reflect that politics and all that ordinarily goes Wwith it are often at the bottom of the offi- cial conduct of municipal affairs and that these conditions cut no figure whatever in the organization and purposes of the Merchants’ Association, we can infer that the “plan for progress” means a good deal more than is expressed on its face. It has been out of this element of politics that the scandals and public wrongs have sprung in past years; and when we observe a_grave, strang body of responsible men politely requesting the co-operation of that element out of which the wrongs of the past have emanated we feel safe in inferring that at last the best, most intelligent and most responsible citi- zens have made ap their minds to give their City the attention which it deserves and which is necessary to its progress. 1t is not to be assumea that the associa- tion will be at all offensive in the espion- age which it is determined to exercise. The merchants fully realize that all their work to improve and beautify the City would go for nothing in the presence of a lax or corrupt administration of the laws. This plan for progress is fair notice that the Government must be hereafter admin- istered honestly and economically and that the merchants will see that it is. The dawning of a fairer time, in which good results of a far wider range than that vis- ible in the plan, is the promise that now gives us hope, and the merchants may be depended upon to bring about the happy result, A RETROSPECTION. The winding up of the Lick trust makes it timely to consider what the millionaires of California have done for their State on a scale which bears some relation to the magnificence of their fortunes. It should be remembered that James Lick was by no means as rich as a number of others, but stiil he felt able to make the following do- nations for the public benefit: Statue of Francis Scott Key, in Golden Gate Park, $60,000. Lick Observatery on Mount Hamilton, $700,000, Protestant Orphan Asylum, San Fran- cisco, $25,000. Protestant Orphan Asylum, S8an Jose, $25,000, Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society of San Francisco, $25,000. Mechanies’ Institute of San Francisco, for the purchase of scientific and mechani- cal works, $10,000. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of S8an Francisco, $10,000. 0Old Ladies’ Home of San Francisco, $100,000. Free baths on Tenth street, $150,000. School of Mechanical Arts, $540,000. Monument in City Hall Park, $100,000. These foot up $1,745,000 in hard cash. Only two other public benefactorson a magnificent scale are to be mentioned—Le- land Stanford, the estimated original value (since greatly shrunken) of whose prop- erty set aside for the Stanford University being §20,000,000, and Mr. Bearles, whose gift of the Hopkins Institute of Art hasa value of about §1,000,000. The Crocker Old Ladies’ Home is a most beneficent institu- tion, though, useful as it is, it can hardly be classed with the splendid gifts of Stan- ford, Lick and Searles. It is true that many of our millionaires are doing count- less private deeds of benevolence, and thus relieving distress and helping the strug- gling poor in the battle of life, but we are now considering those public benefactions which have a spectacular and monumental character. James G. Fair died without availing himself of the opportunity, and left an es- tate which serves as an excellent school for scandal, avarice and foguery, Flood, O’Brien, Sharon and others of their kind left only such monuments as live in the unkindly memories of men, and the heirs of their vast estates have shown them- selves worthy of their origin. Of all the bonanza kings none lives except in the shadow of his name and has left no monu- mental trace of that generous spirit which belongs so distinctively to Californians of less splendid fortunes. Nothing here is said in derogation of the great value of our millionaires in em- ploying their wealth to the building of the State, for It is really by this standard that their higher worth is to be measured. It is proper also to make allowince for the possibility of a modesty that may aeter some from so conspicuous an attitude as a great pnblic benefaction would create. Nor is it desired that the extensive private charities of these men and women should be belittled to the smallest degree, And we have in memory one deplorable case in which a millionaire’s intention to create a splendid institution for the encourage- ment of art was abandoned ina sense of outrage because of a sneering paragraph that some satirical writer flung at his head. But the fact that monumental gifts to the State and City have been confined to so few of those who areable to make them re- mains as a reproach which grows in magni- tude with the passing of time and the con- tinuous accumulation of wealth. PERSONAL. P. A. Buellof Stockton is at the Grand. A. J. Harrell, & banker of Visalia, is at the Palace. Dr. Barton Dozier of Los Angeles is a guest. at the Grand. Louis Kahn, & banker of Oskdale, is staying at the Palace. Captain F. L. Carrington, of the army, isat the California. J. W. Snyder, & capitalist of Mariposa, is stay- ing at the Lick. Silus Carle, a contractor of Stockton, iss guest at the Lick. . Dr. and Mrs. Breyfogle have returned to the Palace from Monterey. C. C. Martin, a merchant and ranch-owner of Glenwood, is at the Grand. Dr. G. A. Danziger of San Jose was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the Grand. O. P. Posey, & prominent mining man from Denver, Colo., is at the Palace. John N. Besse, a merchant of Kings City, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. W. F. Delert; superintendent of the Leila mine, in Amador County, is-at the Lick. Douglas L. V. Browne, & big mining engineer of Colorado, has returned, and is staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson and other taembers of the “Old Homestead” Company ar- rived yesterday and registered at the Russ. W. W. Douglas, Deputy State Controller, came down from Sacramento yesterday on his way to Alaska, and is registered at the Grand. A, J. Marcus of Menlo Park, who was the Traflic Association’s candidate for Railroad Commissioner in the Second District last fall, is stopping at the California. Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Miss Anthony. Miss Shaw will give her lecture on “The Fate of Republics” next Thursday evening, the 27th, at Metropolitan Temple. Miss Anthony has consented to glve a short address on ““The Present Btatus of the Suffrage Question.” Tick- ets are now on sale at Sherman & Clay's music store, corner of Sutter and Kearny si treets. Fifty cents insures admission and s reserved seat included. - There are two species of true whale. One has teeth in it§ lower jaw and the other has neane, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Since the old City Hall has been hastened in its crumbling process by the hand of man many traditions and storiesof its walls have come to light. Many of them will have weight in the history of San Francisco and many of them will die with the memory of those who held them. A CALL representative, rambling through the tumbling structure yesterday afternoon, came upon two men of the unem- ployed type, who seemed to be swapping yarns over the removal of the building. ‘“Many is the time I've been throwed in and landed downstairs with tae other blokes,” vol- unteered the last of the two, as he blew out volumes of tobacco smoke and looked thought- fully into space. “Why, say, Charley, you naven’t any idea how we used tq get chucked around by the cops in this town. If a man didn’t work sixteen hours a day and pay his polltax two years in advance he was thrown in foravag. On the dead. Ileft town onct for ‘was a forgery; sald there was some mistake somewhere, and that he would see it all right, but as the jewelers were becoming anxious he finally proposed that he give back the dia- monds and they should return the check. The diamonds were brought and, aiter belng ex- amined under a magnifying glass, were found tobe the same ones sold the day before. The check was given back, but as the jewelers turned to go the stranger pointed out that the check was useless to him with his indorsement to them on the back, unless they reindorsed it to him. This they did and departed. No sooner had they gone than the holder of the check went down to their bank, and, on the jewelry firm’s indorsement, collected the face value of the check. “It was not forgery,” concluded Mr. Barnes, “for we had no evidence to show that; it was not obtaining goods under false pretenses, for the diamonds were given back to the firm, and it wes not obtaining money under false pre- (’_, 3 AR VR — T ¢ PO YOU SEE THEM STAIRS GOING UP TO THE SECOND FLOORP?» |Sketched from life for the *“Call” by Nankivell.] three year because I couldn't get decent treat- ment. That'sright.”” “Who asked you to come back? Ever since I remember you have been living in Frisco, and I've knowed more of you than any other cove in this here town.” “That's wheze ye'r off, Charley. Iused to live here when part of this place was & gamb- ling resort, and old Sam Brannan, Curley Ho- gan, Sandy Bowers and them other mugs used to drop all the dough they had about onct a week. The Jenny Lind Theater and the Union Hotel made up the rest of the building. Why, say, I remember when they used to hold polit- ical meetings over on the plaza and a vote was good for $25. They used to put up heavy in those days, and the purity parties wasn't for- ever and eternally trying to job a voter out of afew scads with a patentvoting machine or the infernal Australian ballotlaw. Them’s the things that ruined this town. They havc made it impossible for any old timer to get along. 1 believe I'll go up North next month and strike a new town where the population have some ideas of progression. This here place is dead.” “You haven’t done a lick of work, old man, since Denis Kearney started the sand lot riots. What'cher kickingabout, anyhow? Every town is the same way. Old times have been wiped out all over the coast, and the best thing a fellow can do is to stand it and get along the best way possible. Am I right?” “Yes, if a man 1s content to wear the kind of togs you have got on now. I'mused to some style, but I’ve been a little unfortunate. That's what's the matter with me. I come from decent stock I did, and nothing’s too zood for me. That's what. I remember twenty years ago when this building was first turned into the City Hall, and there wasn't a lawyer in town who wasn't glad and willing to address me like a gentleman. I knew Broderick and Coleman and all tne rest of the gang who run things about right at that time. I had money too. Everybody had money, but I got a streak of hard luck and down -went the works. Of course when a man like me once gets down that settles it, and I couldn’t face my old friends after I got it in the neck once. Do you see them stairs going up to the second floor?” continued the sensitive man pointing to & tumbling stairway, “well, one dayIwasyanked up there and Judge Toohey give me sixty days just for pulling & few signboards down omne April Fool's day and incidentally smashing a window or two. "laint right, Charley, to start a man downhill that way, particularly & man of sentiment like me. Of course, the result was that all the Judges got a chance to do me, and even up todate I get rebuked for little eccen- tricities which injure no one but myself. Charley, don’t ever let the Police Judges get the upper hand on you. Itmeans a long life of servitude and you can never get back on your feet. Don’t lush, Charley. Here Iam, one of the best-versed meh living on local history, but Ihaven't got adollar. Bancroft, the historian, rolled in wealth, and I could give him points on himself. There is no demand for anthentic history, Charley. The people would rather read Chimmie Fadden. Let's go over to Clay street, where a man can get two giasses of beer for a nickel. Have you got a nickel?” The two old fellows locked arms and wended their way out of the ruins, perfectly satisfied that they had every secret of the City Hall cor- ridors locked up in their breasts. “One of the cleverest swindling schemes I ever heard of was successfully worked right here in this City,” said District Attorney Barnes the other day,as the lawyers in the Whiteman case sat talking together while they ‘waited for the verdict of the jury. “The case ‘was brought to my office, but try as we would we could find no charge that would fit the case and upon which there was any chance of secur- ing & conviction, The principal was a bright young man and he dropped into oneof the large jewelry-houses one day and asked to see some diamonds. He seemed particularly pleased with a pair of big solitaires, but the price, §750, seemed too much for him. ‘It's my wife’s birthday to-morrow,’ he said, ‘and I'd like to have these stones. I won't get any money until next week, and I haven't $750 now. Of course, I'm & stranger, and I sup- pose you couldn’t trust me?' The salesman said he thought not. “The would-be purchaser still fingered the stones, and then, as if struck by a bright idea, he mentioned the name of a prominentcap- italist and asked the clerk if he knew the man. The clerk said yes, the man mentioned had an account at the store. ‘I'll tell you what I'll do, then,’ said the buyer. ‘He gave me this cheek a day or two ago and I'll indorse it over te. you in payment for these diamonds,’ The check was for $1000and aftersome consultation with the heads of the firm it was decided to accept the trade and the stranger departed with his Jewels. ‘Becoming suspicious, however, the jewelers took the check to the man who was supposed to have made it, and he at once denounced it 88 a forgery. Thena hunt was commenced for the stzanger, end when found the check was handed to him and the diamonds were de- manded from him, He denied that the check tenses, because the note indorsed to the firm was voluntarily indorsed back again. We could not hold him on any charge, and he went free, while the firm paid the amount of the check.” PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. George W. Meh!;llion of St.Louis can repeat the whole of the Bible word for word. Hieronymous Lorm, the famous poet, phi- losopher end critic, of Germany, is totally plind. One of the remarkable characteristics of Pope Leo’s 01d age is his singularly accurate memory for events long past. At the Schiller Theater in Berlin Frau Agnes Wollenhaupt celebrated on May 16 the fiftieth anniversary of her first appearance as an actress, : Abraham H. Cavender of St. Paul, now nearly 80 years of age, is living on the exact spot where he settled forty-seven years ago, when there were only five American families in the place. Princess Nazle of Egypt, who is regarded as the most enlightened and progressive of Egyp- tian women, has interested herself in a project to exhibit work of . the women of Egypt at the coming Atlanta exposition. Krupp, the gun manufacturer, pays an in- come tax of $200,000 a year. But the brewer and alcohol manufacturer, Marinesco Bragadir, &t Bucharest, leaves him far in the lurch, for he pays 1,651,241 francs a year in taxes. The Rockefellers never cared mucn about showing off to the public. The whole family would rather stay at home and fiddle. They are musicians, all of them, and could bring out a family orchestra that would astonish Seial. Sir Walter Besant got many a cordial cheer at the monthly dinner of the Authors’- Cub in London recently. He said that until Lord Rosebery wrote him, saying many kind things about his alleged services to literature, he had no suspicion he was to be given a knighthood. Nazr Ullah Kahn, the Afghan Ameer’s son, is rather light of complexion for an Oriental. His face is not darker than the Shah’s. He is rather a gorgeous figure in his uniform, with its gold-embroidered eoat, blue sash and blue and black astrakhan caftan. Gold stripes set oft his trousers and he wears gold spurs on his patent-leather boots. Henry Irving acted in “Don Quixote” on the evening of the day on which it became known that he had been knighted. When Maria in the play says to the hero, “But you have not beén knighted!” the audience rose and cheered, and toward the end of the play, where he says, “Knighthood sits like a halo round my head,” the play had again to be stopped for several minutes till the house quieted down. ——e SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. One—You huven'::_slugle reason why you won't join' our club. Tother—Perhaps not, but I have a married reason.—Detroit Free Press, Mrs. Skim—Do your boarders pay promptly? Mrs. Syre—They did at first. Mrs, Skim—Why don’t they now? Mrs. Syre—They have got so fat they ean’t get their hands in their pockets.—Harper's Bazar. ® “They’s nothing like takin’ thin, - naturedly,” said Meandering Mike. i “Yes,” said Ploddin’ Pete, “thet’s my way o’ doin’. Whenever I takes things I allus lots the tolks as owns ’em do the gettin’*mad.”—Wash- ington Star. Miss Milton (of uncertain age)—The only thing that worries meis the wedding tour. It will be perfectly horrible to have ‘people know— Miss Rosebud (viciously)—Ob, don't worry. They'll think “you're his mother.—New York Weekly. 01d Gentleman—Do you think, sir, that you are able to support my daughter without continually hovering on the verge of bank- ruptey? Suitor—Oh, yes, sir, I am sure I can. 01d Gentleman—Well, that's more than I can do. Take her and be happy.—Exehange. “Why, father,” cried the young man earnest- 1y, “she’s worth her weight in gold.” at may be,” the millionaire carefully re- turned, “but even in that case you will bear in mind she wouldn't foot up above thirty-five or forty thousand dollars.”—Rockland Tribune, ‘“This is & very good story,” said the manag- ing editor, “and I woula recommend its accept- ance but for one thing:" “Name your objections.” ““It 18 by an entirely unknown writer, and I amafrald if it is published that he will be tempted to tell the world, in another article, how he happened to write it.”—Judge, | THE LEAGUE BOYS' PLEDEE, Fifty-Four of Them Promise to Refrain From In- toxicants UNTIL TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD. A Large Gathering Witnesses the Ceremony of Administration at National Hall. The clank of sabers and the ring of com- mands raised the echoes of the National Hall on Ellis street yesterday afternoon, for the League of the Cross, headed by three of the cadet companies, had taken possession and dedicated the hall for the afternoon to the uses of the order. The occasion was a grand rally of the Fourth Division of the League of the Cross, and in addition to the league mem- bers there was a sufficient number of their friends and supporters to fill the hall be- yond its seating capacity. It was essen- tially an afternoon of enthusiasm. and the center of it all was fifty-four young tem- perance advocates who were about to take the pledge of the organization. There were present 406 members of the organization, distributed as follows: Fr(?m St. Marv’s Cathedral, 121; from St. Brid- get’s parish, 105; from Holy Cross, 79; from Sacred Heart, 56, and from St. Francis, 45. The roll was read from the platform and was greeted with applause commensurate with the attendance. The cadets, in full un iform, cccupied front seats; surround- ing them came the other members of the league, and filling the back seats and gal- lery and crowding all aisles were those whose sympathies and interests led them to be present and to applaud. The ieague hymn “Veni Creator,” sung by the audience, opened the proceedings, or, as Father Yorke said, it was the open- ing prayer. Thomas H. Fallon, president of the executive committee, introduced as the residing genius oi the afternoon Grand President James Gilday, who took charge of the programme, A song, *‘Hear the Call,”” by the boy choir of the cathedral, was the first num- ber rendered. Then followed Mrs. Alfina Wilson, who as Miss Alvina Heuer, has often charmed fashionable gatherings of San Francisco people: She sang “My Pretty Marquise,” and was enthusiastic- ally applauded. 8, J. Sandy sang I Fear No Foe,” and for an encore, “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” Fred Knell gave a violin solo, and D. I. Mahony was in- troduced. Mr. Mahony spoke principally of the objects of the league, and dwelt particu- ]urlf’ ufin the most potent weapon which could used against it—ridicule. But those who yielded to such an argument as ridicule, he said, were the weak in intel- lect; and. those, even in the eyes of the ones ridiculing, were held in_contempt. “The man who_ remains firm in his prin- ciples,” he said, “is honored, even in the eyes of the scoffer.” He entreated the boys to remain true to their pledge, for he said it would benefit them mentally, morally and physica.'; and with the example of each other before them, and banaed togetlier by a common tie, there should be no fear of any break- ing the pledge so solemn as that admin- istered to them. Miss Annie Taylor then gave a recita- tion. Hines followed with some comie songs. Father-J. P: Yorke spoke briefly, and like his predecessor, Mr. Mahony, re- ferred principally to the effects of ridicule upon those who had and those who were about to take the pledge. “The man who would be turned from his duty by a sneer,” he said, “‘was not fit to take the pledge. The boys must be strong and stand by one another, and allow no slurs to be cast upon the organization to which they belong or the promise they have made.” The boys who had not taken the pledge were then called to the front, and 54 re- sponded. The members of the league were requested to stand and renew their pledge with the novices, and in the presence of all the oath—for oath it was—was admin- istered. Each boyish right hand was raised, each boyish voice repeated the promise to abstain from intoxicants and discourage their use, and each boy blessed himself after the form of the church, in ratification of the vow he haa made. Father Yorke reminded them that the pledge lasted until each was 21 years old, and that even if they broke it once the pledge was still in force, for nothing could release it until the time expired. The gath- ering then broke up, and so successful was it considered that similar events will be made a feature of the league. CARNOT'S MEMORIAL, Impressive Anniversary Services Held in Honor of France's Dead Presi- dent at the French Church. Anniversary services in honor of the late French President, Sadi Carnot, were held yesterday in the Church of Notre Dame des Victoires, on’Bush street, near Stock- ton. Father Audiffred read the addressand Father Rousselon assisted as master of ceremonies, A solemn requiem mass was celebrated. Grand and appropriate music was rendered by La Lyre Francaise. The church was draped in mourning, and sus- pended from the galleries were numerous French and American flags. At the head of the catafalque was a fine plaster cast of i,il'ig murdered President, sarrounded with ies. The altar was elegantly decorated under the direction of Mrs. Bluxome. Fourteen altar boys attended at the services. The French colony was well represented. Among the congregation were the French Consul, Mr. De Lalande, President Sylvain Weill of the French Hospital and a special committee representing the organization of which he isthe president. A committee from the French Ladies’ Benevolent So- ciety was also present. ——————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * —————— GE0. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* g Sl CREAM mixed candies, 25¢ Ib, Townsend's.* — . PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. . e WINE-DRINKING people are healthy., M. & K, wines, 5ca glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 20 Mkt.* e Ocean Excursions, Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- days, 5 A. M. 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