The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$6 per year bymail; by earrler, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL 0 per yea The Fastern oflice 0f the SAN FRANCISCO GALL (Daily and Weekly), Facific States Adver- tising u, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New Yor) THE SUMMER MONTHS. you going to the country on a vacation ? If is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to vraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will . Orders given to the carrier, or left at , 710 Market street, will receive Are A famine is the next calamity that Cuba must face. Will the Primrose League ing at the Rose wear mourn- A lottery ticket is worth just about as much as an exploded firecracker. It has been almost a month since the Jast star fell at Mount Hamilton. The nearer we get to the end of Cleve- land’s term the better the times become. Have you made your contribution yet to the fund for the celebration of the Fourth of July? We have not observed that any of the s have recorded the popu- larity of the almanac. The dispatch of the Atlanta to Havana is a tardy recognition of the fact that Ameri- icans have interest in Cuba. Georgia promises to send the Northern Btates 6000 carloads of watermelons this summer to help them through the heated spell. It is said that if it were not for the whisky plank it would be im possible to tell the Prohibitionists in Ohio from the Popu- lists this year. The famous soup made out of the shadow of a chicken was thick and rich in comparison with the nutriment you get with a lottery ticket. When San Francisco opens a broad con- ous driveway along the Golden Gate d the ocean she will have a boulevard that will be a world beater. Santa Clara County’s fruit and wine ex- hibit, which is wheeling railroadwise through the Eastern States, is creating more enthusiasm than a circus. Between the Kentucky wit of Watterson and the metropolitan sarcasm of Dana, Democ has reason to make a daily prayer to be saved from its friends. Before the discu: n of a third term for Cleveland goes any further it might be as well tosinquire whether there is any man in the country who would vote for him. All the exhibits of pavements and pay- ing material which are to be made at the Mechanies’ Fair should be turned over to the State University for a scientific and practical study of their merits. ‘Were it not for the bogy man who is al- ways dragooning California for filibusters to overturn the Hawaiian Government, there would be little to do hereabout ex- cept work to build up California. St. Louis has still a line of streetcars in the center of the city drawn by mules, and tire people try to persuade visitors they keep it simply to get strangers to ask ques- tions and take an interest in the town. There are some sanguine optimists who e before the century runs out the empire in Europe will be dismem- bered, and in China every obstruction will be removed from the path of civilization. If there are any ambitious sections of California tifat are not preparing to ¢on- struct electric roads for the delivery of farm products to main lines of transportation, they will please stand up and explain what is the matter. France has produced a genius who de- clares that, as gold to the value of a half million dollars is consumed annually in America in the industry of teeth-filling, the future gold mines of this country will be our cemeterie Chicago insists that her drainage canal will not injure other cities on the lakes, but Secretary Keep of the Lake Carriers’ Asso- stimates the lowering of the water rivers and harbors will entail a loss igation of over $500,000 a year. Chairman Gould of the Democratic State Central Committee wants it distinctly un- derstood that the California Democracy must wait fora sign from what he terms the “‘great leaders” of the party before it cracks the firmament with a silver yell. The next thing we know prospecting for gold in California will be done by powerful machinery which shall have an eye able to see far below the surface, and thus capital will effect the same revolution in prospect- ing that it has brought about in mining. The manager of the Boston Theater made a ten-strike at a matinee by offering & pair of diamond-studded slippers as a prize to any woman in the audience who could wear them, and now a Chicago man is going to try it, presumably with a pair of flat boats. Chicago complains that the Lake States have been having hot stuff every day since the end of May, whereas the region of the magnolia has been deliciously cool, re- freshed by abundant and frequent rains, with now and then a delicate, barely per- ceptible pinch of frost in the air. In a recent contest in Franoe, between various forms of road vehicles propelled by gas or electricity, one of them made a dis- tance of 750 miles in forty-eight hours over the ordinary roads of the country, and sev- eral others' did nearly as well. Between vehicles of this kind and bicycles, the horse is liable to be put off of everything in the world except a racetrack and a cir- cus, ‘While 8an Bernardino is exulting over the guess that the Southern Pacific will shorten the Sunset route a hundred miles, by leaving the main line at Mojave and cutting through Swarthout Canyon to San Berpardino and Crafton and re-entering the main line at Banning, it forgets both that Los Angeles is nota safe placeto leave off the overland lineand that the Southern Pacific is preparing to strengthen the posi- tion of Los Angeles on the main line by closing the Santa Margarita gap and run- ning a short coast line from Santa Barbara 10 Santa Monica. 4 A PROBLEM FOR PRODUCERS. The Cavrw yesterday published a dispatch from Sacramento which seems to be dis- couraging to our peach-growers this year. It is to the effect that by reason of the heavy peach crop in Georgia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, California can- not compete with the Eastern market in peaches, and accordingly growers are ad- vised to dry their peaches or sell them to the canneries on the best available terms. The situation is made all the graver by the fact that the freight rate on peaches from Georgia te Chicago is only 57 cents, while it is $1 25 from.San Francisco. In view of the fact that the Southern Pacific has been making extraordinary preparations for the transportation of our peaches we shall await the results of a fuller investigation before accepting the announcement from Sacramento as a final statement of the situation. Nevertheless it is well to consider such a possibility, as it may arise at any time in the case of fruits of the standard kinds which the East can produce. While we believe that the best ultimate results of horticulture in California are to be secured in the production of fruits which cannot be produced in the East, the very large in- vestment which we already have in or- chards devoted to staple fruits in which the East can compete with us requires us to meet the conditions of this competition. There are three ways in which this may be done. One is for the transportation companies so to adjust their rates as to favor these classes of fruits. Another is to develop to a still higher degree by intensive methods ot cultivation both the yield and quality of the fruit. As yet this feature of the industry has not re- ceived due attention. One phase of it would be to market in the East only the very choicest fruits, thus making competi- tion in these higher grades impossible. Experience has already shown that supe- rior fruits of any kind, whether staple or fancy, bring a price so much larger in the Eastern market than the same fruits of or- dinary quality as to justify their produc- tion and shipment under any circum- stances of competition. The third is the establishment of com- panies which will receive dried fruit for warchouse storage and issue certificates agawnst it which may become marketable paver. This is suggested on the assump- tion that there may be many growers who cannot afford to keep their fruit after dry- ing, but are forced to sell it without regard to considerations of profit or of market rates. Such a scheme has been discussed before, particularly with regard to wine, but under the recent combination among wine-growers, which secures an excellent profit, the plan is no longer a necessity. Such a combination among dried-fruit men cannot be made to produce a similar re- sult, for the reason that it would not elim- inate competition with Eastern dryers. ELEOTRICAL PROGRESS. One of the most important lines upon which the development of California is proceeding is seen in the projection of nu- merous electric roads nearly all over the State. Thisdoes not refer to lines con- structed for passenger traffic alone, but to those intended for the delivery of farm products at central points of consumption and distant transportation. Among the very latest announcements of these pro- jects is one of a line from Oakland through Moraga Valley to Livermare Valley, tak- ing in the rich fruit belt lying along the western base of the Coast Range in Ala- meda County. This will not only relieve the highly productive regions of Pleasan- ton and Livermore of the Southern Pacific monopoly, but will greatly shorten the distance and time between them and the bay of San Francisco. Sacramento is preparing to bold an elec- trical carnival, which will be a striking il- lustration of the wisdom of utilizing the water power of the mountains for the gen- eration of electricity. This power is gen- erated by dynamos run by the water of the American River, which has been dammed at Folsom Prison by the labor of that institution. Particularly in view of the high cost of fuel in California and the consequent expense of steam power, Sac- ramento will be enabled by the electrical power sent from Folsom to run her street- cars, light her streets’ and houses, and have power for light machinery at a small cost, which will give her an important ad- vantage over the other cities of the State and which will operate to her greater pros- perity and growth. No matter how many railroads may come to traverse the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, the main lines must al- ways run lengthwise the valleys and there must always be wide transverse distances over which products must be hauled to the railroads. Not only doall green fruits suf- fer injury from wagon transporfation, but the method is slow and expensive as well. It seems most providential, therefore, that the mountains contain vast stores of water power, which can be converted into electrical energy for the transportation of farm produce. These roads cost much less for building, equipment and operation than steam roads, and the rare and fortu- nate circumstance that the rivers of Cali- fornia do not freeze in the winter makes it possible to operate the roads every day in the year, This would be impossible in the Eastern States. Such roadsin Cali- fornia would constantly increase the area of accessible rich fruit lands and keep prices down, besides opening great stores of lumber and firewood in the mountains. NOT IMPOSSIBLE. The San Francisco Argus, while com- mending the spirit which animates the Civic Federation in declaring war against the lottery evil, discourages all attempts at action by asserting the impossibility of achieving anything. Of the recommenda- tion of the Grand Jury that the Legislature make it a felony to aid, abet or take part in the lottery business it says: “Of course no attention will be paid to this. It takes money to have such a bill passed by the California Legislature, and the Federation is opposed to boodling.” After further argument it concludes by saying: “The Argus would like to see every person en- gaged in the lottery business punished as they deserve—not only the managers and ticket agents, but their protectors, the police; but it is not probable that such a thing will ever be done. Not that there is not sufficient law to do this, but because there is no power to enforce the law.” We regret that a journal like the Argus has taken this tone in dealing with the subject. Of course nothing will be done 1if nothing is attempied, and equally of course few people will make an at- tempt where there is no hope of success. It avails little to denounce lotteries if at the same time it is declared to be impos- sible to suppress them. We take issue, moreover, withthe Argus on the question of this alleged impossibility. It does not require **boodle” to pass a law through the California Legislature when a wide- spread and determined public opinion de- mands the law. Nor is it true ““there is no power to enforce the law.” Republican law can be made as effective as that of a monarchy if the people will it so and in- sist on its enforcement by the officials whom they elect. The whole problem is simply one of educating public opinion and rousing the popular will. If our contemporaries would heartily unite with the Cavir in aiding the Civic Federation in the contest we are sanguine a fair measure of success would soon be attained. Even without their aid, however, we are certain the evil can be suppressed. The CALL is not en- gaged in a vain task. It sees a prospect of victory ahead, and will continue to fight earnestly, persistently and hopefully to attain it. DANA AND DEMOORAOY. Mr. Dana has recently declared that what the Democratic party needs most is the formulation of a platform that will not imply a defense of the Cleveland adminis® tration. This want sounds simple enough, but on consideration it will be found diffi- cult to supply. It would impose upon the party a platform of repentance, confession, apology, retraction, repudiation, with pledges of atonement and earnest en- treaties to be allowed to depart frem the field of politics into the realm where for- giveness blends with forgetfulness and the sins of the past are to be recalled no more. Democracy, indeed, cannot shake itself free from Clevelandism, because Cleve- landism at this time is the very marrow of its backbone. It is true that most of the leaders of the party do not agree with Cleveland, but no more ao they agree with one another. The greatest leader of the party in the Mississippi Valley is Vest, and in the South is Morgan, but Dana could not agree with the one on the tariff nor with the other on the silver question. To depart from Clevelandism, therefore, is for the party to depart into the wilderness, and in the absence of any Moses to guide them or any assurance of a promised land beyond, even the most impatient Demo- crats may well hesitate at the prospect. Before Mr. Dana undertakes to supply the simple wants of his party he had better study the words of Henry Watterson and learn something of the difficulty of the task. The sage of the Courier-Journal has informed the Democratic leaders of Ken- tucky that ‘“the course of National de- velopment is upon the ascending and not the descending scale, and no fast and loose, catch as you can, go as you please, slobbery, jobbery concern—half sport and half tramp —with Cameron in the lead and Vest to bring up the rear, with Morgan to furnish the learning and Jones to fill the basket, Colorado point the moral and South Carolina to'adorn the tale, can ever swallow Democrats enough to carry the day and lower the flag.” Mr. Dana should ponder over these words. If a Democratic platform that did not imply a defense of the only adminis- tration the party has had since the war would not be a “fast and loose, go as you please, slobbery, jobbery concern,” what would it be? Democracy is bound to Clevelandism by those bonds irrefrangible and not to be loosened which forever bind the future to the past. He who would escape responsibility for the administra- tion must flee the party that made the ad- ministration possible. A new politics is at hand in this country. The conservative elements South as well as North and West are gathering into the Republican ranks, while the radicals, the discontented, the fanatics and visionaries are going over to the Populists. Democracy has no longer a place in the logic of the sitnation, and since it cannot escape the responsibility of the administration the only eourse left is to die with it. INGALLS' DISAPPOINTMENT. Ex-Senator Ingalls of Kansas has re- cently made public a confession of his bitter disappointment when defeated for the Senate four years ago, and in doing so has given an account of the manrer in which he met the trial that is not only in- teresting as a part of the mental history of a distinguished man, but contains a lesson which may be studied by everybody to whom disappointments come who have the heart to meet them with courage and dignity. Ingalls says he saw that the tide of pub- lic sentiment had set in against the Re- publican party in 1890, and, as he was a candidate for re-election by the Legislatare to be chosen that year, he had forebodings of coming defeat. Nevertheless he made the contest for Republicanism in Kansas as vigorously as he could, putting his whole heart as well as all his energies into the fight. In the earnestness of the combat hope rose within him, and he began to believe that victory after all might be with him. When the returns came in, however, he saw that he was hopelessly beaten and that his career in the Senate was to be closed with the coming session. That was his bitterest hour, and this is how he bore it. “Iwent,” he says, ‘‘over to my pasture and walked through the withered wood. There in a little grassy glade sheltered from the autumnal breeze, thé sun shining coldly down, 1 opened the window of my spirit and let that whole thing in on me and commanded my fortitude. I sat there in that little dell until the struggle was over—until I was master of myself— until I could tali of it with the same com- posure as of Napolean’s Waterloo. I never had a pang after that. Even when the gavel sounded the adjournment of the Senate at noon March 4, 1891, and made me a private citizen, the pages bidding me good-by, the struggle of that autumn day in the wood did not return., When I left the Senate I had no resentment.” There is a literary beauty in thaf pas- sage which will not escape the reader. The example which it sets before men, how- ever, is of more importance than the grace of style. To every man and woman in the world there come grievous disappoint- ments in their dearest hopes. Wise are they whoat such times can go off with their sorrows to kind Mother Nature, and amid ber woods open the spirit, letting all bitterness go forth from it forever, and, returning home, find no feeling of resent- ment leit. Ingalls has been generally re- garded as a man of great bitterness of spirit and intense resentments, This pic- ture shows him in a new light, and reveals the real man as something gentler, better and nobler even than he had appeared in his career of political success. ——— e D0 A PECULIAR CONTEMPT. Recently a Los Angeles newspaper re- porter “‘played crazy” in order 6 be com- mitted to an insane asylum so that he might “write it up.” Superior Judge Clark, upon learning of the fraud prac- ticed or attempted upon him, had the enterprising young man haled before him, and, finding him guilty of contempt of court, sentenced him to pay a fine of $200 or serve 100 days in jail. This is the first time we have ever ob- served the courts to take cognizance of this species of fraud, and we are proud that it is a California court that has set the example, for it is time that this offensive form of bogus sensational journalism re- ceived a check. It is conceivable that key- hole journalism has discovered and exposed many wrongs, for there are some mnotable cases on record, particularly with regard to insane asylums, whose management makes outrages possible and whose evils are difficult of detection by ordinary means. But the bad features of the case are that the newspapers which resort to such practices almost invariably publish £ross exaggerations in order to justify their course, are generally so sensational that their ‘‘exposures’ rarely are believed, and are given to practices of their own which make their pretense of a desire to expose and punish evil a screaming burlesque on justice and consistency. Even though they happen now and then to come rear the truth the very means which they adopt to secure their news and their general policy, of which this sort of underhand work is a part, make it impossible for the community to believe that they are moved by high motives in these particular lines of work. It is pleasing to observe that this kind of journalism is becoming obsolete. There are better ways of reforming abuses than this, and no newspaper can resort to these methods without losing more in weight and dignity than it gains by such a show of “enterprise.” There are many nobler ways in which enterprise may be exhib- ited. PERSONAL. W. P, Edwards of Peteluma was in the City yesterday. P. H. Knapp, a banker of Napa, is a guest at the Palace. E. A. Mott Smith of Boston s registered at the Occidental. C. A. Mackintosh of Honolulu is staying at the Occidental Hotel. 8. E. Damon of Honolulu registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. G. G. Kimball, a merchant of Red Bluff, regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. United States' Marshal Baldwin and family returned yesterday from Lake Tahoe. Joseph Hall, a prominent wool-buyer of Nor- wich, Conn., is registered at the Grand Hotel. G. Bustelli, a wine-grower of Livermore, ar- rived in the city yesterday and is at the Grand. 'W. L. Pritchard, a stock-raiser of Sacramento, came to town last evening and put up at the Grand. B. C. Holly, a well-known stock-raiser of So- lano County, registered at the Grand Hotel vesterday. Howland Twombly of Newton and James Bishop Thomas of Cambriage, Mass., are guests at the Occidental, Charles E! Davis, Indian Agent at the Colo- rado River agency, is in San Francisco sojourn- ing at the Grand Hotel. 2 Miss Jean Davidson,dsughter of the well- known real estate man, has gone on a visit to friends in South Dakota. ! Dr. Perley, U. 8. A., who has been taking a special course in the use of anti-toxine at Johns Hopkins Universidy, will return to San Fran- cisco in a few days. Captain Weber, formerly of the steamship Zeslandia, arrived from the Orient last Mon- day and is living at the Palace. He will visit the Yosemite Valley with a party of friends. General James A. Williamson and wife of ‘Washington, D. C., are registered at the Palace. They are travelling for rest and pleasure and will sojourn in California for two or three weeks. C. M. Stolp, & well-known insurance man of this City, returned from tbe East day before yesterday. He says that business prospects are brightening on the other side of the conti- nentand predicts a wave of prosperity which will extend to the Pacific Coast. . SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The only obstacle to the rapid progress of the Vallay road at present seems to be the difii- culty that is experienced in getting the rights of way from San Joaquin County farmers. The rails are all ready, the ties purchased, the money on hand and lots of men anxious for work. It is becoming evident that when it comes to building roads or encouraging others in building, it is one thing to talk and an- other to act. Some men cannot neglect an op- portunity to work a cinch every time they get & chance.—Fresno Expositor. If the cranks and the self-seeking politicians could be kept quiet for & while there seems to be little doubt that the country would enter upon a long period of commercial and indus- triel prosperity. Agitation of any kind is tobe deprecated just now. What the people need is the most diligent attention to legitimate busi- ness, and not harangues from cranks and office-seekers.—San Jose Herald. Gold has to be nailed downlto keep it in the United States 1reasury and yet there is no free coinage of silver, nor has there been for two years todriveit out. The argument of the gold monometallists that the free coinage of silver will drive gold from the country falls to the ground. Gold could not fly from our treas- ury more rapidly under any circumstances.— Phonix (Ariz.) Herald. The hubbub about a constitutional amend- ment to admit of an income-tax law will amount to but very little. Taxes of any sort {rom the people to run the Government when a well-managed and properly scheduled pro- tective tariff will do it and give us a surplus to play with, are, or should be, unconstitutional. —Wheatland Four Corners. A free-trade contemporary brags because a farmer of its acquaintance saved $25 on grain bags bought by him for hiscrop. But what shall it profit such a man if he save three cents on the sack itself and lose a dollar on the con- tents of the sack ? That is about the difference between protection and free trade.—Bakers- field Californian, The best honesty in the world is that which is intelligent enough to recognize that taking something from others without consideration gives others liberty to take something from fit. Honesty is self-building; taking, or theft, is self-destructive. The honest man is a lifter; the dishonest one is & leaner.—East Oregonian. During the last decade there was an increase of 268 per cent in the female industrial army. Over 4,000,000 women and girls are now em- ployed in this country. There is hardly any- thing that the New Woman does mot invade. What will become of the Old Man?—Los Ang- eles Record. Senator Hill recently expressed the opinion that “itis time for the Democratic party to geton its mettle.” That’s what the Democratio party 18 trying todo; but itappears to be rather difficult for the party to determine which metal it shall be.—Los Angeles Times. From time immemorial the creditor class has been devising schemes to make the debtor class less able to meet its obligations. That is one reason why the creditor class is espousing the cause of gold.—Los Angeles Exvress. » The next President of the United States will make of his administration a success if he will throw aside the idea that it musi be a thor- oughly personally conducted effair.—Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. Reform, social or governmental, is all right enough, provided it does not first emanate from those who stand most in need of reform themselves.—Los Angeles Pheenix. Yes, anything to pulverize the silurian. One vicious man in a community can ao more harm than two dozen good men can remedy.— Willows Review. e e PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who recently celebrated her 84th birthdav, is said to be in good health physically, and, like Queen Vie- toria, is particularly fond of outdoor life. The corporation of the Columbian University of Washington has decided to offer the presi- dency of that {nstitution to Rev. B. L. Whit- man, now president of Colby University in Maine, Sergeant-at-arms Erstine of the House of Commons has never been kuown to smiie ‘when Parliament was sitting, even when the House was in'a roar and the Speaker himself forced to laugh, Outside of the House he en- joysa joke as well as anybody. Professor W, C. 0. Jacques, president of the only distinctively art school for colored people, expects to make a large and creditable art ex- hibit in the negro building at the Cotton States < and International Exposition. The art departs ment of the State University of Louisville, Ky., will also make a display of art work by colored arti: SUFPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “Papa, do lawyers tell the truth?” “Certainly, my boy; they will do anything to win their case.”—Danville Breeze. She—You mustn't forget that we are en- gaged. He—There’s no danger. I haven’t paid for the ring yet.—Liie. When you are talking with your girl at the telephone it is needless for you to smile, as she cannot possibly see it.—Boston Courier. “I don’t think it's right,” said the horse, “while we have to work hard all day, those hens over there are allowed tc lay around as much as they please.”—Boston Courier. First Sojourner—Do you always get your meals on time here? Second Sofourner—Yes; I have to till some of my friends show up. I'm deucedly glad to see you.—Boston Courier. First Baby (to itself)—I wish mamma an’ papa wouldn’t weke me up a tissin’ each other. Last Baby (years later)—I wish mamma an’ papa wouldn’t wake me up a jawin' at each other.—New York Weekly. Mrs. Brownstone—I should think you would feel afraid, living way off here in the country, with 80 many tramps about. Mrs. Meadow —Well, I am, sometimes. I s’pose you don’t have tramps in the eity. Mrs. Brownstone — No, indeed. We have nothing to fear but the police.—New York Weekly. «“Now, sir,” said the professor of medicine, ‘“you may tell me to what class of maladies in- somnia belongs.” “Why-er—" replied the indolent youth. “It’s & contagious disease.” “I never heard it so described. Where did you learn of this?" “From experience. Whenever my neigh- bor’s dog can’t sleep, I'm just as wakeful as he is.”—Washington Star. 'T0 WORK PLACER MINES How Hundreds of the Unem- ployed May Be Furnished With Work. E. L FITZGERALD'S SCHEME A Big Order for Men Placed in the Labor Bureau by a Fresno Contractor. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has taken a new departure in the interests of the many hundred unemployed in this City and State. He proposes to make miners out of hundreds who are now | standing around idle and waiting for an opportunity to make an honest dollar. His free labor bureau will not be opened for business until July 15. By that timea large number who employ farm and orchard help will have secured all the men | they want. Through various sources there | are already fully 7000 applications for | | places filed at the Labor Bureau at 215 | Sansome street. While Mr. Fitzgerald has had assurances from many employers that | they will call upon hinx for their help, still the number wanted is far below the nunr ber of those who want work. | Mr. Fitzgerald has been puzzling his | brain as to what he will do with the sur- lus. In gathering labor statistics he earned that there are 8000 Chinese coolies | making good wages working in the placer | mines In the foothills. They make all the | way irom $150 to $7 a day, according to | The “typewriter dip”—for young ladies of uncer- tain age and business proclivities. attaches. STYLES IN (From Harper's Bazar.) The “what-willeyou-have” style — for salesmen, clerks and soda-water The “Paderewski brace”—very | popular with pienists and | tragedians. BICZCLING. SHIPPING FLOUR BY SEA That Method of Transportation Will Be Resumed This Year. A Prosperous Season Anticlpated. Sperry Mills Begin to Grind To-Day. There is apparently no longer any reason for the California wheat-growers to look glum and feel blue over their prospects of doing fairly well with the present year’s crop. The Fair wheat deal has passed through its Waterloo, and with the sigh of relief which was given with that announce- ment it is safe to include a long-drawn breath of hope that prosperity’s sun is about to throw its warmest beams around them. ‘With the breaking up of the Fair deal it was supposed that dark days would come to the growers here with the flooded mar- ket. Butat the right moment the East- ern market fell into line with advanced prices, and the purchasers of the syndicate wheat were in a position to make advan- tageous terms for almost every pound of the wheat which came into their hands. They had secured unto themselves all the available shipping, and were thus enabled to move the greater rt of the wheat away from the State, It was this move- ment that saved the growers for the com- ing season. The stored-up holdings, rep- resenting the shattered ambition of a speculative ring, were removed from com- petition with the new crop. _ The good feeling of better times coming is not confined to the growers alone, either. Among the millers and grain manipulators of the City mart thereis an exuberant tendency, which augurs well for the future of the wheat market. In fact, on ’change yesterday there was little hesi- tation among brokers and othersin ad- mitting that a mild boom is coming all along the line. As an indication of this feeling came the announcement that the Starr Flouring- mills at South Vallejo would begin active operations this morning. There are two large mills included in the plant, ana George W. McNear stated that one of the mills would be run to its full capacity and the other would turn out all that was needed over that until the new wheat came in, when it, too, would be run to its full extent. ““The prospects for the coming year I consider exceptionally good,” said Mr. McNear in apenkinfi of the starting up of his mill, *“especially in the flour trade. Everything points that way now. We will start up one of our mills to its full capacity to-morrow and keep it running through the season. When the new wheat comes in our other mill will also be run at the same pressure. ‘‘The market just now is in a most ad- vantageous condition for vhe millers of this State. Heretofore, the millers in the middle West have had the best of us. They have had better shipping rates, and as competitors we were getting the worst of it. Now with wheat at its present advanced price in the Bast we are in a splendid condition to hold our own. Con- tracts have already been made at good prices and others “will come. Shipping will be resumed by the Horn route. On account of the Eastern competition this mode of shipment was abandoned last year, but now it will boom again. *‘Of course there is no available shipping now, as it is engaged for the wheat ship- ments, but there s _plenty of tonnage on the way, and within two months, when flour sh!lgments are ready, we will have all the lpgin we want. No, I do not anticipate high charters, nor do I think there will be any material advance in the vrice of flour. The latter, though, will de- pend upon the wheat market. The Euro- pean demand promises to be exceptionally good this year, There will be nothing to interfere with the new crop. It will come u%;m a particularly clean market.” . H. Hausman, who for years has been well known in the flour business in this City, will take charge of the Starr Mills and look after affairs generally for Mr. McNear, e Chief Sullivan’s Warning. As a precaution against fires on orabout July 4 the Chief Engineer desires to notify all property-owners and occupants of buildings to remove from and about their premises any shavings, hay, straw, litter, rubbish or other combustible materiel therefrom, and to keep their garden-hose connected with the water 1faucet, ready for immediate use. the location, and new g}acers are being discovered every day. any rich finds | have been made in places skimmed over years ago by white miners who were anxious to make fortunes in a short time and who did not think anything short of | $20 a day worth bothering with. | ‘‘These coolies are making money and doing it without capital or previous ex- | perience, why cannot the white man do the same?” remarked Mr. Fitzgerald. “It will cost but little to get a tent, blanket and a few simple tools. Several organiza- tions interested in the unemployed are willing to lay out a few dollars in this di rection, and I am sure that it will be a pay:- ing venture both to the organizations and to those now out of work. Men living in | the City with their families could not put in a few months to better advantage. I | will try and arrange for their transporta- tion to the placer mines.” He said that in many of the foothill counties, such as Calaveras, Butte, Trinity, Tuolumne and Shasta, there are many {ree claims that can be worked. In many places where the land is owned by farmers the miners can _secure claims by paying a royalty or by dividing the gains wit¥l the | land-owner ‘on a percentage basis. That there is still plenty of money to be made in placer mines is’ shown by the returns from Placer County. Lastyearthe Chinese mined out $391,660 in gold by the pan_and rocker. The returns from other localities are just as good, and no Chinese placer- miner ever throws up his job. In order to learn where the available placer mines are located and the best methods for their being worked Mr. Fitz- gerald has put Deputy E. M. Greene to work gathering statistics on this line. Mr. Greene gathered considerable information irom the Mint and State Mining Bureau. In a week or so he will visit the favorable localities and make arrangements with the land-owners 5o that those who will be sent to work the mines will have only to begin operations. By working out this idea the Labor Com- missioner hopes to dispose of and provide for all of the unemployed who cannot get work in mills, farms, orchards and harvest fields. The cost of the experiment will be small compared with the benefits to be de- rived if it proves successful. Mr. Fitzgerald yesterday received his first order for men.” One of the largest con- tractors in the State recently noticed in the CALL Mr. Fitsgerald's appeal to em- ployers to patronize the free white labor bureau when help is wanted, and he called upon the Commissioner yesterday. He said: “I will take 200 of your men as soon as the burean opens on July 15. I will probably increase my order to 500 before August 1, as 1 have a big irrigation canal contract in Fresno. Heretofore I have had to rely on the employment offices and every man I hired cost some one from $2 to $4 for commission. I will help you all I canin this matter and I am employing men all the time. I don’t want my name mentioned, as I do not want men impor- tuning me_for work until I get ready for business. I want to be the first patron of :zl::nh;":c bureau and I will want to pick the Mr. Fxtzgergld feels much encouraged over the promised success of his bureau. S sl ‘Wants His Commission. _William H. Theber brought suit in the Jus- tices’ Court yesterday .fn(ust A. L. Han to re- cover & tee which he claims to have earned some time aqlq, but which Han refuses to pay. As egent for Theber Han claims to have sold the San Francisco and San Ruafael express busi- ness for $4000, for which it was agreed he should receive 5 per cent, or $200. The was paid, but the agent’s percentage lell T mains with Mr, Theber, i o T, 50 the plaintiff com g U BACoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strast. * ————— STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b, Townsend's.* ————e GEo. W. MoNTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* ———————— PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert strest, now open for summer swimming season. ‘ ——————— FINEST sauternes, haut-sauternes and dessert wines. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.* ——————— n{’eam?{hisbefit“ng:r(k? price h:wthe same o wi ef. is ma; termed tough manipulation, 5 2 Dox'T wait until vacation comes before building up the tired brain and run down system. Put the blood in good condition now by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and renewed strength will follow. iy g “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fitty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child. softeus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & bottle. NEW TO-DAY. (ITYZPARIS SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANGE SALE BERORE STOCKTAKING: ‘Beginning Monday, June 24, UNUSUAL REDUCTIONS N ALL DEPARTMENTS Marvelous Reductions in BRAID TRIM- ©C MINGS, formerly 25¢, DOW...eeesvueuee & Per Yard PASSEMENTERIES TR n()° MINGS, from $1 50 and 5 ana () Per Yard REMNANTS AND ODD LOTS OF TRIMMINGS BELOW PAR. LADIES | LACE.TRLMMED PAT- ASOLS, formerly $7 50, $6, $5 and Q $3 50, nlow ... $1.90 Al Remnants of Lace Sacrificed, Handkerchiefs ! 75 dozen EMBROIDERED HANDKER- ] OC CHIEFS, scalloped and hemstitched Each Gents’ full size, H. S,, colored and white, 1‘)IC uced to... &2 Each z Kid Gloves! Formerly $2, £1 75, 1 50, $1 25 and #1 9'0 per pair, reduced to. ) 1n size 51, Per Palr 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, white and 7')C ; pearl-black embroidery, duced from §1 25 to.. G. VERDIER & CO.,, SE. cor. Geary and Grant ave. VILLE DE PARIS. BRANCH HOUSE, LOS ANGELES. all sizes, re- : . Per Pair FURNITURE 4 ROOI1S $00. Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-piece sult, plush trimmed. Bedroom—7-plece Solid Oak Suit, French Bevel- plate Glass, bed, bureau, washstand. two chairs. Tocker and tablé; pillows, woven-wire and top mattress. Dining-Room—6-f0ot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Klichen Table and two chairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. packing and delivery acr: the bay. HONTGOMERY & G0, GROCERS. For the ensuing week we quote: F; Puree de Fole Gras, per tin 20c RoquefortCheese, in glass, each.25¢ Creme de Brie, In glass 25¢ Underwood’s Deviled Ham, p tin. ...20c Libbey~McNeil Deviled Ham, pe! tin. .10e San Jose Raspberry Jam, per jar..15¢c Sugar-Cured Picnic Ham, per Ib. 7c Best Ranch Eggs, per doz......... 20c Goods delivered free to all parts of the City and suburban towns. 31 Sixth Streef, 118 Third Street. 1645 Polk Ntreet. SAN FRANCISCO. STORES N. B.—Store closes every evening at ¥ o’clock, except Saturday. A TADIES' GRILL ROOH Has been established in the Palace Hotel N ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS (a5 on the management. It takes ino piace of the clty restaur: Market st. Lad t, with direct entrance from erate charges, such as have given #e zentiement Griliroom an international A, will preva @ this new department. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WAnHINGTON STS.— modeled and renovated. KING, RNty ry European plan. Koo $1.50 per day, §3 10 $8 per week, $8 to $30 per month; baths; hot and cold water every room; room; elevator runs all night