The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. NCISCO | States Adve; Rose and SUMMER MONTHS. > the COUNITY ON & VA Don't let your fizewor! on you. arket. road ‘talk- American s sitting idly, the outcome eady condition -of Ha- dicate a poor job. to closes the work on the to make the:dirt fiy'| Cleveland much or..in -enforcing control the out- n or they are e now, but it is of ‘its pockets for nto-1t, patriotism everywhere rou should not carrya herever you go. e his scream or his of July orator, Te com From al s e to Professor Davidson. testimc make his re No-true soldier in Uncle Sam’s service is fonder of -barrac leness than ‘a chance to take ‘a:shot at some enemy of the peo- ple; As Rey.. Anna Shaw says she loves thie men of California it is evident the new woman will preserve the feelings of the present. Oné:reason why the eagle likes particu- latly well ‘to ‘soar in California on the Fourth of-July-isthat it is sure not to en- couliter d-shower. The.sentiment in. New York which pre- _ferred the electric.chair to the gallows was ‘an expr n of the desire to avoid punishment altogether, capit: ‘Ati‘Eastern candidate for the Presidency, a-Southern candidate for Vice-President and.a Pacific Coast nominating convention will suit the:situation next year. If “the. people would attend more to straight business and less to tangled the- ories of life they would not be conironted by so many perplexing problems. Cleveland denounced the action on the tariff of -some-of the Democratic Senators as ““perfidy and dishonor,’” and they could he same about his foreign policy. ‘The State Bureaun 6f Highways has fired its first big gun by suggesting to the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County that it require wagons to be furnished with broad The report that Cleveland is willing to racrifice American Supremacy over the Nicaraguan canal may not be true,” but it shows what his policy has led the people to fear. It will be an amazing revelation if Amer- ican money can prove as efficient in France in saving the neck of the American mur- derer, O'Brien, as might be expected in this country. - American energy and enterprise are do- ing the best they can under the deficit tariff, but they fall far short of enjoying the prosperity they attained under the Re- publican tari The great mistake made by extreme eco- nomic reformers is that they do not take into account the vast armies of poor people to whom the expenditures of the rich for ; luxuries give employment. Senator Elkins’ statement,**I do not think there is a breath of political air stirring,’ rather a severe criticism on | the Democratic faction fighters, who | thought that at least they were makings | big blow. The horrors attending the “‘electrocu- tion™ of Dr. Buchanan suggest that when New York makes its next departure in capital punishment it adopt the *“national razor' of France which shaves close and leaves no doubt of the result. Drog | prog | to-day | everyw {of the people should manifest itself in the | &r: | The spirit of ‘the Republic, dike: the eagle j be made in the customs duties. PREPARE TO OELEBRATE. The programme of exercises arranged for the Fourth of July -by the committee in charge affords ample scope and oppor- tunity for making a fit. 'and worthy cele- bration of the great day. That some fe tures of the programme sré not pleasing to some people is mnot.. surprising. and should not disturb us, In a country where. everything of public concern is submitted to popular judgment all citizens become accustomed to think for' themselves, and asa necessary. reswlt -on all subjects that sting to the masses' there are as as there are men. When, ed with the-execu- have fixed upona 18" time for differences of From that time on there tion of ar o nion to'end. | shouid. be among the peopié no other thought than that of co-operating with the and carrying it out as successfully and as brilliantly as possible. This is the condition that confronts us with regard to the celebration of the. Fourth: " % cgramme has been are ranged and all ¥ prepagagions made. It mow rests with individuals to do their b and, as{ar as lies in their power, con- 0 the enthusiasm of the occasion. us have a general decoration of the ity and a brilliant display on the streets | along the line of march of the grand pro- The National colors should be in evidence. The patriotism cession. one to the banner of the Republic, ot freedom should be given to ¢ Nagional pride. e marked characteristics of the during the past year has been the aming up of the spirit of triotism throughout the Union. estagjons of this spirit have been ve that they have been de- ngoism” and made a feature of our politics. - No inteiligent man can mistake what this' means. It gives plain evidence of an aroused public’ consciou: ness-of the part which the United States is to perform in ‘the world’s history, and. re- veals the ‘sympathy of the popular heart with ‘the dawning grandeur of manifest destiny, This feeling everywhere moving the people ‘will- make this celebration of the National birthiday one of ‘the most ar- dent and glowing in the historyof the Na- tion, and ‘San Francisco.may be confidently. expected to make: her celebration conspic- uous amid the general outburst of Joyalty. The one_task before the' people- to-day, therefore, is to make preparations for to- morroy erything in - the way of & icism of ‘the: details of "the “pro- Mme arra: d should be laid aside in-a general-approval of the celebration itself. nounced s it has plumed- its w t upwards and onwards in the career that' de y- opens. -before it. For a'day at least all:of .us can afford to be ngdes. Whatever differencesexist among us can be forgotten in the sentimentof a comn patriotism for our mighty Repub- lic and & .common loyalty to our glorious flag. In that 'spirit let us. prepare for the celebration and make to-morrow joyous for every loyal mind‘and every patriot heart. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY. v interest of California have been ation to the readers of the paper. Formerly a very la proportion of the butter. ‘which we consumed was brought a e some enterpris- < mien have organized the dairy districts into companies, each of which provides itself ‘with the-fihe modern machinery of the dairy, shipments from the East bave veen susperided: and we have turned the t hipping our.own butter to the tern market. - We have yet some weak local customs to set aside. One.of them is th ing-of butter by the ‘‘roll” erthe < When a local purchaser buys one of these he fondly thinksthat he is securing two pounds. Never was there a ronger temptation to fraud: than this tem invites. Our dairymen who ship itter to the Eastern maket have to pack it in‘tubs, and at the Eastern end it is sold by honest weight. The people back there re. too shrewd to be taken in by the Cali- fornia “roll” or *square” device, and yet we are still complacently submitting to it. This great turn in the production and marketing of one article of having: been made, the invitation to fur- ther ventures is extended. Let us take poultry. At this time of the year thoseé of us. who have a chicken tooth learn that “broilers” cost from 60 cents to 75 cents a pair in. the market, “fryers” from 75 cents to a dollar, and so on. The stuaentof the climate of the State wonders that the re- sources of our people have proved inade- quate to the production of young spring chickens at a price at least equal to that charged in . any Eastern town, which is about hali the amount which we are re- quired to pay. -Itis, of course, the same with eggs. All: this opens the Eastern market ‘to California consumers, and to- day we are buying Eastern €ggs in incredi- ble quantities. : We are doing all this in spite of the fact that the mild climate which we enjoy gives usan advantage which the people of. the East are denigd.. ‘What they accomplish with great pains we might do by employ- ing the simpletools with which nature has provided us. ‘This is written'with a’ full knowledge of the difficulties that have been encountered and. the.innumerable failures and losses that have been suffered in the chicken-raising industry. ‘Many. years ago England arrived at _the conclu- sion that chicken-raising as an. independ- ent industry wasa failure. ‘It was not un- til France demoustrated the feasibility of the idea and reduced it to a science -that the possibilities of the industry became known. It is not our intention to give here a treatise on the poultry industry, for that is a matter largely of individual intelligence. It must be sufficient for the present to lament the fact that while we have every natural advantage over the East, not'only in the supplying of our own market, but in meeting .the wants of the Eastern con- sumers themselves, there is as little excuse for the present condition of affairs as there was for that in which we depended on the East for our full butter supply before our dairymen became sufficiently progressive to take the dairy interest into their own hands. "TEE DEFIOIT. Notwithstanding the extent to which the money question now engages public attention, it is certain that the tariff will e an important factor in determining the result of the next Presidential campaign. The deficit in the National revenues ren- ders it imperative that some change should The Con- gress'tbat meets this winter will be Repub- Jican and Imay be counted on to do something toward remedying this evil, but ag the President is a yemocrat committed® to“iree trade, Congress cannot do much. At best it can only patch up the deficien- cies in the existing tariff. This will leave the question of a radical revision of cus- toms duties in the direction of an increased revenue and a fuller protection to Amer- -walks of life, that the ican industry to be fought out in the next campaign as one of the main issues at stake. Thereport of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year just closed shows the deficit for the year to be approximately $43,250,000. This, added to last year’'s de- ficit of nearly $70,000,000, makes an excess of expenditures -over receipts since June, 1893, of about §113,250,000. This is the result the country gets from the work of a party pledged fo establish a tariff for] revenue- only.” It is the result obtained frém all the scandals in which the passage of the Wilson bill was iavolved from the tiine it was sent'to the Senate to the time when Cleveland allowed it to become a law without signing it. It is the resalt of the surrender of - Corigress to the sugar trust. The result of what even-Cleveland himself denounced as “perfidy and dishonor.” Even if the tariff -thus enacted had yielded a revenue suificient to the needs of the Government, there would have been good reason for changing it in the lack of adequate protection to some of the great industries of the country and the manifest inequalities and injustice of some of its provisions. The failure to provide a reve enue, however, crowns the disgrace of the work and compels revision. It isimpose sible for the country to go on with a deficit every year. We must have a new tariff and a better tariff. So long as Cleve- land is in office this demand of the people may be denied, In 1806, however, there wilt be a chance to restore the Government in all of its branches to the handsof the ereat party of protection, reciprocity ana abundant revenues, and this fact will have as much to do in shaping the campaign as all other issues put together. TO CHECK HIGHWAYMEN. The frequent recent robbery of the Ager stage seems to demand uncommon meas- ures for the protection of the remoter highways. The Klamath River is the natural highway to a very fertile region of great extent in Northeastern Califorma and Southeastern Oregon—the vast grassy basin of the Klamath Lake region—and besides a popular and beneficial - hot springs resort on the route and the fine fishing which the river furnishes, the road leads into a country offering superior in- ducements to settlement. The stage which has been so frequently robbed ear- ries the United States mails, and money and other valuables forwarded by Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express. ' The holding up of the stage is a defiance of the General Government. In these wild, vast and sparsely settled areas of California and Oregon it is impos- sible for the Sheriffs to give adequate pro- tection to the highways, which often traverse twenty. to forty miles \\'ilhout" coming in sight of a human habitation. | The people of the counties could notafford | to pay a tax sufficient to provide an ade quate patrol. The express company gen- | erally furnishes the stage with an armed | man who serves as guard, but this duty is | no more incumbent on it than on the State or the Federal- Government. The expense of the “shotgun” messenger has | to pe charged to the local service, and thus the people bave to bear an unjust burden. Even the messenger, efficient as he has shown himself many a time to be, is the | crudest and Jeast wise of all conceivable | protective measures, as he is engaged to | protect only one of the many vehicles that | traverse the highway, leaving all others | either to defend themselves or abandon | theroad and seek homes in better pro- tected communities. In this way the de- velopment of the remoter regions, many of which are exceedingly resotirces, is immeasurably retarded. Inview of these facts it is immensely amusing to read of the great pains taken by the Government to “‘protect’’ the vari- us National parks of California. from invasion by flocks of sheep. A more tesque ill-balancing of rights-and equities could not be imagined. Because some popular magazine has a fad of- urging the patrolling of National parks to protect this or that singular natural curiosity, the troops stationed on the Pacific have to patrol the almost inaccessible Sierra and leave the main highway of travel and progress exposed to highwaymen. Let the National parks be protected. ‘That is well enough, but if done at .the sacrifice of human life and progress it is a shame; and thyg'State of California itself is not free from responsibility in the matter, LOVERS OF TRUE SPORT. The first National Schuetzenfest Leld in America, now closing at New York, has attracted a great deal of attention through- out the country, just as the recent Califor- nia Turnfest at Los Angeles was regarded as one of the most interesting gatherings of amateur athletes that this coast has-ever seen. Aithough the National affair at New York was confined to shooting, it hasa most ‘significant aspect as showing the growing interést: in the German idea of sport in America. Undoubtedly the great Schuetzenfest is merely the beginning of a movement which will lead toan annual National gathering representing ' all the sports which the 'German race in America is fostering, and .when that happens we shallsee something as wonderful as the Olympiads of Greece. It will be a welcome day which sees the domination of German ideas in the Na- tional sports of America. Already this in- fluence is largely felt, and ‘it -is extending with a quiet. and unconscious persistency. which few of us pause to'realize. The Ger- maps in America are so unaggressive, and confirie themselves so strictly to the quieter influence of their very large representation in this country is likely to be: overlooked. They have very little to do with politics, occupy an exceed- ingly small share of attention as law- breakers, and -in ‘popular literature in the English tongue make little effort to be conspicuous. But in the higher arts, such as music, painting- and sculpture, and in all of the sciences, and in profound contri- butions to-technical and scientific journals printed in English, they exercise a tremen- dous influence upon' the culture of the country. It is almost exclusively asa lover of ra- tional sport that the German appears con- spicuous in the eyes of the Nation. It would be difficult to find a town of more than 3000- inhabitants that does not supporta turn verein,and in these training-schools of athletics all classes of Germans find a com- mon social level. The. most pleasant fea- ture of these institutions is their racial democracy.” One- does not have to be of German birth or parentage to belong to them, but one must be orderly.ana well- mannered to secure membership. In the shooting scores of the National Schuetzen- fest for instance, we find. such namesas Collins,Dolan, Pope, Mike Dorsey, Furniss, Jones, Keith and many others sandwiched "in among the German. Our German citizens are fully aware that the peculiar levity with which they treat Sunday somewhat grates on the average American sense of fitness. Almost invari- ably their ordinary local feasts and sport- ing contests are held on that day, with the usual accompaniment of beer and some- times a dance. This seems so natural and proper to them, and generally to all other Europeans in America, that they rich in natural {, seem unwilling to forego it for any advan- tage which they might secure on the score of advancing their influence by abandon- ingit. They feel naturally that as their sports are wholesome and rational, and that as their Sunday outings are never dis- graced by rowdyism, and that as they gen- | erally become American citizens and are among our strongest defenders of law and order, and are sirictly upright in social and private life, they have a right to con- tinue in America the practices which the- traditions of their German homes have taught them to regard as right. And, as, farther, Sunday is the only day on which a majority of them can find leisure to prac- tice these enjoyments, it would be useless to argue with them that they could accom- plish far more good with the general com- munity by selecting some other day. This subject would not have been mentioned did it not seem to have so importanta bearing on the great influence for good in elevating and refining popular American sports which they areable to exercise. We do not tind them encouraging prize- fighting and other gross, brutal and de- moralizing sports. They are not gamblers, and their festivals have never the least taint of rowdyism. To-day they are the masters and leading exponents of whole- some athletic sports, which always are benefigial; and the further their influence in this regard is extended the better for the country. ARQOUND THE CORRIDORS. As Frank Vail passed out of the dining-room of the Oceidental yesterday & tall young fellow entered. the hotel from Montgomery street. They met in the writing-room. “Hello, Frank.” “Hello, Richard. Well, well. What brought FRANK VAIL OBJECTS TO THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] you back to earth? I thought you were in India.” “I was, in 1894; but I got married, you know, in Singapore and my wife is with me now on a visit to her mother's people. You knew them in New Haven—the Crawfords. We came out to the coast just for fun. I didn’t know you were here, Frank. Ho your father? Come out into the billiard-room, I want to talk to you. By George, Frank, you're looking fine. My wife will be here at 2 o’clock; gone out to see a dressmaker. I want you to meet Mrs. Leavitt, Frank. Let us have & chat in the billiard-room. Come on.” Mr. Leavitt proceeded to take Mr. Vail in charge and carried him off to the place men- tioned, doing all the talking en route. “What's the matter with having a game until the madame comes home, Frank—just a friendly roll; 100 points, three-ball game “How long since you played, Richard?” in- quired Mr. Vail as he reached for the chalk. “Haven't touched a cue for eight years. Bank your ball, Frank.” “The game is off, Dick. You can't give me any work like that. Let's go out and have a cigar—a box of cigars, & whole cigar-store— anything you want, Dick, but deliver me from the man who hasn’t played a game for eight vears. If there is any one thing I fear itisa game of billiards with a man who hasn’t played for eight years. Don’t you know better than to give me that yarn, Dick? I would rather pay an income tax than to be played like that.” “What's up, Franz?” said Mr. Leavitt in alarm. “Matter? Do you want me te tell you?” “Certainly.” “Well, simply this, Dick. There are three classes of men that are dangerous. The fellow who can’t play cards, the man who can call the winning horse, and the deceiver who hasn’t played billiards for eight years. This latter individual is the worst of them all, and generally introduces himself by running a hundred points in a balk line game. I would no more get into & game like that thanI would try to sing ‘Sweet Marie' in the Bohemian Club. Next comes the man who always knows the winning horse. His choice generally falls down in the stretch and breaks a leg, and the man who never plays cards skins you out of all the money you have, and offers to take your watch fof a red stack. No, no, Dick; call the game off. You couldn’t hire me to get in. The oldest {raditions we have do notshow any- thing equal to the man who hasn’t played bil- liards for eight years.” Mr. Leaydft put up his cue, and with an ex- pression resignation took his friend’'sarm and. went out on the crowded thoroughfare to explain, Lut it was of no use, and he had to content himself with the conversational game of “When we were boys together.” MEN OF TO-DAY- Hartford people are wondering what disposi- tion will be made of the famous Hawley collec- tion of violins, the owner, Mrs. R. D. Hawley, having died a few days sgo. They include someof the finest Cremons instrmuents, some genuine Amati violins, several of Stradivarius’ e two centuries ago and the well-known ing Joseph” violin, used by a pupil of Strad- ivarius. Mrs. Hawley had been urged to Jeave the collection to the Connecticut Historical Society. Ex-Congressman Ben T. Cable of Illinois is admired by the restaurant men of Washington for his skill with the stew-pan. “‘Cable conld ‘make $100 a week as a chef in any first-class hotel in the country,” said one of these appre- ciative critics the other day. Socrates Ludlow of Utica, N. Y., is on his way to St. Louis. He has his own private car—a ‘wheelbarrow—in which he carries an outfit of food, blankets and camp kit. The last heard of him he wes pushing his way west of Cincin- nati. General Joe Wheeler, president of the Board of Visitors at West Point, was graduated from that institution in the class of '59. Curiously enough his son graduates in the class of '95— an exact reversal of the figures. The alumni of Denison University at Gran- ville, Ohio, has passed a resolution_indorsing Hon. Judson Harmon, recently appointed At- torney-General of the United States. Archbishop Corrigan will preuch the opening sermon of the Catholic Summer School at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 7, and Mgr. Satolli, Pa- pal delegate, will celebrate mess. Postmaster-General Wilson, who seidom smoked before he was 40, has become an invet- erate smoker. Secretary Morton, on the other hand, has given up the habit. 2 Dr. Jerome Bonaparte Wheat, a well-known dentist, who has just died in New Haven, Conn., was the first to use vulcanized rubber in dentistry. : Frederick Archer, the organist of Chicago,. may become the, organist of the Carnegie Li- brary of Pittsburg in the autumn. PERSONALS. Judge J. R. Wells of Fresno is at the Lick House. W. S. Hughes, U.8.N,, is stopping at the Palace. Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa is & gnest at the Ocecidental. J. T.Smith, a mining man of Placer County, is at the Grand. Silas Carle, s Sacramento contractos, is stop- ping at the Liek House. John . Wolfskill, an orange-grower of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. C. S. Gleed, a prominent railroad man of Topeks, Kans., is at the Palace. Oscar A. Tolle left yesterday for Lake Tahoe, 0 be absent two or thres weeks. Doctors: T. Timoroff and N. Salowieg of St Petersburg, Russia, are at the Occidental. Ex-Judge George E. Williams of Union Island arrived yesterday and is st the Lick House. Hon. Frank L. Coombs, ex-speaker of the As- sembly, will spend & few days in the City. He is at the Grand. A. W. Jones, one of the promoters of the pro- posed Fresno and Monterey Railroad, is a guest atthe Lick House. 5 Frank North, the newspaper man who acted as press representative here of the Circus Royal, has gone to Denver. Postmaster W. S. Leake of Sacramertc came down yesterday and is at the Palace. Heis also one of the directors of the neéw Jockey Club. C. J. Pillsbury, who two years ago was in the hardware business in this City, is on a visit from Boston in the interests of certain capital- ists of the Hub, OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The weay to make & community prosperous is to patronize the men who are trying to build it up, who spend their money in the community and who always have an encouraging word for the various industries of the community. If the thousands of dollars that are unnecessarily sent out of the various towns in Eastern Placer to help build up other places were spent at home, we would have a more prosperous sec- tion. “Live and let live” is the motto of the coming century and now is a good time to begin its practice in order to grow accustomed to it.—Colfax Sentinel. This spirit of reform is one of the most hope- ful signs of the times in which we live. Itis felt everywhere, in all the walks of life, and men are calling out for something better than they have yet experienced, and this agitation and unrest are but the portents of the wonder- ful work of revoiution that will before many years effect marvelous changes in the world.— Los Angeles Times. It looks to & man up & tree as if this great | Democratic administration could have afforded to let the widowed sister-in-lew of Abraham Lincoln remain in that little Kentucky office, and the granddaughter of Francis Scott Key retain her place in the Pension &fice.—Marys- ville Appeal. In March, 1894, under the McKinley bill America imported 9855 dozens of eggs from Canada. During March, 1895, under the Wil- son bill we imported 43,566 dozens. That is how the Wilson bill is building up the egg in- dustry—of Canads.—Ogden (Utah) Standard. The number of people who are declaring for silver ought to be & warning to the political organizations already in existence. Only one party can elect a President next vear, but no party can make any mistake in taking up the cause of the masses.—Arizona Republican. Silver men can now rest easy. The desire in the East to legislate against the “white metal” ison the wane, and when & Republican minis- try again gets into power it will be restored to its proper place and then an ers of prosperity will dawn.—Solano Republican. The fruit-growers of California, by selling only to shippers who will agree to sell the fruits in the salesrooms of the Fruit-growers' Association, will be enabled to defeat the plan of the Esstern speculators to control the mar- ket.—San Jose Mercury. Indiana Democrats have wisely abandoned the idee of holding & conventiog to specially promulgate & policy on the finanlal question. California Democrats will do well to emulate the example of their Indiana brethren.—Wood- land Democrat. Scandals, bitterness and sensational matter will find no place in this paper. What the world needs is more smiles and less sorrow, more sunshine and less shadow.—The Peta- lumian. Goid men are endeavoring to injure the silver cause by frequent reiterations of the assertion that the “craze is dyingout.” The wish be- gets the thought.—Arizona Gazette. FOLLIES OF THE JESTERS. “She threw herself at his head, but she didn’t get him at that.” “Certainly not. Tribune. Personal—“An ugly man without money wants to meet an ugly woman without means. Object, 1o diseuss the financial question.”—New Haven Palladium. «4re all the animals in?” asked Noah taking another look at the barometer. “All but the leopards,” answered Ham, *“and 1 think we have a pair of them spotted. Nosah shook his head gloomily and muttered something about “that boy coming to & bad end.”--Cincinnati Tribun Girls can’t throw.”—Detroit Botanic—“Well,” said the first baseball crank to the other baseball crank, “are you going to oot to-day?” “No,” said the other baseball crank, feeling vaguely in his vest pocket, ‘I guess I am going 0 seed.”—Indianapolis Journal. Big Head—To get along in the world & man must pay attention to trifies. Cynicus—Very true. You must associate with society people and be attentive to them.— New York Herald. BacoN Printing Company, 503 Clay strast. * ———————— CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s. * —————— Wi, A. Lawsox, attorney-at-law, 101 some street. ———— TREAT your friends in the country to Town- send’s proken and mixed candies. i0clb. * e - FINEST sauternes, haut-sauternes and dessert wines. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.® P — LepGERs, journals, cashbooks and records from 15 cents to $1 per hundred pages. Sen- born, Vail & Co. e i San- > } Fireworks. Fok the convenience of our local customers we will keep our salesroom open this evening. California Fireworks Company, 219 Front st., between California and Sacramento. The Associate Reform Presbyterian Church South claims 8501 members. HEALTH for the year is to be haa by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. It sustains the strensth and prevents iliness by toning and/Invigorating all the organs of the body. Take only Hood's. «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by mglions of moth- ers for their children while Teethilg with pertect success. i soothes the child, softens the gums, al- EXPENSE OF THE FOURTH. Cutting the Celebration to Fit the Amount of Money on Hand. NO CONTRACT FOR FIREWORKS. The Goods Manufactured and the Committee Feels in Honor Bound to Take Them. An interesting scene took place in the executive session of the executive commit- tee for the Fourth of July celebration yes- terday afternoon when one member pro- tested against what he termed an improper and unbusiness-like method of conducting things. His protest was overruled, how- ever, and the proposed measure carried with but one dissenting vote. The committee had met to act upon the report of the committee on retrenchment, consisting of Messrs. Reichert, Toy, Tich- nor, Doan and Marshall, to whom was in- trusted the task of pruning the expenses of the celebration s0 as to remedy a pros- pective deficit of over $2100., Among cther reductions the committee recommended that the allowance of $1500 for fireworks be reduced to $1200, and, the members fore- seeing trouble in the executive committee, agreed to stand together and fight for the reduction against the influence of a di- rector of the California Fireworks Com- pany, who is also a member of the com- mittee. In looking into the matterit was found that no contract for fireworks had ever been made with the company. A con- aitional resolution had been passed as fol- lows: Resolved, That the contract for fireworks be awarded to the California Fireworks Company on condition that the company give a bond for the full amount of its contract that its goods should be 100 per cent home manufac- ture and on_condition that the committee shall finally decide to have sny fireworks atall. The sum of §1500 was set aside for fire- works in case the committee shoula decide to have any, and this amount was to be increased in case the funds warranted it. No further action was ever taken. The committee did not decide to have or not to have fireworks, nor was any bond fur- nished by the company as rzquired in the conditional resolution. At the executive committee meeting, however, a representative of the corpora- tion claimed that he had taken the con- tract in good faith and that his company could not scale the price of $1500 for any sum. He claimed that the goods had been manufactured under the assumption that the committee wanted them, and if they were not purchased they would be a dead loss to the company; hencé the com- mittee should take them and pay the full price of $1500, which amount bad been allotted for fireworks. A long discussion on Jack of money fol- lowed without result. At last the point was made that no contract had been en- tered into and that the committee was not liable for one cent. Also that no bond had been offered by the fireworks company as required by the resolution. A member of the retrenchment committee called for the reading of the resolution, but before this could be done W. T. Galloway secured the floor. He said many fine things about honor and declared vehemently that con- tract or no contract the committee was in honor bound to pay for the firework: So far as his vote was concerned his honor ‘was more than any mere business methods. As he resumed his seat he remarked in an undertone to a neighbor, “I’ll settle that thing right here.” The protesting member retorted that so far as his honor was concerned the com- mittee was bonnd to the public, which it had promised that the affairs of the cele- bration should be conducted in a strictly business like way. It was far more bu: ness-like to keep their expenses within their cash than to allow any manufactory to force its goods upon them and make them pay for them and then have a deficit. Mr. Sonntag, who isadirector of the fire- works company, secured jthe floor. He was ‘“‘surprised that any member of this committee should suggest the repudiation of a contract to which he was in honor bound. He had not thought such a thing could happen, and he was sorry that it had, as he had thought that every member was an honorable gentleman.” His talk was a long one, and at its close he offered asa director of the California Fireworks Co any to accept the sum of $1350 for the b e “described feelingly how gmany of its annual 17,000 contracts it had been com- pelled to refuse, and how it had been forced to take men from the Santa Cruz carnival display to accommodate this committee. A motion was made to accept Mr. Sonn- tag’s proposition, The protesting member tried to get the floor, but Chairman Davis refused to recognize him till a demand was made on a question of privilege. He ob- jected to Mr. Sonntag’s remarks concern- ing men of honor, and then made one more attempt in behalf of the $300 reduc- tion. None of his fellows on the retrench- ment committee would take up the fight, however, in accordance with the agreement of the night before, and the motion carried with only one dissenting vote. The entertainment committee completed its work yesterday and adjourned sine die, after passing a resolution of thanks to its chairman, David Rich, for his uniform courtesy toward the ladiesand his kind- ness toward the little ones. Last evening the executive committee finished its examination of the. report of the retrenchment committee. The deficit had been reduced nearly $17C0, and the final allowances approved were as follow: Parade.. $2,179 00 Inyitation and réception. 374 50 Literary exercises. 125 00 Regalia. . © 18700 Decoration: 575 00 Fireworks. 1,350 00 Enter cainment 275 00 Office expenses. 1,300 00 Extras, military bands, etc 620 00 Advertising. 239 00 Total... -$7,054 50 The whole amount of money collected is $6533 38, which leaves still a deficiency of $521 12. Two members of the committee will start out this morningto try to raise that amount. Among the items cut out by the®re- trenchment are seventeen carriages and two bands from the parade, the grand stand at the fireworks and all allowances for incidental expenses. Secretary Owen notified the committee that he held two checks amounting to $300 which had been donated on conditions which had not been ful- filled, and that he would have to return them, though ‘he still hoped to secure $200 of the amount. The conditions were the entertainments of the orphans and the keeping of the biil for fireworks within $1000. The first condition had been complied with, but the second had not. Mr. Lent notified the committee that he could not secure the muskets for the Con- tinental army from the Benicia arsenal un- less a check for §3 for each gun loaned was deposited as security for their safe return. The number of guns wanted is 108, and Samuel Foster gave his check for $324, to be sent to the arsenal as security. Kindergarten Children. -The little children of all the free kinder- gartens in the City are to be provided with seats on the grand stand on Van Ness avenue, near Market street, where they may witness the parade. They are to be accompanied hi their mothers, who are to take them to the park after the parade is over. As free transportation could not be secured except for the orphans the mothers will bave to pay car fare for the children. 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