The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895° > R R e e e CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL one year, by mail... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL. one month, .50 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone. .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Main—1874 Larkin street; open until orner Sixteenth and Mis until 9 o'clog) 2518 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9:30 o'clock. on streets; open OAKLA'\'DWCiFFlC Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation ? It €0, it is 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will mies §t. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. SUNDAY The demand of the day is rest. It never hurts 8 man to give his home a boom. ‘We must have a revolution in Fourth of July celebrations. Enjoy your leisure to-day with “A Holi- day on Olympus.” Some people are al s mistaking a buzzsaw for an oppertunity. The view from the park observatory is one of the finest in the world. Some people lose all the pleasures of life in trying to solve its problems. The dollar saved from the lottery fiend will help to make home happy. The impudent cuckoo is trying to feather his nest with the revival of trade. Fresno’s hope may now be measured by her generosity to the Valley road. The sunshine of California is the best tonic that a physician can prescribe. The crop of California enterprises- this year is about as widespread as the fruit crop. If there were no artists the average man would never understand how beautiful the world is. The independent man is one who has as many strings on the world as the world has on him. If business revives so much during the holidays what will it do when the business season opens? To Governor McKinley belongs the credit of making the best Fourth of July speech of the year. When a task is too difficult for you, you may make up your mind nature never in- tended you to do it. To seek beauty successfully you have only to make a voyage of discovery any- where around San Francisco. You can make your own home happier by supporting your neighbor’s industry and making his home happy. A stroll over the sand dunes to-day is not recommended to peorle who have no use for health and an appetite. The next development in cycling will be mounted porters to transport on wheels ihe luggage required by outing parties. The Pacific Mail is probably not regard- ing the new line of steamers to Panama with the most affectionate consideration. ATy Electricity seems to be superseding all kinds of motive power except love, which, as we have all been taught, is really what makes the world go round. Now that the railroad from Healdsburg to Eureka is assured, the Sequoia festival which Eureka is preparing to hold will be enjoyed with an added zest. From this time on you may look out for a steady stream of reports, estimates, cal- culations and predictions about the com- ing yacht race for the America cup. If ocean steamships run races, as the Lucania and the Paris have done, the pas- sengers have a moral right, in protection of their lives, to seize the ship and throw the captain into the hold in irons. Itis to be observed that the leaders of the Democratic party are so radically and irrevocably committing themselves di- versely on the silver question that it will be impossible to unite them on any plat- form. Eastern friends will have advanced in the acquisition of knowledge when they have learned that the California summer isas delightful a change from the harsh climatic conditions of the East as are our winters. —_— The Chicago capitalists who have sur- veyed a route for a railroad into the Yo- semite could do the most spectacular thing imaginable by running the road to the brink of El Capitan and letting the pas- sengers down into the valley by an ele- vator nearly a mile high. New York City did not succeed in an- nexing Brooklyn, but as she has managed to annex an area of Westchester County containing 20,000 acres, 1700 inhabitants gnd $20,000,000 taxable property she is fairly satisfied for the present, and waits for Chicago to make the next grab. The veteran philologist, Dr. Edkins, as- serts there are many points of resemblance between the Japanese and Turkish lan- guages, and he concludes therefrom that both peoples sprang from the same no- madic race in Siberia long after the Chinese had become a settled agricultural people. We are not informed that the work of Professor Loomis in making a collection of California birds for the Academy of Sci- ences is intended to include angels (which have wings with feathers on ’em), but if it does, some of San Francisco's pretty girls are in dapger of logipg their freedom. . ALL THE NEWS. The excellence of the news service which Tue CALL receives from The United Press has been the subject of many complimen- tary notices from the press of the interior as well as of congratulations from our readers. This is not to be wondered at. The United Press is by long odds superior to any other news-gathering agency in the world, and as THE CALL has the full benefit of all the reports collected by its repre- sentatives, it is but natural that the service should be hailed with satisfaction by all to whom Tre CALL carries the news of the day. The publication of The United Press dis- patches in Twe CaLy gives it a distinct place in the field of morning journalism in this City. No other morning paper re- ceives the news from this unrivaled source, and as a consequence while the dispatches of the other papers are mainly duplicates of one another, those of THE CALL are wholly distinct. No matter which of the other papers therefore a man may read he must also read Tae CALL to get all the news. Our dispatches, in fact, give San Francisco the benefit of a double news ser- vice, and our alliance with The United Press is therefore a great advantage to the City. 1t will be noted that while giving full re- ports through The United Press of the news from all parts of the Union ard of the world, Trg Cary still makes Pacific Coast events the leading feature of its news col- umns. That is Tue Carv's specialty. It has been so ever since the new manage- ment took charge and will continue to be so to the end. The world is our field and Tue CALL speaks for all, but its most ear- nest aim is to be everywhere recognized and felt as the champion of Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast men. A HOLIDAY REFORM. Now that the celebration of the Fourth of July is over voices of criticism are heard pointing out the defects and demanding better things. These criticisms are not directed to any particular celebration, nor do they deal with any minor detail of ar- rangement or execution either in this City or elsewhere. They are aimed at the pre- vailing methods of celebration as a whole, and the entire system to which we have been accustomed to as right and proper is condemned. There is ample justificaiion for the criti- cism. A celebration which consists of un- limited firecrackers, a straggling proces- sion, some casual oratory and uninspired poetry is not attractive to the average citizen. The noise of the day repels more than the procession attracts and not a few people regularly leave the City or seclude themselves as much as possible in their homes to escape what was intended to be a pageant to attract them, please them and awaken patriotic impulses. In the Eastern States the day is unfitted for any elaborate celebration in the open air by reason of the excessive heat that generally prevails there in July, but in California there is no reason why we could not make a festival that would be enjoya- ble in some of its phases to all classes of people. There is no reason why the great day shoutd be given wholly to noise and made more like an outbreak of pandemo- nium than an outburst of National patri- otism. We might have a short procession which would not occupy the observer more than half an hour, but full of beauty and historic meaning; we might have athletic games that would exhibit the strength of young manhood in various forms of con- test; we might have mausic in halls and in the open air; the theaters might make the evening notable by specially prepared plays and brilliant scenic effects, and for the general multitude the present custom of fireworks in the evening could be re- tained. There are great possibilities in the way of Fourth of July entertainments in a cli- mate like that of California, and men and women of taste and talent in the manage- ment of such matters might render the State a service by directing their thoughts and energies to the accomplishment of some of them. California holds a unique place in the Union in many respects, and it would add a great deal to her prestige if she distinguished herself further by really magnificent and joyous celebrations of In- dependence day. THE OCTOPUS AND THE PARK. The publication in Tre CALL yesterday of the promise of Superintendent McLaren that he would have the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad removed from the park was a source of no little satisfac- tion to the public. When the company asked permission to lay its tracks into the park to aid in the work of the Midwinter Fair there were not a few men who pre- dicted that if the permission were granted the people would have a hard fight to get the railroad to loose its grip on -that pleasure ground. These men were wise in their generation. The fair has been over a long time, but the railroad tracks are still there, and it remains to be seen whether the Superintendent will be able to keep his promise and have them removed. There has been bad management and gross neglect, if not something worse, in the whole business of winding up the Mid- winter Fair, removing the debris and rub- bish and restoring that portion of the park to a proper condition. The debris that still encumbers the site of the exposition is a monument of disgrace to somebody, but the'presence of the railways in the park long after the right to be there has ex- pired is something worse. It menaces the future as much as it disgraces the present. The Southern Pacific needs a good deal of watching at all tirmes, and therefore Mr. McLaren will win golden opinions from the people if he succeeds in keeping his promise and forcing the octopus to remove its tentacles from this piece of the people’s property. THE PICTURESQUE DUNES. Amedee Joullin is an accomplished art- ist, and so when he announces that he has found in the sand dunes of the San Fran- cisco peninsula one of the most interesting studies to which a painter can give atten- tion he gives a hint to all students of art. His brush furnishes proof of his art, for he has painted these wonderful dunes in some of their endless phases. It did not require the declaration of even so accomplished a painter as he to in- form some of us that these sand dunes are among the most picturesque of alithe unique charms which constitute the im- mediate environment of the City; and a realization of the necessity for their disap- pearance before many years have passed makes them all the more precious and all the more worthy of enjoyment while we | have them. Already the encroachment of streets and houses has left only a compara- tively small stretch of bleak sand on the northern side of the vark, but on the southern side the bare dunes stretch away in yellowish gray billows for more than amile, and roll from the base of steep Mount Olympus to the ocean beach. It is not these dreary stretches of which Mr. Joullin has been talking, but those broken here and there with brush. On the north- ern side of the park this particularly beau- tiful ,combination, cut longitudinally by Point Lobos avehue, occupies nearly all of the region between the Marine Hospital and Sutro Heights. ‘Where the dunes are sufficiently covered with a brush to make a soil, small annunal plants present a dazzling show of bloom in the spring. The glorious yellow poppy, whose shades contain all the hues of our gold, oranges and yellow sunshine, is mingled with dainty buttercups, blue- bells, wild strawberries and a score of others. These are guarded by a chaparral composed of an exceedingly diminutive serub oak, both blue and yellow lupins and a highly fragrant sage. The holding of the sand by this vegetation has per- mitted the erosive effect of the rains, with the result that here and there are canyons a hundred feet deep, and the slopes are mn- habited by quail, rabbits and singing birds. [t is impossible to indulge in a finer pleasure than a lazy holiday and a stout luncheon in these perfectly secluded, wild and lonely places almost in the heart of a great city. The park, with all its beauties, lacks some of the finer charms which these deserted dunes extend. The great barren stretch south of the park has a wholly different charm. In the wide areas where there is no vegetation the leveling force of the wind makes a slightly rolling plain of yellowish gray sand, the whole surface of which is wrinkled with large and small sand waves that represent in fixed form the unstable features of the ocean surface. There are not many who have the hardihood and love of nature to brave a tramp through these yielding wastes, and yet the ex- perience is novel and wholesome, and to a lover of good things in nature it re- veals most exquisite charms. To stand in the midst of this waste, which from all the immediate surroundings might be taken for the heart of the Sahara, and look eastward to the wooded high mountains which intervene between us and the roars ing City on the bay, and then to turn westward and behold the vast stretch of green ocean, fringed at the beach with a constant line of white surf, is to enjoy one of the rarest spectacles that California can produce. In a few years the roaring, grinding, groaning City will have scaled the mountains and poured down upon these picturesque dunes, and then all their wild and savage beauty will be gone. RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS. The July edition of the FEngineering Magazine was designed to be a “railroad number,” and is given almost exclusively to articles on railway subjects written by men who are established authorities on the matters which they discuss. While all the papers are instructive, that which probably will be found most interesting to the general public is a “review of railroad invention” by C. P. Mackie—a paper that not only gives us a record of past improve- ments, but suggests the lines along which future developments in railway construc- tion are likely to take place. Mr. Mackie says the lines on which our inventors have to do their future work would seem to be far more clearly defined than ever before. There is no engineering reason why a speed of 100 miles an hour should not be maintained on fast trains. The chief obstacle lies in the ponderous and wasteful mechanisms needed to gener- ate the requisite amount. of steam under even the best present methods. The reme- dy will be found when electrical energy can be generated in a simpler and less ex- pensive manner than at present, and signs are not wanting that this invention will be forthcoming before long. It is not in the engine only that we have an excess of weight in modern rail- way appliances, for the cars and coaches are also much heavier than they should be. This branch of the subject is referred to by Julien A. Hall in an article on “The Causes of Railway Accidents,” in which he says: “When we see crashing past us that enormous mass of iron and wooa called the ‘vestibule train,” we are prone to wonder at the wide difference between the construction of this train and that of a bicycle. A 21}4-pound ‘safety’ willcarry a 150-pound man at nearly the same rate of speed as the train; but for every 150-pound man the train must carry a dead weight of between 3000 and 4000 pounas. Now, as the bicycle is a practical machine, the train must be unnecessarily heavy; and, if there is such a discrepancy in one im- portant point, may not an equal discrep- ancy exist in other important points?” To have a railway service of fast trains equal to 100 miles an hour, it will not be sufficient, however, to lighten the weight of the engines and the trains. There must be a better roadbed and a safer equipment generally. American engineefing could overcome these difficulties, if the chance were given, but unfortunately a bad finan- cial condition among railways bars the way. Most of our roads are over-capital- ized and the earnings have to be used in paying interest on a heavy bonded indebt- edness and dividends on excessive issues of stock. A strong railway built on business principles will be needed to accomplish the great results that are now so near at hand. This fact is of particular interest to Californians. We are about to build a road down the San Joaquin Valley on a strictly business basis and through that road Cali- fornia may have the glory of leading the world in a train service of 100 miles an hour. OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS. ‘With the advent of the mew telegraphie service THE CALL is enabled to lay before its readers market reports which, for com- pleteness and fidelity to the daily mercan- tile transactions of the world, are unsur- passed. Realizing the importance of cor- rect and comprehensive commercial news The United Press spares no pains to secure the very best for its patrons. Everybody in trade is interested in these mercantile quotations from the East and Europe. The wholesaler, who deals in provisions, oils bufter, eggs and general produce; the grain operator and specula- tor, the financier who transacts a large business in stocks and bonds, the farmer, the gentleman of leisure who lives on his income from Wall-street securities, and the miner and mine-owner who need daily quotations germane to the precious metals—all are to a great degree depend- ent on the quotations from the principal centers given by the daily press. That Tre CaLn gives an unsurpassed list of these Eastern and foreign quotations may be seen at a glance. We invite a careful scrutiny of our telegraphic commercial news to-day, and for that matter, every day. Not an item of interest to the great mercantile public will be found wanting. ‘We get the most copious grain, provision, livestock and miscellaneous market quota- tions from Chicago; from Wall street we receive carefully written reviews of each day’s operation on 'Change and among the bankers, prepared by selected men; our information regarding railroads and the fluctuations in their bonds and shares is full, fresh and up to date. Nor does our new service limit itself to the United States. We get the very latest grain and financial quotations from London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort and the other European money centers. Inshort, all that is de- manded of the progressive modern news- paper in the way of correct and intelligible tural little country to reign over. market quotations will be found every day in our commercial pace. We have the very best of reports and it is with complete confidence that we call attention to it. m—ebe—— AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Captain Tom Cunningham blew into the California yesterday to find out how the land lies on Governor Budd’s revised military chart. When he had sized up the geographical situa- tiop to the extent that something is going to happen and nobody outside knows what, he slipped into a chair and mused. “It's just something like a year ago,” he said, “that I went down to Santa Cruz with Colonel Sulli- van’s regiment as an inspector, along with Lieutenants McIver and Holley of the regulars. George Burdick of the London, Paris and American Bank was a major in those days, and if you know Burdick you don't need to be told that he is a soldier par excellence and was brought up on drill-books. There isn’t much between the covers that Burdick doesn’t know. 1spent many an evening with him in his tent fighting tactical battles and solying problems and all that sort of thing, and a pretty merry time we had of it. ““Well, sir, one night the major and I settled down to a good talk early in the evening. We had a little preliminary skirmishing, which didn’t amount to much, but served to while away the time until taps was sounded and everybody but the sentinels turned in for the night. Idon’tjust remember what the discus- sion was about, but it was on some problem in major tactics or strategy or some such thing that kindergartens don’t have much use for. When it got along to about 11 o’clock Burdics decided that he might as well turn in and con- duct the debate from his comfortable cot. So into bed he got and we proceeded. By about midnight the major had completed his argu- ment, and I believe he was confident that my guns were sbundantly spiked and my battle lost. ButIwasn’t. I piiched in and begana talk that would have done your heartgood tohear. Ibegan by a masterly survey of the subject, commenting upon the dignity of the théme, and incidentally referring to the value of the problem’s solution to modern military science. It wasean exordium that might have paralyzed a Fortress Monroe instructor. And it was only the beginning, too. Well, when the sentries called out ‘one o’clock and all's well I was away into the subject, and 21 actually felt that the guard’s early morning signal was an augury of my ultimate success. I felt more assured than ever in their prophetic ‘all’s well,’ and I went ahead with renewed hope. From that time until two I was winning that battle by a most magnificent elucidation of abstruse tactical problems. I followed up the preliminary skirmishes with the most carefully planned assaults upon the strongest positions of the ememy. I routed the masses of infantry, captured battery after bastery of light artillery, secured positions of extreme importance by the most ingenious methods, and had s bright particular time generally. By this time I had been at it for a couple of hours, and now I began an_ elaborate resume of the thing. Here again the great problem went to pieces under renewed as- saults, the enemy's lines of battle were broken, his batteries captured and his best positions occupied. The peroration was fit- tingly brilliant and emphatic as the exordium ‘was masterly and eloquent, and with a parting shot at the major’s pretty theorizing I dam- pened my remaining ammunition and waited.” “0Of course you won the debate?” some one remarked. “Won nothing,” growled Cunningham. “Burdick had been asieep for nearly two hours.” PERSONAL. Dr. Rohm of Redding, is at the Russ House. W. D. Grady, an atiorney of Fresno,is at the Grand. 0. K. Hilton, United States navy, is at the Baldwin. Hon. A. F. Jones of Oroville is stopping at the Palace. F. D. Nicol, the attorney, of Stockton, is at the Lick House. H. B. Stabler, a fruit grower of Yuba County, is at the Lick House. J. L. Hackett, a distiller of Louisville, Ky., is & guest at the Palace. D. B. Willis of the Record-Union, Sacramento, is staying at the Russ. F. W. Welmans of Newman, Cal., is regis- tered at the Lick House. H. fla?fl, editor of the Fowler Ensign, is registered at the Russ House. Ex-Sherfff W. Kay of Fresno arrived in town yesterday and is at the Grand. F. D. Fraser, a mining man from Fort Jones, is inithe City and is stopping at the Russ House. L. F. Breunner of Sacramento is at the Grand. C.R. Downs, & mine-owner from Sutter Creek, registered at the Occidental last evening. M. F. Atwood, one of the proprietors of the New Netherlands Hotel, corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York City, arrived from the East yesterday and is at the Palace. Charles H. Babbitt, a well-known newspaper man of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. He is making a tour of the coast, and is accom- panied by his wife, who is 8 contributor to the Ladies’ Home Journal. OF GREATER OR LESS NOTE. The Rev. Wolcott Calkins has resigned the pastorate of the Elliot Church, at Newton, Mass., on the ground that having for thirty- seven years preached to wealthy congrega- tions it is his desire now to minister to the poor and needy. Charles Anderson of Montreal, ex-member of the Capadian Parliament, has been proven to be the lawful heir of the late Earl of Stirling. The estate Is now in Chancery. Itincludesthe famous Stirling Castle, and is very valuable. Ex-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin is proud of the distinction he enjoys, that of being the best dairyman in the Northwest. He willnotwaste feed on a cow that will not earn §50a year with butter at 20 cents a pound. Mrs. Joseph Bradley Reed, the chairman of the New York City Woman’s Board for the Atlanta Exposition, is & beautiful little South- ern woman, who was at one time a famous belle in New Orleans. M. Francois de Montholon, the handlessland- scape painter, received the Raigecourt-Goyon prize of 1000 francs et the Champs Elysees salon. He paints with artificial jointed hands of wood. The Mikado of Japan has no mrere floricul- He is the sovereign of 45,000,000 people, who live in 13,000 towns and villages. Mayor Strong is a tobacco-chewer, but instead of plug or fine cut he uses fine ‘Havana cigars, which he cuts into small chunks, each one con- taining & chew. ‘Walter Wellman is authority for the story that the President knelt and wept at Greskam’s bier. JOKES OF THE HOUR. He—Why do you refuse me when Isay I can't live without you? She—You have aroused my curiosity.—De- troit Tribune. Student (translating) — And—er—then—er— er—er—went—er—and—er. Professor—Don’t laugh, gentlemen, to err is human.—Life. The coming woman (when she is come)— Come, young lady, it is time to go. Ido notlet my son have beaux after 10 o’clock,—Syracuse Star. Landsman (at & yachtrace)—What's thatcraft out yonder? River man—That's the stakeboat. Landsman—Row me over to it. I'm hungry.— New York Weekly. Tommy—Paw, why do they alwayscall the Prohibition party the “dry party?’ Mr. Figg—Because it gets thoroughly wiped out at every election.—Indianapolis Journal. “Heavens, Marial Was that phonograph open during the cat fight?” *No, I turned it on last night when you were sleeping. Perhaps you will believe now that you snore.”—Life. Commuter—What do you mean by saying thet that house is only five minutes from the station? It's fifteen minutes if it's a second. Real estate dealer—When I said five minutes :c:‘npposed you had s bicycle.—Boston Tran- Pl APPROVE OF THE CHANGE, The Press of the State Com- mends the Course of “The Call.” SUPERIORITY OF THE SERVICE. Better Results Obtalned From The United Press Than From the Old News Bureau. From every section of the State come words approving the course of THE CALL in abandoning the old service and forming an alliance with The United Press. The fact that Tue CALL has access to every item of news published by the “Big Four” of New York — the Herald, the Sun, the Times and the Tribune—is a weighty argument which the journals of California fully appreciate. SUPERIORITY OF THE SERVICE. Riverside Press. An effort has been made to create the impression that The United Press, which furnishes the Daily Press with its tele- graphic news, is inferior to the other asso- ciations. The recent action of the San Francisco Carr, the Sacramento Record- Union and other coast journals, in ‘throw- inE up the Associnu(; Press service and taking The United Press dispatches, is pretty good evidence of the superiority of the latter. This ig the system which fur- nishes the great Néw York and New Eng- land dailies, and the effort to shut it out from the Pacific Coast has signally failed.— Riverside Press. HIGH COMPLIMENT. San Francisco News Letter. There is probably no man in the journal- istic field who has a keener perception of the advantages to be derived from a com- plete and reliable news service than Charles M. Shortridge, editor and propri- etor of the San Francisco MorNING CALL. In his ambition to grasp every department of the news service of the world he lately formed an alliance with the United Press Association of New York, which is the successor of the original Associated Press, by which he is enzabled to furnish the read- ers of THE CaLL, as well as of the San Jose Mercury, of which he is also proprietor, with the extensive and complete news ser- vice of this powerful organization. The United Press Association was formed by the New York Sun, Herald, Tribune, Times and Journal of Commerce, together with _ all the leading newspapers of New England, the South and West, in order to secure a more perfect system of gathering the news, and it became so powerful and so much more perfect than other organiza- tions that it absorbed them all, including the Associated Press Association. THE CarLL”has now at its service all the vast news of this association, whese arms reach to every point of the civilized world. In this enterprise Mr. Shortridge is prepared to furnish the readers of T CALL with every item of news worth reading, and has added an interest to the columns of his journals that has been appreciated by the people everywhere. It is as much of a service to the interior press as to those who look for news in the columns of the metro- politan dailies, being both fresh and reli- able. In this exhibition of enterprise Mr. Shotridge has only manifested a natural ambition to be in the front rank of jour- nalism, and by this stroke of policy in business he reaches every locality in” the United States where members of the asso- ciation may be found. The readers of THE Carr, which is now one of the greatest news&)a&nrs mn the United States, can be satisfied of the fact that they have a mir- ror that reflects the events of the world in this great arm of news gleaning, which has no equal and no rival. GRATEFUL FOR ASSISTANCE. Healdsburg Enterprise. It is interesting and instructive to see how perfectly a newspaper images the character of its manager and how soon the people detect it. It is traced in every line and the ensemble of the paper is a perfect photograph of the man. It is a mistake to say that a newspaper has no personality and that what it says would have the same effect no matter by whom it is said. ‘We have been led to these thouchts by the course of THE CALL, whose progress we have watched with interest and solici- tude since Mr. Shortridge became its pro- rietor. W e had reasen to expect a sturdy, onest, fearless paper from that gentle- man, and we have not been disappointed, though we had some misgivings as to its success financially, as 1t was a serious question whether a really clean paper could succeed in San Francisco. THe CALL has undergone a metamorpho- sis since Mr. Shortridge became its propri- etor. From a local paper without influ- ence, because without positive convictions or moral stamina, 1t has become a_metro- politan journal of high order and great influence. Mr. Shortridge has made many reforms and innovations in Pacific Coast journalism, which no one but a strong, Id man would have attempted. They meet the approbation of the people, who will support it so long as these features are maintained. It has purged its columns of offensive and demor- alizing advertisements, such as the results of lottery dmwingls, premium swindlers, gift books, etc. It has made valuable arrangements for acquiring news, foreign and domestic. It is now a mem- ber of The United Press—nicknamged the “Big Four’’ of New York, composed of the Sun, Tribune, Times and Herald. This ggves TrE CALL a news service superior to that of any paper on the coast. Pacific Coast news is also a leading feat- ure of that paper. This was shown during the preparation for our late fiesta. .THE CaLL was the first paper to come to our assistance, and we fcel particularly grate- ful to it therefor. NEW UNITED PRESS SERVICE. Sacramento Sunday Leader. The San Francisco CaLy, the San Jose Daily Mercury and the Record-Union of this city have discontinued the service of the Chicago Associated Press and have be- come patrons of The United Press. This is the same company which furnishes the Leader with its splendid telegraphic service. The prime center and fountain-head of The United Press is in New York City, and the main sponsors of the organization are those great papers, the New York Sun, Herald, Tribune and Times, together with other powerful journals of that city. All the manifoid resources of these great newspapers, as well as those of New Eng- land and the South, are ogan to those above-mentioned wide awake California journals. There is not a reader of news- papers in the country, who will fail to comprehend what this means. Every one will see at a glance that it gives to them advantages in news gathering not now en- joyed by other papers on the Pacific Coast. he United Press is acknowledged to be the most efficient news-gathering associa- tion in the world. Negotiations with other Pacific Coast papers are in progress, and further accessions to the ranks of The tUnimd Press are expected in the near uture. S THEM ALL. Centratia (Wash) News. Ever since the San Francisco CALy passed under the management of Charles M. Shortridge there have been evidences of improvement in the paper almost daily. ‘These improvements culminated hr week when on the same day; Thr Carr donpled HEADS PRONE & 2B e its press capacity and added to its columns The United Press dispatches, said to be the most comprehensive news-gathering service in the country. The scove and completeness of its service may be gleaned from the fact that it 18 backed by the “Big Four’—the Her- ald, Times, Tribune and Sun of New York—and all the leading papers of New England- This service, atfded to its al- ready perfect coast service, will make THE CALL the equal of any of the great morning dailies of the East and the su- erior of any paper on the Pacific Coast. ut it is not alone in its news service that TaE CALL is great; its editorial columns give evidence of ability, candor and jinde- pendence, relying upon reason and argu- ment to enforce the views and aims of its management, without relying upon mere dogmatic assertion. While the Pacific Coast has many wide-awake and influen- tial newsgapers, TrE CaLL to-day, in our opinion, heads them all as the newspaper oF the Pacific Coast. THE PEOPLE'S PAPER. Crescent City News. The San Francisco CaLy, the people’s paper, has added a new quadruple perfect- ing printing machine to meet the demands of an increasing circulation. With its mate THE CaLr will be printed at the rate of 96,000 four, six or eight pages per hour; 48,000 ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen pages per hour; 24,000 twenty, twenty-four, twenty-eight or thirty-two pages per hour. Tue CALL comes out of the presses cut, pasted, folded and counted. Tue CaLL, under the able management of Charles M. Shortridge, is setting an example for other great dailies by bringing to the front the entire coast. Arrangements have also been made to receive telegraphic news hitherto only enjoyed by a number of Eastern papers. Thegeople of this coast are proud of the new CAv, as it labors for theix,) interest. THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE. The San Francisco Wave. There is more journalism in this far | ‘Western metropolis than in any other city in America. Here is Charley Shortridge’s CaLL provided with a new telegraphic ser- vice and a new press. The circulation of Tur CALL has so increased under his man- agement that in order to meet the demand for papers a new machine was necessary. It was ordered and installed, and that with little of the self-glorification generally pre- sumed to be proper on so avspicions an occasion. The new telegraphic service is that of the The United Press, the organi- zation that supplies with National and European news the big New York, Boston and Chicago daili UNLIMGTED ENTERPRISE. Fort Bragg Advocate. The progress made by the San Francisco Cavy since it was purchased by Charles M. Shortridge has been marvelous. It has pushed ahead until it has become the lead- ing and ablest edited journal on the Pacific Coast, and to cap the climax a giant quad- ruplex press has just been put in which delivers papers at the rate of 48,000 four, six or eight pages per hour, and with the other press enables THE CALL plant to turn out psg)ers at the rate of 96,000 an hour. THE CaLL has also made arrangements with The United Press for better news service, Truly the New CaLL is a wonder- ful paper. UNRIVALED PRESS FACILITIES. Riddle (Or.) Enterprise. Since the San Franciseo DALy CALy has put in its two magnificent new Hoe quad- ruple perfecting printing machines, and by an alliance with The United Press and the New York “Big_Four, secured in- creased telegraphic facilities, it has become the best metropolitan journal published on the Pacific Coast. THE CALL is now equipped to print 96,000 papers of eight pages each per hour, which leave the press all printed, cut, pasted, folded and counted. TrE CALL can now boast of un- rivaled press and news facilities. BIDS FAIR TO DO\.V_N ITS RIVAL. Rediands Citrograph. The onerous exactions of The Associated Press—one of the great news-gathering companies of the world—has led to serious defections. Quite a number of great dailies have quit that association and joined the United Press. Among the latest are the San Francisco CALL and the Sacramento Record-Union. The United Press bidsfair to down the Associated Press, and few will regret it. There is too much independence among the newspapers to allow much die- tation as to news service. OTHERS WILL HAVE TO HUSTLE, Contra Costa Gazette. The, San Francisco CALn has just put in anew Hoe quadruple printing press that will print, paste, fold and count 48,000 eight—gage pui)ars per_hour, and has also formed an alliance with The United Press Association that will give it the best news service of any morning newspapér on the coast. THE CALL keeps forzinlf ahead ,un- der the management of C. M. Shortridge, and if its contemporaries keep pace with it they will find it necessary to hustle. “THE CALL’S” BIG STRIDE. Chico Chronicle-Record. The handsome twenty-page edition of THE CaLL, the first from their new R. Hoe & Co. quadruple press, was an emphatic manifestation of the enterprising methods adopted by Editor C. M. Shortridge. The new press is a wonderful machine. THE CALL can now run 48,000 sixteen-page papers an_hour, and if it increases in cir- culation in the future as rapidly asin the past the full capacity will soon be needed. A SUPERIOR SERVICE. Pasadena News. The recent action of the San Francisco CaLy, the Sacramento Record-Union and other coast journals in throwing up the Associated Press service and taking The United Press dispatches is pretty good evi- dence of the superiority of the latter. This is the system which furnishes the great New York and New England dailies, and the effort to shut it out from the Pacific Coast has signally failed. THE MOST COMPLETE PAPER, Selma Enterprise. The “New CArn” has completed its equipment by securing a United Press franchize and by placing in its pressrooms a second quadruplex press. It now has two of the fastest running presses in San Francisco and also has the most complete news service, both general and special, of any dail{ west of the Mississippi. It has the “call.” A PENNSYLVANIA COMPLIMENT. Seranton (Pa.) Tribune. The rejuvenated San Francisco CALy has demonstrated its enterprise and discern- ment b{. securing the completed news ser- vice of The United Press, which is the best service now obtainable. TrE CaLn will now be the best newspaper printed west of the Rockiv Mountains, and that is saying a good deal. ABLEST ON THE COAST. Fort Wayne (Ind.) News. Tre San Francisco CaLr, the ablest newspaper on the Pacific Coast, has left the Chicago Associated Press and in a long editorial gives its reasons for uniting its destinies with The United Press, which it denominates the greatest news agency in the world. - EQUAL TO ANY. Tyacy Times. - San Francisco’s CALL] has just purchased a new press. THE CaLL is now the leading daily of the coast, and we believe its cir- culation is equal to any. CONGRATULATIONS FROM TACOMA. . = The San Francisco €irLr has lately ac- ut in several improved Hoe presses. THE BALL is under the management of Charles M. Shortridge and is the best newspaper on the coast. fiVs congratulate it upon its enterprise. WILL IMPROVE ‘THE " “CALL.” MIGHTY Fallbrook Advertiser. 5 The San Francisco Cavy has discontinued its Associated Press service and formed an alliance with The United Press. The ex- tensive and impartial “report” gathered by the latter association will further im- prove the mighty CALL. BEST WEST OF THE ROCKIES. Blue Like Advocate. TrE CaLs ought to feel proud in an- nouncing to its many readers its recent ac- quisition of a new press, which is said to be the largest west of the Rockies. THE CALL is constantly improving and deserves the success it receives. IN THE FRONT R@NK- Palo Alto. * s Having secured the service of The United Press dispatches and added another fas'n press to its printing facilities THE CaLy is maintaining its position in the very front rank of metropolitan journalism. MARVELO PROGRESS. Marysville Appeal. TrE CALL'S enterprise has no limit. 2 The great paper has added another and inde- penden¢_telegraphic service to its present news facilities. e OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The business men and manufacturers of the country, by reason of the downing of Demo- cracy and Populism at the late elections, have confidence in starting up their enterprises that reasonable protection will be given to Ameri- can industry, and that the products of Euro- pean pauver labor and Asiatic coolies will not be permitted to have free access to this coun- try without payment of duty at least equal to taxes paid by home producers.—Yreka Journal. There is at times a suggestion of ironical humor in fate, or whatever you might choose to call the destiny that shapes our ends. Fo lowing the news of distressing drought in Ne- braska comes a dispatch announcing rains and floods resulting in the drowning of four men. 1t is presumed that they had been praying for rain, and in their dire extremity had overdone it.—Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise. Those persons who expect prompt agreement of Great Britain to an international monetary conference asaresult of the accession of the Consgrvatives to power should wait and see whether this party, like our own Democratic party, does not understand a platiorm as “something to get in on; not to ride on.”"— Portland Oregonian. Distance lends enchantment to the view of reservation lands. The Tillamook Headlight says the people of that county made no effort to take up the Siletz territory. They knew it too well. It is only to those far away that these reservations take on the semblance of a promised land.—Portland Oregonian. The Democratic doctrine of “‘tariff for reve- nue only” has certainly had a queer exemplifi- cation under the present administration, reve- nue being about the only thing, except pros- perity, which the new teriff has failed to produce.—San Diego Union. The young man whose graduating essay as- serted that “beyond the Alps lies our Italy” will go forth from school only to find that the business world consists of 99 per cent Alps and 1 per cent Italy.—Tekoa (Wash.) Globe. He that hath truth on his side is a fool, as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it be- cause of the currency or multitude of other men's opinions.—Oakland Times. We take our readers into our confidence so far as to state that what is needed more than the new woman is the new man.—Portland Sun. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * B e RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.® s ToTe T GEo. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* e e e BacoXN Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ——————— WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, 5¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Mkt*® oy en T A spectroscope detector by which one part of blood in a solution of 850,000 parts can be discovered has been invented by M. de Thierry. It will be of value in murder cases where the stains are very minate. e ‘WARM weather weakens the whole system. It causes loss of appetite and that tired feeling. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, on the other hand, creates an appetite, tones the stomach and gives new life. —-—— 1Ir your complaint is want of appetite try half a wine glass of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters be- fore meals. o e Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompe son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. NEW TO-DAY. END OF THE SEASON PRICES. This Means Such Low Prices as Have Not Been Quoted Befors —N— DRESS G00DS, MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. FANCY SHADED ARMURE END OF THE DRESS GOODS. SEASON Light or Dark Colorings. PRICE, ‘Wool u:;g iflagut. ‘;flk effects; Width nches, the price was 508 : 25¢ STRICTLY HIGH GRADE, END OF THE ARMY SERGE DRESS GOdDS. SEASON Finest All Wool, PRICE, Widih 45 inches; colors, Navy and Black; real value, Vg 50¢ LANCASHIRE CHEVRONS E™D OF THB DRESS G A SON Checked and Mixed Novelties, PRICE, gtrictly All Wool, ‘Width'38 inches. Price was 60c. 250 PAY US A VNIT. IT WILL PAY YOU NOW. Parcels deliverea free in this and neighboring citles and towns. Country orders receive our best and prompt attexition. Samples on application. KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FROHMAN., qlflndrfl;arenfire United Press service and ; 1220-1222-1224 MARKET ST,