The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. and Sunday CALL, one week, by car! Daily end Sunday CALI, one year, by mail... Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 Paily and Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 "ALL. one month, by mail Dafly WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. ...Maln—1868 Telephone. Telephone..... - ...Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 520 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until £:50 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. en until 9:30 o'clock. nd Mission streets; open or Sixteenth until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open ur 116 Ninth street; open until 9 19 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Paclfic States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelafider boilding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon going to the country on a_vacation ? If 50, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALI/to oraddress. Do not let it ou_ for you will s it. Orders given 1o the carrier, or left at 710 Market street, will receive Office, ntion. JULY 29, 1895 When the carnivals are over the fairs will begin. Lying is.the least of the evils of sensa- tional journalism. Hard times are p: away, but soft snaps are as scarce as ev The San Quentin gallows has already re- assumed its hungry aspect. It is a dull day that doesn’t furnish a new witness to the Durrant case. The Colma Club is making some vigorous whacks at the City’s fair name. A boom serves only to increase prices, but enterprise increases busin It may seem inco: fighting while the Solid E: istent to oppose prize- ight flourish. Local resources can be developed better by home energy than by foreign capital. Bandit Brady has an eye to the excellent quality of the hemp kept in stock at San Quentin. The Solid Eight will find out before long that the code of California is not a bundle of false pretenses. Administration Democrats in Kentucky may have muzzled Joe Blackburn, but he is still able to kick. Alameda County’s reduction of its as- sessment has changed Assessor Dalton’s fidelity to heroism Even when you put yourself in another man’s place you don’t always see the world from his point of view. There area good many criminals who might well reflect that San Quentin has both a graveyard and a gallows. Woodward’s exploits in Cuba have para- lyzed the wings upon which Creelman’s ambition soared at Port Arthur. When Hawaii places herself in a posi- tion to press a cable button she may be sure that America will do the r This is the closing day of the Horr and Harvey debate and both sides have promised the dear public to try to put a little life into it. Judging from the symptoms made pub- lic, Mr. Harrison has more fool friends than any other Presidential candidate who isn’t a fool himself. The great consolation of an honest offi- cer is the conspicuous advertising which his worth receives from the crookedness of his official associates. Hoke Smith made a wide circuit in his gold money campaign in Georgia, but wide as it was he did not succeed in getting round his own record. It is conceivable that Brady takes many a furtive glance toward the wicket of his cell to see if Sheriff Bogard’s ghost has ac- quired the peering habit. Senator Gorman seems to have mistaken the noise of his success in the Democratic primaries in Maryland for the voice of a mi';h(y})eople, and he thinks he hears the buzzing’of the Presidential bee. San Francisco takes a high rank among the cities of the Union for manufacturing industries, and ought to be sufficiently proud of them to give them a support on which they can thrive and increase. A startling exhibition of Mr. Corbett’s prowess is seen in the pains which he takes to inform Mr. Fitzsimmons what particu- lar form of rib-roaster Mr. Fitzsimmons maust stop in order not to be knocked out. The convention of the Afro-American League, which has been called to meet in this City to-morrow, will bring together the ablest men of that race in the State, and will doubtless result in important work for the general good. The report of the dinner given by young Rodman Wanamaker in Paris, in which he supplied each guest with a whole leg of mutton, a whole salmon, a truffled fowl and a double magnum of champagne, must have made old John Wanamaker turn pale, unless he saw its value as an advertisement of the ability of the family to go the whole hog. That distinguished Tammany statesman, Richard Croker, who was in England during the recent elections, has drawn from his observations and telegraphed to this country the profound moral reflection : “Humanity is the same everywhere, the lower classes are controlled by the same impulses in England asin, America and there is just as much corruption in London as in New York.” The friends of the Solid Eight are trying to delude the people into the belief that the opposition to the scheme for granting an extensive railway franchise to the Market-street Company springs from an antagonism to that company. It cannot be too often repeated, therefore, that the opposition is directed solely to the illegality of the job and the loss tothe City ‘of the money value of the franchise. Keep teiling this truth and you will shame the devils SENSATIONAL NEWS, The reasonable deductions from a read- ing of the Holmes case at Chicago are bad enough, for they seem to show that the insurance methods of this country per- mitted a scoundrel to insure the livesofa number of persons for his benefit and then murder them for the insurance money. This much is credible because it is possi- ble and because the life-insurance vogue invites this sort of crime. Even in Lon- don, where the law is severer, the insur- ance and murdering of children is a thriv- ing industry. But there are disclosures made in the news from Chicago with reference to Holmes that cannot be read without a shudder for the horrors of sensa- tional journaiism. Let it be understood in the first place that policemen and de- tectives find in the existence of sensational newspapers an opportunity for advertising their prowess among those whose order of intellect accepts sensational newspapers as a proper expression of truth and justice. Hence there is an incentive on the part of such officers to give out for publication the most ridiculous news in order not only to make themselves conspicuous, but also to curry favor with the sensational news- papers, whose favor they find it profitable to court. The Holmes case at Chicago has been fully as prolific as the Durrant case at San Fra co in the production of vicious phases of sensaticnalism. The truth in all such cases is generally bad enough, but it is never so bad but that it must be made immeasurably worse in order to meet the requirements of certain journal- istic standards. Hardly a day arrives but that brings news of some incredibly ghastly evidence of Holmes’ ferocity. Thus, the discovery in his house cellar of a tank used for the manufacture of illum- inating gas was sufficient to furnish sensa- tional newspapers with columns of blood- curdling accounts of a chemical vat in which he had decomposed the cadavers of his victims. It is incredible that news- paver editors could have believed the tank was meant for the destruction of human bodies, and hence their deliberate perver- sion of the value of that discovery may be taken as a measure of such a journalistic conscienci With a delicious insouciance Holmes has given a rational explanation of many of the other ludicrously important ‘‘discoveries” which the police have made and the sensational press published, although it did not require his pricking of the bubble to inform intelligent readers that a sensational police and a sensational press were conspiring to cheat a heedless public. One of the clearly evident effectsof this sort of journalism is to cheapen and de- grade the police. It is an incentive to spectacular effects rather than to a hard, patient and earnest pursuit of criminals. It is an inducement to the police to sur- render knowledge, the publication of which must tend to defeat justice. In every as- pect of the case the practice is demoraliz- ing as well as disgusting, and is an insult ! to the higher intelligence of the com- munity in which it is followed. OAMP ROACHE. The keynote of the address of the Hon. A. P. Roache, master of the State Grange, at the opening of the camp of instruction and school of economics in the Santa Cruz Mountains, was very properly co-operation. TIts importance is emphasized by the con- troversy now raging concerning the best method of marketing California fruit in the East. Indeed, there is hardly any problem now confronting the rural in- dustries of the State whose solution does not in some measure bring about a con- sideration of the extent to which co- operation can be devised and practiced by the farmers. The regular courses of instruction at the camp begin to-day. They are to consist mainly of lectures by men well fitted by experience and by education to give in- struction on the subjects with which they are to deal. Representing the faculty of the State University and of Stanford, the lecturers will present to the farmers the conclusions of the ablest thinkersand most comprehensive students of the problems before them, and as a consequence, so far as an increase of knowledge is a benefit, every listener will be benefited and derive a profit from the school. It will not be surprising, kowever, if the greatest gain of the camp results from the discussions which will take place among the farmers themselves upon the subjects treated by the lecturers. In these discussions every principle laid down will be subjected to the test of minds whose ideas on the question have been derived from the arduous school of actual experi- ence. These ideas may notalways harmon- ize with the theories advanced by the lec- turers, and in the debates upon them there will be an opportunity to get rid of errors and misconceptions and form a better un- derstanding of the problems of farm life and consequently a fuller comprehension of the best means of solving them. From present appearances there is every probability the camp will prove as success- ful as could be expected from the first ven- ture. It has been well located, the pro- gramme has been well devised and the management is in the hands of compe- tent, energetic men. While primarily in- tended for farmers, it will be attractive to all who are interested in agriculture, in the complex relations of economics to farm life and in the further development of the principle of co-operation. It is becoming more and more evident that the individual cannot much longer maintain himself single-handed against the increasing com- binations, corporations and trusts in the industrial world, and therefore any and every movement that tends to bring the producers of the State intoa comprehen- sive co-operation ought to be of interest not to farmers only, but to all who feel a rightful concern in the affairs of the people and of the commonwealth. A QUESTION OF TRUTH. In commenting upon the opposition of Tug Carvrto the scheme of the Solid Eight to confer a valuable franchise upon the Market-street Railway Company for the small sum of $500, the Wave, through one of its young men, says: “The head and front of their offending appears to be that they awarded a street railroad contract to the Market-street Railroad Company, which can build and run it, instead of awarding it to Joost, as to whose capacity to build and run it there are grave doubts. Why does not Mr. Shortridge order his young man to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and so shame the devil.” On the showing of this statement it is evident the Wave is in sad need of the truth. The Solid Eight has not given a street railroad contract to the Market- street Railway Company, nor so far as we know does the Eight design to do so, even though it be conceded that the company “can build it and run it.” The issue is one of granting a valuable street railway franchise. The law requires that when municipal franchises are petitioned for they shall be advertised and sold to the highest bidder. The Solid Eight proposes to sell the franchise in question under terms that will bar out all bidders except one, and designs, furthermore, to let that one bidder purchase that valuable fran- chise for the trifling sum of $500. It 1s, therefore, not a question between the Mar- ket-street Railway Company and Mr. Joost. Itisa plain issue between the law and official misconduct. This is not the first time the Solid Eight and their friends have tried to delude the people into the belief that the opposition to them is no more than a spiteful antag- onism to the Market-street Railroad Com- pany or a cunning attempt to help some one else get a franchise. Once or twice be- fore statements just about as distorted as that of the Wave have been tried. When once tried, however, they have not been repeated. Nor is it likely that this one will be. The case is too clear. Under the law the Solid Eight cannot give a fran- chise to any one. The franchise must be sold, says the law, to the highest bidder, and consequently the only rivalry the Market-street Railway Company has to fear under the law is that some one will raise their bid and thus cause the fran- chise to bring into the City treasury its real market value. The enforcement of the law would result in no unfairness to the Market-street Rail- way Company, but would be of consider- able benefit to the taxpayers. The Solid Eight are well aware that the City needs money. They are well aware that a fran- chise was sold to Sutro for §6100. They know, therefore, that such franchises are valuable; that they bring money to the City treasury. Then why do they not obey the law and sell this franchise in question to the highest bidder, instead of trying to sneak it away for $500? This much of the truth and nothing but the truth we have told to shame the Wave. The whole truth of the transactions in- volved in this attempt to violate the law, wrong the taxpayers and defraud the City treasury is known only to those who ar- ranged the job. If that whole truth were published it might not bring a blush to the Solid Eight, but we may be sure it would put to shame every intelligent man who has tried to defend them. JUDGES AND LITIGATION. An interesting discussion has arisen in the East over the statement in a recent ad- dress by Joseph Choate that England with her 30,000,000 people does not have so many Judges to attend to her legal con- troversies as any one of our larger States. She finds thirty-two Judges of the first class equal to all her wants, while New York has 140 and Illinois 178. The discussion turns upon the question whether the American or the Engiish sys- tem is the better. Litigation in this coun- try is much cheaper than in England, and consequently many more suits are brought. To handle this increase of cases there must be an increase of Judges. The discussion goes back therefore to a consideration of whether it is of advantage to a people to have law proceedings provided for them so cheaply that they can afford to bring suits and goto law with one another on- the slightest provocation. Undoubtedly cheap law has some advan- tages. It gives a poor man a better chance of protection in his rightsand his property than he would otherwise have. It puts the people of a country nearer on an equal- ity. Itenables any citizen at a compara- tively moderate cost to take an appeal to the courts against a wrong-doer and thus checks the tendency among certain classes of the rich to override and injure their poorer neighbors. The evil of cheap law lies in the fact that its cheapness induces people to resort to it when there is no need of it. Thus a large proportion of our litigation is utterly sense- less, useless and ought never to have been started. Its existence not only demands the maintenance of a large number of Judges, but attracts to the legal profession thousands of mere practitioners at the bar who are not lawyers in any right sense of the word and who live on the fees they can get out of people who go to law with some petty case that ought mnever to be allowed to engage public attention or entail public expense. Perhaps the English system of thirty-two Judges for 30,000,000 of people makes law too high, but ours would seem to make it too cheap. We could well afford to spare from California a good many Judes, a good many lawyers and a good deal of liti- gation. It is said that despite the small number of Judges in England and the for- mality that prevails there, they get through with their work quicker than ours and both criminal and civil cases are settled more promptly. This fact will incline many to regard the English system as best. At any rate, we have nothing to do with law reform over there and the value of the discussion is to consider whether it may lead public sentiment to demand reform here. HARVEY WINS. The Horr and Harvey debate will be closed to-day by what will perhaps be the most earnest and most interesting discus- sion of the series. Itis intended to be a summary of the whole controversy and each disputant will of course put forth his strongest efforts to maintain his cause in the best light and overwhelm his opponent with confusion. There will be of course wide differences of opinion in the public judgment on the con- troversy. The gold men will appland Horr’s efforts, the silver men will applaud Harvey’s and the waverers will continue to waver. Nevertheless, the gain of the devate will accrue to the silver side. It has already added much to Harvey’s pres- tige. He entered the controversy known only as the writer of a book on the silver question which has a tremendous run, but is without any characteristic of permanent value. Horr was known as a man of more than ordinary force, a statesman of consid- erable repute, one of the leading debaters in Congress for several terms, and now the financial writer for one of the leading pa- pers of the country. Many sincere silver men doubted whether Harvey could stand successfully against the practiced debater opposed to him. There are no longer any such doubts entertained. To the surprise of the general public the silver champion has not only proven superiorin knuwfledge but equal in debate to his foe, and in the contest of Saturday gained a decided and important victory. ‘When in the course of the Saturday dis- cussion Mr. Horr said, “What Harvey wants and what these people are after is to destroy all property and to put this Nation on a socialist and anarchist basis,” he practically confessed defeat. The man who has no other argument against bi- metallism than that might as well quit. TUp to this time therefore the honors of the debate are with Harvey. His prestige has grown during the discussion while that of his opponent has distinctly fallen off, and Horr will have to make strenuous efforts in the way of honest argument if he hopes to redeem himself in the closing contest. to-day. It has been only recently that some,| worthy persons, including lawyers, resur-| rected the respectable old word *talesmen,” and began ludicrously to dpply 1t to per- sons summoned as jurymen other than those selected from among the bystanders in or about the wnmrom, » A LOOK AT THE FUTURE. There has rarely been in the history of the press 5o much outside discussion and comment upon its methods and morals as there is to-day, nor has there ever been a time when there was more reason for this inquiry into the greatest Ppower for good or evil of civilized communities. But alittle of the greatest century of many eycles is left, and into it the results of accumu- lated discovery and invention, shaped and directed by the hands of genius, are being crowded, says the New York Fourth Estate. We are watchers at the birth of what once would have seemed the uncanny child of wild fancy, and yet we are the witnesses of the com- ing of an era of wondrous beauty, powers and possibilities. Modes of locomotion and of living are chang- ing, and man has become a nobler animal, with abilities that seem supernatural and ambitions almost 0o great for attainment. The press, which has the duty to act as his- torian of this remarkable time of transition. transformation and triumph, must expect the searching scrutiny of all men, and, listening to their suggestions, shape itself in accordance Wwith their wighes. It is easy in speaking of the power of the press to proceed on the supposi- tion that it is really the actual molder of pub- lic opinion. The fact is that the press is not all-powerful, and thatitisreally but the reflection of the character of the people it caters to and serves. 1t does mold public opinion in so far s its cir- culation is large and influential, but it is pri- marlly what it is and holds the power it does because it is popular. This is the age of the people, and fortunately they are inclined to look to a better press, and are turning from the gossiping, scandal-telling servant to the wise and faithful friend. It is N0t 50 many years ago that a philosopher from other lands judged the various cities of Amer- ica according to the popularity of the press, and saw their morality in the style of the pa- pers that had the greatest circulations. It would have shocked several great communities if his observations had been catalogued in the local papers. The discussion and observation of the papers from the outside is a healthy sign. That minis. ters, who have too often mistaken printer'sink for a snare of the devil, now frequently ally themselves to the press and are proud of it as a tremendous worker for good, is surely a token that the coming century is to be a better one. It is idle to attempt to particularize in prophecy just what the twentieth eentury pub- lications will be, but it is worth mentioning that there is a general belief and hope that the detailing of hideous crimes and the parading of every vile sore in the social spheres will not prove profitable journalism. It is also thought that the news confined to what is of healthy interest will leave room for intelligent discus- sion and literary excellence. “THE CALL'S” TREATMENT OF THE DURRANT CASE. 7o the Editor of The Call-Str: I would like just enough space in your honorable paper to express the thanks and appreciation of myself and friends of the highly creditable mannerin which THE CALL has presentéd the news of the Durrant case to the public.: We are thankful that we have at least one paper that will give us the news of this case as well as all other items of interest, in an unbiased and unvar- nished manner without presuming to color it by its own opinion. But we want to especially thank THE CALL for the stand it has taken in this celebrated case and for its advocacy of fair play. I do this in behalf of my friends. Yours truly, H. E. MCCONNELL. San Francisco, July 27, 1895. PERSONAL. J. A. Reed, a big rancher of Reedley, is at the Grand. Henry P, Martin of New York registered at the Palace yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Spencer of Santa Bar- bara are at the Palace. Irving W. Kelly, theatrical man, is a guest at the Hotel St. Nichelas. A. 8. Smith of the Marysville Standard isa guest at the Lick House. Dr. W. J. Hanna, a physician of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. P. L. Barrington, editor of the San Jose Dem- ocrat, is at the Occidental. Dr. G. B. Little, a leading citizen of Burling- ton, Towa, is at the Grand Hotel. C. C. Campbell, a prominent merchant of Red Bluff, is staying at the Grand. State Senator Eugene Aram of Woodland reg- istered yesterday at the Hotel St. Nicholas. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Nead, tourists of Philadelphia, are registered at the Occidental Hotel. Robert McPherson, real estate man of Mc- Pherson, Cal., registered at the Lick House yes- terday. ] J. B. Smallwood and wife and Miss C. H. Worthington of Baltimore are guests at the Palace. James Henry Storey and Henry C. Swentzel, tourists of Brooklyn, N.Y.,are guestsat the Palace. J.P. Maleville and Frank Dulmaine of France are registered at the Grand. They have been inspecting mining properties in the region of Grass Valley. C. C. Wright of Modesto, author of the Wright irrigation act, which Judge Ross has declared unconstitutional, is in town for a few days and is staying at the Lick. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The irrigation question has gone back to the old muddle of ten years ago, when the entire State was arrayed either for or against ripar- ian rights and nobody knew what the words meant.—San Jose Mereury. The Vanderbilt reilroads in New York are to be indicted for manslaughter in causing, by their negligence, the death of eighteen per- sons within the current year. This might be an effective way to deal with the owners of the steamer Colima.—Portland Oregonian. The man who advertises the right kind of g0ods at fair prices through suitable channels will reap manifold returns from his enterprise. He who neglects to advertise, on the theory that it is not worth while to do soin ‘“the dull season,” as he prefers to call the summer, has 10 right to complain if customers are few and far between.—Healdsburg Tribune. It is & shame to can horses in Oregon. They wonld do much more for the prosperity of the State cultivating the orchards and the crops for cow and hog feed. We hope to see their de- mand for such usetul occupations increase and their price goupso no one can afford to buy them to can.—Salem (Or.) Statesman, San Francisco capitalists are arranging to de- velop water-power at Clear Lake and transmit it to San Francisco, a distance of seventy-five miles. Perhaps some one will eventually rec- ognize the opportunity presented to develop power in the Los Gatos Canyon and transmit it to San Jose, a distance of only eighteen miles.— San Jose Mercury. If the farmers know what is to their ad- vantage the school at Highland will be well attended. It is a matter of vital importance that such an institution as the summer school for farmers be meintained, and upon the sup- port and interest manifest at this time will depend the continuance of the project. By all means let us have the summer school for farm- ers.—Los Angeles Herald. We have discovered that power and wealth have their origin in ihe common people and on their industry, honesty and patriotism de- pends the welfare of the State, and not on the good or ll will of any one individual, be he prince or citizen. 8o in our displays the mock pomp and cerecmony which attends the queen of beauty and of flowers has perhaps a more real foundation than that which accompanies the grandest potentate on earth, for it is founded on the good will and affection of all the people.—Eureka Times. The Mechanics’ Fair in San Francisco this year is to make a specialty of California made goods. Manufacturers from all parts of the State, whatever may be their output, are especially invited to display their goodsand the process of their produection. Power will be furnished free by the fair managers, and every opportunity afforded to display every Califor- nia product. Itisa greatscheme and should l‘wzehnv:ilcd of by all who can.—Kern County cho. Just now, ‘“while times is scarce,” twenty thousand dollars thrown into circulation in Merced would relieve many embarrassments and tide our people over to the good times which can plainly be seen ahead. A sewer sys- tem and street improvements such as Merced ought to have, can and should be provided now. The people are ready for it and an elec- tion on the proposition could be carried in favor of it by a safe majority at this time.— Merced Star. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. While Robert A. Friedrich of this City was in New York recently he saw many of the offi- cers of the reorganized Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and every one of them spoke of an extension of the road. Closer connection with San Francisco is the next important step of the corporation. The Santa Fe issaid to be in excellent condition now for progressive work. The greditors of the company have expressed their confidence in the ability of the present management to vlace the system on a prosperous footing again. All the stock required to sustain the managers has been deposited with the Union Trust Com- pany. An early announcement that the Santa Fe had ordered the construction of a line con- necting the Atlantic and Paeific with the Val- ley road would create no surprise in railway circles. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Professor Huxley was buried, as probably he would have liked to be, in a bed of bowlder clay, a fitting subject for a paleontologist. In the earth about his coffin are relics of the pre- historic era when all Scotland and England as far as the Thames were covered with a vast sheet of ice. Prince Khilkoff, Russian Minister of Ways and Communications, is a practical engineer ofskill and experience. He worked as an ordi- nary mechanic and as a locomotive engineer in Canada and the United States, and subse- quently spent several years with an engineer- ing firm in Liverpool. When 8. R. Crockett wasa poor young col- lege student he became the private tutor of a rich American youth and traveled with his charge all over England and as far away as Siberia and Nova Zembla. He made copious notes of the trip and expects to use them in a forthcoming book. The administration of the late Mr. Parnell’s estate will, it is said, yield about 10 shillings in the pound. His home and small estate in Ir8land were mortgaged to an Irish banker be- fore his death for £10,000,and his quarries he sold to his brother. There are certain secu- rities in America which, it is hoped, will yield more than at first expected. Ledy Mary Hamilton Douglas, the 11-year- old daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton, will be one of the richest heiresses of the age. Her father could not leave her his titles, but left her the bulk of his property, including the Isle of Arran, which is larger than the Isle of Wight. Her income is now $800,000 a year, and will e $1,200,000 by the time she comes of age. The rooms in which the sessions of the Har- vard summer school are held are lettered in- stead of numbered—a circumstance which led to an interesting episode. One of the profes- sors, besieged by & swarm of ladies with ques- tions, said to one of them: ‘“Miss Blank, I will see you in H!” The fair petitioner almost fainted before she realized just what the re- mark meant, HUMOR OF THE DAY. His eyes opened—Saidso—Hicks 1s getting suspicious of his wife. Herdso—On what account? Saidso—Every time he is sick she insists on his having a doctor.—New York World. Manager—We must put in a great deal of realism in this wood scene. Can you get some one to growl so as to resemble a bear? Assistant—T think so. There are six or seven chorus-girls who haven’t received their wages for ten weeks. I'll call them.—Norristown Herald. Nearly as bad.—*“Brother Wilgus,” said the deacon, “there is a rTeport current that you were run out of Plunkville by White Caps five years ago.” “It is not quite that bad,” said the minister, ‘with a slight smile; ‘‘it was ouly a threatened donation party.”—Indianapolis Journal. Bookkeeper—If you are out when Mr. Never- pay comes in to-morrow to order a suit of clothes, what shall I tell him? Tailor—How do you know he is coming in? Bookkeeper—He sent $20 to-day as an install- ment on his old account.—New York Truth. A conjurer was recently performing the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket hand- kerchief, when he remarked to a little boy, in fun: “I say, my boy, your mother can’t get eggs without hens, can she?’ ““Of course she can,” replied the boy. “Why, how’s that?” asked the conjurer. “She keeps ducks,”” replied the boy.—Rich- mond State. THE BICYCLE AMBULANOE CORPS OF BERLIN-ONE 2 OF THE LATEST USES TO WHICH THE WHEEL HAS BEEN PUT. {Beproduced.from an engraving in the New York orld.) i MIDSUMMER FESTIVITIES, The Phantasma in Alameda and Charity Concert in Oakland. g A WEDDING IN THE ISLANDS. Movements of Oakland People Out of Town, Weddings and Engagements. Cards have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stapleton of Lorin for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Kittie Stapleton, to George F. Alberti to take place August 7. The engagement has been announced of Miss Martie Foard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Foard of Alameda, and Charles E. Blair of Astoria, Or. Among the arrivals by the Australia from Honolulu were Joseph Platt Cooke and his bride, who was Miss Maud Bald- win, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. H. P. Baldwin. They were married at the 1sland home of the bride’s parents at Haiku, Maui, on the 18th inst. At the ceremony Rev. Dr. Beckwith officiated. Miss Gracie Cooke was the maid of honor ana Miss Alexander and Miss Lottie Baldwin the bridesmaids. Harry Baldwin was the best man. The following, who went down with the groom on the steamer from San Fran- cisco, were present at the ceremony: Mrs. E. Cooke, Miss Harriet Cooke, mother and sister of the groom; C. Montague Cooke, Clarence Cooke, Alec Atherton, Frank Atherton, Hiram Bingham, Albert Judd, Frank Judd, Ed_Damon, W. Mott Smith, F. F. Baldwin, Will D. Baldwin, brothers of the bride; H. Twombly and E. C. Knud- son. Mrs. Cooke, Miss Ethel Cooke and Miss Alexander remained at Haiku and will not return to the coast for several weeks. The groom graduated from the Oakland High School before entering Yale. The bride’s father is one of the wealthiest planters on the island. A quiet wedding took place last Wednes- day evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Friesleben on Washington street when their daughter, Miss Fannie Friesleben, was united in marriage with Mr. Charles E. Brooking, a resident of London, England. where the young couple will make their fature home. Mr. W. A. Cross of this City and Miss Laura Klein, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. T. R. Klein, were married Saturday even- ing, July 19, at the residence of the bride’s parents in Oakland. The bride was at- tended by Miss Sadie Cross, sister of the groom, and Mr. William Chope acted as best man. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Lucas of Oakland, after which an elaborate suvper was served in the dining-room, which was profusely dec- orated with flowers. After supper instru- mental and vocal selections were rendered and dancing was indulged in, when the bride and groom left for their residence in this City. The presents were numerous. Only immediate relatives of the bride and groom were present. Soclety Personals. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Whitelaw have re- turned from Del Monte, where they have been spending their honeymoon. Mrs. E. J. Ensign and her daughter, Miss Belle Ensign, have gone East for six months. They will spend most of thetime in and about Ohijo. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Smith took a number of their friends at the Hotel Rafael on a trip up the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway on Thursday in their pri- vate car. Among their guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tevis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Sharon, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Janin, Hugh L. Tevis and Dr. Harry L. Tevis. Mrs. George W. Durbrow is on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Durbrow, at her home on the corner of Bush and Hyde streets. Mrs. Durbrow will be in town for about a month, when she leaves for the country, and later she will return to Los Angeles. Mrs. James E. Tucker and W. B. Bourn were called East last week, owing to the sickness of their sister. John N. Featherston isat the Sea Beach Hotel, Banta Cruz. Mrs. George W. Beaver and the Misses Kate ;ng Ethel Beaver are at Deer Park, in Lake ‘ahoe. Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. Richardson Clover (nee Miller) of Washington, D. C., are entertaining a large number of guests at their msgnificent country home in Napa. Mrs. Fred Sharon will leave the Hotel Rafael next week to spend the month of August at Del Monte. Charles Warren Stoddard, the poet and writer, and J. William Lawlor, the rising young artist, have gone to Cazadero for an outing, S?Td}:rd to do some writing and Lawlor to sketch. Miss Lucy May Jackson, daughter of Colonel John P. Jackson, has gone to Europe to spend her vacation from Ogontz School. Her itiner- ary,in charge of a chaperon, will consume three months of travel. She will meet her brother Percy in Paris, where he is studying music for the operatic stage. J.J. Dwyer and Miss Dwyer are among the guests at the Tallac House, Lake Tahoe. Mrs. D. Quinlan and her daughter, Miss Esther Qufnlan, have returned home affer so- jcouming two months at Howard Springs, Lake ounty. Mrs.yL. Dusenbery and daughter have re- turned from the country. Mrs. A. Cohn and family of Red Bluff are in the City and are staying at 1318 Sutter street. Miss Msr May Oressy is spending her vaca- tion at Eagle Home farm &s the guest of Mrs. A. S. Hallidie. Mrs. W. F. McNicoll, Mrs. J. E. Thompson, Miss May Klotz, Miss Lillie Barnard and Miss Minnie Tecklenpurg have taken a cottage at Capitola for the summer. s: Charles D. Wheat is stopping for a few weeks at_Hotel Tuolumne, Tuolumne County. Mr. and Mrs. A. Repsold have left for & month’s vacation at Highland Springs. Miss Hulda Friedenthal of Chicago is visit- ing her sister, Mrs. A. Shirek, at 1816 Washing- ton street. Miss Carrie A. Bering has gone to Monterey for a few weeks. Movements of Oakland People. Among those who have returned home from the country are Colonel and Mrs. C. C. Clay of Fruitvale, the Hushes, who have been to Yosemite, the Glascocks and Walls from Castle Crags, and Miss Ethel Moore and Miss Vrooman from Lake Tahoe. Rev. J. K. McLean has returned from Sweet Briar camp, having spent a delight- ful and restful vacation of six weeks there. Mrs. McLean and Miss McLean have gone to Sissons to spend a weelk, Mrs. Marcus D. Hyde and family have returned from Pacific Grove, where they have been spending the past two months. Karl Howard and his younger brother Harold are on a trip from Tahoe to Yo- semite by way of Carson City, Nev., mak- ing the }ourney on their wheels. Mrs. J. W. Coleman and Miss Myrah Prather are recent arrivals at Castle Crags. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Osgood have returned from their bridal tour and have taken up their residence at 953 Alice street. Among the Oaklanders who will visit Mon- terey the coming month are: John W. Cole- man, Miss Jessie Coleman, Ernest Filger, Miss them, and about 100 of the leading society young ladies of Alameda will glrflcflplw in the affair, assuming various historical and mythical characters. The gentlemen will be almost wholly barred from the exhibition, even the orchestra being composed of ladies. Receptions. Miss Irene Beerman entertained her friends at her home, 3217 Jackson street, on the 20th inst. The evening was spent with games, singing and music, followed by a supper. Among those present were: The Misses Delia and Gertrude Murphy, Miss Esther Morris, Miss Etta Brodenstein, Miss Emma Rosgould, Miss Fannie Martin, Miss Martha Goshiner, Miss Julia Murphy, Miss Edith Beerman, Miss Esther Asherson, Miss Mamie Higgins, Miss Irene Beerman, Miss Ethel Thompson, James Bradley Manning, Will Brodenstein, Charles Beerman, Wilfred Beermen. An entertainment of the Ladies’ Society of St. Matthew’s German Lutheran Church will be held in Foresters’ Hall, 102 O’Farrell street, on Wednesday evening, at 8 o’clock, for the benefit of the church. An interesting literary and musical pro- gramme has been arranged. Refresh- ments will be served. The Welcome Social Club gave a suc- cessful and well-attended apron and neck- tie party at California Hall last Thursday evening, William Holmes was floor man- ager and Messrs. Neif, Crantz and Tietjen were the floor committee. The club will gve an old clothes;party Thursday, August Washington Camp, No. 2, Patriotic Order of Sons of America, will give an entertain- ment and dance to-morrow evening at Crystal Hall, Pythian Castle. There will be given a music-teachers’ even- ing concert at Byron Mauzy’'s Hall this evening. An interesting programme has been arranged. Invitations have been Mystics’ first anniversa: party at Union-square evening, August 20. The followmg are the officers elected by the Mystics last Tuesda¥ at_their club- rooms, 309 Eddy street: President, W. W. Sale; vice-president, Will K. Owens; treasurer, Henry G. Muller; secretary, K. M:}lheson; recording secretary, M. L. Rey- nolds. issued for the and souvenir all on Tuesday OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Capitola, July 27.—Frank Brandon arrived from San Jose with his wife and son yesterday. They will occupy their home on San Jose ave- nue for about three weeks. Mrs. James Stan- ley and three children came in to-day for a short stay. James Elitch, Mrs. H. Lagrue and child of San Jose, Mrs. and Mrs. 8. H. Keeney, San Francisco; M. C. Barrett, Menlo Park, an Mrs. F. W. Krouse, San Jose, arrived to-day. Fresno, July 27.—Judge J. R. Webb re. turned to-day from an outing of several weeks at Lake Tahoe, San Francisco and other places. Mrs. E. D. Edwards is at the coast. Miss Annie Sherwood is the guest of the Misses Deming in San Francisco. The Misses Kate and Sue Daly have returned from Yosemite. The Rev.Charles A. Munn has gone to Car- penteria for his healih. Judge E.W. Risley is spending his vacation at the seaside resorts. Miss Helen D. Geiss is taking a vacation at Berkeley. Miss Loutie Lucas leaves in a few days for San Francisco, where she will remain for some time. G. C. Freman is on the coast, John D. Morgan, Clarence Hartsough and Albin Seymour have gone to Pine Ridge to spend a few weeks. Colonel E. W.Smutz is spending his vaca. tion in the Sierras. Harold Freman is at Yosemite. Captain N. G. Kittle returned to-day from a visit to different coast resorts. lE. T. Wolcott is home from the watering aces. pColunel and Mrs, T. C. Marceau, who have been spending the summer in Southern Cali fornia, returned yesterday and to-day went to éhe watering places in the northern part of the tate. Mrs. E. D. Steinmetz has gone to Santa Cruz for a month or two. Mrs. Louis Gundelfinger is spending the sum- mer in San Francisco. George Pickford and family are at the coast, Mrs. W. D. Crichton is spending several months in Tennessee. ‘Vancouver, B. C.. July 28.—L. R. Stockwell, a theatrical manager of S8an Francisco, arrived by the Pacific express from the East yesterday. ‘With Mr. Stockwell are Rose Coghlan, Henry E. Dixey, Maurice Barrymore, W. Beach and Maude Winter. The party left for San Fran- cisco via Victoria the same day. Astorg Springs, Lake County, July 27.— Among the late comers here are: Dr. Theo. Wilson and family, Mrs. Dr. James, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitney, Miss Em. Whitney, Miss Elise Whitney, Miss Mavill Whitney, Alphonse Astorg, James Mullen, Ernest Sommers. Washington, D. C., July 28.—Among the ho- tel_arrivals are: C. H. Moore of Los Angeles, R. B. Neale of Oakland and S. Friesland of San Francisco. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. To ADDRESS A WIDOW—During the life of the husband it is proper in writing a letter to the wife to use the husband’s Christian name. If her Christian name is Margaret and her hus- band’s name is Edward Walters it is etiquette to write “Mrs. Edward Walters.” When her husband dies the Christian name of her late husband is dropped, and_then it is proper to write ‘“Mrs. Margaret Walters.” SEWERs—E. H. D., City. If the attention of the Superintendent of Streets is called to the fact that a sewer should be laid in any street or portion of a street he will make an examina- tion, and if he, from a sanitary point of view, believes that it is a necessity he can order the work done. A sewer can also belaid on the petition of the majority of the property-owners 1o the Supervisors. Live Wires—L. G. S., City. Under certain conditions men are able to handle live electric wires without danger to themselves, as for in« stance when a wire is perfectly insulated and the operator wears rubber gloves; but there is no man who handles wires and has the slight. est knowledge of electricity who would touch a live one that was not protected unless he did 80 unintentionally. THE MissioN DoLores—Stranger, City. The Mission Dolores of San Francisco was founded on the 9th of October, 1776, with the usual ceremonies, by Father Palou. Service is no longer held in the old church, but is . _the new church, north of it, on Sixteenth street. To Rio DE JANEIRO—J. S. P., Milpitas, Santa Clara County, Cal. The shortest route from San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro is by rail to New Orleans and from there by steamer. You will have to write to New Orleans for rates from that point. Humsorpr Execurion—J. B., City. T. M, Brown, Sheriff of Humboldt County, says: “There has been but one legal execution in this county during eleven years, 1878 to 1888 inelusive. - John Rogers, hanged May 6, 1887.” SquirreLs—J. M. J., Tres Pinos, Monterey County, Cal. Itissaid that strychnine mixed with squirrel food, the same being placed where only the little rodents can get, is the only way to get rid of them by means of poison. IRISH-AMERICAN—A. 8,, City. The term Irish- American is that which is applied to a person born in the United States of parents of Irish birth and to persons of Irish birth who have become citizens of the United States. BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- days, 5 A. . Ticket office, 4 New Momxome_ry street. ————————— GOLDEN GATE DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION, under the auspices of the senior members of the Young People’s Christian Endeavor, A. M. E, Zion’s Church, will render the popular tem- Ella Goodall, J. N. Knowles, Fred W. McNear, Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Ba&nl and Miss Amy Requa. Mrs. A. Chabot and Miss Nellie Chabot are among the Oukland contingent at Monterey. Professor and _Mrs. Joseph Le Conte have re- :m‘-ncd from Lake Tahoe 'f’ their home in Ber- eley. Among those from this city and vicinity who have been enjoying an outing at Lake Tahoe are: Mrs. W. H. Goodfellow and family, Mrs. H. H. Haight, Mrs. Janet C. Haight, Professors C. B. Bradley, Frederick Slate and J. Henry Senger, of Berkeley. The charity concert, which is to take place on Thursdsy evening next at the First Congre- gational Church, promisesto be one offthe most lightful of its k"nd ever given in Oakland. The leading society event of the near future in Alameda is the énm.umn or living picture entertainment being arranged under the -ix-pieegm of x.hrgo Womnu Ex;nn;fe of ‘n:l:; ace. e rmance is to be_given al Binderman Operamonse on the 8th, 9th and 10th. The have obtained the indorse- ment of it of several cle to the elevat wumm;whnvm“fi erance play, “Ten Nights ina nion-square. Hall, 421 Post stre evening, July 29. Admission 250¢; half price; reserved seats 25¢ extra, The word idea formerly meanta com pleted performance, whether mental or physical. THE best blood purifier 19 Hood’s Sarsaparilla This is not an idle statement but a fact, proved by an unequaled record of wonderful cures. 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