The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1895. M CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 Daily and Sunday , six months, by mall 8.00 Tafly end Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 2nd Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .50 sunday CALL, one yesr, by mail . 150 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by m: vee LSO BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone.... +-eeseeen. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone wervsenes. Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : ) Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until street: open until 9:30 o'clock. reet: open until xteenth and Mission streets; open reet; open until 9 o'clock. t; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander tu Rose and Duane streets, New York C THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are von going to the cou it. Orders ness Office, 710 Market street, Will receive » the Valkyrie is out of but we will see her later. New York is no longer advertising her- as a popular Sunday resort. cyclone has added the fatal lightning to its twist- fancy touch of ing horrors. Ferdinand’s connection with the Stam- buloff affair may be characterized as in- voluntary suicid s is employing his wits with y that distinguished his opera- highway. Bandit the de tions on the T social development in the arance of the chappizette ie company. latest is the a; keep the c! to The memory of Custer’s death is steady- ing the ger finger of every soldier marching upon Jacksons Hole. u that works on Joe Black- ure gave him and not tration tried to puton The muzzle burn is the one n: the one the adm: b he Oklahoma divorces deplorable than the h made the decision The decision that is no mo; nces whic ws have not yet provided that a ’s sending of flowers and athetic ages to a murderer isa ind for divorce. me: The syndicate of bankers that wasto have protected the National treasury seems to have become almost as tired of the con- tract as the people are. to have evolved from tional preacher who ecause his mother was t in Boston. distinetion t echanic’’ who says he four skeletons which Holmes, er, furnished us phase of a nard ce murde hicago the latest hu Tecor The Chicago Ti Terald in studying the Horr and Harvey debate on the spot hat Horr began by trying to answer Harvey I ce, but gave it up after the th ce it will prove that we can ctive centerboard and build a better cht on the T sh system than the Brit- h can do the editors who are ed to sneer at the Half-million Club v their course only by show- r towns are doing to The Tndian is rapidly “dying off” and the character of his 1 appearance as a dime-museum curiosity has already been foreshadowed by the uses to which Buffalo Bill has been putting him. A New England naturalist who, as a scientific experiment, crossed fireflies with elm beetles is said to have produced a pest that destroys elms, defies poison and proves that a scientist sometimes monkeys too much with nature. If the intelligence of Chicago and San Francisco ix to be measured by the sensa- tional police and journahstic treatment of their respective famous murder cases, New York has nothing to fear from its sneers at the woolliness of the West. That was an amusing confidence on the part of the officers who took Brady out to find the buried $53,000, in view of the fact that its delivery could have done him no good and would have deprived him of his only hope of escape from life imprison- ment or the gallows. The effort of the Police Commissioners in New York to enforce the Sunday saloon closing law has so far encouraged the Tam- many people they believe they can carry the next election without a leader by just giving tickets to the voters and letting them go their own way. A yachting expert asserts in the New York Tribune that in the recent trial races between the Vigilant and the Defender neither yacht was officially measured, and expresses the opinion that had this been done and the prover time allowance made TWO0 PICTURES. Somewhat less than a year ago a political campaign was entered upon in San Fran- cisco which had for its object and end the nomination and election of certain local officers who should for a season control the municipal affairs of the City. Among the persons whose names were brought be- fore the public during that campaign were the twelve men who now compose th'e Board of Supervisors. By virtue nf‘ their prominence in their respective parties, of their pledges of fidelity in the public serv- 1ce, of their popularity in their several districts, of their energy and skillin the conduct of the campaign, and of the earnestness and activity of their friends upon election day, each of these persons was enabied to achieve success and to secure the important official position of a Supervisor of the most populous city upon the Pacific Coast. 1t required no small amount of personal popularity to win in that election, for it was one in which the individual prefer- ence of the voter was given thelargestrange for its expression. There were several rival candidates in the field, and the Australian ballot system placed all of these upon practically the same footing on election day. It was, therefore, a matter of deserved pride and compliment to those candidates for Supervisor who commanded the respect of their fellow-citizens sufii- ciently to secure election. With the beginning of the new year the twelve members of the Board of Super- visors entered upon the discharge of their duties as such. They were apparently hampered by neither past traditions nor present entanglements, but were free to act in accordance with conscience and honor in dealing with the affairs of the City, which were entrusted to their hands. These affairs, though multiplex, were not diffi- cult, nor intricate, nor was the path of duty through them at all involved or un- certain. There were contracts to be awarded for public work of various kinds. There were franchises to be disposed of for street railways and other public uses. There were schedules of rates and charges of quasi-public corporations to be con- sidered and adjusted. There were ap- pointments to the various minor offices of the City government.to be made. While all these public duties were important, none of them were difficult, for the reason that the method by which they were to be performed was well environed by law and clearly pointed out either in the ordi- nances of the City or the statutes of the State. It was, therefore, comparatively easy for a member of the Board of Super- visors to perform his duty to the public, and at the same time to retain and even to increase that popular respect and regard which had placed him in office. There are four members of the present Board of Supervisors who have succeeded in performing their duty and retaining their popularity. That this fortunate con- dition is not due to politics is evident from the fact that these four men are not all members of a single political party. That it is due to their adherence to the plain and simple pathway of honesty is evident from the record of the Board of Super- visors during the past few months. If another election were to be held to-morrow there is little doubt that each of these four esteemed and faithful servants would be returned to their honored seats. The peoplé of San Francisco are neither ignorant of what the dutiesof a member of the Board of Supervisors are, nor dull in the perception of when those duties have been rightly performed. It was Kossuth who uttered the eloquent truth that “The eyes of the people may be blinded for a season, but when once they have been opened they can be deceived no more.”” During the past six months the eyes of the people of San Francisco have been opened as to what is and what is not the performance of duty by the members of the Board of Supervisors. There are eight members of the board who have not sueceeded in retaining that public esteem and confidence which i sured their election last November. With the same duties to perform as the other four, they have with singular unanimity gone down in public esteem, and that even more rapidly than their companions on the board have ascended. They have earned a designation which the past history of San Francisco has made infamous. By concert of action they have elevated themselves to the bad eminence of being known as the Solid Eight and of being charged with malfeasance in office. With increasing frequency they have been called upon by their constituents to explain acts for which there is no explanation consistent with duty. By an unfortunate coincidence they have found defenders only in those pub- lic organs which are the paid creatures of certain great corporations. They have been subjected to the reproaches of their friends and the mockery of their enemies, and if any one of them at any time since his election cherished the hope of holding his office for a second term that hope has long since faded away. If an election were to be held to-morrow, or at any later day, not a single member of the Solid Eight would have the slightest chance of securing either a nomination by his party or a re-election by the people of the City. It is possible that they may suc- ceed, by the strong aid of those whose in- terests they have served, in escaping the penalties of the laws which they have com- bined and conspised to nullify and evade. They may even refain their dishonored seats until their successors are elected, but whenever the time shall come for them to lay aside their robes of office, they will go down at once into an oblivion from which not one of their number may ever expect to emerge. Look upon this picture and on that. Consider the eminence of respect and esteem occupied by the four members of the Board of Supervisors who have honestly and bravely done their duty to San Francisco. Turn cn the other hand and observe the depth of disrespect and disesteem occupied by the Solid Eight because they have seen fit to prostitute their offices to serve powerful and selfish corporations, whose interests are directly at variance with those of the public, and whose ends can only be at- tained by corrupting and seducing officials from the performance of their public trust. the Vigilant would have been the victor. One of the advantages of getting new men at the head of affairs occasionally is shown by the fact that the recent election of Dr. B. L. Whitman as president of Columbian University at Washington has excited so much interest among the alumni that they have pledged themselves to raise the $75,000 for the university be- fore next fall. The sharp remark of the Santa Cruz Sen- tinel that “when we are in San Francisco we feel that we are about eighty miles from home, and when our people try to get credit there some of them find that they are 2000 miles from anywhere,”” shows that either our money-lenders do not un- derstand one of the principles of State- building or that our complaining eountry iriends do not give evidence in their own enterprise of that sort of progressiveness which capital is generally willing to assist. AN ENCOURAGING FAOT. Many San Franciscans were amazed to read in TaE Cary of Sunday an abstract of the most recent bulletins of the Federal Census Bureau showing the high rank which S8an Francisco holds as a manufac- turing center. They were not prepared to learn that we have more direct capital em- ployed in manufactures than Boston, which is a much larger city; that although Baltimore is at the gate of the cotton region of the South and Pittsburg is so easily accessible to the iron and coal mines of Pennsylvania San Francisco invests more in material for manufactures than either. These are not all the points of our superiority which the reports disclose, but they are sufficient. All thisisin spite of the fact that fuel here is vastly more expensive than in any of the Eastern cities and that many of our largest manufactories use material brought from a distance under heavy freight charges, which do not burden the cities of the East. A still more serious drawback is the indifference of our consumers to the welfare of our manufactories and to the superiority of their products. " An incongruous condition of affairs is seen in the fact that while we are bringing from a distance a considerable proportion of the material for our manufactories we are content to observe Eastern and English manufacturers using raw material which we produce and which we neglect to turn into manufactured products. 1t isevident that however successful we may bein man- ufacturing material shipped from the East our possibilities as a manufacturing city can never be fully developed until we have employed the resources which our exclu- sive soil products represent. As these are generally of the character of luxuries, in the production and manufacture of which there ought to be larger profits than where staple articles are concerned, particularly in view of the fact that by the wise hand- ling of these advantages we could make it immpossible for Eastern manufacturers to compete with us, it is evidently our most important duty to pay attention to the matters out of which a virtual monopoly might be produced. Attention is called to these considera- tions out of a very high regard for the splendid work which the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association is doing. Its main scope at present is to arouse interest in the importance of consuming the prod- ucts of our manufactories. This is an essential task to accomplish, but the one to which attention is herein called is im- portant in itself. All the efforts which are now being made to advance the interests of the State must produce the most valua- ble results, and the discovery that the City already occupies so high a position as a manufacturing center makes the task of pushing jts position still further all the more cheerful. THE PASSING INDIAN. The War Department may prove correct in its belief that no extensive bloodshed will ensue from the Bannock uprising in ‘Wyoming, but the present indications are otherwise. =~ The Modoc War taught the American soldiers a lesson which induced them to shoot first and par- ley afterward. for itis impossible to deal with Indianson the lines of “civilized war- fare,” and sooner or later will come the fatal clash that will send the Bannocks and their allies to their long account. The Indian question must conform to the universal rule that where naturally antagonistic races battle for the same ter- ritory the weaker must be either wholly exterminated or changed into some sem- blance of conformity to the civilization of the stronger. Where such conformity is impossible extermination is necessary. The Chereckees and other comparatively amia- ble tribes of the Indian Territory are alive and thriving solely because the possibility to conform was within them. This isim- possible with the Apaches of the South- west, and all efforts to tame them will be as futile as attempts to make a domestic pet of a tiger or a barnyard fowl of an eagle, All the fierce old tribes whicha century ago opposed the invasion of Euro- peans and their American descendants have disappeared, leaving here and there a degraded progeny, who are to the con- querors what the wretched peons of Mex- ico—descendants of one of the noblest and finest races that the world has known— are to the ruling invader from Spain. The Bannocks and the Apaches will inevitably suffer the fate of the Creeks, the Semi- noles, the Blackfeet, the Crows and the Sioux. Such & war of extermination would have inevitably occurred between the Ameri- cans and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast had not Congress seen the formidable clond gathering and closed American ports to the swarming of these stinging ants from the Orient. Humane considera- tions in all such conflicts serve only to delay, never to destroy, the operation of instinct. The gregarious nature of races is transformed by the struggle for existence into tribal animosities. The claim that the peoples of all races and nations are members of one great family falls to the ground in the presence of the universal fact that the nations most strenuously urging the doctrine have the most formid- able war preparations to refute it. It is not a question either of savagery or civil- ization, but of an instinct handed down through countless generations, and neces- sary to the development as well as the preservation of races that have survived to the present time. Our people would not be true to some of the qualities which make them admirable if they should cuisthe throats of all living Indians. Those inclinations which lead us to treat these poor savages as creatures worthy of humane consideration find ex- pression otherwise in many benign ways. But the antagonism between them and us is ineradicable, and however much we may delay the end, something is sure now and then to happen in the conduct of the weaker ones themselyes to give us both excuse and reason to hasten the exter- mination that awaits them. A SCANDALOUS AFFAIR. It has been declared by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that the 600 or 700 divorces which have been granted by the Probate Judges of that Territory within the last two years are illegal. The matter is to be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and in the event the Terri- torial court decision is upheld Congress will be asked to pass a bill legalizing the divorces. All this must necessarily oc- cupy a long time. Meanwhile a number of the divorced persons have remarried. As the present decision is the law and must remain the law for some time to come, the position of these persons is as de- plorable as the methods in Oklahoma are disgraceful. The affair is as scandalous as that which occurred in Arizona several years ago, when the infamous ‘“omnibus divorce bill” was put through the Territorial Leg- islature. The Southwest at that time was filled with men who had left wives in the Eastern States. It was an open scandal that any one who wished to have his name included in the bill could accomplish his desire by paying a stipulated price. All formalities of suit, service and publication were omitted. The simple act of the Leg- islature granted the divorce, and that was the beginning and the end of the proceed- ings. Hundreds of wives, many of course with children to support, were divorced without their consent or knowledge, and doubtless many of them died in ignorance of their freedom to remarry. Oklahoma has been for years pursuing a course hardly more respectable than that of Arizona. The ease and celerity with which the courts of Oklahoma have been granting divorces drew thither thousands of disaffected persons from all parts of the country. It is not possible to imagine that the dispatch with which divorces have been granted was uncontaminated by crookedness in the proceedings, and it is more than likely that the severest wrongs and the gravegt hardships have followed the Oklahoma plan. This is not a matter in which either the expediency or the morality of divorce is concerned, but solely one of decency in its method and of legal justice in its results. The Oklahoma method has been so strong an invitation to rascality and injustice that in view of the very creation and prosperity of the system it is not permissible to sup- pose the absence of these accompaniments. The whole affair has heen a standing dis- grace to the Nation. The repeal of the act authorizing Probate Judges to grant di- vorces was a legislative inadvertence, and the power to grant such divorces after the old plan still abides with the District Judges. Oklahoma can never hope to occupy a respectable position in this coun- try until the whole shameful system has been swept out of existence. THE WANAMAKER FEAST. Young Rodman Wanamaker, a son of John Wanamaker the good, has recently served to certain Parisian counts and barons a dinner which, while not at all typical of America, was clearly represen- tative of certain characteristics of Ameri- can plutocracy. The dinner is a nine days’ wonder in Paris, and is not without in- terest here, for John Wanamaker has been mentioned for the Presidency of the Nation, and it is worth our while to con- sider what kind of ideas he has inculcated in the mind of his son and heir. Twenty-two guests were invited to the dinner, and probably from a fear that some of them might come ina cab, a street- car or even on foot, if left to themselves, the gilded Rodman engaged twenty-two of the finest equipages in Paris to call for them. The decorations of the dining- room, we are told, were sumptuously beau- tiful, and the air was cooled by luminous fountains scattering a spray radiant as many colored jewels over crystalline masses ofice. The dinner itself was prepared re- gardless of cost, of appetite and of human capacity to eat. Each guest was served with a whole leg of mutton, a whole salmon, a truffled fowl, a basket of peaches and a double magnum of champagne, be- sides several bottles of other wines of rare vintage and fabulous cost. At the close of the dinner a silken grabbag was passed around and each guest drew from it a souvenir such as an emerald pin, ruby links, pearl studs or a golden cigarette- holder gemmed with diamonds. Taken altogether the feast was a remark- able example of the grossest form of “going the whole hog.” It was an at- tempt to dazzle Paris by a display of wealth and lavishness, but its result was simply to disgust Americans, The futility of the thing is evident from the fact that some of the guests were members of the Rothschilds family, who could buy out the Wanamakers any day, but who would never think of showing their greatuess by trying to eat a leg of mutton, a salmon, & chicken and a basket of peaches, and washing the mixture down with a gallon of champagne. John Wanamaker is evidently another of those men of gushing goodness who, in his ardor for the redemption of the heathen, has neglected his own son. He may have taught him many things, but he did not teach him the difference between culture and vulgarity. The Digger Indian giving a dog feast to his friends must have been the model young Wanamaker had in his mind when he prepared his extraordinary layout, and in the one case as in the other, the only idea seems to have been to see how far a guest could be induced to stuff himself after he had enough. THE COMING YACHT RACE. Now that the Valkyrie is fairly at sea on her way to America interest in the coming race will rapidly increase in both countries and intensify until the great event comes off and the match is decided. The contest promises to be one of the closest and most exciting on record. There is every reason to believe the yachts are the speediest ever launched, they seem to be well matched in all respects and both have crews and cap- tains capable of getting the uttermost out of them. One feature of rivalry conspicuous in all past races of the series for the America cup will be absent from this one. It is to be no songer a contest between the Ameri- can centerboard and the British keel. Although the American yachts have won every race in the past it seems to be con- ceded by our builders that after all the British had the right idea. The Defender is built mainly on the British model, but with American excellence and elegance, and the issue in this race is simply one of yacht-building, the style of the rival boats being about the same. The abandonment of the centerboard system in the Defender has given a good deal of dissatisfaction to a considerable number of Eastern yachtsmen. In the re- cent trial of the new yacht with the Vigi- lant it is said the prevailing sympathy among the crowds that watched the race was with the Vigilant. 1t is even asserted that some of the excursionists made it clear that they grudgzed the Defender her suc- cess from start to finish and did it in a way that left little room for doubt they would prefer to lose the cup rather than have it won by an American boat which had no centerboard. The argument for adopting the keel, however, seems to be unanswerable. The contests for the America cup have now reached a point where such enormous sail- carrying power is developed as to require the use of seventy tons of lead in the keel and to represent that power in a center- board is apparently a physical imvpossi- bility. The centerboard, therefore, has passed out of the rank of cup challengers or defenders, The issue now is to see whether we can build better keel yachts than the British and sail them with more skill and nerve during the race. It is on this basis the coming contest will be made and there are good reasons to believe that the victory will be with the Defender. THE COUNTIES MUST ACT. At the SBupervisors’ Conyention enough money was pledged for the State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition to give encour- agement to the enterprise, but not enough to assure it. The counties that have not yet pledged to furnish their quota ought to act promptly in order that this assurance may be had. The subject is an important one, and time is pressing. Every day 1s of value, and no county shoutd be laggard in joining her sister counties in this under- taking for the welfare of the State. When it is remembered that the entire sum asked from the counties is only $6000, and that $3500 was pledged at the conven- tion, it will be seen that what remains to be raised is but a smali sum in comparison with the wealth of the State and the pros- pective benefits to be derived from the ex- position. The amount apportioned to any one county is certainly too small to be haggled over. ‘We have heard a good deal recently about harmony in all parts of the State, unity of effort, co-operation for mutual benefit, and the working of all counties to- gether for the general good. Now is the time to make manifest the sincerity of these words and the earnestness of those who utter them. The Supervisors of each county are charged with the duty of re- sponding to this sentiment that pervades the people. They should act promptly in ‘fulfilling it. The whole sum required for the exhibit ought to be pledged at once in order that the work may begin without de- lay. - THE ACTOR’S REVENGE. HOW OTIS HARLAN TOOK THE PART OF FIRST PLEBEIAN. T have only once appeared in a Shakespearian role, and on that occasion I still flatter myself that I made a hit, though people at the time laid my desire to infuse new spirit into the Bard of Avon’s comedy down to a deep-laid scheme for reyenge. . Tt was about five years ago. I had been en- gaged to play comedy roles in Savannah, Ga., with the Ford Dramatie Association. Most of the members were amateurs, but they used to engage & few professionals for the important parts. Our leading man, who was also stage manager, happened to be a great favorite in the town. He had not much reputation out- side; in fact he was only a local sort of a favor- OTIS HARLAN. ite, but he had played with Booth and Barrett, and that had made him ambitious to enact great roles. The first thing he decided to put on was the forum scene from ‘‘Julius Csesar.” He cast himself for Mark Anthony and wanted me to play the first plebeian, “Look here,” I said, “they have engaged m2 for comedy roles and I want to make a good impression. Let one of the amateurs play the plebeian and I can appear first in *Pink Domi- noes.’” “The part which I have given you in comedy—Shakespearian comedy,” he answered, and although I begged and pleaded with him not to put me on in such lofty walks of the drama nothing would satisfy him but that I must play the first plebeian. “You can make it just as funny as you like,” he said. “Do you mean that you want me to make Shakespearian comedy funny?”’ I asked and the manager answered me that he did. With that permission I knew that there would be no difficulty about making a hit in the part. The fellow who played Brutus was in with me and so were the musicians. You remember the scene where Brutus is on a rostrum four or five feet high and the citizens come filing down the street. Mark Anthony knew that his turn was coming and he was waiting eagerly in the wings. We citizens made our entrance very melo- dramatically, exclaiming, “We will be satis- fied, let us be satisfied.” Bending over the rostrum and addressing himself pointedly to me Brutus asked, “What would’st thou, O first citizen?” “Most noble Brutus, I would & chord in G,” T answered. At that cue the orchestra struck up “The Wild Man From Borneo,” and I sang it, and got seven encores, with Brutus nodding approval from the rostrum, and Mark Anthony shaking his fist and almost having a fit in the wings. The show went on when the last strains ot the seventh encore had died away, but Mark Anthony did not make a hit ot the Forum scene, in fact “The Wild Man From Borneo™ had killed his Ot1s HARLAN. “THE CALL” AND THE LOTTERIES. We have noted with interest and sympathy the strong stand taken by THE CALL on the lot- tery question, not, we are told, without a very declded effect upon the nefarious business. If, s 1s claimed, the sale of lottery tickets in this City has been reduced fifty per cent, there 1s surely encouragement for pressing on in the good work. We do not wonder that the ex- posure which this newspaper hes made of the methods adopted to cheat people out of their money without giving them even their small chance, one In tens of thousands, which the lottery ticket buyer ever has of drawing a prize, should have resulted in opening the eyes of some of the dupes. It seems as if in this age and country the fools must be scarce who will persist in investing in an enterprise where they are liable to be cheated outright— there being nothing to draw, with only a bogus ticket in hand! It is & pity that THE CaLLshould be leit alone of City newspapers to carry on this right eous warfare. Others publish advertisements for the gambling concerns, not, we must be- lieve, withoat Injury to their reputation among respectable citizens who are lovers of law and order. We can only wish THE CALL success in its vigorous crusade. There is plenty of room for ityet. We happen to know of ladies, so-called, ‘who go about still from house to house dressed in respectable black, and make an honor- able (?) living by the sale of lottery tickets. Pacific Churchman. PERSONAL. Frank Cox, an attorney of Phenix, Ariz., is & guest at the Grand. J. D. Biddle, a banker of Hanford, registered at the Grand yesterday. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, is at the Grand. General Superintendent Fillmore of the Southern Pacific is in Los Angeles. H. L. Lowden, a civil engineer of Weaver- viile, and Mrs. Lowden are at the Lick. Rev. J. M. Taulbee of Covington, Ky., has re- turned to town and isstaying at the Grand. J. W. Kaseberg, & capitalist of Sacramento, came down yesterday and put up at the Grand. Andrew Rocca, one of the owners of the Great Western quicksilver mine, is at the Lick. W. B. Cahone, cashier of the Tehama County Bank of Red Bluff, and Mrs. Cahone registered at the Lick yesterday. A. C. Hamilton and Miss Hamilton and Mrs. John P, Jones and her two daughters arrived from the East yesterday and are staying at the Palace. _Mr. and Mrs. H. Darwin Mcllrath of Chicago, ‘who are traveling around the world on bicycles for the Inter Ocean, arrived in the City yester- day and are staying at the Occidental. They will leave here for Yokohama in a couple of weeks. E. T. Statesbury of Philadelphia, connected with the great banking firm of Drexel & Co., with his two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 8. Grove and two sons and Miss Lockwood, ar- rived here from the Eest yesterday in & pri- vate car on a pleasure tour. OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. New York, N. Y., July 29.—Californians reg- istering at hotels to-day were: San Francisco— C. M. Beale at the Gilsey; C. 8. Bradley and G. Lewis at the Stewart House; J. T. Cuttingat the Grand Union; Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Greycourt at the St.James; L. Willard at the Imperial; J. 0. Whitney at the Gilsey; D. M. Steindler at the Holland. Los Angeles—W. B. kstone at the Murray Hill; N. C. Bennett at the Hol- land: Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wiley at the Astor. Oakland—H. Griffiths at the Astor. Salt Lake, Cal., July 29.—Andrew Car- rington of San Francisco is registered at the Knutstord. Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hines, just returned after a two months’ trip in the East, are at the Templeton. They will leave for their home in San ncisco the lastof the week. A. J. Goodrich arrived from San Francisco this morning and left to-night for Des Moines to g&rk up California tours from the Middle tes. ‘Washington, D. C., July 20.—Among to-day’s arrivals C. H. Harris and wife, Miss Harris and J. C. of San Francisco. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the most important points in the ar- gument of the attorneys for the plaintiff in the Fair case will be the regard that the capitalist seemed to have for his son Charles. Incidents in point are being recalled, and the following ‘was told recently in a hotel gathering: Some months ago, when Senator Fair was not on the best terms with Charles the latter took a few weeks off in the mountains for the pur- pose of recreation and incidentally to hunt deer. He was gone nearly two months and while on the trip did not enjoy much association with civilization. As a consequence his beard grew 1o proportions which threatened to outdo those of his father. When he returned and learned that James G. was not in the best health he went to the office almost immediately and en- tered the capitalist’s room without the usual sannouncement, His father was sitting at his desk and slowly wheeled around to see who the visitor was. There stood Charley half buried in his new growth of whiskers, looking for all the world like his parent. Notwithstanding the fuct that the Senator was suffering from rheumatism he bounded out of his chair and fell upon the neck of his boy, where he shed tears of joy and satisfaction. “Charles,”” he half sobbed, “you are the image of your father. Welcome to my arms and my heart.” The scene was said to be the most touching in which the father had figured for some time, and when Charley went away Senator Fair stepped to the head of the stairs and watched him go down to the street. Charley shaved and his father's indifference was resumed. This instance was told as, probably, the strongest one of the old man’s regard for his son, unless it be the time when he took a tug- boat and went out to a quarantined steamer merely for the purpose of waving a handker- chief to Charley. George H. Appel, manager at Sacramento of the California Fruit Transportation Company of Chicago, was in town yesterday, and was asked about the shipments of fruit to England made by his company. “We are making the fifph shipment for this season of ten cars by special train, to leave Sacramento to-morrow morning, connecting with the steamer St. Louis of the American line at New York, and the results of the sale will be cabled to us on the fourteenth day from the time the fruit leaves. “In the first shipment we got $6 & box, but owing to improper handling the prices of the second lot were lower. However, we expect that the prices will be $4 or $5 a box during the entire season. The expense is at the rate of $1 50 a box, with 5 per centcommission. So we get much better returns than from the usual Eastern markets. These European ship- ments should make a good market for Cali- fornia fruit, especially in the present condition of the domestic markets. It will tone up the Eastern markets by withdrawing the surplus, and altogether be of great benefit to California fruit-growers. There is now no longer any question about our ability to land the fruit in England quickly, in good condition and at a comparatively small expense. By exercising care in selecting the fruit to be sent and get- ting it over in the right condition a splendid market can be built up on the other side. ABOUT MEN OF NOTE. Baron Ferdinand Rothschild enjoys the dis- tinction of being the only member of his house who hag been honored by a visit from Queen Vietoria, who spent a day at his beautifw] country seat, Waddeston Manor. He is & brother-in-law of Lord Rothschild, and al- though born at Paris of parents who were citi- zens of Frankfort, was brought up asa Vien- nese and remained an Austrian until the date ‘when he settled in London and became a natu- ralized Englishman. He has no connection with the great banking house that bears his name, so far as actual management is eon- cerned, but devotes himself exclusively to his ornamental role of host, only occasivnally at- tending a sitting in the House of Commons. He is certainly the most popular and socially influential member of the Rothschild family and a particular favorite at Marlborough House. Victor Cavendish, returned on the Unionist ticket for the western division of Derbyshire, is a son of the late Lord Edward Caveidish, third brother of the present Duke of Devon- shire. The latter being childless Mr. Caven- dish is heir to the Dukedom and to the vast en- tailed estates. He isa graduate of Cambridge University, has represented his present con- stituency since 1891 and is married to Lady Evelyn Fitzmaurice, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Becretary of State for War in the new Cabinet. It was his uncle, Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was murdered in Pheenix Park, Dublin, in 1882, within a few hours after his arrival in the Irish capital to assume the office of Secretary for Ireland. There is not in fact or in fiction a career more tortuous than that of Henry M. Stanley, the poorhouse waif, a Ginx’s baby, a cabin-boy on the Mississippl, an involuntary acquirer of American citizenship, an Omaha reporter, the pioneer of large parts of Africa, the finder of Livingstone, the rescurer of Emin Pasha, a bridegroom in Westminster Abbey, honored of the greatest of the institutions of Great Britain, mobhed in the city whose ‘‘freedom’ had been impressively presented to him, finally landing in the House of Commons, unbroadened by his contact with the world in a larger variety of experiences than ever fell to the lot of any other man of the age.—Chicago Times-Herald. Sir Henry Fletcher, returned on the Unionist ticket for the Lewes division of Sussex,is a descendant of that Henry Fletcher of Cocker- mouth Castle who bad charge of Mary Queen of Scots, when that ill-fated sovereign was con- veyed in strict custody from Workington to Fotheringay Castle, where she was executed. The Fletcher family still retains a letter of thanks which she wrote to him in response to the presentation of a black velvet robe, which she wore on the scaffold. Sir Henry served in the Guards in the Crimea. but retired from the army at the close of the war. He hassatin Parliament since 1880, and was for many years parliamentary groom-in-waiting to the Queen. Secretary of State Oluey, like every one else outside of Rhode Island, pronounces his name as it is spelled. The inhabitants of thatlittle State, however, persist in calling him Sccretary “Owney.” This peculiarity of pronounciation is general in Little Rhody, and the thriving mill district of Olneyville, near Providencs, is always known as “Owneyville.” Itissaid that until very recent years the name Almy was pronounced Amy. ——— OPINIONS OF EDITORS. We do not see why California may not be- come the seat of vast manufactories. That which creates a manufacturing center is cheap power. California is getting this to a remark- able extent. New England beat the world fer many years and is still unsurpassed in the matter of her manufactures because of her cheap power. But the snnouncement is now made that at Fresno power is to be furnished ascheap as it was ever to be had in New Eng- land. What is possible at Fresno is possible at fifty other points in California. This is sure to be & very important factor in the future wel- fare of California.—Alameda Argus. There have beeff In the past two months three murders and two combined murders and sui- cides in this city and vicinity, besides & num- ber of attempts to kill where the intent was to murder. In fact, we have had what the new reporter would call a carnivel of crime and there appears to be no surcease. That such a condition should be found in this charming region, where every prospect pleases, is a curious and displeasing anomaly. There must be some microbe of murder, some bacillus of bloodthirst, abroad in the land that the divines and moralists should study and devise & means of extir, o] eles Herald. ‘pation,—Los Angele: Silver is still the money of eight hundred millions of the people of the world. The open= ing of the mints of the United States to the un- Testricted coinage of silver wonld make New York and San Francisco the clearing-houses for all silver-using countries; and why should not the United States trade directly with South America, India, China and Japan, with silver as the medium of exchange, instead of trading second-hand through the gold channel of Brit- Ish exchange ?—San FranciscoSilver Advoeate. If the people of this city bave any interest in the future prosperity and greatness of their city, they will do all in their power to attract capital and capitalists to the city as permanent residents. 1f anybody hes an idea that s city can be built up by tramps and Coxey army socialistic spouters, it shows that they belong to & class that depend upon jawbone rather than capital and industry to build up & city.— Oakland Times. Since the growth of industry business, snd property from 1880 to 1892 was greater, much greater, than at any other period of the coun< try’s history, and the country had been under protective tariff policy all the time, what wag the sense in the assertion on whick the elec- tion of 1892 was carried, that the policy of protection was oppressing and ruining the country? The mistake has been apparent more than two years.—Portland Oregonian. It would be interesting just now to have the ‘‘opinion” of Judge Ross on the various “opinions” of his opinion; but, then, there i3 limit to life and capacity. The people should give his opinion the weight it deserves, for the reason that while he interposes an obstacle he may at the same time tacitly suggest a way outt of the difficulty.—Fresno Expositor. When & Republican President resumes cone trol in March, 1897, we may safely predict am era of prosperity equal to our palmiest dayse Of course, until this time 21l we can do is ta hold the present maladministration in check. We can do that with good grace, and take extra care that it shall never occur again.—Placer Argus. England has decided to appropriate the island of Trinidad. Brazil protests and ine quires about the Monroe doctrine. We are pained to inform Brazil that under the present administration the Monroe doctrine is in a state of innocuous desuetude, to use a Presi~ dential expression.—Tacoma (Wash.) Union. Oh, if we could only have alaw passed by the Legislature, and made operative, come pelling the Supreme Court to pass upon the constitutionadity of every law as soon as it is approved by the Governor, what an amount of annoyance, and cost as well, would be saved to the people.—Alameds Encinal. Now that the locomotives for the Valley Rail~ road have arrived, that there are ties and rails enough in Stockton to build twenty milea of the road and the work of grading is going ahead at a rapid rate, the croaker should cease to croak.—Stockton Independent. —_— SOURCE OF SOME SMILES, The tools of war have reached the stage ‘Where actual fight will stop, And bloodless victory will g0 To those who get the drop. —Indianapolis Journal. First Citizen (in the near future)~Whois thas they're goin’ to string up? Second Citizen—That’s the man that stole Tornado Pete’s bicycle.—Puck. Empty Eakins—Give me a dime, boss. Portly Party—What do you want it for? Empty Eakins—I thought of giving a theaten party.—New York Herald. “Stranger in the city?” asked the affable young man. “Hardly know whether I am or not,” an. swered the man with the sunburnt whiskers. «“I only been here three times in my life, an’ don’t know one street fum another, but I been bunkoed twicet and run in oncet already.”— Indianapolis Journal. Squatter—Your dog has just killed one of my sheep. Wanderer—He ain’t my dawg. §.—Why, confound you, I saw him last night with you at the station! ‘W.—Yes; we was mates then, but the larst time he worried sheep I says to him: “Bob,” sez I, “if you ever let yer hunger git the better of yer morals again, you an’me part come pany,” so yer see he’s on his own hook now.— Bydney Bulletin. Mr. Hardacre (just returned from the city)— Tell yer what, Becky, I've been a darned fool to let my money lay in th’ savings bank at 3 per cent all these years when they pay 50 per cent down to New York. Mrs. Hardacre—I don’t believe they pay no such interest. Mr. Hardacre—Oh, yer don’t, Mrs. Smarty, don’t yer? Well, yer Uncle Hardacre just loaned $100 at that rate ter-day. I'll tell you ‘how I done it. I met a right slick-lookin’ young man in front of the Astor House and he says ter me, says he: ‘‘Sir, I would like to bore row $100, for which I will pay 50 per cent interest.” “But,” says I, ““I don’t know yer, and how am I to tell that you will pay me the interest?” ¢If you doubtme, sir,”” says he, “I will pay you the 50 per cent in advance.” Well, that looked safe enough, so I give him two $50 notes and he paid me one of them back for the interest right on the spot.. I'm to meet him at the Astor House every year and get tha interest. I tell you what, Becky, it makes me mad to think what I've lost all these years.”"— Puck. GRANDFPA'S ASLEEP. Grandpa’s asleep! Don’t you see him there With the cane across iis lap, Dreaming awav in the old armchair, Taking b's noonday nap? Do not disturb. Just let him sleep Grandpa is getting old, 2.5d the wonderful stories of little “Bo-Peep” Have nearly all been told. Grandpa’s asleep! I wonder it he 1s dreaming of long ago, And the smiling faces he Joved to see Of the ones he used to know ? Draw down the blinds! The golden sun Asgul;. :‘n ‘I;lu long l.hl:n hll!l nd the kindly eyes, though long since gone, The youth that sparkled there. : Grandpa’s asleep! Don’t you see the smile That marks the well-known face, And the head that's bowed forever till It glows with hallowed grace, In a realm where there is no dream. Of fairer forms or sphere, Or a kinder voice, more sacred theme, Than his memory here? Grandpa’s asleep! And soon beneath The sod he must be laid. ‘The winds may toss the withered leaf And whisper throngh the shade. But the hallowed charm of little “Bo-Peep,” ‘The jingle of little “Boy Blue,” ‘Will live as he told them ever as sweet ‘As now 1o me and you. DEANIOR R. DRAKE In the American. BACON Printing Company, 508 Clay street. @ . —— E. MARTIN & Co., the liquor merchants, are at 411 Market street. The fact that their re- moval has not resulted in the loss of any of their old patrons is the best evidence of fair and honest dealing. The high standard of their wines and liquors has long been estab- lished. 4 \ At the cat show.—Mrs. S—What is the name of your cat? Mrs. W.—Claude. Why do you call it Claude? —Because it scratched me.—Harper's Young People. Do not neglect that tired feeling; it is a signal of danger. It is nature’s warning. It is a cry for pure, rich and nourishing blood. Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla meets these demands. ———————— Nowell regulated household should be without a bottle of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. Meddle once signified ““to concern one’s self with.” It is used in the Scriptures, where the expression occurs, ‘meddle with your own business.” LA BELLE CREOLE CIGARS MANUFACTURED BY S. HERNSHEIM BROS. & CO., NEW ORLEANS, LA. RINALDO BROS. & €O, PACIFIC COAST AGENTS, 800-802 BATTERY ST, S. F. Branch Store—29-31-33 South First St., San Jose, Cals -