The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 18Y5. 6.00 months, unday CALL, three month . one month, by mail mail 1.50 50 1.50 . 150 BRANCH OFFICE: ntgomery strect, corner nth street; ope OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander ing, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. try on &° vacat w rward THE . Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the ne Jurors are scarc s to have an opinion. Assessor Dalton is making a fight for Qakland that will be the State. Everybody see y stand, but irri- pite of it. to show up for the Atlanta Expo: of determining whether o elect him Su- One effective or not a man is hor pervisor. Mayor Sutro has propounded a rocky problem to the Supervisors, but there isno trap init. Since Hoke Smith’s campaign for the gold standard, the Georgians are calling it “Hoke money.” By and by the Solid Eight will find out that the violation of law is a lottery whose prizes don’t pa If Grover is nominated for a third term the country will have its long-desired op- portunity to kick. A distrust in bimetallism means a belief in the superiority of Great Britain over the United S The Valley Railroad is one project at any rate that is keeping its promise afd going right ahea California has received no more welcome news than that the crops of Oregon this year are exceptionally good. If it is true that gold hasbeen discovered in the hills back of Berkeley it is conceiv- able that San Francisco is built on a gold ledge. It would be easier for Diogenes and his lantern to find a dozen honest men in San Francisco than to get a jury for the Dur- rant trial. It will be profitable for the fruit men to combine in marketing their fruit, even if the combination serves only to make an experiment. ‘Fhe next step in the campaign of edu- cation for bimetallism will be the silver convention in this City, and it promises to be a big one. in good time the Merchants’ Association will show itself to be a great improvement nce committees and not a whit The true method of prospecting for gold vill not have been adopted until a sole reliance on surface indications has been exhausted and abandoned. The management of the ferry-boats is morally responsible for and, therefore, a wirtual participant in any rowdyism which it permits on the steamers. There is still time for the new members of the Board of Health to do the public a service by naming the fellows who tried to purchase positions from them. Every time the Defender beats the Vigi- lant her sanguine friends forget that the Britannia also beat the Vigilant and the Valkyrie has beaten the Britannia. Now that an insurance company to pay damages sustained by bicyclists has been formed, a bureau that wouid guarantee the honesty of supervisorial candidates is the aext necessity. The sensational papers which are gloat- fng over the details of the Durrant case could give proof of the efficacy of their sys- tem by publishing the names of all those who flock to the trial Should the influence of the Merchants’ | Association be extended to the awakening of popular interest in primary elections the constant fear of ‘“‘solid eights’” would not haunt the community. Those who have the time to read the long sensational reports of the Durrant case are not numerous, but they happen to be those most susceptible to the evil influ- ence of the sensationalism. The work done by the Civic Federation to vindicate the laws of California and put an end to official misconduct will have a material as well as a moral influence, and aid greatly in advancing the welfare of the City. Senator Mitchell’s assurance that the Oregon Republicans will exert their influ- ence to secure the National Convention for San Francisco isan encouragement to Cali- fornia and a hint to the other Pacific States. The Ezaminer has now a good mystery story, with a timely query at the end of it, in trying to find out why the Democratic Railroad Commissioners do not keep their campaign pledges to make an average re- duction of 25 per cent in the freight rates of the Southern Pacific. The suit for a half million dollars to be brought against the City and the Spring Vailey Water Company for damages sus- tained in the recent great fire by reason of an inadequate water supply is as much & punishment for past follies as a warning to avoid them in the future. THE PEOPLE'S ROAD. Tt becomes every day more and more evident that the construction of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad will be one of the works of which the Califor- nians of this generation may be justly proud. Every feature of the enterprise is gratifying to ‘progressive men. I has moved steadily forward from the first. There has been no step backward; there has been no delay. Each week and almost each day from the start bas scen some no- | table progress made until now it is an- nounced the contractors at Stockton are ahead of their work and the great enter- prise is going forward even faster than was promised. On the 19th of this month the first grad- ing for the road beean at Stockton, and next Monday bids will be opened for the second division of grading, which will carry the roadbed from the city limits to Stanislaus River, a distance of twenty- three miles. It is expected that work on the second division will begin within ten days, so that before the middle of next month the removal of 200,000 cubic yards of earth on the surveyed line will be un- dertaken. It will be seen that the promoters of the line are not allowing any grass to grow under their feet. There is no trace, taint or suggestion of silurian delays, doubts, hesi- tations or fears in the board of directors. The motto has been progress from the word “go,” and it will be progress to the end. The rails are here to be laid as soon as the grading is done. The locomotives are also here. Rapidly as the work of construction is being pushed forward, therefore, it is none too rapid for the directors. As soon as the road is laid the company will be ready to operate it. In fact, so swiitly and surely.is the work in all departments being carried on that it will not be long before the whistles of the trains will be heard in the valley and the great competitive road will be a factor in business. With the establishment of this competi- tive system will come the solution of many of the most serious problems that have confronted the people of California in the development of the State, The end of the monopoly of transportation in the San | Joaquin will be the beginning of the end of the monopoly throughout California. Wliat has begun under such favorable con- aitions and has produced already such good results is bound to grow. The Valley road must eventuaily become a transcon- tinental system, and monopoly will be at an end. One of the most satisfactory features of the enterprise is that it is an accomplish- ment of the people. The San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad is only the official name of what is really the People’s road. Itisan outcome of public demand, and largely of popular subscription. Due honor willalways be given to Claus Spreck- els and other leaders in the enterprise for their management of its affairs and their large subscriptions to its stock, but none the less the people will always regard the road as essentially a creature ot their own production. Their interestin itis natur- ally great, and there is reason to believe the benefits they are to derive from 1t will bein ey way commensurate with their expectati A WISE INDORSEMENT. The Merchants’ Association can afford to forget its contumelious treatment by the Street Department in view of the very h indorsement which it has received from the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors. This committee, in its report to the board, has recommended that the specifications prepared by the associa- tion for cleaning and sprinkling the streets be adopted, and backs the recommenda- tion with most excellent reasons. After complimenting the association on the great labor, attention and- expense which have characterized its operations, the committee adds: “It is highly gratifying to find an intel- ligent body of men like the merchants of the City associating themselyes together to secure by practical and experienced meth- ods reforms which cannot be gainsaid, and it is to be hoped that this association will not limit itself to this sole object, but will extend its labors and bring about an inteiligent conception of all municipal business, and suggest such reforms in all branches of the government as are prac- ticable. The association and its members having no versonal, selfish or interested motives, are wholly independent, their object and action being to advance the public interests by carrying into the opera- tions of the government the same purpose and aim so essential to the transaction of private business.” W. F. Dohrmann, president of the asso- ciation, is given particular praise for the ability and fidelity which have enabled him successfully to overcome difficulties and annoyauces that would have dis- couraged a less earnest and faithful citizen. All good citizens are not only pleased to see this recognition of valuable services at the hands of the association, but coincide with the hope of the committee that ‘‘the association will not limit itself to this sole object, but will extend its labors and bring about an intelligent conception of all mu- nicipal business,” and suggest practical reforms in all branches of the City govern- ment. The association is conspicuously qualified for this important undertaking. Besides being composed cof earnest, hard- working men who have a direct interest in the City’s welfare, it is the last body in the world that would attract cranks and adventurers or that could be used directly or indirectly for unwise or impracticable purposes. Its members are eminently practical and their methods straightfor- ward and businesslike. It is upon just such lines as this—the organization of practical business men— that the highest results in municipal re- form are to be reached. The Merchants’ Association has already announced that its function does not cease at street-clean- ing, but that it wiil look further and work fearlessly. We may be sure that it will keep its word, and that its future successes will be as bright as its past. A city whose progress is overburdened with political knavery and whose public concerns have been the property of the highest private bidder needs such a moral influence, such a clear and cool head and such a vigorous hand. This is the birth of civic pride among us. AN EXTENDING MARKET. That the development of the tourist industry should prove an important modi- fier of indaustrial interests was one of the things which economists would hardly have dreamed of taking into account. Even a casual student might see something to deplore in the fact that travelers from rich countries into the poverty-stricken regions of the world, which ages ago served as a birthplace and cradle of civiliz- ation, were impoverishing their own countries to the extent of the money which they thus spent abroad, but mone of us were ready to take Into account the possi- bility of some reactionary industrial good that might result from the practice. This in no way concerns the question of a man's right to spend his money as his fancy die- tates, for that is largely a matter of ethies. We have now to do merely with an inci- s dental result of the exercise of what people of large means regard as a privilege. We learn, for insiance, that the thou- sands of tourists who annually invade the Orient have created a Iusty demand for the products of civilization while' on their travels, and that as epicures they have discovered the superiority of California canned fruits and have caused the opening up of a trade of which the growers of Cali- fornia are receiving the benefit. The North American Review asserts that during last year 7500 tourists visited Egypt alone, spending $5,000,000 on the trip. Half of these, according to that authority, were Americans, and that can be easily believed. No doubt, further, the Americans spent three-fourths of the $5,000,000. In provid- ing themselves with the luxuries which they required in the ascent of the Nile the tourists required tinned goods in great quantities, particularly fruits, and those Americans who had been educated in the superiority of the California tinned fruits demanded them to the exclusion of all others. But they found these goods very expen- sive. The tins had been shipped by the Paci- fic Mail to Hongkong at a cost of $12a ton and had been carried thence to Alexandria by the Messageries Maritimes at an addi- tional charge of $12 a ton. Some shrewd Englishman, measuring the demand against the expense of transportation, con- ceived the idea of shipping from America by sail to London at a cost of 40 shillings and thence to Alexandria for 15 shillings, thus making a saving of 40 per cent, and, although the time was much longer than by way of Hongkong, the goods arrived just in time for the demand of the Nile tourists. It requires an Englishmau to grasp the possibilities of trade extension. THere has thus arisen an unexpected de- mand for California tinned fruits and it is growing prodigiously. As Egypt is only one of the Oriental countries involved in this development it is easy to understand that encouraging possibilities abound. It is not at all clear that the most rational way of sending tinned fruits from Califor- nia to the Orient is by way of England and the Mediterrancan. It seems absurd to ship our fruits either across the continent or around Cape Horn to London and thence to the Orient, when we have our- selves ‘a direct means of communication with the Orient over the Pacific Ocean. If our fruits can be shipped by sailing vessels across the Atlantic so cheaply they can en- joy the same advantage over the Pacific, there being merely the question of devel- oping the possibilities which exist. It would be just as easy for us to load sailing vessels directly for the Suez canal as to acknowledge an Englishman’s superior wisdom in taking our goods after they have arrived at New York and shipping them thence through his own country to Mediterranean ports. THE SEATTLE CANAL The beginning of the work on the canal that is to connect the harbor at Seattle with Lake Washington has been nghtly made an occasion in that city for re- joicing. While the benefits of the canal will be confined almost wholly to Seattle itself, the magnitude is sufhcient to give it an impoertance for the whole Pacific Coast. It is one of the great enterprises of the vear in our section of the Union and in- directly the whole of the Greater West will profit by it. Any undertaking that advances any sec- tion of the Pacific Coast ought to be hailed with satisfaction by every other section. In the broadest sense the interests of every part of the coast are at this time identical. For the full growth of any one of them there is needed the development of all. When along the shores of the Pacific we have a population approaching that along the Atlantic, then we shall be in a position to make something like an adequate use of our resources. We cannot expect any one point to grow much unless there is growth everywhere. For this reason all sigus of progress are gratifying no matter where they occur, and the prosecution of the work on the big canai at Seattle will be noted with pleasure here. It is certainly a wonderful future that lies before the Puget Sound country. Be- fore many years have passed the cities around that spacious sheet of inland water wiil begin to rival those around the great lakes. No single one of them may perhaps attain the rank of Chicago, but it cerfainly is not too much to expect that several wiil rank with Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo. The commanding position of San Francisco, which will be greatly aug- | F. mented and strengthened by the comple- tion of the Nicaragua canal, will of course secure her supremacy so long as she has men of courage and sagacity to direct her affairs. She has therefore nothing to fear, but everything to hope for in the growth of other citie: The beginning of 2 work at Seattle of this magnitude will largely increase the prestige of ibe coast as a place for the in- vestment of capital and will attract the attention of progressive and enterprising investors to the whole of this section of the Union. The influence will be felt in a greater or less degree in every Pacific Coast industry, and we have good reason there- fore to send greeting and congratulation to the vigorous and thriving city on the sound. THE SYNDIOATE AsAng. The Morgan, Belmont and Rothschild syndicate has just paid into the treasury the sum of $2,000,000 in gold to make up for the recent exportations of that metal. This appearsto have been something more than was expected. It is only a short time ago the New York Heraid said: “The syndicate while continuing to exert its moral influence against the exportation of gold seems no longer willing to incur pe- cuniary loss and doubtless considers that the country is now on a sufficiently normal basis to stand an outflow without injury.” It is evident from the recent payment into the treasury that the IHerald was mistaken. The golden syndicate does not consider this coulitry to be on a sufficiently normal basis to stand alone, even when backed by the “moral influence” of Mor- gan, Belmont, Rothschilds and Company. It is the opinion of the syndicate that we need help, and having entered into a con- tract to give that help for some months longer, the bankers are sufficiently honest to stick to it, even though they lose some of the $10,000,000 which they cleaned up on the original loan of §63,000,000. Can anything more humiliating to a proud people be conceived than is involved in this transaction? Here is a President of the United States turning away fromy Congress and from the people and entering into a bargain with a syndicate of bankers to maintain the National credit. It isas if the United States was a bankrupt con- cern, whose stockbolders were unable to pay assessments and whose President had to go to the money-lenders and borrow at high rates of interest a sufficient sum to keep it running during his term of office. The only thing that prevents this from be- ing a National humiliation is the absurdity of it. Every man knows this country is abundantly able to maintain its credit and support its Government. There is no hu- miliation in it for the country, therefore, unless the country should submit to it or condone it. The country, however, willdo no such thing. Congress will cenninlyl make a close investigation this winter into the bargain with the syndicate, and Cleve- land may account himself lucky if he es- capes impeachment. It is not with Cleveland only, however, that the country will have to settle, He will be but an insignificant individual when bis rapidly passing term of office shall have expired, and it will profit the country litfle to pay any further attention to him. The responsibility which Cleve- land will 1ay aside with his office will re- main with the Democratic party that elected him and with the gold power in ‘Wall street that has used him to its own ends. This fact should be impressed deeply on the public mind. Next year when the people will have a chance to express them- selves in a Presidential -election, Cleve- !and’: personality will hardly be a factor in the contest. Democracy and the gold power, however, will both be strong forces, !bough they may not ostensibly be work- ing together. Both of these powers shouid be crushed utterly. If they are beaten the humiliation of the gold syndicate bargain wili rest only on the authors of it, but if either of them should win, the humiliation might become National and be continued indefinitely. A BLI.JEPI‘NG COMMISSION, In an article calling upon the Democratic members of the Railroad Commission to explain what steps, if any, they have taken to fulfill their campaign pledge to make an average reduction of 25 per cent in the freight rates of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, the Ezaminer has struck a lead that it will do well to follow up. The inquiry is timely to the scason and pertinent to cxisting conditions. The Commissioners were elected on that unequivocal pledge. f they have done anything toward ful- filling it the people would like to know what it is. The Commissioners have been in office seven months and as yet have made public no evidence of any intention to keep their pledge. It is a question whether they have done anything at all in that direction. Have they made any examinations of the data collected by previous boards in order to provide a basis on which to make a re- duction? Have they consulted with any experts in railroad matters to obtain in-‘ formation for their guidance? Have they collected evidence from the shippers of the State giving facts upon which a plan of reduction could be consistently based? Have they examined any of the books of the Southern Pacific Company or required them to show cause why their rates should not be reduced? Have they, in fact, taken any step whatever to fulfill their pledges; or have they even thought of the subject? Since these Commissioners entered upon their offices more than half the year has gone. The time is near at hand for the moving of the crops, and, in fact, the movement has begun. What have the Commissioners done to obtain cheaper transportation for the crops of the farmers this year? Thereis still time, by prompt action, tosave a great deal on the handling of fall crops. Are the Commissioners tak- ing any steps to do that? Have they any intention of taking such steps? The commission has shown considerable interest in the question of freights carried by an electric railroad, but we have heard | of no interest taken by it in the freights of the Southern Pacific. Why have they dealt so vigorously with the Haywards electric road and been so remiss concern- ing the momnopoly whose rates they are pledged to reduce? There are many questions summed up in the one question, What have the Com- missioners done? They are the paid serv- ants of the people, and the people, regard- less of party politics, demand that they perform their dutie: OUT-OF-TOWN FPERSONALS. Santa Rosa, July 29.—Hon. J. J. Campbell and wife, Mrs. M. S. Spencer, Mrs. L. W. Burris and son Earl, W.J. Eardley, and Miss M. Holmes are among the Santa Rosans who are staying at Duncan Springs, Mendocino County. Editor R. A. Thompson is st Paso Robles spending his vacation. Mayor Woodward has gone to Boulder Creek to spend his vacation. Sydney V. Smith, the well-known railroad magnate, and « party of fifteen, are in Santa Rosa. They came in on a special train. Mrs. R. P. and Miss Lego haye returned from a camping trip to Cazadero. Forsyth of Suisun is visiting his parents here, previous to | a trip to Mexico. Rev.John Reid is in San Francisco to see hissister, Mrs. Fell, and family off on the steamer for Victoria. Professor Nieisen and family Lave returned from a trip along the const. They visited Tomeales, Bodesa, Duncans, Cazadero and Dillons Beach. Hon. . C. Holloway of Cloverdale is in Santa Rosa. Rev. R. T. Gray of Dixon is spending a few days here. City Attorney Wure, Mrs, Colonel Hardin and Mrs. Winfield Wright have re- turned from a visit to Bartlett Springs. At Wall Springs the following guests are so- journing. They fish, boat and bathe in the river &nd in the suiphur water of the springs: From San Francisco—Mr. and Mrs, F. A, Kogel, Mr. and Miss Quinton, Mrs, Williams and son, Miss Adelaide Weiss, Miss Oscar, 8. Grosbauer, J.0. Ordes, I. Vollmer, Miss Elsa Hetty, Mrs. L. Hetty, Dr. Washington Aver,J. Thurbach, Mrs. Thurbnch, Miss Emma Thurbach, Mr. end Mrs. Reamers; ‘from Oakland—J. G. McCali and family. Gilroy, Cal., July 30.—Ex-Congressman P. B. Tully and wife have returned from Del Monte. The Ises Jolie Club, including Misses Nettie Whitehurst, Elsie Garrett, Lucile Moore, Min- nett Hankenson, George and Blanche Cobb, Lida and Jean Lennon, M. Eschenberg and Irne Hankenson, has returned from a two weeks' outing at Pacific Grove. Miss Janet Whitehurst is summering at S8anta Cruz. Mrs. C. W. Cobb is at Pacific Grove. Miss Mamie Flanagan of Ban Francisco, after a two weeks’ visit here, returned home Monday, ingsley Dunn, the electrician, of San Francisco, was in town Sunday. Mrs. Willis Eustice and son are at Capitola. Emma Wikar has returned to her home in San Francisco. Mat McCurrie is epjoyinsg & trip to the coast towns. Mrs. Marion” Ellis is at Pacitic Grove. Mrs. Dr. Moliere and Miss A. Moliere of Oakland, who are summering here, have returned from & camping trip below Hollister. Paul Saiuse- vain and wife of San Jose visited the Wolfinns here on Sunday. Miss Duncan of San Fran- cisco is rusticating at Mrs. de Knight's mountain retreat. The wedding of Miss F. Viola Rea, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Rea, and Deputy District Aftorney Partridge of San Juse, will take place Wednesday, August 7, at the bride’s home near Gilroy. New York, July 30.—Californians registered athotels to-day were: San Francisco—R. A. Ferand at the Sturtevant, W. Filmer at the Jei- ferson Hotel, L. M. Walter at the Grand Union, E. Caswell at the Grand Union, Miss Todd at the Sturtevant, C.S. Bradley and T. G. Lewis at the St.Cloud. Santa Borimrl-—MA D. Claire atthe Albert. Los Angeles—T. Parker at the St. smrhem, Miss A. Irish at the Broadway Central, Salt Lake, Utah, July 30.—Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McCarthy of San Francisco are at the Knuts- ford; they are on their way East. M. J. Bran- denstein and H. C. Frasier of San Francisco ar- rived to-day; Mr. Frasier is on his way home. Mrs. E. 8. Wade of Berkeley is registered at the Cullen on her way home. “A. E. von Emdey ar- rived to-night from San Francisco. He is at the Knutsford. Niagare Falls, N. Y., July 24.—Mrs. C. C. Clay, Miss Clay and Miss Bunclair of S8an Fran- cisco are registered at the Cataract House. "SAID IN H.EPAB—TEE. “Bingle’s wife says she thinks heaven must be something like Boston.”” “What does Bingle say 2" “He says he is tempted to become an agnos- tic.”—Waslington Star. At Covent Garden—Yes,” said she. *Ilike opera, although there is certainly a great deal of mental fatigue about “In following the musie?" “Noj; in learning to pronounce the names of the singers.”—London Tit-Bits, BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. * i St oo LSO Gallon was originzlly a pitcher or jar, no matter of whay size. ™ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Henry E. Dixey, the comedian, tells some good stories, and most of them are on himself. “I was in Ohio some years ago when the ac- commodations on the road were not of the best,” said Mr. Dixey to some friends in the Pdlace yesterday, “and found it simply im- possible to go from town to town and keep clean asI would like to. On one oceasion we HENRY E. DIXEY TELLS STORIES ON HIMSELF, WHAT SAYS MR. IRISH? J. M. HUTCHINGS WRITES TO CRITICIZE YOSEMITE VALLEY AFFAIRS. To the Editor of the Call—Sir: My attention has just been drawn to some paragraphsin THE CALL'S report of a meetiug of the executive committee of the Yosemite Commission on Wednesday last. On this occasion it would seem that Mr. John P. Irish—in my absence, and therefore without fear of contradiction— detailed certain myths about my history in the great valley, and moreoyer, presumably in glowing terms, set forth the danger of my future residence there. Mr. John P. Irish can- ot forget that I have had the presumption to expose his maladministration of the finances of Yosemite, and the questionable practices which, under his regime as secretary and treas- urer of the board for several years, have be- come so general and so habitual that it will take all the strength and purity of motive which actuates the present commission to bring about any amelioration, and thereby 10 re-establish the” popularity of the Yosemite Valley as a place of resort and to develop its incomparable worth in attracting the wealthy and refined of all nations to the Golden State. Fortunately, for the best interests of the val- ley, Mr. J. P. Trish has no further voice in its management. During his administration large sums were voted by the State Legislature—but where and how they were expended ‘‘deponent saith not”” About the last “job” under his direction was the repairing of two of my old buildings, for which the board voted $3500, yet they were made to cost $11,000. The pay- ment of much of this sum has been relegated by him to his successors. 1am not surprised that Mr. J. P. Irish disap- proves of the unanimous vote of both branches of the State Legislature in granting me a 10- years' lease of my old cabin and orchard. This transaction willnot be as profitable to him as many others in which he has been engaged. NordoIexpect bim to comprehend the senti- ment I shall feel in occupying it. I believe in the sacred preservation of the forestry and flora of the valley; in the estab- lishment and proper care of the roads and bridges of the valley; in the opening up of numerous pathways for pedestrians; and, above all, in perpetuating as much as possible the wild sublimity of this unequaled spot. Those who lovingly develop and preserve its manifold charms, who honestly and frugaily expend its State appropriations and rents, who Eopulnrize its marvelous attractious, shall ave my ungualified support, A commission that has begun its new tife by making all its meetings open to the publie, that has forbidden the pooling of hotels, that will deliver the valiey from becoming a private stock ranch, need see no danger in my presence there. It will be the delight and joy of my hearl to note the good work going on, and be- come the realization of my fondest though long-deiayed hopes. J. M. HUTCHINGS. THE RACE FOR A MAJORITY. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH PABLIAMENTARY CON. TEST AT A GLANCE. The acccmpanying engravings illustrate the London Graphic’s method of indicating the progress of the British elections. The first pair of ladders shows the standing of the parties on July 15, when the Conservatives and Unionist Liberals had a total of ninety-six as against were on the road some five days before strik- ing the next town. During that time you can imagine the growth of beard and the accumu- lation of dirt which took possession of me. “When we arrived, I put up at a little hotel near the theater, and as I passed from the office to my room an old fellow walked up to me and said: “¢Are you Dixey, the real Dixey ? “‘Yes. Ibelieve Iam.” ' “Are you the same Dixey who played in New York last year?' “Tam.’ “‘Well, I've got acouple of tickets for me and my wife to-night, and I'm going again to see you.’ “I attempted to excuse myself, so that I could clean up, but he grabbed my arm and held me back. ‘Say My. Dixey,’ he said, ‘would you mind having me tell yon something. If youdon’t, all I have got to say is that fora good-looking man on the stage, you are the dirtiest-looking slaub off the same I ever saw. Now that's right.” “There are a great many funny things that happen to an actor who is at all willing to talk o most any one who is willing to converse. When 1 went to England the people were dumfounded at the slang expressions we used. The expressions, ‘I should smile’ and ‘Not on purpose,’ which at that time were very com- mon, caused the Englishmen to look at us in wonderment, as though an attempt were being made to introduce some new jargon among them. “One day a young fellow was pouring out his tale of woe about some difficulty he had had with & young lady, wherein she refused to speak to him any more. Finally he turned to me and inquired whether I thought he was not badly treated. I answered: ‘Well, I should | smile.” Whereupon his face colored up and he burst out with a volley of inquiries as to | whether or not I was able to enter into a seri- ous discussion on any subject and if I thought a fellow’s grief was the right thing to smile at. In ebout a minute he worked himself into such o state of excitement that the room wasn’t big enough to hold him. He wanted to get right out on the street and fight it out, but was finally smoothed down by some friends of all present who explained the situation to him. I don’t think I ever saw & man 8o mad as he was and as a matter of fact I believe he isa little riled yet.” William R. Castle, the newly appointed Ha- waiiar Minister to Washington, is rather in- clined to the sedate, and isa decided temper- ance man, He is a pillar of the missionery MINISTER CASTLE. churches, and entertains a warm dislike for the Democratic administration. He especially distrusts President Cleveland. There is & ques- tion as to whether he will be accepted in Wash- ington &s persona grata. MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS. Tt is the habit of & certain class of people to speak disparagingly and with a supercllious accent of the newspapersand to point out their alleged inferiority to the magazines as sources of information and entertainment. For example, says the Lockport Journal, Robert Grant takes it upon himself to declare that if he were asked to select what one influ- ence more than another wastes the spare time ot the modern man he should be inclined to specify the reading of newspapers. - He acknowledges the valueof the modern daily newspaper “as a short cut to knowledge of what is happening in two hemispheres;” but he insists that “the persistent reading of many newspapers, or the whole of almost any newspaper, is nearly as detrimental to the fzfi"mfl'y .of time as the cigarette habit1s to he St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that this it equivalent, of course, to a condemnation of one of our National habits, which is also one of our supposed signs of intelligence. The American people are the greatest readers of newspapers in the world. A large majority of them rarely or never read anything else. They get in that way practically all of their in- formation about the affairs of the universe and all of the facts upon which they found their opinions with regard to questions of duty and responsibility. 3 NFW TO-DAY. ——e— (TP AR SEMI-ANNUAL loarance Sale BEFORE STOCK TAKING. HOUSEKEEPING OODS. ular price 3il4c, now, each ........ 25¢ 66-in¢h HEAVY BLEACHED DAM- ABK, regular price §L10, now 750 = yard... $2 TURKEY RED DAMASK, fine qual- 'Oc ity, regular price 75¢, now, a yard P 26x26 BLEACHED DAMASK NAP- KINS, extra heavy, regular price $2.75, now, a dozen... SAMPLE PAIRS OF FINE WHITE BLANKETS GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE. FALL JACKETS JUST ARRIVED. SE HABLA ESPANOL. G. VERDIER & CO., SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. VILLE DE PARIS. BRANCH HOUSE, LOS ANGELES. [We regret that considera- tions of space compel us to leave out Lord Rose- bery, who is toiling on 67 rungs below this point.] fourteen for the Radicals, anti-Parnellites, Parnellites and Independent Lebor parties. The plethoric form of Lord Salisbury isrepre- sented as near the top of the ladder, indicated by 96, while young Lord Rosebery was strug- gling at the foot with only 14 to his credit. On the following day,July 16, the situation was even worse for the ex-Premier, for while the Unionist leader had clambered up to 171, his opponent had dropped so_far down that he couls insult to injury, the editor with grim humor perpetrates at the foot of the first ladder a joke thatall Englishmen will enjoy: “Weregret that considerations of space compel us to leave out Lord Rosebery, who is toiling on 67 rungs below this point.” PERSONAL. Dr. J . Ulman, a physician of Baltimore, is at the Palace. A. B. Hart, ex-Attorney-General, is at the Grand Hotel. Judge Finney of Los Angeles isstopping at the Occidental. E. B. Horning, a Marysville druggist,is at the Grand Hotel. William Stanton of the Pasadena Newsis a guest at the Palace. G. W. Chandler, a lumberman of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand Hotel. Captain Matthews, a sea captain from British Columbia, is at the Russ. Arthur A. Taylor, editor of the Santa Cruz Serf, was in the City yesterday. H. A. Preston, & prominent mining man of Jamestown, is at the Grand Hotel. Dr. G. W. Wood, medical director of the navy, is stopping at the California Hotel. F. A. Bartlett, & Port Townsend merchant, is in town and housed at the Californie. €. H. Mower and wife, touring the world from London, are at the Palace Hotel. 8. P. Jobuson, a clvil engincer of Washing- ton, D. C., is & guest at the Occidental, F. L. Errickson, a railroad contractor from Guadaloupe, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Scnator E. C. Hart, a Sacramento politieian, is down for a few days and is at the Grand. Rev. William Lucas, an Episcopalian minis- ter from Fresno, is & guest at the Occidental. A. P. Dalton, one of the best known mining men of Denver, is in town at the Occidental Hotel. tg::r‘;e A. thely). ::l:perinwudeuz of the Cook 8 arm at Davisville, is s iy topping at the G. M. Francis of the Napa Register is up from the country sniffing the editorial airof his City contemporaries. B. F. Newcomer, vice-president 3 tic Const Railroad rum?ing f:oniort'e‘v'vle!{:g:; Florida, is a guest at the Occiaental Hotel. George Stockard, a member of the Goodyear Rubber Company, is stopping at the Palace. Mr. Stockard has his headquarters at Montreal, Canada. —_— ‘WARM weather weakens the whole system. It causes 10ss of appetite and that tired feeling. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, on the other hand, creates an appetite, tones the stomach and gives new life. BT St 54yt ok “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, sofieus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colie, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising irom teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Pe sureand ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrip. 230 a not be seen on the ladder. As if to add ; RECORD- BREAKING PRICES! GAZE ON THEM! Ladies’ Shirt Waists at. 25¢ Ladies’ Double Capes af 950 | Ladies’ Triple Capes at.. . 1.20 Children’s Double-breasted Reef- ers at Vebeivnas . 1.28 Ladies’ Double-breasted BoxJack- ets at...... . 4.75 Ladies’ Swell Tailor-made Suits at 7.75 2~ These are GREAT BARGAINS and won’t last long. LOEWENTHAL’S Cloak and Suit House, NO. 844 MARKET ST. NEAR STOCKTON. FURNITURE 4 Rg(())l'ls Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-plece sult, plush D Solid Oak Suit, French Bevel. Bedroom-—7-piece aik Suit, French Bevel- Dlate Glasy, hed, burean, washstand. two chairs. Boekter and tubié; pillows, woven-wire and top mattress. & 3 Dining-Koem-6-{oot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Table and two chiairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open eVenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 308 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Frea pseking and delivery across the bay. WALL |2 T WINDOW PAPER 3 | SHADES Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. G.W.CLARK&co. 653 Market Street. SAMPLES SENT. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WA7HINGTON STS.— modeled and renovated, KING, WARD & 0o, uropean plan. Rooms 50 to $1 50 per day, §2 1088 per weekc 88 to 830 per montby Ireo baihs: ‘ater every room; fire grates in ovewy wom; elevator runsall nighte -~ © lf' Tl