The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 18yo. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.80.15 Defly end Sunday CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 ¥ AL, six months, by mail 3.00 CaLr, three months, by mail 1.50 month, by mail .50 mail..... 1.50 cunday CALY, One year, WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. + 150 BUSINESS OFFICE:. 710 Market Street. Telephone... vesneen MaIn—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. & Telephone aln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES £20 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 9 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 7 Larkin street; open until xteenth and Mission streets; open 18 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. Ninth street; open until o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Dusne streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If £0, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at ess Office, 710 Market street, wili receive ttention. UGUST 14, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The Exposition awaits you. Go to see the home products. An extra session of Coneress is not de- girable, but it seems to be necessary. The enforcement of law cinches none but lawbreakers, but still the railroads howl. It seems to be conceded that when we learn to pack fruit the London market will be ours. It is possible that with Jones and Mackay, rest may be only another name for business. The Wooton mystery has not yet been solved, but as the estate has been distrib- uted we may let it pa: The third-term cuckoos overlook the fact eland is much more likely to be impeached than renominated. There is a growing suspicion that reform has already lost its Sunday n Buckley’s back yard. Dy breeche As Mac and Jones have both come here simply to rest we m tise the town as the Nevada mén’s repose. Eastern visitors who complain that the peninsula lacks color should be given the freedom of the City to paint the town red. The Market-street Company would find i per in a general way to buy its in open competition as the law land has really put his party under bonds not to elect another President for many years to come. The present session of Parliament will not last long, for at this season.of the year grouse-shooting in England it always too much for politi Fresno is rejoicing so much ih the double prospect of striking oil and getting an in- crease in the price of raisins that she is liable to break out in a carnival at any time. In depriving the people of Clarendon Heights of streetcar facilities the Market- street Railway Company has forfeited its franchise, but what will the Supervisorsdo about it? It has been decided to push forward the State exhibit for the Atlanta Exposition without further delay, and the backward counties must now brace up and join the procession. In making arrangements to check and store bicycles free of charge, thie managers of the Mechanics’ Fair have proven their ability to run an up-to-date show in anup- to-date way. e As the arrangements for the silver con- vention become more clearly defined, it becomes more evident that it will repre- sent the leaders and thinkers of the Pacific Coast, and not merely the talkers, If we condemn the bad actions of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky we should also commend whatever good it does, and it merits some praise just now for offering to carry the State exhibit to Atlanta free of charge. The decision of Judge W. D. Cornish of Nebraska that the Union Pacific is earning enough money to pay its debts gives en- couragement to the hope that some other Pacific roads may eventually be in the same good fix. Tehama County’s announcement that it cannot appropriate money for the Atlanta Exposition because it has five murder trials on hand suggests its opportunity to abolish the murder habit by resorting to quick trials and prompt punishment. By and by the people will demand that officials who reduce railroad taxes to a nullity and at the same time increase those upon other taxpayers should be given a chance to explain themselves in a place where they will be subject to a cross- examination. The re-election of Mr. Gully as Speaker of the House of Commons sbows one of the important points of difference between the British parliamentary system and ours. What would have been thought in this country if the Democratic Congress had re-elected Speaker Reed ? The construction of the competing road will break down the monopoly of trans- portation in the S8an Joaquin, but until it becomes a transcontinental road there will be plenty of work for the Traffic Association to do in guarding the inter- ests of the merchants of the State against the greed of monopoly. The proposed union of all the Catholic reading circles of the City in one organiza- tion for the adoption of a uniform and universal course of study is another evi- dence of the rapid development of higher education outside of colleges. 1f the pres- ent rate of progress in that direction is continued for another generation, the whole United States will be one big uni- versity, with classes and courses of in- struction open in every city, town and village. OINCHING THE RAILROAD. One of the greatest securities enjoyed by the Southern Pacific Company is the con- tempt entertained by a very large number of good citizens for that form of political degeneracy which thrives upon promises to ‘“‘cinch” the railroad. Take, for in- stance, the pledges given by the Demo- cratic candidates for the Railroad Commis- sion in the last State election. They solemnly promised that they would reduce freight charges at least 25 per cent; that they would reduce freight classifications at least half; that they would permit no pri- vate business ‘‘or other avocation” (what- ever that may mean) to interfere with their duties to the public, and that they would make such other reforms as were needed to bring about adjustment of transporta- tion to the necessities of the State. When interviewed to learn what these gentlemen had done or propose to do in carrying out pledges upon which indu- bitably they were elected, these gentlemen informed the public that they are giving the matter careful study, and they propose to do what is right in the premises between the people and the railroad, and that if they find upon complete investiga- tion that the freight charges may be re- duced without working an undue hardship to the railroad they will reduce by the amount which they deem proper, and that if they find that no reductions should be made they wili make none. In all the political history of California hardly any#shing so full of the elements of opera bouffe has ever occurred before. It sweeps the pledge entirely out of the field, laughs at the credulity which accepted it in earnest, practically stigmatizes as fools all who voted on the strength of it, pro- claims the meanness and insincerity of the party pledging itself, and is a confession of duplicity on the part of the men who took it. 'We have been waitingto see if the cen- tralized authority of the California Democ- racy would disavow Dr. Stanton’s position and repudiate him as a betrayer of the party’s faith and integrity, and as this has not been done and as the party has taken no notice whatever of the disgraceful posi- tion in which it has been placed we are forced to the conclusion that it approves his course and cheerfully accepts the stigma which he placed upon it. It is just such betrayals as this that con- stitute one of the railroad’s strongest se- curities. It must have known a long time that such pledges are not made in good faith, but only for the purpose of winning votes, and that the pledges will be ignored as soon as the election is secured. Itis aware that the majority vote which elects candidates under such circumstances is to be distinguished from that calm, shrewd understanding which measures the intelli- gence of thoughtful men, and that what- ever may be the desire of such men to see the proper adjustment for which the heed- less strive it is measurably paralyzed by an unwillingness to form an alliance to that end with less discriminating and less reli- able intelligence. In voting for these Democratic candi- dates for the Railroad Commission the people were not animated by a desire to “cinch the railroad.”” They had felt the burdens which they blindly tried to throw off and they placed reliance upon promises intended only to fool them and use them as tools for the meanest ends. It is im- possible for the party to claim any sort of exemption from responsibility and con- nivance in this shameful betrayal. It can- not make the defense of its Commissioners that a keeping of the pledge would work an unjust hardship on the railroad. If it exacted the pledge without a full under- standing of the necessity for keeping it and of the vital conclusions which it should affect it is just as culpable as though it deliberately intended fraud and deception. BYRON WATERS' MISTAKE. Some days ago THE CALL published a re- port that Byron Waters, attorney for the Southern Pacific, had approached Mr. Monteith, the attorney for the railroad strikers, with offers of an arrangement to compromise the suits now before the courts. This offer Mr. Monteith refused. It was an important story of local concern, and we gave it the space and prominence in our colums which it deserved, Mr. Waters denied the truth of the re- port, and, to confirm his denial, published in other papers a letter from Mr. Mon- teith apparently justifying him. Had the denial been well founded Mr. Waters need not have taken the trouble to advertise it. THE CaLy, which is always willing to cor- rect any error into which it may fall, would, under the circumstances, have gladly given the space necessary to set him right. It appears, however, that the denial was not well founded and our original story was correct. The letter of Mr. Monteith to Waters was given him solely to enable him to satisfy his employers of the South- ern Pacific. We publish in another column a full explanation of the matter,which will make interesting reading for ail who feel ‘any concern in the subject. Mr. Waters has been altogether too brash in his denial. He shonld learn from the wise old heads of the Southern Pacific when to talk and when to keep his mouth shu TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS, It seems hardly credible that the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe road would con- sent to the surrender of the Atlantic and Pacific to Mr. Huntington, although the demand of the Atlantic and Pacific owners for a receiver separate from that of the At- chison has been construed to mean such a thing. The passing of the Atlantic and Pacific under Mr. Huntington’s control would carry with it the California Southern system, which runs from Los Angeles to San Diego, and so would stop the Atchison road at the Needles, shutting it out of Cali- fornia and placing not only the Atchison road wholly at Mr. Huntington’s mercy, but the entire monopoly of rail transporta- tion in and out of California as well. This would practically ruin the entire system and toss it into Mr. Huntington’s arms. And yet the serious menaces which of late have risen to confront the Southern Pacific may have caused Mr. Huntington to cast about for some means of escape. The Atchison has always been a thorn in his side, for it not only forced him to make a traffic arrangement with it over his track from Mojave to San Francisco, by threat- ening to build to the bay if he refused, but it secured control of the immensely profit- able traffic of Southern California and largely increased it by developing the re- gion in the exercise of an energetic and generous policy, unknown to the metkods of the SBouthern Pacific. Itis true that the two lines have maintained outwardly ami- cable relationsand have worked together with delightful harmony in maintaining high rates to and from the State. But for all that, the Atchison is the only transcon- tinental line, except that of the Southern Pacific, entering California, and the fact of its presence has been as annoying as have been the reductions which it has caused the Southern Pacific to suffer in its re- ceipts. The financial embarrassment of ihe Atchison road seemed to come at a time most opportune for Mr. Huntington. Other evils were besetting him. "The rea- sonably sure prospect for the construction of the Nicaragua canal was an uncomforta- ble thing to face. New Orleans, the ter- minal of his southern overland line, has revolted against Mr. Huntington’s tariffs and put on & line of steamers to carry our wines to the south by way of the Panama Railroad. The Nicaragua canal would not only greatly simplify the problem of New Orleans, but would throw open the whole of the Gulf and Atlantic regions to ships from California and would bring even Europe within reach. Mr. Huntington probably looked forward to the time when his overland roads would be restricted to the carriage of passengers and perishable freights. Even more formidable than either the Atchison road or the prospect of the Nicaragua canal is the newest of all, the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway. Besides being the most puzzling of sphinxes with regard to its ultimate bearing on transcontinental hauling, it has invadea the richest territory dom- inated by the old monopoly with the avowed purpose of developing California by reducing freight and passenger rates. Not only have its promoters unlimited wealth, courage, energy and independence, and not only have they the sympathy of the people and the direct financial interest of alarge number of the best of them in the success of the enterprise, but as they will have none of the heavy burdens which afflict the Southern Pacific in the shape of interest and other charges on inflated valu- ations they will necessarily be able to operate their road at a smaller expense and charge lower rates accordingly. For these reasons it may be credible tbat Mr. Huntington is behind the demand of the owners of the Atlantic and Pacific for a separate receiver. In any event the matters involved in the whole situation bave a very serious importance for Cali- fornia. MORALITY IN TEXAS. The moral and menta! status of Texas— of so much of it, at least, as Dallas repre- sents—has been established in a small speech which the Mayor of Dallas has made for publication. It should be first explained that the State has a penal law prohibiting prize-fightsand a civil law per- mitting the licensing of ‘‘refined physical culture exhibitions,”’ or somethinz equally asamusing. The “highest legal talentin the State’ has expressed the opinion that the civil law will govern in the meeting which two distingnished gentlemen, Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsimmons, are ar- ranging to have at Dallas; and as the Gov- ernor and the Attorney-General do not seem to be overzealous in construing the relation of the ‘‘conflicting laws,” the meeting will very likely occur. All these circumstances have combined to inspire the Mayor of Dallas to the following utter- ance: “The great physical-culture exhibition between Corbett and Fitzsimmons will come off as scheduled on October 21 at Dallas. It is asure thing. * * * Dan Stuart, president of the Florida Athletic Club, isa good business man, and is not taking any chances. We expect to have en enormous crowd from the best people of the country in October, and that is the main reason the business men of the State, and particularly of Dallas, are supporting Mr. Stuart.” Outside of Texas the general conception of the term “the best people of the coun- try’’ includes ministers of religion, worthy members of religious societies, men and women teachers of the young, supporters of decency and morality, citizens who be- lieve in enforcement of the laws, public officers willing to observe the oaths which they have taken to enforce the laws, men and women of culture who lead society and moral reforms and constitute themselves exemplars of conduct, and a considerable sprinkling of unclassified persons in all walks of life who are opposed to the culti- vation of any such atavistic tendency in the race as is effected by bull-fighting, prize-fighting, bull-baiting, torture of crim- inals, infanticide, duels and all similar in- dulgences which tend to our retrogression to those savage days in our evolution when we lived in caves, used a club in kill- ing animals for meat and regarded human flesh as the rarest of table delicacies. As such persons here enumerated will not go to Dailas on the 21st of October, but on the contrary can regard that day and the place and event with which it is asso- ciated only with horror and repulsion, they cannot be regarded by the people of Dallas as belonging to the *‘best people of the country”; and as it is only the best people of the country whose incursion Dallas seems desirous of courting, 1t should be understood that all here enumerated are not wanted there on the 21st of October or at any other time. It seems that, ac- cording to the standard of morality which Dallas has erected, such persons would be regarded as a nuisance and a hindrance to progress, and they are therefore warned to keep away foraver. The National quarantine regulations are at present aimed against such evils only as cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, leprosy and a few others. No provision existing for putting Dallas under quarantine lest the influences upon wkich its greatness are founded should prove infectious, and old Mother Earth, in her inscrutable wisdom, having given no sign as yet that she in- tends to take any chances with the in- tegrity of her internal economy by opening and swallowing a place which the educated stomach of the humuan race refuses to ac- cept, we can only hope|that the fondest dreams of Dallas will be realized in the permanent staying there of all *“‘the best people of the country”” who propose to enjoy the charms of the place on the 21st of October. EXTRA SESSION TALK. ‘While the report from Washington con- cerning the probability of an extra session of Congress may not have any official au- thority behind it, there is none the less good reason for receiving it with satisfac- tion. Asa change from the reports about the third term movement, it is decidedly welcome. It gives promise that the silly season is about over in the East, and that politicians have begun to consider the real politics of the country instead of such midsummer madness as the possible re- election of Cleveland. The report of a vrospective extra ses- sion is an outgrowth of the needs of the administration. The deficit in the reve- nues increases from month to month, and, despite the famous syndicate deal, the ex- port of gold continues. The Cleveland administration borrowed $58,538,000 last November and $65,100,000 in Febrnary, of $123,638,000, since the revenue law was enacted, and still there is need for more money to carry on the Government and maintain the gold reserve. In this con- dition of affairs there are but three possible courses for the administration to pursue. It may refuse to carry out the monetary obligations of the Government; it may borrow more money from the favored syn- dicate and run the Nation deeper into debt; or it may call an extra session of Congress to provide the Government with the necessary revenue and put the treasury on a safe basis. It is undoubtedly true that extra sessions of Congress are not ordinarily regarded with favor. The people would much pre- fer to wait for the regular session in De- cember if the waiting did not cost too much. Inthe present instance, bowever, the waiting is likely to cost a good deal. During the first ten and a half months of the new tariff the revenues fell below the expenses of the Government by more than $63,400,000, or more than $6,000,000 a month. There is no prospect that this condition will change 50 long as the present tariff re- mains unaltered, and we must have, there- fore, either a speedy amendment of the tariff or an increase of the public debt. The situation, perhaps, does not disturb Cleveland much, but it seriously disturbs those leaders of the Democratic party who hope to have some chance of winning in the next campaign. Another issue of bonds, another increase of the public debt by the Democratic administration, would hopelessly discredit the party for a gener- ation to come., It is no wonder, there- fore, that Washington is talking of the ‘prospects of an extra session. The Govern- ment requires a revenue equal to the ex- penses, and Cleveland will be an obstinate man indeed if, in the face of this need, he enforces upon the Democratic party the re- sponsibility of a further deficit, and an- other such outrage as the last syndicate deal. PERSONALS. E. Jacob, a prominent banker of Visalia, is at the Occidental. General J. B. Castro of Castroville is a guest at the Commercial. M. L. Short, the District Attorney of Kings County, is at the Lick. S. P. Sages, a hotel man of Sulphur Springs, isin the City, at the Lick. Judge Walling of Nevade City is down for a few days, at the Russ House. Attorney F. W, Street and family are guests atthe Lick. They are from Sonora. F. S. Wensinger, one of Freestone's fruit- growers, is in the City, at the Occidental. Captain T. J. Sunny of Alaska is down from the north and stopping at the Commercial. F. W. Vaille, one of Uncle 8am’s postoffice inspectors, is doing the rounds. He isat the Lick. S.8. Bradford, s mining man from Sonoma, was among the arrivals yesterday. He isatthe Russ. E. W. Townsend, the mining and milling man of Juneau, Alaska, is a guest at the Com- mercial. 0. Londell, one of the best-known hop-buyers in Californis, is down from his home in Bacra- mento. He is at the Grand. H. P. Bridge, a son of the original Charter Oak cooking-stoye manufacturer, is in the City from New York. He is housed at the Palace. Phil L. Crovet, formerly of the Northern route ticket-office but now & traveling sales- man for the Vina yineyard, is in from New York. He is at the Palace. The young men and women missionaries who arrived here recently from different parts of the United States leit yesterday for the Orient, where they will scatter among the Japanese and Chinese. Colonel H. J. Burns, president of the Home for the Care of Inebriatesand a member of the Veteran National Guard, will leave for Boston on Monday to attend the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar to be held in that city, as a representative of California Commandery No.1. On his return he will join & party at Chicago to visit the prominent battle-fields of the South and then return through Yeliow- stone Park. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN SALT LAKE. SALT LAKE, UTAH, Aug. 13.—At the Walker: E. R. Perrier of San Francisco, At the Knuts- ford: Miss Bertha Jenkins of Los Angeles, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lesser and George J. Ritter of San Francisco. Mr. Ritter is here for a month or 8o to introduce a Calitornia powder into the country., He represents the Judson Dynamite Company of San Francisco. GOOD WORDS FOR ‘‘THE CALL.” The San Francisco CALL has gone to the trouble and expense of showing strong reasons why the assessments of the railroads of this State should be quadrupled to be valued in proportion to other State property, and we shall soon see how much attention the State Board of Equalization and the Railroad Com- missioners will pay to the interests of the peo- ple whom they represent. Many people already favor the abolition of the Railroad Commission and the eyes of the public are now observant of its actions and if it fails to do its duty this year a storm will surely break over its head in the next election. The State Board of Equali- zation may also expect to be watched. The people cannot be hoodwinked in the matter of railroad assessments much longer, and though the body may not be abolished the members will receive special attention in future elec- tions.—Selma Irrigator. ‘THE CALL of last Monday published figures showing how the Southern Pacific Railroad Company has in former years evaded taxation by improper assessments by the State Board of Equalization, and demanded that the present board diverge from the slimy footsteps of its predecessors and see to it that the State re- ceives its just dues from the octopus. THE CaLy's article evidently had some influence, for at the board’s session to make the assess- ment, on Monday, the board raised the assess- ments in the aggregate by the. sum of $288,000. This is a good beginning, and it may be that through the influence of the press in the future better results will follow. Let us hope so.—Newman Tribune, THE CALL should receive the support of all friends of high-class journalism. IfSan Fran- cisco has needed one thing more than another it has been a leading daily that did not pander to Barbary Coast. THE CALL'S treatment of the Durrant case is the most admirable piece of work yet done by the new CALL, though it has struck the lotteries a body blow ana brought the Solid Eight face to face with the people. The temptation is strong in a case like the Emmanuel Church murders to follow custom and precedence, aud the moral force required to suppress the sensational correspondingly great.—Selma Enterprise, THE CALL is keeping up its good work for the people. It is proving, by pointing out the street and number where opium joints are meintained in San Franeisco, that it would be possible for the police to find these places also i it did not pay better not to see them. It is also overhauling the railroad assessmentand proving how gently the Board of Equalization deals with the “octopus.”” Will it hit the San Francisco dailies next? The opium fiend has again been run to the well. THE CALL has, through its enterprise, given to Chief Crowley the names and num- bers of numerous houses that are known to run white opium joints in Sau Francisco. These places are now being closely watched and it is hoped that these places will be cleared away.— Pleasanton Times. The San Francisco CALL. under its new man- agement, is easily the best newspaper pub- lished in that City, as it gives the most news and its literary excellence renders it the best for the family circle—Willapa (Wash.) Pilot. UP-TO-DATE JOEKES. Miss S8wift—No, I shall not go into the con- servatory with you, Mr. Slowboy; I'm afraid you would try to kiss me. Slowboy—Why, Miss Swift, did you ever in your life know me to do an ungentlemanly thing? Miss Swift—But, you see, so many people wouldn't think that ungentlemanly.—Boston Standard. Town Marshal—How is it that there are no shooting affrays in your saloon, Uncle Ben? Uncle Ben of Bloody Run—Wa’al, pard, th’ ‘boys knows thet every one of them boxes back o' th’ bar is full o’ dynamite. They also know thet I'm the only duck in town thet's got re- ligion an’ is prepared t’ die, an’ they hold their fire accordin’ly.—Judge. He—Come here, Anna! Here's & vegetable peddler. She (hurrying to the door)—Nonsense! That’s the milliner with my new hat.—Fliegende Blaetter, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Mr. John Drew was telling some acquaint- ances in the Palace Hotel last night of the bright future for American comedy. “The interest of the American public in real comedy,” said the actor, ““is growing every year, and the delight in horse play or the fun of a rough variety act is growing proportion- ately less. I'vé found that the American pub- lic is a theater-going but not & dramatic people. They go to the theater to be amused and not to be aroused by a dramaticstory. For thatreason comedy rather than tragedy is going to be the more popular. “The greatest drawback to this advance will most likely be the lack of men who can write good, original comedies. With the exception of Henry Guy Carleton, Bronson Howard, Au- JOHN DREW. [From a photograph.j gustus Thomas, and perhaps one or two others, there are no real playmakers in this country. The others are only adapters. We have plenty of American writers who are the authors of clever, original novels, but they do not seem to possess dramatic instinet. Some of them have written stories that are intensely dramatic and vet have been utterly unable to dramatize them. “There are so many brilliant newspaper writers in this country that I am surprised in not hearing from them oftener i: the play- wrignts’ world. Carleton, Howard and Thomas were atl reporters and dabbled in playmaking Qduring leisure hours. I think more newspaper men would take a hand in writing for the stage if they knew the real value of successful comedy. Bronson Howard received $100,000 in royalties for ‘Shenandoah,’ and Henry Guy Carleton has received an average of $1000 a week for several weeks from ‘The Butterflies’ and ‘The Gilded Fool.” ”* During Mr. Drew’s entertaining talk there ‘was no suggestion of the actor about him, He does not pull his mustache as he does on the stage, or roli his eyes in the same doleful way. Those are habits of the stage, and their omis- sion in private life is an absolute trinmph for his duality. Mr. Drew has been on the stage for twenty years. “1 made my first appearance at my mother’s théater in Philadelphia,” he said. “Itwas in the farce called ‘Cool as a Cucumber.’ I had seen Charles Matthews play it and got through allright. Butl am afraid that with the con- fidence of youth—I was 20 then—I mistook the applause of a friendly audience for indications that I had real gentus, and I thought that in & few years I would be at the top of the Ameri- can stage.” Mr. Drew has worked as hard as any actor on the stage, and what success he has attained is due solely to years of study and drudgery and not to any accident. After a dozen years as Augustin Daly’s leading man he started out as & star under the management of Charles Frohman. The first play was “The Masked Ball.” Then came Carleton’s “Butterflies” and “Christopher Jr.” Last season he began his season at the Empire Theater, New York, with “The Bauble hop,” and it lasted the entire year. After uis California engagement Mr. Drew goes directly to New York and plays in the metropolis until next May, when his season in London, England, begins. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The editors and managers ot some of the Oakland dailies are rather sour in their com- ments when they speak of the present practice of most of the San Francisco dailies to give much space to the chronicling of the news of this city of 60,000 inhabitants and its suburbs. Probably if the Oakland dailies pursued & like course with regard to San Francisco happen- ings, the journals of that metropolis might dis- play & soirit of mild censure also. Butit is clearly a big ad. for Oakland when the San Francisco papers lavishly herald to the world the ongoings in this big town. Another benefit accrues as well. Official knavery is in far more danger of discovery, and punition is much more apt to be the heritage of official crooks!— Oakland Echoes. The Bee believes that the first duty of the public school system should be to give the pupil a thoroughly good English education. To that end all “frills” and *‘furbelows,” for- eign and dead languages, should be wiped out from the curriculum of our public schools. We have no objection to letting scholars potter away with them in universities, but they shoula not be permitted to cumber that portion of the public school system which ends with the high school. Let us improve our common schools by ridding them of the mess ot weeds which choke the garden of & good, solid Eng- lish education.—Sacramento Bee. - There are some people whose minds are so contracted that they can see nothing but job- bery in every movement for the public good. Such people have neither the capacity nor the inelination to originate any kind of an enter- prise themselyes and they are a clog to the wheels of progress in any community that is afflicted by their presence. That classof in- competents undoubtedly harbors the sus- picion that the Creator had some nefarious design when He gave life and motion to the universe.—San Jose Mercury. Japan claims the right to search American vessels. By the way, how long is it since Eng- land made the same assertion? It may be par- donable on the part of this bantum of the Orient to ignore the disaster that befell a cock of the walk eighty-three years ago, but that is no reason why the little fellow’s comb should not be cut if he persists in disregarding the lesson that history ought to teach.—Qakland Tribune. There are towns in this State whose growth and development are retarded simply by the apatheticspirit of their oldestand best situated citizens. Put your thinking-caps on, citizens, and when in the near future the lever is ready to give & hoist, advance your idea as to the best method to be adopted in the lift, but if you cannot do any lifting yourself do not drag on the handle.—Oroville Mercury. The Democrats said the new tariff law would have no effect on the coast lumber trade. From the action of the leading lumbermen one would infer that it has had a very noticeable effect, and British Columbia competition is one of the most serious problems that has yet been encountered.—Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intel- ligencer. That which tends to disturb home life and rural pursuits strikes at the very existence of & people, and so serious are these baneful in- fluences that nations in peace or war have recognized the importance of fostering or de- stroying the tranquility and prosperity of the ‘yeomanry of a country.—8alt Lake Star. Never did the eye of mortal man look upon water more clear and sparkling than that which gushes from the wells just dug for the town water works. Not only is it pleasing to the eye, but 1t is as pleasant to the taste, being cool and delicious. Verily we have struck & gold mine in these wells, and every friend of the town water works rejoices greatly over the success of the venture.—Santa Clara Journal. One large San Francisco clothing firm that up to this time has dealt exclusively in New York made goods, is opening up a branch, the new stock for which is all being made in San Francisco. The pace set by the local manu- facturers was too hot for them. They could not meet the handicap, and discreetly fell in line. Itissafe to predict that the clothing business will give its entire support to local manufacturers. Our people have demonstrated their ability to meet the Eastern prices and qualities, and the Manufacturers’ Association is but precipitating the inevitable.—The Peta- lumian. We do not exactly see why California churches should be compelled to look to the East for their preachers. What is the matter with home talent? With $4000 salaries wait- ing them in the plilpits, where are the young geniuses which Berkeley and Stanford should be turning out?—Oakland Enquirer. Nextin importance to the agricultural re- sources of a country comes its manufactures, and the experience of all countries has demon- strated that any locality or city where manu- facturing can be carried on with profit pos- sesses a guarantee of future prosperity and wealth.—San Luis Obispo Breeze. California is not usually excessively modest in her public claims, but she is about the only State in the Union without a “favorite son” as a candidate for President. California will be satisfled with the National convention in 1896. —Watsonville Pajaronian. This sentimentality, which saves all its pity for the offender and has none left for the vic- tim, is a serious obstacle in the proper punish- ment of crime.—San Jose Herald. Let the new woman chase the {llusive shirt collar-button around under tle furniture a few times and she may be satisfied with her own apparel.—Alameda Telegram. WORK FOR MANY WOMEN. A Good Demand for Female Help at the Free Labor Bureau. Sacramento Canners Deny That They Prefer Coolles to White Workers. Deputy Labor Commissioner C. L. Dam states that he has on file a large number of applications for female help. Young girls and women are wanted to fill posi- tions as housekeepers and to do light housework. The wages offered are good, running from $25 a month up. Those de- siring such help are among the best fam- ilies in the City and State. He says that he is sure there are many young women in San Francisco who are in need of work, but a feeling of pride pre- vents them from going to a public, or even a private, institution where work is to be had and where they can meet people who desire their zervices. He desires these timid ones to call at the bureau, where all confidences upon their conditions and wants will be treated confidentially. He knows that in this city there is a good de- mand for hel%and many who are in need of work, and he wishes to bring the two classes together. § Seyveral daysago the Labor Commissioner received a letter from the secretary of the Federated Trades Unions of Sacramento stating that the canners in that city are discriminating against white men in favor of Japanese and Chinese. The Commis- sioner sent a letter of inquiry to the Sac- ramento Packing and Drying Company and yesterday received a reply. In an- swer the people of the cannery state that they have advertised for white labor and have over 300 employed. For ten days the company was obliged to hire forty or fifty Chinese to peel fsuit rather than to let it rot. These Chinese have been discharged and will not be hired again if the company can lfecure white help capable of doing the work. Shortly after the old French Hospital on Brannan street was vacated it was taken possession of by several charitable women, who converted it into a home of refuge for those who are in strajtened circumstances. In order not to be imposed upoxn by those unworthy a small charge was made for food and shelter. The Labor Commissioner has sent many destitute people to the old hospital who have been provided for. The matron of the place has informed Deputy Dam that there is a sad scarcity of beds, bedding, furniture and old clothes for the use of those who are suffering, Mr. Dam requests the people to send to the hospital any such articles they may have to spare. P MUSIO AT THE SCHOOLS. William L. Tomlins Infusing New Methods Among Thousands. William L. Tomlins, who gained such a world-wide reputation in training the im- mense children’s chorus for the World's Fair and who is the acknowledged head of chorus and choral work in this country, is spending his vacation by introducing his methods in California. He is drilling large choruses in this City and in Oakland, in- structinfilunchers, and doing much work in the schools. By permission of the Board of Educa- tion he has addressed classes in most of our grammar_schools, and yesterday at Golden Gate Hall he began work on a class of 510 children selected from the seventh and eighth grades of twelve schools. He caught the attention of the children at once, and they responded in a surprising manner. Heis full of vitality and his in- struction is so novel and surprising that the interest never flags. He is gifted with humor and is on good terms with his class at once, so that he can be strict or severe, as he is, without exciting any resentment. He will give this class ten lessons, and by that time he expects to show results that will justify a concert where the public can see what children can do when singing is not perfunctory, but a real and natural ex- pression of what the singer feels. He is also to give the girls of the High School ten lessons, and they will probably ni)peat in a second concert. The teachers of the department, are greatly interested and very enthusiastic, and will probably form a class for instruction, o that the work he has begun may be carried forward when he returns to Chicago. Mr, Tom- lins receives no pay, but takes his chances for remuneration in the success of the con- certs to be given at the conclusion of the lessons. The same course was pursuned in Washington not long since, where the high schools gave up half their lessons for seventeen days to take his special course, expressing themselyes as w i Axsreantl t‘g ell pleased with ——————— GLACE nuts, 50¢ 1b. 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