The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1895, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1895. The Child Speaks. Get Give me Give me freedom end Dack! 00 warm: T the crowding | reless marvelous er close by, ce are my own the beautiful | | i | | | tisacrimes | | ©f their childhos nio t yOu are 1n. “A o nesds B affer and sin— é of 1ts kind, | e e e e A et S S The w experience deep, T waking and watch with | The keen honor of youth, doing and teach us in truth; ered ripe froit of the world at our he bitter and sweel. 0 cie e el Lale TRl et ety give us-freedom, the right of ‘the brute with its sunshine, the eartk with its fruft! v rst give wisdom—intelligent care, Tha; shall help to bring out all the good. thatls there 2 Love! First give justice, there's nothing above, ‘And then you may love. In “This Our World,” by O, P. STETSON. Where Children Walk in Gay Attire. “Yes, Saturday is pretty bad, but Sunday is the worst day for children in the park.” That is the plaint of a sad-eyed protector The ai of the peace. who wearsa nice gray uniform | w polished doorplate on its bosom, | [ ose dream of life it is to see Golden swept” and garnished—and so disorderly to see peovle aggling along those well-kept paths in nsymmetrical groups. If visitors cannot pt out of the park, why should they 1ot at Jeast be compelled to form in ranks | and to march in step—two abreast in the | L‘ps, and four or eight in the | people sit down on the benches v can’t they just as well sit in prim e rows, enough of them to fill & bench, Ise two of a size on each end of it, and a larger person, in the middle? irse the guard didn’t say all that, | lied it, and a great deal more, d about“the worst day for e matter of that the trim lawns the -squared -benches and the beds | are tortured said it for them- shouid you go dancing and ver me?” the grass cried out ldren, “when I have to be| pounded and rolled and cut and drowned into shape to please the public eye?’ Wiy should you be happy and free,” | the plants were screaming, “‘when we that burt nothing when we are let alone, that can grow- strong and beautiful only when we may stretch our fingers to the sky, and turn Gur cheeks to'the sun for kisses, and e our slim littlé toes deep, deep wn into the earth—when we, I say, are prisoners? “Yes, prisoners.. One might just as well livé in & jail asin a box.. And here we are, packed in together as if we had no feel- ings and no likes and dislikes. Some of us are even subjected to the indignity-of being made into ‘designs.’ :Designs, indeed.’ “As if everybody but the maniacs in linen dusters who ‘stop to stare at us didn’t know ‘the things- were imitation night- mares, intended to scare dogs and children out of the park!” I rode out to the children’s afternoon parade in a Geary-street car. 8o did two rried little ladies, aged respectively and 6 years, and attended by an | 0S mamina. obs I sat inside the car in order to defeat the | 1d wind’s -efforts to take the curl out of | bair. The worried little ladies did the | same, and for the same.reason. They were immaculately gloved, these small -persons, and their manners were irreprosachable. . As Miss Three-year-old was wedged into | & cotner beside me, and widely separated | from her attendant, I permitted myself the indiscretion of addressing a remark to her | without having been properly introduced. The young lady stared at me coldly, and then - answered me in a conventional phrase, which at once answered my ques- tion and put an'end to the conversation. The little six-year-old grandmother, care- worn and anxious in her picture gown and big lace-bordered hat, came down the car | at last to twitch my younger friend’s skirts | to place and to perform other duties in- cident to the office of chaperone. Return- ing, she delivered some slight instructions fo the mother, and composed herselfagain. i Not until we bad passed the grand-stand nce could I rid myselfof a suspicion 1at these' worldly wise young persons | were going out to play the races. They really were not. They would have consid- d the races inelegant. They were going | out to assist in the Saturday afternoon parade at the park. 2 | There were several hundred. children | “playing” at the park, and almost all of them were less than 10 years old. No, that is wrong. They were less than 10 big, but they were older than my could comprehend.. - 4 The trees that waved their branches in- consequently above them might have eprung from seeds these grave Lilliputians bad planted; the grass, the flowers were as fresh as the morning; the-very hills smiled youthful by comparison. Only the donkeys—the sphinx-eyed little beasts who must have paced the hills of some far land while- yet the seas washed over these—only the donkeys are old like the children. Solemn boys in’stiff hats and knee trousers stare at each other through their spectacles. > ::C»y spectacles. Not all of them! niolhrm. , of course—only many f course, we_ought all to be devoutl: thankful when we see babies in lace clp{ and spectacles that people’s eyes are S0 well looked after nowadays. _ But if the fad should go a little farther— just a very little farther—and a baby should sometimes be compelled to manage a monocle in his eye and a rubber nipple in his mouth at the .same time it would al- ;?osttl?)egln to be a- little bit funny, would not 8 Apropos of the. rubber nipple, a young .manipulator of one of the things made one of the amusing features of the Satur- dav afternoon parade. *He was that unhappy little experiment in humanity, a first baby. He was brought out to the park by a doting papa and a smiling mamma, who were themselves not overly “young, .despite their childishness cars rain the baby. His majesty was old eno ice,” and his admiring possibl; Th to take notice, and the; to impress those sixty, or s thousand, or something, t infantile understanding But when they supplied that hapless baby with a rubber nivple to enjoy, these fond parents must forgot thing. They must have been o the well-known fact that even a great big girl cannot think about things when she has gum to chew. And so his majesty, the baby, chewed his rubber nipple stolidly, and blinked his solemn eyes, and took no heed of time nor place. Just one little girl that I saw at the park had a good time. And the way that she managed to do it was by being forehanded enough toselect the proper sort of a mother for herself. At first there didn’t seem to be any mother anywhere in the game. Little Searlet-coat, who wasn’t a day over-4 years old, had the freedom of the park. She was dressed in gay stout little garments that made you glad when you saw them glim- acres upon | when compared with his solemn majesty, | the shadows of the oak trees have crept as far as the round geranium-bed, or when to “ take | the bumble-bees have stopped their hum- elatives wished | ming because the fog has brought a chill im to take as much notice as he possibly | into the air! could, and a great deal that he couldn’t | If only they would ride the donkeys for | fun and pat them sometimes, or examine had brought him out to the park | their ears, or even switch them a little. It ade heroic efforts | only they would stop riding_because Bob hundred, or | or Jenny was tired or wanted to eat grass, or because they wanted to do something else themselves. But no. These little old-young babies ride the donkeys because they have nickels to spend and they want to get good bar- gains for them. They stop riding when they have spent the allotted sum, and the donkeys spend the nickels in their turn, I suppose, for hay and grass to keep them strong enough to keep going round and round the ring forever and forever. There are some people who enjoy the children’s parade after all. They are the comfortable great-aunts and grandmammas who fill up some of the benches till they look like removable sec- tions of some old ladies’ home. Six or eight of them will travel out to the park under pretext of taking care of some one poor little mite of a baby whom they have managed to borrow for the occasion— just as the church-members of fifty ora undred ienrs ago used to go about in hordes seeking for a presentable child who | | yation Army Children’s Home, Bryant street, City streets, the wearisome dearth of color and plethora of sound—these things should not make up the lives of children. The outings at the park are so delicious by comparison that one blushes at seeming to carp because the poor cramped babes scarcely know how to enjo¥ the broad acres and the freedom of them. Mary CALKINS JOHNEON. Edith Needs Fresh Air. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: May I ask you to do me thefavor of printing the inclosed in your Children’s Page of the SUNDAY CarL? Iwould notask this of youonlyas & last resort, and if it does not succeed I must give it up. Hoping my last attemptmay not be consigned to the waste-basket, I remain yours respectiully, SISTER DOROTHEA. 2260 Encinal avenue, Alameda, Cal. ye have done it untooneof the v brethren, ye have done 1t unto me.—Matt. XxV:40. A short time ago I visited the Children’s Hospital to see a little child who has for some months occupied a bed in one of its wards, T was met at the door by a sweet-faced nurse in spotless white “f and apron, who conducted me to the medical ward, whereI found the little one for whom I was looking. I found her, “Little Edith” as she is called, lying in a white bed near an open-grate fir Outside the d-g was cold and windy, but in- side all seemed bright and cheerful, and I wondered if it was the bright fire or the nurse’s sweet face that made it so. Little Edith is a wee bit of humanity, scarce twelve months old, and with as sweet and lov- able a disposition as one could wish. She is lying there day by day, waiting for some kind heart who will take her and give her the country air and nourishment she needs. 1 wonder if any of you CALL children would be willing to share mamma’s care with this little one who_has never known a mother’s love and tenderness? Think about it, little ones, when your mammas read to you this page of the Sunday paper—as of course they do— and tell your little friends about it. Ttisa good work for Sunday; and every day, even Sunday, should be a work day for the Master. And let us remember, my dears, that a good Jeed, however smail, 18 never lost; and let us teach others by our actions more than our words that “God is love.” TInasmuch least of these, SISTER DOROTHEA. Any further particulars of this little one can be obtained by addressing Miss C. Jackson, Sal- SISTER DOROTHEA. San Francisco. OIGARETTE ORUSADE. Seven Grocers and Liquor-Dealers Ar- rested and More to Follow. A crusade has been started against grocerymen and liquor-dealers who vio- late the law by selling cigarettes to boys under 16 years of age. On Friday Frank Kane, secretary of the Pacific Coast Society for the Suppression of Vice, swore out several “John Doe” warrants, and that night he and Officer T. J. Coleman made seven arrests. The men arrested were: Jacob Beer, grocer, Van Ness avenue; Charley Peters, grocer, Grove street; Morris Livingston, liquor-dealer, McAllister street; Dennis Murphy, grocer, KISS IN THE RING. mering away off among the trees and that | could serve as an excuse for going to the were not one bit the worse of it when their small owner rolled over and over down the long grassy slo; She was a guessed it without telling because she | joyed so in the presence of the others. She stopped an instant to bestow a sunny smile on me, and I asked her if she was all alone. - “Why, no,” she said, laughing with her | eyes that I should be so stupid; “I'm wiz all these girls!” She waved her hand comprehensively and danced away, flitting frem group to group like some new-fangled butterfly, and sipping new stores of comfort and good- cheer from everywhere. When she felt a shade lonely for an instant she would dance up to some strange girl near by and say, ever so prettily: “8ay, do you like me ?”” And every single time the older girl would be sure to say: “Why, yes; I justlove you, you dear, little, cunning thing, you.” And I began to wonder if, after all, that wasn’t a very good way to behave. There was a mother after all. She emerged from somewhere, with a book in her hand, just as the fog began to roll in. And little Scarlet-coat went laughing and dancing away with her, without having been once told to “don’t,” or to “stop,” or to “be careful’’ the whole happy after- noon. Wasn’t thata mother worth having, though? Once I heard some dreadful boys having a dreadful conversation about mothers. One of them was older than the rest, and he was spick and span, as if he had just stepped out of a bandbox. ‘Formy part,” he said, “I’m glad I never had a mother.” “Why?” *‘Well, if I'd had one she’d have taken me to picnics, and she’d have spit on her handkerchief and washed my face with it. 1'd rather get along without any, thank you.” I wonder if the occasions when the Pope is carried on a litter about the halls of the Vatican are half as solemn and cere- monious as the occasions when the chil- dren ride the donkeys at the park. A pageant for the Sultan couldn’t pos- sibly be more funereal, even if everybody knew that the people who spoke or smiled were §omg to have their foolish heads re- moved when it was over. Donkeys, goats and children, each kind and each indi- vidoal tryinf to look older, sadder, more conventional than any other kind or in- dividual ever did or could. Sometimes the grandmothers or the proud papas who cluster about the “‘gang- way’’ got just the least bit frisky—the chil- dren never do. They doa’t get frightened eitlier, nor eager, nor noisy. They simply ride sedately around the track—twice round for a nickel—and when they get down some of them look at their watches to see if it is time to “hurry home, because mamma said we must not keep dinner waiting.” I believe the greater number of those blessed infants are conscious every minute of their holiday of exactly what o'cloek it is. Many of them have been told to leave at some particular moment. Some of them have to catch trains aud ferry-boats and things. Poor little old men and women! If only they could have been told to come home when the 4 o’clocks shut up, or when s, ittle “only child.” You| circus. Oftentimes these jolly old ladies forget all about the baby they have borrowed as soon as they are crowded up together in a bunch. ’1‘!)9[\; watch the passers-by, they gossip amiably, they even go to sleep sometimes. ‘What awful fate do you suppose befell a baby that got lost out at the park? hy, he was taken up to the dairy and fed milk that tasted like cream and bread that tasted like cake till one of his six or eight grandmammas came climbing up the steps and rescued him! ‘Wasn'’t that a narrow escape? There is one thing at the parade that is funnier than the grandmammas and that is the little handful of fond papas. They smile so benignantly—these good papas—upon their new and improved kind of childhood. They even grow s: ental about it all, and | have seen their eyes fill with glad tears as they behold these strictly up-to- date little lads and lassies. Or are they, after all, tears of pain because they know 50 well how many nickels all their pretty little exhibition costs? Best of all, they may be tears of shame and of sympathy tlh_at the children know no better life than this. Perhaps through those tears or back of them shine visions of happy boys in few and tatiered garments—boys who climbed to the tops of trees to shout and whistle and sing their joy of life; boys who would have found a nickel burdensome wealth in a world where all things grow in trees or meadows or running brooks, and need only the touch of mother’s hands to make them good. “Give yer a evening paper fer yer trans- fer!” A little chap with a baby face yelled that at me when I stepped off the car down- town. He was a genuine wideawake boy, and it was a positive relief to see one without a ruffied sailor-collar where his shoulders ought to be. “Do you ever go out to the park?”’ queried T. “Golden Gate Park? Naw. Notmuch! You can’t make nuthin’ out there an’ you can’t have no fun. “Ther’ ain’t nuthin’ out there but a lot o’ muttonhead kids wid dere la-de-da cloes on, an’ some ole cops what won’t let a fel- low go nowhere ner do nuthin’!' “I ¢’n git a transfer lots o’ times to ride out there on, an’ I bet I could walk back if I wanted to go, but I don’t.” Then I thought some more about the little 12-year-old girl who was born on Telegraph Hill, and has lived there all her life, who told a friend of mine that she had never heard there was such a place as Golden Gate Park. Wouldn't it take a very great deal of careful instruction in.the great public schools to really crystallize the idea of citi- zenship and patriotism and social equalif in the brains of even the children of this free and democratic Western City ? That same park is unquestionably one of the most beautiful spots on this broad earth, take it the season round. It is a blessing unspeakable to the children, who aeed beauty as the flowers needs the sun. The angles and straight hara lines of the | Grove Fulton street; M. Deppew, grocer, Folsom street, and Charles Roller, grocer, streef The boy to whom the cigarettes were sold is Joseph Collins, who is 13 years of age. More arrests are to follow. The seven defendants appeared in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morning, and their cases were continued till to-morrow. RICKETTS ON LAMOREUX, The Land Department Is Not Spared by the Miners’ Attorney. What the Committee Has Accom- plished Against the Southern Pacific. Funds have not yet begun to come in to the California Miners’ Association to en- able it to successfully carry on its fight in the Department of the Interior against the land-grabbing Southern Pacific, but in- stead a great deal of derogatory opinion has been expressed by the individual min- ers themselves and the press of a few of the interior cities as to the nature of the work being done by the committee of the association on the protection of mineral lands. This grumbling and “kicking’’ about the committee, it is broadly charged by the officers of the State Association, has been inspired by the Southern Pacific it- self. Chairman Ricketts made a statement yesterday of the work done. He uses some burning words in his allu- sions to Commissioner Lamoreux of the United States General Land Office. Mr. Ricketts said : The California Miners’ Association was not formed, as has been erroneously stated, for the sole purpose of rehabilitating the hydraulic mining industry, but to ‘‘protect, develop and foster the mining industry of the State of Cali- fornia in all its branches.” ‘The first question which enz:%ed its atten- tion was to secure relief for the hydraulic miner, enjoined from working his mines by the Uni States Circuit Court. The efforts of the association to this end have resulted in the resumption of work in many of the hydraulic mines of this State, and the success of its un- dertaking is largely attributable to the labors of Senators Cross and Ford. The work con- sumed something more than $15,000 and about three years of time, and is not yet com- pleted, nor in'a wholly satisfactory condition, The next matter engaging the attention of the association was the amending of the exist- ing Federal mining law, which matter was in- trusted to Frank G. Newlands, Congressman from Nevada, who introduced into the House the bill prepared by the miners, but it has yet failed of passage. It is intended to reintroduce the measure at the coming session. The committee on the protection of the mineral lands was appointed last November. This committee knew that not only were the acts of Congress abrogated and the decisions of the Supreme Court ignored by the Land Department of the United States, but it knew that the most gerfllslent efforts of the people of the States of Idaho and Montans to obtain relief from this branch of the Government in the matter of mineral lands had proved futile. The committee was assisted by Congressmen Caminetti and Maguire and a local attorney in Washington, acting in conjunction with the representatives of the State of Montana, and the t Congress was urged, nay implored, 1o make the provisions of what is known as the Idaho-Montana Act lgpflcable to this State. This act provides for the appointment of Com= missfoners to classify the lands within the Srllll to the Northern Pacific Railroad and efines what shall constitute mineral lands. It is possible that the Idaho-Montana act was unnecessary, because of the existence of the laws excluding the mineral lands from the railroad grants, the law creating the Geologi- cal Bureau and empowering and directing that bureau to classify the lands of the public domain, and that it is the duty of the Land De- artment to determine the character of all ands embraced in the railroaa selections. Such a duty is not performed by arbitrary rul- ings, resorts to technicalities and dependence on hearsay affidavits, as to the truth of which the afiant is not called upon nor seemingl exgccted to have either knowledge or belief, and the assumption that all lands not within six miles of any mineral entry, claim or loca- tion are prima facie agricultural lands and atentable to the railroad companies as such. 'ommissioner Lamoreux says thatit is fair to £0 assume, but he fails to state in what the fair- ness consists. It is safe to say that the greatest check the raliroad companies have ever received in this matter is through the committee on the pro- tection of the mineral lands. The committee has sought every available avenue of informa- tion, and through Edward H. Benjamin, a member of the association, has filed general protests against railroad selections in the var- 1ous land offices of theState,until, at the present time, nearly 600,000 acres areinvolved. These several protests had been dismissed from time to time, and on purely technical 5rounds, and appeals have been duly prepared, forwardea to Washington and allowed. This has the effect of suspending the issuance of patents until the determination of the flpFeal, and if the outlined course is pursued these lands will, inany event, be kept from the railroad’s grasp for a very long time to come. Under these circumstances it is too soon to assert, as some railroad sympathizers do, that my vitit to Washington Was not a_suecess, or that the President will not guard the interests of the miners. It should be remembered that the presentation of the miners’ cause was not only purely ex-parte, but it was in the nature of an arraignmentof at least one public ofhcial, for whose acts the President is at least morally Tesponsible to the people. It cannot be ex- pected that under such circumstances the resident will act hastily or without giving full opportunity for explanation. The work of the committee is not completed, nor will it properly pe until there are no more lands to be selected, or Congress, by further legislation, curtails the tremendous power of the Land Department of the United States, or until the matter be satisfactorily adjusted be- tween the railroad company and the associa- tion. Iam by no means opposed to the latter course, and would be inclined to further an amicable settlement of the controversy. I have no hostility toward the Southern Pacific or any of its associates. I want the railroad com- panies to get all theland which Congress gave them, and no more. The protests Mr. Ricketts is preggring relative to the lands recently grabbed by the Southern Pacific will be ready in a day or two, and will be sent on to Washington to take the usual course of dismissal and appeal. —————————— THE WHITCOMB ESTATE. Trustee Lincoln Files His Fifth Annual Report. Jerome Lincoln, the capitalist, yester- day filed with Judge Coffey his fifth an- nual report as trustee of the estate of the late A. C. Whitcomb, the mining man, who died in Paris about five years ago. Lincoln was allowed $15,000, and Sidney M. Smith, an attorney, $1000 for special legal services. he estate, which consists principally of stocks and bonds, and real estate in va- rious parts of California, is reported to be in a flourishing condition. The settlement of defaulted interest on last year’s account made the income for 1894-'95 much larger than ever before. Most of the overplus has been invested in loans, secured by mortgages in San Francisco real estate. NEW TO-DAY. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. CLOSING OUT SUMMER ~ GOODS, Shirt Waists, Shirt Waists. THESE DEPARTMENTS ARE ALWAYS TEEMING WITH BARGAINS. Some Very Sp?cial Offerings THIS WEEK. FINE FRENCH PERCALE SHIRT ;\;A'LS colored, reduced from WHITE SHIRT WAISTS, pleated fronts, with full large sleeves, 50cC reduced from 75¢to 50cC FINE FRENCH PERCALE SHIRT W AISTS, full line of colors, ex-$ 1.00 tra quality.. NOVELTIES IN FRENCH PER- WAISTS, all colors, CALE handsomely finished, reduced$l '50 from $2..... Hosiery Department. 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Sherman s Bewildering Fantasma, Under the auspices of WOMAN’S EXCHANGE OF OAKLAND, The Society Event of the Season ! 100-PEOPLE ON THE STAGE-100 3 NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. % TO-MORROW NIGHT =JOHN DRE BALDWIN THEATER «“THE BAUBLE SHOP” WHICH WILL BE PLAYED DURING THE FIRST WEEK ONLY. SECOND WEEK, MONDAY, AUG. 26-MR. l’)K'EvW‘SF iaAST SiJCCESS, “THAT IMPRUDENT YOUNG COUPLE” BY HENRY GUY CARLETOY; To be followed by “Butterflies,” “Masked Ball,” hristophér JE,” ete. "COLUMBIA THEATER, . FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & Co., Lessees& Managers THE STOCKWELL SEASON. Last Performance To-Night of TWELFTH NIGHT, SECOND WEEK, COMMENCING MONDAY, AUGUST 19, . —oF THE— GREAT STAR CAST. HENRY E. DIXEY, MAURICE BARRYMORE, L. R: STOCKWELL, WILLIAM G. BEACH e MISS ROSE COGHLAN. —A GREAT TRIPLE BILL— THREE GREAT SUCCESSES, THREE DELIGHTFUL PLAYS, All THREE AT ONE PERFORMANCE A TRAGEDY REHEARSED, - NANCE QLDFIELD ——AND—— A AN OF THE WORLD. E MOST STUPENDOUS EVENT In the Amusement Annals of the fnciflu Coast is the Advent of the GREAT WALLACE SHOWY Now the Leading Circus and Menagerie of the Western H?minvher!. The Best Equipped Circus in the World, with the Finest Horses of Any Show on Earth. CAPITAL $3,000,000! 10 ACRES OF CANVAS! SEATING CAPACITY 20,000! 4 TRAINN! 1000 PEOPLE AND HORSES! Positively the First Big Show to coms across the Rocky Mountains with' its Entire Equipment, and also the first to charge the same prices West and East: ADMISSION, 50 CENTS; CHILDREN, 25 CENTS. Will show the principal cities of California in August and September. SAN FRANCISCO NINE DAYS! COMMENCING SATURDAY EVENB‘VG, SEPTEMBER 7. MOROSCQ'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO.. The Handsomest Famlly Theater in America. ...Bole Lesses and Manager. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, LAST PERFORMANCES OF “HARBORLIGHTS!” MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19th, HERBERT HALL WINSLOW'’S FAMOUS COMEDY DRAMA, “A CRACKER JACKI! EVENING PRICES—25c¢ and 50c; Family’ Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matineces Saturday and Sunday. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MBs ERNEsTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managet — TO-NIGET — Genee’s Comedy-Opera, “THE : ROYAL MIDDY” As Great a Success as Heretofore. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), AUGUST 18, Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10¢; Children, ny part, 10c. A MAGNIFICENT NEW BILL! S-WNWEW STARS:!-G FARNUM AND SEYMOUR, -CRIMMINS AND SOEx, 5 HE SA VANS, GUIBAL AND ORTIZ, THE JORDAXS, METROPOLITAN THREE, NSON AND MERTON, SUPERB CAST! Splendid Chorus! Enlarged Orchestra!l Beautiful Scenery ! CorrectCostumes! Popular Prices—25c and 50c. THE BALDWIN TO=NIGEIT. CONRIED’S GEKMAN COMEDY CO., From the Irving-Place Theaterin N. Y., In Blumenthal & Kadelburg’s greatest comedy hit, DIE ORIENTREISE (The Orient Express) As produced for over fifty nights in New York. Original cast! Original laughs! Box-office open to-day- E NEXT SUNDAY—“OHNE GELAEUT.” TWENTY-EIGHTH INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION ——O0F THE—— ’ MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE Opens August13, Closes Septemberly Special Attractions in Manufactures, Art and Natural Products. Machinery in Motion Will Be a Promi- nent Feature. GRAND CONCERT Each Afterncon and Evening by an Orchestra of Forty Musicians, % PROF. FRITZ SCHEEL, CONDUCTOR. - THE ART GALLERY will contain the Finest Collection of Paintings and Statuary Ever Exhib- ited on this Coast. ADMISSION: Double Season Ticket. Single Season Ticl Adult, admission, daytime, ] Children, admission, daytime, 15¢; evening, 25¢. Season Tickets to Members of the Instituie, half rates. Forsale at Library, 31 Post street. RUNNING & RUNNING RACES ! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, SPRING MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Tuesday, Wednesday, ;.hnr-dly, Friday and Saturday—Rain Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:30 P McAllister and Geary street cars pasy o = STIN HORWITZ AND BOWERS, Etc., Etc. EL CAMPO—EXTRA. SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, AT 1:30 P. JL, Exhibition 0f Submarine Diving and Submarine Explosions by the Noted Diver, CAPT. JOHN ROACH. Record—Worked on steamer City of New York, wrecked on Point Bonita; steamer San Pedro, wrecked at Victoria Harbor, Nov., 1892; Snip Ellenbank, afire at Union-st. whard, June, 1898, eic. Presenting complete and comprehen- sive demonstrations of the methods-of a modern snbmarine diver, to be followed by a Burlesque Naval Display. Fare, as Usual, 25 Cents. 1J30ats leave Tiburon Ferry, foo: of Matkes st at 330 A. leave Ei Campo at 11:15 4.3, 1:00, 8:00,5:00 7. 3. SELECT EXCURSION TO UKIAH, "SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, Under the auspices of the 'éROSS-COUN]'RY CLUB. Tickets only 82: children under/12 balf rates: to be obtained only at the club's headquarters in Brook’s Homeopathic Pharmecy, 119Powell street, Qaily until 11 p. M. - Seals' guaranteed. Tickets mited. No mausic, nor dancing. Good company assured. TATE FAIR D R _SACBAMENT orx INETA % EMBRACING DISPLAY oF ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMITTED FROM ———=FOLSOM.—— THE GREAT AMERICAN CONCERT BAND s i EXCURSION RATES, Elmlll-?gfl m'VISITOR‘:?l.As # lllfl!: . Hc’allla a5 12:10,2:00 and 4:00 p. M.’ Returning