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4 4 + THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1895 Melville Upton writes from New York | as follows: Some little interest has been awakened here in Margaret Graham'’s “Tales From the Foothills’’—which book verges on the qxiraculous almost, as the stories hardly fitinto the customary Eastern conception of the typically Californian. The Easterner has a very peculiar notion concerning what a Californian is like; but the idea is dear to him, and he displays an almost English tenacity in clinging to his miscon- ception. It is notso very long ago that a certain eminently reputable Eastern peri- odical, in dwelling on the climatic delights of Santa Barbara, went on in deadly seri- ousness to ex to the intending visitor that he, or even she, need not hesitate s the place was really ern town and had no rnian characteristics. distinctive Ca Charles Henry Phelps, whom most will Maarten Maartens. likely remember as the editorof the old Californian, though he is now a practicing attorney in New York, was commenting on that point the other day. *‘The East- / erner has a theory,” he said, “and every- g must fi into it. Harte’s Californian s characters nteresting as creations, they ex- in Bret Harte, and never in Cali- Yet Jack Hamlin and the rest re- and every one that aims to strike stern idea has to write into that But Mr. Phelps does not give of his time to such questions nowa- His law business claims his chief ion. He is the attorney for the ng-house with which Edmund Cia are mos isted on fornia. iter, is connected, and has also ge of the tangled af L wh tangle, by ber of the artis| im 2t $50,000—being sold Mr. Bierstadt is now in the artistic fraternity in did not go abroad, as has v announced, but is still at studio in the Carnegie building digging at a number of portraits. None of if his own version is not over- ny special interest however. oining Mr. Irwin’s though y monumental importance g completion in the decorative E. Simmons is paint- e walls of the newer Oyer and ner courtr Mr. Simmons, while of Ma Walc a nati ifornia in a way. He San F about three ars in the early '70’s and was connected with the local a time. Besides his wife is a The work referred to may be k an era in American art. Itis the first important mural decora- tion that has ever been attempted in a municipal building in New York City. Mr.. Simmons’ design, which was awarded the Municipal Art Society’s first prize over forty-six other competitors last April, takes the shape of three immense panels, in which the central figure of Jus- tice is disclosed, flanked by two colossal groups, one typifying the Three Fates, the other Liberty, Fraternity and Eguality. This mere cataloguing of the elements of the design sounds rather conventional, and conveys no idea of the grace and im- pressiveness with which the conception is worked out. The color scheme of the decoration is light in key, yet grave, and runs through opalescent whites and steel grays to peacock blue in the draperies, re- lieved here and there by a sparing use of gilt and silver: SANTA BARBARA EXOTIC FLORA. Santa Barbara, world-famous for its an- nual floral fiesta, is a veritable flower gar- den the year round. Not only is the region about the picturesque little city notable for the abundance and variety of its native flora, but it is peculiarly placed with ref- erence to many of these. A large number of plants from the north find there their southern limit of distribution, while a still larger number of those belonging to the south find their extreme northern range about Santa Barbara. Thus growing in the canyons there may be found Thus laur- ina and the rare Nephrodium pateus, a beautiful fern of trovical Africa and Amer- ica, growing side by side with the beauti- ful Sgtyrnx ‘alifornica and the buffalo berry of the north. But aside from its natural floral advan- tages Santa Barbara has emjoyed, even under the old Spanish regime, the distinc- tion of being populated by people particu- larly devoted to flower-raising. Perhaps the natural adaptability of the soil and climate may have stimulated this teadency in the Santa Barbarian, native or adopted. At all events, no other city in flower- decked California to-day can boast in its private gardens so large and varied a col- for press Californian. said to almost mar Stedman, the critic and occasicnai | lection of the flora of other lands. There is scarcely a corner of the earth that is not | there represented by thriving specimens of i its flora., | A trip to Santa Barbara will enable the botanist to study, at his cool and luxurious ease, the plants otherwise to be known only by laborious journeys to | the uttermost parts of the earth. Flowers | to be encountered in Southern France, on | the Riviera, at Naples, in Sicily, and other parts of the Med}:terranenn basin, at the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores, in the South Sea Islands, the Caucasus and i the Himalayas, in Southern Africa and | elsewhere, grow there in profusion. _ All this will not be particularly surpris- | ing to Californians, who know something | of the vossibilities of this goodly land, but we fancy Eastern readers will regard with wonder, if not with_incredulity, the state- | ments made in the book recently issued by | Dr. F. Franceschi on Santa Barbara exotic flora. This is a handbook of plants from foreign countries grown about Santa Bar- | bara together with a_large amount of use- ful and interesting information regarding the region around that beautiful bay. It | is & very comprehensive little volume, and | the author hasshown considerable shrewd- ness as well as gallantry in dedicating it to the ladies of Santa Barbara. [Santa Barbara, Cal.: F. Franceschi.] FOR EDITORIAL PURPOSES. This is the quaint title of a quaint little gray-covered book of verses by Elwyn Irving Hoffman, and bearing the imprint of a 8tockton printer. We could wish that there were more of | the little book; that it were less shabbily printed, and above all, that it had been dignified with a more intelligibJe title. 1 Thus much for the externalities of the book. Itscontentsarerather hopefully bad. There is a wonderful amount of vague as- piration in Mr. Hoffman’s lines. His vision of poesy is as yet, to quote from his own plea, So dim He could not it it for the minds of men. And he seems not vet to have grasped the truth that the essential to expression is | something to express. Thus it often hap- | pens that his more ambitious efforts are the less pleasing. Pegasus is at timesan unruly steed, and in_Mr. Hoffman’s case, at least, is apt to land his rider bevond his depths, in such a morass, for instance, as ! this, from “‘A Flight of Time and Fancy.” Now hail to thee, my solemn-visaged sonx! On thy dark wings we slowly pass along Throngh devious ways where murked discourage- ment. For once this year my every faith seemad spent, My troubles thickened and my soul was tossed ce & wrecked ship, and I was all but lost. We can readily believe it. The only wonder is that the poor singer ever found himself again. But when Mr. Hoffman really knows, so to speak, “‘where he is at” his lyre gives forth no such uncertain sound as we have quoted. “The Wild Horses of Nevada’ gives us a bit of ring- | ing, picturesque and imaginative verse, despite certain rather glaring grammatical lapses. What a picture is called up in these lines! . | | | | Over Nevada’s dry old sea, | Over Nevada's sea of sand— - = - - | | | Over th a Privateers of the se: Buccaneers since many an age. See them sail—thls lordly band ! See them rise from the plain and flee, d circle and wheel, 88 their leader leads, the Jight-winged b.r.ls are free, the winds they suuff and feel, ce as nuught else in the world is free— evada's windblown steeds. There are strong lines here and there in the book, and the poet has withal the rare gift of imagination, without which all verse is as Dead Sea apples, but thereisa lack anywhere in his verse of that definite thought and human fecling that alone justify the putting of so many words on paper. | A LITTLE GLIMPSE AT A GREAT MAN. In Elbert Hubbard’s charming “Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great,” now being published monthly, by T. P. Putnam’s Sons, we have a series of delightful insights into the homes and | minds of sundry characters of note. Mr. Hubbard is by no means the typical inter- viewer dreaded of celebrity and abounding in the archives of syndicature. His visits i are undertaken in the capacity of a gentle- man of culture paying homage at the shrine of genius, and how well the reading public appreciate his genial, delicate rec- ords of what he sees and hears may be inferred from the statement of Messrs. Putnam’s Sons that they sell 20,000 copies monthly of these ‘‘Little Journeys.” In the number devoted to John Ruskin Mr. Hubbard tells us: **At Windermere a good friend told me that T must abandon all hope of seeing Mr. Ruskin, for I had no special business with him, no letters of introauction, and then the fact that I.am an American made it final.” The great Ruskin, it seems, entertains a rejudice against America and Americans. EIe has, moreover, an_antipathy to inter- ruption. Mr. Hubbard reproduces a circu- lar letter sent out by the author of “*Mod- ern Painters,” which reads: “Mr. J. Ruskin lis about to begin a work of great im- vortance, and therefore begs that in refer- ence to calls and correspondence you will consider him dead for the next two months.” But American though he is Mr. Hubbard succeeded in being presented to Ruskin, and records a pleasaut after- noon spent with the great man. “He was particularly interested in the | industrial conditions of America. * * ¥ I came to hear him not to defend our ‘re- publican experiment,’ as he was pleased to call the United States of America. Yet Mr. Ruskin was so gentle and respectful in his attitude of a listener that my impa- tience at his want of sympathy with our ‘experiment’ only caused me to feel a little heated.” Mr. Ruskin thus expressed himself on one of the American issue of the day: “The fact of women being elected to mayoralties in Kansas makes one think | of certain African tribes that exalt their women into warriors — you want your women to fight your political battles.” The publishers have succeeded in placing these ‘‘Little Journeys” typographically among the beautiful books of the day. They are lovely specimens of the printers’ art. [New York and London: G. P. Put- nam’sSons. Forsale by Doxey, San Fran- cisco.] AN ENGLISHE ORITIO ON OALIFORNIA. In the September number of the “‘Land of Sunshine” Charles F. Lummis says of Miss Beatrice Harraden, author of *‘Ships That Pass in the Night:” **She is so amiable and well-meant a lit- tle woman that it is a pity she should have pand‘lcn ped herself by picking to be born in England. A sense of humor, now, would add much to her enjoyment of this country where are no snobs. ~ A still great- er misfortune is it to carry one’s horizon with one, like the familiar'insular hat-box. Miss Harraden has seen sixteen square feet here, by design. Her California is a 8an Diego County tlyspeck of three or four British Younger Sons, married with Elder Daughters, gnawing around the edge of an unfamiliar and too large mouthful. By these tokens she reckons that Charles Dud- lefy ‘Warner will have to account at the bar of God for having larger eyesight; and that our own Van Dyke is another. On the head of L2r valuable studies of half a dozen impossible ‘mud students,” she is writing a story based on the fearful home- sickness of women in California. And really, she is young enough to know bet- ter.” It was Miss Harraden, by the way, who recently made some rather -musi:lg strict- ures anent the literary future for California. She saw, she said, “no outlook for poetry in Californis, nor any hoPe that we would ever have any poets here,” Her reason for this opinion being that our landscape does not lend itself to poetry, which requires glades and nooksand nestling places ‘‘such as we have in England.” However, Miss Harraden’s generalizings may be onl, passing symptom. She may not be going to write a book about us. THE OLD SETTLER, THE SQUIRE AND LITTLE PELEG, This is a series of character sketches by Ed Mott, author of ‘‘Pike County Folks'’ and “Tales of Sugar Swamp.” The sketches are all of a broadly humorous nature and made, we are told, ‘‘a hit” when they appeared from week to week in the New York Sun. Thesortof thing they are was pretty apt to “make a hit” in the East two or three -years ago. Like the mining stories and wild yarns about Cali- fornia (that are deemed realistic and char- acteristic in the East in proportion as they puzzle and astound Californians) these yarns are just absurd enough to be “taken for corn” in a communitfi stifled in its own commonplaceness and bungrily eager for “types.’” The OId Settler and the Squire are two whimsical old braggarts, each with a long memory and a still longer thirst. They spin interminable yarns to each other,” and the Oid Settler is some- times even mean enough to capture Little Peleg, a defenseless youth of tender years, and tell them to him when he cannot get Elbert Hubbard. away. Little Peleg does not care for the varns, for which indifference one is not disposed to censure him. The characters taik an impossible sort of cialect, and the only really funny bits in the book are the 01d Settler's queer trials with a foreign mission society called the ‘‘Feeders of Them That Hunger and the Clothers of the Naked.” The book is capitaily illustrated by D. A. McKellar. EA\’ew York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.] ON THE SUWANEE RIVER. In times past Opie Reed has given ussome fairly readable tales of Southern life, but in this latest work from his pen there is naught worthy of commendation. There is an 1mpossible real estate agent who employs a pretty unknown as his clerk and istant, He has a literary daughter, named Sappho, whose fine sen- sibilities are offended at any mention of business, and who marries a red-faced horse doctor, who calls her ‘“Saph,” and makes love to her while examining a horse’s feet. There is a minister of the gospel who, when be is not swearing or com- pounding a felony with a villamous de- tective, is preaching sermons that move sinners to repentance. He has a sister, who is wooed and won at midnight on the river bank by a road agent, who declares he will become honest, ‘‘the Governor will be only too glad to pardon him for the sake of inducing him to leave the road,” if Ellen will only marry bim. So Ellen con- sents, and the ministerial idiot gives them his blessing. He is in love with the pretty unknown clerk, who is accused and sup- posed to be guilty of murder. The minister spends most of his salary buying the silence of a ‘‘detective” who has discovered her whereabouts, and there is a perfectly lovely slush of agon all round until it comes out that the girl’s alleged victim committed suicide. Then they all grow maudlin. The minister avows his secret affection, the girl returns it, “and so he married her.” [Chicago, IlL.: Laird & Lee.] LEGENDS OF FIRE ISLAND BEACH. Fire Island Beach is a familiar locality to New Yorkers—a barrier of sand stretching for twenty miles along the south coast of Long Island and separating the great South Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Itisa wild, bleak, wraith and legend-haunted stretch of desolation, *‘wind-searched and surf- pounded,” and leading back into stretches of ever-shifting sand dunes or sand hills, as they are called in thatlocality. The re- gion abounds in legends and the supersti- tions that always linger about the sea. A number of these Edward Richard Shaw has gathered into a readable volume which he calls ““Legends of Fire Island Beach and the South Shore.” They are stories of dis- covered pots of gold, of bogies and phan- toms and all the tiotsam and jetsam of narrative sure to be washed up on any desolate bit of seacoast. Mr. Shaw has told them in an attractive way and his publishers have put them out in artistic and beautiful form. [New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co.] LIVELY PLAYS FOR LIVELY PEOPLE, The name of Thomas Stewart Denison is well known in this country as a writer of clever plays for amateurs. The present volume consists of half-a-score of new ones from his pen. They are nothing if not *‘up to date,” and are for the most part farcical hits at modern fads. Patsey O’Wang is a humorous conception of a Chinese-Irish- man, who, whenever he gets a drink of whisky, becomes as veritably Irish as was his father before him, while, when made to drink tea, the blood of his Chinese mother is again in the ascendency. Other of the plays are, “The New oman,’”’ “Madame Princeton’s Temple of Beauty; etc., etc. Thereisa fireut deal of action about them all, which serves to carry off what might otherwise be a too apparent aucity of quality in the dialogue. Chicago: T. 8. Denison, publisher.] THE COSMOPOLITAN. The September issue of the Cosmopoli- tan shows painfully the working of the leaven of cheapness. Ii we are to have a punch of syndicate magazines considera- tion for the public should at least prompt the simultaneous publication of the dupli- cate matter. Most of it, as the rehash of the Webster-Parkm: murder, is of no value in the beginning and does not gather interest by transfer from one magazine-cover to another. We said last month that it was an open question whether excellence and cheapness could be combined to such a degree as is at- tempted by these magazines, and in the case of the Cosmopolitan it would appear that the question is to be speedily and negatively answered. A BOLDIER OF FORTUNE. One of those English stories that, by reason of their number and improbability, have won the distinctive epithet “‘typical.”” The author, L. T. Meade, has given us a conventional young man and a conven- tional (in fiction) nobleman, on the usual formula of one-third knave, two-thirds fool and a pinch of suddenly developed conscientious scruple. There is a thor- oughly conventional queer young woman, the regulation adventuress, in this case an aunt of the queer young woman, and a ersecuted victim who ‘‘tells all” at the ast moment. The whole makes a jumble that mav do to while away a summer hour. [New York: R. F. Fenno & Co.] THE YOUNG LADIES' MAGAZINE. From Buffalo, N. Y., comes a new monthly publication under this cavtion. The initial number is a neat pamphlet of some forty pages and presents a very cred- itable apvoearance. There are articles by Grace Carew Sheldon, Elizabeth Flint Wade and other clever women, and an interesting sketch, with portrait, of the singer whom California delights to honor, Ellen Beach Yaw. The publishers are Fellows & Sutton, Buffalo, N. Y. THE GREAT DEBATE, This is the official report of the famous debate between Senator Horr of New York and “Coin” Harvey of Tllinois. The de- bate, which was as inconclusive as it was lengthy, was fully reported at the time in many of the papers, but those interested in knowing all that was said on each side will find the present volume of use. [Chi- cago: The Debate Publishing Company. For sale by the San Francisco News Com- pany.] A NEW_PAPER. “Information’” is the title of a new weekly cyclopedia of current events. It contains the most satisfactory summary of current news of the world which we have seen, It is ndéta hastily gathered lot of clippings, but a careful digest of the occur- rences of the week, well written, and must be of great value to busy people. Trans-Atlantic Publishing Company, 63 ifth avenue, New York.] AMERICAN WHIST. The second number of “Spalding’s Home Library” is devoted to the game of whist. A. Howard Cady, the author of this little work, does not profess to offer an alto- gether original or novel exposition of whist, but has undertaken rather to meet the requirements of the general public. [Pnblis‘}led by the American Sports Pub- ishini{ Company, 241 Broadway, New York. ONLY A COMMONER. A story of English life, by Nat Gould. The scene lies between England and Aus- tralia, with the usual incidents of rural and colonial life. There is a good deal of horse-racing ‘and some love-making, and the story is well and smoothly told. [New York: George Routledge & Son, limited.] NOTES, Maarten Maartens, whose latest novel, “My Lady Nobody,” was noticed in this department last Sunday, is of mixed pa- rentage, his father being German, his mother Dutch. The author’s full name is J. M. W. Van der Poorten Schwartz. He was educated in Germany, but his home and all his sympathies are in Holland. He lives in Neerlangbroek, Holland, and delights to be known as a Dutchman. He is 37 years old and has written several novels. Curiously enough he does all his writing in English, of which language he is master, only a few easily understood Dutch idioms appearing here and there in his work. Miss Ina Coolbrith is recovering from her long illness. Work on her forthcoming volume of verse is being rapidly pushed by the publishers, Messrs. Houghton & Mii- flin, and it is expected that it will appear in & few weeks. The book is to be very handsomely got up, with original illus- trations by William Keith. IN MY GARDEN, I walk in my garden when daylight is dying; The sun has departed to waken the West, And shadows of evening from dim mountains fiy- 1ng, Sweep over the valley and soothe It to rest. ‘The sleep-songs of birds and the fragrance of flow- ers Smite softly my senses and lull to repose; Sweet symphonies swell on the afftuent hours, And the inflaence subtle of lily and rose Steals over my spirit with wordless suggestion Of truths which the petals of nature unfold; Of mysteries mute to man's uttermost question, And secrets which shall be forever untold: Till unto my soul, in the twilight half dreaming, Comes creeping the inquiry, may it not be That the flowers know more of life's mystical mesning Than God in His wisdom revealeth to me ? J.E.R. HOTEL ARRIVALS. RUSS HOUSE. George Reef, Hornitos T O Merchant, Healdsbrg C Gordon, Oak!and R M Swuin, Santa Rosa J Scrowcoft, Ogden C A Lilla &1, Mavfleld Mrs Pyat, San Jose C B Smith, Los Aug. AM (lay, Livermore T W Harden, Chino L Jackway, Chino M Hollister & w, Alviso Alma Kreling, Los Ang W Ely, Seattle W B Bradsfieid, Mont A Coil, San Jose Mrs J 0'Connel, Tucson V Stillwell, Bloomfield J 8 Young, Santa Rosa E A Miller, Dunbar W A Tice, Uklah D R Risk, Petaluma Dr s B Gordon, Gonzales T W Hughes, Gonzales R Cogswell, Nev H Davis, Oakland A L Thomas, Templeton H F McPhall, Hollister G C Cokes &fm,Auburn L E Jordan, Auburn W P Leugent, C A Miss W M Dibble, Nebr at, San Jose L S Bonifield, Guttenburg ixon, Yreka W L Meredith. Dominion A Orr, Albion F Strofeld, Siskiyon W H Roworth, LosAng Miss S Jerome, Sta Cruz J H Harrison, StaCruz J S Young, Sta Cruz T J J Wightman,Ogden J ¥ Kingsion&w,StaRosa Dr Jennings, England C Gump, Suisun Miss L M Pascal, Eng Miss J McDearmaid, Cal W Bates & w, Portland A A Pollard, Nev L H Leuereston,Newman GRAND HOTEL. Mrs J Howell & sn, Stkn A B McClellan, Scotia F J Brandon, San Jose R J Hope, Fresno J C Jones, Sacramento John Hope, Fresno J W Bowen, Los Ang E M Dimmick, Los Ang G W Ticks, Sacramento J R Smart, Cal Rev T Hirst, Vallejo D D Fagan, Wnatcom O F. White, Sacramento J S Perry, Petaluma M Read, Sicramento J M Hartiey, Cal D G Overall, Visalia J C Jones, Cal F H Hyat, San Diego F O Thompson, Modesto W _J Lyons, Salinas C P Owen & w, San_Jose C W Tozler, Nev J Cerrelo & w, San Jose T Allen, Los Angeles R N Russell, Cal Mrs E M Kiaton, S Jose A C Israel, Chicago Miss N Kiaton,San Jose J B Brackett, San Diego FMaitison & w, S Cruz_ E A Roberts, Cal A M Edelman, Los Ang 70 Jones & w, Carson W C Swain, Marysville C Dorsey, Oakdale W A Harvey, Fresno Mr & Mrs Arnold, Napa Dr E Bennett, S Antonio J T Rader, Obio Miss I Church, Eureka Mrs Furlong & sn, Gilroy Miss B Wilson, Scotia__J Bagley & w, S Leandro PALACE HOTEL. A Kann, NY P Feldham & w#, Denver Mrs C B'Baker,Pasadena Dr & Mrs N Bridge, Cal F Phillips & w#, Chicago Mrs L L Kennedy, Ohio W W Baron, Paris 0 H Keefe & wi, N ¥ O H Keefe Jr, N Y C Mosle, London B'D Murphy, San Jose W B Pless, Sonoma Miss Lolor, Quebec. Mrs E Lolor, Quebec ST Colbura, Sacto Belmont M Garvin, Pinole E J Cote, St Louts H Sechler, Chicago C J Minton, Wis LICK HOUSE. H H Hobson, Philadipha G W Strahl, Napa RevW A Brewer,S Mateo Jas Magee, Vallejo 8 M Buck, Eureka McPhearson, McPhrsn C Wonacott, Bia.lw? Mrs Curtiss, Fresno A B Hill & w, Petaluma C O Bambaur &w,Merced Mrs Kington, S Clara Miss 1 Kington, S Clara L F Coburn, Yreka C E Danforth, Marysville Mrs M C Harris,San Jose F L Such, Or G D Allman, Oakiend JM Dickenson&w,S Rosa J A David, New York W D Mackay, New York H'B Higbee, Petaluma J H Lene, Onkland NEW WESTERN HOTEL. A Kuftel, Valley Ford T D Cullen, kureka H Lerens, v-ugor'ord A H Burion, Cal Ellis. Vall T B Kelter, Chicago Dr J G Thompson, Oakdle Mrs TP Ede NY o Iw B D Urland, Towa R Collins, Ashland N Church & w, Ashland Ed Harris, Monterey H Jones, Ashland D Ryan, Vallejo 3 A Matzen, Ohio € M Henry, Chico M M Lynch & w, Porterv J Ryan, Bosion 3 George, Porterville G F Rey, Boston Y E Wilson, Porterville C B Wetter, Fresno Mrs Meed, Chico B A Smith, Chicago . Miss Meed, Chico J O’Hora, Tulare L B Booth, Chico BALDWIN HOTEL. N 8 Wright, Mok Hill J W Cullen, Chicago E Richmond, Alvarado 8 Bulline, Salinas 8'V Du Bols, Cal T James, 'Ashland J C Williams, San Jose L Meyers, Cincinnati T Moore & w, d ZC Fley, Napa A Mason, N Y J M Anginano. Palo Alto D Meneoag & w, Sta Rosa. E O’Hare, San Jose. —————— M. Thiyrier, the French ‘“‘workingman’’ Deputy, has just died. He madeit a point to appear in the Chamber in a working- man’s blouse, and had once really been a miner, but iong before his election had given up work and kept a winehouse, 17 FIKED A HIGH TAX LEW, Lively Meeting of the Supervi- sors Ovyer the City’s Finances. POLICE FORCE INCREASED. Members of the Board Sharply Di- vided Over a Proposition to Lower the Big Rate. The tax levy for the next fiscal year has been fixed at $2.252 and the police force has been increased by seventy-five men. Those were the two most important matters passed by the Board of Supervisors yester- day. Supervisors Dimond, Hobbs and Taylor tried time and again to cut down the levy. Once or twice they were helped by several other members, but every smash they made at the growing figures proved inef- fectual and the Solid Eight finally passed to print one of the highest tax levies made in years. Mayor Sutro and Supervisor Spreckels were absent. Supervisor Taylor occupied the chair. Before the regular meeting the members caucused to discuss the tax levy. Super- visors Taylor and Hobbs of the Finance Committee stated that they had agreed upon a levy which they would decline to raise. Other members urged increasing some of the appropriations. It was appar- ent that no agreement could be reached, so they adjourned to battle it out Iater on in the open session of the board. The Finance Committee submitted a re- markable report, of which the following are the features: Gentlemen: Your Finance Committee submit for your action an order. fixim%I the tax leyy for thefiscal year ending June 30, 1896. In {its preparation jour committee were governed by the action of your honorable board and are not responsible as the sponsors of several of the appropriations provided for therein. Itis true, however, that under decisions and action of our courts justif{iug expenditures in excess of appropriations by virtue of statutory re- quirements as construed, together with in- creased expenditures imposed by the Legisla- ture, the so-called one-dollar limit is set aside and for the purposes of the government under the conditions is wholly insufficient. It is uniortunate that your honorable board deem it imperative to carry outa policy that will result in the imposition of a very high tax rate for City and County purposes, the tax levy being $1.5376 on each $100, making, with the llezv; 2‘&; State purposes of .685 cents, a total of While the tax rate necessarily must be high it would be judicious to make some reductions whereby the burdens 1mfzoned by the Legisla- ture might be only partialiy provided for this year, seaving the balance to form a portion of the levy of the succeeding year. Your committee are prompted to make this suggestion because of the fact that the values of property have been seriously affected, 8 general depreciation being experienced, and the imposition of & high rate of taxation is not the means to give relief to our citizens or re- store confidence to the owners of property, who in many instances have improved prop- erty the revenue from which is barely suffi- cient to pay taxes, insurance and incidental expenses without any commensurate return on the value of their investments. These are stubborn facts, which appeal to your consideration, and they are self-evident, for in many of our streets business property is idle, or rented for amoiety of what it paid years ago, and in many instances the owner is glad o find & tenant ac any price. While in Enl’t this has been caused by the erection of igh modern buildings, one of which will alone accommodate the tenants of a dozen buildings, yet our property-owners have in ad- dition to contend against a general depression, all of which militates against their interest and that of the public. If under present conditions adozen build- ings of the Mills type were erected they would accommodate all the wants of our gro fessional men, and nothing but vacant buildings would meet the eye. 1f in addition to this mania of erecting buildings to a height that overtops Olympus our citizens have no protection either in’e proper and just regulation as to height orfrom an onerous and excessive tax levy, what incentive is there to make_ investments, or in what will they be benefited? Acting on the opinion of reducing 1nstead of increasing the tax levy, your committee are constrained to report against an oral applica- tion of the Board of Health for anappropria- tion sufficient to allow the board to appoint a Vaccinating Physician, Milk Inspector and a clerk to the Quarantine Officer, although recognizing the importance of the duties as recommended. Your committee also consider- ing that much valuabie aid would be given by police officers, who are ex-officio Health In- specions, to ascertain, report and cause to be abated all nuisances, such duty so performed would enable the Board of Health to use some of theinspectors now exployed for those pur- poses. When ‘new business” was called the {ight centered hard and fast about the tax evy. Supervisor Wagner opened the ball by asking for an increase of $80,000 for the proposed Folsom-street boulevard and for an amendment repealing the order increas- ing the police force. “The Folsom-street boulevard can go over another year justas well as not,” pro- tested Supervisor Dimond in reply. “It has a number of newly paved blocks. Other streets stand in pressing need of ordinary improvements, and I think in the present condition of the City treasury Folsom street can afford to wait just a little while for its $80,000."" Supervisor Hughes voiced opinions sim- ilar to Dimond’s. On the rollcail the motion to grant the money was lost by the following vote: Ayes—King, Hirsch, Dunker,; Morgen- tern, Hobbs, Wagner. Noes — Scully, Benjamin, Hughes, Taylor. The amendment repealing the order by which the police force was increased by the addition of seventy-five men was de- feated by a vote of 9 to 2, Tavlor and King \-ofix:ig against the repeal. This threw the board back on the original order increas- ing the force. Dimond called attention to the fact that no money had been provided in the proposed tax levy with which to pag them, but later on that was remedied. Supervisor Dimond then aimed a cut at the proposed tax levy. He moved to con- demn the buildings on Wnshinfiton street, next to the old City Hall, and to erect a new structure on the square. In the pro- osed tax levy it was recommended that 300,000 should be set aside for this pur- pose. Dimond moved that $48,000, to be paia for the condemned property, be sub- stituted for this sum. Supervisors Hughes and Wagner ob- jected. They argued that the change in figures might invalidate the whole plan. Tiey said lawyers were divided on the voint, and that it was best to remain on the safe side. Hughes said he had a long petition for the construction of the builaing signed by such business men as Levi Strauss & Co.. the Nenberger-Reiss Company, Louis Slos¢, Cunningham,Curtiss & Welch, Siebe Bros. & Plagemann, A. Gerberding, G. W. Granniss; R. B. Woodward an Joseph Pescia. The motion to change figures was lost by a vote of 8to0 3. Dimond, Taylor and obbs voted in the affirmative. Then came Supervisor Hobbs’ turn to take a clip at the big figures. *‘The pro- posed levy has $300,000 set aside for Gol‘:ieu Gate Park,” be said. “I move that the sum be cut down to $256.000.” Bat the other Supervisors did not see it in the same light, and killed the resolu- tion by the regulation vote of 8 to 3. But~ Supervisor Hobbs wasn’t dis- couraged. He next tried the $35,000 a propriation for the Dipsomania Hospital, and tried to have it cut down to $25,000. The motion was lost by a 6 to 5 vote. ‘When Sumvisor Benjamin’s turn came he tried to st the big tigures :)x $90,000. He moved that that sum be added to the $526,000 recommend to be set apart for re- pairing accepted streets. The success of this motion would have meant about .025 added to the overburdened tax levy. Supervisor Hobbs stoutly protested. ““Wnere are the taxpayers going to get_off 1f wegoon in this way?'’ he fiem ded. Dimond, “Plumping in a few raises like that will run the figures over $2 on City and County taxes alone. Iadmt that street improve- ments are a great necessity, but under the present circumstances I’'m strongly against any such move.” 'he motion was lost by the following vote: Ayes — King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Morgenstern and Wagner—six. Noes—Dimond, Hughes, Dunker, Tay- Ior, Hobbs. Then rolicall was demanded on the all- important matter of the tax levy as sub- mitted by the Finance Committee. Before voting Dimond and Taylor protested that the figures were too high. he vote was recorded as follows: Ayes—King, Scuily, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Wagner. Total, 8. ; Noes—Dimond, Taylor, Hobbs. Total, 3. Absent—Spreckels. The increase of the police force by seventy-five men means that $94,100 must be added to the figures submitted by the Finance Committee. This raises the levy .0204 per cent, and fixes the County rate at $1.567. As the State rate was fixed by the Board of Equalization at .685 the proportion for State and County purposes reaches a total of $2.252. The levy, as fixed by the board, provides for the raising of $5,014,185. The revenue from other sources will be $1,386,000. Some of the important appropriations provided for in the levy are as follows: School De- partment, $1,000,000; police officers’ sala- ries, $704,100; Fire Department employes, $385,000; water for municipal purposes, $185,000; lighting streets, $300,000; main- taining Golden Gate Park. $300,000; sala- ries for last fiscal year unprovided for, $300,000; street repairing, 35‘_76},‘500. License Collector Lees was granted a Z;Ave of absence from the State for 60 ays. Superyisors Wagner, Benjamin and Hughes were appointed a committee to ascertain what the three lots east of the old City Hall could be bought for. If too much is demanded condemnation pro- ceedings will be regularly begun for their acquirement under the law of eminent do- main. The clerk was instructed to advertise for proposals for the construction of a sewer through the Presidio reservation to drain the Pacific Heights district. The board adjourned to meet Monday, September 16, at 3 p. M. PAINTERS UNION. It Xs in a Flourishing Condition and Has Good Prospects. The Brotherhood of Painters and Deco- rators held a meeting last Tuesday even- ing at its headquarters, at Foresters’ Hall, on Eddy street, and elected the following officers: E. H. Windser, president; M. J. Hines, vice-president; Fred Busse, record- ing secretary; J. Israel, financial secretary ; V. McAvoy, treasurer; R. Sarsfield,warden ; W. Doyle, conductor; Rose, Kastings, Goodwin, Coleman and Peters, executive board. The brotherhood, which only organized August 12 last, already numbers 190 strong, is in a flourishing condition, and its prospects are pright. The meetings of the brotherhood will be held at Foresters’ Hall on Tuesday evenings of each week. He Is a Deserter. It has been discovered that W.F.Thomas, ‘who was arrested on Friday night for fraudu- lently passing a Conrederate bill, deserted from Battery K of the Fourth Artillery, U.S. A., on the 1st of last April. He enlisted under the name of William H. Hall. Six additional eharges of passing Confederate money were laid against him yesteraay. His Pistol and His Friend. Thomas J. Lennan, a painter, quarreled with a friend on Sixth street last evening and dis- Euyedurevolver in a threatening manner. e was arrested for assanlt with a deadly weapon, but the friend refused to prefer any charge, so he was booked at the Southern sta- tion for carrying concealed weapons. - .——— The District of Columbia has 382 farms with 11,745 acres. CAPTAIN GOODALL WEDS, He Is the Senior Member of the Firm of Goodall, Perkins & Co. The Bride Was Mrs. €arrle J. Hath- away—A Qulet Ceremony by Dr. Hirst. Captain Charles Goodall of the firm of Goodall, Perkins & Co. was quietly mar- ried yesterday to Mrs. Carrie J. Hath- away by Rev. Dr. Hirst of the Simp- son. Memorial Chureh. The captain’s engagement was ane nounced last July, but.the date of the wed- ding had peen communicated to only a few intimate friends, as it was intended that the ceremony should be a very simple and unostentatious one. The cere- mony took place in the afternoon at the home of the bride at 28 Shotwell street. Itis probably the last ceremony of the kind at which Rev. Dr. Hirst will officiate prior to his departure for Chicago. The newly married couple left directly after the wedding for Monterey, where they will pass their honeymoon. Captain Charles Goodall is senior part- ner of the old shipping firm of Goodall, Perkins & Co. His son, Edwin Goodall, who resides in Oakland, has, however, of late years taken his place largely in the active management of the business with Senator Perkins. Another son is the well« known commander, Charles M. Goodall. e LOS ANGELES PERSONALS. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept.7.—Mrs. Stephen M. White and family have returned from their summer outing at Santa Monica. Mrs. Childs and Miss Childs are home from Monterey, hav- ing been called thither by the fatal illness of Mrs. Childs’ venerable mother, Mrs. Huber. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Holterhoff have returned from & visit to San Francisco. The Capital, Major Ben Truman’s paper, publishes this week a fine half-tone picture in line engraving frame of Miss Alice Hobart of San Francisco and W. E. Lester of Santa Monica, the gentleman she will wed next Tuesday in San Francisco. After a year's trip abroad the couple will come to Santa Monica to reside. The groom is a nephew of Mrs. Sen- ator Jones. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Plater, Miss Waddilove, Miss Grace Cole, Miss Gormgn and Judge Clark have gone to San Francisco to be resent at the Hobart-Lester nuptials. Mr.and TS. B. Wightman and Miss Wightman have gone to San Francisco for an indefinite stay. Next Monday Miss Jones of Santa Mon- ica, daughter of Senator Jones, will play Miss Hooper of San Francisco for the tennis cham- ionshiop of the State. The engagement of Miss Clementine B. Conradi, daughter of S. Conradi of this city, to C. 8. Vance, United States Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, is formally announced. Miss Tessa Kelso, former librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, is now in Washington, D. C., with her friend Miss Hasse, formerly assistant librarian. Miss Kelso has been doing some newspaper work for the Wash- ington Star, and contemplates going to the At- lanta Exposition in the interests of the rail- Toads. Miss Hasse has just compiled & list of books of travel, which is incorporated in a_valuable liitle catalogue just pub- lished by the library bureau for the ‘American Library Association publishing sec- tion. S, B. Toby of San Francisco, E. H. Kitt- ridge and W. J. Wilson of Oakland are at the Westminster. Leopold Hahn, ex-State Senator of Nebraska, accompanied by Mrs. Hahn, is visiting friends in Pasadena, and has gone to Catalina for a short visit. Mr. Hahn is a man of wealth, and contemplates & permanent resi- dence in Southern California. Jay Spence of the First National Bank of Pomona has gone to San Francisco for a month’s visit, accom- panied by his wife. ——————— Lubeck is quietly holding an exhibition this year of the products of the countries with which the old Hansa town has always traded—Finland, Russia, Denmark, Nor- way and Sweden. The Kiel navy-yard has an important exhibit. Robbed by Doctors. This expression need never be heard again: the fakirs are dead. Dr. A. J. Shores’ low rate and ex- 1t specialty treatment has killed their thriving usiness. In order to give all a chance to be cured and save them from being robbed by misfit specialists, Dr. Shores will treat all patients for $3 a month unti cured, including a1l medicines, care and attentfon. All you have to do is to apply before October 1. ‘Watch Dr. A. J. Shores’ exposure next week of the fakir, Does Dr. A. J. Shores’ treatment cure? Read to- day the statement of people who have only had two treatments. It is wonderful. Out of fifteen hundred patients treated in two weeks over a thousand have been cured or greatly beneiited. Remember, Dr. Shores will treat ‘you for $3 a month, all medicines furnished free, provided you apply before October 1. Is this not fair? Dom’t you think Dr. Shores has confidence In his treat- ment? This low rate is a blow to the fakirs, and it is & rate that all sufferers in California can afford t0 take advantage of; but patients must apply be- fore October 1. H. P. STULTS, PRINTER. 1183 MISSION sT. I had had catarrh one year. After two treat. ments with Dr. A. J. Shores I feel so much better I am willing to recommend it to my frienas. Edward Short, clothing trimmer, with Brown Brothers, haa catarrh of the head and stomach eleven years. Dr. Shores’ treatment has greatly benefited him. . CATARRH AND PARALYSIS. George Barnes, 79 Eleventh street, suftered two years with catarrh and paralysis. Dr. A. J.Shores’ ftreatment has done wonders for him. RHEUMATISM CURED. Robert Moriarity, 1220 Green street—I could not ralse my hand to' my face. After taking two of Dr. Shores’ treatments I can move about as well as ever. KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLE. I was a sufferer from these for years. After two treatments with Dr. A. J, Shores I am almost well. FROM OAKLAND. Samuel Hale, 1752 Taylor strect—Had a bad case of catarrh. Two treatments with Dr. Shores and I am very much better. DR. A. J. SHORES CO. (INCORPORATED), EXPERT SPECIALISTS In the Cure of Catarrh and All Forms of Chronic Diseases. A. J. SHORES, M.D., President and Medical Director. A.J. HOWE, M.D., R.B. NEW, M.D. Parlors—Second floor, Nucleus building, corner Third and Market streets, opposite Chronicle build- ng. 5m¢ehoum—9m12A M,2t05and 7to 9P M.; Sundays, 10 to 12 A. M. Take elevator. SPECIAL NOTICE.—Patients living out of the city, and who are unable to call at the San Fran- cisco office, will be given advice and all particulars of Dr, Shore’s treatment free by mail by address- ing Dr. A. J. Shores Company, San Francisco. Write at once, describing your case. CALIFORNIA OFFICES: San Francisco—Nucleus building, -corner Thira and Market sireets. Los Angeles—Redlick block, corner First and Broadway. Sactamento—706% K street, opposite postoffice. Sa5 Dlego—atorse. Whaley-Datton block. Three Dollars A MONTH For All Diseases, Medicines Furnished Free. Dr. A. J. Shores, the ‘People’s Doc- tor,”” makes the following liberal offer: All patients who apply before October 1 will be treated until cured for 83 a month. This low rate includes all medicines, care and attention. This is the lowest rate ever offered by any physician in San Francisco. Read every word of Dr. Shores’ offer. Dr. A. J. Shores’ first liberal offer was to give all tients two weeks’ free treatment and medicine if they applied before September 1. This was done, and so many lpdpned that Dr. Shores was compelled to extend this notable offer, 500 pm){le having applied for treatment. September Dr. Shores extended this re- markable offer to_all Sltfienu ‘who applied be- fore September 7. uring the week 1000 patients took Dr. A. J. Shores’ treatment, making a grand total of 1500 patients in a little over two weeks. True to his offer Dr. A. J. Shores did not charge & penny for treatment or medicines, Ever‘{ilhlng was free, just &s Dr. Shores said it would be. Dr. A. J. Shores is honest. He does not tell %ou he will treat you free and then charge you 15 or $20 for medicines. It was all free, as patients will testify. There are people who falsify in their an- nouncements. Dr. Shores does not. He will give glOOO to any one who will show that Dr. A.J. Shores has ®ver made a false statement. San Francisco is filled with fakirs. Some have even been arrested for practicing medicine contrary to the laws. Next week Dr.Shores will publish a Salt Lake account of how cer- tain doctors stand with the medical boards of the places they have practiced. Dr. A. J. Shores is here to expose every dis- ldmx;:ut doctor in San Francisco, and he will o it. To_further gmve that his treatment is the best Dr. A. J. Bhores will to all patients who apply at his parlors, second floor, Nucleus building, before October 1, treat them until cured for $3 a month. This low rate includes all medicines, care and attention. Remember, lease, that this is the lowest rate ever offered n the history of San Francisco. $3 2 Month for Bl Diseasts. ~ Medi- ¢ines Furnished Free. ONE WEEK FREE. To all patients who have been unable to gon- sult Dr. A. J. Shores during the past two weeks Dr. Shores will give you one week’s treatment and medicine absolutely free of charge by ap- Iying et his parlors in the Nucleus batlaing. on’t buy & cat in a bag. See the guality of the goods you t to buy. Don’t take any- body’s treatment until you have tested it. That is what Dr. Shores wauts you to do. Is this not a fair offer? Don’t put off until to-morrow. Remember Dr. A. J. Shores cannot afford to offer this low rate for any length of time. It is given simply that all sufferers may have an opportunity to be cured. Watch out for the rs. Dr. Shores is your friend. He is an enemy of frauds and quack doctors, and that is why he announces for the first time in this City the low rate of $3 a month for all diseases, m cines furnished free. DR. A. J. SHORES CO0., Parlors 18 and 19, NUCLEUS BUILDING, Qpposite Chronicle Building.