The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. s SUBSCRIPTIUN RATES—Postage Free: pafly and Sundsy CALL, one weck, carrler.$0.15 v mail.. by mail 3.00 by mail 1.50 by wail .85 Daily and Sunday CALL. one month, Funday CALL, one vear, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, 0De year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. ............ Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... +v..Maln—1874 Telephone... BRANCH OFFICES: £50 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 7 Larkin street; open until SW. corper Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 8 o'clock. 518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———————————————————————— The Defender w) America is still in the lead. Don’t dissipate your day of rest. Perhaps the h like some other game better than yacht-sailing. 1f we are to e another new battle- ship her name must be California. Dunraven should get some other name yachts, Valkyrie seems to be a The first heat of the yacht races promises 11, but it will take another of the series to tell the tale. The literary features of THE CALL this | morning have a distinct California flavor, but they will suit all tastes. Eastern cities that didn’t have the con- clave are now asserting that Boston charged the Knights too much for beans. The test of the horseless wagon in New York proved that the wagon isall right, but the roadways are too rough torun it on. the Eastern States the demand forthe recognition of Cuban independence is get- ting to be something like a burning ques- tion. Roosevelt is strict, but since he has de- cided that a women may ride a horse astride in Central Park, they say he is no prude. The old story that woman invented trousers has been offset now by an anti- | quarian who b overed that man was the first to wear corsets. Considering the dangers among the heathen and the needs of some American localities, it would seem that missionary work like charity had better begin at home fora w There is & rumor that Berlin expects to knock Paris silly as a gay city by having a grand garden party at which some of the lords and ladies will go through a cotillion on bicycles. People who wish to keep np with every wrinkle of scientific living will take notice i said that sitting in a rocking- roduces congestion of the head and As the Boston Herald in speaking of the conclaves: “The whole effect will be the t of social and personal life,” it seems clear that Zerubabbel is to be received at once in the best society. It is worth noting as a sign of the times that several of the society writers for big Eastern papers, in describing the grand ball given by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, spoke of the hostess as “Lady Alva,"” A young man arrested in Brooklyn for trying to kiss every girl who passed along the street pleaded that he couldn’t help it, and was promptly declared insane and harmless by a sympathetic jury. It is stated that in making up the esti- mates for the navy tor the coming year Secretary Herbert will ask for at least one more battle-ship and several torpedo-boats to bring the navy up to the proportions it ought to have. o el As an evidence of the way politics divides bhonors with the summer girl in the East it may be noted that the Hon. Thomas Cartwright of New York is mak- ing & canvass for a renomination to Con- gress on a bicycle. As an outcome of the conclave the high East is now in hot dispute as to whether Knights Templar or Knight Templars is the proper plural, and the Boston Globe says the banners in the pargde were about equally divided between the two forms. A new method of assigning scholarships | in Dartmouth College goes into effect this year. Sixteen new scholarships have been added to the list. Four are available to the entering class and four to each cf the upper classes. They are valued at $150 each. ‘. If it be true as reported that Senora Cousino, the Chilean widow said to be worth $200,000,000, is fond of having handsome young men around her, she is another one of the people who ought to come to Cali- fornia, where the Native Son never hesi- tates to get around a thing of that kind. - It is noted as an evidence of the willing- ness of rich men in England to vperform municipal duties, that the Duke of Norfolk is expected to be a candidate for Mayor of Bheflield. This is in striking contrast to the general conauct of rich Americans, mauy of whom a-s too indifferent to public welfare even to vote. One of the humors of politics is reported from Iowa, where it is said that a joint Re- publican convention of two counties was held in the woods, neither of the two coun- ties in interest having given consent to its being held in the other. The chairman sat with a foot in each county, and the delega- tions were divided by the line. Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago has given not less than §2,000,000 to Western educa- tional institutions. Beloit Coliege has re- teived $200,000, Knox $50,000 and the Chicago Theological School $50,000. To Whitman College of Walla Wulla, Wash., and Berea College, Kentucky, $50,000 each was given upon condition that the friends of the school would raise an additional $100,000 within a specified time. LIGHTING MARKET STREET. It is announced that_a suggestion is to be made to the Board of Supervisors to light Market street with electricity, the idea being to erect poles along the middle of the street, to be topped with electric lights, and to furnish the base of each vole with a circpmseribing settee for the accommodation of streetcar patrons. It is hardly possible that this suggestion will be adopted. It seems to include the idea that there is Toom between the two cable lines for such a system of lighting and seating. A mo- ment’s inspection will show that thisis not a fact. The very greatest danger which infests Market street is the narrow space between the cable roads. There is barely room for one tostand. Itis this fact that makes the crossing of Market street so perilous and that keeps the grip- fnen so anxiously alert.,Their care in passing a crossing 1s less than thatin passing a car going in the opposite di- rection. The lighting of Market street is a se- rious matter, but it is a problem which solves itself with excellent satisfaction. As the great thoroughfare of the City it is lined with shops which are brilliantly il- luminated within and without, and these lights are sufficient for patrons of the cable. The difficulty in all these praiseworthy outreachings for the improvement of the City and the promotion of the public con- venience is a lack of ability to weigh one consideration against another. Market street needs some things so much more sorely than lights that we may well dis- miss all minor considerations for the more important. For instance, there are two horsecar lines in the street in addition to the cable lines, making four tramways in all. These horsecar lines are notoriously useless, ex- cept those used by the Suiter-street cable to carry its cars from the terminus of Sut- ter street to the ferry. Not a single horse- car line west of Sutter street has any rea- sonable use in Market street, and yet they are maintained and lumbering horsecars are constantly run over them, much after the fashion cf the car that is run daily on Bush street, to preserve the *‘franchise.” These useless horsecar lines on Market street damage the property of that great thoroughfare enormously. If they donoth- ing else they serve to crowd the two big cable lines dangerously close together. It is inevitable that the citizens of San Francisco will some day awake to the great value of their one splendid street. This thoroughfare must alw be the main artery of the City. At present it is not only abominably paved, but is given over to private corporations, who operate their business at the risk of citizens’ lives and to the detriment of property. The owners of street railway franchises in San Francisco have been so sedulously coddled by the public into the idea that they own the thoroughfares that it has come to the pass that he who raises a voice for popular rights is deemed chargeable with treason. This does not mean in any sense to deny that the street railways are a great public convenience. It is simply insisted that they are merely a convenience and not an authority. Market street, which should be the finest and safest of all the therough- fares in the City, is the most dangerous and most incumbered. The erection of a handsome ferry building at the foot of the street, and the reasonable assurance that the completion of the railway line via Santa Margarita and Santa Barbara to Los Angeles and New Orleans will be fol- lowed by the removal of the terminusat this end from Third and Townsend streets to the foot of Market street.should bea sufficient argument that this street ought to receive intelligent attention. OONCERNING LARGE FEES, There have occurred lately in this City two or three contests of one kind or an- other over the fees charged by distin- guished specialists in their several lines. This is a very old subject, over which the more flippant members of the journal- istic guild have endless fun. There seems to be a perverse instinct within us which leads us to decry the value of services ren- dered by those who have advanced far be- yond us, In pursuing this course the dis- contented among us, by making capital only of such instances as are revealed in actions at law, confess an ignorance of the fact that the very few instances of high charges which get into the courts and, therefore, become & matter of public knowledge are avery small consideration when compared with the general practice and scale of charges of the distinguished specialist concerned. The professions which develop members able to charge very large fees are few. Outside of physicians, surgeons, lawyers and dentists it is hardly profitable to search, though now and then an architect or a civil engineer of extraordinary abiity is encountered; but the nature of their business generally presupposes a contract, which shuts out a dispute over the value of the services after they have been ren- dered. It isin professions where services have been rendered to relieve suffering in an emergency, without areasonable oppor- tunity for the making of a contract, as with physicians, surgeons and dentists, or in legal matters in which the private in- terests affected have not had the opvor- tunity to make a contract, that disputes between the specialist and his patient or client occur. Without considering at all the merits of any such disputes, it is evident that they have the effect of injuring the specialists affected by them and belittling the profes- sions which they represent. The cases most commonly appearing are those affect- ing lawyers and doctors. In the case of the lawyer, it is commonly a complaint that in the settlement of the affairs of an estate he has charged an unreasonable fee, In the case of the physician or surgeon, it is either a matter of bringing a heavy charge against the estate of a deceased wealthy patient or of presenting a large biil to a living patient who had not made a contract for the service and is not familiar with the high fees which the specialist usually charges. To secure high eminence in any profes- sion requires the presence of so many rare conditions that it would be tiresome to discuss them. It is safe, for the general argument, to assume that a specialist who can command very large feesis excep- tionally able. This eliminates shrewd charlatans and ingenious sycophants, for they cannot in the end rival specialists of genuine merit. And merit consists of many things besides operative skill. The physician who understands the art of nursing is likely to be more valuable than the one better skilled in prescribing. The root of the whole matter is, first, that every specialist who has secured emi- nence in his profession is entitled to all that persons understanding his skill and value are able and willing to pay; second, that differences not only in perception, but in means, may determine what clients and patients are willing to pay; third, that those who object to paying what such specialists charge made the‘initial mistake of not ascertaining what the charge would be, Ifa dispute arises they could easily claim that some other svecialist would s bave performed the service at 8 much lower charge, and this secures the sym- pathy of the thousands who cannot under- stand the differences among specialists in any given profession. The substance of it all is that if uncommonly able specialists are not to be permitted to enjoy the bene- fits of their superiority there is small in- ducement for high individual effort. FLAGS ARE FLYING. In view of all the attendant circum- stances, the race yesterday between the America yacht Defender and the English yacht Valkyrie III, off Sandy Hook, was the noblest and most interesting sporting eventin the history of this eountry. The Yankee boat came in ahead, winning the heat, but this is only one out of five; there is time yet for Lord Dunraven’s beautiful creation to show what British skill in con- struction- and sailing can accomplish. From one end of the country to the other the American flag is flying triumphantly. The weather was peculiar. A heavy swell, a light and variable wind and to- ward the close a mist, all contributed to complicate matters. While all these con- ditions wereas fair for one boat as for the other, it by no means implies that under different conditions a widely varying set of peculiarities may not be developed. The news regarding yesterday’s race appears to be that the Valkyrie could sail closerto the wind, but that the Defender was so much fleeter as to overcome the Valkyrie’s close sailing quality. There is always more or less vagueness in news of this kind and it is not worth much. In short, it is entirely too early to predict the outcome of the contest. America can exult only to the extent of winning the first heat. A shameful condition of things was pre- sented in the reckless disregard of decency exhibited by the captains of excursion steamers in running so close to the course of the vachts. The Valkyrie seems to have suffered greatly from this annoyance and that alone may account for her de- feat. As a fine love of true sportsmanship is so instinctive with Englishmen we may imagine what disgust this conduct on the part of American excursionists will inspire in England. Unless the yachtsmen are guaranteed more decent consideration Lord Dunraven will have ample reason either for withdrawing from the contest or for demanding that it be continued atsome place where American civilization is more advanced than at New York, There is abundant cause for rejoicing that the Defender has won so far, and as the cup has been held in America for half a century, through the superior skill of American designers and sailors, the odds in favor of America's success in this con- test are heavy. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. The dispatches bring an interesting ac- count of a children’s colony which was founded two monthsago at Freeville, N.Y., by W. R. George. This philanthropist picked up 300 children from the slums of New York, settled them in the community of Freeville, and after instructing them concerning the principles of a republican form of government turned them loose. Of course he must have had a hand in the organization which they perfected, but according to the dispatches they organized and now control the government of their colony. It is announced that the children, for the most part, although they could neither read nor write, and of course knew nothing of the principles upon which our Government is founded, have organized and are successfully conducting a republican government of their own. To this end they have constituted a president, a congress, local municipalities and courts, with jails, schemes of punishment for wrongdoing and the hundred other inci- dentals of a republican government, in- cluding, of course, the right of all the members of the colony to vote. Not long ago a very amusing English humorist of the minor order, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, aired sompe very witty opinions concerning the general idea of a republican government. He dragged forth, as many an American has done, the hoary stories concerning the failure of the great repub- lics of history, including those of Carthage, Athens and Rome. He argued, as many another has argued, that wherever repub- licanism has been submitted to the test of time it has proved a failure and that there is something within us, evi- denced yparticularly by our belief in the overruling power of an omniscient and omnipotent beiny, which makes it in- stinctive to look up to a king and depend upon a superior force for guidance. Unhappily for all arguments of the kind they depend too much on history and too little on analysis and analogy. All the lower gregarious beings have a govern- ment which is either purely communistic or monarchical, with a ruler who has de- termined his leadership by his superior fighting ability. In the latter case the leader is always a male, and when he has become too old to retain his leadership by force, he is cast out by the next best fighter that presents himself. The existing human monarchies of the world bad their begmning in identically the principle which makes the biggest and strongest and most ferocious bull the king of the buffalo herd. A very different order of government is observable in the cases of bees and ants, which represent pure com- munism. Between these two extremes stands the republican principle of human government. Every species of animal is designed by nature to have a government suited to its kind. Itremainsfor the highest order of creatures, the human family, to determine what kind of government it prefers, In arriving at any conclusion we cannot permit ourselves to say that the scheme of the buffalo is either above or below that of theant. We are not analogous to either of those tribes, but claim the special advantage of being able to determine whether we shall be buffaloes or ants, or whether we shall be neither, but free agents, possessed of higher attributes than those emrjoyed by buffaloes and ants and able to determine our scheme of govern- ment to suit ourselves, our mneeds, our ambitions and our hopes. Europe prefers the buffalo plan. It is wonderful how even children, when thrown together in a community, in- cline to the republican idea—which is dis- tinctively human and utterly different from that of the buffalo and the ant. The republican idea, which is the idea of indi- vidual responsibility, has been accepted entirely in the schools and colleges of this country, where each pupil is put on his honor as an individual, and where per- sonal merit is the standard of excellence and promotion. It may sound boastful to declare that the stamping out of the buffalo idea in America by the great revolution was a splendid achievement, but when we reflect that republicanism is anidea of gov- ernment peculiar to the human species and is an ideal conception of individual ac- countability—an idea inconceivable to buf- faloes, ants and monarchies—it seems that we have at least sometbing te ponder, and perhaps to respect. Chief Justice Fuller says that as a rule when & Supreme Court Justice retires from the bench he lives but a short time. It is one of the traditions of the Justices that if they want tolive to a green old age they must remain in harness, RANDOM NOTES. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. The exhilarating effects produced in a community by infusing into it the spirit of a great National convention were never more -amusingly displayed than in the exuberauce brought about in Boston by the conclave of the Knights Templar. The sedate old city that for many years past has sought inspiration solely in Browning or Ibsen, and found 1¢ there only through the medium of spectacles, has suddenly found herself inspired with Americanism. She has begun to plume herself and boom herself, and has even gone so far as to brag on her climate. Los Angeles could not do it better. Whether it was our bear or our champagne that affected her most it is not easy to decide, but certain it is that ever since they went there, Boston has been hugging herself and effervescing to a degree that can be expressed only by the inimitable words: *She chortles in her 107" Certain Eastern cities noted for an habitual irreverence toward Boston have been having their own fun with her by pricking the bubbles of her joy with the pens of their seribes. 1hey have reminded her that even when she is sober she'is not always dignified, and that when she hues herself with vermilion she becomes very funny. They assert that the east winds, of whose refreshing coolness she brags so much, did not come to the conclave to fan the fevered brow; that tMe only blowing noted on the streets was the blowing of the citizens, and that in consequence of this there were many prostrations. Further- more, they assert she charged too much for beans. These things may be but casual criticisms, records of transient opinions that will pass with the silly seasan. We would never have said them ourselves, but it is just as well to take note of them, for in her exuberance Bos- ton has been cocking the feather of her cap as a kind of challenge to us. She has claimed to be the most picturesque city, the most delightfully climated city, and, altogether, the best summer convention city in the United States. Plumed in these feathers, which all well-informed people know belong to San Francisco, she has strutted forth as a candidate against us for the conventions of next year. Go to, Boston; you charge too much for beans. No artistic reader could have failed to note with pleasure the two pictures by Keith of scenes in our redwood forests published in Tre Cavrn last Sund In addition to the charm of the pictures themselves there was a further pleasure to be derived from the promise they gave that this artist, who in the past has made visible to us all the beauty, the mystery and the poetry of the California oaks, will now render a similar service for us in translating for the understanding of or- dinary eyes the meaning of the forms and colors, the lights and shadows that make up the commingled loveliness and sublimity of those forests of huge trees which are the peculiar glory of our many- gloried State. As within these forests the artist can find the sources of true inspira- tions so from out them we may expect art itself to derive great masterpieces. We are striving strenuously at this time to bring about the fullest development of all our resources, and surely we may count among our resources those elements of earth and sky which in their rare combi- nation afford to the gifted among usthe means out of which may be created new ideals of beauty to enrich the world and glorify the State. Among the lighter enterprises that en- gage attention there is mone more likely to be pleasing in itself or to have better results on minor morals and manners in the long run than the proposed perform- ance of ““As You Like It” in the open air of the Sutro gardens. In this play Shake- speare put away from him every bard problem of fate and depicted life under an aspect as joyous as can be imagined. He carries his duke, courtiers and conspira- tors along with his hero and heroine into the greenwood among the shepherds and there disports them with just enough roughness and obstruction in the current of their affairs to make the stream of life ripple so that we can *‘hear it murmur and see it glisten.” Everybody in the play, from the melancholy Jaques, who persists in seeing sermons in stones and books in running brooks, down to the clown who likes the country simply because it is the country and dislikes it simply because it is not the town, finds that life is worth living and there is good in everything. They do not grow sad even when the trees begin to bear poetry on every bough. This is the clearest glimpse of Arcadia that is given in all literature, and if it is ever to be re- alized may we not look for it here? The purpose for which the play is to Le given, the manner in which it is to be con- ducted and the good form of the men and women who are to take part in it, will, of course, make the performance something of a social function; and under that aspect it will doubtless be pleasing to many who will haye the goodness to remember and the kindness to frequently remind others that the actors are appealing for charity. Those who will find the finest pleasure in the occasion, however, will be those who go there for the purpose of enjoying the open air and the poetry of Shakesneare. If any one can catch from the play any of the spirit that moved the poet to write it he will have a good time. Inceed, it might be worth while for any who have the ability to throw aside the cares and the conventionalities of life to forestall the play alittle and to take advantage of this day of leisure to indulge a natural freedom and extemporize an ‘‘As You Like It” in an Arden of theirown. That the American people are rapidly becoming an esthetic race cannot be ques- tioned by any one who has paid the shight- est attention to the growing fondness for festivals. These fetes have been more nota- ble in California than elsewhere, but they have been everywhere. They have been given different forms and different names in different localities, but in all cases the object has been the same—to draw a crowd, to have a frolic and make a little money at the expense of the visitors. The outburst of gayety in this direction during the past spring and summer is the more remarka- ble from the fact that the peopie were never more serious than at present and never had graver problems to confront. It is possible that the causes of gayety and the seriousness are to be found in the same source. When life in America was easy for all no one felt any particular need of a grand spectacle torest his mind or to make an_occasion for him to take in the town. Now that life has become more of a burden the jaded citizen requires some- thing more than a casual frolic to make him spend his money without a pang, and accordingly he holds a carnival and whoops it up. He feels that he must spend the doliar of the daddies somehow, for he is here for that purpose. New York syndicates are not much ad- mired in the far West nor indeed in the middle of the country, but the syndicate that built the Deiender is popular all over the broad land this morning. It has built 8 yacht on British models, but with more than British skill, and proven our ability to surpass all competitors in yacht build- ing and yacht sailing with the keel as well as with the centerboard. There are other matches to be raced before the contest is decided, but from the victory of yesterday it seems safe enough that the triumph will be with us and the America cup will stay on this side of the wate: Lord Dunraven, in naming his yacht Valkyrie, after those immortal maidens who, according to old Norse legends, were charged with the duty of bearing slain heroes to Valhalla, was perhaps prophetic in his choice. Two Valkyries before this have borne him defeated from the field, and now the third will render a similar service. Sail in, sail in, big syndicate! Sail on, Defender, swift and great! A mighty Nation’s people feel The thrill of life along thy keel, And none of them have gloom in 'em; They trust in thy aluminum And in thy gallant crew, Singing Yankee Doodle doo. PERSONAL. Dr. E. Bennettof San Antonio is at the Grand Hotel. Judge £. M. Buck of the Eureka judiciary isa guest at the Lick. - Dr. C. E. Danforth, a Marysville physician, is housed at the Lick. C. J. Hussey of the United States navy is at the Occidental Hotel. R. J. Corbett, the Sonoma fruit man, is stop- ping at the Oceidental. A. H. Baldy, one of Tacoma’s capitalists, is in the City at the Palace. Professor M.F. H. Hyatt of San Diego is & guest at the Grand Hotel. M. A, de Lano,the man who struck it rich in- French Gulch, is in the City at the Occidental. C. W. Tozer, one of the leading mining men of Nevada County, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. George H. Warfield, cashier of the First Na- tional Bank at Healdsburg, is at the California Hotel. Frank Mattison, & Santa Cruz merchant, is in the City for a fow days, and is a guest at the Grand. Robert McPherson, a wealthy land-owner in the town bearing his name, is at the Lick Housea W. B. Pless, the Sonoma mining man, is in town for a few days, and is boused at the Palace. P Philip Feldhauser, a Denver banker, is a guest at the Palace Hotel, and is accompanied by his wife and ¢hild. Bernard Murphy, the live man of Santa "Clara Valley, arrived in the City last night and is at the Palace Hotel. A.W. Adams, recently from the U. 8.8.Mo- hican, arrived in the City yesterday and is stopping at the California. Dr. 8, W. Dennis has returned from a trip to Bouthern California, where he has been travel- ing during the past six months. E. J.Cote, the man who puts up the vinegar of Bt. Louts, is at the Palace. He is visiting the coast in the interests of the firm. W. C. Swain, a Marysvilile architeet and ‘builder, is at the Grand Hotel. He came down to look at some of our new buildings. J. M. Hartley, who moves in the insurance circles of Visalia, is at the Grand Hotel. He will remain in the City for a few days. T. J. Sherwood, editor of the Marysville Democrat, dropped in yesterday to mingle with his friends. He is at the Occidental. Superintendent Samuel F. Fiint of the rail- way mail service leaves to-day to attend the meeting of the railway mail saperintendents in Washington. George W. Gatchell, accompanied by his wife and child, arrived from the East yesterday and went to the Occidental. Mr. Gatchell is of the United States army and has been transferred to this coast. Henry Channing Beals, Nestor of the com- mercial press of California, will, on Monday the 9th inst., celebrate his seventy-ninth birth- day at the residence of his daughter, at 206 Broderick street. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 7.—Hermann Oelrichs won the esteem of & rapidly growing circle of Gothamites, when in an inspirea moment he extolled the virtues of a Cali- fornia oyster cocktail among his New York ac- quaintances. That delectable compound, a trifie hampered by the size of the Eastern oyster, but still capable of affording an ecstatic moment to the jaded palate, may now be found at nearly all of the downtown cafes that cater to the more esoteric custom. Of late, another drink of Californian origin is beginning to make its appearance here. The new compound is the invention of George W. Schreck of San Franclsco. Mr. Schreck, having tried his drink and found it good, hastened to add it to that long list of expedients, liquid and otherwise, by which the Easterner endeavors to delude his under- standing into accepting the mistaken notion that his summer climate was really intended to be lived in. Presumably with some such idea vaguely in mind the new drinkiscalleda “‘Defender.” But that name conyeys no more idea of the delect- able compound it stands for than the suggested vulgarity of the word “cocktail” indicates the harmonious blending of syrups and odors that is represented by that uncourtly term. To par- ticularize, slightly the odor of Mr. Schreck’s drink is the odor of violets. To make it: Put a lemon pairing into a glass half full of cracked ice, give it three dashes of orange bit- ters, put in two-thirds part of unsweetened g1n, add equal parts of cream yvette and Ital- ian vermouth. Then stir the mixture with regularity and precision—do not think of shak- ing it—and strain it into a glass. After that the compound may be safely left to make its own way with any reasonably cultivated taste, General Nelson ‘A. Miles, who was so long at the hcaa of the Department of thePacific, is at Manhattan Beach with Miss Miles and Master 8. Miles. Some time before leaving for the sea shore General Miles sat for his portrait to Whip- ple, the artist of one of the recent portraits of ex-President Harrison. Miss Elizabeth Strong, the animal painter, who won her first successeson the coast, i still in the East, and is putting in her summer with Chase at h{s outdoor art school, at Southamp- ton, Long Island. This may seem odd in one who is herself an accomplished painter in her line. But Miss Strong explains the anomaly by saying that she is there for backgrounds. At any rate she takes her place with the rest of the ninety odd girls and three young men that represent Mr. Chase's following and receives her criticisms with the humblest beginner. Mrs. R. Howe Davis of Redfields, Cal., is also &t the school, p:eguflng to carry the Chase tra- dition to the codst. Mrs. Kate Allmond Hulburt, another Cali- fornian whose work has long figured in the various water-color exhibitions, has gone to South Fgremont, Mass., where she and her husband, who is also an artist, have opened a studio. They are disciples of John Ward Stimp- son’s school, “The Artist Artisans,” the first purpose of which is avowedly to cultivate a purely American artistic outlook first and irust to the future for mere technical accom- plishment. ' Miss Genevieve L. Brown, who was connected with the editorial department of the last Cali- {ur;}hn h'i lately returned from Paris and is n New. 2 The interuational yacht race has, of course, dominated all other interests during the week, and Californians, with the rest, have been in the thick of it. Mr.and Hn.firmnn Oelrichs came down from Newport-early in the week for the event, and Harry M. Gillig, who on_the Vigiiant during the final trial race with the Defender, was one of George Gould’ gnests on the Atalanta at the Defender-Valky- rie contest to-day. John W. Mackay’s enterprise in carrying an ocean eable out to the very starting point of the boats has, of course, been the talk of the hour. But even the dominance of the yacht- racing fever has not quite obscured the fact that several Californians f“ a large share of the praise that accompanied the production of the Holland brothers’ new play, “A Man With & Part,” at the Garrick this ‘week. Miss Olive Oliver, one of the Californians referred to, easily carried off the honors of the piece so far as the women were concerned, and Willlams! Norris and Hugo Farland also came infora {feir share of commendation. . Anwns to-day’s arrivals were: San Jose—L. Archer Jr., Coleman. Santa Cruz—C. W. Wal- dron, St. Stephen’s. San Francisco—George T. Bromley, J. O. Whitney, Hoffman; T.A. Hen- der, R. ‘arfield, Murray Hill; C. Plache, S. Peiter, Grand Union; A. T. Coffee, Sinclair House; A. E. Brommer, Gilsey; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burnham, Mrs. A. , Union- square; M. Fainsuch, Stewart House. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept 7.—Among to- day's arrivals were: 1. Steinbeck, W. Rosen- baum, Henry W. Bartholdt, San Francisco; John W. Kiog, Los Apgeles. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Probably the cleanest-cut lie ever told in the City and County of San Francisco was brought to the surface yesterday afternoon in the Pal- ace Hotel through the mediumship of a Nevada man. Some gentlemen, while conversing upon Indien affairs, happened to revert to the Apache outbreak in Arizona in 1889, when General Oliver Roberts, the man from the sage- brush, was asked if he recollected the affair. “DoI? Well, I should think I had occasion toremember it. I was there,” answered Rob- erts. ¢‘Howdtapen?" “Well, Il tell you. I wasstoppingat Yuma at the time with six other friends, and we were preparing to go hunting for prairie chickens. Of course, & man can’t hunt prairie chickens in the ¢ity limits, so we hired a double team and made preparations to go some “THEY KILLED EVERY ONE OF US,” SAID THE GENERAL. [Sketched from Uife for “The Call” by Nankivell.] twenty miles from the city where there was said to be good hunting. It took us all day to getto the chicken grounds,and we were 0 tired that we concluded to take a good sleep and begin operations in the miorning. Most of us were aware that the Indians were alittle troublesome, but we didn’t expect any diffl- culty with them, so we made no provision to stand them off. We had our fowling pieces, which we considered sufficient protection against an ordinary foe. The next morning we took 100 shells each, tied the horses to long ropes so they could graze, and started out to slaughter all the prairie chickensin Arizona. “Well,” resumed the general witha thought- ful face, “we must have gone about five miles into the open country, when we concluded that it was about time to lunch, and we ac- cor dingly seated ourselves beside a patch of willows ana fell to. All around us was high bunches of prairie grase, and the land was un- dulating. We had about finished our repast, and had stepped over to & little spring to take a drink. We got down on our hands and knees to scoop up the water when all of a sud- den & series of yells and whoops broke upon our ears, and to our amlazement we saw about seventy Apaches getting out from ambush and making for us. There was nothing to do but getup and dust. We had no time to get our guns, 80 we took a streak for the hills without further ceremony. We ran about three hours, and finally entered a little canyon leading as we supposed into the underbrush. All the time the Indians were about fifty yards be- hind us, threatening to shoot if we didn’t stop. We couldn’t think of such a thing, however, and we kept up & great move all the time. We were getting awfully weary of the chase, and had it not been for & sewing-machine agent who was with us we would have stopped and faced the mob for better or worse. We kept right on and the canyon was getting narrower and narrower all the time. Finallyit got so narrow that we had to string out in single file or crowd each other. The case was getting desperate, but we pegged along with our tongues lolling out and our throats nearly cracking. When we had made two or three extra spurts, and seemed to be getting a little ahead, we suddenly brought up at the end of the canyon and found eurselves confronted by a solid wall 60 feet high. On the right and the left it was the same way and we were literally penned in. There was no hope for us and we tell down all in a heap, fainting and exhausted. The Indians came on with wild whoops, drew their knives and —" “Great guns, General, what did they do to you,” exclaimed an old gentleman, almost ready to burst. “Why they simply went to work and killed every one of us, me first.” Roberts then got up from his seat, walked over to the Postal Telegraph window and sud- denly became absorbed in the yacht-race bulle- tins, leaving his listeners gazing intently at the glass dome ou the seventh story. OUR DEFENDER. ‘Written for THE CALL by C. C. Carlton. Americans, arouse ye all And cheer her, three times three— Defender sweeps before the gale, A mountain white of swelling The glory of the sea. - Victorious ! O'er the line she fiies, And England droops her head ; The stars and stripes are (o the fore— | “Britannia rules the wave” no more, ‘Her boastful claim is dead. ‘Then fling Columbia’s banner out O'er all the land and sea: ‘With shouts of joy, with swee test song, Let all the children join the throng And sound the victory! San Francisco, Sept. 7, 1895. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. The Count—You know zat I vill be as devoted nfl.:r our marriage as before, don't vou, dear- est She—Of course! Didn’t paps put ‘all the money in my name.—Judge. Eastern Stranger—What are they lynching him for? Quick-drop Dan—Attempting suicide. Eastern Stranger—They might just as well have let him kill himself, Quick-drop Dan—No, siree. The boys out here don’t believe in a feller being selfish.~Lite. Young Man From the Country (with the affa- ble condéscension he supposes marks the Man About Town)—'Morning, coachman! Streets rather busy this morning, eh? Metropolitan Driver—Yuss,a bit the usual ‘way, sir. 'Ow’s "ops lookin' ?—Punch. Overmuch Wheeler—Yes, it took me about six weeks’ hard work to learn to ride. Dolittle Walker—And what have you got for your pains? Overmuch Whe Evening World. “Here's a cigar,” said the dealer, “that I would like you to give a trial. “All right,” said Watts. “Hand it over." 1t was handed over. ““What do you think of it?"” asked the dealer. “It doesn’t deserve a trial,” said Watts; “it 0ught to be lynched.”—Indianapolis Journal, T — Arnica, — New York THE PROPER COURSE. STRONG INDORSEMENT OF “THE CALL'S” METHOD OF REPORTING. In reporting the Durrant murder trial on one day last week the amount of THE DURRANT space allotted to it by the var- MURDER jous merning papers of San CasE. Francisco was as follows: Chronicle, twenty columns; Examiner, twenty-one columns; CaLp, five columns, Most of these columns were in fine type and contained an average of 1800 words per column, aggregating 36,000 words. The greater Dart was the stenographic report of the testimony, much of which was medical evi- dence of & character calculated to interest only Jawyers, doctors and students of medical juris- prudence. The nastiest part of it, the papers kindly inform us, they omitted, although they printed some very nasty stuff as it was. As will be seen by the foregoing THE CALL leads. THE CaLL prints only five columns. Further to add to its pre-eminence THE CALL prints at the head of its account a paragraph of thirty-four lineés in length, which contains the gist of everything that any one would want to read. ‘We commend THE CALL for its enterprise. In this busy day and generation it i not the en- terprising paper that prints most abouta mat- ter, but the paper that prints the least. What busy man could ever find time to read 36,000 words a day about a murder trial, with all the repetitions, with all the circumlocutions, with all the hems, and haws, and sniffles, and snorts and drones of attorneys and witnesses? What busy man wants to?—The Argonaut. sl e S, PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Lord Verulam, who died recently at 86, was the last survivor of the first Winchester and Harrow elevens, which met in 1825, seventy years to a day betore the Earl'sdeath. The Winchester captain was Christopher Wordse worth, afterwara Bishop of Lincoln; the cap- tain of Harrow was Charles Wordsworth, later Bishop of St. Andrews, &1d on his eleven was Cardinal Manning, who was caught out by the Bishop of Lincoln for a goose e3g. Since the latest attempt was made to take the life of Signor Crispi the Italian Premier has constantly worn a shirt of chain mail. It is, perhaps, one of the finest coats of the kind that have ever been manufactured, for while very light, it is of such strength that noteven a re- volver bullet can penetrate it. So flexible is it that it occasions no discomfort to the wearer., In the region of the heart it is of double thick- ness. The novelist Ian Maclaren made some re- marks the other day at the English Presby- terian Synod, and speaking of the students at the seminary, he expressed the hope that they would not turn out to be “a curious cross be- tween a priesthng and a prig.” The Duke of Argyll in a Jetter to a cor- respondent says nothing short of a general disgust as to the whole method of proceeding of the late Government can account for the general revolt throughout the country. Frank Vincent, the well-known traveler and explorer, has had conferred upon him by the King of the Belgians the Royal Order of the Lion for his work on Africa. 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