The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1895, Page 8

THE FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895 — JEWISH NEW YEAR BEGUN, Impressive Services in All the Hebrew Places of Worship. BLOWING OF THE RAM'S HORN. Discourses by Drs. Voorsanger, Levy, Nieto and Fryer. Special Music. The Hebrew New Year was universally celebrated yesterday. The. first of the “Days of Awe” was religiously set apart | to devotional uses in the synagogue, and to sober enjoyments outside of it. As a rule, the Jew, more particularly in the United States, is rather lax in regard to the observance of the solemn- days of his faith; but with singular unanimity of purpose, all classes—reformed, conserva- tive, radical or orthodox—all unite in set- ting apart as sacred the New Year and the Day of Atonement. In this City, services were held in the temples. Good audiences were noticeable ases extra in all of them, and in many benches had to be placed to accommodate the large crowds that thronged in. Pre- vious to the Musaph service, the Shofar or cornet was blown thirty times with differ- ent intonations. This was supposed to bring the audience to asense of the impor- tance of the day. Sermons appropriate to the occasion were preached by the rabb and the musical programmes rendered by the choirs took the form of traditional recitatives and classical compositions. The great audience at Temple Em- manu-El heard exquisite musicand a timely and eloquent sermon. The new union prayer-book that has re- cently been adopted by the congregation was used for the first time. Much of the music was the composition of Cantor E. J. Stark. “Solemn Sounds,” a fine quintet | selection, was his production. | The regular choir was re-emforced by a | quartet, and the singers were Miss Daisy Cohn, Miss Jeannette Wilcox, Miss Fastman, Mme. Bernadi, M. Jones, J. C. Hughes, Charles Morrow and W. Heilson. Dr. Voorsanger presented the lesson of | the day. follows: *‘During my recent | travels 1a Germ: paraphrased in English would read some- what as follow Time files, ma: Man dies, hope rem Hope dies, God remsins. “The simplicity of these words inves ent appropriate to this her Time, flies and | dies and man watches his passing on. Time is God’s instrument for making his- Man is a million and a half years his historical record covers 1 vears of that time. What uss an infinitesminal portion of an infinite period! Within these four thousand years civilizations were born and have died Within these years m fant; thearch of old countr the testimony of the tomt v i n-manual of power. was an in- s, the ruins i They assed away, and so man also dies. But hope remains. Death means change, not | annihilation. The eternal cycles that are passed shall be succeeded by an eternal number to come. Man dies, but men live. Rums may not be rebuilt, but out of his experience man creates the new world in which he is to live. And should the last | cycle really come and hope itself then | God shall abide and remain. God only the Creator but the motive of life.”” Congregation Sherith-Israel worshiped at the Taylor-street synagogue under most favorable circumstances. The special music under the direction of Cantor Davis and Mrs. H. J. Stewart was novel | in the introduction of stringed in- struments and the adaptation of Men- delssohn and Mozart music to the service. Every feature of the music was a success. Rabbi Nieto, in opening his discourse, said : Alllife may be defined as a retrospect and a forecast. Man was ever taking under con- sideration his past, analyzing his failures and successes, and gaining experience from them, | wherewith he would endeavor to fort self for the future. Thus experience the stimulus of his hopes, the inspiration of his energies. But while the few that were earnest and sincere enough to ascribe the causes which emanated from themselves and produced defeat to the proper source, the many overrated their own intelligence, and were too self-satistied and opinionated to ad- mit their own incapacity had been thelir ruin. | Continuing, he sai The greatest misfortune that besets the ma- jority of men is that their hope is an indefinite yearning for an undefined something. If, in- Stead of this, men would study themseives, ‘become masters of their own natures and pos- sess & thorough knowledge of their own abili- ties and plan the successive step they would mount to the realiza ambition defined and within the compass of their powers, we would have less of failures. 1in concluding he said: There is a saying in the Talmud that after the destruction of the first temple prophetic insight was taken away from the prophets and given to fools. At the risk of being ranked as one of the fools I will to-day prophesy that in & couple of generations there w- spiritual revolution. Experience and history teach us that to the apathetic_sttitude of the old Hebrew toward the religion they claimed 1o revere was due the progressive movement that set in. To-day there is the same apathy apparent. I know that for the past two years there has been s religious revival in the City, and I feel in my inmost consciousness that thisagitation will go on till at last so great a spiritual height shall be reached as would verify in a great measure all the noble things the old prophet foretold Congregation Ohabai Shalome observed the ceremonies of New Year's day at its new synagogue on Bush street. The church, although not strictly orthodox, is conservative, and as its position was stated by the new pastor, Rabbi Julius Fryer, “It admits progressive ideas in keeping with the general welfare of the congregation.” Rabbi Fryer's text was Numbers 29:i, “On the first day of the seventh month ye shall blow the cornet (shofar), a holy con- vocation unto all.” He reviewed at considerable length the noteworthy events of the past year. It had been an eventful and in many in- stances a calamitous year, he said, one that | had brought gloom to many hearts and made many a valiant soul tremble at the approaching storm. The cornet blowing that marked the services of the day was symbolic. It was like the bugle blast that signified to the traveler on the verge of a precipice that danger and aid are both near. It warned him of danger, but like- wise saved him from being hurled into eternity through the lurking dangers of a dark and tempestuous night. The progress of human life was com- pared to the seasons. Infancy was like spring, the rejuvenating and resurrecting time of nature; youth like the summer of rigening fruits; autumn, the solemn time when a man reckons with himself, as it were, and casts up the accounts of his life, like the harvest season of ingathering fruits; and winter, when the cold blasts lay bare the forests and strip nature of her beauty, was symbolic of the termination of human life. But when the form is in the coffin and the clods of the valley rattle upon the lid, that is not the end of life. The spirit soars away from the trials that have fretted it here to the great source whence it came. The finale to this harmeny of thought was a review of the history of the congre- gation’s life, congratulations upon the Rprogress made in the direction of its long cherished aim and a hope for long con- tinuance of its usefulness. The Geary-street temple was so crowded at yesterday’s service that to avoid dis- comfort to the worshipers it was found necessary to lock the doors. The services and closed at 1 p. M. Dr. ,the rabbi of the Congregation Beth Israel, preached from the text found in Psalm cxxx : Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try meand know my thoughts, and see if any wicked be in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. He opened his sermon with a quotation from George D. Prentice’s poem, *‘The Closing Year.” Continuing, he said: “The text I have selected is the essense of a very honest prayer. But all prayers are not honest. Some are merely formal and mean nothing. Some are real as far as they go, but do not go far. “There is a demand for practical preach- ing, by which I do not mean the preaching of morality as distinct from doctrine, but such preaching as_deals with the individ- ual wants and difficulties and sorrows of the human heart, and which makes the people feel that the eye of the word of God, like the eye of a picture, turns upon them whithersoever they Is the an- nual season of prayer and the filling of the house of God as we see it filled to-day, every pew occupied and hundreds stand- ing, is this a hopeful sight? “Is the, faith of Israel strengthened by the religious tonic which is annually ad- ministered? 1 do not believe that the an- | nual outpouring is in itselfa sign of good for Israel’s service. What we need is_the constant Sabbath service, to be sustained by faith. 1t is to be regretted that the modern synagogue worshiper who con- descends to listen to his rabbi two or three hours during an entire year is so lost in worldly matters that he judges even his minister by the touchstone of business. As a matter of fact, the business feature of the present synagogue is allabsorbing. As long as there are houses of worship willing to cater at so much per head and people eager to barter for the privileges offered, so long as Judaism is to be weighed in the scale of dollars and cents, just so long will men and women continue to believe | that ministers talk officially. Itisunfortunately true that someleaders tell us that there 1s no meaning in prayer | and scoff at the doctrines and ordinances of Israel and treat the antiquities of our faith as fables, but I know from personal experience the Eower of God’s grace and its influence 1n breathing sweet peace into the family circle, and I have been a spec- tator of its wondrous and potent force in making others happy. The truth that re- ion depends not so much upon the wor- ship as with the worshiper is forcibly illus- trated by the varied characteristics of pub- lic devotions all over the land. To-day with us, next year with our neighbor, this year, according to one ritual, in the year to come, as fancy or even fashion may dic- tate, unstable as water, changeable as the seasons. Not in earnestness, but to ac- commodate ourselves to custom, not to pray, but to listen to paid readers, not to pour out our hearts in song and tune our souls to the inspiring music of the psalm- ist, but to listen to singing.”” As is the custom in the orthodox Jewish churches there will be a celebration of the second day of the New Year by services this morning at the Geary-street temple, and Dr. Levy will discourse on the theme, | “What is Judaism 2" A RUMR GOIKG AROLND It Says Another of the South- ern Pacific’s Old Guards Will Go. H. Goodman’s Long Service. Rates From Chicago to the Northwest Go Up. b o There were wild reports around the big vellow building yesterday about the speedy retirement from office of T. H. Goodman the Southern Pacific Company’s general passenger agent. It was all caused by a wee paragraph published in the Railway Agent, a new railv monthly published in Cleveland, Ohio. The magazine has not the best name for accuracy, but as this publication focused other rumors of similar portend that have been floating about for some time, it gave weight to what would other- wise have been given little heed. A grim smile chased away a frown when Mr. Goodman was asked about the gossip. “If this is so, it’s the first I've heard of it,”’ said he. “I huve certainly received no notification of my prospective retire- ment. and as I have now been with the company nearly twenty-seven years I should suppose I would be notified if any- thing of this sort is to happen.” On December 12 of this year Mr. Good- man will complete his twenty-seventh year of service for the Huntington-Stan- ford-Crocker combination. He was for several years prior to that general pas- senger agent of the old Atlantic and Great Western road, with headquarters in Cleve- land, Ohio. There were tew signs then of the monster system that has since devel- oped. Gossip has it that the general passenger agent of the company’s_Atlantic division, S. F. B. Morse, a grandson of Professor Samuel F. B. Morse of electric telegraph fame, has long been chalked up on Mr. Huntington’s blackboard as ) Good- man’s Successor. Senator Stanford and Charles Crocker were more Mr. Goodman’s supporters than Mr. Huntington has ever been, although there has never been any pronounced an- tagonism shown by Mr. Huntington. No one has ever questioned Mr. Goodman’s efficiency. More than this, he has been one of the few men in the bigcompany who made for it Istanch friends. Mr. Morse’s headguarters are at New Orleans and his present duty is confined to all branches of the company east of El Paso. Recentiy there was a pow-wow here with the head officials of the Pacific sys- tem. Ever since then there has been more or less gossip about somcxhing being liable to drop. So if Mr. Goodman’s retirement and one or two other shake-ups should come to pass before many moons the wise men would be prepared to say *I told To-day the rates on all classes of freight between Chicago and Montana and Wask- ington common points will be materially advanced. In some cases the advance will be nearly 100 per cent. The new schedule will apply only via the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern and their Eastern connections. In some commodities the advance is very marked. The rate on patent medi- cines and drugs in less than carload lots from Chicago to Montana points is ad- vanced from $1 89 to $3 10 per 100 pounds, and between Chicago and Spokane the rate on the same class will be raised from $189 to $3 60 per 100 pounds, or nearly 100 per cent. Although the tariffs announc- ing these advances have not yet been issued by the railroad companies, proofs of the same have been received in Chicago by connecting roads and local wholesalers and shippers, and the latter interests are already - protesting against the new schedule. —————— A Grand Choral Concert. A choral concert of 400 voices was given yes- terday evening in Metropolitan Temple, under the direction of William L. Tomlins, and, con- sidering the short time which the Chicago con- ductor has had with the singers under his training, the work they performed was remark- able. - The numbers included part songs and choruses. . Gounod’s “Here by Babylon’s Wave” was one of the best sung numbers and was_loudly encored, the singers clapping as loudly as the audience, though' no Tepettiion was given. The “Hallelujah" chorus was also sung in a very satisfactory manner. The other numbers included “The Glory of the Lord” and “Glory to God” from “The Messiah,” as well as part songs by Mendelssohn, Garrett, etc. JEE GAM'S ORDINATION, The First Chinese Congrega- tional Pastor in the United States. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' WORK. Rev. Dr. Mooar, Who Presided, Converted Jee Gam a Quarter of a Century Ago. Jee Gam, who for twenty-five years has managed the Congregational mission on Brenham place, was ordained into the pas- torate yesterday. He is the first China- man in the United States-who has been made a regularly appointed minister of the Congregational church, and great in- terest was felt in Protestant church circles in his ordination. For his own part the new pastor would have been contented to pursue the even tenor of his way at the mission, just as he had done for the last quarter of a century, but his Chinese converts would not have it so0; they wanted him to be ordained, and about fifteen years ago. He madea bifi mark for himself in his early reportorial M AN S days on the Alta. jome ten years ago he went on the Ex- aminer, and’ remained there, with the ex- ception of a flying trip on Eastern papers, to the time he went to New York for treat- ment. Hart’s best work was done on what is called the police and water front details. He was the best all-round reporter in the City, and that, of course, means on the Pacific Coast. No one could touch him as a marine reporter. Mr. Hearst appreciated his;abilities in that line and tried his best to keep him in that position. Hart’s talents were of such a broad character, however, that he was frequently called upon to do special work. fie occupied a number of official positions on the Exam- iner. He was City editor a number of times. He was assistant City editor at the time he went East last. Hart was unfortunate in his marriage and some five years ago he .and his wife were divorced. Eight months ago Hart noticed a sliglht swelling on his right jaw which gradually increased in size. He thought it wasa tumor and jokingly made arrangements to go to the hospital and have a piece of him- self cut off. After the operation the sad truth came out. Under the microcope it was shown beyond a doubt that he was suffering from malignant cancer. Hart bore up heroically when the truth was told him. His large number of friends called to see him and did all in their power to comfort him and make the time pass as agreeably as possibly. In spite of the best efforts of the local hysicians the disease advanced. As a ast resource his stanch friends sent him toa special hospital in New York, where REV. JEE GAM, NOW A FULL.FLEDGED CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER. made a unanimous petition to Rev. Dr. | he was placed under the serum treatment. Pond, the superintendent, to that effect. “I told them I could work just as well without becoming a reverend,” said Jee Gam, yesterday, “but they insisted, so I had to give in; but I shall keep on just the same at the mission.” The ceremony of Jee Gam’s ordination took place in the evening at Bethany Church, of which Dr. Pond is pastor, but the Congregational council met 1n the par- lors of the church in the afternoon to catechise the candidate for ordination and hear his confession of faith. Delegates and pastors were present from most of the Congregational churches in San Francisco and Oakland. By unani- mous consent Rev. Dr. Mooar was chosen moderator, though all present did not know the reason for this choice till later in the proceedings. Rev. William Tubb hay- ing been elected scribe to the council Jee Gam was admitted and requested to give some account of his early life and con- version. He is a middle-aged, intelli%ent-]ooking Chinaman of a more acquiline cast of features than most of his countrymen, and he made an address in excellent inglish that was listened to with deep interest by those present. In his far-away village, eighty miles from_Canton, Jee Gam, as a boy of 14, had heard marvelous rumors about the ‘‘golden mountains” that lay “in a bar- barous, strarge and_very far, but exceed- ingly rich country.” e told of his ad- ventures in getting to this land, where he had been led to believe tnat he would only have to pick ur the gold andreturn, and instead of dwelling on his disappointment, he described how he had gone to live as cook in a family where he had found what he now considered infinitely more precious than “mountains of gold.” Jee Gam alluded to the people who were responsible for his conversion as “‘Dr. Mooar's family,” and the interest felt by those present in the convert redoubled as they realized that the man who had bap- tized him a quarter of a century before was acting as moderator of the council that was to pronounce upon his fitness for ordinatign. The candidate answered all the theologi- cal questioning without hesitating, and, having read his confession of faith, was re- quested to withdraw. Ten minutes later he was called back to the room and Dr. Mpzl)nr, shaking him warmly by the hand, said: “My brother, it gives ‘me great pleasure to say that the council is unanimous in'its decision that you are fit for ordination.” “I am_also glad, but I do not feel my- self worthy,”” said Jee Gam humbly, as he responded to the handshaké and wiped a suspicious moisture from his eyes. Con- gratulations on all hands followed, and the council adjourned. Bethany Church- was decorated with flowers and filled with an interested con- gregation in the even NEARING HIS END, Telograms Report Will Hart to Be in an Unconscioffs Condi- tlo W. N. Hart, so widely and favorably known in this State among newspaper men, is dying in New York of cancer. The telegrams yesterday reported him in an unconscious condition, with all hope of his recovery abandoned. ' His mother, Mrs. Kate Hart, is with him. - She has met with several very grievous afflictions with- in the past year. Last fall her other son, Frank Hart, 28 years old, was drowned in Austin Creek, near Cazadero. ‘Will Hart is one of the best known news- paper men in San Francisco. He began as a compositor, learning the rudiments of the profession. Under City Editor Ross Jackson he blossomed out-as a reporter For a time he seemed to improve. The disease was held in check, but do what they might the physicians could not drive it back. Through all the arduous and almost hopeless treatment Hart bore up cheerfully. He is now in the unconscious stage and the friends who held fast to hope in the face of the most discouraging news think that the end is not far off. CARPENTERS AND JOINERS, There Will Be No Strike Ordered on the Ferry Depot Work. The District Council States That No Such Move Was Ever Con- templated. Several articles have recently begn pub- lished to the effect that the carpenters’ unions of this City would cause trouble if the woodwork on the new ferry depot is let out on contracts. The idea implied was that being State work it should be done under an old law at the rate of $4 a day of eight hours, and if the work should be let out to contractors the journeymen would only receive what the contractor would pay, or the regular union rates at the most. The statement was that a com- mittee from the carpenters’ and joiners’ unions had called upon Labor Commis- sioner Fitzgerald and had intimated that if the Harbor Commissioners let out the contract, instead of having the work done by the day, thus depriving the carpenters of the opportunity of earning $4 a day, the unions would call all of its members en- gaged on the work out on a strike. ast evening the District Council of Car- penters and Joiners, representing the four unions in this City, }:els a meeting and de- nounced asuntrue statements that a strike or trouble of any kind was contemplated, and they issued the following card: Owing to the fact that articles have appeared in-the dafly press intimating that a general strike is about to be ordered among the San Francisco carpenters we take this opportunity of refuting all such statements. While we are using our ‘best endeavors to build up our or- ganization and are meeting with the greatest success still we feel certain of betteriug our condition without using arbitrary measures by throwing our men on the street by ordering & general strike, In the past all differences between the con- tractor and the journeymen have been settled amicably, and we anticipate doing business the same in the future. The card system that we have introduced among . the carpenters has proved most successful, and as we do not an- tcipate nor sanction any trouble there is no occasion for the pubiic to become alarmed by unauthorized statements. The council did not know anything about the matter until the published re- ports were read, and at present they do not propose to authorize or be responsible for any strike or other trouble. They say if _nng carpenters go out on a strike, the: will do so‘on their own responsibility. It is argued that it would be the height of folly, nuw that the building trades are re- covering a little from the recent depres- sion, to do anything that would cause trouble and throw the men outot work again. Besides it is their plan to effect changes by more pacific means than by striking. —————— The pileus, a head-covering in usg amon, both &-eeks and l‘!.amnm.g wnswn closeg- fitting woolen cap worn under the helmet, and, on the march, kept on the head, while the {x:lmet was removed and slung to the [ The Traffic Association Ap- peals to All Californians for Help. STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. Lessons of the Past Should Urge More Vigorous Measures for the Future. The Traffic Association’s executive com- mittee met yesterday afternoon in special session. The object of the meeting was to consider an address to the merchants of California. The end of the association’s fiscal year is close at hand ana its stanch supporters seek to rally help from the ranks of all citizens interested in the problems it seeks to solve. The following appeal was finally decided on, to be sent to merchants in all parts of the State: To the Merchants of California : The Traffic Association of California is organized tosecure to the merchants of thie State the best possible terms for the transportation of their goods, wares and merchandise. The people of the Pacific Coast are to-day en- joying the fruits of the achievements of this association in that they now have the option of patronizing the line of clipper ships plying between this port and the Atlantic ports of the United States, or the Panama line, in connec- tion with the Panama Steamship Company, in the work of construction now being pushed on the competing line—the San Francisco and Joaquin Valley Railroad—which line is des- tined soon to play an important part in the rate adjustments within this State. ‘The foundation of a great building has been laid; the superstruction is also up, and it now rests with the association to put on the finish- ing touches and to properly round out this great undertaking. We are still confronted with the local rate question, and the same is bound to receive at- tention at our hands—it may be asa whole or in given commodities—and then on the border of the same arises that other wall that Califor- nia must break down before she can be eman- cipated; 1. e., the high rates at present existing to the several territories nn!llra[lz' tributary to the trade centers of California. We refer par- ticularly to Arizona and New Mexico, both on the line of the Southern Pacific Company and that of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, also leaving the line of the Southern Pacific at Benson, Ariz., on the line of the New Mexico and Arizona and Sonora Railway as far south as Guaymas, Mexico. Rates as they stand to-day to the City of Mexico and common points and to other points in inland Mexico are placed on a basis con- sistent with our position, the same rates being in force from San Francisco as from St. Louis, but to other points mentioned are unfairly against us. Rates from California to Texas falso deserve our attention. California manufactures rarely reach that market. To the east and north of usin Utah, Colorado, Iaaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington are markets, the bulk of whose trade should flow to and from this direction instead of the East. I1f the merchants of California cannot look for and secure the trade of their nearest neigh- bors, their failure to control it must lie in the existing rate adjustments as between the sev- eral carriers. We should naturally look for the trade of the Pacific Coast of Central America. Itis a patent fact that during the period of active competi- tion on the part of the North American Navi- gation Company that trade to and from this port materially increased, and our efforts should be directed toward encouraging that measure of competition necessary to closer re- latioms with that section. Of greater importance still is the trade with China and Japan. San Francisco is the natural entrepot of this Oriental business to the United States, and the pioneer Pacific Coast port in that trade and yet to-day over two-thirds of the trans-Pacific business passes through the ports to the north of us—Tacoma, Wash., and Van- couver, B. C. Of the tea alone imported into the United States from China and Japan only about 12 per cent per annum passes through this port. We see rice and other merchandise destined to San Francisco coming via the Paci- fic Coast Steamship Company, having traveled from China to Tacoma and there lransllig)ped. We see the cotton from the Southern States traveling via_St. Paul, Minn., and over the Northern Pacific Railroad to Tacoma and from there to China and Japan. In all of this there is something wrong, which should receive our early attention in the endeavor to hold to San Franeisco her natural prestige. We shall endeavor to make the office of the Traflic Association a place of interest to the members, in that they will find there full and correct information regarding rates of freight and other matters pertaining to freight busi- ness, not only to and from California_geper- ally but also as to rates from all Engtern points to and from the several States and Territories wherein California competes for business, and by keeping in touch with the great number of transportation companies in the State or to and from the State, also coast wise and foreign, aim to be in a position to ad- vise you by bulletin of changes in either rates or routes, which cannot fail to be of interest to the members or their patrons. It behooves the merchants of the State of California to lend their moral if not pecuniary aid to every competing line, be it great or lii- tle, by water, mule team or rail, organized to transport freight within the State’s borders or to or from this State. San Francisco has practically lost the trade of Oregon and Washington, and Portland has been the gainer. but when you contrast her osition with that of San Francisco it ceases to e a cause of comment and becomes one of commiseration. San Francisco, situated as she is on one of the finest harbors of the world, and vet for fifteen years her ocean waterways were practically closed to her, and with ber one per- ceptible overiand railway—while as to Port- land, we find her with six independent lines, affording through transportation to and from the East, and no restriction whatever on her ocean waterways, placing her in an independ- ent position. In view of this it is evident that there is inherent 1n San Francisco some vital recuperative power which enabled her to keep on under steady headway, notwithstanding the loss of trade in one direction, curtailment in others and disbarment in more yet, and this is mentioned that you will at once realize the immense change in San Francisco possible when we can boast of six independent outlets forour Eastern trade. A natural desire of the merchant is to do business with every one on business principles and on those lines would endeavor to impress on the transportation companies that in favor- ing California with better rates than her com- petitors to the same territories, lies the great- est promise for future and permanent prosper- ity forit. ‘he adventof the San Joaquin Valley Rail- road into this port will be a momentous day for San Franeisco. That advent is much more gorlenlous than appears on the surface. It will e the nucleus around which will spring u new systems of steamship and sail competi- tion, both coastwise and foreign, and the cheaper grades of ocean freights instead of seeking other channels as now (owing to the glut of better pnyin% loads because of present circumseribed facilities) will travel through this port, and every aggrandizement of this nature of the port of San Francisco means an increased measure of prosperity to the State at large in additional channels for the further distribution of her natural productsand man- ufactures. These are thesignsof the times, and every move by this association looking to- ward and encouraging these ends is, in its judgment, good policy. The work before the association is great in volume and possible of most gratifying results, and these results are a foregone conclusion if the merchants of California will but adopt and follow to the letter the plan of standing shoul- der to shoulder, remembering that motto so much to the point, “United we stand; divided we fall,” having always in view that the acts of this association invariably contemplate the greatest good to the greatest number. The whole may be substantially summed up, that the mission ot the Traffic Association of California is to extend the horizon of the dis- tributfon of California’s natural products, manufactures and trade generally at the low- est possibleates as compared with those en- ioyed by her competitors, and to encourage all egitimate competition through means which may be determined as opportunities ripen, and to secure for California proper recognition of her position asa producer, manufacturer and great trade center, and it is to these laudable ends that yeur membership in this association contributes. THE TRAFFIC_ASSOCTATION OF CALIFORNIA. B.F. Dunham, President. William Bostwick Curti: ¢ Manager. James Keir Hardie Coming. At a meeting last evening of the San Fran- cisco section of the Soclalist Labor party a telegram from Salt Lake City was read, stating that Hon. James Keir Hardie, ex-member of the British Parliament and a prominent Socialist lecturer, will arrive in this City on Sunday evening. 'He will be met by a_recep- tion committee from the section at the Six- teenth-street station, Oakland. Mr. Hardie is accompanied by Frank Smith, the secretary of the Independent London Labo: , of which Mr. Hardie is the president. Mr. Hardie will speak in Metropolitan Temple on Monday even- ' 5 ing. He will be given a complimentary benefit by the section at Turk-street Temple as soon as his engagements will permit. Preparations are being made for him to speak in Sacramento next week. CARELESS GUNNERY. A Newspaper Man Severely Burned by a Discharge of Fowder at the Presidio. W. F. Burke, a CALL reporter, was se- verely burned by a discharge of powder at the Presidio yesterday afternoon. Mr. Burke was strolling in front of the fort, and had just passed a porthole from which the muzzle of acannon protruded when the gun was discharged. The powder struck his left side, burning his face, neck and shoulder and tearing his clothes. He was knocked down by the blast and Jay for several moments in a semi-unconscious state, until soldiers from the fort picked him up and sent him to his home at 1510 Larkin street. Mr. Burke says no one warned him that he was on dangerous ground, and he did not know that the gunners were practicing. If the gun had been discharged a moment earlier he would have been blown to Dpieces. THE: SAUSALITD LANTERN. It Is to Be Supplanted by Elec- tricity for Lighting the Streets. A Proposition Made the Town Trus- tees—Ordinances and Protests. The Sausalito lantern is doomed. Itis to be relegated to the caves and the cellars and supplanted by electric lights, The Sausalito lantern is a novelty. It is purely a local affair, home made and composed of four parts—a candlestick, a lamp chimney, a piece of wire and the stub end of a can- dle. It hasin the past answered the pur- pose for which it was designed, of aiding pedestrians to keep in the middle of the road. But since they have builded side- walks in Sausalito the pedestrians do not keep in the middle of the road: they take to the sidewalks, when they can find them. And that is why they want electricity. They say they are tired of carrying their lights in their hands. Up in Mill Valley they say Sausalito is putting on airs. But Mill Valley is said to be jealous. Anyway Sausalito insists upon the electric and the Board of Town Trustees favor the prop- osition. A communication was read at the meet- ing of the board on Monday night from Dr. Case, who represents San Francisco parties, in which it was proposed to put in an electric lighting plant, provided sub- scribers can be secured for 500 lamps. The rate suggested is less than cents per lamp per hour. Arc lights will be fur- nished at the same rate. The board very promptly informed Dr. Case that it was™ ready to consider a direct business proposition from his man, but that it must be a definite one and nota set of glittering generalities. Dr. Case assured the board that his com- munication was intended merely as a “feeler.” He was informed by General Dickinson, president of the board, that | “feelers’’ were incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial; the board wanted direct evi- dence of intention. The general had arrived on the late boat direct from the distressing atmosvkere of the Durrant trial and was not in a humor- ous mood. But he was in a mood for electric lights and referred the proposition to the Street Committee with instructions to r?orc at the October meeting of the board. Ordinance 42, providing for the establish- ment of grades of Caledonia and Easterby streets, found no protestants and was passed till the next regular meeting. ° Protests were offered to the closing of South and Water streets, through the Pa- cific Yacht Club grounds. The protests ere based on the fact that property-own- ers had made their purchase with the understanding that the streets were to be kept open. The point was also made that they had not been properly notified of the intention of the board. President Dickinson held the point as to notification well taken and the matter was postponed indefinitely. Contractor Raisch was granted 22 days’ further time to complete street work. The board adjourned till the first Mon- day in October. ——————— Anabsent-minded A ttleboro (Mass.) man left his bicycle in front of the postofiice in that town recently and walked home. The next morning he looked in vain for it in his barn, finally remembered where he had left it, and, going there, found it in the same spot where he had left it. — - Germany claims territory in Africa to the extent of 1,000,000 miles of area. THE NEW BLYTHE BLOCK Will Positively Not Be Built if Mr. Taylor’s Ordinance Is Passed. SAYS ATTORNEY W. H. H. HART., The Proposed Structure to Be at Least One Hurdred and Eighty Feet High. The ordinance proposed by the Fire De- partment Committee of the Board of Su- pervisors regulating the height of build- ings meets the unqualified antagonisr of several of the largest property-ownersin this City. It is argued by those who should be in a position to know that if the Supervisors adopt the ordinance as amended by Mr. Taylor, limiting the height of future structures to l(}O feet, it will be the worst blow ever aimed at San Francisco’s growth and prosperity generally. “I am bitterly and unalterably opposed to any such ordinance,” said Ano'rnc_\' Ww. H. H. Hart yesterday, ‘‘because it means a death blow to many structures now under contemplation which would not only be ornamental but highly beneficial to the City at large. Several of my clients are directly interested in the proposed or- dinance, and, if it becomes a law, they will abandon entirely improvements that have been contemplated for several B’ears. . I refer particularly to the Blythe block, where a modern’ structure of some twelve stories or more is to be erected, provided this obnoxious ordinance does not become operative. We have been sub- jected 1o many irritating delays through influences over which we had no control, but now that matters are about in prac- tical shape for something definite we are met with a proposition limiting the height of all buildings to 100 feet, or just seven stories. “As the legal representative of the Blythe estate I desire to say that if the recommendation of the Fire Department Committee is passed by the Supervisors the Blythe block will remain in its present condition. This must not be construed as a threat, but as a calm statement of a business’ proposition, in which the erec- tion of a paymng block so many stories high at a cost of several hundred thou- sand aollars are the only things to be con- sidered. The day of low buildings is about over, and we do not propose to be forced into erecting a six or seven story structure which could not possibly compete with the Mills, Crocker, Cnronicle or half a dozen other buildings I might mention. “Iam not at liberty to give the exact size of the Blythe block, but this much I can say, that its least height will be 180 feet. The plans as drawn admit of a structure seventeen stories high, though [ think the limit, provided this ordinance is not passed, will be twelve stories. The Blythe estate can, of course, afford to al- low the present buildings to remain on the Market-street block, and the parties in- terested will certainly do this if the 100- foot limit of Supervisor Taylor is passed. «T have three other clients who expect in the not distant future to erect mod- ern twelve and fifteen story business structures, but they will certainly put their money eisewhere if limited to a seven-story building. It matters not how handsome or compiete the equipments of these lesser buildings, they certainly can- not compete successfully with the Mills or Crocker buildings. At least, that is the way my clients view the matter,and I heartily agree with them. It is to be hoped for the future interest of San Fran- cisco that the Supervisors will extend to builders the same courtesy that has been granted others in the past. Unless this is done, Market street and other business thorcughiares will for all time present the shoddy and unkept appearance of to-day.” Bishop Warren’s Arrival. Bishop Henry W. Warren, D.D., LL.D., of Denver, Colo., is at the Palace, having returned from Pacific Grove, where he heid ihe Califor- nia Annual Conference. Next Wednesday Le will hold the Southern California Conference at Pasadena. On Sunday, the 22d, he will reach at Stanford University. This evening ishop and Mrs. Warren will' be tendered a Teception by the Central Mcthodist Church, Mission street. He will deliver ddress on the “Unity of Our City Methodism. ——————— ‘When the Emperor Henry in 1194 cap tured Salerno he ordered the wives and daughters of the leading citizens to be put up at auction and sold. and these unhappy Jadies were thus disposed of toa brutal soldiery. —_——————— The size of the Turkish turban formerly indicated the rank of the wearer. Introduction! We want to introduce you to our New Fall im- portations from New York, so on Friday and Sat- urday we shall offer them at such prices as San Francisco never saw. Overcoats. Meltons and Beavers, Dark and Medi- um Colors; Late Fall Styles; Tailor made. T34 $10.00 Ulsters. New Fall Styles, in Tweeds and Chevi- ots. Nothing like them in town. T™ehes $10.00 Children’s Suits. Latest Novelties just arrived from New York, $1.50 to $10. Every garment a “Souvenir” in itself. to give away «Silver” to sell them. Men’s Suits. An immense assortment of Black and Blue Cheviots, Fancy Worsteds and Mixed Tweeds; Double and Sinele Breasted Sacks and Handsome Frocks. Three lines, as follows: o Days Twg Pevs $10.00. Same as displayed by our Kearny st. competitor at $15.00. D: ™p0° $12.50. Same at $17.50 on Kearny street. Two Days 9 Pays $15.00. Same at $25 on Kearny street. No need The cost of that “silver’” scheme is paid by adding it to the price of the goods. H. SUMMERFIELD & G0, STRICTLY ONE-PRICE CLOTHIERS, 924, 926, 928, 930 MARKET ST.