The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1895, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1895. o o e ot e S S P THE IRISH-CATOR DEBATE, ® Mr. Cator Has the Audience With Him Before He Be-~ gins to Talk. IRISH WAS NOT RUFFLED. They Both Use the Same Materlal to lllustrate Opposing Theories. As to who had the best of the argument is a matter of individual opinion, but it | took no guessing as to who had the audi- ence that filled Metropolitan Temple last evening to hear the livest guestion of the hour discussed by Thomas V. Cator for free coinage of silver and John P. Irish for the single gold standard. The facts as Cator quoted them called out applause as certainly as-his flights of “eloquence and sentiment.” When, after an hour of free coinage straight, John P. Irish arose and regretted that he interrupted such a flow of elo- quence and sentiment, that bit of polite- | | people was the first great law—the greatest the foundations of such a house as Baring Brothers. Mr. Cator quoted Thomas Jefferson and 'om Benton and John Sherman for free coinage, and as declaring that in the times of larze volumes of money the people were ffee from debt, and mills and enterprises were busy and progressive, while contrac- tion of the currency resulted in panic, debt and disaster. Colonel Irish quoted Thomas Jefferson and Tom Benton as for a gold standard in line with Andrew Jackson, who had been cursed more for his ‘‘wonderful policy” than was Cleveland being now cursed for following his footsteps; that during the period of the gold standard people had saved more in proportion of their earnings than under any other policy. Mr. Cator cited statistics of the money in banks upon demand, showing. of the $4,600,000,000 supposed to be in the banks on demand, there was not 10 per cent of that amount, but that borrowers were pay- ing these money kings interest on this vast sum, and characterized it as the most colossal swindle that had ever been per- petrated in any age. . Mr. Irish said that the money in banks was not the bankers, but the people's; that debts did not fall due all at once, and that $1 set in motion could in a day pay $1000 of debts, but that to pay those debts in depreciated coin was, be repeated, dis- honest. Cator said it was one time deemed dis- honest when they did away with impris- onment for debt; it was deemed dishonest to free the slave But the good of the zood to the greatest number was a maxim from Jefferson. Said Mr. Cator: In the discussion of a question of the gravity “PLENTY OF MONEY WILL RELEASE ENTERPRISE, WAGES AND PRICES, AND SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM THE SLAVERY OF DEBT; NOTHIN “I NEVER ENEW ANY MAN TO PRJOSPER THROUGH THE RE- PUDIATION OF HIS DEBTS; HONEST,” SAID COLONEL IRISH. INCREASE G ELSE WILL,” SAID MR. CATOR, INFLATED CURRENCY 1S DIS- ness was pleasantly greeted, though it was | evident that that too was largely a recog- nition on behalf of the Cator argument. Mr. Irish is a popular orator, but the audience fretted as he started away on his side of the subject. They were disposed to | ask questions which they thought highly pertinent, and which Mr. Irish, with his well-known unruffleable poise, refused to | consicer impertinent. . He began with a funny story which some of them con- sented to laugh at, but this happy disposi. tion was quickly followed by more ques- tions, such as “How shall we pay our | debts?” etc., until President Baker felt called upon to plead for a fair hearing on behalf of Mr. Irish from the audience that had been cheering and applauding every utterance of Mr. gnnr. “I am receiving the most attentive hear- ing, Mr. President,” said Mr. Irish, blandly. “No San Francisco audience and myself can ever have any misunderstand- ing. ‘How shall we pay our debts?” turning to the last questioner, ‘Well, work and save, or borrow the money,” smilingly. This gained him a good, natural laugh. But the audience had come in advance of Cator—sat waiting for bim there—and every resting place in his really eloguent address was filled with applause. | George W. Baker, president of the Bi- metallic League, presided and made a | little introductory address. On the stage | with him and the orators were other officers of the league; Alexander Majors of the National committee ; George P. Keeney, secretary of ‘the League of the Pacific Coast; R. Guy McLellan of Berkeley, Judge Harris of Butte, Jesse D. Carrof | Salinas, William Pardy, Dr. Daywalt, Frank Potter and Mr. Dameron. The debate was begun promptly at 8 o'clock, with Mr. Cator being given an hour to open, Mr. Irish an hour and a quarter to reply and Mr. Cator fifteen minutes to close. | Mr, Cator began by saying that the | money question was one of the utmost importance and grew in importance with | progress and civilization. Mr. Irish made the same statement in | his opening sentence. Mr. Cator said that China, Central America, Russia—all silver countries—had | & low ratio of that metal per capita, China | aslow as §1 80—and that that was the! reason of their low order of civilization and | lack of enterprise. Silver was not the cause, but the lack of it, they needed | more. Mr. Irish cited these countries and their | anhappy condition as an illustration of the effect of a debased currency. | Mr. Cator declared that plenty of money | would release enterprise and increase | wages in proportion and with them prices | of land and of all commodities. High valuations were necessary to, and would tift the mortgaged -and usury bur- dened people out of their debt and de- | spair, and was the only means of pre- venting ruin and the hopeless slavery of | the people. Colonel Irish said that inflation meant repudiation, His hearers were laborers | ¥ith money in bank. | If they wanted to get 50 cents returned | lo them for the dollar they had earned | ihey need only vote for free comnage. The Argentine Republic had adopted just such s financial policy as Mr. Cator prescribed 1 a sure certificate for Elysium and a sanic had rolled over ber such as withered she grass upon her pampas, and the de- ionations were heard in London, shaking | entire discussion must res | enjoy the higher price. of that we are called here to consider to-night itis, of course, expected that we will adhere absolutely to facts, or what we believe to be facts, and in tbe limit of time that we will pass over various features that might be dwelt upon. Thhe money question becomes more and more important as the civilization of the world ad- vances, and as we proceed further away from | the system of barter the effect of money be- comes a more potent factor. Civilization will be high or low in proportion as there is a full or scant volume of money. Let us compare the per capita of different countries hina it is 31 80 | United States, fa are pointed 1o a: countries. But it is not the use of silver which gives it a character of civilization. It is the small amount of money that will breed a low civilization. It is Dbecause they nave not enough silver nor enough money of any kind. The law is universal that, all things being equal, the prices of products, the wage of labor and the prices of property will rise or fall in proportion as the circulating medium in- creases or diminishes. On this ultimately this 1 admit that there are other things that will enter into the | determination of prices. Supply and demand will regulate prices aside from the question of mouey, and side by side with it. If there be & scant crop of any particular thing and good crops of others, that crop which is short will of low per ca But side by side with that proposition the doubling of the volume will double the prices of products. 1t will be contended by my opvonent thatyou can raise the standard of prices, but not the standard of values. It must stand upon that doctrine that the only thing that is material is the standard of prices. There has always been a tendency to become enslaved to indebtedness. It1s for this reason that nations have issued edicts against debts. We bave to deal with human soclety as we find it. These financial questions must be discussed as moral questions.” It is for that reason that at the foundation of this question lies the assertion that other things beingequal, the prices of products and the wages of labor will alwaysincrease or decrease as the volume of money shall increase or decrease, John Stuart Mill states it in this sentence: “If the whole volume of money in circulation were doubled prices would double.” David Hume says: “Falling prices, misery and d i The a; decreasing money and falling prices. With the increase of money labor and industry gain new life.” William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treas- ury in 1840, said prectically the same thing. Garfield said that *“‘Whoever controls the volume of money of any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” . M. T. Hunter, for thirteen years chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, said: “The mischief would be great indeed if all the world were to adopt one of the precious metals as the standard of value.” S0 we have seen that the increase in the vol- ume of the currency raises prices, banishes debts, does business on money and not on credit, usury and bonds. It enormously in- creases the industries, and employs labor. In December, 1865, Mr. McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury, gave the amount of the cir- culating medium at $1,859.767,080. This was more than $52 per capita. As to the effect upon the country, he showed that notwith- standing the ravages of war, the development was greater than in 1857. The people were comparatively free from debt. Men say there is plenty of money in the banks, for the reason the people have become indebted all they can stan ut this does not show there is any prosper It shows there is nothing on which they can borrow. Mr. Tobin of the Hibernia Bank said re- cently that there 1s plenty of money in the banks of this City, but there is no enterpriso. The next great evil is thatif the money is to be furnished h{ the banks it is an essential part of the single gold standard that we are to The opposition to free eoinage is the opposi- tion to l1’1‘;fl-tion of currency. Itisconceded that demonetization was not due to overpro- duction. ¥ It is said that many nations have demone- tized silver. It is the volume they are opposed to and not the kind of money. "If you take away the mintage use of & coin you throw it upon the commercial world. It would be the same if you made silver the only money. Itis claimed an unlimited demand would be created because there is no limit to the desire for money. It isa mege question of the volume of money. Itis nurel&ka question of reinvest- ment. Under this bank mongering there has been imposed upon the people a bonded in- debtedness. If they can force down the prices of property, the lower they force them the greater the quantity of property they will sweep in. Mr. Irish said: The question of money is & very serious one, but the question of debt is more serious. I have neyver known a nation or an individual tomake gain by repudiating debt. If the free-coinage scheme carries and the dollars are coined, those dollars will not represent the value stamped upon their face. It is not 100 cents in value, but 50 cents in value, and no more. We heve heard to-night about debts and debtors. All of the money that is represented by the banks does not belong to the banks. It belongs to the depositors. Eyery man and woman who has a deposit is not a debtor but a creditor. The bank.is not to blame because there is no enterprise. I have seen workwomen, who earned their money by their toil, draw their dividends when I went to pay intereston the meney I had borrowed from the same bank. Ttis bad_to prevent an easy way to get into debt, but debts are not all due at once. There is not enough water in this State to furnish the people with their needs. But it evaporates, goes back into the air and then in 8now or rain comes back to us. So with money. The $10 that I may pay out to-day figures in Mr. Cator’s immense debt that he has talked about. No class on earth is so much interested in the soundness of money as the class who labors. I want the man who toils not to be paid in 50-cent dollars. Iinsist he shall be paid in whole dollars. Silver was not demon- etized in 1873. Gold became the single stand- ard in 1837, and with the single interruption of the greenbacks it has been ever since 1837. Mr. Irish tcok the credit to the Demo- cratic party for the creation of the gold standard, and declared that it was nota question of prices so much as a question of voters. He declared that mnder the single gold standard the people had been able to save more money than under any other. He made an array of figures against Mr. Cator’s statistics and showed how much calico and sugar a day’s wages would buy at given times in the history of the coun- try and concluded with advising his hearers not to be led off by thedelusion that the volume instead of the quality of their money is necessary to their welfare. Mr. Cator followed in a fifteen minutes’ reply and set his hearers right as to his own exvlanations and satisfactorily an- swered Mr. Irish’s contention that values, not prices, and quality, not volume, are the essential things, ARE THESE SENSES IDENTICAL? It Is Said the Capacity to Smell and Taste Has the Same Origin. The man who smoked in the dark one night and discovered that when he couldn’t see the smoke all the pleasure of burning tobacco was lost, is not more remarkable than the individual who has now discov- ered that the senses of taste and of smell are identical. This gentleman advlihces the theory that the sense of taste depends upon the number of minute tentacles which constitute the surfacs of the tongue and he says that some men have three times as many of theseas others. The lat- ter never become gormands, and the sense of smell is, says this observer, deticient. In proof of these assertions it is said that when you have a bad cold you almost lose both these senses; that you can neither detect delicate odors, like that of perfume, otherwise so noticeable, nor identify the flavors of different xinds of foods and drinks. The smoker who has a severe cold finds that his cigar or cigarette yields but little pleasure, and he finds that his glass of claret or champagne at dinner is alraost as flat to the taste as so much water. Brillat-Saverin, who lifted cooking from the kitchen to the library and made gas- tronomy a fine art, smid that of all the senses in their natural state taste procures us the greatest number of enjoyments. For this he gives six reasons, as follows: Because the pleasure of eating, taken in moderation, is the only one not followed by fatigue. Because it is common to every age, time and condition. Because it must return once at least every day, and may, during that space of time, be easily repeated two or three times. Because it can combine with all our other pleasures, and even console us for their absence. Because its sensations are at once more lasting than others and more subject to our will. Because we have a certain special but in- definable satisfaction, arising from the in- stinctive knowledge that by the very act of eating we are makirg good our losses and projonging our existence. These are the reasons advanced by this eminent writer to prove that taste is the most important of the senses. He was also one of the first to suspect the identity of the senses of taste and smell, and he said that of two guests seated at the same banquet one may have delicious sensations while the other seems to eat only because compelled, the reason being that the latter has tongue and nostrils only poorly fur- nished for enjoyment. It is thus that the empire of taste has its blind men and its deal.—New York World. BILL NYE'S OLD OIGAR. They Sold Him One Ten Years of Age at Lawrence. A man came into Smith’s newsstand and leisurely remarked, as he leaned on the case, “‘Give me the best cigar you have in the house.” Mr. Smith set out a box of 25 cent straights, and as the man went out Mr. Smith said, “A few days ago I could have given him a 50-center, but I smoked the last one up myself.” Then with a reminiscent look, “I had those cigars on hand for ten years: used to sell a good many back in '85 and ’86. They cost $35 a hundred and were the cheapest grade made bi, the firm, a Cuban company. I think the last one I ever sold was to Bill Nye when he was here for a lecture bureau two years ago. He had smoked it half way down when he came back. He looked at me closely and asked to see the box, ina sad tone of voice. I showed it to him; he never said a word, but walked out. I believe now he thought I was El“ing a joke on him, for when I smoked the last one the other day I found that ten years had not improved the flavor any. “Nye's keen sense of the humorous made him suspect that I had given him a g\\:e-téam cigar for his 50 cents.”’—Lawrence ord. - e REJUVENATING THE STREETCAR.—W hat be- comes of the old cars? The foreman of a carshop says that three or four old cars are generally used in the turning out of what is virtually a spick and span new car. A great number of the cars now running on street lines are composite cars, built up out of the cast-off plant of the line. One part of acar will be worn out more than the rest. Itis put in the barn and kept there until another car gives way. The best arts of the two cars are taken, and possi- gly with the aid of a little new material a handsome car is constructed. Althoufh there is a great deal of this composite work done on all lines, there are many cars now in use which first saw the ligit when mules were the _principal mo- tive power on car lines. When a car has become hopelessly decrepit, it may drift into all sorts of uses, from a children’s playroom to a bathhouse on the banks of a river, or possibly a fisherman’s hut. At the corner of a street in Milwaukee an old car was placed several years ago asa sta- tion in which passengers who were being transferred from one car to another would wait in_inclement weather during the in- terval between the departure and arrival of cars. Thiswas such a welcome shelter to the passengers that surprise has been expressed thagthe same useful old age has extend the power of the banks. They have always been encmies to the free coinage of silver. not been given to more worn out cars at lt_ho exposed points at the terminals of car ines, DROVE 70 BURLINGAME. Coaching Party Given by Wal- ter S. Hobart Followed by a Luncheon. THE BRUGUIERES' PARTING TEA Engagements Announced — Recep~ tions—Whereabouts of Prom- Inent People. Charles F. Reed has sent out invitations to the wedding of his daughter, Florence Elizabeth, to John Hodges Toler, Saturday arternoon, October5, at 4 o’clock, St. Luke’s Church, Auburn, Cal. The engagement is announced of Miss Annie Cohn to Joseph Ostern. They will receive Sunday, October 6, in the parlorsof Hotel Fairmount, from 2 to 5 o'clock P. M. The engagement is announced of Miss Carrie M. McLaine, niece of Mrs. Henry Crocker, and Beauford Armstead Mason, a newspaper man of Pittsburg. The marriage of Miss Martha Brooke to Dr. Charles Mohun, will take place Thurs- day, the 26th inst. It will be a church ceremony and will be performed at a 9 o'clock nuptial mass at St. Ignatius Church. The wedding of H. W. Bradley and Miss Bertie L. Hauser, both formerly residents of San Jose, will take place this afternoon at the residence of the Rev. Dr. Bonn, 1 this City. The wedding of Miss Camilla Martin and John R. Carroll will be solemnized in San Jose the early part of October. Walter S. Hobart gave a coaching party on Saturday last in honor of his cousin, Miss Jessie Hobart. The drive was to Burlingame, where the party enjoyed a delicious luncheon. They returned to the City by rail and took dinner at the Palace Hotel. Those on the coach were: Walter 8. Hobart, Miss Jessie Hobart, Miss Sophia Pierce, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Flora | Dean, Harry N. Stetson, George B. de Long, Messrs. King and Dutton. Miss Amy Requa entertained a number of friends on Friday last. The affair was given in honor of Miss Therese Morgan, | who left for the East on Sunday. Colonel W. R. Smedberg left for the East, to be gone about five weeks, on Satur- day last. Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas and Miss Mamie Thomas sail to-morrow from New York, en route to this City. Mrs. Southard Hoffman, Miss Hoffman, Miss Alice Hoffman and Jack Hoffman leit last evening for Philadelphia, where Jack Hoffman will attend school. Mrs. and the Misses Hoffman will spend most of their visit at the National capital, re- turning here some time in January. A very pretty tea was given on Monday by the Bruguieres at their parents’ resi- dence. It was a good-by to their many friends. They will certainly be missed | this winter. A pleasant surprise party was given to Miss Lillie Gundry at her home, 408 | Bryant street, on the evening of Monday, the 23d inst., in honor of the sixteenth an- niversary of her birth. The evening was agreeably spent in playing games, recita- | tions and music until "about 11 o’clock, | when all adjourned to the dining-room to | supper. Among those present were: Miss | Edith Bode, Miss Zella Bode, Miss Annie | Conness, Miss Lulu_Hart, ss Minnie | Hart, Miss Bella Powers, Miss Gertie Powers, I'rank L. Clark, John Miller, Ben Robrer, Mr. Johnston, Mr. McAllister, | Miss E. Gundry, ¥rank Gundry, Mrs. | Gundry and Miss Liliie Gundry. i The sixth season of the Entre Nous Club commences in October and will be ushered in with an assembly dance at the Palace Hotel in the latter part of October, the date | to be hereafter announced. | Buena Vista Parlor No. 68, N. D. G. W., will give a_party in their hall, Alcazar | building, Thursday evening, September 26, 1895. On Friday evening, September 27, the Fifth United States Artillery band (Presi- dio) will give a concert in the lobby of the Hotel St. Nicholas complimentary to Colo- nel Joseph Knowlton Jr. from 7:30 to 9 P. M., after which a social hop will be ten- dered to the guests and their friends. Mr. Emile A. Bruguiere and his two sons, Emile and Francis, leit on Monday’s overland train. - Emile is to enter Harvard College and Franeis will go to school in Philadelphia. A.J. Dibblee and William M. Randol leit for the East on Monday last and expect to Temain away all winter. Mrs. John E. de Ruyter hasarrived in New York, where she will spend several weeks and will visit Baltimore before returning to this coast. Mrs. E. Peckham and Miss Grace Peckham have returned from San Rafael and are now stopping at the Palace Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Ayres came over from San Slm? on Monday and stopped at the Palace otel. R. H. Sprague left on Monday for Louisiana, and will return here the last of October for Mrs. Sprague. Together they will leave for | their future Southern home about the first of November., In the meantime Miss Romietta Wallace will visit her sister, Mrs. Sprague, at Burlingame. Colonel W. R. Smedberg left for the East on Saturday last. Mr. and Mrs. lsaac Upham have taken a house for the fall and winter on the corner of Clay and Hyde streets. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Janin have returned {rom Victoria and have decided to spend the winter season in this City. They have taken Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Tevis’ residence, 2548 Jack- son street, Mr. and Mrs. Tevis having decided :Iol?end the season at their home in Bakers- eld. Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Treat will reside this winter at 2514 Octavia street. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McG. McBean and Miss McBean have returned from San Rafael and are now located at the Hotel Richelieu, where they will spend the winter season. Captain and Miss Blair have returned from their trhlly to the northern part of the State. Miss Mary Belle Given is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chase at their home hear Napa. Mrs. E. W. Runyon has been the guest of Miss Hillyer the past week. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Crooks will return to the Hotel Richelieu from the Hotel Rafael on Monday next. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus L. Gerstle, who have been spending the summer at San Rafael, have returned to the City, and will occupy the resi- dence of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hecht Rurlng the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hopkins arrived last week from Boston, and are stopping at the Hotel Pleasanton. Mrs. Charles P. Ellis is East visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Bloss have returned to their City residence from San Rafael. Miss 8. M. Throckmorton returned on Satur- day last to the Hote! Pleasanton from her visit to San Rafael. Miss Anita Dibblee of Ross Valley is at the Hotel Pleasanton. Mrs. Hall McAllister and Miss McAllister haye removed from their former residence on California street to the corner of Pine and Buchanan streets, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bigelow were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James' Moore on Sunday last at their home in Ross Valley. Mrs. William B. Collier and - Miss Sarah g:llletrclmse en\i‘]n l;om (hslr home il:li Lake unty on Saturday last, aj n, the Occidental Hotel. o e el e Miss Emily Potter of Philadelphia, who spent last-season here as the guest of her aunt, will be here again this season. Miss Fioyd has come down from her home on Clear Lake and has been stopping at the gl:;);d mansion on First street the past few Mr.and Mrs. William M. Thompson leave very shortly for the East, where they expect to remain most of the winter season. Mrs. Middleton, wife of Colonel J. V. D. Middleton, 511 8. A., expects to accompany them on the r. and Mrs. Fred H. Green will leave Sausalito the middle of October and go to the nue‘-’:)lnh'ul' Wwhere they will spend tfia winter Dr. Tevis and Miss Edith Mauvais will be married next month, plfiu 1n“b'l§ J\;}se. : the wedding to take vere . Bee will lh; “l"tl‘)“ ne:t mon&h. return from Sausalito eter Donahue and W. Brad have gone fishing on the Tmek:grg(‘?;}x".amp.on Southard Hoffman and Southard Hoffman .'vl:.e :{,l‘le r::;doe! ;: the Oacel{laenul Hotel during 15, an, "hflr}:““d : the Misses Hoffman in . 8N TS, Ameri ety on Monday e ican returned from the Mrs. Benjamin Armer will be “at home” st 5815 Pine street on the first and third Wednes- ays. After making a visit in_this City Mrs. J. P. Jones has returned to her home in Santa onic: Mrs. R. E. Pierce of San Jose is making a visit to friends in San Francisco. Mrs. H. M. Martin has returned to her home in this City from Santa Cruz, where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs. W. P. Young. The Misses Bettman will receive their friends on first and second Wednesdays. Miss Myra Burnett spent last week in San Jose, visiting friends. The Misses Spaulding have returned from Santa Cruz, where they have been visiting friends. The steamship Australia, H. C. Houdlette commander, sailed on Tuesday last for Hono- lulu, carrying for that port: A. [. Atkinson, €. H. Bishop, W. W. Hal rs. H. R. Hatfield, Mrs. T. W. Hobron, undley, Mr. Hallan der, George Koch, F. {endenhall, Mrs. F. M. Nicholl and child, Mrs. J. M. Sims, D. Dockman and Mrs. A. M. Zoffman. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Benjamin have returned from Belvedere and have secured apertments &t the Hotel Wenban for the winter. Mrs. E. A. Bagley of Guerneville, Sonoma County, is_visiting her friend Mrs. 8. C. Gor- bam at 2422 Mission street. Mr. and Mrs, Herman Heyneman and family of 2235 Broadway have gone on a visit to rela- tives in the Eastern States to be absent several months, and will visit the Cotton States’ Exhi- bition at Atlanta before their return home. Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Gellert (nee Leon) have returned from their wedding trip and are re- siding at 23321 Pine street. Mrs. F. C. Campbell and their daughter have glven up their summer cottage at Seaside for the present season and have returned to their heome in Sacramento. Mrs. W. F. Bowers is_visiting friends in Bos- ton, Portland, Me., and New York, and will not ;elurn to this City before the Christmas holi- ays. MASTER OF THE #AD" AR, S. C. Beckwith, Special Eastern Agent, Talks About the New “Call.” It Is Destined to Become the Leader of All Western Journals, Says 8. C. Beckwith of New York is in the City, a guest at the Palace. He has been paying a sort of flying business and pleas- ure visit to the principal cities on the coast and is now recreating for a day or so be- fore starting on the long homeward jour- ney. Mr. Beckwith is what is known in the newspaper world as a special adver- tising agent, and now enjoys the dis- tinction of being the next-to-the-oldest special advertiser in America. While this is true as a business proposition Mr. Beck- with is still a young mun, having just passed his fortieth year. What he does not know about the art of advertising and the judicious use of printer’s ink would not by any means fill a four-leaf pamphlet, yet with all his knowledge born of actual experience he is decidedly modest and un- assuming. The business in which he is engaged naturally directs bis attention to newspapers of high and low degree, and in consequence of this he gains a lot of in- formation about journals of which the average man knows nothing. of the new CALL he said yesterday: “I must confess that' I am happily and agreeably surprised at the aimost unparal- leled progress and general improvement made Ey THE CaLL under the new manage- ment. For more reasons than one it is my favorite Pacific Coast paper, and if it is not already the most generally read paper west of the Mississippi it is only a ques- tion of time when it will be. ““The last time I visited California it was next to impossible to procure a copy of Tue CarL in any of the larger cities, while in many of the smaller towns it was apparently unknown. Now all of that is changed. Mr. Shortridge has infused such life and vigor into the colums of Tue CarLn that it is to be had and is eagerly sought for at every railroad cross- ing, town or city on the coast. At least that is my observation, and I am just back from a visit to all the important places on the Pacific seaboard. “I predict a great future for THE CALL. Its éaslern and foreign telegraphic ser- vice is superb, the make-up convenient and its general appearance attractive to an extraorfiinary degree. Thedeterminad ad- vocacy of THE CaLL for home institution§ is unquestionably one of its strongest cards and to my mind will be the means of | making it the most powerful of all coast States’ papers. It’s a clean sheet, too, and | one that can be carried into the home | circle without fear of shocking mature age or tender youth.” Mr. Beckwith was born in Maryland, where his parents still reside. He gradu- | ated with honors from Washington Col- | lege, at Chestertown, that State, and then, | as he expressed it, wasted two years of his i life reading law. A local publisher finally induced him to embark in journalistic | work, and then it was tifat he discovered. i the natural bent of hisabilities. It was | from his brain that the scheme evolved jof founding the now famous Munsey’s Magazine, and to his genius much of its earlier successis due. Lighteen years ago he became a special advertising agent, being then the third in the field. There are now over seventy in America following that particular calling, though not exceed- ing Eul! a dozen—and Mr. Beckwith is prominent in this number—have suc- ceeded beyond the ordinary. MAY TRY A MANDAMTUS. Drastio Measures Threatened by the Civic Federation Against the Board of Supervisors. According to Charles Wesley Reed, the Civic Federation intends to begin manda- mus proceedings at once to compel the Board of Supervisors to fix a new tax levy. He said yesterday afternoon: The Mayor having vetoed the tax levy fixed by the Board of Supervisors, there is mone. Taylor Rogers says the tax levy must be fixed by the third Mouday in September. The public is well aware of the facts, and is fully scquainted with the posicion’ taken by the Solid Eight. Now, there is only one recourse, and that is a writ of mandate. We propose to apply for such & writ and compel the board by a judicial order to,comply with the wishes of the communiiy, We believe we have lgood case in this. The Bolid Eight has overridden the wishes of the community so long that we think the time has come 1o call a halt. Counsel will at once be consulted, and unless the board acts promptly and so makes any mandamus proceeding urn- neccessary, 8 writ of mandate will be demanded to force it to comply with the laws of this State, at least. Morris Williams and Mr. Reed, the law- yers of the federation, are to have a con- ference with Attorney Galpin this after- noon on the matter of the Sunnyside fran- chise, and then the question of mandam- using the Board of Supervisors on the tax- levy matter will be doubtless looked into. Mr. Reed does not know yet whether a writ of certiorari will be applied for, or an opportunity to try injunction proceedings against the Market-street Railway Com- panv be awaited. The two lottery ordinances will come be- fore Messrs. Dimond, Spreckels and Tay- lor, the Judiciary Committee of the board, to-morrow afternoon. THE OLARKE NOTES. Suit Instituted to Recover $480,363 35 From J. F. Turner. Suit to recover $480,363 35 on 118 prom- issory notes, alleged to have been given by J. F. Turner to Attorney Alfred Clarke, from November, 1891, to June, 1892, was begun yesterday by J. F. Clarke, to whom the notes were transferred. The notes are for from $1000 to $3000 each. The principal claimed to be due is $379,201 25 and the interest $101.345 10. Turner has a well-known record for real estate dealings, and there is considerable litigation against him. e Kellogg Will Contest Abandoned. The contest of the Calvin W. Kellogg will has been abandoned by Mrs. Gilroy, the daughtes. fa 'HAS VETOED THE ORDER Mayor Sutro Opposes the Way the Racetrack Franchise Was Granted. GROUNDS OF HIS PROTEST. Another Stand Made Against the Methods of the Majority of the Supervisors. Mayor Sutro has vetoed the order grant- ing the Market-street Railway Company the franchise through Sunnyside. This is the right of way which leads directly to the new racetrack and Ingleside, and over which there has been such a bitter fight. The message is a vigorous protest on the by the majority of the board in awarding the franchise to the Market-street system. It is expected, though, that the close cor- poration will treat it very much after the fashion that they treated his protest against the §225 tax levy—simply over- ride it. There has been no end of scandal over the franchise ever since its inception in the Board of Supervisors. It isa valuable bit of property in its way. The manner in which it has been juggled with would have raised the envy of the ‘‘combines” among Supervisors gathered by Boss Buck- Jey in his palmiest days. ‘ihe action of the board was so flagrant iu the matter that the Civic Federation and Kindred or- ganizations sought to have it stopped in the courts. The ‘“combine” went straight ahead, however, and turned over the franchise tu the Market-street system on the ostensible bid of $531. Behrend Joost on the same occasion bid §506. He had a good deal to say at the time concerning the manner in which the bids were handled. Superintendent Dimond made a stout part of the Mayor against the action taken | for the stated purposé of promoting the de velopment of ~California’s resources. O3 $106.000 capital stock 5500 has been sub scribed, in equal shares of $500 each, by A McLaughlin, W. F. Bowers, J. P. Currier, Juliaz Sonntag, M. McGlyny, Moore, Louit Saroni, James .'y]v{n\u[le, arboro, M. J < d Lewis R. Mea kf\uccor anof the amended articles of incorpora tion of Union 0il Company of California,whick company has its headquarters at Santa Paula Venturs County, was filed at the County Clerk’s office vesterday. The $5,000,000 of capital stock is held as follows: Harrison & Stewart Oil Company, $2,191,100; Sespe Off Company, $2,058,3003 Torrey Canyon Ol Company, $749, Lyman Stewart, W. L Stewart, Thomas R. Bard, David T. Perkins, 1. H. Warring, Thomas J. Gregg, Alexandel Waldie, John Irwin and W. T. McFie, $10C each. - MUST PAY THE MONEY. A $10,000 Judgment Againsta Vermont Life Insurance Company. A $10,000 verdict in favor of Mrs. Martha Foster Blake, widow of Dr. Charles E. Blake, was given in Judge Sanderson’s court yesterday, against the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Vermont. Dr Biake was medical examiner for the com- pany and he assigned bis fees to pay the premium on his insurance policy. For the last payment he offered his note after the money was due, but no objection was made by the company and & time was set for the giving of the note. Tnree hours later the physician dropped dacad. _The court de- clares that full amount of insurance must | be paid. Mrs. Blake was represented by Rodgers & Paterson. THO.FIRST-CLASS. 1S But to Develop Them Traffic Manager Curtis Needs More Help. Suggested Affiliation With the Work of the Manufacturers’ Asso-~ ciation. Traffic Manager Curtis of the Traffic | Association proposes to make the associa- | tion aggressive if its membership will only | hold up his hands. A dozen or more pub- | lic-spirited merchants have been doing all In speaking | effort to have all the bids thrown out on | it ; . the ground that the sale of the franchise | the work. There is much fobe donepin had been illegally handled, but Supervisors | Mr. UEUS judgment. L L b g King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, | 0ld 1n its practice in Chicago and other Morgenstern, Dunker and Wagner stood | shipping centers, is the routing of goods shoulder to shoulder in the vote to carry | in concert. It is the application of the “in out the programme. | union is strength’ idea. If all San Fran- Mayor Sutro has vetoed the order grant- | cisco merchants belonging to the associa- ing the franchise on the grounds that the | tion would agree to obtain_ their Eastern advertising was improperly done and that | goods by one transportation line they outside bidders did not have a fair chance | would be in a position to dictate almost in the contest. The notice first published | their own terms. ¥ also comes in for a touching up. | Tt was to talk over this old routing plan Capitalists who wanted to bid on the | that Mr. Curtis had a talk yesterday with franchise found themselves greatly handi- | Traffic Manager Munroe of the Union capped by the way the advertisement was | Pacific. 5 worded. ~At the time there were plenty of | Another suggestion that may come to people outsvoken enough to say that the | something is the proposed affiliation of the advertisement had been carefuily worded | Mapufacturers’ Association with the Traf- by certain persons who had an ulterior | fic Association. Mr. Curtis argues that purpose in view. In addition it was so | both associations are working along differ- constructed that the franchise to be | ent lines for the same end—the upbuilding granted appeared simply as an extension | of California. The associations may be of the Market-street system. By this | mutually helpful, in Traffic Manager Cur- means bidding was practically limited to | tis’ judgment, and he proposes to do what the Market-street corporation. he can to bring about their union, in Those who have eyes on the chance of | action, at least, if not in organization. getting the franchise have not much hop —_—e——————— that the veto will knock out tne order [:i}' Beat and Robbed a Chinese. ing the right to the Market-street people | Jjohn O'Brien, an ex-convict, escaped from for $531. Joost, who has been the most | tne County Jail about three weeks ago, and active competitor of the Market-street cor- | wile enjoying Lis liberty beat and robbed & poration, has an old franchise that ends in | oyinese on Sixth street. 0'Brien confessed his the vicinity of the new racetrack. He pro-| ouji¢ in juage Joachimsen’s court vesterday poses making use of it if all chance of his | and pleaded for mercy. 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