The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1895, Page 6

4 1 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895. TN and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.16 #nd Sunday CAL1, one year, by mail.. 6.00 and u by mall 3.00 , by mail 1.50 onth, by mail W EEKLY CALL, One year, by BUSINE. 710 Market Stree: | Telephone. F20Montgom t, corper C! £:0 o'clock. 2r¢ Haves street : open until § 717 Larkin st SW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Tntil € o'clock. & Mission street; open 316 Ninth street; open uniil 9 ocloci. clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFIC Pecific States Advertising Bur tuilding, Rose and Dua . Rhinelandes .65 | e . 150 | CH OFFICES { FENDERS OR OFFENDERS. If reports and appearances are to be be- e | Jieved the street-railway companies of San Francisco are about to abandon the use of the cable as a means of propulsion for their cars and to adopt the electric-trolley sys- tem upon many of their lines. The Lrapks {upon Market street were last spring relaid and sub-wired with this purpose in view. The Ellis-street line is ready throughout for that change and electric cars will be run- | ning upon it in a few days. 1t is under- stood that other streets will have the underground cable displaced by the over- | Liead trolley as rapidly as possible. | In view of these changes to what experi- ence has taught to be the more dangerous method of streetear propulsion, it is im- perative that the City authorities should at loncg insist upon the selection of & {safe and suitable fender for electric | cars by the railway companies. The rec- ord of fatal accidents, especially to chil- | dren, from unguarded streetcars in San | Francisco is appallingly long and is grow- | ing inexcusably longer. The killing of the little child, only last week, on Broadway by a trolley-car without the pretense of a fender upon it should arouse the City offi- cials to action which would jput an end to such horrors by forbidding cars not equipped with safe and satisfactory fen- ders to go or be upon the streets at all. This plan might energize the railway man- agers to action in the way of adopting proper fenders for their curs at once. The 5 | offered excuse that they cannot find a safe In every promise of a boss there is a hid” den threat. Cogbett and Fitzsimmons might as we 1l g0 on a hunt for the north pole. It won't be long now before the competing ! road will be actually competing. n be decided it? e pol 1t who can arr Armenian pressure on the Sultan will soon make a tight squeeze for him. If you would understand your world prepare to study the football dialect. It seems impossible to solve one problem in this world without creating another. | People who are resolute in keeping to | the right have to run over a good many fools. The European war cloud continues to swing around as if somebody had it in a sling. | In the City, as in the Nation, future prosperity will be in proportion to Repub- lican suce The torch of liberty in Cuba may emit a good deal of smoke, but there is fire there somewhere. The whole policy of the Cleveland ad- ministration bears a close resemblance to a foreign import. { | | The clouds around Democracy will not affect a country that will soon be under a Republican sky Whnatever vigor Olney possessed has been shifted from a foreign volicy to a Presidential boom. - H The old bugs declare that the silver | agitation is silenced and that the silver | men talk too much. 1t looks now as if the end of the century exposition wers more likely to be one of war than of industr; If Democracy had never raised Buckley up Buckley would net be in a position to down Democracy now “‘Shall we save our forests?” is getting to | be a burning question for the Pacific Coast in more senses than one. In arranging the fie!d on which they play as a ‘“gridiron,” football champions | prevared the way for broils. — ! Thisisa good time to watch Gorman’s | campaign tactics; you ruay never have a chance again to see him in the ring. Russia will never be faithfully wedded to her elliance with France as long as Kaiser William continues to flirt with her. L | 1t is just as well to let Buckley get him- | sclf in a position where he will be swept away by the general movement for reform. As new fashions are always pleasing to society there should be a general adoption | of the new fashion of buying home goods.) | ‘We will never have international bimet- allzm until we have an administration in this country that will earnestly work | for it. Lower taxes, better government and public improvements are things the people will never get as long as they trust to bosses. It is said Tammany will lead the fight against the Sunday law in New York by | raising the chorus, “Rally round the jag, boys.” The defeat of the English university athletes by those of Yale leaves England no option but to get out of the field or challenge us to play skittles. A little while ago there was a demand for a great Democratic speech and now it 1s announced that Cleveland will make a talk at the Atlanta Exposition. RS R L The gola bond syndicate is out of the way now and if the members of it are wise they will get further out of the way before the Republican Congress meets. It is signiticant that the Kentucky Demo- crats are not making a campaign of barbe- cues this year. Their candidates have dug too many pits for themselves already. ‘We can never have a reasonable hope of good improvementis on the streets until we have a big improvement in the men i and methods by which they are made. As Portland for the first time in her his- tory has opened her annual exposition with music by local talent, it is reasonable to suppose the honie market will now begin to hum. England may not have made up her mind to deal! swiftly with the Oriental questions, but it is noted she has made a fleet demonstration both in China and in Turkey. If General Alger is correct in saying there will be less red fire in politics here- after, Republicans will walk in the white light and Democrats must content them- selves with blue blazes. N The Bankers’ Association in convention at Fresno adopted a resolution in favor of an international agreement to place silver der is an insult to sci t the mechanical country which has harnessed steam and lightning to our railway cars cannot devise a fender adequate to keep people from beneath their wheels is | childish in the extreme. The plain truth | of the matter is that the railway compa- nies have been indulging in a niggardly picce of parsimony in the matter of fen- | ders at the expense of a large number of buman lives. It ishigh time that this dis- | regard for public safety shonld be checked | by firm and positive measures. If nothing | else will do this the indictment of the next | reckless trolley-man for murder and the | incarceration of his employers for com- | | | The idea of the e. genius | plicity in the crime and the swift punish- ment of both might have the desired effect. | In a word, let us have an end once and for all of trolley horrors in the City of San | Francisco if human laws or punishments can bring this r 1t to p: THE NEW SAORAMENTO. The account which THE CaLL published in its issue of Sunday of the progress made by Sacramento in the way of sireet im- provements during the last few years makes an interesting study for all Cali- fornians. A piece of history, not em- bodied dn that sketch, might have been given to explain the sudden awakening which came to the capital city. The stim- ulation of civic pride was produced by a threat on the part of the Legislature to move the Capitol to San Jose. Up to that time Sacramento had depended for its prosperity on circumstances which the | enterprise of the citizens bhad not pro- | duced. These were the presence of the Capitol and of the railroad shops. When the movement was started to remove the | Capitol Sacramento in alarm saw the mis- | take which it had made in neglecting i itself. From that beginning came the splendid improvements which have made the city one of the most attractive in the State. The spirit of progress, instead of subsic- ing with the passing of the threatened | danger, only grew the stronger and has grown steadily during the last five years. The first move was the submission to the people of a proposition to bond the city to the amount of $100,000 for street improve- ments. This was carried by a smothering majority. When it became evident that the improvements made with this fund were so valuable and that further work of the same kind was needed a few influ- ential and public-spirited citizens went among the people and raised subscriptions for the making of good pavements. They succeeded, with the resuit that the main thoroughfares are now paved with bitu- minous rock, concrete sidewalks abound, the shabby awnings have been attended to, end the whole aspect of the city denotes that the domination of the silurian has passed away. All these things were accomplished by the pride, energy and public spirit of a few leading men, who assumed and accom- plished the task of rousing the people. It is likely that in most of the neglected towns of the State the general sentiment favors a bettered condition, but the leaders are lacking, and their absence gives the silurian his opportunity. The investment which the people of Sac- ramento have made in the street improve- ments will prove profitable, for that is the history of all such investments. But the work of Sacramento will by no means have been completed when it has made its streets as handsome throughout as are the main thoroughiares. The great Sacra- mento Valley could be made one of the richest gardens of the world, and it is the duty of Sacramento to accomplish that end and reap the benefits which would ensue. MORE HIGH SCHOOLS. In the revival of energy throughout the State which has led to the undertaking of so many new enterprises and public im- provements, it is pleasing to note that pub- lic education hasnot been overlooked, and that the erection of high schools in locali- ties where they are needed engages the at- tention of the people to a degree at least equal to that given to undertakings involy- ing pecuniary interests. Among the many localities now occu- pied with plans for erecting high schools, none enters upon the work with a keener sense of its importance or with better auguries of success than Ione. That town should have had & good high school thor- oughly equipped long ago. It is naturally the educational center of a wide region of country cultivated by a class of people who thoroughly understand the importance of education, and who are well able to main- tain a school in which young men and women can be fitted for the university if they desire to go there, or for an imme- diate entrance into any of the occupations of life where a thoroughly good education is requisite for success. The high school may be fairly called the university of the people. It furnishes as complete a training as the average young man or woman needs, and it ought to be within easy reach of every ambitious and studious youth in the State. The erection and maintenance of such a school is one of the bestinvestments a community can make, even from a financial point of view, for none will vield better returns in the in- creased efliciency of the people to master the details of modern industry and ad- vance the welfare of themselves and their neighbors. The active interest shown by the more intelligent and progressive people in vari- ous localities in promoting plans for the establishment of high schools may be ac- on a parity with gold, which if it did not make light of the financial problem cer- tainly threw no light on it. codnted therefore as one of the best signs of the growing improvement of the State. It_ should be a matter of generous rivalry l among all communi I s where such schools are needed to see which will most promptly and most adequately supply this link of connection between the university and the public schools. Progress is always good, but mever so good as when it advances education and brings the highest possible instruction within reach of all. A RETRIEVING STEP. The State had been wondering for weeks whether or not Governor Budd would take action regarding the lynchings which have occurred recently in various parts of the State. The Yreka affair, in which four men were hanged by a mob, and the Round Val- ley tragedy,which is said to have been made all the darker by the participation of officers of the law in the lynching, were peculiarly unfortunate happenings and immeasur- ably damaging to the State. The Governor has at last decided to step forth in the in- terest of the State’s fair name and call the perpetrators to account. He is said to be preparing toissue a proclamation offeringa reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of each of the persons engaged in those affairs as well as in the lynching at Madera. The chances are that this will bring seri- ous tronble to the men at whom this measure is aimed. A deplorable feature of the Yreka lynching is that it wasled and participated in by men of character and standing, and that they" were urged to the deed by an insupportable prevalence of murder as theresultof a lax administration of the law. There have been no murders at or near Yrekasince thelynching, and there likely will not be for many a day. Mob law is sometimes more efficacious than the code. At the same time the leading men who joined in this lynching had it in their power to elect competent and diligent offi- cers. Their resort to lynching was a rebuke to their own shortcomings. A large number of men were engaged in the affair and hence the reward of $500 for the conviction of each will probably serve as a temptation which some one cognizant of the essential circumstances may prove unable to resist. In addition to the total reward in this case, ranging from $2500 to $5000, which will be a very strong induce- ment, there is the possibility that immu- nity for turning State’s evidence may be offered. It is well for sensible men to con- sider all these dangers before embarking in an enterprise of this character. This refers to the question of their own safety and welfare. Besides this they might reason that alynching casts obloquy on the whole State and tat thousands of interests are damaged by the act. Such a consideration presupposes men who are proud of their State and desirous of pro- moting its advancement. Residents of the older Eastern communities will think twice before deciding to cast their lot in a community where the best men publish the inadequacy of the courts and proclaim the insecurity of life and property by re- sorting to lynchings. OUR EXCHANGES. An instructive evidence of the strength which the free-silver idea enjoys in Oregon is furnished by the Medford Mail. It re- ports that a citizen canvassing the Apple- gate district on business incidentally in- terviewed the farmers and miners on the silver question. Out of twenty-four Re- publicans he found twenty-two who were for the free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver. Twenty-one out of twenty-two Dem- | ocrats held a similar faith, and eight Pop- | ulists were a unit on the proposition. Apropos of free-silver coinage the Vir- ginia (Nev.) Enterprise states the position of Nevada with conspicuous dignity, truth- fulness and clearness. ‘‘Eastern people,” it says, “who think that Nevada favors bi- metallism solely because the restoration of silver to its old place and value in our money is essential to the welfare of this State are greatly mistaken. Nevada would | be greatly benelited by the reopening of our mints to the free coinage of both met- als, but so, in our opinion, would all the rest of our country, and that is the reason why we stand fast for bimetallism. But we wish to impress the fact upon the minds of our Eastern friends that even if there were not a single silver mine in Ne- vada we would stili have at our command a larger variety of the factors of prosperity than can be found in any other political division containing an equal number of people under the sun. We also have the intelligence, the energy and the spirit to make the most of our resources and op- portunities. We can work out ourown sal- | vation, either with or withoui bimetallism, | and some day soon we have no doubt that the whole country will recognize the fact that we_are laboring for the good of,all, and not merely for our own selfish inter- ests, when we insist upon the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Alameda enjoys the distinction of being one of the best kept, best governed and mest progressive cities in the State. It is therefore not surprising to read so sensible and spirited an expression as this from the Sentinel: *“Jt is very strange that San Francisco’s Supervisors should be so freaky as to attempt to limit business buildings to a height of 100 feet. That limit is not being exceedvd or crowded to the extent that calls for inhibitive laws. There is not so much building of any kind just now in 8an Francisco that it is the part of wisdom to hamper it 1n any way. A municipal body straining every nerve to encourage public improvements, just at at this time, is a more edifying spectacle than one that is creating obstacles by en- acting laws calculated only to annoy and discourage.” One of our stanchest exchanges, the i Mariposa Gazette, has been sold by F. A. Reynolds Kasson to J. A. Adair and Fred Kaut Jr. These native sons of Mariposa have alrcady developed a strength and originality that will prove most useful in the task of developing the greatness which awaits this noble old county. In indorsing THE CALL's recent analysis of Mr. Huntington’s views concerning the Valley road and our reasons why that road must develop the San Joaquin Valiey and prove a profitable enterprise, the Fresno Ezxpositor says: “The extortions of the Southern Pacific Company have impover- isned the people of the San Joaquin Val- ley. Tt has sucked its lemon dry, and now protests because there is no more juice in it. But, unlike the lemon, the valley is not forever dry. Here is a rich so0il, an abundance of water and a people who will be enterprising—as they have been in the past—if they are given half a chance, The competing railroad will secure & great and constantly increasing patronage in the valley.” The Reno Gazetts enters upon its fortieth volume with good cheer and a bright hope for the future. Supported and led by jour- nalism of the able and progressive kind, which the Gazette represents, the State of Nevada may feel confident of enjoying the great prosperity which it deserves. The Kern County Californian relates the case of a well-to-do resident of Bakersfield, who, reading in a San Francisco paper of the pitiful wages for which women are compelled to work here, and seeing that the office of the Labor Commissioner was besieged by middle-aged women for posi- tions of some sort, ‘‘where they could just makea living, if nothing more,” notified the Commissioner that he would give a good position in his home to one of these needy women. He was informed that Bakersfield was too far from San Francisco to suit the women needing work. This moves the Californian to say: “There are hundreds ot families 1n the country who would be glad to give comfortable positions to capable women at fair salaries. The high wages vrevalent in the City are be- yond the ability of those in the country to pay, yet when an effort is made to per- suade a house servant to go into the country she always demands a larger salary simply because she is asked to go to the country. While the woman who works-for a scant pittance in the City is of course to be pitied, yet that pity is consid- erably tempered by such experiences as noted in the foregoing.” Fifteen yvears ago there was an active movement in California in silkworm cul- ture, but the interestsoon faded. The rea- son alleged was that the profits were in- sufficient. More than likely the real trouble was a lack of proper understanding of the economic features of the industry. Evidently there is a great opportunity in this direction if the business is pursued on the most intelligent lines. That this is about to be accomplished, the Tulare Regis- ter furnishes evidence in the following pub lication: ‘‘Skeins of silk thread of Tulare manufacture were exhibited yesterday and the verdict of all who saw it was that it was beautiful stuff. Bright, glossy and in natural colors—three in the lot. Samples will be taken to the City for inspsction with a view of finding a market, and if a demand for silk of the finest fiber can be found, it will be produced in Tulare. The men who started this business have fully demonstrated what may be done, and their faith in producing silk in Tulare has grown with experience. They say that in this climate better silk and more vigorous worms are produced than in the oid coun- try. In the matter of producing cocoons, a 12-year-old boy may do as much as a man. Little capital is required. It isnot urged that all may quit business of other kinds to go into silk production, but it may be made one production of considerable im- portance.” The Vallejo Times, being now twenty years old, celebrates the happy event with a handsome new dress. The Mendocino Beacon has reached its eighteenth anniversary and truthfully states its record in saying: ‘“‘Our effort has been to give our patrons a good clean paper with the news from home and abroad and to keep them abreast with the best thought of the times.’ While lamenting the fact that the far- mers have neglected the great opportuni- ties which their organization as Patrons of Husbandry presented, the San Jose Mercury congratulates the farmers of Sants Clara County for their superior intelligence in this particular. “It was in this city,” it says, ‘‘that the first anuual meeting of the State Grange washeld, and it- is here that the most active, intelligent and progressive grange in the State holds its regular meet- ings. San Jose Grange 1s live, thoughtful and earnest. Its discussions are always of value and its social features are also pro- ductive of good.”” PER;DNALS. E. C. Hart of Sacramento is at the Grand. Frank S. Rice of Bakersfield is a guest at the Baldwin. E. E. Biggs, & banker of Ridley. is & guest at the Grand. Judge and Mrs. Lorigan of San Jose are at the California. C. W. Pendleton came up from Los Angeles yesterday. Judge Baldwin of the Code Commission is at the Palace. Norman Rideout, the Marysville banker, is at the California. Bart W. Cavanaugh end wife of Sacramento are guests at the Lick. -Congressman James A. Loutit and wife of Stockton are at the L: °. Freeman, one of Fresno's leading attor- neys, registered at the Lick yeSterday. P. H. Mack, ex-District Attorney of Inyo County, registered at the Russ House yesterday. E. M. Preston of Nevada City, the attorney for the Preston Reform School, is at the Grand. Judge N. Green Curtis came down from Sac- ramento yesterday and 1s registered at the Grand. B. Cussick, who has large interests in iumber- about Chlico, arrived from Los Angeles yes- terday. J. R. Ryland, H. P. Deming and L. C. Trailer, capitalists and bankers of Los Gatos, are at the Baldwin, Treasury Agent John Murray, who has been cruising about in the Bering Sea on the Rush, all summer, is at the Pelace. A. B. Hammond, a capitalist interested with R. A.Eddy in Colorado mines, arrived from Missoula, Mont., yesterday. He is at the Palace. Judge Jobn Currey, formerly Chief Justice of California, went on'a holiday to ZEtna Springs lately and has, since going there, been taken seriously ill with & back trouble. Judge Cur- rey is now 81 years of age, but up to a few days ago has been giving active attention to business and has always kept up his study of the law. CALIFORNIANS (N WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D.‘(‘ Oct. 6.—H. F. Burke and wife and Mrs. R. Martin of 8an Francisco, arrived to-da; THE ACTOR, THE MANAGER AND THE PUBLIC. As the number of attempts at dramatic work increased, it became more difficult to deter- mine the good from the bad. The managerand the actor ultimately shifted the responsibility for this judgment to the public, which hasnow for a long period patiently borne the odinm for much nonsense that goes by the name of Play. Startling and fascineting announce- ments, fashioned with the utmost art of the lithographer and printer, are relied upon to strengthen or supplent any lukewarm or indif- ferent verdict given by the public jury. And 50 the hurly-burly has gone on until sensible people have grown very weary of the im- pertinent and constanily repeated efforts to make them responsible upholders of the “show business.” A vast and dispro- portionate army of theatrical munagers— men whose darling desire is to see their nawes in two-by-four letters, and their i five colors, on the advertising boar sprung up by the opportunity thus s {or the exercise of the art of getting something for nothing. By imperceptible degrees the gosmon of the actor Lias been entirely changed. nce he was a person who possessed a certain power and was entitled to & certain considere- tion. He knew how 1o act and what was neces- sary toward the making of a good play. His opinion was deferred to and his judgment sought. The commercial prolpernz of the old- time ‘‘agent” has, howevyer, made that member grrogant in these regards, and he now no longer defers to the experience of the man who plays. The latter must conform his conduct to the direction of the box-office man, and much and great is the dissatisfaction resulting from | this reversal of functions. Notthe least impor- tant of the dissatisfied parties is the public. They see, without knos why, that there is something wrong with both actor and play. They naturally blame the actor. He is the one responsible to them. No the actor in his work. If the actor is blame- worthy for helping to break down the rational organization ot the theater, the manager is equelly so for thrusting himself into the actor's place and presuming to dictate how and what plays shall be performed. Does it notalways happen that the pleasing power of any glven play or set of plays is referred solely to actors, and do they not eventuslly be- come the actual controllers of the theater, no matter how assiduously the agent of their work tries to keep his name in print as the head of “‘my theater” or of “my company” ?— John Malone of San Jose in October Forum. —_— — The oldest university at_present in exis- tence is Oxford, which claims to have been founded by Alired the Great. ARCUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘‘Nothing illustrates the trend of modern religious thought better than the differen views taken by Dr. Eliot, the present presi- dent of Harvard College, and his predecessor, Dr. Walker,” said George Riddle, the Shakes- pearian reader yesterday. “Bothare of Puri- tan stock. Both are earnest Christiaus. Dr. Walker, however, viewed the theater as an in- strument of the evil one. In his sermons he urged wives to keep their husbands and sons from play-houses and besought the young women to exercise their influence over their sweethearts to the same end and anathema- tized plays and play-actors as abominations, conducive to unclean thoughts and uneclean weys of living. “President Eliot, on the other hand, judged opinion that money should be liberally and intelligently expended to make the valley so attractive that tourists from all quarters of the world would be tempted to visit the place. When my present term of office as Commissioner expires. my connection with the board will terminate. Nothing short of the highest compensation as a salary would in- duce me to serve again. I have had all the ex- perience I care for in serving the punolic and receiving no reward for time and money ex- pended.” “THE CALL has made great progress in our city since its change of management,” said Judge Wiley J. Tinnin of Fresnoin the Grand Hotel last night. “We don’t look to the politi- cal belief of the paper so much now as to its re- liability and attractiveness, and THE CALL is Ress MR. RIDDLE TALKS OF CALIFORNIA AUDIENCES3. men by what they really were. I will never forget the time when he introduced Joseph Jefferson to the students on the occusion wheu the veteran actor delivered a lecture before us. He commendsd the life and the work of Jeffer- son and spoke of him sympathetically as his friend. “Strange to say,” he remarked apropos of Victor Hugo, “Howell does not like the great Frenchmen. ‘I likesome characterizations of Hugo’s works,’ he said one night, ‘but 1 don’t like Hugo.’ “Isaid to bim then: ‘I cannot understand that. The people of Boston eyidently don’t agree with you, for I noticed thismorning that the second suthor in vopularity, judged by the number of volumes taken from the public library, was yourself, the first being Victor Hugo.'” “7 gaw by the newspapers the other day that the German mail steamship Uruguay was lost off Cape Frio, near Rio de Janeiro, and the affair at once reminded me of my father's ex- | perience in that locality some sixty years ago,” said Robert Trewin yesterday. “My father wasJohn Trewin,” he went on, | “eailmaker on the English frigate Thetis, and he had & merry old time just where the | Uruguay got into trouble a few days ago. As | nearly es I recall the date, it was very early | in the ’30’s, The Thetis had been lying at Rio | for a time, and one fine winter morning she | seiled ovt of the harbor with Britain’s ensign | fiying and something over 400 persons on | board. She Lad in her cargo $5,000,000 worth | of treasure, besides a lot of extremely valuable | stuff from the wealthy citiesof South America. | She was & splendid type of the old battleship, a | fine-looking vessel and e rattling fighter. | “Everything went well until night came on | and brought along with it one of those terrific | "storms that give you no hint of their coming | until you find yourself in the midst of them. | Well, sir, that storm came bowling along at & fearful rate, but the Thetis behaved hend- somely for quite s while. and it looked as if she might pull through it all. But it wasa nesty night aod a dangerous locality, and pretty soon they found her dritting and plung- ing toward the oytlying rocks which skirt the mainlana around there. When she struck there was a fearful crash, and the force of the impact snapped her mests off asif they had been made of matchwood. **Almost at the instant the crash came. A pe- culiar light burst over and around theship, revealing to some extent the mess she was in. They never secemed able to understand what that light was, but I fancy it was a meteor or something of the sort. The doomed frigate had grounded upon & reef of Tocks at the base of 2 precipitous headland, and it was easily ap- perent that nothing could save her. The fright- ful crash against the rocks and the flying tim- bers had killed more than half of those on board during the first few minutes. Those who remained unhurt, among them my father, ran for the boats and mansged o make s landing through the surf, leaving the Thetis to pound herself to pieces on the rocks. “The following morning the survivors found that they numbered only sixty-three. They had reached a small island some distance from the mainland, and had no means to communi- cate with the interior. The natives were not in kindly mood and prevented some few attempts to cross the channel. There was nothing but a small quantity of flour saved, and on this the I party contrived to subsist for nearly two weeks. The frigate was well broken up by this time, and some pieces of timber were secured for araft. With thisa few of the men man- aged to reach & town and secured assistance. The entire party of survivers reached Rio on the day before Christmas, and they had a Christmas and Thankegiving dinner combined the nextday.” Colonel George B. Sperry of Stockton, in- spector-general of rifle practice on the staff of Governor Budd, and Commissioner of the Yosemite Valley, is at the Occidental Hotel, Speaking of the Yosemite Valley, he said last evening: “The Commissioners are having some important work done by a landscape engineer, and the report will show what is Inoededm preserve and increase the natural 1beauty of the reservation, It is my X steadily gaining friends for that reason, evel among the D rats.” Mr. Tinnin felt confident that Fresno wouid raise the $35,000 bonus required for the San Joaquin road, even though times are hard. A METALLIC MARRIAGE. The silver bugs vociferous, and Bugs that bum pestiferous, can't Catch the bugs auriferous. — Lo ngeles Herald, But the insect argentiterous. Despite a dose somniferous From the pool of bugs suriferous, Will tie them in the race. Ard industrial par. Wili tlee When g sliver wed and set enLury pace IDEAS OF WESTEEN EDITORS. No matter what may be projected in the way of improvement for & city, there are alwaysa number of persons who will combatit. Some of the opgonents are inspired by sincére (on- vietions, but the mostof them have motives based on selfishness. Angeles Express. Teach the boy the value of money by com- pelling him to work for every dollar he re- ceives, no matter what his circumstances may be, and it is not likely that he will become a spendthritt. Hard work has the additional advantage of keepiug the boy out of bad com- any and away from demoralizing influences.— ixon Tribune Many of the toiling sons of Demoeracy would like to see William C. Whitney receive the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, but there are‘also these who wonld like to see Cal- vin 8. Brice receive the distinguished but hopeless nonor of & Presidential nomination. For & party of the people the Democraey has & strange predilection jor plutocratic nominees for office. Is ita futgooseto be plucked that they are looking for?—Tulare Register. The charge that General Miles is a newspaper soldier is one that the geilant volunteer sol- dier ean bear with equanimity. Strike out from the army list the names of the heroes whose fame is largely due to press notices and it would shrink to’ the size of a vest-pocket lexicon.—Stockton Mail. What blessed music to the ears of all Stock- ton was the tooting of the locomotive whistle Wednesday, when the first of the trains on the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway was moved. No wonder the people cheered and the whistles uptown blew an answerihg salute to the locomotive, Claus Spreckels, as the engineer blew his whistle. Even the sick 1n town forgot their woes when they heard the cause of the uproar and smiled away their annoyance at the racket.—Stockton Record. The firm of Miller & Lux of California owns 14,340,000 acres of Jand. Such monopoly of land is a great barrier in the way of ‘prosperity to the whole Yeople. Put the burden of gov- ernment upon land values end it would be im- possible to withhold land out of use and thereby deur opportunity to the industrious and enterprising.—Pendleton East Oregonian. The people of Chicago are giving themselves agreat deal of trouble to free Cuba and Ire- land, while their own ecity remains, for the most part of the time, under the rule of a cor- Tupt and oppressive municipal tyranny. It would be a kind and gracious thing for some fim l:e?‘e‘n?n gr Annrnulln city to hold a ug and pass resolutions freeing Chicago.—Portland Ore(onl‘n’:l.h'm & The proposition by Esstern capitalists to build a railway from Butte City, Mont., to San Francisco appears to be based on sound busi- ness judgment. There is every reason B be- lieve'that such & road would prove profitable, and it certainly would great ‘ali- fornia.—San Jose Memury‘.r D iphas G e AUTHENTIC IN EVERY DETAIL. The San Francisco CaLL of the 13th inst. gives its readers a valuable account of the mother lode, together with an official map which shows its location in the counties of El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa. The map was compiled especially ;?Ex'x‘fu.;l m& i:u authentic in every detail. uable interested in gold min- ine,—Esperto Press. VALLEY AOAD EXABPLES, What One Contract Alone Has Done for San Francisco Industry. WHERE CARS ARE BUILDING. An Object Lesson That May Be Learned at the Southern End of Second Street. LA Down at the foot of Second street beside the water front an interesting and b . scene may be witnessed any day in the week., The spectacle is interesting :u Cal fornia because it represents one phase of the progress making in the construction of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway. It isacomposite one of hprd- working meckanics—painters, blacksmiths, carpenters, ironworkers and ussxslxmti railway freightcars in different stages o construction, piles of lumber and long rows of railroad wheels and ('xucks_. The yard where §his work is bem.rjr done comprises a block at the corner of Second and Townsend streets that has been sur- rounded with a high board fence ar'xd ar- ranged temporarily for the building in this city of cars for the Valley road. Its location was seleciea with a view to its proximity to the Southern Pacific tracks and the transit ferry depot. Sidings have been built into one-half the yard, and upon these tracks the cars are being built. When ready for delivery the cars are moved out upon the Southern Pacitic track and taken to Oakland, whence they they are hauled to Stockton as freight and there shunted over u temporary switch to the new tracks of the competing line. In this way eleven cars have already been taken to the Valley road terminus at Stockton. These cars left a week ago, and ten more were built since then and will tollow on Tuesday. The facilities for building have been” so arranged that ten freightcars can be started every Monday morning and turned out the followin - urday evening, finished in every deta i Though the contractors, Hammond & Co., have established the yard as a tem- porary addition to their works, it wili be maintained permanently if the Valley road directors continue to place orders for cars with that firm. : There were twenty-five men at work there Saturday;, and all they were required to do was to put the cars together. Every bit of wood, every bolt, bar_or other iron- work was in readiness to fit into its own place, so that the yard work was very sim- ple and capable of rapid performance. The main portion of the contract, that is, getting the material into that state, was completed at the manufacturers’ shops on Beale street. The bolts and heavy iron were made at the rolling-mills, and the castiron parts at the Occidental Foundry. For wood Oregon pineand some oak was used. 1In all only the wheels, cylinders rakes, patent automatic cuu¥l\:rs springs came from the East. hey would have been made here but there was nery for turning out railroad and the other parts were covered ) patents. & 1e cars as finished se far weighed over ,000 pounds each and were built to carry 60,000 pounds. They measured 36 feet 4 inches each in leng and each o couplers, w ) the risk of getting crushed in coupling, with patent air brakes and spiral springs, all on the latest pattern. These cars and the rest of 250 ordered could be made East at a trifle less than in California, but then the directors favored home industry, the road was started by the people and California should reap the benefi We have twenty-five men here,’’ said the yard foreman, ‘‘and more than double that number at the shops on Beale street, ali working on the Valley road cars. Over there in the corner is a house full of boits and nuts from the roiling mills. The mills and foundry have been kept busy on the job and employed a larze number of men. I tell you we are glad to see it. We can feel the benefit of keepin work at home; we make money an can live well with our families and spend the same money right here in San Francisco.” Mme. serah Grand among some foreign bicyclists., the latest recruit Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco millionaire, does not use the weed in any form. King Oscar of Sweden and Norway fs to-day the only monarch who occasionally dons his crown. His Majesty wears it every time he faces the perliament of either of his two king- doms. S. R. Dawson, who ciaims to have discovered the lost art of making “Damascus steel,” is said to be a lineal descendant of Relph Hogge, who cast the first iron cannon made in Eng- land. Burton Kimball of Plaistow, N. H., while dizging his potatoes, dug one hill that had seventy-eight poatoes in it, six of them weigh- ing over one pound, and fifteen weighing over nalf a pound. J. McNeil Whistler took the seventh prize of §500 at the recent international exhibition at Venice, the only prize awarded to an English- speaking artist. The first prize of $2000 went to Paolo Michetti. Rev. Elijah Ksllogg, who wrote “Spartacus,” is still living at the age of 85 years. He preaches twice each Sunday at the little church in Harpswell, Me., and cultivates a small farm, Lord Rosebery is fond of books, curios, knick« knacks and pictures. He has booka in all his houses, his collection of modern books being oneof the finest in the kingdom. In political lore he is deeply read. He is a collector of tiny articles which can be handled ‘and looked at, such as old silver and china,and all sorts of knick-knacks. M. Faretieres, a popular French writer, has astounded the Parisians by deciaring that soup is responsible for nearly all the dyspepsia that exists. He asserts that soup at the beginning of a dinner distends the stomach and prevents the digestion of the solids tbat follow. Furth- ermore, he claims that there isno nourishment in soup and that its heat injures the teeth. THE ESSENTIAL FACTS. THE CALL'S condensed reports of the Durrant trial give all the essential factsof each day's proceedings and are eminently more satisfying than the pages of trivial details in other papers that require a half day’s time to read through, —San Jose Mercury. PICTURE cards. ~ S gl 5 CREAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsond’s. 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