The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pafly and Sundsy CALL, one week. by carrier.$0.15 Teily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail... 6.00 T #fly and Sundsy CALL, six months, by mall 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALy, {hree months, by matl 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail .65 funday CaLL, one weer, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone. .....cvoiiiinen s ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone ....Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 3 70 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until o'clock. 3¢ Haves street : open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin stre open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 4618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116N inth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: £08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander ng, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. TUESDAY OCTOBER 8. 1805 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e S ————— Now that Chicago has pronounced for free Cuba, Spain might as well quit. It looks as if Corbett and Fitzsimmons will have to fight one another off the earth. It is natural that the See Yup boycott should break up; it had too many tongs in the fire. Having sucked dry the orange of life, it is said the Jersey Lily wil! now take up with the peel. Selling fresh fruit in London is good, but perhaps it would be better to preserve more of it at home. The islands of the world would not make so much trouble if the continents would let them alone. The Armenian crisis is rapidly becoming critical enough to put an end to criticism and call for action What will it profit us if Mrs. Langtry comes here for a divorce and goes back to England to marry ? It is reported that the London market demands big fruit, and that happens to be the very thing that California can furnish. The way that Buckley shows his hand in politics is to feel the pulse of Democracy a little while and then reach for the throat. Because the people have become tired of discussing the silver question, the gold- bugs believe there is no longer any such question. As there are no warsat present exceptin Cuba, Formosa and Madagascar, itappears the troubles of the world are confined to insular eruptions. In deciding to come West this season the Yale and Harvard football men will hitch their teams as well as their wagons to the star of empire. If they keep up the lick of finding gold in the gravel pits of Nebraska money will soon be so cheap that no one will have to scratch gravel for it. It is hardly worth while for Iocal De- mocracy to make so much fuss about clean- ing out their party when the people will do that at the next election. According to Labouchere there are only eight novelists in Great Britain who make as much as a thousand pounds a year, and these have no sure thing of it. The high building is the only architec- ture we have that is distinctively Ameri- can, and to limit its development would be to put bonds on our art as well as on our enterprise. The prophets of prosperity are rising everywhere. Even one of the Rothschilds is reported to have said, “There will be more chance to make money in America in the next five years than in any other country in the world.” The people of San Jose are so jupilant over their success in making ‘ preparations for a carnival of roses next May they are half persuaded to whirl in and celebrate the preparations at once and then start in all over again to prepare for the celebra- tion. The Republican convention which as- sembled at Sioux City on June 16 to nomi- nate acandidate for Congress to fill a va- cancy has put two candidates in the field and adjourned after taking 7137 ballots, thus showing that under certain condi- tions even the voting habit may become a useless dissipation. A French inventor is said to have de- vised an ingenious attachment to the storage batteries used on some of the streetcars of Paris, by which when the cars are going down hill the motors are changed into dynamos and the batteries recharged with power. An invention of that kind ought to be profitable in San Francisco. Seln s o It is reported that the Director-General of Railways in India has approved of forty-five new railway projects which when carried out will add over 6000 miles to the railways of that country, and this is but the beginning, asa varliamentary commission has reported that to develop the resources of India 60,000 miles of rail- road are reeded. —— It is a striking illustration of the extent to which the stamp-collecting fad has been carried that some speculators have been accused of getting the smaller Central American States toissue new sets of stamps every few years, thus enabling the specu- lators to make a profit by selling the new issues as something novel and the old ones as something rare. The Sacramento Valley editors ought to have a good time at their convention at Marysville. The accomplishments of the year have been good, the prospects of the future are better, the surroundings of the convention are rich in all things that make up & California Eden, and as they have zot away from their devils for awhile what more can they wish? A reminder of the rapidity with which some of the most potent conditions of modern life have been developed is found in the announcement that Joseph Bell, who served as engineer on Stephenson’s first locomotive, has just died in London. This man during his working days saw the whole railway system grow up and witnessed bigger changes in the world than were seen by Methuselah in a thou- sand years. CONSISTENT IN INOONSISTENOY. The Democratic State Gonvention of New York, in its platform adopted re- cently, declared in favor of “Federal taxa- tion for revenue only,” and in the same paragraph demanded that there be “'No meddling with the present reformed tariff to the injury and unsettling of business and industries.” The New York Sun indulges in a sar- castic commentary upon the utter incon- gruity of these two sentences. It says: “It would have been exactly as consistent to say that ‘we believe in a tariff for pro- tection and in a tariff for revenue only.’ The present tariff is a protection tariff. The only way to bring about Federal taxation for revenue only is to do away with the present protective tariff ana enact a tariff for revenue only. So to do would be to unsettle and injure business industries, but likewise to vindicate the constitution as regarded by the Demo- cratic National Convention of 1892.” The remarks of the Sun accentuate the wide divergence of the Democratic party between its theories and its practices, in which it is consistent with nothing but itself and its own history for the past thirty years. The New York convention is only doing with respect to the tariff what the Ken- tucky conventior has already done on the subject of finance and what the National party may be expected to do next year upon every important issue of the cam- paign. Asilver candidate upon a goldbug platform and a tariff plank pledging the party to protection and free trade in the same senience are the nsual harmonies of the Democratic attitude toward the ques- tions of the day. This would not be so bad if either the theory or the practice of the party had in view the good of the Nation. But there’s the rub. Asto its theory of free trade, for which -“tariff for revenue only’’ is but another name, the Democratic party is in- dulging in an idle dream, upon its own confession. In its practical indorsement of the present tariff it is insisting upon a protection which neither protects | nor supplies an adequate revenue for the country’s needs. The shameful record of National finance during the past three years condemns the present tariff to last- ing infamy as a tariff for revenue, while its disastrous effect upon industries consigns it to an even deeper damnation as a tariff for protection. It is these facts which make the declara- tions of the New York convention unique in the eminence of their inconsistency with each other, with principle, and in fact with everything but the past history of the party which has the audacity to give them expression, or, having done so, to ask for public support, OVERLAND COMPETITION. The announcement that a new overland railroad is to be built from Butte, Mont., to California, by way of Beckwith Pass, is not very reassuring in the form in which it has been received, even thongh the state- ment 18 made that several millions in cash are ready with which to begin the work of | construction. 1t has sometimes happened that these enterprises are started for the purpose of being suppressed for a consid eration, though there are no indications of such a motive in the presentcase. Untila more convincing account has been re- ceived of the earnestness and ability of the new company it is idle to speculate on the case. It is an interesting coincidence that this news should have come simultaneously with the remark recently made by C. P. Huntington, that he has always advised other companies to keep out of California, for the reason that the volume of business is insufficient to warrant another. The disastrous experience of the Santa Fe has been sometimes advanced as a convincing | argument to that end. The truth with re gard to the Santa Fe is that it lacked the courage to exploit the opportunity to its | fullest. When it reached the Colorado River the Southern Pacific induced it to take the Atlantic and Pacific line from | The Needles to Mojave and to enter into an arrangement for partitioning the terri- tory of California. Thisshut the Santa Fe out of the possibility of becoming a com- peting or even an additional overland road in the proper sense. Mr. Huntington’s assurance that there is not and never has been sufficient traffic to warrant two lines is the natural expres- sion of the policy under which the South- ern Pacific has been always operated. The business wisdom of developing the terri- tory which it traverses has been consist- ently absent from its plan. That no com- peting line has ever entered California is a fact undoubtedly attributable to Mr. Hun- tington'‘s skill in argument and power as a capitalist and lobbyist. But these are lapsed conditions. His political and financial power, both in Cali- fornia and Washington, has been sorely crippled within the last few years, and the monovoly of his railroad has been openly assailed by the promoters of the San Francisco and sSan Joaquin Valley Railroad. The financial straits to which | his company has been reduced have greatly weakenea his force as an adviser, dictator and menace to Eastern tailroad builders. They are fully aware that he could not now make an effective fight against a competing line that might be built, as such fights are very expensive. He canno longer frighten California shippers into making long contracts which would shut other roads out of business, nor can he longer intimidate California capitalists | who might want to assist in constructing a competing line. The present conditions are all in favor of such a road, and should it be constructed it could devend on the unpopularity of the Southern Pacific for an immediate profitable business and on development for more. THE LONDON MARKET. H. A; Thomas, general manager of the California Fruit Transportation Company, bas returned to New York after making a close personal study of the experiment of shipping California fruits to London. The information which he gives is of the great- est value, as it goes to all the vital points involved—methods of London dealers, pe- culiarities of the English demand, condi- tions of competition with the fruits of Eu- rope and the duties of California shippers. The first drawback which he corrected Wwas the practice of London dealers of hold- ing the fruit a week after its receipt and showing a disposition to keep down Pprices, Noexplanation of this extraordinary course is given, but it is sufficient to know that it has been abandoned, and that hereafter our growers are reasonably assured of ready sales and reasonable profits. Itis surprising and gratifying to learn that the fruit arrives in London in as good condi- tion as in Chicago or New York, and that as the climate of London is more favorable the fruit remains much longerin a healthy condition. It 1s valuable to know that pears shipped all the ‘way under ventila- tion do not arrive in good condition and that cold storage is the proper method. Londoners are so delighted with the ex- traordinary size of California fruits (they being superior in this regard to any pro- duced in Europe) that none but the largest, finest and most highly colored fruits A should be sent, and the present wise plan of filling packages with fruit of uniform excellent quality should be strictly ad- hered to. The least deviation from it may bring disastrous results, as Englishmen will not tolerate fraud. Mr. Thomas is positive that within a reasonable time London will .be glad to get 1500 carloads of our fruit a season. All this constitutes a chapter of the best |news that California fruit-growers have read in many a day. It means thatin the matter of marketing our fruits London will eventually set the pace for the United States, as it does in the leading commodi- ties of the world. This gives to the mar- keting of our products a dignity and security that go far toward eliminating every element of uncertainty in the indus- try so far as the disposition of the crop is concerned. It deprives the dealers of Chi- cago and New York of the power to con- trol the market and make it or break it as they please. It now remains only for Cal- ifornia growers to meet the requirements indicated by Mr. Thomas and there need Dbe no uneasiness on that score. AN AMBITIOUS PROJEOT. 8an Jose is making arrangements al- ready for a rose carnival which is to be an affair of great magnificence. . Although the event will not occur until next May i work has already begun, and the affair is | in the hands of the ablest and most ener- | getic business men of the city. They an- | nounce that they will raise the splendid | sum of $20,000 for the purpose. Asan evi- | dence of the hearty spirit of co-operation | and enterprise which animates the com- munity a committee which the other day gave only a few desultory hours to the work of soliciting subscriptions secured $3500 without any trouble. The $20,000 to be expended by the direc- tors of course will not represent the entire cost of the carnival, as probably an equal amount will be spent by individual partici- patorsin the display. All this money will be intelligently and honestly used to the best purpose, with the result of producing an effect of dazzling beauty. Those who may be surprised that a California city (the fourth In size) should have the enter- prise to spend so much for a purely spec- tacular purpose have only to visit San Jose and observe an explanation in per- fect pavements, high taste in architecture, exquisite care with which the private gar- dens and public parks are maintained, the superb condition of all the roads leading | into the city and the matchless perfection | to which hortjculture is carried in the sur- rounding region. ‘ The sum of it all is that the people un- | derstand the material value of externals. | They are aware that it is not sufficient for | them to know that they have a climate | whose useful and pleasant qualities cannot | be surpassed, and that they themselves } must give demonstration of its beauties | and benefits. They are aware that this [can be accomplished only by the exercise of intelligence and energy, and that such | a demonstration is the only way of making | known the excellencies which they claim o enjoy. They have the wisdom to appre- ciate the fact that every dollar spent for that purpose isone of the surest invest- nents for profit that can be possibly made. | The splendid scale on. which the carnival | of roses is to be conducted is strictly in line | with that policy and oneof the highest | evidences of the wisdom which prompts it. | The people are setting an example which | should inspire the residents of all other | California cities with emulation. PERSONAL. W. H. Hatton of Modesto is at the Lick. | M. M. McPike of Napa is at the Baldwin. . Gracey, & capitalist of Merced, is at the | Lick. | _A.B.Hammond of Missoula, Mont., is at the | Palace. P. P. Daindridge, a Fresno railroad contract- | or, is at the Lick. | _Frank Dulmaine, & mining man from Grass | Valley, is at the Grand. | Louis Weinberger, a fruitman from New | Orleans, is at the Grand. J. C. Mogk, head of a big irrigation company of Colusa, is at the Grand. Lieutenant E. F. Qualtrough of the United States navy is at the California. E. C. Banks, Superintendent of the Preston Reform School at Ione, is at the Grand. Benjamin Cohen, the well-known clothing merchant of the City, leaves this evening for the East on a business trip. sl e A CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7.—Samuel Mec- Call of San Francisco and Dr. E. W. Brook and daughter Edna of Santa Barbara arrived to- day. NEWS AS A STOCK IN TRADE. NEWSPAPERS JEALOUSLY GUARD THEIR REPUTA- TIONS FOR ACCURACY. Unthinking people sometimes complain, says the Burlington Hawkeye, that newspapers are “not accurate and reliable” in giving the news. If the public could only realize how much nearer accurate and reliable is the news as published than the conflicting reports that come to the editorial rooms to be sifted, tested and toned down by reporters and editors, they | would zive the paper more credit than they do. It must be within the exgerlence of evi intelligent reader that verbal rumors whici they had neard were materially changed and reduced in their import when presented in the next issue of the paper. A railroad accident is almost invariably mag- | nified »s the rumor passes from one person to | another, but the discriminating newspaper will probe for the facts and is loth to give cur- rency to exaggerated statements which it will be necessary to retract or modify next day. News is the goods which the papers have on sale, and the quality of the goods has much to do with the popularity of the paper; counse- quently the successiul newspaper is jealous of its reputation as a news-vendor. For a like reason newspaper publishers feel that the public does not fuilly appreciate the nature of the request sometimes preferred by individuals when they ask the editor to sup- Tess an item of news. It is equivalent to say- ng to the merchant, “Please take that rolil of cloth from your sheives and don’t sell it.” Few merchants would be apt to comply with the strange request, but the oblifing editor oiten does out of kindly considerations for the business or personal welfare of citizens. Itis & good trait in human nature, but costs money to remove goods from the shelves and destroy them—for that is what it amounts to in the department of newspaper merchandizing. WATER ON THE MOON. Astronomer Pickering of the Howard Ob- servatory at Arequipa, Peru, has lately been making some interesting observations relative to the presence of water on the moon. A writer in the Paris Revue Sclentifique, quoting from & bulletin of the French Astronomical Soclety, says that over thirty-five narrow ravines on the moon’s surface have been catalogued, and these are all regarded as beds of rivers trom their resemblance to terrestrial water-courses. ‘There 1s no reason to suppose that these forma~ tions contain water at the present time, but the observer argues that the presence of a cer- tain degree of humidity on the surface of the great satellite seems probable. The observer afirms that no other satisfactory explanation than the existence of water or a partially thawed frozen region can account for the dark patches in the various craters or cre- vasses. That vegetation exists is not yet de- monstrated, but the observers regard such a discovery as by no means unlikely, —_—— TOP ROUND IN THE LADDER. Yerington (Nev.) Rustler. The San Francisco CALL is fast supplanting the other papers of S8an Francisco in Nevada. THE CALL is one of the most liberal-minded pleera west of the Mississippi River, and in an- other year it will have the ln?ut cireulation of the Pacific Const papers. THE CALL is de- serving of the most liberal puironnge from the people of the coast States, for it favors no one particular section, but speaks for all, and we rredmt for it the top round in the ladder of [ jourpalism, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “La! La!—La! La! La! ““Have I been in San Francisco before? Why, I played a baby part here when I was four years old,” ssid Ignacio Martinetti at the Bald- win yesterday, and “Dodor,” Mr. Simmons, winked, “Fact, this time,” said Martinetti. “I can quite remember, e few years later, amusing the sudience by my anger at not being able to keep the coins from tipping out of my hat—you make up that number, but only three were seized for illegal work. They are not allowed to take seals within sixty miles of the breed- ing grounds, but that is no distance for a seal to swim. “Seals are most peculiar animals. They will not swim nor dive when they are chased, and it is no truble to kill them right in the ‘water; in fact they don’t know, as a rule, when they are chased. On land a boycen herd s thousand of them, and when a few of them are driven apart and some are killed, those o IGNACIO MARTINETTI DISCUSSES A POPULAR FRENCH EX- OCLAMATION. know it was the custom to throw money on the stage for an encore—it was so heavy.” ‘“How long ago was that?” was asked. “Fiity-four years?” suggested Mr. Simmons. “Lal La!—La! La! La! I am 88 now only.” “That expression seems to have & great many meanings,” remarked a friend. “Now, itis a French exclamation, and there are very few who appreciate its value,” said Mr. Martinetti. “I will give you some ex- amples. You can wrinkle up your nose, look from under & heavy frown and say, with de- cision, La! Lal—La! La! La! to a man, im- plying the utmost contempt in telling him to mind his own business. Then I wish to make an excuse for my friends and myself for not accepting an invitation,on the plea that we have another engagement—I am asked where, and after a few attempts to think of an answer turn to my friends in disgust with La! La!—La! Lal La! spoken very sharply—telling them to say something or assist me. Then I heave & sigh and give the weak little expres- sion of resignation—La! La!—La! Lal! Lal “There are dozens of means of expressing one's self by the use of those five syllables, and 50 as to be immediately ana foreibly under- stood.” “S0 you cannot accompany us out to the Seal Rocks,” said Mr. Martinetti, “La! La—La! La! La The members of the Union League are con- sidering the question of the municipal owner- ship of water, gas and electricity. R J. Richard Freud in speaking to this ques- tion said: “I am strongly in favor of the municipal own- ership of all those properties which are general to the whole people in all that goes to make them valuable—water, light, whether of gas or electricity, steam or water power and street- cars. A “The question as to Just what guards must be thrown about the expenditure of the funds necessary to purchase or construct these prop- erties is one of most important detail and one to which we cannot approach too guardedly. But on the whole, aside from the question of the best methods of expenditure, I deem the question of municipal ownership one of the very first importance. Wherever it has been tried it has resulted in the reduction in cost to the people to a very pronounced extent. In some instances the reduction has been as much asone-half and in special instances even far greater. “Ithink I am not estimating the sense of the membership of the Union League Club too greatly on this question when I say that the greater portion of the members are a unit for municipal ownership of our water works. The only questions arising, I anticipate, will be as to the adoption of effective restraining meas- ures looking to the honest and businesslike expenditure of the public funds provided for the accomplishment of such ends as above sur- gested. “The Merchants’ Association has considered this question, and it came to the general con- clusion that the first practical step would be perhaps the adoption of the new charter, as it provides for all such innovations. It will be seen that article 11, section 64, of that instrument provides for the permanent acquisition by the City and County of San Fran- cisco of water works, gas and electric works, electric and water power and streetcars as well.” Colonel Albert E. Castle said. “In the main I am in favor of the municipal ownership of the water works and of the gas and electric-light works also. It is a question, however, which must be carefully considered 88 to detail. We must have our municipal affairs conducted mare nearly upon the same or similar lines which govern the bustncss world ih private affairs. Honesty and reason- able economy are wise principles, the applica- tion of which to municipal affairs is sorely needed. There isa growing sentiment to this end in the public mind, and no doubt but that we shall ee it embodied fn the conduct of affairs in this City, butasto when it shall be applied the people must determine for them- selves.”” State Senator Benjamin F. Langford of San Joaquin County fs in the City. The Senator has probably served more years in the Senate at Sacramento than any other living man in California. He is a Democrat of the old- fashioned sort, and somehow manages to land in office, no matter how many of his fellow- Democrats are swamped by the Republican waves. Mr. Langford's rule is to be very careful in voting to ~appropriate public money, but he does not re- gard appropriations for the improvement and maintenance of the Asylum for the In- sane at Stockton as waste of the public treas- ure. In fact he regardsitasa solemn duty to vote for such atlowance and to persuade others to vote with him. For many years Senator Langford has been on the list of Democrats entitled to Guberna- torial honors, but at every party convention, ‘where the prospects seem bright for his party, some clique or combination manages to casta blight on the Langford boom. Joseph Murray, a Government agent, who was sent to Alaska to investigate the condition of the seals, is staying at the Palace. He ex- pects an order to Washington at any time, however, as he will start East very soon to re- port. “The seals are decreasing steadily,” he said, “despite what is being done to protect them. Ispent part of my time up north on the Rush, and I have just come down on her. There are fifty-four sealing vessels in the north sea, and two-thirds of them ‘are run by Canadians. We boarded 117 of them, some of them, of course, more than once to 3 / left alive don’t seem to realize what is being done to the ones beside them. They are pecu- liar animals, but what with the thrasher whales that eat them at sea and the fishermen who kill them at sea and on land they are decreasing steadily.” * PERSONAL JOURNALISM. Thers is & disposition on the part of the press at large to believe that the days of personal journalism are over, and that the views of the papers are and will continue to be of impor- tanee only as representative of their standing and influence. ““The day of personal journalismis over. The newspaper is an entity in itself, having far greater weight than any individual employed upon it. Nobody cares a rap who writes the editorials. It is the opinion of the paper that is heeded, not that of the individual."” This {s & way of expressipg the belief that downstairs holds the whéginndlc over up- way that is most erroneous. to the ‘despotism the doliar, and that brains still count and ca: not be bought as cheaply as some would have us believe. , Itis afact that there are many successful E&DEI‘S without the particular evidence of rains, except in their business departments, but this does not go to prove that the day has even dawned when the newspapers shall cease M;)I;e the instrument of recognized and honored ability. We could mention, if we cared to particular- ize, a long list of aistinctly personal papers in the sense that their editors are known bi’ their works, which bear the stamp of their styles and the impress of their individuality. The aay of personal journalism in its best meaning has not passed, and the hope of re- ward tosthe young reporter isnot simply & uarantee that he will be clothed and fed. ‘here is a charm in the title of editor that is an inspiration. The editor of the future will not be only a well-paid servant. He will be a man bonored among his fellows and & citizen of distinction, one whose labors count for a little more than a modest pecuniary reward. This is an age of combinations and syndi- cates, united interests and indnstries. The in- dividual is often lost sight of, yet it is asabsurd to believe that the editor is doamed to oblivion as it is to see in cheap publications the advent of the time for the removal of authors’ names from their works. Indeed, a great many careful observers claim that there is a distinct tendency toward signed articles that carry the weight of personal re- sporsibility with them. The tendency of the times is really stronger toward the establish- ment of identities than to the obliteration of every trace of personality. Some go_so far as (0 assert that the news fa- cilities of the papers are now so complete that the next move will be largely in the line of letter-writing from points of interest. This art seemed to have almost died out, but the day of chelger telegraph, telephone and cable service may bring it back. The value of such writing is in the reputation of the writer, and therefore his works will necessarily be signed. * ‘We may be wrong, but in so far as we can in- terpret the signs it is safe to assert that there is a large chance of a revived personal journ- alism, It awaits the call of some national question when the fighting editor's spirit shall be revived and bis personality called into di- rect responsibility.—New York Fourth Estate. ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. HIGHEST MOUNTAIN —R. C. 8, Gold Hill, Nev. Relative to an item recently published to the effect that “Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Europe,” a correspondent writes: “This mountain is 15,810 feet high, while El- bruz is 18,526. Goldthwaite’s Geographical Mag- azine thus speaks of the matter: ‘Geographers speak in no certain tones with regard to El- bruz. Most of them refer to the mountain as in Europe, and indeed all of the best authori- ties so consider it. Both Elbruz and Kazbek are north of the main line of water partings between the European and Asiatic rivers, and that is one reason for classifying both as Euro- pean mountains.”” TERRY-BRODERICK DUEL—H. G. C., Lodi, San | Joaquin County, Cal. The Terry-Broderick Auel was fought in this City on the 18th of Sep- tember, 1859, near Laguna de la Merced, and on the 16th of the same month Broderick died from the effect of the wound inflicted by Terry. s e DEEP DIviNg—B. C. W., Cambria, San Luis Obispo Coanty, Cal. It is said that 201 feet, with a pressure of eighty-seven pounds to the square inch, is the greatest depth to which any diver has ever descended. One hundred and fifty feet is about the limit for safe work. THIRD TERM.—There is no clause in the con- stitution of the United States nor any law of Congress to prevent a candidate from “run- ning for the office of President three or more (lmel:,".:‘; for serving a third term should he elected. HILILLIPUT—H. M., Oakland, Cal. Thers is no such country as Lilliput. It is the fabled coun- try described by Jonathan Swift in “Gulliver's Travels.” The voyage to Lilliput is & satire on themanners and habits of George 1ot England. A DOLLAR OF 1884—E. T. H., City. Dollars of the United States, minted either at Philadel- New Orleans or San Francisco are quoted by desalers at $1 50 to $2 25. 3 lmn ’ormw::x . M., Oakland, Cal. The 28th of August, 1840, fell on Frid; 1stof Febmgur;. 1874 lelel ox‘;l’}‘h;‘nz'y.‘nd 5 mdlgcmA—T, R.,City. The ocean grey- hound Lucania when at full speed about 450 tons of coal in swomy—tourc:::‘:-u.“' GOVERNOR BUDD—H. M., Oakland, Cal, James H. Budd, Governor of California, Janesvilfe, Wis, May 18, 1851, " POrR 18 Wik MAv1S 1801, 2 BFM 'ER. Calistoga Independent. The Sen Francisco CALL is without a doubt the best family del!fly p'l‘zr published in the | metropolis. It is¢lean, fearless, the man’ friend, and those who take .:'morpn?i’\; fllfl; should prefer THE CALL. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A CONDUCTOR’S DEFENSE. HE SAYS THAT VERNON CLARKE WAS TO BLAME FOR HIS ACCIDENT. To.the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Believing that your paper is imbued with a spirit of justice, I respectfully ask that you grant me the privilege of your columns to briefly reply to the sensational article pub- lished in the Examiner recently, headed ‘“Had a Narrow Escape.” That paper is noted for the energy displayed in publishing sengational, incorrect and unjust reports of any accident that may occur on the Market-street Railroad system. They seem to forget and ignore that we couductors and motormen of this system are entitled to some consideration and have some rights in common with others. In nearly all cases accidents result from the gross care- lessness and recklessness displayed by the per- sonsinjured. The published account of the recent experi- ence of the boy, Vernon Clarke, is a fair i lus- tration of these unjust stories. The boy got on car 1114, at California street, stealing a ride on the rear platiorm. He was twice ordered off by Conductor Jones. He jumped from the rear platiorm, where he was hanging on, run- ning in front of the approaching gear 1104, coming from the opposite direction, and was struck and carried under the car. Had it not been for the prompt and efficient manner in which Motorman Moulton stopped his car, and the subsequent service rendered by Policéeman Murphy the boy undoubtedly would have been killed or seriously injured. It so happened that at the place of the accident, which oc- curred on Kearny street, between Sutter and Post, the street is paved with bitumen, and the boy was consequently pushed ahead by the guard in front of the wheels over the smooth surface of the street a few feet, thus giving the motorman time to effect & stoppage. The conductors and motormen of the various reilroad systems of this City are thoroughly trained and subjected to the most rigorous discipline to protect the public. There is scarcely a trip through the crowded thorough- fare of Third and Kearny streets that con- ductors are not annoyed by boys stealing rides and hazarding their lives.” When an accident such as befell young Clarke occurs, the com- fiany. motorman or conductor comes in for lame, even when the culpability belongs to the person injured, owing to the tendency of the Examiner to publish unjust and sensa- tional accounts without previous investigation and irrespective of facts. Respectfully yours, A. H. PILE, Conductor Third-street line. San Francisco, Oct. 5, 1895. TIME FOR FALL PRUNING. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call — SIR: Whatis the best time for fall or winter pruning? This question I have been asked often, year after year, from all over the State. Commonly, pruning should be done between the time the sap goes down in tne fall till it rises again in the spring, by which time all tree-pruning mustbe done. But the best time is as soon as possible atter the sap ceases to flow—in most cases by the middle of October. There are many good reasons why winter pruning should bedone as early as possible. By early pruniug in the fall, before the sap is gone clear out of the brancies, the pores of the wounds made by pruning close up sooner, giving & better chance to heel over, provided the cut is made properly. The sooner an orchard is pruned before the heayy rains so much more advantage is there in working the soil. It happens too often that aiter the rains once have set in pruning de- pends upon dry westher and dry soil, end is put back until the sap is already flowing freely. By too late pruning the sap flows out of the wounds made and is lost for the coming growth and fruit. It is apt also to get thick and sour by contact with the air,and then helps the end of the branch to dry out instead of healing over; but, worse than that, it almost Kills the bud just below the cut. The results of this are known enough so as not to need any further explanation from me. f we keep the points here given well in mind and watch the pruningin different local- iufes closely {t will' be found that orchards pruned early have in every respect the advan- tage of others. In sections where I have had charge of pruning, if only for one season, my example of early pruning has been eagerly fol- lowed. PH. G. SCHLUCH, Pmlg. 8an Francisco, Oct. 6 FUNDS IN REGENTS' HANDS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: You give the public the information that the Regents of the State University having the charge of the public money collected from the taxpayers of the State for the purpose of sup- porting the university, and also being the cus- todians of the sacred trust of the Wilmerding bequest, are about investing nearly $400,000 in a real-estate purchase of some old buildings on Sutter street. Can you tell the public whai will happen if those buildings should be burned, and whether, after the insurance money should be collected (if an insurance can be expected, which is doubtful), what would be done with the vacant lot, and where the money can come from to erect new build- ings and have them reoccupied? Is this pur- chase money to come from the general fund or the special Wilmerding trust money, and which will take the fire risk? INQUIRER. San Francisco, Oct. 6, 1895. ESCAPING SEWER GAS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— DEAR SIR: The escaping sewer gas at every street corner in this City is something fearful. When I go to mail a letter late at night as high up as the corner of Stockton and California streets I must needs hold my breath and run to and from the letter-box. Is there no remedy? Could not the sewage be let into the sewers by means of self-dumping buckets or boxes or by the regular trap, so that there need be no opening at every corner, and then vent pipes put in at intervals and these pipes run ebove the housetops, and then have the gas escape through a flame so as to burn it up? The suggestion is condensed into a sen- tence, so that if I am “away off” I have not occupied much of your space or much of the time of the reader. W. S. GREEN. San Francisco, October 7, 1895. BOOKRA. As Ilay asleep in Jtaly.—SHELLEY, One night I lay asleep in Africa. In & garden close by the city gate; A desert horseman, furious and late, Came wildly thundering st the closed bar. “Open, in Allah’'s name!” he cried. * Wake, Mustapha! Slain i3 the Sultan: treason, war and hate Rage from Fez to Tetuan. Open straight " The watchman heard as thunder from afar, “Goto! In peace the city lies asleep. To Allah, all-knowing, N0 news you bring"— And turned in slumber ktill his watch to keep. At once a nightingale began (o sing, In Oriental calm the garden lay— Panic and war postponed another day. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, In Harper's Maga- zine for October. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS, Stockton may now prepare for the entry of a fifth railroad and from a new direction. Com- petitive transportation facilities from the north are needed just as much as those now assured from the south. The coming of the Montana road means the steady growth of this city as a great railroad center. ‘In all schemes of railroad extension into Central California, our position is one that cannot be ignored in the calculations of those who make an intelli- 5““ forecast of the vast traffic that is yet to be leveloped in the great valley of which Stock- ton is the gateway.—Stockton Mail, In the East they are having a good deal to say about the remarkable longevity ot & man at Red Bark, N. J., who is 103 years old, and another man, somewhere else, who is 101 years. These are tolerably good ages, to be sure, but out here on the shores of the balm; Pacific, within the confines of Southern Clll fornis, the old padres can point tomany of the enoriginal members of their flocks, ranging in age from 125 to 145 years. People live longer in Southern California than they do in the variable East.—Los Angeles Times. Great Britain is calmly proceeding with her scheme to steal the best part of Alasks, and at the same time she proposes to appropriate a large part of Venezuela. If this country has Brompiy teke Seps vo propent B s s el e ns o tion of both tbeft‘n’.—sflp Jose Memn‘g'. i3 The socialist is ever and eternally declaring that socialism isnot what the generality of men understand it to be. The fact is, there are about as many kinds of socialism as there are socfalists. There has never been & socialistic scheme carried out that has reflected any credit on the jsm.—Hanford Sentinel. The country is about making up its mind that it is not to grow rieh by importing its goods from Europe, leaving its labor unem- loyed at home, and sellin, nds to get money for the current expenses otsme Government.— Portland Oregonian. % The people here may be interested in the Corbett-Fitzsimmons battle, but it is not nearly £0 important a contest to them as that between Washinegton cedar and California redwood.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. . Nevads is one of the best States in the Union to live in. Extreme heat and cold in the v‘ll'yl are uncommon, the soil is responsive to proper treatment and cultivation, the climatic seasons are favorable to all erops, and our natural resourses are unsurpassed by any sec- tion between the Rockies and Sierras.—Yer- ington (Nev.) Rustler. THE BICYCLE AND BLOOMER. On the whole we believe that even the aver- age wearer of bloomers will sympathize with the divorce suit which, it is said, a respected citizen of the town of Hawthorne has brought against his wife. There wasnothing fogyish in 0 in question. He was perfectly willing :g:tm}?h wife should ride a Li(‘i’cle, and he offered no objection when she declared her in- tention to don bloomers for her daily rides on the wheel. But he did protest in the most vigorous fashion when he saw her riding gayly down the street clad in bloomers that are said to have been as red as the red, red rose. We are nearly all agreed that there must be some limitations upon everybody, the new woman inctuded, and only & few will object to having the line drawn on crimson bloomers.—Phila- delphia Inquirer. Although the coming wheel is to be heavier, it will probebly carry a rider much farther upon & like expenditure of physical energy than the wheel of to-day. A large Western yndi is to put wheels on the market next §-'e§5}%'?'§au enl?h. This cheap wheel will in- Crease the number of ridars, for many persons will buy it, and thus become prospective pur- chasers of a wheel that will last, who would notlearn to ride for many years yetif they were compelled to pay stanaard prices.—Phila- delphia Item. The Arkansas woman has mounted the wheel and is there called a ‘‘bicyaless,” a designea- tion which confers some immunities, inas. much as one of them recently obtained a judi- cial decision in favor of her right to wear bloomers as a costume convenient and appro. riate to her exercise. The Judge qualified is decision by saying that if the garment had been of the original type introduced by Mrs. Bloomer long ago he would have given it and its_wearer the limit of the law.—New York Tribune. With an electrie propeller and an automatic anchor the bicycle will become & thoroughly independent character. There might be added one more attachment in_the form of & phono- raph timed to utter, in the pleasantest possi- §letone, 41 thani youl” just as it passes a pe- destrian or a driver who has surrendered the right of way. Withoutsuch & device cycling is in danger of gaining a_reputation for rude- ness.—Syracuse Standerd. The San Francisco Judge who fined a woman for wearing bloomers and confiscated the bloomers_besides left her in a sorry plight.— Albany (N. Y.) Press, SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Miss Model—Do you need a model, sir? 0ld Persimmons—No; I only paint flowers and fruit. Miss Model—Well, I'm & peach, see ?—Truth. I wouldn’t worry so much about that boy of yours at college,” said the friend of the family, “He's not a poker-player.” «I know he isn't,” replied the father, rue- fully, “but from the size of his expense ac- counts I'm afraid he thinks he is.”—Chicago Post. Client—You have saved my estate. I ever recompense you? Lawyer—I am disposed to make it easy for you. with several payments, vou know. I am willing to take the estate as the first payment. Detroit Tribure. New Missionary—Can you tell me what has become of my predecessor? Cannibal Chief—He made a trip into the in- terior.—Sunny Hour. How can “Here,” said the ancient inhabitant, “is the place where the murder was committed.” «“Killed in cold blood, was he?” Noj; in pine thicket.” “Shot right down?” “No; he wuz all shot up.”—Atlanta Consti- tution. BROKEN, mixed candies, 10c In. Townsend’s* THE Roberts Printing Co.—picture cerds. el Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* ———— THE Argonaut is one of the finest and most popular brands of Kentucky Bourbon, and has no equal for purity in the market, Itisoneof the Iavorite brandas of the best judges. E. Martin & Co., 411 Market street, are the Pacific Coast agents for this excellent whisky. They are also agents for the celebrated J. F. Cutter brand of Kentacky Bourbon. These are both popular brands. * S “Idon’t see,” remarked the man who doesn’t know much about such things, “why you two pugilists should scold each other and call names and publicly dislike each other simply because you're matched for s sparring con- test.” “Hump! That shows how little principle some folks has. We gottergive the public some- thing for its money, ain’t we?’—Washington Star. ————— Ir YoU want & good medicine to purify your blood, give merve strength and build up your en- tire system before the advance of the winter sea- son, take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. —_————— LADIES never have any dyspepsia after a wine glass of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters. ————— Ax effective cure for corns that glves comfort to the feet is HINDERCORNS. 15 cents. 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We mentiona few : 1 Glass Butter vish, 1 Glass Sugar Bowl, 8 Preserve Dishes, 1 Decorated Thin China Cup and Saucer, 1 decorated Salad ish, 1 Cap and cer (assorted decorations), 1 Thin China Oatmeal Bowl, 1 Cream Pitcher, Gold Decorated Cup, Saucer and Plate, Dec- orated sei of 3 Water Goblets, Syrup Pitcher, Vegetable Dish, 1 Glass Berry Dish, 1 Majolica Pitcher, 1 Covered Saucepan, 1 Coffee Pot (2 qt.), Oatmeal Set of 3 pieces, set of 3 Table Tumblers, 1 Dish Kettle (6 qts). Lots of others at our stores. Great American Tmporting Tea Co. 617 Kearny street, 146 Ninth street, 965 Market street, 140 Sixth street, 1419 Polk streef, 521 Montgomery avenus, 333 Hayes street, 218 Third street, 2008 Fillmore street, 3008 Sixteenth street, 104 Second street, 2510 Mission street, 52 Market street, 3259 Mission street. 1053 Washington street, 917 Broadway, 131 San Pablo avenu: STORES | 616 E. Twelfth street. Park street and Alamedn Alameda { axente: Visit our Stores. See the Big Display. 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