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

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1895. COMMITTEES APFOINTED, They Will Be Completely Organ- ized Within a Week’s Time. ALL ARE REPRESENTATIVE MEN Work Bearing Upon the Cenvention Will Soon Be Under Way All Over the State. Now that the committee to push the great conv :heme is appointed ana our strength is still swelling in the East, the people of the State have renewed hope in the prospect of winning the good will of the Republican National Committee so that this City will be selected as the ne: ce from which to nominate a Repub- an President. The n meeting held Monday in the Chamber of Commerce one of the best itions that has been advanced for herance of the scheme to get the convention for San Francisco. A great many men who were disposed to question the sincerity of the promoters of the plan are now pretty thoroughly convinced that all who offered to assist from the start meant what they said. T'he selection of Senator Williams as chairman of the meeting gave it the stamp of popular approval, and the committee- men named are of such varied political creeds that the people are convinced that it is thorou non-partisan movement. Republicans, Democrats, silver men and Prohibitionists are found among the lists, and no confusion is likely to arise over the assortment. as all have the same purpose w—to get the convention for San wcisco. Following upon the heelsof the mass- meeting of Monday Chairman Williams vesterday called to confer with him T. T. Williams of the Examiner, M. H. de , Charles M. Short- Carx, Colonel Stone, Alfred Booth, R. A. Friedrich and sever whose & e was Te- quired in the selection of proper commit- teemen. The result of the conference was the naming of representative men to make up the committee authorized by the mass- 0 be appointed by the chair. are as follows: ve committee—Wendell Easton, ). Siebe, James D, Phelan, Raphael Truman, R. A. Friedrich, Al- r, F. A. Dohrmann, G. . W. Foster, Henry J. Crocker, O. 3. R. Lilienthal, George T. inv ¥ Young of the Chronic ridee of Tus on transportation — H. E. C. H. Spears, D. Hitchcock, Zdwin Goodall. firance — E. B. Pond, 3. Marphy, Louis , Colonel George Flood, J. Dalzel! William Haas, | am Alvord, James Committee Huntington, TKCE Stone, C. de Guigne, Brown, Homer S. P. N. Lilienthal, Wil Spear, Colonel William Macdenald, Wil- liam H. Crocker, J. M. Litchfield, Alvert Tobin, I. W. Hellman Jr., Wende!l Easton. | Adolph Su- tro, Mayor; Watkins, president Boaid of Trade: W. H. Dimond, president Chamber of Commerce; F. W. Dohrmann, President Merchants’ Association; W. A. Harrington, president Merchants’ Club; ‘W. A. Holcomb, president of Merchants’ Exchange and Produce Exchange; A. S. Hallidie, president Mechanics’ Institute; Robert G. Homer, president Pacific Stock ; George I. Ives, president San Stock Exchange; Giuseppe president Italian Chamber of Commerce; B. F. Dunham, pres- ident Traffic Association; I. 8. Worm- ser, president Wholesale Grocers’ As- scciation; M. McGlynn, president Labor Council; George C. Hickox, secre- tary Manufacturers’ Association; Albert E. Castle, Half-miilion Club; W. C. Bur- nett, Veterans’ Home ociation; W. R. Smedberg, Colonel C. Mason Kinne, ! Charles E. Wilson, C. Carpy, M. Green- blatt, Hugh Hume. R. A. Crothers, G. F. Cavali, A. Chaigneau, William Bunker, J. Kirkpatrick, William B. Hoover, R. H. Warfield, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Baldwin; Mr. Soule, Lick Hotel; Charles B. Stone, vresident of the United Breweries; Rob- ert Watt, Herman Bendell, C. F. A. Talvott, P. G. McBean, Adam Grant. Claus Spreckels, Mark Sheldon, Charles Webb Howard, J. J. Gottlob, Gustave Walter, Ernestine Kneling, Henry Miller, J. J. O’Brien, Levi Strauss; A. B. Lemmon; Santa Rosa; G. M. Francis, Napa; J. T. Harrington, Colusa; Abe Hackheimer, Willows; N. P. Chip- man, Red Bluff; C. C. Bush, Redding; Frank McGowan, Eureka; J. M. Manor, Ukiah; E. M. Preston, Nevada City; Jacob H. Neff, Colfax; E. C. Voorhees, Sutter Creek; C. D. Lane, Augels Camp; Edwin T. Smith, Sacramento; William Beck- man, Sacramento; Benjamin Langford, Lodi; George B. Sperry, Stockton; A. B. Butler, Fresno; Fulton G. Berry, Fresno; J. W. Davis, Tulare; George F. Weeks, Bakersfield; Frank Rader, Los Angeles; H. Z. Osborne, Los Angeles;2J. J. Gosper, Los Angeles; James Lachlan, Los An- geles; Charles E. Day, Los Angeles: J. R. Matthews, Los Angeles; Scipio Craig, San Bernardino; 8. C. Evans, Riverside; E. 8. Babcock, San Diego; Mr. Gardner, San Diego; Charles Bonnesbee, Ventura; P. J. Barber, Santa Barbara; R. E. Jack, San Luis Obispo; Dr. Thomas Flint Sr., San Juan South; John T. Sullivan, Santa Cruz; O. Hall, San Jose; Samuel N. Rucker, San Jose; Frank McLaughlin, Oroville; John Bidwell, Chico; D. E. Knight, Marysville; C. M. Belshaw, An- tioch; H. H. Pitcher, Livermore; J. L. Beard, Warm Springs; Warren English, Oakland; John P. Irish, Oakland; L. L. Bromwell, Oakland; A. C, Henry, Oakland; J. L. Davie, Mayor of Oakland; James A. Waymire, Alameda. M. H. de Young has very generously tendered the use of room 100 in the Chronicle for the use of the committee for a temporary place of meeting. The ex- ecutive committee will organize to-morrow at3o’clock. The finance committee will Committee of one hundred A Calegaris, organize Friday at the same hour, and the | committee of 100 will organize one week from to-morrow. The seeming delay is caused by the fact that a great many of them live out of San Francisco, and it will | require a week’s time to get notice of meet- ing to these members. They have all been notitied of their selection and at the ap- pointed time it is assured that a majority will be on hand to proceed with the work assigned them by the executive com- mittee. The committee on transportation will organize as scon as possible and the rail- roads will _be waited upon for the lowest pessible rates to California for the delegates and the attaches. X All of the wheels of the convention ma- chinery are moving and the whole State is beginning to help push it along. desired end, and if brains, money and unity:can the prize California will sue- ceed in this case. Daily the subscription list increases, yet the work of conciuding the ceremony of getting what we are after has not yet begun. — CONVENTION FUND TO DATE. The subscription still goes on increasing, and there are many sources to be heard from yet. To-day it stands: PREVIOUS SUBSCRIPTIONS, New Subscriptions. 874,520 T. B. BISHOP. ... $250 H. MILLER 5 250 J. J. O’'BRIEN & CO. 200 100 100 100 100 OTTO NORMAN 50 ARPAD HARASZTHY FRANK'S BILLIARD PARLOR. TOTAL. = OUR STRONG ALLIES. State Papers Behind San Franciscoina Solid Body. Now that everybody is agreed on the impor- tance of indueing the convention to California everybody should assist Southern California in ralsing & respectable share of the convention fund. n Francisco is raising the fund now: she may have it completed by this time next week. Ten thousand aollars subscribed by Southern California in the next few days will receive more notice, make a deeper impression and give us more influ an £100,000 sub- scribed after all the money required has been secured. Do not stand back and wait for the next fel- low to put his name down for something, but subscribe what you can afford and subscribe it at once without reference to other One-hundred-dollar subscriptions are good, thousand-dollar subscriptions are better, but all subseriptions, whether they be for §1 or $1000, are good and will be appreciated by all loyal Californians for the spirit that inspires them. It is not expected thata few people will carry the burden, but that many will take it up and thus make it lighter for each.—Los Angeles Herald. Why cannot proceedings’of a convention be telegraphed Esst from the West as well as vice versa? When General Grant landed safely at San Francisco from the Orient the world knew it an hour afterward. The Republican Na- tional Convention should be held in San Fran- cisco for the good of the party and the West. If the Peeific Coast is to be ignored in all pub- lic matters much longer it won't be long before it will eut no figure where conventions are held. Chieago is jealous of San Francisco, and B ests h ing the Republican National Con- vention in Alaska. Pacific States delegates might prefer Esquimaux hospitality in Sitka to those chilling zephyrs off the lake, alt nated with Chicago gall and torrid sunrays.— Wheatland Four Corners, There seems to be a good chance for San Francisco to get the Republican National Con- vention. The gusrantee fund growing rapidly, and the fight for the const looks i able. Editor Shortridze of THE CALL has just returned from the East, and says we are bound togetit. This is good news, and it is to be hoped his prophecy will prove correct.—Cali- fornian, Bakersfield. It is safe to predict that this coast will have the National Republican Convention in 1896, From a financial standpoint, and that is what talks, San Francisco’s competitors are out of the fight, and the prize must come to the West. Is there any good reason why it should not?—Benicia New Era. is Nearly $70,000 has been subscribed by San Francisco toward bringing the big convention to the metropolis of the great West. She is doing honor to herself, and on the 10th of next month we hope to see her rewarded, as on that date the place for holding the convention will be decided.—Brentwood Enterprise. OTHER ENCOURAGEMENT. What the Eastern Papers Think of San Francisco. A 1to location Chie Pittsburg and San Francisco are the only s that have received serous consideration, although St. Louis, Cleveland and Cincinnati are expected to offer bids also. The San Francisco people have thus far made the most earnest efforts to secure the convention, and have been sending persuasive agents to all the members of the National Com- mittee and others who have influence, en- deavoring to secure their support. They have also carried on an active correspondence, and claim to have aiready obtained pledges from nearly a majority. The argument they use is that the far West has always given a loyal sup- port to the Republican ticket, but has never received any compensation. It has never kad a candidate, and only once the presiding officer of a Republican convention, and just now, when there is so much dissatisfaction in the mountain States aud on the Pacific Slope with the financial poliey of the party, some- thing ought to be done to stimulate interest and awaken enthusiasm The matter most tully discussed at the New York dinner was the place of the next Repub- lican National Convention. Senator Quay spoke warmly in behalf of Pittsburg, and told how much the people there would do in the way of bearing the expenses of the convention. Mr. Filley was equaily set upon having the convention come to St. Louis, as neutral grouna, so far as candidates are concerned. Tanner, naturally, was for Chicago, but the man listened to with most interest was Short- | ridge, from California, who expatiated upon the claims and attractions of San Francisco, which promises to make the expenses of dele- gates no more burdensome than would be the cost in any other city, save only in the way of time. Itwould make a three weeks' journey for the Eastern and Southern delegates. This, however, would be largely compensated by the great political gain of a solid Republican Pa- cific Coagt.—Philadelphia Times, _ The Union League Club of S8an Francisco has offered to subscribe $25,000 for the entertain- mentof the Republican convention, the San Franeisco Chronicle has offered to put up $7500, THE CALL $5000, and the Examiner $1000. The Palace Hotel will chip In $2000. It must be admitted that the San Francisco people are using the right sort of argument.—Enquirer, | Buffalo. 3 San Francisco had the advantage of having secured direct pledges from seventeon or eighteen of the members of the committee, and besides that was raising money with g layish hand.—Chicago Tribune. : The shouting for San Francisco as the next convention city is still heard.—Times, Rich- mond. Ax ExcrisH Guspowper Facrory.—The royal gunpowder factory at Waltham, | England, bears more of the appearance of | a pleasure resort than of the prosaic plant that such a purpose involves. The fac- tory covers in all its branches a beautiful stretch of wooded land, some 400 acres in extent, intersected by four miles of run- ning streams. Electrie launches ply be- tween the different buildings, while car- goes of explosives are conveyed by sail barges, so as to reduce the iability to danger to 2 mivimum. The threshold of the *‘danger building” is barred with a board, which not even the in- spector may . step over without hav- mg a special pair of large overboots put on his foot to keep his shoes from taking grit from outside upon the felt carpet. Once every week there is an ex- plosion within the grounds, which is heard for many miles along the countryside. In one Enn of the grounds is a pond into which the water from the nitro-glycerine factory is drained. This. extraordinary lake is exploded every Saturday with a dynamite cartridge to prevent too great an accumulation of waste nitro-glycerine. Sometimes there is already so much in the Nothing will be left undone to gain the water that holes twenty feet deep are made and the water 1s all blown away. T0 CARRYSTORM WATERS Practical Hints for Constructing ‘New and Improving Old Sewers. OPINIONS OF AN EXPERT. Civil Engineer William P. Humphreys Suggests Some -Apropos Muni- cipal Reforms. Coming from such an expert as William P. Hamphreys, civil engineer, inhe follow- ing opinions on the City sewer system, both as regards its ordinary and storm- water carrying service, wonld seem par- ticularly apropos at this season and will doubtless be read with special interest: Our sewers have been and are still being constructed to carry both the storm waters and the house sewerage. As we have little or no rain for at least seven months of the year, and as there is not'a sufficient amount of house sewerage during the dry season to create a cur- rentin the large sew t generally remains 1o accumulate with the dirtand sand passing into the same from the street, thus making an elongated cesspool of the sewer, choking the same and hrecdpiuzdlscme and pestilence. To obviate all this, and at the same time bell, 8. A. A., T. Delmas, A, Nissen, Acme, and J. M. Can 65 yards; J. F. § ; ., M. A. 5 G T C i WiNae sohetsid, unattached, 70 yards; E. A. Moody, G. C. C., and T. S. Hall, B. C. W., 75 yards. First four in each heat to ride in final. One mile handicap, class A: Heat one—! M. Byrne, 1. C. C., scratch; J. E. Wing, 8. J. C., and 0.C.W. and E, Chapm: 25 vards lloushb& P.V. W, 45; H ssions, 70; G. W. Tantau, 0. C. G. D. C., 100; A. Smith, C. , nattachea, 120; attached. 135. Heat two—H. Downing. G. C. C., scrateh; J. E. Edwards, 0. C. W., 15 yards: L. 8. Leavitt, §.F. R.C.,30; P, R. Mott, R. A. C., 40; A. 8§ McDougall, Acme, 45; V. A. Benson,G. C. C., 70: Cbarlés Birdall, C. G, C.. 80; R.H. Ham: monds, 8. J. R. C.. 90 R. Hoge, 8. J. R. C., and T, V- Boyd, C.¢.'c,, 100} R. E.Walter, G.C.C., 120. Heat three—F. A. Mckarland, 8. J. R. C., seratch; N. Ackerman V.W., 10 yards; H. B. Freeman, B.C. W., 25} &. B. Vincent, B.'C. W.. P. M. Lefevre, F. First three in each heat and fourth in fastest heat toride in final. The aboveis the arrange- ment of heats as sugeested by the official bandieapper. The entries for the two scratch events to be run on that day have already been pub- lished. The handicaps for Saturday’s races will not be announced till next Friday after that day’s racing. The present rain will not postpone the races, as the track at San Jose is of cement and dries thoroughl within half an hour after a shower. All the entrants are now in active training at | the track and the Eastern riders are show- ing remarkatle speed. Their presence will draw an immense crowd, and the racing promises to be the best ever seen in this State. A large crowd of enthusiasts will g0 to San Jose from here Friday morning, and those who cannot leave then will go down Saturday. Nod, Wew Work. For Now work both Cireular and, Eqg shape Sewers carvbe wsed. Culve rts- not skhowre. provide an efficient and sewerage during the er venr, I propose, in | districts which are not yet sewered, that a de- parture from the usual cusiom be adopted on the following plan, which may be modified or not, as circumstances may require, and which | ean’ also be applied for thu Teliét of sewers | already constructed. Of this I shall speak hereafter. When & body of storm waters have to be | taken care of I would coustruct a storm-water sewer of concrete, or of one course of brick and | the remainder of ‘concrete and counect all eul- | verts with it. In the bottom of this sewer I | would lay a pipe sewer of sufficient size, con- | nect the house pipes with the same, and cover | with s thick coat of concrete conforming to | said large sewer, but leaving openings in the | Dipe sewer at convenient distances to examine | and clean said pipe sewer when necessary, the openings being closed except when used. | By the above plan I can build & better and stronger sewer for thirty-three (33) per cent less cost than under the present system. I give Dy this method en éffective’system of | house sewerage at all periods of the year and | in a1l conditions. The main sewer may Auring the dry season become choked. and in the wet season may overtiow from said choking, but the house sys- | tem being separate continiues to be effective | under all conditions. The closing of the storm sewer, above al- luded to, can be prevented, as the catch basins throughout the dry season can. in nearly all seasons, be closed and thusthe dirt and vege- | table matter which accumulates therein dur- | ing the summer months is kept from_entering | the storm_ sewer, which is veutillated through | the perfornted manhole coverts, and many ot the bad_odors which ‘now arise from the | sewers and render the crossings objectionable | would 1o Jonger exist and the sewer wouid be clean and ready for the winter rains. | Again by the above method I connect the | house sewer pipes lower down than those un- | der the present system—thus sllowing for deeper cellars where desired and giving greater velocity in the When it may conomical system of | ipes. %gdeemed objectionable to dis- Will Knippenberg has returned to Los Angeles nn(“ will follow the racing circuit all over the southern part of the State. The California Cyching Club elected the following officers at its regular meeting last Monday evening: J. W. Harvey, presiaent; president; H. F. Wynne, seeretary: Adam’ Karl, treasurer; H. Mayo, captain; I Egeberg, first lieutenant: F. Struven, sécond lieutenant £. Erbe, bugler; C. Birdsall, color-bearer; D. Bent, E. Wiiberg and R, 8. Allen, house com: 5. W. Burett, vice- | mittee. The election was close and exciting, there being several candidates in the field for nearly every office. In therace for sec- ond lieutenant the vote was a tie four times between F. Struven and William | Reid. On the last ballot one of Reid’s supporters went out and he lost by one vote. The club’s road race, postponed from Jast Sunday on account of rain, will be run off on November 17. Secretary Wynne is quite ill at his home. President Harvey is away on a vacation. TRUTHS ABOUT ORINA. Margherita Arlina Hamm Tells Whut She Knows of the Missionaries. Margherita Arlina Hamm of New York was honored last week by the Writers' Club of London with the office of honorary vice-president, in company with Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Correlli and Lady Colin Campbell, for her labors as a war correspondent in the late Korean-Japa- | nese-Chinese war. Miss Hamm made many wonderful trips through China and understands the people and the language probably better that any other Ameri- Nole i - Relicf of District now Sewered. e 5 Cross Section or Bre & proposed. Fepe S Cudrerts CA Sepver Jewer reol shgmr - charge the storm waters and the house sewer- age at the same point I can divert either of the sewers so that their outlets will be at differ- ent places. This may be desirable in certain districts. For the lm(rrovemem of the ald sewers of this City, T would introduce a pipe-sewer of suitable size 'in the bottom of the large brick sewers, and on a true grade connect the house with the smaller sewer, and ihen have an efficientservice for the houses at all times—the storm water being allowed to pass off’ through the larger sewer. If this plan were adopted and carried ott in the large brick sewers of this City, it wonid be of great value and give permanent relief to celiars and basements, especially to those in the low-lyiog districts along the water-front and east of Montgomery street. It would cor- rect faulty housepipe connections and give deeper cellars at a minimum cost. If necessary, the lower part of the storm-water sewer, from the house inlet down and over the sewer-pipe | can be lined with six inchesof concrete, con- | forming to the main sewer at a cost, including sewer-pipe, house connections and concrete, of iml. more than 60 cents per front foot of cach ot To more fully illustrate my plans, I hereto append sketches No. 1 and No. 2. WILLIAM P. HUMPHREYS, C. E. San Franeisce, v. 5, 18! RACES AT SAN JOSE. Handicap Events at the Garden City Cyclers' National Meet. R. A. Smyth, the official handicapper of the League of American Wheelmen for this State, has arranged the following handi- caps and heats for the two handicap events to be run at the first day's meet of the Gar- den City Cyclers at San Jose next Friday: Two-thirds of a mile, handicap, class B: Heat one—E. C. Bald, P.C. C., serateh; C. Ww., 20 W. Cooper, F. Foster, C. W 50{ . , 35 yards; C. 8. Wells, B. C_ ; R. Cushing, G. C. C., 60 yards; Aylward, Acme, 65 yards; R.E. Dow, G. 70 yards. two—W. A. Terrill, B. C.W., 50 yards; G. can woman. She has_been fizonflg in- terested in the recent riots in Ku-Cheng, as she visited that city while exploring the southern provinces, and made some careful analyzation of the laws, habits and doings of the people. The position of the missionaries she considers very dangerous. She said anent the late riots and massa- cres: “The massacre at Kuchow is one of those frightful_events which can only in China. ~ Ku-Cheng is & pretty city within 100 miles from Foo-Choo, and has long been a favorite station for the Ameri- can, English and other missionary so- cieties. They have done good work there and aresaid to have several Lundred con- verts. On several occasions they have been threatened by ‘the mob, as mission- aries in that land “often are, but nothing varticularly bad or cruel has_occurred in that locnm{ for many years. In the imme- diate neighborhood, however, there have been many outrages from time to time. ‘1 am familiar with that part of China,” said Miss Hamm, “‘and had a good oppor- tunity to study these people of Fokien province. Those around Amoy are very quiet and peaceable, but those in the neighborhood of Foochow have long been noted for their turbulency and crue{xt . 1t is only a few years ago that they started a Tiot on aceount of an objectionable Salt Commissioner, in which they seized the official’s only son, who bad just graduated with the highest "honors in the imperial examinations, nailed him to a door alive, uartered and plastered him with salt rom his father’s storehouse. In another district, at the same time, they buried a number of men alive up to their neck, and then painted their heads with molasses to attract the flies and ants, which ate the miserable wretches to death. ~‘Strangely enough, women have had Imore success in converting these people than men. So much so that the mission- ary body in that district is lo—dlf\&morv feminine than masculine. Of the different | New, the cemetery being full, the Duke o | Cambridge, in his capacity as the ranger of leading societies the Americans have about twenty male missionaries and twenty-five females. The English have about twenty male and fifty female. The largest body is the Church of England Zenona Mission, which bas in the neighborhood of about forty devout and industrious young Eng- | lish'women there at work. No less than four of these, who huve been several years | laboring in that neighborhood, have’ paid the penalty, 'I'wo others—the Misses Saun- ders, if I remember right—were bright and Ppretty Australian girls, who had only been there a short time trying to spread the gospel among the heathen. Sometimes I fancy it 1s wrong to send our women out there. While the Chinese are peaceable and orderly as a rule, the_ Chinese mob once excited is the vilest and most blood- thirsty !hmg in the world. The terrible fate which these women_ have suffered— dishonor and torture and death—is what is }:Il:ile to all women missionaries in that *“What is needed in the present case is a demonstration by the great powers that will compel the Chinese Government to make a rigid example of every human being who took part in the massacre at Ku-Cheng. The only thing there is to do is to behead every person who took. part in the outrage. Criminal law in China is very simple. Every minor offense can be | expiated by a fine, or a bribe, or both. | Every larger offense is punishable with death. No other course has the slightest effect upon the popular imagination. Decper than all this, and one of the quee: est things in the world, is the extraordi nary fact that the Chinese people use the riot as the political agency of great po- tency. *‘In their system of government, to use American terms, the Governor of a State | is responsible for all that happens in that | State, the Mayor of city forall in the city, | the Alderman of a ward for all in his ward | and the captain of an election district for all in his district, “Ifa serious riot breaks out in his dis- trict the captain is degraded, disgraced or beheaded; break out in a_ward, the Alder- mau; if in the city, the Mayor, and if in a State, the Governor. This being the law, whenever any official becomes too tyran- nical or corrupt the people get up a riot. This is done cold-bloodedly, and nearly every detail is arranged beforehand. Very often the houses that are to be burned are marked one week in advance, and a simi- lar programme is put on foot in regard to the people to be kilied. *‘The present riov probably is of this class in addition to its being anti-Christian and anti-foreign in character. This hay- ing been a larger riot than usual, and hav- ing been directed against foreigners, who are 100 times more important than a Chi- nese subject, it is fair to presume that Ku- Cheng is suffering from the malgovern- ment of a Tai-Tai, a Tao-Tai, a Hai-Fang- Fing or a Fan-Tai, these fowr officials corresponding to a district commander-in- | chief, a prefect, a county judge and a county treasurer. “Such is the civilization which these heroic women are endeavoring to reform and Christianize. They have a larger task than had the disciples 2000 years ago, and like the disciples they are suiféring the stripes, the tortures and the ignominious death which were awarded the founders of our faith.””—New York Recorder. 2 S For nearly forty years there has been a dog’s burying-ground at the north end of | Hyde Park, London. Here people have been allowed to bury their canine favor- ites, and many of the dead doggies have been honored” with small tombstones. Hyde Park, has closed it and pet-lovers are seeking a new cemetery for their dumb iriends. e Henry Miller and Charles Lux, natives of the Rbenish provinces of Germany, and now cattlemen of the Pacific Coast, own more than 14,000,000 acres of land in the United States. Their property is four times the area of Alsace-Lorraine and twice as large as Belgium. —————— _By the Queen’s wish the room in Ken- sington palace where her Majesty was born and which was closed for years has been renovated so as to present the exact appearance it did in 1819, | Monday, took the oath of office yesterday, | | sition to any person has been made on my | giance to_no one person, but to the whole |c. | not as yet received any notification from TOOK AN OATH OF OFFICE. C. S. Young Installed as Super- intendent of Common Schools. WILL ASK AN INJUNCTION. The Auditor to Be Restrained From Issuing Babcock a Salary Warrant. Hon. C. 8. Young, who was appointed to the office of Superintendent of Common Schools by the Board of Supervisors last and will within the next few days file the | necessary bonds and enter iuto the official | duties which accompany his office. “A demand will be made upon Mr. Bab- cock for the office within a day or so,” said Mr. Young last evening, “and ii he de- clines to surrender quo warranto proceed- ings will be instituted against him, and the matter will thus be taken into the courts. “‘Before the end of the month proceed- ings will be commenced for the issuance of a writ of mandate restraining the Auditor from issuing a warrant for the salary which accompanies the office until the question of who 1s legally entitled to the office, Mr. Babcock or myself, has been de= termined. “‘As to any proposed changes in the per- sonnel of the offices in the event that my appointment is sustained by the courts,” continued Mr. Young, “I can say that one thing is certain, and that is that my deputy will not be without experience as a teacher. ““As everybody knows, the Superinten- dent outlines a school policy, and his deputy carries it out. Of course I have never had the supervising of the work of a thousand teachers, but I have had to| supervise the work of from fifty to 100 teachers at one time, and consequently have some idea of what is required. ‘It will be most gratifying to enter the office untrammeled by promises. Not even the suggestion of 2 promise of a po- part. I was appointed by no f: party, no one party, no sectarian clique, not even by the Republican party alone, but by Republicans and Democrat: out reference to party politics, religion nor anything else except the best interests of the schools. “Of course I feel pleased and highly | complimented over such expression of | confidence on the part of representatives of all classes and now feel that I owe alle- Eenple. I now feel it my duty to make the est battle possible to secure the position | for which I was indorsed by the thousands f votes at the last electionand by the only legislative body in this City and County on last Monday.” “In regard to the appointment of Mr. 8. Young,” said Mr. Babcock, con- testant for the office of Superintendent of | Common Schools, “I will say that I have | the Board of Supervisors, and all the in- formation I have received has been through the Board of Education and the press. “I have not yet determined what action | Ishall take in the matter, and probably shall take none, as I consider that it is| merely a lecal technicalty between the Board of Education and the Board of Su- pervisors. *“The School Department is in chazge of the Board of Education, and it seems to | me that, as the whole City government is | running under the charter known as the consohdation act, and not under the county government cct, the validity of | ! | pards it as a cardinal virtue. Mr. Younrfg‘s appointment can be easily questioned. ““f am not versed in the: law,” continued Mr. $Babcock, ‘‘but at the same time I am cognizant of the fact that the county government act would give the power to appoint a susenm:en- dent of Schools to the Board of Education, | but it seems to me that the consolidation act creates both boards, and that if the act does not pertain to this matter neither board is legally constituted, i “Itisa conflict between two legislative bodies of the City government, and also a question which shall manage the schools— the Board of Education or the Board of Su- pervisors—and itis a technicality which sets right at the very foundation of prin- ciples in educational affairs.” HE SHAVES HIMSELF. The Man Who Does That Brags on His Razor. Atlanta Constitution. The man who shaves himself is a rather annoyine individual. He persists in talking about it. He re- He thinks that it is the very basis of ‘economy. He expects great returns from it, not only in this world, but in the one to coms. Each of the several million seif-shavers in the world is the possessor of the best razor that was ever made. “Yes, sir, I shave mysell,”” said one of these proud men yesterday, speaking toa group of gentlemen in the Kimball; “‘shave myself. I've got the finest razor in the world—I make no exceptions—and I can shave myself in two minutes by the watch. Ican shave myself in the dark and you wouldn’t know but that the smoothest barber in town did the job. “‘Long time ago, before I was civilized, I used to let a barber shave me. He hacked my face all up, pinched me, put all sorts of foul water on mg head, chalked my face, lathered it with big, coarse soap and shayed me with a razer that you could sit on without discomfort. “I decided that it was all idiocy, my getting a barber to shave me. I went into a hardware-store and told the clerk 1 wanted a razor. He brought down a frail- looking little thing and asked me $1 for it. I bought it. It was the only one he showed mé. Well, sir, that’s the best razor ever made. You could not duplicate it for $1500. I’'m almost as deeply devoted to it as to my wife. I shave every morning—do t in two minutes—save 15 cents every pop. t’s waste—inexcusable waste and extrava- gance—for a man to have himself shaved at a barber-shop. No wonder so many men are poor.” He walked off proudly. “I remember when that fellow took up shaving,” said a bystander. “He was so proud, of his new economy that he took up cigars and the habit of taking his lunch downtown. [I’ll bet that shaving fad of his has cost him not less than $10 a month since he took it up.”’ e Died With His Chum. In the reminiscences of General Sir Eve- lyn Wood, himself a brave English soldier, a touching instance of courage and self- sacrifice is given. One June day in 1855 a detachment of English marineswere cross- ing the Woronzow road under fire from the Russian batteries. All of the men reached shelter in the trenches except a seaman, John Blewitt. Ashe was running a ter- rific roar was heard. His mates knew the voice of a huge cannon, the terror of the army, and yelled : “Look out! It is Whistling Dick!” But at the moment Blewitt was struck by the enormous mass of iron on the knees and thrown to the ground. He called to his especial chum: +0 Welch ! save me!” he fuse was hissing, but Stephen Welch ran out of the trenches and seizing the great shell tried to roll it off his comrade It exploded with such terrific force that not an atom of the bodies of Blewitt or Welch was. found. Even in that time, when each hour had its excitement, this deed of heroism stirred the whole English army. 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