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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 189 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier.$0.15 Dally and Sunday CALI, ove year, by wail... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six mouths, by mall 3.00 DallyandSunday CALL, three mouths, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by wail .65 £unday Car1, one vear, by mail. W XxXLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Streer, : San Francisco, California. Selephon e Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ..Maln—187¢ BRANCH OFFICES: £°CMontgomery sireet, corner 0 o'clock. '£¢ Haves street : open until 8:30 o'clock. 18 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW . corner Sixteeuth and Mission streets; open ®xtil 6 o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock 316Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. open natil OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —e Free trade is no longer an issue, The next election will be an ultimatum. ‘There is no need for Democracy to ex- plain the thing. Don't fail to see the German festival; there is pleasure for yon there. Politics is all one way, but it isthe right way, and there is no kick coming. For the rest of his term the great Grover ill be very little more than a bump ona log. Don’t forget to make your subseription to the convention fund before the week closes. Inspector Dockery’s fight is getting to be & good deal hotter than a milk shake ought to be. It is evident there is a new broom in the street-cleaning contractor’s office for it sweeps clean. It is a pity we cannot adopt the French fashion and have a novelty in cabinets at this juncture. If Cleveland is equal to the situation he will make his next message a funeral ser- mon on his part It is evident that a tariff system that protects our industries is the kind the peo- ple intend to protect. The principle of America for Americans ought certainly to be broad enough to in- clude Cuba for the Cubans. The Sultan of Turkey is a very promis- ing reformer, but we know in this country what promising reformers are. It is useless to discuss whether Cleve- landism killed Democracy or Democracy killed Clevelandism since both are dead. England should be given to understand right now that the revolution in Venezuela is a buzzsaw she must not monkey with. Every Republican statesman should re- gard it as a part of his duty to the country to visit the great West and study its needs. East, South and West there is nothing visible of Democracy but the Tammany tiger, the Mississippi bulldozer and Boss Buckley. Now that Marlborough has got on to the ducats with both feet we shall hear no more of the report that he is shorter than his bride. The true explanation of the collapse is that as the Democrats had to carry Cleve- land they could not possibly carry any- thing else. In the Massachusetts question, ‘“Shall women vote?” am interest seems to be taken by everybody in the country except the women of Massachusetts. All of National politics left to discuss now is where to hold the Republican Con- vention and whether it would be advisa- ble to make it a short campaign. There is liable to bea ruction between Texas and Georgia before long, for Dallas is clamorously insisting that her fair is better than the Atlanta Exposition. The next Democratic candidate for the Presidency will have to be a rich man. Without a platform, a policy or a leader the party must at least have a barrel. As there can hardiy be any fight left in David Bennett Hill, Cleveland has the op- portunity of his life to renominate Horn- blower to the Supreme Court and win. We haye not whelly got rid of De- mocracy yet. Cleveland can block the path of progress and go fishing at the expense of the Nation for sixteen months longer, Now that the elections are over and the Marlborough wedding is out of the way there is nothing to obscure the view of the National Convention and Thanksgiving day. They were talking about enforcing a Sunday-closing law in Chicago, but the conversation will probably be changed as the news from New York was not reassur- ing. ‘Washington City has long been in need of a great family hotel, and now that a New York syndicate has promised to give her one at a cost of $2,000,000 she feels capital, Gold bars to the value of more than $5,000,000 have been withdrawn recently from the United States treasury by jew- elers who are preparing for the holiday trade. Christmas is coming. The latest impertinent criticism on our customs from a casual visitor comes from the cousin of Marlborough, who told a New York interviewer, *‘Youseem to think a good deal more of titles in America than we do.” The fact that a New York caterer has imported a large number of quail from Cairo may be accounted among the curiosi- ties of trade. Who would have thought that this country had any need of import- ing game from old Egypt? Btories of the great drought in the East continue to come in. The latest is that in some parts of Maine farmers have to drive their cows five miles to water, and find it almost impossible to get water enough {rom their wells for family use. EARNESTNESS WILL WIN, Two very interesting elements, aside from those of a more familiar order, have been introduced into the fight to bring the Republican National Convention to San Francisco. One is the organization of Californians in Eastern cities and the other is the stepping forth of leading women to take a hand in the effort. Thus far the Californians in Boston, who are organized in a club, have been the only ones who have moved in the Eastern end of the fight, but their example will likely prove infections. In any event, the com- mittees here have a suggestion as to what might be accomplished in this way. If the numerous wealthy and influential Cali- fornians who are now in New York should proceed as the Californians in Boston a valuable assistance would be had. The Women’s Republican State Central Club, with headquarters in San Francisco, has already held a meeting and pledged itself to prodnce $500. This will be help- ful, but in fixing the amount at only $500 the club seems to be underestimating its power and the value of its example. However, the fact that women have come into the fight is the main consideration, and every woman in the State might profit by the example which this club has set. All over the State there are women’s clubs which might with perfect consistency throw their influence into the scales, and besides them are innumerable individual women of great personal influence who could accomplish wonders if they would. The Women’s Republican State Central Club would be an appropriate center for the exercise of all this activity. So far we have not seen the name of a single wealthy woman in the list of subscribers to the fund. Here is an excellent opportunity for missionary work. Another matter which the public will take pleasure in watching with a great deal of interest wiil be the attitude of shady politicians of all political parties in the premises. On the assumption that the general political tone of the State would be raised by the holding of a National con- vention here, it can hardly be expected that those who make depraved politics a business will be eager to assist the move- ment. The subscription list, therefore, will serve as a useful guide for the future if this assumption is correct. CONGRESS AND OLEVELAND. Great as have been the indorsements given to the Republican party by the Na- tional elections last year and the recent State elections, the form of our Govern- ment is such that we must wait full sixteen months longer for the incoming of a Re- publican a«%ministration to carry out a thorough Republican policy. Cleveland will be able, by the aid of the minority in the House and in the Senate, to block the way of legislative reform until March 4, 1897, and for that length of time the coun- try will have to put up with such relief from the deficit tariff as he is willing to admit. It is not likely, however, that this condi- tion of affairs will check the ardor of the Republicans in Congress in undertaking the work expected of them. Senator Sher- man outlined the Congressional policy which the people expect in saying: “We will provide the remedy for legislative evil. It will be along Republican lines, and if the President does not accept, the respon- sibility will rest with him, not with us.” This policy will, of conrse, izvolye a con- test on the tariff, but it 1s better the con- test should come and the responsibility for deficient revenues be fixed indelibly upon the Democratic administration, or else the administration be forced to surrender. Free trade must be made odious in this country. It is not enough to defeat it. The evil of it must be made so clear and plain that never again in this generation will any political party undertake a free- trade agitation against American indus- tries. The tariff, however, is not the only issue on which Congress will have a conflict with the administration. It is certaina Congressional investigation will be made of the bond dicate scandal, and it is more than likely that disclosures will be made involving the Cleveland Cabinet in something more than a blunder. So far as the country can see now, the secret con- tract by twhich so many millions passed into the hands of a set of bankers was an act approaching such a misdemeanor in office as merits impeachment. Congress certainly owes it to the country to carry out such an investigation as will make all the facts of this extraordinary proceeding known and fasten the responsibility of the dishonor upon cvery man concerned in ir, whether he acted as an official in Wash- ington or @ schemer in Wall street. A third cause of conflict with the admin- istration lies in the foreign policy, which has been conducted without regard to American interests or the dignity of the Nation. In Alaska, in Bering Sea, in Cen- tral America, in Venezuela, in Cuba and m Madagascar, incidents have occurred showing a weak submissiveness on the part of the administration to aggressions committed by Great Britain, France and Spain. These offenses have been noted with impatience by the people of this country and the unpatriotic course of Cleveland in permitting them without even a protest has been one of the most potent causes of the crushing defeat of the party that elected him and sustains him. Congress will certainly demand an ex- vlanation of this policy, and another dis- honor will be fixed where it belongs. If from these investigations and con- flicts there results a stormy session the country will have no occasion to regret it. The lesson of Clevelandism shounld be made as unmistakable and as emphatic as possible. Actual impeachment as the Sen- ate stands at present is out of the question, but Congress can lay bare the facts that constitute a basis for impeachment and leave the rest to the people at the coming election. VAN NESS AVENUE The vexed question of the proper paving of Van Ness avenue has again come to the front. The few progressive spirits who are laboring energetically to effect its settlement are meeting with considerable success. This fact is all the more credita- ble in view of the opposition which they have encountered at the hands of some resident millionaires who own large bodies of land in the desolate sandhills at the northern extremity of the avenue. Several energetic and public-spirited prop- erty-owner on the avenue, have called at- tention toa disgraceful circumstance which refiects seriously on the municipal govern- ment. This is that the United States Government several years ago improved Lombard sireet from the Presidio to the prolongation of Van Ness avenue on the understanding that the City would take charge of the street and keep it in repair. ‘The paving (an excellent piece of macad- amizing) cost the Government $7000 or $8000. The City has never donea thing toward keeping its agreement, and has permitted the street to suffer all the injury which neglect would bring. The Government’s manifest interest in the matter was to secure a good outlet from the Presidio to the City. It has already at very great expense constructed the splendid Presidio drive known as Mec- Dowell avenue, which winds through the Presidio for many miles and constitutes the one picturesque drive that the people of the City are permitted to enjoy. The Gov- ernment has always kept this drive open to the public, and in maintaining it in per- fect order annnally expends a great deal of money. It was the Government’s idea, while furthering its own convenience, to extend this public benefit by co-operating with the City in combining McDowell ave- nue, Lombard street and Van Ness avenue in one grand boulevard, which in turn would open upon Golden Gate Park, and s0 with Golden Gate avenue complete a grand circle. The City has shown nothing like the en- terprise and appreciation of the benefits of this scheme that the Government has ex- hibited , nor have its people, while enjoy- ing the benefits of a scheme which the genius of General Miles conceived, made the slightest move to perfect it until a handful of property-owners at the north- ern end of Van Ness avenue stepped to the frort and began the hard fight against the millionaire property-owners who opposed them. Now that the work has been begun it is hoped that the City authorities will do their duty in the premises. As the best thoroughfare for reaching the northern water front, Van Ness avenue hasa value which few seem to appreciate. Another excellent suggestion made is is that the great width of the avenue permits of its whole length being adorned with a strip of grass and verdure down the center. " As foliage is so rare in San Francisco and as it is always so valu- able an attraction to a city, this suggestion should be considered in the general plan of paving the avenue to the water’s edge and making it part of the great boulevard. SEIZURE OF PROPERTY. A curious illustration of an unnatural condition of affairs is presented at Ala- meda. As usual, the story has two sides. One is that the extension of the Laundry Farm Railroad through Alameda to the tidal canal contemplates the forcible push- ing of the road across the property of a man named Hebard without his consent, that the Southern Pacific Company isreally back of the job, and that Hebard has to stand day and night armed with a shot- gun to prevent the outrage. The other side is that there is no such intention on the part of the railroad, and that Hebard is a squatter and has no right to the pos- session which he asserts. ‘Whatever may be the merits of these stories, it is a notorious fact that railway companies oiten secure a right of way by forcible or stealthy means, and that the law virtually upholds them in the theft. Over and over in this City the Market- street Railway Company has taken un- warranted possession of the streets in the dead of night and had tracks laid and cars running before daylight. Then the company felt secure. If the City authori- ties should make a contest at all it would be in the courts, which, as a rule, the rail- way company does not fear, and which in any event would be a slow process, and, meanwhile, the company enjoys the in- definite illegal use of the highway. In view of these facts it seems a natural pre- sumption that the Southern Pacific is be- hind the Alameda scheme, and the people there commonly believe this to be the fact. In order to show this community that the authorities may not with impunity re- move a track that has been illegally laid or that is illegally operated the Sutter- street Railway Company has brought a suit for heavy damages against ex-Mayor Ellert and ex-Superintendent of Streets Ackerman for tearing up the rails of the Bush-street line, which was notoriously operated in violation of the terms of the franchise, and which therefore had no right to occupy the street. There is dan- ger that these gentlemen will be made to suffer unless the citizens come to their rescue and make a hard fight. The interests of the defendants in this case are of secondary consideration. Should the railway company win the suit a precedent will have been established of very great importance to the City. Those public officers acted in the exercise of | what they conceived to be their duty toward the City. They were ably advised, and there never has been the least suspi- cion of an unworthy motive on their part. Nor has there ever been any doubt that they were right and were acting strictly within the law. Their action, as officers of the City, was the action of the City and of its people, and hence the people are the real defendants in this case, and very serious rights which they claim are threatened. Beyond all this is the manifestly absurd proposition that while a railway company may seize a rightof way by force or stealth there is no prompt redress and rarely any redress at all. It 1s an amazing shame that a citizen of this country, finding no protection from the law and its officers, must stand guard over his property with a shotgun and maintain his plainest right only by threats to kill if they are tres- passed upon. This seems to be a very good time for looking more closely into this matter. Perhaps it might be well to bring such cases within the jurisdiction of the criminal courts. —_— PERSONAL. Benator Linder of Tulare is at the Lick. Achibald Yell of Hanford is at the Grand, R. P. Latnrop, a merchant of Hollister, is at the Grand. B. Cussick, & lumber man of Chico, is a guest. at the Grand. Norman Rideout, & banker of Marysville, isa guest at the California. F. A.Schneider, a big land-owner of College Park, is staying at the Lick. P. J. McCormick, a contractor of Los Angeles, registered at the Lick yesterday. Frank L. Coombs, a leading attorney of Napa, is & guest at the Celifornia. C. 8. Mellin of the Mellin Food Company of New Haven, Conn., is at the Palace. De Courcey Forbes, formerly president of the New York Jockey Club, is at the Palace. John G. Follanshee arrived in town yesterday from his ranch in Mexico and registered at the Palace. U. S. Gregory, Sheriff of Amador County, came in from Jackson yesterdey and put up at the Grand. Ed Corrigan, the well-known horseman, ar- rived from Chicago yesterday and registered at the Baldwin. Julius Kruttschnitt, generel manager of the Southern Pacific, arrived from the East yes- terday with his family, aud will take up his permanent residence in this City., They are staying at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7.—Among the recent arrivals are: William F. Woods, San Francisco, Ebbitt House; D. A. Stiles, San Francisco, Hotel Cochrang aptain C. Hooper, Oakland, Ebbitt House. L. QUITE A DIFFERENCE. Merced Sun. One reason why peovle never pay any atten- tion to signs and advertisements daubed on old fences, stables and bridges is because they do not know whether they are reading the ad- vertisement of some firm that is still in busi- ness or one that has been dead for years. When people read advertisements in a newspaper that is up to date, they kuow the advertiser is alive and doing business. ' I AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Up in Mare Island Navy-yard there isa mu- sician who bas literally hidden his lamp under & bushel, although in his own interesting eir. cle there is no mote popular soloist or leader. The people of Vallejo, across the narrow strip of murky water that makes an island of the naval station, with one accord say he can hold his own with any band-leader in the navy, if not, indeed, with the greater number of musicians throughout the country. One fact is quite evi- dent: be has exerted a remarkable influence over the musical development of that town, than which, perhaps, there is no interior eity in California of equal size so far advanced in the pleasing art of making melody. ¥rom this brief description there is not a men on Uncle Sam’s ships in the Pacific who will not recognize 1n the leader Professor Carlo Contrado of the training-ship Independence. The professor is a4 manwith an interesting nistory. He has spent nearly & quarter of a century as a leader of navy bands, and in that time has had more than one strange experi- ence. The medals he wears tell a story of long and faithiul service, and besides he holds let- PROFESSOR CARLO CONTRADO, UNITED STATES SHIP INDEPENDENCE, MARE ISLAND, ters from nearly every admiral in the United States navy, which no other man under the stars and stripes can boast. And yet he is so modest over it all as to regard his recora with indifference almost, his absorbing desire being to see larger navy bands that ean compare favorably with the naval bands of other na- tions, and be in keeping with the standard of the new navy; and also to see a pension pro- vision for musicians who have given their lives, or at least twenty years, to the service of Uncle Sam on the seas. “When 19 years ot age,” said he, “I joined the United States navy as a leader in Italy with the understanding that I would be on the Mediterranean station. My first ship was the Saco, which went to China during the troubles at Canton. Assoon &s my time ex- pired I left the Saco with the purpose of going home again to Italy, but instead of gettinga ticket to Europe I found myself with & pass to New York. Icame to California and presented my papers at Mare Island, and here I am yet, never saw the East, never left the Pacific sta- tion. In taventy years I've been going around from China to the South Sea Islands and as far down as Patagonia, and that's all the sailing Ihave done—never to the Atlantic or Mediter- ranean.’” “What do you regard as your most exciting experience while away from home?” he was asked. “It is not one, but many,” he said witha laugh. “Well one, for instance.” “Oh, yes, I understand. Well, we were lying off Panama when the admiral received in- formation that the American Consul at Aca- pulco was imprisoned for killing natives. We steamed away in a great hurryand gotto Acapulco, where the people were in rebellion and mad for fight. “What do you think the admiral did? He left the ship with his staffand the band and marched rightup to the jail. We played for him and then he and his staff left us. Ihad a Mexican drummer in my band, and you know that fellow was so delighted he drank aguardi- ente until he hammered that drum like noth- ing in the world. I cried, ‘Stop, you can’t play; you put us astray,’ and he shouted ‘Gringo,’ like that,” and the professor uttered & wild yell. “That fellow,” he continued, *told his coun- trymen I wouldn’t let him play because he was a Mexican. The mob, with swords like butcher-knives right here at their belts and stacks of arms all around, attacked us on a veranda. There was an Italian merchant in Acapulco who had great influence with the people. He was listening to our music, and I told him in Italian what was the matter. He came between us and the mad natives and saved us. Only for him there would not be one man left alive in that American bané.” “And what did you do then?” “I? We? We played Spanish music and the crowd danced. But that fellow didn’t beat the drum; no, sir.” In his years of serviee Professor Contrado has won seven honorable-discharge bars,which are attached to his medal ribbon, and the eighth bar Is due now. On these bars the word Saco appears once, Pensacola twice, Inde- pendence once, Hartford twice and Charleston once. Each bar represents three years’ honor- eble service without a blot in the navy. “But when I grow old what real good have they?” he asked. “A man gives the best of his life to the service of his country and gets medals. Other navies provide for a pension in such cases, and surely a great and rich Nation like America ought to do as well if not far and away better.” Professop Contrado,a graduate of the Naples Conservatory of Musie, who has trained and led hundreds of musiciansin the navy, spoke like & man with very strong convictions. He continued, with all the apparent pride in the navy of an old sailor: “Why can’t & rich Nation like ours afford more than eighteen men in a band? When we g0 abroad we often have to playin contrast with bands from European ships. They have forty, fifty, sixty men with & full complement of instruments, apd here we are with sixteen or eighteen musicians. I think if the United States wants 1o make an impression with her new navy she should appropriate money to keep up respectable bands. I have had to arrange my music for effect, and have been told I have got the same effect as if there were twenty-eight men in my band. O, but I have felt it when I had to play egainst European navy bands in South America. Our country ought to do more to encourage music and musicians in the army and navy, particularly the navy, where our music is nearly all the time in contrast with great bands of foreign powers.” SOMETHING MORE ABOUT STATEN ISLAND. William Greer Harrison’s delightiul descrip- tive rhapsody on islands in general and Staten Island in particular brings forth sundry long- shelved recollections of that pretty isle of ver- dure—recollections of the time when it was known in metropolitan parlanceas New York’s Charnel House. If you didn’t leave your bones there you were supposed $o bring them away without much besides elothes to cover them. The achievements of modern engineering have no doubt greatly mitigated if not wholly overcome the insalubrious condition of Staten Isiand twenty-five years ago. But it then cer- tainly deserved its rather gruesome appella- tion, to explain which fact its peculiar physiography must be taken tntoconsideration. Islands in general are the summits of sub- marine mountains, or eleyations whose inter- vening vales are submarine; or, like England and the West Indies, portions of the mainland separated from it by the irruption of the sea. 'nmt;;! Staten Island belongs to_the class last ‘l::l‘n oy the manner of its insularity is probably While belongin, litically to the State of New York, the island is ph§sxu11y a part of New Jersey, the north and west sides o its ir- regular triangle following closely the curves of the New Jersey border. Border—not shore; for here low-lyi#g terra firma comes to an abrupt termination—cut off lgenmmflcnlnly like the wall of & house. On the other side of the marrow stralt rises the low, clean-cut, Yertical edge of Staten Island, which is nothe ing more nor less than an intersectional con- tinuation of the rich bottom lands of New Jer- sey, where every breath is unadulterated ma- laria. The Kill' van Kull is a narrow strait navigable for moderate-sized vessels. Nowhere do the banks shelve down to the water, Or, x- cept where artificially made, present anything in the way of a beacli. They are as straight up and down as if dug for a canal; and hence the name of the estuary, for thatis what the Kill van Kull is—an arin of the sea embracing one Of the most picturesque and poisonous bits of Brazilian luxuriance that can be found north of Mason and Dixon’s line. Kil is Dutch for canal, and the first Holland- ers setiling on the island named the channel after one of the fondly remembered kils of their native Netherlands. Situated about five miles south of New York | City, to which it is accessible by means of a halt-hour ferry service, this fifty-eight square miles of insular luxuriance hes, in spite of its insalubrity, become the site of & dozen towns and villages and countless charming country homes of city people. About thirteen miles in lengih, its greatest breadth being about eight miles, & population of 75,000 would seem to Justify the building of “that ugly python—the belt road,” whose existence Mr. flnm.«on £0 deeply deplores as vulgarizing and commer- cializing. If, twenty-five vears ago, lured by its beauty and seclusion, you ventured to spend & sum- mer on Staten Island, you paid a heavy price for your pleasure, mortgaging your life for all it was worth and peying for many years there- after, in doetor bills, in drug bills and in frightful suffering a heavy rate of interest. There were in those days two prineipal hotels near a certain village—one, overlooking | the Great-Kills, being called the Great-Kill llouse; the other, by the Little-Kill, the Little- Kill House. You took your choice and bided the consequences. If you went to the Little- Kill House you could depend on being made acquainted with the siznilr(‘nuce of its name. 1 you went to the Great-Kill House you could expect no less. You were ell but killea any- way. But the beauty, the sweetness, the sense of farawayness to be gained by that delightinlly exhilarating trip across the bay, and that charming ride on the shaky lttle railroad through a tangled wilderness of bloom and verdure, were alone sufficiently tempting to make you forget that you were only mortal. All the life you had you took in your hand and went. All the life’ you had left you car- ried betweem your thumb and finger when you came away. =~ RUTHELLA SCHULTZ BOLLAED. NEW YORK OFFICE. DaAvID M. Fortz Is “THE CALL’S” EASTERN ADVERTISING AGENT. New York Newspaper Maker. During the past week New York has been favored with the presence of Charles M. Short- ridge, editor and publisher of the San Fran- cisco CALL, who is here attending to the es- tablishment of a suite of offices for THE CALL. David M. Foltz will be in charge of the Eastern representation of THe CALL and will be fully authorized to represent Mr. Shortridge. In 1889 Mr. Foitz entered the advertising de- partment of the San Jose Mercury as asolicitor, and achieved remarkable success. He con- tinued in that capacity until January of this year, when, upon Mr. Shortridge being suceess- ful in purchasing the San Francisco CALL, he was given & position in the advertising depart- ment. Again he made a success, which is un- doubtedly due to a great extent to his pleasing versonality. Mr. Foltz comes to New York with a thorough knowledge of the San Francisco field, and will without doubt be able toimpress advertisers with the fact that THE CALL is the paper to use in that city. Mr, Shortridge’s purchase of THE CALL and the success which has attended that paper is one of the wonders of Paciflc Coast journalism. He was then, as now, the owner of the San Jose Mercury, and when he wentup to 'Frisco and announced that he was prepared to buy THE CALL he was laughed at. When the bid- ding began and he ran the price up to $360,- 000 and secured the property at that figure is no “news,” as it has been notorious for the last twenty years. But its elucidation by THE CALL in detail may lead to some partiai remedy. There is another phase of the case more difficult to reach, and that is the fish trust, by which consumers have to pay 8 to 12)4 cents a pouud, while the fishermen who do'the work probably don’t average 3 cents. There is no justihable reason why fish, in a seaport like this, should cost, considering its nutritive value, about six times as much as meat. In Furopean cities fish is a leading article of food for the poor; here, none but the weli-to-do can afford it, It isthe Fish Com- | missioners’ duty to look into the fish trust, which keeps fish from the people, as well as into the destruction of small iry, which only does the same thing. LETTERS FR&MHE-PEOPLE THE STATE VERSUS DURRANT. 7o the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SiR: The most important question before the bench, | the bar and the public of this whole State at the present moment is this: If Theodore Dur- rant is once sentenced to death by thelaw, can he be tried again, once or twenty times, for a like offense. He cannot, and I proceed to prove it. | In limine let me observe that a verdict is one | thing and a sentence passed upon it another. | A verdict opens legitimately an appeal, & mo- tion for & mew trial, etc. But & sentence, once passed, so far as the court passing it is con- cerned, is final, The passing of the death sentence in any court is, so far as that court is concerned, the legal death of the individual upon whom it falls. Tbe interval between the sentence and its execution is a matter of grace and not of right. Civilization and Christianity have ac- | corded that grace. But in the eye of the law, | 50 far as the individual is concerned and so far as the power condemning him is con- cerned, the person upon whom sentence is passed is legally dead irom the passing of the sentence. You cannottry the dead, and in the resent case the only issue is to suspend, there- lore, the sentence until such time as all in- dictments are disposed of. I venture to defy any jurist to contest this argument or to find a precedeny in Roman, English or any other law in which a person not only convicted of murder, but sentenced to death as & result of such conviction, has had a presumably second life placed upon its trial for a similar offense. The thing is legally absurd. Imagine a man being condemned to death twenty several times for twenty several murders, and still | having, let us say, five other cases standing behind him! In the Examiner of recent date W. H. H. Hart is reported to have said thata person is not legally dead, or civilly dead, till the sentence has been executed. Idecline to con- sider Mr. Hart as guilty, or capable of such an | utterance. Suppose & case of burglary, or of arson, or of any other crime. Suppose a sen- tence of what years you please. That sentence | has not been executed until the last moment that sees it completed. Will Mr. Hart tell us that meanwhile —say twenty-five, or fifteen ears—the subject of such sentence is not egally or civilly dead,and that, if married his wife has not a legal right to divorce on thi: very plea, and from the very moment that the sentence has been passed? Let Judge Murphy suspend his sentence, and try twenty murder indictments if he wants to, but if these afect the same individusl, and the law, at his hands, bas once inflicted the penalty of death, it cannot repeat the process, A. ELLIOTT. Bacramento, November 7, 1895. FOR THE PRESIDENCY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Will you permit me to correct & mistake fre- quently made by the press as to the regiment of which ex-President Harrison was colonel, DAVID M, FOLTZ, EASTERN ADVERTISING AGENT OF ‘“ THE CALL.” those who were inclined to ridicule ‘the country publisher,” as they called him, found that he was as sharp as asteel trap. The money was paid in cash to the court on the day following the sale. Now that THE CALL is on the high road to success an aggressive campaign in the adver- tising field will be carried on. Eastern busi- ness will be sought for by Mr. Foltz, who has had a thorough newspaper training and who is fully competent to handle the interests en- trusted to his care. The new offices are located at 34 Park Row, corner Beekman street. DURRANT JURORS ALL RIGHT. Fresno Expositor. The twelve men who composed the Durrant jury are probably the only intelligent men on the Pacific Coast who, since the taking of testi- mony began in that case last July, did not dis- cuss the merits of the case between that time and the time when they rendered a verdict of guilty as charged. Those men did not discuss that case with one another nor with any other person, and did not read the newspaper com- ments on the case, but each one individually listened for three months to the taking of evidence and toa week’s argument to them without ever opening his mouth to compare notes with any other human being, and yet when they retired to the juryroom each man of the twelve, without exchanging an idea as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, wanted to see how the others stood, and there- fore all were ready for a secret ballot; and they were all of one mind. Then when It came to fixing the penalty, without the exchange of an 1den, the twelve wepe again unanimous. The jury system doesn’t seem to have been entirely played out. LOTS OF NAPOLEONS. Alameda Argus. Charles M. Shortridge of THE CALL is now the Napoleon who is doing prodigious things in the way of getting the Republican National Convention out to San Francisco. M. H. de Young has in timespast done great tbings, but is not just now evinecing as much activity as the importance of the occasion would seem to warrant. There is likely to be an aitermath of contention between the three big papers as to who did it if the effort shall prove to be successful. Napoleon Shortridge will have a good advantage therein, for he went East and said things and then came home and gave $10,000. e e THE FISH TRUST. San Francisco Star. Some fuss is made about Chinese fishermen violating the law by wholesale in openly using fine nets, the tendency being to exterminate fish, as has been largely done in China. It is charged that this is done by the employes of the State Fish Commission blackmailing the Chinese. It iscertainly a serious matter, but and in which General Thomas J. Morgan held & commission at one time as first lieutenant. It was the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer In- fantry and not_the Seventh, as stated in your issue of November 2. General Thomas J. Mor- gan was, howeyer, s member of the Seventh In- iana Volunteer 'Infantry, three months' troops under President Lincoln’s first call for volunteers in April, 1861. In this connection I would like to add that in my humble opinion if the coming (and I hope it will come to California) National Re- publican Convention were to select for its standard bearer the former humble lieutenant of the famous chief, it would have a man who is as much the superior of his former chief as the former chief is superior to—well, to Grover Cleveland! characters which Americans up to the begin- ning of the Great Rebellion were wont to be proud of—a self-made man. He is an American in the truest and fullest sense of the word. He is & Christian gentleman, without being & bigot; u man who has the courage of his con- victions. He is not tainted with jingoism, but the Monroe doctrine would be both safe’ and eacred in his keeping as chief executive. All the best elements of genuine Americanism could consistently and would rally to his sup- port as the Republican candidate. General Morgan is no lawyer! Somuch the better, for we have had and still have a surfeit of law and lawyers—ad nauseam. Let us go back to plain, practical, American, common horse sense once again, and select & man who is modest, brainy, practical and courageous. General Thomas J. Morgan fills the mengure of those requirements. ONE WHO Wis WiTH Hix IN THE DARK DAYs C1viL WaR. MRS. VAN COTT DEFENDED. To the Editor of the Call—DEAR SIR: A day or two ago there appeared an itein in your paper in which the Rev. Anna Shaw makes an error when she says that “Mrs. Van Cott is a shining referring to Mrs. Van Cott's statement that the home was woman’s sphere. The Rev.Anha Shaw_does not know, in all probability, that two beautiful children, and that the Lord saw fit to take them away from her; since which she has gone about J:)Xm( 00d 10 others, and is a shining example of whata good woman can do for the Lord, even though his hand afflicted her. A WOMAN WHO LOVES JUSTICE. Oakland, November 5, 1895. THE HALTER'S STRESS. Stockton Independent. Durrant’s counsel say public opinion and the | newspapers convicted their client, and Holmes' counsel say substantially the same thing. | Probably Harry Hayward thinks the same way. ““No rogue e’er felt the halter draw wi opinion of the law.” 1t gdod | FRIEND OF ALL GOOD THINGS. Grass Valley Tidings. N. W. Dodson, agent for the San Francisco CALL, is in Grass Valley. THE CALLis a good iriend to the mining industry under the present management, and Mr. Dodson should be well received by our people. 80 far as the powers by him wiel(t_led obtain. | General Thomas J. Morgan is one of those example of not practicing what she preaches,” | Mrs. Van Cott once had a home, n husband and | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EvGENIE—J. B, City. Eugenie de Guzman, ex-Empress of the French, was born in Gra- nads, Spain, May 5, 1826. She was_the second daughter of Count Montijo End otdl\la{le M:}:: Kirkpatrick. She is descendant on }:fill?ebg side from an old and noble Spanish family which by marriage at various times ac- quired the right to assume tne names of GIu:- man, Fernandez, Cordova. Ls Cerda and Le- vras, and contracted alliances with the noble families of Teba, Banos and Mora. By her mother, also born in Spain, the daughter of Mr. Kirkpatrick, for some time English Cou- 2l at Malags, she is connected with the Scot- famisy, the Kirkpatricks of Cioseburn. NaroLeoN I—J.B., City., When during the battle of Waterloo Napoleon heerd the cry of “Sauve qui peut,” he took refuge in a square at Gemappes. Heleft there at daybreak, June 19, on the 25th he retired to Malmaison, where Josephine died the year before. He then ab- Jicated in favor of his son, Napoleon II, and retired to Rochefort with the intention of em- barking there for the United States. Finding that he couid not escape by either land or ses, he on the 15th of July, 1815, surrendered to Captain Maitland of the British vessel Bellero- hon, claiming the protection of English laws. He was landed at St. Helena October 16, the same year. 2 DETENTION OF PUPILe—W. E. J., City. The teachers in the School Department of the City have the right to detain pupils after the regu- lar hour. Rule 132 of the department says: Except in high schools, pupils must not be de- tained for more than thirty minutes for study or punishment after the regilar time for dismissal. ‘Teachers are recommended to avoid detention after school hours except in extreme cases. ADMISSTON OF StaTEs—U. S. G. M., Pixley, Tulare County, Cal. Montana was admitted into the Union November 8, 1889; Washing- ton, November 11,1889 ; Idaho, July 3, 1390, and Wyoming, July 11, 1890. NATURAL THEOLOGY—D. R. O. T. C., Honcat, Butte County, Cal. There is 10 paper pub- lished in this country that is devoted specially to natural theology that news-dealers in this City know of, FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. They Said Hard Things About Grover, Fresno Republican. In his Thanksgiving proclamation the Presi- dent speaksof the forbearance of the Almighty. Doubtless Grover has felt at times as ll}uugh the people of this countr ving of divine retribution; but év Lord noted the vio t generate he also took notice of their provoca tion and tempered justice with mercy. The Beautiful Silver Dollar. Seattle (Wash.) Times. One reason for not coining silver dollars is that they are too big for use. We have our opinion of the person wic would prefer a dirty plece of paper that lifls pawed through al manner of hands to a bright silver doliar. A silver dollar is one of the nicest coins in the world. The only objec ed in Seattle to them is because of their Recalling a Sidetrack Incident. | ‘Woodland Mail. We wish to call the attention of those Demo- cratic papers that were recently talking so loudly about an election in Indianapolis to the fact that there was & general election in sev- eral Eastern States Tuesday. Foreign Mania Dying Out, Whatcom (Wash.) Biade. American linen manufacturers aro just bes ginning to encourage the growing of flax in this conntry. A few years ago they would not notice Ameriean fibe Progress Demands Good Pavements. San Jose Mercury. The difference between bitumen and mud is the difference between advancing and stande ing still. MoLASSES buttercups, Townsends. PICTURE cards. Sutter. 08 Clay street.™ THIS week fine ¢ nr. barber; Sund 15¢, 40c. 8114 4th, 1kt (Kast shoe store, Seme i SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and pubiic men by Clipping Bureau (Allen’s) HUspAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable td, the taste and smaller dose than_other magned sia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label. . ———————— GOOD ADVERTISERS. / Los Angeles Times. Below are printed comparative statements showing the quantities of advertising matter | printed in three San Francisco daily papers | and one Los Angeles paper last Sunday, Novem- ber 3: Total No. of Cols. 126 58 52 Los Angeles Times. Sen Francisco Exa) San Francisco Cax < San Francisco Chronicle.. “LIN Los Angeles Times (5 San Francisci ow the notable fact that the Times alone printed advertising matter last | Sunday equal in amount to 79 per cent of the | combined advertising of the three San Fran- | cisco morning papers THE only true foundation for health is in pure blood. Hood’s Sersaparilla makes pure blood and is therefore the great health restorer. Do not neg- lect the little ills. Take Hood's n e g “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty vears by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with parfecs success. 1t 500thes the child, softeus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhaas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For salo by Druggists in every part of the world. Fesureanl ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrip. 230 & bottle. R ALL WILL STAND IN. Woodland (Cal.) Mall. THE CALL finally compelled its cotems to ¢lay down their hands” in raising the amount necessary for the Republican National Cone vention. For once the Examiner quit. Crockery, Chinaware or GlflSSW&N FREE with each $1 worth of M. TEAS, COFFEES, 8! BAKING POWDER. '§ CUT OUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT, | l§ is the SAME AS MONE lg{yoo?lr l::l‘:!rl! 'éf | f§ vember 20. We want you to see the im- | § mense BARGAINS in our CROCKERY DEPARTMENT. Come and se¢ us. Bring your friends. | § Bring it with you to an ‘ 333 Hayes 3006 Sixteenth st { 617 Kearny st. 917 Broadway. Alameda Alnimeda aye. Great Ameriean Importing Tea Co's 1410 Polk st City Stores, 73525 3ixtontns 146 Ninth st. 131San Pabloav. Headquarters—52 Market St. 140 Sixth st. 965 Market st. 521 Montg", 2008 Fillmore st. | 218 Third 104 Second | 3259 Mission st. i {loaa Washington 616 E. Twelfth st Park nd Operating 100 Stores and Agenct: 8.F. CaLi.