The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprittor.i s: Daily and Sunday sunday CaLL, one WEEKLY CALL, California. ..Main—-1868 ROOMS: treet, San T Telephone. EDITORIAL ¢! SW. corner Six until 9 o'clock. fission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1i street: open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : SU8 Broadway. TERN OF ic! Rooms 2 rark Row, New York City.. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent SATURDAY . NOVEMBER 18, —C-Al.l. SPEAKS FOR Al THI Shall we have an open market? is the next question. We no sooner get one enterprise started than we see the need of another. Show yourself at the art exhibit and give proof that you also are artistic. 1f we are to have a reorganization of our National Guard we may as well look out for war. 4 The Sultan would doubtless like some of his big critics to put themselves in his place for a while. The Turk is not exactly an Indian, but he 18 one of the kind that is never good i except when he is dead. { | t civie re- in many Tliere can be no question th form has began to show its wor places where it is needed most. Marlborough has repaid New York for all her trouble over his vvedding by mak- ing the horse show a brilliant sticcess. The best meansof contributing to the prestige of the City just now is to con- tribute to the National Convention fund. Democracy hardly expectsa Presidential candidate next year, but it would like to find somebody willing to drive the party hearse. When you speak of the art exhibit to. your friends do not reserve all your praise for the works of artists who are either foreign or dead. So long as our coast defenses are inade- quate to the needs of war, our country is under bonds to Europe to keep the peace, no matter what happens. One of the amusements of the coming winter will be the comedy of an investi- gating committee hunting for ihe vigor in Cleveland’s foreign policy. There is a chance for Whitney to put in his 1dle time this winter writing a book on “How Notto Be a Candidate or the Best Means of Preserving a Barrel.” Although the Merchants’ Association has only 272 members it has done work for the benefit of all and should have the support of at least a thousand good citi- zens. _—— The star-eyed goddess of free trade is not feeling exactly like a May queen, but still she murmurs, “There is many a black, black eye, they say, but none so black as A report that the Los Angeles Grand | Jury has discovered frauds committed by some of the connty officiais is said to be “startling,’” but no one has called it sur- prising. According to the latest prophet the end | | Blanchard, a California girl, of the world will occur next September,.so if we wish the new Jerusalem to be located here we must burry the work of cleaning | up the City. It will be a long time before this country gets through hearing why John Sherman never got a nomination for the Presidency, and when it does get through it will be no wiser than it is now. The proposal to improve the university grounds at Berkeley ought to meet uni- versal agreement, as there is room over there for every kind of improvement that anybody can suggest. The only menin Cleveland’s Cabinet who "ENTHUSIASTIO- WORKERS. Stich a movement as that which has been "begun to bring the Republican National Convention .to San rrancisco was needed to rouse the people and make them show | that they tiave both public spirit and an appreciation of the wonderful resources of the State. It was a remarkable fact that the hundred citizens summoned from all varts of the State to- meet here Thiirsday s & committee on.promotion only four re absent when the roll was called, and all -thesé sent hearty:assurances of co- operation. % The plan 6f campaign is developing so rapidly that it is difficult to comprehend its magnitude. One-of the best of the de- tails that has veen settled upen is that of | sending a committee of editors to labor with the press throughout the Rastern States. - As the newspapers. of.California have worked so ably and harmoniously for { the convention and have been so vital an agency in stimulating public energy, it is ! correctly assumed that their Eastern con- | fluen: freres if brought into line can accomplish a similar result at that end of the field. 1t is refreshing to see that not the slight- | est local or personal ot political jealousy Los Angeles is-work- | has been deseioped. ing just as earnestly as San Franciscoand ! Democrats have put their shoulders man- ] fully to the wheel. Every community in the State 15 to constitute a center of activ- and. individual citizens aré adding personal efforts in the East to the in- of the organized committees. An important step decided to be taken is their | personal work among those members of | as deeply { | | | { 1 | | ! represent Democratic States now are Smith | of Georgia and Herbert of Alabama, and those States did not have a whack at the administration this year. One of the pleasant features of the con- test for the National Convention is the harmony with which the whole State works together and the loyaity of all the greater West in supporting the movement, In recent conversations with members of his Cabinet Cleveland is reported to bave said that it will be a glad day for him when he gets out of office, and for once, there- fore, he is evidently in sympathy with the people. - & Bowling has become so popular a pas- time in New York that, outside the public bowling-alleys, there are said to be npward of 1000 bowling clubs in the city with an aggregate membership of 50,000 men and ‘women. RS TR In a recent address Joseph Chamberlain said Great Britain has reached a cnitical stage in her relations with her great colonies, and a very slight blunder in the colonlal policy at this time might dissolve the empire. ‘When asked what he thought of the elec- tions Secretary Morton said: *‘Speaking only for myself I congratulate with alac- rity the Department of Agriculture upon having so providentially published an ante-election treatise on the grow.” There is much talk of ultimatums these days, but the only potentate who has had the nerve to send one is the King of Ashantee, who recently told & British En- voy that the only way to settle their dis- pute is by war and, besides, he preferred that way. | know what the Merchants’ | | Fancy | Preston School at Ione. National Committee who live west of fountains. ‘' All this region is interested as California in bring- ing the convention to San Francisco, and if they all work earnestly they will be & The Southern members should res reful attention. Their natural rmpathies ought to be with California. As for'the rumor that Chicago has sud- v become alarmed by the aggressive- ness of San Francisco and is moving to organize a fight to secure both conven- tions, it ought not to be diflicult to con- vince the broad-minded men who compose the National committees of both parties at vastly more coula be accomplished by coming to San Francisco than by going to Chicago. On the score of curiosity or in- terest Chicago’s great exposition left noth- ing unsatisfied, while the experiences and knowledge to be acquired here are all ab- solutely unigue and unknown in the East. th " THE SUNDAY CALL." ‘The bright particular feature of THE DAY CALL to-morrow will be the publica- tion of the papers read at the recent meet- ing of the Chit-Chat Club. These papers, covering a wide variety of subjects, will appeal strongly to cultured readers and prove both interesting and instructive to all. 3 Professor Edward B. Clapp’s paper deals h *‘Classics in Ancient and Modern nes.” The Hon. Horace Davis far- ies an entertaining review of “Med- ieval Literature.”” Professor W. H. Hud- son treats critically the interesting subject of “Modern Fiction.” General Lucius H. of rare discrimination and excellence, answers the question, “What is Poetry?”’ contributes a bright discourse on “Wit and in the World of Letters.” Each of the five papers was carefully prepared for submission to a critical and intellectual audience, and will rank among the best contributions ever made to the higher literature of journalism. A notable article for to-morrow is an elaborate review of the second yvolume of “John Sherman’s Memoirs of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet.” This work, which deals with recent American politics and explains all political events from the point of view of one who was a leader in shaping them, is one of the most | impartant contributions made by a states- | man to American history. The state- ments made in the memoirs, which are startling to a considerable degree, have already given rise to many controversies, and the points involved 1 them are fully covered in our review of the work, so that this article in Tue CaLy to-morrow should be read by all who wish to be informed on our political history in late years. Joaquin Miller has a valuable paper on | “A Possible West Point,” full of good sug- gestions of what might be "done with the W. C. Morrow has an entertaining account of “Two Inter- esting Types of City Boys.” Florence discusses “American Artin Paris,”’ and the regular departments of the Sunday paper, includ- ing Book Reviews, Fashions for Men and Women, Random Notes, Childhcod’s Realm, etc., are, as usual, well tilled with matters of current interest. ARE WE IN EARNEST? If the people of this City are really in earnest when they profess a desire to ac- complish the many things which are needed to advance the community, why were there only 100 responses to the 600 invitations sent out by the Merchants’ Association asking leading men in various occupations to become members? We all Association has accomplished. We know that through | its splendid efforts the system of street- 1 sweeping was revolutionized and .the streets made clean and attractive; that it | was largely instrumental in putting a stop | to fraudulent contract work o the streets, and that its influence in bringing about the Grand Jury investigations was potent, though other influences working to that end deserve full credit; that it is composed of intelligent and patriotic men, who are governed by no mean and selfish motives, and who are working zealously for the common good. 5 Tts services had been of so conspicuous value that with the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, the Civic I'«lora- tion and the Half-million Club it had be. come one of the central forces of progress. And yet, when it attempted to make its strength and influence all that they should be, and to that end bad invited 600 strong men of the community to throw their in- fluence into the fight it received only 100 responses, Perhaps it is because the men invited were aiready allied with other organiza- tions seeking to promote the public wel- fare. If o, the question is raised, Have we not too many of these organizations? The object of the Merchants’ Association is to look after the material condition of municipal affairs, with an eye to an exten- sion of its scope. The Half-million Club’s aim'is to increase the popuiation. The Civic Federation is working to expose, punish and prevent official rascality. The Manufacturers’ and. Producers’ Associa- tion is promoting the home consumption of our products. All these aims are most admirable, but clearly they have a common, purpose, which is to do the things which are needed One of the Russian witnesses in the | to make thisa great City. The tendency Kovalev trial is reported to have testified that he does not believe in the existence of a God, but, as he afterward said, he be- lieves the Czar has supreme power all yer the world, it is probabie he was sim- y mistaken in the name, 3 in other lines of reform and progress, par: ticularly of a moral character, is to or- ganize federations of scattered forces. We Irave .here, for instance, the Associated Charities, which enables charitable socie- ties to work far more intelligently and Dr. J. Dennis Arnold | efficiently than if they proceeded sepa- rately. The value of this principle is rec- ognized by labor organizations, which have their Federated Trades. In shortit is evident that if the bodies of citizens working for the advancement of the City should form a federation they could do far more effective work thar under'the present unorganized- plan. This federa- tion could be. formed in the usual way of - constituting a central directing body, com- vosed. of delegates. from the various branches and having power to direct their actions. This central body would repre- sent a consolidation of "all the strength which is being put forth by intelligent citizens for the City’s good. The power of such a federation would be enormous. Corruptmunicipal politicsand dishonest public improyements would be impossible in its presenceand the advance- ment of the City on intelligent and har- monious lines would be assured. The ability of men thus to organize and work for a common purpose constitutes a just meagure of their-intelligence, public spirit and patriotism. We -should like to see | these qualities mahifested in the highest | possible form by the leading men and women of San Francisco. A FREE PUBLIO MARKET. has maintained a free public market for about sixteen years, San Francisco has never made an attempt to institute such an affair. The prices which City consum- ers have to.pay for articles of farm produc- tion are grotesquely high in comparison with the prices received by producers. This is all because producers have no facili- ties for marketing their productsin San Francisco independently of commission merchants and because the commission merchants have complete control of the situation. . This does not mean to say that the commission merchants abuse their power, but that the absence of facilities for bringing the producersand consumers into contact makes low. prices for producers and high prices for consumers necessary. The commission merchants <o not receive the benefit of this difference except in com- paratively small measure. Restriction on the traffic destroys even that advantage to a large extent and- effects an actual waste of which no one receives the benefit. Interviews with intelligent citizens, pub- lished in TuE CaLL, indicate the great need and public desire for a free market. Such a market is a place maintained by the City | where producers may bring their products and offer them for sale without the pay- ment of license, commission or rental. Tlhus these three expenses would be saved, besides the waste which the present mode of doing business represents. The free market is an institution oi all European cities and of many American as well. The universal plan of such a market isa public open place into which producers bring their wagons, loaded with farm prod- uce. There they stand during certain hours of the day, and official market in- spectors look over the wares and remove such as may be found unfit for sale. A sa- lient feature of such markets is the absence of a regular price for the various articles, for it is not possible, as it is among com- mission merchants, to arrange such mat- terson the basis of a demand by merchants or of other conditions of the market. At the free market there are no restrictions whatever; dealers as well as consumers may buy av will, and in any quantities, and even commission merchants are in- cluded among the purchase The ab- sence of regular market rates has a tend- ency to depress prices, but experience has shown that in spite of this fact the pro- ducers secure very much larger prices than throngh commission merchants, while buy- ers have to pay very much less. That such an institution would be highly valuable to the City is a proposition ad- mitting of no controversy. -PERSONAL. S. A. Alexander, a merchant of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. H. C. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, isa guest at the Lick. Professor Charles H. Keyes of Pasadena is a guest at the Grand. II. C. Robinson, & mine-owner of Placerville, is staying at the Lick. S. T. Blac State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at the Lick. J. T. Warduer, a mining man of Idaho, regis- tered at the Lick yesterday. M. K. Harris, an attorney of Fresno, regis- tered at the Lick yesterday. W. J. Scrutten, a mining man of Laporte, registered yesterday at the Grand. J. Schenkel, a coffee-planter of Gnatemala, and his wife are guests at the Lick. Ben Rich, editor of the Silver Hammer of St. Anthony, Idaho, is a guest at the Lick, Alexander White, an attorney of Los Angeles, 'was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. Dr. A. E. Osborne, Superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded at Eldridge, is at the Grand. M. M. Cooley of the Coronado Hotel, Spokane, and his wife registered at the Occidental yes- terday. P Adjutant-General A. W, Barrettcame down from Secramento yesterday and put up at the California. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit, a leading attorney of Stockton, and his wife are guests at the Lick. Since Mr. Benjamin Cohen’s return from his Eastern trip he has received a large consign- ment of the latest Eastern styles. Lee Fairchild returned yesterday from Utah, where he had gone for. the purpose of stumy. ing the Territory during the late campaign. Gabriel A. Berger, the architect, member of the firm of Everet and Berger, lefton Thursday for France, where he will study the modern desigus of French architecture. Before his return he will visit other parts of Europe, in- cluding Loundon. A number of big bookmakers arrived from the Fast yesterday and put up at the Palace. They ere: Riley Grannan and E. M. Porter of Lexington, Ky.; Roy Carouthers, J. C. Ryan and T. Kerr of Chicago; Fred Cowan, E. W. Purser, George P. Suydam and William Muir of New York, and E. W. Purser of Brooklyn. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 15.—Among re- cent arrivals are: C.E.Pemberton and wife, Los Angeles, Ebbitt House; R. L. Sprague, San Francisco, Arlington Hotel FOR “THE CALL" BUILDING. Bridgeport Chronicle-Union. Joseph Hunt's six-horse team has taken to Carson for shipment to San Francisco tive tons of travertine for interior decorations of Tur Cavni and Parrott buildings, now being erected on Market street. One slab on the hind wagon weighed three tons. On account of shipment Dy teams the size of the blocks must be limited, but if we had a railroad at our doors twenty- ton blocks could be gotten out handily. Next summer. after improved marble working ma- chinery is put'up at the quarry, all the finish- ing work will be done at the quarry, so that there will be no heavy blocks to be shipped; but until then the sawing of the blocks into veneers_and finishing them will all be done at the Vermont Marble Works in San Fran- cisco. This is the first shipment, for com- mercial purposes, of travertine from an Amer- ican quarry, the kfidgepon quarry being the only deposit of travertine known outside of France and Italy, and for beauty and solidity it far excels the European article, as can read- ily be seen by comparing it with the French 'material in the Mills building, San Francisco. It takes a most beautiful polish, and after its gmt beauty is seen in THE CALL building, no ne building in San Francisco will héreafter be considered complete without Bridgeport travertine for interior decoration. Reguler lhrllrmenu will be made all winter, as Mr. Hunt Wi put on sleighs when necessary and make | impending success is based upon that fact the regular trips between nere and Carsons DUNRAVEN, THE WHIPPED SPANIEL. The British Lion—After all, he Is too small to represent me. THE HEAVENS IN NOVEMBER. BRILLIANT SKIES FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AT THIS SEASON. While many.lands aré wrapt in the gloom of approaching winter, this favored clime ‘is neither cold nor ¢loudy, and often tne clear skies of November tempt the star-gazer- to | linger until midnight in-the tranquil, balmy air, 2 As the month opens and closes n nearly full moonlight this year the intervening weeks will be particularly favorable for observation, as the fainter stars and the flying meteors of the 13th inst. shall glimmer on a background of sable hue in the evening hours. Onsuch occa- sions the characteristic tints of the bright stars that seem so much alike to those unaccus- tomed to star studies can scarcely fail to be discerned. Commencing at the northwest we see the bluish white gleam of Vega in the constella- tion of the lyre. T his brilliant star is typical of the-class in whose atmosphere hydrogen is & conspicuous ingredient, for these iar-off suns that we call fixed stars have revealed many of their constituents to the researches of the sroctroscupm, Being classed according to their spectra, those of the first type, to- which Vega belongs, are named Sirian stars from Sirius, the large white star now on the meridian at 4 o'clock in the morning. Spangling the divided stream of the-milky way in_the west is the constellation of the Eagle, the bird of love in Grecian mythology. ln ‘modern classifica- tion Altair, the brightest of the group,isa standard first-magnitude star, some being larger and some smaller; and it is generally classed as a Sirian orb. Not fully as white Fomalhaut glistens” in_solitary luster in the dim outline of the Southern Fish about twenty degrees above the south horizon. In contrast, red-tinted Aldebaran shines from the east where Taurus is just crossing the boundary of the invisible hémisphere. -Alde- baran is classed as a solar star, for its spectrum. somewhat resembles that of the sun. A more typical solar star is_Capella, whose golden ra; the brightest point in the five- sided outline of Anriga, in the northeast. These are the evening stars of the present sea- son, and as night approaches the Orion gems commence to gleam in the eastern sky. But where are to be found the evening stars of last. May and June, the group of beautiful planets that bespangled the nofthwestern heavens?. They are now gilding the somber hour of dawn. As Jupiter rises before midnight, he is the brightest orb on the meridian &t daybreak. Yenus, the phosphorus of early star-gazers, who, knew not the laws of planetary motion, may be seen toward the southeast, and Mercury. may be discerned near the horizon in the same direction on or about the 10th of November. Later in the month, when Mercury is receding, Saturn becomes visible in the southeast, and Mars, too, will be there forming varipus trian- gles, though these planetary maneuvers of the trio will be too low for general observation. As Professor Barnard noticed a considerable increase in the November meteors of 1892, it is probable that the swift, pale-tinted Leonids may streak the moonless sky in unusual num- bers between the 9th and 17th of the month. As the consteilation Leo, from which they seem to radiate, is not far from the mnadirin the evening hours, they may be iooked for equal However, a morn- ing vi are ou the side of our globe that feces onward through space almost breasting the meteoric current. v It seems “strange that notwithstanding the vastness of even interplanetary spaces, the narrow curve S000 miles across, but some millions of miles in length, claimed by the earth as its path on these few November days, shouid belong by equal right to the throng of wandering stonés that are fused to ashes in DAYS. their y‘l-nrlyl struggle for the right i)f‘\n:y. % P I | Even when the main swarm comes to claim its Lekiched for S TMa XUl by Nonktooll ] | Juth every thirty-three vears, the startled earth yields little and the fiery protest serves | only to reveal their route, their goal and their numbers. For nigh one thousand years the unequal contestis & historic fact, but nothing is certein £s to the beginning or ending of such addnterplanetary feud. The earth encounters many claimants 10 herdestined track, but none so remarkable as the starry fusillade of No- AROU‘Nli THE - CORRIDORS. John Piper, the oldéest mianager of opera- houses on - the coast, is down from Virginia City mixing up ‘with the tneatrical world, rénewing-old atquaintances and making new ones, John walked into the Occidental Hotel yesterday -and grasped the hand of an actor who used to play on the Comstock in the 60's. “How you been?” injuired Piper. *Do you ever recall the John M¢Cullough night, when we gave him the benefit and cleaned up $3600 for his company? I wonder if the old days will ever come again?”’ Mr. Piper played with his fingersa fewsec- onds and looked very much distressed. “Say,” he continued, “didn’t I play the greatest the JOHN PIPER DEPLORES THE PASSING OF EARLY e | world produced while Twas in the business? Look at Barrett, Booth, McCullough, Emms | Nevada, Florence, Mrs. Bowers—dead now-— | and what tively times we used to have. What do you think of a fellow who has’ the luck to lose his opera-house three times by fire. Used | vember 13. to come up smiling eviry time. Put on good | In meteoric astronomy we have a practical shows where the old ruins stood and got back | experience of cosmical motions. An_actusl into the harness again. D— tough. collision with a large swarm of meteors, espe- ek e b cially such as is expected in 1900,is & home Those people used to be good for $5000 & | iy rysy that cannot fail to awaken thoughtas week, and tickets sll over the house sold for to possibilities even in the boundless wastes of #1 50. Boxes, all we could get for them. space. The most singular discovery in .con- House jammed every night and the show run- | nection with shooting stars was made by Pro- ning three weeks at a timé. Look atit now. fessor I A. Newton at the time of the last en- You couldn’t get a dozen people in the place if | Sounter with the ‘main boay of the swarm in Irving were to show up. Town’s busted. D— 1866-67, when the sky wasgrandly illuminated with their numbers. In caiculating their orbit tough. he found that Tempel’s comet, which ap eared “I've seen D street packed with people wait- he ing to get a chance at the ticket-oftice and in the year previous, had traveled in theiden- tical peth of the meteors, thus leaving wide boys were piling up into the line trying to get places to sell to the mining superintendents, scope for conjecture as to the undoubted con- Everybody went to the show. Everybody had nection batween the comet and the swarm, Sevetal comets are now known to revolve round the sun in the same orbit as a swarm of money and the town was alive and prosperous, | Ineteors, and though orbits in the solar system Thousands of iners got from $4 to®5 a day | WY intersect without any physical tip be- and the saloons and gambling-houses were running full blast. 1f a man did not care for | the theater he could g6 over to the old Delta, tween the celestinl travelers it is next to im- possible that pathways should be identical run by Jim Orndorff, and get any kind oia card game he wanted. You can bet in those without the existence of some close relation- ship. While it is then recognized that there is days everything was on the square. We never put on a show that was mnot the best, and some link between comets and meteors in a few cases, the nature of that link is as yet an stuffed decks among the gamblers were un- known. Now it is different. The show busi- uncertain matter. Meteoric astronomy invites investigation especially now, when the van- ness has gone to the dogs and if you don’t stuff the deck you lose, D—— tough. guard of the great swarm is already l‘:.pnrlng. “Well, I guess I'll go around to the Baldwin To have a correct conception of this ring of and see John McKinney, manager of the De meteors it must be understood that they are mnssed in myriads toward one end of the long Woli Hopper Company. How that man has gone up the ladder. I used to know him when elliptical orbit, whilethere is a sparse distribu- tion of_them around the remainder of the he was & minstrel blowiig brass for $10 a week. D— good.” ath, When the earth comes round in Novem- er to that part of her own orbit that passes through the meteor ring a collision with some of the swarm is certain to oceur. None of the meteoric stones that have been found can be directly traced to the star show- ers of November, and from analogy only, it is concinded that they are composed of stone and iron, like the aerolite that survives atmos- pheric frictio; AN ODE TO CALIFORNIA. [NoTE—In justice to Professor Ardley we desire to state that he does not consider his liitle “*Ode THE CONVENTION FEVER. to California,” which we publish with this issue of [t the Occident, a finished or satisfactory production Los Angeles Land and Water. by any means. Ife says, although we do not agree with fifm, that “it s insipia and badly arranged in parts,” but he has no time to rearrange it, and merely throws it out as a suggestion to students 10 write a far better one for a_patriotic university poem. He thinks that we might at least expect some good ones from the critics and censors of other people’s poetry, o that we could more easily The daily newspapers of Los Angeles have caught the contagion of the convention excite- ment-in San Francisco. The editor of the Express returned from the northern metrop- olis healthily inoculated, and atonce startea & convention boom in this city, which, natur- judge the value of their criticlsms—ED. OCCI- | glly enough, does not threaten to reach a ket similar gigantic scale. Unhappily Mr. Osborne Fair land of the West sloping down to the sea. has fallen foul of the editor of the Times, and Brlsl;'- hope spreads her wings when we whisper of thee; Fach promise tuat gilded thy youth’s early morn Has blossomed in gariands ihy statehood has worn; From Sierra’s high peaxs to thy surf-beaten shore Thy great horn of plenty has lavished its store, And thy children are blesi— Golden State of the West— ‘With all that is sweetest and dearest and best! From the soul-stirring scenes of Yosemite grand o the golden-hued slopes of thy bountiful land— From the sweet-scented shades of the redwood and compliments the reverse of harmonious have been exchanged. In San Francisco the Exam- iner, the Chronicle and THE CALL dweil to- gether in delightful unity to the tune of $25,000 on the subject of inducing the Repub- lican Convention to their City. If their mam- moth subseriptions kave been compared to & game of “bluff” it is still vi much on the cards that they may be “called,” and therefore their enthusiastic emulation should be ac- cepted as sincere. t must be guite obvious that shouid the 8an pine F""cli:)c‘:! lweed h;du:eurlnz the e‘nu‘vfl:- Clnstes E fig trée and vine— | tion, Los Angeles woul very materially With greetings of joy 10 thy ships' waiting sail: eutial men of the country wol e attracte ‘Ob, our faith lies in thee, to Southern California, either visiting Los An- Golden land of the free, geles en route to the convention or being in- As long as thy rivers flow down to the sea! duced to take an excursion that could not fail 2 to redound to their edification and our benefit. Partisanship in this question has practically played no part, and it would be mos: unwise to encourage the smallest seed of dissension. Los Angeles should adopt a similar unanimity to that of San Francisco in the endeavor to bring the delegates to the coast, and when the time comes should vie with the brethren in their entertainment. Up to date San Francisco has secured about $75,000 of the necessary $100,000. Twenty of the twenty-six delegates’ votes in favor of San The balm of thy clime covers valley and height, And thy magical bours flow in grooves of delight; ‘The hearts of thy children are faithful and strong, ‘And the angel of peace bears thy chaplet along As forward, trlumphant, you press in the race, The sun’s loving kiss on thy glorious face, Glapcins baci so bohoid ancing back to behol Thy beauties all blushing in purple and gold! HENRY T. ARDLEY in Berkeley Occident, Berkeley, Cal., 1895, T e WILL SUCCEED IN NEW YORK. Livermore Echo. The telegraph informs us that W. R. Hearst— of the Examiner—is devoting his entire atten- tion to his New York newspaper venture, the Journal, and it is predicted that the paper will cutan important figure in the affairs of that city. 1t is added tnat he has shaved off his mustache, in accordance with the ‘prevailing fashion in Park Row—but if the prediction of the prosgecc is distinctly encouraging. Los | Angeles has a fund of sympathy for the project, has promised the heartiest co-operation, an should now contribute its share of the equally essential doliars. An Astrological Vision. Los Angeles Express. The white star in the heavens these morn- ings indicates that the Republican National Convention will go to San Francisco. No | charge is made for this clairvoyance. dispatch does not so state. | LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE | S1r Francisco iave been registered, and therefore: PROPOSED UNION PLATFORM. FOR POPULISTS, SINGLE-TAXERS, PROHIBITION- ISTS AND'OTHER KEFORMERS. 7o ‘the Editor of the San Francisco Call— The rough.drait of & platiorm, published over my signature some weeks since, has awakened so much interest as to justify a more expanded statement, more especially for the City readers of TE CaLy, which I now offer for publication. It is proposed &s a plat- form for:union of all the reform forces of the country On a solid snd permanent basis, with- out the surrender of a single plank or resolu- tion of the Omaha platform, or any platform of any reform party whateve: 1. The restorasion of silver to free and uniimited coinage at the old ratio of 16 to 1 without awaiting the action of other nations. - 2. The abolition of all existin;: bank curreucy ; the Issuance of all paper money by the Government only, and under & genuine American banking sys- tem’ such money to be based on the credit and faith of the Nation (being the same basis as that of Government honds), and to be a full Jegal tender for all debts, public and private, and not to be re- deemed in any.other money; the volume to be lim- ited by law as experience shall require. 3. Greenbacks and all other forms of Govern- ment currency redeemable in coin to be retired and replaced in circulation by the new National money ; the hundred miilions in gold now held in the treas ury as a reserve fund for the redempiion of green- backs to be therenpon applied in extinguisiment of Government bonds, and no further issue of such bonds at any time. P 4. stal savings banks to be established for the security of the people’s savings, to provide for loans and to facilitate exchange. 5. Loans to be made by the Government through State agency to the people on safe and sound setur- ities at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum for any period of time up to twenty years: the money to be supplied to each State on its bond bearing no interest, and the State to Bupply its counties and municipalities, and they as the agents of the State to [oan it to the people. The other planks or issues of the Omaha plat- form and vical issues of all parties 1o be submitted | 10 a direct vote of the peoplc through the Initiative | and referendnm,. to the end that this Iay become in fact as in theory, as Lincoln neld it to.be, a Gov- ernment of the people, by the people, for the peoplt by direct legisiation in National, State and Io aitairs, 8 by this method of law-making any issue ofany party may be enacted into 1aw as soon ag the people are prepared for it; and by (¢ aiso. the boss will be eliminated from poiities. ~ oxpressed 1a a dozen words this union plat- form would read as follows: For free coinage of silver, a genuine American banking system .and direct’ legislation. : Perhaps I ought to add a paragraph in.ex- plsunugn of (I%e phrase “the credit and-faith of the Nation as the basis of Government bonds,” since there is some confusion of mind in regard to this matter. 1i a tramp, for-ex- smple, should offer his note, i. e., his bond, to a bank for $100 and promise to pay in gold, his note would be declined because his credit or ability to pay .would not be good, though | his faith or intention to pay might be good. His promisé to pay in gold, with interest n old, would be of no_ avail whatever. The | basis of Government bonds is the Nation's | credit or ability to pay and -its iaith or inten- tion to pay, that i t to repudiate its debt, and not what it promises or bends itself to pay. JOSEPH. ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco, Cal. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ELECTRIC LieuT—H. M., Oakland, Cal. Light from battery electricity was discovered first by Sir Humphry Davy, at the Royal Institution, London, in 1810, when, on the continuity of a current from a 2000-cell being broken, a bright light was seen.’ This was cailed the voltaic are. In 1831 Faraday made the discovery of inauced currents, to render practicable the ap- plication of eleetricity to. the production of fOOd artificial light. In 1844 Foucault lighted a Place de la Concorde, Paris, with electric lights. In 1 Jules Dubostque exhibited what at that time was the most perfect electric lamp, and it was one of the-wondersof tue great Paris Exposition. But little in the line of using electricity for lighting purposes was done until Jablockhoff, a Russian inventor, in- troduced his candle in 1876. From that time electricity as anartificial light became general. A MAN’S NAME.—Generally speaking, a man’s name is that which he is commonly called. But if & man’s true name is Smith, but he has for eight years been known as Brown and he wishes to marry,the proper thing for him to do, if he wishes {0 retain the name of Brown, is to g0 before the Superior Court, and upon proper representations the court will permit him to add Brown to Smith, and thereaiter he can sign, if his first name is John, ‘‘John S. Brown.” "By doing this he will avoid all or any legal complications that might arise. HoMESTEADS—N. H., City. If the selection of the homestead was made by a married person from the community property the land on the death of either spouse vests in the surviyor. In other cases, upon the death of the person whose Jroperty was selected as a homestead, the same shall go to the heirs or devisees, sup- jeet to the power of the Superior Court to as- ign the same for a limited period to thé fam- of the deceased. That is the law in this State as to the rights of children in a home- stead declared by their parents. DreserTERS FroM THE Navy—N. 8, City. There was no law passed in 1893, or at any other time,that exempts from punishments deserter from the United States navy, by rea son of the fact that he has after such desertion resided five vears consecutively iu a State or Territory of the Union. In time of peace after a man has deserted from the navy all search for him after a period of two years= is aiscontin- ued, and after that length of time he need not fear arrest; PARDONs—A. D., Lowell Hill, Nevada County, Cal. The Presidentof the United States has power to pardon an individual convicted of violating the Federal laws, but the power to pardon an_individual convicted by a State court is vested generally in the Governor, in some States in the Legislature, and in othlers, asin New Jersey, in a court of pardons. WrTsESsFS—Constant Reader, City. Witnesses in criminal cases in this City are not paid as they are in civil cases, except the witness comes from & distance and it appears that he is poor and unable to pay the expenses he is put to in attending court. - In such & case the court mey allow such witness the expenses he hes been put to. SEVERAL CoINs—L G., San Jose, Cal. The only one of the list of coins named in your communication on which there is & premium is the, gulrlfl‘ of 1813. For this dealers pay from 35 to 50 cents, according to condition, and sell them for trom $1 to $2each. The others are only worth their face value. ExAMiNA#IONS—R. E. R., Santa Monica, Cal. Answers to Correspondents is not aware of the existence of any college or university ‘‘where one may pass an examination through corre- spondence, or in other words not attend the college or university.” CLIPPING BUREAU—Subscriber, Tomales,Marin County, Cal. Answers to Correspondents does notrecommend any individual or firm and does not vouch for the responsibility of such, shere- fore caunot say if a certain clipping-bureau is a reliable one. # EAR AND EYE—F., Berkeley, Cal. There is no institution in San Francisco specielly devoted to the treatment of diseases of the eyes and ears that is free to all who may apply. * No PREMIUM—A. M., City. There jis no pre- mium offered for a dollar of 1884. HARFING ON THE New York Times. Although Tammany’s candidates are elected, Tammany wins no victory. The increase from Grant’s vote of 100,000 last year so Purroy’s vote of 120,000 yesterday is very much more than acconnted for by the Germans who went over to Tammany, not permanently or from love of it, but out of resentment at the Repub- organization cast 90,3;3 here is abundant evidence ave them as many as 80,000 y_is not onl: party in the city, it is sctually & minesne it tion of the Democratic party, Baltimore Sun. . The people of Maryland have won in their great fight for political freedom ana pure overnmert, ana the leaders who siwredh upon Maryland Demncru:;?ns?&‘:; branded with the lasting stigma of stern gopuln condemnation. It gu been the people’s a lican Sunday excise policy. W that the Tamman Porgon oL & minority fac- ttle from beginning to end, and thei: glory, as theirs will be the g-l‘ntl fits 2 iy New York World. . The State of Kentucky has been singularly free from the influence of the bossin politics and the elections of that State represent the expression. of_the popular wil There, is no ou‘z’er reason for’ Kenmcksngumggnevu lican this year, for the first time in -its except the’ mistake made by the leade! attempting to meet the difficulty of the silver uestion by nominating an unsound candi- ate on a sound platform. New York Commercial Advertiser. The sweeping Republican majorities consti- tuted an explicit and overwhelming mandate for the restoration of ample protection to ‘American industry, for the preservation of the integrity of every form of Amcricn;fl curreng he unflinching maintenance :‘;?erxi{:‘;n gmerests and hognm' in the Western. Hemisphere. The fight for the complete re- habilitation of Republican N has opened with inspiring vigor. kept up with increasing energy from next election day! St. Lonis Star-Sayings. Let ussec. It was Grover Cleveland who, in March, 1893, on the occasion of his inaugural, discovered that there “’lsh~ scrvmefl‘lling ’\Jflrong vith the currency. Then the freesilver heresy Broke loose in his party. Then came the land- slide of 1894, which slid over into 1,895 and knocked sway ail the Democracy’s under- inning. Grover, as the country’s fiscal Moses, 1 the interval has been good to himself, but where, yes, where, are his bruised, distracted and dust-covered followeérs? Boston Herald. Not a few women took the trouble to go to the polls on Tuesday and yote against woman suffrage, but their numberhwns m;zi‘l:g:-fig id not determine the ne; o }l‘r::eeyir?expediency of woman suffrage was dde- clared by the thousands and tens of thousands of women who neither Tegistered nor went to the polls. Their sentiments were expressed by the masculine voters. Indianapolis News. : Apparently the women of Massachusetts do ot favor the extension of suffrage. If they would not vote in favor of the privilege they would not be likely 1o avail themselves of it it it became their right:. And yet, We sUpppose that in Massachusetts there has been more agitation of this subject than in any other Eustern Stat THE LITTLEFIELD INQUEST. Fort Bragg Advocate. THE CALL of November 3 had the full evi- dence given im at the inguest of Littlefield, recently murdered in Round Valley. In the verdict brought in by the Coroner’s jury the officers who had charge of Littlefield at the n;‘ne of the shooting are implicated in the crime. RICH MINING DISTRICTS: Merced Star. The resources of the mining counties are receiving much sttention just now from the San Francisco press. THE CALL has an able representative in the field who is engaged in presenting to the world the true status of the rich mining districts now being developed in our State. ational policies It must be now until SOFT baby eream, 15¢ pound. Townsend's.* R — BROKEN, mixed candies 10¢ 1b. Townsend's.* —_—————— TREAT your friends to Townsend's candies. * e e PICTURE cards. Roberts, 220 Sutter. 5 . BAcoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. - NICE present for Eastern friends—California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b., Jap. baskets. Townsend's* o SPECIAL information daily to menufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — - The World Is Full of Bravery. Alameda Telegram. ‘When we hear a man tell about & quarrel he has been in we think we have at last met the bravest man in the world. THOUSANDS of people have found in Hood's Sar- saparilla a positive cure for rheumatism. This medicine by its purifying action neutralizes the acidity of the blood and builds up the system. e it CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new traln throughout begins October 2 Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- cago, via Kansas City, withont chapge. Annex cars on sharp conmection for Denver and St. Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been put in fine physical condition and is now the best transcontinental raflway. ——————— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Fraacisco. e 2 Geng ey BY adding 20 drops of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura. Bitters to every glass diseases from driuking polin- ted water are avoided, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDING, CORNER MARKET. INVESTMENTS. Golden Gate ave. and Franklin—85x129, 10 rear street: 3-story: good dwellings on the avenue; building on rear street; small corner vacant; rents $240: $10,000. Rents $486 60; cor. Geary and Larkin—120x 120; 2 corners covered with stores and dwellings. Post st., bet. Powell and Mason—27:6x187:6, and good 2-story and basement; building rents $100; make offer. Sixih st., W. side, near Bryant—80x85, and 3- story: two. stores below and Six tenants upstairs; rents low, $69; $9000; half can remain on mort- e. Seuart st., bet. Market and Mission—8574x 187:6; cheap. = #27,600; rents $175; Taylor st., bet. Post and Sutter; boarding-house: 42 rooms; large lof. Ninth st., near mission: good business block; 2 flats, and lot 25x70; store should be put. here} 13,000. Powell st.. near California: 45x107; and 2 2-story buiidings; rent for $155; fine ewy 7.500. Fine investment on Geary st.;: 50 feet front and building: 3% blocks from Market st.; $51,600. RESIDENCE PROPERTY . PACIFIC HEIGHTS. Reduced to #9000: make offer; NW. corner Pa- cific ave. and Broderick st.; 35x127:8; a very sightly lot, with view of bay and one biock from he cars. Jackson and Octavia sts.: elegant corner; ua- surpassed marine view; 60x117: $25,000; or 1argerflot. Broadway, north side: elegant marine view; bet. 7:6x137:6, and ‘resi- Buchanan and Webs:e: dence; $23,500. ¥ Pacific Heights residence and large lot: morth side Washington st., in best portion; view supreme; ouly §30,000. north side; 35 feet front and Tesi- $11,000. Broadway, dence: fine, unobstructed view of : i Cheap; north side Clay st., bet. Polk and Van 50x137:6, and 2-story dwelling; $13, offer. . HOUSES AND LOTS. ‘Webster-st. residence; near Grove; lot 41:6x91; residence of 12 rooms; $10,500. Pine, near Stockton; 84:6x77:6, and 2-story of 12 fom order; $800 just spent on it; rents 25 ; B $2000—Hawthorne st. (connects with New Mont- gomery st.). off Folsom: 29x112:6, and large comfortable 2:story house 11 rooms. N. side, bet. Franklin and Gough; nd 2-story; in 2 tenements; $5250. CHEAP LOTS. Union st., N. side: magnificent view: 27:6x 137:6: only §2100; bet. Scott an T Eaa i, Parle d Devisadero sts., Clay st., N. side, bet. Walnut : 137:8: 83775; fine view. o ex Nessavi 000; mal Pacific ave., facing the Presidio, n Tots 353100 §2600, or nny sige. o Mauts THedaced to Lots 25x127:8; Jackson s magnificent view; bet. Locust and ’ wark done: sty alss front. * SIRNEG Ree 450 each—Easy terms; lots on 17th, 1 18th aves.; 26x120; 100 to 175 feet m&“‘p:x',‘.‘i Lobos ave. limbs, use an BEAR IN MIND—Not tions is as good as the genuine. If you want a sure relief for Allcock’s one of the host of counterfeits and imita~ in the back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster