The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1895 20 : -"SUBSCRIP'IV'IOV RATES—Postage Free: by Daily and S: Daily and Sund: Daily hree months by mail 1.50 yne month, by mail.. .65 . 150 . 1.50 San Francisco, California. Telephone.. coaeeee .--Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... e ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICI 0 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until ) o'clock. 39 Hayes street; open until kin street; open until 9:30 o'cloci nd Mission streets; 7 street; open until 9 o'clock. eet; open until 9 o’clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32 Park Row, New York City. nt. DAVID M. KUNDAY | The Populists are few in number, but they surely have the Senate in a sling. 1f going for it unanimously can achieve success we may as well call it our conven- tion. Curope knows she can whip Turkey, but know what would bappen doesn’t afterward. would like the convention, of than pork? ht to be some way of getting h out here to give our horse It may be true that Spain is ready to treat, but the trouble is she wishes Cuba to take water. By the time Congress meets American thy for Cuba will be just about ready action. symp tot There is no sufficient reason why Thanks- giving charity should stay at home until Senator Gibson of Maryland complains that, while it was Gorman’s fight, 1t is he that has to take the licking. Let us be j to the Democrats. They have eaten their crow without a kick, and none of them have done the Dunraven act. e i be no milk of human kind- Asiatic Kurds, for they are Armenians to keep their There can ness in the still killing hands in. It may be true there are some gold veinsin Nebras! but the Omaha Bee asserts they hold out less hopeof reward than Nebraska cornfields. Many men have done much for the City during the past week, and if you are not among them you will have another chance fo-morrow. As Texas is now claiming 3,000,000 in- habitants, there is reason to believe some Chicago men have escaped and made their homes there. The New York Assessors must have had an eye on George Gould, for it is noted that he very ostentatiously wentover to New Jersey tovote. Cleveland is now confronted by the diffi- culty- of finding a - Democrat who doesn’t feel too small to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench. = Horizontal Bill Morrison of Illinois seems to think his Presidential boomlet escaped the late cyclone by being out of sight at the time. _——— Now that the State elections are over and ‘the results explained the Eastern press has returned to a lively discussion of municipal reform. Along wi wave of Republican success there is a promise in Kansas of the return of Ingalls and good old times. A new magazine has been started in Des Moines, called The Earth, and before long the editor will find that all who want the Earth are not willing to pay for it. The Mexican Herald sa; charm of life in_ Mexico is that it offers an escape from the social faddists.” This is evidently & new name for Texas con- -stables. It'is now asserted the King of Belgium has reached the conclusion that the Congo Free State experiment is a failure and is willing. to let England have it if she will take it off his neck. EE Ex-Senator Edmunds says: “Thetrouble with us and our foreign policy is that we stand still while our competitors are at work.” This is putting it mildly. Cleve- land’s attitude is more like sitting down than standing still. It issaid that in Great Britain, where the postal registration charge is only half what 1t is here, the Government pays the value up to $10 when a registered letter is lost, and an effort will be made this win- ter by some Eastern reformers to have a similar rule adopted by our Government. Several Eastern papers have accused some Chicago firms of canning diseased meat and shipping it into other States. The Jowa State Reqister charges that such meat has been sent to Des Moines and other Iowa cities. It might be well for the Board of Health to inquire into the mat- ter and-see if we are. pgetting any of the stuff out here. A movement has been started in Chicago to get up a children's fund to erect a mon- ument to Bugene Field, and if it could be carried out spontaneously it would be a good thing, but the chances are that, like othér movements to get money from chil- dren, it will result in begging in the public schools,”and that has become too big a nuisance in this country already. At-a Bepublican whoop-up in Indianaan old farmer named Moab Turner is reported to have sized up the situation from his point of view by saying: “Under the Dem- otratic administration it has frosted in “July and August; the dry weather has fin- ished the’ crops; wheat brings 40 cents a bushel, and one and a hatf bushels to . thie aere; horses are sold only for sausage, ‘and ‘no wonder the people wanted a . ehange,” 5 but can she offer anything better | & i h the revival and the tidal “The great | LITERARY DISCUSSIONS. Among the scholarly essays read before the Chit-Chat Club the other evening and reproduced in this issue of THE CALL are i two which bear, with pefuliar force, tpon the idea that the character of the literature ! of an epoch is an expression of the moral- ity of the time. The first of these is fessor Clapp’s essay on “Classics of and Modern Timeés.” The particularly ) valuable part of the paper is the declara- tion that the literature of ancient Greece is still unsurpassed and still serves as a model of excellence. The essayist would have performed an additional valuable service had he inquired more closely into the reasons for this re- | markable fact. It cannot be admitted | that the ancient Greeks possessed, as indi- viduals, a higher and finer order of native talents than those of succeeding and now living individuals of civilized nations. For the excellence of their products we must look to certain peculiarities of their social compact. These peculiarities, proceeding from and reacting upon the body of the people, produced an inteliectual and moral tone which stimulated the creating of ex- | quisite works of art. These peculiarities were of & social and only secondarily of an individual sort. Were they in existence in | any civilized country of the present time there would undoubtedly be seen such high and noble art as that which Greece produced. | The second essay, the one by Professor | Hudson on “Modern Fiction,” indirectly | throws some light on the subject. Profes- | sor Huason, like all other intelligent ob- | | servers, has discovered that modern fiction has degenerated from art to utilitarianism. He states the idea with much greater care | ana elaboration than this, but this is the | vital partof it. The view of the ancient writers of Greece was wholly different from | that of modern tim Briefly it was this Art is the expression of all that is finest and purest in human nature. It is sub- | jective, not objective. Itis merely the evi- | dence of conditions which it has served no | part in producing, but which it does serve to encourage, elevate and conserve. In short, since morality is intelligence, and ince intelligence proceeds from efforts to acquire wisdom, wisdom must be acquired before art can be produced, and art is high | in proportion to the extent of wisdom. | The things destructive of wisdom and | therefore of morality are avarice, undue | d | haste, political corruption, lack of patriot- | ism, improper living and the erection of | | money as the standard of all values. i These happen to be the very things | which oppress modern civilization and | which were measurably absent from the | social affairs of ancient Greece. The last | thing that a Greek sculptor, writer or | philosopher took into account was the profit which he might secure from his effort; that is the first thing that concerns the modern writer, sculptor, painter or | philosopher. That is to say, since the moving principle of art in modern times is | the self-aggrandizement of the artist in- | stead of the elevation of the people, it is | perfectly opposite to the principle which | | inspired the ancient Greeks, and must therefore fail and be mean and distorted. ‘The republicanism of Athens was ideal, | and it is in the application of its principles | to the welfare and happiness of the people that we must scek an explanation of their incomparable and enduring art. It may be something to the point that very likely 1 its noble and ideal culture was the cause of its downfall, that the lower instincts of the race cannot be too far repressed with- out danger to the public safety, and that | the strongest and most enduring races are those in which there is going on a fierce | | struggle between good and evil. That | | would be a discouraging view to taie, but we cannot ignore the fact, taught by the | experience of the ages, that, in the absence i of obstacles to overcome, both the indi- vidual and the nation are likely to de- teriorate. These considerations did not properly fall into the treatment which Professors Clapp and Hudson gave their subjects. Within the limits which they imposed upon themselves they exhibited the high- est mastery of their themes. This meeting { of the Chit-Chat Club, taking into account the splendid scholarship of all the essay- | ists and the fine accomplishments of the club members and of their invited guests, give evidence of an intellectual force here- about of the most valuable order. Its influence, though not aggressive, is quietly at work for the elevation of tne com- munity and a correction of some of the | social evils of which the weak character of modern polite literature gives abundant evidence. DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE. The idea that the sewage of cities might be profitably used as aland fertilizer was exceedingly popular a few years ago, and was put in operation by a number of cities. But lately there has come about a strong reaction. for sanitary experts have come to the front with a mass of educating data. Salt Lake City has recently constructed an expensive plant for such a disposition of itssewage. This includes a large body of land which the city bought for the recep- Jion of the fertilizing material. It was assumed that farmers would be eager to take the land and pay a handsome rental in view of the highly fertilizing character of the sewage, but when it came to open- ing bids it was discovered that nobody would accept the opportunity. Another recent development of the idea comes from Santa Rosa, where a citizen has recovered heavy damages from the city for maintaining a nuisance in the form of sewage used for fertilizingland near his property. The case will probably be appealed. When it reaches the Supreme Court we may expect some interesting opinions on this important subject. The tangible objection to such a disposi- tion of sewage is its offensive odor. This, however, is likely the smallest. It is a safe assumption that under favorable cir- cumstances sewage carries the germs of diseases that may exist in the city, includ- ing diphtheria. This matter has not been determined with scientific accuracy, but as the presumption in 1ts favor is so strong it is unlikely thatsuch a determina- tion is unnecessary. Besides all this it | has been satisfactorily ascertained that | the large excess of water in sewage practic- ally nullifies the fertilizing value of the organic matter which it contains. Manchester, England, completed and put in operation in January, 1894, one of the most scientific sewage systems in the world. At tbetime the plans were under discussion the question of utilizing the sewage directly for fertilizing purposes was | roused popular indignation. | ous to business. thoroughly discussed, and the idea was abandoned as unscientific, unsanitary and positively dangerous. The plan in brief is this: Instead of per- mitting the sewage to enter the rivers and other streams which flow through the city it is taken by gravity to a place five iniles beyond the city limits. A sufficient amount of storm water is permitted to enter the new sewers to keep the sewage moving freely, and the old sewers are used | exclusively for the surplus storm water. Where the sewage leaves the outflow there 1s a screen to intercept the grosser matter. The liquid is then treated with precipitat- ing agents—sulphate of alumina and milk of lime—and passes into settling-tanks six feet deep. After the settling the clear water is drawn off and emptied into a fifty- acre ground filter, which is drained by underground pipes. The water thus puri- fled finds its way into the ship canal. The precipitate, or sludge, in the settling- basins contains 90 per cent of water. Itis a thick liquid. This was formerly carted ! away and used as manure, but that plan was finally abandoned as unsafe. It is now forced through a filter-press, which squeezes out all the water except 50 per cent, and is then compressed by hydraulic power into cakes, which are used as fertil izers and are highly valuable. Being per- fectly odorless and comparatively dry they are inoffensive and presumably free from danger of disease ger: It is too early yet to know whether this system is the best. San Francisco must sooner or later face its sewage problem, for that the present system of turning it into the bay is bad admits of no serious question. It will not do, however, to adopt the practically abandoned and wholly unsanitary plan of using the sew- age in its original form as a fertilizer. THE ANTI-POOL ORDER. The new ordinance which the Judiciary Committee of the Board of Supervisors has agreed upon for submission to the board seems to cover the evil of downtown pool- rooms completely. Especially stringent is the feature holding property-owners and lessees responsible for the conduct of such establishments, The Grand Jury has ap- proved the proposed measure and it has passed the fayorable criticism of eminent lawyers. There can be no doubt that the board will adopt it without delay. 1f so a contest will likely at once be pre- cipitated in the courts to test the legality of the instrument. There is” where the real danger lies. The disposition of the courts generaliy to set aside laws which the people need has become offensive and The absence of a law prohibiting poolrooms has caused a large number to be opened, and more are projected. They are crowded constantly with the very elements of the community who cannot afford to bet on races or spare the time for it. Messengers and clerks who handle money for their employers are subjected to temptations which are peril- And yet this is a trivial danger compared with the moral harm and egradation resulting from the indulgence. The large number of persons now en- gaged in poolselling downtown represent a resisting force which will exercise a heavy pressure on the courts when the question of the validity of the ordi- nance is raised, and this may make it the easier for the ordinance to be overturned. It is time for the City to make a strong stand and crush the ev! THE ISSUE RAISED. The material part of the defense made by the Market-street Railway Company to the City's sui¢ for the forfeiture of the Church-street franchise is that the Mayor is not a part of the legislative body of the City, and that therefore his signature to a franchise awarded by the Board of Super- visors is unnecessary. This ground has been taken because the Mayor refused to the Thus the issue is fairly raised and will go before the courts unhampered by collateral matters. It would not be in place here to dis the merits of the issue, further than to say that if the position taken by the rail- way company is correct this City is in a very peculiar position and unhappy pre- dicament. It wili not be sufficient for the court to confine its decision to the one point of the Mayor's right to approve rail- way franchises granted by the board, un- less it be assumed that as this right is apparently so closely identified with his right to approve or disapprove other acts of the board a decision on this one point will cover the whole ground. But unless this is made perfectly clear, the whole machinery of the City government may be thrown into confusion and important private and municipal interests imperiled. RANDOM NOTES. By Joux McNAUGHT. According to reports from New York the Marlborough wedding, which began with so stately a ceremonial, tailed off at the end info a procession of the most delight- ful absurait; It seems by some mistake the Vanderbilt carriage was not in wait- ing for the bride and groom when they arrived at Oakdale station, and to avoid the staring of the crowd gathered at the place they set out to walk to Idle Hour, whose lodgegates are about a qnarter of a mile away. The crowd, however, not to be balked of the great American delight in a free show, followed aiter them, and the Herald says: “It wasan odd spectacle, the tigures of the Duke and Duchess trudging along the muddy country road in the half darknessof a misty twili followed by a motley cortege of bicyclists, pedestrians and carriages of all descrip- tions.” This is a graveyard world, and all of us have a foot in it, but if even a skele- tor could contemplate that picture with- out a smile it would surely be a skeleton from whom some body-snatcher had robbed the funny-bone. ither the motley cortege that fol- lowed the Duke and Duchess along that muddy road in the misty twilight, nor the innumerable multitude of those who, with an equal eagerness, followed from afar the story of their courtship, engagement and marriage, is to be judged harshly dy the wisdom of the world. In their absurdity there has been no more than that humor which makes man so amusing and so lovable to his fellow-man. All the world loves a lover; all the world deligits in the pomps and splendors of life; and, while all are not frank enough to openly mani- fest their pleasure in the sight of these things, even those who do not are gener- ally gratitied by the exuberant raptures of those who do. In the wedding of the young Duke and many-millioned heiress there was an exhibition of one of the brightest scenes the world’s great show has to offer. People of frank instincts showed a well-charmed interest in it, and people of crabbed instincts mocked at it. In this case, as in many another, there was more fun in watching the spectators than in seeing the stage. There was humor in it even in the benches where the growlers sat. When you come to think of it, what can be funnier than a grave, sober, serious-minded man going about the country growling because a young girl married the young fellow that she wished to marry, and dia it with her papa’s and her mamma’s consent ? . Dr. SBamuel Johnson, in deseribing a night which he and Buswell passed at a Highlapd inn, said: “If the fleas had all pulled the same way they would have dragged us out of bed.” The stupid and the vicious magnates who sit in the high places of earth and by their conduct shock morality and the middle classes while crushing virtue and the poor might well paraphrase these words of Dr. Johnson and say, “If the satirists would pull together they would drag us off the earth.” Batirists, however, no more than fleas, are able to pull together. Every age franchise granted by the | and every nation sufficiently highly bred to beget a satirist has seen these men proudly boasting their mission to lash in- justice through the world suddenly trans- form themselves into a procession of Flagellants and proceed to lash one an- other. By reason of this the popular mind is diverted from indignation against wrong to a mere amusement at folly, and the “oiled and curled Assyrian bulls” of Philistia continue to make themselves comfortable in this world, as if it were a stable for their housing. The satirists show themselves not of the irritable race of prophets, but of the irritating breed of fleas, and vice, instead of being dragged off the earth, is simply annoyed a little bit and made to swear some. There were once two satirists and only two, and they determined to elevate the age. Not being fully assured in their own minds that they had a divine authority for this mission -they set about to search through the worid for a model to imitate in the conduct of the campaign, and in their searching were soon attracted by the noise of two pugilists engaged in elevat- ing the stage. These pugilists stood afar off and reviled each other in what was known in the country as fighting lan- guage; and the satirists saw that the peo- ple lent their ears to the pugilists; that each of the revilers in turn landed on that listening ear with both feet, as it were— and behold the stage arose and expanded until there was no State in that land big enough to hold it. “Come, now,’’ said the satirists, *let us imitate this example.” Then straightway they reviled one another «and corbetted and fitzied with wit, sar- casm, satire, ridicule and invective, and the age lent both its ears. In a short time it came to pass that the age died. ‘Be- hold, now,” said the satirists, ‘‘we have killed the iniquity of the age our occupa- tion is gone,”” and immediately they fell into one another’s arms and shed bitter tears of reconciliation. A dealer in ready-made philosophy, warranted to match the market, who lec- tures for a living and therefore must pay advertising rates if he wishes his name mentioned, has recently cheered the Phil- istines of the Kast by telling them that alt talk of an impending social revolution is folly, and that the existing order of things is not seriously threatened anywhere. Had he stopped with that assertion there | would have been mno contradiction to make, for who can contradict a man who knows it all? The lecturer, however, had the folly to venture upon an argument. He said all revolutions have been preceded by revolutionary poets, and that as we have no revolutionary poets at this time | in the world, therefore we are not on the*‘ eve of a revolution. To this argument | there are two answe First, all revoln- | tions have mot been preceded by pro- phetic poets—the great poets of the French revolution did not precede the outbreak, but were contemporary with its course. Second, the only great poets now writing in the English language are Algernon Swinburne and William Morris, and both of them are revolutionary. I call atten- tion to this for the purpose of giving a lesson to’ those who need it. It always weakens an assertion to give an argument in support of it, for while there are many assertions that are as steadfast as the Sierras, there never was an argument that was not as shaky as a reed. Two literary revivals have been started in Europe that are likely to affect us be- fore long and tnerefore it is well to take notice of them at once so asnot to be surprised when they overwhelm us as a fad. Paris is forming a cult for the wor- ship of Rousseau and London is developing an enormous admiration for Byron. There is a sufficient ‘similarity of spirit between the French romancer and the English poet to make the simultaneous revival of interest in them something more than a coincidence. Both were mas- ters of style, which means the perfection of form in art. and both were the apostles of a discontent which means an abhor- | rence of all existing social forms. It would be interesting, therefore, to know whether itis to their style or to their discontent that therevival of interest in their works isdue. Certainly in an age when Mr. tiiey is considered a poet ana General Lew Wallace is regarded as a master of prose, it would be a great gain to the world to have even a faddist study of the style of Byron and Rousseau. But suppose the world is not interested in the style so much as in the spirit of these discontented im<~ mortals—what then? Are we to have a cataclysm as the result of a fad? Other poets come and go but Shakes- peare stays with us always. Every test brought about by the change of time and circumstance serves but to yield him an- other triumph and add a new laurel 10 his brows. It has been often said of him taat there has been nothing and can be nothing in the domain of human endeavor which his genius has not touched and adorned, and when, therefore, in these latter days the bloomer came upon the earth, the mockers at his universal knowledge chal- lenged the loyal lovers of the great bard to show one single reference to this wonder of the times. The challenge has been promptly taken up and this quotation from “Antonv and Cleopatra’” has been offered in evidence: Leap thon attire and all Through proof of harness to my heart and there Ride on the pants triumpbant. There may be some people inclined to stick at trifles and question the exactness of this reference to the new costume, but the common-sense of the world will not heed their cavilings. ‘‘Pants triumphant” fits bloomers as well as ever bloomers fitted a woman, and once more Shakespeare has called the turn. When satirists take to satirizing one another the ribald viliains of this world have a free circus that amuses them much, but the spectacle is ever a mournful one to all true lovers of the good and beautiful. When Addison speaks of Pope with scorn, and Pope talks of Addison in a way that makes scorn' wish it had the power to biister the body as well as the soul of him it falls on, and both set forth to describe one another with all the skill of masters of sarcasm, what pictures of humanity do we get! What caricatures of genius! It is impossible to look at the portrait of either as drawn by the other without agreeing with Pope: 'Who would not laugh that such a man should be? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. » — CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢ Ib, Townsend's.* — e BacoN Printing Company,508 Clay streot.* SPECIAL ln;oxmltqon daily to manufacturers, business- houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 16.—Among re- cent arrivals are: San Francisco—William P. Harrison and wife, C. 8. Wright and wife, Miss Helen Wright, Master Harold Wright and Mas- ter Mellen Hatch, Rigss House; M. L. Wash- burn and wife, Ebbit House; P. H. Saxton, Ar- gngum Hotel; Rev. S. W. Sprague, Hotel Ven- lome. Miss Katharine Quint, daugnter of a Congre- gational clergyman, and a graduate of Welles- ley, is the first woman student to be admitted to Dartmouth. Her major study will be Greek. | 1n conjunction with the severs once. for an order had been passed requiring | walks and a sewer (o be constructed on_two bloc plated. When made as LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE PROFOSED PRESIDIO BOULEVARD. EXCELLENT REASONS URGED FOR PRONPT ACTION | IN AN IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT. 7o the Editor of the San Franeisco Call—SIR: The Presidio Heights Improvement Club has taken up the matter of making First avenue a boulevard with the promise of good results. It hes been ably seconded in its efforts by the Merchants’ Association, the Park Commission- ers and some of the Richmond clubs. At & recent meeting the club discussed the situation thoroughly and appointed a commit- tee to push the measure to a successful ter- mination. There is no more important and praiseworthy project for the improvement of streets in any portion of the City than this boulevard; for no other City in America, per- haps, has two such admirable sites for beauti- ful, scenic parks as the Presidio Reservation and Golden Gate Park, and these are only one mile apart and connected by a fine avenue, one hundred feet wide and almost level for the entire distance. Tne latter park is aiready the one great attraction of the City and has caused property in the vicinity to more than quadruple in value in a very short time. Twelve years go an acre of land there could be bought for about the price of a lot to-day. The Presidio has been greatly transformed Within the last few years, and & vast amount of work is now in contemplation by the Gov- ernment authorities in the way of beautifying and imvroving its condition. Only recently has a substantiel driveway been constructed along the south line of the reservation from First avenue to I'wenty-fourth, and a fine orna- mental gate is being put in at the First avenue entrarce. The authorities have agreed, [ understand, to conform the grade of McDowell avenue to the change of grade necessary to be made in First avenue near this entiance to the Presidio. First aveuue, forming an admirable connec- tion between the park and the Presidio, to be utilized as a driveway by the greatest number of residents of the Western Addition, is at present in a disgraceful condition. Much of it )8 below grade, is muddy in_winter, sandy in summer, and never fit to drive on. So there is no other street in the City in greater need of attention by the people interested ‘and the City authorities, than First avenue. To this end the Presidio Heights Club is devoting its energies, and it should by all means be successtul, Since Devisadero street (which was a good outlet to the park, and about the only one, for the people of the Western Addition) has been occupied y an electric street railway, no one can get o the park out that route by carriage or bicycle with any degree of comfort or safety, and_certainly no lady can drive (o the park without almost endangering herlife; therefore, the only remaining way for this district. especially for the residents of P Presidio Heights, is to utilize First av convert It into a boulevard before it is 100 late. An effort has been made for several months past by a few citizens residing in this part of the City, clubs and organiz tions, toward thus fmproving this avenue, but they have been only partially succes The first step taken was 1o secure the rellpquishment of the street railway franchises that have been granted on_the avenue, which was accoraplished on the condition that the Board of S isors dedicate this sireet as a public “driveway.” and thus prevent all future frar chises from zoing on. The Supervisors have given a pledge that they will do this when a changeof grade has been ordered on the two blocks from Jac Clay, in accordance with a recent surve K (00 steep at present for bitum m The expense of this ch considerable, and will result the adjacent property, as th be filled in cercain places as much as twelve fee 1t b zainst the law for the Superviso form a “district” of the property on First and assess it for this work ( the property owners fave sary either for these few o 3 1 s | mak- | The | where the pense, or tor and Tes lons for ing voluntary subseri this work. | latier course was favorahy euteriained by the Presidio Heights Clubat 1 s last meeting, and the committee appointed is now at work solici subscriptions. Whatever is done should be dox the 1f the property- in this locality are alive | to the situation they will not let the opportunity | pass without getting the bonlevard, for they oughit 10 realize that when it is comple ed it wili be the most atiractive and magnificent driveway in the City, and every 1ot on the avenue will bo trebled in value, and all the vroperty n (he vicinity greatly enhanced, and ceriainly that on Presidio Heiglits, whose streets leading into the avenue, notably Clay and Washington, will become maln thoroughfares. The Park Commissioners have consented make an entrance to Golden G Firs avenue; so that from Cent will be an unobstructed driveway almost and a mile and a half in length to the park shiortest and bestoutlet for the Westorn Addition— which driveway would be the most important and valuable improvement of the kind yet made in this City. Respecttully, I, T, BICK émber of the Commi WEST OAKLAND ORPHANAGE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SiR: In vour issue November 5, 1895, I find these words: “Dr. Gregory said he did not wisn to eriticize orphanages, but that some of them are liable to abuses. He added: ‘In the Children’s West Oak- land Home 50 per cent of the children die from neglect.’ ' This statement of the ductor astonished me beyond expression, especially so as it stood with quotation marks. I have waited till this date hoping to see it corrected by the doctor himself, for I know it to be in- correct. Ilive one block from the West Oak- land home. I visit the home frequently. I meet the children daily on the street and am personally acquainted with most of them. Fearing I might be mistaken I went to the books and found these facts: Number in the home, ninety-five; deaths within two years, none; health'of the children excellent, proved by their appearance and Also by the fact that tiree months passed last summer without a physician being called. Thinking the doctor may have referred to the infant department, T found this to be there: Number of infants, 33; deaths within a year, to Even thie is a remarkably good showing con- sidering the circumstances. G These infants are from hours to twoyears of ageand come into life diseased in the extreme, exposed to a degree that makes death almost certain before being given to the home, and in a majority of cases there 1s no desire for them or wish that they may live on the partof par- ents. Notwithstanding all these things rzainst them the death rate is but 3 per cent greater than the average of five cities the statistics of which could be had. The thirty-three children are not in one home, but in five homes, thus glving them almost family care. This is written under the thought that an injustice has been done, we doubt not, unin- tentionally, by Dr. Gregory. My relations with him are the most pleasant, and I would be de- lighted to have the doctor call some evening and accompany me to the home. When he shall have seen that large number of bright, habpy children gathered for the evening rond- ing and studv—the social hour—he will agree with me that the ‘‘West Oakland Home"” is as “homelike’” as it is possible to make such an institution. Many homes are less helpful to their inmates. Respectfully, GEORGE W. BEATTY, Pastor Chester-street M. E. Church, 933 Pe- ralta street, Oekland. THE STRUGGLE IN CUBA, Pittsburg Press. The great body of the press—perhaps nine journals everywhere out of ten—has spoken in favor of the recognition of the belligerent rights of the revolutionists the moment they haye fulfilled the qualifications of belligerents as laid down inthe international law. Whether they have done that is a question for inter- nationai lawyers, and we presume}Attorney- General Harmon will advise Congress in this regard when it meets, In the meanwhile there isnodoubtas to what the public feeling is, even if no mass meetings were assembled. Boston Herald. Spain might, without too much trouble, be brought to realize that it would be better to turn over the island to the United States,on payment by the latter of & liberal amount of purchase money. If we cared to give from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 for the right to gnsxesu Cuba, the exchange on the part of pain, barring sentimental considerations would be an excecdingly favorable one, and :he n;done ‘th;.uobl-inedhwnultd 80 a )ons oward relieving a number of pressin, cial necessities. o g way nan- New York Sun. Undoubtedly the laws which regulate the duties of neutrals ought 1o be observed in this country as long as we are neutral; but Mr. Dickinson says truly that above all other laws, international or munic}ga].nnndl the law of humanity, which bids the United States, b; recognizing the belligerency or the independ- ence of the Cubans, put an end to the atroci- ties perRB'.n(efl by the Spanish soldiery in their unhappy island. XNew York Mail and Express. The one dark spot on the otherwise brilliant record of the Atlantic Exposition is the fact that its managers postponed “Free Cubs Day” and suppressed & great demonstration of Pop- ular sympathy for the patriot armies of an in- fant republic at the behest of an_unpatriotic and seli-seeking President. That the voice of the peaple should be stified to accommodate & domineering politician is both amazing and discreditable. Every one knows how fearful is the burden of taxation borne by the untortunate Cuban people, but few probably understand how in- erzble would be the increase of this burden if Spain should succeed in crushing the insur- rection and impose upon the island, as she did after 1 , the payment of the cost of its own subjugation. New York World, General Campos is not Grant and the Cubans are not likely to remain in auy one place long enough to be crushed. They know the country, its morasses, its jungles and its mountains; have the sympathy of the people and the ability to wear out hostile armies in skirmishes l\)\'ininut ever staking conclusions in a pitched attle. EUGENE FIELD. DrEp NOVEMDER 4, 1895, ¢ silvery notes are store in many hearts, T'he glory of thy singing needs no praise, For once again we hear the rustling maize, And from the ends of life, where day departs ‘And shadows draw about us as a pall, We view the world again with childlood’s eye: The shady glen, the swallows soaring high, The careless, laughing brook: we see them all. Sweet singer, we shall hear thy harmony Long sounding down the halls of memory And calling forth those forms 0i purity That lived when we were children—long ago; And when Death called and laid thy spirit low, Fall many a loving heart was veiled in woe. J. ELMER WILSON. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. A Plea for Innocent Youth. Redlands Facts. It 18 to be hoped that Governor Budd will fol- low up his humane and energetic language in commenting on the imprisonment of children by using his pardoning power to free the vie- tims of parental mismanagement and judicial carelessness, or worse. How is it to be expected that a boy who is sent to Ione or Whittier merely because he is unruly will be trained into a'good citizen by associating with boys who are committed to the same place for actual erimes? From which class of people is the boy likely to get his strongest impressions—from the overworked instructors and caretakers, or from “Jimmy de Tough,” who came from sac- ramento for picking pockets; the “Fotrero Kid,” who was rounded up with the latest catch of burglars in San Francisco, and -the miscellaneous gang of young roughs whose rnr('?el' of crime and vice was begun at an early age Spoedy Punishments Will Check Crime. Redding Free Press. A spasm of crime seems to be pessing over this county. Murders and shooting scrapes take place almost every week, and the County Jail is well fillea with prisoners awaiting trial, ty and cot expenses are piling up to the alarm of overburdened taxpayers. Throughout the land the punishment for crime seems inad- equate I every person tempted to commit crime was certain of severe and speedy pun- ishment there would be less crime committed. | Low Round-Trip Rate From Chiecago. San Jose Mercury. Low rates wili cut a big figure in the conven- tion fight. The McKinley Republicans an- nounce that they wiil not oppose San Francisco if they can secure & round-trip rate of $25 from Chicago. ‘I'hat rate would induce thousands of people in addition to the delegates to visit San Francisco, and it would seem that the railroad companies could well afford to make the con- cession. Quality Is What It Banks On. Porterville Enterprise. This is already the banner county of the State for citrus fruits, as {ar as early ripening and fine quality are concerned. Quantity does not yet cuta very important figure, although it is'estimated that from Porterville alone fifty carloads at least will be llll[“ved this season. In a few years Porterville will lead in quantity as well as quality. Compensation. Stockion Record. What a lucky thing for newspapers it is that 1o two men in this world are constituted just the same. Every time & newspaper thinks out Joud somebody stups his paper. This would be rather hard on the paper if it were not owing to the fact that one man takes a paper for the same reason that another stops it. GOOD FOR SAN FRANCISCO. Red Bluft Cavse. The award of a contract to the Union Iron | Works of San Francisco for the construction of two twin-screw steamers for the Government is a matter for congratulation. San Francisco has eady demonstrated that she can turn out as excelicnt naval work as can be done anywhere on the Atlantic seaboard, and her influence will be felt in the building of the new American navy. NEW TO-DAY. 1BCCToSSoseew SPEGIAL SAVING SALE PUDDING DISHES—Heavily Nickel Plated on hard metal, with removable porcelain-lined dish for serving direct from the oven; also useful for baking many other things. The regular prices are $1 50 and $2. On Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday ONLY we will sell the two-quart size at $1and the three-quart at $1 40. See them in the window. China, Glass and Lamps—a dollar’s worth at retail prices for 75 cents, Our big wholesale business enables us to do it. You save the other 25 cents, and we make a profit, too. That’s the whole thingina nuulnll, THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEI & CO., 528 and 530 Market St., . 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY. 1f yon want a sure relief f limbs, use an i tions is as good as the genuine. Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita~ back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster ~ains in the PERSONAL. Ambrose Bierce is at the Grand Hotel. - M. P. Gleason, a Portiand merchant, is at the California. . Raleigh Barcar, the Vacaville barrister, is'a guest at the Lick. £ Frank C. Ross, one of the leading citizens of Tacoma, is iu this City. . M. Baxter, a banker from Watsonville, isa guest at the California. - A. L. Sayre, a merchant from Madera, is registered at the Grand. D. Parkson, a lumber-dealer of Los Angeles; is a guest at the Grand Hotel. W. R. Louttit, the Stockton lawyer, is housed at the Grand Hotel for a few days. C. Steenberg, one of the well-to-do farmers of Brentwood, is registered at the Lick. A. Allf, orie of Colusa’s solid merchants, reg- istered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. Harry Harris, 2 well-known New York book- maker, is a guest at the Palace Hotel. Dr. R. 8. Markell of Cloverdale arrived in the City yesterday and is stopping at the Grand Hotel. H.G. Wilson of England, who is making a tour of the world, registered at the California yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. Bogart bave returned from their honeymoon trip to the Eastand are. registered at the Palace Hotel. J. W. Baily, a wholesale boot and shoe man of Buffalo, is visiting the Pacific Coast and is registered at the Grand. Naglee Burke, the owner of Crescendo, the famous racehorse, was up from San Jase y terday watching the flyers pass under the w H.E. Pioda, the Minister from Switze: to ihe United States, with headquarters at Wasy ington, is back in the City again and is tered’at the Palace Hotel. J. 8. McMillin and wife of Rock Harbor, Wash., are in the City at the Occidental Hotel, Mr. McMillin is the suporintendent the famous lime works located in that section MALARIA literally means bad air. Those who are exposed to m or other poisona should keep the blood pure by taking Hood's Sarsapnriiia. Pare blood is a foe to disease. i CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANT FE ROUTE. beging October 29, A new train througho Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reciiphng- chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- cago, via Kansas City, without cha Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver sod st Louts. Twenty-seven hours quicker than quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has put in fine physical condition and is oW the sy transcontinental railway. - Jous SHERMAN'S book, reviewed in anot portion of this issue, is now ready. Suld an subscription. Agents given exclusive terr: Address the Werner Company, Pablishers. Hall square, City. RS T BY adding 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angosira Bitters to every glass diseases from drjuking po ted water are avoided. ik 5 th sore eyes use Dr. Issac Thomp- Druggists seil it at 25 cents. 1Ir aficted son’s Eye Wi NEW TO-DAY. NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. Notice to the People of the Pacific Coast, A New Departure in the Shoe Business. We Have Consolidated Our 7 Stores in 1, And will from this date prepay express charges on all orders for Shoes to any part of the Pacific Coast on receipt of money order. You will thereby save thé express charges (25¢) and the return of the money (15¢), which will be a saving to youof 40¢ on every pair of Shoes you order. We Have Just Issued —100,000— IHlustrated Catalogues, Which we want to distribute all over the Pacific Coast. Now, there is only one way to do this, and that is to request every one who buys shoes to send us their address on a postal card, which only costs 1 cent, and we will send you & CATALOGUE AND SOUVENIR worth $10, it not more, because it gives you all the LATEST INFORMATEON ABOUT SHOES, STYLES. QUALITIES, KINDS AND PRICES, and with full description of how to order and ruies for seli-measurement; Even though you buy your shoes elsaivhere, yvou cam readily see how mich you can save by buying your shoes at our house. We Run a I:.arge'Factéry And Pay el $700 a day For Labor. S0 you can buy your Shoes direct from the manu- !lclan‘er and save the wholesaler's and agent's profits. 1f we are out of the size you order we can miake them in one day’s notice. ‘We| have the lnfieuz siore and by far the largest stock of any house in San Francisco to select-from. ' in mind, we will sell you Shoes at Factory Prices—just what other dealers pay for them. Our Life-@ing Shoes Are all the rage. Every lady should have a pair for the damp weather. DON'T BE DECEIVED. Other unscrupulous dealers are hanging out signs that they have them. Ton't be misled by such unprincipled dealers. We are the only house that has the genitine 5 LIFE-SAVING SHOES. PRIGES FOR. LIFE-SAVING SHOES : Misses’ 8izes 11 to 2,.§2.50, . . - Ladies” Stzes 2 to 8, $3.00. LADIES' EXTRA QUALITY FRI i e ENCH EiD, Sizes & to 8, $4.00. Widths AA, A, B. C, D, E and EE. All.the N latest style toes. . . Don’t forget t: a oss-fo . C-hlngus.q 0 send your addressfor Mail orders will receive prompt ate tention. NOLAN BRO SHOE cCoO. B12814 MARKET STREET 9and 11 O'Farrell §., PHELAN BUILDING. Telephone 5527.