The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRA ISCO 'CALL, S DAY, NOVEMBER 24, 189 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, . SCRIPTION RA’ v ., one week, by TES—Postage Free - carrier..$0.15 . 6.00 nd Sund S OFFICE: ket Street, ncisco, California. deereeeressanes Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 C Telephone. ...« ..Main—1874 it BRANCH OFFICES: . 20 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until H o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open n street; open until 9 o'clock. th street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 31 and 32 DAVID M Thanksgivin, Giving in charity 1s the best way of giv- ing thanks. Man looks to the future, but the turkey lives tor to-day. Many a man who is satisfied with his lot s at the tax on Every prosperous citizen in proportion to his means should remember the poor. If you have not seen the art exhibit yet you have a new pleasure before you this In speaking for libert Debs should not foreet it is American law that secured it} to him. Chicago bas had enough of big fires of late to constitute a burning issue in her civie life. If Cleveland gets his message off his mind before Thursday he will give thanks rely. Give another man a chance to tell his sorrows and you will think your life a happy one. The rains that we might have been having are pestering our Eastern friends in the form of snow. That home market is really free which the emancipation of both con- and producer. mpos never gets a full hand when he to draw the Cubans, but he gets his bands full every time. Some people say the proposed new charter is not good, and some say 1t is better than the one we bave. The Weather Bureau will please take tice the country would like an oppor- ¥ to give thanks for rain. to convert many an enterprise in the air into a well-grounded undertaki ing from the experience Sherman is nator Hill was wise in taking to cture platform instead of writing a if the fellows who are threatening vio- lence in Round Valley do not put a string on themselves the law will put a rope on them. We can give thanks in California for the barmony that has grown up during the ear between the City and all sections of the State. e N England may be too busy elsewhere to notice Alaska, but she had better pay enough attention to it to take her foot off our boundary. California will have one eye on many bills before the coming Congress, but on bill she will have both eyes The Atlanta Exposition has been just about successil enough so far to encour- age her citizens to put up monev to pay the operating expenses. The freezing East shows its appreciation of the California climate by buying the semi-tropical fruits which our climate rather than our soil produces. From the way things look now it seems fairly certain Democracy will enter the next campaign as a horseless carriage with the machinery out of order. There must be some truth in the re- ported friendship between the Kaiser and the Sultan, for the Kaiser has never yet dedicated to the grand Turk either a poem, a picture or a speech. California is the only State in the Union that could furnish a Thanksgiving dinner, from oysters to walnuts, out of her 'own products and bave every viand of every courseWworthy of a royal banquet. The Sunday observance laws in New York have been carried to the extent of forbidding the sale of flowers, and, now the wayfarer on that day cannot obtain even so much as the bloom upon the rye. There are many candidates for the Re- publican Presidential nomination, and San Francisco 1s the only city where the nomi. nating convention can meet among a people who are absolutely impartial. s ER A s No better proof of the rascality which has so long prevailed in Round Valley could be given than that which is afforded by the letters threatening the correspond- ents of THE CALL who have exposed it. Some Democratic papers in the Missis- sippi Valley have been calling attention to the fact that earthquakes have followed the Republican victories, but we notice the people would rather have ten earth- quakes than a Democratic victory. Providence, R. I., wishes the Democratic Convention, and the Telegram of that city argues that the place is better than New York because it would not attract too large a crowd nor aisturb the proceedings of the convention, and the argument has merit in it. Police records in Eastern cities show the number of tramps applying for lodeings this year to be considerably in excess of the number for the same season last -year, 80 it is evident either that the number of tramps is increasing or some of ours have gone East, and the latter is not likely, for though the tramp is a fool he is not so big ool as to do that. e revival has gone far enough in Cali- | THE HOME OF THE HORSE. Until California entered the field Ken- tucky was almost the sole nursery of fine horses. Now California stands above Ken- tucky and all other parts of the world in the production of this noble animal. A cli- mate which makes no drain on the vital en- ergies of animals and conduces to no specific diseases 1s bound to produce in the case of a horse, as in that of men, superior vigor and a high spirit. The horse shows, which have become an established feature of San Francisco, ex- press an intelligent apprecietion of what the State is accomplishing in the produc- tion of the highest type of equine excel- lence. . Horseracing is a similar form of the same appreciation. In these two ways of exhibiting progress in the evolution of the horse the finest work of breeders and trainers is brought into sharp comparison, emulation developed and still better re- sults secured. The horse show is the per- fect complement of the horserace. The industrial benefits accruing from these two ways in which the production of higher forms is assured are of great value to the State. They are twofold—one in producing horses of increasing supericrity both for work and pieasure, and the other in encouraging an industry that adads vastly to the fame and wealth of the State. It is interesting to note that breeders of fine horses are in no way discouraged by the popularity of the bicycle, for they. with all other intelligent persons, under- stand that while the bicycle will decrease the number of horses used for pleasure it will greatly elevate the standard of their excellence. An exactly similar result will follow the inevitable introduction of inani- mate power intended measurably to sup- plant the horse in industrial uses. All this tends to make the treatment of the horse more humane. As these various causes are elevating the horse and refining his usefulness, it is not surprising to find that the most intelligent and progressive members of the commun- ity are the leading patrons of enterprises having the development of fine borseflesh as their motive. Racing and shows are commanding a rapidiy growing interest in this State, and particularly in San Fran- cisco. The annual horse show, which again is soon to be opened, has come to be regarded as the great social event of the year, and a splendid new racetrack has been provided to meet the increasing interest and demand in that direction. This means that, high asis the present de- velopment of the horse in California, it will now proceed with a renewed imvetus and be productive of the most beneficial results. “THE EALL ’iTHREATBNED. | that the work of We are not surpr Tae CALL in exposing the deplorable con- dition of affairs in Round Valley has roused the angry resentment of those who have no love for the law and no regard for the rights of property or the sacredness of buman life. As was anuounced in this paper Saturday, THE CALL's correspondent n Round Valiey has been threatened with violence uniess he desists from making ex- posures of the crimes which are rampant there. The editor of the paper had al- ready received threatening anonymous letters, to which no attention had been paid. Every newspaper encounters experiences of this kind when it tries to protect the public by pursuing and exposing lawless- ness. It may happen inadvertently now and then that a paper will commit one of those errors which human fallibility ren- ders possible, but it is invariably the case that the person who has been unintention- ally injured comes out into the open if he nt. He does not write anonymous headea with skull and crossbones, and does not threaten midnight assassina- tion. Whenever this mode of resentment s resorted to the experienced editor is €on- vinced that his publication has been the truth. From that he correctly reasons that such threats come from those who | dare not carry them into execution, and that there is no reason vo fear violence. Even if there should be any presumption of danger the editor who would be timid before it, or who would re in the small- est measure his vigilance in the pursuit of unworthy of the public trust which he has voluntarily assumed. It may be worth while at the present time to refer particularly to one phase of Tue CALL’s treatment of the Round Valley episode. We allude to printing both sides of the case. When Tue CaLn received what purported to be a true copy of a pro- test against its accounts of the Littlefield murder and other crimes connected there- with, said protest was published in full. THE CaLL was impelled to do this by its desire to let every man be heard. That the defense turned out to be insufficient and flimsy substantiated the justice of its former articles and more firmly estab- lished its original position. There are a great meny worthy and law- abiding persons in Round Valley, and they appreciate the work which Tue CaLL is doing and the possible risks which it is running in purging the beautiful valley of the infamous practices which have made ita byword among honest citizens and a reproach to California. They appreciate the value of Tne CaLyL’s efforts with regard to their own welfare and that of the State ! at large. They may feel assured that THE CavrL will continue steadfastly in the way which it has chosen, and that the threats of cowardly ruffians and murderers will have no deterrent effect. And all the other parts of California may rely upon this paper to come to their assistance whenever it may be required, and to do for them, if need be, what it has been doing for Round Valley. REMARKABLE FECUNDITY. The people of California have become so accustomed to the prodigious size, rich coloring and luscious quality of many of its soil products and to the wonderful size of many of its crops that they long ago ceased to speak of them as marvelous. ‘When these discoveries were new it was customary to write of them to Eastern friends and newspapers, as it is natural to write of marvelous things. It was thus that the *‘California liar” came into exist- ence and gerved as the butt of Eastern wits. Even then Californians came to re- alize that in order not to be deemed liars they must refrain from telling the truth. That which is incredible is as bad as a lie. Natarally it was impossible for Eastern people to believe things which were foreign to their experience. They had seen the soil at home cultivated, were familiar with the limitations which ‘‘nature’’ had placed on vegetable growth and could not be fooled by the tremendous yarns which came from California. Thus it is that very little has been said in recent years about the wonders of farming in California. It is pleasant, therefore, to read the truth now and then. The subject is very im- portant, for it involves this vital question: If Cahifornia does produce such wonderful crops why is not the cultivation of the soil more profitabie? In writing about the products of Tulare County, Major C. J. Berry says of a par- | ticular orchard by way of illustration: “It crimes which menace the people, would be | is composed of peach and prune trees principally, four years old. The peach trees are ten inches in body diameter and the prunes eight to nine inches. From 112 acres of peach trees there were gathered 1100 tons of fruit, and 100 acres of prune trees yielded 141 tons of dried product this season. From a lemon grove seven years planted each tree yielded six boxes of com- mercial lemons. On the table in the office of one of Tulare County’s newspapers are two pears grown in this county that weigh 714 pounds, the larger weighing 4 pounds and measuring 163{ incbes in circumfer- ence one way and 2034 inches the other.” These are not very exceptional instances and they are duplicated in many parts of the State. Generally where there is pez- fect suitability of a certain fruit to the place of planting, and the soil is fairly fertile and the cultivation thorough and intelligent, similar results may be secured almost anywhere in the State. This is by no means explainable on the score of su- perior soil fertility. The soil of Califor- nia, though bewilderingly varied, is no more fertile than that of Kansas or Ne- braska. Itis mostly a matter of climate. The wonderful size and excellence of these crops mexn nothing if the value of the product is consumed in finding & mar- ket. To a considerable extent that is the situation in California to-day, and that is the evil which tte people are now trying to cure ia various ways. Through its legal machinery the State is endeavoring to em- ploy its power in the making of reasonable transportation rates, and fruit-growers are combining to reduce other unnecessary ex- penses attending selling and to extend their market, The most important move- ment to the general end is that represented by the San Francisco and San Joaquin alley Railroad, which is being projected into the fertile region which Major Berry describes for the purpose of offering the growers a reduced rate of transportation. The last named instrumentality seems to command more confidence and raise higher hopes for better days than any of the others which are aimed at the same achievemen INADEQUATE PROTECTION. An unfortunate result of the fight among the fire insurance companies has been a serious crippling of the efficiency of the Fire Patrol, an institution supported by the insurance companies, The work -of the patrol is to save property, that of the Fire Department to extinguish fires. The operations of the Fire Patrol, under the new arrangement, will be confined to the busi- ness distric This condition of things discloses the inadequacy of the Fire De- partment under its present form of organi- zation. The defect lies in the plan and not in the manner of its operation. This defect is the absence of a full paid depart- ment. Firemen, for instance, being among those whose services are not wholly commanded by the City, attend to their private business and go on duty only when an alarm is sounded. Meanwhile the men who are in regular attendance at the engine-houses have lighted the fires and hence no great amount of time is lost. But there is no provision for filling the place of anengi- neer who may not be able for a number of | reasons to respond promptly. Not tohave engineers in the full pay and service of the City is inexcusably stupid and dangerous. The absence of a full paid department explains the necessity for the clanging of bells and screaming of whistles for an- nouncing a . There is no other way to inform the firemen who are compelied to earn a livelihood by conducting some pri- vate business. This manner of announe- ing fires is as obsolete as the practice which makes it necessary, and it results in massing great crowds in the street to the serious hindrance of the firemen. Other drawbacks and dangers resulting from our system are too evident to require mention. An owner of inflammable property has two methods of securing himself against loss. One is a fire department maintained the public expense and the other is in- surance. The latter protection is one that concerns bim alone, but the power of the law to tax him for the maintenance of a fire department is a recognition of the principle tbat the community hasan in- terest in compelling its individuals to as- sist in securing the general safety. There vractically no limit to the extent to which the enforcement of this principle may be carried in securing needed protec- tion. Money expended by insurance com- panies in maintaining fire patrols is charged to the accounts of those who in- sure their property. As all properuy- owners do not insure those whaq do not are thus in receipt of a benefit to which they are not entitled, as the patrol makes no dis- crimination between insured and uninsured properties. In other words the absence of a fully equipped fire department makes the burden of expense for fire protection unequal and tends to keep insurance rates at an artificially high figure. Property saves no money by permitting fire insur- ance companies to do work which belongs to the municipalif RANDOM - NOTES. By Jor McNavGHr. Critics who speak with an authority to which the world submits deny to Murillo a place among the half dozen painters who stand foremost for artistic work; but none can deny that in point of popularity he is first of all painters. If he has not con- ceived beauty under its sublimest aspects, or if he has not worked out his conceptions with the finest perfection of art, he has at any rate perceived the beauty which ap- peals to the common feelings of men, and he has known how to make it visible in forms and colors that awaken a well-nigh universal sympathy. Whoever likes pic- turesatall likes Murillos. When he paints beggar boys, we see a humanity in them that claims kinship with us, and when he paints saints and angels we perceive in them a divinity with which we claim kin- ship. Thus he is always within range, and touches us because we feel that he is never out of our reach. It may be accounted, therefore, a species of good fortune that our art exhibit includes this season two ex- cellent works of this master. Through their beauty even those of us who are least acquainted with the mysteries of high art can learn to appreciate the accomplish- ments of art. In them, asin the dramas of Shakespeare, the skill of a mighty master bas made the common feelings and thoughts of men to pass through “a sea change into something rich and strange,” but nevertheless they remain clearly intel- ligible to us, and seem indeed but a part of ourselves, ‘“illumined by a light that never was on land or sea.” Tv is an old familiar truth that however good may be the thing done the work of doing it is better. The effort is always more interesting than the accomplish- ment, even when the accomplisbment comes nearest to perfection. The human mind sympathizes with progress more than with attainment, and that sympathy is not lost, even if the progress after a cer- tain point becomes seemingly disastrous. Napoleon going forward to Waterloo has a more magnetic influence on the minds of men than a Napoleon who would have stopped with Austerlitz and been content. This truth has many applications. It is one of the reasons why all artists have a tendency to rate technique above every- thing else in art. It is also one of tne motives which impel us to take more in- terest in the works of our California artists than in the noble pictures of Murillo. Our artists represent progress, not their prog- Tess only, but that of all of us. In the con- templation therefore of the California pictures in the exhibit the visitor will find his best pleasure. Nor is the pleasure an inartistic one. It argues no lack cf appre- ciation of the great work done in Europe that we should have more sympathy with the work now doing in America. Murillo was noble, but Murillo is dead, while our artists are alive, and are we not also alive and in love with the living ? Asitis demanded by the general mass of men and women that all music shall have something of melody, and not run wholly to harmonic exercises, so it is de- manded of all painting that it shall have some bright, pure colors and not be made up altogether of neutral tints and shades too indeterminate for the eye to recognize. A proof of this is seen in the general admi- ration given to the picture in the great hall of the “Bay of Amsterdam,” by Nicholson. There is in this painting a glow of color that suggests ideas of Venice. One instinctively calls it Venetian, and on seeing it marked Amsterdam in the catalogue feels something of a shock. The shock, however, is unreasonable. If our Belvedere can have a festival that is calied Venetian, surely Amsterdam has a right to a sunset that looks Venetian. There is alsc a distinct pleasure in knowing that such a flime of color beams sometimes around the land of the Dutch, -as it recalls the thought that after all there is sunshine everywhere. I have said the aamiration for this picture is general, but as I recall at this moment the saying of Ruskin, that a delight in pure colors is a-sure proot of a pure beart, I am inclined to think my statement should be qualified to the ex- tent of saying that admiration for the pic- ture is general among my friends. Tam not writing a catalogue nor a criti- cism of the exhibit, but art is like love and politics in this that you cannot begin to talk of it without continuing to talk. Any reference to color in connection with the exhibition will bring to the mind of every one who has seen it a recollection of Yel- land’s picture of ‘“Monterey Sands.” That picture is not an education merely, but a revelation. Who could see all those hues in the sand dunes until the artist made them visible? Who having seen the pic- ture will ever again fail to see there in the sands the miraculous colors? There are people who say that California Jacks color, Will they please study California art a little and learn how to see things mnot through a glass darkly ? Every one has felt conscious of a charm in the sand dunes of our coasts, but few have been conscious how far that charm is due to a certain mystery of color not seen ex- cept by the ‘eves of artists, but felt by every one. A great French painter, who has won fame by painting pictures of the Egyptian desert, made public some years ago a list of the colors used in an effort to reproduce the hues of anexpanse of sand in one of his works. Beginning with the foreground and extending to the horizon the list included brown, dark red, violet, blue, gold, rose, crimson, pale green, or- ange, indigo blue and sky blue. If the sands of Egypt have these, what have the sands of California? We speak of the dreary desolation of sandy expanses, but how can there be dreariness and desola- tion where rainbows lie prone upon the earth and all the huesof heaven are at rest? E Since Keith’s painting—or is it a crea- tion ?—of Castle Crags is for sale, there is a chance for some man of much money to render himself quite lovable by making a present of it to the city. It is one of the pictures that have in them the vital power of growing on the mind as you look at them; one you can never look at enough in a single visitand which therefore should be made a part of the permanent collection of the institute. It is not a picture of pure colors, but [ am inclined to think it is a picture of pure inspiration. In the glow that bursts above the mountains in great streams there is less suggestion of the flashing splendors of sunshine than of a stroke of genius. Perhaps Castle Crays does reveal itself at times under such aspects, but I imagine the revelation is made only to great artists. Atany rate it is a far cry to Castle Crags and few of us can hope to see it, therefore there is good reason why the beautiful picture should be public propertv and hung where all can see it, if not all the time, at least at all times. If T have doubts. that Keith depicted Castle Crags in the colors of pure inspira- tion, I have none at all concerning the picture that Pissis has painted of Yosemite. Here, at any rate, isa vision *“‘toobeautiful to be true,’’ a scene revealed ‘in a hght that never was on land or sea, the conse- cration of a poet’s dream.” Moreover it was evidently a mid-summer’s day-dream, for here are fairies of the waterfalls as real as Shakespeare’s fairies of the woods. The painting is one of the few on exhibi- tion in which the artist has allowed his pencil to body forth the airy shapes that haunt the imaginations of men, and out of which the old Greeks made at once the beauty of their religion and their religion of beauty. It is a striking picture, a debatable picture, and one that is likely to make more talk in circles where talk is fluent. Few can paint the sea and none can painta song, but Robinson has tried to paint “The Song of the Sea,” and if he has not succeeded in doing all he aimed at, he has at least struck the keynote of his desire, and sent it vibrating into the minds of all who look upon his work in moods at all sensitive and susceptible to the influ- ences of the sea. Of all pictures that men ,paint those that represent water are the most popular. Perbaps this is because water is more beautiful than anything else, or perhaps it is because it is always associated in the minds of landsmen with sumptuous ideas of pride, adventure or pleasure. Few of us seck the sea except to travel, to fish or to make love. Robinson, however, has not painted the sea under that aspect. His is the mysterious sea with sunlit surfaces and infinite depths, whence come the voices of sirens enticing to pleasure and leading, perhaps to the Golden Isles, perhaps to Hades. It is not always the brightest things that most attract us nor the strongest that make the most lasting impressions. Amid the glory of a thousand roses we are conscious of the charm of a hidden violet, and with a sweet insistence the loveliness of it lingers in the memory when we go away. Out of the fine ar- ray of iarger and brighter pictures in the exhibit there remains with me the recol- lection of one of the smallest. It is a little picture that hangs in the conservatory at the landing of the grand staircase. It is called “Mignon,” and was painted by Miss Newman. Whether it is the portrait of a real child or a new ideal of the winsome creature of Goethe’s romance I know not, . [ nor does it matter. In its loveliness, whether ideal or real, there is the charm of the portraiture of a soul as well as of a face. One can see in, this “Mignon’’ the unsullied joy of a healthful, wholesome childhood, and at the same time be con- scious that it is the child of a race that looks before and after, and ‘‘sighs for what isnot.” It is, in fact, & work in which there is almost as much of poetry as of painting;-an exquisite little accomplish- ment of sentiment and beauty; and small though it is, none who visit the exhibit should overlook it. 1t is perhaps as weil to say again in closing that this is no attempt at criticism on the exhibit, or even on the special pic- tures I have named. These are but ran- dom notes, the unconsidered recollections of a well-spent afternoon, and are written with no purpose of appraising the relative values from -an artistic point of view of the works on exhibition. I have devoted my Sunday talk to the subject only be- cause it is the one which at this time is in my judgment best worth such consldera- tion as the day of leisure affords. If what I have said inclines any one to visit the gallery who would not otherwise have gone I shall be satisfied. Truly, there is much in the exhibit to gratify every Californian. The building itself; erected to be the home | of a private citizen, is a notable illustration of the princely hospitality to which Cali- fornians aspire. The works of European masters loaned by wealthy and public- spirited citizens show what these fortunate ones are doing to add to our culture the best that the Old Worla affords. The ac- complishments of our own artists are full of inspiration and encouragement., They are full also of education and enlighten- ment. How much more will we value and enjoy the beauty of our California when we see it as revealed to us through the eyes of artists in the sands of Monterey, the peaks of Castle Crags, the foaming falls of Yosemite, the mysterious songs of the far-reaching sea and tae dainty Mignons of a thousand homes? Ail of these things are fair, and others also are fair, but who- ever would know how fair they are must see the exhibit for themselves. THE NEW PROFESSOR. [By E. J. Sullivan in the Chicago Echo.] FERSONAL. Dr. F. Royster of Boston is in town. The Rev.Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is at the Grand. E. H. Barton, a civil engineer of Sonora, is in the City. General A. W. Barrett of Sacramento is at the California. Commodore William H. Skerrett of Mare Isl- and is in town. B. L. Ryder, an attorney ot San. Jose, arrived here yesterday. F. M. Shaw, a merchent of San Diego, is here on a business trip. P. M. McCarthy County, is in town. W. B. Young, a general goods dealer of Kelsey ville, is at the Russ. Jesse D. Carr, the great land-owner of Salinas, is at the Occidental. James F. Dennis, a business man of Reno, is among recent arrivals. E. D. McCabe, Governor Budd's private secre- ary, 1s at the California. Dr. Rafferty of Benicia isat the Occidental, accompanied by his family. Walter Camp, the football coach at Stanford University, is at the Palace. Dr. W. C. Webb of Bakersfield arrived here Jast night and is at the Grand. C. A. Durfie, the grower of fast horses in Los Angeles County, is in the City. F. W. Swanton, the hotel proprietor of Santa Cruz, is spending Sunday here. Antonio Friant of the Union Savings Bank of San Jose was in this City yesterday. J. Bloom, a merchant of this City, has re- turned from his visit to Eastern cities. Charles I. Davenport, & mining man of Silver City, N. Mex., is registered at the Grand. District Attorney Carl E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. Dr. F. W. Hatch, superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Agnews, is- at the Russ House. Albert M. Hochstadter of Philadelphia, pub- lisher of the Daily Hotel Reporter, is at the Palace. B. V. Sargeant, the District Attorney and Democratic politician of Salinas, is at the Ocel- dental. Among the arrivals from the south last night was ex - District 'Attorney Mark Walser of Eresno. Ex-Superior Judge Seymour Clarke of Shasta County is down from his home in Redding for a few days’ stay. , B. F. Lacy, of Park & Lacy, the manufactur- ‘ers of mining machinery, has returned here, after some months in Australia. J. M. Munyon, the wealthy manufacturer of medicines of Philadelphia, and Colonel 8. A. Mackintosh of the same city, are among the re- cent arrivals here. Sam McMurtrie of Guedaloupe, who, with his brothers, has for a couple of years past been ergaged in building the Southern Pacific’s coast line toward Santa Barbara, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Paiace. Captain Charles W. Fisner, an old whaler of Edgertown, Mass., and F. S. Pease of the same State, arrived here yesterday, and are at the Russ. They are here 1n reference to the whal- ing cateh in Northwestern waters. Among the prominent people who left over the Sunset limited train last night for the East were the following: Hon. F. M. Hatch, Ha- wailan Minister to Washington, and his fam- ily; 0. A. Poole, the extensive tea importer of Yokohama; O. H. P. Noyes, also a tea-dealer of Japan, and W. F. Goad. Two newspaper women of San Francisco do- ing some notable work just now are Mrs. Lil- lian Plunkett Ferguson and Mrs. Florence Percy Matheson. The first named lady is the editor of Town Talk, which under her able guidance has Jately taken place in the very front rank of San Francisco weeklies, and Mrs. Matheson has an)instructive and enter- taining article in the December number of the American Journal of Civics. Both ladies are active newspaper workers, and from the-char- acter of their work both are fated to fame wider than local. Both took’ prominent part in the reception lately given at the Press Club to Miss Kate Field.—San Francisco Bulletin. a mining man of Placer CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 23.—Mr. and Mrs. George B. Warren are at the Fifth-avenue. Mr. Warren is assistant manager of the Palace Hotel. Mrs. Leland Stanford is still at the Fifth-avenuie. Recent arrivals are: W. H. Allen, Holland; Mrs. McIntyre, Astor; W.J. Scott, Holland ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Broard, Everett. CHANCES ARE BRIGHTER. ‘Woodland Mall. THE CALL of Monday stated that Pittsburg had only raised $500 for the National Conven- tion. This being, the case Ean Francisco's chances are much prighter. THE CALL is doing some great work for the convention. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE JOHN MUIR REVIEWED. ToURIST DU MERE SAYS THE, UNDERGROWTH OUGHT TO BE DESTROYED. ° SAN FraNcisco, Nov. 22: f Charles M. Shortridge Esq., Editor the San Francisco Call, City: 1 have read with ipteresfl the letter of John Muir, published in yoht issue of Novemiber 20,and was strongly im- pressed with two points, 1. e.: Mr. Muir in writing was influenced either by prejudice or theory. . His argument is plausible and likely to im- press the uninformed, vet it is wide from the mark. People who speak from personal knowledge can inform Mr. Muir that the Yo- semite Valley, during the time he praises it for cleanliness and sttractive condition, was owned or claimed by various parties who made attempts toward cultivating the land and keeping down the undergrowth, but since the State took control, and nature has pre- vailed without guidence, it has become frowzy and unkempt, which Mr. Mujr thinks is cansed by politics instead of poll:fil The - undergrowth of the valley bottom should be burned regularly, then it would be- come & beautiful park, &s the people intended itshould be. But such conditfon cannot be hoped for untii more practice, and less theor: is adopted by those in control. It is wel enough’ to talk about “wild wood,” *tangle wood,” brake, bramble and nature’s Primlt Ve beauty. . It sounds well and looks well in print, but the practical application thereof estab- lishes the evil to which Mr. Muir ealls atten- tion. The same remarks can be made of the reat park outside ot Yosemite Valley. It is ikewise suffering from a congestion of theory and misapplied artistic conjecture. When the mountainsides were covered with shepherds the dead wood, pine burrs and grass were burned each year and no particular damage was done to the standing timber, regardless of many reports to the contrary, both public and rivate. i Continuation of this practice would turn the whole forest into a park, now that the herds of cattle and sheep are debarred. The ground would become clean and fresh; the trees stand like grent columns, with branches arching overhead, making truly & great natural cathe- dral. The truth of this statement can be proven by comparing any portion of the present forest where fires have removed the underbrush with that portion protected by United States troops. The first, with fresh grassand unob- structed view, is a pleasure to the eye. The second is uncouth, uncombed. difficult of ac- cess and a general disappointment. Instead of solaiers to kev:g fires out of the park they should be detailed for police duty, 1o debar stockmen only, and be Te-enforeed with hundreds of woodsmen 1o de- stroy the dead wood and underprusn by burning the surface at safe periods. This would give the State a pleasure-ground that could not be surpassed on earth. On the other hand, the present policy, if continued, in a few years will accumulate a quantity of undergrown that when fired(which no number of United States troops on guard can indefi- nitely prevent) will undoubtedly destroy the standing timber and our great park become a desolate weste; all because a few men who know little of wooderaft think a naturai park ra‘-quues no attention or direction by the hand of man. The **tangle-wood party” will probably con- tinue to influence both the Yosemite and Se- quoia Park managementsuntil they are burned out, and will then claim it occurred from neg- but the true cause will be asinine stu- ity. Mr. Muir {s generally accredited as a first-class man in his business. but his letter indicates that practical woodcraft is not one of his specialties. A. Du MERE, Tourist. THE FOPULIST VOTE. ELECTION RETURNS IN KANSAS, NEBRASKA AND COLORADO. Zo the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Nearly twenty days efter the recent State elec- tions the Populist newspapers are coming to hand with authentic election returns, and as THE CALL never hesitates to give the news,even though it has to come by slow freight instead of the telegraph, and also because no wise pol- itician is willing to be caught napping by un- derestimating his opponent, I have condensed the details at hand of the votes by counties in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, being certain that the brief report 1 now present will be val- uable information to every wideawake reader of THE CALL. The telegraphic news from Kansas was based on the vote of Mr, Martin, the Republican can- didate for Supreme Judge, the claim being made that the State had gone Republican by 50,000; but the news agent neglected to state that the Populists placed no candidate in the field in opposition to him, being willing to vote for him as a fair and upright man. His opponent, Mr. Holliday, was the nominee of the “resubmission” or liquor-dealers interest, and not acceptable to Populists. Mr. Breiden- thal, cheirman of the Populist State Central Committee, and other leeding Populists, openly supported Mr. Martin, The'election in Kansas this year was con- fined to the choice of Judges and county offi- cers, it must be remembered. It now remains to report the county elections. It would fill a column to give the details in the newspapers at hand. Itis sufficient, however, to state the results by counties. In sixteen counties not a single candidate on Populist tickets was de- feated, while the Populist vote was largely in- creased. In Harper County seven out of eight Populist candidates were eleeted. In 1894 the county went. Republican for every candidate. In Sumner County the Populists elected the Sheriff and Register of Deeds; in Woodson County, the Sheriff; in_Jewell County, all ex- cept the Sheriff; in Lane, Sherman, Chase, Gray, Riley, Brown, Rush, and fifteen other counties, the Populists eiected from one to five of the officers. In Shawnee County the fight was on the office of Sheriff. The Topeka Capital, the lead- ing Republican journal of the State,on the day belore the election said: “If you want to handicap the Republican State campaign in '96 vote for Bob Kepley for Sheriff. The election of a Populist Sheriff in Shawnee County means thousands of Pop- ulist votes in the State next November.,” On the day of election the Capital said: “There will be Populist bonfires from Doniphan to Morton County if Dave Burge (Republican) is Qdefeated to-day.” He was defeated by over 200 majority for Kepley (Populist). Ina word the Populists have made great gains over last year's vote in Kansas, and by a straight Populist vote—not in alliance with Democrats—are in their first successes. Their newspapers are exceedingly jubilant, seeming to rejoice quite as much over the reduced ma- orities of their opponents in all their strong- 0lds as over their victories. In this re- view of results no attempt has been made to report on each county, but it alms to be a fair average of the whole. In the returnsathand the Republicans appear to huve elected all their candidates in four counties. ° But I am giving too much space to Kansas, for the returns from other States are also im- ortant. It was necessary, however, 10 give acts in detail to correct the impression made hy the news agent’s error in taking the vote cnstn:m" 'l;’h‘.shtllt:tlll as l\;nfe bla.!i! lor estimat- ing that the State went Republican by a ma- Jority of 50,000, . . POPULIST VOTE IN NEBRASKA. - The vote in Nebraska reveals interesting fea- tures. It was divided between four candidates for the supreme judgeship—Norval, Republi- can; Maxwell, Populist; Mahoney, Cleveland Democrat, and Phelps, Silver Democrat. In the ten counties from which a detailed report has been received—namely, ge, Gasper, Hall, Polkk(}lly. Cuming, Box Butte, Boone, Sarpy and Keya Paha—the vote is given i order named 2nd stood as. lmll.nm:‘!i e z E ] e g 3 = g H g 2 ? I a C] s S 3 1,136 38 p 268 8 %5 1,328 258 187 716 38 32 1,500 95 64 911 468 417 552 140 30 fr 355 128 149 49 17 7.532 9,046 1,918 1,149 To understand the full significance of these figures it must be remembered that in1894 the Democrats indorsed Holcomb, the Populist candidate for Governor, and other - Populist candidates, but this year they let the Populists go it alone, while they determined to test by separate candidates the relative strength of the Cleveland and silver forces in their own party, with the result indicated. It uppears that there are 7 Democrats in these ten coun- ties and that where they are weakest the Popu- 995., | tron; and the reve The Re- ’c“e“lmnfef:, hold their own, while the ocrats are on the verge of extinction. “THE COLORADO VOTE. e for only & reference to the result ~Inl(,:’n‘l‘;::‘¥;c Lake County, hmluamfi the city of Leadville, elected the entire Populist ticket, 45 did also fiftcen other counties. In several other counties the Populists elected many of their candidates. The returns for the State are incomplete, but it is manifest that the Popu- Jists have made large gains over last year. In & short time more complete returns will be at hand, including_other States, and a more vi ade. defin{w Topat Ll ?g!’;fli ASBURY JOHNSON, 11 Essex street, November 23, 1895. MESSENGER-BOYS REPLY. THEY THISK MR. MorROW. Has JUDGED THEM Too HARSHLY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: ‘We beg to repudiate some of Mr. Morrow’s mis- statements in your valuable journal of last Sunday. Now Mr. Morrow has done quite an injustice to some of the boys in the messenger service. There are as bright and manly & lot of boys in the messenger service as you will find anywherein the Union. 'If Mr. Morrow would take a.look around and see & few of them he might change his mind and say that his glowing column was ' slightly miscon- structed after all. As for manners and manli- ness ihere are some of the boys formerly mes- sengers, that can equal any one, for some of them now hold as good pofitions as he does himself at the present time. It is not the fault of the service that afew of the boys have be- come criminals. Itisnot necessary for them o be so unless it is in their breeding and bringing vp. ‘We don’t think it proper for him to reflect diseredit on the service by his remarks. As for diseases, there is not a boy in our service like he described. They are as healthy a lot of boys as you would wish 10 see. Does a shambling walk and a stooped peir of shoulders make & criminal? If o, then there are a great many criminals in the City going unmolested through our streets, and if an insolent tongue can extract a fee, what can a polite one do? I think it & very peor comparison, that one between 8 newsboy and a messenger-boy. There are a few ba messenger-boy and think the same with newsboys, but Mr. Morrow does mot know that almost one half of the newsboys are either mnow or have been messenger-boys. There are at the present time nearly one-third of the news- boys still working in the messenger service and selling papers also. The only difference is in their hours of labor. So if a shambling gait and stooped shouiders in the messenger-boy are significant of the criminal, 1 think the City needs a great deal more protection than it has at the present time, and also the failure of & boy to make & man of himself should not reflect "discredit upon the service he is eme ployed in.. Signed by two messenger-boys, S8.A.B.ANDN.O. T. American District Telegraph Company. P.8.—We are not hurt in the least over it. All'we want is to give credit where credit is due. lists b TYPE SET BY HAND. Guinda Tndependent. The San Francisco CALL is entitled to the good will and support of all working printers and wage-earners on the coast for the humane feeling displayed by its publisher, C. M. Short- ridge, in refraining from introducing type- setting machines for a year and a helf. Its competitors, the Chronicle and the Examiner, began their use several months ago, taereby throwing out nearly 100 compositors. By his action Mr. Shortridge is entitled to the respect and support of all classes, as'a man with a warm heart and one who is willing both ‘“‘to live and let live.” Hurrah for THE CALL and hurrah for Shortridge! The people should re- member his act. WRITTEN ON GLASS. Grass Valley Union. Thursday George A. Gray took out two lights from the front window of the late office of F. T. Nilon in the Morgan & Roberts block and shipped them to George A. Sargent of San Francisco, son of the late A. A. Sargent. The glass contained the antograph “A. A, Sargent”” written with a diam nd by the Senator when he was practicing law hereand had an office in the building now known as the Morgan & Roberts block. When Lis son George, who i3 now a promiment attoruey in San Francisco, was here a few weeks ago he saw the glass, and recognizing the fenuincness of ‘the writing procured permission from the landlord 10 re- move the two lights. One of the lights has also the autograph of the late Judge A. C. Niles, who at one time years ago occupied the office, and also signature of Judge John Garber, who is now one of the leaders of the San Francisco bar and who practiced law here in early days. THE CALL IS FAIR TO ALL. Santa Rosa Republican. The San Francisco CaALL, having been led into error in regard to water works affairs in Santa Rosa, has done its best to correct its mis- take. A member of its reportorial staff was sent here to investigate the subject, and, with- out taking sides, he made a very fair report of the work in progress in this city and the basis on which that work is being done. THE CALL was a very liberal friend of Santa Rosa in the prominence it gave our rose carnival. Itisean excellent paper in every respect and its man- sgement desires to show the people of this city every possible courtesy. £ WINNING ON MERIT. Hollister Alliance. The war between the Chronicle and the Ex« aminer of San Francisco may be nothing more than a sham battle by which to attract the ate tention of the public which is fast going to THE CALL. THE CALL doesn’t need to fuss abous “its circulation, but merit will finally win. The Origin of *Americ: Beattle Times. The schoolbooks still teach that America is named after Amerigo Vespucei. This is about as accurate as to say that Texas is named after Texas Jack, Montana after Montana Pete or the like. Amerigo Vespucei was named after America, and not vice versa. The true ex- lanation of the name appearsto be that it of Indian origin, and is the resnlt of an at- tempt on the part of the Spaniards to render in their langnage the name of the locality where the Indians of the islands said they obtained their gold. This supposed locality is shown on one of the oldest extant maps as correspond- ing to Central America, and &s being named *Tammerique. An English naval officer, who fully examined the q¥estion a few years ago, says there is no manner of doubt that Tam- merique is a clerical error for T. Ammerique— that is Terra Ammerica. Vespucei having visited Terra Ammerica, it became Amerigo Vespucci by an easy transformation. E. H. 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