The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1895, Page 6

' e b Ko e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1895. 517 C1 epen until 1 until 9:30 o'cloc until 9:30 o'cl 1d Mission s SW onen 9 o'clock. New York City. cial Agent. the day: “Will you town to-day, and you ing thanks ou co; E the poor to-day. ider then i 1 2 nuis; s the flower of Thanksgiv- the fruit of it is charity. ing, but en the holidays will set verybody will be worked to death. ival of American homes crow and p e best conditions on in the best State of side Park to-day rtof a new era for sping, good times ospect there is he City, will be thanks It isin the homes of Ameri £ K is a Natic s a signifi nal are demanding that veland make his message monumental, but the chances are he give them just a plain gravestone. Among the candidates for the Maryland senatorship to succeed Gibson and profit by the De: ic Waterloo are Colonel Bonaparte and Mr. Wellington. asif the Senate would have to i an automobile institution this winter. he Populists can’t organize it, the Democrats darsn’t, 2and it seems the Republicans won't. 1t look: be somet. The Pilgrim Fathersfounded Thanksgiv- ing in the faith of good things to come, and we should be profoundly grateful that in our generation more than they dreamed of has been realized. Those who were caught in the rush of shoppers yesterday will now resolve to buy their Christmas goods early, but as sure as fate they will be among the frantic ones in the crush on Christmas eve. .In the new enterprises nndertaken, in the growing harmony between City and State, and in the increasing public spirit of the people California finds abundant reasons to give thanks for everything in sight. In writing that Cleveland could put an end to the railroad trust by 2 vigorous ap- peal to J. Pierpont Morgan, Senator Cian. dler mistakes the situation. It is not Cleveland who wags Morgan, but Morgan who wags Cleveland. Mr. Choate says the new mural paintings in the New York courtrooms will elevate the standards of judicial bearing and legal and if that proves to be the result we cannof decorate our courtrooms with angels and saints any too quickly. As Senator Hill crawled out from under the snowdrifts of clection day only to strike a blizzard at the opening of his lecture tour, he has doubtless arrived at the conclusion that for a bachelor poli- tician this is a very cold, cold world. The Surgeon-General of the Navy has recommended the b ing of ambulance ships to accompany our fleefs in time of war 8o as to provide a place for the proper care of the wounded. The suggestion is novel, but there seems no reason why modern nayies should not be supplied with all those appliances of charity and bumanity which are now attached to armies. It is reported that a road near a large sugar factory in Utah has been constructed of molasses, the process being tolay a coat of molasses on the roadway, then one of gravel, then another of the syrup, which actsas a cement, then anotner of fine gravel, and so on, uatil a road as hard as any ever macadamized results. We have some big sugar factories in California, but jtis evident the only way for us to get ahead of Utah will be to substitute flap- jacks for the gravel and keep the roads smooth with melted butter. I | threatening s verity was al ! che { of mortal destiny, w THE LAND OF LIBERTY. When the Pilgrim Fathers, newly landed on the coasts of Massachusetts, faced with brave hearts the coming winter, whose ady heralded by the cold November winds, and with a devout gratefdlness set'about commemo- rating on that bieak coast, in that dreary season, a day of solemn thanksgiving and rejoic ir songs of praise could have emanated enly from the exultant faith of strong souls. that even in the wilderness were able to sce the coming glory of the promised , and in the desolations around them discern assurances of what in the fallnessof time would come to a | people solemnly dedicated to the main- tenance on earth of that eternal truth pse spirit is liberty and whose form is Between thai Than ving day and this, manifold and marvelous have been the works wrought for humanity in the name of liberty and truth. The most fer- vent faith' of the Pilgrims couid have hardly foreseen that which is to us the realization of daily Iife. It isnot solely in al! matenal comfo: conveniences ana s our life affords an impressive contrast to theirs. Not ‘merely that the desolations havé given place to gardens, that dangers have passed away, and that al firesides ve driven the bleak- ness from November evenings.. Not in only, nor in things like these, have createst changes been wrought. It is in the high domain of lib and truth the Pilgrims loved so well that the great- est advance has been made, and that the glory of our realization has outstripped the dreams of their faith. They loved liberty and they loved truth, these Piigrim Yathers, but they loved with a blind zeal, not recognizing that he ho would serve these must in all things serve humanity. By slow degrees through the years since the first Thanksgiving day, have the thoughts of men risen to higher conceptions of these sublime ideas until to-day we occupy almost another sphere of thought in regard to them. From our America have been banished many forms of falsehood and tyranny which the Pil- ims did not rec i e. Political subjection to E gious intolerance, industrial slavery, dis- tinctions of caste and class, and a hundred 0Old World meannesses ingrained into the ims by education, have been outgrown heir descendax They were free ac- cording to European ideas, but we are free with the freedom of America—absolved completely from every form of tyranny over the m of man. Hard would it be to set bounds to the things for which in all gratefulness we are to give thanks to-day. Within the limits here sorrows and suf- st ever be as a part of human we are, indeed, blessed with No land is fairer than ours, no skies more genial, no soil more variously fruitful, no harvests more abun- dant, no people more kindly, no comfort more universal, no homes more secure, no fering m educatio many bless progress more certain, no National life more steadfast. With us is the hope of the world, the helpfulness of the highest humanity, and with us will remain while nations en- are ours, for, like all good hey are based on freedom, and is is freedom’s land. Here liberty is not dden in the heart of the individual, but iy in the law, having her temple the constitution, her bulwarks in every atute, her altars in every court, her vota- her defenders in every rong arm and valiant heart, while her symbols stream in the glory of every starry banner whose beauty flames in the winds day is peculiarly an n holiday. It is a day to re- ember that erica is something more pbical expression; a day to recall her glory as a nation as well as the comforts of her people: a day to revive mer of her eventful history, the sublime deeds of ber heroes, the eloquence of her inspired orators, and by meditation pon ker irue grandeur arrive at that de- cratefulness which will make our ing not 2 rejoicing only, but a solemn dedication cf ourselves to the ser- vices of this great land of freedom whose es rest for this generation st in the charge of our love, loyalty MR. NIMMO FINISHED. Tue Cary has already exposed the ab- dities contained in the pamphlet issued some weeks ago by Joseph Nimmo Jr., who, asa friend of the transcontinental railroads, an enemy of the interstate com- merce law and an advocate of any scheme to relieve the transcontinental aided lines of the obligations which they owe to the Government, has bent his energies against the project of the Nicaragua canal. This paper had so thoroughly disposed of the “arguments” which Mr. Nimmo presented against the reasonableness of the canal project that it had not thought it neces- sary to notice an addendum which he re- cently issued, purporting togive revised statistics of isthmian traffic. ‘We observe, however, that the S8an ¥ran- cisco Chamber of Commerce has deemed these effusionsof Mr. Nimmo’s pen worthy of refutation. It has issued a circular written by Captain William L. Merry, which seems to regard these emanations of the friend of the subsidized overland lines as having weight, truth ana value. Cap- tain Merry hardly needed togo further than announce that Mr. Nimmo’s pam- phlet is dated from some Long Island place bearing the interesting name of Hunting- ton. The town seems not to have any initials. Captain Merry’s able refutation of Mr. Nimmo’s railroad monopoly arguments does not contain much that is new to Ban Francisco, but as he is evidently writing for the information of those in the East upon whom Mr. Nimmo’s representations may appeal on the score of ignorance and credulity, his effort carries a measuvre of prudence. Against Mr. Nimmo’s estimate of prac- tically no tonnage through the canal, Cap- tain Merry shows that De Lesseps esti- mated 5,500,000 to 6,000,000 tons annually, and that the committee appointed by the Board of Trade of San Francisco in 1880 to vestigate the matter estimated 5,000,000 tons annually at the lowest. He sbows that Mr. Nimmo,.in quoting the Panama Railway tonnage of 1890, ignored the fact that in that’year the overland railways were paying the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Panama Railway Comvgny $75,000 per annum to hold aown the isthmian traffic to 1200 tons. These are notorious facts, but they are not useful to Mr. Nimmo's purposes. ! It follows easily that Mr, Nimmo’s dec- laration that the reduction in transcon- tinental rates has not been the result of Panama Railway competition has no foundation in view of the arrangement which restricted isthmian traffic. Captain Merry hardly needed to show that the distance of 5254 miles which must be covered to round the Horn is a factor in transportation rates, Mr. Nimmo to the contrary notwithstanding. And every navigator knows that the distance from the Orient to the Atlantic Coast via the | Nicaragua route would be 570 milesshorter in distance and still shorter in time and safer in all ways than the route via the In- dizn Ocean, the Suez canal, the Mediter- ranean Sea and the AtlanticOcean.’ As for tonnage through the eanal, Cap- | tain Merry seems properly to believe that by 1900, before which time the canal could not be completed, it will reach over 8,000,- 000 tons annually, and in making this statement he means tons of 2240 poundas, and pokes fun at Mr. Nimmo for estimat- ing a maritime ton at 2000 pounds, which is the railroad basis. He shows also that Mr. Nimmo is unfair in quoting values instead of volumes of overland transportation, and yét we are all aware that specie, passengers and every high-priced and perishable merchandise must go overiand, and, being very valuable, give no indication of the volume of the traffic or its bearing on the necessities of commerce. As a matter of fact, bulky and cheap articles go by water, and they vastly exceed in tonnage the traflic of the rail- roads. 7 Captain Merry shows further that the Suez canal toll of $1 83 a ton in 1894 can be profiaably duplicated by the Nicaragua capal at the start without reference to reductions that would inevitably result from the increase of traffic which 1t would create. And all this is separate from and additional to the perils, delays and hard- ship of transportation round the Horn. Finally, as Mr. Nimmo's whole argument is intended to prove that oceans, the free and natural uighwaysof all the nations, are obsolete, the very foundation upon which he has reared his structure is absurd. THE NEW RACETRACK. The new racetrack at Ingleside will be formally opened to-day. Its establishment grew out of the increased interest in breed- ing and training horses in California, and its existence will materiaily assist in the accomplishment of still higher results in that most important State industry. The new electric road from Mission street to the trak will be in operation to-day, it is hoped, and also the steam road from Third and Townsend streets. But an ex- ceedingly pieasant way to reach Ingleside is b; gon road. Three fine routes lead to it—the Ocean House road from the Mis- sion, the same road from the beach, and the Almshouse road from the park. The two last named are among the most pic- turesque drives in the State. The beach road is familiar to all, but the Almshouse road is not so well known, by reason of the fact that the place where it reaches Golden Gate Park is at present obscure and not in the best condition. The purpose of the recently organized boulevard association is to make an extensive system of boulevards, of which the Almshouse road will eonsti- tute an 1mportant link. This road, as one leaves the park, winds through a pictur- esque wooded cenyon,in which a stream babbles pieasantly, passes the Almshouse water works and then the Almshouse itself and emerges upon the Corbett road a mile or so from the Ingleside junction. The situation of the new racing park is exceedingly attractive. It is in an open field, which is flanked on the east, north and west by heavy forests planted many | years ago. In front, on the south, is the tree-bordered avenue, the Ocean House road—broad, hard and free from dust and mud. The environing trees protect the racing park from the winds and are a pleasing feature of the landscape. Back of the trees are reared the sharp, bald, rocky summits of the mountains surrounding Twin Peaks, and to the southwest the dark blue waters of Lake Merced are seen fleaming through the trees which em- bower them. A more picturesque site for a racetrack cannot be found in this country. = It is taken for granted that the manag- ers of the new establishment will conduct it on the most improved principles; that not only will the best horses that the country can produce be brought thither and the most interesting and varied programmes given, but that every- thing will be conducted in the most up- right and decorous manner. The State is fortunate in having enterprising men thus to promote one of its best and most useful industries. and the City will quickly show its appreciation of efforts to furnish high- class entertainment. Dr. L. E. Rice of San Jose is in the City. Henry Copeland ot Los Angeles is here. M. Mannon of Ukiah arrived here yester- H mento. Professor F. A. Schnelder of College Park is in town. Lieutenant James L. Carter of Honolulu is at the Russ. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is at the Grand. 0. H. Clifford of Wadsworth, Ohio, isat the Occidental. A. 8. Miller, a miner of Hunters Bay, Alaska, is at the Lick. J. E. Luis, a business man of Bismarck, N, D., is in the City. T. H. White, a mining man of Trinity Center, 1s at the Baldwin, William Nettleton, & business man of Spo- kane, is in the City. John La Frankie, 8 merchant of Moscow, Idaho, is in the City. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento ar- rived here last night. G. Heitkemper Jr., & jeweler of Portland, ar- rived here yesterday. Charles Faulkner, cashier of the Bank of Chico, is at the Grand. James Woodburn, a business man of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. Mark L. McDonald, the capitalist, of Santa Rosa, is at the Occidental. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Wil- liam P. Vauve of Los Gatos. Dr. B. J. Powell and Dr. H. Stephenson of Sacramento are at the Grand. Thomas Fox, who 18 in the insurance busi- ness at Sacramento, is in town. 8. G. Little, the pioneer banker of Dixon, is among the arrivals at the Russ. G.W. Young, one of the prominent men of Nups, is spending Thanksgiving here. F. B. Chandler, a lumber-dealer of Elmira, is at the Lick, accompanied by his family. Among the arrivals yesterday was Frank Brightman, & mining man of French Guleh. R. E. Anderson, one of the leading business men of Tacoma, is registered at tke California. W. €. Van Sant, & wagon and hardware manufacturer of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the City. Congressman Maguire and family left for ‘Washington, D. C., on Tuesday night's Sunset limited train. Thomas Grant of Port Townsend was among many arrivals here from the north by yester- day’s steamer. David Keith and Thomas Kearns, wealthy mining men of Park City, Utah, arrived here yesterday and are &t the Lick. J. E. O'Brien, proprietor of the Hotel Brew- ster, Sar Diego, is at the Lick, the guest of Meanager Soule of that hostelry. Sidney M. Ballou, an author and newspaper correspondent of Boston, was among the ar- rivals from Honolulu yesterday. James H. Young, one of the prominent and wealthy residents of Newman, is at the Lick, accompanied by Miss Mabel Young. Moses Gunst, Police Commissioner, returned yesterday from the progressive city of Los Angeles. Granville 8. Bennett, a wealthy mining man of Deadwood, 8. D., is at the Palace. Mr. Ben- nett has resided » number of years in the Black Hille. He is accompanied by his wife. Ingleside track opens to-day. Take electriccars. La Rue Jr. is at the Grand from Sacra- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. King George, of the Tonga or Friendly Islends, is a robust potentate who wears & British uniform and assesses hip subjects & poll-tax each of $4 a year. He is descended from the powerful Toubo family, along whose line there have been many kings and queens, and he feels the blood of royalty in his veins. W. A. Peairs of Ohio, who recently visited Tongs and is now at the Grand, found the King arrayed with a giittering uniform and a Stanley hat. He brought back & picture of KING GEORGE OF TONGA ISLANDS. him, and tells an interesting story of the life the island potentate leads out in the South Pacific. King George’s realm comprises 1150 islands, the largest of which is Tonga, having for its capital Mukualofa, the seat of the imperial palace. Tonga is but twelve by twenty-one miles in extent, and all the islands have a col- lective area of some 400 square miles. When the King gets tired in the shade of the cocoanuts and at gazing at the mountain tops of Tonge he seiis sway in his boat to visit oth- ers of his subjects, attended by platoons of canoes, from which wild music is discoursed. Altogether he has & good time of it, though the total number of his subjects reaches but about 25,000. The King is a happy individ- usl, according to Mr. Peairs. He worries over nothing, dines frequently and drinks such po- tons as the traders bring him or of those made at home that are deemed worthy of the royal favor. Captain John &, Layton of thé schooner Cape Horn Pigeon, who arrived here recently with a big catch of whales and who has been staying at the Russ, will leave again for the whaling grounds to-day. “We made a big catch and got a lot of money by our last cruise,” said be. “Itis rare thata vessel gets so many whales, especiaily one &0 small as the Cape Horn Pigeon, a sailing craft of but 210 tons register. “All our catch came from the Okhotsk Sea, near the Japan coast, We captured six right whales and thirty sperm whales, from which we got 8000 pounds of bone and 900 barrels of oil. For the bone we will receive at least $4 50 apound. Our crew consisted of 33 men, and as they all get an interest in the catch, they have been put in easy circumstances. “The Cape Horn Pigeon will sail for the Okhotsk again to-day, going by way of the Penope and Ladrone Islands. By July next we will have reached Hackodate with another cateh.” George Stearns, & general merchant of Oak- land, Or., north of Reseburg, on the California and Oregon Railroad, has arrived here with something over 3500 turkeys, which were sold in advance to local dealers for the Thanksgiv ing trade. He says that region is oue of the best for producing turkeys on the coast. ‘I shall bring down about 5000 more for the Christinasand New Year’s holidays,” he said. “Iraise none myself, but buy them from the ‘mers about Oakland. The turkeys are very fine. . ‘A few miles away from the town on the Co- quille elk can be had, and there are plenty of deer and some bears. It isa first-rate game country.” Mr. Stearns is a brother of Judge Stearns of Portland, one of the best-known men of Oregon. THE FOOTBALL GAME. Berkeley (University) Occident. 1f we should win that football game Our mouths would wear this kink —. If Stanford's victor In the same 1nto this curve they’ll shrink ~. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE FOR A FREE MARKET. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SiR: I hope you will give space in your valuable paper for the other side to Mr. Thomas Lang- ham’s free marxet project objeetion. Ie bases his conclusions on the allegation that the prominent housekeeper rarely, if ever, pur- chases anything at the free vegetable market. If that is his style to measure our market de- mand by he certainly is right; that house- keepers need not worry about prices and go to find the best bargain. " But the majority—the laboring class—has to be taken into considera- tion, and these people on one side and the farmer on the other will reap the difference of the commission, and each party is so much ahead. While the rich housewife would not care whether the price of meat is 2 or 4 cents a&wund._pom«mu 25 or 40 cents a sack, flour 30 or 35 cents per 100 pounds higher or lower, the wife of the laboring man has to count the few cents in her small purse very carefully to make both ends meet. Have the markets couveniently situated, and do not close exrly in the morning, but give them time to go there, and we will see the housewife, Who has to do all the shopping her- self and canuot call in the butcher, baker or vegetable boy, take advantage of the benefit created for her interest. Of conrse nobody ean expect any one from Ninth or Twenty-second streets to go down to Pacific and Davis streets to buy vegetables so early in the morning, the time when most wives prepare breaktast for the husband to go to his daily work. Be- sides, a great many would object to leaving the 1{ttle ones unguarded at honie. These peo- vle, although only buying in small quantities, are the chiel consumers, which Ml‘,‘i.. will ad- nit; that, if work is scarce, his grocers will not purchase as in “flush” times. Mr. L.'s assertion looks too much commission business like. W. M, San Francisco, Nov. 26. 1895. ot THE YOSEMITE PARK. Mercen, CAL., Nov. 26, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Under THE CALL'S column “Letters from the People,” in the issue of Sunday last, Iwas gratified to read a communication from A. Du Mere, who is evidently a practical man of good sound judgment,in enswer to a letter pub- lished in THE CALL oi the 20th from the pen of that wonderfully gifted word-painter, John Muir, on the Yosemite and National Park. An intimate acquaintance of more than twenty years with the Yosemite Valley and the sur- rounding mountains now set apart &8s & Na- tional Park, should enable me to form a fairly correct opiaion of the same. I can truthihily say that I indorse most all the writer has said in answer to Mr. Muir's letter. Thirty-three years ago I stood spellbound on ‘“Inspiration Rock,” lopking down from a height 0of 3000 feet into the Yosemite Valley, and that view was indelibly impressed upon my mind. Then the uncivilized Indians were the commissioners and guardians of the valley. And the windings of the beautiful, clear Mer- ced River could be traced for five miles up the valley, until 1ost to sight at the base of “Cathe- dral Rocks.” At that time in the graceful bends nestled beautiful meadows. Outside of the meadows noble pines, Dot firs .and cedars dotted the valley. No underbrush, cot- tonwood nor second-growth pine and firs to obstruct the Yiew of the marvelous walls of the valley. It may bae why was this? Because the ‘Indians burn the floor of the valley over each year, they could better hunt the game. The same: practice was also followed through the whole Tange of the Blerras for the same purpose. When the National Park is burned over every year there can be but little, if any, damage done, as there is, practically speaking, no food for fire. But keep fires out for ten years, with the accumulation of dead timber standing and fallen, the pine needles and pine coues cover- ing the ground from four to ten inches in depth, together with the fallen limbs and dead , should a fire left burning by some care- less camper spread among the trees, there wonld be a raging forest of fire, consuming not only the small, but the giant pines and firs, leaving in {ts wake a charred and dead forest. Where would John Muir's “Lilies which ring their bells around the margin of the meadows” ‘‘get off at”? Mr. Muir writes: *““The Commissioners differ all around as to what to do and how to do it.” I undersiand there is no difference of opinion of ‘‘what to do,” and have had one of the best engineers and landscape gardeners in this State em- ploved to survey and map the floor of the velley and indicate just where undergrowth and second-growth ‘trees should be cleared away. 3 For that purpose there should be a special appropriation made at the next session of the Legisiature, Mr. Muir is aelighted that there is a great in- crease of campers this year to the valley and mountains, and to add’ to that inerease from year to year is the main object of the “Sierra Club.” "Yet the “Sierra Club” would not al- low those campers to picket their horses upon the meadows, when_they are oomrlled to pay $40 10 $50 per ton for hay. Should the views expressed by Mr. Muir in this respect be adopied then ‘‘the sparkle exhalations of mountains” in their eyes would vanish and their faces would express anger and contempt for the management. This is the garden of the gods and belongs to the people, rich and poor alike. H. J. OSTRANDER. TO CORRESPONDENTS. HIs CITIZENSHIP—G. A. B,, City. This corre- spondent writes: “Can an ex-convict, who has served a term of years in a New York State prison (his first and last offense), was released without being restored to his civil rights, has been atliberty for five years and during that time hes led an upright life in California, re- gain his citizenship?” If the individual was civilly dead when he left the prison that con- dition exists only in the State of New York. Each State makes its own laws as to citizen- sbip, and while the ex-conviet might not be &ble to vote in the State of New York, it would not prevent him from, assuming in this State the rights of citizenship, provided he had com- plied with the requirements prescribed as to residence and was otherwise competent to be- come a voter. STEAMSHIP OFFICERS—J. E. C., City. If a boy 0117 has a desire to enter the merchant steam- ship navy, with the intention of rising and be- coming an officer, he will have to commence at the lowest round and work his way up. He must study navigation, and then, by experi- ence, acquire the other knowledge to fit him for the position of mate or master. He will heve to make application to some steamshi company, and 1f it is favorably received will have to wait until there is a vacancy. Cap- tains of steamers are paid from $125 to $250 a month, first officer from $80 to $125, second officer from $60 to $75. Chief engineers are paid from $120 to $125, first assistant $90, second assistant $75, and third assistant $65. Thcse] rates vary, according to the class of vessel. ANSWERS GoLp—J. McX., Pescadero, San Mateo County, Cal. Ifa person deposits in the United States Mint gold bullion of the value of £500 he will receive therefore $500 in twenty-dollar gold pieces, but the coined money does not_contain the exact amount of gold he deposited. It contains a smell amount of alloy necessery to harden the coin. An amount of the builion equal to the weight of the alloy is taken from the bullion. This is called seigniorage, and is the amount the Government obtains for con- verting the bullion into coin. The proportion is 900 pure metal and 100 alloy. MniroGRAPH—E. G. P., San Jose, Cal. The mimeograph is an epparatus invented by Edi- son, by which stencils of written pages may be obtained for the production of an indefinite number of coples. A pointed stylus is moved a8 in writing with a leadpencil over a kind of tough prepared paper, placed on & very finely grooved steel plate, and the writing is then traced in a series of minute perforations. Stencils may also be prepared on typewriters. PoGONIP—L., Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. Pogonip is the name given in the State of Nevada to & sort of frozen fog that appears in winter, even on the brightest and clearest days. Tobreathe the pogonip is death to the lungs, and when it comes Indiazs as well as whites run to shelter. In s moment the air is filled with floating needles of ice. This is caused by the sudden freezing in the air of the moisture which collects about the summits of the highest peaks. PosTAL TRAINS—G. G., City. There is no special train between this City and Omaha or between this City and New York carrying nothing but the mails. The mailcars are at- teched to first-class passenger traius. It would not pay to run & mail special botween the points named, and if there was such it could not make much better time than the fliers are meking now. City Hair Tower—‘The Subscriber.” The top of the Hall of Records at the new City Hall 15 140 feet from the ground to the top of_crest- ing; the top of the square tower is 151 fect from the ground and the main tower, now being finished will be 327 feet from the ground to the extreme top of the torch in the hand of the statue. JaqueMarT—H. Y., City. The term jaque- mart was applied to automata of a clock, con- sisting of a man and woman who strike the hours on_& bell, so called, from Jean Jaque- mart of Dijon, France, a clockmaker who de- vised this piece of mechanism. WooL—O0. W., Rincon, Dona Ana County, N. Mex. Australian and New Zealand wool, scoured, best quality, brings & higher price in the markets of the United Siates than does the American wool. No LoxGeR LiviNg—P. B. 8., Udal, Cowley County, Kans. Henry P. Stanwood was agent orthwestern Railroad at one time in . He djed about five years ago. S1LvEr DorLrars—E. W. F., Stockton, Cal. Silver dollars were first coined in the United States in the year 1794. THE JAPANESE INCUBUS. Alameda Argus. THE CALL is showing what the practical re- movel of the tariff from some articles is doing for California. Japanese artisans, such as those who make furniture, work for 10 cents a day. Furniture comes in witn a low duty. Furniture-dealers are stimulating the Japa- nese to make furniture and are bringing it here to sell. It is as good or better than Ameri- can-made furniture—for the Japanese are cun- ning craftsmen—and can be sold away under it. No American workmen cau beginto com- pete with a Japanese. We need & law not only to keep out goods made by foreign paupers but the paupers themselyes. HIGH-CLASS ORIGINAL MATTER. Lewiston (Idaho) Teller. Modern daily newspapers are one of the won- ders of the age. The Pacific Coast dailies are well up in the front row. The San Francisco CALL is undoubtedly in the lead now in point of merit of all the great Western dailies. THE BUNDAY CALL, from a literary point of view, is aprodigy. It carries more high-class original matter than any other daily in the country. California has more bright literary people than any other State in the Union. TRAVERTINE FOR “THE CALL.” Winnemucea (Ney.) Silver State. Thirty tons of travertine from an Inyo County quarry, which arrived at Carson Satur- day, was shipped to San Francisco Sunday for THE CALL building. This rock has becn care- mux selected from the finest of the calcium production of the auarry, and its handsome erystalline appearance when polished will add to the ornamentation of THE CALL'S new home. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE. New Whatcom (Wash.) Blade. The San Franciscco CALL is swiftly growing into recognition asoneof the most trustworthy and reliable papers in the West. Charles M. Shortridge, the editor lud&romlewr does not seem to be partial to the prevailing San Francisco habit—sensational journsiism and uncredited borrows. HOME FRODUCTS. Alameda Telegram. THE CALL is right when it says: *‘Advertising home preducts in home papers is the surest way of menufacturing the marketas well as the goods.” e o Collecting Pross Pictures. H. G. Otis, general manager of the Los Ange- les (Cal.) Times, has begun acollection of pic- tures showing printing-presses of all kinds. He will endeavor to get together piciures of as many different styles of presses, and the col- lection as it ‘grows will the history of the progress ing machinery. As soon as obtain pictures are Ymmea and hung in a room !l)eehuy devoted to them. Mr. Otis is enthu- siastic over the matter and will go to Europe in order to make the collection ascomplete as possible. It will be an excellent thing to have such a collection, and any one having pictures of presses should forward them to Mr. Otis.— New York Newspaper Maker. i —— Palace Hotel stakes run to-day at Ingleside. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau season has opened at the Grand Opera-house and New York has bowed befors & California prima donna. Her stage name is Frances Saville and her European triumphs have been won at the Paris Opera Comique. She appeared on the opening night as Juliet in Gounod’s “Romeo and Julfet” and before she had opened her lips she was, for some mysterious reason, declared agreat singer. The Herald says: “Her first florid passage, delivered in fresh crystaliine tones, with a certain facility, but with rather uncertain intonation, brought her a storm of applause. ‘She is nervous, dreadfully ner- ME. FRANCES SAVILLE AS JULIET. [From an engraving.] vous,” said the sympathizing listeners, ‘but wait’ At the conclusion of the waltz the audi- ence rose at the prima donna, and she had to repeat it. Mme. Saville’s success was in & measure deserved. Her voice captivates the listener instantly, for it is a young voice, a iresh voice, and is a voice that has a certain carrying quality. In the garden scene she showed considerable skill as an actress and sang with positive charm. She did not force her tones as before.” Judging from all accounts, Mme. Saville’s success seems to have been & genuine one. She is the first Celifornia prima donna who has won a triumph at the Metropolitan Opera- house, as Miss Sibyl Sanderson was not in good voice last year, and proved & disappointment. The new singer’s real name is Fannie Simon- sen-Droun. Her mother is Fannie Simonsen, who was well known at one time as a singer, and her father is William M. Simonsen, the Australian impresserio. Fsnnie Simonsen- Droun was born in California, but went at an early age to Australian. Her brother, William M. Simonsen, & youth of about 20, who is said to possess a remarkably promising tenor voice, is studying for the coucert stage with Robert Lloyd. He is solo tenor et the Plymouth Con- gregational Church on Post streef, and he will De the tenor soloist in Cowen’s “Rose Maiden,” which the Harmony Choral Union will shortly produce for some local charity. It is sad to see the decline of a once famous institution of learning, but even the Italian papers are beginning to agitate the fact that the Milan Conservatory. which in its day turned out so many famous musicians, has become effete and useless. Il Trovatore,a Milan music journal, gives the budget of the conservatory’s expenses, which it appears amouat to $14,450 per annum (72,200 francs). This sum is divided between professors of singing, har- mony, counterpoint, harp, flute, etc. ‘“Little fruit is obtained from the teaching of all this staff,” says Il Trovatore. “From year to year no singers above mediocrity are turned out by the conservatory. Itproducesa few orchestra- players, one or two pianists and & few miser- able professors, who go to sugment the already enormous number of struggling, despairing musical failures.” The veteran Simms Reeves has made his first appearance in & modern music hall at the Em- pire Theater, London. The management was kind to Reeves, separating by an orchestral se- lection his own performance from that of & flock of trained geese; while the audience did their best to encourage him with applause, which, although cordial and well meant, was very different from the roars of cheers that used to greet the great tenor in the Handel or- chestra of the Crystal Palace. The fact is that the music-hail debut of the octogenerian Simms Reeves comes too late by some years; many promenaders moved away from the bar- riers after a feeble rendering of “Come Into the Garden,Maud,” and before a highly artistic and almost pathetic delivery of *“Here a ther Hulk Lies Poor Tom Bowling.”’ ‘The old cemetery of Waehring, near Vienna, where Beethoven and Schubert wers buried, is going to be dug up and a Catholic church built on its site. Beethoven does not, how- ever, repose in his original tomb, his mortal remains haying been transported about ten years ago to the new central cemetery, where a magnificent tomb was erected to his memory by the municipality of Vienna. But Bee- thoven’s modest monument at Waehring has been preserved, and a lady in the neighbor- hood has kept up around it a parterre of white roses, the Bonn master’s favorite flowers. The old Beethoven tomb and the Schubert monu- ment will be placed in the new Catholic church. Orchestra leaders seem seriously threatened with feminine competition in Italy, for follow- ing on the heels of the announcement that & lady conductor had been appointed to the chief theater in Verona, comes the news that at the Manzoni Theater, one of the best in Milan, where the Gargona Company is at pres- ent giving a season of light opera, the baton is held by a “new” young girl, Signorina An- nine Cappeli, who is nightly directing in the regulation black coat and white gloves, and who for her debut conducted very ably Charles Lecocq’s “Le Coeur et la Main.” People often wonder how the little German and Swiss towns manage to maintain such good orchestras as they possess. This is how they do in the town of Lucerne, which paysits conductor the sum of 4000 francs a year, a very respectable salary for Switzerland, where living is so cheap. The board of supervisors contributes 1500 francs, the singing society 750 francs, the Catholic church 500 francs, the concert society 700 francs and two little musi- cal societies 250 franes each. But the first musician of the town certainly does not waste his time, especially on Sunday; he first has to conduct the church music, then he directs & matinee musicale, and then he presides at the open-air Sunday concert. The Royal Opera house of Berlin has been entirely reconstructed, and has become one of the most magnificent theaters in the world. In spite of the new glitter and show, however, the public is beginning to claim that the acous- tics of the old building were much superior. The electric lighting is magnificent, especially- in the large concert hall, which serves for & foyer on opera nights. “Fidelio” was the in- augural performance, and though the new dec- orations and stage accessories produced a grand effect, the singers left much to be desired. An old amateur writes that “Fidelio” at the old Opera was preferable, in spite of the magnifi- cence of the new house. The provincial theaters in Belgium, as well as in France, are fond of making a specialty of monster performances; but the chief theater in Verviers recently went one better than all the others when it announced for the opening of the season a representation of “Faust,” pre- ceded by “*The Hunchback”—an opers in five acts and & drama in six acts. The first per formance began at half-past 6 o’olock and the last terminated a little aiter 2 o'clock in the morning. The audience could not complain of not being given its money’s‘worth. The directorsof the Carl Theater in Vienna recently tried the plan of lendipg opera-glasses gratuitously to the public. At the endofa week a number of the glasses were missing, and it is not known whether they were stolen willfully or whether very simple-minded theater-goers took them under the impression that they were given away with the seats. The management is undecided whether to replenisih the supply or to abandon lending opera- glasses. The Belgian papers state that Ysaye has been consumed for some time with a desire to exer- cise the very regl talent which he possesses for © orchestra conducting. In their joyat having their great virtuoso with them this winter, when he could, if he chose, be making 0 much more in Americs, the.Belgians have organized & new music society, with Eugene Ysaye at its head. The object of the organization is to gf\'e symphony concerts on a grand scale, with Ysaye as chef d'orchestre. : Henry Marteau, the French violinist, who has toured so much in the East, bas just com- pleted & series of concerts ir: Sweden and Nor- way, where he has won many laurels. The younz virtuoso_hes returned to Paris tolay down his violin for the time being and has en- tered the army to do his military service. COININGS FROM EDITORIAL MINTS. Need of Branch Railroads Exemplified. San Diego Union. A steamer from the north brought to Sen Diegoa day or two ago & very considerable consignment of apples. At first thought this would seem like carrying coals to Newcastle, for this county is & heavy exporter of this fruit. The incident, however, simply empha- sizes the need of more’ branch railways to the back country. If merchants can lay down northern apples in this city cheaper and easier than they can get that commodity from nearer home, they wiil continue to doso. The back country is being developed, but until there is additionel communication with it by rail, the city cannot expect to benefit by the progress that is being made. Sage Advice to the New Settlers. Portland Oregonian. A word to the new settlers on the Nez Perces lands: Startin the old way, so successful in the early times. Don’t mortgage your lands for farm machinery, carpets and parlor organs. Live within your means, no matter how lim- ited they may be. Don’t pout_over hardships or repine about your fate. Work hard and keep out of debt, &nd in & few years you will findpensy going. 'But you never will find easy going if you expect it now and run in debt to et its luxuries, That loaf will turn sour be- jore you get half through it. To run in debt ona farm is to cut off the hope of the future. Of this the whole country is so full of object- lessons, written in broadest character, that he ‘who runs may read. Potency of the Unwritten Common Law. Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. The sentences that our courts pronounce upon eriminais vary in duration of time; but the condemnation that public opinion puts upon a man is for life. This is what society cells public opinion, which, when analyzed, is nothing save the unwritten common law, and which, fortunately for society, covers such cases a8 elude the grasp of the regular legal machinery. Men who oould buy Legislatures, bribe Judges, circumvent the devil, have been obliged to bow to the decrees of this invisible court which makes every mau, without any election of his, & judg: Novelty in Bear-Traps. New Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille. The latest novelty in bear-traps is made of beer kegs. Drive strong, sharp spikes through, pointing toward the center of the bead. Put some honey i the keg, close to the head, and lay it where bruin will find it. He will dive initer the honey and the spikes keep him from getting out or traveling off. Then kill him at your leisure and set the trap again! Near Hoquiam five bears were caught in one week in & single trap. One of the Benefits of Hard Times. Stockton Independent. California’s mining revival is the indirect re- sult of the hard times. A large proportion of the menfengaged in the work arethose who found business in other lines unprofitable and turned to the earth to dig out wealth. Most of them will congratuiate themselves that the hard times drove them back to the mines. Can Put Up Only One Kind of Weather. Pheenix (Ariz.) Republican. Pheenix has risen to the point where her dicted for her with scientific ac- ather bureau service is of less er, than in almost any other spot of the Union. It is & safe card here to hang up esch wnight the prediction of “Fair’ for the morrow NATIONAL FINANCES. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is said the President will give a large space in his message At the opening of Congress to the advocacy of the ietirement of the green- backs, and that he will use all the influence which he possesses to_put that policy through Congress. Perhaps there is truth in the re- port. Undoubtedly he will, in his message, urge this policy, He has favored it for the past vear Gr two, and the 1act that Secretary Car- lisle advocated it in his recent speech in Bos- ton shows that it is still popular with the ad- ministration. Yet 3t is sefe to say that this project can get very little support from Demo- crats. More . 1t is likely to secure small favor emong the Renublicans. Without power- ful Republican &id the policy has-no chance to prevail. e Philadelphia Inquirer. The Governmentis not going into bankruptey just because it is running behind a few mil- lions every month, for there is a way ont of it. Fortunately, it is & very simple matter to_raise revenue enough to meet all demands. When we get on A pay-as-vou-go basis once more and have something left over with which to pay off the debt that has been accumulating under Cleveland and Carlisle, there will be no more talk about the legal tenders. That time will come just as soon s the Republicans are able to add & few amendments to the destructive tariff ‘‘reform” bill that was not redical enough to suit the President. Boston Herald. Here is the financiel situation ina nutshell. The Government can reduce the supply of cur- rency which is now forcing onr gold abroad by absorbing the excess through & bond scale. This would unlock the inner reservoir of the treasury balance and turn the goid, or the greenbacks that might be presented in ex- change for gold, into the treasury vaults, where they would remain permanently locked up, unlessand until they found release through the deficiency of the revenue. Pittsburg Dispatch. If Secretary Carlisle had early in the history Lof the presentation of the legal tenders for re demption ordered every lega! tender so re- deemed to be kept in the reserve, for reissue in its operation—that is, when gold was offered in exchange for it—$100,000,000 of the subse- quent increase of debt would have been un- necessary, and there would not have been the slightest question of the maintenance of the reserve under siich an administration. ROBERTS, card headquarters, 220 Sutter. * . ——————————— SOFT baby cream, 15¢ pound. Townsend’ —— e BAcox Printing Company, 5083 Clay street.” ——— AXN elegant Thanksgiving dinner at the Cafe Zinkand, the popular family resort. 24 ———— SPRCIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ———————————— For men whose natures have been expanded by social pleasures Argonaut whisky 1s mndg, and it is by these that Argonaut is used. 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