The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1895, Page 4

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1895. KERN COUNTY FOES John Barker's Third Open Letter to Millionaire Miller. HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS. He Felicitates Himself Upon Having Partly Achieved His Ambition. HUMANIZING THE RICH MAN. The Old Man Denies That He Sven- galied the Trilby of the Stock Range. BAKERSFIELD, Car., Nov. 29.—John Barker, whose farm was sold to Henry Mitler of the firm of Miller & Lux, to satisfy a mortgage, has written another open let- ter to the cattle king millionaire. He opens his communication by saying: Mr. Henry Miller—STR: In' my last I told you that my next might be & song or a sermon. The publication of your interview with a Californian reporter has decided me to make & sermon of it and to take for my text, “And Balaam’s ass opened his mouth and spake.” { (Holy Writ). But, Henry, the Biblical ass when he opened his mouth kept his foot out of it, which you failed to do when you denounced my statement as “false, maliciously false, and seems to be prompted by a desire to extort money.” Such a charge made elsewhere, when you and myseli were unknown, might stand some chance of being believed, but in Kern County, Henry, it does not go. That my pur- | pose might bé to extort money would appear to a man of your caliber, to whom money is the subject of his thoughts by day and his dreams by night, and to get it, no matter how, and to hold fast to &ll he gets, the sole object and aim of his life, would seem to be the natural result of his narrow reasoning powers, but, Henry, | you know better than that. and I know that Youand all that know me give me credit for being possessed of better judgment than for one moment that I would engage insuch a hopeless task. “Extort money from you?' Men of sense or jndgment do not attempt to “gather grapes from thorns” nor “figs from thistles.” I have 2 higher object in view. 1 have’a sineere de- sire to humanize you, and I have the faith and courage of my convictions that I shall, to a limited extent, at least, succced. Iam encour- aged in this hope by the fact that on your | appearance in the “pillory” at Redwood City, 1 the great estate with As this occurred immedia in my penholder and scored it : Somuch for the charge of the exto 1 say you have known me and that you knew me ‘“as a mar who delighted to ride on_the floodtide of popularity.” Here, again, Henry, you “put your foot in it.” Haveyou paused to consider that this charge is tantamount _to an acknowl- edgment that the course I have taken, the only one left open for me, is calculated to ele- vate me to the topmost wave of popularity in Kern? Ihad not before dreamed of such dis- tinction, ana you may make me think that “a prophet may he honored even in his own which I know is seldom the case co ng his lifetime at any rate. Barker denies a statement recently made by Miller that Barker was always Lux’s man and did his business with that part of the great firm. Barker says that Miller is trying to put ail of the disreputable ac- tions of tke firm off on Lux now, and, citing Charles Dickens’ story about Jor- kins, the wicked partner, to illustrate his meaning, scoffs at the idea that he was| able to get money out of Miller by sharp practice. He says: Now, Henry, is it possible that I hypnotized you—that you played Trilby to my Svengali? Angels and ministers of grace defend us! “Barker’s light beneath & bushel far too long has lain concealed.” What have I missed, Henry, by not having known the power of my mégnetic eye? Instead of your having to pour out the vials of your sorrow and sympathy for my misfortunes and afflictions it might have been me that would have been the Creesus or, better still, the Monte Cristo of Kern. Barker girds at Miller for what he con- siders mismanagement of the lands be- longing to the Miller & Lux combination. He says: You also say that you have spent lots of money in Kern. County. Yes, and you have got over two hundred and fifty thousend acres of her best land that you got as a free gift from the State of California, and your."lots of money” has been expended in its reclamation and improvement, and you are skimming it well. As areply and sequel to your boasting of all you have done for Kern, I guote from & cor- respondent of a San Francisco journal who is a resident of Sauta County. Speaking of the land owned by you in Santa Clara and San Be- nito counties, he writes as follows: “The land of Miller & Lux which is being de- voted to agriculture is being used by tenants whose condition of living &s fixed by their landlord is little better than that of the lately abandoned serfs of Russta. They are obliged %o toil from year'send to year'’s end, women and children, for a bare coarse living giving over their surplus productions as a teil, under the name of ground rent, to their grasping and unsparing landlords.” Adfew years since, on lands owned by this firm in Santa Clara and San Benito counties, there dwelt a large number of American fami. lies whe lived according to the once gloriou standard of American labor. * They paid their taxes, tilled their land and supported their families in comparative comfort. The chil- gren attended the public schools, had Sunday clothes, had toys at Christmas and attended church and Sunday-school. The tamilies had books, newspapersand time for the acquisition of useful knowledge. They were poor in material wealth, but were happy in the possession of food, clothing and shelter. They were industrious and frugal, but the insidious growth of mortgages at last deprived them of their homes. They became tenants of Miller & Lux at moderate rents. For a time they prospered feirly, but soon the firm found some recently imported Portuguese, who had been accustomed to lower weges and narder conditions than those at that time pre- vailing in Californis, and who were, therefore, willing to take the land at a much higher rent than the Americans were paying and higher than they could pay. The latter were served with mnotice to quit, and sn ignorent, brutal end servile race installed in their places. . What a change, my countrymen! Where are the American families now, who were thus by the power and avarice of landlords expelled from their once happy American homes? They are on the ocean of adversity, drifting like up- rooted seaweeds wherever the tides of priva- tion or opportunity may draw or drive.them. They have disappeared from the communities in which they once lived. Swept away like the footmarks of children On sand where the ocean has rolled. Henry, this is & terrible indictment. The “crime of the century,” for which America’s greatest criminal stands convicted and sen- tenced to-day in San Franecisco, is not greater than this. How does this fit in with your | sssertion to the reporter, that “all you asked 4 was to be treated as you had tried to treat others.” When I told you in my last that you nhad sowed the wind and would some day reap the whirlwind, I knew what I wps talking | about. ““As ye sow so shall ye'reap.” The implacable correspondent promises to write scme more letters on the same subject, and signs himself *‘Persistently yours, John Barker.”” FEDERATION OF WOMEN. An Effort Will Be Made to Organize Such a Society. As aresult of the recent women’s mass- meetings held in this City there will be a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Hall, Tuesday, December 3, at 2 p. »., for the purpose of organizing a society to be known as the “Federation of Women for the Public Good,”” which shall have for its object the remedying of evils existing in society to- dav. The various women's societies already organized for the public good, and wishing to take part in the new movement, are re- quested to each send one delegate, and a (]inmml delegates for every twenty members or major fraction of twenty members. A full representation is desired by Mrs. Henrietta E. Brown, Mrs. M. Richard- son, Mrs. W. W. Allen, Mrs. R. W. Davis, Mme. Sorbier, the committee on organ- ization. REDUCED THE COMMITTE Delegates to Washington Will Have Full Power to Operate. e e It Was Done Because Mr. Knight and Mr. Booth Could Not Give It Deserved Attention, At a meeting of the executive commit- tee of the convention plan, held in the Chronicle building yesterday, it was de- cided to reduce the committee sent to | Washington from five to three. This was done fer the purpose of further concen- trating the committee, which, with the as- sistance of our Senators and Representa- tives and other volunteers will be ample to place our proposition before the Na- tional Committee. Both Mr. Knight and Mr. Booth, who were two of the original i The Civic Federation Proposes to Have a Ticket of Its Own, BRANCHES IN THE COUNTRY. | Movement for Extending the Federa. tion’s Scope Throughout California. The Civic Federation gbas under cone sideration a scheme to widen the scope of | its operations by establishing branch fed- erations in cities and towns throughout California, or at least influencing repre- sentatives of the better element in interior | towns to organize and actin sympathy | with the movement in San Francisco. Another very important and also radi- | cal innovation has occupied the serious thought of the society’s leading men of late until it is now crystallizing into defi- nite shape. This1s the question of plac- ing a Civic Federation ticket in the politi- cal field for the next elections. The ticket, of course,would be confined to the munici- pality of San Francisco, but even with such limitations this plan does not meet | with quite unanimous favor in the federa- | tion ranks. However, there exists a well- | WILL G0 INTO PoLITIcS,] | defined feeling that the society might in- dorse good' men on any of the political parties’ tickets; and also to expose bad | | nominees by publishing their records and | i their shortcomings to the public over sig- | natures of committees, or of the whole | | Civic Federation if nees guilty man shall escap I. J. Truman, the president, announced | yestegday that an effort would be made to | | extentl the federation’s work in those | directions. | “We are organized and prepared,” said he, “‘and if the political parties don’t put | | up good tickets we shall put up one of our | | own—probably in conjunction with the | Noun-Partisans. 1f the Democrats and Re- | publicans nominate all good men then | there will be nothing lefi for us todo in the political line. Anyhow we won’t be as lat the Non-Partisans were last elec- | tion. We can always tell (and the Non- | be, so that “‘no | the aid of people living in_various local- ized portions of the City. This will not be a political organization, but simply a means of reaching parts of the City and getting reports on maladministration of City affairs, such as bad sewers. ineflicient police or fire protection, poor street work, ete, *“If there were any civic federations in California we would be glad co unite with them. When the election comes round undoubtedly the Civie Federation will appeal to the people of the State to sup- port those constitutional amondments which give to San Francisco the power to Emvnde for her own fgolice courts, school oard and all other officers who are now supposed to be technically county officers and beyond the control of the municipal charter.”’ T0 ROLL OVER THE SEAS, A Barrel Ship to Rival the Speed of the Fastest Express Train, A San Franciscan Claims That He Will Revolutionize Ship-Build. ing. A Ban Franciscan has invented a novel method of navigation, which he claims will enable a rate of speed to be attained in traveling over the water equal to that of the fastest express trains. The new water traveler does net promise to be a thing of beauty, and will not show the graceful curves of the ocean liners, but the inventor claims that it will get over the water—it is not supposed to plow through it—faster than the Lucania or the St. Louis, and its passengers need never be troubled with seasickness. The accompanying cut will give an idea of the plan of the railway ship or ship- | railway or ocean treadmill or whatever it may be called. The inventor, Dr. 8. E. Chapman of 1025 Valencia street, has been working on the idea for some fifteen years, but has only lately brought it in such a shape as to apply for patents. What first suggested tlie scheme to him was the need | for some means of navigating canals and rivers by which the speed could be mate- rially increased without washing the banks. Screws and side wheels were not practicable because of the tremendous commotion of the water caused by them. R THE SHIP THAT IS TO GO FASTER THAN A LOCOMOTIVE. five appointed by the executive committee, were unable to.give it the attention which they considered it deserved, and instead of renaming other delegates it was thought best to reduce it to three. The resolution adopted yesterday is pre- sented herewith: Resolved, That the committee of the Washing- ton committee be decressed in number from | five to three, and that the committee shall con- sist of General R. A. Friedrich, General N, P. Chipman, Hon. H. Z. Osborne and ex-officio Hon. M. H. de Young, California member of National Committee. This committee was requested to attend the meeting of the National | Republican Committee, to be held at Washing- | ton, D. C., on December 10, 1895, and with the assistance of the voluntary auxiliary com- | mittee previously appointed to present before seid committee the claims of San Francisco as aplace for holding the Nationai Republican Convention of 1896, and full and authority is hereby delegated to of three to do any and all things necessary and proper to secure the said convention, and this executive committee of fifieen herchy pledges itself and the committee of citizens under | whose authority the said executive committee was appointed to faithfully earry out all the promises and agreements that may be made by the said committee :n the matter of securing sald convention for San Francisco in 1896. — THE DEMOCRATS INVITED. Merced Citizens Present Good and Suffi- cient Reasons. MERCED, Car., Nov. 29.—At a large and well-attended meeting held to-day the Merced County Board of Trade took the following official action in regard to holding the Republican and Democratic National conventions of 1896 in San Francisco: First—The citizens of Merced County unanimously desire the holding of both the Republican and Democratic National conventions in 1896 at S8an Francisco. Second—The people of this county rec- ognize that the holding of such conven- tions in the Stateisa thing that the peo- ple of the Stdte of California and the Western coast haye a right to demand and expect. Third—That the holding of such conven- tions at San Francisco will be an advan- tage to the Western part of the United States and to the State of California and to all delegates attending such conventions and no disadvantage to any one. Fourth—That California is able to and will entertain such conventions in a man- ner that will be equal to anything that any National convention has heretofore received from any place. C. LANDRAM, President Merced County Board of Trade. James SiMox, Secretar 5 ————— ADMIT OUR GAMENESS, San Francisco Is Classed Among the Possible Winners. CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 29.—A Washing- ton special says: ‘““Tom Reed favors Chi- cago for the National Republican Conven- tion,” so says one of Reed’s closest friends this morning. He added: *I don’t mean that he wiil take any part in the contest, and I don’t mean to say he will object to some other city, but I know that if the choice were left to him he would say ‘Chicago.’ Itis thought generaily here that the convention will go to either Chi- cago or Fittsburg, though the California men are making a strong fight for it.” 5 More than five-eighths of the steamers in the world are under the British flag. | Partisans should have been able to tell | last time) that the great parties could not | nominateall the best men foroffice. While | some of the municipal offices were filled so | well that nothing more could be desired | there were other offices given up disgrace- i fully to bad men. | i “Our work in the City during the coming campaign shall be all for the best govern- ment of San Francisco. *‘At present the movement in the coun- try is only being discussed. We propose, however, to at once establish branches throughout the State in every town, with the sime aims as the Civic' Federation, the object being to get the better class of people in sympathy with the movement. Organizations in the country are gradnally gaining, and we are sending out papers and books, so that these people are getting in touch with us in the City. “There has been some talk in Sacra- | mento, Marysville and Stockton of estab- lishing civie federations. They have asked us for our pamphlets and information, which we cheerfully gave. In other places where the the movement is crystallizing people are anxious to know more about us. Our constitution contains all this informa- tion, that we are a non-sectarian, none | partisan association, laboring to advance | the municipal, pwmlanthropie, industrial | and mioral interests of San Francisco, seek- | ing to secure and conserve good citizen- ship and a clean and honest city govern- ment.”’ The aims of the federation, he said, were: The education and awakening of the civie conscience by the holding of popular meet- ings from time to time, &S occasion seems to { demand, in the *interest of municipal purity and righteous city government; the further use of the public press in the dissemination of such ideas, and the use of every possible en- deavor o foster and develop a poiencial public sentiment that shall further the ends of secur- ing an economical and honest city govern- ment. The exercise of a watchful vigilance over the public interests and the bringing to summary and strict account of all offenders, official or private, corporate or individual,'in such a manner as to warn those now holding public place, and to deier those who likewise aspire | to_prostitute the opportunities of office to private gain and personajends. Nor shall we neglect the dissemination of such humani- | tarian _sentiment and prosecution of such organized and unselfish effort as shall conserve the morals of our people and protect them in their enjoyment of life, liberty and property. | The organization, as opportunity offers, of | district and precinct councils in the different parts of the City, in order to more completely carry ous the purposes and object of the federa- “I'am opposed to_the federation going into politics,” C. W. Reed said. “‘The charter forbids it putting a ticket of its own in the fieid like the Non-Partisan con- vention might do. I do think, though, that we should follow the example of the Chicago federation that when bad men are nominated by the'Republican, Democratic, Populist or Non-Partisan party, and they should be known to be bad, then the Civie Federation should publish records of these men to San Francisco. We should show why these men should be defeated, and that over signatures of members. ‘“There may be Justices of the Peace or Police Judges who are noted for squaring cases and distributing their judgmentis as political favors. The proof ‘should be in our possession and be shown the people. “The same should hold good of other office- Lolders, for I believe that the proof of evil should be published to defeat such men; but T do not believe that the scope or object of the federation is to put up a ticket as it might defeat other good men. Suppose we selected four Spperior Judgesand there were six good ones nominated, then we would be simpiy helping to defeat the two other good men. *“We shall establish branches in local Assembly districts when the central or- ganization becomes too large and needs So the idea of immense barrel-like wheels with outer flanges to tread the water was suggested. Dr. Chapman, explaining his invention yesterday, said: Between the two big barrels is suspended the hold, cabin and deck ‘pnr! for passengers and treight. On the long side are girders or bridges that join the inner cylinders or axlesof the barrels. Around these inner eylindersor axles, one of which is shown, the rear wheels revolve on ball bearings, the outer cylinders. To obtain the motive power required the plan is to place within the cylinders a railway track to run around the interior susace, and on this track a jocomotive run by electricity. As this locomotive goes forward the wheel will begin to revolve. I have found by experiment that a very large wheel wiil roll with greatease when power is applied as is done in this case. The height of the engine has a tremendous ieverage power in proportion to its weight, and Idonotdoubt, from the experiments which I have made, that a very great rate of speed may be attained. Just how great it willbe I am not prepared to say, but see no remson why it should not approximate the best speed made on a modern raflway. There should be no reason why the trip from New York to England cannot be made in three days qr possibly within forty- eight hours. To do this without seasickness would be a great improvement over travel on the present ocean greyhounds. On the outside of the wheels are flanges, which will force the wheel to go forward in- stead of simply revolving. Besides this on each wheel is a flange at right angles, which will serve the purpose of the keels or center- boards now used. Rudders may be placed, one on each side, at the stern and fastened to the stationary axle. You can see that with wheels say 100 feet or more long and 400 or 500 fect apart neariy all rolling woula be preventea and seasickness avoided. I want to explain that our engine maintains relatively to the axle one position in the bot- tom of the wheel, no matter how great the rate of speed at which it may be running. Hence we can enter the eylinders from the bridge and descend a ladder and get on and off the engine at pleasure. % The great thing about this invention is the saving in expense. Why, you can save nine- tenths, or maybe nineteen-twentieths, of the cost of running an ordinary steamship. In- stead of the immense boilers and engines, with an army of stokers, you have only these two locomotives to keep going. Even if you didn’t get a great speed the say- ing in eXxpense would make the invention profitable, particularly in the case of river and canal boats, where the cost must be low for carrying freight. It hasbeen & great problem for years how we could materially increase the speed of navigating cana:s and rivers without washing the banks, Screws and side wheels are not practicable, because of the tremendous commotion of the water which they eause. In this case the wheels will just walk over the water, with very little agitation, at a rate of speed that waulc{ put to shame the fastest canal greyhound. —_ Remarkable Sea Gull. The story of a very remarkable sea gull is again revived by his recent return o Brenton’s Reef lightship, off Newport, R. L, to spend the winter. Years ago he was named Dick, and for a long time he has been known by that name the world over. Dick is now back at the hightship for his twenty-fourth winter. If he lives through it he ‘will remain until the first week in April and then depart for his summer home, wherever that may be. Some day during the week he will be missing at meal time, and then the crew, will know that he is gone. Then, if he shrvives the sum- mer, some day in October next there will be beard a demonstration, consisting of a splashing about and the spluttering under the stern of the lightship, and Dick will surely be found there awaiting his meal. So long as he remains about the vessel he will appear under the stern regularly three times a day for his foed. ————————— Just fifteen years ago a London firm of auctioneers sold 100,000 acres of land in Transvaal at 1s 6d per acre. The pur- chaser having discovered gold en the land -has sold 70,000 acres for as many pounds sterling. IS OLD BOHEMIA DEAD? Artist John Stanton Retires With Some Original Opinions. HE FORGOT HIS FULL DRESS, A Series of Complications at the Red. ding Dinner Brought Forth a Few Impressions. Is Bohemia what it seems? Or, to make the matter a little clearer: Istne true Bohemian where he belongs when he is in the Bohemian Club? It will probably be well to look into the case, and then the reader will be able to conclude to his own satisfaction. It will be recalled that Joseph Redding, poet, musician and lawyer, recently re- ceived a farewell dinner from the club, and that some 100 members gathered ’round the festive board. Hereby hangs the judgment of those who care to make a study of Bohemia as she is conducted. When the invitations went forth to the children of the owl it was understood that the affair wasto be devoid of all formali- ties, and that a good time was to be on tap from 8to 12 P. M. John Stanton, one of the directors, understood it this way, anyhow, and in the light of the reigning impression he left his studio at an early hour, after wiping the paint off his brushes, and sauntered up to the clubrooms, whistling ““The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.” As he entered the regal stairway approaching from Post street the sonnds of the intermezzo greeted his ears. “That’s the stuff,” soliloquized Mr. Stanton, hastening his footsteps up the marble pathway. “Those are the strains that make the spirit thrill.” When he arrived at the landing the last notes were dying away, to make room for the clink of glasses and the sound of gurgling that arose from the wassail bottles. Mr. Stanton was buoyant. The hallboy took his hat and gloves as the artist passed him en route for the dining-room. Just as he was about to enter the banquet- ball a sight met his eyes that froze his blood and touched his Bohemian heart with deep remorse. The guests were togged out in full dress! Mr. Stanton fell back into the arms of a waiter who moppeéd the perspiration off his intellectual forehead. In a moment he regained his nerve and receded toward the barroom. The case was a serious one. “I thought this racket was a go-as-you- please, and I come here in my street cloth- ing and see nothing but broadecloth. Is this what you call Bohemian? Is that the way to bid Joe Redding farewell? — —— ——,"" said Mr. Stanton. “Well, now look here, Jack,” said a friend, consolingiy, “you can go in just as you are. The boys are glad to see you at any time, with or without full dress. Don’t be a chump, Jack. Come, get onto yourself and go in with me.” “Not by a mill sight,” retortea Mr. Stanton, who was beyond consolation or explanation. “I do not propose to go into ' the dining-room and be the only man without a dinner. coat on. Everybody toid me that this was to be an informal affair, and it's the swellest lay- out we ever had. Rats!” In a few moments the peacemaker re- ceived re-enforcements from other quar- ters of the club and Mr. Stanton’s ire and disgust were temporarily removed. ‘“Well, I tell you what I'll do, boys,” finally con- cluded the artist. *I’ll go home and put on my full dress, and come back. How’s that?” “Good. But say, let us have a look at the arrangement sheet in the office so you can see where you are to sit, and then you can come right in the moment you return and take your place.” Mr. Stanton stepped into the office and the arrangement of guests was handed to him. He ran his finger along the edges ot the plan and looked for the undying name of Stanton. Could it be possible that it bad escaped him the first time? He looked along the names again. ‘‘Well, that’s funny.” Once more he reviewed the list. He had made no mistake. His suspicions were fulfilled. dinner. “Bat, Mr. Stanton,” expostulated the secretary of the club, “‘let me explain how it happened. You—"" “1 don’t want an explanation. I signed for this dinner and was left out. Well, I might have expected it. It is the hardest thing ip the world to get decent treatment everywhere. Don’t throw away any more time explaining it to me. I have had all the explanation I want. Nothing in the shape of talk will square the matter. One of the directors brought me a paper for this blowout and I signed it. That’s all T know about the affair, and they have seen fit to leave me out. Itsall right. Idon't care a denarius.” “But, pardon me, Mr. Stanton, that paper you signed was a subscription for the loving-cup thatis to be presented to Mr. Reddingasa souvenir of his departure. It was not for the dinner. You have made a mistake.” Mr. Stanton cooled. After he thought the matter over a little he arrived at the conclusion that it would be almostim- possible for the club lo leave outinten- tionally the man who had painted, free of charge, the magnificent picture which was to commemorate the occasion and which was to have the place of honor on the wall of the red room. “Well, how did it come that I was not placed at the tables?” he inquired in a more modified and less impassioned tone of voice. “‘Probably because you failed to sign the list. I suppose you confused the loving- cup list with the dinner list. and in conse- quence you were not provided for at the table. Iam sure it was nointendedslight, Mr. Stanton. Now just select a place here that suits you and while you are home dressing I will see that a chair is inserted and that room is made for you.” “Of course, Jack,” chimed in a chorus of good fellows, “it was a mere oversight. Now pick out the place you want and slide home for your togs.” *[ guess you are right, boys. Give me that list again and I will make a selection.”” The list was handed him and he made a careful examination. _ “There’s a good. place. No; it isn’t either. I like that fellow on the left, but the man on the right is no good. Here is a friend of mine right here, near the bay- window. I will take—here, stop the deal. I wouldn’t be near that fellow across the table for an original Titian. Let me see” (running his eyes along the names), “sup- vose you put me right there. Wait a mo- ment. I guess I won't sit there either. Itis too near one of those tiresome old boys who' couldn’t be & bohemian if he J. A. Stanton was not slated for that lived a thousand years. Ah, there are some of the Moulin Rouge crowd. Put me between—Say, what's the matter with this list? Why don’t you have some of the right kind of people contiguous to each other? I cau’t find a place free from fos- sils. I have looked it all over and I guess I won’t be present. There’s your plan of arrangement. Much obliged, but count me out. I guess they won't miss me much, anyhow. Good-night, boys.” With that the painter called for his hat | and was about to Jeave when his eye fell upen the musicians who were grinding out the music for the occasion. They were seated out in the hallway, with the tempt- | ing viands in sight. i “Now, there’s a pretty way to treat artists, The idea of putting musicians like | these out in the hall! Why aren't they taken inside where they belong? Is this the Bohemian Club? If itisI would like to know where the king is. Has anybody got the nerve to say that those artists, those masters of melody, are being treated like Bohemians? Well, I should hope not. That's the worst I ever saw. I'll be demoralized if I ever saw anything so un- Bohemian, Every one of those men is a genius, and we know them all personally, yet they are relegated to the hall like the peanut butchers outside a circus. I'm through with Bohemia if it is to be con- ducted this way. the painter of the commemorating master- piece was gone. COST IRVING DEARLY. His Mistake in Construing a Cable Mes- sage Was Rather Expensive. Two months ago, when the actors and actresses of England met to congratulate Sir Henry Irving upon the honors which | the Queen had just bestowed upon him, there was one New York newspaper which contained the whole of the actor's ad- dress—a matter of some eight and a half | columns. The other papers contented | themselves with a mere summary of Irving’s remarks, and as there was no statement in his speech that Sir Henry Irving had not uttered dozens of times before the editors were at a loss to under- | stand why this paper had gone to the im- mense expense of having his whole speech cabled to this side. The mystery was not cleared up, however, until Irving arrived here. One of the first men to greet him at the wharf was Joe Howard. “Well,”” said Irving, as soon as they had shaken hands, “did you get it all right?"’ “Get it!” exclaimed Howard. *‘My dear | fellow, I should rather think I did. It: nearly swamped the paper. Itall got in, though, so it’s all right.” A puzzled look came into Irving’s face. “I thought it was a good deal to send over myself,”” he said, *‘particularly as there was nothing new in it. However, as you cabled over for 1{. I thought that the least | thing that I could do was to cable you the whole thing.”’ This time it was Howard’s turn to look | puzzled. “Icabled you for the address. | Why, my dear fellow, you're mistaken,” he exclaimed. “I assure you I thought the whole Atlantic cable had been turned | loose on me. It began to arrive at my office in batches at 2 o’clock in the after- noon, and it wasn’t until the last telegraph | boy had delivered the last installment at 6 o’clock and I saw your nameat the bottom | that I had the least idea what it wasall | about.” | “But, my dear fellow,” cried Irving, “I have your request for it in my dispatch- box. Icanshow it toyou. I remember | the words you used: ‘Cable address.” "’ “Hold on,” said Howard; *I begin to see light. You are right and you are wrong, old man. 1did sendyou a cable. It was, ‘Love and congratulations from the wite and self.” Then, knowing your propensity for sending cablegrams with the address in full I said to myseif: ‘Perhaps he’ll want to send an answer, and there's no use in his spending any more money than is necessary,’ so I added, ‘Cable address— Howard.’ " “Great heavens!"” cried Irving, as the | true state of the case began to dawnon bim. “And L was fool enough to miscon- | strue this sentence. That little attempt of economy of yours cost me just §1500.”"— Brooklyn Standard-Union. —_—————— Perhaps there is no railway company more generous than the Midland in pro- viding overcoats and suits of uniform for their employes; but it will surprise most people to hear that during the last year 13,000 suits and 12,000 overcoats were given — ———"and | $40,524 25. | Phelan and JAMES PHELAN'S ESTATE The Appraisement Fizes Its Valug at $4,662, ’ 584 78. THE HALF IS REAL PROPERTY. City Lots, Notes for Immense Sums and Big Mortgages Make Up the Inventory. The estate of James Phelan has been appraised at $4,662,584 78. Of this $2, 084 78 is personal property—notes, si.ocks, bonds, mortgages, etc., and the remainder $2,123,500, is composed of land in this City, San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Cruz and San Diego. There was found to be in cashin the First National Bank $67,079 04. This is the only cash item in the inventory. Among the holdings of stock is 1000 shares of the First National Bank of this | City, at $189 a share, valued at $204,120; 350 Y shares of the First National Bank of San Jose, valued at $46,550, and 1065 shares of the Mutual Savings Bank, valued at $39,- 937 50. Among the bonds of the estate are 152 Natoma Water bonds, valued at $76,000; 46 Dupont-street bonds, valued at $42,500, and 1550 coupons of the same, valued at In the list of promissory notes is one of D. M. and Ann K. Reavis, valued at $308,- 921 66; one from John Collins, valued at $130,637 38; one from Abraham Clark’s estate, valued at $148,346 35; one from P. A. Marquam, valued at $260,083 41, and one from William H. Mairs for $469,768 50. Among the collateral loans is one to the Pacific Improvement Comg:ny for $251,- 140 67. This is secured by bonds. = In the list of real estate the following are included: A lot with a frontage of 218 feet on Howard street, near Fifteenth, is appraised at $110,000; a tract of land in Santa Clara County containing 274 acres, part of which is included within the city limits of San Jose, is valued at $425,000; a lot on the corner of Taylor and Fair streets, in Sacramento, valued at $256,000; a lot on First street, near Santa Clara avenue, in San Jose,valued at$420,000. There are other items of real property ranging in value from $250 to $85,000, among them beingin- cluded: Land and improvements on the south line of Jackson street, 60 feet west of Drumm, 57 by 120 feet, $40,000; land occupied by the Alice building in San Jose, $30, Phelan Hall v in San Jose, $85,000; New York Ex- San Jose, $68,000: Cronise building property in San Joe, $50,000. 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