The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1595. RLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor end Praprictor. T CHal SUBSCRJPTION RAT Postage Free: nduy CALL, ONC ATL, S1X months, by hs by mail 1. by 1 WEEKLY CALY 1.50 BL | San Francisco, ifornia. Telephon ..Main—1868 EDITCRIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street Teiephone Main—1874 | n until 8 o'clock. i n until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : dn't flu 1ze d dy will note that the vigorous that everybody goes to the zet in. Society horse s s the longest | simmon. Evidently it me ge that re . hes the The Grand Jury has cot into a fi that be cultivated w: tooth comb. 1d now h a fine- to ought that C ifts from ornia products lifornians to nd evidently tri at his d messa, hard to keep ge, but he of Presidential Il and standsa down. game, Tom ood chance great as the t aking a tou the the to put another head | he doesn’t wish have ickly I il pos will Presidential it will have to e Democr: n seeks the man at to catch him. shows hx,i process. ! | approved the re, because for not read- smen will recog- at least of seeing rs for great pero- Bostc can claim 500,000 he: tured re out how she nts without giv- too much of a Chicago tone. Kaiser has shown what he ter, a poet and a musician, nce to confer a favor by show- n keep still a little. Boston Herald complains that the has not given the Wilson ta a fair trial, but it must admit tne tariff has e country a mighty hard one. The country ago papers are making a great of music over the reduction of prices , but before .long they will be ranging a concert with ope another to t back to prosperity figures again, There are people who believe that if newspapers had published what Sherman published in hic memoirs there would have been libel suits enough to make Rome howl all over the Mississippi Valley. Buffalc r to get the Republican | National Convention that it has been pro- | posed to bond the city for §225,000 to build a convention hall, which by the way is a pretty good illustration of civic patriotism. nusually large shipment of dra 1d is reported this year and it is even said that horses can now be imported from this country so cheaply it no longeér pays to raise them in any part of the British island. iere is something significant in the fact that an Indian has offered to contri- bute $10,000 to build an academy in South- eastern Kansas, as it is encouraging to see among the red men an appreciation of the need of educating the Kansans, There is such an enlarged demand for pennies in the East that the Philadelphia | Mint is now coining them at the rate of 150,000 & day, and the sign is not a bad one, for if there is not much money in a 1-cent piece there is & great deal of economy in it. According to the Secret Service Bureau there hout as m secret stills in New York and Brook s there are in the Tennessee Mountains, and it would seem, therefore, thata man may be a moon- iner even when he walks in the gaslight. It is announced that the report of the joint commission appointed to survey the boundary line between Canadaand Alaska will be made inside of three months, and fortunately Congress will be in i session then to that Oiney does not give our case away. A test made by the fire department in Chicago shows that with the engines now in use it is possible to throw an effective fire-tighting stream to the top story of the Masonic Temple, one of the tallest build- ings in the count and the scare about es in sky scrgpers has got another set- The TUnited States Supreme Court has just dismissed the last appeal of the city of New eans against the Myra Clurk Gaines estate, and as this closes a case that has been in that court in one form or another for fifty years there is hope the Justices may find time to attend to some modern business. The members of the Republican State Committee 1n Massachusetts should come West and grow up with the country. They not only won a splendid victory but man- aged the finances so well that after paying all the expenses of the campaign and sev- eral thousand dollars of last year's bills, thev have still a handsome surplus on hand. | tion during some crisis or other which had | 08¢ | dering. | impert INTERVENTION. THAT UNTIMELY The more closely the intervention of the United States officials in the suit of the Southern Pacific Company against the California Railroad Commission is con- sidered the more untimely, uncalled for and altogether suspicious a vroceeding it | appears to be, The relation of the United States Gov- ernment to-the Central Pacific‘Railroad bany, in the capacity of creditor, com- 1in the year 1862 and has continued ever It been an eventful third of a century of railroad manipylation, and has produced more political and business scandals than have attended the develop- ment of any other institution of the time. The history of how the controlling spirits of the Central Pacific Raiiroad Company enormously enriched themselvesat the ex- pense of it, of its creditors and of the people of California is an open book, and of its contents and incidents there is no Federal ofticial of to-day who can be heard to ple ignorance. From its very inception the business of looting the 1 kent pace with its con- struction and grew in extent and audacity ased. The Contrac Finance Company and the Western Development Company were in their turn convenient agencies for the transfer of the capital of the Central Pacific from the proper place of deposit in its own coffers to the private pockets and safes of its di- rectors. The milking process which went on during the life of these two corpora- tions has developed into a bleeding and process, conducted latterly by the ern Pacific Company. : consequences have been evident to bserving mind. The four original rs of the Central Pacific Railroad each become rich beyond dest dreams of avarice of most men. ave builded palaces, patronized art | education, gratified capri and pur- | chased foreign princes to their souls’ con- | nt. The surviving member of the mighty | multi-millionaire, and the succes- | sors in interest of the other three are revel- ' in wealth and lu On the other | hand the Central Pacific Railroad, which was the origin and source of this deflected | wealth, h become less and less valuable and 3 ses no one that They debt Huntington should be only too willing to | surp turn it over to the Government in pay- | ment of its debt. While all this has been going on the | United States has been Its local | representatives have until the present time | watched placidly the struggle of California | with its railroad problem; or, if they inter- | fered at all, it was in aid of the corpora- | been forced by its own shortcomings upon it. The Federal arm has been found very convenient to lean upon occasionally, and | with a singular uniformity it has been | extended in times of need. When inquisi- 1 tive Judges or troublesome commissions | have sought to inquire into the affairs and | | condition of the railroad and have put | stions home to the consciences of its | tors which they were pleased to deem | ent, the Federal machine has | always been utilized to make the inquisi- | tion vain. In fact, so constant has been | this favor that it bas come to be the confi- dent boast of the corporation that it could ly depend upon Federal interference at the right moment with ‘any and all efforts on the part of the people of California to regulate its schedules, compel payment of its taxes or investigate its involved affairs. It is these facts which cast suspicion upon the present intervention of the | United States offici in the battle be- | tween the railroad and the Railroad Com- mission. It is thelong years of willing connivance with the corporation’s noto- rious course of wrongdoing which bring reproach upon the Federal authorities for | their activity in the present proceeding. | The circumstance that by this interven- tion the same allegations are made and the same relief sought by the railroad and | by the intervenor give added reason for | this suspicion and reproach and justify | the opinion which the people of California | very generally entertain, that this inter- tion is only another of the devices by | ch the railroad company has been aided in the avoidance of its obligations | to them. | WOMEN REFORMERS, In what direction and to what extent | the women of the y who have organ- | ized to correct evils intend to push their | efforts no public disclosure has been made. | 1t is important to know that women are | coming to appreciate their responsibility | and power. Along certain lines of action | in which the s might te made oii great value they will encounter no respect- | able opposition and rouse none but an evil antagonism. Tt might be of the greatest importance to them to ascertain if their organization | is truly re; ntative of the loftier aims of the sex in its various departments of e, for while the education of women | would be an admirable ambition it canaot | be accomplished in the absence of their sympathy. The woman or the man who | dragooned into the support of anylhing,} isan enemy in cagmp. I'he reforms which are always safe to undertake ana necdful to accomplish are | those which bear directly on the material ‘ things of life. The science of good living | embodies the whole proposition and lies at the root of every worthy abstraction. Those who know how to live wisely may ne depended on to act intelligently in mat- | ters of morals, politics or religion, even | though they may have diverse conceptions | of those abstractions., { The concrete things in San Francisco | whose evil is susceptible of reformation by | women are so numerous that the dangerin essailing them lies in their confusing num- ber and variety. There will be an almost irresistible tereptation to cover too much ground, and so fail to accomplish any- thing. Concentration of effort upon one thing at a time offers the only hope of suc- | cess. The one thing selected for reformation should be that which is most prominently | before the putlic, rather than something else which may bea greater evil, but which | happens not to be receiving great popular attention. This proposition does not pre- clude the fact thata reform movement may | control and direct popular attention by uncovering and pursiing evils which oth- erwise might not receive this needed wide attention. But this fact of wide popular notice must exist, as without it the con- solidated moral pressure of the community canpnot' be made available, and it s the most powerful of all agencies for the cor- rection of wrongs. The press is the one overshadowing and controlling agency ior the working of re- forms through a dissémination of news concerning evil. Whatever other agencies may be at work, they must ail depend for their higher efliciency .on the press for a wider publication of their views, labors and discoveries. In all reformations where publication is essential (and that is almost invariably the gase), the da:ly newspapers must be regarded as a necessary instrument. 1f they are of the right kind they will gladly assist, but their judgment on the score of expediency must not be questioned. So far as Tur CaLL is concerned it will di | region will have no v gladly assist worthy and intelligent efforts for the common good. No more inviting field for missionary work can be found than the external aspect of the City. This does not mean to say that the morals of the people do not need improving, nor that many private and pubiic wrongs do not need righting. The beauty of working both for material and moral improvement is that they do not conflict and that they may be carried on simultaneously. If a body of intelligent and public- spirited women had made it their task to see that the private street work dons under | the supervision of the Street Superintend- ent had been honestly done, the scandals which the Grand Jury is now disclosing would have been impossible. The work would have been honestly done, the City would have been greatiy benefited, prop- erty-owners would not have been swin- dled and political corruption would have been checked. This is merely an illus- tration of the far-reaching material and volitical results which would have flown from so simple a matter as watching one class of public improvements. We need good improvements and boulevards and many other things in which the power of s e AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-8uperior Judge S. H. Vanderhurst - of Salinas, who i§ engaged in aifferent business enterprises, says that beet-growing has in- creased greatly in that section of the State dur- ing the last two or three years. “Our farmers have given considerable atten- tion to them,” he said at the Occidental, “and it has been found that the soil is well fitted for them. A 2oo0d deal of money comes from the beet business there, and it is growing and destined to become of much larger importance. ‘‘Beets and beans are both large crops. We Taise & good many of the latter these later years, aud they are not «nly a good yield on the average, but they are of good quality. “But an odd thing has occurred in the dairy- ing business down there. For & good while much attention has been given to dairyving, but this year it got so there was nothing in it. No; 1t was not because grass was short, but because the dairymen couldn’t get prices for butter. ‘At one time this season the price fell as low as 8centsa pound. A number of dairvmen went out of the business. It was the lowest vrice that was ever reached there, and they couldn’t stand it, Dairying will probably get better. For the present, however, more atten- tion is being paid to the crops mentioned than anything else.” John Adams, who has spent six years at Loring and Kodiae, Alaska, and who at one women might be employed to conspicuous advantage, HOW BOSSES THRIVE. Intelligent citizens should not for a mo- ment lose sight of the fact that every one of the scandals which the Grand Jury is {unearthing in municipal affairs is the irect product of boss rule. This is true of the shameful work in the Street Depart- ment, and if the alleged miseonduct of the majority in the Board of Supervisors is proved it will be traceable to the same source. In the latter case we observe a com- bination by Democratic and Republican members, constituting the ‘‘solid eight’’ and voting consistently together against the minority of four on every proposition which would present an opportunity for securing plunder, if that is the aim of the majority. Although these members were nominated by regular party organizations, it was at a time when the parties were notoriously under boss rule. Good men may be and often are nomi- nated and elected under these circum- stances. They are needed to lend respect- ability to the ticket and deceive the | respectable voters of the parties into the belief that all the candidates are worthy. But invariably the bosses make sure that a sufiicient number of their unscrupulons tools are elected to constitute a board of pluncerers. , Another feature of boss rule is that bosses of opvosing parties work secretly together for the common purpose of plun- If.it should happen that a munic- ipal board should be elected which is com- posed of members of oppesing parties about equally divided a combination is effected. It is an infallible proposition that where such a combination is seen in a governing board the combining members are the tools of bossesand are organized for plunder. No other conclusion is possible. The pride which honest men have in the party which elected them will prevent their forming permanent combinations with officers ected by an opposing party, and above everything else will keep them from a course in combination that must inevit- ably create a belief that they are dishonest. The thing which most gladdens the heart of a boss is “independent” and *‘citizens’ ” and “reform” parties. Tammany had been crushed forever in New York but for the ivision of respectability and a scattering of its energies by such means. In faet, these distracting side issues are sometimes started by the bosses themselves, and with a high-sounding title are made to serve as atrap for eminently respectable but emi- nently foolish citizens. The Civic Federa- tion of San Francisco may take whatever consolation it can find from 2all these con- sideration: ENGLAND REFUSES. What appears to be an aughentic report announces that Lord Salisbury refuses to ¥ | accede to President Cleveland’s demand that the dispute over the boundary be- | tween British Guiana and Venezuela be submitted to arbitration. The text of his communication will not arrive till Friday and hence it is impossible to say whether | the English Premier has given a dignified reason for his refusal or offered a reasona- ble substitute for President Cleveland's proposition. This proposition was set forth in the President’s message to Con- gress the other day. Ina measure it com- mits this Government to the Monroe doc- trine. At least it declares that no Euro- pean power shall forcibly acquire territory on this continent, and that ciaims to addi- tional territory must be submitted to the arbitration of some great nation. choice but to sustain the action of the President. There need be no alarm that this will plunge the United States into a | st o ™ (1 A" (e, | i want no more illustrious examplec in your own war with England. That country is famous for' ‘‘blufting,” but there is not sufficient at stake in the Venezuela prin- ciple to warrant it in inviting armed hos- tilities from this country, backed by every other nation on the continent. THE TACOMA EXPOSE. Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille. The fullest, clearest and best account of | Tacome. methods which has come under our notice is that published in the San Franeisco JaL, made by a lady reporter sent specially e purpose. Threats of personal injury representatives for making knowr: the etails of erime in the famous Round Valley cight with such a m. &s Mr. Shortridge, ¢r such a paper as THE CALL. 1f there be a piace in this country which needs the calcium light of newspaper publication thrown squarely upon it, in the interest of decent government and the good name of Cali- fornia, it is the locality of Round Valley. or the « 1 JAPANESE COMPETITION. Los Angeles Times. A San Francisco importer is quoted as saying that he can pay 60 per cent duties on certain | kinds of goods imported from Japan and then undersell Americans in their own market. Competition of this kind is only possible when labor is robbed of its just compensation. One of the great problems of the near future wiil be that of protecting ourselves against the in- dustrial ruin which competition with the underfed and underpaid hordes of the Orient threatens to bring upon us. Tariff protection of the kind that protecis will cease to bea question of expediency, and will become a matter of absolute necessit; KEEPING THE MACHINE OUT. Uklah Herald. Tne San Francisco CaLl, ome of the best papers published on the coast, has cousented | to help the printersof that City by allowing the boys to still use their “ruie and stick” for | at leasta year and a half to come. This move on the part of THE CALL is commendable, and we trust when the time rolls around some means will have been arranged to sill keep the “machine” ou DESERVES ITS SUCCESS.. Auburn Republican. ‘While the Examiner and Chronicle are fight- ing about their respective circulations THE CarLL will get away with the plum by attending strictly to business, THE CaALL has already taken the lead in this county, and deservedly, too, because it has devoted more space than its cotems. to the miner's cause. time was proprietor of & hotel at Gilroy, was at the Russ yesterday. He does not take much stock in the Alaska gold fields, to which there have been periodical rushes for some time past, “I's uo sign,” he said, “that & men hes made money on the Yukon because he brings out $500 or $600, or even $1000 or $2000. He may have taken that much in with him, and besides stayed there two OF three years. Where does he get pay for his time ? “I have seen hundreds going in and coming out, and my opinion is if a man will stay right here in California and give attention to what- ever his husiness is, he will have far more money than going away off to Alaska to rough it, and lose all the advantages of & good climate and of modern civilization. “I had a talk recently with Colonel Perkins, who keeps the Perkins House in Portland. He had been up there on the Yukon for two or three years, and he told me what I have often heard that the men who came out often had nothing like what they took in. They had all which is & great big country, but one that isn't likely to recompense a man for going to it.” James Walden Kirk of New York, the king interview the other ¢ay on the interesting subject of the changing les in men's clothing aftracted much attention, said yes- terday: “One cannot at once acquire the art of cor- rect up-to-date dressing. In other words, a man cannot ‘jump into’ the art of dressing well without some thought and study. “And the advice oftentimes of supposedly good teilors and haberdasliers does not always prove to be right for the innocent person who follows it, because many times what would 1ook well on one person would not be suitable to another, and many times those same would- be iashionable advisers have many moldy articles they.are anxious to get rid of. ‘‘Therefore, I coutend that you must be your own artist and know what is the most suitable toa certain extent, of course. I have never had any garments made here, as I always have my wardrobe fully equipped before'Il leave New York. “But it seems to me from observation that our fashionable tailors out here seem {o per- sist in sticking to the fashion that is at least & season behind. Either they are at fault or the is no reason why San Franciscans should not be dressed up to date as well as New Yorkers, as your tailors and haberasshers certainly must get the latest advices not long after they are in vogue with us.” Bessie Bonehill, the charming little glish Rice's “1492,” in talking on the subject of the future of the American stage, incidentally pays her respects to Commodore Gerry of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in a manner that will doubtless set that gentleman to thinking. “The greatestobsticle t6 the fature develop- Miss Bonehill, “lies in the Gerry Society. It keeps boys and girls off the stage until they are 16 years of age, and therefore deprives them of the benefits of training during the most pliable years of their careers. This is not only bad_in a professional way, but I do not see that it is any advantage in point of morals. I cen only speak, of course, of my own sex. Under the limitations put upon parents by this society a girl must be launched into a new world in her sixteenth year—the most critical period ina young woman's life—to suddenly encounter new surroundings and new respon- sibilities. “A child who comes of theatrical parents and who is brotight up on the stage has its tempta- tions pointed out to it &s it goes along and by the time she reaches her teens she at least is werned sgainst some of the evils that besetany young woman during these veers, but under the edicts of this society a girl issent forward at & time when she is most susceptible to flat- tery to battle her way forward in a profession full of competition for supremacy. If she is clever she is apt to be ruined by an impaticnt ambition to get favors, or to be unduly inflated by the cheap compliments which are always ready to be showered upon a pretty face and attractive figure. In addition to all this she is compelled to acquire her professional experi- | ence at an uge wien she is least fitted for thix If it is true that Lord Salisbury has sent i merely a flat refusal Congress has mno | sort of a contest. Look over the list of un- pleasantries which have arisen in Jate vears on the American stage, aud 1 am confident that as a rule you will find those women have come out bestin the severe ordeal who have been on You certainly can country than the lives of Booth, Jefferson, Lotta ana Mrs. John Drew. 1do notcome of a theatrical family myself, my mother was not a professional woman, but I went on the stage as » child, depending on her for advice, and I have ncted according to it all through my career.” THE SOLEMN TRUTH. In Brooklyn town a tro'ley-car (B ieve this 'f you can) Ouce made u jour 1ey fr m afar And did not kil & man. You may not think it, bu' it's so, My pen’s not running wild 1t did not kill & wan. Oh,not Iukilled a litile caild. oM MassoN. CATHEY NOT CONVICTED. Los Banos (Cal.) Enterprise. The trial of J. M. Cathey for havingin his possession a No. 8 shotgan came up before Judge Cothran Saturday forenoon. Itwas to haye begun at 10 . 3. sbarp, but the Judge did.not arrive till an hour later, at which time court was called. The jury as it was accepted was composed of C. 0. Freeman, W. J. Stockton, G. D. Soper, R. W. Wood, W. J. Jameson, E. H. Hoffman, F. M. Wilcox, C. W. Wood, W. W. Wood and C. K. Safford. All intelligent and passably good- looking. Game Commissioner McFarland was the first witness on the stand. He testified that he had driven up to the tent of aefendant and caught him in the act of concealing a large gun, and that he had stepped around his tent and took the gun, which was used as evidence in the trial. E. E. Pedlar testified materially to the same thing as McFarland. Their testimony was very damaging from one point of view, but didn’t amount to much after all, if the jury construed the law to mean that agun found in & man’s tent in a game field was prima facie evidence of his guilt. The de- fendant did not deny having the gun, but did deny using i% to shoot ducks or anything else. There was not much evidente given further than that, for the case virtually depended on the jury’s imterpretation of the law governing the use of bigguns. During the trial the room was crowded with hunters, all of course friends and sympathizers with Mr. Cathey, After the testimony was all in Attorney'Hayes in his ument in rustic eloquence said: “If those officers had entered my tent and taken any of my property without & search warrant I would have arrésted them and taken them to jail as robbers, and the iaw would have upheld me in doing it.”’ The sen- timents of the hoary-headed orator touched s Tesponsive chord in every hunter’s heart and the apolause was deafening. The dignity of the court was outraged to such an extent that Pmufln{ Attorney Ostrander moved that the Judge fine every one of them for contempt better stay at home and away from Alaska, | of the dudes, now at the Palace, whose long | woman who plays the part of the Infanta in | ment of talent ou the American stage,” says | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1A, isatt people do not care for the correct thing. There | oo of court and offered ' his services to help arrest every man who cheered. “Silence!” roared the Judge. “This is contempt, and I'll fine every man if it is repe: &F The District Attorney made a strong argu- ment for the people and the case went to the jury. They were out about an hour, and agreed that it was impossible to agree upon & verdict. They stood seven for conviction and three for acquittal. The case will come u ogain later. The costof defendant’s counsel, $40, was made up in ten minutes by the 8s- sembled hunters. With the full knowledge that the seven men who stood for conviction are honorable, just men, and would have found a verdict acco! ingto the preponderance of evidence and noth- lnf else, and with all due respect to them, we will venture the opinion that they were en- tirely wrong and will try to prove if to them. Mr. Cathey isa hunter who has been very unfortunate in the last two years in many re- spects. He has had sickness to contend with, had his tent robbed and most of his worldly possessions stolen, and got into this scrape. Of Ccourse these facts wouid cut no figure in the intricate workings of our laws if he was guilty of the charge, but every one knowing him and being acquainted with his business knows full well that he never usesa big gun and that he makes a precarious living shooting hne.snll;le. larks, squirrels and what ducks and geese he can with a_small gun, and that he makes a specialty of trapfimg turtles. He doesnotown an ox nor does he use one. He has an old mule and cart which he uses to haul his game to town for shipment. He had an ox and used a big gun a short time over a year ago, and since then he has offered his No. 8 for sale to numerous likely buyers. We are personally acquainted with him and are willing to stand beiore the God of heaven and take oath that the accused is not guilty of the charge, and there are dozens of men a quainted with him who would do the same tnu;% if it were possible to get the oppor- unity. We’ will not discuss the justice of the law, but admitting that it is a law, and thatall laws should be obeyed, we should like to ask why Mr. Cathey was arrested, instead of some of the influential hunters who are more amply blessed with worldly goods, and who would ad- mit using big guns to shootducks. Two men told Mr.McFarland on the-day of the trial that they were using big guns, and that if he would come to their camp they Would show him how to make a shot on ducks. Mr. Cathey was un- justly arrested, end the District Attorney did not show the best of perception in trying to convict him. He did what he thought hisduty, for he thought defendant was lying when he gave his testimony, and there is where his Judgment fooled him. Now if the officers’ feelings are ruffled let them consider the matier thoughtfully, make diligent inquiries as to the methods pursued | !:iy Mr. Cathey in the pursuit of game, and see if they don’t admit their mistake. We could give the names of men who would stand trial cheerfully, and whom & jury could not fail to convict. If convicted the lJaw would be tested, and the matter settled one way or the other. PERSONAL A. R. Edmondson of Lovelock, Nev., is at the Grand. C. A. Campbell, & merchant of Red Bluff, is in town. William Foley, an attorney of Portland, is at the Grand. Thomas B. Hall, &8 merchant of Sacramento, is in the City. Andrew Markhayg, the banker, of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. Dr. J. H. Tebbetts and wife of Hollister are at the California. Attorney F. C. Lusk of Chico was among yes- ay’s arrivals. Senator A.F.Jones of Oroville is regis- tered at the Palace. Francis Doud, the Monterey banker, is spend- ing a few days here. A.N. Rugg, a mining man of Gold Bar, is registered at the Lick. W. D. Keyser, a livestock-grower of the Car- son Velley, is in town. Dr. C. E. Mun# of the Benicia Barracks, U. 8. e Caliiornia. Colonel Charles F. Crocker returned from the East yesterday morning. J. J. Hebron, a cattle-raiser of Selinas, is | among yesterday’s arrivals. Milton Nobles, the actor, whose home is in Brooklyn, N. Y., is at the Occidental. G. Dunean Cummings, editor and proprietor of the Dunsmuir News, is in the City. Charles J. Noark, one of the leading business men of Sacramento, is here on & brief trip. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Cnoarles D. Rakestraw of Washington, D. C. Colonel L. §. Babbitt of the United States army is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mré, Babbitt. 1% 4 E. M. Ranks of the Vancouver Independent, who has been visiting here for several days, leaves for home to-day. James A. Douglas, one of the earliest resi- dents of Woodland, and well known in that section of Californis, is at the Lick. Tom C. Lane, superintendent of the famous Utica gold mine at Angels, one of the richest in the country, reached here yesterday. Mrs. Francis Newlands, wife of Congressman Newlands of Nevada, arrived here from Wash- ington, D. C., last night and is at the Palace. Governor Budd returned here last night, efter an inspection of the Home for the Feeble- minded at Glen Ellen. He is at the California. Ex-Sheriff W, B. Harkey of Yuba is at the Ru He has a reputation as a fighting Sheriff and has arrested some of the worst men of the coast. Manager J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pa- cific Company left for Sacrameato yesterday, for the purpose, it is reported, of making re- ductions in the raiiroad’s force there. E. D. Bannister, owner of the Bannister mine at Butte, Mont., and who has taken a conspicu- ous part hitherto in Indiana and National campaigns, is in the C and Montana. E. P. Vining, general manager of the Market- street Rmlway Compe 1y, is back at his post of duty egain, aiter an absence of about three weeks in the East. purpose of meeiing and marrying his present biide, who returned with him. Ex-Governor L. A. Sheldon of New Mexico, whos2 home in later years has been at Pasa- | dene, isatthe Grand. The ex-Governor is one | of the best poited men on irrigation in the conntry. He isan ardent Repuhlican and has been & conspicuous figure in Western politics for a long time. H. M. Sheehy. who has recently spent several yeers in Peru, while engaged in silver mining for wenlthy New York and Cleveland capital- ists, is in the City and preparing to go to Africa, Before going to Peru he mined on the Com- stock. He al=o paid a visit to South Afriea,but | did not remain. He dislikes the snow of the high mountains of Peru and is quitting there forever. Consul George E. Hall, the resident repre- sentative of the Turkish Sultan in this Cit; left last night for Constantinople. Joseph D. Redding left on the same train and will prob- ably accompany him as far as Paris. Consul Hall says he is going to the land of the Sultan to consult with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on general mat ters, He will study the Arme- nian question while absent. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 4.—Captain Crocker isat the Holland, § V. Lawrence at the Cole- man, H.S. Swain at the Broadway Central, J. Herman at the Marlborougk, E.Saunders at the St. Denis, Miss Tucker at the Holland, L. Finch at the Netherland, E. Coffin at the Plaza, W. G. Sparrow at the Morton, Henry T. Scott and Charles L. Fair at the Holland. UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS. Oakland Enquirer. THE CALL states that the addition to the list of members of the California Academy of Sci- enees of several Berkeley gnd Stanford profes- sors has had a wholesome "effect. We are glad to know it, and trust that the wholesome effect will broaden sufficiently to become an entire new departure. Here is a well-endowed insti- tution, with a fine opportuuity for promoting original scientific research,and what has it been doing? Has it really accomplished a re- sult in the last five years which the ordinary citizen of California can call to mind? We fear not. Then let the university professors go in, stir things up and make for the California Academy of Sciences a reputation on a par with its opportunities. Embalming for a *‘Poetic Side’* Show. Alameds Argus. ‘We want some good Alameda poet to favor us with something that will embalm Alameda in verse and at the same time have refer- ence to the holiday season—something that have a poetic side. > e of He has & winter | residence at Gilroy, and vibrates between here | His trip was taken for the | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. A good dealof curiosity and interest have been aroused in London by an opers, ‘‘The Fall of Jerusalem,” which the Hebrew Oriental Company is playing at the Standard Theater, Shorediteh. Such crowds of Eastenders flocked to the opening night that the broadest thor- oughfare in the neighborhood of the theater was well nigh impassable. One critic says: “‘The ‘Fall of Jerusalem’is an opera almost without music, and we confess thatwe soon became weary of the company of Gdalyohi-ben- Achikom, King Sidkiyohi, Yeshimoel-ben- Nasanye, Hadasa, and Chamutal, a comely dame who was describea as an ‘old queen. Talk! how they did talk, and the multitude in front talked, too; and yet there was plenty of appreciation of the efforts of those engaged in the representation. There was loud cheering at the end of the first act, when after a fierce fight, and much breaking down of walls and burningof red fire, the stage was found to be strewn with dead bodies. What music there was was of a dirge-like character.” No one can accuse the Belgians of not paying honor to their ertists. This i3 how L'Echo Musical of Brussels reports & recent effort in that direction, made at the town of Molenbeek Saint-Jean: A few days ago the whole com- munity was plunged into joviality by a fete in honor of Martin Lunssens, who has won the “Rome” prize at the Brussels Conservatory this year. The Board of Supervisors ofgnnlzed the fete. A grand torehlight procession com- posed of fifty societies went to take the success- ful student from his home in Piers street to the City Hall, where he was received with great pomp by the Mayor, surrounded by the enyv fathers. Speeches were made in Lunssens' honor, he was toasted, and nothing was omitted which could show the delight the citizens felt at the distinction which bad been won by their fellow-townsman. He was presented, besides, with a massive gold medal, a superb inkstand in old bronze and an illuminated address gar- landed with flowers.” “Possibly some of the Boston eritics will feel & twinge of remorse when they resd_o( the great triumphs which Arthur Nikisch is win- ning 1n Leipsic and Berlin as a concert con- ductor,” says the Looker-On. “It was they who drove him from Boston, and now he has captured the two most desirable positions in all Germany and is stirring up great enthusi- asm. Nikisch has his faults, as man and con- ductor, and I once saw a very undiplomatic letter he had written to an amiable critic; but if you did not rub his fur the wrong way he was & most delightful companion. The good Leipsickers, wno have so long suifered under the drowsy baton of the conservative Reinecke, will now have & chance to learn something about modern music, and how they relish this belief may be inferred from the fact that one of them, on learning of Nikisch’s appointment, sent him a telegram reading: ‘We congratulate ourselves.'” Mme. Nordica has come back to America with the mantle of her Bayreuth success upon her, and at the Metropolitan Opera-house she is being hailed as a star that is still in the ascendant. Her Eisa is pronounced to be & magnificent success, more magnificent than before Frau Cosima Wagner pointed out the ways of Wagnerian tradition to Nordica. The American prima donns has also appeared as Isolde in “Tristan and Isolde,” and her acting and singing have made a protound impression. What with the great favor shown to Nordica and the success of Frances Saville, the Ameri- can prima donnas are having things much more their own way in New York this winter than was anticipated at the opening of the opera season. It seems a little late in the day for an opera by Joseph Haydn to dawn upon the world asa | novelty, but his hitherto unknown work, ‘‘The | Apothecary” (Lo Speziale), is being heard from. | It received its first performance recently at the opera in Dresden, and now the same company has played itat the Carl Theaterin Vienna. The | Italian libretto is said to be wanting in | originality (like “The Barber of Seville” and so many other old operas comiques it treats of | anold tutor and the disguised lovers of his | pupil), but the methods of “Papa” Haydn are so { fresh and charming that ‘‘The Apothecary” | has obtained a veritable success in Vienna. Mascagni is actually competing with the | “desk virtuosos,” as in Germany they call con- | ductors like Hans Richter, Felix Mottl and others, who carry their batons abroad. After having conaucted at Budapest the hundredth performance of *‘Cavalleria Rusticans,” and | at Vienna a concert oi which his own works | formed the programme, the young composer | has now undertaken a general tour of Austria. He is going to conduct in person “Cavalleria Rusticane’’ at Prague, Brunn, Olmutz, Pres- | bourg and several other large towns. After- | ward he will go to Berlin to direct the first German performance of “Ratcliff.” The directorship of the Benedetto Marcello | Conservatory at Venice is going begging. | First it was offered to Arrigo Boito, who re- | fused, then the Brazilian composer, Carlos | Gomes, was ziven achance, but he had to de- | cline, as he had just accepted the directorship of the Conservatory of Para, Brazil. Puccini was next approached, but he hasalso declined, | and now the directors feel that there is a hoo- | doo over their efforts, and they are almost | afraid to approach another composer. “If great singers are particularly well paid in America,"” says Le Menestrel, “it seems that the position of simple musician in an orches- tra is not to be despised, to judge from the sal- aries received by the artists of the Boston syme phony orchestra. The conductor receives 50, 000 francs for a season of seven months, the concert-master 10,000 francs, the second 7io- lins 5000 francs each and the rest accordingly. These sums are enough to set our Parisian ar. tists thinking.” Arthur Foote, organist of the First Unitarian Church, Boston, has engaged Miss Anna Miller Wood of this City as the solo contralto of his choir. Miss Miller has been studying for some time in London with Henschel. Her perma- nent engagement in the East will create regret among her many iriends of Temple Emanu-El and Central M. E. Church, where she sang for several years. Goldmark’s opera, having Dickens’ “The Cricket on the Hearth” for a libretto, is to be broduced in Vienna at the end of January. The gomposer allows no one to see the score, and is keeping his method of treatment of the subject a secret. e—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GEORGE W. GIBBS—A. R. 8., City. The late George W. Gibbs was generally looked upon as & very charitable man,one who did a great deal of good in a quiet way and did not parade every contribution to & worthy cause or de- serving person. For that reason it is impossi- ble to estimate what he gave for that purpose. Y. M.C. A.—J. H. B, City. The organiza- tion known as the Young Men's Christian Association originated in London in 1844. The founder was George Williams, who, when 16 years of united as many as he could of hh’flhv fi'fim:h for prayer and Bible ,and with others organized the Young gl‘exg s Chrimnn_‘_assufich‘n%:lgg: :;aet gt‘:z 35; J\:g: ar. The first org ?}mlg::: {zeoau esnbtéusgns«_dlng Amgrlggn flv;.a: ‘.; ‘November 25, 2 < %:n'{!?ilo'e@ States was organized in Boston on the 29th’ of December, 1851. A MarTer oF ContrAcT—A. R. F. B., City. Whether an employer can hold back from an apprentice or an employe any part of the wages due him as payment for work ('h.mlxed or ruined is a matter of contract. V;h:n t:: rentice agrees to work for o loyer ne cortuinly should know under Wwhat conditions he enters the employment. If the employer should make an unreasonable demand for property damaged the employe would have a remedy at law in aetion to re- cover wages. A Hicn Fexce—Constant Reader, City. If the fence you complain of being about twenty- five feet in height was built prior to 1885 you heve no remedy, but if it was erected since that date you wou d have a remedy at law “Ild could_compel the owner to cut it down. in that year there was passed & general law, which declared that division fences shall not exceed ten feet in height. POINTS IN CRIEBAGE—W. F. C., City. 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