The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER, 15, 1895 FUREKA CUSTOM-HOUSE Thoroughly Equipped for the Transaction of a Big Export Business. HEAVY LUMBER SHIPMENTS. Since Advent of Collector Murphy Twelve Vessels Have Cleared for Foreign Ports. [Special Correspondence of THE CALL.] \L., Dec. 12.—The Custom- reka has recently been re- i and refurnished, and is now ly equipped for the systematic ction of the important business of rt. Ithas a library supplied with ications bearing upon customs laws matters pertaining to the duties of the office, ana the inte of the port are in the hands of the popular Collector, Danie! Murphy, who is ably assjsted in the of the ofiice by Deputy Col- McDonald. s made a port of entry June n act of Congress designating or D. B. ireka w 16, 1882, by | Steamship Company's fast boat Pomona, | which makes the round trip in four days, | carrying the mails. The Government has also recently contracted with the owners of the steamer Weeott to carry the mails between San Francisco and Humboldt | | ports, instead of the steamer Humboldt, | | recently ,wrecked on Point Gorda. The | | Alice Blanchard, plying between San | Francisco and Portland, also stops in here | on both up and down trips. An agent has | been appointed, and a considerable | | amount of freight and passenger traffic built up between this and northern ports. For several weeks past the principal parts | of the cargoes of the steamers National | City and Excelsior have been redwood | piles for the San Joaquin Valley road. | The Excelsior Redwood Company has a | contract for furnishing a large number | and keep two steamers busy carrying | them. A Family Fatally Injured. | MILAN, Mo., Dec. 14.—A fatal accident | occurred near this city last night. William | Mendonhall, his wife and httle daughter | Bessie, started to town, and while going | down a steep incline the team became un- | manageable and ran away. A piece of the I tongue struck the little girl on the head, | completely tearing the skull away. The | parents also received injuries which will | result fatall e Killed in a Wreck. | LEXINGTON. Ky., Dec. 14.—A freight train on the Cincinnati Southern ran into the caboose of a wreck! rain at the tun- nel this side of High Bridge this morning, instantly killing L. J. Duvall and Michael | O'Day, both of this city. John Wind of DANIEL MURPHY, COLL From a recen CTOR OF THE PORT OF EUREKA, CAL. ¢ photograph.] | its limits as comprising all the waters and shores of the county of Humboldt and Del Crescent City in Del Norte County Previous to this date is a portof delive Eureka port of delivery in the cus- toms district of San Francisco, having a resident deputy collector. The first Col- lector to b Watson, no d, who s He was suc W. H. Pratt, ed by ex and it sts of Humboldt County and lends his ation to advance all worthy plans terment of our business in- terests. None were more active in work- ing for the harbor improvements in progress here, which have been of incal- culable be to this section. He is v interested in business enterprises in the county, being dent of the Samoa Land and Tmprovement Company and its principal founder. He also con- dncts one of the leading hotels in this city. Mr. Murphy assumed the dutiesof the office April 1, 1 Since his advent twelye vessels have cleared for foreign ports, principally Australia and the Ha- waiian islands, carrying redwood lumber to the aggregate of about 5,000,000 feet, valued at about §70,000. The coast ship- ments average 8,000,000 feet per month, valuea at $100,000. Mr. Murphy reports the lumber business as very active at present. The demand for redwood lumber has not been so brisk at any time for three years. Some of the mills refuse to quote prices, and the orders for lumber are con- tinually on the increase, Prices, how- ever, still remain at an unsatisfactorily low figure, and there is little hope of im- proving this condition unless the lumber manufacturers unite upon a feasible scheme of consolidation of their interests. The high raiiroad rates preclude the ship- ment of any considerable quantity of lum- ber to the East, although there is quite a demand for redwood shingles in that market. Prices on shingles have advanced from 90 cents to $1 10 per thousand in the San Francisco market, and the shingle mills are running day and night to supply the demand. Every sign points to a very busy season in the redwood belt during the coming spring. At present taere are twenty-one vessels in the lumber trade with an aggregate carrying capacity of 5,000,000 feet. The barkentine Amelia, 375 tons, has just re- ceived a cargo from the Humboldt Lumber Manufacturers’ Associationand has sailed for Honolulu and other Hawaiian ports, and the four-masted schooner Muriel is loading for La Libertad, Central America. Her cargo will consist of 500,000 feet of Jumber from Humboldt mills. The Esther Buhne is now loading for Honolulu, and the steamers National City, Excelsior, Pasadena and the regular fleet of lumber schooners and steamers are making regu- lar trips to coast ports. Two tugboats, the Ranger and H. H. Buhne. owned by the Humboldt Lumber Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, are kept busy towing vessels in and out over the bar. There are ten steamers plying regularly between this and other coast ports, carrying freight and passengers. The largest one is the Pacific Coast tive part in promoting the best in- | Mason, Ga., and Henry Miller of this city were mjured, the former seriously. s S Plow Shops Burned. MONMOUTH, Iir., Dec. 14.—Fire has completely destroyed the shops of | the Weis rlow Company. Loss, $300,000; tully insured. Three hundred men are thrown out of employment. —— The Agreement Signed. NEW YORK, N. Y.,.Dec. 14.—TIt is an- nounced that the Pacific Mail-Panama | agreement has been signed, and a meeting ot the two boards has been called to ratify the action. Collecting Copper Coins. | i . Tt is a curious fact that most numismat- | 1 ists are partial to collections of copper rather than gold or even silver. One of | them told me recently that he would | scarcely turn round to look at a rare gold coin, while he would travel miles to see an equally rare copper one. This pe- culiar phencmenon is explained in two way: In the first place, copper | | collections are much safer from theft than those of gold or silver, as the latter, if stolen, may be melted and disposed of in | bulk at a market price that isquite an | object to the burglar or thief. The mate- | rial, however, in old copper, bronze or | brass coins of Jow face value is not worth | stealing, and the coins themselves cannot be disposed of without melting, asthey can | be identified and the thief thus detected. |~ In the second place, it 18 not a rare thing to find a gold or silver coin, especially the | | former, in a state of perfect preservation, | while the reverse is trne of the copper coin. The latter, being cheap and com- mon, are not hoarded and preserved with the samé care as the more | | precious bits of metal, but are ex-| posed to physical bruises, to the wear of the pocket, and to the corrosive action of the atmosphere. This makes perfect copper coin an object of strong cesire cn ! | the part of the numismatist, who preserves | such a find with greatest care. One collec- tor places his valuable collection of pence and balf pence in individual boxes, the coins being wrapped in cotton, and the whole stock is insured for a_ considerable sum. ——— The Greatest Actress. “Who is the greatest living actress—and | why?” The editor of the Idler has been | putting these posers to certain of the dramatic crities, and in his November is- | sue publishes their replies. J. F. Nisbet | “‘sees no satisfactory way” of answering | the questions, and suggests that perhaps the best test to apply would be that of sal- ary — who receives the most money. | Clement Scott discusses a number of well- | known artistes, and pronounces for none in particular. Inthe spirit of irony Jesoph Knight gives his vote for “‘that divinely endowed exponent of the highest and most | opular form of English art—Miss Letty | Lind.” Alfred E. T. Watson and Dayen. Eorz Adams join in proclaiming Miss | llen Terry the greatest living English actress, while Jope Slade and Addison Bright “plump” for Miss Marion Terry. ‘Who shall decide where critics disagree?— | Spare Moments. e e Burglars in China. The Chinese burglar goes about his ne- farions business in a very methodical manner. He takes an ingredient of his own, burns itand blows the smoke throufu the keyhole of the bedroom where the master of the house is asleep, The fumes dull the senses of the victim just enough to make him helpless, while at the same time Eermiuing him to see and hear everything that goes on in the room. The only antidote against this charm is pure water, and most of the wealthy Chinese folk sleep with a basin of this near their heads. | from a stormy sky. ! lieutenant-colonel and the three majors of | second and against C. H. Crocker all the | time. | day night which assured Crocker’s elec- | ofticers had begun to talk about the meth- | another regiment. ! their orders. GUARD OFFICERS ROAR New and Merry Row Over the Election of a Colenel. LINE OFFICERS' RIGHTS. Object to Voting by Lieutenant- Colonels Who Are Lost. SHOULD ELECT MAJORS, TO00. Ex-Colonel Sullivan Comes Into the Fight and Changes the Situation. A new National Guard row began to form yesterday, with & promise that it will be big and fierce in a few minutes or so, as a new thundercioud comes rushing The new trouble is about the officers, the colonelcy, the right of three lieutenant- colonels and three majors to vote for the new colonel and the legality and justice of the commander-in-chief’s appointing the the new First Regiment instead of allow- ing the line officers toelect them. All this will be seen to be new food for trouble. The campaign preceding the election of a colonel for the big new City regiment next Thursday evening developed various things yesterday, mcluding the more than probable candidacy of ex-Colonel W. P. Sullivan who, with many officers, is for Colonel McDonald first, W. P. Sullivan The caucus arrangement of Tues- tion, seemed to be going to pieces yester- day and all sorts of things may work and happen before next Thursday night. But while the merits of colonelcy mat- ters were of lively interest the fierce and threatening way in which a number of ods of the election and criticize the course of big military superiors promised another and perhaps greater trouble. One has to ‘take a short course in mili- tary law and guard regulations and watch the drop of general orders to get hold of the trouble. The reorganization wiped out three regi- ments in San Francisco, then created three independent battalions and then created a new regiment. During this process three lientenant-colonels and three majors were mixed up in the shuffle and apparently dealt to the ‘‘boneyard.” Who, what, where and how they are is uncertain but | pertinent. It has been decided by the adjutant-general that they may vote for the new colonel. A lot of officers and others interested assert thac they should | have no vote. Six votes will cut a big figure in the election. Then it has been decided in Sacramento to appoint one of the three lieutenant- colonels and three of the majors to serve with the new regiment. It is claimed that this is violating the military law of the State, which gives the line officers—the captains and lieutenants of companies— the right to elect the field officers of the regiment. Such a state of atfairs will be seen to be serious. The officers who are starting the roar point first to section 1985 of the Political Code, which provides for the election of field officers as follows: uch oflicers are elected by the commissioned officers of the different companies composing the regiment or battalton, and when the regi- ment or baitalion is already formed, by all the commissioned officers thereof, except the siaff officers. This, it is said, clearly gives the line of- ficers the sole right to elect the field of- ficers when a regiment is not formed and it vests 1n the line officers the right to choose the field officers over them, a right which the Governor cannot take away. The succession of orders becomes perti- nent. General orders 17 of December 2 «‘consolidated’’ the First and Third In- antry and the Second Artillery regiments into many independent battalions newly designated as the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, and assigned a lieutenant-colonel and a major to each battalion, placing two lientenant-colonels and three majors on waiting orders. The consolidation was all right and the “assignment” of field officers to temporary commands was according to Hoyle, for a captain may be assigned to the temporary command of a company in But then on the 9th came general orders 18, saying: The twelve battalions now composing the National Guard of California are hereby organized into five regiments of infantry as follows: * * * The fourth, fifth and sixth pattalions of the Second Brigade are organized into one regi- ment, to be known as the First Infantry, * * = The brigade commanders will immediately call an clection for colonels of the respective regiments, as provided by section 1984 of the Political Code. The permanent assignments of the lieuten- ant-colonels and majors to duty, with the re. spective regiments, will be announced in future orders, as prescribed in paragraph 381 of the laws and regulations o{]lhe National Guard of California. Itis pointed out that the regiments were first destroyed as regiments and made in- dependent battalions. There was then no First Regiment. Then these independent battalions were ”‘o(rganizerl," not ‘‘consoli- dated,” into a new regiment—a new First; not the old First. Waen this was done the three lieutenant-colonels had no com- mand. If a new regiment was organized to impose one of them on it would be a violation of section 1985 of the Political Code. The majors are in a similar fix. Now then are the threelieutenant-colonels connected with the new regiment newly organized ? 1f they are, the regiment has three lieu- tenant-colonels, an im{;ossibility and the height of absurdity. Two and probably three will be wholly out of the organiza- tion. Now, where does their right to vote for a colonel of a new regiment, to which they do not belong, come in? ask the kickers. They say that if a captain were assigned to duty for a few days in another regiment he would have no right to vote for a new colonel for that regiment. The same points are made against the majors’ voting. Then general orders No. 20 of the ninth follows with more trouble. Itsays: Immediately after the' election of colonel officers are directed to express by ballot their choice for lieutenant-colonel ard majors in The field officers selected, as provided in this paragraph, will be recom- pended by the commander of this brigade to the commander-in-chief for the positions indi- cated by szid ballot. Here the legal right to elect the fiald offi- cers, besides the colonel, is deniea, and it is said that a selection as directed would carry no_guarantee of appointment the way things might turn out. The kickers claim a right to elect anybody they please as at any other election, or .as on the or- ganization of a new regiment, which this process is. They are jealous of this right, and, of course, the kick is full of guard politics. No official order that the lieutenant- colonels and majors are to vote for colonel has been made or is needed, but it is semi- officially and reliably known have Lieu- tenant-Colonel Giesting of General War- field’s staff, who_isto preside at the elec- tion, has been directed to rule that they aay vote. 5 The *“appointment” of a lieutenant- colonel and three majors is planned under a guard reguiation—not a law—that re- lates to “transfers and consolidations.” The new regiment is asserted 10 be clearly no ‘‘consolidation,” but an_‘organiza- tion.” 8o the whole thing is hotly de- clared to be unjust, illegal, full of “pulls” and politics and a piece of the general asininity with which the meritorious plan ?f reorganization has been carried out thus ar. o Before next Thursday quite a storm promises to develop over these unlucky tield oflicers, who are thus not only dropped unceremoniously, but then picked up and hauled with their sorrow into a fierce mess over them and their successors. It is already declared that if thines go | through the way they are planned at Sac- ramento and do not suit when the battle is over a_writ of quo warranto may be got out and some officers required to show by what right they are in authority. i S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS An Epitome of Sermous of the Week | Throughout the Land. Following is a summary of the principal sermons recently delivered in the United States and Canada by the leading clergy- men, priests, prelates, Teligious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In[ every instance the full text has been carefully read and abbreviated: LOVE. Love cannot be seli-centered. It must seek the welfare of others. The heart that truly Joves cannot be wholly selfish.—Rev. Harvey Hostetler, Sioux City, Iowh. SOCIAL BOSSES. There are many social bosses as well as political bosses. The social boss touches the | utton and the rest of the community will imitate her.—Rev. Dr. Fishburn, Presbyterian, Columbus, Oh io. THE USE OF WEALTH. The true Christian spirit will not win in America till & man will count it a disgrace to own & fortune and not be doing something for the community in which he lives while he is alive.—Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn, N. Y. THE NEW WOMAN. The new woman will heve her day. She will probably succeed in turning the heads of a few foolish ones, but that is all she will do. Sne will then pass into history as the fool of the "0"“11'}'--{(8\'. W. H. Allen, Methodist, Waon- socket, R. I. VERIFYING THE BIBLE. The Bible is not losing, but gaining ground by the investigations of to-day, Ancient mon- uments are ylelding up their inscriptions to testify to its necuracy; disentombed cities are rising from the dead to confute the skeptic | Rev. | and take ail the venom from his sneer. George Combs, Christian Church, Kansas City, Missonri. THE TURKS. When we consider the horrible atrocities per- petrated on the Armenians, when we think that Jerusalem itself is in the hands of this peovle who despise Christianity, we are moved 10 wish that a new sade might ke organized 10 reseue the Holy City from those sacrilegious | hands. Rev. Dr. Mace, Episcopalian, Pater- PROGRESS. Progress is the condition of life. When the stream ceases to flow it becomes stagnant. When men and women cease to grow their minds and hearts standa still and are stagnant as the pools. When a church ceases to grow it | is ready for division and strife.—Rev. Thomas F. Potts, Baptist, Memphis, Tenn. oLD M A good man never dies his work is done, | and a righteous old ag: er lags superfiuous | on the stage. 1t is worth noting that the three | most colossal figures in the world’s statesman- | ship to-day are old men—Gladstone in Eug- | land, Bismarck in Germany, Li Hung Chang in China.—Rev. James 1. Vance, Presbyterian, Nashville, Tenn. INTEMPERANCE. An intemperance is a sin against God as well as against man. The cure of it must be by re- pentance and returning to God. Let drinking men get all the help they can in other ways, | from pledges, lodges, fraternities, medication, | agitation and legisiation, but their greatest | help is in God.—Rev. William McKinley, Meth- odist, St. Paul, Minn. . THE BIBLE. The Bibie is not a literary unit. It is a 1ibrery, written by many auihors, whose labors stretch across fifleen centuries of time. It presents us, not with the links of & chain, but \\'hhlll\'ln? record of & revelation that has progressed from rudiments to the full-orbed splendors of the Christian age.—Rev. E. S, Lewis, Methodist, Cleveland, Onio. PRAYER. ‘When chemistry shall devise something bet- ter suited to the lungs than air, when optics shall discover something more adapted to the | eyes than light, then will it be time to con. sider a substitute for prayer. Even the prayer. Jess man will pray in sudden emergency.—Kev. D. H. Martin, Nevark, N. J. FAITH., They that believe shall triumph. They that have faith shall conquer. Don’t fight in the battle of life half-heartedly. Have faith in the unfolding power of right and truth. Have faith in your manhood and your womanhood. 1f you are trying to do anything worth doing and worth the living for, have faith in it. —Rev. C. E. Chapin, Presbyterian, Utica, Y. BUDDHISM. Buddhism has no god. It has noname for god. Itrecognizes no being higher than man may become. Some of its devotees to-day seem o speak of a first cause—but what that is they know not. Buddhism gives no god. It makes man a lonely traveler in a solitary desert with no sun by day and no stars by night.—Rev. g‘a‘ronce A. Vincent, Presbyterian, Sandusky, 0. LIQUOR STATISTICS. There is & vast amount of exaggeration as to the number of people indulgingin intoxicants, and the number of people who die anually. These statistics are grossly exaggerated. While there is exaggeration on this side, there ismore on the part of the liguor men, who say that liquor keeps you cool in summer, warm in win. | ter and that it has all sorts of eflicacy.—Rev. T. | E. Busfield, Baptist, Utica, N. Y. CUBA. The Cuban patriots of to-day are reddening the island with their biood that their children | and childien’s children forever may enjoy the blessings of liberty, and when the great cause is won I believe that these vietims of a willing martyrdom will rejoice that they were permit- ted to sacrifice themselves for the cause of | truth and right. Great principles are estab- lished only (grough suffering and sacrifice.— lo(gy. Carl” E. Henry, Universalist, Cleveland, io. SWEARING. The habit of swearing is so easy to acquire and so hard to break that by all means it should riot be formed. A petty vexation causes a littie slip of the tongzue. The habit grows. It may be what iscalled a harmless swear word, | but-by and by the words grow into phrases and sentences of sin. Then, once formed, it isso hard to break away.—Rev. DeWitt M. Benham, Pittsburg, Pa. CITY AND COUNTRY. The city encourages servility instead of inae- pendence. Freedom is born and reared in the country, and is often smothered under the silks and with the sweets of the city. The city isan unmerciful creditor. It taxes the timo and the faculties of man to the utmost. Life in the city is lifo ut a high piteh; life whipped in the foaming point; life under stimulants and drugs—ambition, competition, desire and un- rest.—M. M. Mangasserin, Chicago, 1. INGERSOLL. Ingersoll is defective in spiritual vision. He offers no remedy for sin. He offers no adequate hope for life to come. The Salvatton Army, with its )m)lellgnhs and cymbals, can point to enough good deeds done to refute every argument of Ingersollism. The rock on which every argument of Mr. Ingersoll goes {o pieces is a purified life that coniessedly draws its in- spiration from the greater master life, Jesus of Nazareth.—-Rev. Syduey Sirong, Congregation- alist, Cincinnati, Ohio. JOURNALISM. A princely highway is open in this land and in this age to a_high-minded, fair-minded and incorruptible daily journal. God give us an incorruptible, a piré, a Christian press; one with a prophetic ear to hear the cry of the people; one with a prophetic voice to proclaim the rights of the people—to prociaim that righteousness in broad in all the earth and that God is on his throne.—Rev. J. K. Wheeler, Chicago, 1. | COURTSHIP. In true courtship the man is always the ap- parent aggressor. A true woman knows thata true man loves nothing in woman more than her beautiful modesty and her delicate coy- ness. Mozeover a true woman is modest and coy. Her modesty is her throne. On this throne, with man suppliant at her feet, she is at home. She will not reverse this position. She cannot reverse this position. Ske cannot reverse it without changing her nature.—Revy, E. F. Osborn, Baptist, Watertown, N. Y. OPTINISM. The world is growing better. Never has the average!of character been so high. Never has genuine goodness commanded such splendid market vaiue. Never nave the sterling quali- ties of manhood been so much appreciated. Never has it been so disgraceinl to be bad, so honorable 10 be good. Never have the lines been 80 closely drawn between righteousness and iniquity.” Never has the batilc been so fierce between the forces of the devil and the forces of the Lord of Hosts.—Rev. W. H..Moore, { works of Greek sculpture A TIGHT-LACED GODDESS Mathews Protests Against the Pretensions of the Cali- ! fornia Venus. NOT. OF A CALIFORNIA TYPE. He Considers the Compar}sons With Real Venuses Il Timed and Vulgar. There is considerable criticism in local art circles over the figure which Rupert Schmid has calied “The California Venus.” The sculptor has given his handiwork to a syndicate, which intends to take it abroad and exhibit it as the type of California womanhood. If such is the case the artists say that the work will naturally be commented on and perhaps criticized. They are criticiz- ing it quite freely here, and in the follow- ing letter Arthur Mathews gives his view on the statue, as well as on the way in which the cicerone of the *'California Venus” syndicate presents the statue to the public., Arthur Mathews says: A noted physician has condemned one of the classic Venuses (the Venus de Medici, { be- lieve) in about the following: “She has no in- telligence, no chest and bears the stamp of & faithiess woman and bad mother. What would one have? Was not Venus the demi-mondaine of Olympia? _Why call this-creation of the California Venus Company a Venus? Why not a Mi- nerva? Or are we to understand that Venus Is the ideal type of California womanhood? The representative of the company says ney; that “she is high-bred, intellectual, vigorous and true.” Good; then we will judge the in- terpretation from their standpoint, and merely | treat the name as & mistake in identification. Would I write a few lines about her and the ideals of the California Venus Company? Well, perhnrsl might just for_the pleasure of prop- erly placing her before the public which pays. T'hed seen her before in plaster, but thought it would be well to get a glimpse of herin “flawless Carrara marble,” to correct my im- pressions.. You know the French have a say- ing that ““the clay is the birth of a statue, the plaster the death and the marble the resurrec- tion,” so I hastened to the secluded work— “sternly simple”—on Post street, snd entered on & press ticket. I ccased to be an artist in name for her sake, for the circular of the com- pany intimated that I was to view & work of the ethnolowist. I have always had the idea that a critic should endeavor to place himself or herself ithin the compass of the creator before judg- ing his work. Creators wonld be more_correct in this case, I presume, as one constantly heard the term “we” in the neighborhood of Post street. I have been taught severely that one had no | right to criticize that which he has made a pro- essional study of. Understand me, I am not an nologist, and tried to lay aside all artistic feelings and the attending prejudices—though one cannot forget in a moment, after once learning, the principles so ably set forth in Which one? That a figure should be well poised; that the supports should be, in relation to the body, supported not too high or too heavy; that it should be equally developed in all parts; and that de- tails should be unobstructed 8o ‘our perception of the whole may not be disturbed. We have been taught that the subjectmatter of a work is of but litile consequence, provided the creator has not lost sight of it. Again, we understand that one’s aim, however high, is bad if he misses the mark. The circular addressed to the press by the Venus Company fully supported me in the po- sition I was forced 1o take, which was that one must not lay aside his own professional teel- ings entirely, for it distinetly states that the ethnologist should look for fineness of quality as well as proportion. Artists also do that. | . Irenamed the statne in order to harmonize it with the company’s ideais, and I adjusted my sight, like the “we,” so that I might find whether they shot above or below the mark. The best-laid plans of man sometimes go astra Mine did the moment I met the effusive gree ings of the company’s representative in the in- closure on Post street. 1 was not prepared to receive lessons in art from an avowed ethnolo- gist, and I was shocked at the rude treatment of the Venus of Milos and the way she was mixed up in vulgar comparisons, I had always looked upon her as & work of art, pure and sim- Fle, and resented her dissection or any discus- sion of her character as I would thatof my own sister. I was told that the Venusof Miio wasa peas- ant fiifl; that her head was too small; that her intelligence was littie, as her hair grew low on her brow. I don’t acknowledge the truth of the imputations, but I will grant as true the statement within a certain limit for the sake of argument. Any ethnologist will tell us that the size of the brain is not calculated by measuring the growth of hair above it, but by comparison of the line of the vertebra with the facial angle and a measurement of the cranium. And, further, the (1“31“}' of the brain is of about as much value as its size. As to the formation of the brow, the anatomists have barred us from any disenssion of that by calling attention to iis doable formation in the frontal bone structure. As to the bony construction of the heads of the two ladies, T should say that the California statue would have a very weak voice and the Greek a round, full one. This is merely a fancy of mine. The general proportions—in length of parts— of the California work are about the same as the Greek, except that the forearm is long for the upper part of the torso. The type is not distinetively Californian. I have seen it in the ateliers of Paris and it is characterized by an abnormal development of flesh on the hips and thighs and & lack of full development in the torso from waist to armpits—not a mark of beauty, but very in- teresting from the ethnologist's standpoint. I once assisted an ethnologist while in Paris in taking a series offiphatographs for the purpose of studying the effect of corset-wearing on the female brench. He called my attention to the stringiness of the muscles petween the breast and hips, the bunching of flesh just back of the arms and over the hips and down the thighs and the enlargement of the abdomen as direct results of lacing. For the representative of the California Venus Company to insist that these characteristics are typical of California women or a mark of beauty seems to me to be an error. Would it not have been wiser to have soughta model whose growth had not been restricted? Or, if it were intended to create a lady of quality, in the accepted meaning of the term, would it not have been wiser 10 have shown her in full harness? Duval, the eminent anatomist of the Ecole de Beaux Arts, often called onr attention to the fact that nearly all the differences in height of people was in the legs and most of that from the knee down. Also that the head was gener- ally in proportion to the weight of the torso, or rather that we judge its size by comparative weight with the forso and not by comparison with the height of the fizure. The Greek gave his statues smali heads and a gooa length ot limbs for the sake of grace and dignity, not for the sake of sciences, but for art’s sake. Therefore any_ comparison between Greek and California Venus Company creations I consider ill timed and extremely vulgar. This is why I decline to discuss the ‘artistic side of the question at all. 1 dou’t care now much the surroundings of the California Venus cost—$1000 or less. I don’t care what they have been offered for it. I object to having what may be awork of art stuck under my nose as a fréak or curiosity. I don’t believe the sculptor so intended it. 1f 1t is presented unpretentiously as a work of art atsome future time I will’ be pleased to so receive it, and not before. A. F. MATHEWS, A LODGING-HOUSE CASE. Criminal Suit Brought by a Purchaser for the Purpose of Canceling a Mortgage. Mrs. Maggie Godshall was acquitted in Judge Wallace’s court last Thursday after a brief hearing. She was accused by Mrs, Mary Johns, to whom she had sold a lodging-house on the corner of Eddy and Jones streets, of misrepresenting the prop- erty as to its value, and prought a criminal suit for the purpose of canceling the mortgage she had given on the premises. Judge Wallace decided that the case was nonsensical and discharged the accused. CHILDREN DEDICATED. THE POLICE APATHETIC, Impressive Service in Connection With the Mission at Sacred Heart Church. Sacred Heart Church was the scene of Presbyterian, Doylestown, Pa. the impressive and beautiful service of dedicating children to the Virgin last evening. “The ceremony W Redemptorist mission women, and which next. X More than 100 girls ranging from 6 to 16 years of age clad in the picturesque light bite mantle and snowy veils used in such ceremonials united their fresh young voices in a *Hail Mary,” and bowed most reverent young heads ‘in the prayer forin- tercession. _ The music was in harmony with the scene. 3 ? Monday evening there will be a dedica- tion of bovs to the Sacred Heart, an equ- allyfimpressive ceremony. Tl St Park Music. Following is the programme for the music in Golden Gate Park to-day: \ “Bavarian Vetefans’ March’, Overture, “Light Cavalry”. Selection. “Midame Angot " was an incident of the being conducted for will close Tuesday Arranged by Mercadante tion in the Forest”... Abt Messrs. Tobin. Pruefer, Schreiner and Bellman. Selection, *Mucbeth” “Postilion Waitz". “Hoch Deutschland Afraid to Arrest the Gamblers in the Ellis-Street Dens. Places Where Children and Women Gamble Are Allowed to Re- main Open. Chief Crowley says he has exhausted every means in his power to putan end to ... Verdi | e right to sell poolson races, and so! eight firms have”been® estal lished throughout: the City, doing a com. mission business. They: claim to be with- in the law, because they ‘have paid their commission as brokers, and-they charge 10 cents per ordet loft with them on each bet made on races. On these claims the peo- ple who have been arrested in Corbett & Co.’s place and one or -two others have been acquitted. Now;: Chief ~Crowley should know better than to make arrests in cases where the constitutionality of the law must be tested. Why not start in at the foot of the ladder. and arrest the vio- Jators of the law. who have absolutely no claim for defense? : Attack the “Belfray,” Mr. Crowley. The Belfray, for fear you might not know it, is that house at the gore of Market and Ellis streets.” The main entrances are at 9 and 11 Ellis, and the Market-street access is at 906. In that house more than 1000 men, women and small boys gather daily break- | ing the law, and they are not only doing this, but diszracing the City and giving a practical illustration of how feeble police Testrictions are in San Francisco. g Fieming & Co., one of the firms doing | business at 906 Market street, will prob- ably not open their doors on Monday. They have lost their patronage and can do no more business, because THE. CALL has so thoroughly exposed their methods of doing business. They have on several oc- casions refused to pay wagers that they had lost, and as soon as this became known their customers dropped off, neces- sitating a cessation of business. But then there are. twenty-one other houses of the Fleming & Co. kind in the €ity. They are _out-and-ont gambling dens, paying no license to ply their trade, and their claim to be doing a commission business is absolutely false, They make their own odds, bave no connection with the racetrack and do not even make a pre- tense of charging a commission. . It is expected that Supervisor Dimond’s visit to the Ellis-street dens on Friday will be fruitful. He had a practical illustra- tion of the way boys and virls of -a tender age, but brazen and advanced in crime, vie with ex-convicts, beggars and the very toughest element to bet their money on the races. Could the individual members of the Board of Supervisors and the Grand Jury spend but a short half-hour around Ellis and Market streets they would soon exclaim, as Supervisor Dimond did, *‘What an outrageous thing this is!” TItv is worth almost the life of a woman, child or invalid to try and walk along Elis street any afternoon, excepting Sun- day, on which day the poolrooms ars closed. The touts and gamins, as well as big burly men, take charge of the street, ‘Wot’s de Winner?” the Urchin Asked of Supervisor Dimond. the downtown poolrooms. He knows better than that, and he is not doing him- self justice nor is he giving his department credit for what it is able to do. Years ago **Boston" Charlie, the king of bunko men, offered Chief Crowley $10,000 per week to allow him to run his games in this city. Crowley not only refused the offer but ran ‘“Boston’ Charlie out of the State. ‘What is the matter with{the Chief doing with the games run by the’poolimen like he did with the games ‘‘Boston” Charlie opened in this City. All he has to do is to raid them. Let him send Captain Witt- man with a dozen policemen 1n the patrol wagon to the‘corner of Ellis and Market streets to-morrow afternoon after 2 o'clock.” Let a squad go in at 906 Market street and two others in 9 and 11 Ellis street. They will cap- ture fifty proprietors and employes of gambling houses, and many hundreds of E)(]ayers. Not one in the whoie lot but nows he is doing something contrary to the law. The Chief claims that he has already arrested a dozen men in connection with this poolroom proposition. So he has; but the arresting officers have gone to the very places where they should not have gone to make arrests, if they had any hove of making their case stick. How Ladies and Children Are Treated on Ellis Street. and knock down anyone not sprightly enough to get out of the way of their rush. If the ce do not careto enforce the nce against gambling, 1t would not be too much of an eiffort, per- haps, to prevent injury being inflicted to women and children, who innocently walk along Ellis street not knowing that thor- oughfare to be given over to the gamblers. The baited trap 1s an imitation of the dionea or Venus flv trap. This singular specimen of the plant world presents to unsuspicious insects a drop of honey-like Lelly, and when the victim descends to sip e finds himself seized by the treacherous leaves of the inscctivorous plant, which The Wallace act grants commission surround and strangle him on the spot. NEW TO-DAY. GOLD- But speakiag of many prefer it to silv We're glad to get either. If the saving of Is any object You can buy the duplicate of almost every Holiday Article in this city at Don't Are not these a TEMPTATION? FISEL: Very Extra Choice New Fat Whiie Shore Mackerel, Kits New Finest Delicately smoked Halibut Chunks, New Finest Delicately Smoked Finnan Haddies, per 1 Codfish Wafers, 1-1b Wood boxes, slide cover, each,.. tuaily no bones. Codfish Hanover, 2-1b wood boxes, Beardsley’s Boneless Herring, 1-1b tins. DUST Washing Powder. Now 20c or 4 for 7sc. GOLD GOLD prices well repaying the trouble of a visit. er fail to visit 2d floor. Our stock will surprise you. per 1b. 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