The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1896, Page 9

THE N FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1896 9 ARDUSING THE STATE AGAINST FUNDING. The Mayors of Three Cities Will Formulate a t Call. i | SUTRQ,DAVIE AND BOGGS | | the price of the goods. Hence, excepting the ! | People’s Voice to Be Raised to | Congress in No Uncertain | Tones. | STy | | MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS READY | Presented at the Meeting of the Com.- mittee of Fifty Yesterday—Text of the Document. | Mayor Sutro’s active brain has evolved a | new, original and far-reaching plan for | ng the fundirg bill which C. P. Hunt- | ington hopes to pass through the present | session of Congress, and he is losing no time in putung it into execution. | It is nothing less than a great State con- | vention to send the voice of California’s | opponents of the measure to Washington | in tones that cannot be mistaken, \ The scheme iggested itself to the| Mayor yesterday afternoon, and he at once | placed himself in communication with | Mayor Davie of Oakland, Mayor Baggs (\f\ Stockton, and Mayor Hubbard Sacra- mento, all of whom are firm opponents of the funding bill. The first two named of signified their willingnes mutter, and acreed to meet Mayor Sutro at 11 o'c acramento’s chief exec ¥ t at once uss the ne office of is morning. | e stated that | | \ | | uld use his best e s to be on hand, but did not feel sure that he could get away from Sac 1 time. | the most compre- | been suggested to | the people of this | will formulate a | ering of the represen- | State to meet in San | ly to protest to the | st the | | Mayor Sutro’s 1 hensive that hs f points so far distant asto of delegates will be | district conventions and to f their deliberations to the the central convention. It s means to arouse the State | before been aroused an&‘ aganst the fundi 1sion e MEMORIAL ADOPTED. ken by zbill toa | The Committee of Fifty Calls on Congress to Defeatthe Fund- ing Billl. ittee office | | | | met in the | forencon and of e of the funding on of fifty years wed the Central Pacific Rail- | ¥ ebts now due to the Gov- | Plans were also for | n in California of the Ty to combat at Washington | 1gton’s ac and persistent n behalf of the bill. Mayor Sutro, | sided at the m pressing | its e speedy collec nece: ting, ex ctive and.immediate oppos: greeted with applause when he | “Iam an old man, but T'll go to | ington myself and I'll bring them to | tbe people will stand by me.” | pedite the collection of funds W. | Coward, Oscar Lewis and Joseph were appointed a special com- hority, if necessary, to em- | ¢ energetic collectors. In connection tnis work Oscar Lewis moved that of the City be asked to assist in dec very member of the committee of fifty will be furnished a subscription-book so hat each one may col'ect $100 for fund aid the sub-committee in raising the sle amount. and wh W 1 done already and what lished is expressed ro, who, address- st met a mittee of fift time that raising of v nts to Washington s stal expenses. ed on the spot $2500. We 1ssued sub- tion-books 10 & number of our members, ult Lias been ¢ aging, for only | onsl has by bseribed since. | &n Washington end practically area whil nd organized the first step s &nd means to ito defray print- 105t hélp- e Huntington has been at work day to advance his nefarious schemes. | ¥ we can- ur cause properl 1, though millions of people are on our side, and but one | man on the other, we shall be beat thut | one man is ready 1o spend enormous sums to | gain uile the millions of citizens against him cennot raise enough | meake even & show of defense. | ame upon the people of the State for indifference—fifty years more of slavery | 15; fifty years of injustice; fifty years o ice, of arfogance and extortion. if you Have the proper foresight and patriot- ism, each man on this committee should strive ise this fund to & sum which wmakes it pos- 0 make a proper show of resistance, | g0 into war, you do not choose fifty | rals to commend your armies; you choose | and do not leave him without troops or emmunition, but you fully equip him. | We have lost much v.luau‘l.: time, still we | nd I now again appeal to my | t0 stand in and do their duty as | nd patriotic men. ng C. P. Huntington you are fight. | ros. You do not want to fight | 1 kid gloves. You wanta big club to n down. | y disgusted that this great State | ady raised $10,000. We area lot | s t'we do not rise up and beat this We have & case here of highway rob. | , and we are afraid to fight them. Here | of slaves, & lot of flunkies, under | f the oftopus. Each man would ribute only five cent: the fight all alone again and foot {1 could spare the $10,000. but 1 | his year. can’t sp. We want one or two men in Washington to present the people’s side; men in addition to ihe reg representatives of California, 2 three things we want to be able proper fight against the bill. The ling is money, the second thing is money &nd the third thing'is money. The memorial as read to the committee by Secretary John McReynolds states the people’s case in a piain, convincing argu- t, and is as follows: To the United States Senate and _House of Rep- cntatives: The undersigned, citizens of Cali ix, respectiully represent that the people is State are deeply interested in the settle- ent of the debts due by the Central and Uunion Pacific railroad companies to the United Blates for subsidy bonds issued to them, and beg to be heard in opposition to any me for refunding or extending the time of psyment of said debts, Our opposition to such prompe o schemes is not by hostility to the debtors, but by .l.-;gnqermuns Of the highest public impor- ce. I. Itis shownin the report of the Pacific Reilway Commission that il the yvisible means and essels of these companias have been wrongfully appropristed 1o their own use by | markets for consumption here. f in vigorous langnage upon the ne- | * | even if the estates of the deceased a: | tests? Not, be assured, because he feels any in- the original stockholders and managers, and if any of the Propo-efl legislation passgs the companies will have no means from whivh 10 pay the debt in question except their capacity to enrn money by transportation. The freights they carry eastward consist of the products of our soil seeking a market abroad, in competition with like commodities | produced elsewliere, and we heve to pa trausporting them fo the general market the world, where we meet our compe Those carried westward are Eastern or Pean products purchased in the same general | On these also | an addition to we have to pav the reight, as insignificant items of westbound ~pleasure travel and local freights irom Nevada, Utah and Nebraske, the people of this State will have 0 pay the entire sum the com- | panies have to earn in order to pay | these debts, with their accumulated thirty years' past interest, as well as interest | for the whole period during which payment | may be deferred. Thetof the Central Pacific | road alone amounts, at maturity. to over #77,000,000. That of the Union Pacific is | about the same amount. To extend these | debts for ifty years at 2 per cent per annum is | to double their amount, and to leave them to be paid out of future transportation is to sad- dle them, some $300,000,000 in smount, on | us. and_our children for two generations to | come. No conquered Roman province was | ever so gricvously taxed. II. Any extension of time for the payment | of these debts necessarily involves a condona- } tion of the misappropriation of the funds pro- “do&"n\- the ?uphilc for the building of the roads, but converted to their own usa by those | who ¢ontrolled tbe compunies that did the | work. The “plain, speedy and adequate remedy” | for the recovery of the money due the United | States by these companies—that which any | business man would adopt in like circum- | ks closure of the mortgages, and if | a de he guilty | | acted are left at the end of thirty years stripped | Commission, will be to say toall the world that | and by men weelthy from the proceeds of their tion of the roads,in principal and interest which it has paid, is plg)‘in , and will pay, up 10 maturity in all $178 834,249, and donated over 26, ,000 acres of land worth at Govern- ment qrice over $65,073,836, in all $243,953, 595. This advance was made in the midst of civil war and great public peril, when every sentiment of Sn!rlutism 8nd honor demanded the strictest fidelity to duty in dealings w the public. Yet nearly half of the vast sum was misappropriated and diverted to their own use by the parties intrusted with the work, and the companies in whose names they of all means to pay, while the individual direc- tors are all millionaires! To condone such # shocking malversation of public funds, especially after publishing to the orld the particulars and proofs of the facts, as ngress has done in the report of its Railway the American Congress considers these transac- tions quite up to its standard of morality in dealing with public trusts; that misaporopria- tion of public moneys, if done on a large scale, guilt, is but & minor offense for which & prom- ise to pay hali & century hence will buy for- giveness. Nay, that Congress will not even wait to be asked for it, but will be fore- handed with the offenders end offer them an unsolicited pardon. What will be the verdict of posterity on the Congress which enacted the members who voted for such legislation mey be easily foretold. What will they think of themseives & few years hence, when the man- agers, having secured a condonation of their offenses, and entrenched their wealth behind anew act of Congress, make default (as nost assurealy they will) on their new promises and abandon the roads to the United States, subject to a mortgage of undoubted validity of two or three hundred millions, with a float- ing debt of eight or ten millions more, and re- duced to the physical condition described by one of their own distinguished lieutenants as “two streaks of rust and a right of way”'? Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly pro- test against surrendering the first lien of the Government subsidy bonds or any Cong: sional recognition that it has been surren- dered; let the courtsdecide that question; and to present it as well as to collect from the uilty directors of the roads the sums they have wrongtully taken, we pray that the Gov- ernment mortgage be at once foreclosed, as recommended by the United States Raiiway to Con- | JOHN T. DOYLE, WHO DRAFTED THE MEMORIAL | ING BIL OPPOSING THE FL'ND-i irectors as far astheysurviveand against their | Tepresentatives so far as they,nave left assets, | for the restoration of the iuhds misappropri ted by them. Foreclosure is o obyiousiy the | t rational step toward an end of the whole stion that “piain people” are unabldo un- and why it is not resorted to at once The only reason assigned to cont | that there is & “first mortgage” on the erty which will swallow up all the proce = but the priority of this so-called mortgage” on the Central Pacific Toad is ¢ enged, on the strength of facts impossit deny, and not easy, 1f possible, within the li of adjudged cases, 1o answer. The amount is $27,655,680; too large & sum to be deemed i significant or to be surrendered without & struggle. The Union Pec I haps in & similar pre fore, is a lien of from 000 which every ore of the various re and extension schemes so far advanc poses to abandon gratis, and without inquiry as 1o the rights or equ The Thurman act distinetly priority of these so-called first mortga in its recital that they are, if lawful and disposed of, a prior lien to that of ernment subsidy hey were nat law- fully issued end disposed o ch case they have no priority. Now on their face they evidently do not coniorm to the require- ments of the act of 1864, and so were not law- fully issued, and as to the disposal of them the report of the Reilway Commission shows that they were paid out by the directors of the company to themselves under the thin d guise of a construction company, of which They owned all the stock, and hence were not lawfully disposed of. Surely this question of law involving nearly $28,000,000 is worth the consideretion of & court. 111. These refunding schemes all proceed o the presumption that the Government is with- out remedy against the guilty parties for these misappropriated millions, although no one of | the private suits brought against them on sim- | lar grounds has failed to secure a settlement | actory to the plaintifis. “The alicga- | tions,” says the report of the commi sion | (p.73), “contained in these complaints were | such as would compel men of honor, if these | allegations were false, to defend themselvesat | any cost. It appears from theevidence thatall these suits were settled, and that the stock owned by the plaintiffs was bought at rates varying from $400 t0 $1000 per share.” Wh should an effort for redress by the United States be less efticlent than one of a private in- dividual? That railroad managers and their | partisans should favor an abandoument of | these claims is easily understood; thatitshould | be advocated by the surviving partner of the | firm that did the wrong and secured the fruits | of it is also natural enough; but that legisla- tors looking only at public interest should | even entertain such a proposition before all | all means of collection have been exhausted | passes comprehension. und: d IV. These railroad corporations are mot in | pI fact ‘so destitute of means to pay as is repre- | sented; on the contrary they have valid claims of large amounts against persons possessed of great wealth sufficient to materially reduce the amount of the debts, and, when added to the sinking fund in the treasury, Eerl!up! 10 extinguish the principal of them. " The Central Pacific Company, for example, bas a perfeetly valid claim against its guiity directors for all the millions wisappropriated by them; and | ocintes prove beyond the reach of the law Mr. Collis P. Huntington yet remains. He is the surviv ““’Afi"" of the combination that did the wrong, and if not the author of the scheme was un- doubtedly a 5un|y participant_in the proceed- 1ngs. He and hismillions are directly respons; the Central Pacific Railroad Company,and to1ts creditors, claiming in proper proceedings, as such, for all the mlxlp};roprillod money; He is an active promoter of refunding. He an- nually leaves home to attend the National cap- ital, preparing, advising and advocating some refunding bill. Why, at his advanced age and possessed of wealth beyond his power to spena, does he assume this toilsome, wearing, expen- #ive and odious labor, which his confidential letters to his associates, published by the Rei way Commission, show thet he hates and de- terest in secing the Goverment debt paid, but because ne knows that without the condona- tion involved in refunding he will, in the mere ordinary course of justice, be calied ou to make restitution! His whole interest in the question is in the condonation that re- funding or extension necessarily involves. V. All of the Southern Pacific Railroad south of Gilroy and Alcalde belongs equitably to the Central” Pacific Company. It was built dis- tinctly with the creditof that company, di- verted by unfaithful directors to the construc- tion of a'rival road. This tact is of easy proof; and this asset, with the other above named, will go_fer to extinguish the Central Pacific debt. This also is 100 valuable an asset to be surrendered gratis. VI. But far more important than all other considerations is the deep shame and dishonor such legisiation as proposed will bring on our country and the Congress that enacts it. ?}“)nmder the simple facts as history will record em. ‘The United States advanced for the construe- | secure a political convention for San Fran- | fund. Commission and as author Congress passed March 3, Anud your petitioners will ever pray, ete. COMMITTER OF FIFTY. the monster meeting at Metro- , December 7, 1895 ADOLPH SUTRO, Mayor of San Francisco, chairman. JorN M. KEYNOLDS, Secretary. ized by the act o | 887, | App politan Tem | W, MCKINSTRY, | Sub-Committee on Memorial. Jndge MeKinstry, commenting on the memorial in the most vigorous terms, de- clared: *“*Corporations have no souls. Do not dicker with them. Take what you can get and let them go. If the Central Pac is not worth the debt let us take the ‘two streaks of rust and a rigit of way’ if we can get nothing else; but let the people take what is rightfully and legally due as a aebt to the Government.”’ James Barry, editor of the Star, ex- pressed the belief that the press and the individuals that contributed so liberally to cisco for the good of the State might be counted on to contribute something to- ward the $10,000 for a more patriotic and valuable good to California. Oscar Lewis reported that he had se- cured the promise of $200 from the Build- ers’ Association as a contribution to the HELPING THE NEEDY. Good Work Done by the Ladies of the Fruit and Flower Mission. The fifteenth annual meeting and elec- tion of officers of the San Francisco Fruit and Flower Mission was held yesterday and the attendance was large. The secie- tary reported that the young ladies have visited 170 cases and have given the neces- sarics of life to the deserving with a liberal bhand. On the list of regular sub- scribers are several large wholesale houses, from -which liberal donations are re ceived. The treasurer reported that the mission distributed $1963 83 last year. The elec- tion of officers resulted as follows: President, Miss H. Leszynski; first vice- resident, Mrs. G. H. Buckingham; second vice-president, Miss N. Rodgers; secretary, Miss Ida Fisher; assistant secretary, Miss J. Armer; treasurer, Mrs. P. Bunker; librarian, Miss Douglas; assistant librarian, Miss Brown: trustees—M. H. Hecht, George H. Buckingham Theo E. Smith, Herman Shainwald, Dr. G. F s Mary West, Mrs. Currier, Mrs. Oliver . Ashton, Mrs. E. P. After the business was transacted the ladies inspected the new mission head- quarters recently removed from Post street to 631 Sutter street. There are seven rooms in the new quarters which give an opportunity for handling the goods sent to and distributed irom the mission. Last year the mission handled twelve cases of goods a month, but now the number has increased to forty cases. In the new home there are several rooms where the books and clothing for aistribution are kept, which is an improvement on the old place, —— Bark Sharpshooter Libeled. Action for an aggregate of $1446 01 wages was brought in the United States District Court yesterdl‘; against_ the British bark Sharp- shooter by Mate George Bainbridge and Sea. men Paul Peters, Bernard M. Petersen, Rudolph Johuson, Edward Gilbert, Olof Ols on, Alex Peterson and William Carroll. Plaintiffs shipped for a voyage across the Pacific and re- turn. —————— Special Trains to Ingleside. Beginning to-day the Southern Pacific Com- pany will run daily special trains, except Sun- days, from the Tiaird and Townsend streets depot to the Ingleside races and return. The fare will be §1 for the round trip, including admission to the racetrack and grand stand, or 25 cents for the round ttip alone. e ——— THE artists’ material department of Sanborn, Vail & Co. has no equal. it is right up to date in everything. New studies just from Europe, Prang’s ““Old California Missions” and lots of novelties to paint with and paint on. > | that it wil no STEWART MENZIES ASKS FOR A REHEARING, Police, Commission Fight Again in the Supreme Court. TO OUST M. A. GUNST. The Relator Believes the *High Tribunal Has Slipped Certain Cogs. POINTS OF HIS PETITION A Main Contention Is That Important Constitutional Questions Were Overlooked. The fight between Stewart Menzies and Moses Gunst, the incumbent, for the po- lice commissionership has assumed a new phase. A petition for rehearing in bank of the case has been prepared for filing in the Supreme Court. Its main point is that the decision in People vs. Hammond doces not apply to this case. The petition, which is very voluminous, is signed by Henry N. Clement, of counsel for the relator, Stewart Menzies, the title of the case being “The People of the State of California, by W. F. Fitzgerald, Attor- ney-General, on the relation of Stewart Menzies, plaintiffs and appellants, .vs. Moses Gunst, defendant and respondent.” The petition opens as follows: The counsel for the relator in this case, Stew- art Menzies, maintains that both he and the Governor_of the State of Californis, who ap- pointed him 10 the office of Police Commise sioner of the City and County of San Francisco, have a just cause of grievance (using the word in its ‘legal_and not in i1s personal sense) against this Ligh tribunal, by reason of the fact thet the decision rendered by the court on the 16th ult. virtually ignored the impor- tant constitutionsl questions involved in the case, which were fully presented by the briefs of counsel on file; and that the opinion of Justice Henshaw (which was concurred in by ) does not conform to the spirit of rticle VI, of the organic law of this vhich requires that *“the grounds” of the decision “shall be stated.” The relator therefore asks for a rehearing in bank in order that his case may be fully dis- cussed upon its merits, and that when a deci- sion 1s rendered by the court upon such re- hearing it may be rendered upon the merits. ST S All we have asked and all we now ask is that the court respond to the question: Did People vs. Hammond decide that the right to appoint Police Commissioners was not [ ven to the Governor by section 4, article XX, of the constitution? We asser. that the above question was not raised in Feopie vs. Hammond, was not con- tended for in People vs. Hammond, was not discussed in People vs. Hamrmond, and was not decided in People vs. Hammond, and that it has never in any other case that came before this court been raised, contended for, discussed or decided. S o We therefore ask for & hearing before this court upon the claims of section 4 of article XX of the constitution, as being the true Source from which the Governor of the State of California derives his power 0 appoint Po- © Commissioners. We huve nothad a hear- ing upon it. Having presented its claims as & constitutional provision to this court, we deem ourselves entitled to the grounds upon which the court decides that it is not the source of the Goyernor's power. Tt will not do to put aside & constitutional provision without debate, nor will it do to as- ume that & constitutional provision was con- idered in some prior case inwhich its claims were not advocated We came beforc this court representing the executive branch of the State government of California rayocating the claims of a constitu- tional provision upon which is based the exer- cise of an important executive function, and have asked that it be interpreted, construed and applied. We are answered by a decision of the judicial brauch of the State government of California consider the constitutional question now presented to it upon the ground that it will conclusively presume that the ques- tion had been already adjudicated adversely 1o the executive branch of the government in & former case, although, in such former case the claim of the constitutfonal provisions now relied upon by the executive as the source of his power was not edvocated, was not discussed and wes not even mentioned by the counsel whose duty it would have been to advocate it, was not the subject of discussion before ths court by either counsel as s factor in deter- mining the constitutional issue before the court, and was not mentioned, discussed, or in any way alluded to by the court in rendering its decision. If (as we claim to have demonstrated) the questions adjudicated in this oase were not considered by the court 1n People vs. Ham- mond, how can & keries of subsequent dec sions ‘following and based upon Peoplo vs. mond coustitute en adjudication of the rinciples contended for in this case? Justice Henshaw refers to People 89 Cal., 140; People vs. Edwards, 95 Cal.. 1. and People vs, Newman, 96 Cal., 605, as cases following end based upon the principles of People ve. Hammond. In neither of the above casesere the pro- visions of section 4 of article XX of tne con- stitution (upon which we rely in this cuse) discussed or brought under view. These cases are then analyzed to prove the contention, the petitioner thereafter remarking: The comments of Justice Paterson, in his opinion in People vs. Pond, upon the effect which a decision overruling the former cases would have upon municipal proceedings in San Francisco are mere dicta and can_have no bearing upon the case, but inasmuch 'as they were deemed worthy of being twice quoted by Justice Henshaw in his opinion in this case it is but just that we should have the opportunity of expressing the sorrow we feel that we cannot in this petition be permitted to show what the effect Lias been, and_is nOW, upon municipal proceedings in San Francisco hfi\\'hl’- we deem o be an indiscriminating adherence to the decision of the court in People vs, Hammond, and the failure of the court to distinguish the present contention from that made in People Ve, Hammond. After citing authorities for the court overruling a decision rendered by itself on an erroneous assumption, the petition con- cludes: There 1s more involved in this case than the mere question of whether the relator, Stewart Menzies, or the respondent, Moses A. Gunst, shall occupy the oftice of Police Commissioner. In ordinary Q;sex (as remarked by Justice McFarland in People vs. Freeze) “It is not & matter of much importance who should tem- porarily have the office struggled for”; but in this case the startling claim is made by the respondent, Gunst (based upon the decision of this court in People vs. Hammond) that he has the right to hold the office eternally, or, at least, long &8 his life shall last and his good be- havior continues, and that thereis no power on earth to remove him. Under & coustitu- tional government, the organic law of which expressly limits the term of offices to four years, the claim of Mr. Gunst challenges our attention and we are instinctively led to inquire how such an anomalous state of effairs could have been brought about. A great principal is involved in this case. We have earnestly contended that an impor- tant provision of the fundamontal law upon which the Chief Executive of this State bases his right to exercise the function of appoint- inga Police Commissioner has never been con- sidered by this court. As proof of the fact we refer the court to the record of the cases n which the question of his power to make such appointments was at issue, and find that the constitutional provision upon which he now bases his right to '}mim has never been al- luded to or mentione uch less commented upon, in any case. We have invoked that constitutional provision (section 4, arii- cle XX) in this éase, and have asked that it be now considered and construed. The court has rendered a decision in which it deelines to con- sider the merits of the executive contention, and insists upon an assumption or inference that the constitutional provision relied upon as the course of the GOvernor's power to act (viz.: section 4, article XX), was considered and construed in the case of People vs. Ham- mond, although it was not cited upon the point in controversy, its claims were not ad- vocated, and no mention whatever is made of it in the decision ofthe court. We respectiully urge that the court has erred in ot vouchsafing to us & hearing upon s & vs. Po; the merits of the constitutional provision which forms the basis of the relator’s claim, and we, therefore, ask that the judgment of the court be set aside and & new hearing granted. Respectfully submitted, HENRY N. CLEMENT, Of Counsel for the Relator, Stewart Menzies. DEATH OF THERESA CORLETTE. She Was Well Known as a Writer for the Local Press. The many friends of Mrs. Theresa Cor- lette will learn with sincere sorrow that she died some three weeks ago at Milan, Italy, where she was superintending the musical education of her-daughter Ethel. The cause of her decease is stated in a cablegram as a severe cold settling upon her Jungs. Under direction from her rela- tives here, the body wiil be cremated, and the sad duty will devolve upon her daugh- ter of retarning at once to this country bearing the sacred ashesof hér mother an: guardian. Miss Kthel had entered npon her career as an_operatic singer, and bad been received with satisfactory results. Mrs. Theresa Corlette was .for many years an accepted writer upon the papers and magazines of this City and a bright and breezy correspondent of the Eastern and Australian press over the nom de plume- of “Silver Pen.” Her Christmas offering was always either a story or a goem in which some heartstouching inci- ent of heroic suffering on one side was balanced by Christian benevolence and charity on the other, the entire recital in- citing the reader to helpful assistance to the distressed. The deceased lady leaves three daugh- ters and two sons, all of whom are occupy- ing honorable and useful positions in this State. SALVATION FOR- CHINESE The Army Will Soon Open Up in New Mongolian Head- quarters. A Number of White Officers Have Learned Chinese—Consent of the Consul Gained. The Salvation Army is about to open a branch of its work in Chinatown. The Consui-General, while not contemplating enroliment under the banner himself, has expressed sympathy with the scheme, and so many Chinese merchants have promised their support that it is expected the new branch will be entirely self-supporting. While the fact is not generally known, there are a number of Chinesa soldiers in ithe army, and.these converts have ex- pressed a desire to get in among their Mongolian brethren and hunt up recruits. The officers who have worked most in Chinatown are also anxious to nave a headquarters, and ‘with this end in yiew they bave been ailigently studying the language for months. Several of them can now converse quite easily in the Cantonese dialect, and. what is harder still, they can understand everything that is said to them in the same tongue. Captain May Jackson has been appointed head of the mew branch. She has had considerable experience in Chinatown, and she can wrestle with the difliculty of talk- ing to the yellow-skinned denizens of that quarter better than any of the other mem- bers of the local corps.” All the officers at preseént detailed for the Chinatown branch are white and all of them have learned | Chinese expressly for the work. Many of | the soldiers will be Chinese, and it is pos- | sible that before long some of them will | rise from the ranks. Several rooms are being considered, but a definite choice of headquarters has not yet been made. The branch will be sit- uated somewhere in the heart of China- town, however, and as it is to be opened by the first of next month the selection will prooably be made within the next few days. Thearmy intends to make it hot for the heathen as soon as it begins its work, and as several of the converted Mongolians are musicians the regular music of the army meetings will be aug- mented in the Chinatown branch by the dulcet strains of the tomtom and the moon-faced banjo. NEW EASTBOUND RATES. They Will Go Into E: t on the Rail- | roads on the 24th of This Month. It wasdecided yesterday by the Southern | Pacific Company and its connections to put the advanced rates announced in Tuesday’s Carw into effect on the 24th-inst. The New York rates apply only to freight shi(rped via New Orleans over the Sunset, and via Galveston over the Mallory line. As was stated in THE CALL on Tuesda; the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wiil also advance the rates, maintaining the resent differential of $3." It has not yet een decided when the advanced rates will go into effect via the isthmus; they may become operative on the steamer that leaves on_the 18th, or may not be put in force until the 28th. NEW TO-DAY, Wonders never cease! The latest wonder is a drugstore with actnally no fancy prices. COLD WEATHER COMFORT : Chest Protectors,’ 50¢, 75c, $1. Hot-Water Bottles, 60c, 80c, $1. Toronto Club Malt Whiskey (sole agents), z5¢, 50c, 75¢, §1. THE WONDER DRUGSTORE FLETCHER & CO., 1028 Market Street. Try the “Wonder Cough Cure.” Just a Reminder to drop your 5 and write 6. Everybody knows {t's 96, et o many forget. Most everybody knows that for several reasons STANDARD SHIRTS Are the kind to wear, but many T oaee don't Al Stores.” Neustadter Bros., Mirs., 5. F. NEW TO-DAY-DRY GOODS. GIGANTIC SPECIAL PURCHASE Ladies’ and Children’s HOMERY ¢ UNDERWEAR! In connection with the MARVELOUS BARGAINS that are drawing such crowds to our Great Midwinter Clearance Sale we are offering an extra attraction in the shape of a GIGANTIC SPECIAL PURCHASE of Ladies’ and Children’s Hosiery and Underwear, which we bought at a TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE, and in turn offer - AT ONLY ABOUT HALF PRICE! At 15 Cents 173 dozen CHILDREN’S FINE RIBBED BLACK COTTON HOSE toes, Hermsdorf black, sizes 5 to 814 inches, sale at 15¢ a pair. 2% Ca ALY 167 dczen CHILDREN’S BLACK 159 dozen CHILDRE will be placed on sale at 2 RIBBE double heels and toes, worth $3 per dozen, will be placed on sale at 1 At 25 Cents a Pair. S REAL FRENCH BLACK RIBBED MACO COTTON HOSE, double heels and toes, guaranteed fast black, sizes 514 te ¢ & pair, all sizes. a Pair. double heels and worth $3 per dozen, will be placed on nts a Fair. D CASHMERE WOOL HOSE, seamless, 214¢ a pair. 14, worth $6 per dozen, At 12 Cents a Pair. 163 dozen LADIES’ COTT! At will be placed on sale at 15¢ a pair. N HOSE, double heels worth §2 50 per dozen, will be placed on sale at 121 15 Cents 154 dozen LADIES’ RIBBED TOP BLACK COT’ Hermsdorf black, also black boot and colored top combinations, worth and toes, mode and tan shades, )N HOSE, spliced heels and toes, $3 perdozen, 25 Cents a Pair. At 123 dozen LADIES’ 1-1 RIBBED At 25 78 dozen LADIES’ WHITE MERINO BLACK COTTON HO! warranted fast black, worth $6 per dozen, will be placed on sale at , double heels and toes, 25¢ a pair. Cents Each. VESTS, bigh neck short sleeves, worth 50c, will be placed on sale at 2i¢ , long sleeves and high neck, each. 50 Cents Xach. 'ESTS AND DRAWERS, non-irritating; always soft and more durable than the ordinary knit, natural color only, worth $1, will be At 69 dozen LADIES’ HYGIENIC VE placed on sale at50c each. 31 dazen LADIE GE! sale at 60c each. Cents Each. At INE SWISS-RIBBED ALL-SILK VE sleeyes, small sizes only, sky, pink and cream color, S, high neck, long worth $1 50, will be placed on MURPHY BUILDING, Markel Streel, corier of Jongs, SAN FRANCISCO. RAILROAD TRAVEL] LOW RATES BY RAIL THURSDAY...... And Every Fifth Day Thereafter. Leave from S. P. Co.’s Ferry landing, foot Sleeper. of Market st., at 8:00 p. M. $7.5 LALSO.... First-class tickets, including berth in Puliman Standard Sleeper, PECIAL NOTICE. ...JANUARY 9, —Including Berch 1n Pullman Touris: 1 | | This train will not stop to deliver or take on pas- | sengers at intermediate stations, nor will tickets ba sold or baggage checked to such points. B Through Tickets for Puget Sound Points on Sale at Heduced Rates. For further information apply at 618 MARKET STREET (Grand Hotel “Ticket Office), San Franc RICHARD GRAY, T, H. Gen. Traftic Mgr. isco. GOODMAN, n. Pass. Agt. SOUTHERN PAUIFIC COMPANY. (PACIFIC sysTEM.) SAN FRANCISCO. % lemve nnd are due to arrive at press, Ogden and Fast. . caville, Fumses. Sacra- | 5:00, | Between S | 7:40 ax s monto, and Redding via Davte..., 7:15p 7:304 Martiner, San Ramon, Napa, Calis- ! and Santa Rosa. 6:15p iles, San Joso, Stockton, Tone, ¢ Sacramente, Marysville, lted Binft and Sundays excépted Orovillo. 80 A Peters and Milton. ... 5 A 8an Leandro, Haywards & Way St'os 11:434 8:004 Los Angeles Lpress, Raymond, (for Yosemite), Sonta Barbara and Los Auvgeles.. . rtinez and Stockton . - 30:004 San Leaodro, Raywards avd Nil 12:00x San Lesndzo, Haywards & Way «A:00P Niles, San Joso and Livermore. Svns LE 4:00p Mariinez, San Valiejo, Napa, Calistoga, £l Verauo and Saata Ross . 4:00r Pendcia, Esparto, Woodland, * Knights Landing, “Marysville, Oroville and Sacramento ........ 4:80r Nilos, San Jose, Livermore aud Stockton 5:00r San Leandro, Hay y S 8:30r New Orleans Tispress, Presno, Bakers- rm, 1.os Angeles, ficld, Snta Bar Demin Now Orleans an Eaat. 8:30p Santa o T for Mojave 6:60¢ Turopoan, Mail, ¢ 6:00p Haywards, Ni il San Jos ville, Redding, Portlaud, Sound and Jasy 7:00r Saa Leandro, Ha; 9:00¢ San Leandro, q16:05p “Sunsct Limited,” Fresno, les, El Paso, Now Orleans $11:187 I‘t‘l‘l Leandro. Haywards & Way St'ns. SANTA CRUZ DIV £l DA Newark, Co Boulder Stations *2:157 Newark, O Linnden, Pelton, Bouker Creek, Cruz and Principal Way STON (Narrow Gau: 4:15r Nowark, $11:45p Hunters' Excursion. Ban Josc Way Stations, e 3 or Hagwardsk Wag 5: o 112:004 §15e43p 71154 COAST DIVISION (Vhird & Townseud S G:ABA Ban Joio and Way Blatius (Now, Almaden Wed: ouly), ... 8154 Ban Joso, Trow Piuos, Santa Cricr, Pacilic Grove, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Guadalupe atid Prine cipal Way Stations .. 10:404 San Joso and Way Stations. 11:454 Palo Alio and Way Statiois *2:80r San Jose, Gilroy, Tres Tin Criz, Salinas, Monterey and rovo .. *3:30P San Jose and Prin *4:30r San Joza s Wa 5:30¢ Ban Joso aud Way Stations. O San Jose and Way Ktations. 5 e San Jose and Way Stations. CREEK ROUTE FERRY. m.,’ 31 !lll%igg—h;lul‘;,hh;’%r;n (sxzip‘x)_ 1 11:004.50. *2:00 :f 00 4830 *6cor. s From OATLAND—Post of Drosdway.— 600 800 20004 11200 *100 4500 *300 3400 | 5000w, A for Mo ™ for Afternoon, .anmt-y:'-mm'i:% % o Saturdas ouly. | Sundays only. 4 Monday, Thiirsday a8 Baburday nights only. 75 aiid Saturdags & Swsdass bl Thariars RAILROAD TRAVEL. SNFRANCISCO & SORTH PA- CIFIC RALWAY (0, Tiburon Ferry—Foot of Market St. San Francisco to San Rafael. WEEK DAYS—7:40, 9: 8:30, 5:10, 6:30 ¥ at11:30 p. M. Sat 30 p. 12:33, . M. hursdays tra trij = urdays—Extra trips at l:b‘ 0,'9:30, 11:00 A.3.; 1:30, 3:30, [ San Rafael to San Francisco. WEEK DAYS—6: 1 . M. F e xira trips 0, 9:40, 11:10 A. M.; 1:40, 3:40, 25 P. M. an Francisco and Schuetzen Park same schedule as above. Leave Arrive San Francisco..| [tnefiect San Francisco, 1895, ——— WEFK | SUN- e Days. | pays. | Destination. Wazx h to, $:30 px 9 Petaluma, 5:10 P 5:00 Py Santa Rosa. 110:30 ax 8:30 P [8:00 AM Oru| 6:15 Pt 7:30 PM| 6:15 e 7:40 Ax| 18:00 ax T:40 ax 1 |8:00 Axc 3:30 P T:40 AM | 8:00 A>(| 6:10 ¥x 5:00 P | Glen Ellen. | 7:40 A |B:00 AM| gop, [10:40 A |10:30 st 8:30 73:/5:00 pxc| SCPASIOPOL | g:05 1| G:15 pag Stages connect at San Rafael for Bolinas. Stages counect at Cloverdsie f0r the Geysers. Stages connect at Pieta for Highland Springs Kl‘lak,\ ille, Lakeport. Hopland & iah. Guerneviile. @ (10:40 Ax| B:50 Ax 6.05ru| 6:16 P pper Lake, B 5. Fort u!lgkv Calpalla, Pomo, Pott 3 3, Graveily Valley, Harrls, ~Scous and Eureks. Baturday to Mondsy round-trip ttcketsas redused P Sundays reund-trip tickets te all paints be yond San Rafsel st hal? rates. Tickst Offices, 650 Market st., Chronicle buflding, . & WHITING, R X. RYAN, Gen. Maunager. _ Gen. Pass. Atlantic AND Pacific RAILROAD Trains leave from and arrl 8¢ Market Street Ferry, |+ SANTA FE EXPRESS To Chicago via A. & P. Direct Line Leaves every day at 3:30 ». xc., carrying Pull Palace Sleeiers and Toanst Sleepers 1o Chicage via Kansas City without chang Denver and St Louis, an A Sarte CHICAGO LIMITED, From Los Angeles to Chicago. Solid Vestibule Train Daily, with Dining-cars, onder Harvey's menagement, Connecting iratus leave San Francisco at § A. M. and 3:30 p. . daily. The best rallway from California to the East. New rails, new tles; no Interesting scenery; and good meals in Harvey's dining-room or diuing- Ticket (Cfice—644 Market Street, Chronicle Building, FIC COAST RATLROAD ausalito Ferry). 8| NORTH“I,’AC! i From San Francisco, beginning Octoker 27, 1898, WEEKDAYS. For il Valley and San atacl—7:30, 915, 11:08 A.3.: 1:45, 3 45, 5:15, 6:30 P. 3. San Quentin—7:30, 9115 a. M.: 1:45, 5:16 ». M. Extra trips ior San Rafsel on Mondays, Wednes aays aiid Saturdays at 11:30 P. 3. SUNDAYS. Fou Mul Valley, San Rafael su 8:00, 10:00, 11:30 4. 3. San Quentin- 00, 4:30, *8:18 P.M. *Does not rua to San Quentin. THROUGH TRAINS. 80 A. M. weekdays—Cazadero and way stations 45 . M. Saturday ‘Tomales and WAy staiione. 100 4. M. Sundays—Poin: Reyes a0d Way aipsican