The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1896, Page 8

BOARD OF TRADE EXRIBIT. William H. Mills Now Comes to -the Front in Its Defense. WHAT IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED. He Believes That It Is a Great Factor in Advancing the Prosperity of the State. 00 Call—SIR 2 10 8 ques intains A com- ited all the com m he boa ral cente s and ever: this | g flows ancial territory Of these ia is in owth of all the Pac; y can come Territories Tan- that | the ory. If ust as much mterested in 1 of the territory | ary to our City us another. xpirit of enterprise which i he charac of its peopi the State has witnessed When it becan s be true, e growth triby hern pa s growth. ed the view which those entertaining it had of rel of things. Less than n years ago | Los Angeles was a city 7000. It claims | 100,000 to-day. Every partof the Pacific ter- | Titory has been benefited by that growth. Portiand aund also Tacoma Liave been bene. fiied, But San Francisco has been the chief | beneficiary. Our oue great need is a re-enforcement of our population, and what is m i ree- | ment of enterprising_capital. We both in the growth of Southern California. It | would be to the in advantage of all por- tions of the Pacific Coast territory if Los An- geles possessed & population of Laif a miliion to-day. Local market means & domestic market and natural support for local manufaciures. If we could double the population of every city in | Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevads and el | other States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, | San Francisco, as the netural commercial and | manufacturing center of all this territo: | would be incalculably the gainer. Our City 18 | the chief seaport of nearly 5000 miles of Pa- cific seacoast. On the commercial geography of the world, therefore, it possesses a_relation | with the South Sex Islands and with Alaska. | 1tis au expression of the most circumscribed provincialism on the part of any one claiming 10 be & leader of public opinion in San Fran- cisco to manifest jealousy of the growtn of any part of the Pacific Coast territory. For the sake of perspicuity I repeat: San Francisco's claim as the chief metropolitan center of Pacific territory in the United States and the chief seaport of Pacific Ocean com- ree is emphasized and honored by the sug. gestion of & unified exhibit of all the objects of culture, all the raw material on which indus- | try may be expended, and ell the articles of commerce in which merchandiring is inter- ested. It was not proposed toadmit these States and Territories 1o {ree exhibition, nor was it a con- | spiracy against the growth of California. Cali- | fornia” owes a debt of gratitude to ail the States end Territories con us to it, and in an especial manner does it owe this debt of | gratitude to te of Nevada. The comme center of any territory is the point at which the surplus capital gen erated by the commercial and industrial activ- ities of that territory is reservoired. In a larger way cepital is reservoired in the com- mercial capital of a nation or an empire. Lon- don is the reservo ell the surplus capital | of the British Empirc. Parls performs the | same office for France, and York for Americs. Inasmaller way th ubdivia ®ions of the territory of nations their subordinate centers. ' is a natural geographical 3 It is topographically a subdivision of the t ritory of the United States, and its topograph- jcal features give th ommercial territory | distinetive bounda: es. It ought not to be Tecessary NOW 10 s an Francisco is the metropolis of this Tatural geographical and | topographical subdivision of ur country. That | fact ought to be understood. Beyond this, its | commercial and industriai significance should | be understood, and still further its obligations | o the territory which supports it ought to be 1uily recognized That these things are not as fully appre- hended as they shouid be is evidenced by a series of interviews pubiished in your contem- 0. the Examiner, this morning. 1 have Jooked 1n vain for an expression in these inter- views worthy of & metropolitan eity, but have not found it. Your contemporary says that “the State Board of Trade was originally in- tended to populate and develop California,” end sneeringly says that now tuet this State is overpopulous with prosperous colonists it is | 10 be devoted to the devalopment of ali the | Pacific States and Territories. { One of the gentlemen interviewed declared | that he did not approve of meking the State Board of Trade an advertising bureau for other States and Territories. To quote his own Janguage further, he says: “Itcan hardly be | cxpected of thig State, as much as we would | like to sec neighboring States ana Territories settled, that we should interest ourselves in | diverting population to them, and I can see | 10 justice in establishing here an exhibition of | 1he products of other States and Territories to | induce people to go there in preference to settling here. Another declares: “Iamataloss to under- | densely popu | fect which resul | prosperons colonies traceable directly to the | ge: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1896 lic, whose chief interest should contribute to a b it of its reward of its 1 the Enst.”” territory trib- s ity would em- : but would it 10D Ca if som edis- posed to settle in Oregon should have that dis- pos enforced by mn exhibit brought to his attention in this City? Would it rob San Francisco to doubie the population of Nevada? he underlying trath of this matter is that the growth of ail the Pacific States is introactive. There can be 1o pre nany part of the supporting territory of any commercial center thatis not immediately felt and reflected at the center. Shell it be said to the people of the Pacific Sintes and Territories that San Francisco regards their prosperity as & rob- bery of Californin? Shall we inculeate the doc- trine among these Pacific_subdivisions of a unified commercial territory that the pros- perity of tion can be achieved only by the impov ntot all other sections? It iS 1Ot true in any sense that the prosperity of # can exist only by the r portion. It is not able settlers in robbery of an- untrue of the true that the incoming of des one portion of the Stute is the L and it is equall ific'Const territory. The incoming m to a part of the Pacific Coast rcement of the re- ast. It is anex- California have don o-perity of the wh any instrumentalit that has bee or any device which ice the found The unexampled growth « e State, the upbuilding es, the founding of a great | uren, soil and & distinctive s Const has been ancisco. Jon th itories. zon is not bounded by ihe State Tne ng merchants rderstand full well v We receive. San Francisco, as the iel metropolis of an outlying te: as duties and re s whic! frord to ignore. forth that the lending men of San I clare that g e other portion of another ery to this State. Let the expression, that we see no e1p build up other com- come representative of us, and liate our claim to commercial among the cities of our geographi- ref ed as to the value it of the prodncts of Ca . The special disady ornia labors is found in th nnot visit it, ing his 1. This r of ¢ivi on rolled westward. e of New York and Ivania their families, and could | return aiter selecting a location. From Obio Indiana, from Indiane to Illinois, from Illi- nois to lowa, s the continern To- day it is prac le from the more v d portions of the country to braske and ihe Dakotas, and families; but people of mod- visit Kansas, return for the erate me: One of the parties inter- viewed by vour contemporar: people who have come here ing to stay. De with that courtesy which is due them as gen- tlemen from e gentleman (though 1 have a Zht 10 plead the want of it at their hands), PETMT me 10 Suy that whoever made this state- ment has proven that he is not famillar with the truth of the matter. Whoever attempts to teach should first vindicate nis right to do so )y proving that he is in possession of the ne- cessary knowle Now it is not to California have come California has been visited says that the ave come intend- iring to treat these gentlemen people who did not remsin aiter they had made & thorough examination of its advan- tages and resounre In 1873, 22,000 peop! 1e into this State. B all of them had returned. The difficult ets the new-comer is in finding & location. It he has brought his family with him, t will exhaust his reso to place in & boarding-house and travel over this ose of finding & suitable ¥ hose who do come intendin, , find their means melt away ¥ can find a suitable location card in these statement people and have conversed with But the great majority of those who that in- Presented them. 2 visit California do not intend to stay ntion here. The register of the State Board of Trade shows that thousands of these people have vis. od the exhibit and have become acquainted th and attracted 10 the resources of the State is formed attractions To be convinced that this is true | e could any one th the diff 2 b essary toesk, Whe: to-day made acquainted v ent por ithe State of Cali ing to San Frencisco? True, th it b told of various localities which they might visit; but for more than half of the year there is nothing to be seen. The fruit harvests of California do not last the year round. Itis ly during & few months 0f the year that what Catifornia is capable of doing could be exhibited by showing itsorcharas. But through the splendid exhibit of the State Board of Trade the capacities of those orchards are pre- sented in an opject-lesson which can never be otten. ibition of the capacities of the whole co come haye not But such an_exhibi- e to the State of Califor- s are shown in the form esson contiuually presented, an, when it is shown to hundreds of visitors ev day equally illustrative of the capacities of the State at any time of the year, the desire is cre- ated in the mind of the beholder to examine the State with reference to his ultimate settle- ment here. The exhibition should be greatly enlarged. It should present all the raw materials suitable for manufacture—sand for glas v for pot- tery, stone for building, iron ores for smelt- ing, with & full round of mineralogical re- sourcesof this metalliferous region. The gentlemen who have been interviewed speak of an exhibit of California products &t the East as if it were new and original. Cali- fornia made an_exhibit at the East during the World’s Fair. It cost the State 300,000 to make that exhibit. Mr. Ferguson, one of the parties interviewed, & gentleman whose effi- ciency and local patrintism will not be doubted, was the siperintendent of that exhibit. He was the special representative of the Kern County Land Company. ile knows that more people examined that exhibition of Califor- nia’s wonderful resources during the time of the World’s Fair than would see a permanent exhibit in Chicago in five years. It would be interesting to have Mr. Ferguson'’s testimony as to the direct effect of that exhibit upon ini- migration to California, not of the general ef- fect of inducing the belief that Celifornia was & wonderiul country and inciting a feeling in the minds of people that at some indefinite time and insome indeiinite way they will come citizens of this State, but that direct in e establishment of great majority of thosewho come inténding 1o stay. tion is of peculiar val . When its resourc of an objec ibit made by California at the World's Fair. he State Board of Trade by the assistance of Southern Pacific Company sent out ex- in a train called “California on Wheels.” They werc leisurely examined by two millions of people. This was & more com- prehensive Eastern exhibit than has yet been wade. The State Board of Trade sent an exhibit to Columbus, Ohio, which was visited by over 50,000 people. My critics do not appear to be aware of the fact that during the entire year 1894 one of the finest exhibits ever gotten together, outside of that presented by the State Board of Trade at Atlanta, was mads at 112 Dearborn street, ricago, Where 10,000 people each day passed its doors. Here was & whole year of exhibit of the full round of California’s capacities made in Chicago. From 1853 to 1886 the Southcrn Pacific Com- pany made an exhibit of the resources of Cali- fornia in London under the direction of Dr. Kingsbury. The planting of the Lancaster col- the hibitions | olony was one of the unfortunate results of that'exhibit. The Dbest exhibits California has at the East are the fruitstands. In all or nearly all of the principal cities of the East the fruits of Cali- fornia are exhibited eyery summer and under the name of California fruit. Unfortunately | much fruit of an inferior Eastern production is thus labeled ; but at the same time the fruit- stands of Chicago, thiladelphia, St. Louls Cincinnati and New York are a consiant ex- hibit of the resources of this State. The sug- gestion is by no means new. The State Board 6f Trade had under consideration the question of making an exhibit in the principal gro- ceries 01100 cities in the United States. This project failed for want of means. The groceries were willing to maintain an exhibitof the products of California and keep it in good order. but money enough could not be obiained for the formaiion of the exhibit. Those unfamiliar with the facts are Kerhnpn uot aware that the present exhibit of the State Board of Trade could not be duplicated in one ar for $50,000. By all means, let us have an astern exhibit. A dozen of them, if you please; but such an exhibit will not be pro- moted by misconstruing the motives of those who have interested themselves in collecting the exhibits already established ; nor will it be made by the gentlemen who were interviewed by your contemporary. In looking over thatlistI find that not more than one is a contribntor to the expenses of the State Board of Trade,and he contributes ta.es of this Union as the | s cannot afford to do this with re- | | Intion to California. © that the people who come | fore the end of 1874 | Coast would be invaluable, because the | the r{mnmcf-n( sum nrlsz 50 pel(" m;lmm.l The | consecrated and sincere ministers of the gentlemen interviewed expressed the opinion | gaspel must bri Xt refor- that but little hes been nccomplished by the | lghut’ion st bring about the next refo State Board of Trade. 1am not familiar with 2 s the opportunities they may have had for jude- | He¢ conclnded by saying it would be well | for tne churches in and about the City to ing of this matter, but I ar familiar with the | fo Fiechu & tact that they have not instituted any inquiry | profit by the example of the Mormons, which would justify them in passing an opin- | who concentrated their public worship in ion. one great t n ing The State Board of Trade is the concerted ef- | e accommodating 10,000 fortof twenty-eight counties to maintain at | DOOPIC e he added. two "“‘;‘5‘%3 the chief metropolitan_center a bureau of in- €0 0 what it now requires nearly : formetion and au exhibit which will attractat- | t0 perform, and the extra ministers could tention to their advantages. It has been a | g0 Into the slumsand work. perfectly selfish, pairiotic effort. No one | AR T S connected with it, except its secretary, has re- ceived salary, and none have derived personal | THE PARK AND VICINITY advantage. £ 1 wish now, in a most emphatic manner, to | call the attention of the public to the fact that | ¥ 811 of the Electric Tower—The Bicycle during 18 entie existence it has been the vie- | Road—A Cannon-Ball Catcher Meets tim of the meanest malevolence ever visited ; upon an unoffending organizeton. Chief With an Accident. anong the statements made to discredit its The electric tower in Golden Gate Park efforts is that it is an adjunct of the Southern | is down, never it i Pacific Company; that it has been butlittle | ** (O™h NEVEr more to be raised again. more than an advertising agency for that com- | Commissioner Austin did not like the puny, and my personal relation with it has | condition in which it remained alter the been pointed 1o ns couclusive evidence of the | attempt to hurl it to the ground on Satur- truth of this charge. % . This siatement. 15 wholly devoid of truth, | day, and after consultation with Superin- and I -unlnm ,n-?umn chtpunsihlll!}' of = tendent McLaren it was decided to make ing that those who make it are aware of its S £ = falsity. There has never been atany time any | ON€ More effort to bring it down. Early Jhich the Central Pacific or the | yesterdsy morning a charge of dynamite n Pacific Railroad Company were in- | was placed under ation sod s terested advertised throngh the agency of the 10 }Xirpd T 1“’9 fgundadonfand i state Board of 1rade. Not one pamphlet or | W8 > e leaning slrnctyre was cular has ever been permitted to be placed | shaken by the force of the explosion, for a upon its «li::le“;xr\!x::x“‘d:‘I:Jx‘x”kf:-‘\l[e);':loxfl‘:ifi moment it wavered, then it leaned further pamphlet relating to any interest | toward the south and then fell with a loud ic Company hns! been dis- | crash. There was a cloud of dust, and icy. That the South- | o G . contributor 1o its suppert is true, and it is true 0 S P.S twist~ 10 the iufinite credit of that corporation. Upon | ed out of shape, that many of the bolts had s one fact has been based all the petty, | been snappea and that the platiorms were mean-spirited opy on, whicl, when we coli- | i splinters. The lower portio naine sider it was lnunched ax an unselfish, patriotic O ersbortioliaemained in fair condition, except the southwestern leg, which was broken off. During the atternoon the fallen monster was visited by a large number of people, each carrying away a bit of iron or a splinter as a memento. Superintendent McLaren said he was glad that the structure was down, and | that steps would be taken to remove the hibit. He declares the reason that the Sonth- | debris without delay. ern Pacific Company has its railroad line to Oregon and s steamship line to the Ha- | waiian Islands. 1 conld well afford to treat wit denial of worthy motive I have suggested or don effort to accomplish some gooa for this com- monwealth, becomes worse than contempiible. 1 find evidence of this in one of the inter- views which has provoked this statement. gentleman in effcet informs the public opposed to any broadening of the tof San Franciseo to assert its primacy among the commercial cities of this State, and he can understand readily why Mr. Mills ias been in favor of a Pacific Const ex- were notas many people in the park as usual. There were, however, an unusual | number of eyclers on the road. | road being “specially constructed for the | wheeler: being pushed forward rapidly, much of thefilling having been completec During the week ending last Saturday 5o’clock in the afternoon, 7101 persons visited the museum. Its latest additions silence this derlying anything in connection with the growth of California were it not thatit is the common lot of all who have attempted to for the State tobein | accomplish somatt manner misrepresented and maligned. Your contemporary characterizes the state f this detractor as candid. I respect- | Iy represent that it has mistaken bad breed- | 4re three photographs, the gift of E. N. =5 atnat The statement | Atwood. These represant the white deer | merit of neither truth nor candor. | dance of the Klamath Indians. Some Company has no line of | steamers wich Islands, and is not | inte 1inany such hmes. The gentleman could have made himself master of this fact | very fine specimens of cinnabar County were also receive. Quite a number of persons visited the from Napa ghtest inquiry. That he stated for & o, | fact that acific Company has a | Tine of st lulu and declares that | itis in th of this line of steamers that | I had made a sugyestion is a manifestation of { willingness to invent a line of steamers for the purpose of impeaching my motives and of dis- | paraging me in stimation of the public. 1 { am wholly indifferent as to the personal appli- | eation of this species of malevolence, but I am not indifferent to its constent misrepresenta- tion toward every public-spirited citizen of the tate. Many of these have united their efforts | with the State Board of Trade in times past {only to find themselves charged with being | candidates for office or of being in the service | of this or that private interest. | As to any suggestion 1may have made con- | cerning a comwercial exhibit for the Pacific | Coast iaving relevancy to the line of ratlroad from San Francisco to Portland, I may say that itis the duty of every railroad to build up all the territory which it serves; that such action would be highly commendable in an officer of arailroad, nod thatitis my pride and ambi- tion to be just as useful and faithful to my em- ployment as my capacities, however limited, permit. But whoever asserts that this or ¥ other suggestion relating 1o the good of s commonwealtn had no other or broader ve than the benefit of a single line of transportation takes a liberty with the truth | whicn justifies the declaration that he is care- | | less of his reputation for veracity. | Permit me to comciude this aiready too | lengihy communication with the presentation | of & matter of the highest and most immediate importance 10 the people of California. growth of Northern Calitornia has b tarded by em of large land holding The best Iandsof the great valleysof California | nave been unavailable for colonization, Re- cently a combination has been entered into | { | | t mo between the holders of the most fertile lands of the Sacramento Valley—lands which in all time siuce the settlementof this State have been inaccessible to the newcomer; 1ands pos- g intrinsicaily five times the value of the ayerage pleins lands of this State. This com- | bination has been formed in the hope of open- | | in an extensive region to settlement, present. | ing the broadest, most striking enterprise in SCENE AT THE The day not being a Lright one, there The new | | | | i | 1 | | | | | | | | i i | | | | DEDICATION OF THE MONUME: [N MEMORY OF SCANNELL, Impressive Ceremonies at the Dedication of His Monu- ment. AT LAUREL HILL CEMETERY. Henry E. Highton Delivers an Eloquent Address on the Chief’s Career. The beautiful monument in the firemen’s plat at Laurel Hill Cemetery, erected to mark the resting-place of the remains of the late David Scannell, Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, was dedicated yesterday afternoon with impressive cere- monies. A large number of people attended the dedicatory exercises, among them being many pioneers, Detachments of firemen from the various fire companies of the City, a full representation of exempt firemen and a large number of Veterans of T [Sketched by a TO CHIEF SCANNE “Call” artist.] this line ever suggested. That combination has now been completed by the signature of the ownersof the lana to documents which commit them for a limited time toa jointeffortto open these large and | most fertile areas to settlement. What is r t capital to launch this en- Iis magnitude and its merit will do t. In this combination of lands, em- g nearly seventy-four miles of navigable rironton the Sacramento River, is found | n opportunity for breaking through at once the one hitherto insurmountable obstacle to the settlement of the Sacramento Valley. > lands have been combined ar rates which stify their offering at less than half the rre offered for colony lands. The < the close of a distinctively histor- and holding in Californa. ‘ he next question which confronts this en- ise is, Where can the capital be foand for | the consolidation of tnese lands into the own- ership of a single corporation designed solely > i iti t0 segregate them and secare theis setements | the ball-catcher, took up s position on a { They are incumbered by mortgages held in San | Platform eight feet above the ground, but Francisco of more than $2,000,000. I have | had neglected to have a rail put around it. b informed there is in the vaults of the | Asa result of this negligence, when he bl u‘o(;fl 'i‘;'!fl Xem‘?rxl;w . lec:dny "l‘i" »Flv?,i | caught the first ball fired, he had nothing ,000. The question arises can the capital | ims i necessary fo make this empire of fertility tho | { "aCe himeelf againct and the force of basis of an empire of population be found on Enot o DI OIS PO 1 the Pacific Coast. If not, then the effort must sll'll\lng the gl:flunt‘» he SPT“‘“ed one of his be mede in foreign money markets, where at | ankles. Despite this accident he returned the very ontset the enterprise must stand dis- | to the platform and had two men hold a a;r]edi(‘lenc-n hn{\"i’ng Et;‘e;‘rir;illdg:l‘e:r:t,lex‘xx | heavy rail against his back, and in tnat 1e success of this cial test | vi & of the ability of the people of California to | gfif,“"“::d c;l“,fi',’,‘ Fih oncpuent s ocond unite upon an _enterprise. The questions | 0811 by 2 which arise and which must be answered I | _Signor Martinez, the strong man, gave a take the liberty of asking now: Will the mo- | wonderful exhibition of his power to lift tives of the persons who have promoted this | heavy weights, one of them being a 40-gal- undertaking be impugned? Will its merits be | lon cask of water. He lifted it by the juquired into by those who make the law of | chimes with his fore-fingers. public opinion concerning it, o that their n. E i s # Tertions rela g to it will have a solid founda- rundling the troiley, anew feature, pro- tion in truth? duced a great deal of fun for the young- Can this undertaking, fraught with so much | Sters. promise of good to California, receive encour- agement at the hands of capitalists at nome where its eal vaiue may be fully and clearly understood? Will the people of California make themselves masters of all the facts relat- ing to it, and if they find it worthy of their support can they bé umted in an effort to carry it to complete success? Will it receive at the hands of the public journalists of this State that judicial fairness which all public enterprises, having for their object the good of the commonwealth, are entitled to receive? In brief, will agreat undertaking, having for its object only the re-enforcement of the popula- tion and the capital of California, receive at the hands of the people of California fair ana candid consideration and treatment? Los Angeles arose fromacity of 5000 toa city of nenrly 100,000 in less than twenty years, simply by reason of the capacity of her citizens 1o act together in the upbuilding of | their country. The same statement is true of | every city and every commonwealth that have enjoyed any degree of prosperity within the | past century. It is through this unified effort | alone that ‘prosperity can come to California. The provincial spirit which objects to an in- strumentality of good to all of the commercial territory tributary to San Francisco is the one thing which has “constituted the greatestob- stacle to thegrowth of this State. The enter- prise, the cnergy. the prosperity and the growth of eny locality 1s an exterior manifes- tation of the "Interior character of the peopte residing there, and these attributes, to be effec- tive for the good of any community, must be unified by & consensus o! effort. We of California can bring to our State e new era of prosperity only by offering_encour- agement to all who are willing to work, and it is this encouragement which has been’ grudg- ingly withheld in all our mstor‘ beach for the purpose of going on the bal- cony of the new Cliff House to view the seals from there. The new house will be opened with elab- orate ceremonies and in the evening there will be a ball. Now that the trouble about crossing a portion of the Pythian Cemetery has been settled the carsof the Sutro road will be run experimentally this week from the | carhouse to the western terminus near the baths. Yesterday afternoon there were no less than 4000 in the Haight-street grounds to witness the special attractions. These con- sisted of catching cannon s fired from quired is suffici terpris ical era of 1 bitions by a strong man. Herr Holtum, A RABBI TO CHRISTIANS. Dr. Voorsanger Lectures to Young Prot- estants on the Influence of a Belief in God. Rabbi Voorsanger delivered a lecture yesterday afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association. It was the first of a series to be delivered this winter by lead- ing ministers of the City., One of the largest audiences ever gathered in the auditorium greeted the rabbi, who was often interrupted with apolause during his address. He spoke of the influence ot a belief in God upon human conduct and the formation of character. Speaking of the difference between political and ethical laws, he said that political laws did not seem to concern themselves with the morelity of nations. They seem to be mainly interested in what they can steal from each other. The influence of politi- cal laws was negative. *If there were no ethical laws the people would probably all become liars,” he said. *‘Nothing has such an influence on man as his account- ability, not to political law but to his God.” 4 Speaking of the contentions between creeds, he said: “When we get down to the bottom of any religion we find that their laws are tne same—the laws of good- ness, of morality.” . He said that the strength of republican institutions depended largely upon the piety of homes. It is a fact that our homes are deteriorating, and that is the greatest danger to our republic to-day. One of the greatest evils in San Francisco is the boarding-house." e — ntracht Cycler: The Eintracht Cyclers have changed their regular monthly meeting night to the first Thursday of each month. On Thumdlf, Feb- ruary 6, 1896, they will install the following officers-elect: President, A. H. Freund; vice- president, W. Horstmeyer; financial secretary, - Lyngreen; recording secretary. E. Peterson treasurer, P. Schmidt: captain, H. Frank; first licutenant, E. Peterson; second licutenant, F. Horstmever; sergeant-at-arms, C. Granz; color- bearer, H. Wolpman. e i i U Mary Stuart was one of the most fasci- nating widows who ever lived. She had abundant experience in the condition of widowhood, and thoroughly understood the moods of all sorts and conditions of men. . H. MrLis. San Francisco, January 11, 1896. FOR FEWER PREACHERS. The Rev. Edwards Davls Advocates the Concentration of Congregations. The Rey. Edwards Davis of Oakland preached yesterday forenoon in the pulpit of the West Side Christian Church on Bush street, near Devisadero, his subject being ‘*Awake, arise,” and his treatment of it a prophecy of an awakening in the religious world, the arrival of the time when church members will take a more active part in public affairs. He said that the world was asleep dur- ing the dark ages and that Luther awoke the people. Then they went to sleep again, and it devolved upon John Wesley to awaken them. Prom another sleep they were aroused by Aiexander Campbell. Now the people are asleep again and a real cannon with real powder and exhi- | logical step in advance was socialism Questions and a short debate ensued. Miss Jane A. Roulstone will deliver an place on “Under What Banner?” FELL TWO STORIES. Andrew Woods, a Plumber and Poli- tician, Fatally Injured Yesterday. A loud crash of breaking glass, followed by the dull thud of a body striking the floor, awakened the occupants of the Re- vere lodging-house at 675 Mission street early vesterday morning. Upon investi- was found underneath an air shaft, which runs from the first to the third floors, cov- ered with blood and rapidly dying. The almost lifeless form of the unfortunate man was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where it was found that his neck had been broken. He died in the course of a few hours, In addition to the fractured ver- death, be had received other which would have, in all probability proven fatal. It is not with the accident. "His room is on the third floor of the house adjoining the air shaft under which he was found. This shaft is guarded by a low railing, and it is presumed that he stooped down to unlock his door, and upon raising up fell against the railing, lost his balance and fell to the floor two stories below. In the descent a window sash was broken and the glass crushed to fragments, giving evidence that Woods must have turned over and over while falling, striking the sash with his feet. which turned him head downward. Woods was a plumber by trade and was been elected a member of the general com- mittee in the Buckley primaries of the Twenty: before his death. He leaves a mother, two sisters and a brother. SR E G INFLUENCE OF STRIKES. Are to the Body. Morrison I. Swift delivered before the American Socialist Society last evening at Alcazar Hall a lecture on “‘Strikes as an Instrument of Civilization.” the attitude of the people toward strikers 18 radically wrong. They are, as a zeneral thing, he explained, callously indifferent when strikes are peaceful and condemn them unheard when they grow into vio- L lence. “Society,” said he, “is, like the IN LAUREL HILL CEMETERY. the Mexican War assembled at the ceme- | human body, composed of different mem- tery to pay their respects to the memory of the illustrious Chief. | missioners, Fire Underwriters, members of | | | the e Department, committee of the Board of Supervisors and many other citi- zens were present. After they had filed through the narrow walks of the firemen’s resting-place and zathered round the veiled monument, the Masonic quartet sang ‘“‘Blessed Are the Dead.” Chief Fire Department stepped into the open space and in a few words began the cere- monies. “We are here to-day,” he said, “to dedi- gineer Sullivan of the | cate a monument erected by members of | the Fire Department and friends to our late Chief, David Scannell.” With these words the covering fell from the monu- ment. exposing a graceful shaft of granite rizing for a considerable height. All men present uncovered and the crowd admired the beautiful monument—the solid base with its three steps leading to a stately plinth that bore the inscription in bold Iellcr! giving the cate of Chief Scannell’s birth and death. Forornament there were emblems of the veteran firemen and ap- propriate scrolls, and over all rose the tall, tapering shaft of gray granite, The silence in presence of this eloquent token from the firemen was broken by the impressive strains of ‘'Peace to the Mem- ory or the Dead,” from the guartet. And when this hymn was finished Chief Sulli- van introduced Henry E. Highton, who dwelt long and earnestly on the noble career of Chief Scannell and paid desery- ing tribute to bis record as a soldier, a fireman and a citiz2n, ““More than thirty house of Leonidas Haskell, I stood by the bedside of David Brodarick, then suffering from his last wound. Where warm hearts were beating in sympathy and dread was | ebbing the life of a great American. Sud- denly the doctor said, ‘Mr. Broderick is dead,” and silently we retired to the lawn in front and stood in little groups. But one of these men was by himself. Prone on the grass, shaken by convulsive grief, was stretched the form of David Scannell. This man, brave almost to recklessness, was as tender as a woman. There is not a man who fought beside him in Mexico but loved him, not a fireman who had worked with him that would not have risked life and limb for him. His word of command was ‘Follow " and it was followed into the jaws of death. His entire life was in some senses a romance; he ranked among the very heroes of romance, but he was not a creature of impuise.” Mr. Highton briefly reviewed the many notable events in Chief Scannell’s career, giving full credit where nothing but words of praise were due for bravery and hero- ism, concluding with the exclamation, “The man was a born hero.”’ The singers gave “‘Shall We Meet Be- yond the River,” and General Sheridan, a veteran of the Mexican War, delivered an address on the war record of Chief Scan- nell. The ceremonies came to a close with the singing of “Good-night. I'm Going Home."” EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY. Sgcialism Said to Be the Next Logical Step in Advance. There was another packed house at the meeting of the Socialist Labor party at Pythian Hall, 909 Market street, last night. After a brief musical and literary pro- gramme Arthur H. Sanborn delivered an address on the “The Evolution of Society." He depicted the advancement of man, illustrating the various stages by different races now in existence. He showed how from the stone hammer had been derived the enormous cannon of to-day. He showed the steps that lead from the train- ing of an animal as a beast of burden to the general use of electricity, which is to be the servant of to-morrow. He then showed how social conditions had changed -six years ago, in the | |and Japan great to be produced by lunar attrac- ! bers, all dependent the one upon the other. The Fire Com- | The lowest class, the workingmen, cor- respond to the arms; by them all things are executed. ‘A strike plays the part of pain in the social body and indicates that something is wrong. It is not right to cut off the member that is in pain: oftentimes the whole system needs a remedy which would do more good than mere local treatment. And so a strike in society is caused not always by a fault of the workingman, but because there exists a great wrong in other parts of the system.’” ———————— The Crust of the Earth. The crust of the earth, according to Professor John Milne’s opinion, is in a constant state of agitation —earth movements beinsz experienced at all| times and in all lands—the greatest European crust agitation having its seat in Germany, Japan occupying a similar position in Asia. In both Germany a tide-like movement, too tions, has been observed, the ground being gently lifted every twenty-four hours, and sometimes twice, and in all cases the buildings, trees, etc., stand slightly in- clined, ~like cornstalks in a gentle and steady breeze—in short, the earth is constantly breathing, as it were, the crust making each respiration by a gentle rising and falling, similar to that of the chest in air-breathing animals. A certain per cent of this earth-crust dis- turbance is believed to be due to con- ditions similar to those which brin, about eartnquakes, this being re, arde§ as especially the fact in respect to Japan, where it has been traced to the continual opening and closing of the broken strata in the main range of the mountains. .. Nearly every army now has a bicycle corps. In Germany six menof every regi- ment are mounted on wheels to act as scouts. and argued that the next rational and ighth Assembly District the night | He said that | address next Sunday evening at the same gation Andrew Woods, one of the lodgers, | more or less interested in politics, having | | them. | REFORM [N CITY AFFAIRS, An Interesting Discourse by Dr. Martyn, a Chicago Churchman. COMBINE AGAINST CORRUPTION The Parkhurst of the Windy City Suggests Things to the Local Pastors. tebrae, which was the immediate cause of | injuries | nown just how Woocs met | in that line of wo They Are to the Social World as Pains | The Central Methodist Episcopal Church on Mission street was packed to the side- walk last night when Rev. Carlos Martyn, the ‘“‘Parkhurst of Chicago,” spoke upon municipal reform and the methods of ac- complishing it. Dr. Martyn is here on a short visit. He is interested in the adjust- ment of municipal affairs throughout the country, and he very strongly indicated last evening that he will stir the loca churchmen to a concerted and vigorous movement before he leaves town. Dr. Martyn is an admirable speaker. He has an educational air about him that at ouce commands respect and attention. He talks quickly and is always emphatic and at times eloquent. His terseness of statement and his clever paraphrasing and handling of old anecdotes rendered the sermon particularly interestin san ofti- cer of the National Cnristian izenship League he accomplished wonders for re- form in Chicago, and he has become one of the m alked-of men in the country His discourse last night was npon mu- nicipal reform ina general w He in- troduced the subject wi erest- ing references to the proud privilege of living in what he called “tl:e best country the world ever knew.” He tuen went on to explain that the founders of the Nation established it upon the broad basis of man- hood, and armed every man in self-defense with the ballot. The “people, he declared, are in_supreme control, and they are not permitted to shirk the responsibility of righteous citizenship. If there are bad laws in_our codes we are responsible for Ii there be an organization for evil we must rise fo combat it and organize | among ourseives for that purpose. Itis a | fact, he id, that things are going wrong. | There is hardly a municipality in the | country that is not governed by gamblers, grogshops and other evil influences. Al | combined to the detriment of proper mu- nicipal management. : As to the matter of ministers concerning themseives with these things, he ex- piained that ministers were obliged to meddle in politics to some extent because politics meddles with them. His idea is that the term politician properly includes every man in the country interested in its | | well-being, and he held ‘it necessary that every member of every congregation should be awake to the national and municipal issnes. Everyonme, he said, shouid be familiar with "questions that touch the public weal and unless they are s0 there can be no proper administration of aifairs. Dr. Martyn spoke 1n an amusing way of the condition of things in Chicago a couple of years ago, of the variously corrupt city departments and of the unspeakable cor- ruption of the Council, which *not ali the waters of the Inke could cleanse.” He en- tered to some extent into the methoas by which the Chicago reformers accomplished their work last sprin Among other things there was concerted and vigorous action by the churchmen, and he advised that the ministers of San Francisco do as the Chicagoans did. He earnestly recom- mended to the clergymen of the City that they get together and begin an active cru- sade against gambling and the liquor raflic. THE BEROIC SYMPHONT. Wagner’s Expianation of Beethoven's Hero. A work of art requires no explanation. But the very title Beethoven gave the “Heroic Symphony” provokes questions, and there have been many endeavors to | explain it. Wagner tried less to explain | its meaning than to explain it away. | Chained to his one idea he asserted that Beethoven’s hero was not a military hero, but a young man of complete spiritual and physical endowment, who passed from mere brate delight in life and his strength through tragic suffering to a high spiritual satisfaction in love; that is to say, he asserted that Beethoven's hero was Parsi- fal or Seigfried. Now this much of Wagner's theory is true, that Beethoven would not worship a mere human butcher any more than he would worship a pork-butcher as a hero, On the other hand Beethoven’s hero was undoubtedly a military hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. 'We know that the sy mphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon, that the dedication was altered when Napoleon | (as Beethoven thought) turned traitor and became Emperor; we know that when the news of his death came Beethoven casu- ally remarked that he had already com- posed tise music for that event. Of what parts, then, of Napoleon’s career do the first and last two movements tell? These are questions which can never be answered, and, mere curiosity apart, it so happens that it matters little whether they are answered or not- answered, so long as they are not answered altogether wrongly. For whatever events Beethoven might ut any moment have in his mind he never tried to depict them, but only to communi- cate the emotion they aroused. He him- self said as much. It is in the expression of human emotion he is supreme, and to feel aright the emotions of the Heroic Symphony we need only to have our minds clear of a story which Beethoven did not and could not have had in his mind.—Saturday Review. NEW TO-DAY. 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