The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: | Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 | ]y end Sunday CALI, one vear, by mall. .. 6.00 Day :nday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 three months by mail 1.50 65 1.50 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, | San Francisco, California. | Sabiebone..r.oo e Main—-1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Selephone. - .. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: eet, corner Clay: open untl open until 9:30 o'cloek. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ertil 8 o'clock. L0185 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 416 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 31 and 82, 84 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Specisl Agent. TARY 30, 1896 | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e California is in danger. Now is the time to protest. The refunding scheme is infamous, We cannot accept Hoke Smith as a referee. Bonds for 100 years at 2 per cent! Think | of that. Smith introduced the bill of abomina- The Reilly bill was bad, but the Smith bill discounts it. The whole Pacific railroad muddle can be settled in the one word: foreclosure. Now that the monupoly has shown its hand all the world can see how unclean it is. As a bond fiend Mr. Smith is even more abominable than Cleveland and without half his excuse. Surely no Californian can hesitate to! e such a refunding scheme as that now proposed. The people will have to wait a long time | to bear any one explain the ‘“‘equities” of the latest refunding scheme The refunding biil has been referred to | Hoke Smith, and there is no teiling what i hocus pocus may come next. | Smiths retunding scheme cannot possi- | bly be made decent by any amendment; it must be blotted out altogether. nation on earth seems d a fieht, Turkey is and can’t getit. While every eager to offer En just spoiling for When Grove L. Johnson needs enlight- enment he should apply to his constitu- ents, and not to the attorneys of the rail- | road. i The - proposition to refund the debt of | the Central Pacific for 100 years at 2 per | cent is in plain terms a proposal of in- | famy. | The fight against the refunding scheme | has reached the critical point, and those | who intend to oppose it at all must oppose | it now. It may prove a fortunate thing in the end that the railroad asks so much, for those who show themselves too greedy | very often get nothing. We shall see from the vote on the coast defense bill just how far the Senate was moved by a war spirit, and how far bya| desire to make speeches. | Pattison of Pennsylvania is coming for- ward as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency, but he can hardly be called | promising, for he cannot promise to carry | his own Siate. Railroed Attorney Tweed says if the re- funding bill passes freights will not be raised on the Central Pacific because of the competition, but where is the competi- tion to come from? Since the Government of the United States cannot borrow money for less than 3 per cent, why should it lend money to | the railroad for 1 per cent for ten years and for 2 per cent for ninety vears? Every board of trade, every industrial organization, every newspaper and mass- meetings in every city and town in Cali- fornia should send protests against the passage of the Smith bill, and should send them at once. The London Chranicle favors a move- ment among the powers to get the United States to stop the barbarism of Turkey,| Congress favors a movement to get the powers to do it, and so the world’s move- ments go on while the Turk remains where heisand does the same old business in the same old way. It was asserted by the free-traders that | free wool would promote the manufacture of woolen goods in this country, but the| result of the experiment fora year shows | that British manufacturers of such goods sold us four iimes as much in 1895 as in 1894, and during the same period the im- portations of foreizn wool increased 150 per cent, The Chicago News Almanac for the cur- rent year gives a list of American women who since 1870 have married titled foreigners, together with the amount of their dowries so faras known. The ag- grezate of known dowries amounts to $170,653,000, and it is estimated the un- known amounts will raise this sum con- siderably above $200,000,000. ‘When the Democratic National Commit- tee met to select the site for the party con- vention some of the onlookers in Washing- ton exdeavored to find out the sentiment of the committee on the Presidential ques- tion, and while, of course, nothing positive was learned, the conclusion was that the silver men of the party have no candidate and the gold men are in favor of Olney. The argument for the establishment in the National Government of a Department of Manufactures and Commerce is ably cxpressed in an open letter addressed to the Chicago convention of the National Association of Manufacturers by Richard H. Edmonds of the Manufacturers’ Record, Baltimore. The movement is an important one, and will doubtless receive the support TIME TO PROTEST. If any Californian has indulged the pleasing hope that the defeat of the Reilly bill in the last Congress had taught mod- eration to the railroad monopoly and that there was no pressing need of an aggres- sive fight against anything it might ask of this one, that hope was rudely shattered by the publication in THE CALL yesterday of a synopsis of the Smith bill, which the House Committee has approved, referred to the Secretary of the Interior and twill probably report to Congress. Bad as the Reilly bill was the Smith bill is worse. It contains every objectionable feature of the most extreme demands of the railroad and offers nocompromise with the sentiment of the people or with a due regard to the public welfare. Despite the fact that in the Cleveland loans the Gov- ernment itself has had to pay a fraction more than 3 per cent for money, the bill provides that in computing the debt due Government by the Central Pacific, money sbhall be estimated as worth only 2 per cent. It further provides that when the total indebtedness has been thus com- puted the debt shall be funded by issuing bonds to run for 100 years; for the first ten of which the interest is to be 1 per cent and for the remamning ninety years 2 per cent. This scheme, if carried through, will fasten the cinch of the monopoly upon Cali- fornia and the great central road across the continent for a century to come, and will impose upon the industry and commerce of that region a heavy burden of debt to be paid off through exacting freight rates extorted by the monopoly which the debt itself has been the means of perpetuating. The most greedy and grasping of monopo- lies could not ask more than has been pro- posed in this scheme. It is in plain terms an infamous proposal. There is not a re- deeming feature in it. It carries millions for the monopnly and not a cent for the people, and moreover violates every law of justice and every principle of finance, in order to continue the power of a corrupt and corrupting corporatio: It is significant that tkis measure, ap- proved by the Pacific Roads Committee in secret session, was sent to the Secretary of the Interior for his opinion. That means of course that Cleveland is to be consuited. Before Congress has a chance o discuss the measure, even before it is reported to Con- gress, the big bond-dealer of the White House and his Secretary, Hoke Smith, are to give it their approval. By this scheme it is made certain that if the bill passes in Congress the President will sign it. It must be beaten, therefore, either in the House or in the Senate. That is the issue now before us and to that issue every energy should be directed. Every Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce, every industrial organization, every newspaper and every city and town in the State by mass-meetings or by 1ts official authorities should send protests against the bill and send them at once. The danger is immi- nent and the infamy is threatening. TOBACCO IN CALIFORNIA. The success which tobacco-growing has enjoyed for years in the southern end of the Santa Clara Valley has induced a strong movement to engage in the indus- try. It has never been a question that tobacco would flourish in this State, the more important considerations being the quality of the product and the cost of la- bor. On the score of quality it has been asserted that while the crops are bountiful the product is coarse in texture and heavy in essential oils, the principal one being nicotine. It might be expected thatina country where, under liberal irrigation, vegetation tends to rankness tobacco would develop a coarse fiber; but as this depends solelv upon its method of treatment dur- ing its growing it can be governed almost with mathematical precision. As for an abundance of essential oils, that is as valu- able a thing in tobacco as an excess of su- garis in wine grapes. There is an unfail- ing market for *‘strong” tobacco. Cotton will grow better in California than in the South, but it is pot cultivated here because of the absence of cheap labor. ‘I'he same condition operates in the case of tobacco cuiture. But within recent years there has grown up within the State the employment of children in the fruit-drying industry, and as the labor is light, pleas- ant and profitable the country schools gen- erally time their vacations to suitthe fruit- drying season. The heavy labor required in the cultiva- tion of tobacco is similar to that employed with other crops. There is, howevel, a vast amount of light work to be done, par- ticularly in keeping the plants free from worms. Children could do this with greater ease and celerity than adults, and their labor might be profitably employed. The opium poppy will grow well in Cali- fornia, but it is not cultivated because of the expense of labor. Tea, also, would doubtless thrive, but it would be impos- sible to compete with the cheap labor which produces it in China and Japan. Considering the higher and more profit- able results which can be made to attend fruit-growing, it hardly s€éems worth while to experiment with staples which are pro- duced elsewhere with the 2id of degraded labos. Far more inviting than experi- ments of that kind are the possibilities which lie undeveloped in the State, and which are features of the monopoly which California enjoys in this country as the producer of fine fruits and wines. The extraction of perfumeg from odor- iferous plants which grow here in so re- ni:arkable luxuriance should be developed into a profitable business, as it would be one in which women and children could find pleasant, profitable and healthful exercise. Silk culture remains to receivea more thorough test. TALKING OF MONEY. The rapid publication of books and pam- phlets on the silver question, which, fol- lowing thick and fast in the wake of Coin’s Financial School, formed so striking a fea- ture of the financial discussion last vear, promises to be repeated this season. The year is young yet and the opening of the Presidential campaign is still far off, but already no less than three new books ad- vocating with more or less wisdom the re- monetization ot silver have been sent to us by the publishers. One of these books, ‘‘Statesmen Three,” issued by the Statesman Publishing Com- pany of New York and written by A.C. Fisk, hardly deserves comment, and is not likely to find favor among intelligent ad- vocates of bimetallism. It represents the whole of our financial legislation since the outbreak of the Civil War as having been dictated by a conspiracy of bankers, refers to the demonetization of silver as “The One Hundred Billion Dollar Robbery,” of all who have given the subject the study it deserves, and even goes so far as to insinuate that the assassinations of Lincoln and Garfield i were committed at the instigation of the conspirators of the money power. A much more reliable book is “The Ef- fects of the Gold Standard, or Bimetallists’ Catechism,” by W. H. Smith, M.D., pub- lished by Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chi- cago. There 18 much in this book that will repay the reader who wishes to study the subject without resorting to the more abstruse and technical works on finance. It is not likely to prove so popular as *“Coin’s Financial School,” but is never- theless written in a simple direct style easy to be understood, and will have con- siderable effect in determining waverers to take a decided stand in favor of the free coinage of silver. Quite different from the other two in styie and method of treating the problem is the'third work, “Money and ‘the Money Power.” This is a compilation of a series of articles contributed to the Middlebury (Vt.) Register by Joseph Battle and is pub- lished by the Register Company. The value of the compilation is largely en- hanced by the fact that 1n addition to the articles of the author it includes all the important laws of the United States rela- tive to money, several notable essays by high authorities in England on the effect of the gold standard on British manu- factures and numerous quotations from other writers of established repute on financial subjects. With o many books on the financial issne pouring out from the press the chances are it will be worn threadbare be- fore the campaign opens and the orators wiil have nothing new to say. This will not be altogether a loss either to the speak- ersor to the public. Both will probably be perfectly willing to set the money ques- tion aside until we have re-established a protective system that will give the peo- vle a chance to earn money of any kind. A STRANGE QUESTION. Our dispatches from Washington giving an account of the proceedings before the House Committee on Pacific Railroads on Tuesday report Grove L. Johnson assay- ing to Mr. Tweed, the atiorney for the railroad: “It has been asserted, particu- larly in California, by some politicians that if the Pacific Railroad debts should be refunded the people of California would be obliged to pay the debts in increased freight charges over the roads. Is there any foundation for such a statement?”’ Coming from a representative in Con- gress from California this is a strange question most strangely expressed. Why should Mr. Johnson seek from a railroad attorney information as to what would be the effect on California of the refunding heme? Why should he say that ‘“some politicians”’ assert that if the railroad debts are refunded the people of California would be obliged to pay the debts in in- creased freight charges? The assertion spoken of is not made by some politicians merely. 1t has been made by commercial bodies, by mass-meetincs, by newspapers and, in short, by everybody who hes given the subject the consideration it deserves, with the exception of those who either are or have been employes of the railroad. Is it possible that Mr. Johnson has over- looked so notable s fact as that in his own State? In reply to Mr. Jobnson the railroad at- torney is reported to have said: “The proposition is absurd. Freight rates on the Central Pacific Railroad, as on all other railroads, are kept down by competition, and they could not be increased to cover the funded debt.” If that answer satis- fied the questioner, as it seems to have done, he can hardly have been Mr. John- son of California. It is true there are competing routes for the terminal points of the Central Pacific, but there is no com- petition for all the length of line that stretches between the terminals, Itis the local freight rates that will be raised to all the traffic will bear, and, except where the competition of the new San Joaquin road prevents, those rates will be certainly raised to meet the interest due on the re- funded debt. How else, in fact, is the money to be raised ? In his positior as member of Congress Mr. Johnson represents the State of Cali- fornia and also the Republican party. He is aware that both the State and the party expect him tooppose the refunding scheme now hefore Congress, or any other that may be brought forward. To do this in- tellicently he must, of course, have in- formation; but the next time he wishes enlightenment he had better apply to his constituents and not ask questions that imply a total ignorance of what is going on in California. LADY'S PLAIN WAIST MELON SLEEVES. Plain waists perfectly fitted, the effect being smooth and seamless, are in high favor. The design shown in tmis illustration pictures a cheviot mixture. The seams of the sleeves and the edges of coliar and belt are neatly stitched by machine. Another dress made after this model was of green and black wool. The plas- tron between {he box pieats in front was of green velyet. The box pleats were edged with WITH narrow bands of Persian lamb fur, The stock collar of green velvet was finished at the back with black satin bow. A piece of black setin ribbon two inches wide and one yard long was gathered into top of collar to form ruche. The seams of the sleeve were left open two inches at wrist, each piece faced separately. A ruffle (.)fd wnn? lfi]ce ex(engedhhal!dan inch below the edge of sleeve and showed in the o) iny Bflldol l)lncfk u‘:t‘il':lflbbam . ress of mixed wool showing many bright threads bad the simulated box pl‘em o{myfna reen velvet. The plastron beiween the pleats n frout was of dreamy guipure lace over white satin. Stock collar of white satin ribbon fin- ished with bow at back. Belt of velvet and & piping of same velvet showed in all the seams of the sleeves. A serviceable dress of brownish mixture had pleats and belt bound with leather-colored braid. SHORT SMILES. They have a brand of whisky in San Antonio called the “Horn of Plenty,” because it will corn you copiously.—Texas Sifter. A boy never says his schoolteacher is nice. If he likes her he says she isn’t as mean as the others.—Atchison Globe. First cabman—How do you find things? Second cabman—Slow! Just think! I bought that horse yesterday and he hasn’t paid for himself yet!—Puck. ' Mrs. Hashton—I lost two of my best boarders’ this week, Mrs. Hammond—Perhaps they fell through a crack in the floor,—Cincinnati Enquirer. y AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Charles W. Tozier, the mining engineer, who has figured in one way or another in many camps of the West, is one of the familiar fig- ures at the Lick House. Mr. Tozier has been fifty years in mining and forty years on the Pacific Coast. Asthe expert for Alvinza Hayward and T. D. Lane, he reported favorably on the now famous Utica mine, one of the richest, it is belicved, in the world. For many years Mr. Tozier was a hydraulic miner, and in this capacity he got out at vari- ous times and in various places a large amount ofgold. When the excitement broke outat the cgruiding officer’s table and was never re- suscitated. One of the leaders in the opposition to_this measure was Senator Doolittle of Wisconsin who is still 8 vigorous man, actively engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. PERSONAL. C. F. Preston of the United States navy is at the Occidental. James J. Atkins of Pittsburg is among the recent arrivals here. Charles B. Sloat,a business man of Fort ‘Worth, is in the City. Deputy City Clerk Jack Best of Los Angeles CHARLES W. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. A musical season late is better than none at all, and as Lent approaches announcements of musical attractions are beginning to increase. All through the early part of the season Pader- ewski was the oaly glittering concert bait held before our eyes, and the Tavary Opera Compauy the only grand opera organization we were promised. Then came the announce- ment that the Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau Com- pany would come in May, and now the man- agement of the Columbia Theater announces that it has teken Scheel’s Auditorium for a series of concerts and has just concluded engagements for March with Fran Materna and Franz Ondricek, the latter of whom hes proved by far the most successiul of the many tmported violinists who have been piayiugin | 'S ac- the East this season. Materna, Wagn knowledged ideal in his principal creations, as Isolde, Elizabeth, Brunnhilde and Ortrud, will | sing excerpts tromthe Wagner operas. She is | an artist of marvelous genius and achieve- ments, whose work in the fleld of music-drama has become a matter of history. Her old friends will no_doubt rally to her standard, and those to whom she is but a name will be | eager to lay by the fruitful memory of having | heard Materna, though no longer in her zenith. In the East she is being rapturously greeted by all good Wagnerians, with whom Materna is | part of the Bayreuth master’s creed. ‘‘Evangeline,” a1 opera based on Lougfellow’s poem and set o wusic by Xavier Leroux, has just been produced with suceess at the Royal | Theater of La Monnaie, Brussels. Leroux isa papil of Massenet, and “Evangeline,” the first opera he has ever produced, was written when he was only 27 years of age. Le Menestrelsays | of the new work: “A short preludeis played while we are shown ‘the primeval forest,’ | whose mysterious voices are oue of the leading themes all through the work; then the first act transports us to the rustic peace of Acadia, where the songs of the people recall the French mother countryv, The act ends in a love scene by starlight between Gabriel and Evangeline. Nothing in the opera being prettier than this | love duet. The betrothal of the loversis be- | Ing celebrated in the nextactwith a hallelujah of joyfulness, when suddenly the victors ap- proach, the happiness is changed to desolation | and the famous episode of the church of Grand-Pre, described by Longfellow, is enacted. TOZIER, THE PACIFIC COAST MINING EXPERT. Virginia City he went thereand took a hand at quartz mining. Atan after period he returned to California aad resumed hydraulic mining, which he fol- lowed for some years. But about a dozen years ago, when the anti-debris laws were passed, he turned his attention again to quartz mining. Theugh he has been among the first at every big camp in Nevada, Utah, Montans, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona, and has also had much experience in Mexico, he thinks there isno place like the mother lode of California. In Mariposa, Calaveras and other counties on this lode he foresees the development of enormous additional wealth. *“You go up and down the country, wherever you will,” said be, “but you can find only one mother lode. Thatlodeis in California. Itis a plenty good enough thing to tie to. I have been all over the West, and am satisfied with it. Iden’t believe, either, that Africa or Cool- gardie is equal to it.” Mr. Tozier says he knows of considerable Eastern and British eapital that is coming to the mother lode for investment. Syndicates are being organized, and the indications are that big developments will take place on the lode in new and old places in the next year or two. The veteran expert isa talented story-teiler. He usually hasa lot of men around him, and invariably he interests them. The larger num- ber of his stories relate in some way to mines and mining, the subject that lies so near to him. THE PIXY BAND. When I forsake the busy street And train my footsteps home at night, Aband of naughty pixies meet Me on the sieps with keen delight, They nimbly steal my hat and take Away my overcoat and cane; By wet nmbrella seize, and shake Adown my back the drops of rain! In vain { plead, “Oh! leave me; go, And bar the way no ionger, please: Why will ye clog my footsteps 807 Why will ye hang about my knees?” They bend me down and monnt my back And, heediess quite of bump or fall, ‘They make the floor & racing track, And speed methrough the entrance hall. We reach the parlor; there they place For me my easy-cushioned chair, And pull my beard and pinch my face, And comb away my scanty hair. They call me “papa’—man alive! ure, fortune smites with heavy hand, ‘When [, a youth of thirty-five, Am father of & pixy band! L'ENVOL Beside a row of drowsy heads, With moistencd eyes each night I stand, And bend and kiss them in their beds— God bless my little pixy band! —Chicago Inter Ocean. TRIED TO BUY CUBA ONCE. Thirty-seven years ago this morning, says the New York Mail and Express of the 24th inst., Senator Slidell, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back 1o the Senate from his committee his bill au- thorizing the President to purchase Cuba from Spain and appropriating $30,000,000 for that purpose. Slidell introduced the bill on January 10, 1859. It was referred to his committee and favorably considered. The Democratic Sepators met in caucus on January 15 to con- sider President Buchanan’s recommendations concerning Cuba and voted to support the 8lidell bill as embodying the President’s views. Buchanan intended to make the acquisition of Cuba the leading feature of his administra- tion, and it is probable he would have brought about war between Spain and this country if he could have had his way. President Pierce, who preceded him, desired to annex Cuba, but the Kansas-Nebraska question prevented the accomplishment of this project. The siave Democrats had for some time recoenized the necessity of additional slave territory and rep- resentation, in order to hold their fast waning power in Congress, and the Slidell bill was the outgrowth of this policy. Every added West- ern State weakened the power in the Nation of the slave Democrats, and they saw in Cubatwo slave Stetes. The Republicans fully appreciated the danger in the Slidell measure, and it was fought desperately at every turn. It became the feature of the session,and almost every prominent man in the Senate delivered a set speech on the great (\uemons it involved. When Slidell’s bill was reported from the Foreign Affairs Committee the New York Tribune, from_ whose files the Mail and Ex- ress gets the data for this sketch, character- zed the measure as “a cunning complieation of claptrap arguments.”” Senator Seward of New_ York, representing the minority of the Foreign Affairs Committee, ogpomi the bill when it was reported back, and succeeded in having its consideration poned until January 31. He pointed out the dangers in the measure, and said that to put the army and navy and $30,000,000 in the hands of the President was a surrender of the constitu- tional power of Congress to make war. He de- clared that the proposition to buy Cuba when Spain refused 1o sell was ridiculous and an in- sult to Spain. In a later speech he read from the debates of the S8panish Chamber of Depu- ties, where the members demanded reparation from President Buchanan for his gratuitous insult to'the klnsdom in virtually proposing to force the sale of Cuba. The consideration of the bill was prevented by the opposition, which gained strength as the questions involved were discussed. «The newspaper correspondents came to mention it as the “thirty million bribery and corruption scheme.”’ It occasioned an all-night fight on February 25, when its friends thought 1o pass it in its original form, but the amendments and substitutes came thick and fast, and at daylight Slidell withdrew, with the bill on the table. On this night Senator Wilson presented a substitute appropriating 000 for the ac- quisition of Cuba and_all the other countries on the continent south of the United States. At the close of the session two days were devoted to the Cuba bill, but when the’ Senate adjourned without day the measure wes on | is on a visit here. He is one of the ploneers of the State. 1 W. H. Dickson, the widely known lawyer of Salt Lake, is in the City. Alador Rausch of Budapest, who is here on a business trip, is at the Palace. United States Judge Erskine M. Ross of Los Angeles was among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday, Frank M. Berry of Juneau, Alaska, wasamong the arrivalsat the Russ yesterday. He is ac- companied by his family. liam A. Pinkerton, the noted Chicago de- tective, is at the Baldwin. He and Captain Lees attended tife races together yesterday. Mrz. J. H. Whited of Dunsmuir, wife of Su- perintendent Whited of the Dunsmuir division of the Bouthern Pacific, is a gues) of the Grand. First utenant George E. McConnell of the revenue cutter Perry has been ordered East to take command of one of New York's harbor boats. Mr. McConnell was formerly commander of the Hartley here. E. W. Chapman, owner of the Taylor mine, fourteen miles from Auburn, and also of the Zancroft, near Newcastle, is at ihe Occidental. Both these mines are paying handsomely and there is & 20-stamp mill on each, W. F.PPrisk, editor and proprietor of the Grass Velley Daily Union, is in the City. Mr. Prisk reports the mining outlook for his sec- tion as unusually good. He says that Grass Valley is entering upon & new era of prosper- ity. Portal Henry and Raupellier Piene, wealthy gentlemen of France, are attne Grand. They are on a tour of the world, and will visit Yoko- hama, Calcutta, Saigon and other important places in the Occident, returning home by the Suez canal. John Cameron, the mining man of this City, has returned from Cripple Creek, where he went about six months ago. He saysitis a bad place for poor men, that pneumonia is carrying off the people at the rate of 15 a day, snd that the accommodations are entirely inadequate to the demands. He thinks well of the district, however, and believes it will prove one of the phenomenal districts of the world. According to experts, so he says, there are $30,000,000 worth of gold ore in sight 1n various mines there. People are coming from Africa, Australia and the Eastern States, and there is money in abundance for investment. Ten million dollars was offered for the Inde- pendence mine and refused. Gambling in stocks continues. It is a wild camp. The houses are chiefly built of plain boards and canvas. Itis very cold there now . The ther- mometer often goes to 15 deg. or more below zero, and suow lies on the ground CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan.29.—A. Bierce and A. L. Rhodes are at the Astor; A. Thompson, 8t. Cloud; W. A. Walker, Brunswick; 0. John- son, Broadway Central; Mrs. Natick, Imperial; J. Harmes, Miss B. Harmes, Vendome; A, H. Martin, Imperial; G. Raphael, Marlborough; G. C. Smith, Astor; J. Wells, Gilsey; H. S. ‘Wood, St. Cloud; C. W. Memcall, Continental. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29. —San Fran- cisco: I. 8. Ackerman, Arlington; Henry A. Butters, Shoreham; W. A, Martin, Normandie; Leigh Berne, Pages. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS—M. N, City. “‘There isatide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,” is from Shake- speare’s “Julius Ceesar,” act IV, scene 3, and the lines are spoken by Brutus. BROOKLYN BRIDGE—E. O., Colma, Cal. The New York terminus of the Brooklyn bridge is in Park Row, facing City Hall Park; the ter- minus on the Brooklyn side is at Fulton and Sand streets, the termini of nearly all the ele- vated and surface roads. REDUCING WEIGHT—E, P., City. If a person thinks that he ought to reduce his weight twenty pounds he can do so by dieting or tak- ing sxye;::nw The first uhou{d be under the advice of a physician and the second under the instruction of a professional trainer. GLADSTONE—J. 8., Menlo Park, Cal. The Right Honorable William Gladstone, states- man and orator, was born on the 29th of De- cember, 1809, at Live: 1, and is the fourth son of Sir John G. Gladstone, Bart., of Fasque, in Kincardineshire, Scotland. DeBTS—B. B,, City. In thisState in order to recover judgment against an individual who isindebted for salary, balance on furniture and so forth, an action must be commenced in the Justices’ Court if the amount claimed is under $300, and in the Suparior Court if the sum be in excess of that amount. DonGer—E. 8, Livermore, Alameda County, Cal. The application of the word “dodger” to signify a small handbill is credited to tae Phil- el&hh Times of the 28th of August, 1885, In the issuc of thet date the following ep- peared: A number of printed dodgers were distributed in different parts of the city and also posted on the doors of all houses occupied by Chinese. PoETRY—M. M. P., City. Millions of poems and so-called poems have been published and there is no man who has ever read them all and very few who can remember even the sub- stance of those read, therefore it is impossible 1o say who is the author of “‘a poem, the last line of which is ‘For to sit alone with one’s con- science is judgment enough for me,’ or some- thing similar.” Poems that are worth pre- serving are indexed by the title and by the first line in books of xel{arenca. The fourth act transports us to the aridshores of the Teche, in Louisiana, where, in a scene iull of poetical music, Evangeline and her ser- | vant are welcomed by a shepherd; the voice of | Gabriel is heard from afar and he shoots past in & rapid bark, lamenting hislost Evangelne. The last act passes in the hospital in Pennsyl- vania, where the lovers sing their tarewell to earth and hopesof meeting in the world be- yond the grave—then the scene fades away and one secs again the primeval forest of the pre- lude and hears the music that suggests the voices of the forest.” In the memoirs of Sir Charles Halle, which are soon to be published in London, will be found a touching anecdote about his son, Clifford Halle, who passed through this City some months ago. Mr. Halle, who is & wells I sweapons were pistols and the duel was fought on the drillground behind the fort at Juetz. At the firstexchange of shots Lieutenant Kuhn of the Sixth Dragoons fell, mortally wounded, His adversary, Lieutenant Joacnim of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, was no other than the sonof the great violinist, Dr. Joachim. The Philharmonic-Artistic Society of Padua has just given the first performance of & | charming opera, *Nita,” composed py one of { the members, the Marquis Francesco Danli. Dall’ Orologio. The work was received with | great favor. One Italian paperssys of it: *The | §pera docs not manifest great pretensions, but it augurs well for the future career of its young (‘0“)[105(}1’.” S The Prince of Wales has followed the exar- ple of his nephew, the composer of the ‘‘Hymn to Aegir,” and has composed & cantata for soll, chorus and orchestra. According to the Italian papers, Saint-Saens’ “Henry VIII” has not proved a success at the Scala in Milan. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mark Twain writes to a friend in Hartford that he went away in debt and will come baek in a first cabin. President Faure of France has given permis- sion to the citizens of & town in New Hebrides to call the place by his name. The Rev. dinot J. Savage hes been invited to deliver the essay before the British and For- elgn Association in London next June, an honor never before bestowed upon an Ameri- can. The Czar of Russia is said to be very much interested in the brilliant fight that H, N, Pillsbury of America has been making at St. Petersburg against the chess veterans of Europe. The Polish residents of Baltimore are taking steps to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the great Polish patriot, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, which will occur on February 12. Chsrles Webb, the genre painter of Dussel- dorf, has just died from injuries received from afall. He was born in Breda in 1832, and was & Dutchman in nationality and not an English- man, as his name would indicate and as was commonly believed. When President Kruger of the Transvasl Frau Materna, the Great Wagnerian Singer, and Franz Ondricek, the Bohemian Violinist, Who Will Be Heard at the Auditorium. 1 known singer, was giving a concert in a town in Cape Colony, where the only available hall had been used to exhibit trained animals. As the evening was very warm the doors and windows were all left open. Clifford Halle had finished the first part of the programme, when in response to warm applause he seng as &n encore the beautifui lied, the last phrase of which ends ‘‘Bruder, sage ja” (Brother, say yes). The singer was just emitting a beautiful high note on the final “ja” when a burro thrust his head through the half-open door and in a rich barytone voice began aloud “Yah, yah” This response to the singer's poetic appeal gave rise to a tumultuous scene of laughter and applause, led by the officers of the garrison. The commandent said to Mr. Halle: “Yoa will never create a greater sen- sation than to-day, but I do not advise you to take back your ‘brother’ when you return to London.” The audiences at the great Italian opera- houses have strong opinions of their own on the subject of music, and never hesitate to ex- press them. At San Cerlo in Naples, the other day, the first Neapolitan performance of “The Vulkyrie’’ was given, and the opera gave rise to tumultuous scenes of disepproval. The public remained quiet enough till the second part of the first act, when they began to make fun of what was being sung. During the third act the demonstrations of *disapproval became tumultuous, and peopie who wanted to listen were unable to hear the music. At lastthe andience began to cry: “Hurrah for Verdil” “Down with Wagner!” and overy ona lett the theater, most of the people whistling and hoot- ing. The impresario isafraid to puton ‘‘The Valkyrie” again, though he went to consider- able expense in staging the work. Luigi Arditi’s memoirs are almost reaay for publication, and will first be printed in Lon- don. The career of the composer of “Il Bacio” has been & long and active one,and should contain some interesting incidents. In 1850 Arditi directed the Italian opera at Castle Gar- den, New York, and there he made the ac- queintance of the Patti family. He afterward became chef d'orchestre at Covent Garden, London, and in 1869 he conducted when Patti made her London debut. Maurice Strakoseh, Patti’s brother-in-law, and her impresario, then engaged Ardiu for his troupe, and in 1862 he won great success at Vienna with his waltz “Il Baeio,” which Patti hassung ever since in “The Barber of Seville.” Ardit! has known almost ell the great artists for the last fifty years, and has toured all the civilized and hall-civilized countries in the world. From Madrid it is announced that in conse- quence of the disasters in Cuba the theaters in the Spanish capital are practically deserted. The impresario of the Theater Royal has just failed and the Grand Opera has had to close its doors. The Minister of Public Instruction, in whose gift the management of the latter house lies, is said to be seeking in vain to find an impresario willing to undertake the man. agement of the Grand Opera. Active preparations have begun at Bayreuth for this year’s performances. Frau Cosima Wagner is having “Siegfried” rehearsed, under the direction of Sicgfried, her som, It is ex- pected that the attendance at Bayreuth will be larger this year than ever. A name celebrated in music has just been mixed'up in a serious dueling affair at Thion- ville between two German officers, which proved fatal for one of the combatants. The vaid his visit to England he refused to go to the theater, deeming it immoral. 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