The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1896, Page 6

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DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — e Cleveland’s Americanism seems to have made one splutter and then died out. Every one who rides over Folsom street is in favor of overriding the Mayor's veto on its improvement. IR T If the fight against the funding scheme pauses for s moment the lobby will soon rally and adopt a new trick. There is one good thing about the Turk: nobody regards him as a threatening com- petitor in any line of industry. R iy Even if Cleveland cannot recognize Cuba he might at least recognize the inevitable and advise the Spaniards to go home. Now this weex we must really insist that the Senate take notice of the emergency and proceed to consider the reform tariff. The tramp problem has become so per- plexing in the East that some reformers advocate the death penalty for habitual hobos. R e Now that China is coming to the front as a cotton-producer the Sunny South will soon cease to hurl defiance at the “‘robber tariff,” Michigan proposes Senator Burrows as her candidate in the Presidential race, and, of course, there is room for him to come in if he wist Huntington has ridden his Kentucky horse a long time in security, but now the reins have dropped from his hands and the saddle is slipping off. 1f Democracy would subject itself to the cathode ray it might discover a whole lot of Presidential fossils lying around in various parts of its system. The disease which makes Turkey the sick man of Europe must be something infectious, for all the doctors are very care- ful to keep their hands off. Belva Lockwood will not be a candidate for the Presidency this year. Shehas been disbarred for taking an excessive feeina pension case and that bars her out. Eastern gold-bug papers refer to Till- man's speech as *‘pitchfork eloquence,” but the chances are it felt to Cleveland more like a bayrake or a gangplow. That California is the home of a most extraordinary diversity of products is at- tested by the fact that it even produces some people who favor the refunding scheme, Coast defenses, naval extension, tariff reform, reciprocity and the Monroe doc- trine are all included in the Republican demand for a complete American protec- tive system. One of the richest mines in the Cripple Creek district is named in honor of the Wichita Eagle, but alas for -our contempo- rary, while the mine is full of gold the honor is empty. Reform in local Democracy would not amount to much even if it went to the ex- tent ol a revolution. You can’t improve the odor of a grbage cart by simply changing the driver. Up to date the only Democrats named as Presidential candidates have been named by Republicans. The subject seems to be one on which the Democracy has been knocked speechless. We are now promised that Congress will complete its work by June and after that our over-worked Senators will not have to undergo the fatigue of meeting every day and moving to adjourn. If there are any free-traders not cured of their heresy by the bitter medicine of the three years of depression, the threatened dose of oriental competition will undoubt- edly do the job for them. *I think it possible,” says the Secretary of the Interior, *for the Government to pursue some of the directors of the Pacific railroads for the recovery of the diverted funds.” And the people not only think it possible, but would like to see it done. il The first National gathering of Repub- licans took piace in Pittsburg on February 22,1856, and some Eastern Republican pa- pers are urging the celebration of the day this year as a party festival, but it ought not to be done. Thatday is for Washing- ton. The latest financial scheme submitted to Congress comes from the Merchants’ Asso- ciation of Boston, but as it asks for a gold reserve of $200,000,000 and an issue of 4 per cent bonds to provide it the Boston fellows might as well put it right back where they found it. Some time ago & movement was started in Germany to raise money by popular subscriptions to construct a ‘‘volunteer cruiser,”” but, despite the well-known inter- est of the Emperor in the subject, the movement has collapsed without raising money enough to pay the cost of the agi- tation. The Chamber of Commerce is none too #oon in beginning a campaign of education on the subject of the taxation of shipping. ‘The work should have begun long ago. It is full time, as the committee says, that our ship-owners should be put in a posi- tion o compete with the untaxed ships now doing the work our own ships should do. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, ¥EBRUARY 10, 1896. JUST PUNISHMENT. The great indignation of the Southern Pacific Company against the Secretary of the Interior for his refusal to issue patengs for granted lands until the railroad debt is settled will not fird much sympathy in California. It has never been the policy of the company to apply for patents until it had made contracts with purchasers for its granted lands and until these contracts had been performed and the land was ready to transfer. So long as no patent wasin existence the company held no title and therefore was not compelled to pay taxes to the State of California and the various counties in which the lands lay. Thus the company had a distinct advan- tage over all other land-owners in the State. It enjoyed all the advantages of the ownership of land without afy of its burdens or risks. It held millions ef land which it could sell, but for which it could not be taxed. Its privileges were extraor- dinary and exclusive and its policy selfish, injurious and unpatriotic. This was only one of the ways In which the company evaded payment of its taxes, The most scanaalous chapters in the his- tory of California concern transactions in tax-paying matters, Besides current ru- mors of corruption the State and counties have suffered enormous experse in fight- ing the company through all the courts in endeavors to make it pay taxes on prop- erty which it owned; the public schools have suffered and other property-owners have borne unjust burdens in conse- quence. All this seems to be coming home at last. Had the company long ago secured patents to its granted lands and paid its share of taxes these recent dangers would not have arisen. The Miners' Association is clamoring for an inspection of 1,000,000 acres of granted lands, in the belief that such an inspection would discover them to be mineral, and not patentable to .the company. The association is safe forthe present, for the Secretary of the Interior is determined not to issue any patents until the railroad debt problem is solved, and there is no way to compel him. The most formidable danger of all is that the Gov- ernment may foreclose its mortgage and take all the lands. SAFETY AND SENTIMENT. The arrest of two extraordinary young criminals, Majors and Willmore, at Oak- land has reopened an old debate and com- plicated it with sentiment, The boys are respectively 16 and 17 years of age. Majors’ father was a criminal of the most vicious order and was hanged for murder. The claim is now advanced in the son’s behalf that he possibly inherited his criminal instinct and therefore, being in a measure irresponsible, should be shown a certain lenity, In Willmore's defense it is urged that he was led astray by Majors. Hence it is insisted that they should not be treated as common criminals, shoutd not be sent to the penitentiary and thus forever disgraced and ruined, but should be given a chance in a reformatory institu- tion to realize their error and determine upon a better course in life. The logic'of such an argument is this: If Majors is a congenital moral idiotit would be impossible to instill moral competency into him; the only thing tbat might serve as a restraint is fear of severe pun- ishment and such fear could be better ac- quired in a penitentiary than in a reform school. Asfor Willmore, if he is so weak as to become subject to any evil influence Which he may encounter he will always be dangerous, as his weakness is manifestly of a negatively vicious c*araster. The main thing in his case is to keep him un- der restraint. But there is no evident right to assume that Willmore isless a moral idiot than Majors. That both of them are extremely dangerous young animals has been shown by their daring and by their carrying pis- tols with which to kill if necessary. They have asserted that if the arresting officers had not covered them with pistols they would haye killed in defense of their lib- erty. That they have not committed nu- merous murders may be ascribed to a trick of chance. Very properly the criminal laws take no cognizance of inherited vicious tenden- cies. That is the point at which the law and the doctors have been in conflict for many years. The more advanced position of alienists is that in cases of uncontrol- lable tendency to criminal acts, the State should go no further than keeping the criminal in restraint. This is drawing rather a fine distinction between imprison- ment in a penitentiary and ina prison called by some other name. Itisat cap- ital punishment in such cases that the op- position of the alienists is aimed, and hence their contention cannot be made to fit the cases of Majors and Willmore. It is the duty and privilege of society to protect itself. A moral idiot is far more dangerous to the community than a per- son fully clothed with a sense of re- sponsibility for his acts, and hence his treatment demands far severer methods. This does not mean to say that these methods need be plenary. Majors, not only by his crimindl acts, but also by his treatment of his mother, has proclaimed himself so lacking in material out of which a good man might be made, and so richly endowed with every criminal in- stinct, that lenity toward him would be a menace to the public safety. A HANDSOME GIFT. 1t is taken for granted that the Board of Supervisors will accept James D. Phelan’s proffer of a monument to be erected at the junction of Market, Turk and Mason streets. His selection of a subject for treatment—the Admission of California to the Union—is eminently fit by reason not only of the fact that Mr. Phelan is a native of the State, but also because he is one of the most enterprising of the younger generation of Californians. It is fortunate that he has abundant means with which to make his good will effective. His choice of Douglas Tilden, another native, as the sculptor, was wise and appropriate. There are & good many other young men in San Francisco, sons of wealthy men who made their fortunesin California, and it would be an interesting study to inquire into the extent to which they have applied their wealth in adorning the City and developing its natural beauties. The older generation have done exceedingly well, their public gifts and endowments running far up into the millions. It is true that a great deal of this was placed outside of 8an Francisco, but there is no complaint on that score. The millionaire pioneers who have passed away left sons and daughters to enjoy their parents’ bounty, and continue, in some cases, the great work of develop- ment which they dropped. For the most part these lead lives which would have been strange to their fatbers. The ad- vancement of Western culture and the fa- cility with which wealthy young men can find recreation and elevated companion- ship seem to have remoyed them from the sphere of broad human sympathy which can be acquired only by contact with the sterner conditions of existence and the earnest, struggling masses of lower and middle life. sin Again, the men who acquired great 2 wealth were necessarily possessed of large ability and understanding. The develop- ment and upbuilding of gigantic enter- prises is a vastly more potent force in the broadening of character than the manage- ment of that which has already been cre- ated. The man who amasses knows under what obligations to humanity he has placed himself; he who merely inherits hay uncommon wisdom if he discover in his character that which the exigencies of his life have neither created nor de- velaped. 1f there are those who regard this as an apology for the rich young men who have not made the most of their wealth for the public good, it must be deemed a misfortune that the necessity for such an apology exists. There are other young men besides Mr. Phelan who have shown an appreciation of their responsibility as well as their power, and they should be reserved from this estimate. But there are yet opportunities for the profitable ex- ercise of their activity, and those who best and soonest show their appreciation of the fact will the more quickly impress the community with their value as citizens. THE EUROPEAN EXO0DUS. An English paper so bold as Freir's Co- lonial and Foreign Register (London)is a very uncommon thing. Just what is its standing with the English Government we are not informed, but it is difficult to im- agine a British paper urging Englishmen to settle in British colonies that has not the sanction of the Government. But the Register does not stop at that. While evi- dently preferring that Englishmen should emigrate to British colonies, it would rather see them come to the United States than remain in England. Its reasons for this are very strongly stated. ‘“Are you satisfied with living in Great Britain,” it asks, *‘where you spend your life drudging in some occupation for a mere pittance, perhaps? Why not go abroad, where you are wanted and where you can meake a good income, and with every possibility of your building up a fortune for yourself and your successors? In densely overpopulated Great. Britain your remaining here is a detriment to yourself and to the whole nation at large. Every day it is becoming increasingly dif- ficnlt o make a living in this country. In all new countries this is reversed. Good incomes await energetic men in various colonies and some foreign countries, and for those possessed with good intelligence and powers of steady hard work there are fortunes to be made.” After further pursuing the distressing condition in Eneland and lauding the colonies the Register iurns its attention to the United States: *“The United Statesa century ago was a scarcely known coun- try, given up, save in the extreme east, to Indians and wild nature generally. To- day the United States is settled from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the largest in- telligent collection of people in the world. Its citizens are per capita perhaps the richest and most independent of all the nations of the globe, The settlers whose energy has caused this phenomenal de- velopment made large fortunes, now being enjoyed by their lucky descendants.” And more of that sort. ‘We have beard intelligent men in San Francisco declare that the good lands of the country have all been taken, and that this is a sufficient reason not only for checking immigration, but also for turn- ing Earope’s poverty-stricken hordes to still newer countries. As a matter of fact we have not yet learned in this country the rudiments of agriculture. A Portu- guese or Italian can make money on land that we would not deign to cultivate, and a Getman can transform a desert into a garden. The agricultural resources of this country have hardly been touched, and when properly developed might be made to supvort in comfort a-hundred times as many people as we have. California alone, with irrigation and intelligent farm- ing, could support a fourth of all the in- babitants of the United States., Unhap- pily England bas not sent us its farmers, for as a rule they are very poor and do not own their land ; but there is room here for them, and he is a very dull American who is unwilling or unable to learn agriculture from the skilled farmers of Europe. COAST EXCHANGES. The Los Angeles Investor, after citing the fact that the electric company which takes its power from the Kern River, with the intention of transmitting it to Los Angeles, has secured frauchises from both Kern and Los Angelés counties, notes that a right of way through the Government forest reservation will next have to be secured by act of Congress. It was an- nounced in THE CArL a few days ago that a bill providing for a right of way twenty-five feet wide for poles and wires over Govenment land has been introduced in Congress. This, if passed, will do away with the necessity for special acts, and the presumption is that forest reservations will come within its scope. If there is any doubt about it the bill should be made to cover that point. There is an enormous amount of water power in the Sierra behind the Government forest reservations. and in time it will be in de- mand for the development of the San Joaquin Valley. The Riverside Press announces that Red- lands is soon to have electric lights. It says: ‘‘The contract having beenawarded to the California Electric Works of San Francisco for furnishing Riverside withan electric lighting plant, the work of con- structing the same will soon be commenced. It is estimated that at the end of four months the electric lights will be turned on over the valley, and all the city’s main streets and avenues will be brilliantly lighted with electricity. The Republican-Press of Ukiah is con- cerned lest the complications which have recently arisen in the affairs of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway may prevent the proposed construction of the Low Gap line by that company and the consequent development of a valuable sec- tion of Mendocino County. Since J. B. Stetson of the North Pacific Coast Rail- road secured the 18,000 shares of the S8an Francisco and North Pacific that were held by the Seligmans, Sidney V. 8mith, one of the leading stockholders in the latter line, has proposed to transfer his interestto Mr. Stetson. This would work a virtual consolidation of the two lines. As has been already published, steps have been taken by Mr. Smith’s associates to restrain him from making the sale, and of course nothing can be done until that matter i settled. Evidently our Ukiah contempo- rary fears that the consolidation would be deirimental to Mendocino County, as it says: “The final result of the present con- troversy will be watched with great inter- est by the residents of Russian River Val- ley, and with one accord they hope that the present management will remain in control. If it does they regard the Low pr Toad as a certainty, and the enterprise ::’ig prove of lasting benefit to Mendo- 0. The Jnvestor is a new monthly started in San Francisco with the intention of devot- ing its energies (o the dissemination of ave- nues of investment. The Weekly Pepulist of Fresno Has re- . duced its subscription price and is work- ing earnestly to advance Populism in the San Joaquin, ‘The Watchman, an exceedingly spirited Democratic weekly, has made its appear- ance at Fresno, evidently in anticipation of the good times which the Valley road will bring, 23 it says: ‘‘When the coming spring brings the bridging, grading and building for the Valley railroad, and also inspires the Fresno farmer with the match- less beauty of our flower-carpeted plains, there will be workmen and wages enough to make better times. We predict that next May there will be quantity, quality and speed to the renewed arterial biood in Fresno’s channels of business enterprise.” The Los Angeles Trade Review has been sold to the Commercial Bulletin of the same city, which gives evidence of prosperity and strength. Colusa has a new paper, the Guard, pub- lished in the interest of the American Protective Association. It makes & prom- ising start, The Rev. H. B. Swafford has started the Home Advocate at Arbuckle with encour- aging prospegts. F. W. Middaugh and John O. Moore have begun the publication of a bright paper named the Independent at Harring. ton, Wash, The California Fruit-Grower (S8an Fran- cisco) promptly calls the California Cultiva- tor (Los Angeles) to account for asserting that the olive section of California extends no farther north than the Santa Ynez and Tehachapi Mountains, The Fruit-Grower says: “The last official estimateof the acreage of olive orchards in the State was published by the State Board of Horticul- ture in 1892. At that time the bearing olive orchards in the State amounted to 2883 acres, of which 1889 acres were within the territory known as Southern California, and referred to by the Cultivator as being sous. of the Tehachapi Mountains. To north of that and including Central and Northern California, there were 994 acres of bearing olive trees. Of the orchards not then in bearing the southern section com- prised 1758 acres, and the northern section comprised 3356 acres, or nearly 100 per cent more. * * * Nowhere in Southern Cali- fornia or elsewhere are better crops of olives produced than in a number of coun- ties, some of which are 400 miles north of the northern limit of the ‘olive belt’ as defined by the Cultivator. All the couns ties round about San Francisco Bay and throughout the interior, including all the river counties, produce fine olives that pay good profits. As a matter of faci no better crops of olives can be produced in Los Angeles County or Santa Barbara County than in Butte County, 500 miles farther north.” The Ferndale Enterprise has fallen into the procession of progress and is now fur- nishing Humboldt County with a high- class semi-weekly in place of the old! weekly form. Mrs. Helen Gregory Flesher, an accom- plished newspaper ané¢ magazine writer of this City, has bought Society, a sparkling monthly devoted to social matters, and will likely soon transform it into a weekly, The Marysville Appeal has sent a repre- sentative to inspect the new creamery at Knights Landing and reports that it is one of the finest plants in the State. Itadds: *‘Forty-five hundred pounds of milk were received the first day and convertea into 275 pounds of butter, This amount will be doubled during the next month.” One of the features of the plant is a re- frigerator capable of making ice in the meain manufacturing-room within twenty minutes after starting the machine and of reducing the storage-rooms twenty-five de- grees below freezing point. A hundred farmers in the vicinity of San Leandro and twenty-five at Santa Ross, are preparing to make experiments in beet culture, with a view to the establishment of sugar refineries. The Gridley Herala announces that the Beet Sugar Improve- ment Association of that place recently wrote to Ciaus Spreckels, in order to ascer- tain definitely what he requires to be done before he will consider the proposition of erecting a sugar factory, and received the following reply from E. H. Sheldon, Mr. Spreckels’ secretary. Asthe matter is of great importance to many other commu- nities, the ietter is here reproduced: “In reply to your letter to Claus Spreck- cls he instructs me to state that before considering the question of establishing o beet factory in uny locality he must first be satisfied of two things, viz.: “First—That there are 30,000 acres of good available beet land in the immediate vicin- ity of the proposed factory. *“I'his in order that 10,000 acres may be planted to beets each year. The land, after raising beets, has to be planted to other crops for two successive years in order to recuperate. ‘‘Second—That he must have samples of beets grown from seed imported by us, for testing the saccharine, from quarter-acre patches here and there all over these 30, 000 acres, so0as to assure him that there will be no lack of material on which to work. “We can furnish you seed at 15 cents per pound, the price it costs us to import from Germany, and the same kind we use at our Watsonville factory. “I inclose you ‘printed instructions for raising beets, and will be glad to hear from you again,” The F resno Interior has issued a superb special edition in honor of the Fresno citrus fair. It contains twenty pages, is printed on heavy book paper and is illus- trated with handsome half-tone pictures. It would be a most valuable agency for advertising the orange resources of Fresno. MONDAY MORNING HUMOR. ““Whet did you buy this piece of music for?”’ asked Mr. Darley, crossly, as he took up s sheet from the piano, “I bought it for a song,” replied Mrs, Darley, sweetly.—Detroit Free Press. “‘Dearest girl of all,” was the way the letter began. In those few words he ‘‘queered”” him- self. “Ofall!” she said softly to herself. “Then there are others!”’—Cincinnati Enquirer, “ All the good things have been sald—" Staylate murmured with s eigh; Mabel yawned and shook her head. “ Well, suppose you try ‘good-by." Lousviile Counrier-Journal Alberta—He must be in earnest, and those places where his letter sticks together must be tears. Alethes—They’re not tears, but they prove Dpositively that he loves me—they are where he dipped his pen in the mucilage.—Judge. » 01d Friend—You were 8 poor boy 1in college ‘weren't you?” Worker—Yes; I had to work my way shrough by teaching. 01d Friend—What did you teach? ‘Worker — Billiards, principally.—Spare Mo- ments, A young man had been talking toa bored editor for a quarter of an hour, and at last ob- servea: “There are some things in this world that go without saying,” “‘Yes,” sald the editor, “and there are still more persons in the world who say a good deal without going.”—Tit-Bits. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Eugene B. Rail. the man who built the first bardware store in Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is down from the mountains, and is at the Palace Hotel, looking at the coast politics and breathing in large quantities of salt ses breeze. Mr. Rail, while a men of but few words, and those well chosen and to the point, has a peculiar faculty of observing things con- tiguous to him. ‘It makes me laugh,” said he to some friends yesterday, “to hear people talk about the farmers from the country and the jays from the cow bollows, but if you want to ome- thing real funny and st the same time some- thing unique I would respectfully call your attention to the fact that the city man in the country is several times funnier than the couns try men in the city. “Gentlemen, I give you my word that the best thing I ever saw was a San Francisean trying to make himself appear familiar with the customs of inhabitants of the interior towns. He arrived in Carson some three weeks 8g0, and the first break he made was to stand around the depot for three hours waiting for a cable-car to come along. He would have been PERSONAL, R. J. Roberts of Los Angeles is at the Russ, Thomas Keene, the actor,isat the Ow-nul Captain R. Dickens. U. 8 M. C., is st the Palace. J.F. Andrews and wife of Chicago are at the le::,:;e H. Krait, s banker of Red Bluff, isat the Grand. Loyis James, the sctor, and 'wife are at the idental. Ocl::‘ Brewster Highet and wife of New York are at the Palace. George Smith of Biack Diamond is st the Russ with his wife. J. W. Rose, the Healdsburg attorney, is reg- istered at the Russ. William Thomas, 8 mining man from Doug- 1as Flat, is at the Russ. Charles Kunze, the Stockton brick msnu- facturer, is at the Russ. C. E. McCain, s San Diego business man, is at the Grand with his wife, James Warburton, a wealthy merchant of Fall River, Mass,, who isen route home from E. B. Rail of Carson, Who Has Discovered That the City Man Is Very Funny in the Country. [Sketched from life by @ “Call’ artist.] there yet if a baggege-smasher had not told him that the hotel was across the street. “‘Next he went into a barber-shop and looked all over the place for a messenger-call and a telephone, but finding none he got shaved and offered the tonsorialist 15 cents! I suppose you know that Carson is a two-bit town. He paid his bill just as though somebody was sandbagging him. After he left the barber- shop, where he failed to get an egg shampoo, he walked into a barroom and called for a mixed drink such as people buy in the Palace Hotel. Next he inquired for imported Turkish cigarettes, and concluded the evening by pay- ing a boy 10 cents to conduct him to the Ham- mam Baths. “The youngster directed him to Slingerland’s Hot Springs, two miles from town, and the San Franciscan finally concluded to go to bed and sleep over his discomforts. He arrived at the foot of the stairs and stood in front of a door leading to the uflice, under the impression that it was the elevator entrance. He remained there about ten minutes, and finally walked P “‘On the following day, very late, however, owing to the fact that he had been able to enjoy a long refreshing sleep in the high mountain air, be went out back of the billiard- room and sat down at & poker table, where he lingered nearly half an hour waiting for & waiter to come and ask him what he wished for breakfast. That was his crowning act of cityfication, and fell heavily upon him when the barkeeper sent a deck of cards and in- quired is he wished to play solitaire. “In the afternoon he called on some State officials, and was amazed when he inquired tor any of them to find that they were gener- elly the ones to let him in instead of having to wade through a phalanx of porters, office boys and private secrotaries. He was permitted to Tun at large all over the city, and no one dis- turped him in the least. ‘‘He has found that he cannot buy all the daily papers in Carson for a nickel, and that when you want anything you have to call for it. He has taken a fancy to the place, how- ever, and can be found any afternoon with his {feet on & table enjoying himself and acting as though he liked the people.” THE CAKES OF PAN. Bards sing that Pan is dead, ‘That maidens mournful-eyed Lament his spirit fled From field and fair hillside; Forsooth, when all is said, When éve; For all the kinds of bread That man hath multiplied; Joy doth most radiant ride ‘When, from the curving can, Ye flood with maple-tide The toothsome cakes of Pan, Prince, though ye may derlde ‘Their steaming eream and Give me, each morning-tide, The toothsome cakes of Pan! IRVING GILMORE in New York Sun. TO HAVE A NEW HOME. A BUILDING To BE ERECIED FOR MR. HEARST'S NEW YORK PAPER. It was reported yesterday that William R. Hearst, proprietor of the Journal, would build alarge structure uptown for his paper. The story runsthat his mother, the widow of Senator Hearst of Californis, had promised her son that as soon as the Jonrnal’s circulation haa reached a certain point she wonld erect a building for him. It is understood thatthe circulation has reached this point, and that ar. rangements have been made toward securing another home tor the Journal. It is said that Mr. Hearst has practically secured the Victoria. hotel property, Twenty-seventh street, Fifth avenueand Broadway. Mr. Hearst could not be seen last night, but Mr. Lawrence, the acting managing editor, smiled when he heard the rumor,and said: “Mr. Hearst has already anuounced in the Journal his intention of moving into s new building, but just when I c-n’g tell. New ildings cost money, and I really couldn’t enlighten you in the matter, We intend to move, but when I don’t know,” The Victorla was iormerly & well kno hotel, and President Cleveland, the Britis ‘mbassodor and other prominent men were often its guests before it was closed, It is ow e Paran Stevensestate.—N, o',, February 3, g a trip to Australis and Honolulu, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. W. J, Lewis, & millionaire of Racine, Wis., is registered at the Palace. L. N. Breed, the Los Angeles banker, is at the Occidental with his wife. John 8. Watson and wife of Fargo, N. Dak,, have rooms at the Palace. ‘W. Waterman, & wholesale hardware dealer of Sycamore, Ill., is at the Russ. Frank L. Coombs, ex-Minister to Tokio, is down from Napa and is at the Grand. Captain Marion P, Maus, U. 8. 4., is in town from Benicia, and is at the California. Alexander Gunn is at the Grand. He has just returned from a tour through India. George Gill, the well-known mining man of Australia, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. William H. Swift of Boston is at the Occi- dental, having just returned from Hawaii. L. A. Spitzer, the Assessor of Santa Clara County, isup from San Jose and is at the Grand. J. D. Hayne, the Honolulu editor, is up from the islands. He is registered at the Occidental. Welter R. Morgan, a mining man from the coalfields of Black Diamond, Wash., is at the Grand. James P. Taylor, a manufacturer of Newark, N.J., is at the Russ with his daughter, Miss Taylor. G. P. Castle is registered at the Occidental. Heis a well-known commission merchant of Honolulu. L. J. Hanchett, the railroad map, has re- turned from & visit of nearly two months to Nevada; he is at the Grand. Mrs. Steinman, wife of Mayor Steinman of Sacramento, is at the Grand, accompanied by Miss Steinman and Miss Ella Steinman. L J. Paderewski is at the Palace registered from Paris. Hugo Gorlitz of London accom- panies the pianist as his business manager. M. P. Morgan of Angels is at the Grand. He has been beokk-eper for the great Utica mine for a number of years, and is now interested with Tom Lane in developing & new mine. 8. W. Wilcox, & planter on the Hawaiian Islands, is registered at the Occidental. Mrs, Wilcox and daughter sre also making the Oc- cidental their temporary home while on the continent, SUITS FOR BOYS. The jackets of this season have a feature which will recommend itself to any woman attempting to make boys’ jackets, and that is the patch pockets, which are made of the mu- terial and fastened with buttoned flap. The button can be either of bone ormade of the cloth of jacket covered over & mold. The four- button sack coat is the best accepted gnenl wear for the spring. 'A'IA“:,la - eviots, cashmeres and homespuns make up { for best suits the same style is fol. l‘c'glidfi‘l’wuh the fabric is usuelly & smooth. faced ¢loth or a dark diagonal. The coat buttons m ernquihlsh, and the sleeves should be finished with two or three buttons st the cuff. Boys’ costs are easier to make than meny mothers imn?inc, if the cloth is not too heavy. The pressing and neatly stitched finish lrekthe most aifficult points for ome dressmaker. 'h’fehl:a krees trousers shown are cut very straight to a point below the knee, and finished very square. Whole suits of the same goods are tha best style, and it is adyisable to ‘make or pur- chase an extra pairof trousers to every suit, especially for the youngest boy. ——e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Ellen Terry is passionately fond of children, and delights in telling them fairy stories. The King of Korea has ordered the use of the Gregorian calendar, beginning with this year. Miss Estelle Reel, State Superintendent of Education in Wyoming, is seriously talked of for Governor. While he was in Richmond, Ind., the other day, General 0. 0. Howard spoke of his alieged Presidential boom in such a way as to indicate that he is not losing much sleep over it. Dimmick, the great elephant catcher, says that ivis declared on good authority that but twenty-four white elephants have been caught since the commencement of the Christian era. Miss Jennie Young of Scotland has been in Mexico for some time arranging for the pur- chase of land fora large Scotch colony which she 1ntends to bring over soon. She is greatly impressed with Mexico, and believes that im- migrants from Europe will soon flock to it. Chauncey M. Depew never takes anything stronger than & glass of champagne, and that only after a long and exhausting speech. In former years he smoked jncessantly. Five years ago he came to the conclusion that cigars were & tax upon the stomach snd he quit them, General Valeriano Weyler of the Spanish army, the new captain-general of Cuba, is said to be of Irish extraction, is 60 years old and extremely energetic. He distinguished him- self during the Carlist war, and attracted at- tention during the Spanish war against the Moors in Africa. General Bourbaki of France is now nearly 80 years of age and in precarious health., He was borp at Pau the year following the battle of Waterloo. Bourbaki, while retreating before Manteuffel’s army toward Switzerland, tried to blow out his brains, and for weeks hovered between life and death. Mrs, Fannie M. Merryfield has one of the best telegrap hing records in the country. For thirty years she bas been an expert, For the last twelve years Mrs. Merryfleld has been in Cheyenne, holding the position of mnight wire chief and having in charge eight duplex and two quad sets, besides the Wheatstone repeat- ers and Moyse repeaters. M. Diebler, the famous executioner of Paris, 'was recently sent to Corsica to guillotine a bri- gand. Upon arriving there he was all but mobbed, and owed his life to the strong guard of soldiers which accompanied him. The Cor- sicans followed him abont with jeers ana exe- crations, and he was informed that an expert merksman had been selected to put & bullet through his head at the first opportunity. Booker T. Washington, the famous Southern negro leader, at a recent social gathering, told how he ecquired his last name, as follows: “‘Before the war the slaves all went by the name of their master, but as soon as freed they almost invariably wished to change it, feeling that they were his property no longer. My mother called me Booker Taliferro, after two old Virginia families. When I entered school at Hampton and one after another was called on to give his name to the teacher, it suddenly oceurred to me thatlhed no surname, and T as suddenly decided to take that of Wash. ington.” | PURE mixed candies, 10c1b. Townsend’s. * ————— GENTINE eyeglasses, 15¢ to40c. 8134 Fourth, barber. Bundays, 738 Market (Kast shoestore),® —————————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Buresu (Alten's), 510 Montgomery, * ————— Johannis Is conceded to be the finest table water ever imported. . “They say eggs should layers.” “Yes, and onions in tiers.”—Brooklyn Lite. always be packed in ‘WaR 18 declared against disease by Hood's Sarsa- parills, which purifies, vitalizes and enriches the blood. Pure blood means good health, and the way to have pure blood is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, —_— * Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrap” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moti ers for their children while Teething with parfeas success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, at- Iays Paln, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowsiy and is the best remedy for Diorrhesas, whathee arising from teething or other causes. For sais 57 Druggists in every parto? the world. Be sureani ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing SYrip 4sd + bottle. ———— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and s entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay 82 50 per day, Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. NEW TO-DAY. An easy-chair that fits— not in spots, but fitsall over. Sit down ; arm-rests just in the right place; shaped back—fits evenly all up and down ; adjust yourself so the head-rest strikes the back of your neck—there ! Comfort, solid comfort. . $28.50;0ak frame; covered in heavy wool tapestry. . Different grades of "cover- ing—different costs. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. Our aste Hams, for a limited time, reduced to 124 cts. Marked weights never used. Provision Dept. Smith's Weekly Specials are money savers, SMITHS' CAsH STORE, 414, 416, 418 FRONT ST, 5. F,