The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1896, Page 6

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FOL! pecial A:pm: WEDNESDAY the sunsi Now, then, bring on the festivals. | March came in like a lion, but he had a ficece like Mary’s little lamb. How would *‘Free Cuba or Fight'’ do for on cry this suinmer ? but Kentucky is Huntington may fear competition v places, but never on the witness- Mr. m in stand. g The House drew the sting out of the bee of the Senatorial resolutions, but left the honey. The world knows now that Califcrn can break a weather record as well as any other kind, Snowstorms in California are never much than European war flurnes, and as quickly. 1 Fortunately the Spanish embroglio co- incides with the cold snap, and we can warm up on war talk. The next time the Spaniards have a bu | will call the bull Uncle Samand | it out of his hide. 1 in the Stanford case m ight, but on that day Cali- a snowstorm. he same in the Eastasiti at was a frolic snowsto as a blizzard in Boston. Attorney Harmon’s opinion | puts Uncle Sam on the gutside of ever: thing except the snowdrifts. After finding two tunes in Chinese music | Paderewski should bave listened for a| while to a Democratic harmobny. | It is now said the cathode ray is a germi- | ide, and there is a chance 1t may yet be | e lively enough to kill fleas. The Senate has passed the bill providing | for a naval station on Goat Island, and it is going to be a great place for rams. Now that both houses of Congress have ed trumps on the Cuban question | i st follow suit or lose the | There is no danger of war, but there isa | ufficient chance of it to make preparation on our parta good business propo- e fellows who predicted a dry winter might find it profitable to turn their prophecy mills into rain-making ma- chines. The deficit in the treasury is a hole into which Democracy will fall this year, no matter what kind of platform .is built over it. After waiting so long before recognizing the independence of Cuba it is a pity that Congress decided to burry up and do it on a cold day. If the war talk of the season leads to etter coast defenses and an increase of the navy it will not be unprofitable talk by any means, The resolutions in favor of Cuban inde- pendence are certain to bave some effect, and if we do not have action we may look for reaction. There is only one climate in the world where you can have lilies blooming and snow on the ground in the same garden, and we've got it. It goes without saying that none of the financial statements of this administra- tion will ever be used as a Democratic campaign document. The public debt, less cash in the treasury, increased nearly $16,000,000 in February, and the consistency of the Democratic record was preserved. Stockton makes a good offer for the Wil- merding school, but the school should make its home in San Francisco and stay where the students are. As there is reason to believe that the snow saved many fruit trees, we may as well put it down among the advantages of onr climate and begin to brag about it. « When the Donahue fountain and Steven- son fountain are added to the rest we shall have the right to call San Francisco the fountain city and challenge the world to competition. As the British propose to spend §5,000,000 if adding to the tary and naval equip- ment at Gibraltar, it is evident that while they may talk of peace they are not going to trust to nature to keep it. rsl e e i All the votes cast against the Cuban resolutions in the House came from Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. It was New England and the South against the rest of the country, There may be many differences between the brutality of prize-fighting and the manly sport of boxing to a finish, but the only difference apparent to the casual ob- server is that one has to hunt & hole in Mexico and the other plays to crowded Louses anywhere around New York or Boston, | issue was sold, §95,804.7: | man NATIONAL FINANCES. | The financial statement issued by the Treasury Department on Tuesday shows that during the month of February there was an increase of the interest-bearing debt | a decrease, but not suflicient to overcome | was an increase in the public debt, less‘ cash in the treasury, amounting to §15,-, 978,764 88, | The total deficit for the current fiscal | year is now in excess of $36,000,000, and | but four months of the year remain. What | chance is there on this showing for the | fulfillment of Carlisle’s prophecy of a sur- i plus at the end of the year? With what sort of face can the administration or its supporters in Congress any longer pretend that the existing-tariff is sufiicient for the revenue needs of the country and that further tariff legislation is net necessary for the public velfare? The condition of the gold reserve, more- over, is almost as bad as that of the reve- 1t is true the statement shows the | has now the full sum of 100,000,000, at which it has been fixed, but while of the $110,000,000 for which the recent bond has been paid in | gold on account, the net gain for the| treasury in gold coin and bars for the | moatn amounts to only $68,002,641. Very little gold, comparatively speaking, re- mains to be paid on the loan, but the drain | goes on continually, and it is only a matter | of time when the reserve will be bréken | again and a new Joan wil! be called for, It will be remembered that when in the recent debate on the tariff it was stated in the Senate that Cleveland had said no | further revenues are needed, Senator Sher- | replied: “I do not care what the | President says. Every one within the hearing of my voice knows there is a de- ficit in the revenue and that it is increas- ing every month.”” At that time Sherman estimated the total deficit for the current | fiscal year would exceed $30,000,000. It is| in excess of thatamountnow and is hardly likely to be reduced. It acts along with the | export of gold in draining the reserve and | the two combined keep up the endless chain that drags new bond issues into be- ing and increases the National debt by | leaps and bounds. In the face of these deficits Mr. Carlisle, who has repeatedly declared there would ; be no deficits, has been put forward as the Cleveland candidate for the Presidency. 1f | he estimates public opinion in the same | way he estimates public revenues he may | think there would be no deficit in hisvote, | and it wonld be pleasing to have the | Democrats give him a trial. | IN THE EVENT OF WAR. Should war oceur between the United | ates and Spain, which, to say the least, | is not imyossible, Cuba would not be the | sole objective point for the assaults of this | country. There lies in the Malay archi: pelago a group consisting of some 1200 islands, of which about one-third are in- habited, known as the Philippine Islands and composing one of the most cherished and vaziuable possessions of Spain. These islands contain a population of nesrly | 7.000,000 and have been for many vearsa | never-failing source of revenue to the Spanish Government. Spain took posses- | sion of these islands in 1564, Manila, the capital, was taken by the British in 1 and the city saved itself from plunder only | by agreeing to pay a ransom of $5,000,000. | These islands are known chiefly, it need | hardly be said, for their production and | export of the cigars known generally as fanilas, or cheroots, in which an enor- | mous business is done, especially with China, Japan and the Orient generally; bunt tobacco is not the only export from the Philippines. A few years ago (the latest figures available being used) these islands exported hemp to the value of $5,460,454, sugar to the value of $7,995,000, cheroots and tobacco $2,025,000, and coffee | $2,003,518, the total annual export being in pesos or practically silver dollars §$25,- | 251,140, | If, then, war shall come about between Spain and this country the Philippine Islands are certainly too rich and ripe a | plum to be left for Spain to gather. The | defenses of Manila are so insignificant as to be unworthy of comment, and the Span- ish troops 1n the islands are hardly more then a force of police or gendarmes. We could spare two, three or four ships from | the China squadron to blockade Manila— | and Manila is to the Philippines what Paris is to France—and submission would necessarily follow. We do not want the | Philippines, whatever may be the popular | sentiment as to Cuba, but if we must fight Spain it is clearly the part of wisdom to | cut off at once all her available sources of | revenue, and in this regard the Philippine | Islands should not be neglected or over- | looked. With Cuba and these islands cut | out of the cirenit Spain would find it next | to impossible to maintain her home Gov- | ernment, to say nothing of meeting the | expenses of a war with such a Nation as | the United States. | THE TRANSPORTATION FACTOR. The fact that no single question of in- dustrial concern can be considered apart and treated as a separate entity has been curiously proved by the commission of seven empioyes in the British iron indus- i try and seven representative workmen in other trades, who recently visited Belgium and Germany for the purpose of ascertain- ing why those countries could underbid England in neutral markets. It had been assumed that the case was explainable on the ground of lower wages in those coun- tries than in England, and hénce there was sympathy for the underpaid operatives of the Continent. But the commission has reported that while wages are lower in Belgium than in Engiand they are not appreciably lower in Germany, and that as a matter of fact the rate of wages is an inconsigerable item in the problem. The simple ex- planation lies in the lower rates of trans- portation that prevail in the Continental countries. These rates are one-half those for long hauls in England. Thus the Bel- gians can send iron by rail a hundred miles to Antwerp at a lower rate than'is charged in England from Staifordshire to London. This is largely because the Eng- lish roads form combinations for keeping up rates. Asa result England cannot com- pete with the Continent and is losing the business of supplying even its own colo- nies. The excuse for traffic arrangements among railroads is that they prevent ruin- ous competition. If they can accomplish that, they certainly can govern the welfare of manufacturing industries and all other industries by means of their tariffs, and hence control the question of competition between countriesin these industries. This is a formidable power, holding the inter- ests of commerce in its grasp. That is to say, the rate of wages is by no means the sole determining factor governing the profit of industries; transportation rates, more comprehensive and powerful in their regulation than any possible result of la- bor combinations to control the rate of | nent—namely, Wages, are & most serious matier. Aside from railréad rates are otheritems of the cost of transportation that have a value of their own. portal ous thing. While the country is being stirred over thg idea of making good wagon roads in order to reduce the cost of transportation over them, we are informed | of the Nation to the amount of $75,252,350. | v gp inteliigent body of English work- | In the non-interest-bearing debt there Was | 1o, that raiiroad traffic arrangements in England are causing that country to lose | the other, and the net result for the month | jio export trade in manufactured products to Continental countries which tolerate no such arrangements, and which as a conse- quence are enjoying benefits lost to Eng- land by reason of the rapacity of English railroads. We are exactly in England’s position. MR. HARMON'S RASTE. The present trend of affairs at Washing- ton with reference to the adjustment of the debt of the Pacific roads is to regard the matter as a “business proposition” and ignore the knaveries out of which all the existing evils have come. Attorney-Gen- eral Harmon has stepped forth valiantly in support of this idea, and in doing so has exhibited a haste which overturns the precedent of his office and ties his hands if the Government should decide to pro- ceed against the roads on a plan taking cognizance of their old rascalities. In reply to questions ‘addressed to him | by the Hounse Committee on Pacific Roads he has expressed the opinion that if the officers or directors of a company make an unlawful issue of stock they are amenable to the lawful stockholders and not toa creditor of the company; that in plunder- ing the company by means of fraudulent | contracts made with themselves for con- struction they are amenable to the com- pany and not to the United States as a creditor; that if the Government should intervene as a complainant in order to es- tab) the rights of the company and ihe liability of the dishonest officers or di- rectors it would merely be representative of the company, wonld raise no issue that the company could not have raised and would be bounda by the statute of limitations applicable to the company. ‘This is exactly in line with the conten- tion that Mr. Huntington makes and that Senator Morgan of Alabama opposes. Its purpose is to shut off inquiry into the way in which the Central Pacific, by means of | its Contract and Finance Company, misap- propriated shares that could have been made to apply to the debt owing the Government if the company had desired to extinguish that debt. Mr. Harmon cites with evident satisfaction the decision of the Supreme Court in the Credit Mobil- ier case, but it should be remembered | that at that time the point vital tothe | present case had not been made promi- that by reason of the swindles perpetrated by the construction company the Government was defrauded, and that such was the purpose, or at least the inevitable result of that company’s | practices In any event i: was exceedingly bad | | taste for the Attorney-General to answer | the inquiries made by the committee, just it was altogether out of place for the | n over wagon roads is itself a seri- I AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Andre Lazard, the millionaire banker of Paris, whose father, the senior of Lazard, Freres & Co., amassed = fortune in San Fran- cisco in the early mining days, is an unassum- ing young man, He says he is giving no thought to money these days. He and his brother, Max Lazard, left Paris several months ago. “We are on a tour of the world,” said the former Mr. Lazard at the Palace yesterday, “‘and have been away from France and other money centers t0o long to know just what the conditions of the finances, generally speaking, are. In reference to money, situations change very rapidly. - “What is the statis to-day may be widely changed to-morrow. I am very certain the or other county our contingent of pupils to re- ceive instruction under 1h§s heqm?sl.r;l cost of gme “::?i m?ney.‘ wmledlrlz‘:m here comes the eans of instruction and the i “;‘:we oy : ¥ great majority to assume this would shock common sense and to thus subordinate 10 a very inferior interest the workingmen and their families here, would be not merely & gross injus but alndicrous monstrosity—to use the homely phrase, “the tail, indeed, wagging the dog.” Nor is there lng ergument in requiring the new institution {o be near the Staie Univer- sity. The two courses of instruction, or curri- culums, are widely apart, with little, if any, mutual relation, &nd as regards the govern- ment of the new institution, 8an Francisco has been found sufficiently convenient fox the re- gents' work generally in that line. It 1s understoed the selection of a site is to be made on the S1stof this month; there is, therefore, time to move fnbllc opinion on the subject, and to that end I venture to bespeak, |Sketched from life Andre Lazard, the Great Banker of Paris, Whose Father Was a Pioneer Banker 3 of San Francisco. ¢ by a “Call” artist.] situation is very different in New York to-day from what it was & month ago. Itissoallover | the world. ’ | *‘But, as T have been paying little attention | to money lately, I hesitate to say much about | committee to propound theinquiries. Mr. | it. No,Inever was in &an Franciso before, Harmon's corporation afiiliations are no- | torious, but no one ever - believed that he | would have the hardihood to tie the hands | of the legal branch of the Government by | a hasty and almost flippant opinion on a | subject involving the Government's claim to many millions of doilars. The admin- | istration wili beina ridiculous plight if circumstances should require it to proceed with foreclosure against the Pacific roads. THE NAVAL RESERVE. William Thaw Denniston has published a highly suggestive plan for develoving the efliciency of the American naval re- serve. It contemplates an organization and functions altogether distinct from those of the regular navy and occupying a posi- tion about half way between the army and the navy and serviceable to hoth. He points out the folly of expecting to make marines out of bodies of men by giving them a short cruise on a man-of-war once a year, declaring properly that the busi- ness of a marine is one reguiring years and constant practice to master. His idea is simply to abandon the plan of giving the reserve a sea training and to make it pro- ficient in the art of defending the coast. In case of a war with England that country would have two convenient bases of operatiors from which to assail our At- lantic seaboard—Halifax ana the Bermu. das, each only two days.distant from our coast. Not only are the heavy commer- cial and manufacturing interests of the United States centered largely in exposed cities directly upon or lying near the At- lantic Coast, but the great manufactories of arms are there situated, and their cap- ture and destruction by an enemy would paralyze our defense. In the one city of New Haven, for instance, absolutely un- protected. are the Winchester Arms Com- pany, the Marlin Firearms Company and the Ideal Manufacturing Company, while the investment of New York and Wash- ington would be an unthinkable calamity. Whatever account the navy may give of itself in defending the coast, the fact re- { mains that the fortified defenses them- selves are ridiculously inadequate and that there is such an enormous stretch of coast to wuard that it might be impossible to assemble our vessels promptly at any particular point threatened with a formid- able fleet. Now it is not the business of the navy to have a thorough knowledge of every point on the coast to be defended, and as the local garrisons have all that properly belongs to them as soldiers there is no adequate provision for an arm of the service which the naval reserve might be made to represent, The business of the reserve would be to make a special study of the coast and its defenses, and to per- form the work of scouting, signaling, dis- patching, torpedo laying and working, organizing mosquito fleets, training volun- teers and the like. For carrying out the general idea of a coast defense the writer suggests that the coast be divided into zones, the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf and Lakes; each zone divided into districts and each district divided into a twofold defense, one being active, in- cluding the cruisers, torpedo-boats, dis- patch-boats and the bodies of the reserve, the other passive, including fixed tor- pedoes, batteries and bodies of soldiers. That seems a comprehensive scheme of coast defense. Because tue president of the University of Wisconsin has been accused by the people of that State of being too aristo- cratic, the Detroit 7ribune advises him to meet the requirements of Wisconsin so- ciety by ‘‘expectorating in his whiskers and trying to smell like a wolf.” 1f this does not lead to an interstate war it will be because the weather of the lake States is too cold for anything up there to get red hot. ; The estimates submitted to the British Parliament on Monday call for more than $100,000,000 for naval purposes, and Mr. Goschen stated that the exchequer could supply the money without borrowing. Compare that showing with the dericit in our own treasury and it will be seen what country has derived most benefit from the free-trade tariff. ‘We lost the game in the suit against the Stanford estate, bnt the stakes are ours, though my father was one of the pioneers here. Iam seeing it for the first time.” | Itissaid the Lazardsstand close up to the Rothschilds now with their wealth, it having grown greatly in recent years. Besides their house in Paris they have one in London and another in New York. The New York house does the biggest exchange business of any in America. It handles an amount of gold that is unapproached by any other bank of the country. Andre Lazard speaks Englisn as fluently as eny Californian. 7 He appears to be about 27 years old. The brothers will remain here | probably several weeks. They ate ltrgely in- terested in the London, Paris and Ameriean Bank here, the successor of the house founded by the elder Lazard. “UNDRESS PARADE.” Of “dress parade” you ail have heard, And, aoubtiess, you ha: The trampling linés of solid blue Wheel grandly oo the gréen. But I've an army which, I'm sure, “Though you Jook far and near. Though you bunt north, south, east and west Has not 10-day & peer. And every night, at eight o'clock, 1ts line of march Is made, And the noise of drums tells me it comes To give “Undress Parade.” A prouder Geueral than I Ne'er issued 8 command: A prouder army than my own Exists notin the land. Two drummers always lead the way, Then come the rank and file. With hends erect, and faces front, ‘They march, they Balt, the while § 1 make inspection o7 them all, Of uniforms and guns; And then I call, “Attention all “Now march! By twos! By ones™ At last, when T am satisfied That everything is right; That curls are brushed, and faces clean, And uniforms are white. I ory out, “Company, break ranks!"’ | The sound each one alarms; | For straightway, on the “double quick,’ They run into my arms. The drums are dropped and muskets, too: Each nides his ourty head, And hugs me tight and says, “Good night " Then scampers off to . FRANCIS CHUKCHILT, WILLIAMS. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE STEVENSON MONUMENT. A SUGGESTION THAT IT BE BUILT IN TI'E FoRM OF A LIGHTHOUSE. To the Editor of the Call—S1&: On examining the pictures of the proposed fountain to be erected on Portsmouth square that appeared in THE SUNDAY CaLL the one by Tilden is un- guestionably the most artistic of the five, still that does not satisfy our 1deal of the subject—a beautiful and arustic fountain is very rare. Would it not be appropriate to erect one in the form of a lighthouse substituting a ship for the usual lantern bn the top? The immediate base representing a rocky cliff with water trickling down %etwun the rocks. .But if there should be an objection to the waterfall on account of waste this could be arranged so as to be turned on when occasion might re- (l;:lre; the basin might be made ornamental. t there be no hurry, but take time to con- sider the subject, forwe had better not have anything thar: a clumsy unsightly object to regret. Itshould not only be & monument to & scholar, but an ornament to the neighbor- hood. By all means let the monument be laced in Portsmouth square, for the za af- lords plenty of room snd the fountain would be & great convenience. SUBSCRIBER. THE WILMERDING DONATION. WHY THE ScHooL ¥or WHICR IT PROVIDES SHOULD BE LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO. Tothe Editor of The Call—SIR: In your paper of a few days ago appeared a notice of a meeting of the State University Regents, held to con- sider the selection of a site for the schaol pro- vided for by the Wilmerding donation. Inthe report of the proceedings it is stated thata very great numver of free sites Were offered to the regents from various places in the State, and notabiy from towns across the bay, re- questing the establishment there of the pro- posed institution; and while the promoters of the various sites were lavish in advocacy of their locations no one appeared to represent San Francisco in the case. Mr. Editor, as & “mere looker-on in na,’’ the writer of this dares,tosay that Whatever claim or fitness can be alvanced in {avor of any or all other sites will apply with at least equal force to & site in Ban Francisco, while to the selection of a site here Ban Fran- cisco has a claim—if not s positive right—of character and strength to which no otherplace in California can make any pretence. This “Wilmerding bequest or donation” is of San Francisco origin—the donor's life was spent here, all his business interests were here, s essociations and friendships. = His. fortune was made here, and we must suppose his great gift was me ors of the prosperous ere. ut beyond all this the conditions of puaunl into active use this great bequest should in- sure its location here. The beneficiaries of this ift are to be the working class, the mechanics and artisens of Clmornf- and their children, d nowhere have we or can we have r‘wa‘rk ing class in the stgu,uogxl in fhis City, which 18 the head and center of the and industrial enterprise of the snh. Shall we have to send over to Alameds, Contra Costs | . : Mr. Editor, the considerate influence of your able, upright and public-spirited journal, DUSTSTORW AT SEA. THAT OccULRiD OFF THE AFRICAN COAST. itor of the San Francisco Call i1 flotice in an issue of your journal an account of a “duststorm” experienced at sea. Think- ing it would be interesting to the public, I re- late & similar occurrence that happened when 1 in command of the British bark Fiora in « were bound from Cardiff to Monte- . When in latitude 20 dez. 00 min. north, longitude 27 deg. 00 min. west, being about GO0 miles from the coast of Africa, the weather being fine and the wind moderate from north- east, n peculiar kind of haze appeared, and'in a short time we found the rigging, sails and deck of the ship covered with a very fine red sand. We came to the conclusion that the dust had been raised by a sirocco in the deserts of Africa, and carried to the position where we encountered g i | Oceidental, 1896, VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. 3 i 01 onoma County, March 2, Alameda Telegram. This is & Republican year if the party stands united. 2 3 It Will Be Difficult. Bekersfield Californian. 1t will be very difiicult to convince unpreju- diced people that there were not some very questionable proceedings in connection with the late bond issuance. The Poolrooms Doomed. . Blue Lake Advocate. The poolrooms in San Francisco are literally doomed by thie decision of Judge Wallace sus- taining the ordinance egainst selling pools anywhere except on racetracks. The Key Note. Tulare Register. The Register firmly believes that if the sev- eral towns of our county are to be truly pros- perous the{ must establish in each of them some small industry which will furnish work for the psople. v England’s Sympathies. Los Angeles Times. Of course “English sympathies” are with Spain and on the side of oppression in the Cu- ban affair, English sympathies were also with the South during our eivil war, and John Bull paid well for the same in cold cash afterward. An Unjust Tax. Los Angeles Herald. To the man of wealth the annual payment of atwo dollar fine called a poll taxis a trifling matter, but to the man who is scarcely able to procure the necessities of life it is a hardshi There is no foundation in justice for any such tax. Governor Budd’s Proposition. Tulare Reglster. Governor Budd has made a proposition which islikely to be ‘‘catchy.” It is that inasmuch as liquor selling and liquordrinking have cansed much of the insanity and imbecility of the State, therefore there ought to be a uni- form liquor license throughout the State and a portion of such license ought to go to the sup- port of the State’s asylum. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “How tedious it is playing whist with such a partner as that Miss Gadabout!” “Yes; I believe thatgirl would ask the Angel Gabriel, ‘What's trumps? *’—Detroit Free Press, erkins, why does Lent last forty days?” ecause 1t takes most women that long to decide what kind of Easter bonnets they want.”—Chicago Record. “I like your appearance. Have you served in many families?” said Mrs. Jones to Matilda @nowball, who applied for a position. “I has been in more den twenty families in Dallasin de las’ yeah. I always wants ter know what is goin’ on ermong de society folks.”—Texas Sifter. “‘What is the amount of the poll tax, John?” asked Mra. Cawker. “One dollar,” replied Mr. Cawker. “When we women get the ballot we shall mark it down to 99 cents.”’—Harper’s Bazar. Wife—Whata happy looking couple those two are. I wonder how long they have been married. 3 Husband—Oh, I guess they’re only engaged. New York Weekly. Miss Quizzer—Do you believe all the disa. greeable things you read in the newspapers ? Miss Buzbug~I do if they're about people I know.—Roxbury Gazette. 5 g Head of Firm—Have you had any experience in collecting? ’ Applicant—I should say I had. Iused to be & country minister.—Judge. 0ld Washington Heights—And so you, a son of the Revolution, want to take our daughter from us. You want to take her from us sud- denly, without a word of warning? Young Harlemite—Not atall, sir. If there is anything about her you want to warn me against I'm wiiling to listen.—Harlem Life. “Gentlemen of the jury,” proceeded coynsel » for the defense, ‘‘1 warn you that the evidence agains: the accused is wholly circumstantial. Ali we know is that the deceased gave the prisoner his seat in & stre etcar and was subse- quently found dead. We have not a scintilla of proof that yonder woman thenked him.”"— Detroit Tribune. PERSONAL. E. B. Tyler of Tulare is at the Lick. Dr. N. L. Pace of Tulare is in the City. Dr. 0. H. Simons of Redding is in town. W. G. Thorne of Pheenix, Ariz, is at the Lick. F. C. Malpas, a business man of Portland, js in town. ' Colonel George T. Hooper of Sonoma is atthe Occidental. C. E. Tinkham, 8 business man oi Chico, is at the Grand. Senator A. P. Hall of Placer County arrived here yesterday. Rud Metz of Stelwits, Germany, is among re- cent arrivals here. Charles Cosgrove, a mining man of Angels, arrived here last night. Charles P. Masterson, a leading attorney of Tacoma, is at the Palace. Hon. Jeremiah Ryan, a well-known capital- ist of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. W. Linscott, Superintendent of Public In- struction at Santa Cruz, is in the City. F.J. Mason, a leading fruit-grower of New- castle, arrivea here yesterday and is at the Grand. C.E. Day, ex Commissioner of Los Angeles County, and long & business man in the city of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Patrick Walsh of Bodie, who has extensive mining interests in that part of the country, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. W. R. Fuller, formerly of Whittier, Fuller & Co., will leave for Los Angeles on the Corona in & day or two for 8 week’s visit there, C. F. McGlashan, long editor and proprietor of the Truckee Republican, and now manager of the Truckee Ice Carnival, is in the City. J.F. Clapp of Chicago, who some time ago became interested in mines in Tuolumne County, is atthe Grand, accompanied by sev- eral friends. Among leading Los Angeles people now here are the following: Joseph D.Lynch, formerly proprietor of the Herald; Senator S. M. An- drous, Deputy Sheriff Guy Woodward and C. E. Day, foreman of the Grand Jury. Colonel Jonn T. Harrington of Colusa, the battle-scarred veteran who has been in Ken- tucky in aid of Huntington for the last few weeks, arrived here yesterday, but soon after left for his home at Colusa. He was accom- panied by Mrs. Harrington. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., March 3.—Among recent arrivalsare: J. H. Fanning, Imperial; S, Folter and wife, W. L. Hughson, Grand; W. S. Lyon, Vendome; G. Atherstone, F. Marsh, Grand Union; M. I Lawrence, St. Cloud. AN ATTRACTIVE COMBINATION. The very newest shape in bodices is the coat basque in the Louis XVI style. The weist and skirt are generally of different materials, the latter being usnally of satin or smooth one-toned cloth. A handsome model seen had a skirt of gray cloth. The jacket was of tender leaf green with bright flowers strewn sparsely over its surface. The vest was of soft yellowish lace. The collarette revers and jacket edges were trimmed with a fringe of storm marten fur. Above the crushed collar of the silk was a ruft of rosy ribbon that matehed in hue the flowers. With a skirt of chameleon silk there was a coat of Petunia velvet, the rest being of gui- ure lace over rose-colored silk to tone in with ndistinct shades of the same in the skirt. The collar and revers were of the same heavy lace. Large and handsome designs of flowerson satin are much used for these coats with black satin or colored cloth skir A brown cloth, with waist of brown satin showing blush roses in natural tints, hada vest of chiffon that was nouel. It wascom- posed of three stripes of different colors—a pink and then two shades of rather light green, matching the foliage in the brocade. A yellowish lace collar ended in revers in the ront. The collar was of pink miroir velvet with = ruche of the same lace standing out of the top of it. Less expensive gowns of one fabric are charmingly trimmed by & collar of silkor velvet, with the vest fo match. A “mixed tweed in nut brown had the collar of se: green velvet, This was edged with neutria fur, The full vest of velvet had four-inch bands of the fur set down itslength. A cir- cular piece of velvet set in the top of the col- lar formed a frill that parted about three inches in front. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s full name is Arthur Seymour Sullivan. To avoid the unfortunate combination of initials the second name has been discreetly dropped. Zola’s enemies are prepariug an anthology of the objectionable words and phrases in his ‘works, to be presented to the French Academy when ne next offers himself as a candidate. Joel Luman of Burtonville, Ky., is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weichs 854 pounds, and he has ason and a daughter each exactly as tall as himself, though by no means so heavy. Colonel John S. Cunningham of North Caro- lina is said to be the owner of the largest tobacco farm in the United States. H® had nearly 3,000,000 hills to cultivate and harvest last year. ‘Whist-players wjll be sorry to hear of the death*of John Petch Hewby, who wrote under the assumed name of ‘Pembridge” severalable treatises and articles on the game in its most seientific aspects In all the world there is but one man who can read the translation of the Bible into the language of the aborigines, which was made by Eliot in what is now Paxton, Mass., in 1649. That man is the well-known antiquarian, Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn. The Prince of Wales has been much de- pressed since Henry of Battenberg's death. It Scems that Albert Edward and Henry bad their fortunes told by & gypsy some years ago. The Prince of Wales was informed that he would never be King of England, and Henry limbs, use an tions is as good as the genuine. If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and jmita~ i ; tropic tnat he would die seeking glory under & sl v Naturally Albert Edward feels worried. 1t is said that the Sultan of Turkey is not & good Mohammedan. He tonforms to many of the ceremonies prescribed for the faithful, bl'lt when he feels inclined t6 break the P}’Ophe{ s laws he has mo hesitation in so doipg. In- dulgence in wine snd alarger number of wives than his religion allows are among his re- bellious acts. gt M. Barre, the sculptor and cn,’;m\-a-r_w:m died recently in Paris at the age of 8, des signed the coins issued by Nepoleon 11 in, 1852. His best busts are those of Pius IX, Napoleon III and members of the Bonaparte family. One of his latest busts was that of Mme. Jane Hading. ANSWERS T07?ORRESPONDENTS. CORBETT AND Jacksox—A.C. R., City. The fight between James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson, which was declared “no contest,” was fought on the 21st of May, 1891. A FIVE-DoLLAR Prece—M. M., City. No pres mium is offered for a five-dollar piece of tha issue of 1835. Dealers in coins demand an ad- vance of one dollar for such a coin. TaE BoERs—A. 8., City. This column is not one open o debates or controversies. It can- not insert an argument on “Resolved, That the Boers are justified in the stand_they heve taken against’ the English invasion of the Transvasl” FITZSIMMONS-CHOYNSKI—C. R., Merced, Cal. On June 18,1894, Robert Fitzsimmons and Joseph Choynski met in the Boston (Mass.) Theater for a six-round contest under Queens- berry rules. In the sixth round the police in- teriered and the contest was declared & draw. PUBLISHING A BoOK—P. J. 8., City. There are several publishing-houses in this City, the ad- dresses of which can be found in the directory, that will publish & book on natural science, provided satisfactory errangements can be made, but this department cannot advertise such firms or recolamend any. JOHN L. SULLIVAN—J, C., Vacaville, Cal. Suls livan and Mitchell foughtat Chantilly, Franece, on March 10, 1888, thirty-nine rounds, and the fight was declared a draw. Sullivan was whipped by Corbett at New Orleans in twenty- one rounds on September 7, 1892. The fight lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes, and was for $45,000—%25,000 purse and $20,000 stake. ReEp ANTS—The following is given as a method to exterminate red ants: ‘‘Greasea plate with lard and set it where these insects abound. They prefer lard to anything else and will forsake sugar for it. Place a few sticks around che pliates for the ants to climb up on. Occasionally turn the plate bottom up over the fire and the ants will fall in with the melting lard. Reset the plate and in ashort’ time you wiil catch them all.” AroyNuM—M. 8, City. Aluminum is not found in & metallic state, It is found in co- rundum or colored by metallic oxides in sapphire, ruby, emery, and so forth, Aluminum occurs vrincipally as silicate in the various clays; as silicate containing silicon fluoride in the topaz; as double silicate with jron, mag- nesiu,‘l’xme and so forth in garnet; with potas. sium, sodium, magnesinm and calcium in immense quantities in the varieties of lel?lr' The silver-white metal of trade is obtained by reduction in various ways. Hotrer-keereps—F. 8. P., City. Section 1861 of the Civil Code gives a hotel-keeper the right to hold the baggege of & guest for non-pay- ment of beard and lodging. The following section provides that if, at the expiration of six months, the baggage is not reclaimed, no matter how it came into the possession of the hotel-keeper, he may sell the same by auction, after having duly advertised the sale. He is allowed to take out of the proceeds what is due him, and the balance, if there be any, must be turned over to the County Treasurer to be held for the owner. ICRAPER— E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. “Sky-scraper’” was originally intended to ap- ly to anything that would scrape *a sky,” which word when first used meant a cloud, and at this day that is the Swedish word for cloud. Chaucer, the father of English poetry, Wwho lived in the fourteenth century, wrote: And let a certaln winde goe That blew 80 hideously and hie That it ne lefte not a skie 1n all the welkin long and brode. Welkin is the plural of the obsolete term welc, for clond. The term sky-scraper was aftererd used 1o designate, an imaginary.sail set albngside of the moonsail, sky-grazers and the like, and was jokingly assumed to be car- ried ip the days when sail power was the sole reliance apsea. United States vessels at. that time were considered the fastestafloat, and as a reason for their speed it was asserted that they carried sky-scrapers. FRESH Cream Caramels at Townsen's, 627 Mkt ot ok kkeg SrEcTAL Information daily to manufaeturars, business houses gnd public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e Lady Llanover, an enthusiastic Welsh woman, whose bardic namo was Gwenyen Gwent, the Bee of Monmonthshire, died re cently at 94. She spent & great deal of money in fostering Welsh literature, and wore the | Welsh beaver hat. Her husband, before he was raised to the peerage, was Benjamin Hall, and gave his name to Big Ben, the great bell of the houses of Parliament, which wassetup when he was Commissioner of Public Works, « T HAD several pimples on my face and a large boil on one hand. I began taking Hood’s Sarsana- rilla and after using three bottles I wes cured.” J, , W. 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