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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1896, SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free pafly and Sunday CALL, obe week, by carrier..§0.15 Paily snd Sunday CALL, one year, by mail’... €.00 Dafly and Sundey CALL, six months, by mall. $.00 Paily and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mal 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mail 150 BUSINE: OFFICE : 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephore........ teeeisseneees. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. felephone............ ceee... Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 8:30 o'clock. ; $36 Hayes street; open untl} 8:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mlssion streets; open satil § o'clock. 2518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 34 Park Row, New York City. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR AL Clean pol Honest men to the front. The railrogues are at it again. In a straight fight straight men will win. to rally. Republicanism is alert and trickery dis- comfited. To uncovered rascality it is a mi cold snap. Throngh open vrimaries is the way to Republican victories. Home rule is good rule for parties as well as for communities. The law cannot punish the forging of proxies, but the people can. Beneath the tent of the Kelly- sideshow there is only a ‘‘what-is Be not deceived—Huntington is not doing ail of his fighting at Washington. As a mass the railroad gang looks black all over, but the individuals sre spotted. Any rascal who puts his hand on the Republican machine this year will get it mashed. the Kentucky company is , but its work can be told The band of not always vi by the tools it em The Southern Pacific of Kentucky will find that the Republican party is some- th i & buzgsaw itself. Turn the cathode ray upon any kind of political rascality and you will see in it the bony hand of the railroad. Congressional committees can best act for the people by giving the people a chance to act for themselves. Any iareat of a contest in the Fourth Congressional District will turn out to be only a minority , and no fight. Now is the time for the Republican press of the interior to speak ont for home rule, open primaries and honest politics. Whenever a bad odor arises from the bubbling pot of politics you may be sure the Southern Pacific of Kentucky has had a hand in the soup. Turn the light on any dark place in Sur politics and the fat rats of the railroad will be seen scampering for their holes. If the monop;l;' had the power that some people dread it would not have to re- sort to sneaking, trickery and fraud to carry out its schemes, i i g s Now that the campaign has opened and the first battle is near it is the duty of ail loyal Republicans to see that every traitor is driven out of the camp. To steal & man’s proxy for the purpose of betraying his manhood is a good deal like trying to commit manslaughter by the tactics of petty larceny. The Republican party will win the first battle for honest politics in this campaign by lashing all rascals from its camp and putting honest men on guard. The power of the monopoly is dead. That which oppresses the imagination of the timid is but a phantom. When the light is turned on, it vanishes. The politics of the Kentucky company are now carried out in this State by Mar- tin Kelly and J. H. Mahoney. To this complexion has it come at last. The Republican party will never need reform 80 long as it retains the old forms under which it became the party of the people and the enemy of bosses. The power of the Southern Pacific Com- pany of Kentucky is only & poison fungus bred of corruption. It sprangup like a toadstool and will perish like one. Republicans of every county should watch carefully the play of the railroad gang. They have always a card up the sleeve to be played at the last moment. All loyal Republicans have a right to a voice in the election of delegatesto the State Convention, and if they are shut out now they will -be heard from on election day. Republicans are resolved that their party shall stand as a great temple dedicated to immortal principles, but there are some tricksters who think they can use it as a railroad machine-shop. It is possible to do some kind of politics on forged proxies, just as it is possible to make some kind of an omelet out of bad eges, but in the one case as in the other the smell betrays the job. 1t is certain the fellows who are trying to betray the Republican party into the hands of the monopoly are not working for their health, for itis about the un- healthiest job in the State. In devising a scheme to take the control of the election of delegates to the Repub- lican State Convention out of the hands of the county committees the manipulators of the Kentucky company flattered them- selves thut they had successfully cheated the people, but there are too many intelli- gent men in the party for trickery to re- main hidden and too many honest men for cheating to thrive. | publica | a few bosses. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. ) Under the force exerted by the near ap- prosch of the time of holding the National conventions of the great parties of the country, the varied elements that make up the poiiticai complexion of the people are being rapidiy crystallized into definite groups and forces, Republicans, Demo- crats and Populists are organizing. Inde- vendents are separating themselves from established parties. Good men are uniting for the pubiic welfare and bad men are confederating for selfish interests. It is a time when every political event must be carefully studied by the people lest any should be betrayed into joining the wrong group—a time when the press should speak plainly that the people may know the truth and see where honor and the public welfare stand. The forces erystallizing these various groups have been very notable in the Re- publican party of California within the last few days. They have been strong enongh to make already a well-defined line of cleaveage between those true Re- who would use the party as an association of patriots to uphold great principles of government, and those self- styled Republicans who seek to make the party a machine to be operated for the interests of individuals or corporation This line of cleavage was made clear im- mediately after the recent meeting of the Republican State Committee. At that meeting it was decided to follow the rec- ommendation of the National Committee and place the election of delegates to the party convention under the control of Congressional committees. This was so much of an innovation on the established order of the party in California that in many of the Congressional districts it was found that no district committees were in existence. It became necessary to pro- vide them, and in undertaking this, the cleavage was immediately manifest. A minority of the State Committee sought to take advantaze of the new rule to overthrow the local crganization of the party and place all power in the hands of To achieve that result they proposed to appoint a State Committee of five, clothed with authority to appoint Congressional committees wherever they did not already exist. ‘Chat provosition was promptly voted down by the loyal Republicans of the State Committee, and the bosses met their first defeat. Imme- diately after the sudjournment of the State Committee, however, they conspired together and began to devise plans to ob- tain by indirection that which they had failed to gain by the suddenness of their first trick. In this complexion of affairs it behooves all loyal Republicans to adopt a plan of action upon which they can agree and by which they can unite to save the party organization from the manipulators who, almost avowedly, are working for the Southern Pacific of Kentucky. In urging the adoption of such a plan Tue CaLL has no new or cunning scheme to offer. It simply invites the Republican press of the interior to co-operate in advising all Re- publicans to demand of their Congres- sional cornmittee the adoption of the old- fashioned plan of open primaries. That old plan is the best plan. Itis honest, and honesty is what we wish. ; ‘We'urge the plan with the more earnest- ness because the Congressional committee of the First District has virtually adopted it. This proves it to be a plan which commends itself naturally to Repub- licans. Moreover, we believe it to be a plan which the rank and file of the party demand with more than usual ardor at this time. - The issues of the campaign are great. The convention will be im- vortant. Is it not right that every loyal Republican should have 2 voice in de- termining the issues of the one by the free exercise of the privilege of castinga vote in the election of the delegates who are to represent him at the other? A GREAT TOURNAMENT. The most important bicycle tournament ever held in the West, if notin the entire country, was opened last evening at the Mechanics’ Pavilion and is to continue for a week. The wonderful progress of the past year will be made evident, but more interesting than that will be the exciting sport of the meet. Famous racers from all partsof the United States are in at- tendance, and every kind of machine will be on exhibition. It is idle to discuss the popularity of the bicycie as a “fad.” The superiority of the typewriter over a pen is unquestioned, and yet fashion has never accepted the type- writer for polite correspondence—it is still “good form” to adhereto the crabbed, laborious and illegible process of band- writing. For that matter the quintes- sence of good form, especially in England, is still the aquill, for the reason that it is older and less commonplace than the comparatively modern steel pen. There is too much utility in the bicycle for it ever to become very fashionable, and it is not nearly 80 expensive and showy as a carriage, horses, groom, footman and goid- mounted harness. This means to say that the bicycle is dis- tinctly an achievemént in industrial prog- ress, and the fact that it is used so ex- tensively for health and pleasure detracts nothing from that assertion. That it is employed in ways other than industrial utility is proof that it is superior to all mechanical devices which are employed only for industrial purposes, inciuding the sewing-machine and the typewriter. It is this peculiar feature of it that has so greatly stimulated improvements in its design and construction. Those who employ it for health and pleasure alone belong to that broad-minded and aggressive upper middle class whose intellizence and independence represent the spirit oi progress that ani- mates the age. That this is so is shown by the fact that they to-day are assembled in one of the most powerful organizations in the country and that their influence in bettering the industrial condition of the people is being so strenuously exerted in securing good roads. That achievement alone, due to the power which the bicycle has created, will be among the greatest for its value and comprehensiveness that this country has ever witnessed. Aside from the gentiemen riders are the sporting fraternity to which the machine has given birth. Itisa notable fact that the records of professional cycling are sin- gularly free from scandal. Perhaps this is explainable on the ground that the sport is so wholesome and exhilarating as to have an elévatiag effect on character. LESSONS IN CLIMATE. An important task which should be undertaken without delay is thatof de- termining the probable reasons for a strange feature of the prevailing ‘‘cold weather” in California. It appears that al- though the “snowstorm’’ was general all over the Btate it was attended with in- jurious results in certain restricted and well-defined areas, and that the injury was manifested in various degrees. Such an investigation, corrected by the experi- ence of years, might prove valuable in determining what areas are immune and why. This would cover the elevation, the configuration of the contiguous topog- raphy, the prevalent direction and force of winds, the character of the soil and drain- age and the kinds of iruit affected. 1t sliculd be borne inmind that the won- derful productiveness of the soil, aided by the climate, has been detérmined only by careful and intelligent experiment, that the best results are those based on an un- derstanding of the conditions appertain- ing to the industry and that with every succeeding year new’ andiimportant les- sons are learned. The variety of climates in California is as bewildering as that of soils, but the remarkable feature of the climate is its regularity. If a frost damag- ing to one kind of fruit occurs at any varticular place it may be expected to oc- cur again, and if long observation has de- termined the immunity of a particular fruit from frost at any particular place it is safe to assume that frost. may never be expected there. Itisthis element of cer- tainty, as well as that of mildness, that constitutes one of the great advantages of the climate. As might have been expected, the first reports of damage have been greatly modified by later reports. This is always the case. Except in a very few places it will doubtless be learned when the reports have been completed that the frost has merely saved the growers a considerable expense required every year in thinning the fruit, and that this, taken in connec- tion with the abundant precipitation ac- compenying .the light snowfall and the retarding effect of the eold, will aad ten times as much to the total value of the crop as the frost detracted from it. One thing is positive. Whatever risks may be run in widely separatea years by very early and very late crops on the score of frost can never affect the great bulk of the fruit erop, which is produced in the rainless months. This accounts for the perfection with which fruits may be dried in the open air, for the high per- centage of sugar and for the superiority of raisins and wine. Many other parts of the continent have even a milder climate than that of the California fruit regions, but summer rains make all the difference, and their absence in California constitutes the unique superiority of the State. FOR HONEST POLITIOS. The facts which the meeting of the mem- bers of the Republican State Central Com- mittee from the Kourth €ongressional District held upon Wednesday evening uncovered to public view with reference to the attempted manipulation of the poli- tics of that district in the interest of the Southern Pacific Company show that the time has come for citizens who believe in honesty in politics to carry their belief into action. When a few professional politicians, constituting a minority of their delegation, have the boldness to hold a midnight meeting, without notifying their fellow- members of the committee, and by the as- sertion of possessing proxies which they do not hold attempt to appoint the com- mittee of seven persons who shall huve charge of the primaries held for the elec- tion of delegates to the State Convention from that district and after such an infamy openly boast of their cunning, it is time that kind of politics should receive a rebuke. The meeting of Wednesday evening ad- ministered that rebuke. The majority of the Fourth Congressional delegation em- phatically repudiated the action of the midnight conspirators and proxy-forgers and proceeded in a regular and orderly manner to perform the duties intrusted to it. Thus at the very outset of the cam- paign has one notable victory been won foy bonest politics and the tricks of the bosses been defeated in the interests of the Republican party and the public wel- fare, This incident must not go unnoted by the interior press. What has been at- tempted by monopoly bosses in the Fourth District will be attempted in every Congressional distriet in the State where the loyal Republicans are off their guard, or where there is the least chance for snch tricks to succeed. Ontheotherhand, what has been accomplished here to baffie the tricksters can be accomplished wherever there are men vigilant, courage- ous and resolved that honesty shall be upheld. The first struggle of the cams paign carries with it, therefore, both a warning and an encouragement. The rank and file of the Republican organiza. tion will know how to profit by both. The battle is on, but the result is not doubtful. Itis a contest between honesty and corruption, and honesty will win. RESTORING THE RATES, In spite of ihe labored telegram from New York explaining that the restoration of the old differential between the Panama route and the Southern Pacific. was. not evidence of any disagreement between Mr, Huntington and the Panama Railway, it is clear that the Panama Railway forced Mr. Huntington to restore the differential because that road was losing business, and in doing so compelled him to reduce rates on the Southern Pacific to the old figure, at the same time forcing him to reduce rates on the Pacific Mail in order to make it possible for the Panama Railway to do business. The purpose of the contract between the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Mail on one hand and the Panama Railway on the other was to raise rates for the benetit of the three companies. This raise amounted to 50 per cent. The adjustment between the Southern Pacific and the Panama rates ‘was so ingeniously made by the Southern Pacific as to reduce the Panama differen- tial, and the result was that the Southern Pacific carried all the freight. This roused the indignation of the Panama Railway, which had been already stung by charges that it had made itself Mr. Huntington’s tool. As a matter of fact it is & most in- dependent and aggressive company. When it discovered how woefully 1t had been tricked and how it had lost all its business to the Southern Pacific it de- manded a return to the old rates, and that is why California is now enabled to enjoy the benefit of that reduction. The Pan- ama Railway would have withdrawn from the agreement had not the reduction been made. It will be noted that the 50 per cent raise in overland rates was made for_the sole benefit of the Sunset route of the South- ern Pacific. The Central Pacific received none of the benefit, as the rate to New York by way of the Sunset and Mr. Hunt- ington’s steamers, even at the increased rate, was still better for California ship- pers than the Central Pgcitic with its alien connections offered. The value of these facts lies in their bearing on the welfare of the Central Pacific as the property which owes the Government a debt that Mr. Huntington does not want to pay. When- ever there is a chance to develop business on the Southern Pacific to the prejudics of the Central Pacific, and to depreciate the value of the Central Pacific as a security for the debt which it owes the Govern- ment, we may depend upon the genius of Mr. Huntington to discover and apply it, as thereby he hopes to make the collection of the debt seem all the more ill advised as a “business proposition.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Among the many conspicuous persons who may be seen at the Lick House,and who in one way or another are molded into the his- tory of the coast,is 2 large man with a full brown beard, dark clothes and a glossy top hat. On most all occasions he is discussing with one or more friends some feature of mining | experience or this or that gold mine. He owns several properties himself, and is always ready 10 hear auything of interest relative tu mining. The man with the brown beard and the silk tile is A. Harpending/ who built the Harpending block in this City, | He is the owner of the Church-Union mine, adjoining the Church mine, in El Dorado County, two and a half miles from the town of El Dorado and about five miles from Placer- If he is not loyal the Nai*on crumbles, the f&lte loses authority and the city or town—his lwbme—ce-m to offer remuneration for his abors. Ha! Ha! Los Angeles Record. Who croaked? Who said dry year? Who has been predicting hard times? v l;th]ow unto us the man who said he had lost aith, . Where is the man who knew there would be no rain? Philosophy From Long Beach. & Long Beach Eye. Three-fourths of the difficulties and miseries of men come from the fact that most want wealth without earning it, fame without de- serving it, popularity without temperance, re- A, HARPENDING, ONE OF THE NOTED ¢ 1 HARACTERS ABOUT THE LICK HOUSE Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] ville. Gossips credit Alvinza Hayward with 1 having got out a million or more dollars from | this mine. One day he got angry because the ntine filled with water, say these gossips, and he threw it up in di believing, any way, that he had got the bulk of the ore out of it. But not unlike some other old mines, it is said that it now promises to give big returns. Those who talk of Harper 's Tuek with the Church-Union do not forget to mention Har- | pending and George D. Roberts in connection with the notorious Arizong diamond boom, which oecurred a few vears ago. Out of it were milied large sums, lawsuit fol- lowed lawsuit, and men who lost money trying to make a fortune out of the alleged diamond fields had no words too savage for the opere- | tors. | Alired Rosenholm, a Swedish engineer and chemist employed by the Umion Iron Works, who has been some years in this country. is one oi the familiar figures of the corrido! He has lately been making investigationsin tefetenée to an underground conduit system, and is working on the problem of getting elec: tricity direct from heat. He said yesterday at | the Palace: ence to this subject that words almost fail to | tell them. When we descend into the solid | portion of the garth we find a rise of tempera- ture. Thisrise of temperature has no connec- tion with the sea’level, but will be found on the highest mountain. May we not trace this rise of temperature to be by virtue of a condition of matter that all bodies possess a difference of temperature from its center to its surface, which varies as the weight of the mass; itis a continuous battle between mat- ter and ether and, like the planets which are spinning around the sun, it will never find | peace or rest, “*This is somewhat analogous to combustion when carbon unites with the oxygen; the in- stant the exchange of the atoms take place the ether gets out of equilibrium, and unless its change of motionis intercepted by doing work, which cauges a lower temperature, it disturbs the whole universe. “The energy which drives our locomotives and turns the turbine wheels at Niagara came from the sun. The energy exerted by the sun and rendered latent in each pound of the var- bon would be adequate to raise a weight of one ton 5000 feet. How there can be so much power in the gentle influences of the sunbeam is one of the great mysteries of nature. . “I have dévoted much time to'a study ot the | laws of hature and have been rewarded with | the most striking proof as to what relation midtter stands to energy. My object hds been to produce a device by which the energy of heat can be converted into that of électricity without the intermediacy of steam engine and dynamo. “Isincerely hope that the sunshineof selence may {all upon the public, that they may realize how indispensable science is to civilization, progress and prosperity.” A TEST. Charlie sat at Mabel’s side, Gazed up in her eyes; Lied (a3 you and [ have lied) Sugar-coated lies. “Enights,” said be, “in days of bld, Loving fought and fell; None was there as I 50 bold, None who loved so well. ““Poets oft have sung the praise _Of their ladies fair; Not a mald of ancient days Could with thee compare. “Smile, and T will be thy slave, Heed thy 18ast command, - Die thy lightes pain (o save, Wotship e'er thy hand.” Mabel sat by Charlie's side, LCalmly took his size; hought 'twas well that he be tried A8 10 sacrifice. “Nay,” said she, “T don's desire Anght that's grand or great, Aught to bring theée danger aire, Aught to tempt thy fate. “Yon must étand one simple test 1t my love you'd get: Scorn not 1116 at my request, But—your cigarette.” Easy "tis in words 1o do, spect without virtue and happiness without holiness. Huntington Stew. Bodle Mining News. Ourold friend Huntington 18 in boiling hot | water—a regular railroad stew—and we sin- cerely hope tnet he will Le well cooked. Unwise Anger. Los Angeles Herald. The Cuban revolutionists of the Senate have made the Spanish people of high, low and middle degree angry. Itis the kind of anger that expresses itself 1 mob violence against inoffensive consulates, smoking newspaper editorials and talk. A FITTED WAIST. The perfectly plain fitted waist always has many devotee: The one shown here is fas- tened invisibly at the shonlder and under arm seams, though it may be made to button in front or lace in the back, the waist being cut with the usual back, side body and under- arm forms, and having four darts in front. A striking waist was of dark green silk, with “Ihere are so many strange things in refer- | "111€ 180¢ 00 the body. asshown above. Tho were of green silk in two tones. iots make up well after this modal, with ming of braiding. One of blue. brown, red and white had a design in brown braid. Various shapes in elaborate designscome al- ready prepared to sew on,such asyokes, col- lars, epanlettes, girdles, e and make it pos- sible to trim a dress very handsomely with good eflect, these designs being equally as stylish a8 those braided on the fabric. A waist of embroidered batiste over blue silk had sleeves of hlue novelty silk, of which the skirt was also made. 5 A brown cloth waist had a braid jacket effect in brown soutache edge with gilt. The sleeves Wleri of novelty silk. The skirt was of the cloth. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Master—What did you do with the ball? Boy—It went over the fence into Mr. Brown's yard. “Did you go after it2" 0, sir.” “Why not?"” “Because it went through the window.' Spare Moments. “The next living picture, ladies and gentle- men,”” chanted the barker as he drew the cur- tain, revealing a lady wrapped in thought and looking the other way, ‘is called ‘Retalia- tion.’ So called, ladies and gentlemen, on ac- count of the lady’s striking back.”--Cincinnati Enquirer. R “Jg it true that she aspires to a better walk in life?” “I guess so. She has been studying Delsarte steady for two years now.”’—Detroit Tribune. ‘Yabsley—Say, when a fellow calls on a girl, should he leave his hat and cane in the hall or take them into the parlor ? i Mudge—Well, If the girl is }iving in a boara- Hurd to do in truth. . Hpite of all his love so true Puffs still the ardent youth. HuxTLRY RHODES In Boston Journal. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Salvationists Should Heed. Alameda Telegram. The Salvation Army should gaze on the Democratic party and make an effort to get together. Relation of Bonds to Value, Oceanside Blade. Very few in this region seem to know that at ihl:‘r;cn‘ Sherift’s sale of the Santa Fe road it ol r less ] its. fonded den éooo.o?—olmt times less than Good Citizens Must Be Protectionists. Santa Barbara News. A good citizen to-day must be a protection- ist. He must also be loyal—first, to the great whole, the Nation; then, to the State, the prin- ©ipality;"then’ to the city of town; his home ing-house, and the hat and cane are worth anything, I think he had petter hang on to them.—Indianapolis Journal. Jeweler—The first time you brought this watch in here to be repaired it was in a gold case, The second time it was in a silver case, end now it's in & brass case. Customer—Yes; circumstances alter cases.— New York World. Now that we hi the new photographic light it won’t be so hard to discover the needle in the haystack.—Boston Transcript. The development of the cathode ray is just s likely a5 not to knock the stuffing out of the theater hat joke.-~Detroit Tribune, Extract from catalogue of lending library: “In the novels and stories marked with an as- terisk the happy couples get married at the finish.”—London Tid-Bits. Statesman—I think I'll write a letter stating that I cannot accept the nomination. - - . Friend—Well, I don’t know. Sometimes tha i .| gagement. kind of thing helps a man’s chances and some times it doesn’t.—Puck. PERSONAL. Dr. P. A. Hare of Fresno is in the City. J. R. Chace of San Luis Obispo {s in town. Edward Runge of Shanghal is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. Jolliffe of New York are in town. F. H, Harlan, a liveryman of Colusa, is in town. L. Williams, & manufacturer of Brooklyn, is at the Russ. g Dr. W. H. Campbell of Livingstone, Vt., is at the Baldwin. W. W. Barnes, the newspaper owner of Han- forq, is in the City. Bernard Higgins of San Jose is registered at the Cosmopolitan. B. E. Burns, a wealthy rancher of Mountain View, is at the Russ. W. E. Life of Denver is among the recent ar- rivals at the Palace, Charles E. Proctor, & business man of Healds- burg, arrived here yesterday. M. Blum, the wealthy Martinez merchant and land-owner, is at the Grand. Lieutenant Alfredo Navarro of the Portu- guese navy is at the Occidental. Albert Tibbetts, & well-known horseman of Bakersfield, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. M. Redmond of Kobe, Japan, was among the arrivals on yesterday's steamer. The Vicomte de Labry, the military agent of France in China, reached here yesterday, after several months in China. Captain H. B. Smith of Dartmouth and Cap- tain McInnes of New Bedford, both old whalers, are at the Russ bound north to fish for whales. D.J. Kamer of Wien, Germany, special corre- spondent of the Frankfort Daily Zeitung, who has been on a tour of the world collecting mat- ter for the Zeitung, arrived here yesterday. J. Ross Trainor of Marysville, wha owns two or three large fruit orchards,and who buys and cans fruit extensively,is at the Grand. He has lately built a large cannery at Marys- ville. W. T. Beward an Amerfcan, who has had some lively experiences in Homolulu in con- nection with the attempted political revolu- tion there, was among the arrivals on the Aus- tralia yesterday. Henry M. Kingman, one of the most exten- sive manufacturers oi boots and shoes in Brockton, Mass., is at the Baldwin. He said last night that he was here purely for pleas- ure. He will remain several weeks. The Rev. C. Graham Gardner, an English missionary of Japan, is at the Oceidental, ac- companied by his wife and child. His health is not good and he is returning to recuperate. L. Manning, & mining man of Butte, Mont., s at the Palace. Dr. J. Cantlie, & hoted physician of Hong- kong, who is interesting himself in founding a large medical college for the education of Chinese physicians, is at the Occidental. The institution, he says, is to be called the Hong- kong Chinese Medical College. Elghty thous sand doliars has already been subscribed for it, $40,000 by the people and $40,000 by the ‘| Government, and now Dr. Cantlie is going to England to try and raise $40,000 more. He says Li Hung Chung is mueh interested in the college, and is backing it to a conmsiderable extent. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 5.—Among re- cent arrivals are: J. H. Ames, B. I Thomas, Imperial; E. Saunders, Grand; F. Watson, Warwick; J. 8. Phelps, Westminster; H. 8. Wood, St. Cloud. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. RIVAL BAT’ITE-EEXPS. EFFICIENCY OF THE KEARSARGE AND MAJESTIC COMPARED. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—-SIR: Iread in & recent fssue an article copied from a Boston journal entitled ‘‘Still Ahead.” The metlrod adopted by the writerof determining the relative fighting efliciency of the two vessels is to give the weight of the projectiles thrown by one dischargeof the guns. To make his point he gives figures which are erroneous to start with, as he credits the Kearsarge with a bagtery of twelve S-inch guns, whereas she is Only to carry four. On the other side he gives the Majestic twelve 12-pound rapjd- firing guns, whereas she carries sixteen. Cor- rected, the Kearsarge will carry forty-eight guns of various calibers, the Majestic forty- four. The aggregate weight of one discharge of the Kearsarge will be 5266 pounds, thet of the Majestic 4528, If the ships in question could determine the result by firing but one round the comparison would stand. ~But it is absolutely certein that two powerful armorclads would be engaged much longer before & decisive result was ob- tained. Therefore the one-round method of determining the fightingefliciency is valueless. The surest and only feasiblie method of com- ‘parison is to ascertain the aggregate weight of projectiles thrown by all the guns in & pertod of time approximating that of a probable en- Below this is done, and by it it 18 uite evident that the advantage of possessing to quote the article) ‘‘the all-éssential charac- teristic of battery power,” the pre-eminence rests with the Majestic and not with the Kear- sarge. 'The apparent superiority of the Kearsarge disappears after the firiug jof the first rouna, loxt%y the length of time required to load and lay the guns of the Kearsarge as comparéd to those of the Majestic, the latter possessing the vast advantage of having an armament of rapid-fire guns alone. Those of the Kearsarge he?n: rapid fire forthe 5 inchand 3 and 1 pounders, the'12 and 8 inch guns peing ordi- nary slow fire. The gain lies mainly with the 6-inch Els- wich rapid-fire guns of the Majestic, capable of being fired from eight to toirteen times per minute. In_ this compearison the period of time set is thirty minutes. It does not alter the result if a shorter or longer period is set except that the longer the action the greater theadvantage of the Majestic. 1 _wew = & e8%un = w = g %99 5 aQ a BEs o el g EES a % 5 B8 z Al gaseii] P B & zx H T e 4 [= = £ TG T B T » SRR Bl maze|BSER HESS éégs 5| 5838|2352 glygzz|® 2/E 2(egper|f Sis '|s, Flglifegs..) Bz geas| o5 |2 | fesses| oF |2 sssc| &, |2 | |s2288| 7, |2 Biag| o2 |8 |a8a87 2 la zeaZ| B i leea23] 2 B 2328| S8 43433 e D|QadEl &2 ]9393d) A2 Plezge| EF g238%| £3 : a = e F3 2| | 8 e 8 4 Sleflzl S (8] BEeelB . 5a= 2| S5ER HE IR LR = 54 5-3-5-3 5% Bl5e22is & 5188E8E(% £ | glageain 2 | |@lFeSes|s E | Thus in an action lasting thir Majestic would fire 130,000 pa&;’:d’:l&mr’osx tiles more than the Kearsarge. E. % % San Francisco, March 3, 1895. e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Speaker Reed i8 the victim of a crank who is 1n the habit of writing long communications to him on postal cards. The crank begins on one card and \continues his writing on other until & single letter sometimes covers a dozen cards, which he mails separately. The portrait of Pocahontas which hung'in the Woman’s building at the Chicago World's Exposition has been purchasea by H. S. Well- come,an American resident of London. He in- tends to present it to the United States Senate. Mrs. Kate Brownell enlisted in the First Rhode Island Volunteers at the time of the Civil War. This was her husband’s regiment; she was color-bearer. Mrs. Brownell is now an attendant at one of the colleges of Central Park, New York. According to M. Jules Claretie the mext at-- tempt made by M. Zola to enter the Fremch -| Academy is likely to succeed. M. Zola will ofter himself as & candidate for the seatof the late M. Dtimas, who hiad for years been urging M. Zola’s election. When arguing upon this subject with an opponent, and reminded of the coarseness of M. Zola’s work, M. Dumas used tosay: “Wouid you vote against Rabelais it he were a candidate?”’ ; SHE PEDDLES KITTENS. A negro woman named Mary Fletcher, who lives near Sacramento and Jones streets. makes her living at one of the oddest of occupations. 1t is that of raising kittens and peddling them from house to house. Most people would lhin_X that there would be no demand for the ani- .mals and that such a business would not pay, but Mary, as she is called by ner cusiomers, has been engaged in it for & long time and says thatshe can sell more kittens than she can raise. She says that she always gets good prices. The kind of kittens that Mary sells are not what would be termed fine breeds. In fact the breed is a matter of little importance to her customers, and the descendant of some common nignt-howler would most likely be selected in preterence to & fne, aristocratic Maltese. Mary does not ask high prices for her Kkittens, and under most circumstances will take what she can get. The first time she calls at a house she may say that she wants 50 cents for a tortoise-shell tabby, 2 months old, but before she leaves she may part with it for 15 CFew of the Kittens are destined to pose as parlor ornaments, or to luxuriate on a velvet rug before an open fire, but generally become the property of childrén who want something Mary Fletcher, Who Raises and Sells Kittens. [Sketched from life.] “live” to play with. The kind of life tha kitten leads depends altogetirer on the dispo- sition of the child that becomes its owner. It may grow up into a respectable house cat, but the chances are that “‘something dreadful” will happen to it, and the child will want a new kitten in a few days. Where Mary gets the kittens isa mystery, but she says that she raises them herself and guarantees them to be well behaved. When she takes them from house to house she car- ries them in a large willow basket that looks as if it was brought from New Orleans just after the war. The Kitiens poke their heads from beneath the cover whenever they have a chance, but do not seem the least inclined to escape.. Mary always speaks kindly to them and hendles them gently when oifering them for sale, but does not seem to have any regard for them after she has sold them, and the more that meet with disaster the more she can sell. Most of Mary’s customers live in the vicinity of Pine and’Leavenworth streets, and she makes regular calls at certain houses where she knows the children are numerous and boisterous and kittens don’t last long. If Mary calls et a house where she is well known and there is no demand for kittens, she asks if she ean have some “cold vitiles,” and gens erally gets them. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MERIDEN—R. T. G in Dawson Count; ., Livermore, Cal. type is a contraction of line of type] LixoryPE—E. G. Lino- FRECKLES—J. A. R., San Lorenzo, (al. There are any number of preparations which are claimed to be ‘‘sa’e for the remeval of freckles,” but such ought not to be used with- out the advice of a competent physiciam, for whatmay be harmless in one case may be in- jurious in another. BerLIN—C. M., City. Frederick the Great reigned from 1740 to 1786. From the 9th to the 13th of October, 1760, during the Seven- Year War, the city_of Berlin was occupied by the Austrian and Russian troops, who, under the command of General Lacy, entered the city. laid it under contribution and destroyed the magazines. ForciNG WATER—C. H. P., Cornwall, Contra Costa County, Cal. No greater force is re- quirea to fill a tank from the bottom than from the top, providing the flow from the pipe fill- mgu from the top is no higher than the level to be reached by filling from the bottom, and that in both instances the same forcing power and the same sized feeding pipes are used. If, however, the feed from the top is higher an increased pressure is required for every inch above the level referred to. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend' ————— EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— 01d Mrs. Chafie—Johnnie, how many times have I told you to stop that noise? Johnnie (reflectively)—Seven.—Texas Sifter, ‘THE benefits to be derived from & good medicine in early spring is undoubted. To purify the blood, overcome that tired feeling and gain strength take Hoéod's Sarsaparilla. —e e CoroNADO.—~Atmosphere 1§ perrectly dry, soft and mild, and is 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 $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. NEW TO-DAY. REFEREE'S SALE —OF—— REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION! SATURDAY, MARCH 7, AT NOON. BY THOS. MAGEE & SONS, AS A WHOLE: SW. Corner GEARY and LARKIN 120 FEET SQUARE—3 FRONTS. Rents $485 a Month. 120 feet front on south line Geary st. ; 120 feet front on west line Larkin st.; 120 feet front on north line Myrtle ave. % CO:NERS—3 FRONTS, Covered with dwellings and stores. * Rents $485 per Month. WILL BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, Subject to Confirmation by Superior Coust. Further information at office ot THOS, MAGEE & SONS, 4 Montgomery St. THOMAS II'AGEE, Referee,