The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1896, Page 20

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MAECH 185, 1896 | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. on about there being a The whole country is There is no qu revival in Africa. rising. It was nof & good day for the opening of the Sutro baths, but the thing itself would have been good on any day. We may dismiss the Brown casc from our sight if we will, but the scent of the scandal will linger here still. Every European nation that has put its hands into Africa has got its fingers burnt, and still they haven’t sense enough to turn loose. ‘What did it profit Harrison to get out of the Presidential race and then let himself be caught in the thick of a college scrim- mage? % If Democrats had any appreciation of | the fitness of things they would hold all | their mass-meetings and conventions this year in a laundry It can hardly be expected of us to recog- | nize the independence of Democracy | this campaign, but we are willing to con cede it belligerent rights. The only moral to be drawn from the | Kentucky situation is that Senators should | be elected by the people and Legislatures | shouid attend to business. e 1 Now that it has been demonstrated that | a common horseshoe magnet can take a Roentgen photograph the world will begin to get scary of magnetic men. The Cuban controversy has produced be- tween those venerable Senators Sherman and Hoar a degree of coolness that bears a close resemblance to a white heat. The Yosemite and Merced railway has been fully organized and it will not be long now before the great park will be a popular resort and not a costly expedition. The reason the Rhode Island Democrats put no National plank in their platform was probably because they could not find one that was clean of Clevelandism. Weyler waits for re-enforcements, the Cubans wait for arms, the Senate waits for Cleveland and Cleveland waits for the duck-shooting, but the world keaps mov- ing on. After the rude way in which their offers of a protectorate have been received, the Italians ought to turn their backs on the Abyssinians ahd have nothing more to do with them. After saying he would approve no more land grants Secretary Smith has begun ap- proving them at a great rate. There must be a wire with a pull to it in the Interior Office somewhere. Any nation that sincerely desires to col- | onize and civilize Africa can find a worthy | model and’ example in the American province of Liberia. There is no danger | spot in that district. After all the Cuban debate in the Senate is progressing about as rapidly as the war in the island, and we shall have a decisive vote in the one as soon as we have a de- cisive battle in the other. It is not certainly known why the Dervishes are threatening to attack the British in Egypt, but it is probable some- body has told them that Rudyard Kipling called them ‘‘Fuzzy Wuzzies.” The St. James Gazette still insists the British will never submit their Venezuelan claims to American arbitration, but as Lord Salisbury has expressed a willingness to accept our friendly mediation we will let it go at that. e Up to date Cleveland is the only promi- nent Democrat who has not declined to be considered as a candidate for the Presi- dential nomination, and if- he does not hurry with a letter to that effect he will be left.in the lurch.. One advantage of the arrangements for the international chess tournament by telegraph is that as the contestants are on different sides of the ocean there will be no chance for crowding and no possibility for 8 Dunraven kick. In the political mix up in the State this year there is to be a big movement for women’s suffrage along with the other things, and before we get through Califor- nia may have something of a Kansas ap- pearance to the outer world. ‘When Clevelana was practicing law in New York, if he had taken half as much ducktime from the office as he takes from the Presidency his partners would have hit his share of the profits with a club and advised him to seil ducks for a living. Thongh so miany able leaders are con- testing the Republican Presidential nom- ination this year, the people are not ex- cited by the rivalry, for they know whichever wins will lead the party to vic- tory and maintain the welfare of the Nation. The report that Joseph Chamberlain has offered to give up the British claim of suzerainty overthe Transvaal provided the British who enter the country shall be given full political privileges has all the signs of a good -Birmingham bargain. Recent events show the suzerainty is worth little or nothing, while the right of the British in Transvaal to vote and bold office would soon give them inll control of the country. MR. HUNTINGTON'S SLANDER. In itsissue of last Friday morning and among its Washington dispatches con- taining the testimony of C. P. Huntington before the House Committee on Pacific Railroads Tre CALy published the state- ment hat during his examination before that committee Mr. Huntingion ‘went on to explain that when he became presi- dent of the Southern Pacific the Examiner was on the payroll of the company for | $1000 a month, and when he ordered this | payment stopped the paper immedintelyl began to attack him.” | In so much of the dispatch as l"l'ibllled{ this statement to Mr, Huntington while testifying upon the witness-stand and | under oath before the House committee | Tae CALL was in error. After a full in- vestigation of the circumstances under which Mr. Huntington uttered the above slander against our contemporary the facts have been found to be these: At the conclusion of Mr. Huntington'’s testimony, when he had left the witn stand and immediately after the commit- tee had adjourned, but before its members dispersed, Mr. Huntington made the above statement in the presence of several members of the committee and of others | who were there. It has also been ascer- tained, with reasonable certainty, thatan | effort was made by certain of Mr. Hunting- ton’s adherents to draw from him the | same or a similar assertion in the course of his examination under oath before the committee. In this respect, bowever, Mr. | Huntington was wiser than his advisers, | and with characteristic cunning avoided | uttering this slander under conditions, | which might have subjectsd him to the pains and penalties of perjury, while with | equally characteristic unfairness he poured | its venom into the ears of the committee as soon as he coula safely do so after leav- ing the witness-stand. There is in this episode so much that is characteristic of the method which Mr. Huntington has long employed to vili the opponents of his cherished pians with the vilest of slanders and the most absurd innuendos that it hardly required aninves- tigation to bring conviction that the fact of his uttering this slander was true, and | that he did so in fact and in the hearing of | at least some of the members of the com- mittee our careful inquiry fully confirms. ‘What course our contemporary should pursue in the premises it would not be be- coming for us to indicate, but that the members of the Hoase committee who heard from the lips of Mr. Huntington this slander when off the witness-stand should compel him either to repeat or re- tract it under oath and in the presence of | the full committee there cannot be the slightest doubt. A PEOPLE'S VIOTORY. The entire State of California may con- gratulate itself on the last ruling made by the Supreme Court with reference to the franchise of the Valley road through the city of Fresno. When the directors of the road applied for the franchise the City Trustees of Fresmo, though anxious to grant the privilege, feared to run the risk of violating the act requiring that all fran- chises for railroads in cities should be sold to the nighest bidder, and hence an agreed case was submitted to the Supreme Court. It came in the shape of an application from the Valley road for a writ of mandate compelling Fresno to grant the franchise without competition. Upon an imperfect understanding the court denied the writ, and the entire San Joaquin Valley, which had based so strong hopes on the relief which the new road would afford, was thrown into consternation. The railroad | company petitioned for a rehearing. This was granted, the case was fully presented, and yesterday the Supreme Court made an order directing the City Trustees of Fresno to act upon the compauny’s application for a franchise without reference to any bids | for the privilege soueht, and to grant or | deny the application on its merits, as the Trustees may decide. This means that | the Trustees will grant the franchise, and that the progress of the road through the | valley will be unhindered. The ruling of | course applies to all other cities and towns through which the road is to pass. The ruling is eminently just, though in making it the court was compelied to ex- ercise a large discretion not expressly per- mitted by the bungling construction of | the statute. It is a notorious fact that the act was intended solely to prevent the cor- ruption of municipal bodies by unscru- pulous street-railway companies, and that there bad arisen atundant reasons for erecting this safeguard. The law was never intended to require that the fran- chise for a through railroad coveringa con- siderable distance and passing through nu- merous towns should bhe included, unless, perhaps, there was competition for a fran- chise over the same route by two competi- tive companies, Neither of those condi- tions existed in the present case. For that matter, considering the number of streets and possible routes which even comperi- tive railroads might secure through any city, it is hard to imagine that even the second of these conditions could be forced into a construction of the statute, It is now clear sailing for the Valley road, and Fresnomight appropriately cele- brate this wise and just decision as the most important ever rendered to affect its prosperity. The road will arrive in time to move a large part of its valuable crops of this year, and that will mean a great saving in the cost of transportation, reason- able profits on the valuable products of the county and a large accession to the money value of productive lands. USEFUL EXPOSITIONS, ‘While it would be utterly profitless now to attempt an estimate of the possible benefits received by California from the Midwinter Fair and compare them with the cost to our people, the question still remains, Have we acquired the art of making the wisest expenditure of money for making known the resources and at- tractions of San Francisco and the State? This question is brought to view by a re- markable movement in France against the World’s Exposition projected for 1900. This has taken the form of an organiza- tion in Lorraine, calling itself the League of Decentralization, and it is propagating voluminous pamphlets against the project and stirring up a strong sentiment through- out the republic. France held her first exposition in 1855, Prince Jerome Nawoleon bitterly opposed it, advancing some able arguments against the idea of universal shows. In his ad- ministrative report he declared them to be inextricable, of arbitrary classification and valueless as to instruction. At the same time he commended the idea of partial, technical, special expositions given fre- quently and restricted to a judicious choice among such products as most attract cur- rent attention, and a study of them by critical and competent visitors. In 1867 M. Le Pay reopened the attack on the same grounds and urged the substitution of permanent for universal expositions at determinate points on French soil, away from the vast centers of population—com- mercial and industrial museums, as he termed them-—such as since have been es- tablished in Eungland, in Germany, those | bear away the hides for which cattle were | of their society drew water and hewed.| | may be the pressure of extraneous in- | can and should be made amenable 10 the | countries baving abandoned the idea of universal expositions as responding to no need of modern times. As much of the most intelligent edu- cation of the world concerning the attrac- tions of California must be conducted on exposition lines, the movement in .France has a special significance for the people of this State. The manager of the California State Bosrd of Trade has made encour- aging reports of the good work accom- plished by the Californis exkibit at the At- lanta Exposition, but there happens to be no way of securing proof that he is right. Much practical demonstration was given in connection with our exhibit there, and hence it is possible that through the whirl and confusion of a world’s fair, a thought- ful person here and there was able so to concentrate his attention on the California exhibit as to receive an intelligent concep- tion of its meaning. But we venture to say that with a permanent axhibit of Cali- fornia’s products in a number of Eastern cities, and with the traveling exhibit which Santa Clara County is sending through the country, we can accomplish more than all exhibits made in the swirl and fury of & universal exposition. Similarly, the superb exhibit of the Btate Board of Trade in this City, by the employment of diligent means for informing visiting strangers of its existence, might be made a most useful engine for advertising the State. TWO ERAS COMPARED. There never has occurred a single thing to depress the prosperity of California, except greed or lack of intelligence. In the old days of Spanish occupation the people enjoyed a prosperily unequaled in the history of the whole country. The peace, content and honesty which accom- panied it have never since been approached in California. The facilities which then existed for extracting wealth and happi- ness from the soil and svnshine were piti- fully meager in comparison with those now in our possession. The splendid wealth of the gold mines had not then been opened; the mellow wines grown from the choicest vines since imported from Europe and yielding so handsome a revenue were unknown; irrigation had not been employed to multiply the fecundity of the soil; no railroads existed te hurry to eager millions the gorgeous fruits which the people since have learned to cultivate. The only ships that visited these shores in the oid days were those which came to raised and slaughtered. Yet in spite of all these disadvantages, in spite of all this ignorance, the Spaniards amassed fortunes. The inferior members wood in perfect content. Their farming | was exceedingly primitive and confined to | their own necessities. There was no hur- | rying, no scrambling, no theft and hardly | any crime. In those days California was a real Arcady, a perfect picture of pastoral content. Since that time our opportunities for en- joying the blessings of the early settlers have been multiplied prodigicusly. We have discovered sources of wealth of which i they never dreamed. We have had the opportunity to bring to bear on the re- sources which they so imperfectly under- stood all the force of modern intelligence and progress, and still, with all these su- | perior advantages, we do not enjoy the prosperity that was theirs. The reasons why we have fallen short of their standard are exceedingly complex, but 1t would be a shameful confession of weakness to ad- mit that we should not prosper immeasur- ably beyond our predecessors. Whatever | fluences, they can neveraffect the intrinsic | value of the natural conditions which en- viron us. These natural resources are opened far wider to us than they were to our Spanish predecessors, and a con- fession that we are unable to make them that much more available for our pros- perity and happiness is a proclamation that we do not deserve the blessings which | are so {reely offered. Civilization is a failure if it does not en- able us to improve on primitive condi- tions. As a matter of fact, everything that hampers our prosperity is purely artificial—of human invention—the out- growth of greed and incompetency, and curative effects of ordinary inteiligence. NEWSPAPER ACCURACY. | It is the a1m and object of every honest and self respecting newspaper to be as| nearly accurate as possible in the pre- sentation of news to its readers, and to give them, as nearly as may be, a correct summary of the world's state of affairs day by day. The limitation of compara- tive exactness will be understood and ap- preciated, it is to be hoped, for literal ac- curacy and exactitude is, in a newspaper office, only an iridescent dream. The ob- stacles in the way of perfection are too great to be overcome, so €very newspaper must be content with the nearest possible approach to certainty. Every day somebody, and often the | somebody who ought to know better, says: I “You can’t believe anything the news- papers say.” The assertion involves a double fallacy, the first branch of which is that the statemen t is wholly unsupported by evidence, and the second 1s that the speaker himself, if he will but stop and think a moment, will be convinced of the folly of his utterance. He speaks, as most | of us do, without thinking. It is quite true that mistakes are made, especially in the spelling of names of per- | sovs and places, and often in dates as well, and that there is always somebody ready to pounce on an inaccuraey in details, and to insist that Smith should be spelled Smyth, or that some baby Prince or Princess died in July instead of August; but what of it? If such hypereritical critics only knew the difficulties which en- compass telegrapbic transmission, the rush and scurry of the telegraph editor and the never-ending struggle of the proof - reader, he would wonder, not that Smyth should be spelled Smith, but why it should not appearin print as Brown or Jones, and why the capital of Herze- govina should not be located in Madagas- car or Patagonia. To this should be added the all-import- ant fact, with which newspaper men are only too familiar, that in attempting to secure an exact account of some particular incident the reporter is confronted with, maybe, half a dozen stories, each of which is told in perfect honesty and sincerity, but all differing in detail, depending upon the point of view of the narrator. Out of this confusion order must be evolved, and the best result that can be hopea for is a consecutive narrative, for the exigencies of the daily press do not permit a lapse of twenty-four hours in which to verify de- tails. Of course the fact is that people do be- lieve what the newspapers say, though at times they may detect some inaccuracy which is within their personal knowledge, and, more than this, they derive the greater part of their knowledge of current events from the newspapers. As to the policy of a newspaper, as to its comments upon the affairs of the day, as to its views on politics, ethics, government, or what not, every reader is at perfect liberty to agree or disagree with the paper, as he may be minded, but it does not lie in the mouth of any intelligent man to charge a newspaper with deliberate distortion or suppression of tacts, for there is no possi- ble ground for such an accusation. The daily newspaper is one of the greatest and most potent educational factors of the age, and it ill becomes the man who receives 99 per cent of his knowledge regarding current events from the daily press to ac- cuse a newspaper of ignorance or mendaec- ity because 1 per cent may not be strictly accurate, or, as is more frequently the case, may be shadowy and incomplete. THE ARMED SAVAGE The terrible defeat of 8 splendidly drilled and armed European army by a horde of North Atrican savages was one of the most remarkable and significant eventsin his- tory. Itistrue that the Abyssinian army was four times as large as the Italian, and that it fought the great battle on its own ground, but it is true also that the elabor- ate and scientific care taken by the Italians to surprise the blacks was an utter failure, and that the savages fought with an intel- ligence that gave the highest efficiency to their courage. The baitle went against civilization because savagery was armed with modern weapons and had mastered the science of modern fighting. Had China been armed as efficiently as Japan the re- sult of their war might have been very dif- ferent. The “spread of civilization” has placed modern weapons of war in the hands of all who will accept them. The lower races have a fighting instinct with which the patriotic sentiment of highly developed races cannot be compared, and when this is re-enforced by machinery for defending the home against invasion and destruction, it is formidable in the extreme. Armies of defense against the rapacity of an inyader have a strong moral advantage; among civilized nations it is patriotism, with sav- ages it is the defense of the lair; and the lr;‘west animal will fight desperately for that. The situation in Cuba is somewhat analogous. A large number of the insur- zents are the native blacks, who had their origin in Africa. The beautiful island is theirs, and they are fighting for its freedom with a spirit deeper, fiercer and closer to nature’s heart-than patriotism. The one circumstance against them, the one thing that prevents the immeaiate triumph of their cause, is their lack of arms and ammunition. They are inspired by no fine sentiment of valor, for when it comes to open battle they swallow their pride and run and thus live to harass the enemy, destroy his property and wear him out. That they have much of the terrible spirit that lent strength to the hearts of the Abyssinians is shown by the fearful execution which they commit with the machete when driven to the wall and forced to fight. The essence of the question of wars be- tween civilized and uncivilized races lies in the fact that the “‘spread of civilization’” is arming the savage nations of the world for their defense against invasion, and thus is putting a check upon the greed of those aggressive countries which per- petuate their strength by conquering and robbing the weak. It is conceivable that even the Congo basin will in time form a conception of the peril which threatens it and will become civilized by the use of the rifle. PERSONAL. James Kirkwood of Sonora is at the Cosmo- politan. E L politan. Attorney Robert J. Widney of Los Angeles is in the City, Senator Frank McGowan of Eureka went home yesterday. Dr. Maria Styersbrom of Salt Lake is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Raleigh Barcar, the attorney and editor of the Vacaville Reporter, is at the Lick. M. B. Sinnott, proprietor of the Umatilla House, at the Dalles, Or., is at the Grand. R. A. Thompson, the well-known newspaper owner of Santa Rosa, is at the Occldental. Police Commissioner R. J. Tobin left for Los Rehm of Sorora is st the Cosmo | Angeles yesterday on a brief pleasure trip. William Cline, the grocer, left for Los An geles last evening to establish a branch store, M. E. Beatty of Portland is here with the in- tentlon of opening an office. He is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. Robert P. Porter, ex-United States Supervis- ing Inspector of the Census, and owner of the Cleveland World, sailed on the China with his family for Japan yesterday. A. S. White, general manager of the Erie Dis- patch Company, Cleveland, Ohio, arrived here last night and is at the Palace. He hascome to establish an agency for his line here. Professor A.Van der Naillen and Mrs, Van der Naillen left Friday evening for France, Bel- gium and Evgland, where the professor will investigate the latest electrical discoveries. Arthur Serivener, for thirty years connected with the London and San Francisco Bank, says he has decided to retire in two or three months and go abroad for a rést, which he feels he needs. L. A. Hughes, the attorney of Santa Fe, N. Mex., who as agent of the United States Treas- ury Department has been collecting evidence in the Peralta grant and other cases, arrived in the City yesterday. D. Bernard of Denver, who formerly resided for many years in California and {s well known here, is in the City. He has been following his usual occupation of contractor and been en- gaged in railroad building. Among the prominentarrivals from the East yesterday were these: Attorney Matthew G. Reynolds of St. Loufs; Clinton Morrison, a Min- neapolis capita] harles Friedburg, a lum- ber merchant of Toledo, and George Ruben- stein, a wholesale New York merchant. They are at the Paiace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—Among the regent arrivals are: M. Knox, Hoffman; J. Re- musat and wife, Albemarle; D. H. Porter, Astor; W. H. Clark, St. Cloud. TWO PATRONS, ““What shall I sing,” I sighed and said, ““That men shall know me when my name Is lost with kindred lips and dead Are |aurels of familiar fame ?" Bgow. ;evdm"l in the det reat) through the dark its vague perf, 5 Above, a star {n quiet blue SR Touched with a gracious ray the gloom. “Sing, friend of me,” the violet sighed, #That 1 may haunt your grave with ‘ove”; “Sing, friend, of me,” the star replied, “That I may light the dark above.” JORN JAMES PLATT. R S About Time to Be Aggressive. Salinas Owl. It is about time for the United States to be- come aggressive. ' During the lsst twelve months the American flag has been hauled down and trampled upon in Canada, hissed at in England and torn to shreds and trampled upon ‘in Spain. Our subjects have been mur- dered in Turkey, ipcarcerated in Russia and sent to Morro Castle hfi:nh. Our boundary lines have been disregarded by England and our richest gold-bearing territory force. Our markets have been i.1terfered with, our Monrve doctrine disregarded and our American neighbors trampled underfoot. The Odious Poll Tax. . Visalia Times. Down at Long Beach the people have to pay a State poll tax, a county poll tax snd a town poll tax—@6 altogether. This is the most out- rageous head tax collected in this State, and it it is & libel on the intelligence of our people that such impositions can perpetrated un- der the guisa of raising revenue to support the Government. The poll tax ought to go. HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY,‘ MARCH 15, 1896. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “It’s no use talking, Russia will get Kores,” said B. H. Tilden, a wealthy resident of Tokio, yesterday at the Palace. “You can’t keep 100,000,000 people bottled up as they are in Russia. She has got to have an open port. That is evident. More than half the year she can't get out at Vliadivostock. It's the same way, t0o, at Cronstadt. “When she is that way what can she do? Can’t get out through the Daraanelles—that 1s, with any- of her warships. And where is her outlet? If any one thinks Russia is not going to get Korea, 50 as to get out when it is neces- sary, be is very much mistaken. “How do the Japanese like it? It'sa pretty sore thing, I think, They hated greatly to give up the Liao Tong Peninsula, but they had to do it. There was no other way. Now, Russia is going for the bigger thing—Korea. Yes, the referred to as the ‘“bedroom for San Francisc Marin County has ever been debarred to the working classes and to the business man whose occupation requires -that he be in Francisco by 7 A. M. Boats and trains have ‘been so regulated that the person wha is com- pelled to be in San Francisco by 7 o’clock can- not reside in Marin County. This certainly shuts out a large class. Mr. Smith, who it was understood at the meeting voiced the sentiments of the control- ling interests of the narzow-gauge road, gayve the people to understand in very polite and eloquent lnguuu that they, the narrow-gauge peovle, would not grant the request for which ! the meeting was called until a consolidation of the two roads now running iuto San Rafael had been effected—but, although Mr, Smith pronounced the word consolidated, every one present spelled it m-o0-n-0-p-o-1¥, and they have since realized that if the temporary injunction that was served on ‘the officials of the broad- gauge road was made permanent, the hopes of a reSuenon of rates might as well be at once abandoned, while on the other hand the im- B. H. Tilden of Tokio, Who Points Out T! Kor 4 hat Russia Has Already a Firm Grip on ea. [Sketched from life by a “Call’’ artist.] man Hetrora, the Russian Emoassador and | diplomat, who is in Japan, bas caused a lot of | excitement. As I said, however, there isno | use objecting, tor Russa is bourd to get Korea. | “But g0 far as the Japanese Empire is con- | cerned I do not think Kussia will ever try to | oust her from her island possessions. Ido not | think she could if she wanted to. Japan is too | firm there for that. | “If o man these days wants to know about | Japan he ought to read Lafeadio Hearn's | ‘Glimpses of Japan,’ in two volumes, and | ‘Out of the East.’ .Mr. Hearn spent a number | of years in the fnterior of Japan, three or four | of which were occupied in teaching, He has | written of the people as they are better than | any one else I know. “The ayerage American or European, though residing {n Japan, in neatly every case knows | nothing about it. He goes to Tokio or Yoko- hama and goes into business, and stays thirty or forty years probably. He sees the people only in & suriace way. He ought really to go into the interior and hive there, and mix with the péople. Then he would know something of them. “‘Returning to the matter of Japan’s war, however, she got glory and a place of standing in the world as a fighting nation. Aside from this she got almost nothing, yet to-day she has | 40,000,000 people, almost ell of whom may be | called fighters. She will hold her place in the seas where she is.” Ira D. Sankey, the famous singing evangelist, and party left last evening for Stanford Uni- versity. They went at the request of President Jordan. Mr.Sankey said at the Occidental just before his departure: “We will hold & meeting there on Sabbath evening and then go on to Del Monte, reach- ing there Monday evening. We will go from | there to Pacific Grove, and hoid a meeting about the 18th with Mr. Stebbins. “Then we will return to San Jose and on March 22 will hold two meetings. On the 25th Iwill be at Napa ahd will hold one service there. We will then return to San Francisco and hold a farewell service. It will be at the Y. M. C. A. building again. Mr. McCoy has been very anxious for me to give another ser- vice and I have decided to do so. It will be on the 27th inst. On the 29th I will bola a meet- ing in Oakland, and on Aprill,2and 3 we will be in Sacramento, the occasion of the con- vention of the State Sunday-schools, and will hold services, On April5 we will be in Salt Lake and on April 12 we will hold a meeting in Denver.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. CHEAPER FARES WANTED- SOME REASONS WHY THE EXISTING RATES TO SAN RAFAEL SHOULD BE REDUCED. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: An enthusiastic and unanimously harmonious meeting was held in San Rafael last Tuesday evening to discuss the best methods to con- vince the management of the two railroads running into this beautiful town thatit is of vital importance, s much to the railroad itself as to Marin County, that the faresbetween here and San Francisco should remain no longer nearly 300 per cent higher than the ex- isting rates between San Francisco and cities in Alameda County. The people of San Rafael are alive to the fact that their town, with -all its natural beauties and its unap-| oachable virtues asa summer, winter and health resort, unequalea by any other gllce within a radiusof 100 miles from San Fran- cisco, has been discriminated againstand is still handicapped and being injured by the un- wise policy of the two local railroads. The injustice of their course was fully demonstrated by the unanimous indorsement by the thousands who attended of the resolu- | tions asking that the rates be lowered to such a figure as to allow Marin County to compete for a portion of the traffic that i8 now being directed toward the eastern side of the bay. The rates that were suggested as being rea- sonable, and which compare favorably with those enjoyed by other communities, were: . Monthly commutation tickets, §3; round trip, 25 cents; single trip, 15 cents. The rewrklt tes chazged by both roads are: Monthly tick- £5; round’ trip, 50 cents single trip, 35 cents, When it is considered that San Rafsel is byt 15 miles or 50 minutes’ ride from San Francisco, and Berkeley, Alameda and Fruit- vale are 11 mi‘es or 50 minutes’ ride. with the {are only 10 un’u utihw v.rl-y, mle ;Ergcgh:fi; ur road S arate :n yha ‘most disinterested. | | | | | | pression seems to preveil that if the directors of the broad gauge had mot been restrained from acting they would have decided to give the exgerimenl of cheap fare a trial. As the meatter now stands, the people only 160k to the broad-gauge road, and their hopes are based in anticipation of the injunction now restraining the officials being dissolved, and leaving them freedom to act on the peti- tion of the people asking for the reduced sched- ule. Butshonld the narrow-gauge people see the error_of their present course in regard to fares, and decide to reduce them,'the people, while being surprised, will be proportionately more pleesed. 0Of course the people of San Rafael are not quite unanimous on the subject, but as nearly s0 as possible. There is a small minority, very small indeed, whom Father Lagan ap- propriately christenea the “snobocracy,” who wounld prefer that the corporate limits of the town be divided only into private grounds; that only mansions of the highest order ba allowed to be constructed thereon, and that all business and trades be excluded therefrom. But, as has been remarked, this class consists of s0 few that they have been entirely ignored. Then there is the chronic objector—he is usuaily a unit, alone in his alleged ideas. He waits until he has heard the opinions and ex- pressions of everybody else on any subject, then he studies and plans arguments (he never acts) in contradiction of all he has heard on the subject, just to be contrary. With ‘these exceptions theé people of San Rafaet are unanimous that they are treated unjustly, and not with the consideration that is due them, and if reliefis not afforded them soon they will devise methods to help them- selves. A RESIDENT. March 13, San Rafael A PLAIN SHIRT WAIST. The special featu: f the shirt waist shown here are the high turnover collar and the five box pleats in front, the center one serving for the buttonhole flap. The cuff and collar may be made detachable by finishing neck and wrists with straight bands an ineh wide when finished. Make but- tonholes at the ends and one at the center A, W f neck. Finish the cuffs and collar by ::f:tgg ju at the edges where they join the f“mem and place corresponding buttonholes them. n’r‘n: new batistes with lines of bright colors in stripes or cross bars make very stylish waists. When made with detachable collars and cuffs, ribbon collars and trimmings may be worn with the same waist, thus giving variety to a limited wardrobe. The new fabrics for shirt waists show conven- tionalized flowers in gay colofs. These are often made up with cuffs and cofar of a plain tint. Plain pink, blues and yellows are used. These have either sel lored or white cufts and collars. Some e detachable collars ornly, while many have cuffs also detachable. Many sleeve fabrics are used for shirt waists this season, such as batiste, lawn, ete. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Duke of York's collection of postage stamps, which he recently sold to one of the Rothschilds, bore'an insurance of $600,000. Dr. Mabel Spencer of Kansas City, Kans,, has peen appointed physician of Riley County, be- ing the first woman in the State to be so named. t can hardly be expected thatmany people vuln ::eld. to nyu-n eir permanent residence in Marin when they can go toand from Ala- meda County at more uent intervals for about one-third the cost. These railroadshave had many practicsl illustrations of the benefits 10 be derived from cheap rates. Whenever they have run special trains 8t reduced fares the re- has generally been profitable, but for some athomable reason San Rafael has never en- joyed the privilege, but has been discriminated ainst in the matter, as time-tables offering cheap rates speelfy for “all points north of San Rafael.” The resultof this system is that after an existence of over forty years, and notwith- standing its beauties of nature and advantages gL climate S R e havi more ' about 8500, while wi e eror the rallfoads she shoul ,000. B e e s at_iast become tired of being TOper hE:a Ex-Congressman Harter, who committed suicide, once described himself as “a Jeffer- sonian whose influence politically is conserva- tive, for safe measures and against radical, un- sound, meddlesome legislation, & guiet man in manners, A plain man in dressand & studious man by habit.” Y Itis said there is no hope of the recovery of the heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, the Archduke Frans Ferdinand of Este. His disease proves to be cancer of the tnroat, and of the worst possible form. The Pall Mall Gazette says Dr. Carl Peters, the African exploter, who was recently elected president of the German Colonial Association, is about to undertake a new exploration of Somsliland in the interests of & number of wealthy Americans. A London journsl asks William E. Gladstone to give a satisfactory explanation “of his con- stant use of the article ‘an’ before a vowel, which does not require it on the ground of euphony—for example, when he writes or speaks of ‘an unjon,’ ‘an European,’ or ‘an use- ful piace,’ etc.” CURRENT HUMOR. Tpe seronaut looked down on the fleecy clouds. “Somehow I don’t feel right to-day,” he so- liloquized. “If I were anywhere else than here I would have the idea thatI was under the weather.”’—Indianapolis Journal. Little brcther—Do you know what ‘“‘ostenta- tion’’ means? Little sister—The way other people show off.—Puck. Mrs. Snaggs—In case of war on account of the Cuban resolutions, what would likely be the first hostile movement? Mr. Snaggs—I thing the Madrid Government would capture all our castles in Spain.—Pitts- burg Chronicle-Telegraph. Teacher—Johnny, can you mention an in- stance of capillary attraction? Johnny — Yes'm, Paderewski.— New York Herald. MARCH OF SCIENCE. Ardent lover—If you could see my heart, Be- linda, you would know how fondly— - Up-to-date girl (producing camera)—I intend to see it, Hiram. Sit still, please.—Chicago ‘Iribune. The love-sick youth when ca lling A phenomenon oft shows, For he is almost always gone And almost never goes. —Philadelphia Ttem. Teacher—Now, Willie, suppose you were to hand a playmate your last apple to take & por- tion of it, wouldn’t you tell him to take the larger piece? Willie—No, mum! Teacher—You wouldn’t! Why? Willie — 'Cos ’twouldn’t be necessary.— Woonsocket Reporter. It is the father of twins who knows what it is to be up with the larks, Yeast—I expect to live tosee the day whem the bicycle will take the place of the horse eu- tirely. Crimsonbeak—Well, I don’t. They'll never be able tomake sausage out of bicycles.”— Spare Moments. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. . ———————— (CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.* prlemenbau e 50 LBs. choice prunes §$1. SheRboro & Co., grocers, 531 Washington street. [ ————————— STANDARD paper patterns and Delineator for April. Domestic 8. M. office, 1021 Market st. * R e EPECIAL information daily to manulacturers. business houses and public men by the Pr: Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * - Spring Opening Of fine millinery, latest importation, prices to suit the times, Wednesday, March 18, and fol- lowing days. Adcock, 10 Kearny street. * ———————— A New Name Suggested. Los Gatos Mail. Some people are saying that instead of call- ing them lighthouse tenders we should call them the President’s duck-hunting yachts. ——————————— Cafe Zinkand Souvenir. Charles A. Zinkand has in active pl‘e;l tion an illustrated souvenir of the Cafe Zinkand. Large photo-engravings have been made, snowing sll the several departments. As a work oflrt it will be in all respects the finest of its kind ever issued in California. John F. Uhlhorn has charge of the compilation, and it will be of much interest to the public, as the visitors and patrons of this model restaurant can have the best cuisine and service, while the charges are no higher than other public resorts and restaurants. % - Shasta’s Sycamore. Woodland Mail. T. W.H. Shanahan, the tall sycamore and chief of the Democratic party of Shasta Coun- ty, has deserted the old party and gone over fo the Populists, Shanahan has occupied a prominent position in the Demoeratic party and his loss will no doubt be felt. Ir you sufter from looseness of the bowels, Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters will surely cure you. ————————— Ir affiicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. Sy et s WHEN so many people are taking and deriving benefit from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, why don't you try it yourself? It will bulld you up. Hood’s Sarsaparilla will make yon strong. ———————— Come to the Land of Sunshine. San Bernardino Sun. 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