The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1896, Page 6

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TUESDAY APRIL 14, 189 1;|E CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Prepare to-day for tbe primaries to- morrow. Every A shower in the East this year seems to be a blizzard. ightly dull last week, but mises to be lively. ey may have been a small potato to ¥ once but he is dictator now. Politics wss in this one 1t Republican loyslty is no lamb, but there are lots of political wolves that try to wear its clothing. it will take something more than soft solder to mend the split in the Democratic pot this time. The deeper youn dig in California the more gold you find, This is no plated commdnwealth. Colonel Robert Ingersoll's idea of what a church ought to be would make a pretty good variety show. Don’t forget to post yourseli on local politics so that you can vote right at the Republican primar for California to have net officer in the next administra- There is a chance a G tion if she works for it. The mining counties have no boom in the air, but they are findiug something very much like one in the ground. Nobody is going to the St. Louis conven- tion in war paint, and noone 1s going to the Chi > convention in any other way. Tl ate will to-morrow debate the question of i igating the bond deals, and we may expect hot talk and plenty of it. As the Spaniards have carried the Cuban elections it seems that Generai Weyler knows how to win a victory at the polls at any rate. Democratic candidates for the Presidency are becoming as thick as huckleberries in June, and most of them are just about that s If the Eastern welcome to Yamagata be- comes much more enthusiastic he may be | tempted to settle down over there and try to run for President. There seems to be nobody to join issue | with the protectionists this year, but nevertheless protection is the issue on which the people are joined. There should be no dispute of the propo- sition that the California delegation at St. Louis should see to it that California mter- ests are not lost in the shuffie, ed the British expedition has gone up the Nile for*no other purpose than to help Italy drop Kassala without dropping to the hands of France. It is now asse: for New York Dem- ocrats to try to work up a Presidential boom for ex-Governor Flower unless they can give assurances that he's a daisy. The gold men and tue silver men in the Democratic party are perfectly willing to separate, but each wishes to ride away in the party band wagon and leave the other fellows to walk. i on, The illness of Senator Morgan prevents him from taking the lead in the fight against the funding bill,and the way is therefore open for the California Senators to dis! 1ish themselves. If there should be nothing new under the sun this spring it will not be the fault of the fiesta managers, for all of them are wrinkling their brows daily in an effort to get new wrinkles for their festivals. The success attained by the Olympic games at Athens could probably be re- peated at San Francisco if the festival were undertaken on a similar scale and made a great holiday for the Pacific Coast. The storm that burst over Depew when he said he had seen no pretty women in Catifornia evidently made him take to the woods, for since his rsturn to New York he is quoted as saying that our woods are full of them. It was a foolish fellow who started the report that Quay had withdrawn from the Presidential race. This is not a year when Republicans withdraw from anything. Harrison is seemingly an exception to the , but then he had a honeymoon in Gorman thinks the Postmaster-General should attend to his business in Washing- ton instead of running around the coun- try making speeches on the tariff and gold money, but the chances are the making of such speeches is exactly the business Cleveland appointed him to perform. The assertion of Senator Mantle that without the advantages of bimetallism a protective tariff cannot sufficiently guard against the competition that is coming from China and Japan contains a truth which Eustern protectionists will find out to their cost if they do not recognize it in time to profit by it. The bill for the admission of New Mex- ico to statehood should be pressed upon Congress at this session with all the force the West can muster. It is time that this section of the Union had its rightful rank and influence in the Senate. The gold- bugs should not be permitted to check the development of a new State simply be- cause its people favor the remonetization of silver. | REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. All loyal Republicans shounld bear in mind that the primary elections of the party in this City are to be held on | Wednesday, as-is duly advertised in Tus Carr. There is to be a pretense of such | elections held in the Fourth District to- {day. This pretense is managed by mal- | contents and cannot possibly cut any fig- ure in the regular administration of the party. It is well that all Republicans should be warned of this fact, in order that they may make no mistake. i The so-called primaries of to-day will be | a cut-and-dried affair, signifving nothing. | It will not avail an intelligent and loyal | Republican anything to go near them or | to countenance them in any way. The | true primaries take place to-morrow. No member of the party should allow himself to be deceived in this matter. Stay at home to-day, study the situation and vote right to-morrow. A CABINET POSITION. The suggestion recently made by Sena- tor Perkins that there is & good prospect | for California to obtain in the next admin- istration a Cabinet office 1s one which de- | serves the most careful consideration of all Republicans. There can be no question that the interests of the State and the Coast wonld be greatly advanced if a Caiifornian should be called to the Cabinet. However strong may be our delegation in Coiigress at any time the simple fact that it may rarg\y or never be representative of a single party, and that vossibly it may not be in political sympathy with the President, lessens its efliciency in comparison with that of a Cabinet posi- tion. Moreover, as Congressmen are elected by districts, each will naturally care more for the interests of his constitu- ents than for those of other Congressmen, and hence the likelihood of perfect har- mony of action is always remote. Expe- i rience has shown us that it is not to be expected. A Cabinet officer occupies an entirely different position. He is the personal choice of the President and occupies the | position of confidential friend and adviser. | He is not a product of capricious and often | ill-advised political selection. He is in | constant official and social touch with the President and helps to constitute the inner working force of the Government. In a | Nation whose chiei officer has greater | power than any crowned head of Europe, | except possibly the Czar of Russia, a con- | fidential advixer of the President and bead of one of the great executive departments of the Government is in a position to exer- cise enormous power. Senator Perkins has indicated the | means by which the Republican party of | California can hope to secure so valuable a prizes &hat is to send an unpledged dele- gation to the National Convention. It stands to reason that in the defeat of any | Presidential candidate to which a State delegation is pledged that State cannot hope to secure a Cabinet position, and we all know how uncertain is the nomination | of any particular candidate. With an | unpledged delegation California would be | in a commanding position. A Californian |in the Cabinet would mean a friend on | guard for the entire coast. | The use of extraordinary care is re- | quired to secure a proper understanding of | Western conditions among the millions of | Eastern people who know and care noth- { ing about this region. Recent occurrences | have furnished us with abundant evidence that California, neither for its own sake | nor that of the country at large, through | a fair recognition of our needs, occupies | any appreciable share of Eastern atten- tion. We are too remote for our necessi- ties to urge themselves unaided. An in- telligent and earnest Californian in the Cabinet would make all the difference. | This consideration has a special signifi- | cance for Republicans since a Republican President will undoubtedly be elected. Our peculiar and valuable industries need protection, our coast needs defenses and | our riversand harbors should be improved. ALASKA'S GOLDEN MECOA. All accounts relative to the new placer mines in the vicinity of Cooks Inlet agree that there is gold to be found there in pay- ing quantities. No extraordinary finds have as yet been reported, as was the case when the placer diggings of California were first invaded by the army of fortune- seekers. Yet the reports from the north have been of so favorable character that thousands have already taken passage tuis season from various points on thie coast for the promised land of easily gotten wealth. Most of these embryo miners are young | or middle-aged men out of employment | for the time being, with perhaps just enough savings to pay their passage to the desired goal and to purchase a crude out- | fit with which to wash out the golden | flakes from the beds of the Alaskan creeks flowing into Turnagain Bay. Should their early efforts prove successful, no hard- ships will result, but should fortane not smile upon them they are likely to fare hard. The early experiences of the gold-hunt- ers of California were sufficiently trying and made up of sufferings without severe climatic conditions to contend with, and the California argonauts were also favored by baving a large base of suppliesin San Francisco at a comparatively convenient distance. While it is claimed that the climatic peculiarities of the Cooks inlet country are similar to those of places in 40 degrees north latitude in this country it i admitted that the formation of ice in the winter precludes all possibility of working the placer beds for seven months | of the year, and supplies are not so plenti- | ful or near but great hardships might en- | sue from an influx of people not properly equipped and supplied. It would, therefore, be wise for every one Who goes to the new gold fields to lay in at least a year’s supplies or take sufficient i funds along to carry him through until | the opening of the next season. If this is not done great hardships are inevitable, A GOOD EXAMPLE. The strong desire of President Jordan of Stanford University to extend the use- fulness of that institution has met with praiseworthy appreciation at the hands of Timothy Hopkins. This gentieman has offered to bear the expense of sending two of Stanford’s bright young students to Kamchatka on a scientific expedition which will add to the renown of the uni- versity and to the general cause of haman knowledge. Mr. Hopkins has not been in the public eye of late, So far as external indications are instructive he appears to have been content to grow the most gor- geous flowers that are sold in San Fran- cisco. Though a millionaire he does not rank with the wealthiest men in the State, and that fact makes all the more conspic- uous and admirable his generous assist- ance of Stanford University. It affords THE CALL a special pleasure to record and praise actions like this on the part of Californians possessed of the means to make their public spirtt effective. Much handsome work of this kind has been done, but much still awaits the do- ing. The names of Stanford, Lick, Wil- merding, Sutro and others have passed into the permanent history of the State by reason of generous gifts to the people. Others, like Claus Spreckels, deserve equal praise for investments and improvements on a splendid scale tbat insure the pros- perity and establish the fame of the State, but the number of such citizens is small in proportion to the number of millionaires who have made their fortunes here. The aspirations of some have been checked by a malicious and irresponsible journalistic sneer here or there, and that has been a misfortune, There is an old story of a millionaire, now dead, whose pur- pose to establish a great art school was killed by an insulting paragraph referring to his ignorance of artistic mat- ters. Responsible San Francisco journal- ism has outgrown that folly. It is now well understood that & miilionaire, not groveling in his noard but spending it wisely for the public good, either in bene- factions or great industries, will find the people eager with evidences of apprecia- tion. The only trouble is that too few millionaires seem to reslize the new and nobler order of things. Instead of that some of them find Cali- fornia a bore and tolerate it only because it 1s a generous nourisher of their purses. A few of the richly dowered daughters of fathers who bave dug their treasure from California’s resources are better pleased to marry impoverishea Europeans of title than the sturdy, manly and chivalrous lads born on this soi! and strong with its vigor and hopefulness. 1t is no consola- tion that wretchedness commonly follows these unions; there is all the more pity for that. Besides these hapless giris there are rich men who find distant countries more congenial to their tastes and more | eager for their money than this most richly blessed of ail the corners of the earth. With them California is merely a machine for the turning ocut of money. The pleasure of living in a place so genial and kind and with a people so generous and responsive falls before the shrewduess and greed of a civilization that depends upon the aliurements of glittering exter- nals. With such of our citizens as this it is more congenial to be birds for eary Eu- ropean plucking than princes and bene- factors in the land of their birth. It is for this reason that THE CALL enjoys an emi- nent satisfaction in recording a public- spirited act on the part of a California millionaire. IDEAL COLONIZATION. The colonization of California would be a problem of easy solution if the methods which are being pursued by William Smythe, president of the National Colo- nial Society, were generally adopted in place of the loose and unreliable methods heretofore employed. A general outline of his plan of procedure is as follows: In the first place, he secured the co- operation of a number of pracical philan- thropists in various Eastern cities, and through them organized the National Colonial Society. Branches of these called colonial clubs were organized in various Eastern cities, the purpose of the central and branch organizations being to furnish reliable information to all who should desire to settie in colony in Cali- fornia. Mr. Smythe was the active agent in the formation of these clubs, the membership of which was composed of persons who desired information concerning California with the ultimate intention of settling in this State should the conditions prove in- viting. The first Jpractical result of this move- ment bas begn secured. At the solicita- tion of Mr. Smythe, the clubs of Chicago, New York and Central Massachusetts selected ten of their number to make a visit of inspection to California, in order to ascertain the exact nature of the con- ditions existing here. Their expenses were borne by the clubs. They came by way of the Canadian Pacific, and made a thorough examination of the entire coast from British Columbia to the Mexican line. Their particular destination was a colony tract in Tehama County, Cali- fornia, but they arrived at no decision until they had thoroughly studied the whole slope. They had authority from their ciubs to make a decision binding their clubs, and they were so well pleased with what they found in Tehama County that they closed a trade for 5000 acres of land, selected townsites and orchard-tracts for them- selves and for 134 other members of the clubs who had individually authorized them to do so if their judgment war- ranted. Then they immediately organ- ized the colony on an exceptionally admirable plan of co-operation already adopted by the clubs, and made prepara- tions for the immediate building of homes. Thus every element of uncertainty and every possibility of fraud is removed. As the conditions here are stiange to Eastern farmers the clubs secured the services of Professor Hilgard to make a thorough study and report of the tract in question. All other questions, including climate, water, fuel, transportation, value of land, accessibility of market and healthfulness of the region, were thoroughly inquired into by the committee and a highly favor- able report made concerning them all. This is only the first of an unlimited number of colonies which it is proposed to found in California under the system. The plan recommends itself for adoption by all who realize the great importance of settiing colonies in California. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. The woman editor's reply: “ I sena you back your heart,” she wrote, “Regretting that I cannot use it; No Iack of merit 1s implied In the mere fact that I refuse It. Of numerons reasons, any one May for my uses quite unfitit, And, really, I'm so overstocked "Tis Lopeless further to submit it —New York Tribune. | Briggs — You know Gablets, don’t you? Braggs—Oh, I have a listening acquaintance with him.—Tid-Bits. ‘‘Scientists say mow that handshaking con- veys disease?” ‘‘Of course; that’s the way the grip got started.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Good All-Around Man.—Dorothy — Jack makes love in the most fascinating way, Bar- bara—Yes; and doesn’t he Dropose most divinely!—Sydney Bulletin. Old Bullion—What! You wish to marry my daughter? She is & mere schooigirl yet. Suitor—Yes, sir. I came early to avoid the rush.—Pearson’s Weekly. Tommy Smart—The President is a wonderful man, ain’t he ? Tommy’s Pa—Why 80, son ? Tommy Smart—I heard Sammy Small say he Wwas the only man in the world that could but- ton his ghirt collar before he put the shirt on and then slip it over his head without budging the button—Philadelphia Item., “You shouldn't mind his comparing your cooking with his mother’s,” said the elderly friend. “All husbands have that trick.” “It wasn’t his mother’s cooking,” sobbed the indignant young woman. ¢I could have stood that. He said I couldn’t make as good pies as m:.l mother’s hired girl.”—Indianapolis Jour- nal. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the notable venders of different arti- cles in 8an Francisco, and who may be seen not only in the hotels, but along the principal thoroughfares, is a young women with raven black hair and eyes so dark that any observer knows her forefathers must have hved for many generations under tropical suns. The woman is a native of Arabia, and is proud of it. Her name if Kathrina Chappelle, and for almost five years she hasbeen a widow. She came to California six years ago, so shé tells. Soon afterward she was married to a Frenchman nemed Chappelle. He did not live long, and when he died the stranger from the sands of far Arabia was thrown on her own re- sources. She equipped herself with a large basket and loadec it with such trinkets and the family and the building up of the home. They must guarantee the permanency of in- stitutions which aim at the preservation of all that is beautiful and noble in our civilization. While they foster and bless every agency of society and state which seeks the welfare of mankind, they must themselves interpret to the people, from the pulpitand press and in- stitutions of learning, the open Word of God, under the influence and power of the Holy Spirit. thus enabling the people to compare l{\!rlmul with material things as well as meate- rial things with spiritual. “It would be far from this writing to under- estimate the good influences of any of the agencies already referred to or cast any reflec- tions upon them. These peculiar missions and the Salvation Army may do much good, but it is to the church ‘we must look for hel 1o the masses. These agencies may start 00 impulses and good resolves, good faithsand good lives, but the church is set and organized to lift up the fallen, place them in society and Kathrina Chappelle, the Courageous Arabian Woman, Who Has Returned From Her Native Deserts by Way of Venezuela. [Sketohed from life by a “Call” artist.] necessaries as might catch the eye of the aver- age person on the street. There were tooth brushes, coxbs, purses, penknives, pipes, but- tons and other similar things. She succeeded in selling them, and has managed in this way to get along, apparently in a prosperous way. At any rate, she undertakes things, and suc- ceeds in them, by remson of her prior success, that would appall all that class of th sterner sex who, because of discouragements, are constrained 0 jump from wharves or end their lives in ungentlemanly ways in rooms at public hostelries. People have missed the cheerful face of Kathrina for some time. But she is now visi- ble again and she told about her absence yes- terday. “I went to my old home in Arabia a year ago,” sne said, “and saw my friends there. It was a good visit I bad and I was delighted to be there again. Istayed several months and then went to Venezuela. would stay there, but after I had scen and studied the country I coneluded I would do better in California. “As I had been absent from here a good | while, however, and my trip had cost me some money, I coneluded I would try making | some more there. So I broughta lot of things, many of them being much like these, and others of & character peculiarly suited to Ven- ezuelans. end I made what money I could and then came on here. *Oh, no; T am hopeful and doing as well as T could expect. People are pretty good to me here. But, of courte, I wish I could sell more, for then I could buy many things which it would please me to have.” IN THE LOOKING-GLASS. This world is like & looking-glass And If you want Lo see People frogn at you as yon pass And usebvou slightingly If you want quarreis, snubs and foes, Put on a fretful face— Scowl at the world, vou'll find it shows The very same grimace. This world is like a looking-glass And it you wish to be On pleasant terms with all who pass, Smile on them pleasantly:= Be helptul, generous and trug, And very soon you'll find Each face eflecting back 10 you An image bright and kind. —The Churchman, A RELIGIOUS REVIEW. CALIFORNIA PASSES UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF AN EMINENT CHUBCHMA The Rt. Rev. J. W. Hott, a bishop of the United Brethren church, has recently written for the Dayton (Ohio) Religious Telescope & re- view of California from the church member’s point of view. “The religious or non-religious aspects of the country,” the good bishop writes. “present & peculiar mediey. On one hand there is a large class of good citizens who recognize or care but little for the church, or Christianity as such, and really take no part in the services of the church in any regular way. They believe little or nothing in particular, and seem to care but little for the future life. *‘There is below this a crowd of whieh I need not speak. Where are they going? Who can tell? “Among religionists there is a still wider range of variety. There is a bold Unitarian- ism, 8s it may be called, which lays down the largeness of thought which really lives on the creation of vital Christianity, but itself ignores much that is really reformatory or uplifting and vital in Christianity as & remedial and transforming power in human society. It has recently received an institutional repre- sentation for Northern California in Stanford University, whose head is its mouthpiece in educational circles, What the final influence of all this shall be will appear_in the coming ears. It represents a broad scholarship—I are to say, broader than it is deep—and ac- cepts as scientific fact that which the pro- foundest scholars of the Christian world can only have courage to hold as hypotheses, Already it has produced & kind of sneer in many places for aggressive reformative, re- ligious, churehly effort. “In anotner field there is a vast company of spiritually minded people who hold the old or- thodox ideas of Christianity, but haye empha- sized peculiar spiritual conceptions, until they have gone out of the church into various or- ganizations, or are retaining a membership in the church, but have litile fellowship with it. Some are Christian Reientists, others faith- healers, and others holding intermediate, un- certain views. In the larger cities great crowds attend faith-cure services. Many of these peo- le, 110 doubt, have a simple, pure and beauti- ul faith in- Christ, but conneet it with mon- strous fdeas”” * »' ¥ The writer has some good words for the prac- 25’“ amelioration effected by the Salvation my. “The peculiarities and_eccentricities of the Salvation Army,” says Dr. Hott, “are over- looked for the gake of ‘their toil for those to Wwhom no other helping hand seems extended in a practical way. “In the midst of all this and towering over. all stand the churches with their conservative and abiding efforts for the building up and saving of soclety. They have a peculiar battle to wage against sin of all kinds, againstsin in the world, and formality and too often imper- fections in their own folds. They must stand for the progressive forms of vital Christianity. They represent the highest conceptions of thought in_abiding, ?lrlmll truth. They must stand for the purity and permanency of 1did not know but I | 1 bad no trouble in selling them, | I | in business, in their homes and in families, | and make them a blessing to society and the | state.” lLETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. | MR. KERRIGAN ON COURSING. To the Editor of the San Francisco Cail—Sir: In & recent issue of your paper 1 am reported as saying that coursing is cruel and brutal | sport, and that T am in it solely for the money. | Inthis matter Iwas misquoted. Coursing, in my opinion, is neither cruel nor brutal as carried out in the large parks around San | Francisco. These inclosures are we!l provided | with escapes, which afford the hare a better | opportunity to beat the hounds' than she has | outon the open piain. Iwish to say to any man raising his voice against coursing that we will course our grevhounds just as long as there a s in California. 3 ay that we are in it solely for the , for every man who goes to coursing that there is no money to be made out ‘The honor of having a good greyhound or giving the public a good day’s sport is as | much to'me as'ali the money I ever made in the business. A greyhound is created by nature | to chase & here and a hare is aiso created to | fice from the hound. This is evident from the { | iact that a hare sees behind her while running and can quickly @rn to right or left, which throws her pursuers ous when they come too close to her. Iiail to see why Mr. Holbrook or any other man can stop coursing, simply because the hare is sometimes killed. If animals were not killed the earth would be overrun with them, and if hares were not killed California would suffer to the extent of several thousand dolars annually. A {uwl vicious greyhound will kill a hare as quickly as a good butcher will kill a steer, <o that, in my opinion, Mr. Holbrook’s stand on the subject of coursing is without a founda- tion. M. W. KERRIGAN. Ocean View, April 13, 1896. LADYS WAIST. The pattern shown here hasa fitted lining, | over which the material is laid in box-pleats | forming a blouse iront, and in the back is smooth across the top, and laid in two folds alt the waist. This model is appropriete for any material. White lawn with yellow lace and insertion for the loose sleeve, the revers and V is very dainty. Brown Hollands with trimmings embroidered batiste of the same color over a bright silk is charming. Dotted muslin of pink isexquisite with but- ter-colored. valencienues each pleat and the revers. Dresden ribbon for collar and belt make a stylish finish. Alpaca of the blue shade but dark, is very stylish with V and revers of very fine linen lawn with wrimming of butter-colored valen- ciennes lace and insertion.. A Brown crepon with trimmings of either plain or embroidered batiste of natural wax shade is very stylish. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. M. Stoiloff, Prime Minister of Bulgaris, is only 4 feet 6 inches in height. Waltham, Mass, has three women engaged in municipal work. Miss Annie Adams is trustee of a public fund, Mrs, John Harvey 1s director of the public library, and Mrs. C. H. Danfels is overseer of the poor. General A. C.McClurg of Chicago claims a telephone saved his life. When he was seri- ously i1l he was treated daly by a specialist in physician over a telephone that extended to the sickroom. Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States Senate, was one of the most popular lecturers in the “lyceum days.” It is noted of Mr. Milburn that he was first elected a Congressional cnaplain in December, 1845, fifty-one years ago. He was then 22 New York, who conferred with the Chicago | years of age, and the youngest man whose voice has ever been heard in Congress before or since that date. PERSONAL. Dr. C. B. Provius ot Woodland is in town. J. W. Canty of Grayson is at the Baldwin. Dr. C. W. Nutting of Etna is at the Grand. John McMaullen of Fresno is at the Palace. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare arrived here yester- day. General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff is in the City. W.W. Rice of El Paso, Texas, hes arrived here. T. P. Lukens of Pasadena {s among recent ar- rivals. Y. Royd Graeme of Yorkshire, England, is at the Palace. H. W. Blaisdell of Yums, Ariz., is here on a business trip. Rev.J. L. Stuart of Shanghai, China, is at the Occidental. F. M. Ward, a merchant of Red Bluft, arrived here yesterday. A. W. Judd of Stenford University is staying at the Cosmopolitan. A. N. Fraser, a business man of Topeka, Kan., is at the Cosmopolitan. J. S.Page, a member of the New York Stock Board, is at the Palace. Elmore Waters, a wealthy resident of Bur- lington, Vt.,is in town. William Valmers, a hotel proprietor of Trin- ity County, is at the Russ. A. H. Ashley, vice-president of the Stockton High School, is at the Lick. . McIntere of Dayton, Ohio, is at the Palace accompanied by his wife. Robert M. Clarke of Carson, ex-Attorney- General for Nevada, is at the Palace. Henry Knox, lieutenant-commander in the United States navy, has arrived here. Mr. and Mrs. C. Manheim of Crown Point, Ind., are staying at the Cosmopolitan. C. E. Tinkham, superintendent of the Sierra Mill and Lumber Company, is in the City. J. 8. Hill, a wealthy livestock-grower of Nevada, is among the recent arrivals here. Trenmor Coffin of Carson, attorney for the Bullion and Excharge Bank, is at the Grand. David Southurstand John McMurray,pioneer mining men of Montans, are at the Cosmopoll- tan. Hon. Robert F. Pennell, superintendent of the State Normal School at Chico, is at the Grand. Charles Emmet, & mining men of Aspen, one of the great silver camps of Colorado, is in San Francisco. Henry T. Sloane, the wealthy merchant, ar- rived here from New York yesterday and is at the Palace. Charles Thistlethwaite, a mine-owner of Col- umbia, Tuolumne County, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan, Dr. E. Crutcher, for the last seven or eight years & resident of Great Falls, Mont., and who has grown wealthy there, is on a visit here. W. J. Ritchie, formerly conneeted with the business department of the Examiner, and since then for some time in London, is in the City. Max Pracht, the tariff advocate, former Col- leetor of the Port at Sitka and a long resident of Oregon, has arrived here from his home in Ashland. He is one of the delegates from Oregon to the National Republican Conven- tion. A party of “prominent Pittsburg people ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. They are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. James Hemphill, Mrs. 8. A. Fownes, T. F. Best, William Curry, Mr. and M H. C. Fownes and Mastér C. B. Fownes. Hugh McDonald, the mining man, formerly of Colorado and Montana, who some months since was instrumental in the sale of the Iron Mountain mining property, Shasta County, has returned here, after an absence in the East of several weeks. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 13.—At the Hol- land, J. S. Ackerman; Grand, F,J. Batchelor; Park Avenue, Mrs. Commins; Hoffman House, L. H. Garnett, M. J. Reid; Imperial, J. C. Iler, J. Madison; Amsterdam, H. Poland; Bruns- wick, W. M. Randol; Murray Hill, G. F. Shields; Grand Union, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Swanberg; St. Denis, R. B. Hines; Windsor, W.C. Martin, J. C. Stubbs and wife: Westminster, VictorJ, Shanley. The following sailed in the steamer Lahn: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Eggers, Miss Minna Eg- gers, Miss Annie Eggers, Miss Mayer, Hans Schiebe, Mrs. Marie von der Mehden, Miss Adeline von der Mehden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wreden and child. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ENGLAND—C. K., City. England is pro- nounced as if written Ing-gland. SANcHO PEDRO—A. O. 8., City. In counting in the game of sancho pedro the countisin the following order: High, low, jack, game, pedro and sancho. THE TERRITORIES—C. K., City. The Terri- tories of the United States are New Mexico, Arizona, Indian, District of Columbia, Alaska and Oklahomea. THE MACALISTERS—J. A. B., Concord, Contra Costa, Cal. The plaid of the Macalisters of Scotland is brick red and light blue. There is nothing particular about the dress. CHURCH PROPERTY—S,, Fresno, Cal. A list of the States in which church lproverty is taxed ‘was published in THE CALL of the 26th of last February in Answers to Correspondents. CONTINENTAL MONEY —R. W., Jamestown, Cal. A Continental $5 note of 1776, according to the catalogues o f dealers in coins, is of but little value. They offer 5 cents for such a note. = GODDARD-SMITH—H. L. 8.. City. The fight be- tween Joe Goddard and Ed Smith, alias “Den- ver Smith,” took place in New Orleans on the 8d of March, 1893. Smith deteated Goddard in eighteen rounds. BLAVATSKY—A. O. S., Fresno, Cal. Helen Petrovna Blavatsky, theosophist, born in Eka. terinoslaw, Russia, widow of Nicephore V. Blavatsky, at one time governor of Armeni, died in London, May 8, 1891. MILLIONAIRES—J. T. W., Petaluma, Cal. Cali- fornia hasand has had many millionaires, but Answers to Correspondents does not recognize William Murphy as one of them, therefore is unable to answer ‘‘What disposition has been made of the estate of William Murphy, the California millionaire?”” THE_POSTOFFICE—J. M. N., Mohler, Wash. Since 1865 the expenses of the Aostoffice De- partment of the United States have been in excess of the revenue except in 1865, 1882 and 1883, when the revenue exceed the expen- ditures. In 1894 the revenue of the depart- réioen! W;! 875,080,479 and the expenses £ 2, THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS—O. A., City. The former kingdom of Hawaii was declared a re- public on the 4th of July, 1894, and has been conducted as such since that time with San- ford B. Dole as President, whose term of office will expire in 1900. The republic is not gov- erned by a foreign power. VOTING—G. P. Y., City. Analien who has ob- tained his certificate of naturalization can by virtue of such vote at any election held there- aiter providing he has complied with the regu- lations as to residence in State, county and voting precinct. In this State a citizen who wishes to vote must have been a resident of the State one year next %recedmg the election 2ud of the county of which he claims his vote ninety days, and in the election Precinct thirty days, and his name shall be enrolled on fllne fi‘mer of voters fifteen days prior to an election. THE SNOW RECORD—A. 8., City. The follow- ing is the record of snow in San Francisco since the centennial yea 1876, January 20—Snow fell for ten minutes. 1882, December 31—From 11:30 A. . till 4:20 3. ugs‘ February 6—A few minutes. 1884, February 7—At intervals, halfan inch on Kearny street. 1887, February 5—Seven Inches in the Western Addition. 1888, January 4—Few flakes, 1588, Janary 16—.1 of an inch. 93, March 10—One minute. 1896, March 2—One inch of snow. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE—O. A., City. There is no alliance between England and Italy. The only alliance existing in Europe at this time is the triple alliance, or Der Dreibund, as it is popularly known. Thisis a defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, nego- tiated at Gastein and Vienna after the Berlin Congress by Prince Bismarck in uonuqnencel nfriendly attitude of Russia. Italy S&v,i’:fiué‘nm joined the league, and after its renewal in 1887, on the arrangement of details at the interview between Bismarck, Count Kalnowky and Signor Crispi, in Frederichs- ruhe in September, the terms of the original treaty were published. 1f either Austria- Hungary or Germany is, without being aggres- sive, attacked by Russia the combined military force of the two empires will move against that nation. If France attacks either Germany or Ttaly she must be opposed by those two powers acting in common. If France and Russia should combine to assail one or more of tha combined powers the entire military and naval sirength would be calied into imniediate action. In a few weeks the old sl0op-of-war Pensa- colawill be & pile of kindling-wood. She is now tied to the wharf at Mare Island and a gang of men are at work removing her ma. chinery and rigging. The WOrk has so far progressed that the vessel stands high out of the water and looks like a wreck. The hull has been ordered sold, but it is not in good condi- tion and will very likely have to be broken up for want ot a p aser. The Pensacola is about the last of the vessels of her class built by the Government for ser- vice in the War of the Rebellion. Son after she was finished in 1862 she was sent to the mouth of the Mississippi to form a art of Farragut's flect. She was the first ves- Sl to be dragged ncross the bar, and at the time roceived more of & shumpliig than mos: vessels get in many years of service. Tn all her career the Pensacols has been noted for having narrow escapes. At the pas The Sloop-of-War Pensacola Being Dis- mantled at Mare Island. [From a sketch.] sage of the forts below New Orleans she was struck several times, but somehow the shot were deflected so that she received little in- jury. The first night of the bombardment she was a short distance from shore when the big rebel ram Manasses came at her. It looked as if the Pensacola’s career was ended right there, but the man at the wheel swung her around so nicely that the Manassas struck her only & glancing blow that did not the least damage. The Pensacola was in several tight places dur- ing that fight, but through the rest of the war did little more than guard duty. The Swatara has aiready been dismantled and is to be ordered sold. Sheis lying in the stream in front of Mare Island and seems to be & good ship yet. Her timbers are perfectly sound, as she was not built until 1871 and has seen little service. With new rigging and out- side planking there is no reason why she would not do good service for many years to oome. —_— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.® . EPECIAL information daily to manufaaturert, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * - Must Pull Together. San Jose Mercury. 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