The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1496 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.. Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. Daily and Sunday €ALL, three months by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Bunday CALL, one year, by mail... WERKLY CALL, One year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If #0, it 15 110 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to Four address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE : 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Celephone...... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone.... ..Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 8:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minthstreet; open until § 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent .APRIL 21, 1896 TUESDAY.. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — e California interests must have a show at St. Louis. Make it unanimous for an unpledged delegation. Some get into the swim at the festivals and some just drift there. It will be better to see Los Angeles this week than to see her later. It Jooks now as if the Democrats would like to inveigle the Populists into their faction fights. There is more gold yet in California for the average miner than in any other land under the sun. As s storm center Buluwayo is getting the bulge on Havana and drawing the eyes of the world. The funding bill lobby has quit shouting for a while and we may look out for sneak tactics to be adopted next. It is agreeable to the world now to let Los Angeles have her own sweet way and to applaud ber in doing it. Chauncey Depew has lost none of his eloquence. He says California is the most beautiful land he ever saw. Now that Russia’s hand in Korea has been plainly disclosed, Japan is in doubt whether to step on it or shake. Some one of the Cabinet offices of the next administration should be made to hunt its man in this commonwealth. Alaskan gold fields should be left to men who have money to bura to keep them- selves warm when the freeze-outs come. ‘What grinds Lord Salis bury most is that he cannot send his famous flying squadron into Central Africa to dazzle the dervishes. It seems as easy to run a prediction burean as to roll off a log, and perhaps there is not much difference between the jobs. So long as Great Britain has a surplus and the United States a deficiency the tariff issue in this country will be a burn- ing one. Before the Democrats undertake to com- bine with the Populists they had better learn how to combine with themselves a little bit. The experiment with Democratic free trade shows it means a tariff that para- lyzes home industries and sets those of the foreigner free. By going to St. Louis unpledged the California deleeation will stand a good chance to come home with the pledge of a Cabinet office. Democracy should whirl in and run a syndicate or a junta for the Presidency and thus get rid of a whole lot of old chromos at one graceful stroke. The only defender of the administration in the Senateis David Bennett Hill, and he never fails to repeat in every speech that he doesn’t visit the White House. It is admittea that Cleveland can have all that he wishes of Eastern Democracy this year, for it seems he has not left enough for any one else to care 1o scramble about it From the chilliness of the spring all over the world it would seem that Dr. Nansen must have opened a way to let the north pole spread itself southward a good deal. Kaiser William’s insistence that the custom of dueling shall be msintained in Germany is probably due to some extent to the consciousness that he will never have to fight one. Senator Peffer may be a crank, but if he keeps his bill for the investigation of the bond deals moving right along the people will not be sorry that there is one such crank in the Congressional mill. No Republican in OCalifornia should be willing to sacrifice the interests of the State for tne sake of a personal prefer- ence among candidates all of whom are equally emicent in the party and faithful to its principles. The expansion of trade in England has led to a wonderful outbreak of activity in shipbuilding on the Clyde, and in the meantime the Democratic deficit and de- pression are holding us back while our rivals get ahead of us. There is hardly any need of argument to prove to sensible people that to fund the Pacific roads debts for 2 per cent while the Government itself has to pay more than that would be not only a blunder in business but a crime in polities. As the discussion continues concerning the attitude California should take at St. Louis, it becomes every day more evident that the main issue in the eyes of Repub- licans generally is not which candidate shall be nominated for the Presidency, but what can be done to advance the interests of the State. In other words, ‘‘measures and not men”’ is becoming the prevailing sentiment of the party. AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE. The reported efforts of certain would-be leaders among the Democrats and the Populists to arrange for a combination of those parties to carry the Congressional elections in California this fall have a cer- tain importance growing out of the fact that some scheme of the kind would be a natural outcome of the situation. The chances of each party in this campaign are slight. Their office-seekers are desperate. They are aware that if either attempts to make a straight fight throughout the State it will be overwhelmingly defeated in every Congressional district. What is more nat- ural, therefore, than that the hungry seekers for spoils should act upon the vrinciple that half a loaf is better than no bread, and agree to pool their chances and make a combination that promises a vic- tory here and there? It is only to the office-seekers of the two parties, however, that such a combination seems natural or even practicable. The vrinciples that underlie Democracy are wide as the poles asunder from those that infuse Populism. It is from the logical application of Democratic principles to practical politics that comes the extreme conservative creed known as Bourbonism, while from the philosophy of Populism there flow forth all the innumerable vagaries of radicalism gone crazy. On what platform of principles or, even of measures can the loyal members of these parties combine? Shall the Bourbon turn radical or the radical turn Bourbon? Is it that we shall see both Bourbon and radi- cal sacrifice every principle of his creed in order to help some greedy office-seeker gratify his desire? That the Populist leaders should be willing to enter into such a combination is not strange. Most of them have been making politics a bargain and sale busi- ness ever since tney entered it. They have been as ready to combine with Re- publicans in the Southern States as with Democrats in the North. They have much to gain by such combinations and little co lose. They have no history, no tradition, no prestige, no party loyalty to sacrifice in making the trade. Their policies for the most part include such socialistic measures as are wholly out of the domain of practical politics, and about the only practical politics in sight for them, there- fore, is the getting of offices and spoils in any manner possible, Widely different from the condition of the Populists is that of the Democrats. They are members of one of the old his- toric parties of the country Their his- tory contains theillustrious names of Jei- ferson, Jackson, Marcy and Douglas. If it also happens to contain the name of Cleveland that is because the leaders of the party once committed the blunder of making a combination with the Mug- wumps. It 1s from such alliances that such statesmen come forth. After having this experience one would suppose the most stupid of Democrats would have sense enough to stick to straight politics hereafter. It is clear that such a combi» nation as is talked of with the Populists would mean the surrender of the Demo- cratic party in half the State and would imply such a degree of demoralization as would render it impossible for the leaders to bring out the party vote to carry the scheme through. Republicans can watch the proposed deal with serene minds. After the disas- trous experiment with Democratic blun- dering in National affairs there is no danger the people will repeat that experi- ment with Populists added to Democrats. There will be no experiments this year. The people are now eager to see business resumed, industry revived, wages restored and prosperity re-established. No possible combination can stand against their deter- mination to bring this about. They will vote the Republican ticket and straight politics will win. THE BATTLE OPENS. This week will see the beginning ofa strange contestin Congress—the fight over the railroad funding bill. It seems to be taken for granted that the bill to be intro- duced in both houses was drawn in accord- ance with the wishes of the railroads con- cerned, and that its submission for final action is made with the assurance that it will receive the support of the railroad in- fluence in Congress. This means to say simply that even from a common-sense business point of view the debtor is dicta ting his terms of settlement to the creditor.~ This would seem a humorous situation were not the principles at stake so im- portant and far reaching. Meanwhile there are some comforting reflections. Not only has Senator Mor- gan’s illness relaxed in severity, but the general movement for an early adjourn- ment of Congress is gaining headway. This is the year for a Presidential election, and that means an inclination to be inat- tentive and a desire to enter the fight. At this writing it seems impossible for the funding bill to be disposed of before ad- journment. As a candidate for the Presi- dency Speaker Reed must realize the gravity of bhastening action in the House. The Senate is really the more uncertain quantity from the railroad point of view. In that body a strong united movement against the measure has been organizad, and with so experienced a tacti- cian as Senator Morgan in the lead, we may expect an earnest strugele. Should Congress adjourn before the bill is finally disposed of, a new political issue will have been presented to the parties in the West. The great difficulty under which we now labor is the refusal of a large element in the East to regard the subject in any light other than thatof an embarassed debtor who asks for an extension of time in which to settle. The task of those upholding the deeper and broader principles involved is one of education. The stronger part of the Western sentiment opposing the fund- ing bill has its inspiration in an under- standing due to a bitter experience foreign to the East, and does not concern itself with the desires of the debtor roads or with any wish for reprisal on the part of the im- mediate enemies which they have made. Our duty is to broaden the Eastern view by persistent instruction. It is better to do this and to win on these lines than to chafe under what seems, in the absence of a full understanding, to be a con- temptuouns disregard of Western interests manifested by the East. A BRILLIANT FESTIVAL. The great fiesta at Los Angeles opens to- day and undoubtedly will eclipse in splen- dor all other efforts of the kind heretofore made by that city. It is interesting to contemplate the remarkably rapid devel- opment of the festival idea in California— particularly at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, where the beginning was made, and to contemplate the possibilities for the future. The greatest spectacular show in America is the annual celebration of Mardi Gras at New Orleans. That was of slow growth, beginning generations ago on the loose and unorganized lines estab- lished at Rome and Paris many centuries past. Out of this disjointed start grew powerful secret non-religious societies composed of wealthy persons and main- tained solely for the purpose of producing dazzling pageants by a heavy expenditure I of money. The practiczl benefits flowing from enormous incursions of visitors doubtless served as a leading motive. The zenith of the grandeur of these spectacles was reached forty years ago and there has since been no diminution of interest. The California festivals are proceeding on less firmly established lines. They are the spontaneous expression of a people happy in the pleasures which living in California brings them and are not the product of strongly organized boedies of citizens working untiringly for the com- mon good. And yet Southern California is holding its festivals through a popular and unorganized co-operation fully as effective as that of the sworn societies of New Orleans. The same principle holds true in the Northern California cities that realize the value of these spectacles. Time alone will determine whether the Cali- fornia plan of open co-operation is as effective as the New Orleans idea of secret societies having exactly the same and no other motive. Los Angeles has chosen the most de- lightfu! time of the year forits great fiesta. The oranges are gone but the gardens are all riotous with bloom, and as the rainy season has passed the air has all the bril- liant clearness of summer with the sweet- ness and fragrance of spring. Visiting strangers wil! note with a refreshing sense of pleasure the long miles of perfectly clean bituminous streets, the elegance of vrivate homes, the lavish fondness of the people for their gardens and the pervad- ing air of prosperity, buoyancy and con- tent. Itisworth every Californian’s time to visit Los Angeles now and learn how superior intelligence and pride may make the most of the blessings which nature has lavished npon the State THE VOICE OF THE RANK AND 1d It is true beyond any ground for doubt that therank and file of the party are now favoring an unpledged delegation to St. Louis, and it is all the more important be- cause the rank and file of the Republican party in California represent the commer- cial, the financial and the industrial inter- ests of the State in a large degree. They see that California will have much to ask at the hands of the National Convention. A well-established merchant marine, coast defenses and river and harbor improve- ments and plans for beginning of the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal are among the most important of California’s needs, and the business men of the party want that our delegates shall go unpledged to everything save to the great funda- mental principles of the party and to the interests of this State and her metropolis. There was a disposition on the part of the rank and file of the party awnile ago to pronousce in advance for one og the other of the leading candidates, but upon second thought it was the opinion of very many that California could not afford to take a position of antagonism toward any candidate, for, while our delegates will pledge the electoral votes of this State to the nominee, it is the sentiment of only a very small following that California should overlook the opportunity the convention will offer for solid work for this State and espouse the cause of this or that aspirant for Presidential honor:. The St. Louis convention will be California’s oppor- tunity to ask for and receive much, but we can ask for nothing nor expect any- thing if we start in upon lines of antago- nism to any one. California wants and should have assurances of recognition of her commercial and 1ndustrial needs, and, too, California wants to be represented in the Cabinet and the next administration. These are matters of too vast importance to this State to be forgotten in a struggle for the supremacy of any individnal, The principles of the party and the best inter- ests of California are all that our dele- gates should be pledged to. But the sen- timent of the rank and file of the party in California is becoming so pronounced for an unpledged delegation that it may be considered as good as settled that only “The Principle of the Republican Party and California’s Best Interests’ will be emblazoned upon the banner of our dele- gation. THE OHICKADEES. ‘When the original Sacramento Union waged against railway monopoly the war that brought death to the then great news- paper Sam Seabau:h (veace to his manes) dubbed the country press that in several instances defended and apologized for the common enemy ‘‘chickadees.” In these latter days a far more effectual method of negative use for the rural press is working in behalf of the now more experienced monopolists. It consists simply in the dumbness or peeping indifference of the chicks. Probably this costs little or noth- ing to its beneficiaries and is a great deal more profitable to them than any possible positive support from the chicks could be. That a large portion of the country press is not complaining gives color of honesty to the statement made by Huntington at ‘Washington that a majority of the Califor- nia press favor his projects. Silence in general does mean acquiescence, and in this instance it is golden to him; yet he and they know full well that to defend him in type wouid be death to the ‘‘chick- adees.”” AN UNNECE3SARY SCARE. The latest reports from the fruit centers of the State show, as reports always do under similar circumstances, that the un commonly severe weather of the past week has not been so destructive as at first announced. Hardships for which there is no repair have been suffered in restricted localities, but the great body of the State has issued smiling from the ordeal. What has been lost in one section has been gained in another. Taking into account the infinite variety of climates and situations in even the fruit-growing areas, it is easv to understand why no sweeping injury to crops need ever be ex- pected in California. The situation is totally different from that in those States where such a variety does not exist. That means to say that in this regard California stands alone among the States. Such weather as we hn&a recently had does not come oftener than once in ten or twenty years, and that makes its advent all the more dismaying. Possibly it would be better for us were these visitations more frequent, as in that case we should be bet- ter prepared to employ available means for averting the dangers which they threaten. 1t has been only this year, and late in the season, that simple, inexpen- sive and efficacious means for preventing damage by adventitious frosts were dis- covered. The experience of the past week will make their preparation for use here- after a clear measure of wisdom. It is interesting to note the general free- dom of foothill orchards from this frosty assault. The greater part of the damage suffered was in the valleys, at much lower altitudes than the foothills. This phe- nomenon is not difficult of comprehension when we reflect that in closed valleys we find conditions favorable to still air and consequently frost, and that in the foot- hills, where the normal temperature is lower, frost is prevented by air currents, among them being the ascending warm air from the valleys, The value of foot- | and Princess Amate hill land for orchard purposes is steadily rising as these facts become better under- stood. At the same time we should not lose sight of the fact that even in the val- leys we have easy means at hand for pre- venting damage, A MONSTER VASE. There has just been placed in the Hopkins Art Institute one of the finest examples of Jap- anese bronze work in existence. It is a vase, or incense-burner, and as far as known there are not more than & dozen others like it, and they are all in Japan. Mrs. Pheebe A. Hearst is the owner, and tne vase arrived from the Orient but & few weeks ago. It was notun- packed until it was taken to the institute, so that it is now exhibited for the first time. During the World’s Fair there was & vase somewhat similar shown by the Japanese Gov- ernment, but it is not believed to have been sold in this country. The vase placed in the Art Institute is a little over 14 feet in height and the weight is esti- mated at about a ton. It is the work of the famous Japanese artist Suzuki Mosayoshi of Tokio, Japan, and he was several years in exe- cuting it. It contains over a hundred separate pieces, fastened together in different ways. Every square inch of the surface of the vase is elaborately decorated with inseriptions Mouster Japanese Vase or Incemse- Burner, Latcly Placed in the Art Institute. [From a sketch.] Even the smallest pendants are covered with Japanese characters, The base is of solid bronze and is about 6 feet in diameter. Stand- ing on thisare eight Shishis, or guardians of the temple, supporting the upper portion of the vase. Justabove these isa representation of Deo, the fire dragon. The handies represent Tatsus, or rain dragons. On the bowl of the vase there is a panel em- bellished with the figures of Prince Izanagi Omi. No. Kami, the parents of the first Emperor of Japan, who it is claimed descended from the gods. Ou the top of the vase there is & figure of & sacred engle. Every known process of bronze work is made use oi. Parts of it are east and others are carved from the metal. In many places there is some elaborate inlaid work. All day long the vapors played At blindfold in thi Thelr elfin fingers cangh! ‘The sunbeans as they Into & filmy barricade *Twixt earth and where the sunlight beats. d stayed ound thelr sheets A vagrant band of mischief, these, With wing of gray and cobweb gown; They live along Lhe edge of seas, And creeping ou” on foot of down, They chase and frolic, frisk and tease At blind-man’s buft with all the town. And when at eventide the sun Breaks with a glory through their gray, The vapor-fairies one by one Outspread their wings and float away In clouds of coloring and run Wine-like along the rim of day. Athwart the beauty and the breast Of purpling airs they twist and twist, Then float away to some far rest, Leaving the skies all color-kiss’a— A glorious and zolden West Lt greets the lifting of the mist. PAULINE J OHNSTON, SHOULD NOT BE PLEDGED. Nevada City Transcript. 1t seems to be the general sentiment that the delegates to the Republizan National Conven- tion should not be pledged to any particular candidate. There is talk of California getting a Cabinet ofice, and the delegates, if not pledged, will be in a better position to de- mand recognition. FOLITICAL GOSSIP. Amid all the Presidential possibilities men. tioned no one has thought of Waite of bloody bridle fame.—St. Louis Republic. It is dou btful if ex-Governor Campbell's plan to save the Democratic party would survive the test of a popular vote.—New York Press. If the Senator from South Carolina carries out his threat he will in the future be known as Hon. Ben Bolt Tillman.—Chicago Times- Herald. As it stands now, if Reed, Allison, McKinley, Cullom or Quav can’t get it, and Mrs. Dimmick- Harrison is willing, Benjamin will accept it himself.—Wichita Eagle There are Democrats in Pennsylvania who are disposed to look upon Mr. Pattison’s candi- dacy for office as a piece of shop-worn political goods.—Washington Fost. The McKinley people speak of Governor Bradley as “the man from Kentucky with a little bunch of whiskers at his chin, and who called out the troops.”’—St. Louis Republic. If Mr. Platt took the Morton boom along with him to Florida he should be careful mot to leave it out of doors at night. It would be simply pie for the alligators.—New York Mail and Express. A man 107 yearsold is alive at Jeffersonville, Ind. His chief indorsement as to age is that he distinctly remembers a time when neither William R. Morrison nor Russell A, Alger was an aspirant for office of some kind.—Chicago Record. A story is going the rounds that the last man tospank Stephen Grover Cleveland has just died out in California. There is a manifest error somewhere. Mr. Vest’s name has been purposely ignored in this connection, and he is still alive, too.—Philadelphia Press. President Harrison’s administration paid off $273,074,200 of the principal of the interest- bearing National debt, reducing the interest charge $12,484,937 per year. And Democratic papers have not yet got through accusing it of "sq;undeflng the surplus.” — Poughkeepsie Eagle. Speaking of his California trip Dr. Depew says that all the people at the small stations addressed him as Chauncey, as though they’d kpown him all their lives, and referred to Me- Kinley. as Mac. From this Dr. Depew infers that he and Mac are decidedly popular.—St. Louis Star. —_—— HOME INDUSTRIES. Pacific Tree and Vine. Charles M. Shortridge. editor of THE CALL, San Francisco, has doubtless had much influ- ence in determining that the ironwork of the new CALL building should be purchased from the local rolling-mills. The plan of the build- g wasso made that iron within the range of the San Francisco mills could be used. This is not only carrying out a policy, but is & sound business proposition as well. PERSONAL. Hugo Richards of Pheenix, Arlz., reached here last night. C. E. Apperson, a business man of Santa Cruz, isin the City. L. H. Russell, a business man of Legrande, Or., is on a visit here. He isat the Grand. M. H. Mather, who is interested in a rich plumbago mine in the Sierra foothills, is at the Occidental. Wiley J. Tirnin of Fresno, ex-Surveyor of the Port of San Francisco, came up from the south last night. J. krankel, & prominent business man of Lakeview, Or., is in the City. He registered at the Lick House. The Rey. Father Peter Joseph Jeram, presi- dent of the Eden Valley Colony, Sonoma County, is in town. David Starr Jordan, president of the Stanford University, was among those who yesterday registered at the Occidental. Among the arrivais here yesterday was Dr. A. M. Charlet of New Orleans, who is on & Ppleasure tour, accompanied by his wife. Sheriff 8. D. Ballou and County Clerk John Whicher, of San Luis Obispo county, are at the Grand. They brought up some prisoners assigned to San Quentin. Warden Charles Aull of the Folsom State Prison arrived here last night, accompanied by Mrs. Aull. The warden says it is the intention to start the rock crusher by May 15. J. K. Choate of Denver, formerly & promi- nent railroad man of Colorado, and now presi- dent of the Denver Cotton Mills Company, ar- rived here last night from Southern California. Charles E. Frost of Pasadens, who some months since was interested in starting a large cannery at Vallejo, and who is now interested in a similar enterprise in the South,is at the Grand. J. E. Davis, one of the millionaires of Butte, Mont., who has lived there and elsewhere in the inter-mountain country for many yeers, is &t the Palace. Mr. Davis is extensively inter- ested in mines. J. G. Eagleson, the well-known Market street merchant, returned last night from an exten- sive visit to Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego and other points. Mrs. Eagleson was with him. They are at the Grand. Baron de la Grange of Paris, who owns gold placer mines in Trinity countyjand who ar- rived here a few days ago from Colorado, where he has other mining interests, has gone to Weaverville in reference to his Caliofrnia mines Julio Guteirrez, the young and interesting son of President Guteirrez, of Salvador, was among the arrivals on the steamer Zealandia yes- terday. He is ebout fourteen years old. The young gentleman is visiting with the family of his uncle on Pine street. J. F. McDonell, secretary of the Virginia City (Nev.) Miners’ Union, is in the City, ser ving as adelegate to the Grand Council of the Order of Chosen Friends. Mr. McDonell is accom- panied by his daughter, Miss Josie McDonell, and his niece, Miss Lilly Burke. L. Dreyfoos, a business man of Everett, Wash.; the terminal town of the Great North- ern Railroad on Puget Sound, was among yes- terday’s arrivals. Mr. Dreyloos has been a resident of Everett ever since the town was started five years ago. It now has about 6000 inhabitants. Chief of Police Bolton Rogers of Seattle, who has been in office for the past two years, and who has had sundry experiences of & thrilling character with the army of adventurers who thronged to that part of Puget Sound during the boom days, is among the arrivals here. He is quartered at the Baldwin. Scipio Craig, the versatile editor of the Red- lands Citrograph, one of the best-paying news- paper properties on_the Pacific Coast and an | authority on citrus fruits, arrived here yester- day. He says Reclandsand neighboring towns in Southern California are quite active. A greal many tourists have visited that part of the State duringt he past few months. General W. D. Tiliotson, who formerly re- sided at Tacoma and wasa member of the Legislature of Washington and afterward ap- | pointed by President Harrison as Consul-Gen- eral from the United States to Japan, is at the Grand. General Tillotson has recently located at Redding, where he has entered in the prac- tice of his profession, that of the law. A.G. Simson of Redding came down with him. J. H. Lippincott, the great publisher of Phil- adelphia, whose house, which was founded many years ago, has in its time published some of the most famous works of leading American literateurs, is en joying himself here for a few days. He has lately been visiting Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and other points. He is ac companied by Miss Lippincott and Mrs. J. E. Penueck of Philadelphia. One of the latest and most conspicuous books that Mr. Lippin- cott has undertaken to publish is Bill Nye's humorous history of England. The eminent publisher intends soon to start on his return East. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. Y., April 20.—At the Murray WW. Babcock; Amsterdam, Miss M. Y.N. Bunner, Miss M. V. N. Townsend; Holland, Mr.and Mrs. M. Ehrman, Miss Ehrman, A Friedma stor, R.L.Furey; St. Denis, C. icholas, G. Imbier; Normandie, B. Hoffman. Mrs. C. M. Richie, Miss Richie, B. G. Voss; Brunswick, A.Schwiner; Yetropole, B. Brunn, M. Wunsch; Windsor, H. L E.Meyer. The following sailed on the steamship Havel for Bremen via Southamp- ton: H. J. Arkell, John Balz, Miss Adeline Boschen, Mrs. Wilhelmine Brunning, Miss Millie Brunning, C. Gehert, Richard Herz, Mr. and Mrs. August Olson, Mr. and Mrs. A, H. Schann, W. Sagehorn, Miss Anna Sagehorn, Mr, and Mrs. Ernest F, Taum and family and Miss Frieda Wacker. A WONDERFUL RECORD. San Bernardino Sun. Under Charles M. Shortridge’s management THE CALL has made & wonderful record, but its success is not difficult to account for, and it points & moral that other publishers might well take to heart. The curse of the San Fran- cisco press hes been its tendency toward sen- sationalism. The news most eagerly sought for by publishers was that of a scandalous character, and it was always written up in an attractive manner—the salacious was empha- sized, and the more vulgar the details the greater particularity was given them. Short- ridge adopted another plan. He judged that the people of San Francisco would concede liberal support to a paper which was clean encugh to be taken into the famiiy circle. The event justified his judgment. It does not fol- low, however, that in order to publish a decent paper it is necessary to suppress news. It is as necessary for the safety of society for the Press to expose wrong-doing as it is for the courts to punish it. But there are two ways of Landling vice in the press. The better, the decenter, way is that adopted by THE CALL, and it 1S to be hoped other journals in the coast metropolis may follow the example, —_— ONLY A FAIR CHANCE. Captain John Codman goes far astray in one of our local Democratic newspapers in attack- ing the Oceanie Steamship Company because it asks an added compensation of $80,000 for carrying the Australian mails, and the Boston Journal because it favors the proposition. ‘Tma Compensation is not desired, because a ‘“ring of domestic ship-builders’” has com- velled the company to pay a “needless and excessive price” forits American-built ships, as Captain Codman intimates. The company seeks no consideration on that point whatever. It has been running its vessels for eight or ten years, and has operated them successfully ; but now the conditions have changed. Coveting the trade which the line has brought to San Francisco merchants and the prestige which it has won for the American flag in the Antipo- des, the British and Canadian Governments have established a rival line of British steam- ships between Vancouver and Australia. This British line receives a subsidy of $14,- 533 per voyage, which is about to be {ncmued to B18,750. The American steamers recoive f461540 per voyage from our Govern- ment for carrying the mails, and also B5769 New Zealand—that is, a British colony actually deals more generously with these American steamers than the United States it- self does. The increased subsidy of $30,000 is d_for merely as an offset to the British subsidy and to give the American line a fair fighting chance agains its British competitor. 'his I8 the situation in & nutshell, The in- creased compensation is sure to be_granted by Congress, and it cannot be and will not be ob- ng: jected to by nn{ American who has a spark of ge'r;;:lnd patriotismin his composition.—Boston ournal. AN:-WERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents should mot feel disappointed if their questions are not answered immediately. In many cases the information solicited requires con- siderable research and delay. The answers ap- pear in the order tn which they are turned in and as soon as space will permit. The name and address of the writer should ac- company letters of inquiry, not for publication, but to enabie the editor in charge of this department to correspond with the writer, if necessary, to obtain a clearer idea of what is wanted. EASTER IN 1847—W. H., City. Easter Sun- day, 1847, fell on the 4th of April. GAs BiLL COLLECTORS—J. R., Alameda, Cal. The salary of collectors of gas bills in San Francisco is $1500 & ye PARIS EXPOSITION: S, City. The year 1900 is the year named for the opening of the next ex- position in the city of Paris, France. ScHOOL TRUs1EE—Inquirer, Eaglesville, Modoc County, Cal. A School Trustee being elected to perform certain public duties is & public officer. CONCEALED WEAPO! —S. T. D. C., Forbes- town, Butte County, Cal. A traveler in this State'may carry a firearm or other Weapon con- cealed while on a journey. SAN PaBLO CaVE—L M. D, City. The tree cave recently deseribed in THE CALL and located at Point San Pablo may be reached from either San Pablo or Pinole. A BiLLioN—F.D., City. In writing a billion in figures the people of the United States and of France use 1,000,000,000, while the people ot England write 1,000,000,000,000. Lovrs XI—J. C., Oakland, Cal. The version of Louis X1 presented by Sheridan is by mille de la Vigne, while that presented by Tom Keene was written by Boucicault. THE QUEEN'S SECRETARY—D. C., Los Ange- les, Cal. Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secre- tary to Queen Victorie, died on the 21st of last November and was succeeded by Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Arthur John Bigge,-K.C.B. and INSANITY—G. N., City. Insanity is not one of the grounds for divorce in this State. The fact that a wife is an unfortunate inmate of an asy- lum for the insane wiil not give the husband the right to apply for a divorce because she is such an inmate. PRIVATE BUSINESS—A. S, City. There is no law that empowers the Legislature or munici- pal authorities to regulate the amount that either a physician in his private practice may charge his Datient, or the amount that in pri- vate cases an undertaker may charge for his services. PoLL TAX—Reader, Minturn, Madera County, Cal. Ifa person pays poll tax in San Francisco that exempts him from the peyment of that tax for that year in any other county of the State, but it will not éxempt him from the payment of special school or road taxin an- other county. GUIDE OF SAN Fraxcisco—S. T. D. C., Forbes- town, Butte County, Cal. Any first-class book- seller will be able to furnish you a copy of & guidebook of the City and County of San Fran- cisco. The California State Board of Trade, this City, can furnish you matter that will give you information of the City and County. WATCHES—A. D., City. The man who says that as good watches cannot be made in the United States as are made in foreign countries betrays his ignorance of the wateh industry in this country. Asfine watches asare made in the world can be made in the United States, provided the party wishing an exira fine one will pay the price asked. Tre RED SEA —C. F. R., Langlois, Curry County, Or. The length of the Red Sea is 1450 miles, and the width at the entrance, Bad-El- Mandeb, is twenty miles; the Perstan Gulf is 550 milés long, and_the entrance is fifty-five miles wide; the Straits of Gibralterare one and a half miles long and three-quarters of & mile wide. R, Grass Valley, Nevada Coun The population of Eng- land is 27,499.984; that of Wales 1,501,034; of Scotland, That of France is 38, 218,903. The e figures of 1891. The Intest figures are as follows; Enzland, 2 483,491; Wales, 1,776,405, including Mo; mouth; ‘Scotland, 4,025,647; France, 38,34 EASTER SUNDAY—S. W., Cal. The following is the rule for finding Easter Sunday: Easter Sun- s the first Sunday after the full happens upon or next after the 21st of March, and if a full moon happens on Sunday then kaster Sunday is the Sunday after. This year the 21st of March was on Sat- urday, the full moon happened on Sunday, the 29th, consequently Easter fell on the following Sunday, April 5. A MINERAL Fixp—C. J. R., Los Angeles, Cal. If & man has taken up & homestead of 160 acres according to law, has complied with all the requirements and has received his patent from the United States, 1o one has a right to go upon that land without his vermission. If there should happen to be any mineral upon the land no one but the owner would have any right to it. In other words, no one has a right to locate a mining elaim on the private prop- erty of another. LUNAR CRATERS—C. F., City. The number of lunar craters is not known, but is said to be very large. A scientific journal recently pub- lished the following on the subject: “A large lunar map by Schmidt in 1878 includes about 32,000 of these craters seen on the moon’s surface, some of them very deep. They are sur- rounded by ramparts, or walls raised above the general level, The mountains are propor- tionately high. One peak named Newton has an elevation of 24, et.” NORDENSKJOLD—J. A. R., City. Baron Eric Nordenskjold, pronounced as if written nawr- den-shold, was born in Helsingfors, Finland, November 18, 1832. He was educated at the university in his native place. He became pro- ficient in his favorite studies, but the Russian Government suspected him of designs against the country, and forced him to leave Finland, to which place he was not permitted to return for several years. In 1858 he was professor of mineralogy at Stockholm, and afterward he was a member of several Arctic expeditions, some of which he organized. He made a care- ful exploration of Spitzenbergen, made a ma; of the country and visited Greenland in 1870. He served two years as a member of the Swedish Diet, surveyed a part of the North- east Land in 1873, and made other voyages of exploration and discovery. In 1878 he started ona yoyage to the north”pole, and in his en- deavors discovered the Northeast passage and reached Japan the following year. He was created Baron in 1880, and received several foreign decorations. In 1883 he led an expedi tion north, which went farther toward the in- terior of Greenland than any previous one had done. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The late Congressman William H. Crain of Texas wasone of the best classical scholars ever sent to Congress. Itissaid that he knew the “Iliad” and the great Greek tragedies almost by heart. Professor C. E. Hite of Philadelphia is pre- paring to send a scientific expedition into the interior of Labrador during the coming sum- ‘mer. It will include representatives of Har- vard, Columbia, the University of Chicago and the University of Towa. Tne Duchess of Abercorn holds a record. Four great-grandchildren were born to her in one day recently. Oneof her granddaughiers had a son, another a daughter, and a third twins. She was heard to remark that great onks from little Abercorns grow. Recent sales of autographs in London show that Mark Twain’s signature is worth 12 shil- lingsand 6 pence. Bret Harte’s 8, Andrew Lang’s 6, and Rider Haggard’s S.. Mrs. Humphry Ward’s chirography is considered worth 6 shillings, while Southley’sis only 15. Charles T. Yerkes’ New York mansion is to be a regular palace. Mrs, Yerkes' boudoir is being finished regardless of expense. The decorations alone will cost in the neighbor- hood of $25,000. One of the special features is the perfumed wood used for paneling in every available form. No vassal or independent sovereign has ever sent so valuable gifts to the Queen of England as the Ameer of Aighanistan, whose offerines are estimated to be worth over §600,000. T_ha presents were selected with the aid of Miss Hamilton, the English woman who has become the court physician of the Ameer. Prince Boris, 8o Enropean journals hint, was not admitted to the Orthodox Church in a really orthodox manner. The difficulty is said to arise from the holy oils used in the act of consecration. The oils of the Bulgarian braneh of the Orthodox Church are not recognized by .Russian theologians as eficacious, so that Prince Boris, according to Russian ideas, really belongs to no religion whatever. CURRENT HUMOR. Wife (to her husband who isa greatcriminal lawyer and who has tound fault with the din- ner)—There you go again, always finding fault with my cooking. You never see any redeem- ing gualities in me. and yet you have an ex- cuse for every murderer thatcomes a8long.— Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Jones—There is such a dear little squir- rel out in the tree. Chappie—Does he turn up his tail ? Mr. Jones—Yes. Chappie—Well, that must be the very squir- rel that I saw up in tne mountains last Sun- day.—Milwaukee Cathoiic Citizens. Copy-reader—Here’s & dispatch about a two- headed girl born iz Alabama. What shall Ido with it ? Night Editor—Put a double head over it, of course, and mark it small- caps.—Chicago Tri- bune. Bobby (reading fairy tale)—May, here it says, “The prince and the princess kept up a bril- liant fire of repartee.”” What does that mean ? May (with & long-drawn sigh)—Oh, that means that they were married and firing the tea set at each other, I s’pose.—Judge. A—Ts that really true ? B—My qear fellow, I always tell the truth, but this is an absolute fact.—Tit-Bits. Pinxit—Hear about Sneers? He has been suffering with the St. Vitus dence for more than a week. D’Aubyr—Lucky dog ! He can turn out post- ers to perfection now, can’t he?—Indianapolis Journal. Friend—How does it happen that you have so many Japanese things in your room ? Young Wife—Just before I was married the contenis of a Japanese store were sold at auc- tion. All these things are wedding presents— egende Blatter. INFANT'S SHORT DRESS. A graceful model is here shown, which hangs straight from a round yoke. The sleevesare the comfortable and stylish bishop shape. Deep flouncing is ured for dressy gowns, and if not too heavily embroidered make nice dresses for general wear, embroidering of sim- ple patterns wearing better than heavy ones. The saving of labor in the finish at the footis also an object to folks who make these gar- ments at home. Embroidered flouncing of plain colored ging- hams are pretty if white grows monotonous. For white cambric dresses, yokes of white fabrics that come already tucked, are labor saving and t;;remcr than plain fabries. ruffie around the yoke on such simple gowns is of_the fabric, with perhaps an edge of nar- row lace or embroidery. Where exquisitely dainty frocks are desired, The nainsook or batisie is used. A band embroi ery of the same fabrig, with the pattern forme ing & straight edge that is o_Feu is used 1 lien of neck and sleeve bands. This is put on with a French seam, making a neat finish. BTRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Market, Palace Hotel, . SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— Vernal Fastidiousness—‘‘Any signs of spring out your way, Mr. Gobbidge?” *“Yis, sor; me billygoat won’t ate a tincan widoutit’s gota grane label onto it.”—Chicago Record. To purify the blood, restore the lost appetite and build up the whole system take Hood's Sarsa- parilla. The necessity of a spring medicine is universally admitted. Takeonly Hood's. B e IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME—The 12th inst. the Northern Pacific Rallroad insugurated adouble daily passenger service between Portlard and St. Paul, making » saving of ten hours between Port- 1and and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest equipped trains that ever were run out of the Pa- cific Northwest. The superior accommodations ia our passenger equipment recommend our line to all. Ours is the only line that runs dining-cars ous of Portland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, 638 Market street. San Francisco. Dr. SrEeEmT's Angostura Bitters, the world renowned South American appetizer and invigo- rator, cures dyspepsia, diarthes, fever and ague. — e THROAT DISEASES commence with a Cough, Cold or Sore Throat. “Brownw’s Bronchial Troches' give immediate and sure relief, ———————————— Miss Breezy of Chicago—Let me help you to the sausages, my dear. You will find them very nice. They are some of papa’s own stuff- ing. fliss Fancy of Boston (dreamily)—Thank you; if you have some without any bark on you may help me.—Judge. NEW TO-DAY. ITs VERY NICE. FREE A PAGKAGE OF CREAM CHOCOLATE —WITH OUR— MONEY-SAVING TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES! COLIMA BAKING POWDER. Our 50¢ Teas Cost 75¢ Elsewhere. Our 35¢ Teas Cost 50¢ Elsewhere. EXTRA PREMIUMS GIVEN AWAY. Great American Tmparting Tea Co’s 1344 Market st., S. P. 965 Market st., S. F. 140 Sixth st., S. F. 017 Kearny st., S. P, E51 oty amcy ava. 5., 333 Hayes st., ' MONEY- ';&gjfifi: 3 SAVING o STORES: IMPORTING FOR AND OPERATING 100 STORES ENABLES US TO SAVE YOU MONEY. MONEY SAVED EVERY DAY. NO SPECIAL DAY, P, 2510 Mission st.,’ S, F. 3006 _Sixteenth st,, S, B 104 Second st., S.'F. 3259 Mission st., S. F. 52 Market st., S. F. Rt o ashington st., Oak’ 131 San mmvm. Oakl'd Oakland.