The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISOC CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALL, oue year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail Bunday CALL, one year, by mall.. WEEKLY CaLL, one year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation ? It #9, 1¢ 18 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss yon 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. Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: B17 Clay Street. Felepho Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; epem until $:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open untl 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. BW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open il 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'cloek. 316 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $0S Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Roems 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. TEURSDAY. APRIL 30, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —_— ‘Whatever the monopoly may do it can- not stop the competing railroad. By this time next year Cleveland can go fishing without anybody making a fuss about it. The rival glories of Redwood and Santa Rosa will set the State in a blaze for the rest of the week. It is the unpledged delegations that hold the balance of power in all conventions end name the winner: The proposed free market is one of the home enterprises that will benefit city and country and do good all around. From the way things are going the time may come when Chicago will begin to call herself the Stockton of the lakes. The man who can best harmonize il the elements of the Republican party is the man to be nominated at Louis. It is one of the good signs of the time that the free-traders have so far quit their foolishness as to quit ng about it. Many a Democrat who evades any talk about the tariff has made up his mind to himself to vote for protection next time. The Redwood festival is to San Fran- cisco something like a home enterprise and ought to be patronized on that basis. Californians who say they do not care whether the State has a representative in the next Cabinet or not would say most anything. While Cleveland’s Venezuelan wmessage was good enough, the country fer a foreign policy that had vigorof action as well as of talk. Call it protection, reciprocity, bimet- allism or what you will, the main issue be- fore the American people this yearisto return to prosperity. Sn e In saying that he has committed no out- rages in Cuba General Weyler has been guilty of plagiarism. The Sultan said the same thing about Armenia. Since the Democrats of Massachusetts have indorsed Russell for the Presidency it is observed in Washington that Olney is more like an icicle than ever. Gorman would have roasted Cleveland more effectually if he had not scattered his fire in a foolish attempt to roast the policy of naval extension also. The Russell platform is said to be the same .as the Cleveland platform, and if that be true he is standing on a slippery mud bank beside the McGinty sea. All Eastern visitors to California should make it a point to attend at least one of the many festivals of the season to see the beauty a California town can put on when it decorates itself. About 500 newly arrived pauper immi- grants are to be sent back where they came from, but as they are only a small fraction of those that got in Europe still has the bulge on v California Republicans are loyal to all the great leaders of the party, and it would be a misrepresentation to send to the St. Louis convention a delegation pledged to any one io the exclusion of all others. Carnegie may have told the truth in saying that he made armor-plate only asa patriotic duty, but it is certain thatin making out his-bills he attended strictly to private businessanda made the most of it. It is a significant sign of the times that while Democrats are talking about the chances of their various leaders as candi- dates Republicans are discussing which of their leaders is best fitted to be President. L o As the Boston Journal reports a notable absence of the mugwump element from the recent Democratic State Conventionin that city it is evident that the rats have abandoned the sinkine ship aud the end is near. To eliminate everything displeasing to one faction or another in the party the Democrats this year will have to make their platform so narrow that the candi- date who goes through the campaign on it will feel very much as if he had'been ridden on a rail, A bill has been introduced into the Mas- sachusetts Legislature providing for the tearing down of the present Capitol and erection of a new one, and as a conse- quence there are more kinds of hysterics among the conservatives of the State than would be manifest in a woman’s rights convention if forty rats were turned loose on the floor. Six States—Massachussetts, New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Montana and Utah—are considering the advisability of adopting the Torrens system of land transfer, and there is reason to believe most of them will adopt it in some form. The bili on the subject introduced into the Ohio Legis- lature proposes to make the system com- pulsory, but elsewhere the sentiment is in favor of trying it fiist as an optional ex: fperiment, would pre- | OFF ITS PERCH. Our contemporary, the Eraminer, has been taking of late a much greater interest in Republican thanin Democratic politics. This, of course, is natural, for the affairsof Democracy are calculated to produce a tired feeling even in Democratic organs and incline them to look to Republicanism for something' of political life and vigor. Thus we are not surprised that the Ezam- iner should have devoted a part of its editorial page yesterday to a consideration of “McKinley in California,” nor do we find it strange that the consideration should have led it to undergo a spell of morbidness and write out of its bile rather than its intellect. The Examiner declares ‘“McKinley would make the weakest candidate the Republi- can partycould put up—always excepting, of course, disreputables like Quay.” It further asserts: “The one weak spot in McKinley’s campaign is the East. If he were as strong on the other side of the Ohio as he is on this side he would get the nomination by acclamation.” This is the Democratic view, it seems, and will doubtless be as amusing to independents and even to intelligent Democrats as it is to Republicans. It is a misuse of terms to speak of McKinley as the ‘“weakest candidate’’ the Republican party could put up, for as a matter of fact there are no weak candidates named for the party nomination. one of the illustrious Republicans who have been proposed for the Presidency would be elected if nominated. The mem- Ts of the party in California will vie with those of other localities to see whose State will roll up the biggest majority for protection prosperity and the St. Louis nominee. Allison, Cullom, Reed, Morton, McKinley, or Quay would each poll not only the full vote of the Republican party, but the independent vote and a consider- able percentage of Democrats and Popu- lists, who have repented of free trade and Clevelandism. The Eraminer’s attempted slur upon Quay by the use of the word “disreput- able™ deserves a passing notice. Quay is aisreputable only among Democrats, who vilify the leader who beats them, and among a certain class of Pennsylvania would-be bosses who have tried to over- throw him and failed. His war record is one of the most glorious achieved by the brave men who entered the army as privates and won promotion by arduous service on the field. ‘His political record shows him to be one of the ablest leaders of men now living, and his achievements in the Senate give him a right to rank among the great statesmen of the age. He is not disreputable among people of good repute themselves, and the honors bestowed on him . by the conservative and honorable commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a proof of the fact. The Eraminer meed not concern itself further about the Republican party or Re- publican candidates. It may take it asan assured fact that the party, with any of the great men named as its leader, can carry the country. In the meantime it might be worth while for our contemporary to look around and see if it can tind a Democratic candidate who will be sure of carrying for his party even so much as a State or two in the one- time solid South. NEWSPAPERS AND TRADE. Tue CALL has repeatedly called atten- tion to the folly of those of its contem- | poraries that seek to establish a larger circulation by offering chromos, prizesand a thousand forms of fake inducements to the public. This course of building up or maintaining a paper is journalism in name only. A newspaper should sell news and not books, bicycles or baby carriages. It should aim to give its readers the value of their money in the fullness of its reports of trade, politics, society and all the abounding activities of life. If it cannot give news enough to justify the charge it makes it should cease to call itself a news- paper and solicit subscriptions only for its coupons and their chances. The subject, however, has another as- pect that is too often overlooked. The vress stands in an almost confidential re- lation to business. The newspaper and the merchant are allies. They are of mu- tual helpfulness when each is conducted in legitimate channels. When the news- paper, however, combines its press with a junkshop and proceeds to issue coupons by which people can geta cheap sort of books, bicycles or baby carriages at prices far below what good articles can be sold for by men who have a reputation as hon- est merchants to maintain, then the press, instead of being the ally, becomes the foe of the merchant. Instead of building up trade it tends to demoralize it, and not in- frequently seriously injures business by introducing into a community an over- stock of cheap articles of one kind or an- other that vrevents the sales of the mer- chant. If a newspaper should undertake to in- troduce cheap labor into a community the workingmen’s unions would very soon register an effectual protest. The mer- cantile community, however, seems to 1ack this ability to work together. Deal- ersin one branch of trade do not make a common cause with those of another branch whose business is assailed by some new coupon scheme advanced by an ‘“‘en- terprising editor.”” Thus the journalistic faker is enabled to attack first one branch of business and then another with com- parative impunity. So long as merchants act with this indifference to a mutual in- terest they will always be exposed to the faker’s assaults, and the misfortune of one branch of trade to-day is likely to be that of another to-morrow. The doctrine of THE CALL has been that of “live and let live.”” Competition is hard enough as it isupon merchants of small means without baving added to it the tricks and schemes of fake journalism. The coupon, lottery ticket, prize chromo busi- ness we regard, therelore, as being doubly injurious, inasmuch as it not only degrades journalism but demoralizes trade. It is rapidly becoming one of the great evils of journalistic and business life and it is high time that reputable merchants as well as reputable editors should begin to take some steps toward abating it. WORKING SOUTHWARD. The hearty assistance which Fresno is | giving the right-of-way agent of the Valley road in selecting a route south of Fresno is all the more commendable when it is reflected that the road to Fresno is assured and will soon be completed, and that the city is thus provided with a means for sending its products to tidewater. What- ever benefit it may secure from the south- ward extension of the road will be small in comparison with its facilities for reach- ing the bay of San Francisco. Not con- tent with all the financial and moral en- couragement which it has given the new road, it sends able citizens into the field to assist in securing a right of way. Such public spirit as this is worthy of emula- tion. Doubtless Visalia, Hanford, Tulare and Bakersfield will put similar com- mittees at work. No contracts will be made for right of way until all the routes have been in- Any~ spected and the terms offered by land- owners'are compared. As the territory is all good and the choice of routes on that account smail, the selection will be de- termined by the liberality of the land- owners. The value of the road to all lands over which it passes will be so great that a serious injury will be suffered by progres- sive owners willing to donate the right of way if others, who wish to take a selfish and short-sighted advantage of the situa- tion, force the road upon some other route by demanding damages. The great need of that whole section for 2 competing road is so evident that any obstacle to its rapid progress would be a misfortune. The operations of the new company thus far have developed some things that are entirely new in the history of railroad operations in Cajifornia. Whenever ma- terials and labor procurable in California were needed they have been employed. Construction has been done honestly and without tne mediation of a company or- ganized among the controlling stockhold- ers to make 2 profit out of the work. The policy announced at the start, to charge only such transportation rates as will pay a reasonable interest on the investment is being put in operation by the compilation of schedules based on that proposition. Nothing fictitious or shady has been re- sorted to. The result of such a policy bas been to secure a popular sympathy and co-operation hitherto unknown in California between railroads and the peo- ple. This will have a very important bear- ing on the value of the new company’s se- curities and the amount of its earnings. It will likewise react wholesomely upon the work of developing the State. DISTRESS OF MANUFACTURERS. Their distress must be great when more than a thousand leading manufacturers feel obliged to commission a score of their number to go to St. Louis and tell the Republican Convention that speedy relief from the hurtful operation of the Wilson tariff act is necessary to the existence of the industrial enterprises of this country. Yet just such a committee was appointed by a convention of manufacturersin Phila- aelphia the other day. They had given the Democratic theory of import taxes a thorough practical test, and they com- pared notes. The conclusion was that the country must go back to substantially the schedule of Custom-house charges of 1890 or the wages of industrial operatives would have to be brought down on a parity with the operatives of Europe. The alternative remained, of course, to put out the fire in their furnaces and let their employes seek a living in other channels of occupation. No stronger or more logical argument could be submitted for the cause of protec- tion than the statement, substantiated by the figures of experience of more than a thousand owners of American industrial enterprises, that they cannot longer keep the machinery of their plants in motion uniess the Nation stands between them and the product of the pauper and poorly paid labor of the old country, unless they adopt Europe’s wage schedule and reduce American labor and American manhood to the level of the industrial centers of the countries of Europe. facts itis not to be wondered at that the industries of America are upin armsas one man against the further operation of a law that steadily but surely gives foreign countries the privilege of becoming mas- ters in the markets of the United States upon the ruins of our own industries. The brain and the brawn of this country are in perfect accord with the purpose of this committee of manufacturers, and it may be said that if the St. Louis conven- tion fails in any particuiar to emphasize the determination of the Republican party to right the great wrong which has been inflicted upon the country by Democratic incapacity the people will repudiate the candidate. But, of course, the convention will pledge the party to principles which contemplate the highest good to all the people. The people of the United States have been driven close to the abyss of bankruptey in the last three years, but there are still lower depths to sink into, and because there are, and it is because the people want the country’s business inter- ests carried away from and out of reach of Democratic policies and Democratic igno- rance of the needs and requirements of the country’s business interests, that they are standing with the manufacturers in their efforts to thoroughly fortify this country against invasion by foreign pauper labor made commodities. The time has come when it must be ade a settled and unal- terable principle of this Goverriment that the population of the United States shall never be denied opportunity to earn homes that employment may be secured to the people of Europe or of Asia or of Africa, CANADIAN COMPETITION. The recent realization of the harm which the Canadian Pacific Railway is doing to American commerce recalls an able mi- nority report made a few years ago to the convention of chambers of commerce of the Pacific Coast held in this City. A committee was appointed to consider “the application of the interstate commerce law to the American carrying trade of the Canadian Pacific Railway, or the abolition of the bonding system for railway carriage through ioreign territory.” A. S. Hallidie of this City presented a minority report, but it was not adopted, as popular senti- ment on the coast had not been sufficiently educated at that time and was quite dif- ferent from the sentiment to which riper experience has given birth. The recent agitation in Congress on this subject embraces two propositions—a withdrawal by the United States of the bonding privilege enjoyed by the Canadian Pacific in shipping American goods out of the United States over the feeders of that road to the main line, and the granting of a mail subsidy to the Oceanic Steamship Company to enable it to compete with the heavily subsidized steamers of the Cana- dian Pacific, to the end that we shall re- cover a part of the large Australian traffic which we have lost through the superior advantages enjoyed by the Canadian line, Mr. Hallidie’s statement of the situation in his minority report was the clearest and ablest ever made. After showing that the Canadian Pacific was carryin,; passengers and freight at rates below those of our roads he said: 5 ‘‘Running from Montreal to Vancouver, a distance of about 2000 miles, costing $161,000,000, the Canadian Pacific has re- ceived from the Dominion Government $105,000,000 in cash and equivalents and $110,000,000 in guaranteed securities. Its property is free from taxation. By the terms of its charter it has the sole privi- lgge to build or operate railroads west of Ontario. Its land grant of 25,000,000 acres is exempt from taxation,as much asis upsold, for 'twenty years. An annual mail contract of $500,000 has been: granted for a connecting line of steamers from its western terminus to Japan and China, and for the short road built through the forests of Maine, by favor of the State; it receives also from the Dominion of Canada a subsidy of $180,000 per annum for twenty years. It has secured the control of lines in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- nesots, and the United States Government has granted a franchise for a bridge across In view of these | the Straits of St. Marie, and it now con- trols over 5000 miles of railroad.” Mr. Hallidie pointed out that if it were a mere matter of competition there would be no ground Yor complaint, ‘‘but the privi- leges granted by the States and the United States are not reciprocated by the Domin- ion, * * * and are menacing to Ameri- can interests.”” Of course Canada would have nothing to gain, but much to lose, from agreeing by treaty to place its rail- roads and connecting steamship lines on an equal footing with ours. Our only renedy is to withdraw the privileges which we extend to Canadian roadsand meet its steamship subsidies with appro- priations. That report, the contents of which are merely hinted at here, is recom- mended to the attention of those who are specially interesting themselves in. the subject. PERSONAL. J. L. da Bozza of Elk Grove is at the Palace. R. B. Saffold, an attorney of Napa, is at the Lick. W. H. Leeds of Salem, Or., arrived here yes- terday. Professor A. M. Elston of Berkeley is at the Baldwin. E. W. Whitehead of Dayton, Ohio, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. D. Aiken of Kaui, Hawaifan Islands, is at the Occidental. A. C. Rosendale, a merchantof Pacific Grove, is at the Grand. James Garbutt, a business man of Fargo, is at the Occidental. E. E. Barton of West Superior, Wis., is among recent arrivals here. David Smithhurst, one of the minersof Red Lodge, is in the City. J. A. Wanehope of Australia 13 at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. W. G. Oldham of Ukish snd & party of friends are at the Baldwin. G. W. Williams and wife of St. Louis, Mo., are guests at the Cosmopolitan. J. R. McIntyre, one of the leading merchants of Tacoma, is on s visit here. Z.W. Burnham, the wealthy merchant of Chico, is here on a business trip. J. R. Justice of Winston, N. C., is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. M. Lawrence, manager of the Tallac House, Lake Tahoe, is here on a business trip. Dr. W. H. Hall and family, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, are staying at the Cosmopolitan. C. C. Darling, the “Happy Farmer,” of Sierra Valley, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. T. W. Weber, & prosperous business man of Salt Lake, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Weber. Captain William W. Gray, the big land- owner and wheat-grower of Merced, is in town. H. A. Unruh of Arcadia, manager of Lucky Baldwin’s Santa Anita ranch, arrived here yes- terday. Ex-Attorney General A. L. Hart came down from Sacramento yesterday and is at the Grand. : William B. Eckert, a wealthy resident of Eckert, Pa., has arrived here and is at the Palace. : C. A. Storke, an attorney, of Santa Barbara, arrived here yesterday, accompanied by C. A. Shuman of the same city. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday was H, M. Yerington, the leading railroad man and lumber-dealer, of Nevada. T. G. Murphy, a general merchandise dealer of The Needles, on the Colorado River, at the crossing of the Sante Fe, arrived here yester- dey. Heisatthe Grand. Ex-Mayor Eugene J. Gregory of Sacramento is here for a brief stay. He is fleshier than he used to be before he went to the East, where he remained nearly two years. Miss Lillian Rea, Queen-elect of the San Jose Carnival, accompanied by her mother, Mrs, Samuel Rea, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Fidball, are in the City completing arrange- ments for the coming carnival next week. L. L Bailey, & well-known mining man of Colorado, who has been at the Baldwin for a week pest, left for juneau, Alaska, yesterday on mining business. He may possibly goup the Yukon to some of the mining camps there also. J. G. and J. N, Day, of this City, who have for several years past had the contracts for blast- ing out the rocks in the Columbia River at Cascade Locks and otherwise improving the river, are at the Palace. They say the work there is progressing rapidly. Linn L. Shaw, editor of the Santa Ana Herald and delegate from Orange County to the Re- publican State Convention, has been spending & few days here. He reports Santa Ana and the countyabout there quite prosperous. There have been a great many visitors at Santa Ana during the winter. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 29.—At the New Amsterdam, W. 8. Burney; atthe Hoffman, E. H. Hamilton and G. E. Pancoast. Sailed per steamship Aller for Bremen via Southampton: Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Burr, Miss E. L. Burr, Alice Burr, Miss Marion Burr, Miss Emilie Barkow, Miss Rose Cohn, Mr. and Mrs. William Castle, Fred Castle, Mrs. L. B. Holmsn, Miss Lulu Johns, Miss Leontine Schwarzchild, F. Voll- mer, Louis Schwarzchild, Mrs. Helen I. Wool- worth, Miss Woolworth, Dr. Summerhayes. DON'T LET THE WORLD EKNOW YOU'RE DOWN. The world is wide, remember this, Nor shrink from fate’s deep furrowed rown; ‘Woo fortune with your brightest smiles, Don’t let the world know when you're down. It spofls your chance for future deeds To frame your face with dull care’s crown; Brace up, and higher hid your head, Don’t let the world know when you're down. ‘The world will bow in servile zest To one who sways i with a frown; Toss up your head, and flash your eye, Don’t let the world know when you’re down. 1t scandav’s lip would seek to stain The name you Loid as honor's crown, By your own Jife, refute the lie, Don’t let the world know when you're down. 1f bare your purse, your heart most sad, Your life near crushed by sorrow’s crown, en mask them well with jest and song, Don't let the world know when you’re down. Detroit Free Press. CURRENT HUMOR. “Twa dollars for pullin’ a tooth! Mon, mon; an’ it aldna tak’ you twa meenits by the clock.” “Iknow, but I don’t work by the clock. I work by how long it feels.”” “Ou, aye! Then ye must be chargin’ for aboot twa days!”-~Truth. Hoax—Does Sillicus know anything about musie? Joax—No; he doesn't know the difterence between ing orchestra and a rubber band. —Philadelphia Record. Man wants but little here below. We've heard the poet say; But yet, that little, as we know, He wants three times a day. —Chicago Record. The old hen flew from her nest and cackled loud and long. ““When eggs are 9 cents a dozen,” said the old rooster, eyeing the performance with lan- guid disapproval, ““it is a ridiculous exhibition of vanity to make ali that fuss over one'egg.”— Chicago Tribune. PARAGRAPHS ' ABOUT PEOPLE. Agnes Booth, Helen Modjesks, Mrs. John Drew and Clara Morris started out as ballet dancers. Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer, the expert in the art of cookery, declares that her fine com- plexion is largely the result of her fondness for garlic. Judge Arthur Dale of Wichits, Kans., has broken the divorce record. He gave a decree exactly twenty-five seconds after the case Was presented to him. “It must be awful nice to be a farmer,” said the city girl. *Nothing to do but sitaround and let things grow.”” And the young man, who did not know that the first eighteen years of her life had been spentona that eventually to be in the gas belt, was wonderfull K"@".‘-u- Indianapolis Journsl, L ,p 7 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. Waldere Kirk of New York, king of the dudes, who carries nearly a dozen trunks with him on his travels, is agsin in the City. ““There are a lot of new things on now, and the modes of three months ago are all smashed and annihilated,” he said, at the Palace. ‘‘It's anew deal and a new programme altogether. Really, it keeps & man thinking good and hard what’s going to come next. Ithink I can diag- nose the future for a brief period, however, with a good degree of certainty. “You can put plenty ot stress on this—that scarfrings will be much in vogue very soon. “My latest creation is the pocketless Chester- field paletot overcoat, and is made after the design of the frock, fitting snugly close to the waist. The frock is the only thing proper for MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. L’Echo Musical publishes for the first time & story which the late Benjamin Godard used to tell about his experiences in composing one of his most popular works: “I once happened to be spending the summer at St. Valery, and & druggist in the neighborhood, who was adver- tising a ligueur, made in & convent near by, came to me and said, ‘I should like to send my customers a little present, put up with each bottle, and I thought that & new work by you would be very acceptable. Could you not compose & piece of dance music, 5o easy that any young girl could play it to her parents at first sight?’ ‘Easily,’ I answered. The price ‘was agreed upon,and, my visitor having de- parted, I went to the piano and composed on the first theme that came into my head, a JAMES WALDERE KIRK GIVES A DISSERTATION ON THE NEW STYLES. [Sketched from life by a “Call’ artist.] alternoon attire, with white gloves. They will be much seen on Fifth avenue and the rialto for the next two months. “Neckwear designs show a decided change this year. The fabrics are principally satin- finished, and the designs are mostly dotted effects. “Ibegin to plan my clothes six months in advance of the season. Iimport my own wool- ens from the samples six months ahead. My haberdashery, shirts, collars, neckwear and that sort of thing receive the same attention. Iam now having some new scarfs made from my own designs in Chicago. The material for my shirts is chosen in advance. “This season I heve some moire effects In pink and blue, some Dresden rose patterns on blue grounds and some in black and blue hair line stripes. I am going to bring out the latest thing in Parisian shirt patternssoon, & large maple leaf woven into the bosom of the shirt. Ihave both straight lick and turnover cuffs. My collars are talland flare just a trifle in front. The high turn-down collar is‘out of vogue. “The fashion of wearing the neckscarf in a ring is & very pretty fashion and was in vogue here ten years ago. It has never gone outof fashion in more conservative England or in Paris. Iam having made three rings from my designs. Oneisaplaingold buckle, another an oblong setting of four rubies set in diamonds and one of emeralas also set in diamonds, the latter two for evening wear. I am also having made a peir of link buttons in balls set with small diamonds. I got anew lot of pajamas recently. They are of silk and in pink stripes and yellow checks. My summer pajamas are loosely knitted of half and half silk and lisle. “I carry a dozen new hats with me—silk, Derby, Fedora, straw and also traveling caps. The traveling caps are made from the material of each of my sack suits. I carry thirty pairs of shoes and am very partial to patent leather., I have just received a half-dozen pairs of patent leather shoes from Chicago. They have round toes with plain caps, fancy tops to go with my light clothes, and are buttoned close to the vamp. I started the round-toe idea some monthsago to get away from the pointed toe.” Mr. Kirk had similar remarks as to other de- tails of dress. He will be on the coast about two months, A STYLISH WAIST. The pattern shown here is laid in a double box-pleat, both back and front. Stylish epau- lets, that extend in square tabsover thesleeves and over the arm size to the back and front, are included in this pattern. A waist of crepon, with the epaulets of grass linen, is very stylisn. Silk waists are also trimmed with linen or batiste. A bright plaid is relieved by such trimming, which is simply hemstitehed. A dotted muslin of blue, or any color, is very daintfly made after this model, ¢dging the box-pleats and the epaulets with narrow Valepciennes lace, sewed cn fall. % ite lawn {s pretty with epaulets 6f em- ‘broidery, laid over a bright China silk lining. Plain {nu linen for extra waists are very “fi“f‘ le and stylish when made after this model An old liquor bill against Ethan Allen is in the possession of a resident of Fairhaven, Vt. It is dated April 15, 1789, and goes to show that, like some other sturdy heroes of Revolu- tionary fame, Ethan Allen had a fair capacity and liking for liquor. The bill contains a number of items of ‘‘three pence for flip” and “two shilings” for botiles of rum. —_— Cecil Rhodes affects the life of a hermit. He has built for himseif a small hut in the grounds attached to his residence, and remains therein 32 daysats time, even eating and sleeping ere. . " valse as simple and flowing as could be. At every moment I wanted toslip in varlations, but, remembering the druggist’s injunctions, 1 restrained myself, and finally succeeded. in producing something so commonplace that I was ashamed to sign it. *I sent the music to the druggist. “The day following he wrote: ‘A thousand Tegrets that your valse is much too difficult for my customers. My friend X—, who is an excellent musician, could make nothing of it. Will you write me one much more simple?’ “It was impossible. I hadalready descended to the lowest depth of art; so I toreup the letter and threw the valse into a box of old papers, never expecting to use it. A short time after, havirg returned to Paris, I met the music-publisher Durand. ‘You heve nothing for me? he said. ‘Nothing unless you wanta little thing written for young girls’ He wanted to see it, so Ishowed him the valse destined to accompany the famous liqueur. ‘It is admirable,’ cried he, ‘superb, magnificent.’ Fifteen days after he published it, and it went off like hot cakes. Very soon it was being played in all the concerts. The piece was that which bears the title, ‘Godard’s Second Valse.’ " Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler, the well-known pianist, is to give several concertsin this City early 1n the autumn. In a sense this young womsan is an American, for though she was bern in Bielitz, in Austria, in 1865, the mis- take was promptly rectified by the removal of her parents to Chicago, where the future art- ist arrived before she had reached the age of 2. When she had reached the piano age she Mme. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Pianiste Who Will Play Here Next Fall. the had lessons, and ever since that time she has been an intense and patient worker. Essipoff heard her when that unruly Russian genius *| was playing in Chicago, and, recognizing the child’s talent, advised, as a dutiful wife should, that she go at once to Vienna, to Leschetizky. So to the man who has since become famous es Paderewski’s master she went, and for five years Fanny Bloomfleld stuaied with him. Her debut was made in Germany, and itisin Germany that she made her greatest successes, though her home is still in Chicago. There seems to be a verfect epidemic in Europe just at present for erecting monu- ments to distinguished musicians, both com- posersand artists. The solemn festival held in Vienna in honor of the new monument to Mozart ended on the 21st inst. The Emperor Francis Joseph presided in person at the cere- monies, whieh commenced with the perform- ance of Mozart’s “Bundeslied.” This was fol- lowed by an oration, pronounced by M. X. Dumba, president of the committee, after which the monument was unveiled, while & chorus sang “O Isis and Osiris,” from “The Magic Flute.” In Paris & committee has been formed to erect & monument to the celebrated singer Mme. Carvalho. Among the members of the committee are many celebrated lights of music and literature, including Reyer, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Victorien Sardou, Ludovie Hal- evy, ete. Emma Eames has & great success in Cesar Franck’s posthumous opers “Ghiselle,” which was recently produced for the first time at Monte Carlo. Eames had been studying the role in Paris with Arthur Coguard, one of Franck’s pupils, and althongh 1t was a very dif- ficult and trying one, it suited the American prima donna, and gave her fine opportunities for rendering the different phases of emotion. Raoul Gunshourg, the director of the opers, did wonders in the mounting of the plece. Speaking about ‘‘Ghiselle” he said: “The world does not realize how great a master Franck was. In this work alone there is origi- nality such as would place its composer, if he | bad written nothing else, 1n the very first rank. - He has seized the dramatic spirit of the text in a perfectly marvelous way.” One of the editors of the Parisian newspaper, Le Temps, has been visiting the Conservatory of Brussels with an eye o ‘‘copy.” In writing up his experiences for Le Temps this is what he makes F. A. Gevaert, the director ol the Conservatory, say about the independence of the institution: “I have been a quarterof a century at my post. Would you believe that during that time neither king nor burgomas- ter, neither the court nor the municipality, has ever once used influence to make me take a single pupil. You cannot imagine such a state of things in France, but here Iam in- dependent of the administration—I am as free as if I wereat home. 1 am judged by results and no restraint is imposed.” At Verviers. in Belgium, a committee has been formed to raise a monument to Vieux- temps. The promoters of the plan address themselves to all those who have personal souvenirs of the great violinist or whose ar- tistic predilictions lead them to admire his works. Among those who have already sub- seribed are Marsick, Sarasate, Peter Benoit and Bazzini. The committee has asked the Allgemeine Musique-Zeitung to open & sub- scription for the monument, but there are some Belgian papers that feel very much slighted because no one has asked them to do snything. A monument is about to be erected at Schwerin to Flotow, the composer of “Mar- tha.” It 1s interesting to recall the works written by this composer, nesrly all of which, with the exception of “Marths,” have been long ago consigned to oblivion. Flotow was the composer of the following operas: “Peter and Catherine,” “Rob Roy,” “The Duchess of Guise,” “The Shipwreck of the Medusa,” ‘‘The Forester,” “The Slave of Camoens,” “Martha,” “Stredella,” “The Grand Princess,” ‘‘Rube- zahl,” “Indra,” “Albin,” as well as a ballet, incidental music to “The Winter's Tale,” and & number of trios, romances, songs, ete. Plunket Green, besides being a singer of great renown, is also well known for his wit. At arecent concert at which he sang, tnrough a typographical error the programme an- nounced him as “Plunket Green, soprano.” Mr. Green took up the programme, looked at itand said, “By Jove, I'll take this home to show my English admirers the effect this American climate has on a man’s voice.” Johann Strauss’ new opera, “Waldmeister,” has been produced in Berlin with as much success as it met with in Vienna on its first production. LET'S GO UNPLEDGED. San Francisco Mission Mail. California wants & Cabinet officer. That is, 50 say leading Republicans of this City and State. Td accomplish this result they propose that the delegation to the National Republi- ean Convention be sent uninstructed sothe delegates will be free to throw a solid vote to any candidate who appears most likely to get the nomination. By this method, it is claimed, California will be most likely to get a Cabinet officer. Now, this proposition is a good one. Let the delegation go unpledged by all means. But in order that there be a certainty that the delegation will agree at the National Conven- tion, have the State Republican Convention send a solid unpledged delegation of either McKinley, Morton, Allison or Reed men to St. Louis, then an agreement upon any candidate can be easily reached. It will not do at Sacramento to divide the eighteen delegates to St. Loais among men of different Presiden- tial preferment, because an agreement cannot be afterward reached where so great a di- vergence of opinion prevails at the start, All must be for one man, not, as heretofore, di- vided. Oil and water selected at Sacramento will not be apt to mix at St Louis, so let us start right to secure that Cabinet officer—let’s go unpledged with a solid aelegation for one candidate. THE DEMOCRATS ALSO. Placer Herald. An unpledged delegation, but a harmonious one, should be sent to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. The platform adopted by the State Convention at Sacramento should be the platform of the Democracy of Califor- nia, and the preferences of that convention should be the preferences cf the Democracy of California. If the State Convention declares for silver, or expresses a preference for any Presidential candidate, care should be taken that the delegation be sufficiently harmonious to carry out the .convention’s wishes by every honorable and Democratic means, but don't pledge them to any one candidate. WHAT IT MEANS. Santa Monica Outlook. Do not send delegates away from home whom you eannot trust. To pledge them is simply saying that you have no confidence in them. - LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. The Delegation to St. Louis—It Should Be Made Up of Men of Charac- ter and Genius and Be Unpledged. SAN FraNcisco, Cal,, April 28, 1896. Editor Morning Call—-DEAR SIR: Since THE CALL has made its advent under your adminis- tration I have taken great pleasure in reading it. I find it healthful and congenial to an old man of my age and instructive for any and every age. I am pleased with many of the things which appear to me to have thesanction of the editor and indorsed by other sensible men of standing. Iam adelegate to the Sacramento convention from San Rafael, Marin County. I like plenty of silver and like protection, and do not want to be found advocating that delegates to St. Louis be pledged. So far as my voice and in. fluence at Sacramento will go, they shall be for adelegation of the higher order of intelligence, 1alrdmgn of character and genius and .une pledged. Now kindly allow me to_be your obedient servant, R. S. 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