The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, ) Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .§0.15 Daily and Sund: Daily snd Sunds Daily and Sunday CaLy, one month, by mal Bunday CALL, one year, by mall. WXELKLY CALL, one year, by ma! THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? 10,1t 15 0 trouble for us to forward rour address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Onders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention 8O EXTEA CHARGE. 1t BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Pelephone...........ooooiiiiinnen Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll #:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. street: open until 9:30 o'clock. Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Minik street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : | $08 Broad Every harmo lican music. To the college orator life is one grand declamation. There is nothing compromising about Populism this year. The aporopriation bill is big, but none too big for the country. The festal idea has blossomed in a way that promises an early fruitage. The festival idea is a good thing to keep in mind until we get the thing itself in hand. No one can object’ to the establishment | of a park in the Mission. It is a home mission. The Democrats seem to saw wood only to get sticks of convenient size to throw at | one another. The competing road will not only bring ihe monopoly to terms, but close the term of the monopoly Up to date no one in the country seems | to care whether the Chicago convention | ever meets or not. In a little while the political cuckoo will have gone to join the dodo as part and parcel of the dreadfui past. The transfer nuisance is one of the kind the public will never yet used to. The ir- ritation will be always there. California fares well in the appropri- ation bill, and the people will take notice it was passed by Republi Tillman’s lectures in Kansas were so suc- cessful he is accused of tossing up a hay- stack of greenbacks with his pitchiork. It will be agreed on.all sides that the Grant monument should have been raised by something better than convict labor. Dupont’s claim to a seat in the Senate is nothing lixe the powder he makes, for every time it is brought up it hangs fire, The only hope of the Democrats to make combinations in this campaign is to com- bine with themselves, and even thatseems | forlorn. People are content to have their eyes on the St. Louis convention, but they would like to have their hands on that at Chicago. The comiort of the American home de- pends on the mainicnance of American wages, and the way 1o tecure the one is 1o protect the other. The gracduates wii country with new ideas on the ideal re- public and the way teach your grand- mother how to suck eggs. It begins to look as if the Clevelarnd letter declaring himself not a candiaate | for re-clection must have been used for gun-wadding and shot away in a swamp. It is noted that Governor Morton of New York did not veto a single bill passed by the recent Legislature, and now some pecple are praising the Legislature and some are condemning the Governor. hur Corbin recently presented the New York people with 150 buffaloes for their park, and thus it comes about that New York City is now the only place in America where buffalo can be found in large numbers. According to the reports collected by the Orange Judd Farmer the present condition of the wheat crop is more favorable to a big output than in any month of May since 1891, when the harvest was regarded as phenomen: — There never was a time when all sec- tions of the country were so eager for in- ternal improvements as now, and that is another'reason why the party which has been alwaysin favor of such improvements should be restored to power. In saying we cannot have a summer fiesta in this City becanse we have “nothing but wind and dust to accentuate the season,” the Oakland Tribune clearly overlooks the fact that we could have the Oakland people, and there is nothing windy about them. s S The Democratic tariff has been about as beneficial to the English cutlery-makers of Sheffield as to the wool-spinners of Brad- ford. By reducing the duties all the way from 25 to 50 per cent the British have been able to increase their exports of cutlery to this country from $407.000 in 1894 to $739.000 in 1895, and the difference is just so much lost to American working- men. The attempt of the Southern Pacific Company to head off the business of the Valley road by offering low rates to big shippers on three years’ contracts is evi- dently rot finding much favor among the peovle of that section. The Fresno Repub- lican says: “The disposition of shippers generally will not be to invidiously discriminate against the enterprise which is bringing them relief from monopoly exaction,” HE CALLto | soon be filling the | CANADA'S ADVANTAGE. Apropos of the movement in Congress to withdraw from the Canadian railroads penetrating the United States the privi- lege of taking American goodsin bond and shipping them whithersoever they please, a correspondent of the New York Sun bas published some startling facts and conclu- sions. From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress he quotes that for the three years—1893, 1894 and 1895— | no less than 1,316,852 cars, contaming 24.- | 063,329 tons of merchandise, were diverted | from American to Canadian railways under the bonding regulations. These goods, it should be remembered, are transporied over Canadian territory | from one part of the United States to an- other by railroads whici: are heavily sub- sidized, which are unhampered by any such law as our interstate commerce act, and which for other reasons are able to haul at much lower rates than American lines can afford to charge. Thatis why they control so large a part of the traffic that otherwise would fall to American roads. The Sun's correspondent makes this showing: If the loss in earnings to American railways was ouly 12}¢ cents per 100 pounds, the total loss for three years was $60,158,322. Railway traffic earnings for the past three years have been less than for the years 1890, '91 and "92. If the average loss for 1896, '97, '98 and 99 is no greater (if the bonding regulations remain in force) than the average Of the past three vears, the total loss for this decade will be { more than §$200,000,000. The total gross freight traflic earnings of all the railways in Canada for the fiscal year 1893 was $32,935,029. For ten years at the same | rate it would nmount to $320,545,203. Of this total $200,000,000, or 61 per cent, would be from American traffic, which legitimately be- longs 10 our own railways just as much as our | consting trade belongs to American vess For the fiscal year 1893 there were 173,370 miles of railways in operation in this country costing §11,443,888,892. The bondholders re- | ceived a little iess on the average than 4 per | cent as interest on their capital, and the share- holders less than 2 ver cent, and yet we per- mitted Canadian railways heavily subsidized by Canada and Great Britain to rob American railways of their legitimate traffic. By a like careful use of figures and logic the correspondent shows that the total | passenger traffic earnings of the Canadian roads for the fiscal year 1893 were $15,087,300; that if these roads were denied the bond- ing privilege they would lose the freight. and that in consequence they could not afford to charge the present low passenger rates that bring them so great a volume of business. He estimates that their loss on passenger receipts would be not less that $5,000,000 a year. That is to say, deduct- ing from their total gross earnings of $52,- 396, $20,000,000 {or freight and $5,000,000 | for passengers, they would have left only | $27,043,596 as total gross earnngs for 15,- | 020 miles of railway, or $1800 a mile. The average bonded indebtedness of all the Canadian railways is $21,000 a mile, which, | a1 5 per cent, demands $1100 & mile for in- terest upon bonds, ieaving $700 a mile for operating expenses, rentals, renewals, in- terest on current loans, etc. Their actual ! operating expenses in 1593 was $2361 a mile. Twenty-one out of twenty-seven Canadion roads did not earn operating ex- penses, because they had no American traffic. It can be easily inferred notonly to what extent American roads would be benetited by the withdrawal of the bond- ing privilege, but also the difficulty toat Canadian roads would find in existing. DEM(;ORATIG ECONOMY. Whether they have been so instructed or not, it matters littlé; but Government office-holders are having a good dezl to say these days about the economical man- agement of the affairs oi the Nation by the Cleveland administration, as compared ith President Harrison’s management of | them. Let us see what President Harrison did {in the way of reducing the public debt. The figures of the Treasury Department show that during his administration debt reductions were as follows: H $125,000,000 135,000,000 40,000,060 10,000,000 Total..... -$810,000.000 Up to date the Cleveland administration has not reduced the publicdebt a farthing, but it has borrowed money on the credit i of the Nation, the principal and interest of which are as follows: 1894 (February).. + §50,000,000 Interest 10 years at 5 pe 25,000,000 1894 (November).... 50,000,000 Interest 934 years at 5 per cent. 23,750,000 1895. 62,315,400 Interest 30 years at 4 per cent. 74.778,480 1896 A 100.000,000 Tuterest 29 years at 4 per cent, 116,000,000 Total....... -$501,843,880 But this is not all the Cleveland admin- istration bas done for the country. The { income from the Wilson-Gorman tariff act has failed in nearly every month to meet the current expenditures of the Gov- ernment, and not only so, but the conduct of the Treasury Department has disturbed the commercial relations of the people more than any other administration in the history of the country. INDUSTRY WAITS. To use a commercial expression, the people of the United States are living from “hand to mouth.” They are wait- ing for the end of Clevelandism before launching out into new channels of trade and industry. Capital is always timid when threatened, and it is bold when it feels sure of fair treatment. The cry of “hard times” and of the *‘stringency of loanable money’” is the legitimate fruit- age of a want of confidence in the integ- rity and ability of the administration at Washington to meet and provide for the demands that commerce is obliged to make upon the Government. But public sentiment is now so strongly set against the financial and economic policy of the present administration that its overthrow 1s only a matter of waiting for the coming of March next. In view of this fact, and the certainty of the Gov- ernment again putting itself in touch with the business interests of the people, there is enough of an encouraging character in the immediate future of the channels of trade and traffic to warrant capital in seeking employment in business opera- tions without waiting for the formal in- duction of the St. Louis nominee into the office of President. The election of a President next Novem- ber who will be thoroughly in sympathy with the best interests of the country is so much of a foregone conclusion that the people are justified in going forward in the work of rebuilding the industries and the commerce of the country. Condi- tions are still clouded, but the outlook is full of encouragement. The daysof dis- tress are numbered, and they will end with the retirement of Democratic rule. —_— ANOTHER BOND ISSUE. There is foundation for the Wall-street rumor that there will be another Govern- ment bona issue before or soon after the sutumn season opens. The treasury gold reserve grows Jess from day to day, and the July disbursements will reduce it far below the Jimit, if it is not so reduced long before. Custom-house receipts and inter- nal revenue collections are likely to con- tinue to fall very much short of the current expense and interest requirements of the Government, and as there is no other way, under Demoecratic financiering, of provid- ing for the deficit than to sell bonds, it does not now appear how another bona sale can be avoided. But one more issue of bonds, unless it be a very large one, will not carry the treasury over until Mr. Carlisie is relieved by a Republican suc- cessor, and the taxpayers might just as well accept the inevitable. The bigger the public debt the greater are the blessings that are showered upon the people, Grover Cleveland thinks. But as a business proposition, there is no more sense in permitting Wall street and its European allies to deplete the treasury of eold than there would be in giving them the right to veto National legislation. If Secretary Carlisle would reserve to the Government the right, which is his duty, of paying demands upon the treasury in the kind of maney he happens to have the most of on hand—gold or silver—Wall street would be careful to make inquiry as to what kind of dollars it was likely to be paid in before entering into conspiracies with London gold-brokers to force bond issues by carting off the treasury’s gold holdings. All issues of Government money are good money, and they should be so considered by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, but by some strange and unaccount- able process of reasoning, he arrived at the conclusion that the Government’s issues of silver dollars aré not good enough for gentlemen like Belmont, Morgan and Rothschild, and so he shovels gold into their bottomless pockets. STEEL WAGON ROADS. The acute interest now being taken in roads in this State might receive an adaed stimulus from the sucgestion of Martin Dodge, State Road Commissioner of Ohio, and also by Governor Griggs of New Jer- sey, that steel rails for use by ordinary wagons offer a brilliant solution for a difficult problem within limited but very important lines. The idea 18 a railroad in its most primitive form. It contemplates the use of two steel raiis of the thickness of boiler-plate, each formed in the shape of a gutter of a convenient width, say five inches, with appropriate sides and shoul- ders, making it easy for wagon-wheels to enter and follow the troughs. These metal troughs are to rest upon a suitable foundation, and the spaces between them is to be filled with macadam for the horses’ feet. 1t is surprising to be informed that such a road costs $2000 & mile, while a macad- amized road costs $7000 a mile. These are Eastern estimates. Whether or not they will agree with conditions here is a matter foreengineers to determine. This estimate for a steel road does not contemplate a double track, which in the absence of numerous turnouts, or a good earth road on either side, would seem to be necessary. Even a double track would cost hardly more than §4000 a mile. Cousiderations beyond the original cost, however, are equally important. Mani- iestly a steel road would last much longer than any other, and it is evident that a horse can draw on such a road twenty times as much as on an ordinary earth road, and tive times as much as on a macadamized road. Itis in these items that the great economy of the idea is to be soaght. So great a saving in traction power reduces the number of horses which patrons of the road would require, and that alone in a thickly settled com- munity would pay for the construction of the road. Such a road would require constant at- tention, and in many parts of California would likely be impracticable, even on level ground. This is because of the long, dry summers and the moving of sand un- der the wind. This would tend to keep the gutters filled, and there would be no rains to move the earth. On moderate grades the plan would be clearly feasible. In short, the peculiar conditions obtaining in California give the suggestion an as- pect which it.does not wear in the Eastern States, but that is no reason why the matter should not be thoroughly studied. Among other possibilities which it sug- gests is the granting of charters to private companies for the construction and main- tenance of steel roads in rural districts. OHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS, The ninth annual convention of the Cali- fornia Cnristian Endeavor Union, which has assembled in San Jose, will not occupy so large a part of the attention of the gen- eral public as is given to great political conventions, but nevertheless it will be a most notable gathering, and to a large portion of the better element of the com- munity will be one of theimportantevents of the year. Assemblies of this kind ere the most effectual answers to all assertions that the power of the Christian church is waning. The young men and women who will meet at San Jose will represent a great part of the intelligence, the virtueand the earnest- ness of the youth of California. They and those whom they stand for are among the most widely influential factorsof our social organism. Their actions and even their opinions will have a marked effect upon the whole tone of California life, and no cause to which they devote themselves can be considered as weak or waning even by the most pessimistic students of modern society. It would pe well if all classes of people would take more interest than is generally done in conventions of this kind. The work of the Christian Endeavor Union is among the bekt now going on in the world. Their campaign of education is not the in- culcation of a barren dogma, but the establishment of a practical beneficence in the community from which all can derive good. California has reason to be justly grateful to the churches and whatever other influences have inclined so many of her most gifted men and women to a task of this kind, and will regard the conven- tion at San Jose with more than ordinary pride. CURRENT HUMOR. Little Miss Muffet She sat on a tuffet And finished her biscalts and tea; Then picked np a spider ‘That sat down beside her And counted his an-tenn-z. ~—Cleveland Post. “Why did you break off your engagement ‘with Miss Bertha?"’ ¥ “Because her parrot was always saying, ‘Stop that, George.’ " “But what difference did that make? Your engagement was not a secret,” “But my name is not George.”—New York Herald. “Nothing succeeds like success.” “That’s 50; & widow can almost always catch & second husband.”~Truth. “] hear you are going to marry a widow with “You have got things mixed. Iam going to marry £50,000 with s widow attacked to it."— New York Evening World. Doorkeeper at Hades (speaking into tube)— What ho! A party of bicyclists approaches. Voice(from within)—Tell them to take off their sweaters and then show them into the scorch- ing-room.—Post-Dispatch. ~ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘There is a remarkable man at the Occidental Hotel. He is Joseph R. Walker, the million- aire banker and mine and real property owner of Salt Lake. Probably between the two occans there is not & more striking illustration of the prosperous seltmade man. “In 1852 I and my three little brothers persuaded our mother, then living in St. Louis, to Come out West,” said Mr. Walker yesterday. “‘Our father and sisters had recently died and my mother was leit alone and she didn’t know what to do. We boys persuaded her to start to the mountains—just talked her into it—and S0 one day vee all started out from St. Louis in & little wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen. It was a frightful trip to attempt in those days, but we boys, who didn’t kuow anything about danger, and our mother, who was ready to accept any sitnation that we were willing to accept, pursued our way and took our chances. We were six months in getting through. Our Ooxen gave out at many places along the road and it was all we could do to get them along at all. The long distance from Gréen River to Salt Lake we made entirely alone; there wasu’t even an- other wagon to bear us company. We camped et every green spot where the oxen could get grass, and finally, after great hazardin a coun- try overrun by Indians, we reached the Mor- mon settlement at Salt Luke. Timeshave gone prosperously with me since then and for many years I have been in possession of a very large fortune, but at no time since I acquired it have I seen the happiness that I saw when Jjogging along in that little old wagon over the plains and mountains, when I dreamed dreams of the money I would make and the positions 1 would hold.” Mr. Walker owns the Big Alice mine at Butie, Mont.,and haliadozen other pay properties. He says the new Mercur district, fifty miles from Salt Lake, is developing some enormous mines. The Golden Gate mine there, he declares, has £10,000,000 worth of ore in sight. He predicts the district will become another Cooigardie. J. D. Hanbury, one of the wild boomers of San Diego and Lower California in 1887-88, when the heaviest part of the population there was engaged in the town lot business, has made a big strike again at Tokio. The amount which he is sid to have raked in is $150,000, but it may not be so much when all the details are known. When Hanbury was operating in the south he had a pariner named Garvey. They became the agents anafinally the virtual successors of the Mexicap International Com- pa which organization claimed to own 18,- 000,000 acres in the peninsula of Lower Cali- fornia. They caughtmany & good tenderfoot, for they so boomed the peninsula thatland around Ensenada, over 100 miles below San Diego. was sold at from $40 to 150 an acre. A lot of dizzy towns were launched, notably San Carlos, San Quintin, Punta Benda and others. Broad avenues were cut through the sagebrush, and gifted promoters sang their alluring songs day and evening to woo the good red gold from the crowd of people who flocked that way. An overland stage, with re- lays of fine horses, was puton. Everything hummed. In the midst of this the bubble broke, and people woke up with scarcely enough to buy a breakfast. Mr. Hanbury, who had some time previously founded a watch factory at Otay, Cal, was floored as flatly as any of his con- stituency. He pulled himself together, how- ever, after some months and transported the watch factory to Japan. He took twenty work- men along and they proceeded to make watches for the little brown men of the Mikado’s realm. The factory was a success. Hanbury made money out of it and finally he unloaded it to the Government. The resultis that Japanis not only making watches, but has gone a step further and is now making the machinery with which to make more watches. It is pre- dicted that these same watches 11 be ere long coming to the Pacific Coast, here to be for sale and compete with American watches. Hanbury, who made the comiortable stake, has gone to Paris,on some new scheme, it is soid, and he is expected to be back ere long. Garvey, his whilom partner in the days of the boom, disappeared somewhere in the East a few years ago. PERSONAL. J. A. Cooper, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. Frank H. Short, an attorney of Fresno, s at the Grand. B. Suzakly,a wealthy business man of Japan, is in the City. State Controller E. P. Colgan of Sacramento isat the Lick. J. B. Kirkland of Portland was among yes- terday’s arrivals. Henry P. Starbuck, & wealthy resident of Santa Barbera, is here. State Senator Keily of Willows, Colusa County, is at the Russ. E. Newell, & mine-owner of Tucson, Ariz,, | arrived here yesterday. E. D. Edgerton, a leading mine-owner of Helena, is at the Palace. Press R. Davis, a newspaper man of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Russ. W. G. Sampson of Johannesburg, South Africa, is among recent arrivals. Thomas B. Wilcox, & wealthy resident of Portland, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Wilcox. J. C. Cooper of Auburn, chairman of the Board ot Supervisors of Placer County, is-at the Russ. George W. Billings, C. A. Billings and Miss Billings of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the Occi- dental. D. H. Arnold, the banker, and ex-Sheriff of Colusa, arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. E. A. Aggeler of Ferndnle, Wash., delegate to the Grand Council Y. M. L, is at the Cosino- politan. William G. Murphy, attorney and counselor at law and court commissioner for Yuba County, is in town. J. A. Hardin, the wealthy cattle and horse grower of Nevada, Oregon and Idaho, whose home is at Santa Rosa, is on & visit here. Robert M. Clarke of Carson, ex-Attorney- General of Nevada, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. M. D. Foley of Reno. Charles W. O'Neil, one of the early pioneers of Wallace, in the! Ceeur d’Alene district, Idaho, and the owner of valuable mining Eo{;eny there, is among the guests of the ck. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Mr. and Mr N. Y., May 14.—At the Plaza— Bach; Marlborough—A. L. Be-' gine; Vendome—Mr. and Mrs. W. Andrews; Grand Uniou—H. Adams, E. Boyes, J. Bryes; H. Morton—J. Brozell. - LOVE VS. WEALTH. Cupid, bring thy tiny scales; Here’s a human heart, Fain would list among the sales Inthy busy mart. Creely; Continental —J. M. Place it, with its weight of pride, Or 11 young or old, Place upon t' e other side— Heap of glittering goid. 80! Thou dost not h the heart! Surely this is Jusr.‘!m‘ In thine love-enchanted art, Lightest are the best ! Cupid, truly thou art All our thoughts above; In the march of youth or age— bai can weigh 'gainst Love? —Cleveland Plain Dealer, MEN WHO PULL T0GETHER Oskland Tribune. Southern California, as usual, was a unit in the late Republican Convention at Sacra- mento. Some of the delegates from ather parts of the State were disposed to kick against what seemed to them an undue influence. Thislead was perfectly legitimate. The chairman of the convention, the Lieutenant-Governor and other good things the delegates from Southern Cali- fornia wanted were conceded at once. lia Governor had been on the list of nominations he would have been selected from that part of the State. Save for a little sectional feeling noted as an undercurrent, such resuils are altogether commendable. ‘It illustrates the wvalue of unity—of a puil all together. These Southern California. Tolks frst agree Dpon what they want and then they go for it With the perfect assurance of success, whether 1t is & business proposition or & pol office. They are ruling the State. They decide what measures shall be supported and what ones are to be defeated. They agree first on a dis tinct policy or pian of movement. In the end that is the plan that jes. There is nothing to do for Northern California but to fall into line and work for the programme which has been marked out, i Now since Southern California has shown in allits business methods superior management, and since it is the most prosperous part of the State, where 1s there any ground of complaint? There is here, however, more than a hint for people in Northern Califorma. The south Dulls together hoth in politics and in business. The north pulls apart, and loses both influ- gnce and business where it ought to gain both, That is the whole story. Itisnot a ground of complaint, butone for the revision of methods. Until that is brought about Southern Califor- :l]z?pwm have the best qualifications for leader- THE PACIFiC STATES Clallam County (Wash.) Courier. The San Francisco CaLy is ceriainly right in Oue proposition and that is that the Pacific Coast should bave a Cabinet position in the next administration. The electoral votes of the Pacific States when combined areequal to those of some States in the Mississippi Valley which are always accorded Cabinet places in every administration. It is only necessary 1o compare the history of the Pacific States with lhntA of any of the Middle States like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to see how completely ;l‘;fiuxgmn has been left out of National Thz reason for the ign the people have not demanded anything, be- ing so completely absorbed in other Jines of activity. In this course i R A & serious mistake has The future development of commerce on the Pacific Ocean will make it necessary for the welfare of the Pacific_States in a com- mercial way to be influential factors in the administration of our National Gov- emment. The Pacific States cannot exvect to have their interests looked after properly in the trade with Asia, Australia, the islands and South America if the National Adminis- tration is run exclusively by Eastern men who are fgnorantoi our wants and entirely occu- pied with other interests. he Pacific States want a respectable Ameri- can navy ou this coast, and they will want many other things from the National Govern- ment which they will never get unless they have an incressed influence in the administra- tion. The first object must be a place in the Cabinet, and the Pacific States must make a fight for that purpose. . Culifornia naturally has a preponderance of influence by reason of her superior size, but she must ‘treat the State of Washington {airly, because her claims to Tecognition will be based on her bein; 4 ve e g representative of all the —_— A KINDLY ACT. Los Angeles Labor World. '_I'he San Francisco CALL of last Monday con- tained a three-column review of the growth of trades unions in Los Angeles. A metropolitan paper that will devote this amount of space to organized labor in a slster city demonstrates its friendliness to the interests of labor. Ac- Companying the sketch were the protographs of officers of the Council of Labor, President P. McNamara, Secretaries H. E. Martens and E R, Holman, President Edward Booth of the Clerk’s Association and President J. H. Mc- Williams of the Labor Congress. THE CALL under the present management has at all times been friendly to organized labor, a position duly appreciated both in San Fran- c0 and Los Angeles. That was a kindly act on its part when it agreed to dispanse with the typesetting-machines for two years upon a concession on the part of the San Francisco Typographical Union of a reduction in the scale.” This last act 1n opening its columns for areview of the growth of the different trades unions in Los Angeles is still another evidence Of THE CALL’S friendship for organized labor. DELEGATES AT LARGE. Yreka Journal, While Northern California did not succeed in getting a delegate at large to the National Republican Convention, we are satisfied that no two men could have been chosen who could better represent the State than George A. Knight and John D. Spreckels, The former 15 one of the most brilliant speakers in Califor- nia and is certain to be heard from in the con- vention. John D. Spreckels has made a good, clean fight in politics in San Francisco, and the entire State is glad to see that the better class of residents in San Francisco are taking some interest in oiitics and not leaving it entirely to the old bosses, with whom the bet- ter class of men had no chance. THE CONVENTION DID RIGHT. Kern County Echo. Not a few good Republicans are disposed to criticize the Sacramento convention for adopt- ing & free colnage resoiution in view of what the National Convention is practically sure to say on that subject. But our State did exactly right. California Reg\zblih\ns favor free coin- age; if Indiana or Obio Republicans take a different v of the siiuation let each give full expression toits views, and thenout of the whole voice the National gathering can gather the correct consensus of opinion and give ex- pression to the wishes of the majority. If County and State conventions were mum on all matters of party policy the National meet- ing would be 1n toin} darkness. A PRET1Y SHIRT WAIST. An excellent and dainty model for alady’s 8hirt waist, and one of the most used, is shown here. The design includes both standing and turn-over collars, as may be preferred. Any cotton fabric of heavy or medium weight is suitable for this useful waist. The coller and cuffs may be made detach- able or sewn to the walst. The former the better, as one may have two sets for one waist_and so get double the amount of wear, as cuffs and collars soil first. lan is PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Countess of Dunraven sings in the vil- lage choir. The Vanderbilts, Astors and Mackays have all had divorces in their families. King Alfonso of Spain will be 10 years old this month. He can bardly expect many happy returns from Cuba. Nigcola Morra, one of Italy’s worst brigands, has surrendered to the police. He wore relics of the saints at his neek and knives at his belt. Countess Hartenau, the morganatic widow of the late Prince Alexander of Battenberg, is about to marry an Austrian officer of Ligh rank. Thomas Moran, & New York policeman, died and left an estate of $75,000, which is now being contested for by an army of relatives and strangers. 8ir William Priestly, grand nephew of Dr. Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen, 1s the Unionist candidate for Parliament from the universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrew. Barner Barnato has become the heroof a play. Under the name of Bailey Prothero he is the central figure in “The Rogue’s Comedy,”” by Henry Arthur Jones. As the title indicates the picture drawn of the renowned money- maker is not & flattering one. Colonel Wauchope, commanding the Second Black Watch, tells a good story about Jis mid- shipman days in the navy. He said they once lanaed at Cherbourg to play cricket and so mystified the Frenchmen that they almost interfered to stop the game. They thought the putting up of the stumps and balls was a new mode of surveying directed against the defense of the military port. MINSTER EOHIN DU All Nonsense, He Says, About Japan Invading Us With Labor. People Interested in Bicycles Have Flooded Mr. Dun With Inquiries by Myriads. Edwin Dun of Ohio, United States Min- ister to Japan, who has arrived Lere after three years' absence as the representative of this Government in the land of the Mikado, has a fund of curious informa- tion regarding that country. He lived there many years before he was appointed Minister, though at one time he was Sec- retary of the Embassy and at another acting Charge d’ Affaires. The Mirister has grown bigger, or rather stouter, during the last three years. “The supposition that Japan had grown arrogant after her victories is entirely —is this boy eligible for the office of Presiden of the United States? A says 0o’ and B says ‘yes’ ”—is one that has been asked from tine without date, but_an answer 1o it cannot pe given until the highest court in the land qe. fines what is meant by the ollowing words i the constitution of the United States: “No per. son, except anatural-born citizen, * * * shg|| be eligible to the office of President.” Tnere has not been any judicial definition of the words ‘“natural-born citizen,” and whether jt means to apply to one born on the soil is as yet 2 matter of doubt. This department, howeve is glad to know that A and B have béen able settie (his great _constitutional question to tho individual satisfaciion of each. PASSPORT REGULATION—J. B., City. The United States issues passports only to citizeny upon application and proof of citizenshiy, The applicant must set forth in an affidavis whether he is & native born or naturalized citizen, occupation and place of permanent legal residence, and declare that he is going abroud for temporary sojourn and intends to return to the United States for the purpose of Tesiding and perforniing the duties of citizen- ship thierein, a personal description of the ap- Plicant and the onth of aliegiance. If the ap. piicantis a married man and wants to tako along his wife, children and servantsit isneces. sary only to state '(]he nu!lllfis or‘ mf p;;;:;in‘nd alationship to the applicant. A rtis {S\l-utlwo yerrs and the fee is $1, which mu accompauy the application. To persons ing passports for themselves blank forms of application will be furnished by the Depart- ment of State, the applicant setting forth as the time of the request under what form citi- zenship is claimed, whether by birth or Ctiited States Minister Dun of Japan, Who Says the Cheap Labor Talk Is All & Scare. (Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] wrong,” said Mr. Dun. “On the contrary, the war has had a tendency to sober the Japanese. They see their responsibilities | more than ever before, and are trying to | do all thex can for their country. This is very noticeable all over the empire. | ‘“‘And about Japanese manufactured goods and Japanese labor comine in | here, there has Leen an unnecessary ex- citement about that. It is all talk. There ‘is nothing in it at all. “I get letters constantly, and from all over, inquiring about it. I can only give one answer to all. I get letters particu- larly inquiring about bicycles. *‘Well, there is no such thing asa Jap- anese bicycle. True, they do make a fragile thing for boys which the little fel- lows manage to ride on, but they are in no sense a bicycle such as you have here. ‘“Che bicycles that the people use there are all made either in the United Statesor in Europe, and so they will continue to be. No one need have any fear of that. “In her own line Japan is going ahead, and rapidly, toc. I refernow to silk goods, and she is making great efforts, too, in cotton goods and cotton yarns. In the | latter lines they may affect European in- terests, but won't affect ours. “Iread a letter not long ago, printed in this country, from a man who had been at Kobe, and he drew a most doleful picture of the awlui results from competition from Japan in both goods and labor in the United States. “The Japanese are not going to interfere with -us. We will go along serene and prosperous in our ow& way. There is no cause for agitation."” Mr. Dun_ will be here several days. He isto spend a vacation of two and a half months, and will put 1n most of that time | in Ohio, Washington and New York. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PoLLTAX EXEMPTION—R. P. F., Folsom, Cal. The fact that a man is near-sighted or a crip- ple, or both, does not exempt him from the operation of the polltax law. As to roadtex a collector out of pity might pass him by. GABRIELLE GREELEY—Subscriber, Sacramento, Cal. At thetime that Gabrielle Greeley, daugh- ter of the late Horace Greeley, became a con- ert to another religion, the fact was an- mnounced in all the newspapers of the day. HALF DOLLAR OF ’53—P. L.. City, There is no premium on a half dollar of 1853, unless it is ope of that date without arrow-heads at the date or rays about the eagle. Such are ex- ceedingly searce and command from $20 to | $30 premium. i AppREssEs—A. E. 8, City. The address of Helena Modjeska is Los Angeles; Mary Ander- son Navarro, London, Eng.; Mark Twain, Hartford, Conn.: Gladstone, London, Eng.. Tomaso, care of Dramatic Mirror, New York City: Bret Harte, care of A, P. Watt, Paternos- ter 8quare, London, Eng., and Joaquin Miller, Oakland, Cal. FOREIGN TIDES—C. F. R., Langlois, Curry County, Or. The following gives the rise from extreme low water to extreme high water at the places named: At Aden. Guli of Aden, south entrance to the Red Ses, 8.4 feet; at Suez, north entrance to the Red Sea, 9.8 jeet; ot Muscat, entrance to Persian Gulf, 11.3 feet; at mouth of Euphrates River, end of Persia Gult, 7.3 feet, T ! i Fausr—A. Sg., City. There are quite 8 num- ber of works published in the English lan- guage that tell the story of Dr.Faust. There are the works of Goethe, translated by Anna Swanak; “Faustus,” a tragedy, translated by John Anster; “Faus & dramatic poem, translated by 'A. Hayward; “Faust,” by Bayard Taylor, and a nimber of oiher books ihat can soen e libraries of 10 be foun in the Free Publie TLL, y?om' oy MoBILE REGENT—B. H. D., Silver City, Idaho. Your question, “What was the name of the captain of the Mobile Regent, in service at the close of the Mexican war?” was submitted to the Navy Department at Washington, D. C., and the following reply was received: n reply to Eour letter of inquiry you are in- formed that it does not appear from the rec- ords of the War Office that there was a vessel by’the name of Mobile Regent e ing the Mexican war,” . o To PoLisE HorNs—F. W, K., City, The fol- lowing is given as a method for polishing horns: Scrub the horn perfectly smooth with glass, then rub with fine sandpaper or Dutch Tushes; repeat the rubbing with & bit of felt dipped’ in very fluelyngdered charcoal with water, and lastly with rotten stone or putty wder, and finish with a piece of €oft wash leather damped with a little sweet ofl; or, still betier, rub it with subnif s DI hmd!.u nitrate of bismuth by THE PRESIDENCY—Several Readers, City. The question, “Two natives of the United States, man and wife, go to Europe on a pleasure tour and a child is born to them, & son, while there naturalization or annexation of territory. Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, Washington, D, C., pass- port division. Professional titles are not in- serted in passports. The afiidavit must be supported by that of a citizen acquainted with the facts of citizenship. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.* = e BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* SRS s e GENUINE eyeglasses, 15¢ t040c. 813¢4th, nr. barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kust shoestore).* S i g SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres3 Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. = ————— Queen Victoria has & marked preference for gray horses, and throughout her holiday on | the Riviera a magnificent pair of this color have been in almost daily use. ——————— HuseaND's Calcinea Magnesia. 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