The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprletor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie snd Sunday CALL, six months, by ma and Sunday CALz, three monibs by and Sunday CALL, one month, b Dally Sunday CALL, one year, by mall WELKLY CAL1, oDe year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on s vacation ? If #0, 1t is 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carxier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone....... e Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. ;i T elephone. ... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES “lay: epen until 530 Montgomery street, corner B o'clock. Z = 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. street: open until 9:30 o'clock. Sixteenth Mission streets; til 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission 118 Ninth s OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. open reet: open unt!l 9 o'clock. 1; open until 9 o’clock. N OFFICE : Park Row, New York City. Special Agent Rooms 51 & DAVIL M. WEDNESDAY .. 7‘”1 CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e eee— Itisto be the *‘Carnival of the Golden Gate.” The proposed transfer ordinance reaches the right spot. Ada Reban can have this town for good if she will stay with it. Collis P. Huntington seems to have crawled into a hole somewhere. Those ones seem to sweep the country every time like a Democratic victory. In the city of Moscow all the people now see a splendid sight and think of dynamite. There are symptoms in Carlisle’s last letter of a desire to straddle not only the money question but his own record. The Santa Cruz water carnival begins to loom above the horizon and illumines the near future with a glow of crimson glory. There is reason to believe the funding scheme has been headed off at this session and at the next one we can off with its head. It seems evident the jingoes of the Senate are so ready for war they think it would be a waste of money to prepare for it. The average Kansas man is certain no cyelone will ever come his way until one of them hits him, and then he goes with it. The Supervisors have only to watch the working of the transfer nuisance to see very clearly what ought to be done about it. It is a pity we have not the speed record of the scorcher who ran over Lillian Russell. He must have been a very fast young man. About the biggest campaign documents in this contest are the Grover bonds, and the Democrats can neither disclaim them nor deny them. The pageantry of Moscow may impress us a little from a distance, but it will take the carnival of the Golden Gete to really come home 1o us. People who are tempted to bet on the result at St. Lonis should remember this 4s an uncertain world, and just at present 8t. Louis is the center of its agitations. The coast defense bill provides appro- priations for the current fiscal year of little more than $1,900,000, which falls a Jong way short of being equal to the war talk. A Boston philosopher asserts that #brainy women of large intelligence have darge feet,”” which may be considered a «oncession to Chicago, but it doesn’t work on this coast. A comparison of tte blizzards of winter with the cyclones of spring would seem to Justify a belief that in a large part of the prairie States December is decidedly as pleasant as May. It is reported from New York that a scheme to outwit Platt is on foot, but if Platt ever hears of it there will be a report of a scheme seen taking to a bicycle and #&corching for the woods. Manley is certainly rieht in saying Tom Reed would rather be Speaker of the House than Vice-President. He is not the sort of man who is willing to stand around and wait for a funeral. The Czar and the Czarina will be as conspicuous as the groom and the bride of a dude wedding for a few days to come, but after that the country will return willingly to Oom Paul and Grover Cleve- land. The fact that a murder has been com- mitted within the walls of San Quentin itself may be taken as convincing proof that the only way to effectually suspend this sort of thing is to hangit from the gallows. The proposed festival in the fall will come just in time to relieve the strain of the campaign and give our Democratic fellow-citizens a chance to get into a live procession and show what good fellows they are. Tie executive commitiee of the Re- publican State Central Committee may not satisfy all who call themselves Re- publicans, but it will certainly have the barmenious and cordial support of all who are loyal. The young Duchess of Marlborough was the most admired debutante at the Buckingham Palace drawing-room on Monday, and perhaps it was worth going to England to win that honor. There are lots of brides who would have won more admiration in this country. It is now asserted that the Oregon beat the speed of Eastern-built ships because she bas a Jfour-bladed screw, while those of the Eastern vessels have only three blades. If this explanation pleases the Easterners they are welcome to it. Inthe meantime we continue to be satisfied in the knowledge that we have broken the records THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The Chronicle of yesterday contained an attack upon the Republican State Execu- tive Committee, which was unfair and un- just in every particular. Every word was calculated to infuse into the ranks of the party a feeling of distrust instead of that confident harmony which is necessary for success, and the whole tone of the article was suggestive far more of personal spite than of regard for the party welfare. The animus of the attack was displayed in the very first paragraph by a sneering allusion to Mr. Arthur, chairman of the Republican State Convention, as alawyer of “a village practice,”” and a further allu- sion to him as “a Justices' Court lawyer of Pasadena.” These sneers are certainly no more than exhibitions of temper. To mock at 8 man because he lives in a vil lage 1s about as sitly a folly as an Ameri- can can be guilty of. Since when were all the brains, experience and political gagacity of this country confined to great cities? The Chronicle knows very well that most of the great statesmen of this country live in comparatively small towns or on farms, and when it returns to its usual dagree of sense it would be the first to laugh at a man who should call McKin- ley *‘a Justices’ Court lawyer” because he lives in the village of Canton. The more serious charges of the Chronicle are that the men selected by Chairman Arthur for the Executive Committee are without experience in party management, a majority of them live outside of San Francisco, and they were mnot ap- pointed with *‘a view to harmonizing party differences,” but, on the contrary, “stand for a clique and constitute a dis- turbing element.” Of these charges the only one founded on truth is that a major- ity of the members do not live in San Francisco. The other statements are dis- tinctly erroneous. The pew committee has among its members some of the best organizers of the State, and is thoroughly capable of managing the campaign. The composition of the committee was the outcome of an earnest desire to harmonize the party by giving a representation to all loyal elements. It does not stand for a cligue norfor a dis- turbing faction. It stands for party loy- alty and the party welfare, and if the Chronicle favors these things it should stand with the committee for harmony and not try to create dissension in the ranks at the opening of the campaign. THE TRANSFER ORDINANCE. The ordinance designed to put an end to the transfer check system of the Market- street Railway Company is undoubtedly the bes: means of abating that public nuisance. The right of the Supervisors to enact and enforce such an ordinance is be- yond question. The City anthorities would in fact failin their duty if they allowed the public convenience to be so overridden and the streets to be so blockaded at im- portant points as they are now by the rail- way compary. There is neither law nor common-sense in permitting the convenience, comfortand welfare of citizens to be so disturbed and harassed as basbeen done by the establish- wment and maintenance of this system of transfers. The scheme in its simplest terms is a plan for extorting double street- car fares from the public. Everything that can be done by delay, by inconven- ience, by rough usage and by insolence to | force people to go without transfers and pay a second iime is done. The number of persons assigned to make the exchange of checks for transfers is inadequate to the service. They are not seiected for courtesy or good behavior. They are in no hurry to oblige. They are not there to facilitate traffic, but to stop it. are forced to wait until waiting longer be- comes impossible, and they take a car without a transfer and yield up to the railway cowmpany the nickel which has been thus illegally and almost forcibly ex- torted from them. Clearly the suppression of ihis nuisance is one of tne first duties of the Supervisors. So long as it contin the streets will be blockaded, the facilities of travel will be impeded, men and women will miss trains and business engagements, a sense of irri- tation will be always in the minds of the people, and there may yet be quarrels arising from the pushing and crowding necessary to get transfers which will re- sult in serious if not fatal consequences. The thing in fact is known to be a danger- ous nuisance, and should be suppressed at once. A WEEK OF FESTIVITIES. The plan to give San Francisco a week of festivities in the autumn will meet with the hearty approval of every man, woman and child of—well, we might say, of the whole State,.for such an event would be participated in by people far and near. It is to be called the *‘Carnival of the Golden Gate,” and it will be a wide-open gate to a season of joy, recreation and merry- making. The movement is in the hands of some of our most energetic and public-spirited men, and they are the kind, too, who never do anything in an uncertain and half-way fashion. Not even an outline could now be given of what the pro- gramme will be, but it is quite safe to say that it will be on a scale of magnificence and variety the like of which the Pacific Coast has never seen. Aside from the pleasure the event will afford the people, tens of thousands will be drawn to the City from this and adjoin- ing States, and they will leave a great deal of money with our merchants; be- sides, whatever is calculated to bring the people of the State together upon this plane ofindividual enjoyment strengthens the body politic, and when it is all over each one will go to his own home enter- taining a Kindlier feeling toward his neighbor than before, and every Califor- nian is every other Californian’s neighbor. CARLISLE'S LETTER. The personal integrity of John G. Car- lisle has never until now been questioned. Hitherto his political opponents have ad- mired him for his consistent adherence to the principles of the Democratic party. Mr. Carlisle was one of those Democrats who would not admit that the funda- mental principles of Democracy could ever change, but he now admits that his views have undergone a complete change—that a bimetallic currency, which he so elo- quently and vehemently advocated a while ago in Congress, is a glaring fallacy and that the gold standard of redemption money is the only sound, sensible and capable monetary svstem. It is always consistent for one to put his convictions in harmony with new facts which circumstances have made manifest, but Mr. Carlisle fails utterly to point out a single circumstance which would justify him in changing his love for bimetallism to batred of the silver dollar. He labors hard in his open letter to Hon. John H. Jones of Kentucky to make it appear that time and conditions have changed since he advocated the free and anlimited coinage of silver, which makes it quite consistent for him to be a goldite now, but the evidence that he Men and women | does not himself believe what he is say- ing is found in a weak attempt to make it appear that the spirit of his argument for the valuation of silver a few years ago was misunderstood, although not until now has he ever intimated that the outer and inner meaning of his words were widely different. The truth of the matter is, when Mr. Carlisle was made Secretary of the Treas- ury he permitted himself to join Cleve- land and Wall street in a conspiracy to foist the gold dollar upon the country as the standard of value so that the volume of the people’s circulating money might be kept so narrow that it could be controlled by the money-lenders of this country and Europe. To be charitable toward Mr. Carlisle we would have to attribute his change of view to ignorance, but if he will not accept a defense upon that line, he will have to submit to the condemnation of the better element of his party, which he is receiving without measure. A MORAL LESSON. Our esteemed contemporary the Eram- iner has once more found that “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” lead to trouble. A few daysago Tue CarL made known the fact that the pedestal of the Grant monument had been constructed by convict labor and pointed out the wrong which had thus been done to both the free labor of the City and the honor due to the illustrious man whose fame the monu- ment was to commemorate. Seeing that what had been done by TrE CaLL was a valuadle service to working- men and had found a ready response from vublic sentiment the Eraminer set itself to work to reap a profit from it. Without giving THE CaLL any credit for having discovered the use of the convict labor or for having spoken in bebalf of the work- ingmen, our contemporary began vehe- mently to assert its own interest in behalf of union labor and to declare a fervent opposition to convict labor in competition with that of free men. The result of this noise was the awakening of the Chronicle to the fact that the Erxaminer was trying to steal a march and the prompt publica- tion of the record of that journal on the subject of convict labor. It has probably dawned upon the Eram- iner by this time that it made a mistake in trying to steal credit from Tne CarL. We give it full praise, of course, for what it id to assist in procuring a fitter pedes- tal for the monument, after THE CALL had led the way, but all the same it should not have put on false pretenses. Had the Ez- aminer dealt fairly by Tur CarLt as THE CALL bas ever been fair in giving due credit to all it would not now be forced by the Chronicle to face its old record—nor to sigh: " Ah! what s tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive. WILL WORK FOR CALIFORNIA, The Sacramento Valley Press League is composed of publishers of newspapers who know what California in general and the Sacramento Valley in particular is in need of and how togetit. The ieague was in convention at Chico last Monday, and de- vised most clear and comprehensive ways to acquaint home-seekers with the advan- tages which the valley offers toindustrions | and enterprising men and women. Le pamphlet and similar old-time | methods of advertising a new country were ignored, and a plan agreed upon that, no doubt, will bring the desired results. The veral papers, members of the league, print in their columns from time to time very complete descriptive and statis- tical information, and give in suflicient de- tail the social, school and church advan- tages possessed by the several communi- ties in the valley. Copies of papers containing “write ups” will be furnished at a nominal cost to any one who will mail them. It is expected that every one who bas friends living out- side of California will mail them copies for distribution. Undoubtedly the plan is as good as could be devised, for by it the bome-seeker not only gets the informa- tion he wants as to soil, climate, transpor- tation facilities, and the price of urban and suburban property, but by the news departmentsof the papers he can estimate pretty well the kind and character of the peopl This isa great and landabie undertaking, { and they certainly will accomplish much in the direction aimed at, but the business interests of the valley are rather more in- terested than the newspapers in having a large influx of home-builders, for the in- crease in the demand for goods, farm machinery, building material and all other commodities would be larger in propor- tion to new subscriptions to the news- papers. But no doubt the people will sec- ond the efforts of the league and make the undertaking a succes: “THE WEEKLY OALL.” It is a fact now generally admitted and frequently commented upon that Tur ‘WEeekLY CALL is the best mining and agri- cultural paver on the Pacific Coast. No other journal attempts to be as complete in these departments. Other features of importance, however, such as local and telegraphic news, are given equal promi- nence. Information ef interest is fur- nished, also, for members of the fraternal orders, while the housewife and the chil- dren each have departments devoted to their interests, Tar WEEKLY CALL is but $150 per annum, and its subscription list isincreasing without the aid of tin watches, toy pistols or corkscrew: PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The lovely Countess of Warwick, who, as Lacy Brooke or “the babbling Brooke,” was mixed up with the famous London baccarat scandal, has her bicycle changed to match every costume. Quiller-Couch used to live in London, where he worked very hard as general utility man for Cassell & Co., but his health broke down and he went to live in his native Cornwall, where he only works part of the day. Professor Garner of Central African monkey fame and Editor Labouchere of the London Truth are very much on the outs. Accordingly Professor Garner has named one of his gim- ians “Labby,” and says he intends to ex- hibit it. Queen Victoria has had a tree planted near the drive leading from the Sovereign'sen- trance &t Windsor Castle to Frogmore, in memory of General Sir Henry Ponsonby, who was for many years her Majesty’s priyate sec- retary and keeper of the privy purse. One of the amazing literary successes of the century is Spurgeon’s sermons. The Westmin- ster Gazette says that 2396 of these sermons have been printed £nd sold, and that the sum total of the sales reaches nearly 100,000,000, an average o f about 35,000 copies per sermon, It is said that, though Mrs““Tom” Reed is only half in sympathy with her husband’s po- litical tastes and aspirations, the daughter, Miss Kitty, is thoroughly interested in poli- tics ana keeps & sharp eye upon her father's interests. Her intuitions in regard to political followers are aid to be rarely at fault, Mrs. Carlisle, wife 6f the Secretary of the Treasury, is & great believer in omens, and {rcm an unusual occurrence at her home, afew days ago, is led 10 believe that this is going to be & good year for the Carlisle family. She was standing at a window in her house, when in flew a carrier-pigeon with a gold band on one of its feet. « AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-Assemblyman P. H. Mack of Inyo, Mono and Alpine counties, who lives at Independ- ence, in the first.named county, where he is practicing law and engeged in mining, is at the Russ. Mr. Mack hes just returned from Mexico, where he has been for some weeks, and is now en route home. He has lived in Inyo since 1880, having gone there from his native eity of Boston. It was because of poor health that he went to that mountainous section, and he has so improved that he is in all respects eatisfled. Mr. Mack was first elected Clerk of Inyo County, and he was the first Democrat sent to the Legislature from that district. He says that Inyo County, though remote and somewhat difficult to be reached, has many advantages and that it is getting on & more s0lid basis than for a long time. The mines are nearly all in the Inyo Range, The following is given as a_formula for manu- facturing the candy, but of its merits this_de- artment cannot say, never having tested it: ‘ake one quart of molasses, one and a half pounds of brown sugar, the'juice of s large lemon and twelve drops of oil of lemon; mix the molasses and the sugar together, butter the inside of a kettle and put it in; let it boil over a moderate fire for two hours, then add the lemon juice ana lemon oil and boil for half an hour; stir it often to prevent it from burning; when thoroughiydone it will cease boiling; then butter a pan and put itin to cool; if sufficiently doneé it will be crisp and brittle, if not it wili be tough and ropy. The candy may be worked by keeping the hands well covered with flour or by greasing them well with butter. The working may be done 8S 5001 &s the mass is cool enough to handle. GERMAN WAR FUND—M. G. M., City. What is known as the German war fund of Germany at this time consists of $30,000,000 in gold coin, contained in the Julius tower of Spandan, in the province of Brandenburg, Prussia. The town is located at the confluence of the Havel Ex-Assemblyman P. H, Mack of Independence, Who Tells of the New Things in Inyo. [Sketched from life by a “Call* artist.] to the east of the Sierra Nevadas and east of Independence, which is in the famous Owens Valley. “The principal camps,” he said, “are Cero Gordo, Panamint, Darwin, Modock and Beveridge, The output last year of the county was about $300,000. This may seem like a small sum, but for the number of miners at work it {s not small. It is really very large. *‘We have got placer diggings, too, as well as the ledge mines, and they are very good ones, though largely undeveloped. “The soda 1ndustry at Owens Lake promises big. D. 0. Mills, H. M. Yerington, Frank New- lands and others are producing in the neigh- borhood of 3000 tons of soda & year. They are now going to increase the plant, and they will probably produce after o while 20,000 or 30,000 tons & year. There are other soda and borax enterprises in Inyo County, and the industry, 1 mey say, important as it is com- paratively now, will be far greater ere long. “The agricultural part of Inyo is largely in the Owens Valley, which is watered by the Owens River, a large and important stream, as most people know. When we get other ditches the agriculture resources will be ma- terially increased, for the valley has very rich ‘I think it is admitted that the finest beef in the Los Angeles market, and as good as comes here from any direction, is from the mountain grass-lands of Inyo, We are up at an altitude of about 5000 feet,end the grass is the best to be found.” Mr. Mack will leave for home in & day or iwo. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LocoxotiveE—C. R., Cit; The best time by ® locomotive is suid to be a mile in 48 feconds. KELLY'S ARMY—E. C., Okland, Cal. Kelly's Industrial Army on its march to Washington was carried out of Oskland by the Southern Pacific as far as Ogden, where it was placed under restraint by the authorities and then escorted ont of the Territorial limits and al- lowed to shift for itself. The members marched and stole rides, reaching the Capitol in detach- ments and by various routes, SCOTLAND YArD—M. K., Alameda, Cal. Scot- land Yard isthe neadquarters of the metro- politan police of London. Itobtained its name irom the fact that a palace formerly occupied the site—one which ‘was built for the recep- tion of the Scottish Kings when they visited the English capital. According to Pennant, the palace was originally given by King Edgar to Kenmneth of Scotland when he went to London to pay homage THE WINGLESS ANGEL—H. W., City. The following are the principal measurements of the wingless angel on the top of the dome at the City Hall: Height from sole of foot to top of head, 21.6 feet; from sole of foot to top of torch, 27.6 feet; length of torch,5.6 inches; length of arm extended, 7.6 feet; mdex finger of right band, 10 inches; from bottom of chin 10 top of head, 3 feet; from waist line to sole offeet, 12.6 feet, and size of book held in left hand, 24x36 inches, THE DENTAL COLLEGE—D. A., City. To enter the dental college connected with the Uriver- sity of California, the applican: must be 18 years of age, and must present to the faculty satisfactory evidence of good moral character. Unless the applicant is a matriculate of one of the colleges of the University of California, or some other recognized college or university, or & graduate of some recognized academy or high school, ora holder of a teachers’ certifi- cate, he will be required to pass an examina- ination in arithmetic, English grammar, Eng- lish composition, United States_history, phys- ies, elementary chemistry and Latin, an equiv- alent of one year's work. For admission to the senior class there {s an examination in anat- omy, A:hysioxoxy. chemistry, histology, oper- ative dentistry and mechanical dentistry. The fees are: Matriculation, §5; tuition, three years, :fwo each year; demonstrator of anat- omy’s fee, first and second year only, $10; his- tology fee, freshman {elr.;‘;lo, and examina- tion fee (not returnable), ALCOHOL—J. T. D., City. There is no record of who it was that discovered liguid alcohol, but way back in ancient history there is men- tion of alkohol, the impalpable powder of antimony, which the orientals used to stain their eyelids. The following table shows the ;&lm'sgnlnp!lon {n gallons of spirils in the United ates: Distilied Spirits Consumed. EYQII ing JuneB, |__DomesticSplrta | ymportea Frm Fruit.| All Other. | SPirits. 1880 1,006,781 61,126,634/ 1881 1.701'208| 67.426,000/ 1882 1,216,850 70.769,548, 1883 1,258,278/ 75,508,785, 1884, 1137/056( 78,459.545 1885 1,468,775| 67.689,2 1886 1536,994| 69,265,361 1887 1211532 68385504 1888 888107 78,313,279 1859 204808 77.802.453 1890, 11508130 84,760,240, 1991 1,219,4 335, 1892 1/961,062| 95,187,385, 1893 1,687,541 98,202,790 1894 1,430,553 88.046,771) 1.063.885 MoLASSES CANDY—Oakland, Cel. Every con- fectioner has his particular way of making molasses candy; each claims that his is the best and for that reason it would be impossible to give “the formuls used by confectioners.” and the Spree, cight miles northwest of Berlin on the line of the Berlin and Hamburg and the Berlin end Lehrte raliroads. It is strongly fortified, and is the key of the defenses of Ber lin. The garrison numbers 4000 men, Itisa great depot for war materials, and has numer- Ous factories and laboratories for manufactur- ing cannon, small arms, gunpowder, fixed ammunition, and so forth, for the Government, these places giving employment to 4000 per- | sons, who are constantly employed. All these works are surrounded by water, and nearly all the lands around the city can be flooded. Span- dau isone of the oldesttowns in Prussia,having received town rights in 1232. No oneis al- lowed around the tower except those who twice & year have to inspect the treasure. At all other times only those soldiers who are on guard are at the tower. Every six monthsa member of the Reichstag selected for the pur- ose, accompanied by officials of the Twperial reasury, visit the tower to make an investi- gation, o ascertain if all the treasure is there. A great deal of formality has to be gone lhl’ough before the officials can gain admission into the tower and into the room, thirty feet above ground, where the gold, all in coined pieces, is kept in bags, each containing 1,000,- 000 marks.” The officials open one case, in which there are ten bags, count the money and then weigh the box, bags and coin. They weigh the other cases without opening them. This fund is kept on hand to be used only in case of war. A PILGRIM. “Why do you look at Fate With such soft, contented eyes, Like & ransomed soul at the gate Of some certain paradise? “Your hair has been touched with gray, Your garb is of mourning hue; What can Life have 10 say That is still so sweet 1o you? “Long ago youth went by, Passion aud hope are dead.” “But that is the reason why Lite s 50 sweet,” she said. NE S, BRIDGES in Frank Leslie’'s Weekly. FOR PURE POLITICS Marshfield Mail. J. D. Spreckels has been making a fight for pure politics in California, and has been in- dorsed by the people by an overwhelming vote of the best element, A report of the State Con- vention says: “The Republicans of the State were not un- grateful to the man who had done so much for the party, for Mr. Spreckels was elected Na- tional Republican Committeeman from Cali- fornia to succeed M. H. de Young. As an evidence of the completeness of Mr. gpreckell’ victory the fact is emphasized that outofa total vote of 635 in the convention he received 565, lacking only seventy votes of being elected unamimously.”’ TUCKED SHIRT WAIST. One of the season’s novelties is the shirt waist of batiste, dimity, lawn and even or- gendy—in fact any sheer fabric, tucked across the top of sleeves and waist. The cuffs and collar are cut like the usual shirt waist, and may be stifly starched, while others are of rows of insertion and the fabric, and are not starched. Etill others have and on neck and sleeves, and are worn with ribbon collars and fold of the same ribbon on the sleeves. The simplest method of making these waists is 1o tuck the material first and then cut after our plain pattern, which is marked to show where the tucks are placed. Such waists are made of any sheer fabric for separate wal and are also made into cos- tumes with & skirt to match, A waist of natural colored linen batiste had the cuffs and collar made of rows of narrow Valenciennes insertion and the goods. ,The ::i‘g:c:h finished by & narrow {rill of 1ade to A waist of figured dimity in green and pink had & foldea collar of pink ribbon. P Mr. Maun—It's cold as & barn here. I never did know you to have a fire when it is needed. I'm almost frozen to death! Mrs. Mann—Well, Frank, if you should be frozen to death, you'd soon thaw out, dear.— Boston Transcript, A RIDE FOR ASHWORTH, He Will Be Invited to Inspect Some of the Potrero Streets. A Complaint Against the Southern Pacific Because of Dangerous Roadways. The residents of the Potrero and South San Francisco who are fortunate to own teams, and those who are less fortunate and have none, are unanimously of the opinion that a small subscription can be easily raised for the purpose of hiring a close carriage for Thomas Ashworth, the Street Superintendent, if he will promise to visit that part of the City, and “feel” if he should fail to see the deplorable condi- tion in which Kentucky street is for the accommodation of those who drive over it. The cause of this is that owing to the poor manner in which the pavements were laid, the cobbles have tumbled out of the sand holes in which they were placed, and have left big, gaping holes, into which horses stumble and wagons jolt, all to the annoyance and mortification of the driver. In addition to this the space between the car tracks is worn out. This grievance is of the teamsters, but the unfortunate pedestrians residing on the Potrero Heights have another cause of complaint against Mr. Ashworth and the monopoly known as the Southern Pacitic Company, who own the property on the east side of Kentucky street from Napa to Colusa streets, a distance of eight blocks, over the sidewalk of which this company have permitted huge bowlders of bine rock and other debris which have been washed down from the face of the cut to remain to the danger and incon- venience of pedestrians, who have to travel on the middle of the streets, dodg- ing as best they can passing teams and electric cars at the risk of their lives. The western side of this street through this cut, which belongs to the Reis Broth- ers, is kept as clear of obstructions as is possible considering that there is always more or less matter falling from the face of the cut which rolls on to the sidewalk. It is for this purpose that a subscription isabout to be taken to bring Mr. Ash- worth out there and show him what his duties are with the additional reminder that he was not elected by the people to protect the treasury of the Southern Pa- cific Company against an expenditure not guaranteed to the common people of pay- ing their just proportion for the improve- ment of the streets and sidewalks fronting their property. e — PERSONAL. Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville is at the JLick House. Thomas Fox, Postmaster at Sacramento, is at the Lick House. Dr. C. B. Proom, Woodland, is in the City at the Occidental. J. E. O’Brien, hotel man of San Diego, isa guest at the Palace. Lieutenant W. H. Anlderdice, U. Islana, is at the Palace. R. H. de Witt, merchant, of Yrexa, registered at the Grand yesterday. R. G. Hart, lumberman of Shasts, is in town, stopping at the Graud Hotel. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is a guest at the California Hotel. C. T. Jones, lawyer of Sacramento, registered at the Grand Hotel last evening. Captain Frank Taylor, U.S. A., Vanconver, is a guest at the Occidental Hotel. James B. Devine, an attorney of Sacramento, registered at the Lick last evening. Charles Erickson, a well-known contractor of San Luis Obispo, is at the Grand Hotel. C. M. Richardson, capitalist, of Salem, Or., registered at the Lick House yesterday. Dr. 8. A. Knopf, New York, was among the guests arriving st the Palace vesterday. George D. McLean, Marysvllie, is in the city. He made an inspection recently of the Mary- land mine. D. Ross, a capitalist of Santa Rosa, and dele- gate to the Grand Lodge, K, of P., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, Dr. C. S. Hibbett, United States cruiser Ben- nington, came down from Mare Island yester- day, and autographed at the Palace. John A. May and 8. H..McPherran of Chi- cagothave been looking over mining proper- ties in Tuolumne and Calaveras districts. C. G. Betts, mining man of Spokane, put up at the Lick yesterday. He has just returned from & vieit to mines in Tuolumne County. Edward Conway Cullinan, tourist of Boston, returned last evening from & journey through Southern California and put up at the Palace. E. W. Dayis of Santa Rosa, County School Superintendent and delegate to the Grand Lodge, K. of P., 18 registered at the Cosmopoli- tan, Ben Maddox, one of the most popular editors of the State, is in the City. He says that Visalie is prosperous and that the people are happy. 1. Hersch of Fresno, D, Gamble of Hanford, M. Vincent and H. Townsend of Selma, dele- gates to the Grand Lodge, K. of P., are guests at the Cosmopolitan. Hermann Warszawiak, superintendent of the American mission to Jews, with headquar- ters 73 Bible House, New York, registered at the Occidental yesterday. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 19.—At the Hotel Albert, F. W. Thompson; Imperial—J, J. Gottlob, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Kelley, Dr. and Mrs. W. D. McCarthy; Cosmopolitan—L. L. Gross, Mrs, F. Older; Hoffman—W. C. Ralston, T. A. Williams Jr.; Garlach, S. Gamble; Marl- borough, M. Levy. Sailed per steamship St. Paul for Southampton—Miss Bixler, Colonel E. 8. Bridges, Rev. Mr. Keogh, Nicholas Lewen- berg, Paul L. Miller, Mr. Moorebrown, A. J. Marcus, Julius Platshek, M. J. Platshek, Arthur W. Taylor, Miss Charlotte L. Taylor, Mrs, Woolrich. Mare CURRENT HUMOR. “Let me see,”” said the cannibal chief, as a new captive was hauled before him, “isn’t this the one who gaye me the frozen face when she was captured?"’ “Tt1s, sire,” replied his minion. ‘ery well; we will make it a cold cut.” He smiled with a consciousness that honors were at last even.—New York Press, “That isa pretty well-bred dog you have, isn’t it?” “Well-bred ? He is so well-bred that he trousers instead of pants.”—Indianapolis Jour- nal ‘‘Ah, me,” aspired the poet as he finished a ‘“‘what would be the condition of a country without sonnet to his mistress’ eyebrow women?” “‘Stag nation,” softly responded the humor- ist.—EBoston Courier. to heaven? hope 80, Johnny. Why?" well as I do."—Chicago Tribune, She—Yes, they are engaged. I know she re- fused him twice, but the third time he pro- vosed she accepted him, Her husband—Serves him right.—Amusing Journal, fhe Ameer of Al articles. Rivers—Which pronunciation do you prefer ~—rowt or root. Brooks—That depends. If I were traveling in a palace car to a fashionatle summer resort veling to the Black Hills in an emigrant train I'd call it 1 would say root; and if I were rowt.—~Caicago Tribune. He (passionately)—There is nothing I would ‘“Mamma, do you think Uncle Barney will go ‘Cause he won't if the Lord knows him as ghanistan recently sent to Queen Victoria gifts valued at $650,000, Miss Hamlitor, the Englishwoman who became his court physiciau, sssisted him in selecting the not do for you. Iwill climb the Matterhorn. I will face the tiger in the jungle. I— She—Say no more, George. Go face the tiger in the jungle for me, and when you get back T'll let you take me to the opera.—Harpers Bazar. WOOLLEY ON LIQUOR. A Lecture by a Temperance Orator on «Life, Liberty and a Chance to Be Happy.” John G. Woolley, one of the cleverest of the National Christian Endeavor Society orators, entertained a large audience at Metropolitan Temple last evening with a lecture on ‘Life, Liberty and a Chance to Be Happy.” Mr. Woolley’s speech was an admirable combination of wit, satire and severe comments on all who counterance saloons or the liquor traffic, and his dis- course was received with frequent bursts of applause and laughter. His strongest effort was in the comparisons drawn be- tween the laws passed by the Legislatures of various States for the preservation and protection of clams, fish, etc., and the lack of protection accorded to the wives and children of men addicted to the liquor habit. He closed his address with a warm arraignment of liquor-dealers and the Government for permitting them to exist, claiming that the authorities are responsible for the larger portion of the misery that is endured by the families of the million drunkards that he said ex- ist in the United States. 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