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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .80.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail... Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.30 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are y0u going to the country on a_vacation * 1 #0, 1t 13 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you wil miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Macket Stroer, San Francisco, California. Telephone teereeeesees. MAID-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telepkone... . Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'elock. 4 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission stréets; open until 9 o'clock. 3 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THURSDAY MAY 21, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ——————————————————————————— The transfer-check system needs a check itself. 1t is still anybody’s raceat St. Louis, and all the favorites are confident. Every man who resists the transfer fraud fights the battles of the people. It seems that the gifted McNab is trying to make himself a mystery story. Drop a nickel in the slot and get a trans- fer will be the next Vining scheme. Nihilists were not invited to the Czar’s coronation, but they are looked for. Buckley’s wish to get out of politics evi- dently springs from a desire to referee the fight. The trouble with Democratic harmon- izers is they never know how to pacify themselves. From now until the St. Louis conven- tion meets politics is in the hands of the woodsawers. We may as well conclude to put Grover down as a receptive candidate with grasp- ing tendencies. The Chicago convention may possibly straddle Grover, but the chances are it will trample on him. The transfer nuisance crowds the people more and more every day, and by and by there will be a big row. Afterallitis a sign of some wisdom in Democrats that they are taking this oppor- tunity to shake one another. There is a chance yet for Olney to turn up a trump for himself before he gets through with the Cubau shuffle. s *The Carnival of the Golden Gate” is a good enough title to start with. The festival will soon make a name for itself. ‘The proposal to elect Tom Reed Vice- President has this much in its favor that he would be sure to hurry the Senate up a lictle. There is many a goldbug politician who thinks he is blowing his own horn when heis only playing second fiddle to Wall street. In the great controversy over gold and silver the middle of the road is occupied by bimetallism, and that is the safest traveling. The fellow that designed the new trans- fer system and has it enforced ought to be arrested for obtaining nickels under false pretenses. The way to make San Franciscoa mar- ket for home products is for every buyer to look out for the goods that are used in his own home. S CRE T The silver men will control the Chicago convention, and Cleveland might as well drop his third-term letter in the waste- basket. Itisa back number. This Congress has achieved the success of advancing all appropnation bills far- ther than any Congress in sixteen years, and there is some glory in that. Platt of New York has been overheara speaking of his opponents as “lily-livered mugwumps,” 80 it seems there are degrees of depravity even in the mugwump breed. It is hardly fair to hold Chicago respon- sible for the Democratic Convention, as the thing was forced on her and she has not been heard to say a word about it her- self. Monterey need not fear that the celebra- tion of the Fourth of July in this City will interfere with her flag-raising festival. San Francisco and the rest of the State will be with her on that occasion and help to celebrate the union oi California and “01d Glory.” The sentence of John Hays Hammond to fifteen years’ imprisonment will give Secretary Olney another chance to show if he bas any stalwart Americanism in him. President Kruger can be shown very gond reasons why that sentence should be re- vised with a stroke of a blue pencil. Fiften years’ confinement in the prisons of the Transvaal would be equivalent to a lingering death, and no American miner should be made to undergo it for a mere political offense which never went beyond the organization of a reform ctub to obtain those rights which America gives to every comer. Yvette Guilbert, who has been giving the London Chronicle her impressions of Amer- ican cities, says Chicago is dirty, New York bas no individuality, Philadelphia is unimpressive, and the Boston people are “collet monte et bas-blen,” which virtu- ally means tbey have blue stockings on the brain. A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois establishes the right of a ma- jority of property-owners in any neighbor- hood to decide whatis a nuisance detri- mental to the community and the estab- lishment oi a similar right in this State would fill a keenly felt want at the corner of Market and Powell streets. FRYE'S LATEST SOHEME. The attempt made by Senator Frye to have the conference committee of the Senate and the House appoint the mem- bers of the board to which it 1s proposed to leave the selection of a site for a deep- water harbor for Los Angeles is altogether one of the most extraordinary proceedings ever undertaken by a statesman of his rank and reputation. The Senator had in express terms agreed 6.00 | in the Senate to leave the selection of the site to a commission of five persons, one of whom is to be a naval officer appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, one an officer of the Coast Survey appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and three civil engineers appointed by the Presi- dent. Tnat he has now sought to break away from this agreement seems a clear proof that he and Mr. Huntington are afraid of such an impartial comm ssion and desire to obtain one which will be pledged to their interests beforehand and can be counted on to recommend the site at Santa Monica. The whole course of this controversy has been marked by proceedings on the part of the railroad lobby which can hardly be called anything else than disgraceful. The work began by calling a bogus mass-meet- ing in Los Angeles to pass resolutions op- posing the improvement of the harbor of San Pedro on the very evening when a genuine mass-meeting of the best citizens and business men of the city was held to urge Congress to undertake the work at that port. This was followed by sending to Washington petitions favoring Santa Monica to which fictitious or forzed names were signed, and now the series of tricks culminates in this attempt to violate a fair agreement and reopen the whole ques- tion after it has been satisfactorily settled. Rarely has the Southern Pacific of Ken- tucky in the whole course of its exactions and oppressions shown itself more ad- verse to the welfare of California or a more unscrupulous foe to the interests of the State than in this contest. It isnot Los Angeles only, but all California, that re- quires and justly asks for a deep- water harbor at that pointof the coast. It is not too much to say that the entire region, from Utah to the sea, is concerned in the establishment of such a harbor. The Southern Pacific will itself profit by it. Yet such is the greed, the avarice, the monopolizing instinct of the management of the road that it persistently and un- scrupulously fights every plan to obtain such a harbor except under conditions tbhat would place the entire wharf front- age of the port absolutely and exclusively under the control of the Southern Pacific Company. It not infrequently happens that poetic justice is done in this world. The villain frequently walks into his own trap. The engineer is occasionally hoist by his own petard. Frye's brazen attempt to violate his agreement to leave the selection of the site for the harbor to an impartial commis- sion may have the effect of disgusting every honest Congressman with the tac- tics of the railroad lobby and its support- ers in Congress, and =0 prompt them to settle the question at once by providing at San Pedro a harbor that shall be for Los Angeles and California, free from the domination of the monopoly and open to the trade and commerce of the people at large. THE WILMERDING SCHOOL. The Beard of Regents met yesterday and listened to the claims of Stockton, Temes- cal and San Francisco, presented for the location of the Wilmerding School. San Francisco made these points: That the school should be located where it would best carry out the purposes of the trust—a working-trades school—and, secondly, it should be located where it would do tie most good. An elaboration of these points clearly favors San Francisco, but the main contention, and which should be the gov- erning one, is this: What were the inten- tions of the late J. C. Wilmerdin g in estab- lishing the trusc? Did he intend to locate it in San Francisco? The attorney who drafted the will, E. J. McCutcheon, testifies that in an originat will Mr. Wilmerding had given §350,000 to the Art Association of San Francisco, and the same week he heard of Searles’ donation, and on a sick- bed wrote a note to Mr. McCatcheon requesting on that account that a trades school be substituted. San Francisco was not mentioned in words, which was ap- parently a clear accidental omission, for kis executors and friends, William Alvord, Thomas J. Lamb and C. A. Fargo, all tes- fied that he had never thought of any other placeand that he had expressed him- self favorably to locating the school at the Potrero. These men, being the executors of the dead man, who cannot speak for himself, and having no selfish interest to serve, their words are entitled to the greatest weight. That, however, is not all. Mr. Fargo tes- tified that in driving with Mr. Wiimerding he pointed out to him desirable sites for the school. Mr. Lamb testified that in conversation with street urchins Mr. Wil- merding learned that they were idle be- cause they had no trade, and he wa* moved to found his proposed school by considera- tion of the fact that boys growing up in San Francisco have not the means of mak- ing a livelihood. In case the intentions of Mr. Wilmer- ding are not carried out by the regents, other benefactors who are making wills or who will in the future seek some avenues of philanthropy will hesitate be- fore appointing their trustees and thus the well of philanthropy will dry up or be di- verted to other channels. Certainly the regents, who are men of high character, cannot ignore what appears to be the com- mon mind as to the intentions of Mr. Wil- merding to found a school in the city where he lived and accumulated his for- tune and in the welfare of whose boys he always expressed a lively interest. San Francisco, being the most central point, offers every inducement to boys in the in- terior to come here to_attend school. and in San Francisco theJschool will be of most benetit to the greatest number of boys, whether they reside here or come from remote parts of the State. THE CZAR AND THE NIHILISTS, It is very likely that a few hot-headed nihilists are conducting themselves =0 as to give the impression that tbe order in general has planned to assassinate the Czar before he gets away from Moscow, but it is safe to say that nothing of the kind will be attempted. In thefirst place, it is probable that on no other occasion in his life, were he to live to be 100 years old, would the person of the Czar be so care- fully guarded. There are fully 200,000 troops in and about Moscow for show end to protect the Emperor, and besides this army of sol- diers a large percentage of the police force of the empire is on duty at the old capital. It would be impossible for one to attack his autocratic Majesty and make his escape: besides, it has been semi- officially given out that the Emperor will announce that it is his purpose to immedi- ately institute yery many of the reforms that the nihilists demand. If he shall fail to keep his promise to give the people a government more in harmony with what is their due no doubt it would be better for his heaith to not venture very far beyond the walls of his palace. Meanwhile, however, it is safe to assume that the nihilists will not attempt to kill the goose that gives some promises of laying golden eggs for them, and, again, history does not record many assas- sinations on great occasions. With the assassin the avenues and opportunities for escape are not left to chance wholly. e} THE PARTY'S OPPORTUNITY. It is very plain that dissension over the silver question is dividing the Democratic party quite as much as the question of slavery did in the campaign of 1860, In- deed, there appears to be more bitterness of feeling and language than ever before in the party’s history. This comes mainly, however, from the fact that the party has no prominent or distinguishing vrinciple of government to advocate other than the money question. The Wilson-Gorman tariff act has been so ruinous to the country’s industries and commerce has suffered so much at the hands of the Cleveland administration that the party was bound to hide its incompetence be- hind some one declaration, and then so magnify its importance that the people weuld lose sight of other 1ssues. No doubt the party could present a formidable front were the rank and file 1 bharmony with the leaders on any one of the leading questions of the hour, but the leaders themselves are at cross purposes and the contest for supremacy is acri- monious and full of personal abuse. They all are agreed, though, that the tariff as well as the foreign policy of the adminis- tration has been a succession of blunders, and it was hoped for a while the party would agree upon the money question and then go forward, dwarfiag everything to that issue, and thus win under false pre- tenses. But as State conventions are held the fact is revealed that the Jeaders ana the rank and file are hopelessly divided on the silver question. The freesilver faction does not hesitate to declare the inten- tion to bolt the Chicago convention if the platform does not declare unquali- fiedly for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the old ratio without waiting for international agreement, and the gold standard wing is equally determined to have their way or boit. As a rule the average Democrat can be relied upon to wheel into line and support the party’s nominee whether he likes the declaration of principles or not, but the utter failure of Cleveland and the Con- gress that went into power with him to protect the business interests of the coun- try at a single point and the commercial chaos which followed upon "tne heels of the announcement of the administration’s policy have taught sensible Democrats to do a little thinking for themselves, which means that they are for principle first and party last. Western Democrats were never so determined to have a voice, and a very loud voice, in shaping the policy of their party, and no dounbt they will go to the Chicago convention with a mental reser- vation to not be bound by a Wall-street platiorm. But the Democratic house being divided against itself furnishes no excuse for apathy in the ranks of the Republican party. Indeed, the fight should be all the more vigorously pushed, for victory next November should be so far reachiug in effect that the disorganization of the Democratic party will be complete. In California especially should the Republi- can party be on the alert, for aside from the moral effect an overwhelming victory in this State would have upon the party in other States it would give California a prominence in the National party that her claims to representation in the official family of the next President would be recognized almost without the asking. Of course the Democratic party of Cali- fornia will be knocked out all along its broken and hesitating line, but the mere scattering of its followers will not satisfy the material welfare of the State. Next November will be the Republican party’s opportunity. THE BILL FALLS SHORT. The McCall immigration bill, which passed the lower house of Congress yes- terday, is good enough as far as it goes, but it falls short at the very point at where it should have been strong and de- termined. Next to free trade the intro- duction of the cheap labor of Europe to compete with our working people is the most injurious to the industrial class of this country. Establishing an educa- tional test is right and proper, but it is permitting foreign labor to come here, throw our wage-earners out of employ- ment by cutting down wage schedules, working until the required sum of money is saved and then sailing away to their own countries to live in and to protect systems of government that are continu- ally trying to undermine the United States that hurts. It is said that there are fully 300,000 for- gners employed by our coal, coke and iron industries who secured employment by cutting below the wage schedules of our working people, and who have no use whatever for our institutions other than the opportunity they afford them to earn money enough to return to their old homes and buy an acre or two of land and spend the rest of their days in compara- tive idleness, and all at the expense of our own people. Thousands of Canadians may be found every month in the year upon our mnorthern border taking jobs away from men and women who Aire worthy and true citizens of the United States. It is the failure of the McCall bill to do justice to our own citizens -that we com- plain of. Indnstrious, sober and worthy foreigners are most welcome, but first we want to know that they come to build homes for themselves, and to identify themselves with this country. It is wrong to permit this country to be a mere con- venience for people of other nations, and Tue CALL raises its voice against the ex- isting system of non-protection to our great industrial classes. The appointment of a new postmaster at Elizabethtown, Ky., has called public at- tention to the fact that the retiring post- mistress, Emily T. Helm, 1s a sister of Abraham Lincoin. Few people were aware that so near a relative of the martyred President is still living, and now that it is known steps should be taken to find out if she is well provided for in her old age, and if not such provision should be promptly made by the Government or popular sub- scription. e a—————— The report that the gold Democrats in Tilinois are willing to concede the renomi- nation of Governor Altgeld provided they are allowed a gold delegation to the Chi- cago convention shows how desperate are the goldbug hopes and how unscrupulons are the means they are using to redeem themselves. 1t is everything for gold and nothing for principle. There is no profit to any merchant in advertising in a newspaper that runs a coupon fake scheme in opposition to the merchant’s business. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE TARIFF CONVENTION. Business Men Moving to Take the Tariff Issue Out of Politics. Editor of the Call—Sir: It is worth while to Tepeat the substance of a dispatch published in this City yesterday, dated May 18, Detroit, Mich., which said: “The National Non-Parti- san Commercial Tariff Convention, which meets in this city June 2 (postponed from May 26), will be considerably larger than its pro- Jectors at first anticipated. Secretary S. B. Archer of the Tariff Commission League has received credentials already from commercial bodies which have chosen over 1000 delegates. At least double that number of accredited del- egates is expected, representing Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, and there will also be representatives of labor and agri- cultural organizations. The eonvention will Probably continue in session & week or more.” The stated object of the convention is to devise some method of eliminating the tariff issue from politics. Some ten days before the publication of the call for this National Non-Partizen Commer- cial Tariff Convention, it was my privilege, after correspondence and conference with the leading tninkers in the People’s party, to formulate and publish 1n a communication to THE CALL the following proposal, under date of March 20: The creation by act of Congress ofa National Non-Partisan Tribunal (not a commussion) to consist of business men of the highest attainments and character, who shall be elected at large one from each State, and shall hoid office for a term of not less tha ears, and who shall fix the schedules and ust the rates on each of the 4000 articles n- cluded in the list now subject to duty. As a member of the committee on platform in the State Convention of the People's party, held in Sacramento lust week, it was my pleasure to co-operate with Hon.Thomas V. Cator in se- curing the adoption by the convention of the following, as proposed by Mr. Cator: “We de- already held realiy disguised a great deal of insincerity. Some men prefer to apparently yield than to have the clash and conflict of argument. Doubtless if the truth could be known many delegates, if not all of them, who voted for the equal-sutfrage plank, will go into the booth next November and vote against the equal suffrage amendment. Bnt patrioticmen might do worse on either %uestlons of prinei- ples or matters of policy than to bestow the rrh-uege of suffrage upon women. It is singu- arly inconsisient thet a man will deny his wife or mother & voice in the Government while he willingly confers it upon ignorant, debased brutes who employ it as merchandise. " PERSONAL Frank J. Brandon of San Jose is at the Grand. 1. L. Delano, granite man of Rocklin, is at the Lick. F. J. Dawson, Grass Valley, is at the Grand Hotel. R. H. Beamer of Woodland is at the Lick House. R.J. Darrell of Memphis, Tenn., is at the Palace. John M. Besse, merchant of Kings City, is at the Grand. Dr. A. E. Osborne, Eldridge, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. E. Jacob, banker of Visall Occidental Hotel. Jacob Schram, a wine mau of St. Helena, is at the California. C. F. Fearing of New York registered at the Palace yesterday. Theodore B. Wilcox of Portland, Or., is stop- ping at the Palace. A. L. Begbee, mining man of Nevada City, is & guest at the Grand. Rev. C. 8. Fackenthall of Pacific Grove isa guest at the Oceidental. C. F. Van Winkle of Chicago registered at the Palace last evening. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett of Sacra- is & guest at the mand the creation of a National Non-Partisan Tariff Tribunal of experts by Congress, which shall be subject to the control of Congress, to the end thart tariff agitation may be taken ont of politics, and 1o the end tnat tariif schedules shall be so adjusted that the benefit derived therefrom shall result to labor and not to trusis.” It is almost a foregone conclusion that the National Convention of the People’s party, to assemble in St. Louis July 22, will adopt substantially the same declaration, and asa member ot California delegation to the National Convention it is my purpose to do all in my power to secure its adoption as the best solution of the much-buffetted and mis- chief-breeding tariff question. My purpose in the present communication is to agk the attention of the National Non-Parti- san Commercial Tariff Convention, to convene in Detroit, June 2, to a candid consideration of the foregoing proposal for the creation by Con%mm of a National Noun-Partisan Elective Tariff Tribunal of experts, whose sole duty it shell be to handle the tariff questfon, nine months of the year, the entire time of the members to be devoted to a close study of the especial interests of their several States in par- ticular and of the whole tariff schedule in gen- eral, and then the tribunal shall meet in com- mittee of the whole at Washington or atsome designated place three months prior to the regular session of Congress and formulate such measures for the whole country as shall work no hardship to any_industry or State in the Union, the same to be presented to Con- gress in the form of & law, ready for enactment, such sections of general {nterest 10 the whole country as may be agreed upon from time to time being given the widest publicity as news, to theend thatthe whole people may know and understand the character of the proposed meas- ures, thereby creating public opinion, which shali be & guide and prompter 10 Congress in passing upon these measures. Little comment is ne ryin elucidation or advocacy ot such a tariff tribunal of ex- rts, chosen from among the trained and road-gauge business men of the country, who shall provide a safe and stable means of rais- ing the revenue of the country for the support of the Government and prevent any sudden and disastrous change in the tariff laws, or any political agitation every four years for such a change, such as we bave had during the last nalf century, alike detrimental to in- vested interests and to the iabor interesis ot the country. Indeed, it is a matter for sur- rise that the business of the country has not ong since taken such & stand on this vital quention as that announced in THE CALL for a tanffconvention; and results will certainly fol- low this Detroit convention which will be wide- reaching and wholesome iu their influence; and that convention may meet and deliberate | on measures for the netion of the tariff | question from polit » the full assurance that a large aud inteiligent element in the body poiitic zepresented by the new and grow- ing People’s party will eoradially co-operate with them to secure the scceptance by the electors of the country of any measure which is broadly national and fair'y equitable to toilers as well us to capitalists, to the end that the tariff issue may be taken out of politic JOSEPH ASHBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. A LOST IYPE. O, for a glimpse 0f & natural boy— A bov with freckied face! With forehead white ‘neach tangled hair And limbs devoid of grace; Whose feet toe in, while his elbow Whose knees are patched all wa Who turns as red as a lobster when You give bim & word of praise. A boy who's born with an appetite; Who secks the pantry shelf To eat his “picce’’ with resounding smack— Who isu't gone on himself; A *Robinson Crusoe” reading boy, Whose pockeis bulge wi b trash: Who knows the use of rod a 1d gun And where the brook trout spiash. 1t's true he'tl sit in the ¢ With his hat 00 his tou That his hands and feet are everywhere, For youth must have room 0 sproad. jest chair, d head: But he doesn’t dub his father “old mai Nor dent his mother’s call, Nor ridicule what his elders Say, OF think thut he knows it all. A rough and wholesome natural boy 0f a zood, old-fashioned clay ; God biess him, if he's still on earth, For be'll make a man some da —Detroit ree Press. MISSES’ NORFOLK JACKET. One of the most popularand becoming of shapes for misses’ cloth dresses is here shown. The nieck muy be finished with & notehed col- lar, as shown on the figure, or buttoned up | close with a turn-over collar, 83 chown in the other cuts. The rattern is cut for both. Cheviot of & green mixture makes a stylish mento is at the California. J. L. Schieftelin of Portland, Or., is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. George F. Buck, a lawyer of Stockton, regis- tered at the Lick vesterday. M. 8. Sayre, Distriet Attorney of Lake County, is in town at the Lick House. R. Butler, a prominet citizen of Madera, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. W. F. George, lawyer of Sacramento, regis- tered at the Grand last evening. A. H. Batts, & mining man of Angels, is in town, stopping at the Occidental. R. Beven of London, Eng., arrived yesterday and registered at the California Hotel. W.J. Tompkins, an extensive cattle-raiser of Mexico, is stopping at the Cosmapolitan. Major Johnson of London, Eng., has returned to San Francisco, after visiting Monterey. E. D. McCabe, private secretary of Governor Budd, is registered at the California Hotel. Rey. C. W. Price, missionary of Shansi, China, registered at the Occidental yesterday. Among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel are N.E. Bkinner and family of New York. Professor J. M. Schaeberle of the Lick Ob- servatory registered at the Lick House last evening. F. E. Potter, an extensive farmer of Los Banos, and his family, are guests at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Lord Henry Thynne, London, England, reg- istered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. He is making a tour of the world. Sharp Walker and F.F. Eccles of Salt Lake arrivea in San Francisco yesterdav and are sojourning at the Occidental. Silas Carle, contractor of Sacramento, who recently obtained a large contract at the Pre- sidio, registered at the Lick House last even- ing. Colonel H. G.Shaw, one of the editors of the Stockton Mail, is in the City. Colonel Shaw is one of the best known newspaper men on the Pacific Coast. CALIFORNIANS iN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N Hill-C. L. Brow: Y., May 20.—At the Murray Morton—J. Pelton. Hol- iand—Miss J. M. Crocker, C. N. Felton Jr., Mrs, F. H. Grum, Mrs. B. Paxton, Mrs. C. Wood- bridge, C. H. Felton, Mrs. G. Loomis, St. James —J. F. Seymour, R. Whitaker, Broadway Cen- tral—W. Holbrook. A COMPETING EASTERN RAILROAL Stockton Independent. A well-known Stockton engineer will start for Salt Lake in a few davs to take charge of a party of surveyors for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroed, which is preparing to push its line to a connection with some independ- ent line or to build o7e of its own to tide- water in California. With that reticence which characterizes engineers engaged iu such enter- prises he would say very little more about his work except that it would be to find the best available roate through Utah and Nevada. While he did not say thatthe San Joaquin Val- ley was an objective point he betrayed an opinion to that effect. The building of the Valley road must sooner or later have the ef- fect of attracting other Esstern roads to a con- nection with it for the truffic to be derived from the region it travers It will be as dif- ficult for transcontinental lines to get entries to San Francisco as for the Valley road and to get terminal facilities when théy reach that point. 1< therefore natural to believe that Stock- ton will be made a terminus of one of these ronas, aud the Denver and Rio Grande is quite likely to be thet one, This city would aftord a transcontinental rallroad a very convenient whence it could send freight and s by steamer to San Francisco and form ubase of action while it was getting & line into that City, The labor and expense of building a road to this point would be much iess thun those necessary 1o reach Los Angeles, which is now hoping for a line to Salt Lake City, and when & road should get there it would not h 50 desirable a seaport as this city, which is virtually a seaport. The Mer- chants’ Associntion might devote some atten- tion to the matter of railroads which are look- ing Californiaward and prescut to them the advantages of Stockton as a terminus and a lace from which the whole San Joaquin Val- can be reached by traffic arrangements with the Valley road. = IMEORTANT EVENTS. Portiand Pacific Empire. aress and may be relfeved b{ having a belt and collar of green gros-grain silk. A brown checked skirt with plain brown for the jacket makes a neat costume. This model, with a plain gored skirt, is much used for misses’ bicycle costumes. Dust-col- ored mixtures of cheviot, tan covert cloth and gray and black mixtures and checks are usu- ally chosen for such a costume. SHOULD APPLY TO WOMEN. Salinas UwL Some day, when the Santa Cruz Courthouse will have been finished and the present gener- ation of infauts will have become grandfathers and grandmothers, the people of these United States of America wul rise up in a realization that the well-known clause in our constitu- tion, “No taxation without representation,” should apply to women as well as to men. EQUAL SU:FRAGE. Fresno Watchman. The equal suffragists have captured or capti- vated three State conventions. Republicans, Populists and Prohibitionists have declared for the ladies, and the combined logic, elo- quence and beauty of the female pleaders will now be tarned on the Democracy. There is no doubt that the singular nnanimity which pre- vailed on this subject in the three conventions | meetings The San Francisco CALL has come out un- equivocally for equal suffrage. While the edi- tor of the Pacific Empire is delighted at this new departure of the greatest of California’s great daflies she is not surprised, for she well remembers the boyhood days of its enterpris- ing and big-hearted owner, Charley Shortridge, who go: headed the rignt way in Salem, Or., when he and his brother Sam, now a leading attorney in the Bay City (at that time mere boys) would proudly post bills for the suffrage ings conducted by their able sister, Clara 8. Foitz. Whenever the metropolitan press comes out unequivoeally in editorial indorsement o the o 2 k4 America continues to be the El Dorado of singers, and above all of prima donnas. At New York, the subscribers of the Metropolitan Opera-house, wishing to offer Lillian Nordica 8 proof of their admiration. opened a subscrip- tion list, limited to $10 subscriptions, and suc- ceeded in raising 50,000 francs, with which they were enabled to offer the diva a superb diadem, ornamented with 230 diamonds. This they presented to her after the first act of “Lohengrin,” and she received it with ail the favor it merited.—Le Menestrel. The tenor Burgstaller, who is to make his debut at the Wagner Theater, in Bayreuth. this summer, was attacked one night soon af- ter his recent arrival in that town by &n un- known individual, Who gave him & sharp blow with 8 knife. The street assassin, however, met with & solid obstacle in the shape of a great prizciple of equal rlghu toall for which our forefathers fought and struggled, the day of woman's deliverance from poiitical serfdom is no longer afar off. All hail to the Shortridge family, Susan B. Anthony and the San Francisco CALL. BUCKLEY IN ToE SOUTH. Los Angeles Herald. Buckley, while still insisting that he has had absolutely nothing to do with the local Demo- cratic contest, admits now that he would very much like to obtain the support of the Los Angeles County delegation to seat what he calls the representatives of the general Democ- racy of the State Convention to be held at Sacramento on June 16. He claims that fac- tion in the party will resent the anti-Federal office-holding forces, which he maintains will g:unntttmlle by Superintendent of the Mint ggett. Daggett, Buckley insists, is anxious to con- trol the delegation from this State to the Chi- cago convention. Buckley's favorites for dele- gates-at-large are Senaior Stephen M. White. W. W. Foote of Oakland, Congressman James G. Maguire and some man from the extreme northern end of the State. BOUND TO COME. Summerland Advance. THE CALL of San Francisco is abont the first paper of any note on the const to espouse the cause of woman suffrage. Mr. Shortridge is an able and far-secing gentleman, and when he makes a move in the right direction moves al1 over. Woman's suffrage is bound to come, the quicker it com n&w better. CAD woman’s vote neutralize that of some ignorant outlander, who deposits tne ballot pe e i el S T dfl'nhm‘l or embiyman - score of one of Wagner's operas, which the tenor was carrying in an inner pocket. The book turned the biade of the knife und saved Burgstaller's life. Certain great ones of this earth continue to dist inguish themselves by their love of music, which they do not disdain to cultivate them- selves in & more or less serious fashion. Thus Prince Louis of Bavaria recently publish uhder the title of “Melancholy,” a compos! for pieno, violin and violoncello,which the in- itiated say is an excellent work. And now it is announced that the Landgrave of Hesse has composed a mass in the style of Palestrina. Nicolas Dumba of Vienna, who already pos- sesses & number of Schubert’s manuscripts, has had the good fortune to find and buy an over- ture for four hands by the Viennese master which is absolutely unknown. This overture 1s shortly to be published by a Leipsic house. USIC = T 'MUSICIANS N — showed before he went to the gallows was on parting with Fizzle. I am told that he actually wept.” “Yep. He said that if he only had a chance to kill Fizzle for the way he managed his de- fense he wouldo’t mind the mere incident of being hanged.”—Indianapolis Journal. As on his daily trip he went, The sun exclaimed. “I vow There’s no denying that I am The champion scorcher now —Washington Star. WHY IT MAY FAIL Modesto Herald. If the woman’s suffrage amendment to the constitution fails of adoption at the hands of the voters in November it will be because of the indifference of the women themselves. When & majority of the women of the State shall request of their hushands and sweethearts the right of suifrage a mejority of the men will vote to give it to them, We think the amend- ment will fail of adoption at the coming elec- tion. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The young Khedive of Egypt is said to be an excellent amateur musician. It seems that he has ventured upon composition. Mrs. Anna B, Whitman of Marlboro, Mass., who died last week, almost 94 years old, was present at the laying of the cornerstome of Bunker Hill Monument. W. S, Gilbert says: ‘I have no ear for music, but I have a very sensitive ear for rhythm; it is precisely the difference between time and tune. Iam very fond of music, but I don't know a Mascagni continues to distinguish himself by his industry. The Italian papers state that he is tilia, as Boito s doing, only Mascagni’s probably be ready first. just finishing & new opers entitled *Ves- nd that be is working at a “Nero,” just Nero” will The enthusiasm o1 the people of Italy knows no bounds when their composers are in ques- tion. To read the accounts of one recent pro- duction one would imagine one's seli back in the palmy times of Pergolese, Sacchini, Cim- arosa and Paisiello. A young musician, Nicolo Van Westerhout, presented his first opera last year at Naples. Directly aiter, at Molo di Bari, his natul town, & new theater was built and the citizens unhesitatingly bestowed upon it the name of the young composer. They did more for him; they asked him to write a new opera for the inauguration of the theater, and he complied by at once setting to work ona Iyric drama in one act, on a libretto by Arturo Colantti, entitled “Dona Flor.” This work was recently presented with immense success, a successone, s they say over there. The pub- lic encored every g and at the end of the act they calied the composer twelve times be- fore the curtain, then they called and recalled the librettist, the singers and the Mayor, who was presiding, and, not content with that, they insisted on having them all before the curtain together, with the chorus, the orchestra and the stage hands. Then alkthe men, women aund children and soldiers, who had been present at the performance; as- sembled at the doers of the theater to hail the composer with acclamations and conduct him to his hotel by torchlight. After all that Van Westerhout can scarcely be blamed if he con- siders himself the direct successor of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. A Paris newspaper givesthe following list of the most promising pupils who sang at Mme. Marchesi’s recent commencement exer- cises: “We will cite in the first place Mlle. Kirine (Russian), who sang the letter scene from ‘Werther' with fine expression, as well as Mile. Aina (Finland), who showed herself toown & fine iull mezzo-soprano voice, in a selection from °‘Pysche;” Mlle. Boucicault (Australian) also deserves praise, and & young &irl of rare beauty. Mlle, Toronta (Canadian), distinguished herself in the garden scene from “Faust” Mlle. Kosminska (English) showed great execution in the shadow air from ‘The Pardon of Ploermel’ The others who de- serve special mention are Mile. Sanda (Ameri- can), who geave part of the secqnd act of ‘Lakme;’ Mlle. Terriani (American), who ap- peared in a scene from ‘Mignon,’and Mlle. Francesca (American) in the second ast of ‘Rigoletto.” All these young girls give prom- ise of coming prominently before the public.” Mlle. Francesca, by the way, takes her nom de theatre from this City:. Her real name is Funny Michelson and &t one time she sang in Calvary Church. Mozart is tne man of the day in Austria. Hardly has his monument in Vienna been inaugurated than the citizens of Prague decide to honor him with a statue. With the object in view a grand representation of “The Magic Flute” has been given at the new German Theater. Faney prices were demanded, and the house was filled. The position of the future monu- ment is alrealy decided on. Before the Con- servatory is a fine square on the banks of the Moldau, and facing the royal palace, on the Hradschin hill, there Mozart will have a con- spicuous position and he can look toward the villa Bertramka, where he wrote “Don Juan,” & work whose success from its first presenta- tion in Prague has been the musical glory of the capital of Bohemia. The Young Ladies’ Orchestra announces a grand concert which will take place in Metro- politan Temple. The proceeds of the affair are to endow a bed in the Children’s Hospital which will be known &s the Saturday Morning Bed. News comes from Moscow that the Grand Theater there has prepared a ballet extraordi- nary for the coronation of Nicholas IL. This ballet, which is entitled “Daita,” is founded on a Japanese fable. It has only oae act, but the staging has cost the bagatelle of 100,000 rubles (nearly $60,000). The temple of the Goddess Konanou, a sort of Japan. se Venus, is amarvel of magnificence. Needicss to say ata given point in the music the gods and godesses quit their pedestals and join the dance. At one of the last rehearsals to which critics were admitted the ballet produced an enormous sensation. It seems that the Russians will have something for their money when they attend the performance. ‘The Municipal Theater of Cologne has just produced with success & new opera in two acts entitled “Elsi,” written by a budding composer, who bears a celebrated name, Arnold Men- delssohn. 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