The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1896, Page 6

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The ordinance passed ‘to print by the Supervisors dealing with the transfer check system of the Market-strees R way Company offers a satisfactory settle- ment of acontroversy which for already too long a time has disturbed the commu- nity and led occasionally to serious diffi- culties between passengers and officials of the road. The ordinance provides for the establish- ment of a transfer system that will give to the people those facilities of streetear travel which are essential to public conve- nience. It does away with that highly objectionable check system which has been such a nuisance for weeks past. This is nothing more than what the people have a right to expect of the com- pany and what the Supervisors should in justice ordain. At the same time the ordi- nance provides a means by which the in- terests of the company are vrotected from the acts of thoughtless or dishonest people who may have used transfers not for their convenience in streetcar travel but to de- vrive the company of a poruon of its rightful revenues. The ordinance is so fair in its terms that it was unanimously supported by the Su- pervisors and ought to be regarded with equal favor by both the public and the railway company. The controversy has been a most irritating one on both sides, and it is certainly for the general good that it should be ended as speedily as possible. The better class of people in San Fran- cisco have never had any desire to cinch the company or to deal unjustly with it. The proposed ordinance comes as a good solution for the whole problem involved in this conflict, and if it is accepted in the right spirit by the public and the com- | pany the controversy will be satisfactorily settled and the incident closed, ALREADY PROVIDED FOR. On June 2a convention of commercial, manufacturing, labor and agricultural | organizations will be held in Detroit, Mich., to consider how best the tariff question can be relieved of the handicap of partisan politics and made a matter of public concern independent of political parties—in other words, to Americanize it as a purely business proposition. The call for a convention assumes as a fact that every business interest of this country needs protective legislation in some meas- ure, but to arrve at a true basis the ques- tion will have to be freed from party politics and treated as an economic vroblem. Enough is known of what is expected to be accomplished to warrant the belief that the convention will hold that protection is essential to the United States, and that free trade on the one hand, and laws the tariff. This is as good a week as any to join a | Republican club and make ready for lhe: campaign, A | When we had a Republican tariff we did ' not have to issue bonds to kéep up the | gold reserve. | | The goldbugs of the East are violating | all the conventions of politics in trying to control all of them. It wouldn’t surprise anybody to learn that Moscow has begun to think herself as big a town as Bt. Louis. Cleveland would hardly call back a Con- press that has a hond-deal investigating committee ready for action. Men may make fun ot straddlers all | they please, but it is generally better to i straddle a ditch than to fall in it. | Cleveland is not a very big man, but as long as he sits on the safety valve of the | National machine Le is dangerous. | To-day the Czar will crown himself. All the pomp and parade of Jast week was done merely for advertising purposes. Every man who resists the petty tyranny of the transfer system fignts the battle of the people and becomes a popnlar hero. Some men are so faulty in their makeup that when they wish to get even with the world they resort to odd ways of doing it. Make up your mind now that you will attend the memorial services on Decora- tion day and have a picnic some other day. The Republican candidate for the Presi- dency will stand on a platform made by the party and not on one made by him- self. Germany is to increase her military force in South Africa, and the chances of a ruction with the natives will increase with it. The gold Democrats of Chicago who are talking of regenerating their party are not to be blamed for thinking it needs the gold cure. Now that Alaska has had a convention riot we may expect her to be putting ina claim for statehood on the plea that she is ripe for it. Although all the delezates to the St. Louis convention were elected long ago the first-ballot prophets are as much in the woods as ever. s There seems to be something of a fatal. ity in every kind of fad. A young man has just been murdered because he had $2000 worth of rare stamps. A few montbs ago Cleveland hoped a nomination for another term, but he would be well satistied now if he were sure of getting his party to indorse the present one. The silver Democrats are electing about all the delegates to the Chicago conven- tion, but up to date the gold men have furnished all the leading candidates for the Presidency. J The Democrats in the Senate joined with the Populists to defeat the revenue bill passed by the Repubticans of the House, and now they are howling that Congress has done nothing. Before this generation passes away one of the vital questions of politics will be whether government by Supreme Courts is the best possible way of msintaining republican institution: that prohibit foreign competition in any. event on the other, are mnot only diametrically opposed to the funda mental principles of the Government, but that the ome is as hurtful to the country as the other, and therefore both should be battled against as enemies of the public good. Thus it will be seen that it is the purpose to have the conven- tion composed of conservative and expe- rienced merchants, manufacturers, agri- | culturists and wage-earners, who care more for the material growth of the coun- try than for the supremacy of any one of the political parties. It bas already been intimated that the convention will lay down the principle that there should be a tariff' high enough to | equalize the difference in cost of produc- tion in this and in toreign countries, first for the purpose of protecting our industrial class against the lower wage schedules of other countries, and second for the pur- pose of giving our manufacturers no op- vortunity to exact extortionate prices from our people for their goods and wares. But what is the use of holding such a convention? The basic principles of the Republican party stand for exactly the kind of protection this convention pro- poses to demand. ‘The very first economic legislation in the direction of a law for the encouragement and protection of American industries was enacted by a Republican Congress more than a century ago, and the Nation never departed from the doc- trine of adequate protection to our in- dustrial plants and to secure our wage- earners against the pauper-labor of Eu- rope until a Democratic administration came into power in 1893. The nomi- nee of the BSt. Louis convention will reiterate the party’s determination to protect our industries and our people against foreign invasion, and the next ad- ministration will put in effect the declara- tion of the party. Let the Detroit conven- tion resolve to stand by the Republican party and it will get all that it is seeking. AN EXTRA SESSIOR. It is reported from Washington that if Congress adjourns without passing a reve- nue bill or a bill authorizing the issue of low interest-bearing certificates to meet thé deficiency in the National income, President Cleveland will call an extra ses- sion to meet some timein July. While no authority is giveu for the accuracy of the report it deserves some credit, since in a de- bate in the Senate last week Senator Sher- man very pointedly intimated that some such course might be taken by Cleveland under the conditions stated. As it seems certain that no revenue bill can be agreed upon by the Senators at this session, and as the vote last week on Gor- man’s motion for an issue of treasury cer- tificates shows that plan to be utterly out of ihe question, the people may as well begin to consider an extra session as one of the possibilities of politics. There can be no doubt that it would be unpopular, and there can be as little that every effort would be made by the administration and by Democratic organs to throw the re- sponsibility of it upon the Republican leaders of the House and Senate. Under these circumstances it is worth repeating what is known to every man who has followed the proceedings of this Congress that the failure to enact a reve- nue bill has been due to the Democrats themselves. The Republicans of the -House passed early in tne session a tariff bill designed to meet the needs of the treasury under existing conditions. It was in no sense a partisan bill. , It was of- fered as a compromise 1o Democrats in order to help out a Democratic adminis- tration and provide the Nation with a rev- enue sufficient for the time until the re- turn of the Republican party to power. The bill offered in this spirit of party fair- A celebration of the hoisting of the bear flag will make a good prelude to the cele- bration of the hoisting of Old Glory, and the Native Sons will find plenty of people ready to help them whoop it up. The greatest criminal of the age is a most irrepressible and ubiquitous rascal. ‘We have bardly bad time to bury him un- der the name of Holmes before he turns up in Salt Lake and calls himself Hermann. 1t seems fairly certain we can have the National convention of the Christian En- deavor societies held in this city in 1897 if we raise a fund of $25,000 to guarantee the expenses, and in comparison with the benefits to be derived theamotint is eo small there should be little difficulty in raising it in a short time. ness and genuine patriotism wag rejested by the Democrats, Had half“a dozen Democratic Senators voted for it it could have been enac ted, ample revenues would have been pro vided and there wculd now be no need of an extira session. The position of the Democrats in Con- gress on this igsue is 80 bad that if Cleve- land cared anything for them we would be sure he would never think of calling an extra session. It seems evident, however, that Cleveland now cares very littie for his party since his rule has been repudiated by so many of its leaders and State con- ventions. The call for an extra session would enable him to make a ‘‘grand-stand play” to thedeligit of the gold standard forces of the East, and, therefore, there are serious reasons for believing that he THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1896. \ | | e ——————————————— may venture upon it, no matéer how un- popular it would be nor how disastrous to the party that elected him President. NEEDLESS WORRY. A good many people are neeclessly wor- rying themselves over the position of the several avowed candidates for the St. Louis nomination on the money question. As a matter of fact it is a matter of minor consequence how they stand on that or any other question. If the right were rueyved to the nominee to make his own views the principles of the party it would be very different, but no such right exists, nor could such a right be conferred upcn any one. The party makes the platform upon the basis of the most harmonious adjustment possiblé of conflicting sec- tional interests, and the party presumes that no honorable man would accept the nomination unless he were in full sympa- thy with both the spirit and letter of such platform. The St. Louis convention will be com- posed of representative Republicans from every commuuity of the country, and when a platform is adopted it will be found to be so broad, so clear and so com- prehensive that no one, from the humblest voter to the party’s candidate, could pos- sibly misunderstand its meaning and pur- pose. Hence it follows that it is the piatform and not the candidates which the rank and file more especially shoutd be inter- ested in just at this time. The Cleveland administration has so ran counter to the general good of the country that much re- pairing of the avenues of the coming and going of commerce will be required at the hands of the next administration, which will be Republican without doubt, and more than usual interest is centered in the work of formulating ways and adopt- ing means to accomplish that end. The Republican party is not a hero wor- shiper, nor does it withhold the conferring of honors won 1n batties for the better- ment of the country, but it holds that cor- rect economic principles are always para- mount; thatthesincere Republican should quickly put himself in accord with the dec- larations of his party, as promulgated by it 1n convention, and that no one has the right to assume leadership except upon invitation, and then only to carry out the plans and secure the aims of the party. There never is a scarcity of true, capable and willing hearts and hands in the Re- publican party, ana jt will make a fatal mistake if it departs from the doctrine that it is a party of principles and in no sense a party for the promotion of indivi- dual aspirations for political preferment. STALE AND THREADBARE. To maintain “parity’”” between gold and silver has become a stale, threadbare and unprofitavle bit of political lying where- with to feed the credulous. How can the parity of the metals be maintained s0 long as the Government requires noth- ing to be payable to it in gold and will pay nothing to its creditors but gold? The people are tired of these misleading efforts to hold out gold as the Nation’s money of redemption. The fact is, by the ruling of the Treasury Department it has no way to get gold except by buying it with bonds. What matters it how high taxes and reve- nue duties are if the Government wiil not vay its debts with the silver and paper money 1t thus receives? And what does it profit the people 10 have their Govern- ment borrow gold to pay it back with in- terest added ? To be sure, if a creditor prefers silver or paper money, the Treasury will give him the kind he asks for, but it must then rush off and buy gold to redeem the silver or paper be took, for Secretary Carlisle says it is mot money in itself—merely promises to pay money, which is made of gold, and gold only. Hence he must be prepared to redeem it when presented, which necessitates the purchase of the re- quired amount of gold. That is Secretary Carlisle’s way of maintaining “parity” be- tween gold and silver. What a humbug of a financier the Cleveland administra- tion is, anyway. Now, the people, densely ignorant as they are, according to Cleveland’s esti- mate of them, have an idea that the parity of the metals can be maintained only by making them interchangeable by the Gov- ernment reserving the right to make its obligations payable in either gold orsilver, atits own option. The Treasury reports that it has nearly $300,000,000 on hand, but itself discredits the standing of evary dollar of it, except a littie over $100,000,000 in gold which it bought with bonds to give the silver and paper it holds “‘parity.” What a pity it is that Cleve- land and company have none of the peo- ple’s kind of “‘ignorance.”” THE POSITION OF SILVER, Gold standardites are quite right. Fifty times more silver dollars have been coined since 1873 than in the entire previous history of the country, but they forget to mention the fact that the act demonetiz- ing silver dollarscontinued them as dollars only upon the basis of their redemption in gold. Ttis nonsense, therefore, to say that the country is enjoying bimetallism to a greater degree than ever before. About $80,000,000 of the silver bullion purchase notes have already been re- deemed in gold, and the balance outstand- ing can be presented for redemption in gold at any time their holders lixe. By the ruling of Secretary Carlisle our silver dollars are mere promises to pay their face value in gold, and, therefore, nothing more nor less than token money. The people should not allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the administration’s cry that there isa “‘sufficient abundancy” of money. The country is squarely and fairly upon a gold basis, which makes the actual per capita money of the country not mucn over $5. —_— The announcement that the House Committes on Banking and Currency has adjourned to December seems to fore- shadow an early closing of this session of Congress. There is, of course, much to do, but with Cleveland in the White House nothing good can be done, and the statesmen might as well quit and let the country give its undivided attention to Presidential politics. Minister Denby figures up a chance for pretty good trade with China, but we would cut a poor figure if we sacrificed our home trade to getit. The development of our commerce is desirable, but not when it is to be carried on at the expense of our workingmen. The coronation ceremonies at Moscow have enabied the Czar to make a wonder- ful display of the various races of men under the sway of his widely extended em- pire, but when the Prince of Wales comes to the throne he can beat it. The display of imperial power at Mos- cow is said to have inspired the Russians with the belief that they can whip all Western Europe without the aid of allies, and perhaps they may be tempted some day to try it. There is a man in Rhode Island who wishes to be Vice-President, and it is an awiul strain on the State to hold him, LEGITIMATE JOURNALISM. New York Newspaper Maker. The Newspaper Maker is in entire ac- cord with the Ban Francisco CALL'S view that a newspaper should sell news and not books, bicycles or baby-carriages. It should aim to give its readers the value of their money in fullness of its reports of trade, politics, society and all the abound- ing activities of life. i it cannot give news enough to justify the charge it mal it should cease to call itself a newspaper and solicit subscriptions only for its cou- pons and their chances. The subject, however, hasanother aspect that is too often overlooked. The press stands in almost a confidential relation to business. The newspaper and the mer- chant are allies. They are of mutual beipfulness when each is conducted in legitimate channels. When the news- paper, however, combines its press with a junkshop and proceeds to issue coupons by which people can get a cheap sort of books, bicycles or baby carriages at prices far below what good articles can be sold for by men who have a reputation as hon- est merchants to maintain, then the press, instead of being the ally, becomes the foe of the merchant. Instead of building up tradeit tends tode- moralize it, and not infrequently seriously injures business by introducing into ‘a community an overstock of cheap articles of one kind or another that prevents the sales of the merchant. PERSONALS. 0. N. Young of Salt Lake is in town. Dr. Thornton of Portland is in town. Dr. L. 8. 8kiff of Salem, Or., is at the Grand. Professor W. J. Hussey of Mount Hamilton is at the Palace. L. Pinckney, & wealthy mining man of Den- ver, is in town. H. C. Nash, librarian at Stanford University, isat the Palace. Paul Worel Dakin, a business man o! Tacoms, is at the Occidental. R. M. Straus, 8 buginess man of Fortuna, Ariz., is on & visit here. G. C. Cornell, City Clerk of Merced, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. Charles Higeins, & druggist and lumber- dealer of Fort Bragg, is in the City. D. B. Morrow of Des Moines, Ia., Was among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday. George W. Brown, a business man of Seattle, ‘Was among yesterday’s arrivals here, H. H. Fuller, e capitalist of Portland, Or., is among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. H. W. Patton, editor and proprietor of a weekly paper at Los Angeles, is ut the Grand. George D. Kellogg, one of the large fruit- growers and shippers of Newcastle, is in town. R. B. Markle and Austin Brett, the extensive timber-land owners of Fort Bragg, are in this City. . The Rev. John H. Elliott, the noted evangel- ist of New York, isat the Ramons, accompa- nied by his family. G. F. Wink, a carriage manufacturer of Los Angeles, is in the City, accompanied by his wife and daughter. W. B. Coombs, an extensive general mer- chandise dealer of Little River, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Dr. Herbert Meiter and Dr. Robert Ischore of Germany are at the Palace, having returned from a visit to the Yosemite. Professor Alfred A. Post of New York, who understands many languages and is an in- structor of Volapuk, is in the City. Sheriff E. E. Holbrook of San Benito County and Sheriff 8. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo are among the recent arrivals at the Grand. John F. Moody, the pioneer lumberman of Truckee, one of the leading officials of the re- cent ice carnival, arrived here yesterday. 8. T. Felkin, a prominent citizen of Modesto, 1s at the Grand, on his way to his old home in Canada, where he has fallen heir to a fortune. C. A. Perkins and H. J. Boyce of Little River, who own large areas of land there, were among the arrivals here by the Point Arena yesterday. H. A. McCraney, editor of the Sacramento County Ledger, arrivea here last night in com- pany with 0. K. Steiger, who is quite i1l and is now at St. Luke's Hospital. Mr. MCcraney is at the Grand. Major W. B. Hooper, proprietor of the Occi- dental, late yesterday afternoon received from Mrs. Wingfield at Benicia a dispatch in re- sponse to one sent saying Bishop Wingfield was 00 better. C.C. Michener, international secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and who will have charge of the summer school of methods for college young men at Cazadero next week, is at the Ramona. General Walter Turnbull, president of the Gold Mining Exchange, left Sunday morning for San Andreas on business in conmnection with the exchange. He will probably not re- turn to the City till the latter part of the week. A prominent party of people arrived at the Palace yesterday. They are: Mr.and Mrs. C. W. Seamans, Mr. and Mrs. 1. C. Seamans and Miss Mabel G. Seamans of New York; F. M. Seamans of Pasadena and A. C.and Miss Sea- mans of Hexe, N. Y. William J. Stmonton, one of the former own- ers of THE CALL, accompanied by his wife and E. J. McGanney, an attorney of New York, ar- rived in this City yesterday and registered at the Palace. The party intend remaining in San Francisco fora fortnight and will spend some time in visiting the State. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y. May 25.—At the West- minister—Miss Waterbouse; Astor—F. Abra- ham, A. A. Thraser; St. Denis—R. Alexander, Mrs. J. Alexander, Miss R. Alexender; Grand Union—H. Jacobsen; Hoffman—T, Z. Blakelan, Mrs. N. Lee, Ralsto: CALIFORNIANS SAIL FOR EUROPE. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 25.—Sailed by the steamer Campania for Liverpool — Mrs, Mary A. Bundill, E. J. Curson, James Moffit, Miss Edith Wolfskill, Mrs. H. G. Wilshire. Sailed per steamer Trave for Bremen via Southampton: Mrs. Auguste Bellman, Mrs.Griffiths and child, Mrs. Anna Goerlich, Mrs. Dr. M. A. Nagel, children and mald, Peter Schlegel. — CURRENT HUMOR. Miss Oldmayde (proudly)—Mr. Walker pro- Pposed to me last night, and—I refused him! Miss Daisy—But you promised to be a grand- mother {0 him, didn't you, dear?—Somerville Journal. Reed—You can make all the fun of young Legalite for his egotism you waat to, but [ tell you he has & powerful brain. Wright—By Jinks, he must have to stand all the thinking he does about himself.—Cincin- nati Enquirer. Nurse—Now, then, Master Georgie, you must come out and have your face washed. Your grandiather's coming to tea. George—Yes; but 'spose he don’t come, what then?—London Punch. The Inquisitive One—Did you study your art here or abroad? The Poster Designer—Art? I wounldn’t dare study it. Imight spoil my style.—Indianapo- lis Tournal, “Have you written your graduation essay?” asked Maud. “Yes,” replied Mamie. “Wasn't it a lot of work?” ““Just dreadful. First I had to hunt up words that were big enough, and then I had to keep looking in the dictionary to see what they mean; and, honestly, I began to think I never ‘would get it finished.”. Washington Star. As tempt the beams of a harbor light A mariner, worn by the batt!ing sew, To seek repose from a wicked night, “The glow of her smile entices me. But a pllot versed in the chart am I, 1 know I'm far from a harbor’s porch, And the lights that dance in my lady’s Are the rutkless sparks of a wrecker’s torch. —Truth, WSS ‘THIS MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED NEAR SHELLMOUND. “‘Fer goodness’ sake! what be yer painten of the old cow fer, Silas?"’ & **The militia are to have target practice in the next lot ter-day. Bill Jones got sixteen dollars fer a cow of his they killed last year. cow, and I do need sixteen dollars.”’—From Now, I don’t need the old Harper's Weekly. A CANDIDATE'S EXPERIENCE. Jim Jomes he was a candidate for office—so he was: Te'd been workin’ ’long from daylight 1n the Dem- use ; ocratic cause; He'd hedrd about the salary an officeholder draws, -So he went out for an office in the mornin'! He brushed up his old black beaver and polished up his boots; He 80C him twenty packages of Georgia-made che- Toots: An’ they missed him from the village and political disputes, For be went In for office in the mornin’! . But the ofice wa a-coming, an’ they told him for to wait; The road was kinder crooked when he thought it kinder straicht; But Jones —he kept a-swinging on the Demo- cratic gate. “For,” sald he, “I'll catch the office in the morn- in’ Soon the candidates had smoked up all of Jones’ fine cheroots. An’ the mud had worn the polish trom his brogsns and his boots: An he lost his reputation in political disputes, An’ he never got the office in the mornin’! FRANK L. STANTON In Atianta Constitution. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. YELLOWSTONE PARK—F. H., City. The area ofl“x'enovulune National Park is 3575 square miles. VICTORIA’S REIGN . C. City. Queen Vic- toria has been reigning nearly fifty-nine Jears, hlvlng succeeded her uncle, King Wil- iam IV on the 20th of June, 1837. THE BEECHER TRIAL—A. 8., City. The trial of Henry Ward Beecher commenced on the 4th of January, 1875, and the jurors were not dis- charged unui the 112th of the trial. GENERAL SHERIDAN—S., City. General Philip H. Sheridan was in this City in 1875, and he was the honored guestata banquet given at the Palace Hotel on the 14th of October of that year. LIQUOR CONSUMED—J. M., Alameda, Cal. The amount of spirits, malt hquorand winesin the United States during 1894 was in the lx&e gate L148158,555 gatlons. There were 41,200 gallons of spirits, 1,036,319,222 gal- lons of malt liquor and 21,293,124 galions of wine. ALUMINUM—]J. E. M., Auburn, Cal. Aluminum varies in price according to the form in which it is desired, from 80 cents to $1 a poun lsrgest amount of aluminum-ware is factured in Pittsburg, Pa., and in Neu! sen, Switzerland. This department cannot adver- tise manufacturers of such ware. THE OREGON—L. J. -, City. The Oregon was required to steam fifteen and & quarter knots per hour, and the bonus is $25,000 for each quarter knot over that speed. As she ex- ceeded that speed b{ seven quarter knots she earned for her buflder $175,000. The pay over regular salaries is 5 for each quarter knot oyer the required speed. WOMAN'S CONGRESS—A Thinker, City. With- out making a personal canvass it would be an impossibility to state how many of the leaders of the late Woman's Congress and of the Sui- frage Association are wage-earners and what occupations they follow. It may be stated that Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw are lectur- ers, that Miss Cooper is a Sunday-school teacher and the head of the California Kindergarten Association, and Sarah Severance is a writer. SHERIDAN'S RiDE—E. F., Oakland, Cal. The poem ‘“Bheridan’s Ride” was written to order by Thomas Buchanan Read on the day of the battle of Winchester. The battle took place in the morning, and the result was known at noon. Murdoch, a well-known reader of the the time, urged upon Read to write & poem for the occasion so that he (Murdoch) could recite it that evening, October 19, 1864, at & public | meeting to be held in Chicago. The poem was written. CzAR OF RUSSIA—E. R., Oakland, Cal. The present Czar of Russia is the eldest son of the late Alexander III. This department cannot glve you any information on the subject of & member of the royal Russian family, at a din- ner in 1870 in St. Petersburg, destroying a glass filled with champagne “Son hearing the news that the Germans had defeated the French, nor can it tell if the act was a demon- stration of joy or one of sorrow. Probably some reader of this department can enlighten the correspondent. A CuUPFUL OF WATER—C. E. R., Elmira, Cal. This correspondent writes, “A cup of water was sitting on a table. A says, ‘I drank the cupful’ and B says, ‘1 drank it empty.’ Which expression is correct?” If the writer had made the declaration that the cup of water ‘was standing on the table he would have been more correct than to make the startling an- nouncement that it was sitting on the table. A’s assertion that he drank the cupful of water is correct, while B’s expression is not, probably what he mesnt to say was “I drank and emptied the cup.” DRUGGISTS' SIGNS—B., City. Druggists’ col- ored bottles for signs, like the symbolical fig- ures often seen on bottles in drugstores, origi- nated among those ancient chemists, the Moors of Arabia and of Old Spain. In experi- ments and in the manufacture of chemicals they used glass retorts and vessels similar in shape to the bottles now used as signs, and the retorts and vessels being filled with eolored liguids became assoclated in the public mind with the men who filled them, and in time were placed in windows to show where the mixtures were prepared. MIDSHIPMAN SPENSER—S. H., City. This cor- respondent 1s anxious to know in which book or magazine he can find a poem in which oec- curs the line: The black rock that marks the grave of the young mutineer. This poem was written after the hanging on the 1st of December, 1842, ot Midshipman Phillip Spenser, Boatswain's Mate Samuel Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, ringlead- ers of amutiny on board of the United States brig Bomers. Can any of the readers of this department furnish the detired information? PEN SKETCHING—L. W. C,, City. If your taste runs to pen sketching, and you feel that you would make a newspaper artist, you had better go for a time to a teacher of drawing and have him teach you all he can; then devote time to practicing on subjects from life and landscape and when yon feel confident that you can draw, then devote some time to theart of shad- ing with ink, s to bring out all the effects of your pictures and at the same time not make them too black. After you e done this then offer your work to the head of any mewspaper art department and if it shows that you have any tnYent he may give you a trial. The ques- tion of salary is one that depends on ability. Every artist who draws for the comic papers in the United States considers himself the best filustrator, and there are many people who agree with each, but not sll. Horx1ns INsTITUTE OF ART—H. D. M., Eureka, Wash. Edward F, s of Methuen, Mass., aporeciating the efforts made to maintain an art school in San Francisco, and desiring to endow the City and State with an institution bearing the name of Hopkins, he having married the widow of the late Mark Hopkins, who was one of the rail- road magnates, declared in 1892, some time after the death of Mrs, Searles, his intention to donate the Hopkins mansion on the southeast corner of Mason and California streets to the regents of the University of California for the “purposes of instruction and illustration of the fine arts, music and literature.” This was done by a deed of trust February 27, 1893. sglnix’»le.:l y agreement entered into between Mr. the Regents and the directors of the San Fran- cisco Art Association, the last named, under the 1aws of the Siate, became ;1Ied ]ool‘len o,: the universit; ointly into the possess: with the Regents. The Art Association was organized in March, 1872. It holds semi-an- nusl exhibitions of works of artand maintsing the 8chool ot Design, for which special apart- ments were fitted up by Mr. Searles. In thisis given instruction in drawing, painting, mod- eling and so forth. The terms of the affilia- tion provide that “the students of said school, upon the recommendation of the faculty thereof, may receive such degree or certificate of proficiency from the university as the Re- ents of the university may deem ngproprhte fo the course of study pursued.” Eagh year the School of Design awards the Avery_ gold medal for excellence rogress; ihe W. E, Brown gold medal for study from life, and the Alvord gold medal for study from the antique. As an art institute it ranks high. The studies embrace the antique, nude modei, draped model, portrait, painting (still life and por- trait), landscape, modeling, and whatever 1s usually taught in institutions of this charac- ter. The tuition fees range from 6 to $8 per month. There is & reduction of 25 per cent to those who work in two classes. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Ex-Governor Osborne of Wyoming has adopt- ed a peculiar brand for his sheep. It is a skull and cross-bones. It is said that Alfred Percival Graves, the author of “Father O'Flyun,” is the most popu- lar poet of Irelend. He is the son of an Angli- can Bishop. One of the most famous painters of Sweden, Marten Eskil Winge, died a few days ago in Stockholm. His studies were mostly histori- cal. Winge was 71 years old and was a mem- ber of many Swedish societies. M. Zola, although perhaps he makes more then any other French novelist, is a poor man. The tatent for amassing wealth is absolutely lacking in him, and he spends his money, if anything, rather more quickiy than he re- ceives it. The Bishop of Qurham wears on his breast a cross which is an exact copy of one found in the tomb of his great predeeessor, St. Cuthbert. While, however, the latter is of gold, richly jeweled, Dr. Westcott's cross is of iron. It was presented to him on his consecration as Bishoo. Thomas Hardy, the novelst, is & strange- looking man. Speaking of sedentary labors and burning the midnight oil, one would say that his constitution could not support the arduous task, yet his eyes tell another tale; they are possessed of that phosphorescent light that indicates energy. A pretty story is told of the widow of the great Schumann, When she is to play any of her husband’s music in public she reads over some of his old love letters that he wrote her during the days of their conrtship, so that, as she says, she “may be better able to do justice to her interpretation of the spirit of his work.” A LADY'S SHIRT WAIST. A shirt waist much liked is made with turn over cuffs and collars and rather full sleeves. Any of the washable fabrics may be em- ployed: Cambric, cheviot, percale and linen, and a few of the heavier fabrics are used. The newest ides is a shirt waist of sheer goods: e 72 such as dimity, lawn, batiste, etc. These may have cuffs and collar of the same or of white linen. The cuffs and collar may be made sepa- rate by s.moly binding neck and sleeves and placing buttonholes in the bands. : Figured and flowered lawns or dlmltg is muck used, being newer than stripes. Gay colorings are not unusual, in fact are more often chosen than Emb“' THE GCEAN BOULEVARD. Accomplished by ““The Call’s’’ Efforts. Mr, Austin Explains. The Park Commissioners and Superin- tendent McLaren are now installed in the beautiful new stone lodge on the north side of the main drive. The old lodge will in all probability be converted into a sta- tion for the park police. Joseph Austin, president of the Park Commission, speaking of the petition which is to be presented to the Supervisors by people interested in Buena Vista Park, said that in suggesting that a part of that park should be sold he clearly asserted that twenty-five of the thirty-six acres should be reserved on which to build an ornamental observatory. for from the apex of that park a magnificent view of the City can be had, and that the money real- ized from the sale of the eleven acres should be used, not for the benefit of Golden Gate Park, but for the purpose of securing a park for the peopie of the Mis- slon district, who have no public ground to speak of. The agitation started by Tue CaLu for an ocean boulevard has resulted in the grading and macadamizing of the great highway from the base of the grade lead- ing to Sutro Heights to the outlet of Lake Merced, where the road ta Ingleside. The Park Commiss over the boulevard last week, pronounced it good and nccesteu it. Now the people bave a splendid drive, which in time will be made more beautiful than it is, for the Commissioners intend to plant trees along the northern line, and then it will become a magnificent alameda. ————— SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Rev. Hermann Warszawiak Speaks on the Salvation of the Israelite. Sunday afternoon, at Scottish Hall, Rev. Hermann Warszawiak spoke on “The Signs of the Times in Connection with the | the door of salvation to his brother, the ".'.';?3,"'.‘ will be successful, my friends, You t help bei vietorious, use c:‘:xm;uve tEa rlgr‘:;x on your e. You ave now such a grand chance, a chance t you never had before, to belp your It:l:;lhzx and prepare him for the second coming of the Lord.” ——————— A LIBERAL LECTURE: Dr. York Speaks Eloguently of the Free- thought Association. Dr. York addréssed a large audience Sun- day night at Scottish Hall on “Wasted Power in the Science of Life; or How to Be Happy.”” He said: 2 “The object of our association—the Free- thought Liberal Union—is to promote in- tellectual aud moral self-culture and the complete separation of church and state. We do not expect every one to accept all that we utter; we wish others to have the same liberty to reject as we have to utter it. We are mnot trying to suit everybody; we are simply trying to tell the truth as we wmpregend it, and what is truth to us may not seem to be truth to another, "{n the nature of things it is not po: ble for all to reach the same conclusions from what is seen and heard; our bair is not the same color, our eyes and poses are not alike and as we_ differ in our physi- ological and phrenological likeness, so do we differ in our beliefs. *Of course we will not all agree as to what is true or what is false, and the onl{ com- mon ground for us as liberals is a love of truth and mental freedom, and we ask of you only what we concede to you, the right to receive or reject and & kindly toleration for differences of belief.’ Loniacn s A Model Kindergarten. An entertainment will be given by the Boys’ Club to-night at the corner of Oak Grove avenue and Bryant street for the benefit of. the First Congregational Kindergarten, of whieh Miss Lila fi Fales is instructor.” The entertain- ment will be called *“A Model Kindergarten” and the parts will be taken by adultsand and young people of musical and elocutionary ability. ——————— Captain Robinson Kecovering. Captain Robinson of the City Prison made bis first appearance there yesterday since he had an operation performed to get rid of a carbuncle on his neck. He is still very weak. He received a dispatch yesterday that his brother, Dr. Walter Robinson of Macomb, Ill., who had charge of the Emergency Hospital of the World’s Fair, died on Sunday in his thir- ticth year. ——————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. 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