The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CaLL, six months, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Bunday CALL, one year, by mall 1 WEEKLY CALL, 0ne yesr, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on s _vacation * 1 #0, it is DO tronble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier oF left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone........ <o Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, coruer Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 330 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clook. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Citg. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. TRETRBIA Ykt T R MAY 28, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e This is the kind of weather that puts tne sugar in the fruit. Itisto be & campaign of industry and workingmen will be at tbe front. The only dash Democracy can kick up this year is the dashboard of its own dump- cart. ‘We can now sympathize with the people in the torrid East, where they have an ice trust. Cleveland’s foreign policy never man- ages to go any further than is necessary to get itself at sea. There are many great issues before the Senators, but they prefer to talk about the filled-cheese bill ‘When the Czar crowned himself he no doubt indulged the behef that he had capped the climax. The condition of local Democracy shows that the absence of a leader is the oppor- tunity of the bosses. About all that can be done by the Chi- cago convention is to ratify the split in the party and then scatter. The tin-pail brigade of stalwart work- men will be on the Republican side this year in every section of the country. . According to Jules Simon the time has come when the world must expeet not only the unexpected but the impossible. Let us hope the Czar will be satisfied with the coronation he has had and not try hercafter to crown himself with glory. As the Czar's proclamation ignored the Jewish question he may be said to have straddled the biggest issue in his domin- ions. Since the choice of leadership is to be iimitea to Buckley or Daggett the Demo- crat is wise who prefers to take to the Wwoo It is worth noting how easy it was to find a means of abating the transfer nui- sance as soon as we went about it in the right way. Every traveler who comes from a free- silver ccuntry reportsthat it is prosperous; but there is no prosperity in any gold country except England. S 3 One advantage of woman in politics wouid be that as a candidate she could straddleany plank in the platform without being conspicuous about it. If Daggett and the goldbugs capture the Democratic State Convention they can put the party in a carpet-bag and carry it East, It won't be any too big. 1f the gold men of the East are willing to pay anything at all for California De- mocracy they should be allowed to have it. There is no demand for it in the home market. The cyclones have swept this season the whole region of country from Texas to Michigan, and no section seems safe from their ravages except that on this side of the Rockies. The defeat of the Santa Monica job ana the shelving of the refunding scheme show that the hand of Huntington in Con- gress has lost either its strength or its canning. The efforts now being made to provide for a better system of food inspection in this City deserve the general support of the people. Pure climate is of little avail without pure food. In the debate in the Senate on the mo- tion to increase the tax on beer Senator Dubois said beer is sold at two glasses for 5 cents; but, unfortunately, for the gen- eral public, he did not say where, General Coxey says he will ask nothing of the Populist National Convention ex- cept the indorsement of his principles, but when you come to think about it you will see there is a good deal of galleven in that, The New York ordinance against rapid bicycle riding was rigidly enforced and man after man was fined from $10 to $25 until recently, when the police arrested a handsome young woman for the offense and then justice struck a snag. The speedy maiden was let off with'a reprimand, and now all the boys are howling. An observant reader of New York news- papers calls attention to the fact that Lillian Russell received a bigger write-up when she was thrown from a bicycle than the Duchess of Marlborough did on her presentation at court and now the philoso- phers of journalism are trying to explain the deep significance of the thing. In a recent interview published in the London Chronicle, Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World says the secret of success in journalism is to ignore money-making and “'strike every day a blow for the right, the true and the honest.” If the World has not always lived up to this policy it is none the less the true one, as Tre CaLL can attest from its own experience in fight- ing lotteries, frauds and fakes, and stand- #ag up for the public welfare, DEMOCRACY AND GOLD. The efforts of the administration to cap- ture the Democratic party for the gold- bugs are becoming more strenuous and unscrupulous as the chances of success become more désperate. Hvery Federal office-holder who possesses any organizing ability is in the field actively at work to carry out the Cleveland programme. ¥rom Cabinet officers like Carlisle and Hoke Smith down to subordinates in local offices, ali are forced to get in and work for the goldbug scheme. II the Chicago conven- tion does not indorse Clevelandism and declare for the gold standard it will be from no lack of energy or cunning on the part of the push and the pull of the administration. + Never has the power and the influence of the Presidential office been used more openly and more shamelessly to control State conventions than in this instance. No Federal office-holder who werks for the gold combine is in any danger of being rebuked by the administration for ‘“‘of- fensive partisanship,” no matter how intense his partisanship may be or how offensive it shows itself to the public gen- erally. By the efforts of these officials the Democracy of Michigan was bullied or cajoled into adopting a gold stanaard plank in its platform, despite the fact that most of the party in the State is opposed to 11, and now there 1s abundant evidence that similar tactics are to be adopted in this State and the Democrats of California are to be made to line up at Sacramento as supporters of Cleveland and Wall street. It has been noted in the East that the administration has not been left to fight this battle alone. Ever since Whitney's recent visit to Washington tie vigor of the gold forces in the ranks of the party has been observed by close students,of political affairs. It seems certain that whether Whitney is to be a candidate for the Presi- dency or not, he and his millionaire friends of New York are active in the work of preparing for the National Con- vention. They are fighting for gold money, and undoubtedly they are fighting with money. Their power added to that of the administration is sufiicient to make the result of the conflict doubtful, and this fact gives to the Chicago convention about the only interest that attaches to it. It will matterlittle to the country which side wins at Chicago, for the nominee of that convention will have no chance of success before the people. The mannerin which the contest is being waged by the administration, however, does matter a good deal. Cleveland has been discredited as a leader, and is now playing on a large scale the game of a boss. Thisadds an- other to the long list of his political offenses, and if the Chicago convention surrenders to it there is a strong probabil- ity not only of a split but a practical dis- banding of the party as a National organi- zation. THERE WILL BE NO SPLIT. The leadérs of the Democratic party are trying very hard to divert public attention from the dissensicns in their ranks by scattering it broadcast that a splitting up of the Republican party will follow the action of the 8t. Louis convention, no matter what kind of a platform is adopted, but it will avail them nothing. And we venture the suggestion that when a po- litical organization is in so much of a tangle that it resorts to hypocrisy, deceit and subterfuge to call attention away from its Kilkenny performances, it is safe to predict that its dissolution is inevitable, for it is the law of compensation that iniguity shall be hoist by 1ts own petard, There are dissensions in the Kepublican party, as there should be. The Republican party as a whole stands the protector and defender of the ethical and commercial agencies of the country’s progress, and since its influence reaches to every neigh- borhood in the land, it is to be expected that there would be clamoring here ana clamoring there for protection and en- couragement without much reference to the needs of one znother. It isthis that creates enthusiasm and causes party alle- giance, which cuiminates in willing ac- quiescence in compromises, and gives to each interest to the point where more would be an infringement upon the rights of the other. Hence, out of dissensions there comes acquaintance with the needs of the several communities, and also in- clination to harmonize differences upon the basis of the greatest possible good to all. It is this that makes the Republican party a National party in contradistiction to the Democratic party, which is thor- oughly sectional. There could not, therefore, be a *“‘split” in the St. Louis or in any other Repub- lican convention without the party first sacrificing its function of universality or representative of the individual and collect- ive interests of all the people, and were it to do that it would no longer be the Re- publican party. No doubt there will be extremists in the St. Louis conyention, but -their ultra-radicalism will serve to- make the conservative element all the more alert in watchfulness of the general good of the country, and out of the agita- tion will come a far better knowledge of the actual needs of the several sections of the country, which will be useful in fram- ing a platform, for the platform must bind the party to advance the material inter- ests of every community up to where fur- ther advantage would be encroachment upon the rights of others. The Republican party is a party of com- promisegas between the demands of the various interests that require Government protection and encouragement, but a party of no compromise as between the business interests of the people of the United States and foreign nations and peoples who seek to make this country subservient to them. The mission of the Republican ‘party is to create first and then enlarge and strengthen the opportunity of the people of the United States to acquire Lomes under the easiest and most favor- able circumstances possible, and to build up about them such defenses as shall secure them against hostile invasion. Hence the Republican party could not “split” until it had renounced its alle- giance to those principles which stand for a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. 7 A DISAPPOINTING OZAR. The manifesto of the new Czar of Rus- sia is disappointing, It reflects very much more of the sixteenth than of the nine- teenth century. So far as political prison- ers are concerned the edict merely adjusts their sentences to another basis of punish- ment, which is not particularly advan- tageous to the condemned, while the con- ditions imposed upon otber prisoners and conspirators amount to little less than the continuation of things as they were, Re- mitting arrears of taxation in some in- stances and the reduction of them in others is to be commended; but it may be regarded as a compulsory step by the Em- peror because of the poverty of the people. But the most conspicuous and inexcus- sble exhibition of prolonged hatred is the absence of the slightest intimation in the manifesto of & disposition on the part of the Czar to accord common justice to and reasonable treatment of the Jews. Never before in the history of the Romanoff fam- ily did such an opportunity present itself to show that Russia was growing in the direction of right and justice, but the young Emperor, too, fails to see that a Jew has iny rights that the Government of Russia is bound to respect. It is to be lamented that Nicholas could not bring humself in touch with loftier and truer principles of government than his father entertained, but he has not, and he will feel the consequences of his blindness and beartlessness in the affairs of his empire. His people cannot acquire the elements of true manhood while wearing the yoke of the Government’s prejudice, and it must follow by the very nature of things that progress in Russia will continue at snail pace. Nicholas had the opportunity to crown himself with the glory of human kindness, as taught by the church of which he is the supreme earthly head, but he preferred the crown of persecution. GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE. Things are going from bad to worse with the Democracy. It has been known for some time that a large number of manu- facturers, who have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket, are displeased with the working of the Wilson-Gorman tariff act, and that most likely they would ask their party to call a halt on the *tariff for reve- nue’’ doctrine and go before the countrv with a. declaration for ‘‘tariff protection” up to & given point. The Democrats of New Hampshire are the first to break away from the tariff policy of Cleveland, but they hold on to the organization. In convention the other day the party of that State declared for ‘‘such ingidental protection as will meet the requirements of American labor and capital.” As is generally understood that is exactly the kind of protection the Republican party has been battling for all its lifs. It is American labor and American capital that the Republican party has been fight- ing to protect for thirty-five years. There is nothing significant in the dec- laration of the New Hampshire Democ- racy except as it furnishes additional evidence that the Democratic party is going to vieces on the tariff question. Where there has not been outright deser- tion, warning has been given that Demo- crats interested in manufacturing enter- prises will not vote the Chicago ticket unless the platform declares for a nhigh enough tariff to protect their business against hurtful European competition. Cleveland has been banking on his “sound money” doctrine to hold the East in line so that the Chicago convention would at least indorse his effort to fasten “tariff for revenue only’’ upon the coun- try, but if Eastern Democrats are dis- pleased with his tariff policy, as they seem to be, and the West is under the influence of Boies and Bland, who are hostile to him on the money question, it would seem that the party would have to split up at Chicago, the Eastern wing going to the Republican party and the Western to Boies and eternal annihilation. FOOD SUPPLIES. From every direction should strength come to the Board of Health in its efforg for a thorough inspection of food supplies. More than anything does impure food in- vite disease germs, and since there always are men depraved enough in moral sense to deal in articles of food that are wholly unfit for use, itis the duty of every good citizen to aid to the uttermost of his abil- ity to close up all avenues through which unbealthy and disease-bearing eatables are ensbled to reach consumers. The importance of San Francisco taking hold of this matter at once and with de- termination is apparent, but it is further emphasized by the active interest which the commercial and industrial associa- tions are taking in the question. And not only they but very many of the best citi- zens are up in arms against the introduc- tion and offering for sale food that not only carries danger to the consumer of it but involves the health of the whole com- munity. Norshould the question of the expense of prowviding for thorough food inspection deter any one from entering heartily into the enactment of laws for the consommation of that purpose, for, aside from the humanitarian aspects of the proposition, the expense which im- pure food fastens upon a community is a vast deal greater than would be the cost of a corps of efficient inspectors. There is no room for doubt that vege- tables and other food articles are on sales every hour in the day which should be consigned to the garbage barrel, but they will continue to be kept on sale, and pur- chasers for them will continue to be found, until public condemnation of it all -finds expression in prohibitory Jaws that pro- hibit. KENNEDY SCHOOL. The proposal of the Board of Education to give to the school in which the late James G. Kennedy did his chief work as an educator in this City the name of the Kennedy School will be generally ap- proved. Mr. Kennedy was no ordinary man. He was a pioneer in the work of public instruction, and was ever alert to develop it more and more in new fields of usefuiness. He was one of the first to introduce manual train- ing and industrial education as a part of our system of public instruction. -It was in the school to which it is proposed to give his name that he carried out his ideas in this regard and demonstrated the value of such training. This of course was but a part of the im- portant service he rendered to the City as an educator, but it serves as an illustra- tion of the originality of his character and the progressive tendency of his mind. His influence will long be felt in the City, and it is right that his name also should be perpetuated as is proposed in the Ken- nedy School. SMALL SMILES. “Marie, I thought your physician told you that you were not strong enough to ride e wheel ?” “Yes, but then I went to another doctor.”— Chicago Record. Tourist—But these sandwiches are disgrace- | fully small. Restaurateur—May be, but then the train stops here only one minute,—Feligende Blaet. ter. ““Well,” said the dentist who had just moved in, “the next thing. to do will be to have this ‘bakery’ sign that Doughboy'left painted out.” “Just paint out the first letter,” suggested his student.~Indianapolis Journas. Wallace—Speaking of the Roentgen rays, 1 saw astory the other day to the effect ti n application of them had made a baby’s hair fallout. Ferry—Which leads me to believe that they exist in the footlights. Wouldn’tthat account for the baldness of the front row?—Clncinnati Eaquirer. . “Fly with me,” he pleaded. “I cannot,” she answered. W “Then I mistaken,” he bitterly ex- claimed. “You are not, after all, a bird.” ingly they were married under the regular high church form.—Detroit Tribune, Flipley—I'm going to have a high old tim summer. Small—-Ah! A Flipley—You bet! I'm going to the moun. tains,—Philadelphia North American, N A USIC MUSIGIANS ®e . ARSI SN e S S e s ny A AN P It was Philadelphia’s meddling in the first instance that brought Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau into financial straits. A coterie of Phila- delphia people admired Melba, and early in the season offered her a ridiculously fancy price to leave the Metropolitan troupe snd warble for the QuakerCity. Melba, wholikeall the rest of her kind was ‘‘on the dead make,” knew perhaps better than to take this glitter- ing bait quite seriously. She carried the offer 10 Abbey and requested him to go one better than Philadelphia. In an unwise moment the impresario consented. Then Calve, who is 88 rapacious as a harpy, burst into a storm of indignation and wanted more of *de moneys,” and Calve's price went up beyond her value. Both these artists demanded sbsolutely fabu- lous prices to sign for next season, and a num- ber of other stars in the troupe took advantage of Melba's and Calve’s promotion to demand & raise of wages. If opera is to be possible in America the pub- lic should aid impresarios in resisting the ra- pecious greed of foreign singers. If Melba, for instance, demands prices that spell ruin to the management, the public should aid the im- presarios in conducting the season without Melba. A little of this sort of treatment would bring singers to reason. Melba, Calve, the De Reszkes and all the rest of the crew would be laughed at and sent to the right about if they demanded American prices in Europe, and there is absolutely nothing in & visit to America to warrant & strike for double and treble & European salary. Foreign artists are treated all too well here and they do not meet with any particular dangers or discomforts to werrant them in demanding compehsation rates. Once conyince them that they need not expect to make a fortune in & season out of the credulity of Americans and they will cease trying to swindle the public and their impre- sarios. The next time Philadelphia wants Melba it is to be hoped Abbey will let Phila- delphia have her, The new Minister of Fine Arts (Ministre des Beaux Arts), M. Rambaud, Las not lost any time in appointing a successor to Ambroise Thomas as director of the Paris Conservatory. First he sent for Massenét and asked him if he approved of some changes which the new Min- istry proposes making in the management of the conservatory. “For my part I see no ob- jection,” Meplied Massenet. “Then we may consider you as accepting the position of Am- broise Thomas’ successor,” said the Minister, “That is & great honor,” replied Massenet, diplomatically, “but, Mr. Minister, I am not alone in the world; permit me to consult a few of my friends. Iask twenty-four hours for re- flection.” M. Ronjon, the Director of Fine Arts, who was present at the interview, here interrupted by exclaiming: *No, no, Minister, do not let him go without giving you his for- mal aceeptance.” “I only want to consult a few people; it is simply to get encouragement from them,” and Massenet tranquilly departed, enchanted with the cordial reception ne had met with. The day following he had decided not to sacrifice his “independence and liberty” and commu- nicated his decision to M. Rambaud, at the same time thanking him for the proffered bonor. The Minister replied that officially he regretted the decision that Massenet had taken, but as a lover of music he congratulated himself, “because the composer of ‘Manon’ and the ‘Cid’ will still have time to write new masterpleces.” Massenet, having declined the directorship of the conservatory, the Minister of Fine Arts offered the position to Theodore Dubois, who at once accepted it. The appointment is one that has given satisfaction to all. Duboisis & highly esteemed composer, and individually he occupies s high position among French musicians. .He is a fine organist and composer for the organ, and his first opers was produced & few months ago in Paris with enough success to encourage him to begin work on another. A rather unusual incident happened the other day ai the Monnaie Theater, Brussels, during a performance of “Tannhaunser.” The well-known tenor Van Dyke was serfously in- disposed, but he nad been prevailed upon to try to sing. In the course of the first act, how- ever, his sufferings became too much for him, and, brusquely stopping in the middle of & phrase, he cried out, *“I can go on no longer,” and rushed into the wings, leaving Venus very much embarrassed by his flight, which was more rapid even than Wagner had intended. A pause of half an hour followed during which the audience supplicated to have the money given back at the door. At last, however, Van Dyke announced his ability to try again, and the opera was brought to an end with the as- sistance of numerous cuts. The public warmly applauded Van Dyke for triumphing over his indisposition. The Emperor Francis Joseph has conferred the decoration of arts and sciences on Jo- hannes Brahms. It is the highest recompense N o for distinction in art or science at the disposi® tion of the Emperor of Austriaand it is very rarely accorded to any one. Brahms is the first musician who has ever obtained it. Times have greatly changed. Beethoven, who had numerous relations with the court, and was the personal friend of the Archduke Rudoloh, was never decorated by the Emperor of Aus- tria. As for Schubert, considered during his lifetime as the Schaunard of music, the ides of asking & decoration for him never eyen sug- gested itself to his admirers. Musicians who have not some official position as xapellmeis- terat court rarely get any sort of Austrian decoration. Brahms, who has inhabited Vien- na for thirty yeafs, and who has been univer- sally known for a quarter of a century, has only just obtained this high distinction; Gold- mark and Bruell, who for the last twenty years have been producing successful operas in Ger- many and Austris, and have published many other interesting compositions, are not deco- ratedatall. Antoine Bruckner has obtained, at the age of 60, an insignificant decoration as Pprofessor of musicat the University of Vienna. At the Daly Theater, in London, 8 new Japa- uese operetta entitled “Geisha” has just been produced with enormous success. The story 1s woven round the adventures of an English lady of high family, who is globe trotting, and falls, with all the friends who accompsny her, into the handas of the manager of a Japa- nese teahouse, where there are five or six Geishas, or singing girls. The English girl is engaged to an officer in the navy, who has neglected her to fall in love with & Geisha, and she disguises herself as & singinggirl to keep an eye on her flance. A number of comieal adventires arise from this situation, butin the end everything comes out happily for the globe trotters. The words of “The Geisha’ are by Owen Hall and Harry Greenbank, and the music is by Sidney Jones. Several of the num. bers are nightly encored again and again, pa: ticularly the ballad of “The Loving Red Fish.” The staging is said to be magnificent, particu- larly the scene of the chrysanthemum feast. The trial for perjury against Carl Zeller, the well-known composer, has taken an unfortu- nate turn, The tribunal of Vienna has or- dered him to be accused and given a public sudience before the Court of Assizes to-day and to-morrow. Zeller, however, is still so seriously ill -that there is little hope of his being able to appear in court. The affair has produced & great sensation in Vienna, both in musical ana official circles, for the unfortunate composer is councilor to the Minister of Pub- lic Instruction of Austria. It is the Public Prosecutor who accuses Zeller of perjury re- garding & will, under which he inherited a sum of money that was not very considerable, Many people believe in his innocence, and thereis a strong feeling in favor of deferring the trial till his health is re-established. The opera “Helle,” which was being per- formed at the Paris Grand Opera-house the other day when the chandelier fell with such disastrous effects, is a new work by Alphonse Duvernoy, written on a libretto by Camille de Leole and Charles Nuitter. It had received a most expensive ‘mounting, both with regara to costumes and scenmery, and had made a marked hit with the public. Helle issupposed to be & sbeautiful priestess of Diana, who charms Ganthin, Duke of Athens. Mme. Rose Caron created the title-role, and her work in the part has added considerably to her repu- tation. Jean de Reszkeis singing in London for Sir Augustus Harris, Mlle. Calve goes to Paris for & few performances at the Opera Comique and Mme. Melba will also give some representations of Christine Nilsson’s old part of Ophelia in “Hamlet” at the Grand Opera-house. Plancon is “available.” Owing to a serious attack of rheumatism, Moritz Rosenthal has been compelled to aban- don a series of historical pianoforte recitals, which he was to have given in London this season. He is engaged for an American tour next autumn, and it s stated that a large amount is guaranteed him beforehand. Special performances of “Don Giovanni” are to be given at Munich during the tourist sea- son. There will be a new revolving stage, which will enable the scene to be changed within half a minute. These performances will not interfere with the projected cycle of Wagner music dramas. The popular theater at Berlin, for many years known as Kroll’s, has been secured by the in- tendent of the Hoftheater, and operatic per- formances will be given there during the period when the court theater is closed. The Italian papers announce that Marie Van Zandt, the charming American singer, who created “Lakme’ at the Opera Comique, has been engaged by Sonzogno, for an autumn sea- son of opers, at the Lyric Theater at Milan. Mme. Melba, the Prima Donna Whose High Salary Contribated to 4bbey, ¢ 0. | {81.5-Grays Failusp, PERSONAL. z Mr. and Mrs. J. Raphail of London are in the City. Superior Judge John ¥, Finn is registered at the Palace. J. R. Dunlop, a druggist of Amador County, isat the Ramona. Arthur E. Brook and Frank Smith of London are at the Occidental. Mdles Wallace of Madera arrived here yester- day and is at the Lick. the extensive fruit grower of Among the recent arrivals here is Dr. H. L. Wagner of Wgshington, D. C. United States Judge Erakin M. Ross arrived here yesterday, and is at the Palace. Joseph D. Lynch of Los Angeles,who was long the proprietor of the Herald, is in town. Alexander Flinsch of Berlin and Arthur H. Schomburgk of Leipsic are at the Palace. Mrs. Clemenshire of Alaska was among the arrivals here yesterday. e is at the Occiden- tal. C. K. Dam, the rich grain grower of Wheat- land, is among the arrivals here and is at the Russ. Joseph Craig, proprietor of the Highland Springs and hotel, in Lake County, arrived here yesterday on a business trip. 0. F. Paxton, the new political boss of Port- land, arrived here yesterday. He has been on 8 visit to Southern California. William Currier, an extensive merchant of Portland, who has been engaged in business there for many years, is in the City. Frank Bartlett of Livermore, who has had contracts on the Southern Pacific line in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, is at the Grand. George Lycurgus has returned from Sparta, Athens and other cities of Greece, where he has been for several months. At Sparta he attend- ed the celebrated Olympian games. . Stuart Yates, a barrister of Victoria, B. C., isat the Ramona, accompanied by Mrs. Yates. The lady is not in good health, and they have come to California on that account. Dr. J. H. Gaines of the United States navy, who has spent several years with the Asiatic squadron,is at the Grand. He has been il since March and consequently has been off duty. The declination by Samuel M. Shortridge of & position in the School Board is a distinet loss to the City. Mr. Shortridge is a young, ener- getic, brilliant man, who carries ‘into his en- deavors the enthusiasm of a healthy and well- balanced mind. His experience in pedagogy and his knowledge of public affairs would have made nim a valuable acquisition to the Board, and it is a matter of regret that ne could not accept the position offered him.— Sen Francisco Evening Post. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27.—At the Impe- rial, J. Skeridan; Sturtevant, G. Radston, K. W. Holmes; St. Denis, H, T. Raymond. Sailed per steamship Furst Bismarck for Plymouth, Cherbourg snd Hamburg, Mrs. Charles E. Hausen, Master Robert Hausen, Master Hans Hausen, Mrs. Joseph, Miss N. Joseph, Miss A. Joseph, 8. Joseph, William Oferman, Mrs, Emma Steffen, LADY'S WAIST WITH ROUND YOKE AXDp FrrrED LININGé TRAT MAY BE OMITTED. A charming design for wash dresses isshown here. The waist has a fitted tining, but many of the dresses seen are made without the lning. i For midsummer wear s white diminity d’espit, the liningof yoke being cutaway under it. The same style of waist is seen made of silk or of wool fabrice, without the ruffle at the elbow, & fitted sleeve which reaches to the wrist replacing it. A yoke and fitted sleeves nf embroidered batiste over violet silk made a striking con- trast in a gown of dark blue canvas. A dress of blue and white challis had & yoke of creamy lace over white silk. A white satin belt was worn with this. A dre®§8 of organdie had the yoke of black mousseline de soie, with leaves of white lace braid sewn.on it. A black satin belt was worn with this. A waist of Dresden silk designed for evening wear had & Ioke frill of pink chiffon matching the flounce in the design. A brown mohair dress had & yoke of pink pear de soie, over which brown Astrachan braid was sewn endwise 8o it stood erect, outlining the round shape of yoke and continuing in rows at intervals.of a quarter inch to the col- lar, which was also of satin and braid. The fitted lower sleeves were of satin with the bn&d sewn on around the slceve from waist to uff. l,’l‘ha waist pattern is cut for 30 to 44 inches bust measure and includes the fitted lower sleeve. A medium size requires four yards of 36-inch goods. A BACHELOR'S TOAST. How, now, a toast ?—from bachelor lips, To piease the bride who sweetly slips The golden Hymen kiss upon Her tingling finger? Be it so. May garland words all smoo:hly flow To weave a blessing of to use To crown her with, for lo! tis won This lovesome day. Then in a glass Of clearest water, bright and pure, T'll pledge her happiness, nor pass The words in wine, for springs endure When grapes are dry of joy. Itoas: Whatever joy Is innermost Within her heart—the joy that she In secret keeps full sacredly For husband's eyes. And may 1ts shrine Be petal-hid by blooms of love * That thrive a-near a heart and twine Like gentiest arms, And all about, And alway upon theair— Ring erystal clear: and be it told Till all the sands of time are old ! ar stars celestial ! bless hteouaness and the wholesomeness Of wedlocked pairs! Make joy divine Within their souls, as once in mine 1 thought to have—for lo! 'tis good ‘I'0 save a man from bachelorhood. \ PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A South Paris (Me.) 50lid man—400 pounds in his stocking feet—tried to ge! excused from jury duty on account of his size. But the Judge ordered him an extra broad chair ana told him to sit; and he sat. The cheekiest specimen of plagiarism yet is that of the Brown University student who cribbed an article written by the president of the university, signing his own name to it. He is rusticating at present. The diamond tiara which had been worn by st least two Duchesses of Manchester was sold the other day by order of the trustees of the seventh Duke, and brought $5450. A row of pearls, some four or fivedozen in number, went for $8000. Whitelew Reid, in a letter to a “reform spelling” advocate, says of the duty of the State Board of Regents: ‘We at leastshould avoid the barbarous business of vivisection on our noble living English. Such changes as are needful should, so far as we are concerned, Come, as in nature, slowly, and not artificially, s iR the order of growth.” —Vanity.” LEGITIMATE JOURNALISM. New York Newspapr Maker. The Newspaper Makeris in entire ao cord with the San Fran¢sco CALL's view that a newspaper should sell news and not books, bicycles or baby-carriages. It should aim to give its readsrs the value of their money in fullness of its reports of trade, politics, society and 8ll the abound- ing activities of life. If it cannot give news enough to justify the ciarge it makes 1t 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 confidentitl relation to business. The newspaper and the mer- chant are allies. They are of mntu}nl helpfulness when each is conducted in legitimate channels. When the news- vaper, however, combines its press with & 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 i{, and not infrequently seriously injures business by introducing into‘a community an overstock of cheap articles of one kind or another that prevents the vales of the merchant. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. Senator Hill and ex-Governor Campbell an- nounce that they will continue in the Demo- cratic business at the old stand, no matter what may happen at Chicago.—Washington Post. It is generally believed that by packing his boom away carefully in camphor and moth balls Tom Reed can have it in fine condition ior wear during the summer of 1900.—Chicago Record. 1f Brother Hanna would say & few words re- garding what he thinks about the money ques- tion the country would experience as much relief as if McKinley himself had spoken,— Troy Press. We haven’'t had a President of the United States without a beard or mustache since the days of Andrew Johnson. The question is, Is the time of the smooth-shaven President back upon us again?—Omaha Bee. It is no secret that Mr. Quay is being talked of for the Vice-Presidency. The McKinley managers are said to be willing to enter into such an agreement should their man be nomi. nated for President.—Des Moines Register. One by one leading Republicans are begin- ning to find out that by giving aid and coun- tenance to the attacks upon McKinley they sre only playing into the hands of the enemy. 1t is & great pity this fact had not dawned upon them before.—Haverhill Gazette. The nearer we get to the Republican Con. vention the more prominent, the more insist- ent, the more unescapable does the sound. money issue beconte. It must be met, and the candidate should be a man who will meet it squarely and candidly.—Baltimore American. Well, Uncle Hod Boies of Iowa has got his silver rattle. It sounds well and no doubt it is pretty; but is isn’t solid. It isn’t worth much but may do very well, “not so much on count of the intrinsic value of the gif¢ as on account of the spirit in which 1t is made,” as the orator says when he makes the presenta- tion speech and awards the cyclopedia to the winner of the spelling match.—New York Sun. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s.* e LexoN cocoanut taffy 25¢ Ib. Townsend’s. SpecrAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Alleii’s), 510 Montgomery, * —————— SAUSALITO FERRY connects with trains pass- ing through the most beautiful part of Cali- fornia, with rough mountains, green hills seamed with!wooded eanyons and ripsling streams, The paradise for camping or a day’s outing. No boisterous Sundey picnic crowds tomar the pleasure of jamilies and private parties. * e e e It was the Queen’s grandiather, George III, who presented the gold chain and medal of office which belong to the president of the Royal Academy of the time. These are only worn Dy the president when he is in full offi- cial dress. 8ir John Millais, Sir Frederick Leighton's suecessor, received at Windsor Cas- tle at the Queen's own hands the handsome badges of his office, «“THE OVERLAND LIMITED™ Via Union Pacific. 31 DAYS TO CHICAGO-314 473 DAYS TO NEW YORK-—41p Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and din- ing-cars, San Francisco 10 Chicago, daily without change. Composite buifet smoking and library cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago. Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, San Fran- cisco to Chicago, daily without change, and per- sonalty conducted tourist excursions to St. Paul and Chicago every Friday. For tickets and sleeping-car reservations apply to general oftice, 1 Montgomery street. Steamship tickets on sale to and from all parts of Europe. D. W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. ONLY e Stanford Excursion, Join our Stanford Excursion, which leaves San Francisco at 7 P. M. Thursday, the 28th inst., via Northern Pacific Kailroad. 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