The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1S96. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. | Are you going to the country on a_vacatlon ? It | 80, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to | your address. Do not let it miss you for you will | miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. TelOPhODe. ,...ceeeeevaraes vnensonesen DAIN—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. < Telephone. 5 Main—1874 | BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until ©:30 o'clock. 330 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. ©W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 118 Minth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 1896 THI >CAL PEAKS FOR ALL. ————————————————————— The people are resolved to take free trade out of politics. | Tt is tariff first, silver second and Repub- licanism all the time. This time it is a sure thing—as goes St. Louis, so goes the country Itis the transfer system and not the people that will have to take a check now. This campaign may not setsle the silver question, but it will settle that of the tar- | iff. Sl i | Congress will adjourn and the refunding | scheme will be swept into the waste | basket. Grover has thrown up his bands on the | money fight, but all the same he will bear | watching. If the penple of Lake City need help those of San Francisco should be the first to offer it. Cleveland has doubtless begun to con- sole himself with the hope the fishing will be good. Instead of saying ‘‘darn it”’ the Demo- crat will say “Dagget”” hereafter when he wants a mild swear word. In taking notice that we can have water- spouts the East will please remember that | we don’t have them often. | Congress will adjourn ‘just in time to | give the St. Louis convention the undi vided attention of the country. The most severely crushed boom in the country is that of John G. Carlisle. Even Bayard wouldn’t trade chances with him. There will be contests on many issues in this campaign, but that of protection and | good wages will determine the most votes. It seems to be on the programme for the Democratic Ccnvention that McNab shall | appear in the role of the **Crushed Trage- dian.” { One advantage of the Republican con- | vention to St. Louis will be the lesson it | will give her in the proper way to treat colored men. The Kansas corn train prepared to carry | the McKinley delegates to 5t. Louis was | struck by lightning. There may be an | omen in that. i [ Now thatwe have had a destructive | waterspout in our own State it is time for | us to show what we can do in the way of | mutual helpfulness. | 1f the Mayor had looked about him he would have seen an octopus of extrava- | gance in his administration that he shouid | have put his foot on. The discovery of goid in the earth re- moved during some street work in Fresno is only another proof that there is money in public improvements. About this time the statisticians of the various prediction bureaus have begun to go over the figures of one another with more care and less vigor. The thing that grinds Senator Morgan is that an adjournment of Congress will | compel him to gzo home and leave Weyler still prancing round in Cuba. Leaving the City in darkness for two weeks would at least throw lizht on the way the money of the community has been wasted by this administration. Even if the Spanish soldiers were with- drawn from Cuta they would have no boliday. Between the anarchists and the mobs there is work for them in Madrid. Sutro’s‘pledge of economy that promised to make a tunnel through the extrava- gance of our municipal government has tnrned out to be a mere hole in the ground. Imagination preseats no brighter pic- ture in our politics than that of Tom Reed ruling the Senate, and if he would consent to run for the Vice-Presidency he would get 8 unanimous vote. The Chicago Record wishes a wind that will clear up the difference between a cy- clone, a tornado and a hurricane, and per- haps it may get one that will clear up Chicago along with the other tnings. The rise in the wheat market at Chicago may have been to some extent due to the operations of sveculators, but not wholly so. Itis clear that all prices are rising, or at least have an upward tendency. This is a bull country on gereral principles, and besides this is a Republican year. It begins to look as if the only fight at 8t. Louis would be the contest for second piace, and it is probable the same state of affairs will continue through the cam- paign, the Republicans having a walkover and the Democrats and Populists strug- gling to see which will beat the other. The attempt to defend Judge Wallace's return of personal property to the As- sessor by describing his household furni- ture, plats and library as being old and worn is not half so effective as it would have been to say he won them as prizes on IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTION The threat of Grover Cleveland, that he would vote for the nominee of the St. Louis convention on a sound-money plat- form rather than support a fres-silver can- didate of the Democratic party, has a good deal more politics than patriotism in it. It is to divert attention from the tariff question by magnifyins tLe importance of the money question. To be sure, the re- monetization of silver is desired by a ma- jority of the people and they will not be satisfied with an uncertain or hesitating declaration by either party, but the para- mount question is that of the tariff. The people ure not so absorbed in the question of reinstating silver to its proper place in the monetary system of the country as to lose sight of the more important question of the tariff. It would avail the country but little to open the mints to the white metal unless our ports are closed against the free introduction of gooas and wares irom other countries, with whom we can- not compete without lowering the wage schedules of this country to the level of foreign pauper-labor. The absence of the silver dollar as re- demption money from the channels of commerce had very little to do with cre- ating what is called the “‘Cleveland panic” as compared with the influence the Wil- son-Gorman tariff act exerted for evil in the business world. Times were good and there was satisfying prosperity every- where during the operation of the tariff act of 1890, or rather until it was definiteiy known that Europe was to be invited to enter our markets on a parity with our own industrial enterprises. Until the policy of the free and unlimited introduc- tion of the products of the low-wage labor of other countries wasabout to be fastened upon the United States there was not so much agitation of the question of free silver coinage, although the sentiment of the people geaerally was that silver and gold should be treated alike at the mints, and that together they should constitute the redemption money of the country. But when it became necessary by virtue or rather by the lack of virtue of the Wil- son-Gorman tariff to deplete our volume of go!d to pay for foreign-made merchan- dise, it was natural that our people should demand that tihe mints be reopened to sil- ver s0 as to keer up the volume of circu- lating redemption money to the require- ments of the country’s intercommunity trade and traffic. The exhibit of the treasury for May shows a dericit of $4,000,000, and of $26,- 000,000 for the months of the fiscal that have elapsed, and this sort of thing bas been going on ever since the Demo- cratic tariff went into operation. The trouble is and has been that our custom receipts are too light to pay the current expenses of the Government. But that is not all. 'We are permitting Europe to fill our consumption market with articles that we should ‘manufacture ourselves, and the effect of the scheme is to throw our own factories and operatives into enforced idle- ness and use the money that should go to them to pay for the goods we receive from abroad. That is to say, the Wilson-Gor- man tariff act leaves a deficit in the cur- rent expense account of /the Government, which to make good tue treasury has to sell bonds. Not only so, but the foreign goods that are marketed here are paid for in gold, which also the Government has to provide by selling bonds. ‘What is wanted is the immediate return o the policy of 1890 which gave our home ndustries the preference in our own mar- i kets, and which in turn not only supplied ample revenue for the expense account of the Government, but kept our circulating money in our own channels of trade. When such a law is in operation there is no occasion to sell bonds to pay for im- | ported goods, for we would make the goods ourselves. It would be impossible to maintain a volume of money sufficiently large under the operation of a free-trade law, for there would be a sure and steady outflow, and a very uncertain inflow. The tariff question is, therefore, paramount, but by being the more important it does not follow that there is no pressing need for the remonetization of silver, for even with the tariff of 1890 re-enacted there would still be need of a larger volume of money than the single gold standard is able to supply; besides, there is the most perfect harmony between the economic principle of protection and the monetary principle of free coinage of gold and silver into redemption money of equal purchas- ing power. LET THERE BE NO DARKNESS. Economy in the conduct of the affairs of the City is demanded, of course, but there is such a thing as expensive economy. There never is any excuse for waste or extravagance. The business of the muni- cipality should be conducted just as a prudent and frugal business man would | manage his private interests. It may be | that the appropriation for street lighting | is exhausted, but if there is a disposition, ways and means will be found to tide that department over until relief is bad through the proper channel. At all events, it is foolish to talk about plunging the City in darkness for halfa month simply because the street-lighting fund 1s overdrawn, or for any other reason for that matter. No doubt the increase in the cost to the City of guarding persons and property during the fifteen nights of darkness would light the streets for a month; besides, the inconvenience to which the public would be subjected would bring down enough condemnation upon the heads ‘of the City officials to make them want to résign, and it takes a good deal to make a ‘“servant of the people’ sick enough of his job to want to retire to private life. And again, the lighting companies claim they have contracts with the City to furnish a givea number of burners for all- night service the year round. They would not, therefore, discontinue furnishing light unless they were enjoined or told | that they would get no pay for the fifteen nights, but that would induce expensive legislation, and in the end tiie proposed economy would be represented by a large The lighting companies say they will not furnish light unless their pay is as- surd_ for, under a decision of the courts, thfy cannot collect for service rendered that is not specifically contracted for. ‘This throws the whoie respoasibility on the Supervisors. But anyway, there must be no thought of leaving the City in dark- ress and at the mercy of footpads and the like for fifteen or any other number of nights. A TIMID DEMOOCRAT. When it is remembered that Secretary Mortou has for three years stood valiantly to the froni and fought the armyworm, the grasshopper, the Russian thistle and the enemies of the administration, it is bard to believe that he would flee from the anonymous letter of a stupid funmaker and cry to the police to save him, but it looks that way. The letter-writer who threatened the Secretary’s life was in fun of course, be- sides goldbugs are so scarce in California that noc¢ even an idiot would want to destroy so rare a curiosity. Atthe council coupon fakes, nor is it any nearer gun- shot range of the truth, of war, when it was agreed that the crank missioned to reconnoiter the outlying ter- ritory—not that anybody was afraid; just for prudential purposes, don’t you know? but that was quite unnecessary. The City had not yet been left in darkness. The fund for lighting the streets bad not been exhausted. It is to be hoped when the Secretary gets over his scare he will not harbor resentful feelings against the people of Cahfornia. Let him remember that so curious a thing as a true goldite is likely to create such a degree of wonder in California that a crank might be born of the alarm. But anyway, San Francisco is sorry enough that so distinguished a guest should have fear for his personai safety. Had he only proclaimed himself a kinsman of the Golden Gate, the crank letter-writer would have given him a banquet no doubt. But Morton associates with Cleveland. That is against him. HITCE uN TO ST. LOUIS. The widely advertised convention of the National Commercial and Industrial Asso- ciation was held in Detroit last week, and it was a most dismal failure in every way. Several hundrea delegates were expected, and work enough bad been laid out to last a week, but a baker’s dozen of Jelegates and a session of two or three hours was tie entire prodnct of the effort. The first object of the convention was, according to the cards of invitation, to devise a plan to “take the tariff question out of politics.” The absurdity of such an undertaking ap- pealed so strongly to the invited guests that upon second thought 2ll but a hand- ful stayed at home, and in that they showed a good deal of political sense, for if the tariff question does not belong in politics it is a thing without country or home, The tariff question bas furnished ma terial for the political parties of America, England and Germany—of all nations, in fact, ever since the birth of commerce. The old Whig party and the Democratie party had little else to quarrel over, and the party of Clay and Webster bequeathed the fight to the Republican party. The people have taken a deeper interestin the tariff question than in aimost any other, but they have always been divided. The taniff question is full to the brim of active politics. All of the handful of delegates to Detroit were protectionists and pretty sensible business men. The wonder is then what they wanted with a con- vention to take the very question out of politics that a political party is required to put into operation. The friends of the Detroit movement ought to know that the salvation of the principle of protection hinges upon the success of the Repubii- can party before the people. The business of the St. Louis convention will be to re- pledge the party to the doctrine of protec- tion, and any effort to take it out of poli- tics is to weaken the party. If there is anything in the line of fair and just pro- tection to our industries that the Republi- can party does not stand for it will be found to have been overlooked. In factit is the business of the Republican party to foster home industry. From the very be- ginning of its existence the party has bat- tled in season and out of season to protect our people against unheaithy foreign com- petition. If the Detroit movement will hitch itseli to the St. Louis platform it will be safe in the arms of protection. “THE CALL” AND THE FARMERS, Ina letter to the Stockton Independent George W. Ashley, a wheat-grower of San Joaquin County and a member of the Re- publican County Committee, reviews a recent editorial of THE CaLL on the bene- fits to the farmer of the protective tariff and to some extent ditfers from our views of the subject. He maintains the Lubin theory that the wheat - grower derives no benefit from protective duties on im- poris and that to afford him protection the Government should provide an export bounty on wheat. Incidentally Mr. Ash- ley attributes to THE CALL an antagonism to the bounty scheme and says: * Ii THE CaLL wishes to speak for all it must get on the right side with the farmer.” It is certainly the wish of Tue CALL to speak for the farmer as well as for any other industrious citizen of the Republic. No class of workers do more for the Na- tion than the farmers, and no class de- serve more from it. We are most cordial supporters of any movement that tends o their prosperity, but it is not vet certain the Lubin scheme is calculated to do that. ‘We are not antagonistic to the plan; Mr. Asnley is wrong to that extent. We have advocated a bounty for sugar-growers, and, if conaitions require it, are willing to ad- vocate an export bounty for wheat. The questionis, Do the conditions require it? The farmer has had an experience of the difference between a Republican tariff and a Democratic tariff, and the teachings of that experience are in the minds of everybody. Under the Republican sys- tem of protection the price of the average farm products was about twice as high as under the Democratic tariff. Surely there was a benefit in the higher prices, and therefore there must have been one in the tariff that caused them. The Republican system of protection is designed to benefit all Americans. In speaking for that system TuE Cary is literally speaking for all. If any industry of our people, whether urban or rural, needs the fostering care of the Govern- ment we are in favor of granting an ade- quate protection to it. Our attitude to the export bounty system is not that of an- tagonism, but simply that of doubt as to 1ts expediency. A plank in favor of it was incorporated in the Republican State plat- form without opposition on our part, nor would we oppose 3t if a similar plank were adopted in the National platform. We aim to speak for all, but we do not claim to know all. We desire full, adequate and thorough protection to the work, the wages and the homes of all Americans and what- soever the combined wisdom of the Re- publican party of the Nation may decide to be necessary to that end will find in THE CALL & voice to speak for it as it speaks for all. “THE WEEKLY OALL. The most important events which occur during the week in home and foreign lands are aiways outlined in Tne WEEKLY CAvrL, which contains, in addition to the telegraphic news, letters from special cor- respondents ia France, Germany and New York. Toe WEeEkLy CaLy afferds a most con- j venient and valuable channel through which to advertise the resources of Cali- fornia. A copy sent to a friend in the East is far more persuasive than any amount of mere talk. It exhibits the news in a compact form, at the same time presenting powerful arguments in- centive to those desirous of finaing homes 1 this State. Copies of the “Weekly,” which appear to-day, may be obtained at the business office in wrappers ready for maiiing at 5 a copy. mea—— The only safe road to return to bimetal- lism is that along which the Republican | meant business, & deiective was com- | procession moves. PERSONAL. Dr. 8. B. Davis of Stockton is in town. Dr. W. P. Inglish of Vacaville is here. 0. H. 8t. John of Fort Bragg is in the City. Assemblyman R. I. Thomas 1s at the Grand. H. C. Oswald of London is at the Occidental. Dr. W. D. Rogers of Watsouvilie is on & visit here. E. Ermeler of Berlin, Germany, is at the Palace. F. H. Short, the attorney of Fresno, is at the. Palace. H. J. Llewelling, a vineyardist of St. Helena, is in town. Mortis L. Cohn, a pioneer of Bishop Creek, is at the Russ, W. R. Cruthers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, isat the Lick. Ex-Senator G. G. Goucher of Fresno arrived here yesterday. A. J. Scott, manager of the Lick paper-mills, San Jose, is in town. George Lee, a mine-owner of Tuolumne County, is at the Russ G. M. Foote of Hollister, Clerk of San Benito County, is at the Grand. John C. White, a wealthy vineyardist of Marysville, is in the City. C. B. Fernold of New York arrived here yes- terday and isat the Palace. John McMullin, the well-known banker of Fresno, arrived here yesterday. T. West and wife of Portiand, Oregon, are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Samuel Edward, a well-to-do resident of Santa Barbara, arrived here yesterday. R. P. Blaisdell, the capitalist of Los Angeles, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Blaisded. W. E. Traris, & United States mail contractor of Salt Lake, has arrived hereand is at the Grand. George F. Hooper, the wine-grower of Sonoma, is among the arrivals at the Ocei- dental. E. O'Neil, a wealthy stock-raiser of Montana, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his family. J. McCallan, the enterprising young business man of Eureka, Humboldt County, is on & visit here. Attorney Aaron Smith of Los Angeles, claim agent of the Southern Pacific Company, is at the Grand. G. Standast, owner of a general store and in- terested in mines, Plumas County, is among recent arrivals here. G. H. Lippet, an extensive manufacturer of tents and rubber goods, St. Louis, is among the guests of the Grand. Senator Frank McGowan of Humboldt County arrived here yesterday on his way East. He is at the Lick. Among the arriyals at the Palace yesterday was J. Dunbar of Ceylon, who is returning home after a visit to Europe. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Jesse R. Grant of San Diego, delegate to the St. Louis convention. He is at the Occidental. L. Kinney, a pioneer of- Astoria, Or., and for many years engaged in salmon-canning on the Columbia River, is among recent arrivals here. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 9.—At the Hotel Albert—H. O. Shepard, W. Hutchinson; Cos- mopolitan—J. Slater; Metropolitan—Mr. and Mrs. G. Stone; Grand—F. J. Batchelor; Sin- . Holden; Grand Union—H. Web- Netherlands—W. H. Crocker, Mrs. ; Imperial—0. ster; Crocker, Princess Poniatowsk: Sutro, J. Wollberg. Sailed per steamship St Paul for Southampton: Paul Delmas, Mr. and Mrs. David Jacks, Miss M. R. Jacks, Romie C. Jacks, Mr. and 3irs. Livingston Jenks, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCutchen, Johu Slater, A MOLERN VIEW. I've read and thought and wondered long, O’er things which were in days of old. T've heard a deal of pretty song, Of times when thoughts were not of gold, ‘When Cupid’s aim was never wrong, And fair maids’ hearts were never sold. ‘Toose were the days when hearis e true; I wish that I'd lived them—don’t you? Are not our girls of modern date As fair as ever their's could be? Or were these maids of whom they prate, Of some old type which we don’t see? Were they more modest and sedate, Or were they still more full of gle But, great Jerusalem! gone—we can’t love them. BAUGH in the New Bohemian. WHY CAN'T MR. MORTON SEE THE JOKE? I received two anonymous letters, while I was in San Francisco, warning me that 1 must shug up or leave the country.—The Hon. Julius Sterling Morton in the Washington Post. Have Mr., Morton’s labors in the vegetable kingdom had a btenumbing effect upon his sense of humor? Why, even his ornithologists and mammalogists can see the joke, which is as obvious as the Capitol or the Rocky Moun- tains. To ask a telephone to be origi to insist that water shall run up hill, to beg the bricks in & chimney shattered by a gale to fall upward, to demaud that the moon set up an independent light plant, to call upon the leopard to put on & plain suit, to entreat the Ethiopian to change his skin or a cash register to skin the change, to command the Hon. JuliusSterling Morton to shut up, are all for- mulas of the impossible.—New York Sun. LADY'S WAIST WITH FULL VEST FRONT. A waist with several attractive features is shown here. There is a fitted lining over which the goods are seamless in back with a few gathers at tne waist line. In front there 13 & gathered vest over a fitted lining; the goods, being seamless, is interlined with crinoline, The sleeves are gathered over a fitted lining, the ruffic at waist and all puffs being cut in one piece. A plain fitted collar finishes the neck. The waist shown here is a white figured silk, the figure in two or three shades of green. The fitted front is of white silk embroidered and set_with green spangles. The vest is of white chiffon. A waist of challis in blue and white had a white vest, the fitted front peing of the challis edged with white lace. A brown mohair had a yvest of canary- colored Liberty silk, with braiding of brown and gold braid on the fitged front. SAN DIEGO THANKS. Fallbrook Observer. The San Francisco CaLn devotes over a col- umn of 1te space in Wednesday’s issue to the abandoned right of way on the railway be- tween this station and Temeculs, aud to the San Diego Property Union’s complaint before the Board of Railway Commissioners. This case has been aggrayated by the railway com- I)llly'fl recent action in rng‘oving the tracks rom the right of way, and the Railway Com- mission is looking into the matter this week. THE CALL believes that the commission can oblige the railway company to rebuild the road, as a little activity on its part last year induced the company {o replace the track be- tween Oceanside and Fallbrook. THE CALL has the thanks of the people of San Diego County for giving this case so much publicity. Its course is in striking contrast to the daily press of our own counly, which, with a single exception, remains aiscreetly silent on this subject. THE VALLEY ROAD. Alameda Encinal. The Valley road, which promises to do so much for California, is now almost completed, and it is claimed that within ten days the road Wil be prepared to haul wheat out of the 3an Joaquin Valiey. Few people probably in Ala- meda County appreciate the benefit that will acerue to California through the Valley road, but the people and especialiy the farmers in the $an Joaquin Valley do. They know only t00 well the burden they have labored under for years, in the shape of high freight rateson their products and they realize that the hour of their deliverance is close at hand. . The man who has done so much for the State in’ this direction is that worthy gentleman, Claus Spreckels, and his grand work is thor- oughly appreciated by the people of the San Jouquin Valiey. In referring to him the Fresno Expositor says: “It is safe to say that there is DOt & man in the State of California to-day who stands forth so prominently in the commercial world s does Claus Spreckels. *As & public benefactor the San JoaquinVal- ley recognizes no one as the equai of Mr. Srre('kcls, for to him they will owe their de- liverance from the cruel bondage in which they have been held by the Southern Pacific and its “all-the-traffic-will-bear” freight pol- icy. Nor will Mr. Spreckels rest satistied with the final completion of his great Valley-road enterprise, for 1t 18 now cortatn that it 1 his intention to establish beet-sugar factories throughout the valley, which will mean hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to the farmers in this section of the State, and more especially of Fresno County. “When Mr. Spreckels’ vast interests in the United States and the Sandwich Islands are considerea—interests which represent ar: accu- mulation of wealth due alone o his own ener- gies—it will be admitted that he is a man of maryelous capabilities. The fact that through the investment of this immense wealth, many thousands of hands find employment and hun- dreds of homes are made comfortable, renders Mr. Spreckels one of the few rich men of this country whose success has bencfited the masses. It should be a matter of pride to every Calilornian that Claus Spreckels is a citizen of the Golden State.”” PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Ada Rehan has a fortune in American house property. Sarah Bernhardt, who has ‘spent fortunes, still owns & valuable estate in France. ‘The Earl of Aberdeen is sending a moose from Cenada to the Royal Zoological Gerdens, Dublin. Mrs. Mary Mathew of South Latrobe, Pa., has just completed a quilt of white and red shades, Which contains 7500 separate pieces of cloth. Sir Henry Irving, although not the million. aire which the Americans credit him with being, is still a wealthy man, with large property interests in London. Bardou is now 60 years old, wrinkled and half bald, but in his elastic step and brilliant eye as youthful as & boy. He is said to have earned $1,000,000 from his plays. Queen Victoria has been more benefited in health and spirits by her residence at Cimiez than by any previous continental trip. Her Majesty has been entirely free from rheuma- tism during her stay on the Riviera. It is announced that Mrs, Agnes Smith Lewis, who discovered the Syriac palimpsest of the four Gospels in the Convent of St.Catherine, on Mount Sinai, in 1892, has discovered a single page of the original Hebrew of the Book of Ecclesiastics. After the Countess of Warwick had made an address at a meeting held in the interests of some British sailors recently, one bronzed old tar stood up in the audience, bowed to her, and remarked: “Good b'y, Countess. We did not think that the likes of you took any heed of the likes of us.” M. Turquet, who wes Under Secretary for Fine Arts under many Ministers, and became one of the leaders in the Boulangist movement, has just joined the third order of Franciscans, and attends their services in the brown robe and white cord. He has returned to the Catholic faith, after having been a Protestant and afterward a Buddhist., Probably the oldest physician ia active prac- tice in America is Dr. C. F. H. Wilgohs of Doylestown, Ohio, who is still practicing at the age of 93. He has the eppearance of a man of 60, reads the newspapers without the aid of glasses, and eats three hearty meals each day. He is a habitual smoker, but never used to- bacco until he was 50 years old. He attributes his longevity to heredity and careful regularity in all his habits of life. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “I may be poor, madam,” said the tramp proudly, “but I have an honorable war record. I was among the missing at the battle of Bull Run.”—Commercisl Advertiser. Tommy—Paw, what is a designing villain? Mr. Figg—Oh, the description would apply to one of these poster artists about as well as anything.—In-lianapolis Journal. Nance—Jack Merton proposes in this letter. I wonder if he really loves me; he has only known me a week. The Brother—Oh, then, perhaps he does.— Tit-Bits. “Why, you're & new man—they’'ve shaved you out of all recognition.” “Ye-e—he, he—es, the first time I looked in the glass I only knew myself by my voice.”— Eondon Judy. If & chicken isserved with dumplings, that settles it; it is at least a year old. No chicken can lay claim to having died young if 1t is served on the table with dumplings. Youth in a chicken is sufficient garnishment, as it is with a girl.—Atchison Globe. Customer—Why do you always relate those horrid robber stories and other uncanny adven- tures when you are cutting one's hair? ‘Hairdresser—Because they make people’s hair stand on end, and it is thus much easier to cut.—Unsere Gesellschait. «Itgeems to me,” observed the critic who was looking at the oil painting entitled “A FILL YOUR PORCH LAMPS Reasons Given by the President of the Gas Company for Lack of Lights. The Funds Are Exbausted and the Supervisors Were Forced to Economize. Becausge of an emvty City treasury the street lamps will fail to reflect lights upon the belated citizens from and after next Monday night until the 1st of July. This darkened condition during the fif- teen nights of the present month is caused by the street light fund in the City treas- ury having been exhausted, or in other words, overdrawn, leaving no funds with which to pay the Gas Company for sup- plying lights for the balance of the month. The situation of the City as a contract- ing party with the S8an Francisco Gaslight Company can be best explained by quot- ing the words of Joseph B. Crockett, presi- dent of the gas company : “Yes,” said Mr. Crockett, “we will shut off t e gas from the streetlamps on the 16th inst., and will not again turn on gas until the 1st of July. “The cause of this is brought about by the conditions of existing affairs at the City Hall. *“*You see, by a decision of the Supreme Court contractors with the City must in- form themselves as to the condition of the fund out of which they expect payment for the line of material for which they have contracted; and 1f that particular fund should be exhausted, then the con- tractor supplies the articles at his own risk, without any legal claim against the City. In other words, he cannot legally demand payment, no matter how just his claim may be. “The gas comvany, on investigation of the street-light fund, has discovered that that fund is now overdrawn $8000, and to continue supplying gas for the balance of the month would just be so much money lost to the company. “Nor is this all. Thedepartment fund— that is, the money appropriated for sup- Elying the Fire Department, prisons, jails, ospitals, school buildings and other insti- tutions belonging to the City—is also over- drawn or exhausted toabout $1800. But as a matter of public convenience we can- not shut off the gas in those institutions, but must d (fend upon payment from the general fund at theclose of the fiscal year, which will then amount to about $2000. “This shortage in the street-lizht fund we discovered as early as last March, and then, with the consent of the Supervisors, we shut off the gas four additional nights in each month, making eight nights alto- gether. Thatis, we areallowed four nights at the full of every moon upon which no lights are litin the sireet lamps. Tothese we added four more in the hopes that this economy on our part would help tide over the deficiency, but it did not. Hence we suggested to Supervisor Hirsch, the chair- man, to offer the resoiution, which he did on last Monday. “Even with 'this retrenchment the gas company will lose alone $1500in the fifteen days in which there will be no lights. Our lamplighters are paid by the month, work or no work, and our payroll shows that we pay out $3000 for lamplighters alone. Now one-half of this is given to the men for no services rendered to us.” “Well, how wasit last year. The Super- visors passed just such a resolution as the one passed on Monday, and the gas com- pany simply ignored it?” was asked. “Oh, yes, that was entirely under differ- ent circumstances,” said Mr. Crockett. “Last year when the Supervisors passed that resolution we found that there were amgle funds in the treasury to pay for the as to be supplied, and interpreting the gupreme Court decision we came to the conclusion that we could not nullify our section of the contract even when the contracting parties on the other side vio- lated theirs. Hence we paid no attention to the resolution, but went right along and lived up to our contract.” It will thus be seen from_the interpreta- tion given the contract and the decision of the Supreme Court on the question of con- tractors with the municipality that there will be no street Jamps lighted after next Monday. = Storm Scene,” you've put a littie too much lightning.” ““What's the use of being stingy with your lightning?” said the artist, with superb scorn. —Chicago Tribune. ST. LOUIS DELEGATES. The Banquet in Their Honor at the Union League Club To- Night. The banquet at the Union League Club this evening in honor of the California delegates to the St. Louis National Repub- lican Convention will be, in a sense, an in- formal affair, but will be pone the less de- lightful on that account. The following- named guests are enrolled on the accepted list: SEHE John D. Spreckels, George Stone, Frank D, Rysn, W. W. Montague, Henry I. Kowalsky, DanT. Cole, Charles’ M. Belshaw, W. H. Mc- Kittrick, Allen B. Lemmon, Frank A. Miiler, Frank H. Short, E.C. Voorheis, Hervey Lind- ley, William Cluff, A. H. Hockheimer, D. E. Knight, W. R. Pond, J. M. Gleaves, George A. Knight'and F. P. Flint. The train from the south to arrive this forenoon will bring others. Bixfy-two members of the Union League, asiae from those embraced in the foregoing list, have signified their intention to be present, so it is a sure thing that about one hundred chairil at the banquet board will be oc- cupied. There will be many speeches, but the plan is that every speaker shall be brief, so that all the good talkers will have an op- portunity to respond to some campaign sentiment of patriotism ‘and party devo- tion. Tue dinner will be 1n the nature of a joy- ful send-off to the delegation, and more time will probably be accupied in expres- sions of good-fellowship than in the review of party principles, he start for 8t. Louis will be made from the ferry station, foot of Market street, at 10 o’clock to-morrow forenoon. A large :]l:"n be{ thdt hRepnt:lican:“l w;ll; assemble ere at that hour to speed the departin, delegates. ¥ > NEW ORLEANS NOT IN [T San Francisco Will Set Example for Future Carnivals. an An Immense Amount of Work Ac- complished Yesterday by the Committes. A great amount of work wasaccom- plished at Monday's meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of the Carnival of the Golden Gate. A series of by-laws was presented for the government of the Carnival Association, which was unanimously adopted. The by-laws make regulations for the safe- guarding of the funds, and also define the duties of the officers. The surplus funds remaining at the end of the carnival will be deposited in the bank and used for the succeeding carnival, and the present ex- ecutive committee is given power to elect its successors for the succeeding year, who will conduct matters as has this commit- tee. Several of the committees were consoli- dated in order to concentrate and render more efficient committee work. By motion of Mr. Mills the San Fran- cisco Press Club was designated as the press committee of the carnival. In mak- ing this motion Mr. Mills spoke of the Press Club in flattering terms, saying: *‘We cannot trust to better hands the vari- ous duties of the committee.” The programme published in yesterday’s papers was adopted. - The arrangement of events are still subject to a different ad- justment with regard to the daysof the week. The matter of finance was thoroughly discussed and it was decided to increase the committee by tne addition of the fol- lowing ten gentlemen: Wendell Easton, Sigmund Stern, A. S. Baldwin, J. B. El- liott, T. T. W.iliams, R. L. C. Barnes, W. M. Bunker, Hugh Hume, Thomas T. Boyle and J, Prentiss Smith. A meeting will be held in the assembly-rooms of the Mills building to-morrow afternoon at half-past 3 o’clock., The committee on transportation will embrace the heads or the repsentatives of all the roads centering in San Francisco. General Warfiela last night named the following gentlemen as the committee on transportation: H. E. Huntington, J. Kruttschnitt, Charles F. Crocker, A. B, Spreckels, E. F. Preston, Charles Goodall, Arthur W. Foster, J. B. Stetson, Jobn L. Trusiow and M. Calish. Arrangements will be made to have the entire City Fire Department in the parade. It was stated that the members of the de- partment have already expressed their ratification at being accorded a special ay. VISITING ENGINEERS. Oune Hundred and Fifty Delegates Ex- pected to Attend the Annual Con- ~Veution in This City. The American Society of Civil Enginesrs will hold their annual -convention in this City, commencing Monday, June 29. About 150 delegates, w'th their wives and children, will come in a special train from the East, arriving at Truckee Sun- day, June 28, at 11 A. m., and after aride by daylight through the wild mountain scenery this side of Truckee will arrive in this City Sunday night at 8:45 o’clock. The Jocal committee of arrangements, consisting of George H. Gray, Colonel George H. Mendell, James D. Schuyler, W. G. Curtis and W. B. Storey Jr., are making active preparatious for the recep- tion of the visitors. On Monday, July 29, at 10 A. ., the con- vention will be called to order in the Academy of Science building. Monday night a grand reception will be given to the delepates at the Palace Hotel. On Tuesday there will be a trip around the bay and a visit to the Union Iron Worke. Wednesday, July 1, will be spent visiting points of interest in the City. On Thurs- day the delegates will visit San Mateo and Del Monte. On the following day they will visit Santa Cruz, San Jose and Oak- land. Although this ends the formal list of arrangements for the entertainment, robably a large number will stay over in gnn Francisco during the Fourth of July. HE IS AGAINST VINING Judge Conlan Champions People in Their Transfer Fight. The Cases Against Edward C. Howe, Arrested on Monday, Are Dismissed. the Judge Conlan again made it plain to Manager Vining yesterday that he was against him on the transfer proposition by dismissing the charges of obstructing the street and disturbing the peace, upon which E. C. Howe was arrested by De- tective Crocket and Poliveman Farley Monday afternoon. < b Crockett and Farley gave their evidence, in which tbey displayed animosity toward the defendant. Crockett said he arrested him for giving him impertinence and de- fying him to do so. Howe admitted urging the passenger who was being ejected to staud by his rights. He bad read in the papers that the company had no right to eject a pas- seneer if he had paid his fare. Attorney Frank Kelly, who appeared for the Market-street Cabla Compeny, de- manded that the defendant be severely punished as he had been inciting people to riot. 4 “I shall dismiss the case,’’ said the Judge. “I believe the officers acted be- yong their instructions in making the arrest. This case grows out of a vexatious transfer system. It is one of those cases 1 which the people believe they are right, and I intend to treat itas I shallailsimilar cases. “When & man boards a car and_pays his ! fare he has a legal rightto & ride, which the company cannot take away from him, and if an attempt be made 1o put him off be has the le al right to resist. I feel sorry for the emploves, as they must try to put him off or lose their positions, but that does not in any way affect the legal r;gnt of the passenger to an uninterrupted ride. “That is my view of the law, and I shall not exert the power of this court to aid the company in its unlawiul fight. This will be my attitude in all similar cases brought before me uuntil this obnoxious transfer system is abolished.” At the conclusion of the Judge’s re- marks there was applause in the court, which he instantly suppressed. —————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's. S i TrY Townsend's soft chewing Molasses Taffy.* i s SR G o A street-waterer in Calcutta, who sprinkles the streets from a water-skin sarried on his shoulders, is paid about chreepence a day. ——————— SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Prosi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * ————— No peer has sat in the House of Lords during the whole of her Majesty’s reign, though the Earl of Mansfield has sat there for six-and-fifty years. Of the other peers who have sat longest in the House of Lords, one, it is not generslly known, is the Earl of Kimberly. $67.50—Special Train—$67.50. Repub- lican Convention st St. Loui Leaves San Francisco Thursday, June 11, at 10 A M. via Salt Lake City-Denver, thence Buriing- ton route, The entire California and Nevada dele- gations have accommodations on this trsin. Rate to St. Louis and return, $67 50. Berths for this train must be secured a¢ office of Burli ngton route, 32 Montgomery st. SR e s St. Louis Convention. Parties taking advantage of the cheap rates to the Republican Convention can secure tickets re- turning via St. Paul and the Norhern Pacific Railroad. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Mar- ket street, San Francisco. STl gl oy “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’" Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothery for their children while Teething with perfect suo- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reguiates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhcess, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Draz- gists in every par: of the world. 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