The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1896, Page 6

THE FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1896 Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 "ALL, One year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday Cavi, three mionths by mail 1.50 Daily £nd Sunday CAr.L, one month, by mail.. : ;3 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.. WERKLY CALL, ODe year, by wail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacaton? I 0, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Onders given 10 the carrier o left at Business Offics will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE BUSINESS OFFICE: San Fraucisco, California. Telephone............ s Matn—-1868 EDITORIAL Tejephone..... ; .. Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:20 o'clock. E 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open untll 9:30 o’clock. £W. corner Sixteenth end Mission sireets; open until 9 o'clock. : 2518 Mission street; open nntil 9 o' clock. 113 Ninth street; open nutil 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : gU8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: 34 Park Row, New York Citys The platform will be a bi St. Louis begins to feel as it she never lived before. To stand for protec of this crisis. ———— on is the patriotism The people demand work, wages and Republican prosperty. About this time people who prophesy are expected to bet on it. There will be no bolt from St. Louis big enough to close the door to victory. Carlisle’s explanation was long, but was not broad enough to cover the subject. California will be solid at the St. Louis convention, and solid for its work after- ward. In its last anal the St. Louis plat- form will be the record of the Republican party. Vining’s transfer nuisance has gone to the garbage pile and the people feel re- lieved. The nearest road to municipal economy is that of straight politics and Republican victory. This week and next the St. Louis hotel man will give the advertising solicitor the ba! ba! The greatest of money issues are wages for the people and revenues for the Gov- ernment. The result at St. Louis may prove to be a whale pig enough prophets Under Democratic free trade the story of every industry in the country has -been a “‘mill of silence. The great West desires free silver, but notat the cost of another four years of Democratic misrule. Bradley of Kentucky claims to have something up his sleeve, but it may be only a cuff of some kind. Loyal Republicans of East and West will vool their issues at St. Louis and make a platform big enough for both. 1 settle the tariff ques- tion, but the solution of the money prob- lem may harve to be sought later on. This campaign w The first object of the voters this year will be to establish the protective system firmly for the rest of this generation. The Sutro administration has made light of its pledges of economy, and now it proposes to leave the streets in dark- ness. A community of this size that will per- mit its streets to go unlighted for two | weeks is certainly a community in sad need of illumination. It would be better for the Supervisors to put out some of the taxeatersof the City Hall than to put out the light of the streets for two wee! The Senatorial investigation of the bond deals will add some interesting documents to the campaign, but the administration will not circulate them. It is bard on Carlisle to lose his Presi- aential boom, and still be kept in the frying-pan instead of being allowed to re- tire into innocuous desnetnde. The contests over the election of dele- zates to St. Louis from this State were all heard and decided by the State Conven- tion, and the decision is not likely to be overruled by the National Committee. The latest ticket-maker for the bewil- dered Democrats suggests the names of Teller and Schofield, and as the first is a Republican and the second a soldier the ticket has the advantage that even if it were knocked down and run over during the campaign Democracy could cheerily chirp “never touched me.” After the recent cyclone the streetsof St. Louis were so filled with a network of tangied wires that a demand has arisen to have all street wires in the city put under ground, and as there is a prospect the de- mand will be carried out £t. Louis may yet derive a municipal benefit from what seemed an unmitigated disaster. Since our esteemed contemporary the Inter Ocean has charged that the editor of the Times-Herald “prostitutes his paper to the level of the murderous weapons used by the cutthroat and theassassin” there is no further proof needed that Chicago with her usual activity has jumped into the middle of the campaign at the start and has found it red hot. On the basis of the number of names in the newly published city directory for 1896 Los Angeles figures out for herself and the recently annexed districts a population of 97,382, According to the Timesthe gain over last vear is about 5000 people. it is noted moreover that while there bas been an increase in nearly ali professions the number of real estate dealers has di- minished, to swallow all the | AT ST. LOUIS. | EiThe statement of Joseph Manley con- | cerning the outlook at St. Louis virtually assures the nomination of McKinley, and according to reports there isa strong prob- ability of the adoption of a plaiform con- taining a plank pledging the party and the candidates to the maintensnce of the | single gold standard. These reports must of course be discounted to some extent. | Conventions rarely act in accord with street rumors. It seems assured that McKinley will be nominated, but it is by 10 means 8o certain that the platform will declare for an extreme stand on the money issue. The men who lead the Republican party and who will formulate its platform at St. | Louis are not doctrinaires. They are sa- gacious statesmen and practical politi- cians, capable of seeing both sides of a question and abls to deal with it in a| statesmanlike manner. These men are not likely to draw a platform in accordance with the demands of doctrinaires or ex- | tremists. They will consider the senti- | ment of the party as a whole on the sub- | ject of finance and will aim to give a true | expression of il in the platform. | his view of the probabilities is strength- | ened by the declarations of the various Republican State conventions. Some have declared outright for free silver coinage, and others for the singie gold standard. Most of them, however, took a conservative | course, and while they dia not ‘‘straddle | the issue,”” made the platform broad | | enongn for all Republicans who are not so | excited on one side or the other of this sue asto be willing to sacrifice every- { thing else for it, even to the extent ot | running the risk of another four years of Democratic misrule. Giving to the reports of the day the full- est credence possible to be given to pre- dictions of future events, it seems more than likely the convention will content | | itself with declaring against the imme- diate and independent free coinage of sil- ver by this country at the ratio of 16 to 1. | That would not be a straddle nor a dodge, but it would satisfy the conservative gold men without alienating those bimetallists who would be driven off by a decla ration { for the gold standard absolutely. The Republican party in this camopaign | has no need to dodge. The popular senti- ment in favor of a return to protection and a restoration to power of a party that knows how to govern is sufficient to in- sure Republican victory under almost any circumstances. Nevertheless there is no | reason why the National Convention should take extreme groundson the money question, ana we do not believe it will. MecKinley’s nomination is assured, and in the feeling of harmony which now prevails we have every reason to believe the silver wing of the party will be included and the platform will be broad enough for all to | stand on. DARKNESS WILL PREVAIL. The City will bave to get elong without street lighting during the last half of the | month. There does not appear to be any belp for it, unless the citizens will go down in their pociet-books and pay the bill. The appropriation for lighting the streets will be exhausted in a few days, and the money that is set aside for the year com- | mencing on the first day of July is not available for this month’s bills. Naturally there is great indignation among the people, but it is just possible that they have been remiss in their duty at the polls on election days. It certainly is true that theie is something radically wrong somewhere when a great and rich City like San Francisco has to sit in dark- ness for half a month because there is no money in the treasury to pay gas and eectric-light bills. There are those who rather rejoice at the prospect of a half month of darkness, for they think that a heroic remedy is needed to cure the indifference which prevails concerning the conduct of the public affairs of the people, but while that may ve true, the fact remains that fifteen nights of dark, ness may mean fifteen nights of Jawlessness such as no community should think of without trembling. No doubt ways and means could be provided to tide the City over until the new fund is avail- able, but what is everybody’'s business is nobody’s business, as it would seem. THE GOOD OF A FALSE RUMOR. No doubt the rumor that the President was about to recognize the belligerency of the Cuban republic, which was circu- lated in Wall street yesterday, was manu- factured on the Stock Exchange for specu- lative purposes. At all events, the whole list suffered a decline in priees and the bears made a good baul of profits. Of course the rumor traveled fastand grew as it traveled, and when it reached San Francisco it stated as positive fact that the President had actually issued such a proclamation. The rumor had no foundation in fact, but it served to show how deeply inter- ested our people are in the weliare of the Cubans. One could hear expressions of approval of the President’s action on every hand, and the only criticism was that the matter had been delayeu so long. One could not help observing that the merits of the cause of the Cubans was not discussed at all. It was Weyler's bruo- tality and the seeming approval of his fiendish work by the Madrid Government that made those who heard the rumor rejoice that this Government had at last given the insurgents official notice. It was the possibility of an opportunity for the United States to give Spain a sound thrashing that pleased the people. } 1t is no doubt the fact that no nation was ever held in greater contempt than Spain is by the people of North and South America, and were the Cubans without an excuse for rebelling against the mother | country, the metnods employed by Wey- ler and other generals of the Spanish army would create a sympathy for them which would take most substantial form were opportunity offered. This Wall-street rumor might be studied by Spain as a straw showing which way the current of public sentiment is flowing in this coun- try. DODGES THE QUESTION. Secretary Carlisle’s reply to the inquiry of the Senate concerning the circumstances connected with the sale of Government bonds in the vears 1894-95-96 fails to give the satisfaction that was hoped for. In- stead of a clear and unvarnished state- ment of the facts the Secretary submits an argument in justification of the several sales, with an apparent effort to leaa away from the real thing that the Senate wanted to know about. There is no doubt at all that the figures Mr. Carlisle sub- mits are correct in every particular, but the Senate and the country were well in- formed on those points before. What was wanted, and what Mr. Carlisle fails to give with clearness, was an analysis of the cir- cumstances which, in his mind, made it necessary for the Government to sell bonds in tie first instance, and why, sec- ondly, the transactions were rot more favorable to the Treasury Department. la reiernng to the failure of Congeess to, | of the party’s oracle. | them. 1 2 give the treasury the relief that it was alleged to be in need of Mr. Carlisle prac- tically adniits that there were serious ap- prehensions existing of the ability of the Government to maintain its credit; but he is misleading when he intimates thai it wae the people that was apprehensive. It was the administration and not the pub- lic that was ‘rattled.” This is made ciear in the haste of the Secretary to close a secret deal with the Belmont- Morgan-Rothschild syndicate to take the entire issue, $62,000,000, at the absurdly low price oi $104.4946, when the same char- acter of United States bond was selling in the investment markets of thiscountry and Europe at $119.° Admitting that the trea- sury was in distress, and that it was nec- essary to procure gold by the sale of bonds, the factstill remains that the administra- tion was unnecessarily alarmed, and that had it been equal to the emergency the syn- dicate could have taken no such advan- tage. It is not charged by any one that Mr. Carlisle or any other officer of the Government tried to ordid secure personal gain by the transaction. The real meaning of Mr. Carlisle’s dodg- g the kind of an explanation that was asked for it is that the more he should try to justify the deal with the syndicate the more he would expose the incapacity of the Cleveland administration. To give the true reason why bonds that were sell- ing in the open market for $119 should be given to a syndicate for a fraction over $104 would have been to confess that the Government had iallen into glaringly in- competent hands. No corner grocer would show so little business sense, and now that the administration itself realizes its utter inability to cope with complex or threatening danger, it seeks to avoid ex- posure by subterfuge, as in Carlisle’s re- ply to the Senate’s inquiries concerning the several bond issues. THERE WILL BE NO BOLT. The advance guard from several States bas reached St. Louis, and as is elways the case there are those who assume the role There is no man now at St. Louis nor will there be at any time before or during the convention who is suthorized to set the bounds of the party’s going and coming. That is for the convention to do, and when a man an- nounces that his State will bolt if his advice is not taken, or when another talks of a bolt if this is done and that is not done, the country will understand that they are not representative Republicans. The delegates from every State are in- structed to work for the accomplishment of certain aims, but no delecation is authorized to taik of bolting, much less to bolt. For the most part, however, this talk about bolting are tales got up by Democrats to create discord 1u the local organizations of the party, and ERepub- licans are in no way responsible for This the members of the party everywhere should understand. There will be plenty ‘of hara work before the meeting of the convention and strong and logical arguments will be made in the convention by the California and by every other delegation for or against pro- posed declarations of principles. Itis by this way that the needs, the sentiments and the wishes of the several States are made known to the party as a whole, and when all interests have been presented the convention wiill adjust its platform so that every community shall have allits wants up to where move would be trespass upon the rights of others. To talk of bolting, then, is to talk as the disloyal talk. But, as we have said, pretty much all the talk of “‘bolting the party’’ is manufactured by a Democratic junta now in St. Loais for the express purpose of sowing seeds of discord. It is a Demo- cratic trick that has grown gray in the service of that party, and no Republican should worry about a “‘bolt,” for there will be none. Meanwhile let the organization of league clubs go right along with in- creasing enthusiasm, so that the only “bolt” that the country will witness will be the bolting of the Democratic party for a hiding-place. WHEN SHE SMILES Like dew on the blushing June roses, And as soft as the dawn of the day, 1s the 100k that my Joved one discloses When she wishes Lo have Ler own way. If the song that I sing but expresses Oue-half what her sweet smile will do, - You can guess that a hat or a dress is The objécy my love has in view. When, like on the blushing June roses And as soft as the dawn of theday 1s her look as my loved one proposes ‘That she simply will have her own way. —Life, THE VALLEY ROAD. Santa Clara News. This line, to which Californians look as their hope of redemption from overcharges tor freight and transportation, is completed from Stockton to Merced, a distance of seventy miles. More rapid progress would have been made had it not been for trouble in seenring right-of-way. These deteails have been nearly all settled, except one case in Madera County and another in Fresno County, so more rapid progress is looked for when the cases now on from Merced County are settled. They are being tried under condemnation proceedings, which were opened in court yesterday, June 8. Negotiations are in_progress between the Valley road and the California Navigation end Improvement Company with & view toward making a traflic arrangement whereby the Valley road would virtually have a through line from San Francisco to Merced as soon as the road between Stockton and Merced is regu- larly opened for business. The steamship company named now handles ell the construction material of the competin; railroad and hes boats lying idle which coul§ be made available immediately. There will be ample facilities provided, not only for all the freight business that may be offered, bus passengers will also find special inducements to :ue thisroute to Merced and Intermediate points. It is expected that when the railroad is com- gla!.ed and operated to Bakersfield additional oats will be required. These will have to be built and they will be 1t is expected three a_day each way will be required as soon as the Valiey and Cor- ral Hollow railroads are in operation. The lat- ter road has not made a contract yet, but it may conclude to handle iis coal in its own barges. 1"%: Valley road has thousands of well wish- ers in this valley who want to see it completed as guickly as possible to Mojave. When this is done there will be & competing line to Eastern cities, which will do more to break the mono- poly under which California has struggled for years than all other causes combined. JUST THE MAN FOR STEWART. Wasbington Times. Some one tells this story of Senator Stewart of Nevada: The colored butler in the house of & widely known Representative asked the daughter of the house,a bright young lady, whatall the talk about silver was. She ex- plained tc him as well as she could, but evi- dently not to the butler’s satisfaction, for he went away insisting that he was a silver man and the silver question meant that any one who wanted it could get sixteen silver dollars for one gold dollar if the measure ever passed. Now it happens that this young lady is very well acquainted with Senator Stewart’s daugh- ter, and that young lady happened to call the day after the butler had sought in vain for in- formation. During the course of the conver- sation the young hostess told her guest of the butler’s inquiring turn of mind. At this Miss Stewart broke in impulsively with: “Oh, why didn’t you send him over to see papa? He wants some one to talk silver withsomuch.” A GEORGIA PLATFORM. A Georgie man is going to run for any office he can get on the following platform: *“I never was in the war; never hollered at the surrender, and never killed anybody that let t and commodious. me llona,“.‘l:: the onz‘:lszmow Abont‘ the THE ST. LOUIS PLATFORM. VIiEws oF LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS as To THE FINANCIAL PLank To BE ADOPTED. Faint-Hearted Men to the Rear. > Omaha Bee. 5 it is simultaneously announced from Wash- ington and St. Louis that the platform upon which William McKinley expects to present himself for the suffrage of the people will be 2 compromise, or, in other words, & straddle on the money question. We do not believe that any man orset of men has any right to com- mit either Willtam McKinley or the Republi- can party in advance of the National Conven- tion to & straddle or juggle on the silver ques- tion. Mr. McKinley spoke for himself when he declared at the Marquette Club banquet at Chicago that he would stand squarely on the g[htlorm that should be framed at St. Loufs. is own yiews on the question were clearly ex- pressed by him four years agoin his speech made at Lincoln, in_ this State, when."ln reply 1o the question, “What about silver?” he in- terrupted his speech to respond: Tl tell, you, friend, what I think about siiver, and nyu wiiay the Republican party thinks about it. I believe, and the Republican party thinks, that every dollar, be it gold, silver or paper,’ should be the equal of the other. The Tarmer and the laborer more than anybody else want an honest dollar. When the farmer sells a bushel of wheat he must use & full bushel, and when he gets his pay he demands & full dollar worth 100 cents. The farmer who wanted a full dollar worth 100 cents in 1892 wants the same kind of a dollar in 1896, Ie will not be satisfied with any two-faced expression on this subject. Neither will the farmer who clamors for 16 to 1 free coinage regardless of the action of o!her nations. It is arrant nonsense to expect to draw votes from the free coinage ranks by promises of international agreement, either at the old ratio or at some new ratio. The free silverite whatever his politics may have been will atand out for 16 to 1 regardless of other nations or nothing. On the other hand, all voters who believe in honesty and full value money demand an explicit, une- quivocal declaration sgeinst free and unlim- ited silver coinage and the menace of & silver standard. While not a single vote can be gained by a straddle, hundreds of thousends of votes will be assured for McKinley and the Republican ticket by a fearless and uncompro- mising stand for sound mone?;. It must be borne in mind that a very large percentage of the independent vote, the vote ihat has turned the balance in debatable States in previous elections, will be gained or lost ou the money plank. This is especially true of the German, Scandinayian and Slavic pobulation,who are almost to a man for sound money and against free silvercoinage. * * * Mr. Grosvenor asks: Where will these votes £0 to since it is foreordained that both Demo- crats and Populists will indorse the silver de- lusion? Suppose they take to the woods. That would mean a loss of hundreds of thou- sands of votes in States where every yote 1s needed. This, however, is & cowardly view. The Republican party boasts that it has never Inl{eredpbeiore agreat issue. Whyshoulditdo 80 in the year 1396 and protract the agony born of uncertainty as to the future policy of the American Govérnment, * * * The assertion that the battle must be fought on the protective tariff alone is absurd. General #ope, when he had his headquarters in the saddle, once declded fo fight a decisive battle at Warrenton, Va., but Lee and Stone- wall Jackson turned his flank and forced him to fight at Manassas. In the impending cam- paign MeKinley will stand for protection and the fighting will be forced on the lines of free coinage whether the Republican generals choose that battle-ground or not. 3 Ifthe faint-hearted men who ere trying to dodge the main issue of the impending cam- puign by subteriuge and compromise would retire to the rear and let the flshtlng men oc- cupy the front ranks the battle of 1896 wiil register the most signal victory the Republi- can party has ever won. There Will Be No Cowardice, New York Tribune. It is practically settled that the sound-money men will have entire control in the Republi- can convention, and the silver men in the Democratic convention. That certainly is by some expected to have much to do with the shaping of the Repubiican platform. They reason that in such eircumstances the Repub- licans will have nothing to fear in any Eastern States. and wili therefore be inclined to treat as kindly as possible the opinions of Western vrethren, whose struggle for protective prinei- ples is embarrassed by the popular desire for {ree silyer coinage. Insupport of this view it is urged that sound-money Democrats have ai- ready begun to show that they will stick to their party and fight for it, even if n';nm up & silver man on & silver platform, and that the Republicans will be obliged to meet such dis- honest ignoring of the question with some measure of evasion or prudence, These calculatious leave out of sighta ques- tion ot principle and & practical contingency which may prove extremely important. It is not possible for the Republicaus to pass in silence the question of silver coinage, and no obligation can be higher than to state with honesty the principles by which they will be governed. The entire history of the party has been distinguished by manly candor in stating its beliefs aud unfimching fidelity in carrying out its pledges. For forty years its opponents Tave Taborek 15 vad 1o entangle the Republi- can party in a tricky statement or a disregard of promises, and the votes in States where people are free to vote stand as proof that no charge of that nature has ever had weight withe public opinion. There will not be this year & beginning of Republican bad faith or Ccowardice. The party has clearly defined and strong convictions on the money question, ana cannot help stating them. The Money FPlank Must Be an Honest One. Chicago Times-Herald. The money plank adopted by the Republi- cans of Maine reads: * We are opposed to the free and unlimited coln- age of silver, except by international agreement, and until such egreement can be obtained we be- lieve that the present gold standard should be maintained. That is & very good platform. It would be more terse 1f it read: “We believe that the present gold standard should be maintained, and we are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver.” Every reference to an international agree- ment is shifty and futile. It deceives nobody, because every one knows, first, that there is not the slightest possibility of an international agreement &t any ratio, and, secondly, that if such an agreement were formally entered into no Government could be bound to abide by it a day longer than its own industrial or com- mercial interests would ng:;enr to warrant. The money plank at St. Louis should not be incumbered with redundant words or irreve- vant allusions, What the people want is an honest, plain, unequivocal affirmation of the single principle of the present gold standard and an absolute negation of the free coinage of silver at any ratio, The Maine platform is good. but it would be better without redundency and_irreievancy. The St. Louis plank must be the best that can be contrived for the understanding of the plain people. It must be plain, like them. It must be without subtlety, as they are. It must be straightforward, as the people are. It must be honest; the people are honest. No redundancy at St. Louis! No ambiguity! No subtlety! Mr. McKinley’s Attitude. Washington Post. As we have herétofore had occasion to re- mark Mr. McKinley’s refusal to be ‘‘drawn’ on the financial question has our ungnalified approval. He is under no sort of obligation to express himself at the demand of enemies who hope to extract from the utterance something that may be used to his injury and discredit. His friends—and they seem to constitute about three-fourths of the Republican party—are en- tirely satisfled. They have asked no questions #nd seem more ihan willing to take Mr. Mc- Kinley as he stands. For him to enter upon an unprofitable controversy under these cir- cumstances would be mere folly. The best answer to all this affectation of solicitude is to remind the inquisitors that the St. Louis platforma will declare the party’s position as regards the matter of finance, and that McKinley can be safely trusted, as an honorable man, to keep faith with the spirit and the letter of that declaration. If the Re- publican party as a whole is sincerely wedded to the gold standard, the delegatés, gofn; iresh from the people, will make that senti- ment known, and Mr. MeKinley, their chosen representative and standard-bearer, cannot do less than observe a loyal and sincere com- pliance with their wishes. We shall see what the St. Louis platform says. We shall see ‘whether it is so emphatic and so explicit for the single gold standard as certain gentiemen now prophesy, But we fully believe that the National platform will differ little, if any, irom the State platform adopted in Ohio some Wweeks ago by a convention controlled by Mc- Kinley's friends in his interests. It is fair to assume that the financial plank in that structure had Mr. McKinley’s entire lg roval, if, indeed, it were mot the work of his own hands—and here itis: ° ‘We contend for honest money—for & currency of 8014, silver and paper with which to mensure our exchanges, that shall be as sound as the Govern- ment and &s untarnished as its honor, and to that end we favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money, either in accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an inter- gl Stk Sa ns determined by o s will 8601 n- legisiation as will the ma 0 th3 paticies of values 0f tho §wO melals, 0 that the purchasin the dollar, whether at all times equal. This is quite as definite and stalwart as the average Republican platiorm—quite as much 80, we fancy, as any ihe St. Louis convention is likeiy to put forth.” It, no doubt, expresses Mr. McKinley’s personul attitude and purpose, and may safely be accepted in that character. We see State after State instrueting for him in the light of this utterance, and its almost unmis- takable meaning. Why, then, need Mr. Me~ Kinley trouble himself to elaborate a proposi- tion already clear enough? and debt-paying power of ver, gold of paper, shail be PERSONAL. W. P. McFaul of Ukiah is here. W. H. Cowan of London is in town. J. D. Foster of Fresno is at the Russ. Ex-Judge A. Hewel of Modesto is at the Lick. John Hogue and family of Gilroy areat the Ramona. Ex-Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare arrived here yesterday. Robert Shearer of Galt, Sacramento County, isin town. R. H. Willey, an attorney of Monterey, is on & visit here. Ex-Congressman Caminettiof Jackson is reg- istered at the Lick. E. Taylor, a business man of Calaveras County, is in town. E. McVeigh, & business man of Salt Lake City, is at the Cosmopolitan. Justice Garoutte of the Supreme Court left last night for New York. William Fullerton of Cedar River, Iows, is among recent arrivals here. C. A. Browh, manager of a large estate in Hawaii, is at the Occidental. Dr. G.C. Porter of Hollister is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs, Porter. W. Forsyth, long engaged in the raisin busi- ness at Fresno, is in the City. ExAttorney-General A. L. Hart of Sacra- mento is among recent arrivals. " Charles W. Seymour, a prominent business man of Tacoma, is at the Ramona. John 8. Noble, & merchant from St. Helena, and his family, are at the Ramona. 0. Isenberg, a planter of Hawaii, is at the Oc- cidental, accompanied by his family. P. C. Jones, oue of the oldest merchants and extensive planters of Honolulu, 1s in town. M. F. Crandell has returned from a business trip 1o Honolulu and is at the Cosmopolitan. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan are T. J. McGrath and wife of Watsonville. F. L. Coombs, ex-United States Minister to Japan, has arrived here from his home in Nape. W. H. Mead, & Councilman of Portland and general agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is at the Occidental. A. B. Lemmon, editor and owner of theSanta Rosa Republican, is among the arrivals at the Grand. He is en route to 8t. Louis. F. L. Ewer, a leading vineyardist of St. Helens, and also largely interested in mines, is taking in the City and is at the Ramona. Hervey Lindley, H. Z. Gsborne, T. E. Newlin, George Mason and Joseph C. Kays of Los Angeles, a1l prominent in Republican politics, are at the Palace.~ Hon. J. ‘N.Todd, the American Vice-Consul in Guatemala who arrived here some time since and has been absent from the City for some weeks, has returned here. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 10.—At the Hol- land—A. Borell and wife, H. Wallraff; Hofi- man—P. Dillmos; Albert—W. C. Hawkes; St. Denis—Dr. E. S. Childs; Metropole—J. W. Knox; St. James—I. F. Nugent; Broadway Central—W. H. Humphry; Astor—W. B, Web- ster; Imperial—S. Baeling; Gilsey—H. N. Dia- mond, W. N. Diamond; Continental—Mrs. W, Evans. From California—Mrs. Bressler, Grand Union; F. H. Drayton, Murray Hill; Rev. F. L. Nash and wife, Astor; F. P. Shultz and wife, Cosmopoli A CHILD'S PRETTY APRON. Here {8 an apron which ‘combines pictur- esqueness with utility. ftis developed charm- ingly in any of the dainty white stuffs, such as nainsook, dimity, lawn and cambric. An inexpensive decoration consists of a very nar- row Valenciennes insertion let in at the top of the hem on sleeves and revers. Another trim- ming which is dainty aud not costly is a narrow frill of Valenciennes lace of theItalian mesh, set on the edges. Narrow edges of em- broidery set on flat recommend themselves on the score of easy laundering. Aprons of pretts, light colors are a possi- bility, for the colored nainsooks wash admir- ably. It may be bad in many colors, pink, couleur de rose, blue and pale green. Gingham in checks and stripes makes very serviceable aprons, and need not of necessity be in colors which do not please a child’s eye. Stripes of pink and_ white on blue and white wash quite as well as the dull_grays and browns. A pretty contrast is obtained by using a plain_color for the revers. Or make of plain pink, with sleeves and peg pink and white. the apron Tevers of stri CURRENT HUMOR. “My wife is such a good manager. Before she goes away for the summer she writes me out & long bulletin so Ican know exactly where everything is in the house.” “Yes?” ©And then she carries it off with her.”—Chi- cago Record. Strawber—What is your object in constantly increasing the number of your debts? Singerly—I want to be sure that when I die I shall be universally mourned.”—New York Herald. Maud—Do you love him? Bella—Love him? I hate him. Maud—Oh, I see; that's why you are going to marry him.—New York Commercial Adver- tiser, Barber—Don’t you want some tonic to make your hair stay in? N. Peck—A—sh—I don’t believe Ido. The easier 1t comes out the less it hurts.—Indianap- olis Journal. Bacon—I see they've put a sounding-board back of the minister’s pulpit. What doyou suppose that's for? Egbert—Why, it's to throw out the sound, «“Gracious! If you threw outthe sound there wouldn’t be anything left in the sermonl’— Yonkers Statesman. Trolley Motorman (to conductor)—Say, Bill, the old gent behind has just fell off. Conductor—That’s all right; he's just paid his fare.—Cincinnati Leader. “That there thin chicken with the draggled feathers,” said the farmer to the summer boarder, “Is the one I call the socialist. Know why?” Ofcourse the boarder didn’t know. “Well, 'l tell you. Icall him that’cause he spends so much time chasin’ the other chick- .ens to get their vittles away from ’em that he don’t find no time to pick none for hisself.”— Indianepolis Journal, . MUSIC AND One of the great successes of the present musical season in London has been made by the Columbians, & quartet consisting of four American girls, who sing plantation songs to the accompsaniment of a banjo and guitar which two of them play. London is so over- run with accomplished musicians from all parts of the civilized world that the furor created by these girls with their simple songs isall the more remarkable. Their names sre Miss Rita Lorton, Miss Belle Brewster, Miss Winnifred Nightingale and Miss Nona Wil- liams, and all come of good American families. Less than two years ago they went to Europe to study music¢, and after the work of the day used to amuse themselves during the winter evenings by playing the banjo and guitar and singing plantation and college songs. *In this,” says the Musical Courier, “they were al- Ways encoursged, because all, both musicians and others, were simply carried away by the beauty of their ensemble singing and also by the unusual harmonies—the spon- taneous outcome of their own musical intu- itions. As they made friends in the great me- tropolis their singing began to be heralded, and suddenly to their ntter amusement, l[xe)' found themseives the center of much admira- tion.” The Columbians have toured With Patti in England and are greatly in demand both for drawing-room performances in society and for concerts. Vogl, the celebrated tenor of the Mumich opera, who Is counted among the oldest and most solid pillars ot Wagnerian art, has just undergone a great misfortune, not as an artist, but as an agriculturist. In the environs of Munich, near the Lake of Starnberg, Vogl pos- sesses & large estate, where he devotes a large portion of his time superintending every kind of culture, even pisciculture. A large pond has been constructed for the fish, and recently the chief embankment of this artificial lake was washed away by the rains, and the water swept away to the lake, carrying away Vogl's fish and causing enormous damage along its track. Itis stated that the loss to neighboring estates amounts to 100,000 francs, and it has been decreed that the unfortunatesinger must reimburse this sum. Vogl would have done Dbetter to stick to his singing, for the exploita- tion of his larynx would never have cost him 80 dear as this. The Municipal Council of the city of Ham- burg has proposed to the citizens to grant & subvention of 20,000 marks in order that the city may, for & year, maintain a first-class or- chestra. The citizens agreed, on condition that there should be at least five concerts de- voted exclusively to classical music, at which the price of admission was to be fixed at a sum equivalent to 12 cents. Nothing could have been more just, for as the mass of the people wiil contribute to the support of these con- certs it is only right that they should profit by them; that is true democracy, and now there is scarcely a person in Hamburg so poor that he cannot hear the symphonies of Beethoven interpreted by an orchestra of the highesi or- der. “The King of Lahore,” in & frock costand & white tiel To any onewho knows the opers the idea is amusing, but at Kief the other day the work had been announced, and when the audience had assembled it was found that the costumer had played the theater false and jhere were consequently noue of the custom- ary gorgeous costumes for his majesty or the rest of the troupe to don. After a hasty con- sultation it was resolved to give the work asan oratorio, and the papers state that the effect produced by the music was not less attractive than it is when “The King of Labore” is acted and costumed. The Parisian public has accorded the warm- est reception to Clarence Eddy, the American organist, who has been giving some concerts at the Trocadero. A large number of French organists, among them Theodore Dubois, the new director of the Paris Conservatory, were present at the opening concert and led the applause. The papers state that Eddy, with- out doubt, can be classed among the greatest organists of the day, and this is a great con- fession for the Parisian press to make regard- ing a foreigner. An admirer of Richard Waguer has offered to the Municipal Council of Berlin the sum of 5000 marks as the first subscription toward & monument in honor of the Bayreuth master. It remains to be seen if the council will fur- nish the rest or invite the citizens to subscribe. In awaiting the response of the council the shades of Richard Wagner can only boast of & commemorative plaque, placed on the house at Leipsic which replaces the house where he was born. That is certainly very little. The tenor Van Dyck has guarreled with Mme. Cosima Wagner, and unless an unex- pected reconciliation takes place he will sing no more at Bayreuth. Next year he will begin his ninth season at the Imperial Opera-house of Vienna. At the expiration of his tenth year of service, if he is not re-engaged, he will be entitled to & pension of 6000 florins (£3000), paid from the private purse of the Emperor. A German composer, Auguste Bungert, has just finished a Ilyric triology entitled {Ulysses,” the subject of which closely follows the Odyssey. The first of the three works is entitled “Penelope,’” and this will receive its initial performance next October at the Royal Opera-house of Dresden. The celebrated bary- tone Scheldemantel has been intrusted with the role of Ulysses. Music is to play an important part in the Geneva exposition, one of the most noteworthy attractions being & series of symphony con- serts, under the direction of a young and dis- tinguished artist, Gustay Doret. A very eclectic series of programmes has been ar- ranged, including symphonies by-the classical as well as by the modern masters. The Royal Opera of Berlin is preparing to mount an unpublished opera by the English composer, Henry Waller, entitled “Fra Fran- cesco.” Itis said that the Emperor William has ordered that the first periormance shall be a private one for bimself alone. This looks like following in the footsteps of the late la- mented King Louis of Bavaria. A new lturgical mass, with organ and string quartet accompianment by the young composer, Giuseppe Massa, has been performed with great success at the church of San Carlo, Modena. Indeed, the work produced a pro- found impression on the hearers. The «Kyrie” and the “Agnus Dei’ are cited as be- ing especially remarkable. A great musical combine is announced from Italy. Ricorai and Sonzogno, the two great music publishers and impresarios, wno have been rivals forso long, have pooled their in- terests. Both houses possess great power in the musical world, and combined they will practically own the Italian opera-houses. Anton Dvorak has not been idle since his re- turn to Europe. It is announced that he has just finished not only twonew quartets for strings, but also three grand symphonic poems, of which the titles are: “The Sorcerer of the South,” “The Man of the Waters” and “The Golden Wheel.” Passing through Milan the other day Saint- Saens was made the object of regular ovations. He was recognized in the hall of the orches- tral society, where they happened to be per- forming his “Danse Macabre,” and immedi- ately the whole audience cheered him three times. A grand Handel festival was to have taken place at Leipsic this month under the direc- tion of Kretschmer, conductor of the Riedel- scher Verein. As the director has fallen very sick, however, the festival has been postponed till next anutumn. Papers from the Argentine Republic speak in enthusiastic terms cf the success Tamagno is meeting with at Buenos Aires. L' Italia &l Plata says he has modified his method and that bis art is now as good as his voice. More than & hundred thousand francs have been subscribed toward the Gounod monu- ment. Reyer is president of the monument committee, and Massenet and Gerome are vice- presidents. It is announced that Puccini, the composer of “Manon Lescaut,” ete., is writing an opera based on the plot of Sardow’s drams, “La Tosce.” A new opera in one act, entitled “Stella,” by Franz Kohout, chef d’orchestre of the Prague MUSICIANS. Opera-bouse, has just been prodtced with suc- cess in the Bohemhn_t_n_gltnl. rt Humperdinck, the fértunate com- ”":’l‘}"ua.ml and Gretel,” has flnished the score of an opers, entitled “The Royal Children.” o f the city The Italian Philharmonic Society of has decided that the next opera given shall be Donizetti’s “I1 Poliuto.” is A new Ttalisn opera by Angelo Ferreto called “An Angel’s Love (“L’Amore di un Angelo”). — VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Popular Pennoyer. Seattle Argus. Two P's in one pod—Pennoyer and Portland. A New Crime. Los Angeles Times. g Low handle-bars on & bicycle are acrime that should be suppressed by statute. Information Wanted. San Francisco Post We should like to know for what grent Dem- ocrat the office of President is hunting. A Popular Song. Fresno Watchman. agilyer threads among the gold” has been converted into a Western campaign melody. Ubiquitous and Absent. Santa Clara News. Dunham is a contradiction of thatlaw which eays a body cannot be in two places at the same time. They Wouldn’t Say Amen. Ansconda (Mont.) Standard. The Methodist General Conference regrets that it cannot say “Amen” to Mr, Cleveland's Armenian policy. A Deceased Law. Salinas Owl. California has an anti-prize fighting law that became a dead letter the moment it was signed. The Statement Accepted. Fresno Republican. Secretary Carlisle need not bother about that other letter explaining that his declination to be a candidate is final. It will be taken for granted. Cleveland’s Financial Policy. Porterville Enterprise. Fresno Democrats indorsed Cleveland, ex- cepting the financial policy. So do we; but We do not hanker after the play of *Hamlet” where Hamlet is lelt out. What Cleveland Wanted. Stockton Independent. Republican leaders said they expected the present session of Congress to be a “do- nothing” session, but President Cleveland wanted it to be & “do less than nothing” session. Useless Bloodhounds. Tulare Register. By the way, who has seen a successful pur- suit of criminals by means of dogs? At various times public attention has been centered upon somebody with & string of pups at the begin- ning of a trail, but somehow the outcome has always been enshrouded in a haze. A number of residents of California have left for their healtlr from time to time, but we do not recail that any of them have really been run down with dogs. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE Miss Rose Elizabeth Cieveland has been for some time living in Summerville, N. C. Hamilton, at the age of 16, wrote political essays thatwere credited by the general public to Jay. Gustay Jovariovitch. the Russian “Cattle King,” bas 1,500,000 sheep, which are looked after by 35,000 shepherd dogs. In Robert Graham, a clerk in Brooklyn, has been discovered the person of Sir Robert James Stuart Grsham, tenth Baronet of Esk. Colonel Howard Vincent, head of the crimi- nal investigation department in Seotland Yard, boasts that he can tell a man's business by the way he uses the door-knocker. The young King of Servia is very supersti- tious, and is a firm believer in one of the most hideous Servian legends—namely, the one con- nected with the broncolaque. This horrible monster is supposed to be a kind of vampire which assumes all kinds of shapes—sometimes beautiful and sometimes horrible ones—and seizes on you when you are asleep and sucks, your blood. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's,* —————————— EPECIAL iniormation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * emamse ity Miss Winnie Simpson of Garfiela, Wash., makes quite a snug amount of pin money by shooting squirrels. She handles a gun to bet- ter effect than many of the men in that region, her average being thirty squirrels a day. 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