The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1896. THEIR PROMISE NOBLY FULFILLED, What the Valley Road Has Done in Its First Year. HONOR FOR DIRECTORS. They Have Redeemed All Pledges and Cut Rates in Two. HOPE FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN. One Hundred Miles of New Railway in Operation and Industry Revivified. It is now a year since the trustees who represent the shareholders of the San Franeisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company met and elected the directors of the corporation, and the progress that has been made within this tweive monthsisa source of marvel to railroad men gener- ally, the sharpest kind of a thorn in the side of the Southern Pacific coterie and an occasion for profouna rejoicing among the producers and shippers of the San Joaquin Valley. In the pooling agreement adopted by the subscribers to the Valley Road stock hope and promise was held out to the peo- ple in the following announcement of the objects of the projectors of the enterprise: The rates of charge for transportation of the crops and prodncts of thic State from the in- terior to the seaboard, and of merchandise from the seaboerd to the interior of the State, have hitherto been excessive and oppressive to the people of the State, and destructive to its industry and commerce. All the parties to the agreement who have become subseribers to the stock of the San Francisco and San Joaguin Valley Railway Company have subscribed thereior and under- taken the construction of said railway for the purpose of effecting & permanent reduction in the cost of transportation between the city and port of San Francisco and the great interior valley of the State by the construction and operation of said road as a competitive means of transportion between said points. On Tuesday next the annual meeting of the trustees ana the election of officers of the corporation will take place. Reports will then be read from the various offi- cials. President Claus Spreckels, Vice- President Watt, who has been acting president during Mr. Spreckels' trip abroad; Chief Engineer Story, Secretary Mackie and Traffic Manager Moss will all probably have interesting information to present. £ The reports to be then made will show that the hope thus held out & year ago has been realized and the promises nobly fuliilled. During this comparatively short period of one year $2,000,000 have been expended on the construction and equipment of the road, thus putting that amount in circu- lation among the laboring people. About 100 miles of the railroad have been com- pleted, 91 of which are now in operation, and 15 additional miles have been graded and made ready for the laying of the rails. Among the prominent features of this construction work are the five large bridges, aggregating $200,000 in cost, which now span Mormon Channel and the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced and San Joaquin rivers. Part of this sum of $2,000,000 has also been used to pay for ten locomotives, 300 freightcars, six passenger coaches and eight cabooses. In the construction work of the road be- iween 300 and 400 men were employed each day at an average wage of $2 per diem. At the meeting on Tuesday.all the de- tails of the proposed $6,000,000 bond issue will probably pe decided upon. Judging from the excellent results achieved not a dollar has been wasted nor an hour lost by the management. It was calculated that it would cost about $20,000 a mile to build and equip the road. Up to the present time the directors have kept weil within this limit, for with an expenditure of $2,000,000 they have 100 miles completed, fifteen miles more graded, equipment more than sufficient for the 100 miles completed, and rails enough purchased for the entire length of Map of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway From Stock- ton to BaKersfield. [Drawn from official data, but subject to slight changes which may be rendered necessary by right- of-way obstructionists ] the road, clear through to Bakersfield. The line is now being operated to Sharon, is completed to Miller and graded to the San Joaquin River. : Among the most recent improvements undertaken on the line is the construction of a handsome combination ssenver and freight depot at Ascalon. ork begun about ten days ago. The structure is to cost about $5000. The six passenger coaches ordered at the same time with the seven locomotives are expected to arrive in about two weeks, when the Valley road will also compete with the Southern Pacific-for passenger business. On next Tuesday there will be a confer- ence between Traffic Manager Moss and Manager Corcoran of the California Navi- gation and , Improvement Company, at which will be discussed the matter of opening an office further uptown for ‘the convenience of the patrons of the road. Passenger and freight business may be in- augurated by the 15th of next month through to Fresno. v Two new stations were opened Friday south of Le Grand. They are known as Marguerite and Sharon. From both of these a ¢rain rate of $1 90 per ton to Stock- ton has been quoted and of $240 to San Francisco and Porc Costa. Marguerite is in competition with Minturn on the Southern Pacific, and Sharon with Mc- Near's spur. The old Southern Pacific rate from these points to Stockton was $2 25, and to San Francisco and Port Costa $2 95 and $2 45 respectively. 3 Traffic Manager Moss has also notified the Railroad Commissioners that he has made 'a rate of $275 per ton on flour in carloads from Merced to San Francisco. The Southern Pacific rate is$4 20. He has also put in a rate of $§185 per ton on potatoes in carloads from Stockton to Merced. The Southern Pacific rate is $3 10. Trafiic Manager J. C. Stubbs of the Southern Pacific Company states that not only have =zll these cuts been met by his road, but that all future rates made by the Valley Road would be promptly met. He added that the Southern Pacific would not undertake to cut under Valley Road rates. Thus, while not in a position to handle apy very great quantity of freight itself just at present, the Valley Road is effect- ing a saving of thousands of dollars al- ready to the producers and merchants of the San Joaquin Valley. COLORED VOTERS FOR McKINLEY, A Young Organization Which Shows Strength and Determination. ARE ALL REPUBLICANS. Show Their Appreciation to the Party That Gave Freedom. ALL PROMPT AT REGISTRATION. Determined to Make Their Influcnce Felt at the Polls Next Nc- vember. Major William McKinley and the entire Republican party have no stronger sup- porters than the colored men of this City, benefit to be given for the Carnival of. the Golden Gate, which takes pluce on Wednesday afternoon next at the Columbia Theater. For this performance Boucicault’s comedy, “Lon- don Assurance,” will be presented with the en- tire -rrenf(h of the hnw?uy CDII};‘IIIY- and the prices will remain at 25, 50 and 75 cents for re- served seats. On Tuesda; pmmp!l{ at 1 o’clock in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce building Miss Maxine Elliott will sell at auc- tion to the highest bidder the boxes and the loges for this entertainment. ————————— ONE ON AUNTIE An Amusing Little Story Story. Y There is a certain young woman living in Greater New York, says the Evening Sun! who has a penchant for telling stories. Not “fibs” nor ‘“tales out of scbool,” but cheerful little narratives of a kind to lighten the leaden admosphere of a “‘woman’s luncheon” itself. The young woman has thus won quite & reputation (for a woman) as a raconteur, and she has a very pretty and very choice collection of stories at her tongue’s end. It so happens that this young woman also has a maiden aunt, an individual who aithough estimable in everv way, does not possess a collection of stories of any sort, and who, lacking appreciation in this line, does not wholly approve of her niece’s success. _The other evening the aunt, with others, dined at the house of the niece. The niece was in & particularly lively mood, and "uth £0 good an sudience she proceeded to 'éet, off'"some of her pet anecdotes. The effect upon the audience was all that could be desired, and exhilarated by such a se- ception the young woman began the pre- liminaries to what she regarded as the flower of her fiction. Scarcely had she got beyond the opening sentence, however, when the maiden aunt uttered a depre- cating *'Oh!” followed by *Clara, my dear, you're surely not going to tell that sfory.” “Why not?” replied ‘‘Ciara, my dear.” *‘It’s one of the best stories I ever heard.” About a e 2 WATERABUTLER S —-_.’\/—Q g \Si\ND ll_{jihj kes %fi@ ety JorN (R e v Gt OFFICERS OF THE COLORED AMERICAN McKINLEY REPUBLICAN CLUB. THE LAST OAPTURED SLAVER. Her Captain Said to Have Been Hanged on Bedlows Island. The only captain of a slave vessel who suffered the death penalty in America was captured by a crew of which one of the members is now a citizen of Cleveland, the engineer of the People’s Gaslight and Coke Company. “The slave ship was the Erie, and it was the last American slaver captured,” said Mr. Matthews in talking about the his- torical event. ‘“‘She was taken off the ! Congo in the spring of 1861 by the United States sloop-of-war Mobhican. I was cap- tain of the foretop and of the star- board watch. The capture was acciden- tal. The vessels dealing with slaves would slip out in the intervals between the pa- trol beats of the men-of-war, and they knew pretty well our habits. But this time the Mohican was delayed two days waiting for mail, and going from the island of Fer- nondizo we sighted a vessel making from the mouth of the Congo. We were flying the French flag aud the stranger floated an American flag. We signaled for her to beave to, but this request not being re- garded a shot was fired. Then she hove to without offering resistance, and a party being sent aboard found every one dressed alike. * 1t was thus some days before we discovered who the captain was. She was manned by fifteen men and had on 890 slaves and three slave agents. The slaves were landed and the slave agents and five Spaniards, who did not want to claim American citizenship, were sent away in a trade boat. Eight of the slaver’s crew were shipped on the Mohican and the officers and two of the crew were brought to America. The slaveship was taken to Liberia. “The captain of the slayer was Nathan- iel Gordon, and a year after his capture he was swung on Bedlows Island, where the Statue of Liberty now stands. The first mate was sentenced to ten vears’ impris- onment, the second mate received a five yeors' sentence and the two men were each given a year. “The severe dealing with the officers was due to the intense feeling on the slavery uestion, as the war had just broken out. he second mate and the two men volun- teered to enter the army and were allowed to go free. Our lieutenant, Dunrington, went into the Confederate navy after bringing Gordon back. “About three months before the expe- rience with the Erie a slaver escaped us by being disguised as a whaler. The simule- tion was very perfect, and on the decks we could see even the boiling vats. The cap- tain showed papers which disarmed sus- picion, and when the ‘whaler’ put up for the night at the mouth of the Congo our captain informed him that next morning he would come around on a vi«it. “In the morning he was gone. having taken 1300 slaves aboard. We sighted a vessel in the distance, which we pursued, and found to be an English man-of-war also trying to cateh the ‘whaler.’ "—Cleve- land Leader. —————— If the entire population of the world is considered to be 1,400,000,000, the brains of this number of human beings wouid weigh 1,922,712 tons, or as much as ninety- six ironclads of the ordinary size, who compose the ‘“Colored American Mc- Kinley Club.” The members of this club are not only loyal to the United States Government, but they are grateful to the Republican varty for past favors. It was this party, through the instrumentality of the mar- tyred Lincoln, that gave to this race the rights they now enjoy. Consequently, they are in favor of -perpetuating the power of that republican form of government. The Colored American McKinley Club is composed of an intelligent body of men. The president, William N. Sanderson, was | born in New Bedford, Mass. He has re- sided in San Francisco since September, 1859. He attended the school taught by his futher, the late Rev. J. B. Sanderson, who was teacher of the only public school for colored children in the sixties, corner of Jackson and Virginia streets, in | the basement of old St. Cyprian Church. He is eminently qualified in every way to fill the position of president of the club and is prominent in social and fraternal societies. The first vice-president, George W. Den- nis, is a prominent business man, com- manding the rgspect of all who know him. He is a pioneer, having arrived here on the 18th of September, 1849, when he camped on the site of the ola City Hall. He was proprietor of the old Custom-house livery stable for years. The secretary of the club, Walter A. Butler, is a young man with progressive ideas. He was born in Baltimore, Md., and has resided in California for the last twenty years or more. He has been em- ployed in the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company’s office for sev- eral years and is considered a very efficient employe. He has the confidence and re- spect of the officers of this company. _ The treasurer of the club, James R. Phil- lips, is a business man and the proprietor of a store on Market street. He has held several important public offices in this City, and in every place he has been em- ployed he has given satisfaction. “He was born 1n Buffalo, N. Y., and has all through his life been a stanch Republican. The chairman of the executive commit- tee, Jobn C. Rivers, possesses all the qual- ifications for the office to which his fellow. Republicans elected him. He is a young man of the progressive age. The club has a membership of 250. This number will be increased during the next thirty days, as there are 2000 colored voters in this City. The officers of the club are: Presi- dent, William N. Sanderson; first vice- president, George W. Dennis Sr.; sec- ond vice - president, William R. Page; third vice-president, Rev. Stevens Sevens; secretarv, Walter A. Butler; treasurer, James R. Phiilips; executive committee— John C. Rivers, E. J. Jackson, William M. Smith, J. L. Claytoni, J. T. Callender, Harry Pinckard, A. J. Grubbs, S. M. Dav- idson, A. L. Dennis, J. H. Williams, C. A. Jamieson, H. Randolph, R. T. Leaner; committee on rulesand or. erof business— Allen A. Garner, Robert ‘Thomas, Richard Cochrane. The duty of the executive committee is to see that every colored man in the City is properly registered and in condition to cast his vote for the entire Republican ticket next November. . The First Carnival Benefit. The public are urged to attend the first grand situated | “Not if it's the story that I mean,” said the maiden aunt. “If you're going to téll the story that I think you are, it’s—ahem— well, not exactly nice you know, and—"" “Do you mean you think it's im- proper?’ asked “Clara, my dear,” “because I differ with you. It's a good story, and, what's’ more, it's perfectly tellable. It's—" *“Not if it's the story I think it is, my dear,” said the maiden aunt in her most more-in-an- anger-than-in-sorrow sort of tone, “‘It'sa highly improper tale, ani—" “Oh, well,” interrupted the young woman, by this time thoroughly aroused, *‘if you're going to condemn it like t»at, of course I don’t care to tell it. I certainly shan’tdosonow, after what yon’ve said.)’ It was more than characteristic of this maiden aunt that the moment she had accomplished what she set out to do she began to repent. ‘‘Come, now, Clara, dear,” she said, ‘‘youmustn't feel hurt at what I said. Very likely it isn’t the same story after all. Go on and tell it, dear, and let me hear if it is the one I'm thinking of.”” But this, of course, the young woman refused to do, although the maiden aunt offered many other per- suasions of the same sort. Things were | quite murky for a bit, when suddenly the small boy of the family cleared the at- mosphere by suggesting: “I tell you what. Let aunty tell her bad one and see if it's the same as Clara’s.” - LEADS TO ORIME. A Book Collector Who Used His Posi- tion to Rob the Libraries of France. It is very well known that the mania of collecting, like other forms of madness, leads to crime. Owners of historical manuscripts know too certainly well that antiquaries cannot be trusted with these treasures. Lady Louisa Stuart, in an un- vublished letter, tells of a certain Duchess in the last century who said, “I cannot imagine how my father came to have your family papers in his collection.’”” These were no ordinary papers, but included M arlborough’s letter E: the Chevalier de St. George, which Lord Oxford beld in ter- rorem over t e victor of Blenheim. The Ducbess knew the truth very well; the collector had stolen the papers at the time of Lord Oxford’s death. However, the Duchess merely said, drily, that the circumstance was pnnl{nz to herself. There have been, perhaps there are, amateurs on whom an eye has to be kept at sales, and in collections. One of these is described in the Memoirs of Archibald Constable, the great publisher. Libri, that famed bibliophile, was a book stealer. His official position enabled him to rob the libraries of France, and sell the volumes abroad.. Somebody has stolen the seal of Jeanne d’Arc’s letter, which contained, in the wax, a hair from the nead of the heroine, the last poor relic. It was found about fifty years ago, in the archives of a little French town, and has long been missing. But theft is one thing; murder, for a lot of pink stamps—Ia collection rose —is another.—London News. ————— Farriers in S8axony are compelled to pass a public examination ere they are T- mitted to work at the business. They must understand the care and treatment of horses or they will not be licensed to shoe the animals. s ———————— Thomas Slater has a message for every man on page 9. Dow't fall 10 read it TWO HUNDRED WITH “THE CALL" California Papers That Have Now Taken Up Woman’s Cause. MISS ANTHONY TELLS IT The First Gun of the Berkeley Campaign Fired Last Night. M'KINLEY'S SUCCESS ASSURED. Taken the Black Veil—West Berke- ley Athletes—News : Items. BERKELEY, CaL., July 18.—Berkeley’s first gun of the Republican campaign was fired to-night. Amid the glare of a blaz- ing bonfire and huge skyrockets, the booming of a historic cannon and tae playing of a brass band the Republicans of the college town gathered at Shattuck Hall to pay their vows at the altar of Mec- Kinleyism. 1t was the largest demonstra- vion of the kind ever held in Berkeley so early in the campaign season, and the en- thusiasm for all that savored of Republi- canism was high. The speakers of the evening were Hon. F. 8. Stratton, Dr. G. H. Derrick and Susan B. Anthony. Shattuck Hall was crowded to the doors with enthusiastic listeners, visitors having come from the West Berkeley Club, the Berkeley Mec- Kinley League, the Temescal and Golden Gate McKinley clubs, the Young Men’s Republican Club of Berkeley and the Mc- Kinley League of Oakland, a special invitation having been sent to these kin- dred organizations by the Edgar Club, under whose auspices the grand rally was given to-night. At twilight a cannon belonging to Cap- tain Thomas and said to have Eeen cap- tured from the British at New Orleans in the war of 1812 was fired under the direc- tion of Captain J. T. Morrison at five-min- ute intervals. An immense bonfire was lighted, and while the rockets played in the air the Second Regiment band of Oak- land played popular music. In vhe hall the orchestra gave an over- ture, after which introductory remarks were made by the chairman, W. L. Hiil. Following the address of the chairman came the speech of Dr. Derrick, who dwelt at considerable length on the issues | of the day, particularly on the silver question and the tariff. Next came a selection by the Berkeley quartet, and following this was the address of Hon. Fred 8. Stratton, who is a candi- date for the State senatorship from this Senatorial district. He asserted himself as being in fayor of the State granting to the university at Berkeley more liberal support. He dwelt at some considerable length on the local issues of the day and then branched out to the broader and more general ones. He contrasted the National Democratic Convention at Chicago with the Repub- lican at St. Louis, maintaining that the latter was a much more deliberative body and not subject to being carried away by a single burst of oratory. Referring to the speech of Bryan at Chi- cago in which he said that he would not be crucified on a cross of gold, the speaker said: “I do not believe that the substitu- tion of & cross of silver or any other cross will lessen the crime that has been wrought in the entanglement of our finan- cial affairs.” Susan B. Anthony, who had been the gnest of William Keith, the artist, and jamily, at dinner, and who sat on the ?’mrorm in company with Mrs. Professor radley, Mrs. Albert Carlisle, Mrs. Cap- tain R. P. Thomas, Mrs. A. E. 8. Bangs and Mrs. William Keith, spoke on Re- publicanism and the relation it bears to the issues of the suffragists. She, as well as the other speakers, received a hearty ovation, and was cheered both at the opening and at the close of her remarks. Susan B. Anthony took occasion to pay a tribute to THE Cari. She referred to the valiant stand taken by THE CALLin the suffrage question, a stand which had geen followea by 200 other papers in the tate. Reese Clark of Yolo, candidate for Con- gress, spoke effectively. Taken the Black Veil. BERKELEY, CaL., July 18.—Miss Nel- lie O'Toole, eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. C. O'Toole of North Berkeley, has gone to a Sisters’ convent in France, from which she recently graduated, and taken the black veil. Miss O’Toole bore the rep- utation of being one of the most‘profi- cient linguists that ever graauated from a French convent, having been especially learned in French, Italian and German. Before she left for Europe she received overtures from several of the leading Cath- olic institutions of the State to teach mod- ern languages, but she was tinally induced to return to her alma mater as an in- structor in languages, and as a Sister of Mercy with orders of the black veil. West Berkeley Athletes. BERKELEY, CaL, July 18.—The newly organized athletic club at the West End held an enthusiastic meeting last night, aud after deciding to form a ladies' annex to the club elected the following board of directars: William Rutledge, Sg.H. Bork- heim, Charles Spear, William Pascoe, William Carroll, Thomas Wilson, Ed F. Neihaus. Another meeting ot the organi- zation will be held next Monday evening for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for their coming entertainment. Important News Items. BERKELEY, CaL., July 18.—Superin- tendent Garlick of the Golden Gate schools has ordered that the coming term shall be opened on July 27, rather than on Angust 3, asformerly announced. The Ciassification Committee will report upon the ‘assignment of teachers in the guhllc schools at the meeting of the oard of Education next Monday evening. Rev. Dr. W. W. Case of the Howard-street Church, San Francisco, will preach at Trinity Methodist Church to-morrow both morning and evening. Reyv. Dr. Taylor of Bgnnn Clara will preach at the North Berkeley Congrega- tional Church to-morrow mornin . Becretary Bonte of the State lfnlvenny and family left to-day for Pescadero to spend a two weeks' vacation. The Dwight-way Fire Department, Ward 8, elected officers last evening: Rob- ert Steedman, president; Guay Knicker- bocker, yice-president; J. Wilson, secre- tary; H. Small, treasurer; I. Thompson, foreman. At the meeting of the Board of Educa- tion on Monday evening Health Officer Rowell will make his report as to the sani- tary condition of the already condemned Kellogg schoolhouse. Rev. George B. Hatch, pastor of the First Congregational Church, and family, have returned to Barkeley from their sum- mer outing. B The Crescent Athletic Club is preparing to give another gentleman’s night about August 20. A number of boxing . bouts and wrestling matches will be arranged for the affair. Clyde E. Brown, compositor in the Herald office, while attempting to board the local on Sixteenth street this morning fell and fractured his arm, The Junior Society of Christian En- deavor of Park Congregational Church at Lorin held a picnic at Blair’s Park to-day. The Senior Society of Christian En- deavor of the Park Congregational Church will rive a Shakespearean reading about the middle of August, the proceeds of which will be applied to the National Christian Endeavor fund. A TERRIBLE DISEASE. Cattle Plague That Has Raged in Cen- tral and Eastern Africa. The first question which naturally sug- gests itself is, What is the terrible disease which has brought such disastrous results in its train? Locally—that is in Rho- desia—it is known by the name of “Zam- besi cattle fever’”; but it is beyond all reasonable doubt that it is the same plague which for five or six years past has devastated other regionsin Central and Eastern Africa, Many travelers have sent home accounts of its ravages in the heart of Africa, but probably the most connected history of its course is that contained in Captain Lugard’s two bulky volumes de- scriptive of his journeys in East and Cen- tral Africa. In'one place he writes: “The plague seems to have started on the east coast opposite Aden, and to have spread inland. It began at the end of 1889 and when I went into the interiorin the Deceraber of that year it had not reached Masailana and_Ukamba, nor yet in the spring of 18%0. When I returned up country in the autumn of 1890 it had spread through these countries and the cattle and buffalo were dead. It had pre- ceded me through Kavirondo and Uganda, though when Mr. Jackson passed down in the summer of 1890 it was only beginning to show its effects. Beyond Uganda I found it had just preceded me through Ankoli and Unyoro; and in tue far heart of Africa, at Kavalli, it bud swept off ev- ery ox only a few weeks before 1 arrived, September, 1891. “‘Passing southward it reached the north of Nyasa about July, 1892, and we may look to hear of its ravages to the north, in the Soudan and Abyssinis, till it reaches the confines of Egypt, and on the west through the Congo State till its area of death has extended from sea to sea. And the pity of it is that in all probability this vast destruction of the sole wealth of these millions of human beings and the terrible starvation and mortality among the pastoral tribes which have followed in its wake might have been arrested by the ordinary precautivns which civilized veterinary science would have prescribea, and thus the recent inroad of Europe upon Africa might indeed have been a blessing to its people.’ In another place, writing on the nature of the disease and the results that fol- lowed in its train wherever it appearad, Captain Lugard says: “‘It is strange that so little is known of the nature of this plague. It has been re- worth at Zanzibar, while others (and these apparently the majority). have described it as a lung disease. Dr. Mackinnon and Captain_Rogers thus described it from Witu. Mr. Sharpe, from Nyasaland, states the disease there to have been pleuro- neumonia. The enormous extent of the gevast-tion it hes caused in Africa can hardly be exaggerated. Most of the tribes possessed vast herds of thousands of thousands of cattle, and of these, in some localities, hardly one is left; in others, the deaths have been limited to perhaps 90 per cent. In the case of the Bantu (or negroid) tribes, the loss, though a terrible one, did . not, as a rule,'involve starvation and death to the people, since, being aericultural, they possess large crops as a resource. But to the pastoral races the loss of their cattle meant death. The Wabama, I was told, had perished in yast numbers with_their animals. Everywhere the ;eople 1 saw were gaunt_and hali-starved, and covered with skin diseases. Not only had they no crops of any sort or kind to replace the milk and meat which formed their natural diet, but many were unable to accommo- date themselves to such a change, and AH were completely ignorant of 'agnculture. Since these words were written reports from other sources—from missionaries in the Garangange country, from travelers and officials in German East Africa, inthe Congo Free State and in British Central Africa—have confirmed this story of deso- lation,.—London Time: Seliri ol T A In the French Census. The French law which compels the cen- sus enumeration of all persons resident in the country except ‘‘transients” at hotels puts Queen Victoria and many other high and mighty foreigners among the citizens of France. At Cimiez, near Nice, where the queen spends the winter, she was accosted by a census taker and compelled to fill out the regular blank. 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