The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1 CHARLES M. SHORTRI Editor and Pnp.r(flnr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mall 00 Daly and Sunday CaLL, six months, b Daily and Sunday CALi, three montbs by m Daily and Sunday CALz, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one ye mail. WXEKLY CALL, One year, by mal THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & _vacation * It #0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do pot let i miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Ualifornia. Telephone. <eveens. Maln—1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkia street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until © o'clock, 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 MNinth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $0S Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 P: New York Cfty. ™ Telephone. THE EALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. IR e ] PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of Rew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. What will the Pops do? Bryan is on the anxious seat, This week will put the campaign in shape. The question of the day for you: you registered yet? If the Populists wish to be in the fashion some of them must bolt. Have It 1s observed elready that Sewall's ship- ping record is not helping his party any. rTrwemra o Ten to one on M2Kinley is the way the betting goes and the vote will be about the saine. No intelligent silver Republican will be willing to intrust free coinage to a free- trader. If promises are worth anything Mr. Bryan is prepared to give the Populists all they wish. ot s The country is beginning to discover that after all Cleveland really is better than his party. Bouthern Populists wiill unite with Southern Democrats in a wrestling match, but not in a dance. Give to capital the assurance of protec- tion and it will soon give work and wages to every American. There is one thing certain, Populists en- gaged in the wool industry will not fuse with the free-traders. The only reason the Democrats do not make this a campaign of explanation is that they cannot explain. Don't forget that THe CaLL is the only morning paper in this City that gets the dispatches of The United Press, The eagerness of Bland to get a re-elec- tion to Congress shows he hasn’t much faith in a promise of & Cabinet office. Now that the welfare of every industry is at stake, all business men will vote together and make sure of prosperity. It need surprise nobody if the Bryan bal- loon collapses before the campaign gets well started. Gas is a very uncertain thing. T oei s We can establish international bimetal- lism during the next four years if we in- trust the work to statesmen instead of boy orators. Since Tom Reed is to open the Republi- can campaign we may be sure it will be opened clear through to the bottom at the first lick. Every one who wishes to see San Fran- cisco a bome market for home industry should form a Republican cluband help to make it so. McKinley’s beroic service during the war shows the stuff be is made of, and the people will vote for him hecaunse they have confidence in him, The 16 to 1 movement in this campaign will show sixteen bolters from the free- trade party to protection for every one that goes the other way. The star of empire has now moved so far westward that the Atlantic Coast is thankful when it gets a chance to have a candidate for the Vice-Presidency. Every business man in San Francisco should register and have his employes do the same. Let us make sure of & rousing victory for protection and prosperity. The Populist convention may not be as orderly as that of the Republicans, but it will hardly be anything like such a rough and tumble affair as the Democrats put up, Long before this campaign is over mod- erate emocrats will be so sick of Silver Bill and his platform that they will be tempted to throw up the whole patry for the sake of getting rid of them. Philadelphia is called slow, but she does not wait on Congress for her river im- provements. She has just voted $500,000 for clearing the channel of the Delaware and is going right ahead with the work. poEaSeas Hut i The announcement that Bryan is a young and inexperienced man does not terrify some Democrats. They comfort themselves in the remembrance that he is older than Cleveland was when he was elected Sheriff of Erie County. LR A Even if the gold Democrats should put up a candidate of their own it is not likely he would receive many votes. Business men are taking no risks this year and even those among them who are Democrats will vote for McKinley and make sure of pros- perity, SEWALL'S THORNS, It needed just such a8 man as Arthur Sewall 1o give emphasis to the hypocrisy of the Chicago convention’s expressions of solicitude for working people, and the nomination of the Maine millionaire also throws some light npon Bryan's conven- tion talk about pressing the “brow of labor”” with a ‘“crown of thorns.' Sewall, according to all accounts, is the kind of 8 man that wds referred to some two thousand years ago ia connection with the eye of a needle, 1tappears that " the Maine man has been in the habit of pressing down ‘‘crowns of thorns” upon the “‘brow of labor’’ all his life, as did his father before him. And Mr. Sewall must be pretty well known in the world of labor as a tyrant of a taskmaster, for out here in San Fran- cisco the Coast Seamen’s Union had a very full account of his inhuman treatment of bis sailors long before he was thought of as a Vice-Presidential possibility. The Seamen’s Union got its facts from seamen in the employ of Mr. Sewall, and the in- formation was made a matter of record for the information of sailors generally that they might steer clear of the tyrant’s ships. In the light of Mr. Sewall’s repu- tation for treating laboring men as if they were lower tban brutes there isseen an inner meaning to Bryan’s cry, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns.” A lawyer, of the Bryan stamp nq doubt, told his client that they could not put bhim in jail. “Butl am in jail.” “Yes, I know, but they can’t do it.” Bryan says his partner shall not press a crown of thorns upon the brow of seamen, but the pressing goes right ahead. Unless Bryan is the most arrant hypoetite alive be will make baste to demand the withdrawal of Sewall from the ticket, and make his own candidacy as the nominee of his party contingent upon the substitu- tion of another man for Maine's million. aire enemy of honest labor. BIMETALLISM AND SOIENOCE. The New York Journal, which is the Eastern edition of the San Francisco Ex- aminer, announces in a double-column editorial that it will support Bryan, but the burden of the article is an apology for the platform upon which its man is sup- posed to be making the race for President, | and to whose declaration of principles his honor ispledged. Why the Journal should apologize for the platform when Mr, Bryan says every word and every sentiment of 1t | is an inspiration, is a political mystery, unless it is the purpose of the Journal's manager td handicap its candidate by showing the enormity of the crime against the country that would be committed by the practical application of the principles he advocates. There appears to be many of the characteristics of the snake when charming & bird in the Journal's declara- tion that it will support the Chicago nom- inee. Referring to the silver plank in the Chi- cago platform, which Bryan wrote himself for the Nebraska-Demo-Populist Conven- tion of 1884, the Journal says: “It does not deserve the fanatic vituperation leveled against it. If its authors were mistaken in their methods their aim was to intro- duce bimetsllism.”” The Journal should read the platform it alludes to. Now it s0 happens that the word *‘bimetallism” isnot used at all in the money plank of | the Chicago declaration. In plain Eng- lish the platform deolares for free-silver coinage *‘without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.” Moreover, it 1s intiwated at least that the silver dol- lar should be made the monetary unit of value and the gold dollar adjusted to it. The Journal’s plea that the framers of the platform were honestly mistaken: that they did not mean to say what the plat- form says, but that they were ' providing for bimetallism gives emphasis to the | charge of incomvetency which has been made against the inveators of the docu- ment. Nevertheless, ‘‘without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation is and has been Mr. Bryan’s chief hobby for several years. The Journal continues its defense of the stupidity pf the inventor of the coinage plank by observing that “bimetallism 1s a scientific theory, with too much expert | authority on its side to brand 1its advo- | cates a8 lunatics and incendiaries.” That | is it exactly, although such a high com- | pliment to the Republican platform’s money plank was not intended. The Re- | publican party has insisted ail along that “bimetallism’ is a “‘scientific’’ guestiom, and it proposes to settle it upon scientific lines. But the Journal's candidate, Mr. Bryan, says it is not a scientific question in any sense. It issimply a question of issuing a proclamation declaring that ‘‘the mints are now open for the free and un- limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1”7 No other country is to be con- sulted. The first notice the people of other countries with whom we do an an- nual commereial business aggregating nearly $2,000,000,000 are to have that we have changed our monetary system must reach them through the news columns of newspapers. That is Mr. Bryan's plan; but will the Journal indorse it as a **scien- tific”” way which has the sanction of “ex- pert authority"? The fact is, the Journal, like a good many other of Bryan’s supporters, wants Bryan elected if his hands can be tied by an anti-Bryan Congress. This the Journal has already admitted. Nothing could be more annoying to the business senss of the Journal than Bryan's unscientific way of settling a scientific question by procla- mation. Like Joshua of old, Bryan would command the sun to stand still if he wanted a few more hours of daylight, but the Journal knows that there are certain scientific reasons why the sun would re- fuse to obey, just as it knows that there are scientific reasons why the commercial world would only smile at Bryan’s com- mand to open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver without con- sulting commerce; and it is because the Journal knows the smile of the commerce of the world under such circumstances would mean a declaration of war upon America’s commerce by every other na- tion that it is so solicitous about having Bryan’s hands safely tied by a Congress that would stana for the kind of bimetal- lism the Republican party is pledged to secure. ABSOLVED DEMOCRATS, It has always been the custom of the Demoeratic party when under the con- demnation of the people to console itself by remembering its traditions and its un- swerving loyalty to the principles of Jef- ferson, and not a little was the comfort it derived from it all. But how low it must bave fallen, even in its own estimation, when an ultra-Populistic newspaper like the Denver News is constrained to say: *To-day is a greater day for Populism than it is for Democracy. Democracy should indeed rejoice. The Democratic platform this year, save perhaps the sub- treasury matter, is a well-defined declara- tion of Populist principles. It is glorious. And as for Bryan, save for name, he is as bonest a Populist as lives.” Democrats hereabouts who have stood by theif party through thick and thin and who were always ready to fight for its principles may be able to pick up a few crumbs of comfort from what the News says, but itis doubtful. It must be very distressing to the Dem- ocrat who is sincerely attached to his party to see it dominated by aliens and strangers; a platform adopted that is not Democratic, and a leader selected who is not even a Democrat in spots. But that is the position the party isin to-day, so the Denver News says, and, moreover, the News says the transformation gives the old party a very much loftier character and nobler aims, even if it is retrograded to the menial work of hewing wood and drawing water for a party whose leaders are Pelfers, Altgelds, Waites ana Till- mans, But old-time Democrats know that the Chicago convention’s platform ab- solves them from allegiance to the candi- dates and principles of the “new Demoe- racy,” and candidate Bryan will find out later on that they are training in quite another field of politics. “THE SILENOE OF JUDGMENT." It is claimed by the new leaders of the Democracy that a great display of emo- tionalism and impuisiveness was needed at Chicago to shake off the old barnacles. If that is true, there was more method in the hot-headed speeches that were made than was suspected at the time. There were superb oratorical efforts, no doubt, and great excitement followed, but emo- tion in‘a political convention signifies nothing. It is not the convention that elects the President. nor does the enthu- siasm of a convention often last many hours after it adjourns. In his speech presenting Senator Sherman for candidacy in the convention of 1880, Mr. Garfield said: “Not here in this brilliant circle, where 15,000 men and women are assem- bled, is the destiny of the republic de- creed—not in Chicago in the heat of June, but in the sober quiet that comes between now and the melancholy days of Novem- ber; in the silence of deliberate judgment will the great question be settled.” The Democratic party hopes to keep alive the emotionalism and enthusiasm of certain acts of the Chicago convention and bave them grow and spread as the cam- paign progresses, but the scheme will fail. In the first place the managers have over- rated Bryan’s oratorical powers, They measured him by a short speech, which he had probably rehearsed fifty times, and had woven into it every possible “stage setting.” Bot his short talks en route from Chicago to his home in Nebraska have lacked in grace, rhetoric and elo- quence, and it is by those speeches— speeches that he may deliver as he rushes over the country—that the people will judge him, and not only so, but Bryan’'s assertions will not be accepted by think- ing people as facts unless they are well fortified by reasonable data. In the “silence of deliberate judgment’ is where his oratory will avail him pothing, and it is there where the people settle ali politi- cal questions. Unfortunately for Bryan and the Demo- cratic party, the people have been sitting too long in the silence of idleness enforced by that party and the silence of America’s industries are appealing with too much eloguence to be saved from Bryanism for the boy orator to overcome the demand of the people for protection and prosperity. The people are terribly in earnest in their purpose to re-establish those agencies which conspire for their good, and oratory which does not deal in facts and figures and which does not demonstrate beyond dispute will find that it will be no more persuasive than the whistling wind. “In the silence of deliberate judgment” of the people it will go hard with the Democracy. HAVE YOU REGISTERED? Every Republican voter should know that he owes a duty to the community and bis party which can be dischargedin no way other than by registering, so that he may be quslified to help sustain the cause of protection and prosperity. Those who believe the advocates of free trade, unsound money and other fallacious eco- nomic theories will not make a strong fight to capture the law-making machinery of the Government are making a grave mis- take. Never was the party of repudiation and political heresies more active and de- termined. The leaders know that the ma- jority of every line of business and indus- try is overwhelmingly against them, but they are counting on enougb apatheticand indifferent Republicans to give them the majority at the polls, and it may be said that they will not be counting without their host if Republican voters do not at- tend to their registration duty. It should be remembered, too, that every day increases the difficulty of reach- ing the Registrar’s office. So many defer this important ratier from time to time, until the question of getting an opportu- nity to register becomes a serious one. No one who is physically able to resch the City Hall has = valid excuse for stay- ing away; and should the election go the wrong way because Republicans failed to do their duty, it may truthfully be said of them that they betrayed their party, There is no doubt at all that the majority of the people realize what a calamity to the material welfare of this community a Democratic victory woula be, and realiz- ing it there can be no excuse for not pro- viding against it by registering first, working for the party second, and third by voting straight for the men who stand for prosperity throughout all channels of trade and traffic. The Republican who wilifully neglects to register is not loyal to his party. OOAST EXOHANGES, Dunsmuir has & new weekly paper and a new women editor, who wishes it distinctly understood that she is boss, editor-in-chief, business manager and fighting force of the publication and that her husband doesn’t figure in the enterprise. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Isgriff and the paper is called the Dunsmuir Herald. Everybody admires pluck and clever- ness, especially in & woman, and it is quite probabie that the Herald from the start will have easy sailing on the journalistic sea. The Yreka Journal has celebrated its forty- third birthday. It is one of the “‘old guard’" ‘'of Republican newspapers of the West and for thirty-five years has been conducted by its present editor and proprietor, Robert E. Nixon. The Journal is one of the influential papers of Northern California, “Sixteen to one’” has been adopted by the Gilroy Gazette as its basis of charges for adver- tising. Sixteen dollars is the amount required 1o insure the insertion of a one-column adyer- tisement in that pape) The Los Angeles Investor remarks that “‘one of the features of the local oil fleld at present is the increase in the supply of natural gas, This gas appears to be accumulating all the time and it looks as if some of the wells might e utilized for gas after they shall have ceased producing oil. Several of the plants in the field are now operated almost exclusively by natmal-gas fuel. Possibly before long there may be another competing gas company in town, drawing its supply from the oil wells.” The Investor opines that Californis will soon surpass Pennsylvania as an oil-producing State. It looks very much as if the opinion would soon be borae out by facts. Sonors, “the gem of the mountains,” isen- joying & boom, snd the Union-Demosrat of that town is booming along with it. The paper has been fitted out with a brand new dress and is vastly improved in appearance. The Union- Democrat is no fledgling, for it wasstarted away back in 1853, According to the Marysville Democrat, one ob- jectof tae capitalists who have taken,stock in the Marysville and Nevade Power and Water Company is 10 construct a stone wall 100 feet high at Deer Creek Narrows in the Yube River, the same to be of solid masonry and substan- tialin every respect. “When this wall is fin- ished it wall hold » large area of water in the Mooney Flat territory above that point, which water is to be used to propel the necessary machinery to furnish electric power. This power will be sold and conveyed 1o the mines in that vieinity, Browns Valley and other points, also to run machinery at Smartsville and Bonanza Ranch, where & canning plant will be constructed for next year'’s iruit crop. Lines will be run into this city and electric light snd power will be sold to consumers. Supervisor Conmrath is superintending the work now under way, & gang of men baving commenced to run a driftin the bank at the DArTows preparatory to taking out rock. W. W. Waggoner, & surveyor and one of the in- corporators, is at the site of the proposed dam and making the survey and plans of the work, allof which indicates that the company means business.” One of the successful papers of Southern Cal- ifornia 1s the Redlands Citrograph, now in its tenth year. Its typographical beautyison a par with its editorial efficiency, and,on the Wwhole, the Citrograph is a model weekly news- paper. A weekly paper, to be called Industry, is about to be started in Oskland by s company of Populists. 1f eircumstsnces warrant, the sheet may be' made s daily affair when the campaign gets hot enough to sizzle. The Summerland Advance informs ns that operations on a large scale are soon to be com- menced in the Summerland oil district. A big deal is now ou, providing for the shipment to San Franeisco of 10,000 barrels—420,000 gal- lons—of crude petroleum weekly. Another “spouter” has been struck there, and the oil shoots thirty feet above the casing. In regard to this new weli, the Advance says: “A few mornings since the men engaged in drilling for H. L. Williams, at a depth of 173 feet, struck oil in such quantities that it spouted thirty feet in the air from the mouth of the well. As soon as the gas pressure was relieved it subsided, however. The well is at this writing being sand-pumped, and is mak- ing & showing that delights the heart of Mr. Willlams. The oilisof a higher gravity than any heretofore struck in this vicinity. “This strike is of more real importanee than it shows on ihe face of it. All the wells bored along the beach show that as they go farther to the northwest the oil stratum gets closer to the suriace. There is quite & strip of terri- tory between Mr. Williams’ wells and the Moore wells that has not been tested, but all 0il men agree that fhe stratum reached by Mr. Williams at & depth of fifty to eighty feet is the same one struck further down st a depth ©0£150 to 200 feet. Mr. Williams, in drilling this well, penetrated the upper stratum and went beneath it, piercing another deposit that bas heretofore only been surmised. It prom- ises to be a great thing for the oil industry, and development of this well will be awaited with considerable anxiety. It is the opinion that it will flow forty or fiity barrels daily,” F. J. Perry, an experienced Colorado news- peper man, has taken hold of the Ramona Sentinel aud will endeavor to make that paper equal to any weekly paper in the land of petroleum, naturel gas and orange blossoms. The Berkeley Gazette on opening its fourth volume “points with pride” to the fact that success has smiled upon it from its birth and that it could not ask for any better fortune than it bas been favored with. The Gazefte is 8 good home paper and the Berkeleyites who have helped it have helped the town and themselves. The Santa Rose Farmer, devoted to the agri- culiural interests of Sonoma County, is five years old and has established for itself a repu-~ tation as an authority on farm subjects. PERSONAL. Dr. G. N. Wood of Silver, City, N. Mex., isat the Russ. Dr, J, F. Bell, a physicisn of Portland, Or., is at the Occidental. A.F. Abbott, an attorney of Marysville, is staying at the Lick, T. M. Hall of Johnstown, Ps., is making a short stay at the Liek. Superior Judge G. A. Bridgford of Colusa County is at the Grand. Miss Gould of Portland, Or., is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. ‘W.D. McCarthy, a merchant [of Seattle, isa recent arrival at the Lick. Professor G.A. Stanly and wife of Tacoma are guests at the Ramona. State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Sutter Creek is one of the Palace guests, John Wilson, & businese manof Vallejo, ana his wife are at the Ramona. G. D. Plato, a Modesto merchant, is among those registered at the Grand, Ex-Judge A. Hewel, a prominent attorney of Modesto, is staying at the Lick. ‘W. H. Hilton, & wine-maker of Glen Ellen, is one of those registered at the Grand. W. J. Dwyer, a mining man of Jackson, Cal., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Sheriff W. B. Johnson of Riverside County is at the Grand on a brief buiness visit. Among those registered at the Russis Dr. 8, A. Green, a physician of Lincoln, Nebr. A. G. Kaufman, a United States navy officer, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. Charles B. Hall, the theatrical manager, of Ban Jose, is registered at the Occidental. C. L. Hanson, a real estate man of Ontario., Cal., is among the guests st the Occidental. Herbert E. Doolittle, City Attorney of San Diego, is one of the late arrivals at the Palace, E. H. Bromwell of London, s passenger on the China, registered at the Palace yesterday. Alexander Sharp Jr. of the United States navy is at the Occidental, with his wife anq son. H. Debemham, a traveler from Antwerp, is &t the Palace, having arrived yesterday from Japan, A. 8. Cooper, the asphaltum snd petroleum expert of Santa Barbara, is & guest at the Grand. David Meeke, & prominent business man of New Orleans, La., is registered at the Cosmo- politan. Among the latest arrivalsat the 1- itan are W. E. Spicer and family of Los Angeles. £. 7. Howland, & mining man of Jackson, is one of the guests that arrived st the Grand yesterday. Chung Shu Chong, & big Chinese local mer- chant, returned from the Orient yesterday on the China. H. W. Richardson, a well-to-do business man of Portland, Oregon, is registered at the Cos. mopoliten. John Raggio of San Andreas, stage proprietor and general merchant, isamong those regis. tered at the Grand. Adjutant-Generai A. W. Barrett of the Na. tional Guard of Californis is st the California, registered from Sacramento. P. F."Nolan of this City and J. L. Laird of Laird, Schober & Co. of Philadelphia have gone to Bartlett Springs for an outing. C. H. Douglas, a New York journalist on his way to South America ssspecial correspond- ent, arrived at the California yesterday. Among the notable arrivals at the Cosmo- politan Hotel are: [I. Norman, J. Lync¢h and 0. C. Reed, business men of Portland, Or. J. B. Castle of the big Honolulu firm of Castle, Cook & Co., general merchants and plantation agents, is a guest at the Occi. dental. yesterday Congressman Maguire returned morning from Chicago and is stopping with his brother-in-law, W. B. Joyce, at 406 Van Ness avenue. L. R. Brewer, who is reputed to be one of the Wealthiest coffee-planters of Guatemala, re- turned {rom New York last night and went to the Occidental. Astronomer Edward S, Holden ot the great Lick Observatory came down from Mount Hamilton yesterdsy and is making a shorg visit at the Lick, Rey. Wendell Prime, one of the editors of the New York.Observer, is visiting this coast for his health and is making the Ramona his headquarters while in the City. Frederick J. Titus and wife of New York City arrived at the Occidental last night. Mrs. Titus is an actress and will be remembered as having appeared at the Orpheum. William Wright, an electrical engineer of New York, returned to the Grand yesterday from Pacific Springs, whither he went a short time ago to recuperate his strength. Dr. W. F. Arnold of the United States navy arrived yesterday from the China station, stovped for a short time at the California and in the evening started for the Mare Isiand navy yard. W. B. Kniskeon of Chicago, general agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, ar- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 'W. B. Maddock of Cheshire, England, son of John Maddock of John Maddock & Sons, the manufacturers of the celebrated earthenware of that name, says that 800 meu are empioyed in the pottery works, which are located at Bursiem, in Staffordshire, Further than that he knows little about the factory. except that his father founded the business fifty years ago. He has visited the works but ouce, as all the processes of mixing the clays and producing the beautiful colorings snd tints are secret. Mr. Maddock spends his time in trayeling far from the business that attracted his father for 50 many years. “I have traveled a good bit,” said, as he sucked at a small pipe that had evidently been W. B. Maddock, Son of the Founder of the Great English Factory Where the Maddock Earthenware Is Made. rived at the Palace last night in order to be Ppresent at the coaference of railroad men, to which Tom McKay has come from Japan as & perticularly interested party. H. Y. Spyke, the wealthy traveler from Hol- 1pnd who had never heara of Corbett, leit the California yesterday for a six weeks’ bicyele trip to San Diego, after which, barring acci- dents, for he knows very little about riding, he proposes to return to thig City, as he has taken arented wheel from here. Richard Gray, general traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, now on his second year’s leave of absence on half pay, or $6000 a year,ison & farm in Lake County, suffering from paisy, which has recently affected the | muscles of his face and throat. It is feared be will never be able to resume the duties of his official position. Captain M. V. Lancastor of Shanghai came from the Orient on the China and registered &t the Occidental yesterday. He isanold sea captain and is on his way to Glasgow to 1ake a new steamship out to Yokobama, to be used in | the trade between that port and Hongkong. Captain Lancastor was here twenty-two years ago, and will spend several days in this City looking up old acquaintances. Lieutenant A. Bontakeff and [chtenlm 8. Talleft, officers of the Russian navy, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with the passengers who came in on the China. They have been on duty in China, Korea and Japan, and were recently stationed at Viadivostok, on the Siberian coast, but are now on their way to St. Petersburg, having chosen the longer way home as & sort of pleasure trip. George W. Relth, an Englishman who has lived for some time in Singapore, wRs a pas- senger by the China and registered yesterday at the Occidental, where he will remain a few days before resuming his journeyto England. He spent several months visiting the Dutch colonies in the East Indies, all of which he says export only to Holland and keep their ports closed to other commerce. Sho Nemo‘o, special commissioner from Japan to investigate Mexican, Central Ameri- can and Bouth American commercial pros- pects, with a view to the extension of Japanese shipping, arrived from Japan yesterday with J. Kusakado, who is going to Mexico to con- summate the purchase of 300,000 acres, near the southwest coast, for the Japanese Coloniza- tion Society. They are at the Occidental. 8. Maas of Baltimore returned yesterday from his third visit to Japan and Chins, and took & room at the Occldental. He says: “This fear of Japanese competition is all rot. One Americen can do as much work as six Japs. Their $40 bicycles are not half as good as those sold in America for $35. In cotton goods they never will be init with us. They are greater than we are in only one thing, and that is in curios, but in what they do excel they can gain only in small sums,”’ W. R. Madison, originally of this City but for some time secretary to T. D. Mc! Yokohamsa, arrived at the Occidental yester- day. He brought with bim a handsome silver trophy, won in Yokohama by a former member of the Reliance Wheelmen of Oakland. Itisalarge goblet-shaped cup, with chrysan- themums beautifully wrought upon the outer surface in bold relief. Upon the cup is this inseription: “Presented by W, S. Stone to C. H. Bain, winner of ten-mile bicyele race, Yokohama, March 7, 1896.” Bain is the cap- tain of the Reliance Wheelmen of Yokohama, which he organized. The cup he has sent to his father, Robert B. Bain of 18 California street, Thomas D. McKay, general passenger sgent at Yokohams, Japan, of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the Unlon Pacific Rail- road and the g:‘l;:;n Northwestern Rail- ‘way, is at the ental, baving arrived from Japan yesterday on the China, which broke sll previous records from Honolulu to San Francisco this trip, covering the distance in 5 days11 hours and 11 minates. Mr. McKay vigorously denies that his visit hereand the prospective conference of railroad magnates to be held in this City to-day or to-morrow are occasioned by even the slightest dissatisfac- tion on the part of the various companies he represents with the manner in which he has transacted their business and solicited passen. gers for this port incompetition with the Canadian Pacific. Arthur J. Mundy, manager of the J. B, Mil- let Publishing Company of Boston, Mass., re- turned from Japan yesterdsy with his wife and took roomsat the Occidental. The pur- pose of his visit to Japan was to errange for the publication of a very elaborate popu. lar work on Japan, compiled by the Jaranese themselves. He engaged the services of thirty or forty Japanese literary personS to furnish the descrip- tive material and employed artists to make paintings on silk, to do fine lacquer work and superfine lace embroidery, sll of ‘which will be used in the first edition of the work, which is intended to reflect Japan as it is. He also made a contract for 500,000 colored photographs, 8x10 inches, 250 of which will e used in {llustrating each set of the books, which wili be in ten volumes. Bomething of the elaborateness of the work may be imagined from the fact that $5000 will be charged for each set in the first edition of fifty. The sec- ond and third editions will be $1000 and $250, but will not be so elaborately embellished with hand painting and artistic work- manship. Captain F. Brinkley, editor of the Japan Mail, the leading English paper of Japan, will be supervising editor. The book will be reedy for the market about next February, his favorite companion long before he hap- pened to be sitting in a comfortable chair in the court of the Palace Hotel, “but I have never seen & place that could equal Uhicago for bunko men. The first day I was there a middle-aged man came up to me on Madison street and said: ‘How do you do, Mr. Maddock? It's & pleasure to see you again.’ ““Well, you bave the advantage of me,’ I re- plied. **‘What, don’t you remember me? Clarke's my name, firm of Lewis.& Clarke, New York; came oyver on the Campania with youon the 16th., Wby, we were often in the smoking- room together, You remember the New York merchant? Aryway,’m glad to see you here.’ “Then he hurried on. Later in the day I met him again. He halled me and said: ‘Doing anything? 1find I have won a lottery prize. Just going to eash it right near here. | Don't you want to come along and we’ll have a small bottle afterward to celebrate; first time I ever won at one of these games.” i “Well, when we got in this office the agent suggested that he try his luck for the next drawing, but he said he wouldn’t be in New York on the date it occurred. ‘That’s all right; have it right here,’ sald the agent, and he got out s cloth marked off in squares with numbers &t the top and at the sides, and each square markéd with so much money or a giar. “The old gentleman bought his chance, drew five cards from & pack and countea the number of spots on three. The agent counted those on the two and then ran his finger down the column to the square ovposite the first sum. It was only a star. Again my com. panion tried, but got nothing. Then he drew three cards and asked me to draw the other two, The two I drew brought the $25 square and the agent at once handed out the money. “<‘I'll bank on your luck,’ said the New Yorker. ‘Draw again.’ We counted. The agentran his finger across the squares—$4000! The merchant embraced me. “The agent took two packages of bills out of the drawer and placed them on the desk. Each was marked $2000, “‘You owu hall of it said my jubilant friend. Rty .’ said the agent. ‘Wefask only that our patrons say & good word for the company; that isour best advertisement. I would like to take your names in order to attest our reli- ability. What1s your name? he asked of the merchant. ‘‘Ciarke, J. B. Clarke.’ **And your business, sir?" ‘*‘Merchant, New York. Lewis & Clarke.’ ‘Have you any property? Men of wealth and position all the better advertisement, you know.” *“‘Well, I have some Government bonds and alout §30,000 in bank and own a bit of real estate besides my business,’ replied the New York man. “‘And you? asked the agent, turning to me, “I saw their game then and ] was a bit scared. ‘Me?" I answered. ‘I haven't a ha' penny in bank. I'm justa traveler, furnished funds at intervals by my parents.’ “‘Well, we require a deposit of $125 before paying out such sums,’ said the agent. ‘‘‘Oh, I haven’t that much,’ I said, ‘but I can get it at the hotel if you’ll wait, for I do want that $2000; it's & mighty big lot to me.’ Then I took out my pocketbook and showed two $5 bills. ‘All Pve got here,’ I said, ‘but I'1l be back in a jiffy with the rest.’ “Don’t you know, I could have kissed that pavement when I got outside. I was a bit scared of those fellows." TWO NEW SLEEVES. There is little doubt but that sleeves are to at prominence of Ohio men in public life in fi: m'}::o by saying that on the soil of Ohio met and mingled the two best strains of American blood—! aVIrfinh strain_and the New Eng- land strain. All signsin the political sky now int o the election of McKinley in Novem- g:r, and we may well ask ourselves: “What sort of & President is this fifth son of Ohio, in the list of twenty-four occupants of the White House, likely to make?” The question is not an enigma, The man bas been eighteen years in National politics, and for much of the time a conspicuous figure; his character is an open book, and bis convictions on public issues are on record and mey be read by all men. We may expect from him a conservative, pure ad- ministration. I believe theft it will be sturdily American in its policy, for McKinley comes from our great mid-continental plain,and is not, like many men who live upon the Atlan- tic rim of the country, largely influenced by European thought and example. McKlu%:y will unquestionably use the influence of his position to restore to our tariff statutes the principle of ample, scientific and symmetri- cal protective duties. BN e will not, T am confident, aim to make a one-man power of the;dminhtafllfou,‘)}i:evpx?g ointed a strong Cabinet, made up of re e atatiye e of Bis party, he will distribute the duties and responsibilifies of government among them, as contemplated by the constitu- tion, and hold each Minister accountable for the work in his own department. He will be accessible to all men whohave legitimate busi- ness with the Chief Magistrate, and he will carry to the highest station in the land the courtesy and dignity which he has untailingly displayed as a -Conggessman and & Governor. He will be a harmonizer for his party, for he has none of the domineering temper and stubborn egotism that breed political strife and create personsl antagonisms, Among the early Presidents his prototype wiil be Madison, and’he will most resemble Hayes among our later Presidents. He comes from the grest, sturdy, independent, moral and earnest Amer- ican middle class that forms the solid basis of our whole political and social fabric. WHAT WILLIE’S GOIN’ TO BE. When I grow up to be a man, Lkoow what I will be— I won't write poetry, like pa; No, none of that for me! And I won't clerk into a store, Ner keep books In a bank, Ner be a brakemun on the cars, To turn a iron crank. And I won’t goin politics, To be like Uncle James, And let the papers pick at me And call me ugly names. But there's a job that just suits me; It's nice and easy, and When I grow up as big s pa I'm goin’ to join & band. Then I can ride arovnd through town, In a trolley-car all day, With signs and flaxs upon it, and Not a0 a thing but play, ey NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. A man should never lose his temper for the reason that he is very apt at such a time to tell his friends the truth.—Atchison Globe. Mr. Toddles (proudly patting his gum)—I once shot a deer with this weapon. Miss Swippish—Is it possible? Didn‘'t you know it was londed?—Cleveland Leader. “What would you do, dear, if I were to die?” asked Mrs. Darley, fondly. “1don’t know,” replied Darley thoughtfully, “Which is your choice—burial or cremation?” Judge. Hobson—How do you stand on the currency question, Dobson? Dobson—I"m awfully sorry, old man, and I'd be glad to accommodate you, but, the fact is, I'm broke.—New York Commercial Advertiser. “After all,” said the thoughtful girl, “the presentation of an engagement ring is & relic of barbarism; a reminiscence of obsolete con- ditions,” “That's 80,”” was the enthusiastic rejoinder. “I just wish it were the fashion to give bi- cycles.”—Washington Star. Mr. Frankstown—There goes young Mr. Homewood, cycling with that pretty grass widow. Mr. Point Breeze—Yes; he'sdeeply infatuated with her. He tells me he can’t live without her. Mr, Frankstown—That's 0dd. Iknow her ex- husband very well, and he confided to me that Le could not live with her.—Boston Herald. BEST peanut tafty in the world. Townsend’s.* il 23 EPFCIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomary. * —————————— Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Commercial Transfer Co., 43 Sutter stree Telephone Main 49. Keep your checks for us.* “Nan, how does my new shirt waist look?"” “Well, to tell the truth, Kitty, it looks as it you had made it at midnight without any 1amp.”’—Chicago Record. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail- road has been selected as the official route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A, R. St. Paul, to be held there September 2 to 5. ‘he excarsion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. M. Rates $87 90 for the round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish to make the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treet, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservations. ———— N Are You Going East? The Atlantic and” Pacific Raliroad—Santa Fs route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence of alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sieeping- cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- et office, 644 Market sireet, Chronicle building. Telephone, Main 1531. ————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup™ Fias been used over50 years by millions of mothery for thelr children while Teething with perfect suo>- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Paln, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sala by Drag- gists In every part of the world. Be sure and as< for Mrs. Winslow's Soo: Ing Syrup. 23¢ & botile. ————— tmosphers is perfectly dry. sof and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by sieacm- ship, ucluding fifteen days' board a: ths Hotal dal Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 30 perday. APNT 4 New Monigomery st., San Francisco. ——————— A SAFE, simple and effective remedy for indi- gestion Is a dose of Ayer's Pills. Try the Pillsand make your meals enjoyable. CORONADO.—, be close-fitting to above the elbow, atove which there will be retained an appearance of width by long puffs or voluminous drapery. The effect of breadth across the shoulders will be as marked a feature as ever before. Our design shows two of the new sleeves that fequire only a moderate amount of goods. The puffed sleeve is a favorite, when th shown in three parts by the d{cthtr: '}'32 l’l‘ & summer fal m--h"lfi mity, ndie, tiste, etc.—it is especially suited. Hows .ot con; ribbon, runnlnzup and down the mwern part of the sleeve,isa novelty of the The draped sleeve is particula -niyl of the pretty !mplr‘mrg&n:tyd::’l}; frill down the center. e drapery falls to the elbow. As long as there is tight effect on some part of the lower ar; #ble latitude as regards lh-s. m':?. l:! ?n?fi“fi or fullness in the new sleeves. — AN OHIO MAN FOR PRESIDENT. s £ugene V. Smalley in Review of Reviews. Genersl Garfild used to sccount for the Author—I have a family tree. Editor—Is that where you get your chest. Town Topics. Spices So Good So Pure A Beautiful Piece of Chinaware Given to Each Customer. Gréat AmericnFprta Tea MONEY SAVING STORES: Market st. 6 Ninth st. 31a Mission . 8 Third st. * 7 Kearny st. 2% Marter ot — Mnlk st. Sixteenth st. lontgomery Second st. glzfl‘mrm st. (Headquarters), S, P, i ngton st. 616 E. Twelfth 150 Ben Pabis ave. . o1y Bro et s 1355 Park st., Al