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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1896. THURS SEPTEMBER 10, 1898 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALY, ondhweek, by carrler..80.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally end Sunday CALL, six ‘months, by mall 3.00 | Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mail. .66 | Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall. 160 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a_vacation ? Tt #8, it 18 10 trouble for us o forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California, Telephone.. Aeennd] Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ese . Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Sfontgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. BW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; opem eatll § o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth sireet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Telephone. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECT!ON and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— E WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio | FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— { GARRET A. HOBART, of Rew Jersey BER 1896. Here's congratulations to Stockton. Admission-day weather was just per- fectly Californian. It is admitted now that every Stockton man is a whole host. Itis a level-headed Native Son who can wear his hat this morning. Home protection and international bi- metallism make the best basis for busi- ness and prosperity. If the average Stocktonian has the big head to-day no one will ask questions | about how he got it. — | The equalizers have fiddled with the | figures and we must both dance to the | tune and pay the piper, We have celebrated Admission day in fraternal union and now we return to party politics and call the Democrats to repentance. By estimates based on. a school census | just taken Chicago figures out a popula- | tion of 1,600,000, 50 the “Two Million Club” | cannot afford to adiourn yet. Grover's indifference to political parties | in this campaign would be the biggest | thing of the kind in sight were it not for | the indifference of all political parties to | him. | When the wage-earner and the producer | g0 to the polls in November they will bear | in mind that every vote for Bryan and free silver is also a vote for Bryan and iree trade. The lone voice of Tom Watson, crying in the wilderness, pierces the uproar of the campaign with its plaintive wail like the sound of the whangdoodle mourning for its first born. The saying of Benjamin Harrison, “Re- publican success never did disturb busi- ness,” is one of the truths that business men reflect on, and they will cast their votes accordingly. The assessments of San Francisco have been raised and those of the railroad com- pany have been lowered, and once more the spoilers ask derisively, “What are you going to do about it?” To promote home industry, o increase our commerce, to maintain our financial stability, to uphold the Supreme Coart and the Federal Government, we must | work with the Republican party and vote for mcKiniey. Bryan in his speech accepting the plat- form of the Silver party gave s great deal of taffy to the silver Republicans who in- tend to support him, for as there are not many of them and taffy is cheap he couid afford to be liberal. From tha increased vote cast in both Vermont and Arkansas we can see how great 1s the interest the peoble are taking in this campaign and how necessary it is for Republicans to organize and bring out their full strength in California, R “The first duty of a nation,” said Mec- Kinley in a speech at Cincinnati on Labor day, 1891, *'is to enact laws which shall give to its citizens the widest opportunity for labor and the best rewards for work done.” It is on that platform the great champion of protection siands to-day, and it is for that reason the Republican party nominated him and the people will elect him. For shrill whistling to keep one’s cour- age up commend us to the St. Louis Re- public. It has just declured “The Vermont election is really a verdict for Bryan and Eewall, as the November returns will show.” Of course it goes without saving if that is the kind of verdict Bryan and Sewall wish they will be sure to get it, and the Republic may be whistling in Novem- ber as merrily as now. Democratic orators and organs continue 1o assert that the panic of 1893 was caused by the demonetization of silver in 1873, but the peopie will remember that under the Republican system of protection the wealth of the country increased from $30,000,000,000 in 1870 to $65,000,000,000 in 1890, and that no crash or disaster came until the free-traders got into power and began to break down the industries of the people, While the Palmer Democrats denounce the Bryanites for proposing to revoiution- 1ze our findnces they propose almost the same thing themselves. The Chicago platform is for silver monometallism and the Indianapolis platform for gold mono- metellism. Neither of these suits the people or is in accord with the best in- terests of the country. We must have bimetellism, and that we will get by the election of McKinley. BRYAN SKUBS LABOR. Mr. Bryan formally accepted the nomi- nation of the Democratic party for Presi- dent yesterday. A letter of acceptance was not needed, however, unless he felt that it was too good an opportunity to in- sult the intelligence of the American people to let pass. He employs words and words and words upon words in call- ing attention to issues that are of com- paratively minor importance, but when he reaches the question of questions—the question of providing ways and means for the idle millions to earn bread and butter—he passes it by as a matter of no consequence. Every one knows that the cause of the existing distress in .the walks of the ‘‘common people,” as he is pleased to call workingmen, is the direct and legitimate consequence of the substitution of free trade for protection, a measure which re- ceived his hearty support in and out of Congress, When he reached that ques- tion of questions in his letter of accept- ance he kicked it aside with the remark that *'It is not necessary to discuss the tariff question at this time.” In the name of 21l that is just and right, if this is not the time to consider how the hungry of the land may be fed; if this is not the time when the voice of idle men is heard crying for opportunity to work, for the discussion of the problem of providing the wage class with the means of self- support, when will the time come? *It is not necessary,” Mr. Bryan says, ‘‘to discuss the tariff question at this time,”” Burely labor will find no comfort or en- couragement in such an utterance. The needs of labor are of minor 1mportance to Mr. Bryan. Labor must wait while he rides his hobby. The people of the United States did not wait for an honorable peace more anx- iously during the course of the Civil War than the wage-earners have waited for the reopening of the industries in the last two and a half years, and now comes labor's self-appointed champion and tells work- ingmen that the question of giving them opportunity to employ their brain and muscle is too unimportant a matter to en- gage his attention at this time. The be- lief prevails very generally in labor circles that the tariff act which Mr. Bryan advo- cated so earnestly upon the floor of Con- gress was ‘the direct cause of the indus- tries drawing their fires and discharging their employes, and labor had the right to expect that Mr. Bryan, as a candidate for President and asking for labor's sup- port, would at least attempt to give the ‘‘common people’’ reason to hope that if he were elected he would interest himself in Jabor’s behalf, but he says “it is not necessary to discuss’’ measures for the re- lief of idle labor “at this time.” And yet Bryan poses as the friend of labor! AU over the world every producer is looking for a market_for his produce. Every human being is looking for something to do. Com- mercial and financial success is the highest achicvement of this age. And so we must have protection or we will have cheap labor. Cheap labor is never intelligent labor, and all Americans must be intelligent or this Re- public cannot stand. This is the price we pay for liberty. Who can object to it!—M. M. Estee. TWO0 KINDS OF INDEPENDENCE. In his reply to the address of the Ohio Republican Editorial Association, Major McKinley said: “We must educate the people that political independence is one thing and independence of the laws of trade and nature is another.”” It will be understood, of course, that the Chicago platform was referred to. While that declaration of so-called principles is a string of contradictions, evasions and hypocritical cant, the central thought is that it would be perfectly easy for the Democratic party to manage the affairs of the Nation quite independent of the laws of trade and nature, and since Bryan be- lieves himself to be very much wiser than bis generation, no doubt he will try to set aside the law of gravitation and the various other ‘‘natural causes’ unless they can prove that they come to the “common people’’ independent of any force that does not begin and end somewherein “my platform,” if he is elected. One of the laws of trade which Major McKinley recoznizes as being an irrevoca- ble edict of the accumulated wisdom of trade, commerce, agriculture, finance, la- bor and industry is that wide-open shops, mills and factories to the free admission of labor is better for everybody than wide- declared in favor of the gold standard, but ! in favor of the restoration of silver.”” It will be seen that Senator Carterun- derstands the Republican platform to mean bimetallism, just as every other sen- sible Republican understandsit. In fact, Bryan has declared upon seversal occasions that the St, Louis platform contemplates . the use of both gold and silver without restriction, only that he thinks his way the better way. And Senator Carter is right in line with the other leaders of his party when he says that bimetallism can- not be accomplished under free trade. Under free trade foreign industries, with their pauper-wage schedule, would sup- vly our merchandise markets with goods and wares, and they would be in position to demand any kind of money they liked of us. To be sure, their sales would be light, because the majority of our people being out of employment would have money of no kind to spend in the mar- kets, but whatever trade there was would be done with the kind of money Europe wanted. It is amaziog that there are people so blind as not to see how liule free coinage, independent of other countries, would avail our wage-earners, more es- pecially if our industries were not running S0 as to give them opportunity to earn dollars. Of course, we could have free coinage and free trade and keep our in- dustries running pretty much all the time, but not inless we put wage-earners on a parity with foreign wage-earners. No doubt we could hold our markets against the world under free trade and independent silver coinage, but to do it we should have to reduce the cost of our goods and wares to what similar articles made in other countries could be laid down bhere for, and as more than 90 per cent of the cost of our manufacturad arti- cles of merchandise goes to labor it will be seen very readily that labor would have to submit to wages substantially the same as are paid in other countries. Labor need not be told, for it knows very well that BEuropean wage schedules would mean European conditions of living. ‘What labor in this country wants first is a chance to work at good wages. When that is secured the money question will pretty nearly settle itself; or, rather, com- merce will take hold of it and put in a shape that would strengthen the hand of labor as well as protect itself. There is no more virulent or pronounced Jree-trader in the United States to-day than this same William J. Bryan. England has used every possible endeavor for many years, through the Democratic party, and such men as Mr. Bryan as its willing servants and tools, {0 get this countryto adopt free trade to the complete ruin of us industries and its labor, as we have seen in the past three years, to the enormous profit of England. Mr. Bryan has | been perfectly willing to be, and is, England’s most obedient servant in that, but expresses great abhorrence of England’s influence in Javor of a gold standard.—Ez-Governor Ham- ilton of Illinois. THEY ARE NOT REPUBLICANS, The esteemed San Francisco orgsn of candidate Bryan says: “The Silver party nomination represents the votes of those Republicans who are not ready toleave their own party permanently or to cast their lot with the Democrats or Populists. Most of them, it may well be be- lieved, do not favor the common princi- ples of either the Democracy or the Peo- | ple’s party; but they are willing to lay aside their prejudices and work and vote for the man who represents one principle on which they agree with their life-long opponents.” According to our esteemed contempo- rary, as between the maintenance of the integrity and independence of the Fed- eral judiciary and the throwing open of the mints to silver, the Silver party would prefer the latter; that as between protect- ing American industries against the low- wage labor system of other countries and the free and unlimited colnage of silver, it woula take free coinage; that as be- tween holding American labor, in the bonds of enforced idleness and the coinage of silver in an unlimited quantity, they would accept silver coinage; that as be- tween a home market with a continuous demand at good prices for American farm products and throwing open our mints to the free coinage of the silver ore of pauper- wage coantries, they would ask for the opening of our mints; that as between a sound and safe monetary system and the unlimited coinage of the white metal they would prefer the latter, and that as be- open mints to the free admission of the$tween prosperity in all the channels and | silver bullion of individuals is, wounld or could be. Of course Major McKiniey in- terprets this edict to mean that it would, be perfectly useless to open our shops and mills and factories to the freeaadmission of labor if our markets were left to the free admission of the product of shops, mills and factories of countries whose wage schedules are 50 to 75 per cent below ours, and hence it1s that he says the first step in the direction of giving labor a free chance to coip itself into dollars is to pro- tect labor and that which employs it against hurtful invasien. To that proposition Mr. Bryan says it is a matter that is not necessary to dis- cuss until the mints are buckling down to the work of turning out silver dollars, but he does not explain how labor is to get hold of the doliars. On the contrary his proposition is that American iabor shall not have the dollars unlessin a general scramble with the cheap labor of Europe 1t manages to gather a few. Mr. Bryan is in favor of throwing open our shops, mills and factories to the free aamission of labor, but he insists that our markets shall be wide, open to the free admission of pauper-labor made goods of other coun- tries. That is to say, Le is perfectly willing that American labor shall have plenty of work, but it must sell its product at prices made by pauper labor, and to oblige that to be done he will open the custom-houses to the free admission of pauper-made goods and wares. Strive for a fuller development of your in- dustries, build up a greater and. more profit- able home market for the products of your Jarms, advance always that prosperity which enables the proprietor to pay the highest scale of wages to the workingmen of America, not the lowest. Ezalt the character of your labor. Never degrade it.— McKinley. A TFREE - SILVER REPUBLICAN. Senator Carter of Montana is a free-sil- ver man, and he is also a good Republi- can. He believes it desirable to open the mints to the white metal, but not under Democratic auspices, because that would mean the introduction of all the princples of the Chicago viatiorm into the conduct of the affairs of the Government, and they would be a bigger load than silver could carry, the Senator thinks, In an open letter to ihe Republicans of his State, Senator Carter says: “Ido not believe in free coinage coupied with free trade, and I do not believe both can be successfully established an maintained by our Government. The free-trade policy will render the establishment of bimet- allism an utter impossibility. Afterlook- ing the whole sitnation over, it will be found that the Republican party has not highwaysof commerce, industry and labor and wide-open mints for the free and un- limited coinage of silver, they would ask for the latter. If, as our contemporary says, the Silver party is willing to sacrifice every principle and tradition of Republicanism and over- throw the foundation upon which the Nation stands for the sake of removing the present restriction upon silver coinage, then it did rignt in indorsing the candi- dacy of the nominee of the Chicago Demo- cratic and the 8t. Louis Populist conven- tions, for Mr. Bryan represents that idea in all its fullness. But our contemporary wrongs the Silver party when it says it “‘represents the votes of those Republicans who are not ready to leave their own party permanently to cast their lot with the Democrats or Populists,’” No Republican is supporting, no Repub- lican could support Bryan's candidacy, and if there is a member of the Silver party who is claiming to be a Republican while advocating the election of Bryan he isan arrant hypocrite. Republicanism is as far removed from Bryanism as union- ism is removed from sectionalism. The mission of the Republican party is to create such conditions of existence for the American people as shall conduce to the highest and best good for every man, woman and child inall the land. It takes in the whole range of possibilities and works to enlarge opportunity for every one to plant and culitivate a vine and fig tree for himself, and about him it seeks to maintain law, order and satety. The *‘one principle” which our contemporary says the Bilver party is contending for is not a principle of government, it is & prin- ciple of trade and commerce, and to thrust it upon and make it the paramount func- tion of the Government would be to make courts, law, Congress and the whole of the machinery of the Nation subservient to its yurpose. No, there are no Republicans in the Silver party nor in the Democratic party nor in the Populist party. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The elder brother of David Livingstone, the African explorer, is still living in Listowel, Ontario. In Vienna bicycling has given place o swimming, and a ladies’ club has been formed. The Queen of the Netherlands has had re- course to the womanly practice of putting up her hair.’ g The Duke and Duchess of Fife have gone to Scotland to spend a few weeks at Duff House, Banffshire, before proceeding to Upper Deeside for the shooting season. Li Hung Chang is credited with telling & director of the Bank of England that seli- interest as a rule of business “is the same the world over, but especially in England.” ~ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. “Many persons who understand music make the common mistake that such songs as ‘Old Black Joe,” or ‘Old Folks at Home,' or‘0ld Kentucky Home' are negro melodies. They are no more negro melodies than ‘Aifter the Ball Is Over,’ or ‘Listen to the Mocking Bird." Negro melodies were not written, but like Topsy ‘they just growed.” Those popular and justly so songs, “The 01d Folks at Home,’ eto., have been sung by men blacked up to repre- sent negroes for so long & time people think they were made by a negro.” This is part of an article recently written by Mrs. Porter-Cole, s Colored vocalist who was one of the original Fisk jubilee singers. She names as real negro melodies: “Go Down Moses,” “Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells,” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I8ee, Lord.,” ‘None of us wished to sing the Tegro melodies,” she adds, “and one young man went home rather than do it. That was in 1871, and we looked upon them s badges of slavery. Just as my mother had snatched MRS. PORTER COLE, story written by Mrs. Crawford, whose auto- blography was then appearing in Captain Marryatt’s Metropolitan Magazine. The song, which was written in Londou, had & spon- taneous and lasting success, but Crouch some- times regretted the following line when he heard Cockney warblers pronounce it: “The ‘orn of the 'unter is‘eard on the'ill’”’ (The horn of the hunter is heard en the hill.) Musicians do not seem to be clubable, except in combination with members of other pro- fessions. The stage, law, journalism, the army and navy and various other professions have clubs in most countries, but musicians’ ctubs are generally dismal failures. The London Truth attributes this to the fact that the projectors of such clubs have imagined pro- fessors of music hanker after musical perform- ances in their hours of ease. What they really do desire 16 to meet possible pupils. Signor Mancinelli, one of the eonductors of Who Says “Old Kentucky Home” Is No Negro Melody. the. bright-colored head handkerchief from her beautiful black hair and flung it intoa distant corner, when she heard she was a free woman, because it was to her a badge of slavery, we would forget those songs we had heard all our lives. Our director, always & man of determination, had his wav, however, and his jubllee singers sang first two or three, that those who s0 much desired to hear them might do f0. To him I think we are indebted for the preservation of the only native Ameri- can musie.” J. D. Mehan hds written to the Song Journal to plead for the observance of professionual ethics by all music-teachers. He says: ‘‘Pos- sibly all the professions need elevating, but in my opinion there is none that exhiblits such lamentable lack of dignity as the profession of music. Fancy for instance members of the legal and medical prefessions writing personal letters to clients and patients of other practi- tioners offering reduced rates and otherin- ducements in order that such patrons may be brought over to themselves. The methods followed by some of our fraternity would dis- grace & peanut-vender. 1 know a piano- teacher, & lady of counsiderable ability and reputation, who actually writes personal, urgent letters to the pupils of other teachers, trying to persuade them to leave their present | instructors and come over to her. Thisis up- holding the dignity of the profession, isn't it? It may be that this method has brought the lady a few more puplls, but it will eventually impsir her standing with the people of Detroit. If I were to presume to offer advice to teachers Ishouid say: ‘Don’t try to ouild a reputation in any way except by honest work.’ ”” Strange to say, Germeny possesses no statue to Richard Wagner or Franz Liszt. The Weimar Journal is now proposing that, to cele- brate the tenth anniversary of the death of Liszt, a statue should be erected to him at Weimar, where the Liszt Museum already exists, to perpetuate his memory. It is be lieved that the innumerable pupils of Liszt would contribute liberally, particularly those who, like Sophie Menter, have made large fortunes, Tt is very possible that the Hunga- rians will protest against Weimar as the site of the statue, and will point with pride to the fact that they already have a statue of Liszt in front of the Royal Opera-house at Budapest. It cannot be denied, however, that Germany has very strong claims on the master, and the probability is that Liszt's pupils would con- sider Weimar the best place for the erection of & commemorative statue. One of the singers promised for the Mapleson company is Jene Harding, a French soprano, who made her debut two years ago. That was her first appearance as a vocalist, but she had been a notorious character for some years, and on the occasion of her appearance in opera (it ‘was made in Baint-Saens’ “Phryne”) there was a popular demonstration against her. Vegeta- bles and other mocking tributes were thrown on the stage and a etorm of catcalls drowned most of the vocalist’s efforts. Jane Harding went through her part with perfect indiffer- enceto the demonstration and the following day the papers were almost unanimous in censuring the public for letting the private character of the singer interfere with her re- ception as an artist. Since then she has con- tinued to sing and has won some recognition. Sheissaid to be possessed of a light, trivial soprano voice, which she uses skillfully enough to atone for its utter lack of volume. William Parry, the stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera-house, 1s just home from Bayreuth, where he went to get suggestions for the stage setting and the stage manage- ment of “Die Walkure,” which is to be given at the Metropolitan next winter. Hesays it is not possible to produce operas in New York as sre done at Bayreuth and Munich. “Wedo too many operas, aud we cannot attend to each with all the closenesss and care that they put Into them over there. When I told Herr Fuchs, the stage manager at Bayreuth, and also at Munich, that we did twenty-four ope- ras in twelve weeks he did not make any reply, but he looked at me in & way thet seemed to say, ‘Thet is another American lie."” ‘The European opera-houses are beginning to announce their programmes for the coming season. The Lyric Theatre,at Milan, will re. open in the middle of this month with Mme. Emma Nevada in “Lakme,” and the works to follow are “The Navarrasise,” with Mme, De Nuovina, “Mignon,” with Miss Simonnet, and Miss Sibyl S8anderson in “Phryne.” The nov- eities aiready announced for the Scala season consist of Leoneavallo’s ‘“La Boheme,” and Mascagni’s new Japanese opera. The Argen- tina at Rome will play for the first time “Camargo,” by De Leve, and the San Carlo at Naples' will give the initial performance of Frauchetti’s new opera, “Pourceaugnac.” Fame came to the recently deceased Pro- fessor Crouch by writing the melodious “Kathleen Mavourneen,” a song founded on & the Metropolitan Opera-house during the grand opera season, has written a cantata, “Hero and Leander,” which will be produced at the Norwich festival in October. The Prince of Wales, fvho is & great admirer of Manci- nelli’s conducting at Covent Garden, has signified his intention ‘of attending the per- formance. The appearance of Maggie Cline in Newport drawing-rooms singing “Throw Him Down, McClusky,” and “Ar-rah, Go On,” and other ditties in that line, shows that fashionable society at the queen of watering-places knows what real fun is and where to abply for it, but evidently it is not to Newport society that we must look for elevation of the art of music. Legal documents have been taken out meking Earl de Gray, M. H. V. Higgins and Maurice Grau proprietors and -administrators of the Royal Italian Opera of Coven Garden, London. Gran, who is well known on this side of the water on account of his share in the adminis- tration of the Metropoiitan Opera-house, is considered to be the best man that could have been chosen to succeed Sir Augustus Harris. The Czar—it is becoming the fashion now to spell it Tsar—and the Czarina are to be greeted in Paris by great musical manifestations. The authorities have arranged two serics of operas in their honor—one consisting of the works of deceased composers and the other consisting of the works of men who are still alive. Mas- senet, Saint-Saens and Réyer figure on the lat- ter list. At the Geneva exposition 600 executants are to perform a composition by Daniel Band- Bovy and Jacques Dalcrose, entitled “Poem Alpestre.” The work was produced for the first time last spring and met with great suc- cess. Dresden, perhaps the most musical city in Germany, has been provided with another concert-room, to hold ebout 1400 people and framed on the model of the new Gewandhaus at Leipzig. AN ATTRACTIVE COSTUME, The belted basque is the latest development of the waist or jacker effect. This has a circu- lar basque edded and may be trimmed in a variety of ways at the top. The sailor collar with revere fronts is shown here, being one of the best-liked models. The new plaid, striped and embroidered woolens of the fall are being made up into such waists with very good results, as one seen, which was worn with collar and a narrow ribbon belt of turquoise-blue satin rib. bon, matching one of the stripes of several colors which msde the plaid. Mohairs are mede in this . A plain brown one was worn with a narrow white leather belt, the crusk collar being of Dresden ribbon with & white ground. For early fall, cheviot, tweed and in fact all the fabrics in wool are ing made up afier this model, and will be much in evidence as 8oon as outer wraps are laid aside. The first €ool autumn days will show & vast number of these bmmh;s ‘waists. They are made over s fitted lining, the out- side being seamless. The basque or peplum is cut separate, in circular shape. One Good Turn Deserves Another. Palo Alto Times. The Republican party of California is pledged to the support of woman suffrage and every int nt woman in_the State owes it 1o herself her sex to use her influence for the success of the Republican ticket PERSONAL. F. A. Cutler of Enreka is in the City. E. W. Churehill, the banker, of Napa, is in town. C. N. Fielding ot Keswick, Eng,, atrived here last evening. C. A. Storke, the attorney, of Santa Barbara, 1s at the Lick. Alberto Ramirez of Venezuels is among recent arrivals. Otway C. Morrow of Hillsboro, Ohlo, is at the Occidental. George Crocker arrived here yesterdar and isat the Palace. C. F. Downs, the mine-owner, of Sutter Creek, 1s on a visit here. J. D. Meyer, a wholesale merchant of Port- 1and, 1s at the Palace. Alfred V. La Motte, a vinyardist of Glen Ellen, is at the Grand. Thomas B. Bond, the capitalist, of Lakeport, arrived here yesterday. Virgil Conn, a mine-owner of Paisley, Or., reached here yesterday. D. E. Knight, the banker and railroad man, of Marysville is at the Palace. Professor Edward H. Griggs of Stanford Uni- versity is on & visit to the City. A. H. Bell and Mrs. Bell of Washington, D. C., are among recent arrivals here. C. W. Waldron, one of the owners of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is in town. Ernest Graves, one of the leading lawyers of Southern California, is in town. J. C. Ericksen, the wealthy cattle-grower of Humboldt County, is at the Lick. ! Captain R. R. Searles, the well-known steam- ship commander, is at the Palace. George H. Tolbert of Washington, D. C., was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Cristiena Koch of Quesaltenango was among Taesday’s arrivals here, and is at the Palace. J. G. Walker, a wealthy furniture manufac- turer of Chicago, 18 registered at the Baldwin. James Simpson, the widely known owner of redwood timber lands and sawmills, is &t the Lick. i James P. McCarthy, the well-known real estate man of San Francisco,1s registered at the Hollenbeck, Los Angeles. James McIlwaine, & business man of San Sal- vador, was among the arrivals here by the steamer Newport. He is at the Occidental. 8. W. Van Syckel of New York, who recently bought the Petaluma Gas Works and is nego- tiating for the gas works at Woodland and other places on the coast, is at the Baldwin. Among the arrivals at the Palace are Charles H. Charlton and Louis R. Sasinot of New Orleans,who own extensive cotton plantations in Louisiana. They are here mainly for pleasure. Guy A. R. Lewington, superintendent of the Del Norte Mining Company, Klamath County, is in the City. He says there is a good deal of progress in gola-mining development along the Klamath River. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 9.—At the St. Cloud, Mrs. E. Garruner, L. Pollock; Morton, F. Thompson; Metropolitan, W. Emmerson, O. M. Breonan, W. H. Miner; Rroadway, H. Vent- win, G. Gunti; Grand Union, H. K. Chambers. HOW TO VOT. San Jose Mercury. BY W. 6. HAWLEY. It seems to me that voters now should take a retrospect, Four years ago they wanted “change’’ and got the full effect. The free trade scheme was catching then, they Dad to pay so much For evers suit of clothes they bought, and tin and other such They voted Cleveland in the chair. He cracked his whip with ease And brought down all of the Democrats before him on their knees; He whipped them right and left you know with his old bulldog will, And then he robbed the Treasury with the Wilson tariff bill; He whipped It through our Congress against all business sense And tried to run our nation on less money than expense. Then of this King called Cleveland they got so mighty sick They bhad to hide thelr blunder, and do it very ick, And s0 the Cleveland party In error now does hatch And folst upon unwary ones “free silver” for a catch 5 The;’ ve made a_dismal fallure of free trade as Fou know, But this “free silver” will, they say, prevent our overthrow. They know “free silver” will enrich the silver king, 1f won; Tak i.boring man it cannot help, it factories do Lot run. ‘What good -free siiver” e'er ean be to those with naught to do Is more tuan I can comprehend (and no one else), can you ? To get the silver dollar you will readily pre- o ceive You'li give & Iabor value for whatever you ré- ceive. Don’t let the words “free sflver” assist them to bulidoze You ne'er will have it (without work) put in your hands or clothes. Vote for protection. Let our mills and factories open stand. Start iron and tin and silver mines wherever in our land. The coal ‘and lumber Interests, t00, and mighty soon you'll see Our wheat and wool and cotton move and every industry. Levs keep all pauper labor from out our ports, now free, And let our Yankee vessels float our products o'er he sea. Our doller then the world at large will not dis- ni 1 cent, AngJeborers il bave work to do to make thelr homes content, There’ll be no strikes upon our shores, nor other great objection When we elect McKinley to carry out protec- tion. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. «Did Julia come home engaged?” “] don’t think so. Didn’tyou notice thatshe was all bitten up by gnats and mosquitoes?’— Chicago Record. “No, sah,” said the colonel; hunting, ssh. Itis cruelty.” “But you fish, colonel. Isn’t that cruelty, too?” “What is a fish?" asked the colonel, in scorn- “I never go ful topes. “A creature that has its existence entiahly in watah, sab.” —Indisnapolis Journsal. Elsie—Why does your husband speak of you as his right hand? Mrs. Ray—Give it up, unless because he never lets his right hand know what his left hand doeth.—Truth. “They say that brainy people have a dread- fully hard time learning to ride wheels,” “Yes; I suppose they are figuring on the laws of gravitation when they ought to be wiggling their legs.” —Puck. Pause, stranger, pause, as you pass by, And shed a briny tear In kind memory of him Who lles interred here. 1did not die of fever dread, / Nor ceamps, nor indigestion; I croaked of t00 much ‘telling how To solve the money question. —Buffalo Express. Brown—Poker must be a pretty old game. Jones—I don’t know. Why do you think itis? Brown—Didn't the Israelites long for th jackpots of Egypt 2~Up to Date. ¥ “Has Maude’s head been turned b - tune she inherited 7 ? s “No; only her nose. It has turned up ab fifteen degrees.”—Cincinnati Enquh‘er.p i —_— Testing It a Little. 7 . Stockton Inaependent. general shout of condemnation age st the corporation known as Wells, F-rgo‘&lgm may be expected because it paid its employes The president says, in silver last Friday, philosophically, that, as the company hed to getrid of its silver in some way, it might as well use it to accustom the employes 10 what they will have to receive should Bryan be elected. This suggests & mew ‘apnlication of Mr. Bryan’s snap question. If silver is a good thing why wait until Congress hasforced it on the people, and if it is not §00d now how will it be good a year or two hence, if there is no other money? ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. SUPREME COURT EXAMINATIONS—M. A., Oake 1and, Cal. The following 1s the rule that goy- erns the examinations in the Supreme Court of this State: Applicants for admission to practice law will not hereafior be examined in open court at the sessions held in Sacramento and in San Francisco. In pursnance to the amendment to section the Code of Civil Procedure, three of the Commissioners will be deslgnated by tha Justice to conduct public examinations of ail 80ns who presant their applications in due fo Such examinations will be beid at the Supr Court building in San Francisco on th Mondays of April, August and December. otherwlse ordered applicants who are bon residents of any of the counties of the Los 4 district wiil, if they 80 desire, be examined at Dbeginning of each session of the court in Los 4 geles, us heretofore. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC STEAMERS—F. The following table will give all the iy tion asked for about steamers on th and Pacific oceans: Un ‘61 07 PISWDIONF 0 UWD 1610 9T PIIAS OFUIOAY o *afeunoy, seoxn T as L8 BIL'T, *efleuuoy, 19N THE FIRST RAILROAD—A large number of au. thorities give it as a {act taat the first railroad in the United States was the one that was built from the Quincy quarries to tidewater on New- port Creek, already mentioned in this depart- ment, but A. N. Hungerford of this City, in a letter to Answers to Correspondents, differs from these authorities. He writes: The first railroad in this country was the one buili on Beacon Hill, Boston, by Silas Whitney in 1807, eightecn years' before the one from the quar- ries ‘was buile The second one was bull, by Thomas Leiper in 1509 in Eidley Township, Dels- ware County, Pa. The survey and draft of tae roud were made by John Thompson. and the origi- nal map is now quarters of a mile In lemgth and the estimate cost was $1592 47. It was used in transpor: stone from the Ridley quarries to tidew. Ridiey Creek, a tributary of the Delaware. Talls were wood, and the road contin Dineteen years, when it was su rails and & canal. The first railros the United States was never built. I was granted in about 1815 and the Toad bave run from the Delaware River near Tt to the Raritan near New Brunswick. In 1816 a raiiroad was built in Western Penn- sylvania on the Kiskiminitas River and was used to couvey coal to Andrew Bogg's salt works below Saltsburg. On the 7th of April, 1823, the New York Legislature granted a cnarier to the Dela- ware and Hudson _anal Company 1o construct a canal and raiiroad from tue coal fields of Pennsyl- Vania to the Hudson River st Rondout, N.Y. The canal was completed in 1828 and the railroad in 1829, The lutter was sixteen miles long aud ex- tended from Honesdale to Carbondale. In 188 the Quincy raiiroad was completed and was four miles in léngth, including branches, 10 haul gran- ite blocks to the port of Newport from the quar- ries. The rails were of wood, but strapped with iron plates three inchies wide and & quarier of an inch thick. In 1827 the Mauch Chunk Raiiroad in Carbon County, Pa,, with four miles of siding, was bullt to_connect the coal mines of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company with the Lehigh River. The road was nine miles long. In August, 1830, the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad for tha carrying of passengers aud freight from Albany to Schenectady, a distance of seventeen miles, was commenced, and, was opened for travel September 12, 1881. The charter was granted In 1826. On the 28th of February, 1827, the Maryland Legisla- ture granted a charter for the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which was the first one in the United Stales tO Carry passengers. Its coustruction was commenced July 4, 1828, Charles_Carroil of Carroliton laying the corner- stone. The road was opened from Baltimore to Kiliot's Mills, a distance of thirteen miles, on May 24, 1830. The Charleston and Hamburg Reilrona was chariered by the South Carolins Legislature. December 19, 1827, the road was begun and six miles were completed in 1829 and opened for travel December 6, 1850. ‘Ine road was completed a distance of 135 m'les in Septem- ber, 1855, then the longest continuous road in the worid. All these roads used wooden rails with iron plates on them, and some roads used such as late a3 1850. In 1833 wrought iron rails of Eng- lish manufacture were laid down on part of tha line of the Baitimore and Ohio, before the road was construcied to Point of Rocks. These rails were Known as the Birkenshaw ralls, having been prtented in England by John Birkenshaw on the 20th of October, 1820. The Clarence rail, an Im- provement on the Birkenshaw, was used on the Allegheny Portage Rallroad. 1he H rail was first used on part of the Boston and Lowell road, which was completed in 1855 A NICE present—Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c. 1b., in Jap baskets. 627 Market. * ———————— M. Zola's next romance, ‘Paris,” will not be ready for fifteen or sixteeg months to come, ————— SrecrAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— Cleveland Winks at the Butcheries. Sacramento Bee. Weyler continues to imprison and torture Americans. Heavy batties are being fought every day in Cuba, but Grover know it mnot. About all he comprehends is that fishing is “just tolerable” in Buzzards Ba; Are You Gomg Nast? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fe route—Is the coolest and mos: comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dust. 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