The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1896, Page 6

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Telephone. <evevee.Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS?: 517 Clay Street, Telephone............ - 2 BRANCH OFFICES: 650/ Arontgomery sireet, corner Clay: open untll Main—-1874 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 8:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 16 Dinth street; open until 9 o’clock OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. ,F‘,)L:‘ " 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e i e ) PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PREAIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELFCTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. To the Ezaminer even Presidential pol- itics is a freak. _— By protection we flourish, but by free trade we fall, and free silver wouldn't save us. el “On to Canton is still the cry of the people. They know where the true ieader is. ‘We must send to Congress men who will not only represent cur industries but vote 0 protect them. We have the best courtry and the best people and must maintain the best wages and the best money. Sound money, sound business and sound men are what the Republican party offers to the country. Anything for a new faks is the motto of the Ezaminer, and Bryanism is about as good as a lottery scheme. It is still a matter of doubt whether the Democratic fusion bosses are playing Cator for Senator or only for a sucker. Bo long as Bryan refuses to answer ques- tions about the tariff the people will have to ask themselves what his silence means, The Tammany braves thought Hill was crawling into a hole and didn’t know he was digging a pit for them until they fell into it. Even Bryan himself has lost hope in his election and has began to hedge by talk- inz of keeping up the fight in case of defeat. Bryan talks more and more about nothing every day. His Philadelphia speech was devoted largely to a talk about his aignity. Benator Hill drew it mild in saying there is too much Populism in the Chicago piatform. As a matter of fact, there is too much Altgeldism in it. The Popocrats have had to give up the attempt to make fun of Mark Hanna. He has shown himself too big a man to be hurt by their little ridicule. Bryan is not directly responsible for the support given him by fake journals, but it must be eaid there is something about him which is attractive to them. McKinley holds his place in the center of the eountry, while Bryan swings around the circumference like a wandering satel- lite and shines by reflected radiance. That the New York Democratic State Convention has left a muddle benind it is the beet evidence possible that it was truly representative of the party. “‘He who tampers with the currency Tobs labor of its bread,” said Daniel Web- ster, and under Democratic conditions the iabor of America has no bread to lose. Senator Thurston reports that in his stumping tour he has found that the silver, sentiment among the farmers is like the milk sickness—always in some other county. —_— The people of Eurgpe who favor inter- national bimetallism will find an ally in America, but those who hope to dupe this country into going it alone will be disappointed. Senator Hill is quoted as saying “The common people do not understand the currency question,” but then the Senator has always trained with the Democratic macbine and doesn’t understand the veopie. While the Democrais have bsen hunt- ing Populists in the woods, the Republi- cans have taken complete possession of the field of battle, and there isn’t a single point of vantage:left for the fusioniststo WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The Republicans of San Francisco should consider seriously to-day who is responsible for whatever of discord and dissension exists in the local Republican party. It is a shame and disgrace that on the eve of a Presidential election, when great issues are at stake and the honor and loyaity of California asa Republican State is involved, that Republicans of San Francisco should be dragged into a brawl over the party organization and forced against tneir will to divide their voting strength between two rival tickets in the fieid. ‘Who is responsible for these divisions? ‘Wko are the real traitors to the party? ‘Who are to blame for defeat which dissen- sions may bring? These are pertinent questions for every Republican to ask and to have answered fully and clearly to-day. Let the fects turnish the answer. These are the facts: The convention which assembled last evening at the Auditorium and nominated Hon. C. L. Taylor for Mayor of tkis City is the only regular and legal representa- tive of the local Republican party. It de- rives its right to make nominations from the regular County Central Committee of the party—a committee which was selected in the usual and orderly way such com- mittees are constituted during the pre- vious campaign. The right of that committee to repre- sent and act for the Republican party of | San Francisco during the past two years bas never been and cannot be dis- puted denied. nor It has never been displaced or superseded by any other political body possessing any origin of right or title to aot for the local Republican party. Its action and its power to act for SBan Francisco were formally confirmed by the Republican State Convention which met in Sacra- mento last May. By every party tradition and custom, by unbroken descent of title, by every principle of political self-government, the Auditorium convention is the regular Republic:n convention, and each and all of its nominees are entitled to be recognized and received as the rezular Republican party nominees of the City and County of S8an Francisco. For several days past another body of men have been attempting to meet and have been assuming to call themseives a “regular’” Republican Convention of this City. What is their right to this title? ‘What is the basis of their claim to recog- nition? What is the foundation and superstruc- ture of their pretension that they are the “Regulars,” and that as such they have the right to embroil the party in the dis- cord and confusion of two political con- ventions? There is absolutely no foundation to the whole ridiculous pretense. Conceding that the St. Louis National Convention gave its recognition to the contesting delegates from the Fourth Congressional District for the purpose of determining its own membership, its acts and its power ended there. By no possible stretch of authority could 2 National comniittee or convention reach into Ban Francisco, destroy its local po- litical organization and extend the powers of the claimants of regularity in a single Congressional district over the whole City. Such an act would have been subversive of ‘every right of local seif-government and of every principle and practice of party politiecs. The National Convention never did nor intended to do this wrong, and yet upon the flimsy and foolish claim of such action the entire right and titie of this so- called convention rests. Upon this pretension also the one or two men who are behind such shadow of a convention have based their persistent attempt to break into and break down the regular and legal organization of the Ke- publican party of San Francisco. In this attempt they have received constant support and aid from a Demo- cratic newspaper, whose political wisdom is limited to its effort to creaté division and discord in the Republican party as a means of Democratic success. ‘Who, tnen, is responsible for the exist- ing state of affairs in the local Republican party? The men whose title to the party organization is clear and indisputable, or the men who have no title or right to catl or hold a convention and whose political loyalty is illustrated and defined by their desperate attempt to break into the party organization, and failing in this to compel it and itsregular nominees to defeat? Let the Republicans of San Francisco consider to-day whom they will hold ac- countable for party dissensions and dais- cord—those whom they selected and ac- credited as their regular and legal repre- sentatives, or those whom they have never so selected. Whom will they believe and ‘support—Mr. John D. Spreckels and his associates or Martin Kelly and Jere Mahoney? The choice is with them, We want a dollar that will lose none of its value in our hands, a dollar that will be just as good when we come to pay it out as when we receive it. We want a dollar that can be exchanged for any other dollar at any time or place that we may want to use it. Those of us who are unfortunate enough to be pay- ing interest know that just as certainly as the value of the dollar decreases so certainly the rate of interest will increase.—N. B. Critch- Jfield of Ohio. CONOERNING WAGE-EARNERS. occupy. The popular vote In November will con- firm the statement of McKinley—*‘The people bave no patience with those who would violate the plighted faith of the Nation ‘and stamp its obligations with dishonor.” The Ezaminer declares the change in its policy on the silver question has not been due to any regard for Hearst's mining yroperty, and it would seem therefore that it surrendered to Altgeld only be- cause it saw in' his platform and bis can- didate the crankiest freak and gayest fake of the season. “The best of candidates for Supervisors offered to the Democratic couvention,” said the Examiner yesterday, *is enough to discourage the voters of the party. 1f this is the best that can be looked for it is time that there was a new deal” There will be one, of course, but the Ezaminer will be disypainuu. Ivwon’t be afreak deal, s The purchasing power of the wage- earners of this country is, of course, de- termined by the number of day’s work .they have and the per day wages they re- ceive. When they have plenty of work at good wages they are liberal buyers of table commodities, for the American workingman is a good liver when he is making money; but when be is obliged to practice close economy he can do it, and he bas been obliged to do it for a few years past. Bat while we all know that certain of our neighbors bave been in enforced idleness for nearly three years, and consequently have had to consume sparirgly, it is doubf- ful if many have ever thought what a dif- ference in the total consumption of pro- visions the country over such idleness makes. In the one item of breadstuffs 65,000,000 people bought and consumed 800,000,000 more bushels of corn and about 69,000,000 more bushels of 'wheat in 1892 than 70,- 000,000 people did in 1895, In 1892 prac- - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. tically every industry in the country was running on full time, giving employment at good wages to all who wanted employ- ment. In 1895 there were not many indus- tries in operation, ard consequently only # few wage-people had opportunity to earn wages. Of course all the other items of consumption were ‘cut down to the lowest possible point, and everything that approximated luxuries was given up en- tirely. But another item of vast import- ance which entcrs into the iife of the American workingman had to be given up, very much to his physical hurt and mental distress. We refer to the days and evenings set apart for recreation. He had to forego a!l pleasure that cost money, for he could not afford to have more than the com- monest necessities. Such has been and is still the fruit of the Wilson-Gorman tariff act which working-people gather. It would be a_reflection on the intelli- gence of the working class to say that they do not know all about these things, but it would be a reflection on their reputation for being .industripus, frugal and willing workers to say they ere so indifferent that they will not take an active part in the work now in hand to reopen mill and fac- tory so that they may again have all needed opportunity to earn good wages and consequently be able to live as be- comes an American mechanic or laborer. Itisnot human pature to want such con- ditions of existence ar the Wilson-Gorman tariff has caused and workingmen will not vote to contiiue them. I recommend the election of Major McKin- ley most strongly, beeavise I believe in what is praised as “‘the money of the constitution.” T want to see the triumph of “the dollar of our fathers.” But I would say that when a man comes to me with only 50 cents' worth | of silver duly stamp 1 and -profanely in- scribed ““In God We Trust,” and asks me to take it and palm it off on somebody else as the “dollar of our daddies,” to be received by that somebody cise fo- a dollar’s worth of something I want that he has—I say that I decline to join in the swinale, and I proclaim this to him: **Sir, my daddics and the daddies of this Nation were not that kind of men.”"— Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus. THE NEXT MAYOR. The Republican County Convention be- gan its work well when it placed at the head of its ticket for the responsible position of Mayor of San Franci:co a gen- tleman so well and favorably known, not only to the ypeople of this City, but to the people of the State as well. C. L. Taylor is not an experiment in the field of government.” He has been tried and found true. He is a pioneer resident of this City and his public and private life has been open to inspection for nearly a generation. In business circles he Is among the most prominent, and the breath of reproach has never dimmed the luster of his integrity. This is the type of men of which good officials are made. A man who has been successful in his own business is the kind of officer that the people want to super- vise their affairs. Ac a Supervisor Mr. Taylor built upa record for unswerving fidelity to the interests of his constituents which any official might well envy. The public have not forgotten the solid four who stood out manfully for right and justice, and contested inch by inch the in- cursions of the execrated eight, who will be soon relegated to the oblivion which they have earned so well. Mr. Taylor, in his ofiicial ecapacity, has done and has helped to do many things for the benefit of the people. They are fresh in memory, and it is not necessary to particularize them here. That the tax levy® has been held within the limits suggested by taxpayers is due in no small meas.re to his efforts. His experience in the chair, presiding over the Board of Bupsrvisors during the absenceof Mayor Sutio, added to his ex- perience a8 a Supervisor, will be of much value to him in the future. He stands prominently forward as a representative of that element which is most deeply interested in securing for it- self a capable and honest government. He is also a representative Republican end a citizen whom every voter may in- dorse with a feeling of confidence and se- carity. The country is cursed with political as well as financial heresy, certain phases of which are entirely new, forcign to our soil and aito- gether un-American. They spring from and are directly imported from the hotbeds of European sociadsm. Let no one imagine this statement an exaggeration. Examine the socwalist programmes, as they are called, of Europe; their advocacy of . repudiation of debt, the maticnahzation of. industries, pro- gressive income taxes, the fomenting of alleged class animosities, the referendum, their disregard of the validity of contracts, of legislative acts, of legal forms and prin- ciples. You will find their counterpartsin Populist utterances and in the Chicago and St. Louis Populistic platforms.—Perry Bel- mont. TAMMANY AND HILL Temmany in particular, and the Demo- cracy of the country in general, now know what Senator Hill meant when he said to the Chicago convention: “Iam a Demo- crat, but I am not a revolutionist.” Ad- dressing himself to Tammany, but intend- ing that the whole country should hear him, he said: “I would see the Demo- cratic party in —— first before I would in- dorse some parts of the Chicago platform.” The occasion was a meeting of Tammany to force John B. Thachef, the party’s nominee for Governor of New York, off the ticket because he is not a Bryan man, and Hill was there not only to insist that Thacher remain at the head of the ticket, but to read the riot act to the party. There does not seem to be any doubt that the Buffalo convention, which was packed with delegates of. the Bryan wing, was inveigled into a trap by Hill and that it did not realize its predicament until it had nominated a very pronounced anti- Bryan man for Governor. Tammany, or rather a few of the bosses who happened to have control of the organization, under- took to revamp the party of the State upon Bryan lines, and had the scheme worked Scnator Hill and all the other old leaders of the party would have been carted off 1o Tammany’s burying-ground, but the scheme did not work, The upshot of the rupture will be th. Thacher will not withdraw, the anti- Bryan Democrats will not put up a ticket and the State will give McKinley more than 100,000 majority, with possibly a Democratic Legislature. At this aistance that appears to be Hill’s programme. But anyway it is very evident that the Hill following do not intend to let Bryan carry the State, and to that extent at least the country is better off for having Hill livein it. It is a little curious that the Tammany following which Hill is fight ing is the same crowd that fought Cleve- land in 1892, and it is also interesting to note that Hill was then their leader, which puts him in & position where he has to acknowledge that Cleveland knew Tam- many in 1892 better than Kill did, and it puts Hill in exactly the same position with reference to the party that Cleveland occupied four years ago—and Cleveland won. You have heard the wild, strange promises that are made to you upon the one side, and on this side we promise you nothing except that certainty which human ezperience has given to us. Now, will you be led away into strange pathways, or will you follow the old path that you knsw? In other words, which would you prefer, on uniimited check on the rainbow bank of promise, or a_certificate for what is ezactly due you on the bank of ex- perience ?—Tom Reed. AN INTERESTING PARALLEL, ‘Examiner, May 4,| Examimer, Sept. 13, 1895—To maintain the|1896—Under free coin- parity alone it might/age tne silver dollar be necessary to make|will be worth exactly the proportion 25 to 1.{the same as the gold Our experience has not/dollar, and the parity encouraged us to be- between silver and lieve we could do this alone at 16 to 1. Examiner, May 17, 1895—They (the Illi-| Examiner, Sept. 13, nois Democrats) do not|1896—When we have want either to reduce|free coinage of both silver to the rank of gold and silver at the token money or m‘nuo of 16 to.1 there drive gold out of the|will.be a breaking up country. They are not/of the hard financial superstitiously Weddedlwinier that has frozen to the ratio of 16/the industrial energies to 1. of this new and wealthy country. comned will be 16 to1 throughout the world, Examiner, May 22, 1895—1It Is easy to un- derstand how Mr. Car-|1896—But if the Unit- lisle, who thought it|ed States by throwing safe to venture upon|open its mints to free free coinage when the coinege raises the bul- bullion in a silvar dol-|lion ratio 016 to 1, all lar was worth 90 cents, [coins struck at this shou!d be unwilling to|ratio will then become take the chances when full and independent the rate has come down parts of the world’s to 50 cents. leurrency. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Seot. 23.—At the Plaza— T. B. Fitzpatrick; Hoffman—J. W. Hart; Park- avenue—K. Howard; Holland—Mrs. H, E. Huntington, Miss C. Huntington, Mrs. I. Pierce, Mrs. C. Walker; Grand—J. D. Cripe; Continental—W. P, Hammott; Imperial—D, A. Halse, L. W. Stockwell. PERSONAL E. A. Crowninshield of New York is at the Palace. R. E. Jack, the capitalist, of San Luis Obispo, is in town. George 8. Smith, a merchant of Portland, is at the Grand. E. W. Yocum, a business man of Le Grande, is at the Russ. M. Jacobs, one of the pioneers of Phoenix, Ariz,, is at the Russ. G. D. Plato, who owns & general store at Mo- desto, is in the City. Mrs. George Crocker arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. E. M. Murray, & hardware dealer of Los An. geles, is at the Grand. 2 J. A. iapman, a mining and business man of Nevada City, is in town. J. R. Chace, proprietor ot the Sea Beach Ho- tel, Santa Cruz, is in town. W.F. Prisk, the newspaper proprietor, of Grass Valiey, is in the City. Salvador Herrera, ex-Minister of Finance for Guatemala, is at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Oliver of Colorado Springs are staying a: the Cosmopolitan. J. A. Sinclair, mariager of the Pacific Lum- ber Company at Scotia, is on a visit here. A. L. Brown of Hyams, Brown & Co. left yesterday on a business trip 10 Los Angeles. A. Ekman, a druggist and mineral-claim owner of Oroville, is here on a business trip. James Loman, & leading citizen and mine- owner of Sutier Creek, is a guest at the Cos- mopolitan, A.J.Smith, who for the pastyear has been engaged in mining in Alaskas, is among the re- cent arrivals here. L. A. Sheldon of Pasadens, ex-Governor of New Mexico, is in the City for a brief sojourn, He1s at the Grand, J. N. Wilmans, the mining man, general- store owner and land proprietor of Newman, is registered at the Lick. A party consisting of Mrs. W. W. Law and Miss Law of New York and Mrs. William Rus. sell of Philacelphia are at the Palace. Byron E. White, who was one of the early settlers of Great Falls, on the Missouri River in Montana, is among the arrivals at the Russ, Hugh McDonnell, the widely known mining man, returned yesterday after a trip through Oolorado, Utah, Montana and other Pacific States. A. N. Butts, s mining man ot Spokane, who for & good while past has been developing mining property at Lewiston, in this State, 1s at the Occidental. Frederick Berg, chief clerk of the Interna- tional Hotel, has been nominated for member of the Assembly by the Republi. in the Forty-firth Distriet. Mr. Berg intends to make a careful canvase. OLD KNIGHTS AND NEW. The knights of old, with hearts of gold, Fought battles for the falr, And In the m ‘Their good Examiner, Sept. 8, of crimson lists ords crowuoed her there. Lance met with lance: the wild romance Of love inspired the fight. And for his ladye's love or o Died many a gallant knight. Bat the new knights no longer spill Thelr biood for iadye’s 'n!:: Love simply mounts a bicycle And wins a dusty race! ~FRANK L. STANTON. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Things are coming Mr. Bryan’s way, but they are mostly things' that hurt.—Pittsburg Dis- pateh. Tom Watson was right. Sewall isonlyaknot on & log, and a very small knot at that.—Kan. sas City Journal, Mr. Bryan is not maintaining the ratio. Six- teen speeches and not one idea will never do.— Philadeiphia Inquirer. Up to this time three things have been dis- covered about which Bryan will not talk. They are Maine, Vermont and Tom Watson.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Powderly hits the nail squarely on the head when he tells the workingman that his motto with regard to money should be, “The best is none too good for me.”’—St. Louls Giobe-Demo-« crat. This plank 1s not in the Bryan platform: ““Resol ed, That wheat shall be ground free, and every barrel of flour shall be stamped two barrels.” It issilver that is to be treated this way, not wheeat.—Wheeling Intelligencer. Bryanism in the State of New York to-day has no honorable or respectable party leader- ship; and the Buffalo Convention will have no Ppower to lift it from the mire where it belongs. It will only be made the more despicable by the treachery to declared Democratic princi- glu which its support invoives.—New York un. “‘Why are you so glum, Jack? Has Ethel re jeeted you?” said a Pittsburg young man toa friend who was carrying a chronic frown. ) not exactly.” hen be cheerful and hopeful.” ‘“‘She gives me no ground for hope and cheer. She says she will marry me when Bryan is elected President.”—rittsburg Chronicle-Tele- graph. . 2 Above the din of cheers for the noble victory in Maine; above the swelling chorus for honest mouey; above the shouts for protection to American 1abor and revenue for the Govern- ment; above the wails of Bryan, even, for tne POOr to rise against the rich; above all the Doise and clashing of a campaign that is going 8ll one way at & furious pace—above every- thing else is heard the voice of Tom Watson crying: “Scoot, Sewall, scoot!”—Pittsburg Dis- pateh, . & gold coined or un| ~ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, Katherine Klafsky, who died at Hamburg on Tuesaay, will be a great loss to Wagnerian opera. There dre few prima donnas who could surpass her in certain Wagnerian roles since Materna retired from the operatic stage. Kiafsky owed more to her superb natural voice and her fine stage presence than to her vocal training, though she was & pupil of the far-famed Mme. Marchesl. Last winter when she sang in New York with Walter Damrosch’s opera company the critics were loud in their lamentations that such a “gorgeous” voice should be so indifferently used. Brunhilde wes one of Klafsky's favorite paris, but though she was not so large as Materna she was gaining In weight and gave an impression of bulk which Materna never conveyed the warrior goddess. She was still a compara- tively young woman, being three dsys past her forty-first birthday st the.time of her death. She began her career at the age of 20, but on nher first marriage retired from the stage, and subsequently began her career all FrauKlafsky, the Great vfa;;cfian Singer Who Died at Hambutg. over again. Klalsky was married three times, her last husband being Herr Zohse, the assist~ ant conductor of the Hamburg Staat Theater. Albert Carre hias been sojourning in Switz- erland, and this is what he writes to Le Figaro under the date of September 6: “Not content with showing the industrial progress of the tountry at the Geneva Exposition, Switzer- land wanted togive its visitors a sample of its artistic produets. The paintersand sculp- tors have filled the palace of fine arts with their works and its musicians have shown their compositions in a symphonic eoncert, which took place last Eaturday in Victoria Hall, a magnificent new building, the like of which is not to be found in Paris. To tell the truth, Itather distrusted going to that con- cert. Idid not know whether serious conser- vatories and choral societies existed in the country, and without exactly limiting Swiss music to the ‘Ranz des Vaches’ 1 did not be- lieve in it. I wes wrong, d 1 hasten to make amends. There are musicians in Switzerland —good musicians—and the courageous little country will have its part in the modern musi- cal movement. There is Edouard Combe, born in 1866. His ‘Adagio Symphonique’ is & beautiful inspiration, and I should not be astonished if a great future were reserved for bim. Jacqu Dalcroze is certainly the most original and expert of the Swiss com- posers. His overture to ‘Sancho,’ an opera which he holds in reserve for the Geneva Theater, is, I believe, a wonderfu/ly tngenious work,' Among the other Swiss composers ‘mentioned by Carre are Frederic Hegler, di- reelor of the Zurich Conservatory, and Gus- tave Doret, who promises to have a brilliant future, A perfect craze for musical comedies seems to have broken out in the Britieh ecapital, and as New York often follows London’s lead in matters theatrical the epidemic wiil no doubt spread to America. Indeed, “The Geisha” has already been transported by Daly from the Gaiety Theater and has been mounted at Hoyt's regerdless of expense. The matter is becoming serious in London, for before tho end of next month half the theaters in the city will be playing musical comedies, and the cry is still they come! All sorts of subjects are being travestied by these musical farce composers, who pay Gilbert and Sullivan the sincerest form of flattery, though their imita- tions are not up to the originals. The “Geisha Girl” is Japanese and deals with tourists and dancers. May Yohe is going to produce an Egyptian musical comedy, “The Belle of Cairo,” end “‘Monte Cario” is an operetta that treats Europe’s greatest gambling resort in a light and airy vein. No subject is sacred from the travesty-maker and the latest announce- ment is that the Armenian subject is to be turned into & musical comedy. This operetta will be called “The Piccadilly Pasha.” Among the most Interested listeners at the last series bf performances at Bayreuth were Jean and Edouard de Reszke, who no doubt went {0 the fountain head for inspiration for the roles of Wotan and Siegiried, which they are respectively engaged by Grauto.sing in London next season. Jean de Reszke is to marry his countess next month, and he would much prefer to refire permanently from the stage afier his wedding, butGrau isa warm personal friend of his, 50 to oblige him Jean will sing for Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau this season in America, and will also lend his help to Grau for the London season of '97. At the end of next year Jean de Reszke says he will forever sever his connection with the theater, as he wishes to retire to his estate in Poland and live the life of a wealthy country gentleman. One of the outcomes ot the recent Wagnerian performances at Bayreuth isa dispute between the critics as to the spelling of certain proper names in Wagner's operas. Should it be Slegmound, or Biegmund? Nibeloung, or Niebelung? Of course, the answer to this is taat the spelling of legendary names in a foreign literature cannot be fixed by any defi- nite rules. Each translator has the rightof spelling in the wey that seems best to his point of view. For instance, it is now grantea that one can now write indifferently Parsifal, or Perceval; Walkyrie, or Valkyrie. A spirited new marcn has just been pub- lishe¢ by Major C. Hunt entitled “The Pride of the Navy.” The new work, which is dedicated to Irving M. Scott, has a good swing- ing melodious refrain which should make it as populdr as any of the Sousa marches. “The Fride of the Navy” has already been played by the Park baud more than once, and on each occasion was very heartily applauded. Major C. Hunt is a Native Son, and his decided tal entin the way of. march composing should bring him rapidly to the front. - The first Bacon-Minetti matinee will take place next Saturday at the Y. M. C. A. audi- torium at 8 ‘o’clock, when the following in- teresting programme will be performed: Quartet in E flat (Bazzini), the Minettistring quartet; aria from “Africana” (Meyerbrer), E.J.Stark; (@) C minor polonsise (Chopin), (d) “Ich Grolle Nicht”” (Schumann-Kirshner), Miss A. Bacon; Terafel (Oliver King), E. J. Btark; piano quintet (Dvorak). A monster organ has just been inaugurated in Sydney, the construction of which was com- menced in 1893. According to.the papersit has five keyboards and several miles of pipes. Its sonority is remarkable; as great, indeed, as the price, and that is over a hundred thousand dollars. The day of its inauguration the maker gave a banquet which was served in the interior of the instrument. ’ “It is not without lively satisfaction,” says L’Eco Musical, ““that we see the normal pitch making progress in England. At the annual concert just given by the Royal Academy of Music, the French pitch was used for the flrst time in the history of the institution.” The indefatigable Mme, Cosima Wagner has a nmew temor in the person of a blacksmith’s apprentice, named Charles Kein® lechner. He is to be placed in the musical and dramatic school of Bayreuth, wkich has already produced so msny remarkable artists. The Swedish composer, Ivar Hallstroem, whose “Duke and Mermaid” was the first Swedish national opera, recently celebrated theseventieth anniversary of his birth. Among those who sent congratulation was Carmen Sylva. Andre Wormster, whose musical pantomine “L’Enfant Prodigue,” was such a success in Europe and the East, has just written a new work of the same kind entitied “The Ideal” A society has been formed at Rotterdam to build & theater which is to be devoted exclu- sively to German opera. The construction is already commenced and will be finished for inauguration during the course of 1899. The King of Wurtemburg has sent to Mme. Cosima Wagnsr the medal for “Arts and Beiences.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. IN POOR CONDITION. A PORTION OF FoLsOM STREET THAT NEEDS ATTENTION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call —SIR: I wish to respectfully eali the attention of the authorities through the columns of your paper to the condition of Folsom street between Fourth and Sixth. Those who have the con- tract to Dbituminize the two blocks have re- moved all the basalt blocks on both sides, ex- Ccept the entrance 1o stables, etc., which leaves the street in a very bad condition and derri- mental to any on2 living or doing business within above named blocks. Winter is fast approaching and there is no sign of the contractor resuming the work, con- sequently it seems quite possible that the street will be left in the same condition as it Was two years ago—simply Iiimgusub(m McDoNALD. San Francisco, Sept. 23. PARAGRAPAS 4BOUT PEOPLE. The death of M.Thome, formerly a stone mason and later & miilionaire,is announced from Paris. Nansen’s first words to his ‘“‘discoverers” were: “How 18 my wife, and how is Norwe- gian politics.” The wife of the Bishop of Winchester may often be seen bicycling on the great highways of the New Forest. Itis said that the Khedive of Egypt has now accepted & government invitation to visit England next year. The new Shah of Persia {s anxlousto open the country to international commerce, and favors the introduction of electricity and steam. Captain William Long, R. N., now in com- mand of the guardship Devastution, at Devon- port, has been asked to take again the chief command of the Chinese navy, which he held from 1886 to 1890, and will probably accept. He isa mandarin of the peacock feather, ana wears the star of the third grade of the second order of the Double Dragon. In the days of his boyhood Edwin Winter, who recently purchased the entire line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, its bonds, stocks, leased and branch lines, for $13,000.- 000, and has been elected ils president under the reorganization, lived in Campton Village, N. H., his father being a native of that town. When Edwin was in his teens the family moved West, and there he worked as & clerk in a Chlcago grain house. AN UNPRE(ELENTED SITUATION New York Sun, Bryan was nominated on the 10th of July, two menths ago. During that long time there has not been a single Democrat of real conse- quence and distinction in the whole State of New York who has declared himself in fayor of the candidate and the platform on which he was nominated. Nearly all the Democrats of the Btate most honored by the party and influ- ential in it have opeuly-and formally. repudi- ated both platform and ticket as un-Demo- cratic and unworthy of the countenance of any patriot. A JACKET COSTUME FOR GIRLS, Jacket effects are always extremely becom- ing to little girls and the one shown here is an unusually graceful cut. The full under front is becoming alike w0 stout orvery slender fig- ures. Astylish addition is the narrow belt, which may be of leather, gilt braid or ribbon. The skirt is simply gathered into the band, a five-inch band of hair cloth or some stiff inter- lining being set on the bottom togive the proper flare. Wash-dresses are simply hemmed at the foot and worn over ver¥ full petticoats. A dress of cadet blue had & Tull vest of blue and green shot silk. The revers and collar were likewise of the silk, with green spangles set on. The round yoke at top of the front had rows of green brald. A dress of dark-blue novelty goods had & vest of batiste, cross. barred with stripes of many bright colors. The sailor collar was of the same fabrie, the revers being of the mohair. All woolen goods make up beautifully after this model. One of a blue and white broken check had a vest of blue and white silk, PULL HIM DOWN.. San Francisco Popullst. ‘We do not claim to speak for the Democratic party as a party, but we claim to voice the sen- timents of every right-thinking man in the party from California to Maine. The time has arrived when it is necessary to insist, in all fairness, that Sewall of Maine should be pulled aown from the National Democratic ticket. The time limit is up and Sewall should be rele- gated, practically speaking, to the forecastle of one of his floating hells. The man is a wolf in sneep's ciothing. & fraud, a snare and 2 de- lusion. We know him personaily #s both boy and man, and are prepared to establish berond all questfon that he is neither a friend of labor, silver, God nor the devil. He is a Sewall ma that is all. Pull him down. He is beyond '- classification except in'the sense we put him. He is utterly unworthy of being the runnmP mate of Grover Cleveland on a ticket nomi- nated in hel. We know Sewall, but were not grep-rod 10 denounce him until his own State amued him. No wonder his own son aban. doned him. We doff our hat to the boy. Pull him down. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. L Taz DEER SEasoN—L., Hfillbrae, Cal. In 1850 (4§ the deer season was opsn from January 1 to July 1 and in 1890 it was open from the 1st of January to June 1. A Hyws—S. J., City. The hymn *“There is o Happy Land,” which has been translated into nineteen languages, was written by Andrew Young, & native of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1888. FrENCH HIsTORY—T. P., C1ty. - After the exe- cution of Louis XVIand then the execution of Marie Antoinette in France, the National Convention was In POWEr; after that tno Directory, the Consulate and then Napoleon I, HARD DRINKERS—K., Alameda, Cal. While it is true that many professional men are harq drinkers, it 1s not trae that the best profes- sional men are such. Many of the best profes. sional men are not addicied to thedrinking nabit. SIPHON THE LAKE—R. P. M., Colfax, Iowa This correspondent suggests that it would be more practical to siphon Eagle Lake, described in an article in THE CALLOf the 26th of August, than to tap it for the purpose of drawing the water from the lake. MME. ALBANI—M. W., Oakland, Cal. Mme. Albani, prime donna, was born in Chambly, €anada, in 1851. Her fsmily name was La Jeunesse, and she descended from one of tho early Frénch families of the country. She made her first appearance in Albany, At the age 0f 12, and met with such suceess that she adopted ' the professional name of Aibani. She married Ernest Gye. THE SEVEN WONDERS—T., P., City. The seven wonders of the world, the ancient world, were: The Pyramids, first, which {n Egypt were laid; Next Babylon’s Gardens, for Amytis made; Then Mausolo’s Tomb of affection and gullt; Yourth, the Temple ot Diana, in Ephesus buflt: The Colossas of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the sun; Sixuh, Jupi er's Statue, by Phidias done; The Pharos of E last wonder of oid, Or Palace of Cyprus, cemented with gold. ANCIENTEGYPIIANS—T. P., City. The ancient Egyptians had distinctive family names and distinetive names to distinguish one member of the family from the other. They did not use “Mr., Mrs. or Miss” for the reason that the English tongue wes unknown to them. They had a number of holidays which they observed and they used engage- ment rings. Osiris, Isis and Horus were Egyptian gods. CAMINETTI—F. H., City. Anthony Camin- etti represented the Second District of Cali- fornia in Congress, which includes Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, EI Dorado, Inyo, Mariposa, Mouo, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter and Tuolumne counties, in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third sessions. He was not re-elected to the present session. His home is in Jackson, Amador County. When he is in this City & letter directed to him &t the Lick House will reach him. FALSE PRETENSE—Subscriber, City. Any in- dividual who would go to a transportation company and obtain tickets at reduced rates on the ground that euch were for a poor per- son and worthy object of charity, and would then sell them at full rates, would be guilty ot having obtained property by false pretenses, but whether he could be convicted under the law wouid depend upon the facts and the tes- timony obtainabie. The degree of the erime would depend upon the value of the property obtained. If a manshould secure admission for an individual into a public institution and then collect $10 from the relatives or iriends of the individual on the representation that the State charged that much, he £hould cer- taiuly be prosecuted and should be reported to the prosecuting attorney of the county. THE COINAGE OF THE UNITED SraTEs—J. D., Vacaville, Cal. The coinage of silver dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes and half dimes was authorized by act of Cougress of April 2, 1792. Dollars were first coined in 1793 to 1805, then, by order of the executive, coinage of the silver dollar was diseontinued un 836. There were no dollars coined in 1837, but in 1838 they were coined again and continued successively until 1873, when the silver dollar was demionetized, and none were coined again until 1878, when it was re- monetized and its coinage was continued un- tii 1894 inciusive, in which year only 758 pleces were coined. Dollars were coined until November 16, 1895, when by order of the Sec- retary of the Treasury the coinage was stopped and was not resumed until the 25th of last January. Half dollars were coined in 1793 to 1796, then from 1801 to 1814, ana then from 1816 to the present time. The coinage of quarters was in 1796 and 1797; 1804 to 1807, 1815 and 1816, 1818 to 1823, 1525, 1827 to 1828 and 1831 to date. Dimes were coined in 1796 to 1805,1807, 1809 t0 1811, 1814, 24 1825, 1827 10 date. Half-uimes were in 1794 to 1797, 1800 to 1803, 1805, 1829 1o 1873 when the coinage of silver hali-dimes was discontinued. Nickel 5-cent pieces were authorized in 1866, and have been coined every year since that date. N 10 1823, coined TUNNEL—N. 8. M., East Oskland, Cal. There is & tunnel under the St. Clair River between Port Huron, St. Clair County, Mich., and Sarnia, Canada. This tunnel was built to con- nect the tracks: of the Grand Trunk Raiiroad of Canada with the Chicago and Grand Trunk, the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee and the Toledo, S8aginaw and Muskegon railroads in the United States. The tunnel was built of cast-iron segments by means of hydraulic shields, and was the first cast iron tunnel of its kind and the longest river tunnel in the world—6050 feet. It was begun in August, 1889, and was built at the rate of 159 feet per week, the two shieids meeting in the center August 30, 1890. The first raiiroad trip was made through it April 9, 1891, and it was formally opened on the 19th of the [ollawmg September. The outside diameter is 21.7 and the inside 20 feet. The cost of constructing this tunnel was within the estimate of £3,000,00. Tn 1871 it was proposed. 1o con- struct a tunnel under the Detrnit River to con- nect the City of Detroit with the Canadian tide, for use of the Michigan Central aud the Great Western Railway of Canada. A small drainage tunnel was driven as an sxperiment to a distance of 1240 feet from the Michigan side and more than 370 feet from the Canadian shore. Great difficulties were encountered from the inflow of water and gas, the former under a head much greater than that due to the depth of the river. The cost far exceeded the expectations, and the work was finally abandoned in 1873. BesT peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's* e e SprcraAL Information daily to manufasturare, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * # New Corporation. The Henry Welch Mining Company was yes- terday incorporated Are You Gomg East? The Atlantic and Puclfic Railroad—Santa vs foute—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to fts elevation and absence from algall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of familtes becanse of ita palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeplag cars, which run daily through from Oakland i Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and ia charge of atientive conductors sna porters. San Francisco Ticket office, 644 Marke: atreet, Chron- icle building. Telephone, Main 153L Oskland, 1118 Broadway. — Great Rock Isiand Route Playing Cards. Send 12 cents In stamps to John Sebastian, gen- eral pussenger agent C. R. L and P. Raliway, Chicago, for the siickest pack of playing cards you ever handled, and on receipt of such remit- tance for one or more packs they will be sent you posipaid. Urders containing 60 cents in stamps or postal note for same amount will secure 5 packs by ex- press, charges paid. 1¥ your complaint is want of appetite try hsif & wine glass of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters be- fore meals. ————— THE hair cannot floursh unuless the scalp is kept in good condition. 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