The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1896, Page 6

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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. To-night we jubilate. California has a right to crow. It is the day for industry to rejoice. It was the greatest victory on record. Shout for trinmphant Republicanism. Capital is coming out of hiding and labor has its opportunity. The fusion managers are all agreed it was the other fellow’s fault. The town to-night will be as radiantly rosy as the bright dawn of prosperity. Every citizen will share in the good times, and all should share in the jubilee. Senator Teller will not talk of fusion in the future—the Colorado bolter has had enough. > Congratulations to Alameda; the proud banmer of California Repubticanism is hers again. From this time on every week will see higher levels reached by the rising tide of prosperity. Bryanism may be relieved by the gold cure, but for Altgeldism there is no re- course but the madhouse. It won’t be long now before we will be talking about carnivals and frolics of that kind to lighten up the winter. Now that money is in no danger it comes out, circulates among the people and takes an interest in enterprises. 1 The election of McKinley has restored confidence, and we shall soon have abun- dant evidences of restored prosperity, 1f Dan Lumont would exert his noted tact and get Cleveland to cut his message short the people would take it kindly. Give vent to your joy to-migiht. The victory has been gloriously won, and loyal Republicans have a right to cele- brate it. It is agreed on all sides that the present system of voting needs a good deal of alteration. Itis too clumsy for the Ameri- can people. Winter has already become a frozen fact in some paris of the East in spite of the almanac, and the people are getting out their skates. The President is ours, the Senate is ours, the House is ours, the State is ours, and the country is with us—so what more can we wish? Business waited on politics, and now politics has done the prover thing by making the way clear for business for four years to come. Bourke Cockran says “the Demoeratic party has no future which it can deter- mine for itself,” and that seems to be about the size of it. There should be an extra session of Congress as soon as McKinley takes his seat. We cannot get rid of the deficit tariff any too quickly. The whirr of running mills and the bum of active industry make the music that carries gladness into every heart and brigiitens every home. Winter is coming, but it will not bea winter of discontent in any part of the Union. There will be work for the workers and wages in good gold. The jubilee to-night will be scmething more than the celebration of a party vic- tory. It will be a popular festival in honor of the restoration of better times. It is safe to say that McKinley’s ad- ministration will so far restore National prosperity as to give satisfaction to the people, and that the Republican party has virtually entered upon power for the rest of this generation. The cause of silver is safe in the hands of the Republican party, and the Mc. Kinley administration can be counted on to carry out the party pledge to pro- mote the free coinage of silver by inter- national agreement. The value of raw silk imported into this country last year was $22 000,000, while the " value of silk goods imported was $31,000,- , 000. In these figures there is evidence of ' achance for California to build upa big industry 1n the silk business. Bear in mind McKinley’s words, “The victory is not to a party or to a section, but of and for the whole American peeople.”” In the spirit of that sentiment let us all turn out this evening and maie the celebration an occasion of generalre. joicing. A New York reporter thought it worth while to ask Mr. Hanna whether the tariff had anything to do with the resnlt of the election, and it is scarcely neces: ary to say Mr. Haona smiled blandly end told bim the tariff had very much to do with it Every business interest which depends on confidence in the Government has been benefited by the election of McKinley, and as a consequence the welfare of the country was promoted by the Republican success on Tuesday to an extent which it would be hard to overrate and almost impossible to estimate. OELEBRATE THE VICTORY. The State Central Committee, through its chairman, Frank McLaughlin, has sent to all the county committees a telegram recommending that a celebration and rati- fication of the gilorious victory achieved by the Repubfican party be held through- out the State this evening. It is scarcely necessary to say the recommendation will be adopted. To-night victorious Republi- canism will paint the State red. Itwill be a veritable jubilee to mark the end of the long depression and the dawning of a new era of prosperity. The celebration in the State will bave its highest and fullest accomplishment in this City. This would be in the natural order of things, as San Francisco is the metropolis of the State, There are other reasons, however, than thoseof population and wealth which will emphasize the pre- eminence of our celebration to-night. In this City loyal Repvblicans and conserva- tive Democrats have snatched victory from the very jaws of defeat. The triumph here has been one of the most remarkable in the Union, and those who took part in the fight have more than ordinary reason for rejoiging in the victory. ‘When we remember how much the elec- tion of McKinley means to the people of San Francisco we can well understand why her men of business and of industry should rejoice in the successof their party. We shall now have protection for our in- Jdustries, reciprocity treaties which will build up our foreign trade and wiss legis- lation to promote our merchant marine. San Franciaco, guarded at home and ad vanced abroad, will rapidly increase in population, wealth and prestige. Her growth during the coming decade is sure to be great, and we will celebrate to-night not so much a partisan victory as the dawning of a new epoch in our civic his- tory. While the men who worked and voted for the Republican ticket have the best right to rejoice in the victory, in a certain sense all citizens have some reason for do- ing so. Even those who voted for Bryan can see now in the renewed confidence of capital and labor and in the increased ac- tivity of business that they have profited by their defeat, and not less than their Republican antagonists will reap benefits from the revival of industry. Let everybody come forth, therefore, and take part in the rejoicing. Let the flag of the Nation fly, drums beat and rockets soar. Llet the long procession of victori- ous Republicans march through the streets in triumph, amid the acclamations of thousands. Let every man give vent to his joy, his enthusiasm and his patriot- ism. Let the workingmen of San Fran- crsco who voted as they marched last Saturday march now as they voted last Tuesday. Let it be made a great pop- ular demonstration—an ovation from all who love America to those who fought the good fight for her industries and kept the faith of her law and her destinies. A MODERN PHARISEE. The Chronicle indulged yesterday morn- ingin a lengthy, labored and disingenuous attempt to explain away its disloyalty to the Republican party, and relieve itself of deserved odium for the defeat of cer- tain of its local candidates and the dimin- ution of its majority upon the genmeral ticket throughout the State. The very elaboration of the Chronicle’s defense argues its necessity and justifies | the general opinion of Republicans that but for its treason no candidate would have been defeated, no majority dimin- ished and no defense required. The public is entirely familiar with the facts wnich place the Chronicle upon the defensive in the matter ofiis loyalty tothe Republican party and to its rega- lar nominees. The thresking of old straw by which it attempted to divert the eye of honest scorn was as.needless as it will be unavailing. When the Re- publican State Central Committee de- clared that the municipal ticket which ex- isted by virtue of the Chronicle’s support was irregular and had no right or title to partly recognition; when the Registrar re- fused to place such irregular ticket upon file or give it position upon his official ballot; when the Supreme Court of Cali- fornia approved and upheld the de- cision of the Registrar; when by virtue of these decisions by the supreme appellate tribanals of the party and of the State all past issues as to the regularity of the party organizations were set at rest, then, if not before then, the defection and disloyalty of the Chronicle became a political crime. During the last thirty days of the cam- paign it devoted the main energies of its editorial and local staff to sustaining and encouraging the candidacy of a straggling company of irregulars who from the outset knew perfectly that they had not the slightest chance of success, Even to these the Chronicle, with habitual unfaith, could not be true, for it basely and inconsistently deserted Asa R. Wells to support William A. Deane, and thereby contributed sufficiently 10 the latter’s de- feat. Thne effect of such an element of disioyalty and disorder in a campaign has by the result been made only too plain, and to this portion of the public indict- ment the Chronicle has been too com- pletely made conscious of its own guilti- ness to attempt a defense. M'KINLEY'S COUNSEL. The telegram of President-elect McKin- ley to Mr. Hanna, published in THE Carr yesterday, carries with it an assurance of prosperity to all the people of the Union. It makes clear the fact that our coming President has a true understanding of the forces which bore him to the great victory he has won and that he well comprehends what the people expect of him and hope for from his administration. Mr. McKinley very truly says: “The victory is not to a party or to a section, but of and for the whole American people.” It has been a triumph of the conservatism of the country, an unmis- takable evicence that business men and workingmen are opposed to any turther experiments in legisiation and desire a re- turn to those safe principles of protection and sound money under which we have found prosperity in the past and a return to which is the safest way of establishing our welfare in the future. It is pleasing to note that the victory has been won not as that of one class of people over another, nor as that of one section of the country over another. It has been a victory for the whole people and the whole Union. ' It has been & dem- onstration that every class of onr citizens and every portion of our great Republic is sufficiently able to maintain justice and usiness even amid the excitements of a Presidential election, after the harassing and disturbing condition of three years of hard times. As Mr. McKinley says, the people *“‘have indeed again consecrated themselves to country and baptized the cherished ordinances of free government with a new and holy patriotism,” Most important to us at this juneture is the counsel given in the closing paragraph of the ietter of the President-elect: *Let us as Americans straightway devote our- lves to the upbuilding of America; to the peace, honor and glory of our com- i § mon country. Party dissensions shouid no longer divide or rack the public mind, nor the zeal or temper of either side deter any citizen from patriotic devotion to the good of all.” These words of guidance should be cor- dially followed. We celebrate to-night the grand triumph of the patriotism of the people as illustrated by the Republican party and the sound money Democrats who supported McKinley, and in that celebration if will be well for all citizens to take part. We have done with the fights and antagonisms of the past. The prosperity of the future awaits us atl. Let us unite and work for it together witha clear understanding that the interests of all classes and of all sections of the Union are one and the same. INFAMOUS JOURNALISM. Against the ordinary exploits of the new journalism the individual citizen has protec- tion to this extent, at least, that he can keep its hideous emanations out of his own house, and can likewise avoid them, in his daily movements around town, even as he avoids other forms of filth. But against one method of attack known to these unrelenting enemies of good government and public morals the citizen is powerless; his home, his family, his property, are alike defenseless. With the above paragraph the New York Sun began an editorial, bearing the title **An Infamous Cartoon,” denouncing the course of the New York Journalin conducting the late campaign. That the language is none too severe is well known to the people of this City, since the Ezam- iner copied many of the Journal cartoons and added to them some equally in- famous of its own concoction. The Sun rightly says of these cartoons that they are *‘brutal, coarse and off -nsive in the extreme.” They violate every sen- timent of honor and every instinct of decency. They present to the eye all the vulgarity which the letter press of the Journal and Eraminer seeks to convey to the mind. It seems to have been the opinion of the Sun that this coarseness of Mr. Hearst's organ was the result of the Bryanite cam- paign. It says, in reference to these ear- toons: “Therein we see clearly the ten- dencies of the new journalism when en- listed in the cause of anarchy.” The people of San Francisco have had a longer experience with the Ezxaminer under Mr. Hearst's control than the New York people have haa with his management of the Journal. It is well known in this City that neither the Ezaminer nor the Journal bad any occasion to borrow coarseness from Bryan, Altgeld or Tiliman. They brought to the campaign more evil than they derived from ii. For a long time vast the Ezaminer has been the most mon- strous illustration of decadent journalism in America and its fakes and frauds and sensational indecencies have been a by- word and reproach for years. The Sun is inclined 10 the belief that decent citizens cannot guard themselves against this latest form of sensational depravity. This, however, is an error. Public opinion is sufficiently powerful to protect good citizens when it is once roused to condemn those who assail the honor of the individual and the dignity of private life. By expelling from their homes the newspapers which contain these offenses against manners and morals and these insults to virtue and decency the better element of the community can so weaken the prestize of the sensa- tion-mongers that there will be no profit for the decadent journalist to engage in them. With public indignation fairly aroused against this latest forn. of in- decency there will be no need of law courts to punish the wrongdoers. The faker is greedy for money, and when he sees that nothing is to be gained by coarseness and vulgarity he may be relied upon to cloak the foulness of bis'mind in order to secure the fatness of his purse. The Sun 1tself says that the individual citizen can so far guard against this villainy of journalism that he “can keep its hideous emanations out of his house, and can likewise avoid them in his daily movements around town, even as he avoids other forms of filth.” This advice ziven to the people of New York against the Journal may be repeated here against the Ezaminer. Let good people avoid the foul thing and it will soon perish of its own rottenness. 2 “THE SUNDAY OALL" The election being over and peace and prosperity assured the people may now prepare to enjoy the good things in store for them, and especially to-morrow will they be pleased to turn their thoughtsinto channels more agreeable than those of po- litical strife and regale their minds with something more entertaining than the dry logic-end dull figures of campaign pam- .phlets. THE SUNDAY CALL will meet all requirements of that kind. It will be found filled with good, wholesome literature, with the best kind of a California flavor. The tens of thon- sands of people who are heartily interested in the development of the great university at Berkeley wiil be gratified to read of some remarkable points wherein it sur- passes all other educational institutions of the world. Dr. F. M. Close discourses in his learned way on a subject of universal importance with relation to a new scientific discovery, “How Human Life May be Prolonged for an Indefinite Period.” Van Dyke Brown contributes a charm- ing letter entitled, “The Story of the Be- loved Poet of Merton Abbey,” throwing new light on the career of the late William Morris. A weird ghost story of San Fransisco Bay gives diversion to the features of the raper and furnishes much food for psychic speculation. Tom Gregory tells a delightful tale of the sea, in his best style, in his amusing account of a startling innovation on ship- board. There are several local contributions full of merit. Bohemians of the City have a rare sur- prise in store for them, and they and all their friends will therefore be eager to peruse to-morrow’s issue of THE CALL. The fashion page is up to date and the ladies will find thereon all the very latest decrees of fashion, while thie society gossip will be as entertaining as ever. The news department of THE CALL can- not be too highly commended. In the matter of local campaign intelligence its accuracy and fairness have been unques- tioned, and for reliability and complete- ness its reputation is firmly establishad. The telezraphic seryice is all that could be desired; its reviews of curcent litera- ture are strong and admirable, and in every way THE SUNDAY CALL sustains its well-earned reputation as the very best California newspaper. PERSONAL T. E. Walker of China is at the Occidental. Trennor Coffin of Carson, Nev., 18 at the Grand. John M. Stewart, a business man of Carson, is in town. Dr. E. T. Reed of Atlantic City, N.J.,1sat the Grand. Joseph Murray, s wealthy ploneer of Fort Collins, Colo., arrived here yesterday. Heis at the Occidental, The Rev. R. H. White of Greenwood is at the Occidental. G. P. Putnam and wife of Sacramento sreat the Cosmopolitan. G. B. Ralph and G. C. Turpen of Sonors are at the Cosmopolitan. D.E. Knight of Marysville was among yes- terday’s arrivals here. Levi Rackeliffe of Sacramento, Treasurer of the State, Is in the City. G. Paimer, an extensive fruit-grower of Los Angeles, is visiting the City. E. McNeil end W. H. Kennedy, railroad men of Portland, Or., are at tl:e Palace. Charles Green, a 1ancher of Marshall, Tex., isstaying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. M. Williams, the owner of stores and min- lng property at Newman, is st the Lick. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stan- {ord University, was in the City yesterday. S. Z. Mitchell of Portland, president of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, is on a visit here. Dr. W. P. Cary of Chieago, accompanied by Mrs. Cary, isin the City. They are making a tour of California. W. B. Jefrey, & mining engineer of London, England, who has been exsmining gold prop- erties in California, is smong the arrivals here. A Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway of Portland, Or., # leader in the equal suffrage movement through the Pacific North and California the past twenty-five years, is a guest of Mrs Nellie Holbrook Blinn, Mrs. Blinn has accepted an invitation from Mrs, Duniway to attend the State Suffrage Convention at Portland Novem- ber 24 and 25. i Joseph Grandelmyer, the mining man of Hamilton, White Pine County, Nevada, has written to & friend in San Francisco, saying he met J. C. Dunham, near Hamilton on Octo- ber 11, that he was riding & mustangand looked very careworn and low spirited. Mr. Grandelmyer, while talking with him, passed him a flask twice. The stranger was uneasy. He told stories of where he had been that were afterward found to be untrue. He finally started out in ome direction, only to change bis course and stop for a night with Charles Richter, keeper of the Six-Miie House, near Hamilton. CALIFORNI4ANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 6.—At the Plaza— J. Everett; Metropolitan —E. J. Baldwi Marlborough—8. J. Friedlander: Grand—N. D. Dodge; Imperial—T. Sloan; Holland—M. H. Hecht. Dick Brommer arrived from Bremen on the North German liner Trave. ADVERTISING. Tue CALL publishes to-day the first of a series of letters on advertising, which have been specially written for this paper by Clement Wilder, the well-known adver- tising specialist. We call particular at- tention to them as matters of importance now that trade is reviving. The Honorable Arthur Balfour, in a speech before the English Newspaper Society in London last year, said: “The general news and comments and all the other machinery of communicating 1nformation to the public really ure not of inore importance to the com- munity at large than the powerof communi- cation by advertising.” Iwonder if the average business man ever stops to think how much money is yearly in- vested in advertising. I say invested ad- visedly, for advertising is an investment, good or bad, according to the attention paid to it and the quality of the wares advertised. It has been estimated by one of America's best informed business experts,a man who s in a better position to know than any other, that there was put into advertising in the United States alone, during the year 1895, $256,000,- ©000. Of this amount $110,000,000, he says, was paid to the newspapers. And yetin spite of this enormous expenditure, which is in- | creasing every year, the majority of business men still look upon advertising es & business side issue, a sort of *“charity contribution to help support the local newspaper,” and they flee from the advertising solicitor as if he were possessed of the plague. Ask the ordinary business man to advertise and six times out of eight he will reply: “Oh, what’s the use? Noone will ever see my ad, and if they do they won't read it.” But pub- lish in the same medium, in the same space and in the same type, some indiscretion of his, and he will immediately become frantic over the thought that the whole world will know of it. It is not too much to say that nine-tenths of all advertisivg does not pay, and when I say this I am speaking of all kinds of advertising, not that done in newspapers only. Six-tenths, because proper attention is not given 1o the preparation of the advertisements and the selection of mediums; three-tenths, because the advertisements are not backed up by right goods and proper handling of customers. That advertising does pay and pay big when given constant, business, brainy attention is proven by the colossal fortunes made, and being made, in trade with advertising recog- nized as an important and essential factor. J. C. Ayer began life asa drug clerk, and at first advertised his Cherry Pectoral in a small but judicious way, gradually increasing his expenditure year by ye: ‘When he died his fortune was estimated at $10,000,000. Twenty years ago A, B. Scots of Scott& Bowne was working at & moderate salary; to- day bis firm 15 spending $500,000 per year in adyertising Scott’s Emulsion. Royal Baking Powder is probably the best- known ariicle manufactured in America. J. C. Hoagland, the originator of the ar- ticle and founder of the business, was, in the early sixties, the proprietor of a small drug- store in Fort Wayne, Ind. Last year $700,000 was expended and 14,500 publications used in giving publicity to Royal Baking Powder. Is there a business man in America who has not heard of John Wansmaker, the merchant prince of rhiladelphia, and now of New York also, through his purchase of the famous house founded by A. T. Stewart ? Mr. Wanamaker himself has said that he at- tributes his success in a very great measure to his continuous advertising, and that he would as soon think of doing without clerks #s without advertising. It is worthy of note by retailers that the advertising of the great Wanamaker store is and always has been car- ried on almost exclusively 1n the daily news- papers, and that the reading matter of its ad- vertisements in its entirety is changed each insertion. Those experiences and successes are not exceptions. The list is long and growing.’ As u writer recently observed, itis becom- ing harder every day to avoid advertising. No matter how long you have been established, nor how old and reliable your name, if your competitor advertises you will find yourself compelled to meet him on his own ground and advertise also, or he will eventually pull away your trade. CLEMENT WILDER. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. M. Coquelin, whose fortune 1s estimated at $1,000,000, has the reputation of being the richest actor in the world. M. Emile Zola, who is an expert bicyclist, is, according to a Parisian journal, so fond of the wheel that he has made up his mind to write a novel about it. A delegation of Confederate veterans acted as pallbearers the other day In Baltimore at the funeral of Frederick MeGinnis, col- «l:)r:d. Who was the body servant of Jefferson vis. Princess Pauline de Metternich, who used to set the fashions in Paris under the second empiie, has received the grand medal and di- ploma of honor forfat cattle at the Budapest exhibition. Mrs. Phaebe J. Clymer of San Francisco, who had been totally blind for thirty-six years, last ‘week recovered her sight. Her family believes that this was a divine dispensation granted to them In response to constant prayers. The Emperor and Empress of Russia are at- tendeq on all their journeys by four Circassian domugu. gorgeously dressed in long red coats, embroidered in gold, and high black hats. These four are the imperial traveling servants. General £. F. Leger, the Minister to this country trom Heyti, who recently arrived in Washington, is described as a handsome man of middle stature, dark in complexion, with a black mustache and imperial. He does not speak English. - Lenbach, the famous German portrait painter, is now at work on the Prince of Wales. Among his best pictures are those of Bismarck, Pope Leo XII1and Giadstone. The artist no longer does potboilers, but under- takes such subjects as please him. Jean de Monstiers, Marquis de Merinville, who married Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, the Washington heiress, is the head of a dis- tinguished French family, and his great estate in Limousis has not changed hands, except from father to son, since the thirteenth cen- tury. The exquisite jewel belt worn by the young Duchess of Marlborough has suggested to Princess Charles of Denmark the idea of hav- ing one made for herself out of fiex:ble gold, studded with the 100 magnificent diamonds and rubles recently presented to her by her grandmother, Queen Victoria. THE WIND AND 1HE LEAVES. There is warfare in the garden, and the ‘mavy are outmatched In the struggle of the millions and the one; For the bitter wind is blowing, and the yellow leaves are going, going, And the armies of the summer turn and run, Here tney come, a flying leglon, round the corner, down the pach, While they seck in vain a shelter from the foe; By his furious onslavght scatiered, clad in russet, torn and battered, Lost and ruined in the summer’s overthrow. Time was when they were allles In the April atter- oo, noon, When the winter and the snows were at an end; For he touched the earth so lightly that they issued een aud sprightly, gr 3 And they hailed him for their champlon and their triend. Then they loved him inthe summer, and he kissed them as he passed, ‘When the uniforms they wore were fresh and green, And they trusted in him blindly, for they thought his voice was kindly As he whispered thiough the coppice or the dene. But they found ms rough advances on the gray __September morn Very differeut from his genfal breath in June; For when the year grew older his friendship it grew colder, And be threatened and he piped a warlike tune, Sothey fought him, and he beat them; and the garden paths to-day _ Tell & sorry tale of ruin and defeat, For the ciuel wind is roaring, and before him, whirliog, soaring. Go the liltie weary soldiers In retreat. —Pall Mall Gazette. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. From a boy’s letter to his mother—I am glad Ihave a new sister, but wish she had beena boy. Seems to me if the Lord couldn’t have sent & boy he might at least have sent a pony. —Household Words. Bigson—I once possessed a splendid dog who could always distingaish between & vagabond and a respectable person. Jigson—Well, what's becoms of him? Bigson—Oh, I was abliged to give him away. He bit me.—London Tit-Bits. “Was that your mother Wwi{h you yester- day?” “My mother? Dear, dear; that was my younger sister! We would s0 much like to have you come to dinner Sunday, Mr. Beas. ley.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. She—I didn’t think you would break your promise. He—Nonsense. How could I break what was notin my possession? Don’t you remember I gave you that premise the very last time we met ?—Boston Transcript. Merchant—What position do you desire in our establishment, sir? College Graduate—Oh, something like con- fidential adviser or general manager. Merchant—Good! You may have both jobs. I will meke you an ofiice boy.—Judge. Judge—What's the prisoner charged with? Inebriate—Good liquor, yer Anner. “Silence! What's the complaint?” “‘None at all, sor; Oi'm satisfied.’” Then the Judge, realizing that the man was loaded,discharged him.—Philadelphia Record. Wife (drearily)—An, mel The days of chiv- alry are past. Husband—What's the matter now? Wife—Sir Walter Raleigh laid his cloak on the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over, but you get mad simply because poor, dedr motker sat down on vour hat.—Boston Globe, A Timely Variation—“I'd like to have one or two of those biscuits you had for breakfast,” said the man who tries to be merry now and then. “I'm going fishing."” 1 suppose you think it’s clever to insinuate that you want them for sinkers?” “No,"” he answered gently, “I don’t want them for sinkers. Those biscuits were 5o good that they couldn’t fail to tempt any member of the animal kingdom that came anywhere near them. I want them for bait."—Washing- ton Star. A CHARMING JACKET FOR GIRLS. All the newest features of this season’s coats aré shown in this model. The sailor collar, the moderate sleeve and short godet back. A picturesque garment of this style was of sear- let cloth, with trimmings of black fox fur, black soutache braid and flat gilt buttons. Tobacco-brown cloth with trimming of beaver and narrow gilt braid had also gilt bu t tons. A blue beaver with trimming of braid oniy as shown in the smaliler illustration makes & serviceable school jacket. Black cloth with collar of royal blue velvet, bordered with Persian lamb fur, makes & rich and serviceabie garment. Double-face cloth of black, the inner side of bright plaid,is I!yll!hlr made with plaid side out for the col’ar and sleeve bands. A brown cloth with mignonette green velvet edged with sable, with Tom o' Shanter of the velvet with a band of sable and two tails in place of the quilis shown here makes & smart combination ior a girl’s best coat. The dull mixtures in tweea and cheviot ma: be brightened by having a collar of bright l'es cloth, or of a plain cloth to harmonize with main fabric. DR. ADAMS TO ARRIVE. ‘The New Pastor of the First Congrega- tional Church Is Expected To-Day. A number of ladies were busy yesterday arranging the interior of 1723 Pine street in anticipation of the arrival to-day of Rev. George C. Adams, the new paster of the First Congregational Church. Mr. Adams comes from BSt. Louis, which he left amid the regret of a large congregation, as expressed in the eulogistic findings of the church council. He will receive a salary of $4000 a year here, to start with, being $500 more than the St. Lous pastorate afforded. He was largely influenced in his acceptance, which has delighted the local church, by the at- tractiveness of the field of work offered. Dr. Adams is expected to preach to- morrow morning. It is computed that in marching loldhn‘ take 75 steps per minute, in quick march- ing 108, and in charging 160 steps. LODKING EAGERLY T0 GUATEMALA Californian Exhibits the Little Southern State. ' for The Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce Attain Success. OAKLAND ALSO INTERESTED. The Buifdings for Exhibits Brought Over From Bordeaux at a Cost of $250,000. California isto have an exhibition of her natural wealth at the Guatemalan exposition. The matter was formally set- tled yesterday, when the San Francisco Board of Trade met with the Chamber of Commerce to consider the question. The meeting was called to order by Charles Bundschu, who, in a brief address, outlined the purpose of the meeting and spoke of the advantages that would ac- crue to the State in general and this City in particular by taking our light from under the bushel so far as the Central Americar republics are concerned. A list of local merchants who intended to make exhibits was then read, and the influence of their names was such that others immediately stepped forward and subscribed to the undertaking. The list in fall up to the close of the meeting is as follows: W. W. Montague & Co.; A. C. Nichols & Co,; Johnson-Locke Mercantile Company; W. P. Fuller & Co.; Washburn, Moen & C: 8. Clark Company; N. Clark & So» Jr.; Braunschweiger & Co.; California Cannery Company . Speulding Saw Company; Gundlach, Bundschu & Co; Tubbs Cordage Company; California Wine Association; California Glue Works; Carlson- Currier Company; Wetmore, Bowen & Co.; California Art-glass Works: California Italian Paste Company; Sperry Flour Company, Fred- ericksburg Brewery; §. H. Frank & Co.; Pacific Coast Syrup Company. About twenty more are expected to make exhibits, On motion of Mr. Lilienthal the chair was empowered to appoint a committee to take charge of the exhibits and select & secretary. Mr., Bundschu, however, wished a liftle time in which to do this. Captain Murray stated that he had been talking the project over with a gen- tleman from Guatemala during the last few days, and had learned that all the buildings to be used at the exposition were brought over from Bordeaux, France, at a cost of $250,000. Ali exhibilors bad been notified tha: they would be allowed only tiil the i5th inst. in which to secnre space privileges, but the time has now been extended for a brief period, according to the informant. Captain Murray further learned that the Govern- ment wiil forezo the duty on a large num- ber of import for a year. The Pacific Mail Company, according to Carl E. Clarke, will adopt the same sched- ule of charges in freight to be used as ex- hibits as tie Southern Pacific Railway, that is; they will charge $10 a ton on stuff going down, but will return it free of charge. The wharf and railroad com- pany at San Jose will also make reduc- tions. All those in the interior who want to exhibit are requested to send in their ap- I}llc‘;\inns for space to the State Board of rade, The Oakland Board of Trade has ap- pointed a committee to act in conjunc- tion with the San Francisco Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce in the persons of the following: H. O. Tro- briage, Colonel Craigie Sharpe, A. D. Pryal, J. Terrill and C. McMullen. The members present were very earnest in their efforts to show the advantages California might expect to secure in a commercial way by having all enter into the project with vim. The meeting ad- journed to the call of the chair. FRUIT SHIPMENTS. Over Thirty Million Pounds Sent East From San Jose in October. The month of October was a busy one in the Santa Clara Valley orchards and fruit- packing establishments, atleast so say the managers of the Southern Pacific freight department. General Freight Agent Smurr announced yesterday that the total overiand shipments of fruit from San Jose for the past month reached the extra- ordinary figure of 31,830,000 pounds. This included prunes, dried peaches, canned iruits, etc., and it is said to be the largest shipment in the history of San Jose. The general shipment of deciduous R. W fruits of California to the East for October was not up to the usual standard, how- ever. The total number of loaded cars sent out was 3963. In 1895 it was 4297; in 1894, 6357: in 1893, 5401. Under normal conditions the figures would have been otherwise. Owing to the distarbance and uncertainty attending the campaign East- ern buyers let their stocks run low and bought only for urgent demands. It is be- lieved that the present month will more than make up the deficiency. —————— DEPOSITORS DEMUR. Claim They Are Not Technically Guilty of Libeling Judge Hebbard. Benjamin Lucey, O, L. Casavaw, F. H. Qualman, E. F. Kendail and T. H. Mec- Carthy, five of the seven People’s Bank depositors charged with libeling Judge Hebbard, were arraigned before Judge Da_mgerfield yesterday and pleaded not guilty. They, however, have permission, within two days, to withdraw their pleas. Attorney Barciay Henlay, in behalf of Thomas 8. Williams and George B, Conant, the other two of the accused de- positors, entered a demurrer to the indict. ment of the Grand Jury on the grounds that the communication alle, to be libelous was a prlvilefed one and con- tained nothing on the face of 1t prejudi- cial to Judge Hebbard as a man, ith regard (o the statement connecting his name with that of Alva Watt, wh, characierized as "x'mtorions,'t" ino Yis claimed that it was not alleged'th e Hebbard knew thnt\?&nt wal:flnot‘rv‘ri‘o‘igf"e As to John H. Sheehan, who was b, as a “political parasite,” the umor‘:-izd. m;:; :: g ghs c:flnlgl ‘Watt wasadvanced, aingerfield tool under advisement. 5y Oihurriey or Young Men. To-morrow afternoon, &t 3 o'clock, there witl be a unfon mass-meeting in the interest of young men at the Association auditorium, Mason and Eilis streets, 1o be addressed by Rev. Dr. Marshall of Philadelphia. The Moody Institute Quartet will sing and tbe service wiil free to both ladies and gentiemen. To- morrow being voung men’sday throughout all tne world nearly all of the pastors in the City will make special reference to the oceasion in their morning or eveniug sermon.. AN INSANE TURFMAN. George Foster’'s Mind Unbalanced by Financial Reverses in Gambling. George Foster,a young man well known to all the habitues of the race track, was yesterday committed to an insane asylum. Foster for several years past has been employed by John Humphreys, the local bookmaker, and other blockmen who have from time to time made books in the interest of the Gunst confederacy. He was a particularly skillful ticket writer and as such his services were clways in demand. During the poolzpom days, when Pauper alley was lined%fih betting establishments, and later on, when Kings- ley’s place was run in Oakiand, Foster became known to local bettors as the man who chalked the names of the horses upon the blackboard. He was a brigut young feliow and made many friends. During the last year Foster’'s gambling operations are said to have exceeded his income and the strain of trying to pick winners to have been too mucn for his brain. At any rate a couple of weeks ago he began acting queerly aad his friends had him sent to the Home for the Ineori- ate, thinking his condition was the resuit of a protracted spree. After being in the home for a week, during which time he grew steadily worse, he was pronounced insane by the physician in charge. Judge Sanderson signed the order committing bim to Agnews. THE FIRE UNDERWRITERS Semi-Annual Meeting of Their Pacific Coast Association Yesterday. No Longer a Compact to Maintain Insurance Rates, but an Inoper- ative Body. The general managers of the Pacific Coast fire insurance agencies in San Fran- cisco, although retaining their associa- tion, have utterly failed in unitingon a standard for business guidance, such as would maintain rates among their various offices. They met yesterday at Battery and California streets, they chatted over business matters in a general way and discussed the results of the election, but such a thing as a compact on insurance rates was not mentioned. This meeting was the semi-annual ses- sion of the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific. It was well attended, as nearly all the principal insurance offices in San Francisco were represented. Charles D. Haven, the president, occupied the chair. George Tyson of the German-American Company, Georze W. Spencer of the Eina, Henry K. Belden of the Hartford and C. F. Mullins of -the Commercial Union were appointed members of the executive committee. Four members of thiz committee retire at the semi-annual meetings and three at the yearly ses- sions, The underwriters accepted the report of their treasurer, George E. Builer, about expenditures and receipts of the last haif-year, which were satisfactory to the board. > ““The Board of Underwriters,”” said one of its members after the meeting, ‘“is sim- ply an 1noperative association—just lives along and holds us together without doing anything for our mutnal good. It could not do anything, anyhow, it seems, be- cause rates could never be held up while some fellows would surely fight. It has no effect whatever on rates er ‘rules gov- erning the conduct of offices. For that reason we took no action with regard to insarance rates. The board is rot a com- pact nowadays.” Leland Stanford Camp. Leland Stanford Camp held a called meeting last night at Kohler & Chase Hall. It was de- cided to make a permanent political and social organization,and committees were appointed on by-laws. Thanks were extended to a!l the firms or triends that had extended kindness to toe camp during the cempaign just closed. The daughter of the camp, Miss Dora Johns- ton, gave a recitation. Special thanks were extended to. the papers of this City for favor- able notices of meetings. At10 P.M. the meet- ing adjourned to Wednesday, November 18, at 8P M ———— TRY our fig taffy, 25 cents1b. Townsend’s, * —————— CALIFORNIA glace frut pudding. Townsend’s.* —_——————— EXTRA-FINE Brazilnut, walnut, filbert taffy. Townsend’s. —_———— A NICE present—California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b in Jap. baskets. Townsend’s, 627 Market st.* pecan and . —————— GLASSES, 15¢; Sundays, 738 Market, Kast's shoestore; weekdays, 65 Fourth, next bakery.* —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———— “Tommy, who was Joan of Arc?” asked the teachor. “‘Noah's wife,” sald Tommy, who is con- sidered great at guessing. — Philadelphia American. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Sants s route, will continue to run caily through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, lso upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all points In the United States, Canada, Mexicoor Europe. Excursions tbrovgh Boston leave every week. San Francisco tickes office. 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building. 71elephoue mag, 1581: Cakland, 1118 Broadway. —————— Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rls Grande and Rock Jsiand Raflways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicagoand Boston. Mau- ager and porters accompany these excursicas i Boston. ¥or tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Clinton Jones General Agent Kock Isiand Hallway, o0 Moas gomery street, San Francisco e e - THERE is youthfulness and good looks ina fine bead of hair. 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