The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1896 SATURDAY.... CHARLES M. SHORTRIDQE, Editor and Proprietor. ....... NOVEMBER 14, 1896 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sundsy CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Runday CALL, three months by mail *1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, OD® year, by m: 150 . BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. Z ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. . Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open unth $:30 o'clock. 830 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o’clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streeis; opes until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll § o'clock. 114 Nuth street; open until 9 o'clock. Telephone.... OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, Néw York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Leave orders to-day for the Sunday Cavnr~ Don't fail to get the Sunday CArn :nd. read the Chit Chat papers. ‘Weyler reported a victory yesterday and to-morrow we may learn that the Cubans are advancing on Havana. The French crisis has involuted into it- self this time, but before long it will evolute into something else. Ex-Attorney-General Miller announces he will not be a member of McKinley’'s Cabinet—and there are others. Humboldt has to look up in these days if she wishes to keep ber eyes on her in- dustries, for the redwood market is rising. Auburn hasopened the chrysanthemum season and the holiday frolics of the State may be said to have begun on a high plane. foundriin F s There have been times when every Supervisor wanted the floor, but at pres- ent they will be satisfied if they can keep their seats. In his address to the farmers ex-Presi- dent Harrison gave them a good motto: “*The city for the country, the country for the city and all for the flag.” e It is sufficient to say of McKinley's foreign policy that it will be foreign in name only. Tt will be a strictly American policy and the people will support it. The New York horse show will hardly be a success this year. They cannot geta duke, they won’t have the Barrisons, and there is nothing to see but the horses. Kaiser William has made another war lord address to his raw recruits, but the nations will not be disturbed this time. Everybody has got on to his curves now. It is, perhaps, worth noting® that no Palmer and Buckner man is heard, ex- plaining the defeat, talking of running the ticket again or prophesying victory in 1900. Spain is reported to be eager to fight the | United States in order to have an excuse for letting Cuba go, and while the excuse is a poor one we may have to accommo- date her. Tne British recognition of the Monroe doctrine does not please France and Ger- many, but by and by they will come to recognize it themselves and then they will like it better. According to the reports from Chicago the directors of the National Baseball League made the awkward mistake at their meeting of trying to play ball with- out an umpire. The Republican party taught the lesson to the Popocrats, but the conservative Democrats are rubbing it in. All their organs in the East seem resolved to make the Bryanites repent or take the skin off. —_— The more the people consider the Dingley bill the more satisfied they be- come that while it may serve as a revenne makeshift it will fall far short of meeting the real requirements of American in- dustry. ok L U s Manufacturers and merchants should not forget the proposed display of Cali- fornian products at the Guatemalan expo- sition. There will bea good market for us in Central ana South America if we work it right. Over in the far East the conservative Democratic organs are learnedly appeal- ing to history to prove that the Indian- apolis platform represented true Demoo- racy, and are urging that the party be reorganized on that basis to make its next fight. The promises which the Sultan has given the European powers include re- jorms in the finances as well as in the administration of Armenia, so it seems that money as well as humanity was needed to make the diplomatic mare get a move on her. According to the St. James Gazette, it cost Russia $950,000,000 to whip Turkey in 1878, and it would cost England a billion to do it now. Of course, Turkey is too poor to pay an indemnity for such medi- cine and the doctors are therefore agreed to let the sick man alone. EFTETS As St. Louis, in addition to the great conventions of the summer, is to have the National convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union this month, she may rightly call herself the conven- tion city and begin to talk of assemblies in any other part of the Nation as over- flow meetings. — It is evident that in the tidal wave of proeperity Stockton intends to be right in the swim, for the news from there yester- day announces the starting of a big tan- nery, the revival of pottery works and the ‘beginuing of a survey for a railroad to the mining counties. That is a good showing for one week in one town. : For some years past the approach of winter has been heralded in the East by the organization of women’s rainy-day clubs to encourage the use of thick shoes and short skirts in sloppy weather. This year is no exception to the rule. Unde- terred by past failures, similar clubs are now spoken of in all Eastern cities, and if perseverance is worth anything the short skirt will be the rage this winter. FIGHTING THE AIR. General Harrison’s address to the Farmers’ National Congress is chiefly notable for the advice which he gave to those who are not satisfied with the ex- 1sting condition of American legislation. It was an appeal to common-sense against the folly of idle discontent, and pointed out clearly the difference between mere agitation and the true methods of effect- ing reform. “I have no patience,” said General Harrison, *‘with those people who are always fighting the air. it is mischievous to denounce classes and this thing and that. If there are trusts let us know it and bring legislation to bear upon them and court decrees to prevent them, and then we have accomplished something.” The ex-President went ou todeclare that if any man would make it plain to the American people that he is oppressed and that he' is not getting his rights the majority of the people would be on his side against whoever or whatever opposed him. The one thing for the reformer to do is to point out the specific wrong that is done. Nothing can be gained by wild declamations in vague terms against plutocrats and corporations in general. Everything on the other hand can be effected by the common - sense way of selecting some well-defined wrong, devising the proper remedy for it, and then appealing to the patriotism of the people to apply the remedy through the recognized forms of American law. The address of the ex-President was in every respect timely. We have had dur- ing the whole period of the Democratic depression too much of that form of agita- tion which General Harrison so well de- scribed as “fighting the air.,” While the conservative common-sense of the country sought for the cause of the evil and dis- covered it in the breaking down of the protective system a whole host of unrea- soning and clamorous men were shouting for a total revolution in our financial, in- dustrial and social organization. The common-sense of the people pre- vailed in the election, and no great harm has come from the agitation, Neverthe- less, some injury always results irom such clamors. They stir up strife between classes and sections, create misunder- standings between labor and capital and not infrequently™lead . to acts of violence which have to be severely punished. There is certainly no reason why any of this fighting the air shouid be engaged in by the farmers of this country. They have suffered severely from the Democratic tariff, it is true, but that suffering will soon be ended. The people have learned now that the interests of all classes are one and that the patriotism and common-sense of the majority can always be counted o to discover what is wrong in legisiation and to apply the proper remedy. Therefore, all can accept the motto which the cx-President gave to the audience he was addressing: “The city for the country and the country for the city, and all for the flag.” SHIPS IN THE BAY. The sketch published in. THE CaLL yes- terday giving a view of the northern por- tion of the bay and showing a fleet of merchant vessels must have been in the highest degree gratifying to the people of the City. It wassuch a picture as ought to be seen in our hay every day in the year. Ithadabout it a look of commer- cial activity and was as pleasing to the money-making instinct as to the artistic taste. According to old *residents, never since | thedays of 49 has the harbor been so thronged with vessels as at present. Al- most all classes of shipping are repre- sented among the vessels which now adorn the quiet waters waiting for cargoes of merchandise to be carried to all quar- ters of the earth. It is, indeed, a goodly sight and full of promise for the future. 1t is to ships that California must look for her greatest prosperity. Our best mar- kets when we reach anything like a full development will be found beyond the seas. We can hardly ever compete in manufactures in the East, where they have not only larger capital, but cheaper labor and cheaper transportatifon. What we manufacture except in the few rare cases of products which are peculiar to our forests, mines and orchards, must seek for customers in South America, Aus- tralla, the Orient, and the thousand islands of the Pacific. The ships in the harbor to-day there- fore are not so much a fulfillment as a promise of greater things to come, We owe the present influx of vessels mainly to the demand for wheat. That demand of course We cannot count on every year, but if we could build up trade in manu- factured goods, in such articles as are needed for the West and the South, we could count upon a commerce permanent, enduring and continuously profitabie. With the revival of industry in the Australias, the advancing civilization in the Ortent and the imvroving conditions in the Scuth American States, it seems reasonable to believe that by rightly ap- plied energy, the careful study of these markets, it would be comparatively easy for us to make California a manufacturing center for a large portion of Pacific Coast peoples, and San Francisco the great me- tropolis of the greatest of the oceans of earth. The sight that is now to be seen in the harbor would then be counted as an every-day occurrence, and while it would still delight the artistic sense of our people, it would no longer be thoughta commercial boom. « THE DINGLEY BILL. The discussion in the third day’s ses- sion of the Farmers’ National Congress at Indianapolis on the subject of a memorial to Congress served to bring out very clearly the unsatisfactory nature of the Dingley bill. This will be sure to have some effect in determining whether or no we are to have an extra session of Con- gress. It seems clear that all that can be hoped for this winter would be the pas- sage of that bill, and if it could not. be amended 8o as to make it suitable to the needs of American industry, then an extra session will be almost imperative. The debate at Indianaypolis was brought about by a motion to strike out from the memorial to Congress the paragraph ask- ing for a duty upon wool. This motion led to a general debate upon the subject of protective duties, in the course of which the Dingley bill necessarily be- came the object of particular considera- tion. The charge was made that the bill discriminates in favor of the manufac- turer and against the wool-grower, and this view seems to have been taken by the convention in the memorial which it adopted. It will be remembered that the bill re- ported to the House by Mr. Dingley was on its face a compromise measure. It was well known to the framers of the bill that a thoroughly protective system would not be accepted by the Senate. It was hoped, however, that the bill presented would find favor with that body, inasmuch as it radically altering the existing Wilson tariff. The bill provides generally that existing duties shall be increased by 15 per cent. Where such an increase would raise the rate of duty above that imposed by the McKinley tariff, then the McKinley rates shall be accepted. There are some few exceptions to this general rule. The duty on sugar was not touched. Wool was taken off the free list and duties imposed equal to about 60 per cent of the McKinley tariff. Lumber was treated in the same way as wool. These constitute the salient features of the bill. It will be seen that tbe measure was in- tended merely as a makeshift, and it is edsy to understand why the farmers' con- vention was not satisfied with it. It would indeed be desirable to have it enacted this winter so as to provide the Govern- ment with the necessary revenues until a comprehensive vrotective measure could be adopted. Its acceptance, however, should not stand in the way of an extra session. The industries of the country re- quire protection arranged on true scien- tific principles, and the people will be satisfied with nothing less. AMERIOA AND EUROPE. From the lone of the European press, as reporied by dispatches, it is evident that the British acceptance of American ar- bitratign in the Venezuelan controversy is not fo favorably received in Eugope as. it has/been with ue, Leading joffrnals in France and Germany have expressed the belief that England has gone too far in recognizing the validity of the Monroe doctrine, and that Furope has sufferad | some injury to her prestige by reason of it. Some of these journals clearly mistake the scope and meaning of the Monroe doc- trine. They construe it as a declaration of the absolute supremacy of the United States over all this hemisphere, and of her right to interfere in all possible quarrels that may arise between any American and any European state. This construction of the doctrine may be an honest mistake in some cases, but more likely it bas been vut forward by the French and German press for the purpose of discrediting itand arousing the antagonism of their people against it. It matters very little, however, what construction they msy put upon it, so long as their objections to it are confined to mere criticisms on the part of {he press and do not take the form of any diplo- matic protest. The claim of the United States in the matter is founded on justice, and has never worked wrong toany power. It is no more than a declaration of our intention and our right to prevent any | European nation from extending its dominion i this hemisphere. ‘This inten- tion carries with it no threat of war, except in cases where the aggressor refuses to submit to a fair arbitration of the ques- tions at issue. The British Government has lost no prestige and made no sacrifice of pride in agreeing to the arbitration of the Vene- zuelan boundary. European critics who do not like England will, of course, en- deavor to represent her acknowledgment of our right to interfere as a surrender of some British interest or right. It will not be so understood, however, by any large number of the peoples of either of the two countries which have been parties to the controversy. ‘What England has done has simply been to recognize an existing fact. The Monroe doctrine became law just as soon as the United States became powerfal enough to make it jaw, and it goes with- out saving that if any European nation should find itself engaged with us in a coutroversy similar to that which has just been 50 happily settled it would soon fol- low the example of England and acknowl- edge the validity of the doctrine set up by James Monroce and ever since maintained inviclate by the Government of this country, “THE SUNDAY OALL" To-morrow’s CALL will contain, as one of its delizhtful features, the words and music of the most catchy of songs from the new opera, “Fleur de Lis,” which wi:l be rendered next week atthe Baldwin. The song is the favorite of Della Kox, who has scored an immense success with it. It is entitled, “Take Me to Your Heart, Father.’ Everybody will be whistling or bumming the air. It is bound to capture the town. The music alone could not be obtained in the stores for less than 30 cents, but the piece complete is presented to the readers of THE CALL, along with many fine liter- ary features, for just the price of the paper. THE SUNDAY CArL will publish the piece exclusively, and coples of the paper should be ordered early, so that no- body may be disappointed. The Chit Chat Club of San Francisco is an organization of briliiant and brainy men who meet annually and enjoy a gas- tronomical feast, along with a choice licerary banguet. This year's essays will appear exclusively in THE SuspAy CArL. The guthors are: The eminent lawyer, Hon. .D. M. Delmas; Horace G. Platt, president of the Art Association; Pro. fessor Gustav Eisen of the Academy of Sciences and Professor Bernard Moses of the University of California. Their papers will be found excellent, instructive and entertaining reading. “‘A New und Startling Phase of a Great Question” is given 2 prominence that its importance demands. The facts set forth under this head appeal to the deepest in- terest of tne California reader, and par- ticularly to residents of this metropolis. The matter is entirely new and fresh, so far as newspaper consideration is con- cerned, and it may be safely assumed that very few people have given the subject careful thought. The writer of the article has infused humor of a heaithful kind into thedetails of his subject. THE Carr's able and original cartounists may have overdrawn the situation somewhat, but their efforts will, nevertheless, be found worthy of commendation. On the well-known fact that Tue CALv's telegraphic service is unexcelled in the ‘West, ana that its news department is the best and most reliable on the slope, there is no need to dwell. BSuffice it to say that California’s representative Sun- day newspaper is THE CALL. A tramp applied at a Connecticut farm- house for something to eat and the farm- e1’s wife gave him a piece of pie, where- upon he smote her upon the bead. On that sbowing the Providence Journal, while not justifying the tramp, contends he had se- rious provocation and his act was a whole- some protest against the use of pie—an opinion which goes far to make it clear why the Connecticut pie-eater “is not always pleased with the judgments of Providence. Boston claims a reformer who can prove that a full-grown man can live and keep fat on food that costs only 87 centsa week, but perhaps the Boston ideas of life and fatness are different from those that pre- vailin the Golden West. There is no use waiting for prosperity aimed to raise s revenue adequate to the | any longer. This is the time to get in ana expenditures of the Government without | work for it. PERSONAL. Rear-Admiral Beardslee is in town. W. D. Perrinof Pasadena is in the City. Arthur Ward of England is at the Grand. 1. E. Leroy of Bakersfield is on a visit here. business man of Omsha, is at M. 8. Hellen, a business man of Los Angeles, I8 at the Palace. Dr. C. T. Hibbett of the United States navy is Tegistered at the Palace. Amos W. Lewis of Reading, Pa., is paying a short visit to San Francisco. H. A. Davis, a merchant, of Sicramento, is visiting friends in this City. Charles G. Bartlett, one of the solid citizens of Ventura, is at the Grand. H. E. Neiser, s manufacturer of Jersey City, N. J., arrived here yesterday. Sheriff J. L. Johnson of Ukiah is alate ar- rival here and is at the Russ. J. H. Lee, secretary for the beet sugar works at Chino, is on & visit to this City. W. D. Smith, secretary of the Alaska Packing Association, is a guest at the Palace. W. 8. Hook, a wealthy resident of #Los Angeles, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Jacob H. Neff, president of the California Miners’ Association, has gone to his home in Colfax. A. M. Duncan, a Supervisor of Mendocino County, came down from Ukiah yesterday and is at the Grand. Peter Johnson, who owns mining property near Angels Camp, is here on a business trip ana is at the Grand. Among the arrivals here yesterday was J. J. Pratt, a mining and business man of Yuba City. Heisat the Grand. P. V. Berkey, who is engaged in the business of fruit-growing on an extensive scale, at Colusa, is staying at the Grand. C. M. Hawshaw, & mining man of Amador, is here in the interest of his mining properties, and is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Captain Wieberg of Portland, Or., is at the Coswopolitan with his wife. They are old Californians, and will spend some time with their friends here, T.J. Van Worden, an extensive grain and livestock grower of Red Wing, Minn.,isin the City. He purposes to establish a similar house somewhers in Southern California. Frank L. Ccombs came to town from his home in Napa yesterday. Mr. Coombs has been elected to the Assembly, and already he is spoken of as the Speaker of the lower house in the next session. Mr. and Mrs. Albert U. Millssailed on the Colon Tuesday for Costa Rica, where they will make their home for some time. Mr. Mills went to look after his coffee plantation, near the Central American capital. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 13.—At the St. Cloud, C. M. White; Everett, J. H. Boult ana wife; Grand, J. Decker, N. W. Walter; Gerlach, A. Borol and wife; Hoffman, W. 8. Edwards. TO THE SCORCHER Oh. youth, who, benling forward, rides apacs, With melancholy stamped upon your face, Pursuing Pleasure with o frenzied eye, ¥ et mocked by her however fast you fly, Are you aware how horrible you look ? No cuy (nvented for a picture-book Was ever a more painful sight than thou, Lord of the bent back and the anxious brow. Oh, sit up stralght and try to wear a smile! Be less intent to pile up mile on mile. Enjoy the prospect as you ride along— The troes, the sunshine and the robin’s song. To us who view you scorching day by day, Bent on your bar in such an awkward way, You are the homellest thing on earth, my iad. O, sit up stralght and make the landscape giad. —Boston Transcript. Letters From the People. THE PROBAP_L_E RAINFALL. 4 Forecast as Set Forth in Herschell’s Weather Table. Zo the Editor of the San Francisco Call: BIR— Asevary one is vitally interested in the prob- able rainfall for the coming season, as on that depends the success or failare of next season’s crops, allow me to give the *“probabilities” as set forth in Herschell's celebratedweather table In the main this will be found to be substan- tially correct: November (balance), doubtful; December,same up to27th ; January, 1897—24, showers; 10th, rains; 18th, heavy rains; Feb- ruary—lst, heavy rains; 9th, heavy shower: 17th, cold showers; March—3d, cold showers; 11th, wind and rain; 18th, 1afns; 25th, cold showers; April—Doubtful up to 23d, then light showers; May—I1st, heavy showers; 9th, light showers; 16th, do; 31st, do. A margin of one day is usuaily allowed on these dates. ESLER TRABER. San Jose, November 13, 1896. LADY'S BLOUSE WAIST. A becoming waist of extreme elegance is shown here. It hasa fitted Jining over which the goods is seamless both back and front. The sleeves sre of the new leg o’ mutton shape, fitted almost to the top. A dress of blue camel’s hair made after this cuffs and front of waist trimmed with a narrow band of Russian Jamb's fur sable. At the edge of this was a half an inch of oflfl!fl velvet, overlaid with an open design in black silk passementerie. A d1ess of black had braidings on these parts of green velvet, finished at the inner adg- by a design in black bratd. A green belt and col finished this smart gown. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE, The Queen Regent of Spain is an excellent swimmer, and bas often astonished ner sub- jects by her prowess in this art. Frederich Nietzsche, author of “Thus Spake who has been insane for some time, is growing worse. Dr. Howe, director of the Chamberlain Ob- servatory in Denver, has detected various in- dications of mild earthquakes in Colorado, and will, therefore, set up special apparatus to re- cord all such phenomena. Queen: Victoria, in return for the gifts brought to her by Li Hung Chang from the Emperor of China,is going to send to that ruler a jeweled miniature portrait of herself, painted by Mrs. Corbould-Ellis. Thomas C. Brophy, the Socialist labor can- didate for Governor of Massachusetss, is op- posed to the use of [nery for auy purpose, for he believes that its products consist ex- clustvely of tramps and miltionaires. Flora Macdonald's statue seems unable to find a resting place. First, the clan objected to her bare feet, and now the Inverness Town Conneil will not fina a site for it. Lochiel pro- poses that they wait till the statue suits them before sccepting it. o On the occasion of the Czar’s recent visit to Vienns, Hans Richter received from him a decoration and a gold cigar-case with the Rus- sian eagle set in diamonds. From the Aus- trian Emperor the great conductor received the order of the Iron Crown. 5 Ann Simms died at Studley Green, Wiltshire, England, aged 115 years,in 1785. It isre- corded of her that “she had been; and con- tinued till she was up: of 100 years, the most noted poacher in part of the coun- try, and frequently baasted of selling to model had the coll gentlemen fish taken out of their own ponds. Her coffiz and shroud she had purchased and keptin her apartment for more than twenty years.” The late Sir Richard Burton's translation of the “Arabian Nights” was sold out in tea days and brought $80.000, upon which he and his wife lived royally for five years. Athis death but $2 remained of this sum, and Lady Burton deposited it in the poor-box of her church. / i An antidote for lockjaw has been found among the dye products of aniline dyes by Professor Behring, who discovered the anti- toxin of diphtheria, and Dr. Knorr of Berlin. They think that by means of it the percentage of deaths from traumatic tetanus may be re- duced materially. SHE (ON.ROL> VOTES A COLORED WoMAN WHO RUNs HER ELECTION DistrICT. As happy & woman as there was in New York onelection night, alter the returns began to come in for McKinley, was Mrs, Mary L. Hall. She Is colored; she lives in West Twenty- seventh street, and for years she has been & power in the Twenty-fifth Assembly District, says the Sun. Men come and go and vote at her bidding. For weeks before an election she holds political meetings in the front room of the basement where sne lives. She canvasses from house to house, distributes literature, or- ganizes clubs and makes speeches. Her annuai parade is a feature of the campaign. She is ‘watcher at the polls. She knows every man ber election district, besides many public men. She is wise in the ways of practical politics. Miss Boswell, who did such effective work this s that most of what she knows about methods she has learncd from Mrs. The parade was rather late this year. Itoc- curred on the Friday eveninf before election, revious to a meeting of colored people at a all on Madison avenue. AS usua. rs. Hall marched at tne head of ber followers. On her head was a white linen cap, which bore this label across the front: Across her right shoulder and tied undeér her left arm she wore & purple_sash, and with her hair hanging on her shoulders and brandish- ing a sword in her right hand she strode, like & modern Joan of Arc, at the head of her men. At either side of her marched s lieutenant, the one to the right bearing a picture of her bero, Abraham Lincoin, and the oneto the leit a standard with two devices. On one side 1tshowed these words, “As She Wishes So We Vote,” on the other side this exhortation, “Make Your Mark Under the Eagle.”” On election day she had in her front yard a large picture decorated with the National colors. It was a campaign poster showing Mc- Kinley and prosperity over against Bryan and poverty. The basement windows were adorred with flags end lithographs. The room within was decorated with flags and banners and pictures of McKinley, Hobart, Harrison and Blaine. There Mrs. Hall was found, weary, but radiant, surrouniied by friends and mem- bers of the Women's Repubtican Associaticn. “I'm older than I look,” she said* “though 1 don’tlook as well as usual to-day. I haven't been to bed since night before last. Inever Eo to bed election eve. Istood out therein the street explaining that picture to the people all night, and teiling them what their duty was. “I’ve been in politics ever since 1868. You see I was born a slave. But when the war broke out I ran away from Atlanta and joined the Union army in Tennessee. I never was abused by my owner. Ijust wanted tobe free. Ididn’t want to call y One master or mis- tress. There were eigiit of us who made our Mary L. Hall, Who Is a Power in Her Election District. escape together to the army. I was the young- est of them and couldn’t stand the fatigue of the march, so they put me into the ampulance corps. There I learned to nurse and I went witn the army from Atlanta to the sea. Then 1 was transferred to s marine hospital in South Carolina, where I stayed until_the d of the war. After thatI came to New Yor “Fow did you happen to get into polities?” ] was inierested in my people. Few of them could read, and yet they had the right to vote. Icould read, and so I began to in- struct them. I explained the issues of the campaign to them. 1 took them to register and I took them to vote. I have lived Fight here in _this same district for twenty-three years. Butstill I've never made friends, ex- cept in business. “Do you know what li‘l; fiuence with your people?” “Well, I'll" tell you. My work has been with the men. Now, I've always made it a int, if I make a promise, 1o keep it. If I s?ld that I can’t keep my word, I call them all together and say, ‘Now, boys, Im sorry, butIcan’tdo what I'said I would,’ and then I carefully explain to them the difficulty. ‘Why, I've twepnty white men in my club.”’ Here she pointed proudly to a big blue banner on one side of the room, on which was printed in golden letters: THE MARY L. HaLL STALWART REPUBLICAN CLUB OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. given you mostin- out 150 women and 350 men in he continued. “Lately, I've just Girls’ Juvenile Republican d of twenty-ive girls trom ge. They are to dist.ibute “I have that club. organized a You Club. It is com) 12 to 14 years of literature for me in the next iour years. They are more faithful than the women. Colored women will not work ualess I pay them; and then colored men don’t want their wives to go into politics. M’ busband is & white man and he doesn’t care.” “‘How many men do you influence?” “Well, in this one election district I control 125 votes. I am the only woman I know of who works i maries. I am an anti- machine woman. I belong to the Bliss-Mil- holland faction. I tell you, Mr. Milholland is the best triend I have.” Last winter my hus- band had been sick for nine weeks, and I was i1l too, and we were about to be dispossessed because of unpaid rent. Mr. Milholland wrote me a check, and I'll never forget it. He stuck 10 me, and Il stick t0 any one who sticks to me. Yes, sir! NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Palace-car Porter—Kin I brush de dust outer yer clothes, boss? Traveler—There’s no dust in my clothes, Sam. “*Well, yer doesn’t look like yer was dead broke, boks.”"—Yonkers Statesman. Foreigner—How long has the present Minis. try been in power ? M. Allons-Marchons—Over two weeks. It seems as if we would never be able to turn the rascals outi—Puck. Magistrate—What is the charge against this young woman ? Officer—Carrying coneealed arms, yer Honor, Magistrate—Eh? Where are they? Officer—Somewhere inside her big sleeves, yer Honor.—New York Town Topics. “What are your hopes for the future?” asked the solemn man. “I have none just now,” replied the youth “To-morrow is my best girl’s birthday,and I'm ‘worrying about the present.”—Illustrated Bits, Business.—He—Miss Luells, Ilove you madly. ‘Wili you be mine ? She—This really is so sudden, Mr. Bisnis. I must have time to think i} over before Ian- swer you. He—Can’t glye you much. Last car goes in fifteen minutes.—Cincinnatl Enquirer. / THEY DEMAND A SEWER SYSTEM Improvement Clubs Uniting on a Popular Pro- ject. From Ocean View to Holly Park, Immediate Relief Is Wanted. THE DISTRICTS ARE SURVEYED Instead of Blind Sewers There Will Be a Main Drain to the Bay. A movement which gives promise of as- suming very large proportions before the Board of Supervisors-elect will have taken their seats has just been started in the district lying between Bernal Heights and Ocean View. That portion of San Francisco is being steadily settled by people of moderate means, and the various tracts of land in- cluded within its boundaries are now dotted with homes. And yet it has no system of sewers. In fact it bas no pro- vision for draining the numerous little sewers scattered about the slopes.and val- leys—a fact which has compelled the property-owners and improvement clubs interested to band themselves together for a fight for immediate relief. From time to time ropreaenutive?i various tracts or homesteads have aoplied to the Boara of Supervisors for local sewers. In the ordinary routine of City business these petitions were granted. The result is that short bits of streets and small tracts have been provided with pipe sewers. These were laid to certain points, such as Mission street or San Jose road, and there at the lowest levels the pipes end against the solid earth. In other places the pipes were carried to some hiil- side and left open withoutany outlet other than a neighbor’s lot. Such a condition as this did not attract special attention until the districts affected began to fill with dwellings, but then the residents saw that relief was absolutely necessary. The Holly Park Improvement Club took the first steps toward correcting the evil which is said to menace the bealth of the neighborhood. Ata meeting held about two weeks ago the executive committee of this club decided to secure the services of a civil engineer to investigate the whole question and give advice on what would be the best plan qof carrying out the de- ~ delphia. The danger of the ‘‘infernal ma- chines” was discovered before any daméage was done, and after that the Brilish small arms and cannon were discharged at every- thing that came floating down theriver. A number of empty kegs were sent down the Stream, and the firing upon them gave rise to the poem. MARKET-STRRET SYSTEM—W. P. C., City. The following named are the directors of the Mar- ketstreet system of curs of San Franciseo: Charles F. Crocker (president), H. E. Hunting- ton (vice-president), A. Haywara (second vice- president), N. T. Smith (treasurer), J. L. Will- cutt (secretary and controller), W, J. Adams, Charles G. 3 c Douty, Lathrop, Charles Holbrook, . S. 1 CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE—A Reader, Po- kegama, Siskiyou County, Cal. Congressmen at large are eiected from the whole State. The allotment of its representatives in C. rtives ongress is left to the State, ana if the people of a State 50 wish, g its representatives may senta ¥ be chosen g:)l:;g e};(:“dulilew’ of Congressmen at large B &ll from t. e Lri e do nos differ hose of district rep- BONDS—J. W. D., Modesto, Stanislaus County, and B. H. B, City. None of the bonds sold by the United States contain a provision that they shall be paid in United States gold coin. Each law authorizipg the issuance of the same contains the clause “‘principal and inteross payable in lawful money” or “‘in coin.” The interest and principal has always been paid in gold, and there is no judicial construction of the ‘terms in the several acts, ‘in lawial money” and “in coin.” PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT—A. R., City. As the President and the Vice-President of the United States are not voted for directly by the people, but are chosen by electors, it 1s not likely that the electors of the dominant party would vote for one man of their party for President _and for the candidate of the other Pnny for Vice-President. They could doso, but 1 they so betrayed their party it might .ot be pleasant for them to return to their constitu- ents. If, however, such a thing should be done the two men elected would serve. OLD SraMp—North Carolina, City. The stamp you seek information about 1S probably a revenue stamp of war times, but the descrip- tion furnished is too meager to permit a classi- fication of it. There were a number of stamps of the same denomination having upon them the head of Washington, some with plain edges and others with edges perforated, all rinted with red ink, but each has printed on. 4 tsface the purpose for which it was to be used. Upon the character of the stamp de- pends the value. If you will give a fuller de- scription the information asked for will be given. sired end—that of establishing a compre- hensive sewer system and constructing a main outlet sewer capabie of draining the whole district. The important work of examination wasgiven to M. M. O'Shaugh- nessy, C. E., who has since made a survey of the territory in question and prepared areport based upon the result of his in- vestigation. Ata meeting of the club to-night Mr. 0’Shaughnessy will be present and submit his report witk recommendations as to what should be done to drain the district. “They have built a sewer on Mission street,”” he said, *‘but it has no outlet, and they are now building a sewer on San Jose road, or Chenery street, which has noout- let provided for. The sewers are there discharging into private property, and somse of them are banked up and simply have no outlet whatever, so the sewage either flows over the ground or staysin the pipes. The sewers were built by street contractors under order of the Supervi- sors, but the trouble is only small sections were done at one time. “The Holly Park Improvement Club has started to get the matter corrected and to get a plan for a general sewer sys- tem. 1 have gone over the ground for the cluband made a preliminary survey of the land. As a result of my investigation, Iwill say that a sewer fourand a half miles is needed from Ocean View, begin- ning ator near the railway crossing there and following the line of Islais Creek to the bay of San Francisco. “A good deal of private property will have to be condemned for nearly a& mile and a half along the creek line for this main sewer, which should end beyond Kentucky street in the bay. If the club cuan get it built even to Islais Creek chan- nel that would be good enough for the present. “The hine I have selected is along Wyo- ming avenue, from Sickles avenue, Ocean View, then along Cayuga avenue and on through private property to Isiais street, and again through private property to Channel street, from whi¢h point it would be extenaed by the most available route to the water., “The territory to be drained by this sewer contains about 3000 acres and takes in Fairmount, Castro Heights, Sunny- side, Stanford Heights, Ocean View, West End maps, Excelsior Homestead and the district aajacent to old Bi. Mary’s College. “All the improvement clubs of these districts are ready to unite and form a central committee or association of clubs to carry the project into execution.’’ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE Bie GUNs—N. N, City. The cost of fir- ing an 82-ton gun with solid shot is said to be between $500 and $600. Nor ONe oF THEM—M. P, City. A 50-cent piece of the issue of 1833 is not one of those coins for which a premium is offered. THE HAYES-STREET LINE—E. J. C,, City. The cable line on Hayes street, San Francisco, was first put into operation on June 1, 1886. A Lease—H. P, City. The liability of an in- dividual under & lease depends upon the con- tents of the lease and the agreement under it. McKINLEY—A. 8., 8t. Helena, Napa County, Cal. None of the published biographies of William McKinley assert or deny that he is a “teetotaler.” No SucH ScHooL—Reader, Pinole, Contra Costa County, Cal. There is no “school in San Francisco for either department under the civil service rule.” R R SCHOOL LANDS—V. W, City. Information about the school lands of the State may be obtained by writing {o the office of the State Superintendent of Schools at Bacramento. FERRY T0 CONSERVATORY—Suscribers, Cily. The distance from the ferry, by going along Market street 10 Oak, out Osk to Sianyan, al;n;twtha;:uho;ongh(‘.m :g the main drive of ark, to @ conservaiory i 22,800 liot. @r about 414 miles, 155 NoT ADVERTISING—E. A., Angels Camp, Cala- ’ven: :«nmy, Csal. This_department cannot lurnish you the address of the company you ask about, for the reason that it dwmno’l ’ld- vertise any firm or business, nor can it advise you as to its reliabiiity, as it does not stand sponsor for any business or individual. ELECTORAL VOTE—A Reader, Pokegama, Sis- kiyou, Cal. The electoral vote of a State is di- vided when electors from different parties are chosen—as, for instance, at the election in California in 1892 there were chosen eight Democraic electors and one Republican. In the electoral college eight votes were cast for Cleveland and one for Harrlson. Barrie OF tHE Kres—H. C. C, Whisky Slide, Calaveras County, Cal. *“The Battle of the Kegs” s the title of & mock heroic poem written by Francis Hopkinson, a patriot, on an incident of the Revolutionary War. Kegs 1 it] powder were floated down_the g«h‘:y:ul“i :‘:fh a view to destroying the Brit- ish fleet anchored in the vicinity of Phila PrOVOST MARSHAL CUNNINGHAM—N. K. B, Finnell, Tehama County, Cal. There was & ‘William Cunningham who was & provost mar- shal during the Revolutionary War. He was the son of a trumpeter in the English dragoons. He came to New York in 1774, be. came a horse-breaker and riding master. Early durine the days of the Revolution he went from New York to Boston, where General Gage appointed him provost marshal to the royal army. He was placed in charge of the prisons in Philadelphia and New York. Heis represented as having been very cruel to the prisoners, 2000 of whow, under his charge, were starved to death. He had charge of the execution of Nathan Hale. 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