The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, N’OVEMBEB 16, 1896. MONDAY..... ......NOVEMBER 16, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..0.18 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 and Eunday CAL, three months by mail 1.:«; Datly Daily Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. £unday CaLy, one year, by malil. W XKLy CALL, One year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. e ...Maln—1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS: v Street. PSS i Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Montgomery sireer, corner Clay: open untl o'clock. : 839 Heyes street; open until 9:50 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; opon until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; ope® wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock: 115 Dintb street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadwsay. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. "SPEAKS FOR ALL. Purchase home goods. Remember California producis. Business like charity should begin at home. Charter-making can afford to go slow for a time. The revival is rapidly converting the discontented. There is evidently a new era of railroad building in sigk Third street should be improved by the time the Coast road is completed. Advertise your novelties in THE CALL if you wish the people to call for them. Keep your mind on the Assessors’ con- vention. Tax reform is a big subject. Olney has a chance to make a ten-strike on the Cuban gquestion before he goes out of office. As our miners furnish us with our gold service they deserve a share of the Cabinet pudding. ‘Whatever the gold in the banks may do, that in the mountains will have to come out of its hiding-place. Working for a living won’t be sucha hard struggle for existence in this country as it has been for the last three years. If you are looking fora boom you will be disappointed, but you can countona steady improvement im ail lines of busi- ness. There will be fewer free soup kitchens this winter than for several years past, but there will be more open factories and bet- ter wages Although it requires timber to make a Cabinet, not a single statesman takes to the woods when Cabinet construction is talked about. There will be more commercial travelers on the road tbis fall than in any similar season for the last three years, so be ready with your orders. The capital now coming out of hiding will find no lack of opportunity for profit- able investment. California alone can take millions of i Chicago has just held a convocation of mothers to consider the training of chil- dren, and there seems to have been no question of the need of it. The business revival will give the coun- try all the shaking up it needs in these days and professional agitators may as well make up their mouths to be quiet. Chicago is straining herself to get the finest theater in the country, and appar- ently for no other reason than to have the right to call herself ‘‘the Paris of Amer- ica.” The prospects of railroad extension are among the most encouraging features of the present outlook, and foriunately they are in sight of almost every section of the Btate. The man who spends any considerable portion of his time trying to guess the make-up of McKinley’s Cabinet must be a very eager politician or eise he has very little to do. The Canadians are talking of adopting a flag of their own, and it may be a mani- festation of a desire for independence, but as the favored design for the banner is blazoned with a crown it does not look much like it. i McKinley’s victory must be estimated not by the vote of the Electoral College, but by tue vote of the people. His ma- jority in the coliege will not be unusuaily large, but his popular majority was some- thing overwhelming. Perbaps never vefore in its history was the world so completely at peace as at present. The only struggle now going on which can be called a war is that which Spain is waging against Cuba, and that is more like a quarrel than a fight. The largest majority ever given to acan- didate for Congress was that received in Pennsylvania by Jim Young, the noted newspaper man, and now political parties that wish to put up sure winners will know from what class to take them. 8t. Louis is talking of removing her famous convention hall to the suburbs for use as a cattle-show building, and it is just such treatment of historic structures that justifies Chicago in mocking at St. Louis culture. Chicago herself would have kept the building where it is and used it as a pork-packing establishment. 1f the free-silver Republicans will vote for a protective tariff and the conservative Democrats will vote for sound money the next Senate will have clear sailing before it, but if the free-trade and free-silver men can form any sort of combination there is liable to be one of the biggest ructions our august Senators ever presented to the peo- ple. Mayor Pingree, having been elected Gov- ernor of Michigan, announces that when he takes his seat he will propose a system . of taxation by which corporations will be made to pay all the State taxes. This scheme beats the famous potato-patch ex- " perimient, and when tbe Assessors’ con- vention meets it might be profitable to communicate with him, A SECRETARY OF MINES. The position taken by Tre CALL in sup- port of the resolution of the Miners’ As- sociation requesting the appointment of a Department of Mines by the National Government to be presided over by an officer of Cabinet rank has naturally tracted no little attention. The subject is an important one and should be followed up until the desired official has been ob- tained and due recognition given to the great industry of our mining men. Tre CArL intends to follow it up, as is shown by the interviews published this morning, and wiil give to the movement all the assistance within the power of the press. No one can question the value of such an official and tne only obstacle that is likely to be found in the way of bring- ing about the appointment is that of the natural conservatism of Governments. This conservatism can be overcome by a resolute expression of public opinion, and it will be our object to give that opinion expression in its fullest and most forcible form. Mining is the greatest interest at this time of that wide region of our Republic known as the Greater West. Different States have different industries, which in their localities are not inferior to mining, but taken as a whole, over the wide area extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, there is no single inaus- try like that which now seeks recognition in the Cabinet of the Nation. It is not in its extent only, how- ever, that the mining industry ranks as an important one to the Nation. To a greater degree perhaps than any other industry engaged in the production of raw material it in- volves scientific processes and costly plants. It is furthermore an industry which is being continuously improved, and it is one, therefore, in which the American operator should be kept by his Government thoroughly posted on every experiment made and every success ac- complished by miners in other countries. These arguments need no elaboration in the West. The facts are well understood throughout all the mining States. The only thing required is that urzing which will be necessary to rouse the people to vigorous, united and persistent effort. Let the membors of Congress from the Greaier West resolve that among the things they will achieve in the next Con- gress, or possibly this winter, will be an act providing for the appointment of a Secretary of Mikes and Mining. Let the people of all the great mining States through their officials, their commercial and industrial associations, throngh mass- meetings of citizens and through the un- tiring energies of the press, work together in support of their Congressmen. Unity of adtion wiil attain success. THE ASSESSORS’ OONVENTION. The Assessors’ convention, which has been called to meet in Sacramento on the 23d of this month for the purpose of de- vising a more equable system of taxation, is one which shouid engage the attention of the people generally. Although it is Assessors only who are to meet, never- theless every taxpayer is concerned in what they will do, and therefore the sub- ject of taxation should be generally dis- cussed in order that the Assessors may go to the convention with a knowledge of | public sentiment and the public desire on | the subject. To devise a scientific system of taxation is perhaps the most difficult probtem that devolves upon a Legisiature. It is per- haps for this reason that legislators sel- dom attempt it. There is perbaps not a country in the worid where a realiy fair and impartial system of levring taxes ex- ists. We cannot hope to attain such a system here. But certainly we can, with the exercise of ordinary sagacity, make great improvements on the lack of system and inequities which prevail now. The question is one which might well engage the attention of Chambers of Com- merce ar.d Boards of Trade as well as the Assessors. Many men engaged in those associations have at various times had their aitention called to defects in our revenue laws, and not a few of them have given considerable thought to the subject. Representations made from such bodies would undoubtedly have weight with the members of the coming convention, and might go tar to assist them in arriving at a feasible solution of the problem. The time for discussing the subject is short, and it should therefore receive con- sideration at once. If a proper plan can be devised by the convention there will be agood prospect of having it adopted by tne Legislature during the coming winter session. It will be seen therefore that the time is most propitious for dealing with the subject. Itis nota mere debating-society topic. It is not to be treated ideally. It has be- come a question of practical politics, and must be considered in that light. Let the taxpayers, Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce therefore give their earnest attention to this question and lend the Assessorsall the aid in their power to sne- cessfully accomplish the task they have undertaken. THE PACIFIC OCEAN TRADE. The Chamber of Commerce of this City has recently addressed two memorials to Congress relating to the development of the commerce of the Pacific Ocean. One of these appealed for action in behaif of the Pacific Ocean mail steamship service under the National flag, and the other for a speedy beginning of the work of con- structing the Nicaragua Canal. Both of these memorials deserve the full support not only of the California dele- gation in Congress, but of the entire people of the State. It is time that San Francisco and California should begin seriously to enter upon the great work of developing our commerce westward and southward. We bave reached what may be called a crisis in the commercial his- tory of the Pacific. England and Japan are striving for supremacy there, and if we do not enter into the competition at once, we may soon fall so far behind in the race that it will be difficult to make headway in the futare, The British Government has granted liberal subsidies for steamship lines start- ing from Vancouver and Australia to trade between those places and with the Orient, and the Japanese Government has entered the field with modern steamships, cheap labor and large subsidies. These contestants are neither of them to be des- pised. If our Government sits idle and leaves everything to individual enterprise, even the great natural advantages of San Francisco and other American Pacific ports may be overcome by our more active | rivals and the trade of the ocean taken away from us. ‘We may expect, of course, considerable opposition from the Eastern States. Com- paratively few people in that section understand the already vast and rapidly growing trade of the Pacific. Our dele- rations to Congress and our Chambers of Commerce will have to carry out a veri- table campaign of education on this sub- ject. This will require considerable time and demand the exercise of no little energy, patience and instruction. It is therefore, as we have said, high time to set about the task seriously. The Cham- ber of Commerce has done well in sending the memorials to Congress, and it now devolves upon the press and the people of the State to back up those memorials by all the power within their means. AN EXTRA SESSION. The two subjects of National politics that now mainly interest tne people are the composition of the McKinley Cabinet and the probability of an extra session of Congress, to he called carly in March. Concerning the first of these, it is useless to speculate, since the selection of the Cabinet will depend largely upon the per- sonal choice of the President, and until he dectares his mind nothing positive can be known about it. The second, however, is a matter which concerns the public at large, and the expression of popular senti- ment will have much to do in determining the decision concerning it. That there are good reasons against hold- ing an extra session is beyond question, but, as Shakespeare says, “Good reason: must perforce give way to better.” Judg- ing by the present outlook it appears that the better reasons are on the side of as- sembling the next Congress as soon as President McKinley takes his seat. Itis true thay there is a fair chance of passing the Dingley bill at this session of Congress, and that the bill woula probably give us a tariff which would raise suffi- cient revenues to meet the expenses of the Government. The gain thus resulting would be great beyond question. By putting an end to the deficits in the National revenues we would remove the gold reserve from danger, and go far toward settling some of the most pressing of our monetary problems. The people, however, expect more than that. They expect a prompt return to a thorough protective system, and that can be effected only by calling the next Congress to as- semble as speedily as the law permits. The eviis of the Wilson-Gorman tariff do not consist solely in the deficits of Na- tional revenue. They weigh upon every American industry and interfere with the extension of American enterprise. The welfare of American capital and the wages of American labor depend upon protec- tion. It was for that the people voted as much as for sound money. They desire that system restored at once and com- pletely. The Dingley bill for the purposes of rev- enue may do as a temporary makeshift, but it will not be adequate to the occa- sion. The pledge of the Republican Na- tional platform was for protection to American industry, and that pledge will not be fully kept until the protective sy: tem is made perfect by making it uni- versal. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The two cruisers to be buiit by Cramps and the Union Iron Works for Japan will be of the Yoshino type, built by the Arm- strong Company four years ago. They will be of 5700 tons displacement and are to have a speed of 21 knots with 17,000 horse power. Their batteries will con- sist of four 8-inch breech-loading rifles, eight 5-inch rapid-fire guns and a secondary battery of twelve 6-pounders, four 1-pounder rapid- firing guns and four gatlings. The costwill be sbout $1,250,000 for each, and call for com- pletion within two years. Besides these two cruisers the Armstrongs are o build a dupli- cate of the Yoshino and two first-class battle- ships. Yarrow will probably build five 150- ton 24-knot torpedo boats and several torpedo- boat destroyers, and Normann & Co. at Havre are to have five 150-ton torpedo boats. Itis als0 probable that 8hichan at Elbing, Prussia, will receive an order for five torpedo boats of the types given to Yarrow and Normann. The torpedo-boat destroyer Sparrowhawk, of 240 tous, built by Luird for the British navy, madean average speedduring her three hours' trial of 30.56, At a recent three hours’ coal- consumption trial, under thirty-knot speed, the horsepower was 6000 and the consump- tion 2.49 pounds Welch coal per horsepower per hour. At this rate, using six and two- thirds tons per hour, her coal supply of sixty tons would enable the bost to steam 8.1 hours, or 243 miles, at thirty knots per hour. The Briush sloop Dolphin, built in 1882, has been attached constantly for twelve years to the Medlterranean station, and has only recently been ordered home to England for overhauling and refitting. The Gerroan navy estimates cover an ex- penditure of between $10,000,000 to $12,500,- 000 for completion of ships in hand and the construction of one armorea sbip and two cruisers. A new dock is to be built at Kiel, for which $250,000 uired s a beginning. The present force of the Russian navy consists of 32,477 men, Including 14 ad- mirals, 265 captains and commanders, 748 commissioned officers, 98 warrant officers, 104 gunners, 241 navigators, 336 engineers, 5 naval arcnitects, 135 surgeons, 37 chaplains, 168 stewards, 476 naval cadets and 29,850 seamen. The naval howitzer of 6-inch caliber is being experimented with in the French navy with very sausfuctory results. The Dragonne, a torpedo gunboat ot 395 tons, fired five shots while at anchor and five shots while under way at & land mark 5200 meters, or three miles distant. Every one of the shells fell within & squere of 400 meters, demonstrating that a fort under such circumstances would be in a very serious predicament, while on the other haud tbé craft at a distance of three miles would present but a very small target for the guns from the fort. The tendency of modern war-vessels of the cruiser type is toward greatlength. The Power. ful and Terrible, in the British navy, are 538 feet over all with 71 feet beam, an 14,200 tons displacement. Of smaller cruisers eight are now in course of construction in England of 11,000 tons, with a length of 435 feet. In France the Jeanne d'Are, of 11,270 tons, is 496 feet in length, and in Italy a cruiser of 10,000 tons and 23 knots speed will e 420 feet 1n length. In the United States navy the Minneapolis and Columbia, of practi- cally the same speed as the 11,000 and 10,000 ton cruisers abroad, have only 7475 tons dis- placement and are 412 feet in length, PERSONAL. M. Otis, U. 8. A., is at the Grand. Daniel Eaton, & farmer of Raymond, is at the Rauss. Sheriff George 8. McKenzie of Napa County is at the Grand. C.J. Haman of Boston, Mass., is at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. M. P. Stein, the Stockton merchant, is regis- tered at the Baldwin. V. D. Black, & banker of Salinas, arrived at the Palace last night. H. H. Wiendick, a jeweler of Red Bluff, is a late arrival at the Grand, A. J. Bruner, a Sacremento attorney, is a late arrival at the Grand. L. Rosenberg, a Ukiah merchant, is making hort visit at the Grand. M. Diges, a hardware merchant of Woodland, 1s registered at the Grand. T. A. Reavis, a merchant of Salinas, is mak- ing a brief stay at the Lick. Dr. Frank H. Moss, a physician of Palo Alto, is & guest at the California. Dr. A. M. Gardner of the Napa State Insane Asylum, is & guest at the Lick. 8. J. Menzies, interzsted in an English lana syndicate at Fresno, is at the Palace. E. M. Williams, a mining man from Gola Hill, arrived at the Russ last night. Paymaster George Seibels of Mare Island is at the Grand, registered from Vallejo. C. R. Downs, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is among the guests at the Occidental. A. A. Grant, & large railroad contracior, is at the Palace fromjAtbuquerque, N, Mex. Charles T.Lindsey, Southern Pacific agent 8t Visalia, 18 in town and is registered at the Grand. Jefferson Chandler, the well-known Los An- geles lawyer, is visiting at the Baldwin. Warren Sext n atlorney of Oroville, is among yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. J. M. Ward and F. M. Ward, the San Jose plaining mill men, are guests at the Grand. L. W. Shin, a mining man of Seattle, recently from Alaska, registered yesterday at the Grand. Ex-Judge J. D, Goodwin of Plumas County 15 one of the recent arrivals at the Occidental. E. M. Carroll, a bookmaker and race-horse fancier from New York City, is at the Palace. John G. McMillan of Hoquiam, Wash., man- ager of the Simpson Lumber Company, is stay- ing at the Lick, Ex-Congressman A. Caminett! of Jackson is at the Lick in company with his fellow towns- man, Robert Read. D. H.Lee, & wheat and beet farmer from Kelseyville, Lake County, is making & short visit at the Baldwin. K. Casper, proprietor of the mew electric light plant at Vallejo, came down last night and took a room at the Lick. M. Page Minor of Williams, Ariz., who is in- terested in a large copper mine near that Pplace, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. J. W. Geer and George T.Geer, of Boston, Mass., wool-buyers, arrived in the City yester- day, and are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. William Oesterle, a New Jersey capitalist and an old Californian, is visiting the State, and is among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotet. W. B. Thorpe, foreman of the job room in the State Printing Office at Sacramento, came to town last night and took & room at the Grand. C. H. Schlacks of Deaver, assistant general manager of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail- road, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his wife. < D. D. Remington of Watertown, N. Y., owner of the Lick Paper Mills near Santa Clara and part owner of the Evening Post, is at the Palace. Messts. Peck, Walker, Dusy and Young, mine-owners, of Sunrise City, Alasks, are in the City purchasing machinery, supplies, etc., and are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Captain Kempft of the examining board will take charge of the Oregon to-dav, in company with several other officers who are tocome down {rom the navy-yard to go over the bat- tleship. James A. Van Voast, a prominent Jawyer of Schenectady, N and a descendant of one of the original Knickerbocker families that first settled ;in Schenectady, isa guest at the Baldwin. R. R. Ritchie, general agent at Omaha of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, who was recently appointed to succeed C. C. Bray as the company’s representative in this City, ar- rived from the East yesterday and put up at the Palace. H. C. tum Suden and H. C. Bohack of Brook- Iyn, N. Y.; A. Waag and son of Bremerhaven, Germany, and W. Lawson and wife of New York City, a party of wealthy Germans travel- ing for pleasure, are at the Grand, on their way round the world. EEET SUGAR INLUSTRY. AMPLE ROOM FOR EXPANSION THROUGHOUT THE Washington Post. If the per capita consumption of sugar in the United States at this time were equal to that of 1892 the aggregate consumption would be over 4,627,000,000 vounds, and would b3 worth, at an average price of 4 cents, more than $175,000,000. At the reduced rate of consumption resulting from hard times the total for this year will, 1t is estimated, be about 4,200,000,000 pounds, worth $168,000, 000. It is entirely practicable to produce in this country all the sugar required for home consumption, and by so doing keep at homea | vAst amount of money now annually sent ebroad, and to build up a great branch of the farming ‘ind ustry. The American Agriculturist shows in notes gathered from various sources that great | progress has alreadv been made in the West in the manufagture of beet sugsr. One of the Spreckels factories at Watsonville, C will pay out for beets and labor tnis year not less 1han $750,000. During the pastelght years it has disbursed over $3,000,000 on the same ac- count, or on an averazc of $1000 per day since itstarted work, ‘‘and has protected that whole section from distress during the nard times.’” It is stated that this year the mill will handle not less than 120,000 tons of beets and it will be nearly Christuas before the crop is har- vested. It isfurther noted that $150,000 cash was paid out in oue day by the isciory, $120,- 000 of 1t being for beets aone. “Over 900 cat- tie are being fed at the creamery, mostly with beet pulp,”’ and 7126 tons of sugar were turned out as tue product of about four months’ work. Coming away from the Facific we find the same busy industry in the little town of Lehi, Utah, where the local factory peid out $37,000 for beetsin a single week iast month. Up to October 14 the factory had received 12,000 tons of beets, had worked up 11,000 tons, “and had made 17,000 sacks of refined sugar.” The local paper states sthat 3200 acres have been planted iu beets this year; thetto raise, har- vest and deliver them costs $30 an acre; that the average crop this season is fifteen tons per acre, “which at $4 & ton brings $60 un acre, and therefore means $30 clear profit per acre to the farmer.”” On the whole acreage planted “this means that $96,000 clear profit in cash will be distributed among the farmers this year.” “There is no piace in the worid,” this same paper adds, “‘where the farmers are do- ing better.” We are further informed that the factories at Grand Island and Norfolk, Nebr., “‘are ship- ping large quantities of sugar,’’ and ‘‘the new tactory in the Pecos Valley of New Mexic: will probably begin making sugar this wee! This industry has been started in Wisco; and promises well. The Charleston News an Courler learns that the company which has been organized to aevelog the Caithoun property on the Savannah River contemplates the introauction of the beet-sugar industry among other important enterprises. There need be no fear of overdoing the busi- ness, and there are thousands of localities in the south where it could be carried on with rofit under judicious management. We now of uo branch of business in any line that nholds out better promise than tais to the farm- ers, and the successful prosecution of which will contribute more directly and powerfully 0 National prosperity. 3 THE CHAMPION OF ITS PARTY. Berkeley Herald. As the smoke of battle clears away, we shall be able, by degrees, to analyze the great vic- tory just won by the Republican party, and to accord to the different forces and agencies the praise and glory which are their due. And when it comes to an award of party gratitude for ceaseless vigilance snd heroic endeavor, for tireless energy and most efficient work ia general the Republicans of Cali- fornia will gladly give & general meed of grati- tude and praise to the San Francisco CALL for the great battle in which it was ihe recognized journalistic champion of the party. Throughout the late campaigu—from the hour of McKinley’s nomination until nis elec- tion was a known fact—THE CALL'S work, even to the smallest detail, was thoroughly admir- able. It has gained for the paper new friends by the thousaads, and the result will be felt in a manner which shall carry joy to the heart and McKinley sound money to the pocket of the pubiisher. Henceforth, when you speak of California’s great Republican newspaper you mention THE CALL. PARAGRAPHS AbOUT PEOPLE. A grandson of Garibaldi is a prospering druggist in Rome. Gladstone never calls the Sultan anything but “‘the assassin.” “He led like & soldler!| exclaimed Mr, Gladstone, when he heard of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s death. “The Japanese Government has printed 14, 000,000 2 and 5 cent stamps to commemorate the Princes Arisugawa and Kitsharakaws, who fell in the war with China. If Senator Morriil lives 1o the end of the term he is now serving—that is,; till March 3, 1897—he will have served five full terms in the Senate, which no has yet done. Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert, C. B., Chief Constable of Cornwall, who died in England the other day at the age of 83, was a descend- ant of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, hali-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh, b Taitu, the wife of the Negus of Abyssinia, is described as handsome, intelligent, and light brown. She meddles constantly in affairs of state, and therefore has so many enemies that in case ot Menelek’s death she would have to fice the country at once to escape thelr vengeance. She can read, and is learning to write. In order to clear the title to her house on the south side of Eighty-third street in New York, the Countess de Brazza paid $100 for thirty- six square inches of land belonging to the ad- joining property, but on which the house en- croached. Zola says he likes the bicycle for the forget- fulness it bestows. He says 1t is all nonsense for him to take walks as recreation, because he keeps right on thinking, but with the wheel he goes like the wind, he no longer thinks and the exercise gives him absolute repose. Melton Prior, the famous English war artist. has been through fourteen campaigns, and has been wounded eight times. Three times his name has appeared in the list of those killed in battle. His uties have taken him all over the world, and be has attended nearly every royal wedding that has occurred during the last twenty-five years. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Dorcas—But why do your parents object so 10 Mr. Larkins ? Peg—Mamma objects to his shortcomings, and papa to his long stayings.—Town Topics. Mamma—You naughty boy, you wanta whip- ping—that's what you want. Innocent—Mamma, what was that you said the other day about the duty of self-denial Boston Transcript. “Sill doing hackwork 7’ asked the ob- noxious person, with a bland smile. ‘‘Oh, no,” said the literary lady, with a smile still more bland; “I have bought a vencil-sharpener.”—-Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Digby—Hello, my little man! What's your name ? Little Boy—Tommy. Mr. Digby—But what's your last name? Tommy—Don’t know. ' It’s Tommy now.— Judge. “Your teacher tells me you were not at school yesterday. Now, young man, you know what you are going to get!” Bob (firmly)—I do, pop; and I am willing to be liked any day for a circus parade like that, —Life. First Student—The college library is a great institution, isn’t it? Secona Student—What in the world were you doing there ? First Student—Went to look at an old news- paper 1o settle a dispute about the football Rame of '93.—Puck. Mr. Billings took up his cupof what the landlady called coffee, tasted it, sniffed it and setit down. “Have you anything to say against the coffee, Mr. Billings ?” asked the landlady. “No, ma’am,” answered Billings, “I never speak i1l of the absent.”—New York Tribune, MY Y SWEE:HEAKIS. My first was young and very falr, With bright blue eyes and yellosw halr; A surplice white in church he wore; Tloved him for a month or more, My second, he was gaunt and thin, All round the hem!sphere he'd been; He-d shotat lions, killed a bear: 1loved him for about a yea My third had flowing coal-black locks. g wore then green and yeliow frocks), e played and sang my heart away; 1 loved him oue year and a day. My fourth was handsome, but so poor! ‘That only made me love him more; I wept and sighed, but had to part, 1t almost, almost broke my heart. My fitth was—well, I cannot say ‘What he was like: but one fine day Iswore 10 love him ail my life: And now he calls me “Litiie Wife.” My sixth? My sixth is very small, He hardly s-ems & man at all: 3 ut, oh. I cou d not bear to part With either Fifth or Sixth Sweetheart. —London Weekiy Sun. “GIRL'S \LO.K. The stylish c'oak shown here is suitable for girls of 10 to 16 years. Itis seamless in front, and may be made with a rever or may be but- toned over the left shoulder. The back is formed of two parts, & box pleat in each. This is joined to the front by an under-arm gore. A brown and bluet mixture, with brown vel- vet and sable trimming, makesa handsome and at the same time a serviceable garment. A greenish gray cloth, with trimming of mink, is charming for a very young girl. Bluet bengaline with beaver trimming is used for a very dressy cloak. A cadet blue heavy serge with krimmer trim- ming is dainty. Brown diagonal cloth with Russian lamb is rich and useful. Pale gray with Mouffion to mateh is exquis- itely dainty, but cannot be recommended on the score of service. A mixture of bright colors in tweed is suc- cessfully trimmed with plain red or grass green cloth for cuffs, collar and sleeves. A red and black mixture in_cheviot is very stylisnly trimed with red cloth heavily beaded Wwith black, edged with Astrakhsn, e EXTRA fine nut taffies, Townsend’'s. * ———— % EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— She—I can’t get the baby to take the medi- cine at all. He—I suppose he’s afraid it’s something to make him sieep.—Puck. Through Sleeping Lars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad, Santa *e route, will continue to run cally through from Oakland 10 Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also uphoistered tcurlst sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all poluis in the United States, Canada, Mexico Eurove. Ekxcorsions through Boston leava every week. Ean Francisco ticke: office, 644 Mar- ket streel, Chronicle building, Telephohe wia, 1581: Uakland. 1118 Broadway. ——————— Phillips' Rock lsland Excursione Leave Ban Francisco every “Wednesday, via Ris Grande and Rock Island Rallways. Through tourlst sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- agerand porters sccompany these excursions t Boston. Tor tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Clinton Jones, General Agen: Rock Island Xailway, oV aloas gomery street; San Frauclsco. —————————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere Is perfactly dry, soft and miid, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifieen days' board at the kotel del Coronado, $65: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. AL T g gu “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup*® Has been used over fif.y years by mlillons of mothers for their children while Teething with per- fect success. Jt soothesthe child, softensthe gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhcess, whether aris- ing from tee.hing or other causes. kor sale by drug gists In every pari of the worid. Be sure and ask for Mre. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. ————————— THE first gray bair should be & warning that the scalp needs the sirengthening applications of Ayer's Halr Vigor. Don't delay, REAL ESTATE MARKET REVIEW Land Interest Feels the In- fluence of Recuperative Surroundings. Rea'ty Outlook Is Favorable As Compared With Matters a Year Ago. School Directors Will Meet This Even- ing to Decide on a Mission High School Site, Money is plentiful and there is a disposition to place more orless of it in City realty. But buyers do not appear to quickly find the par- ticular investment they are looking for. Prices, as & rule, are above their views, and transactions areless numerousin consequgnce. Owners feel very much contented at the situa- tion. Real estate agents are of the opinion that the worst of hard times is over and confi- dence is pretty well restored all round, as is evidenced by the brisker movement in trade channels generally. Land necessarily feels the influence of recuperative surroundings and trade in the real estate line ought to im- prove in proportion with kindred business en- terprises. Values are not expected to jump in spasmodic fashion, but some little strength of Pproperty quotations is anticipated by next spring atleast. The outlook is propitious as compared with matters of a year ago, and it seems reasonable to view the future of the renl estate market as promising and encour- aging. Generally speaking there is no better invest- ment than the purchase of land, if made with even small amount of care and judgment. Most certainly there is none safer. Time dnd opportunity are also to be considered. Rich men who constantly add to their landed pos- sessions invariably take advantage of a dull and easy roalty market to invest some of their idle ital. Nerve toinvest when property mat- ters are rather neglected brings out both spec- ulators and investor away ahead on the profit side sooner or later. The demand for land is an auxiliery of civilization. and it must be had to carry out human designs in proportion as cities increase in population or the area of farming operations extend. Natural forces are almost always working iu favor of such condi- tions. In California there is abundant scope for the building up of orchards and vineyards and an agricultural population probably sece ond in number to few States in the Union ean be comfortably housed on our hillsides and in our valleys. In San Francisco the possibilities of building up an empire City are greater than in almost any growing town of modern times. It is hardly possible for a burer to go wrong it making an investment on a thoroughfare that is or can be brought in close contact with busi- ness centers by means of streetcars. San Fran- cisco property is all right; it may be under a cioud at times, bul just then is the oppor- tune moment to put money into the real estate market. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. There were eighty-six deeds placed on record during the past week. ‘The mortgages numbered sixty-three and were for a total of $127,703. The piicipal ones were as follows: Be William H. Jordan to James M. Haven, $7400 forone year a: 7 per cenc on proper ¥ at the southwest corner of Jackson and Steiner streets, 127:814x137:6: by garet lex- ander (0 Excelsior Loan Association, $5600 for six years al7 per cent per annum 0n property on the west |ine of Broderick street, 107 feet north of Grove, north x56x100: by J. O. Gilbeau to Ex- celsior Loan Association, $5800 for six years at 7 per cent per annum on property at tne southwest corner of Bartlett and Twenty-sixth streets, 35x by Martin Quinian, guardian of the estate of Charles F., Viola J. and Annie I. Quinlan, to Hibernia Bank, $6000 for two years at 634 per cent Per annum on proper ¥ ou the west line of Mission street, 160 feet south of Twenty-second. sonth 40x195, al3o east line of Mission street. 240 feet south of Tweniy-second, south 50x122:6; by sichard ¥. and Sarah L. Doran to Hibernia Bank, £5300 for one year at 834 per cent_on properiy on the southeast lin- of irecita avenue, 605 feet northeast 0f €030, noriheast 175, south 240, northcast 100, north 245, being lots 108, 109 ani110 of Precita V lanis; by Louls and Nannie Marks to Ge Bank, $5000 for one year at 7 per cent, on property on S line of Golden Gate wvenue, 82.6 feet W of Laguna street, W 55 by 120 feet: by Juiius . Berghauser (o Hibernia bauk. $5000 for one year at 614 Der cent, on prop- erty on K line of Uastro street, 165 feet N of ‘Twentieth, N 110 by 125 feet; by Fernando Nelson 10 Humiboidt Bank, $4000 0 January 10, 1898, at 7 per cent, ou property on N line of I wenty-firth street, 240 feet W of Noe, W 80 by 114 feet; by John ¥. Wailace to John Hinkel, $3500 for' two years at 7 per cent, and $5500 for four years at 7 per cent, on property on k line of Gough street, 115 feet'S of Vallejo, S 22.6 by 115 feet; Samuel Morgenstern to Provident Mutual Loan Associa- tlon, £3000 for six years at 7 per cent per annum, on property on ~ line of Oak street, 164. 6 feet F; of Ociavia, & 23 6 by 120 feei: by H. L. Sweet to Prudence Buildinz ciation, $3000 for six wears at 7 per cent. erty on the ~E corner of Iwenty Guerrero streets, 51.8 by 99.1015 feet: John C. Johnson to George . Gilm (irustee the esia.e of Samuel Ceim, for Samuel M. and Willlsm H. Crim Jr.) $3000 for one vear, at 7 per cent, on property on the west side of Florida stree:, 175:6 eet south of Twenty-thirJ, south 25:6 by 100 feet; by John H. Van Ahnden to Humboldt Kank, $3000 to Jannary 10, 1898, at 7 percent on property on the north line of Oak street, 100 feet west 0f Webster, west 57:6x 187 :6 feet; by Georze S. Klink to An:olne Borel, $3750, for one, two and three years, at 7 per cent per an- num, on property on the south line of Broadway, 100 feet east of Devisadero street, east 40x127:814 There were forty-three releases, aggregating $180,980, recorded, amorg which were the foliowing: From the German Bank to Richard and Mary Anson, £52,000, on property on northwest corner of Geary and Larkin streets. west 120x120 feet; from same to Mary, Richard J., Michael ¥. and Henry J. Anson, on properiy as above described: from Vallejo Commercial bank to Willlam and Margaret McCormack, $24.060, on property at uthwest corner of Liverty and Valencia streets; south 74x100 feet: from Ernestine Kreling to William Kreling, 88,400, on properiy on west line of Glasgow street, 89:6 feet south of Eliis, south 96x7. : from'Hibernia Sank to Daniei Riley, $11 000, on_property at the northwest corner of Fourti northwest 30x95 feet; from German Bank to Wiliiam John, 39000, propercy on south iine of Golden Gate ‘avenue, 25 feet east of Octavia street, east 76x100 feet; from German Bank to Claus Beckman, $3500. on prop- erty on the eas: line of Laguna' streei, 42:6 feet north of Filbert, north 20x62:6 feet. The building contracts numbered eleven and represented an outlay of $52,667. NEWS ITEMS. The Western Loan Association will hold its annual meeting this evening at 214 Pine reet. A large building 1s to be constructed at the southeasts corner of Market and Guerrero reets, to cost $11,300. Handsome offices are being fitted up by 0. . Baldwin & Son' for a real estate business at 118 Montgomery street. - Easton, Eldridge & Co. are at present pre- !fil;lg'lwmch will be nst. i lois on Pacific !:lelghh ana o nnmb:rozrdoe{ sirable tmproved parcels will "",‘P; 'g“h be among those e Polk-street Improvement Club wilf hold ameetiug this evening at the hall ccrnel?o! hunm’;mo and Polk streets. Property-owners ?‘::h;“rmnu );"dg‘be“: invited to attend for ‘pose o cussing thy P‘g:‘l:“"e" = '8 the exiension of win & Hammond report & number of sales for the r.ul week in lnpa block bounded by Cole, Beulah, Frederick, Stanyzn and Shra- der streets. Plans are at' present being pre. pered for buildings by two of the recent pur- by @ property-owners along the line of Fol- som street, l&mu h ] Sg\lthlme Improve- ment Club, are making an effort to have elec- :;‘:‘irzy“::‘blt\ln‘::fl for gaslights along that are, between the ferry and Nin teanth street. Ta i The heavy traffic on Kentucky street has Worn out many of the basalt blocks and the foundation of the pavement has given way in meny places. Complaint is made by Potrero fl:l:unl of the poor condition of the thorough- A petition will be filed to-day with the Su- pervisors by the Park Hili Improvement Club requesting ‘that Fifteenth street be opened irom Castro to South Broderick, s to give \n:‘ upper portion of the district a sewerage outlet. The property-ow: of Ashbury Heights have inaugurated a cmpgl&n for good streets, and expect to transform that portionof the City, so far as roadways are concerned, into a favorite place for vefiicle-owners and wheel- . The pien includes the bituminizing of Oak and Stanyan streets. The Holly Park Improvement Club bas ap- lied to the Supervisors for a better fire service or their district. The matter was referred by the Supervisors to the Fire Commissioners. 'he roadway on Castro street, beiween Twenty-fourth and Elizabeth, has been in & dangerous condition ever since las: winter. The storm water from the grades came down and washed away about three feet of the road- way and left an opening irom two to five feet eep. Sol Gatz & Bro. report the following sales Lot 25x120, on west line of Ninth ayenue, 17: feet south of K street, for $600; lot 50x100, on west corner of Edinburgh street and Russia avenue, Excelsior Homestead, for $400; lot 25x100, on south line of I street, 32:6 feet east of Forty-eighth avenue, for $300; lot 26x 120, on east line of Nineteenth avenue, 147 feet north of California sireet, for $500; lot 26x120, on west line ot Nineteenth avenue, between California and Lake streets, with im- Pprovements, for $750. Charles E. Gregory, manager of the country department of Bovee, Toy & Sonntag, left on faturday evening for an extended tour of the Northwestern States. Bovee, Toy & Sonntag have for some time past been in communication with & number of real estate agents through- out the northern part of the country witha view of inaugurating some plan for the pur- pose of promoting immigra.ion to California, and 1t is to further this purpose that Mr. Gregory makes his present trip. A number of building operations in the vieinity of Sutro Heights are now in progress. Charley Sutro reports the recent sale of & num- ber of lots in the block bounded by Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth avenues, Lake streetand Point Lobos avenue. Mrs. McKenzie is at present building a two-story house on Forty-sixth avenue south of Point Lobos, On_Forty-third avenue, north of Point Lobos, Mrs. Kreiz is building an elegant home. Another mansion is shortly to be constructed on the east line of Forty-sixth avenue, 100 feet south of Point Lobas, by M. G. Fairchild. The old Casino, which stood so long in Golden Gate Park, is being moved to the cor- ner of D street and wal‘lly-(ounh avenue, and will be fitted up as a p! jure resort. The residents of Eureka Valley are in favor of better streets. For nearly a year the macadam roadways have been gradually undergoing s change'into smooth pavements. In the past eight months about twenty blocks have been bituminized in the district between Fifteenth and Twentieth streets_and from Church west to Douglass street. Preparations are being made to replace the macadam roadway on Diamond and Collingwood street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth, with bitumen. Property-owners and residentsalong theline of the proposed extension of the Pacific-avenue cable are anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the promise mada by the Sutter-street Rail- way more than a vear ago, to extend the Pacific avenue branch of the system from its present terminus at Devisadero street to Wal- nut street. 1t was stated at the time by the railway company that work would be com- menced whenever the property-owners graded Walnut street. The street improvements have long since been finished. Al the meeting of the School Directors on Saturday, for the purpuse of considering the desirability of various parcels of land that had been offered the board for a Mission High School site, 1t was quite evident the majority of the members favored the property ai I'wen- tieth and Folsom streets. ‘This, they argued, is the center of the Mission population, and by reason of streetcar facilities is accessible to every pointof that district. The lot s 200x 245 feet, and the price is $39,000, being the cheapest parcel of land that has yet been sub- mitted. Polk-street property-owners are going in for improvements on an extensive scale. Onlya short while ago they secured the establish- ment of a number of arc lights along that thoroughfare, and now they propose to ex- tend the street toward the bay as far as is de- sirable. The ambition of the merchants and property-owners is to establish direct commu- nication with the seawall, and the best means of doing this, it is said, is to extend Polk street to Bay streei, which is cut through clear to the grainsheds. Property - owners of Sausalito, Tiburon, Belvedere, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Ross Valley and San Rafael organized some time ago for the purpose of improving those portions of Marin County under the name of the Marin Development Association. The object is:to enhance the desirability of the places named as subyrban residence districts. The work of the association was somewhat interrupted by the Presidential campaign, but has now been renewed with energy. A considerable number of heavy property- owners have aiready become members of the association. Every station along the road is represented, and the desire is to acquaint as many as possible with the objects which the new organization has in view, and to enlist their membership to forward those objects. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AUCKLAND—C. A. V., Petaluma, Cal. The popuiation of thecity of Auckland, N. Z., is 33,159. 1 REGISTRATION—S., Lowell Hill, Nevada Coun- ty, Cal. The first law in Caiifornia requiring the ;-;gg:nuon of voters was approved Marcn REED OF MAINE—W. H., Oakland, Cal. There ‘was published in THE CALL of the 3d of De- cemoer, 1895, a picture of Thomss B. Reed of Maine whicn showed him with a mustache. TUNGSTEN—J. W., City. This department does not undertake to furnish answers within any specified time, AS 500n AS an_answer (o your question can be obtained it will appear. THE ScHOOLS—Subscriber, City. The child of a white mother and Chinese father would be admitted to anv of the public schools of San Francisco the same as a child of white parent- age would be. ARKANSAS Hor SPrINGS—J. T., Ophir, Placer County, Cal. The Arkansas hot springs are located in Garland County. This department cannot advertise these, nor the best hot springs in California. If you will write to Hot Springs Hotel, Garland County, Ark., you will obtain all the information you may desi. Bedroom suits. While you’re about it why not get one that’s pleasant to look at and live with ? Your choice of half a thou- sand — nearly — but we’ll speak of only one to-day; picture above. : It’s maple—dainty white maple—broad birdseye panel in headboard. A few touches of hand carvitg—the finFe::r:g;Lphte mirror, gracefully shaped, deep rich bevel. Rand pelished. S Even the drawers are lined with birds. eye maple. Solid brass handles and ornaments, Thres pieces—bed, burean, washstand. And the price—best of all —$39- You might as well bave our catalogue: it's free. v el California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Cll‘rpel-l G i 17 Geary Strect i, A9 /2 £ ‘The most certain and safe Ramr st e, oy Throa, Bronchitis, Congestions and {agi tions. " 8U¢ per boitle, Nold by Druggisil 1Mma