The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1896, Page 6

/ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1896. SATURDAY.. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. NOVEMBER 21, 1896 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..20.18 Daily and Sundey CALL, one year,by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Dally end Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mall.. . 160 WEEXLY CaLl, one year, by m: 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... . Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until £:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:50 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open nntil § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 4 Market street, open il 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City- DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e There is a swindle in every lottery ticket California mining has caught on to the revival at the start. R e The fellows who prophesied a wet winter are right in the swim. In all your Saturday shopping keep a lookout for home products. Don'’t forget that this is the day to leave orders for THE SuNpAY CALL. Save vour spare money for the holidays and don’t trust the lottery sharpers, Sacramento won’t swear to the airship, but she sticks to the moving-light story. It looks as if we might have to help Oregon and Washington dry themselves out. It is about time now for the weather bureau to predict rain and give us some- thing else. ‘Why not postpone guessing at the next Cabinet until New Year's day and then swear off from it. The rain may seem a trifle over wet in the City, but it doesn’t dampen the pros- pects of the country. A Secretary of Mines and Mining could earn his salary explaining mining laws even if he did nothing else. Tom Watson seems determined to make his letter a serial story and keep it run- ning for the next four years. The calamity howlers will soon be more discontented than ever becaube they can find no one to sympathize with them. Remember that you help to advertise the State when you send California dain- ties and novelties to your Eastern friends. If we do not get a revenue tariff this winter we will get a protective tariff at an extra session and the loss will not be great. Henry Watterson seems determined that his name shall not be Dennis and has be- gun to make a veritable Jeremiah of him- self. The Populists and the Democrats are slowly disentangling themselves, and fusion is fading away like a dissolving fog bank. T It is time to make another united and earnest effort for the suppression of lot- teries. The fakers are becoming bold again. Set to work and educate yourself on home industries and you will soon be sur- prised to find out how much you didn’t know. The man who believes the dispatches from either side in the Cuban war may boast himself of the possession of a vigor- ous faith. The announcement that the Texans want a Cabinet position is in the nature of a surprise. We thought they wanted the earth. _— The big deal in Shasta mines is only the beginning of the new mining era. There will be lots of such deals in the State in the next few years. e The people who are speculating about the future of the Democratic party should first whirl in and prove that there is going to be any future for it. Lere The Republican silver Senators will come back 1o the old- party on the protec- tion platform, and it is scarcely necessary to say they will find a cordial welcome. ook People who wish to know what the policy of the next administration will be can find out by reading the Republicar National platform. It is all written out there in plain ianguage. The approaching spring elections in various cities are perplexing the fusion managers, as they do not know whether to-try the double ring combination again or split and let each party run its own circus. The experiment of carrying bicycles on streetcars is worth pushing to a successful result, as it would undoubtedly prove a great convenijence to many people, ana besides would increase the revenues of the car companies. It is the opinion of the Brooklyn Eagle that the Palmer and Buckner Democrats should seek to create a new party rather than try to reform the old one, and it will certainly be admitted the former task would be the easier of the two. There are many arguments for the ap. pointment of a Secretary of Mines and not a single valid one againstit. If the cam- paign of education is pushed with vigor the arguments will win and mining will bhave its representative in the Cabinet much sooner than some people expect. In an Indiana viilage two boys were born during the week preceding the election, one of them to a Republican and the other to & Democratic family. The Republican infant was promptly named Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant William McKin- ley, and the young Democrat was named Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson James Monroe William Jennings Bryan, and now it would seem to be in order for the village to extend the corporate limits before the boys get old enough to swing their names around. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. Two items of news published in THE Cary of Thursday should be studied to- gether. One was the appeal of Speaker Reed to the Duluth Chamber of Commerce for a vigorous support of a revenue bill before Congress this winter. The other was areport from the Department of State at Washington showing that the_raw sugar supoly of the world this year will be one of the largest ever known. Mr. Reed's appeal was virtually a re- quest for popular support of the Dingley bill or something like it. That bill was in its nature a compromise measure. It was neither on the lines of free trade nor of protection. It was devised solely for the purpose of raising a revenue equal to the expenditures of the Government. Among the great industries which it left without protection was that of the production of sugar. Itisfor that reason, therefore, the report of the State Dspartment on the world’s sugar supply is pertinent to the issue invoived in Mr. Reed’s appeal. The Dingley bill did not provide any protection to our sugar industry, and the reports of the State Department show that such protection is absolutely neces- sary. Several of the greatest nations in Europe give bounties for the production of sugar and one of them pays a further bounty on its export. It is clear, there- fore, that if we are to compete on equal terms with the foreigner our Government must do something 10 protect the home industry. The issue is one of particular impor- tance to California. It is within the limit of possibility and even of probability that California should become eventnally the home of a sugar industry capable of supplying all the sugar which the peopl: of America need, We have a climate and a soil better adapted for the production of sugar-beets than any other in the Union if not in the world. We have the capital ready to invest in the enterprise and we have, moreover, the man capable of mak- ing such investments profitable and such enterprises successful in every respect. It is therefore most important to us that whatever tariff bill is presented to Con- gress should beone in which due regard is paid to the, promotion of this great in- dustry. The people of California recognize the importance of the immediate passage of a bill which would provide a revenue suf- ficient to pay the expenses of the Govern- ment. They are-aware that the present deficits going on from month to month are a serious evil to the Nation. They are desirous that some measures should be adopted to put an end to them, but they do not believe that any measure for the raising of revenue would be more effect- ive than one which would provide for a duty on sugar of sufficient amount at least to afford some protection to the home industry. Therefore they do not favor the Dingley bill as reported last winter. They desire revenue and protec- tion to go hand in hand, and have good reason for believing that a bill providing for both thesa things has as good chance of being adopted as would the compromise measure of which so much has been said. _THE MINERS' FIGHT. It is now evident that the resolution of the California Miners’ Association declar- ing a desire for the appeintment of a Sec- retary of Mines and Mining is not going to be dropped without a vigorous effort to attain it. In fact the agitation becun in this State will be taken up elsewhere and carried on until the desired end is achieved. The extent to which the desire of the miners is supported by the leaders of thought in California can be estimated from the statements of prominent men published in Tue Caur during the past week. [tcannot be doubted that these re- flect the general sentiment of our people, and it is fuir to assume therefore that California is virtually united on the sub- ject. As an immediate result from thisdeclar- ation of public opinion in California we may look for earnest support from other mining States. The issue, fortunately, is not a sectional one. It concerns the iron and coal miners of the East as well as the gold and silver miners of the West, and when once squarely presented to Congress will be favored by delegates from all quar- ters of the Union. The preliminary work of organizing the fight will of course devolve upon the miners of California, and steps in that direction should be taken as early as pos- sible. In this work our delegation in Congress can render important service, and every man of them should let it be known that he can be counted on to do his share in advancing this justice to our miners and their industry. ‘[HE CALL has taken up the cause of the miners with the same ardor with which it supports every California interest and can be depended on to do ail in its power to promote the movement and advance it to success. We call upon the press of all the mining States to assist us in these efforts. The object aimed at is for the general good and we hope to see the question brought forward at an early day in Con- gress and the campaign of education én- tered upon with vigor and effect. FOR HOME INDUSIRY. The effort of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association to combine the various organizations in the City for the purpose of promoting home iudustry ought to receive not only encourazement but all the co-operation which may be needed to carry it to complete success. At the meeting held ou Thursday to further this purposs there were present delegations not only from the Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association, but from the State Board of Horticulture, the Merchants’ Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Education, the Board of Health and the Builders' Ex- change. These bodies form in the aggre- gate a potent force in the City, and if they work together can undoubtedly accom- plish the objects for which they are united. There can be no question that earnest work should be done on behelf of our home industries. We do not as yet manu- facture as much of our own raw material as our own people need. We export wool and buy back blankets, We send abroad tresh fruit and pay bigh prices for jams and jellies. All our raw materials, leather, hardwood and other prodncts are treated in the same way. Thus, even the home consumption of bome products is not supplied through the medium of home manufactures. Even what we do manufacture is mnot widely consumed by our people. In too many instances we buy products from abroad when the home product is not only cheaper but better. This feature of the situation, however, is largely due to the fact that the extent and variety of our home products are not generally known. Many people who would consume them if they knew of them buy foreign goods simply because they have never heard of the California article. It was suggested at the meeting on Thursday that the popular knowledge of California products should be increased by the introduction of textbooks on home industries in the public sehools, This plan, while ingenious, we believe is neither advisable nor feasible. No text- book could possibly keep up with the growth of industry, nor could it include all industries. It would not be fair for the State to advertise some product to the ex- ciusion of others, and the scheme there- fore would provoke opposition. There is in fact but one way by which industry can make itself known to the public, and that is by persistent and extensive advertising. On the need of adveriising we do not care to dwell at this time. That is an issue apart from the general one of pro- moting home industry. The proposed combination of all the associations can bardly be expected to undertake advertis- ing, and therefore that phase of the ques- tion is not pertinent to their organiza- tion. What they can do is to assist in the general work of promoting local indus- tries, and to that end they ought to bave the co-operation of all industrial and com- mercial bodies not of this City only, but of the whole State, THE HATCH FAILURE. The failure of A.T. Hatch is in some respects a loss to the State of California. He is one of those men who, not content with existing gooa, reaches out for better things. He has done much to promo:e the fruit industry of the State, and was engaged in a bold enterprise to do more when failure came upon him. It would be hard to overestimate the benefits which have resulted to the fruit- growers of California from the experi- ments and enterprises which Mr. Hatch carried out. He was always prompt and ready to undertake anything which prom- ised an improvement in the industry, and his services in that respect were various, extensive, and in most cases completely successful. As was said by A. G. Freeman in com- menting on the failure: No fruit-grower has surpassed Mr. Hatch in intelligence and industry. His study of fruit culture has added vastly to the wealth of this State He was the first man to risk the experi- ment of shipping fruit to the Eastern markets by the reirigerator process. When that plan was adopted only a few carloads was sent East; now thousands of cars are employed in such shipments. Not content with improving the indus- try at home and promoting the market for it in the East Mr. Hatch undertook the vast enterprise of opening the way for the larger markets of London and the world. It was to his ardor in the last undertak- ing that his failure is largely due. What he accomplished, however, wiil serve the benefit of others. The failure of to-day | will prepare the means for the success of to-morrow. We shall yet find profits in European markets, and that success when it comes will be due in no small measure to the efforts of the man who has now gone down in the attempt to accomplis 1 it. It is gratifying to kncw that Mr. Hatch does not himself regard his present bad condition as a complete failure. In an in- terview with him published in THE CALL yesterday he said: Yes, I have lived in a $10 room and con- tented myself with 15-cent meals in order to pull through. My failure now does not in any sense mean my ruin. Ishall start again, and am sure that 1 will again succeed. I have the utmost confidence in Californla as a fruit- growing State. California needs such men as A. T. Hatch. She needs men of just such pluck, such enterprise and such faith in themselves and in her future. The failure of such & man even temporarily is aseri- ous loss. There will, therefore, be a gen- ! eral hope that Mr. Hatch will soon be on | his feet again and able once more to lead | our industries to higher levels and open for them wider and more profitable mar- kets. THE SUNDAY CALL One of the important features of THE Suxpay CArn that 1s appreciated most heartily by the younger people in the thousands of homes in which the paper is a welcome guest and friend is that depart- ment known as Childhood’s Realm. Chil- dren everywhere find delight in the page, | whick is prepared especially for thewr pleasure by one who has made a stady of the neeas of the little ones in the way of interesting, attractive, appropriate and at the same time instructive literature. To-morrow’s childhood department is remarkably rich in timely stories and poems, nearly all of which, as might expected, have a Thanksgiving flavor. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping with the other merits of what is, without any exception, the best and most carefully edited children’s department to be found in all the papers of the Pacific Coast. For the benefit of the ladies let it be said that the fashion page of THE Sunpay CaLL is always up to date and accurate, and may be relied upon io give the very latest fashion news from New York, London and Paris. The page 1s replete with use- ful suggestions of current value, with reierence to the art which aims to clothe beauty in robes that will enhance beauty’s charms. i Among the special articles in to-mor- row’s issue will be a graphic account of an elephant-hunt in Siam by one who participated in the exciting sport. The illustrations are from photographs taken by B. Carrington of Bangkok, Siam, and nothing like them or comparable to them in the grandeur of their scope has ever before appeared in an American news- paper. Coulter’s pen-drawing of the first ship that ever entered the Golden Gate will be a treasure in itself, and as it is the inten- tion to publish, from Sunday to Sunday, a series of drawings embracing, in all, every type of vessel that has anchored in San Francisco Bay, it will be worth while to preserve these sketches frém the very beginning, as the Story of Bhips, when complete, will make a valuable collection. Mr. Coulter stands in the very first rank of the marine artists of America. There are a hundred and one other features in THE SUNDAY CALL, but suffice it to say that it is a model newspaper— clean, bright, thougitiul, entertaining— and no household should be without it. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. » “Marriage is a feast of life.” *‘Yes; and divorce is washing the dishesand returning them to their former places,”— ! Washington Star. “‘There is poetry in everything,” mused the editor. “Now, there is yonder waste-basket.” And he laughed, as he sometimes did when he was all alone.—Detroit Tribune. “On, no! There ain’t any favorites in this family!” soliloquized Johuny. “Oh, no! IfI bite my finger-nails I catch it over the knuckles; but the baby can eat his whole foot and they think it's clever.””—The Queen. Teacher (severely)—Tommy Smith, come here? Why haven't you learned your geog. raphy lesson? Tommy—Cause the papers say there’s going to bea change in the map of Europe.—Chicago Dispatch. Mother-in-Law—Don’t you xnow that crop- ping your hair as tight as that will make it fall out. e Son-in-Law—Oh, yes; but that's the way I prefer to lose it.—Judge. a PERSONAL. T. H. Howland of Jackson is in town. E. H. Harrington of Jackson is at the Lick. F. R. Buskirk of Dunsmuir is at the Grand. D.J. Bonsfield of Agus Caliente is in the City, 5 Mrs. Douglas Cone of Red Bluff is at the Palace. L. P. Jewelt of Los Angeles arrived here yes- terday. C. ¢, McGrath of Boston is among yesterday’s arrivals, George T. Mills of Carson, Nev., isat the Oc- cidental. Assessor L, A, Spitzer of SantaCruz ison o visit here. W. W. Curtis, a business man of Portiand, is in the City. George L. Bishop, an attorney of Stockton, is in the City. J. W. Mellor, & business man of Vancouver, B. C., is here. F. M. Giaham, an attorney of Pacific Grove, is at the Russ., Frank Cole, is at the Russ. Professor E. H. Griggs of Stanford University is at the Grand. 3 Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding arrived here yesterday. A. J. Hechtman, a business man of Sacra- mento, is in town. Congressman James McLachlan of Pasadena isalate arrival here. H. E. Pickett, a mine-owner of Placarville, reached here last evenings J. B. Cleveland of Minnesota is visiting Cali- fornia andis at the Grand. Dr. T. Everett, a mining engineer and expert of Denver, is at the Palace. W. F. Miller, & business man of Carson, Nev., isa late arrival in the City. ‘Raleigh Barcar, editor and owner 6f the Vacaville Reporter, is at the Lick. Charles Maynard, a mining man of Trinity County, is among the visitors here. J. W. Jones, a fruit grower and dealer of Hanford, is among recent arrivals here. James Simpson, the millionaire mill and timber owner of Humboldt Bay, is at the Lick. Dr. A. M. Gardner, superintendent of the iu;o Asylum for the Insane at Napa, is at the ick. State Controller E. P. Colgan of Sacramento came down to the City last night and is at the Lick, G. de Barros of Paris and G. Rizimont of Italy arrived here yesterday and are at the Palace. State Bank Commissioner J. B. Fuller of Marysville arrived here yesterday and is at the California. E. Meyle, a storekeeper of Jackson, is in town on a business trip, and registered at the Cosmopolitan. . George W. Durbrow of Salton is at the Palace. Mr. Durbrow is interested in the borax de- posits at Salton. C. Henne, the Stanford student potentate by reason of the large wealth which ho has, is visiting the City. Dr. J. F. Summers, the well-known physician of Sonora, Tuolomne County, is domiciled at the Cosmopolitan. J. Waldere Kirk, the king of the dudes, has returned to this City from suburban points and is at the Palace. John M. Connor and John M. Langford, of Balt Lake, who are interested in mining enter- Prises, are among the arrivals here. Edgar L- Kirkland, foreman of the Black Bear mine, Northern California, owned by Director Daggett of the Mint, is at the Russ. William F. Coffman of Yosemite, owner of & stage line running into Yosemite Park, ar- rived here from his mountain home yesterday. J. Marion Brooks of Los Angeles, who was United Siates District Attorney for Southern Californin under Cleveland’s first aaministra- tion, is at the Grand. Surgeon-General Wyman of the United States Marine Hospital Corps will rrive here next Wweek on & tour of inspection of the coast hos- pitals. He is at present in Mexico. Fred Kotelman, a strong supporter of Brig- ham Young prior o his marriage to a Chris- an lady, arrived in the City yesterday and is among the guests at the Cosmopolitan. James Steel, a wealthy and old-time resident of Portland, who has been State Senator, chair- man of the Republican State Central Com- mittee and occupied other positions of honor and trust, is here for & short W. R. Kenny of Buffalo, N. Y., the represen- tative of an Eastern syndicate, is in the City to investigate and report on & large contem- plated real estate deal in this State, and has taken apartments at the Cosmopolitan. Manuel ae Leon, Minister from Guatemala to Mexico, will arrive here to-iay, accompa- nied by his family. The Minister wants to locate his family for the winter in a healthier place than the City of Mexico, He wili then return to his post. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., 20.—At the Plazs, H. B. Perkins; Sturtevant, E. J. Calby; Im- perisl, H. H. Lynch, J. C. Iller; Grand, C. Saunders; Albert, M. J. Plarring; Marlobrough, T. L. Macon Jr., F. M. Meigs. Dr. and Mrs. Kaspar Pischal left the Plaza to sail for Italy on the Kaiser Wilhelm, WANIED—A CHANCE. The world is full of heroes Who have never tasted 1ame, Because the chances needed For tneir valor never came. business man of Los Angeles, ‘The woods are full of songsters That have never charmed the ear, Because when they have warbled There has been no one to hear. There is eke foll many & poet Who has never turned a Iyre Whom chance has left with naught to set His gentle soul afire. ‘Would the sil very'throated diva, Who sings but to entrance, Have ever risen from the crowd But for a lucky chance? Would assassinated Cresar Still be known to men 10-day But for the opportunities That tumbied in his way? Would Napoleon the mighty Have been Emperor of France Had there not been combinations Formed to open up the chance? OB, don’t sneer at a fellow A g O w P eaa e be down: win Gr it nim o remown. 5 Letters From the People. 1 can, carrying with them the electoral vote of theSiates of which they are the chiet cities, Ma- ryland and Kentucky, the former Democratic since 1864, and the latter Democratic since 1860. Brooklyn, long a Democratic stronghold, was carried for Mr. McKinley by & majority larger than it ever gave a Demccratic National ticket; ana Boston, on the Democratic lead in Wwhish all hopes of success in the State of Massachusetts has been unijormly based, went in favor of the Repubiicans and honest-money Democrats by a majority exceeding 20,000. Buffalio,which has baen generally Demouratic of late years, excepi when Mr. Cleveland, a former resident, was the Demoeratic nominee, and then was either close or Republican, has now been carried by the Republicans by a majority as large as they had in Cincinnati, ana larger than the majority for the Republi can eiectoral ticket in St Louis. In fact, of all the large cities, four only were not carried by McKinley and Hobart. These are Wash- ington, D. C., the citizens of which have no vote in the Presidential election; New Orleans, Denver and Salt Lake Cijy. THE SOUTH IS WEARY. The party fust turn its back upon the unwise leaders who have brought disaster upon it. It mustreturn to the safer path laid out by its founders.—Florida Citizen. The county has had enough financial agita- tion, and what is needed now is peace and an opportunity to work. The Butlers, Tillmans and other professional agitators must go into retirement.—Memphis Appeal. The party will never adopt a platform like the Chicago one agsin, and we seriously ques- tion whether it will ever again accept as lead- ers the men who were chiefly instrumentat in making it.—Savannah News. Mr. Bryan and other popocratic leaders may lower themselves back into private life with assertions that their cause is still alive and that the fight will be continued, but the free and unlimited coinage of silver received its quietus for all time.—San Antonio Express. The platform of 1896 must be repented of and never referred to except as & warning., There is wo reason why Southern Democrats, ac- knowledging the bitter fatlure of the popu- listic free-silver combination, should not, as the huntsmen say, “hark back” to the trail they lost, and take up the prineiples of 1892 and make a fresh start.—Richmond Times. Mr. Bryan and others are telling us how to save the Democratic party and down the Republicans in 1900. One maa’s opinion is as 800d as another’s in this regard, and we are entitled to express ours, which is to this effect: The Democrats of this country will have to learn, as truths, these things before they can ever again hope to control the Government of | this Republic: That bimetallism, or the con- current use of gold and silver eoin as a parity, is a myth. Thatthereis no natural antago- nism between labor and capital. That social- ism is negation of progress, and that progress is the kéynote of the Republic. That the Federal Government has the right to execute its own court processes, That the credit of the United States must be sustained.—Mobile Register. fl i | The New Armenian Patriarch. News comes from Constantinople that Bishop Ormanian has been elected Armenian Pa- triarch. The sbove portrait was made by a CaLLartist from a photograph taken a year ago. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT _PEOPLE. General Crespo of Venezuela has given in- structions to have his racehorses trained ac- cording to American methods. Ex-Senator J. H. Reagan, who is lying ill at his home in Palestine, Tex., is now in his seventy-ninth year. His illness was brought on by exposure and overwork during the cam- paign. Professor Haddon of Dublin still believes the old story that Parnell is yet alive and is on some Western ranch in this country. He has therefore refused to write the life of the Irish statesman. Ex-Queen Isabella IT of Spain recently cele- brated on the same day her sixty-eignth birthday and her golden wedding. She gave aluncheon in her palace in the Champs Ely- sees to which her husband, Don Francis of Assisi, who also lives in Paris, was not invited. Miss Helen Gould has recently given §250,- 000 to the Presbyterians ot Roxbury, N. Y., for the purpose of building & new church. Her father, Jay Gould, was born in Roxbury, and Miss Gould hes a beautiful Lome there. She had previously given the citizens a fine read- ing-room and ree library. Mrs. U. S, Grant was awarded the prize of $75 offered by the New York World for the best and briefest argument in favor of Me- Kinley's election. Mrs. Grant's statement was as follows: “Isay that McKinley should be elected to uphola the National honor and for the general welfare of the country.” M. Challemel-Lacour, the eminent French- man who has just died and wbo was once Em- bassador in England, never wavered from his republican convictions, but in later years he saw grounds to modify his hopes in the democ- racy. He was not disconcerted at the corrup- tion of the empire, but he was sadly depressed at the corruption of the republic. LADY'S DOUBLE-BREASTED BASQUE A strictly tailor-made waist is a delight to the woman of refined tasies, and almost a ne- FOR KINDNESS AND HELP. The Woman Suffrage 4ssociation Gives Thanks for Favors Keceived. FEditor Call: Tnrough the columns of your peper the California Woman Suffrage Associa- tion desires to express its heartfelt thanks to the many friends who stood by it during the campaign just finished; the Emporium Com- pany for the kindly donation of the rooms used as headquarters; to the California Furniture Company and George Fulier and Mr. Tucker of the Specialty Company for furniture loaned to Mrs. M. E. Perley for the beautiful han painted lemonade set given; to Mrs. Truesdaie of the Berkshire for her kind hospitality, and 10 General Warfield for reduced rates at the %nrull:mnunma Also its m&ng to THE CAL‘I’. out en VOCAC) e cause an the kl.ndnevl:kol tfl ynu’nl our City; to the political speakers of all parties who said & good word for the mendn-nlill-nd our grati- tude to the voters who cast their ballots for justice to be done the women of our fair land. By order of the committee. ELLEN M. SARGENT, President. THE VOIE OF THE CITIES. New York Sun. The/ recent election brought disastrous and humiliating defeat for the Democratic party in the large cities of the country. New York, for the first time in & Presidential election in the history of American’ politics, was carried by the Republicans or, mére properly, went against the Democratic nominee. Chicago gave more thar 50,000 majority for McKinley and Hobart; Philadelphia more than 100,000. Two former Democratic strongholds, rallying- ‘points of Democratie influence and organiza- tion, Baltimore and Louisville, went Republi- A cessity if one wounld be appropriately dres: for there are times when no other style of gar- ment seems quite appropriate. The business ‘woman appreciates this trim style. With skirt to match this makes sn all-round useful cos- tume. A suit of wool in a mixed check of brown was braided on the front in dark-brown Scoteh braid, the lfn extending to the but- tons, aund the distance from the center on the opposite side. i A blue sergedress with black soutache braid- ing was extremely chic. ¥ gOown with braiding of A black camel’s hair & narrow mixed braid of black and white wag very striking. M. PAGE MINER of the Queer Minarets Iron Mine. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] UEER ORE FROM THE MINARETS Remarkable Formation of Iron in the Sierras East of Fresno. Owned by Prominent Men and Experted by the Pacific Rolling Mills. M. Page Miner on the Enormous Size and Quality—Copper, Wool and Cattls Interests. M. Page Miner, who bas been rusticat- ing in the mountains with a rendezvous at Fresno for two or three years past, has arrived here with some large and strange specimens of ore. The ore is magnetic | iron and comes from a curious place eighty-five milez northeast of F¥resno, ; called the Minarets. | The Minarets stand out as mountain | crags. They have taken on fantastic shapes, and are of pure magnetic iron, as is a large part of the mountain below, as the story goes. The Pacific Rolling-mills have been examining the property, and | now figures up in the millions are being | guoted as the sum for which the queer Minarets property is to be sold. | Mr. Miner talked about the proverty last night at the Occidental, where he is staying. He told a story the like of which has not_been seen in any book for a long time. Part of it ra | “This is a mine of solid iron. It is 400 | feet wide, six miles in length and from 100 | t0 2500 feet in depth, all vistble. ltana- 1 lyzes from 60 to 72 per cent of iron, andis | one of the greatesi ever discovered in the | world, There is enough iron there to puild all the railroads of the United States, and then bt}:ivhi a bridge to Mars.” L. C. Huches of Fresnois interested in | the great iron mountain, as are Wiley J. Tinnin and others of that city. Near the Minarets iron mine are large outcrop- pings of quartz containing some goid and silver, and, as though this was not enough, there isa vein of copper not far away. | The stories about the copper vein are large also. ]\fi’n.r, who jumps around lively from one place to another, b; property near the Grand Canyon of th Colorado. He has recently come from there. \, 7 “The property is near Hance's, from Williams, Ariz.,”” said he. *“It gives 60 | er cent in copper. Mining down there is Emkin u 1 the prospectors, whether for gold, silver or copper, are meeting with signal'success. Thingsare looking better. 0ol has jumped from 4 cents to 10. And cattle, there is such a demand for them that they are being brnught from Cali- fornia to restock the ranges.’”” Queer tales are told regarding Miner's iron mine, as for instance one about the ore being so magnetized that it once pulled the hobnails out of the shoes of men who walked over it. Also, that once when Professor Wulf of the Pacific Rolling-mills was walking across the queer Minarets he stuck fast and could not budge a peg. | Solicitous friends finally learned the trouble. The nails were clinched on the inside. It was only by a violent effors that the distinguished professor was res- cued. Miner himseir teils this story. It is told, however, that there really is an enormous body of iron ore at the point in question. FOR DEPUTY AUDITOR. A Number of Aspirants Who Desire to Succeed Captain Thomas. Auditor Broderick is figuring on a deputy to succeed Captain Thomas, who died a few days ago, and a number of aspirants for the lucrative position are exerting all their influence to get the job. Daniel O’Leary, who has been connected with the office for a long period, feels con- fident that his claim on the berth isa find one and expects to receive the plum. r. O'Leary has many triends, political and otherwise, who are “pulling’” for him and singing his praises to the Auditor. Itis expected that the position will be filled within a few days. —————— Spalding and the Hawallan Cable, Among the arrivals at the Palace is Colonel F. Z Spaldiug, who for years Las been promi- nent in political and commercial circles in the Hawaiian Islands. For two or three years K:t he has held an exclusive concession for laying of a submariue cable between Hon- o.ulu and Francisco. He has been abroad + to do with the cable. He will return here when Congress opens and sgitate the cable question. — NE Plum Pudding. Townsend's. ey CRYSTALIZED ginger, 25¢ pound. Townsend’s* it i “Pillbody has a good many revolutionary ideas in his head.” “Those are not iaeas revolving in Pillbody’s head, they are wheels.”—Indianapolis Journal ————— TIME to send your Eastern friends some of Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c per 1b in handsome ba. 627 Market,Palace Hotely BARGAINS in holiday suits. Palace tailor, 617 Market street. et e i SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. “ —— .. Mrs. Simpkins (sentimentally)—Oh how lovely 1t is in the country at this season of the year. Do you not prefer November to all other months for rural tours? Mr. Simpkins (enthusiastically)—Yes, in- deed; we get board at half rates now.—New York Weekly. GEN i See J. Edlin, the . Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fe route, will coatinue to run dady brough from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourlst sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all | points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through Boston leave every week. San Francisco ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle ballding. Telephone main 1531 Oakland, 1118 Broadway. —— Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Rail¥ays. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and porters accompany these excarsions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and fartber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kock Island Rallway, 30 Mont gomery street, San Francisco. ————— Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolis An elegantly uphoistered tourist-car leaves Oak- lana every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all points in Montans, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all trains. Come and get our ratesif you expect to makea trip to any Eastern point. T. K. Siateler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 638 Market street, 5. F. —_————— KEEP looking young and save your hair, its color and beauty with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC the best cough cure. e Dr. SiecERT'S Angostura Bitters, the world renowned South American appetizer and invigo- rator, cores dyspepsia, diarrhea, fever and ague. ety THE MOST SIMPLE AND SAFE REMEDY for a Cough or Throat Trouble is * Brown's Bronenlal Troches.” 'They possess real merit —_——————— THE first gray hair should be a warning that the scalp needs the sirengthening applications of Ayer’s Halr Vigor. Don't delay. Benny—Going for milk, Johnny? What's become of your milkman? Johnny—Oh, he's around, but ma says it's ever o much cheaper to send out to the store for milk than to pay the old bill we owe him. Roxbury Gazette. NEW TO-DAY. To-Day’s Leaders = EA SETS, Seeing 7;am A;;ans Buying Them. Dainty little Bouquet Holders 5¢ Cream Pitchers, very neat - 5¢ Fruit Plates, real china - - 10¢ Napkin Rings, little beauties, 10¢ Cuspidores, Majolica - - - - 25¢ Real China Cuspidores - - 35¢ Salad Bowls, fine china, dainty colors - - - - . _ 50¢ CROCKERY, CHINA, BLASSWARE : — AT —— PRICES THAT SEIL QUICK ! Great American [mporting Toa o MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 2510 Mission 8 Third ot 140 Sixth st 2008 Filimore st. 617 Kearny st. 965 Market st. 1410 Polk st. 3006 Sixteenth sty £21 Montgomery ave. 104 Second st. 833 Hayes st. 3285 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S, . 1083 Washingto . 11 San Pablo ave. Broadway, Oaklasd 1355 Park st., Alameda. in Europe for the t fifteen months, but says the ap to the le:;ds now has nn:hh‘:lg HANDSOME PRESENTS GIVEN