The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1896 MONDAY __.NOVEMBER 23, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Bunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLL, 0ne year, by mail.. 1.60 WXXELY CALL, One year, by matl. w 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone....... .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until 9:20 o'clock. 359 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open untll oclock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; il § o'clock. - 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clocks 167 MiLih street; open until 9 0'clock. 4 Market street, open til 9 o'clock: OAKLAND OFFICE: $05 Broadway. open EASTERN OFFICE: . Rooms 3] and 32, 34 Park Row, Newy York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. R s el e e S DL The Assessors’ convention will be the big thing this week. If you have any ideas on tax reform now is the time to put them in shape. A Secretary of Mines and Mining would | be as great a help to the Cabinet as to the miners. Maceo is one Cuban that can’t be smoked out, and he 1s not made of poor stuff either. It keeps Mark Hanna busy these days denying reported interviews. The fakers are sull after him. . There is no process of education on the subject of home industries equal to that of advertising them. An extra session is better than a deficit tariff. Better have too much Congress than teo little revenue. Remember, this is the season for charity as well as thanksgiving, and make your preparations accordingly. If war breaks out with Spain the first duty of the Government will be to send out a tugboat to guard the Texas. It seems fair to assume that the deficit has grown large enough by this time for Cleveland to mention it in his message. There may be no effective way of pre- venting the advertisinz of lotteries, but the Legislature might try its hand at it. The New Yorkers have noted that Moody drew bigger crowds than the horse show, and they are trying to guess why. Every step taken in the movement for tariff reform should be toward protection, and there should be no compromise on that principle. The outlook for a reform tariff bill this winter is so unpromising tbat we might as well begin to count on an extra session as a sure thing. - Election skeptics are bolbing up all over the country and writing tothe papers that they have no more faith in recounts than in first counts. There is no land with such a profusion of luxuries as California and none where such a large proportion of the people can afford to enjoy them. We shall never have Tom Watson in the right place until we make him captain of the Texas and give him the fellows who constructed her as a crew. if McKinley should find the work of Cabinet-making at all tiresome he has only to esay so and lots of fellows will volunteer to do the job for him. Since Uncle €am succeeded so well in quieting the Britishand Venezuelan quar- rel he might soothe down the Spaniards | and Cubans a little if he would try hard. Many a man who voted for Bryan is now willing to admit he was mistaken in b lieving it was necessary to give the conntry fits in order to cure it of hard times. The last Republican administration pro- moted the establishment of a steamship line across the Atlantic, and the next one will advance the good work by promoting one across the Pacific. The Tennesseeans are rushing the build- ings of their intersiate exvosition, which is to open next May, and expect to have the first whack at the money the new era “of prosperity will circulate, One of the notable features of the cam- paign has been the slaughtering of Demo- cratic leaders. Cleveland, Hill, Carlisle, Gorman and Altgeld go down with Bryan, and there seems no chance for the resur- rection of any of them. North Carolina’ has to elect a United S:ates Senator this winter, and as the Legislature on a joint ballot will have 53 Republicans, 57 Democrats and 60 Pop- ulists, it is evident somebody will have to make fusion out of confusion in order to win. SR From the drift of things in Indiana it seems ex-President Harrison can return to the Senate if he wishes, but the situation in New York 1s such that if Cleveland wishes an office after leaving the Presi- dency he will have to run for Sheriff again and end where he began. The astronomers of the Lowell Obsery- atory who have been working at Flagstaff, Arizona, announce that since August 1 they have discovered 150 new stellar sys- tems, so it seems the dry climate of that country has its advantages. If you can't raise cain you ¢an see stars, Rt i) The Eastern States have had the largest apple crop on record, but just as they were counting on big profits from the European market German officials interdicted the sale in that country on the ground that American dried apples are unhealthy, and now in some parts of the East the farmer is willing to tizght the Kaiser on sight. Mining men will not be tbe only appli- cants this winter for & representative in the Cabinet, as Senator Frye has a bill be- fore his committee in the Senate provid- ing for the creation of a Department of Commerce, and it might be a good thing for the miners to join forces with the merchants and score a double victory. THE PLEASURE OF APPRECIA- TION. The desire of appreciation and the feel- ing of pleasure arising upon its honest expression are among the most clearly de- fined attributes of the human mind. It matters not in what pursuit, trade or cell- ing & person is engaged, he will be found as a rule earnestly seeking for the appre- ciation of somebody, and will respond in an increase of effort when its presence is made known. THE CALy, under its present manage- ment, has devoted two years of service to the people of California, with certain definite objects in view. It hasaimed to be a daily newspaper representing and re- sponding to the healthiest thought of the time. It has endeavored to carry into effect methods of journalism which are above reproach. It has bhonestly sought to gain and to deserve the confidence of its readers and patrons, and by this means alone to achieve success. It has bad an increasing consciousness that it possesses this contidence and that the success it | aimed for was being achieved. It bas been a pleasure indeed to find that the effort of THE CALL in the direc- tion of clean and honorable journalism is being met with proper and well-expressed appreciation. In Town Talk, one of the brightest and best of our local weeklies, appeared last week the article which THE CALL repro- duced upon its first page vesterday. The following excerpt from that article con- tains the very essence of THE CaLn's policy: The resl test of merit in a newspaper is what it contains. Upon this point THE CALL is safe from the effect of idle rumors and adverse criticism. It gives the news. It speaks boldly and ciearly upon the issues of the day. It treats discordant interests fairly. It black- mails nobody. It reflects the decency and | propriety of daily journalism. TrE CaLL is grateful for this clear and unequivocal expression of appreciation on the part of our weekly contemporary. It raflects, we believe, the sentiments of this community and of every other into the heomes of which THE CALL 1s going with constant increases. The people of California may rest assured that the past course of TuE CaLn which has evoked such words of apprecia- tion will be its future one, and that it wall continue to represent with increasing earnestness and force that element in our society which believes in the decency and honesty in journalism which is a prerequisite to success in every other department of thought and trade. THE MAGNETIO EFFECT. Among the letters of congratulation ceived from a1l parts of the country we may be sure that none have pleased him more than those which have come to him from men of business and of industry. These have brought him the best assur- ance of the prosperity of his administra- tion by making it clear to him that his election means the renewal of activity in all lines of trade and the prosperity of all the people. Among letters of this kind oneof the most notableis that from Henry Clews, who, among other things, says: magnetic effect of your election has al- ready advanced the price of securities dealt in at the New York Stock Exchange over $100,000,000, and a corresponding amount in the securities dealt in at the different local markets throughout the country.” | Mr. Clews called attention to the facts }that when he wrote spot cash wheat had advanced both in Chicago and New York since the election 14 cents a bushel, rates of interest on call money had fallen from 10 to 4 per cent, and mercantile paper which before the election was unsalable was then sought forat 5 per cent per an- num. This, as he points out, has resalted i in the employment of an increased amount of labor, and he says: “Machinery that was heretofore idle by reason of the pro- longed bad timesis starting up again with | renewed vigor in all directions.” That these statements are not exagger- ated is made evident by the news of open- ing mills and reviving industry in all parts of the Union. We have not felt the new impulse so acutely in California as in some other States where there is a greater manufacturing industry and where the depression was more disastrous, but even here there are not lacking abundant evi- dences that we are about to enter upon an era of industrial activity which will be widely dafferent from the condition which has prevailed during the past three years. Among the notable signs of activity in our State are the prospects for increased railway construction. The Valley road is preparing for large extensions, the Southern Pacific is getting ready to com- plete the coast line to Los Angeles, and capital is coming forward to promote local lines in various parts of tie State. This activity in railroad construction will stim- ulate activity in other lines of industry, and before long we shall see a large degree of general prosperity. Taking all these things into considera- tion it will be seen that Mr. Clews used the right phase in speaking of ‘the mag- netic effect” of McKinley’s election. The results have been bLardiy less than mag- neticin all parts of the Union, and there is every reason to believe that these effccts will continue to increass as wise legisla- tion takes the place of Democratic blun- dering when the McKinley administra- tion becomes a fact instead of a forecast. THE END OF FUSION. The trouble of the fusion managers has not endea with the election. On the con- trary, never was the fusion in so much confusion as at this time, The discord affects the whole scheme from highest to lowest, and is to be noted not only in National politics, but even in the local politics of the approachin- spring elec- tions. The declaration of L. C. Bateman, who was the Populist candidate for Governor in Maine, published in THE CALL of Thursday, bas been followed by another letter from Watson to Chairman Butier, published yesterday. Both of these make it clear that the middle-of-the-road Popu- lists will have nothing more to do with Democracy, and reports from the cities in Caifornia where spring elections are to be held show that the local Democratic and Populist managers are as antagonistic as are their National leaders. As Mr. Bateman said: “Bryan and his issue are done for.” That expresses the whole situation in a nutshell, and as there is no longer any fusion issue, there is no longer any possibility of tusion. To the National leaders the difficulty is merely one of abstract politics, but to the local leaders getting ready for spring election itis a much more perplexing problem. They are not able to dispose of it by simply writing letters on the subject, and it would seem that nothing remains for them but a complete abandonment of the combination formed last summer, This result was not unexpected. In fact, it was foreseen from the beginning by political experts, and foretold over and over again. The Yopuiists will go back | to tae middle of the road and resume their “The | march toward the end they have long had in view, while the Democratic leaders wili gather their flocks in the woods as best they can. Fusion has at last reached its inevitable end, and the result is confusion worse confounded. GENERAL MILES' REPORT. In his annual report to the Secretary of War, General Miles devotes considerable space to the consiaeration of the question of coast defense, and renews forcibly-all the reccmmendations on that subject made in former reports. He points out that the apphances of war have undergone so great & change within the last thirty years as to make it imperative to alter the entire char- acter of our older fortifications and arma- ments, In his estimates of work required to be done the general treats the Pacific Coast well. He recommends for San Diego $800,- 925, for San Francisco $902,850, for the mouth of the Columbia River $566,325 and for Puget Sound $764,050. In addition 1o these recommendations for coast defenses the general also urges the importance of having on this side of the Rocky Mountains a station suitable for the accommodation of a regiment of cavalry. He recommends furthermore an increase of the army, on the eround that it has not kept pace with the growth of the country and the needs of the Government. He suggests that the enlisted strength of the army should be fixed at one soldier to every 2000 of the population as the mini- mum, and that the maximum strength should be determined by the President according to the necessity and require- ments of the Nation. Whatever may be thought of the gen- eral’'s recommendations in regard to an increase in the strength of the army, there is hardly likely to be any wide differences of opinion concerning what he says of the need of coast defenses. While the total of his estimate is largs we can see by the amounts proposed for the defense of the Pacific Coast that they are not excessive. His estimates will give us fortifications at four points along the line of our coast, and considering the cost of modern arma- ments the sum which he suggests is cer- tainly economical. Theaverage citizen, busy with the affairs of his daily vocation, does not see the ne- cessity of military armaments as the gen- eral of the army sees it. In fact the mass of business men regard the probability of war as something so far and remote that it is bhardly worth while to make preparations for it on anything like an extensive scale. The views of such men, however, ought not to have much weight against those of the general of the army. It is his duty to study the protection of the Nation against an ssible war, and which - President-elect McKinley has re- | & y po when .in the fulfillment of that task ne makes a report concerning things needed for our security, it would be a lack of common-sense on our part if we shounld neglect to heed what he says or fail to carry out his recommendations as far as they accord with National economy. HOLIDAY GIFTS. There are many peopie in S8an Francisco who bave friends scattered about over the Eastern States to whom they will wish to send some token of remembrance at Christmas time, especially if they knew just what is the proper thing to send. ‘Would it not be agood idea to send them something, little or big as the giver’s purse and generosity may chance to be, that is distinctively Californian? Some native product in which we excel would be particularly appropriate to send as a gift “from California, which is re- garded as a wonderland by Eastern peo- ple. The danger of duplication of gifts would thus almost certainly be avoiaed, and so even those to whom Santa Claus had been exceedingly bountiful would have ' a novel pleasure in the remem- brances sent from the Golden State. Were this plan generailly adopted it would do a double beneficiency. Besides its uses in the world of pleasure, it would have an influence in the worid of industry and commerce. Nearly all things have their small beginnings, and there is no es- timating to what extent the samples of California good things thus spread broad- cast might enlarge Eastern knowledge of our productions and create an appetite and demand for them. To have such a calculating object would not be by any means selfish, because the benefits conferred would preponderate for .the East. To teach the Kastern people where to send for what they are so much in need of as California products is an ob- ject second in benevolent importance only to sending the gospel to the heathen. Just go down into the beautiful stores of our City and look around you. There are dainties bbth beautiful and luscious of many kinds, put up in small packages and so!d for moderate prices. There are glasses of berries put up whole so that no man need doubt their integrity. This would mean much to the Kastern man who has been fed on concoctions of glu- cose and sulphuric acid purporting to be preserves of fruit. Then there is melange, giving much in little, which would make a moderate express parcel. Small light boxes of select dried figs and prunes look tempting here, and there they would be irresistible. Novelties of orange, olive and redwood, photographs and paintings of our scenery would be more valued in the East than here. Then thereis wine. The list is long, but all choice and cheap. - Scatter the samples, so the East may learn to order its good things from the land of delicious abun- dance and artistic beauty. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Portuguese Government recently in- vited bids for building a 3600-ton cruiser. The lowest tender came from Messrs. Schiechau of Dantzig of $1,097,500, without arma- ment; the Germanic Company of Kiel offered to build the cruiser for $1,112,500: the Naval Armament Company of Barrow’s tender wi $1,185,000, and that of Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. of Newcastle-on-Tyge $1,415,000. This latter included armements. The lowest ofter—§1,097,500—is very nearly that which the Union Iron Works received for the Charles- ton, of about the same displacement. France bas now nearly twice as large a navy as Italy, & fact which worries Signor Brin and has caused him to frame a naval programme 10 cover ten years from 1897. He proposes to build 20 vessels of different classes, 100 tor- pedo boats and 10 auxiliary vessels. The yearly sum to be expended is set at $6,000,- 000, or $60,000,000 for the ten-year period. There is some difference of opinion as to whether in the present financial straits of Italy the revenue can bear this increased bur- den. The Catinat, a second-class protected cruiser of the French navy, built by contract, is one of tife most formidable vessels of moderate displacement yet built for any navy. She dis- places 3900 tons and is calculated to maintain & speed of 19 knots with 9000 horsepower. It is the battery, however, which constitutes the remarkable efficiency of this vessel, the armament consisting, according to latest ad- vices, of twenty-four 3.94-inch quick-firing guns, throwing sheils of 40 pounds weight cepable of penetrating 8 inches of iron at 2500 yards. As the rapidity with which these guns can be fired is 15 rounds per minute the efficieucy of the Catanat practically is that of four vessels armed with guns notof the quick- firing type, and must prove itself a very for- midable vessel in an engagement with cruisers ENTITLED TO THANKS OF ALL GOOD CITIZENS. From the San Francisco News-Letter. Much of McKinley’s success on the Pacific Coast is to be attributed to the healthy influence exerted by the San Krancisco CALLon all intelligent and patriotic voters, During the campaign the editorials appearing in this up-to-date gournal were well written and convincing; the cartoons were aptand striking, and the local reports were full and fair to all purties and candidates. Mr. Shortridge is entitled to the thanks of every citizen who has the welfare and interests of his country at heart. of even larger size and heavier armament but deficient in number of guns. The cost of the sbip will reach $1,641,140, of which $249,325 i for the ermament, Next years naval programme of Great Britatn will include thres improved Talbot's second-class cruisers, of 6000 tons and 10,000 horsepower and 20-knot speed. They Wwill be 10 feet longer than the Talbot class, some- what finer lizes and half a knot greater speed. Four first-class cruisers of 11,000 tons and 20,000 horsepower have been contracted for with private firms for the British navy. They will be named Europa, Diadem, Niobe and Sparta, and their cost ranges {rom §2,230,000 10 $2,240,000. The war vessels in course of eoustruction in Great Britain at the end of September were as follows: For the British Government in dock- yards 9, aggregating 80,835 tons; in private ¥ards 60 of 104,455 tons. For foreign Govern- ments there were building in private yards 26 war vessels, representing a total of 82,740 tons. Thnis gives a grand total of 9D W&r ves: sels building for home and foreign Govern- ments of 268,030 tons. An interesting trial was recently made with the Danish frigate Fyen to ascertain the ac- tual value, under certain conditions, of auxil- iary sails on a steamer. Under steam the frigate was making 5 knotsin the teeth ofa sirong topsail breeze and developed 580 horse- power. Turned 5} points off irom the wind Der speed rose to 8 knots for the same power. Gaff and staysails were now put on, constitnt- ingan area of 6000 square fest, after which the speed rose to nearly 10 knots, showing the work done by the sails to be equal to 340 horsepower. After some hours he engine was stopped and the speed under sail fell to 234 knots, representing ouly 30 borsepower, the ship being driven very m: to leeward on accountof the small sail area, which was not sufficient to give her requisite speed to overcome the leeway which, on the other hand, was scarcely perceptible when steam- power was also used. PERSONAL John Bragzer of Santa Cruz is at the Occl- dental. o F. M. Weger, a hotel man of Ukian, is visit- ing at the Russ. Sam Alexander, a Fresno merchant, is stay- ing at the Lick. B. H. Woreester, & mining man of Angels Camp, is at the Russ. C. A. Swisler, an attorney of Placerville, is registered at the Grand. W.G. Frazier, a farmer of Lakeport, regis- tered at the Russ last night. L. Himen, a merchant of Nevada City, ar- rived at the Lick last night. R. A. Long, an attorney of Willows, is mak- ing a short stay at the Grand. Edward 1L Field, & Denver mining man, ar- rived at the Palace last night. E. M. Mannion, af hardwere dealer of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand. Jess C. Ricker, clerk of the District Court at Helena, Mont., is at the Ramona. N. Wines, the stage-line proprietor of Santa Barbara, is & guest atthe Grand. Fred L. Ewer, & large vineyardist from St. Helena, is staying at the Ramona. W. H. Chris large iron dealer of Emery- wville, is & recent arrival at tne Palace. George H. Fernald of Worcester, Mass., Isa guest at the Occidental, with his wife, M. R. Plaisted of the Kiverside Enterprise is making a brief visit at the California. W. J. Green, a rge fruit dealer of Los An- geles, is among those registered at the Grand. P. G. Willlams and H. . Poud, mining men ifrom Glendale, Mont., aTe guests at the Russ. R. Sheter, & mining man from Valentine, Shasta County, registered last night &t the Russ. George G. Seibels of Mare Island, paymaster on the receiving ship Independence, is at the Grand. J. A. Andrews, a manufacturing pharmacist of Minneapolis, is one of the late arrivals at the- Grand. F. E. Wadsworth, proprietor of the Evening Herald of Nevada City, is visiting at the Ramona. Lee Wilson of New York, manager of Mme. Nordica, arrived at the California yesterday from the East. A. 8. Cooper, the asphaltum expert and eivil engineer, of Santa Barbara, registered at the Grand last night. W. Broderick-Cloete, a prominent Londoner, arrived from the East last night and took apartments at the Palace. Mrs. Charles D. Lane of Angels Camp and her son-in-law, Tnomas Allen, arrived at the ce yesterday with L. L. Lane. F.X. Schoonmsaker of Plainfield N. J., the campaign speaker who came out here to stump for the Republicans, returned yesterday to the Palace. Miss Julia M. Lewis, connected with the Untited States postal department in Washing- ton, D. C., is spending a.few days as a guest of the Ramona, TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 21bs25¢.* e S — CHRISTMAS Cards and Calendars now ready foriuspection at Sanborn & Vail’s, 741 Market.* —————-——— SPECIAL information daily to manulacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— THE lecture of Archbishop Riordan, which Was to have been delivered Tuesday, November 24, in aid of the Presentation Convent, Powell street, hias been postponed 1o the evening of Tuesday, December 1, 1896, on account of the entertainment of the C. L. A, Society which takes place November 24. Tickets may be had at the rooms of the C. L. A. Society, Dono- hoe building. = ———————— Smith—I see that a bullet from one of those new rifles will kil six men, standing one be- hind another, Thompson—You don’t say? In that case, & man might just as well go to the front.—Puck. — e Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad, Santa Fo Toute, will continue to run daily through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to sll points in the United States, Canads, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through Boston leave every week. San Francisco ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle bullding, Telephone main 1531 Oakland, 1118 Broadway. Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, vis Rio Grande and Rock Island Hailways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets. sleeping-car accommodations and further information, address Clinton Jones, General Ageni Kock 1sland Kallway, 80 Mont- gOmery street, tan Franciseo. ———— Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolis An elegantly dpnoistered tourist-car leaves Oak- land every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock férall poiats in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all trains. Come and get our ratesif you expect to makes trip to any Eastern point. I K. 8 ateler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 638 Market street, 8. F. —— e “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fitiy years by millions of mothers for their children whiie Teething with per- fect success. 1t sooihesthe child, softens begums. allays Paln. cares Wind Colic, regulates : be Bowels &nd is the best remedy for Diarrticeas, whether aris- ing irom tee.hing or other causes. +or sale by drug BISi8 In every part of the worid. Be sure and ask for Mre. Winsiow'’s Soothing Syrup. 20C & bottle. ———————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfactly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north, Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days' board Bt the Hotel del Coronado, $65: longer siay $2 50 per day. APply 4 New Mouigomery st., San Francisco. : ——— THAT time-honored preparation, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, is stlll the medicine most in demand for coids and coughs, 1t always cures, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT. PEOPLE J. L. Dearbron of Wentworth, N. H., who is 93 yearsold, tells with equal pride that he voted for Andrew Jackson in 1829 and for McKinley in 1896. Russian cannon captured atSebastopol are used as trophies in ‘various parts of France, During the Czar’s recent visit to Paris four of these identical guns were used in firing s sa- lute to welcome him. s Mrs. Humphry Ward is credibly said to have received $75,000 for the copyright of her recently issued novel, and Nansen’s price for the British and American rights of his work, descriptive of his recent explorations, is to be $50,000. Ex-Queen Isabella IT of Spain recently cele- brated on the same day her sixty-eighth birth- dayand her golden wedding. She gave a luncheon in her palace tn the Champ Elysees, which her husband, Don Francis of Assisi, Who also lives in Paris, was not invited. George Bernard Shaw, the London novelist, Who has been a vegetarian for fifteen years, saysthat “‘the enormity of eating the scorched corpses of ammals—cannibalism, with its heroic dish omitted—becomes impossible the moment it becomes consciously instead of thougitlessly habitual,” Miss Vivian Sartoris, General Grant's grand- daughter, will “come out” in Washington this winter, and & number ot parties are being ar- ranged in consequence. Mrs. Nellio Grante Sartoris, as well es her mother, lives in Wash- ington with her children. Her son, Algernon, who has'been traveling in Europe with a tutor, has just returned and entered the Columbia Law School, New York. Major Edward Scofield, the Governor-elect of Wisconsin, is the son of & Pennsylvania farmer. At the age of 14 he became a printer’s “devil” in a country newspaper office, later becoming & typesetter. He served through the war with great gallantry, coming out as a major. At the close of the war he went into the lumber business, and is now one of the most successful lumbermen in Northern Wis- consin, HORSELESS MAIL WAGONS. A scheme to use horseless meil wagons in New York has been proposed by Second Assist- ant Postmaster-General Neilson. One of the Goes Without Horses. vehicles is in the course of construction, and the experiment will probably be tried this month. If the horseless wagons should prove REAL ESTATE MARKET REVIEW All Gloom and Uncertainty Gradually Clearing Away. First Installment of Taxes Will Become Delirquent Next Monday. Eff cts of the Recent Decision of the Wright Irrigation Law on Property Interests. The noticeable improvement in realty affairs as well as in other branches of business which followed the election hes continued, though it cannot be said that the prospects of a gen- eral rise of prices in real estate are very bril- liant. In other words, the gloom and uncer- tainty which hung over the country pending the recent election has been cleared away. One of the leading topics of conversation among the real-estate agents during the past week has been the recent decision of tne United States Supreme Court holding the Wright irrigation law of California to be con- stitutional. The opinion is that the effect of the decision will be to establish abroad a larger degree of confidence in California in- vestments and to encourage capitalists toin- vest their money in California lands, REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. There were eighty-nine deeds placed on Tecord during the week. The mortgages numbered seventy and aggre- gated $199,705, among which were the fol- lowing: By Cathrina Himmelmann to D. Van Nes, $22,000 for three years at 6 per cent per snnum, on property at northwest corner of Bush and Powell streets, north 60, west 60, north 20, east 60, north 57:6, west 137: soutn 77:6, east 60, south 60, east 77:6; by Adolph Sutro to Hibernia Bank, $18,000 for one year at 63¢ per cent, on property ut north- west corner of Fillmore and Hayes streets, | west 242:6 :6, south 25, east 100, south 112:6; also $18,000" for one year at 634 per cent, on property at southeast corner ol Battery and Jackson streets, south 60 feet, east 87 :6, south 60, east 50, north 120, west 137:6; by William H. H. Hart to Flizabeth A. Rodgers, $32,210 to June 1, 1897, at 8 per cent, on' undivided one-fifth of 12ig per cent of the estate of Thomas H. Blythe; by Barbars and Michel Weber to Golden Gate Build- ing and Loan Association, $11,600 at 6 Jor ,gent per snnum, ‘payable $4600 | n six months, $7000 in™ six years; by Lena and Bernard Strauss to Humboldt Bank, $1000, to January 16, 1898, at 7 per cent per annum, on property on south side of Broadway, 151 fect west of Franklin street, 31 x137:3!4 feet; by F. A. Jennings to Home Mu- tual Building and Loan Associstion, $4600, 10r one year at 7 per cent, on property onm | south line of O'Farrell sireet, 137:6 feet east | of Broderick, east 75 feet, soutn 80, east 25, south 57 :6, west 100, north 137:6; by Francis E Beck to Hibernia Bank, $4350, for one year | at 634 per cent, on property on the west line of Folsom street, 32 feel soutn of Twenty-second, | 33x100 feet; by Alice Quinn (wife of James H. Quinn) to Humboldt Bank, $4100, for one 10 be a success, mail taken from the streét boxes and sorted during the collection from box to box at the end of the trip can be taken direct to the postal-cars. Tnis change would relieve the pressure at the branch stations and the general postoffice. CHEERINESS. Let us stop the worry, dear; ‘Things are coming right. Sing your heart a song of cheer; Give your eyes the light. Luck is with the bold of b Goa with (hose that smile; ‘We but need to do our part. Yet a little while. Fortune, but to hide her frown, When she s es vour eve Dimmed with tears and dropping down, Lightly passes by. Meet her look with ne'er a fear; Soon her eyes will lizht Let usstop the werry, dear, Things are coming right. —Boston Post. A DAINTIY MNORNING SACQUE. A luxurious, dainty dressing sacque appeals to all woman, especially if the shape itself be simple and may be easily made &t home by the amateur dressmaker. (The mode! shown here is seamless in front. The back has but one form joined to the front by under-arm gore.) White silk, figured all over with sprays of yellow blossoms, with a lining of yellow eiderdown, is one of the most dainty combi- nations. A jabot of white lace, with an edg- ing of the same around the collar, forms the trimming. A white flannel with blue stripes, lined with blue Chica silk, had & ruffie of blue ribbon arouna the coilar, with s immense bow of the same at the front. A white challie with pink figures was lined with pink China siik, of which the collar was also made; the latter was edged with white lace, which also formed Iélbfll in front. The sleeves of this were cut off just below the elbow and trimmed with a rufile of lace. A violet silk was lined with white flannel. The collar was of violei and white striped silk, of which the cuffs were aso made. A five- inch accordion-pleated rufile of chiffon edged the collar, formed a {rill down the front and hung over the hands. For simpler sacques eiderdown and flannel are used, without liniugs. A simple trim- Eia(:znnhuol taree bows of bright ribbon o0 NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Lilli (at & soiree, whispering)—What has be- come of Aunt Lucie's habitual smile? Erna—It is at the dentist's.—Tit-Bits. “‘Are you well 1"’ “I believe so, yet I can't say positively; I haven't had time to look up the new diseases in to-day’s paper.”—Judge. He (indignantly)—I beg your pardo: but Ialways keep my word. T She (complacently)—1I can easily belteve that, for no one would take it.—Washington Times. Chicago Post—He talks & good deal ai his diamonds. Has héany? S ““Well, I should say he has. He hasa ‘whole cellar full, and they come as high 88 §7 and $8 & ton, t0o.’ “Chumpley. I've made up my mind [ was crazy when I lent you that $50.” “Sirange! for I am equally certain that T ‘was not responsible when I borrowed it.'— Detroit Free Prefss, year at 6 per cent, on property on the north- | east corner of Fulton streetand Firstavenue, east 51:0 feet, north 100, west 51:9, southwest 100; by John F. Benard to Francis J. Berry, $6000, to January 1, 2, at 7 “per cent per annum, pe on property on the northeast line of Oak Grove avenue, 150 feet suutheast of Harrison street, southeast 75x112 feet: by J. H.and H. B. Wil- son to Willism &. McClure $5750 tor & year at 8 per cent,on property on Pacific_avenue, near Central; by Annje Poole to Hiberais Bank $3500 for one year at 6 per cent,on roperty in block 21 of the Fairmount tract; | Py Glara Kruge to Hibernia Bank $3000 for one year at 634 per cent, on_property in out- side land block 670; by William D. and Mar- aret J. Walker to Humboldt Bank $3300 to | f.uuary 14, 1898, at 7 per cent,on property on | the east line of Octavia street, 150 feet south | of Golden Gate avenue, 25x100 feet; by John | W. and Emily . Salter to John A. Lennon | $2500 for two years at 7 per cent per annum, on property on the west line of Valencia street, | 151 feet south of Twenty-first, 27x90 feet; by Thomas and Mary E. Voden to Mutual Savings Bank $2500 for oue year at 7 per cent,on property on the westline of Clayton street, 183:9 feet south of Waller, 25x125 feet. The releases were thirty-nine in number and for a total of $95,577. Among them were the following: From D. Van Nes to Cathrine Himmelman, $22,000, on property on the northwest corner | of Bush and Powell streets, north 60 feet, west 60, north 20, east 60, north 57:6, west 137:6, south 77:6, east 60, south 60, east 77:6; from Hibernia Bank to Martin Fredrichs, $13,000, on property on the northwest corner of Eighteenth and Castro streets, 104x125; by Home Mutual Building and Loan Association to F. A. Jennings, $6200, on property on the south line of O'Farrell street, 137:6 east of Broderick, east 56:3, south 80, east 25, north 80, east 18:9, south 137:6, west 100, north 187:6; by Security Loan Association to Frank A. Madison, $5000, on property on ths west line of Fillmore street, 62:6 north of Union, | 25x100; by Calitornia Title Insurance and Trust Company to James Kitterman, $3000, on property on' the west line of Stockton street, 137 :6 feet north of Filbert, north 23:4x 187:6 feet, also on north line of Greenwich street, 1376 feet east of Stockton, 35x137:6 ;).%ormm Hivernla Bank to G Asmussen, , on property on the east line of Caj street, 25 fee north of Twen({y-fourih, nar!:g 75, east 122:6, south 25, southwest and north to beginning; from German Bank to Charles I, Havens, $2450, on property on the east line of Foisom Ssirect, 260 feet south of Twentieth, 50x122:6 feel; from Eli T. Sheppard to Har. riet B. and J. K. Wil-on, $5750, on property on Pacific avenue near Central; from John W. Wright to Leopold Goldman, $2295. on prop- eriy on_the southeast corner of Grattau and Stanyan streets, 25x111:6_feet: by German Bank 10 Clotilda’ Soutade, $2850, on property on the west line of Pierce street, 25 feet south of O'Farreli, 25x87:6 feet. There were eight building contracts re. corded during the week, for an ouday of $18,000. MISCELLANEOUS ITENS. Real estate owners have only one week in which to pay the first_instaliment of taxes. On Monday, November 30, at 6 o'clock P. ., the delinquent penalty of 15 per cent will be What name of baking powder now coming to the front? *“TROPHY " means: umle:zL to all accounts which may then be un- settle The Van Ness Improyement Club and the Polk-street Improvement Club have filed peti~ tions with the Suyervlmn requesting ihst & contract for graaing down the hill on Polk street, tetween Greenwich and Lombard, be let at once, . . Much building is at present goiog on in the Castro-street and Sunnyside additions. Amon, the new homes that are soon to be built N. intends to erect a dwelling on Surrey street, near Douglass; Mrs. Susan C. Neil has contracted for a cottage on the adjoining lot: C. C. Gottung will bui.d a two-story resigence on Castro street, near Diamond: J. W. Jonnson has made arrangements for a cottage to be constructed on his lot on Diamond street, near Obenery. The property-owners and residents in the vicinity of the City and County Hospital have organized for the purpose of preventing, if possible, the housiag of the lepers now con- ned in the Pesthouse on the grounds of the City and County Hospital. The new Mission High School, which is to be located at the corner of Dolores aud Eigie teenth s'reets, will be a three-story and base- ment building of brick, terra cotia and stone, The interior will be of modern design, and the structure will be as nearly fireproof as pos- sible. It will nave thirteen classrooms, a gymnasium with 700 square feet of space, an assembly hall with a seating capacity of 1000 persons and & physical and chemical labora- tory. The building is to cost within $137,000. The grading and sewering of Precita avenue, north snd south of Bernul Park,in Precits Valley, has been ordered, and the contr will be let to-day. The Sun Mateo Eleetric Rallroad Company i3 at present contemplating extending its line ou Eighteenth street irom its present terminus, at Guerrero, to Harrison, 1t aiso proposes to reconstruct the roadway -on Eighteenth street and to make the park branch a belt line, the cars running west on Eighteenth strees to the park and returning east on Seventeenth. The merchants on Sixth street, between Market and Folsom, will organize an improve- ment clubshortly lor the purpose of further- ing their interests. One of the first matters that the proposed organization will take up will be # demana for a better pavement fo re- place the cobbles. Another matter of im- portance to be considered is the lighting of the tnoroughfare with electrie light. At a recent meeting of the Mission Improve- ment Club the subject of bituminizing Guerrero street, between Fourteenth and Six- teenth, and of Fourieenth sireet. between Guerrero and Dolores, was discussed. 1t was declared a necessity to reolace the present macadam with a hard pavement, and these improvements will be petitioned for in the near future., The Richmond District Improvement Club is preparing a bill which will be introduced in the next Legislature to bring about the closing of the cemeteries. Two years ago the Legisle- ture was appealed to to pass an act prohibiting further burials within the municipality. This measure, however, failed to pass, but the Richmond residents believe that their chances of getting legislation at the next session are much better than they Were two years ago. Easton, Eldridge & Co. will resume tbeir auctions this week. On Tuesday they will offer at public sale eight parcels of City property, | consisting of the foliowing subdivisions: House and lot on the southeast corner of Page and Cole streets; lot and improvements, 2107 Howard street, south of Seventeenth: resi- dence and lot, 924 Page street. near Devisa- dero; five lots on Devisadero street, between Broadway and Vallejo; two lotson Vallejo street, west of Devisadero; dweliing and lot, 1020 Castro street; & cottage and coalyard on Church street, near Twenty-fiith; a dwelling at 449 Jersey street; cottage and lot, 381 Ar- lington street, 5 A meeting of property-owners and business men along_ the line of Valencia street will soon be called for the purpose of organizinz an improvement club with a view of bettering the business conditions of that thoroughfare. The first subject that will probably be brought up by the new organization will be & move- ment for the lighting of the thoroughiare with arc lights. SOME RECENT SALES. Baldwin & Hammond report the following recent saies: Lot on north line of Washington street, 130:6 east of Webster, 50x127:6, a! $11,000; lot on south line of Puge street, 87:6 west of Octavia, 25x120, through to Rose svenue, with improvements on Rose avenue, $4000; lot and improvements on north line of Perry street, 77:6 east of Third, 20x80, 2600; 1ot and improvements on west side of ‘ourth avenue, 124:9 norih of Point Lobos, 25x120, $1800; lot on north side of Twenty- fifth street, 71 east of Valencia,46:314 by an irregular depth, at §850; lot on the west side of Dolores sireet, 33 feet south of Army, 75x90, at $2400; five lots on the north line of Lake street, 51:6 feet west of Seventeenth avenue, each 26x100, $2500; lot on the west line of Mission street,75 feet south of Tingley, 25x108, §600; lot and fmprovements at 15 Chattanooga street, near Twenty-first, $4000; jot end improvements on the west side of Shotwell street, 175 feet north of Twenty-fifth, lot 25x122:6, $3500; lot and improvements at. 23 Zoe street, near Bryant, lot 20x75, $2300; six lots in the Castro-street Addition &t prices ranging from $350 to $400. This firm also reports a very large inquiry for lots ia the biocks bounded by Frederick, Stanyan, Cole, Shrader and Beulah streets and sales of lots in these blocks as foliows: Six lots on Cole street, between Frederick and Beulah, including the southwest corner; two lots on the south side of Beulab, between Shrader and Cole; six lots on the southeast corner of Shra- der and Beulah streets. Most of the recent snles have been made to builders and im- rovemants will be made ona number of these ots at once. Jacob Heyman has disposed of three lots, 25x114 each, on the north side of Alvarado street, west of Douglass, on which three dwell ings are to be begun next week. He is also building on Twenty-third street, 100 feet west of Dougjass. H. E. Poechlman reports the sale of two lots on Lake street, west of Ninth avenue, each lot 25x72 feet, for 1000 apiece, on which the purchaser intends erecting at once & haud- some residence. The property at the south- west corner of Clement street and Second ave- nue, 32:6x100 feet, is also reported sold by the seme agent for $2350, as well as the lot 5 100 feet at the southeast corner of L street Forty-sixth avenue for $175. DEAN THE FORGER. He Will Ask to Be Released on His Uwn Recognizance. The application of A. H. Dean, the Ne- vada Bank forger, to be made before Judge ‘Wallace this week by his attorney will be that he be released on his own recogniz- ance. Failing thati, a reduction of his bonds to & nominal sum will be asked. The bonds are at present $50,000, but if they were rednced to a reasonable amount Dean says be might have a chance of get- ting bondsmen. He has now been e months in jail, the object being to keep him there till the Supreme Court gives its decision on the appeai of Becker and Creegan, but as the mills of justice in the higher courts grind slowly he may be there for nmine months more. d ————a “Er little learnin’ may be er danj’vs t'ing,” said Uncle Eben, “but I doan’ belicve dat it's nigh ez danj'us ez no learnin’’tall.”—Wash- ington Star. NEW TO-DAY. 1s the that new “A sign of victory”;