The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, THUFSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896. e ——1 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, ditor and Proprictor. Datly and Sunday CALL, one week, Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, Dally snd Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 .85 Daily end Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mai) W akELY Caly, one year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, Fan Francisco, California. Telephoxe........ ... Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stréen Telephone.... Matn—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £o7 arontgomery street, corner Clay; open untl 1:70 o'clock. Isyes street: open until 8:30 o' 918 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'cloc £W _corper Sixteeutu snd Mission streeis; open 1211l § O'clock. 2b15 Mission street: open nntil 90 367 Sl sireet; open until § 0'cloc AlMIAEL sireet, open ull 9 0'Clock. OAKLAND OFFICE EASTERN OFFICE: Fooms %1 and 82, 34 Park Row, 3 DAVID M. FOLTZ ern Man: " 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. velties. A<k for California r Speed the Christmas shopping. The bargain of to-day may be lost to- MOrrow. If David Bennett Hill is practicing ob- scurity he 1s doing it with great success. The Eraminer may now have a decent spell for a little while, but don’t count on it. W tt Earp swears he did not write that ; for the Eraminer, so there you have another fak The street-lighting movement came just in time to make illuminations for the holiday trade. Street improvement has done the proper thing by starting in the middle and work- ing every way at once. rou do not preserve yourself by doing your Christmas trading this week you will be in the jam next wee Cleveland’s recommendation of the re- tirement of creenbacks wentinto innocuous desuetude at the first jamp, The policy of this country is peace and that is the reason why we wish to see it in Cuba, but won't fight for it. Choate announces he is running for ate in New York, but the office seems to be running for Tom Platt. rmers in Washing- ton who wish to abolish the custom of holding inaugural halls. What next? The old Dingley bill is dead, but a new one is in sight so we may all unite in shouting, “Long live the Dingley bill.” The report that Huntington doesn’t wish the funding bill continues to go the rounds without waiting for confirmation. The lumbermen of the South have ceased to be sectional and are clamoring for protection along with the rest of the country. The announcement that John Sherman intends to be a candidate for the Senate to succeed hirself may be news but it is not star THE CaLL is the newspaper of the home snd has all the home advertisements. You can find in our columns the very bargain you are looking for. Senator Call’s fiery speeches against Spain have probably no other object than that of warming up his chances of re- election this winter. S S People who do their shopping in bad weather have the advantage of finding the stores uncrowded and abundant oppor- tunity to inspect goods. Long Green Lawrence should set Wyatt Earp to write “Prattle’ and Ambrose Bierce to refereeing prize-fights. The public demands a chang Cleveland has put so much of the pub- lic pie in the civii service pantry that the average office-seeker can see nothing out cabinet pudding to apply for. The only way to make California a mauufacturing State is to patronize the products of the factories we have and give them a chance to develop into greater things. Among the advantages to be derived from the retirement of Grover Cleveland will be the opportunity it will give to Henry Watterson and Charles A. Dana to shat up. o The Cuban League of the United States may not intend to monopolize everything in the island, but we notice that Collis P. Huntington has a prominent place in its memberskip. It is rather odd to see John Jacob Astor figuring as a member of an association to promote the Cuban cause. If he wishes the island to be saved from Spaia why doesn’t be buy it? A Federal Grand Jury in Chicago de- cided to abandon an investigation of the meat trust in that city and now the Iowa mien propose to take it up and cover Chi- cago with confusion. The weather forecast bureau in 8an Jose has been puv in charge of a real estate dealer and any kind-of weather needed to boom land 1n that section will now be kept on tap ready for delivery. The Ministeria! Association of New York is to be credited with giving the country a very good description of THE CaLr. 1t was engaged in formulating the conception of an ideal newspaper. It is estimated that public building schemes involving the expenditure of $30,- 000,000 will be introduced into the next Congress, so we must keep a close watch on the appropriation for our Postoffice. —_— It is worth noting that the Democratic Benators have held no caucus to consider party policy at this session. Each one of them seems to regard every other asa buzz-saw and refuses to monkey with him. Bryan’s book is to be composed of his speeches and those of the other silver leaders of the campaign, and he could ap- propriately borrow a title from one of Roe’s novels and call it ““Opening a Chest- nut Burr,” THE RIGHT METHOD. The legislators-elect from the southern counties of the State have met at Los Angeles for the purpose of considering the needs of that section of the common- wealth, and of devising means for the pur- pose of procuring legislation required to satisfy them. In order to do this, the legislators visited the public institutions of those counties, and posted themselves thoroughly on their conditions and on the amounts of appropriations necessary to sustain and advance them. As a result of the meeting and investi- gation, we are informed by dispatches from Los Angeles that while at Whittier on Tuesday the Republican members of the Assambly from that section of the State met and organized for the purpose of pre- senting a united front and co-operating on matters of interest peculiar to the south- ein section of the Siate.. 1t is said that members from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties were present at the meeting. While the organization effected was con- fined to Republicans elected from the counties named, it canuot be doubted that members of the Legislature representing all parties and all counties south of Tehacbhapi will act in unison for the pur- pose stated. The southern delegates will come to the State Legislature knowing exactly what they wish, and prepared to make a well-directed fight for it. Thereis every prospect therefore that they will attain success, and that the south wiil ance more prove itself to be the pre- eminent factor in State legis!ation. These tactics are not to be condemned. On the contrary they are deserving of praise and commendation. It is alto- gether right and proper that men elected to represent the interests of certain sec- tions of the State should meet together to consider what those interests are and to devise means of promoting them. Such actions become pernicious only when they tend to sectionalism and when the repre- sentatives so far fall short of State patriot- tism as to regard themselves as legislators for a section only. Ther: is no reason to believe the Assembiymen-eiect from the south have made this mistake, and their organization therefore should not be re- garded in Middle or Northern California as adverse to the general welfare. In fact, so far from looking with jealousy upon the action of the southern legislators those who have been elected from other sections of the State shouid imitate their exampl Every man elected to the State Legislature should make himself thor- oughly acquainted with the needs of the State and primarily with those of his own ction. If this were always done there suld be much more intelligent legisla- tion at Sacramento than has been the custom. Such a system of self-instruction would enable every member of the Legis- lature to direct his efforts to the best result and would go far to put an end to that bungling legislation which has been S0 pernicious in the past. PROTECTION SENTIMENT. A suriking evidence of the development of protection seniiment in the Southern States has been shown at the convention of lumbermen now assembled in Cincin- nati. In this convention the Southern States are largely represented, and the members from that section are as earnest in a demand for a protective duty on lum- ber as are those of the East. There are abundant reasons for this change of sentiment in the South. Until a few years ago the Southern people re- garded their industries as free from com- petition from foreign countries, and were iherefore almost unanimously in favor of free trade. Now, however, by the develop- ment of a diversified industry they find that foreign competition is as injurious to them as to the Northern States, and are rapidly coming to an understanding of the importance of supporting the great Na- tional protective system of which the Republican party is the advocate and champion. It is estimated that about 1,000,000,000 feet of coarse Canadian lumoer is pouring in upon our markets in competition with the home product, and the ruinous effect is felt in all the lumber districts of the Union, South as well as North and West as well as East. As a result of this cond1- tion of affairs we now sce the lumbermen of all sections of the Union joining in the demand for a tariff on lumber sufficiently high to afford protection to the home in- dustry, Whilethe evil of the Canadian compe- tition has been felt in the South, it has been even more disastrous on the Pacific Coast. The facilities of transportation between British Columbia and California enable the lumbermen of Canada to gain admission to our markets with ease, and the competition is the more unfair to the lumbermen of Washington, Oregon and California because of the different condi- tions under whicn the industry is carried on in British Columbia and in this coun- try. As was pointed out to the convention by Mr. Foster of Tacoma, the Canadian Gov- ernment takes back the land after the timber is taken off it, and the lumber- dealers have no taxes to pay there. They also have cheap labor, and a tariff of $2 a thonsand feet will not affect them in the market of the Pacific Coast. Itis certainly an encouraging sizht to ses men from all sections of the Union uniting together in support of the great policy of protection. It gives assurance that when the protective system is once restored it, wilt remain as a part of the permanent policy of the Government for vears tocome. It will be supported in all portions of the Union, and will no longer be subject to the disturbances of sectional issues or party politics. The protective sentiment may now be fairly said to be thoroughly American, and, like the policy itself, has been made perfect by being made uniyersal. THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The Irrigation Congress at Phenix, Ariz., may prove to be the most important assembly of the kind in our history. The problem with which. it has to deal has now become one of practical politics and is pressing for solution. The time for vague discussion has gone by and Con- gress will soon have to determine whether it intends to leave the task of irrization to the States and . Territories or will under- take it as a National enterprise. Governor Franklin of Arizona, in his addrees at the opening of the convention, expressed the prevailing sentiment in the ‘Western States on the subject in saying: “I believe that the Government should give aid to the reclamation of arid lands.” To that extent it may be fairly assumed the people are agreed, but the main ques- tion still remains to.be settled whether the Government shall give a sum ot money to the States possessing arid land -, leaving it"to them to. disburse it, or whether the Government itself should exercise full control over the matter. 1t is certain that either the State or the General Government should undertake the work of irrigation, for it is not advisable that the water rights of our vast arid region should beleft to fall into the hands of individuals or corporations. Private enterprise has done much for America, and the people have no objeciion to the development of such enterprise on general lines, Nevertheless it will hdrdly be ex- vedient to the public welfare of the great arid districts of the country to permit virtually their entire lands to pass into the holdings of private or corporate hands, The ¢reat West, which contains all the arid districts of the country, has never received its fair share of the appropri- ations from the General Government, As Governor Franklin said, ‘‘The arid West has been an orphan at Washington for a long time.” The paternalism of the Gov- ernment has been given mainly to the East,and it has shown itself but a nig- gardly stepfather toward all the wide re- gion west of the Missouri River. A well-aevised scheme of Government aid to the arid districts would work a revolution in this section-of the Union. It would literally realize the old saying of “making the desert blossom as the rose.” It would provide a means for furnishing 10ns of people with happy homes, and would make the West & rival to the East in wealth and population. There are good reasons for exvecting that the next Congress will deal with this subject in a manner commensurate with its importance. The Republican party, which will control the next Congress and the administration, is in a special sense the champion of American industry and American development. It wiil regard with favor every proposal which tends to advance the welfare of the country,’and it cannot be doubted that the great subject of irrigation will receive due consider- ation as soon as President-el.ct McKinley enters upon his term of office. It devolves upon the convention at Pheenix to sug- gest the means which will produce the most beneficial results, and if it succeeds in doing so there can.be little doubt that the next Congress will adopt measures for carrying them out. TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES, With the exception of the passage re- ferring to Cuba, no portion of Cleveland’s message to Congress has received more at- tention in the East than that dealing with the subject of trusts and monopolies. This passage has been warmiy commended and heatedly condemned. In fact the whole tenor of the discussion shows how intense is the public interest in the sub- ject. % In referring to trusts the President said, **Their tendency is to crush out individunal independence and to hinder or preventthe free use of human faculties and the fuil development of human character.” He urged additional legislation to prevent their injurious effects. The Secretary of the Interior, Dav:d R. Francis, in his re- port went even further than the President and said: “If some lezislation is not en- acted to check the growing influence of wealth and circamscribe the power of trusts and monopolies there will be an up- rising of the people bezlore the century closes which will endanger our institu- tions."” The New York Sun commenting upon the report of the Secretary of the Interior says, “This is the chatter of a fool.” It characterizes the ucterances of the Presi- dent and the Secretary as ‘‘sentimental anarchy and irredeemable flubdub.” It asserts that the S8ecretary ‘‘in the tirst place is clearly a fool and in the second plac: is a disciple of Grover Cleveiand, the prime fomentor of social hatred and plautophobia in the United States.” These assertions of the Sun have not met with much favor from other leading papers of the country. The issue is nota parti- san one and journals of all parties have b=en prompt to suoport the President in his recommendation for more effective legisiation on the subject. The Iowa State Register strongly urges Federal Grand Juries in that State to investigate the meat trust and asser: . atevery farmerin JIowa knows that this combination fixes the prices of meat at every station in lowa where its refrigerator cars ruu. Other newspapers of equal repute and eminence point to the injurious operation of the great trusts and monopolies of the country, and the Journal of Chicago in answering the question, *“What have the trusts done?” says: ‘“‘They havedone the coun- try, they have done the veople, they have done the law, they have done the courts, they have done everything standing be- tween themselves and their insatiable greed.” ¢ Unquestionably there is much to be said on each side of the controversy. It is beyond dispute that the trusts have proven of great economic vaiue to the in- dustries of the country. They have en- abled large manufacturing plants to be carried on during the past years of de- pression which would have failed and closed their doors to labor if such com- binations haa not been possible. They bave lowered the price to the people of many of the great staple articles of gen- eral need. They have been in accord with the growing princip.e of co-operation, and their benefits have been felt in many direc- tions. Nevertheless, it is certain they have injured the business of small dealers and have been regarded with aversion by the people. It seems fair to assume that this aversion has not been wholly unrea- sonable, for a widespread popular senti- ment never arises without some sufficient cause, It is clear that one of the problems which the coming Congress will have to solve is that of dealing with trusts and combinations tending to monopoly in such a way as to protect the people frem corporate greed and rapacity, A wide- spread popular discontent cannot be ig- nored by statesmen. We can hardly ex- pect to see trusts extinguished, since they are the outcome of the economic condi- tions of the time; but Congress may rea- sonably provide some regulation which will prevent them from becoming oppres- sive to the general interests of the coun- try. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “T understand your football eleven has lost several members.” 7 ‘O, noue to fpeak of; only a half dozen ears or so.”—(ndianapolis Journal, “Yoh wants ter be sho’ yoh gits t'ings in de right place,” said Uncle Eben. “De funnies’ story dat eber was ain’ gwineter be *preciated ef you stops in de middle o' kyahvin’ de tu'ky ter tell it,”—Washington Star, Jobson—I'd rather you wouldn’t give me ;' Christmas present this year, Eimira. Mrs. Jobson—Jonathan Jobson, why? Jobson—I can’t afford it.—Browning-King Monthly. Visitor—Do your cows give & great deal of milk? Farmer—Do they? Say! It'sa fact, stranger, we get 80 much milk that we dilute the well water with it.—Judge. “At this moment, and at other moments,” sald the cheerful idiot, “there are thousands suffering for bread.” ““I suppose so," said Mrs, Hashcroft, ‘‘And yet women will persist in wasting it by making pudding of it. Please passthe prunes.—Indianapolis Journal. “Bidston averages up pretty well asa pleader at the bar. ““Yes, that's the word exactly. He averages. When his ideas get thick his arguments get thin,”—Indianapolis Journal, The Italian papers are goinginto extrava- gances over Miss Sibyl Sanderson, who has burst as a bright particular star upon the Mi- lanese public at the Lyric Theater of Milan. This is'an example of the way in which she is being written up: After saying “The beautiful and statuesque woman Wwho pre- sented herself in the glittering garments of Esclarmonde was entirely unknown here,” the paper goes on tosay: “Sibyl Sauderson was chosen for “*Esclarmonde’ becanse she re- alized to perfection the character dreamed of by the composer. To classic beauty, distine- tion and matchless plastic grace the gracious artist unites that gift of a high timbre of voice which givesan ifiusion of the supernatural. Thus, when Massenet produced ‘Esclarmonde’ in Paris he chose her to persomify the { herolne, adored by the populace as & divinity, the witch of radiant beauty, who had to live in the marvelous palace fai from the vulgar herd. But from what country did she come, the young singer? Who is she? §ibyl Banderson was born in San Francisco, and if some good fairy had predicted at her __ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, ment of the Italian theater in that town, and that overtures aré being made to Melba for a supplementary season. ‘The news has already been published that the spanish Government, to support the ex- penses of carrying on the warin Cuba, has placed & heavy tax on theaters, but now it seems that the managers of all the theaters in Madrid will not hear of being taxed tosup- port Weyler’s forces. They have formed them- selves into & non-taxpeying union, and, be- lieving that deeds will be more effective than words, have firmly announced their intention of closing every theater in the Spanish capi- tal if the tax is not immediately withdrawn. The marriage recently took piacein Milan of the young composer, Umberto Glordando, Wwho wrote “Andrea Chenier,” the only new operagiven by the now defunct Mapleson com- papy.. Glordano married Miss Olga Spatz, deughter of the proprietor ot the Hotel de Milan. Among the witnesses to the wedding was Edward Sonzogno, the editor impresario, | who *discovered” Giordano and produced his Recent Photographs of Miss Sibyl Sanderson, Who Is Cutting a Great Swath in Milan. I eradle the revolution that the little creature would one day accomplish in the feelings of the most blase opera-goer, she would probably not have been believed even by Miss Sander- son’s compatriots.” The strangest thing is that Miss Sanderson has never succceded in accomplisning any revolution in the feelings of her compatriots. Thereis no douht about the great swath thatshe is cutting in Milan. The millionaire Terry, to whom she is still re- ported to be engaged,is in faithful attend- ance. The garnisheeing of Miss Ellen Beach Yaw's box office receipts at the Baldwin Theater on Monday by the Musical Courier recalls the fact that the Courier has blown hot and cold in a most singular manner with.regard to Miss Yaw. Atone time the Courler’s puffs oi Miss Yaw were not surpassed by those of her own press agent. Itpublished her picture, her biography and such startling and hysterical descriptions of her vocal powers that people believed that the Musical Courier had dis- covered the most remarkable singer of this or any other age. Readers of the Musical Courier will remember thst quite suddeniy a change came o'er the spirit of its dream. Miss Yaw instead of being a record-breaking vocalist of superlative talent suddenly became & young person whosa vocal aspirations had to be severeiy sat upon. R:aders of the Courier were surprised to hear that her lower notes were torn from her throat in a guttural man. ner, that her upper notes were thin and child- ish, and that if she persisted in her present reprehensible methods of producing her voice she wouid soon have no voice to produce. The garnisheeing of Miss Yaw’s box-office receipts lets in & flood of light on the Courier's dual attitude. There was a time when Miss Yaw’s agent paid tribute to the Courier, and in those days she was anonesuch, then the tribute stopped and Miss Yaw’s praises stopped with it. Under these circumstances one can draw pretty good conciusions as to the reliability of either the praise or the censure. The leaders of claques in the great Euro- pean opera-bouses ere not such hmiinmcun{ individuals as people in this country are won! to imagine. Schoentag, the leader of the clague in the Imperial Opera-House of Vienna, recently feted his twenty-fiith year of service at the theater. His remarkable originality has caused him to be considered a daring and artistic innovator in his profession, and his anniversary was the signal for many tokens ofadmiration to shower upon hin. It seems that Schoentag has fixed a new code of ap- plause, which varies according to the artistic standing of the singer, and he has established besides rules for the artistic application of the “bravo!” According to the opinion of this expert eritic it would be very irritating if, after the vocalist had caressed the ears of his audience with a planissimo dying away into the alr, the claque should suddenly trouble Schoentag uses a softly uttered ‘‘bravo!” which seems to escap: involuntarily from the lipsof one of his collaborators. A faw me- ments after another collaborator utters a second “bravo!” a tr.fle more loudly, and thus, rinforzando al crescendo, the claque suc- ceedsin enticing the whole theater into an explosion of enthusiasm. This is what may be called the perfection of the art of applaud- ing. Massenet’s *“Manon’ has just been played at Batavia, the capital of Java, with imme success. The most remarkable part of the performance was that the principalrole was confided to a young Javanese singer, who wi born in Batayia and who aid to be of n tive origin. Her name is Miss Maeth Piazza, and she delighted the public as much by her ravishing voice as by the charm of her acting. In commeuting on this Le Menestrel say: “Neither the Abbe Provost nor Massenet ever dreamed of a yellow Manon, whose charm must be very different from that of the young French girl who ended so sadly in the New World. The Sandersons, Van Zandts and the rest of the famous Manons certainly never ex- pected that a yellow lady would dispute the palm with them; and pow it seems that the Javanese diva, encouraged by her first suc- cess, is about to play in ‘La Navarraise,’ just a8 if she were Mlle. Calve. Itis to be hoped that at the exposition of 1900 this marvelous diva will make ner debut in Paris. It is galling to reflect that while San Fran- cisco is 1o have no grand opera this season cities like Tiflis, Cairo, Buenos Ayres, etc., are having fine seasons of opera., Even Batavia is treating itself to a season of French opera. At Cairo a splendid repertory is ennounnced, ‘which ranges trom classics, such &s Gluck’s ““Orpheus,” to the newest works of the French school. At Buenos Ayres it is announced that Tamagno will go into partnership with the the silence with applause forte. In such cases | first opera. Among the numerous wedding presents were a rich fan, sent by Verdi to the voung bride, and the order of the Knight of the Crown of Italy, sentto the groom by the King. ’ The German opera season in Amsterdam has resulted in a complete fiasco, and the pecun- jary discomfiture of the impresario was so lamentable that the funds of ths German Benevolent Society in Amsterdam were insuffi- cient to send home the unfortunate members of the chorusand orchestra. Appeals had to be made tosingers in Germany and Austris before the members of the troupe could ali be sent home. Lady composers are growing more and more numerous. The last to be heard from has been very ambitious, and complete suceess has crowned her efforts. 8he is a Beigian, her name is Mme. de Grandval and sne recently | wrote the music to an opera entitled “Ma- | zeppa,” for which Messrs. Charies Grandmou- gin and G. Hartmann wrote the libreito. “Mazeppa” has been produced at the Royal Theater of Antwerp with bril.iant success. An important piece of news has been put in | circulation by an Italian newspaper, in the | following terms: “Verdi has expressed a de- sire tolearn to ride a wheel.” Another paper adds gravely that the news merits confirma- tion. If the grand oid man of musie follows | expezt to see again. out his desire, we shall soon have on the mar- ket, “Verdi bicycles, warranted safe for octo- genarians to ride.” French operatic art has not been much rep- resented fora number of years at the Royal Opera of Berlin, but an experiment has just been made jn that line, and it has completely succeeded, for Berlioz's “Benvenuto Cellini,” which nas been given a splendid produetion at the Berlin Opera, promises to be one of the chief attractions of the present season. Asingular example of misguided vigilance is reported from Vienna, where Joseph Gen- noch, inspector of the Carl Theater, and sey- erelof his assistants are in prison, eharged with having willfully and maiiciously set fire to the theater in order to win the reward for vigilance in puiting out the confiagration. Some interesting developments are expected at the trial. A new opera entitled “‘Ratbold” has just met with great success at Mayence. The libretto 1s 18 by Felix Dahn and the music by Reinhold Becker. “Annie Louise,” a new operetta by Fritz Baselt, has just been produced very success- fully at Cassel. The Fossati Theater at Milan is giving three new operettas, “Vincet Amor,” by Federico | Giardina, “La Presi d: Valpignatta,” by Dall, Argine, and “L’Agenzia di Commenditori,” by Bonfig.foli. 1 The gity fathers of Cataneo have ordered the three leading theaters in the town to be closed, because they do not offer enough se- curity tor the exit of the public in case of fire, A HOU.E O CARDS. Ibuilt a house of cards one day 1o far off, sunny childnood time, And luughed (o see It swept away By some light breeze tuat sirayed that way "I hat lefe no trace nor yet untline Of what had been a house so fine. I built a house of cards one day When 1 hud come to riper years. Aguin I saw it swept away By some bleak wind tha blew that way, This time I +aw it go with tears, *Iwas bulided-of ihe bopes of years. Jorx HENEY DICK. £ROUNu TuE CORRIDORS Gathered at the Palace Hotel a day or two ago was a group of men interested in and dis- cussing gold and silver mining. Most of them were young men, but among them was an elderly man of striking appearance, with a face something Jike thatof the late James G. Blaine. He wore & rather heavy. gray beard, and his hair, equally irosted, was thick and hand- some. A broad, soft, black hat set off his fea- tures, and as a whole he looked like one who had seen and experienced much that was calculated to stir the blood. The man was Phiip Deidesheimer, famous in the aunals of Pacific Coast mining. He nas been & pathfinaer in mining, for he was one of the earliest pioneers 'of Virginia City, and he put in the fifst set of square timbers in the Comstock that was ever used in any mine, For this he Las received & bandsome medal, which is highly prized by him, and probably wiil be kept as a precious heirloom in his family. 2 While Deidesheimer and his cornpanions sat talking another old pioneer indulged in reminiscences of this interesting man. Said he to & CALL representative : “I remember well in the '70’s when Deides- heimer came over here from Virginia City and was tendered & great banquet at the Occiden- tal. In those days he was a bigger man than Macksay, Flood, Fair or others of the bonanzu kings. He was worth more, at least it was supposed he was, and everybody believed in Lim and lionized him, The banquet was be- cause of a report that Deidesheimer nad made on the Comstock, in which he stated that there was $200,000,000 in these mines. «It was right at the time of the great boom in stocks on Pine street and of the consolida- tion of the California and Virginia. Such ex- citement as there was on this oceasion I never Mr. Deidesheimer was due to arrive from Virginia City, but he was late aud didn’t get in till 9 o’clock. “Tne crowd that had massed on the outside was immense. 1t was packed for four biocks each way. They cheerea aud yelied for Deidesheimer, end nothing would do but he must make a speech. Finally he complied. He came out on the baicony in frontand made a talk to them. He wasnot by practice & speaker, buthe was 2 mining man and able to talk off some good points to them. Then he withdrew to the banquet-room, where the most influential of the City were gethered to do him homage. It was & great event in his life, suze. “But he has had soma bad luck since then. He owne lots of mining properties, but they are not the snaps that his property wassup- pused tqQ be then. He lives at the Occidental, and has lived there for almost thirty years. He owns the Biue Gouge mine in El Dorado County, and recently -sold it on a bond to Mackay, Colonel Head and others. He has erably off. They got £60,000,000, but that was all. The rest 1s due. But that assertion that there was such an enormous sum tnere did more than anything else to demonetize 'silver. It scared the East almost to death, and it has never got rid of the fear of a flood ef silyer.” 2 Mr. Deidesheimer is now about 65 years old| As hig name indicates, he is a German by birth. \ PLRSONAL. J.J. Robinson of San Jose is in the City. J. M. Rodgers of Santa Barbara is at the Russ, A. G, Jacks of Portland is visiting this Cit H.S. Lamy, a mining man of Denver, has arrived here. H. C. Fritz, a wealthy resident of Wyoming, is at the Lick. Dr. W. B. Lovett of Paradise, Butte County, is at the Grand. A. Solomen, & mining man of Helena, Mont., ison avisit here. H. H. Piteber, visiting the City. W. T. Root, a wealthy business men of Den. ver, is at the Palace. A. M. Beecher of the United States Navyisa late arrival in the City. James Townsend, a prominent citizen of Montana, is on a visit here. {IS. B. Kingsbury, a leading business man of Boise, Idaho, is at the Palace. Frank J. Branton ‘of San Jose, ex- of the State Senate, is in town. Dan Bruin and Mrs. Bruinof Butte, Mont, are among the arrivalsin town. G. Sidenberg, an extensive manufa laces, arrived here last evening. 8. J. Hall, a saddler and harness m: turer of Healdsburg, is at the Russ. Samuel J. Gorman, a business man of Port 1and, is registered at the Occidental. G. A. Smith, the extensive fruifraiser of Courtland, is here on a business trip. A. H. Woodin, & mine-owner of Dunsmuir, is in the City and is registered at the Russ, John G. Mogk, the wealthy grain-buyer of Coluse, is among the arrivals at the Grand. District Attorney Frank D. Ryan of Sacs- mento was among the arrivals here ycsnemz. He is at the Grand, A.E. Lee of Pomeroy, Wash,, a large land+ owner in that district, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotet, Mr. end Mrs. A. G. Barnes of Salt Lake arrived in the City yesterday and are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, S. H. Babcock of Salt Lake,general trafic manager of the Denver and Rio Grande West- ern Railroad, is at the Palace. Captain E. Kelly of Cooks Inlet, Alaska, was one of the arrivals here by the steamer Uma- tilla yesterday. He is at the Grand, Albert Geffeney, the new interpreter in the Immigration Commissioners’ office, was yes- terday sworn in by Deputy E. B. Jerome. Chief Sutlivan of the San Francisco Fire De- partment reached home yesterday after a needed vacation in the country. Mrs. Sulli- van accompanied him. Simon Blum, the heavy grain dealer, merchandise and lumber seller of Martinez, is in the City. He isone of the wealthiest men in Contra Costa County. Captain O. E. White of the Hawaaian Na- tional Guard is in the City, aiter some time spent in the East, during which he interested himself in looking up military matters. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Chief Justice Davie of British Columbia, who has come here from his home in Victoria to enjoy a vacation of a few weeks. The Justice is ac- compan ed by his family and Mrs. Humphreys and Mrs. D. Urquhart and children. They are all at the Occidental. Thomas Barry of Bozeman, Mont., who for many years has been engaged in raising sheep and cattle and who has acquired large weal isat the Russ. Mr. Barry has many different bands of sheep and markets a large amount of wool each season. He comes to California quite frequently, and was bere last in the iall, when he went home to vote for McKinley. igismund M. Bettman, Assemblyman from the Fortieth Distriet, this City, returned yes. terday from Southern Calffornia. It is st the banker, of Livermore, is ed that he has given up his fight for the Speker- ship against ex-Mimister to Japan P. L. Coombs of Napa, and now wants to be chairman of the Committee on Public Morals. The question of racing and pool-selling at fairs will come before it, and it is considered a very important committee. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 16.—At the St. Cloud, J. C. Meyer; Belvidere, D. Samson; Broadway, R. H. Flower, C. A. Steward. 3 —_———————— @' There is poetry in everything,”” mused the editor. “Now, there is yonder waste-basket.” also lately sold another mine whicn he owns in Calaveras County to Boston parties, They are the same parties who not long sinee bough't the Pioneer, in Mariposa County, from the Fair estate and J. E. Davis. “Mr. Deidesheimer’s prediciion that there were $200,000,000 in the Comstock was consid- impressario Ferrari to undertake the manage- i PHILIP DEIDESHEIMER, the Man Whom A1l San Francisco Used 10 Worsh.lp- [Sketched }_'ram life by a “Call” artist.] A And helaughed, as he sometimes did when he was all alone.—Detroit Tribune. —— EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houscs and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. ——————— Doctor—You have only a few minutes to live. Have you any last wish? 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