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DECEMBER 24, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, : e It is said that some receptio 1898. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. THURSDAY.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrief. .90.18 CALL, One year, by mall.... v CALL, six months, by m: 'ALi, three months by mail 1.50 .85 Dal Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Bunday CaLL, one year, by mall. W ¥3XLY CALL, One year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. elephone. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Jelephone. .Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Brontgomaery sireet, corner Clay; open until o'clock. Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 733 Larkin street: open until o'cloci. W .corner Bixieentn zud Mission sireeia; 111 § o'clock. L35 iission street: open until 9 0'cloc& L7 Al street; open until 9 0'clock » M€l sireel, open will 9 0'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE U5 Broadway. ASTERN OFFICE: Park Row, New York CIty- astern Manager. Yooms 81 and " INE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Christmas eve. Don’t crowd too much. Congress has made a home run. The bargain must be attended to to-day. Leave your orders for the Christmas CaLL. Give your help to-day to cheer the friendless to-morrow. As soon as one street gets itself lighted another sets to work to beat 1t. Charity as well as friendship claims the attention of the generous giver. Leave the shops free this evening to those who cannot trade in the daytime, The holiday of to-morrow will e a blessed rest to the bargain-counter clerk. Santa Clans has hitched his wagon to the star of empire and is coming West rapidly. What you do for charity to-day will add to the pleasure of your enjoyment to- morrow. If Cleveland does not get the recogni- tion of Cuba into his head pretty soon he will get it in the neck. Enjoy as much as you can to-day the pleasure of anticipaticn. The realization of to-morrow may have files on it. The San Joaquin gets the best Christ- mas giit of the year in opening of the Valley road for passeacer business. There is no climate on earth so con- genial to Christmas as ours and nowhere else will the day afford such a variety of pleasures. It is easy to make fun of the horse show, but fun don’t improve the busi- ness of the horse market, and the horse show did. “Sound to the core is the way the San Franciscans celebrate Christmas.”” That 1s what Haweis said about us. Now let us live up to it. The report of the Grand Jury tells us we have many evils in the City and County, and now will somebody tell us how to get rid of them? There is no longer a monopoly of trans- portation in the San Joaquin and before long there will be no such monopoly in any portion of the State. One of the things which make this Christmas brighter than those of the last three years’ is the prospect that next Christmas will be brighter still. The Christmas CaLL will be a gocd New Year’s present for your Eastern friends. It will give them a fair picture of the State and some idea of the glory thereof. It will soon be the *‘San Francisco and 8an Joaquin Valley Road,” in fact as well as name. We have reason therefore for a little more joy than usual at this season. The House has broken the record in the performance of business before Christ- mas, but the Senate has kept intact the old record of much talk and very little work. ¥ There is consolation in the weather for everybody. Those who did their shop- ping before the rain yesterday had sun- shine—those who waited were in the swim. The Senators were so eager to get at the funding biil they could not wait for the biil to be reported before they began dis- cussing it. It is evident that a lively fight is in prospect. The Salvation Army will carry Christ- mas cheer {o those who need it most, ana you will have a better right to your own cheer during the day if you helpthe Army in its good work. Al T The speeches made before the Govern- ment Commission in favor of Santa Mon- ica may in courtesy bz called arguments, but it strains even a warm-nearted Christ- mas charity to do ii. The Christmas CALL will contain forty- two pages. The home postage on it will be three cents and the foreign postage five cents. Don’t forget this in mailing copies to your friends. The recommendation of Secretary Car- lisle that we should practice economy by cutting down appropriations for public improvements will not be received with favor by.the people. That sort of practice would be the economy which tendeth to poverty and the wisdom of the Nation re- jects it. If Congress should pass the resolution recognizing the independence of Cuba and Cleveland should ignore it there would be nothing to do but to wait for him to get out of office. It would be of no use trying to impeach him unless Congress should feel like doing it for ihe purpose of estab- ling a precedent. Ina statement concerning the Valley Rousa published in THE CALL yesterday Mr. Claus Spreckels said over his own sig- naturc: “We shall come to S8an Francisco as soon as the Bakersfield extension is completed. The people need bave no fear on that point.” Here is a goiden Christ- mas promise whose realization may be looked for in a glad new year. THE COMPETING ROAD. The statement of Claus Spreckels pub- lished in THE CaLL yesterday gives a dis- tinct and reliable promise that the road which is popularly known as the “Valley road”’ will soon merit and receive from the public its full title, “The San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad.” It will bea competing line, not oniy for the great valley of the interior, but for San Francisco, and will secure for the metropolis relief from a poriion of the long-endured cinch of the monopoly of the Southern Pacific. Mr. Spreckels, after pointing out that the road will be extended from Fresno to Bakersfield as soon as rights of way are obtained, and that if no unexpected obsta- cle occurs the line will reach Bakersfield by May, weut on to say: “We will come to San Francisco as soon as the Bakers- field extension is completed. The people need have no fear on that point. The way into San Francisco is open to us by more than one route and there is nothing can prevent our entrance.” . This is a golden promise for Christmas, of which we may expect the beginning ot the fulfillment during the new year. A completion of the line to this City means far more to San Francisco and to the interior .than would be possible to say within ordinary limits. The farmers of the great valley of the San Joaquin and the merchants of the cities within its borders, as well as the merchants of San Francisco, will compre- hend witbout argument on our part the ereat benefits which tbey will derive from the sccomplishment of the work, It will mean thebreaking down of the monopoly which has so long interfered with local trade and the immediate expansion of commerce under freer and better condi- tions. No enterprise of the past year has been so beneficial to California as the construc- tion of this road through the San Joaquin, and none now proposed for the future promises so much of good. Mr. Spreckels described the situation in saying: “There are many enterprises in which a return of 6 per cent could be made on the capital in- vested, but I prefer this project, as it will tend to develop the State to an extent reat-r than anything else that could be done by public or private enterprise.” That is exactly what it will do. It willde- velop the Siate, and in the development every citizen will find a benefit, advantage and profit. Even in its present condition a com- peting line is of great benefit to the people of California. It has given to the San Joaguin lower freight rates and lower pas- senger rates than they could have even hoped for before its construction was undertaken. It affords better facilities for commerce and passenger travel than the monopoly has given, and if it went no further would still be accounted as one of the best successes achieved by California enterprise in promoting California in- dustry. The rates of passenger travel between this City and points in the San Joaquin Valley have been lowered to beif the rates which the Southern Pacific Company charged, and moreover the means of travel between those points have been improved and the time lessened. As Mr. Spreckels said ih concluding his statement, ‘It now remains with the people to decide whether the road shall be the fullest kind of a success.” If proper support is given and the company is enabled to obtain rights of way, it will not be long before the road enters San Fran- cisco, and is prepared for an extension of its line further soutaward than Bakers- field. It is gratifying to know the com- pany has received every assurance of such support. Mr. Spreckels says: “I have every confidence we have now and shall always continue to have the support of the people. . They as we, I am sure, fully realize their interests and ours are one.” Ia this mutusl confidence between the company and the peopie we have the fali- est assurance of the speedy completion of the great work., The reign of the mono- voly is nearly over. The people of Cali- fornia will soon have established their commercial independence by their own efforts. THE GRAND JURY REPORT. In the report made on the completion of its work, the Grand Jury has furnished us another of those public documents which call attention to evils in our municipal government, but which offer no sufficient remedy for them. The people will read the report with but little interest, because they know it will have hardly any effect upon any of the problems with which it deals. It comes with the sound of one verying in the wilderness,”” instead of speaking in the tone of one ‘‘having au- thority.” Tue Grand Jury state they have found the present law governing the collection of persona! property taxes ‘‘burdensome and unsatisfactory,” and they recommend the repeal of the law so far as it applies to San Francisco. They condemn the finan- cial management of the public schools, which compeis the department to make deductions from amounts actually due teachers earned as salaries, and express the opinion that expenses incurred in the employment of svecial teachers at high salaries for the benefit of a few should be abolished. They report that the Morgue building is old, dilapidated, and insufliciently sup- plied with the requisites for post-mortem investigations. They recommend that ni mbers of Lhe Legislature should oppose the passage of-any law increasing the number of our Superior Courts. They find that the economical running of the County Clerk’s office is a matier which they somewhat wittily declare to be in the hands and the conscience of the County Clerk, and suggest the advisability of re. lieving him ot this strain by the adoption of a new charter which shall place the conduct of his office under different laws. They declare the office of Water and Gas Inspector to be devised principally to en- able “some favorea applicant to drawa good salary for very inadequate service,” and recommend that it be abolished. They urge the removal of the fire-alarm station from its present location in China- town to the dome of the new City Hal!, and the establishment of a fully paid de- partment. They condemn the filthy con- dition of the City Hall, and ‘‘suggest” that the head janitor be obliged to devote all of his time to attending to his busi- ness in the.building. They disapprove -the action of the Board of Supervisors in ordering the City and County Surveyor to expunge from t he new official map certain streets and public highways by resolu. tion. They point out also that upon a large number of streets there are car- tracks not in use, but in regard to that evil they make no recommendation what- ever. On the important subject of suporessing lottery swindles and the trade of the lot- tery fakers in the City the Grand Jury speaks out clearly. They say: On this subject we find tne Jaw isdefective, inasmuch as it makes the crime misdemeanor when it should be a felony, Tt seems impossi- ble to get at the managers and promoters of the business. The police courts, for some rea- son, are e ely too lenient in the matter of ‘penalties, they have gradually reduced the amount of fines imposea to merely & nominal sum where formerly large fines were Imposed, and the courts entirely omit the imprisonment penalty. We recommend that the District At- torney prepare the necessary amendments to the Penal Code which will make the law more stringent and effective, and also prohibit ad- vertising through the papers or otherwise anything pertaining to lotteries before or after the drawing; also make it prima facie evidence of guilt to have lottery tickets in one’s possession. These are the salient featnres of the re- port, and it now remains to be seen what effect it will have on our municipal ad- ministration. The Grand Jury itself hardly expects much to result from its labors. This is mad= evident by the state- ment in the closing paragraph: “Itisa well-known fact that after the long and careful attention to public interests of the various Grand Juries, their final reports have simply been received, accepted and pigeonholed, and the Grand Jury dis- charged.” To remedy this evil the Grand Jury rec: ommends *that this and all future reports of Grand Juries shall be included in the annual printed and municipal reports of this City.” It is doubtful whether the matter would be helped much if the rec- ommendation were adopted. We need something more than the printing of thene reports. We need earnest action taken to suppress the evils which are pointed out, and if the Grand Jury itself is incapable of doing that it is not easy to see to what other power we should look for authority to deal with the subject. THE OHRISTMAS “OALL" To-morrow morning the Christmas edi- tion of THE CaLL will greet its host of readers with the compliments of the sea- son. The splendid edition has been in prepar- ation for many weeks. Only the best lit- erary and artistic work has peen permitted to go into 1ts pages and as a consequence it will stand without a peer as the Christ- mas paper of the West. In all there will be about twenty-five richly illustrated articles appropriate to the season. “Cosmos and Rico’’ is astory by Ern- est Reconato of this City. It points the way to true happiness and should be read by all. There will be a Christmas poem by Miss Juliet Wilbor Tompkins that is a gem in its way. “Christmas Visitors at Onslow Gar- dens” is a bit of descriptive writing of the most pleasing character. *‘Christmas at Sutter’s Fort in 1847,” by John Bonner, should be read by all Californians. The name of the author is sufficient attest to its cleverness. Tune literary value of the story of “Christ,” by J. H. Gniffes, isan able article tuat will be widely appreciatea. Among the other features of the Christ- mas CALL might be mentioned: *Christ- mas in the Arctic Circle,” *A Chinese St. Nicholas,” **White Christmas in Cali- fornia,"” “‘A Rose of the Garden of Eden.” Remember that vour Eastern friends will be delighted to get a Christmas CALL, and do not forget to order your extra copies to-day. It wilt be by longz odds the best holiday paper of the year, and will be a veritable treasure in every household. Not aline of it will ve dry reading, and there will be several humorous features hat will bring to the reader many a good hearty and healthy laugh. The illustrations will be surpassingly fine,and on the whole the Christmas edi- tion of THE CarL will be a desirable Cnristmas treasure. The postage on the 42-page Christmas Carr will be as follows: Foreign, 5 cents; United States, Canada and Mexico, 3 cents. THE NEW TARIFFE. It is gratifying to observe that in dis- cussing the tariff legislation of the next Congress leading papers of the great East- ern cities are giving much space to a consideration of what shall be done for the rural industries of the country. They no longer direct their attention solely to manufactures. It is now agreed in the East as well as in the West, in the great cittes as well as in the country, that farmers as well as manufacturers need protection and deserve to receive it from any future tariff legislation. Commenting on this feature of the work the New York Press says: - The comfortable notion that, outside of hi: wool, the farmer needed no protection must have been thoronghly dissipated by the im- portation of $130,000,000 of agricultural products under the first year of the present tariff. Moreover, some steps must be taken to stop the enormous drain consequent upon sending abroad for cane sugar whén the ex- perience of Continental countries assures us of the perfect practicability of securing & cheapand adequate supply of beet sugar at home. There is $100,000,000 annually for American pockets in the proper handling of this part of the agricultural schedules. There can be no question but what these expressions of the press in the great cities of the East represent the prevailin senti- ment of protectionists everywhere., In making up the new tariff the Republicans in Congress will give to the agricultural schedules even greater attention than was given by the committee which framed the McKinley tariff. Almost all of our raral industries have reached a stage where they come into competition to a greater or less extent with the cheap labor of other por- tions of the world. This is particularly true of California. Our lumbermen are injured by the cheaper lumbering system of Canada, and our growers of tropical fruits in the southern part of the State are deprived of much of the vrofits of their industry by the competition of fruit- growers in Mexico, where land and labor are much cheaper than here. Thera will be no talk in the next Con- gress of free raw materials. That folly has been tried and proven disastrous. Pro- tection bereafter must apply to the indas- tries of all classes of the American people. It must affect with an equal beneficence every section of the Union and every in- dustry of every State. Tae protective sys- tem becomes perfect only when it is made universal, and that is what we may expect from the next Congress and the McKinley administration. A BIT OF LIFE. within the door many times before. y iy toil passea by, No love nor pleasure it his eye: But when he heard the merry song He whistled as he went along. A woman by the window wept For one who In the churchyard slept; But when upon her heariog fell That (une sne knew and loved so well The flood of burning tears was stay.d, And soon & song jhe iipsessayed. Her neighbor heard her tender strala, And sofily joined the sweet refrain. Thus, ail day long tnat one song bore 1ts joyousness from door Lo door. —Ladies’ Home Journal. INTEREST.NG TO CONSULS. Philadelphla Press. The Consular service was debauched and demoralized by President Cleveland in the first six months of his term. Wholesale re. movals were made and appointments con- ferred for political and personal reasons. In the last year of his administration President’ Cleveland placed all but a few Consular of- fices within the classified service. There is & general impression abroad that this will pors ect these partisan appoiniments, It wiil not nd it ought not. MUSIC AND Y The French papers speak 1n the most enthu- siastic terms of the brilliant list of artistsen- gaged for the opera season atMonte Carlo, which opens next month. AdelinaPattiheads the divas, and second on the list comes Mile. Fannie Francesca of San Francisco. Itisa case of two stars, one setting and the other rising. Mlle. Francesca i¢ said to have the same quality of voice as Melba and Patti. She made her Parisian debut last summer at & matinee given by Mme. Marchesi’s pupils. No one had heard of the American girl, but her brilliant singing and superb stgge presence so astonished every one that she was alluded to as the dark horse. Her Monte Carlo engage- ment is considered a great triumph for a debutante. She is to be the prima donna in “Rigoletto,” “Oteilo,” “Don Juan,” La Reine de Saba”” and “Amy Robsart.” In addition to Patti and Mile. Francescs, the stars engaged A A AN NN MUSICIANS. right when be said, “You must wait till a man is dead before you can say whether he has been fortunate.”—Le Menestrel. French composers are beginning to clamor for copyright law with Russia. At present French op: re carrying all before them in the Czar’s dominions, but the unfortunate composers do not derive anything more sub- stantial than glory. Some observant physician has noticed that performers on wind instruments generally have dimples in their cheeks. Since the an- nouncement it is said thata number of society girls in the East have given themselyes incip- ient mumps by blowing the cornet and other ear-torturing instruments. In Milan Sibyl Sanderson has met with as great success in Saint-Saens’ ‘‘Phryne” asshe 7 | i i //‘,‘ 7 fl- MLLE. FANNY FRANCESCA 7 [ as She Will Appear at Monte Carlo in “Rigoletto.” for the season are: Mmes.Van Zandt, Lola Beeth, Mendioroz, Heglon, Mercy, Vuillaume, Raunay, Saffo Bellincione; the tenors are MM. Van Dyck, Tamagno, Apostolu, Vergnet, Gi- raud, Queyle; the barytones, MM. Maurel, Kaschmann, Carusson Bonnet, Melchissedes, Albert; the bassos, MM. Bondouresque, Isnardon, Greyle, Bozzani. Mlle. Francesea is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Micheisen of this City. Her brother believed so much in her talent that he gave up a lucrative business in New York to accompany her to Europe for study, and he has remained with her ever since, encouraging ner and spending a small fortune on her education. Audran’s new operetta ‘Monsieur Lohen- grin” seems to have met with great success at the Bouffes-Parisiens. The libretto by Fabrice Carre is espeelally good from the standpoint of raising a laugh. Cecile Blandin is one of those young ladies who has studied singing with & master who undertakes to make *‘an artist of you while you wait.” Cecile has paid outall her money to the master,but no one appreciates her singing; no one admiree her in any way except a police agent, whom she scorns. In this dilemma she 1s introduced to a majestic gentieman, who not only promises to tpend thousands on opening the doors of the opera-houses to her, but who also promises to marcy her, all on one condition—sne is never to ask his name. For a time everytning | goes well, and he answers to the appellation of Monsieur Lohengrin, but curiosity at last gets the better of Cecile, and she implore: him to unveil his incognito. Monsicur Lohengrin then pompously informs her that he is called Rothschild. It was not true, as Cectle fiuds out in the end, but the double incognito gives rise 10 amusing compiications, aud the would- be singer finally tinds that Monsieur Lohen- grin is en impostor, and renvunces her operatic aspirations to marry her faithiul police agent. Round this story the composer of “La Mascotte” has writlen some very pretty music. In the archives of the Royal Opera of Berlin an interesting document has just been found which ‘gives all the current expenses of the theater for the year 1796. The cost of opera a hundred years ago compared with the sums paid out, especially in New York, to lyric artists makes an interesting study. The en- tire expenses for the year at the Berlin Opera- house in 1796 amounted to 63,394 thalers and the artists’ salaries to 38,500 thalers. The Prussian thaler was worth 75 cents, which brings the total expenses to about $40,000° The prima donna assoluis, one Mme. Schick, received 1200 thulers a year and the leading tenor, Herr Lippert, received 1196 thalers a vear. This curious difference of four thalers evidently marked the superiority of the feminine star. In addition to their salaries the leading singers enjoyed a few benefits & year, which brought them on an average about 800 thalers. This woulc rafse their an- nual incomes to about 2000 thalers (§1500) at the maximum, Economists calculate thatthe purchasing power of silver in Berlin was in 1796 about three times greater than in 1896, 50 that the $1500 of that day would mean now about $4500. Even at that price the Berlin opera of to-day could get no great singers. The Thalia Theater, in Berlin, is playing with success an opera comique in one act, en- titled “The Hygrometer,” from the English libretto of Adrien Ross, and the music of Ber- tram L. Selby. The action of the opera passes ina box of toys and the stage is incumbered with playtbings, such as trees, toy-houses, wooden horses, ete. In the midst of the toys is placed the well-known hygrometer, a toy house, with two ‘doorways, in one of which stands the figure of a man and in the other of & woman, which come out, turn about, to announce fine weather or rain. In *‘The Hy- grometer’” the man and woman complain that they can never see one another, in spite of their love, and finally they organize a strike, and coming outof their house, sing a love duet. The dialogue is said to be very comlical and the music gay and tsking. The once famous singer, Bianca Blume, has just died in e hospital at Buenos Ayres, poor and abandoned. She was the first great prima donna who created the operas of Wag- ner in Italian,and she was the object of es- pectal ovations at the Scaia, in Milan. A few years 8go, very much reduced in circum- stances, a widow, and broken down by the disapoointments and disillusions of her ca- reer, she went to Buenos Ayres and devoted herself to teaching singing. Fortune, how- ever, did not smile upon her, and the woman who had shone in all the splendor of her beauty and talent in the greatest theaters of Italy died in a charity bed ata hospital des- titute and negiected. According to the official statement the for- tune left by the late Henry Abbey does not ex- ceed two hundred dollars. A thousand francs! And to think that’s all thatis ieft of the man who was first to have tbe audacity to offer Patti twenty-five thousend francs a night for atour in the United States. And how many times did Abbey not spend a lbousand francs on his own pleasure! Truly, old Solon wa “t had in “Manon.” Le Menestrel says: “A superb audience was present on the opening night, and among other important personages was the Princess Letitia, who bad come irom Turin on purpose to be present.” The Italian papers speak in the highest terms of the new conductor at the leading theater in Lodi. This clever leader is a young woman, Signorina Palmira Orso. A telegram from Buda-Pesth states that the new Hungarian opera, “Karen,” has met with great success at the Royal Opera-house. The music is by Charles Czobor. Mme. Frances Saville (Fauny Simondson), the San Krancisco prima donna who sang at the Mettopolitan last year, has just accepted a brilliant engagement in Russia. A monument to Karl Loewe, the celebrated ballad composer, has just heen inaugurated at Kiel, his birthplace, Loewe was born in 1696. The theater An der Wien is about to produce & new operetts, entitled “The Triple Alli- ance.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. G. J. Griffith, who lately gave a magnificent park to Los Angeles, is at the Baldwin. The park is the largest city pirk in the world, con- sisting of over 3000 acres. It lies one mile north of the north line of Los Angelesand is about five and a half miles long by two and a half wide. It fronts the long way on the Los Angeles River, is ideal in its beauty and natu- ral location, and is worth a fortune. The park is covered with California live- oaks, single trees of which cover a quarter of an acre or more. Besides these, there are thousandsof wild walnut trees, thousands of sycamores, and tens ot thousands of willows, the latter being along the river. The picture herewith represents Mr. Griffith as he was last Wednesday when he gave the of twenty-three years of active business life in California I have become proudly attached to our beautiful city of Los Angeles, which, through its great natural advantages and its matchless climate, averaging 300 sunny days in the year, is destined to soon become a great metropolis. The arduous work of these years has boen rewarded with fair succes ana reeognizing the duty I will deed this the city as soon &s the city engineer has estab- lished the lines satisfactorily; but in making this donation I would like to 1mpose the con- dition, if after consideration it should appear that it may be legally done, that no railroad to this park be chartered with the right to charge a larger fare than5 cents. Iwishto imypose this condition to insure this farcso that this park will be in every sense the peo- ple’s recreation grounds and the transporta- tion to it be kept within the reach of the most modest means. I wish to make this gift while I am still in the full vigor of life that I mayenjoy with my neighbors its beauties and pleasures, and that I may besr with me when I cross the clouded river the pleasing knowledge of the fruition of a wish long dear to me. Itrustthat you will accept this gift for the people of Los Angeles in the same spirit in which it is of- fered.” The gift 1s royal one. It is 800 acres larger than the largest park in Paris, and 300 acres larger than Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. It borders on the famous Cahuenga Valley, as well as on the Los Angeles River. —_— e e PERSONAL. L. Farr of Australia is at the Occidental. G. L. Simmons of Sacramento is in town. Royal T. Heath of Santa Cruz is at the Lick. J. Norman, wheat-grower of Brentwood, is in town. J. H. Sutthoff, a business man of Seattle, is here. F. J. Boring of San Jose is here on & brief stay. J. E. Quinn, a ploneer of Walla Walla, is in town, W. Gesner Allen of Fresno arrived here yes- o| terday. J. Jeone, a leading butcher of Winters, is at the Russ. The Rey. W. D. P. Bliss of Boston is at the Occidental. Dr. B. B. Masten of Halfmoon Bay is at the Occidental. George W. Boggs, a grain dealer of Tracy, is in the City. Snoriff George S. McKenzle of Napa is a visitor here. D. G. McRae, a business man of Denver, got here yesterday. Charles A. Shattuck of Fresno is among re- cent arrivals here, James T. Dennis, s leading attorney of Reno, is at the Palace. George M. Colburn, proprietor of the Clifton Hotel, Ariz, isin town. John McGough, & rancher of Goshen,is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. C. Flickinger, the prominent fruitgrower of San Jose, is at the Palace. William Watson, a prominent land-owner of Merced, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. M. Braly, the well-known real estate dealer of Fresno, arrived here yesterday. A. M. McDonalid, the owner of mining prop- erties near Bonora, is a visitor to the City. E. Farrall of Santa Cruz, the contractor who years ago built the Lick House. is at the Lick. D. F. Berliner and George Loughead, large 1and and cattle owners of Grayson, are at the Russ. * J.F. Clapp of Chicago, owner in several mining properties in tnis State, is at the Grand. George Straining, cashier of the Bank of Santa Rosa,is at the Russ, accompanied by Mrs. Straining. C. Fletcher Kohl and Mrs. Kohl of San Mateo have retnrned here after a visit to Philagel- phia, and are at the Palace. Ed Greenwood, wife and family of Nova Scotia are in the City on their wey East, and are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, J. B. Wright, the superintendent of the Southern Pacific at Sacramento, is in the City. He has just returned from New York. C. Henne, the efluent student of Stanford, whose dinners and excursions have made him conspicuously prominent in student life, is at the Palace. Fx-Minister F. L. Coombs of Napa, who was | some two years at the court of the Mikado, is in town. He is & candidate for the speaker- ship of the Legielature. Among the arrivals at the Russ is Captain Henry Clay, a very wealthy retired whaler of New Bedford, Mass., who has interests here, He is accompanied by Mrs. Clay. D. F. Verdenal, the journalist, of New York, who hasbeen here for several dayspast, left 1ast night for home by way of Fresno, where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Willhiam Forsythe, for a few days. williaza H. Crocker, who has been confined to his bed for three weeks by serious illness, was able to leave his room yesterday for the first time since he was stricken down. Itis thought he will be well in a few days. J. A. Fillmore, manager of the Southern Pacific Company, who has been confined to his home for a number of days on account of ill- ness, is mow rapidly recovering. Mrs. Fill- more,who has been in New York under the care | of Dr. Kuapp, the celebrated specialist, for the for a [Sketched from life 3000-acre park to Los Ang: gift. The park was promptly accepted and named after him. The 10iiowing is the modest, unique and un. selfisn way he presented it: “Your Honor and gentlemen: In the course as a Carlstmas 1 {re geles Park. : by a “Call” artist. atment of her eyes, has returned and is muchimproved. Dr. W. J. Younger, who some time ago located in Chicago and who has lately been in Europe visiting the various dental colleges, errived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs, Younger. be given by them here at their old home be. fore returning to Chicago. Louis Dean, known for many years as one of the leading cattle-growers of Nevads, is in the City. Mr. Dean has extensive ranges, and his cattle are numbered by, thousands. His hop is at Reno. Mr. Dean is here on a businc: rip. J. N. H. Patrick, a wealthy resident of Omahs, R.W. Patrick, Mrs. Joseph Barker anq Joseph Barker Jr,, A. C. Smith, Mrs, A ¢, Swith and Miss Bessie Yales, all also of Omaha, arrived here yesterday and are at the Palace. Or. Ord, the famous pioneer of Monterey, who came to the coast with Commodore Sto ton, and who was present when the America flag was first unfurled on the coast, is City. His brother was General Ord, conspicu. ous in the history of that time. Dr. E. C. Lyle has returned from a visit to the citrus fair at Fresno. He made the rrip over the San Francisco and San Joaguin V. ley Railroad and speaks highly of the con struction work of that line. Dr. Lyle rega the outlook for Fresno and the San Joaqu country generally as one promising great i dustrial development, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The Havel of the North German line brought back fr Germany: A. A. Ritter, Oakland; Franz a Miss M. Teckbubory, Los Angeles. §t. Cloud—H. B. Case. Continental—C. | Knight. Holland—Mrs. Scott. A LOUNGING OR BATH ROBE White eider-down was the material used in making this useful and graceful gown. It was lined throughout with pale blue china silk (the hood being lined with the same), and had a biue silk girdle, with cords to matc holding the fuliness of the sleeves in place. White flannel of serge makes a most sensible garment, as it may easily pe laundered at home. A binding of pale washable ribbon can be used on all edges and not d its economy, for this so-called wash renlly washes, and does away with the expense of sending these garments t0 the cleaners. White flannel with & lining of primrose yel- 1ow china siik is 2 combination t and can also be washed with good res The cheaver outing flannels ma ful and inexpensive bath or lounging gowns, and very dainty combinations are possible. Plain Turkish toweling is chosen by many, and‘;s simply hemmed or bound -with cotton raid. Such a gown as this is sosimply made. and may be made so cheaply at home. Every woman who appreciates comfort and neatne: wiil have one, for the cost will not excer $150; ten yards of outing flannel at 12 cents, and one yard of narrow ribbon to bidy the hocd. The girdle may be omitted. The front is seamless. The back is cu two pleces. The sleeve is cut in one piece. Letters?rom the People. TO RELIEVE THE STARVING What the Berkeley Friends of the Hin- doos Hope to Accomplish. To the Editor of the Call—STU Some little discrepancies dropped into your items of Monday last, when referring to the relief work for the starving people of india. Berkeley friends of the Hindoos have an am- bition for $3,000,000 vslue in corn and coln in place of the less amounts named. Early and generous giits of money and ma- terial are desired by Christmus, that the Mayor and his board of managers may send drafts by cable; that our men of brain and conscience, now in the field in India, can feel their hands strengthened and stem the tide of starvation and death, which causes mothers to eat the dead bodies of their children. Arouse! arouse!! ye noble ones of this State and Nation, and see, know and comprenend the dire calamity now on 40,000,000 of our fellow-men. Tnen tell us if ten times that sum of $3,000,000 is not needed so soon as busy hands can gather it. Men as brave and true as Booth Tueker and Bishop Thoburn and hosts of others stand ready to see that no kernel or crumb you help send them is wasted. Give money, give bank checks, give your gold and silver ware, both your goods and household ornaments; give your houses, vacant lots and lands to be sold and the results telegraphed forward to India W. W. CLARK, Agent First Relief Committee for the Starv Children of India. Berkeley, Dec. 23, 1896. 4 1bs. famous broken eandy, 50c. Townsend’s, Paiace building. Ll el PLAIN American mixed, 2 pounds, 2: broken candy, 2 pounds, 25¢. Towasend ———————— LoosE popcorn, on strings, in balls ana sugared and loose. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel.* ———— F1ve floors full of California glace fruits st our factory, Townsend’s. CALIFORNIA glace fruits and candies all ready for shipping. Special rates per express. At Townsend’s, 627 Market st., Palace Hotel. * L Yo e FoUr pounds famous broken candy in s handsome lunch baskets at 50¢. Towns 627 Market street, Palace Hotel building. o e i R, THOUSANDS of packages ready. No for candies and glace fruits. Plenty of Townsend’s, Palace Hotel. B FPECIAL information daily to manufactnr s business houses and public men by the 7338 Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgome ————— In Kentucky: Stranger—I understand that they lynched a man here yeste What had he done? Colonel Pepper—Done, suh? What had he done? Why, suh, he came heah to open & branch agency for a mineral wateh company. That’s what he done.—Cleveland Leader. Phillips’ Rock Isiana Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via 1o Gran: aod Rock Island Hallway ‘Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boaton, Man- ager and porters nccompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Ciinton Jones | General Agent Kock Istand Raliway, 80 Moo gomery streeh Xan Franciseo. Sl TRROAT TROUBLES.~To allay the irritation that induces coughing, use “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” A simple and safe remedv. o e~ THE fashionable ladies’ corrective tonic i Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the renowned & American invigorator. o - E LADIES suffering from nervous affiictions find quick relief in PARK ER'S GINGER TONIC. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM aids the hairgrowth. ST veies AYER's Chercy Pectora), it used according to direc'lons, Is a speedy cure for colds. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Almanac.

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