The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1897, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1897T. éwwmmwmmmwmmmm*mww***m«wmwwww*vbmmmwwrmmemwwm«mwwwmwmmrmwssumwemvwvmrhvmwwvmm*m"mw*mmwmwww*wa; @& WE SHALL CONTINUE OUR GREAT MASSACRE OF PRICES FOR FINE CLOTHING ANOTHER WEEK | "< THE EF0UB KILLS HIGH PRICES IN SAN FRANCISCO! o H 2 ofe AIRY IMITATORS | | AN OVERWHELMING ‘ ARE GIVING % 3 e A SUCCESS! NOTHING BUT CHAFF! 1 > Our present Great Sale, which e And their seemingly low prices (all the: % SEBCkeit Sheat 0 G R Fi year round) exist only in their brazen w1 of the State. We made up our minds| to drive shoddy goods and FAKE BUSI- NESS METHODS out of town at all| hazards, consequently are naming! LOWER PRICES for our Fine and Re- liable Clothing than trashy goods are sold for elsewhere. Q 9 Will THIS WEEK buy MEN’S L fil STYLISH SUITS and OVER- COATS that are just as good as you’ll find in most stores at $12.50. I$ ALL WE ASK THIS WEEK 39.9 for MEN’S STRICTLY ALL- WOOL SUITS and OVERCOATS, good enough for men in any walk of life. Many are well worth $18 and $20. Your choice goes till Saturday night at Nine Ninety- Fives «fake’” advertisements of bluff and gauzy ‘‘fairy tales.” ECONOMICAL PARENTS, OR THOSE WITH LEAN POCKET BOOKS, ; ATTENTION! THIS WEEK many more pretty styléé of $5.00 CHILDREN’S SUITS will be- thrown into our grand stock of $2 45 unapproachable values at..... 1 TJ THIS WEEK you can make a selection” from the best stock of $6.50 and $7.50 BOYS’ SUITS you ever laid eyes upon: - The styles are prettier and qualities bet- ter than those on sale last week, but the price for pick and choice is just 3 the same—to wit—only....... F 5 THIS WEEK BOYS' LONG PANTS SUITS, worth $10 and $8.50, in all the LA AL R R ey e ii——— i ARSI terdetetertetirtertenlel ettt R e et L R B s Will be all you'll have to pay late styles and fashionable fabrics, will % $1 2ng THIS WEEK for MEN’S | go at the lowest price ever 9 % HIGH-CLASS UP-TO-DATE DRESS o fiarneds oy S lie vie sosus ses 5. 5 ;fi: SUITS and OVERCOATS. Many hun-|* . RS ; <% dreds are worth $25, $22 and $20, but WE | y g i i 5 MEAN BUSINESS, o out they'll go this ety S AR “$% week at the Gift Price of Twelve Ninety- ) ) 85c i :%Five. CUt 0. veeeeerveccnccncenccnnnns ‘ A SQUARE DEAL! ! To PROVE it we GUARANTEE SATISFACTION TO ALL and your money back if you want it. : SEE OUR SHOW WINDOWS They are a correct index of the many bargains inside our big store. ] i a | | WE'VE READ THE RIOT ACT S 4% And our celebrated make of Fine Clothing has GOT TO GO—AT ABOUT ONE-HALF THE PRICES charged by self-styled competitors for their ordinary run of cheap ready-made goods, the majority of which is constructed from shoddy goods and made either in State Prison or Chinatown. : | CORNER Kearny and Sutter Sts, CASH ONLY BUYS—No goods charged to any one during this great sale—dealers not excepted. CORNER Kearny and Sutter Sts. Mail orders for these goods received up to next Saturday night will be filled at advertised prices. ; 08 : HAS KEILUS & CO. , - : B O R O o A 1 sertetrsonntefospsstetaentestesosiasstefasintelefrrontrtaooson el e o s o " HARRY HART HAD MY AWEUL FLL " Dropped From the Third Floor of the New West- ern Hotel. Injured Severely by the Shock, but He Has a Chance to Recover. Harry Hart, a bartender at the New Western Hotel on Kearny and Washing- ton streets, met with an accident in the This guard to the stairway is none too high and the fact was called to Hart’s at- tention by James Ryan, the porter, who called to him and said that if he was not more careful he would. have a fall. Hart, who was near the top of the stairs, laughed at the warning, but a second later he lost his balance. His right leg swung around, passingover the baunister, twisting the man’s hands off the wood- work. Hart fell head downward and struck on his left side. The noise of the fall was heard all over that part of the floor, and those who rushed into the ball- way to see what had happened were sure that Hart had been killea outright. A physician was called, who said there was still hope, and Hart was sent to the { hospital for the best of care. It is found that he sustained internal injuries as well. Hart is 85 years of age, his last birthday falling on the first day of the year. Ha has been in the hotel for the past five years. The Evolution of Donkeys. In a small town in North Wales the Town Clerk and a local auctiozeer met in a public house last Christmastide. They were having a quiet chat, when the auc- tioneer espied Pat pass by. Thinking he could have a_joke at Pat's expense he called him in and said: “The'): tell me youare good at conun- hotel yesterday, that will probably cause | drum his death. He fell over the bannister of the stairs leading to the third floor and was crushed on the floor thirty-five feet below. He was picked up unconscious and re- moved to St. Mary's Hospital, where it was found that his skull was badly frac. tured. His left thigh, left leg and ‘his nose were also broken. He was on the way 1o his room on the third floor, and as he ascended the stairs he pulled the weight of his body up and along by grasping the banaister. s P"Shun. T'll have a flop at one,” said at, **Can you tell me,” said the auctioneer, “how there are so many more donkeys in Egypt than in Wales?’’ “1 can easily answer that, sor,” said Pat. “In Bgypt they let them be donkeys for ever, while in Wales they make auction- eers out of them.”’—Spare Moments. ————— The grandson of Queen Victoria rules Germany, her granddaunghter is Empress of Russia and another granddaughter is Crown Princess of Roumama. FINANCIAL PANIC AMONG JAPANESE Thousands of Stock Com- panies Floated, but Collapsed. Cogent Reasons Why American Dealers Are Handicapped in Japan. The Burean of Foreign Commerce, re cently organized by the Chamber of Com- merce of 8an Francisco, has just received from 1ts special agent to Japan and China, W. R. Townsend, the report published below, which will be found replete with interest to all connected with the indus- tries arid commerce of California. The news of an order from Japan for eighteen American locomotives is especially so. ‘Yoxonaya, Dec. 10, 1896. William M. Bunker, Esq., Chatrman, and Mem- bers Bureau of Foreign Commeice, San Fran- cisco—DEAR SIRs: 1 have been here about one month, and wnfle 1 have sent your esairman some data wilh reference to matters affecting the interests of San Francisco manufacturers, I have not heretofore made an official report and feel now that my limited experience has not given me much of any information which might be considered of great value. There has been almest a panic in Japanese financial circles during the last two months, although the worst is considered over. After their war with China speculation was rampant. Thousands of stock companies were floated and the stocks boomed. Everybody invested, but the collapse came. The native banks shut down indiscriminately recently, and merchants doing & legitimaie business wereallowed no sccommodations. This had the effect of throwiug heavy stocks of mer- chandise back onto tho hands of the foreign houses, and the Yokohama and Kobe godowns. (warebonses) aro crowded to overflowing. Over 70 per cent of the import business of this country is still in the hanas of foreign houses—English, German, French and Amerl- can. Five yearsago they did 85 per cent ot the business, but the Japanese aro graduslly securing more and sore of it. While very littie creditis given the Japanese by the importers, goods being almost in- yariably paid for against delivery order, still hesvy stocks are often imvorted upon con- tracts, recommendation or advice of the Japanese, and the tightness of the money mar- ket has prevented these goods moving out freely. It dia not take me long to tell why America enjoys () so smalla percentage of the import busipess of Japan. At a rough estimate 75 per cent of the foreigners doing business hece are Eaglish, German, French, etc., aud the majority of these are branches of shippinx and commission houses in their own countries. Tney are sent out here to locate, and the ob- jectis to introduce and sell goods produced in ihelr respective conntries. They soon found out that the Japanese did not look to quality; they wanted the cheapest of the kind, and when they wanted any par- ticmiar kind it was specially made for this market. The few American houses here have struggled to throw the trade to Americaand succecded in a measure wheu quaiily was ‘wantcd, but they soon found thai ii they were to succeed financially they would bave to handle that which would pay them best. BThe manager of the largest American house here, which probatly dook as much import business as all_the other Americans togetner, telis me that 80 per cent of the goods they handle come irom England and Germany, and it 18 strictly a question of cost, freight and in- surance as against America. Freight from Eugland and Continental Europe by steamer is cheaper than the lowest rates on any commodity from the Paclfic Coast, less than half the distance away, and when'you come 0 add our freights where are you? The bulk of al) the cotton which comes io Japan from the Soutbern States reaches here via Eucope; but this is being changed. Allof the Japanese merchants I have met and talked with teil me that the Americans are more popuiar here than any other nation- ality, and, appreciating the fact that we are the largest buyers of their products and ine smallest shippers of our owi, say they woula like to do more business with us and welcome any movement which will tend to bring about a changed state of these affairs. I had a long and most interesting taik the other day witn Mr Shibusawa, president of the Chamber of Commerce and First National Bank of Tokio and director in about thirty different com- panies. ‘There was & convention of delegates in ses- sion at Tokio—representatives of sixty different Chambers of Commerce—and he expiained to them the object of my mission, and said they were ail giad to know that there was a pros- pect of increased business between Japan and America. While there is a temporary stringency in the money market, there is no disposition to let up on industrial progress. Every day new companies are formed and mnew projects started. A railroad congress will be heid, commencing December 14, and lasting prob- ably two months. Already 100 applications for charters for new raiiroads have been filed, but it is stated that not over forty will be ranted, and if half of these railroads are built n the near future it ought to mean a great deal of business for America. Contracts were made last week for eighteen American locomotives—six each from three different manufacturers. Most of the rolling stock one sees is English. I wrote you thai the uew Japan and German treaty provided thut cltizens of the latter couniry could file their applications for trade- marks and patents, aad this has been taken advantage of on trademarks -to the number of 200, and I presume Americans will be granted ihe same privileges as soon as Congress au- thorizes our Minister here (o ask for it, but you will note from an inclosed clipping from u local paper thalthe resirictions as to patents sre going to take away practically all the chances of securing any protection unless the invention is new and unknown in Japan. 1 do not imagine that Germany will submit 1o any such decisions as the Japatess patent office has made and naturally England and America will resent such an aitempt to cut out protection for the inventions of their respective subjects. Since this le(ter was commenced I have been invited by the president of the Niphon Boyeki Kyokai (Japanese Trading Association) to address the members At their next monthly meeting, December 16, at Tokio, on the sub- ject of my mission to Japan and have agreed 0 doso. The invitation explains that this is a club or society of higher class merchanis, who are intere-ted in fostering foreign commerce, and a full meeting of the me:chants is expected. I am going to give them some.good advice about establishing a higher grade d&commer. cial morality before they canexpect to control the foreign commerce of their own country. 1 have just settied in very convenient offices in tne business center of Yokohama and after the turn of the year hope to be able to begin to show results. Respectfully submitted. W. R. TOWNSEND. THE DRUMMER'S LATESRT. In the Theater He Had More Fun Than Was Inteuded. The drummer always brings the latest trick. Here itis: Take a spool of white basting cotton. Drop it into your inside coat pocket, and, threading a needle with it, pass it up through the shouider of your coat. Leave the end an inch or so'long on the outside of your coat and take off theneedle. Four men otu of five will try to pick that whole thread off your shoulder, and will pull on the spool until it actually does seem as though your clothes are all bastings and that they were unraveling not onl; clotbes, ‘but yourself. Le o ‘I was tosee Wilson Barrett in Claudi in Boston last week,” said the trnuli;: man. “It was in the most interesting and ‘and then at the spool. pathetic portion of the play. Everybody wa- rapt. I was sitting bolt upright and din’t know or care to know a soul around me, when suddenly I felt some one tus- ging at the basting cotion that I myselt bad clean forgotten. Ididn’t say a word and did not move. Foot by foot it nun- rolled. Half glancing around I saw a man—a totul stranger—vanking at t(he thread, His face was scarlet. He had pulled out about ten yards and was now hauling in band over hand. He didn't care to stop, because he had decorated my back and the whole aisle was basting cot- ton. | He hardly dared to go ahead, for he didn’t know what portion of my domestic interior economy he was trifling with. Rip! rip! went the thread. nd over band Le yzuked itin. T'he aisle was full For heaven's sake! will it never d he above his breath. 'l sat perfectly still and ran the spool while he pulled.” How I wanted to yelil I never saw anything half so funny. The Whole section of the house got on to it. They dida’t know whether to laugh at me or him, but sat and looked on, amazed at the spectacle. At last the stranger gave one frantic rip and yanked out about eleven yards in one bunch, and as the cot- ton got twisted around his watch-chain, over his eyeglasses, in his hair and_filled his lap, I turned around, and producing the spool from, my pocket, said: ‘I am sorry I misled you. You see, I have about 124 yards left, but I presume that you don’t care for any more fo-night. I 'am honestly sorry, but I can’t help smiling.” “The man was a modest sort of gentie- man in appearance. His face was as red as fire even to ijs ears. He Jooked at me He changed color once or twice, and when the crowd caught on a big laugh went up.”’—American Com- mercial Traveler, ————— Mortality is two ard a half times greater in the tropics than it is throughout Kurope.