The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1897, Page 6

SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.15 and Sunday CAL and Sunday Car and Sunday CAL Daily and Bunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. ‘WxrxLy CALL, ODe 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone........... eeevoeeMain—=1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: | 517 Clay Street. | Telephone.... ..Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Mo 9:30 o'clock. 339 Heyes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. | &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open | until 9 o'clock. | | mery sizeet, corner Clay open untll | | 2518 Mission street: open un 116 Minth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. Merit deserves to win. Wil the Examiger please copy ? There are questionable things in sight. | Why is the boodle organ a Perkins organ? How did Senator Perkins acquire such peculiar iriends? Why should not & Senator from Califor- nia have the California spirit? Does the Record-Union know why the Ezaminer is standing in with it? | Why do the friends of Mr. Shortridge} insist that merit deserves success? | Since the Senate is a debating body,‘ why object to an orator for the office? Why didn’t the Eraminer send Wyatt Eurp to Sacramento to referee the caucus? Why does it irritate the Ezaminer and Record-Union combination to say that| merit should win? Is there nothing significant in the fact tnat the Ezaminer has raised the cry of bribery at Sacramento? Why does the “Long Green” newspaper assail the honesty of the Republican mem- bers of the Legislature? Why does the Ezaminer correspondent at Sacramento keep on wailing for a sight of the ““Long Green” sack? i Why is it that every sianderer of Repub- lican members of the Legislature is op- posing Samuel M. Shortridge? Why does every railroad organ and every Dbocdle newspaper oppose the elec- | tion of Samuel M. Shortridge? Is there a doubt that any Republican could have the support of the long-green organ who would put up the stuff? Why does the boodle organ of the slams appeal again and again for Colonel Ma- zuma to show himself at Sacramento? For what reason does the $30,000 faker 8o frequently remind Mr. Perkins, the | millionaire, that money will win at Sac- ramento? Does any Republican believe that the | Democratic organ desires the Republican | party to have a strong representative in | the Senate? Why are the supporters of Mr. Short- ridge called on to defend the honor of Re- publican legislators and refute attacks upon them? Why are the opponents of Mr. Short- r.dge trymg to rush the Senatorial con- test to & hasty finish without giving time | for deliberation? ‘Why does the Democratic organ of Mr. | Perkins insist, day after day, that Per- | king’ friends 1n the Legislature are wait- | ing to be bribed ? Why does the Eraminer, after having been cut off from the Southern Pacific payroll, now grind the same tune as the Southern Pacific organ? If Senator Perkins were not losing favor i with Republicans why should his mud- | tlingers assert that Republican legislators zre being bribed to leave him? | Why isit that a newspaper known to | have been subsidized by the Southern Pa- | cific is now howling out *A sack! a sack! asack! Oh, for a sack, ye gods!” How did a Republican candidate forthe | ©f Mr. Perkins’ | THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. The first week of the legislative session is practically over. Its main feature ani subject of absorbing interest has been the Senatorial contest, wherein the respective claims of Samuel M. Shortridge and of George C. Perkins have been put forward for the office of United States Senator, and during which there has been made apparent the | methods of each candidate and his friends ip making their canvass for legislative favor. In the case of Samuel M. Shortridge he has been brought forward upon his merit alone, and his election has been urged upon the ground that he is in all respects the best-qualified candidate for the place. It has been shown to the public and to the members of the Legislature that he possesses the talent, the learning, the eloquence, | the intimate knowledge of public affairs—and especially of the political and commer- cial rights and needs of California—which the State most urgeatly requires in its Senator at the present time. | 1t has been further made plain to the Republican members of the Legislature that Mr. Shortridge has the fullest esteem and confidence of the leaders of his party | of success. | and of the great mass of its members all over California, and particularly in those sections of the State where his eloguent voice has been heard in many campaigns on behalf of Republicar: principles and Republican success. The assertion of the eminent fitness of Samuel M. Shortridge for Senator arising out of his possession of these qualities and of both party and popular esteem has not been controverted from any respectable source, and stands as undenied as it is hon- estly undeniable, On all ses it is conceded that he is the man for the place who, when chosen a Senator, would by his exercise of the office reflect back glory and honcr upon the State which displayed the wisdom of its judgment in honoring him. The candidacy of Samuel M. Shortridge has been conducted upon the theory that mer: should win in such a contest. It has not been made upon the line of abuse, vilification or ridicule of the opposing candidate, nor has it ever been allowed | todescend to the cheap poiitical tactics through which small men see their only hope No attempt was made by Mr. Shortridge or his many friends to secure | ex-parte pledges of legisiative candidates to his support long before their election and when loyal Republicans were engaged in nobler energies for the success of their party in a most arduous campaign. Neither was there any effort made to rush the members of the Legislature into a insistence that were dragooned Neitner, important fornia. either the it may be political remarked, is position by has'y and insufficiently attended caucus entire body of the into attending such an alleged caucus were bound thereby. Mr. the His candidacy throughout has been ‘the clean, honorable and dignified or to make the Republicans or ridiculous those who Shortridge being supported for this Democratic newspapers of Cali- canvass of the claims of a gentleman who has the commendable ambition to be presented upon his merits for the high office of United States Senator to the people of California and to their representatives in legislative session assembled. Can the opponent of Samuel M. Shortridge say as much? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The Ezaminer has made its reports of the Senatorial contest at Sacramento an ncessant clamor about bribery. money must be used. It has declared that money is to be used and that It has stated in plain terms that Republican members of the Legislaiure professing to be friendly to Senator Perkins are only waiting to be bribed to leave him. It has insisted that the candidate who does not put money into the | fight will lose, and has warned Senator Perkins that he must be more lavish with his ! coin. Itis not necessary to review the reports of the whole week to see the course the Ezaminer is pursuing. show its tactics. The singl¢ issue of yesterday contained enough to In its correspondence from Sacramento it stated: *‘Perkins will be elected on the first ballot unless there is an arrival of more of those thousand-dollar bills, torn the trick.” Some of them have arrived during the past forty-eight hours, but not enough to A little further on it is said: “A few thousands judiciously distrib- uted might worry Senator Perkins a good deal.” And again it is asserted: “The ru- mor of the arrival of money in the Shortridge camp passes from mouth to mouth, and should Colonel Mazuma really put in a prosperous appearance he would be welcomed with effusiveness.” For fear that Senator Perkins might fail to understand even such plain langnage as that, or refuse to take the hint, the correspondent goes further. talk straight. He proceeds to “There is,” he says, “a hove that Perkins might be forced to meet bribery with bribery and make legislative business good.” Growing bolder and more shameless yet he adds, “These ice-water campaigns of the Senator do not warm the heart of the lobby. he puts the question direct: The woltish *push’ longs for the dear old days when it was a poor sort of man who couldn’t pass out a long green bill in payment for a drink.” *Can Perkins be worried ‘into selling a ship? Finally That every implication in these woras, whether direct or by innuendo, is false goes without saying. is not a rich man. The source from which they come raises a snspicion of their | falseness and all the circumstances of the situation confirm it. Samuel M. Shortridge He could not, even if he would stoop to such a thing, make a money fight against a millionaire backed by the railroad organs and the boodle papers of the State, and therefore, presumably, backed by the railroad itself. His reliance is upon his merits, the honesty of the Republican majority in the Legislature and the general desire of the people to have California represented in the Senate by a man capable of upholding her interests in debate and argument. The falseness of the aspersions being thus evident the question recurs as to their meaning ana intent. Will men lie simply for the sake of lying? Can the Ezaminer, which professes to support Senator Perkins, beleve it is helping the cause when it declares that the men who are expected to vote for him are bribe-seekers them. | waiting to sell out to the bighest bidder? These questions carry their answers with Certainly if Senator Perkins has prompted these attacks upon the men whose votes he seeks he is a most unworthy Republican; and with equal certainty if the Ezaminer, without his connivance, has made them from no motive but a desire to Lelp him it is the greatest marplot of modern politics. We have no explanation to offer of this peculiar course of the Democratic organ of a Republican candidate. We can do no more than state the facts. Of course the Sacramento correspondent would never have dared to make these attacks upon the legislators on his own responsibility. He was acting under mstructions from the manager of the paper, and that manager is a man whose character can be judged from his familiar name of ‘‘Loug Green" Lawrence. Auother circumstance which may throw some light on the attacks is the fact that the Eraminer in this instance is working in hearty accord with the Record-Union of Sacramento, the well-known organ of tne Southern Pacific Company. nouncing the funding bill. The legislators have just passed resolutions de- Will it not be most gratiiying to the railroad lobby to be able to go before Congress and show by the Fzaminer that the men who adopted those resolutions are a gang of boodle hunters sseking for bribes? We repeat we have no solution of the problem to offer. 1t is only right, however, that we should say for the benefit of Senator Perkins that these warnings of his organ that he must put up more money are in the highest cegree suspicious. The state- | ments that he must meet “bribery with bribery”; that his supporters are tired of an “ice-water campaign’”’; that he must put up the “long green’ to satisfy the “‘wolfish | push,” sound very much like an attempt on the part of the Ezaminer to work him for | all he is worth, even to the extent of worrying him “into selling a ship.” DO the Republican members of the WLegislature imagine that the overzealous advocacy election to United States Senate come to get the sup- | the United States Semate by port of a newspaper managed by 8 man of | gpe leading Democratic newsa= the reputation of “Long Green” Law- | rence ? Here is a sign of the times: double-barrel organ labeled Record-Union, | “To let—A | with a stuffed bear attachment marked | or by its desire to ha Apply at either | party choose its best-q | eandidate to Eraminer; 8 zo0d fake. office.” | tion to the Republican aper of California is actu- gnled by the Examiner’s devo= party e that alified the office As the Tzaminer bus copied several aiti- | Semator? cles from Tux CALL it is pertinent to in- | quire why it has not copied the articles | pointing out its affiliations with the rail- road organs? Why do the opponents of Samuel M, | Repwblican party Shortridge find 1t necessary to try to ridi- cule the idea that a United States Senatcr | should be an orator of learning, ability and eloquence? When Randolph of Roanoke denounced | the combination in politics of the Puritan | with the blackleg he was prophesying the | Ezaminer-Record-Union, but he didn’t do justice to the subject. What did the Sacramento correspond- | ent of the Ezaminer mean ‘by saying, “a few thousands judiciously distributed might worry Senator Perkins a good deal?” Was it a bid for the stuff? What was the long-green manager of the lately subsidized Ezaminer aiming at when he instructed his man at Sacra- mento to write: “There 1s a hope that Perkins might be forced to meet bribery with bribery and make legisiative busi- ness good” ? . Whydid the Eraminer say yesterday: “These ice-water campaigns of the Sen- ator do not warm the heart of the lobby. The wolfish ‘push’ longs for the dear old days when it was a poor sort of 8 man who couldn’t pass out a Iong-green bill in payment for a drink,” BDoes any ome suppose thai the Examiner is really de= islron.« of stremgtheming the in Cali- fornia by having it send its stroungest and ablest man to the Semnate? If this is not the motive for the Examiner’s in. terest imn Mr. FPerkims® tiom, will some ome please arise and explain to our I‘le. elec- | publican Legislature what its motive really is? MINING INTERESTS. The reasons submitted by Assemblyman C. D. Fontana in THE CALL to-day for the apoointment of a skilled miner from the center of the mining industry of the State to the chairmanship of the Committee on Mines will commend themselves to every thoughtful man. The committee will be very important, but the chairman will be doubly important. It will be he who will direct the work of the committee. For this reason he should bé a man Informed not only theoreticaily but practically, and who has virtoally grown up in the mines, California 1s taking a great step forward in the development of her gold mines, No argument is necessary to ccnvince the of| | | | | | | | | | average reader of the newspapers that for a good while past the attention of the mining world bas been turned toward this State. The reasons for this are many, In the first place it does not appear that any other country has developed so many really meritorious mines as California. In other words, no other region has zold more plentiful or more richly distributed, and, aliowing for the exaggerations inci- dent to all booms, it is extremely doubtful if there has ever been a country that could equal this. o Tiris applies to Johannesburg and Cool- gardie, to the mines of South America and to those of all other countries where gold excitements have occurred, and which are familiar to all persons who are posted on mining. But besides having the richest of mines the State has so mild and congenial a climate that in many places even the citrus fruits, the olive and notinfrequently the fig, will grow and flourish in the very mining claim where the owner delves. Nor is this all. Unlike South Africa, which has to get its mining timbers from Puget Sound, or Coolgardie, which obliged to transport both water and tim- ber by rail tor huudreds of miles, there isin California the finest water and the most magnificent timber, in most cases immediately on the mining ground. Ifit is not on the ground it is almost certain to be so close that practicaily it is the sdme thing. Besides this, the railroads in many cases can in a few hours transport the miner from any of the cities or towns at or near the Pucific seaboard -to his mine. If he cannot go all the way there by raii be can almost do it. There is little or no staging. Hundreds of miles of desert do not have to be traversed. One other great advantage may be mentioned, and that is that the Californian here is under his own laws. X Because of the great opportunity for mining in California the London Explora- tion Company is investing heavily here. [ Ex - Senator Dorsey, representing otier British capital, has bought mines. Fred Branding and others, of France, are de- veloping great mines in Trinity County. Capitalists from New York, from the min- ing regions of Colorado and Montana, and other parts of Europe than those enumer- ated are buying mines here. It is evident, therefore, that gold- mining here is to cut a greater fizure than ever before. Already a number of important bills affecting it are being pre- pared for introduction before the Legis- lature. One will ask for an appropriation in the interest of hydraulic mining; an- other for $100,000 for a home for aged ana sick miners, Itis probable.also an appro- priation will be asked for a dredger for the Sacramento River, if the farmers desire it. There should, in view of the tremendous importance of gold-mining and the legis- lative interests it has at stake, be a thor- oughly practical miner as chairmaa of the Committee on Mines and Mining. He should come, too, from the heart of the mining regivn. DESPERATE TAOTIOS. The Sacramento correspondent of the San Francisco Post stated - in his letter of yesterday: ‘‘Perkins’ managers have made good all their preaictions. At no stage of the contest have they fooled themselves, and iv seems hardly likely that they would at the last moment depart from their well-established policy.” Having laid down that proposition the Post correspondent proceeds to admit that Perkins has not a sufficient Republican vote to elect him and that the boast that Caminetti would vote for him is un- founded, but adds that the Perkins men have still great hopes of Democratic aid. How this aid is to be given can be best explained by the words of the correspond- ent himself. He says: There is one way in which the Democrats may serve Perkins and that is by remaining away. The law provides that in order to secure elaction the successiul candidate mist get a majority of those present and voting. It is evident, then, that if the attendance is re- duced by absent Democrats Perkins will gain in proportion. To this degree then has all thae arro- gance of the Perkins leaders fallen. All the proud talk of electing Mr. Perkins on the first ballot by Republican votes has ceased. There is no longer aclaim that he will be elected on the first ballot, or that he will be elected by Republican votes at all. Even the assertion that Dem- ocrats would vote for him has been silenced. His managers are reduced now to the scheme of electing him by inducing Democrats and Populists to be absent when the vote is taken. To this low level has the lofty insolence of Monday been brought before the week is over. With such plain evidence oi failing strength it is not to be wondered that the Perkins managers are trying their best to rush things. The deliberation of one week has brought them to the condition of making terms with any stray Democrat or Populist whom in their iniquity they hope to induce to serve their ends by neglecting one of the most serious duties of his office. Between now and Tuesday even this hope will have vanished, and nothing will be left them but to foliow the example of the Ezaminer and raise the cry of bribery, coercion, bulldozing, arsox and bloody murder. The right of each member of the Legis- lature to vote for the candidate of his honest choice is unquestioned. 1f Demo- crats and Populists choose to vote for a Republican rather than 1o give a compli- mentary vote to one of their own varty they have the right to do so. They have no right, however, to stay away from the hall on election day in order that the vic- tory may go to a candiaate whom they would not vote for. That would be an evasion of duty of which, we believe, no member of the Legislature will be gtiilty. It is fortunate that the Post has made public this last scheme of the Perkins managers. It puts legislators on their guard. It gives them due notice that they must be present and voting when the election of Benator takes place. Let every legislator remember. The Perkins man- agers boust they have never been fooled. Let it be proven they are fools in making calculations on presumptions of baseness in the legislators they hopea to keep away from the hall on election day. “THE SUNDAY CALL.” To-morrow’s edition of THE Carr will contain among its multitude of features one which will be read with deep interest and appreciation not only in California but wherever, in this broad land, the re- markable events in the careers of great Americans are regarded with due honor and respect. 'The episode described in Tue BuNpAY Carn is for the first time given to the world. The scene of that episode is the city by the Golden Gate, and the chief actor therein isa man whose memory is embalmed in the hearts of all patriots and whose name will live as long as the grandest achievements in the his- tory of the Nation thrill loyal readers with their splendor and their glory. The article is entitled “Ten Years From Penury to Fame,' and it is a valuable contribution to a life-story that is incom- plete in its absence. That article alove is worth the price of the paper and it will be copied from one end of the continent to the other. It is the story of the day and nobody should miss it. *The Location of Life” is a weird story of the work of a bold investigator. It re- lates to the scientific search for the seat of intelligence in man and the novel ex- ploitation in the field of material physics will be of rare concern to hosts of readers. The “New Way to Maks Men Breathe’ treats of the discovery of a perfect method of producing artificial respiration. Wheelmen generally will want to read the first description of the proposed mag- nificent bieycle palace, a tribute to the winged wheel which will be one of the magnitudinous works of the dawn of the twentieth ceatury. There will be a variety of attractive literary articles, serious as well as humor- ous, and besides all this the different de- partments will be rieh in timely reading. Fashions, Society, Childhood’'s Realm, Books and Bookmakers, Whist, etc., all have pages full of enjoyable and instruec- tive matter, appropriate to the several subjects. THE EuNpAY Carn ably sustains its reputation as the best Californian literary and news publication. The British bimetallists are preparing to give Senator Wolcott u cordial reception and it is reported the ‘Government is willing to make important concessions on the silver question. The outlook for the Senator’s mission is tharefore encouraging and it may prove to be successful even beyond his expectations, By the proposed charter of Greater New York all ex-Mayors of thecity are to have the privilege of a seat in the Municipal Council without the privilege of voting, which is equivalent to giving them a part in all football games with the privilege of yelling but no right to kick. —_— The Democratic organ of Senator Per- kins has instructed its correspondents at Sacramento to assert every day that Re- publican members of the Legislature are corrupt, dishonest, bribe-seeking boodlers. For what purpose was that done? Letters From the People. GERMAN MUNICIPALITY. Immense Practical ~Xesults Achieved With Limited Resourece: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Mayor Phelan’s timely address to the new Board of Supervisors on assuming the respon- sibilities ot his high office has happily drawn public attention to the anomalous condition of our municipal affairs and suggested in cautious and conservative terms possible remedial measures 1or. the abatement of notorious and insufferable abuses. The retir- ing Mayor, Mr.Sutro, in much bolder terms pointed out methods for the recovery of the City from the control of the corporations and the plunder of boodlers—a legacy perchance of his two years of experience as the chief offi- cer of the City. Timidity will haraly be charged as the cause of the conservatism of the younger man before whom lie possibilities for usefulness and distinction wnich rarely come to a young man so favorably situated as Mr. Phelan for attaining the objects of & worthy ambition, A wise caution rather than & weak timidity undoubiedly induced the in- coming Mayor not to awaken hopes which he may not see clearly how to transform into noble achievements. And yet the public ex- pects much of Mayor Phelan. By all for all, by the municipality for all it stands for, is the higher law which has been revealed through experience for the regula- tion and management of public affairs in modern cities. As Mr. Bliss has said so_aptly, “We have minimized the functions of the city and exalted thas of the private corporation.” As the natural and Inevitable result he trut fully and fearlessly asserts that “American cities are almost universally & disgrace as com- pared with the cities of England and Germany and France.” Let us turn for a brief glance at the German municipality. Under one of the most rigid imperial governments in recent times city government in Germany puts to sheme pretensions of our American clties. The cities o Germany, like those of France, and to a large extent those of Great Britain, are governed by a general system of munici- pal laws, with only slight modifications or ad- ditions ‘in a few localities. This municipal code has grown up by gradual evolution and hes finally become a successful working sys- tem. Space will not permit me to amalyze it, though it is simple 1n structure and readily understood. The one great underlying prin- cipic in all cases s the municipal manugement of all public interests, generally through municipal ownership, and always by sbsolute subordination to municipal authority of all the public utilities, every one of which is rnade 8 liberal producer of revenues with which to pay for public improvements and provide salaries for officials and public employes. Any abuse of the private corporate privileges either in excessive charges for service, in debauch- ing officials or failure to pay liberally in return for the use of their franchise toward the sup- portof the municipal government is sure to Tesult in public ownership and the total ex- tinction of the private corporation. One of the most distinguishing features of German municipal government 15 the length of the tenure of office of the few elected officials and the large number of important offices filled by trained men under the civil service system, which removes the administration of municipal affairs almost entirely out of the domain of politics. Albert Shaw, in “Munici- val Government in Europe,” page 319, in- jorms us that “the Mayors of ‘Munich, Leipsic, Dresden, Hanover, Stuttgart, Chemnitz and various ‘smailer cities are iife incumbents, while those of Berlin, Breslau, Cologne, Mdg- deburg, Frankfort, Konigsburg, Dusseidorf and numerous otfier places sre chosen for twelve-year terms,” There are no wild strug- gies by “de push” and the corporations, as in San Francisco every two years, in order to capture the city government and use the law io plunder the public and rob it of valuable franchises which in a few years make the holders millionaires at the expense of the municipality. 45 stated by Mr. Shaw, “There are no Iimits whatever to the municipal {unctions in Ger- man conceptions of city government, It is the business of the municipality to promote in every possible way itsown welfare and the welfere of its citizens.”” Iteven ‘holds itselt responsible for providing amusement and_the means of recreation.” Indeed, “municipal life in Germany has been reduced to & sclence.” Utility is the watchword. On page 339 we learn that Berlin has even turned its drainage works, like its water works and gas works, into a productive enterprise. “The fertilizing value of the sewage is 50 great, and | the administration of the municipal farms, embracing an area of thirty square miles, 15 50 superb that within & very few years the in- vestment, which cost $0,000,000 marks, will have become enormously profitable.” Con- trast this with the enormously expensive and wastelul jobbing methods of San Francisco. Page 343—“All German cities, with a few unimportant exceptions, now own and opergte water works which earn profits of 10 to 15 per cent on invesiments.” Page 345— As a rule the streets of German cities, with the new smooth paving, are kept in a state of enviable cleanliness. Berlin's thorougnfares are scrubbed and swept continually at & cost of less than £500,000 a vear.” Does San Fran- cisco hear? “it has aiso become the prevail- ing practice in German cities to make the re- moval and disposal of domestic ashes and garbage a municipal function.” Page 346— “80 fur as T am aware, Dresden is the most fas- tidiously clean of all the Germen cities. It extends the uniform daily cleansing to a large area.”” “If Ishould name the small sums for which Hamburg, Dresden, Bremen, Dussel- dorf, Essen and other citiés obtain 'these re- sults,” says Mr. Shaw, “Americans would not be.i:ve me.”” The housing problem comes next in order. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, January DECEP.iVE APPEARANCES. 'Tis wrong to judge by 100ks alone, As much in nature show The ereatest warrior may nos have The largest Roman nose. The horse that has the Jongest legs May not be vers And then, you know, the Bible says, The first ones shail be last. Beneath the fiercest visage there May be a quaking heart. Ani he that looks 0 meek and mild May merely play a part. Hence, don’t misjudge the man who wears A tiv of flaming red: His wife may boy his ties for him— 11 50, enough is said. —Cleveland Leader. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CAPTAIN AND MaSTER—T. M., City. From a nautical standpoint the commander of a mer- chant ship is the master, who by courtesy is denominated the captain. No one isentitled 1 the title of captain of & ship unless he ob- tains a_commission conferring it upon him. In the United States navy the master of a ves- sel is the line officer next below a lieutenant and navigates the ship under the direction of the captain. Commanders of merchant ves- sels siga as master and not as captain. , LEGAL HoLIDAYS—Subscribers, Murphy, Cal- averas County, Cal. The legal holidays in California are: Every Sunday; January 1, New Year's day; February 22, Washington’s birthday; May 30, Memorial day; July 4, In- dependenco day; second Tuesdsy in July of even-numbered years; primary election day, which reiers to San Francisco and Los Angeles only; September 9, Admission day; first Mon- day in October, Lubor dny; Tuesday next suc- ceeding first Monday 1n even-numbered years, general election day; the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving day; December 25, Christmas' day, These days 'have been de- clared legal holidays by the Legislature of the State. As urule business transacted on these days is not legal ARTIFICIAL SILE—A. T. A, City. Yes, there is artificialsilk, Works for the manufacture of this article have been established at Besan- con, France, and Sprietenbach, Switzerland. The process is in principle as foliows: Wood, corresponding to the mulberry leaves eaten by the silkworm, is first worked into a paste, then dipped ‘in nitric and sulphuric acids, dried, and placed in a bath of ether or alco hol af 90 degrees. The result is a kind of glue or collodion, which is subjected to high pres- sure in strorg metal cylinders and expressed through pipes, being forced out through small orifices in the form of threads. These are so fine that six of them have to be twisted to- “ rd” (1873), “Ten Days in }P.‘ifih (1%3 ;:":;d wHistory of Bell's Tele- Pphone” (1878). VaTicAN—S. D., City. The Vatican whioh adjoins the basilica of St. Peters, be- came the residence of the Pope in 1378, after the return of Pope Urban VI from Avignon. It was built at & very early period, as thereisa record of such 8 residence in the days of Char- . The present palace Was CO) o Pase Tnnocent 111 (1200) and enlarged and improved by every successive Poniifl. The alace, which Is composed of many separate Puildings, occupies a s 1y courtl: Lo S Saia Hegina, used as an audionce- ‘ails many paintings, many these is Michael Angelo’s “’Pal ndgment’ and *Conversion of St. Paul.” There are also pictures by Raphael, Guiio Eomano Phelr scholars. Tne 'library, _thoush e ssed in the number of volumes, i unrivale o Europe in extent, and the Vatican, in Deauty of proportions and in decorations, the gallerles of anquities, Christian and pagan, and of paintings, statuary, bronzes, medals, vasesand other objects of art, is unrivaled. The libraiy was opened for historical re- searches by Leo XIII in 1883 under certain conditions. PERSONAL. Rev. Dr. A. L. Neyer of Los Angeles is in the City. General Mason of Bakersfield is on a visit here. Assemblyman G. Carr of Sacramento is &t the Palace. Dr. W. C. Reid and Mrs. Reid of Nevsda are atthe Russ. E.R. Williams of Orange is among the ar- rivals at the Russ. * David Dollor of Markham is among the re- cent arrivals here. _ Supervisor Thomas F. Savage of Los Angeles County is in town. W. B. Sanford of Fruitvale is among the ar- rivals at the Palace. Dr. J. F. Summers of Fresno is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. District Attorney Carl E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz arrived here yesterday. W. C, Leonard and Mrs. Leonard of Albu- querque, N. Mex., are in the City. Ex-Judge S. F. Geil of Salinas arrived here last night and is at the Occidental. Mrs. G. V. Galer and family of Seattle are staging at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Paul Weil, a business man of New Orleans, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Willism B. Matthews of the United States Geological Survey 18 at the Occidental. Ex-District Attorney W. D. Touffer of Fresno County is one of the late arrivals here. A. W. Simpson, the wealthy lumber manu- facturer of Stockton, is here on a business trip. Thomas E. Ladner, a well-to-do resident of Los Gatos, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Lad- Ter. E. W. Brigham of Hartford, Conn., arrived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrg. Brig- ham. Professor Earl Barnes, tho distinguished educator of Stanford University, is at the Grand. 0. E. Leonard, one of the pioneers of Law- rence, Kans., is visiting this City, and Is at the Grand. J. A. Anderson and wife of Benicia are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. C. C. Eaton, & well-known commercial man of Sacramento, arrived yesterday at the Cos- mopolitan. Frank A. Sebert, one of the substantial resi- dents of Tucson, is in the City, accompanied Dy his wife, William Steinbeck, owner of a large flouring- mill at Hollister, is in town. He is registered at the Grand. Thomas H. Lynch, who is connected with the raisin business near Fresno, is here on a business trip. Fred T. Duhring, sn attorney of Sonoms, who is also interested in the banking busi- ness, is at the Occidental. Tnomas Y. Gerdier of Washington, D. C., who is connected with the United States Geo- logicai Survey, is in the City. City Councilman E. C. Adams of Fresno ar- rived from the raisin center yesterday and is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among yesterday’s arrival at the Palace was the following prominent party from Tacoma: Mrs. Chester Thomas, Mrs. Hoxie and Dr. Grant L. Hix. E. B. Kittle, an electrician of New York who has a small contract in this City in connection with one of the largest buildings now being erected, is a late arrival at the Palace. S. R. Chappel, formerly traveling auditor of the Southern Pacific Company, has been pro- moted to the position of local freight sgent, with headquarters at Fourth and King streets. General John H. Dickinson is tobe given a dinner to-morrow at noon in Sausalito by the Pacific Yacht Club. There is expected to be a large atiendance, including & number of ladies. Among the arrivals at the Russare David Spitz and R. T. Kimball, of falt Lake City, who have Leen for some time in Arizona, where they have mining interests. Both gentlemen are well o ao. Ex-Justice Dante R. Prince of Fresno is among the arrivals here. He says business is improving somewhat in Fresno and the out- look is growing better. The ex-Justice is a native of Mariposa County and went to Fresno & number of years ago. Manager J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific Company,who had been confined to his home by illness for & few weeks, was about yesterday and paid a visit to his office, though he did not attempt to attend to apy business. He expects to be back at his post next week. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 8.—At the St. Cloud—W. H. Harris; Hoffman—C. Fredericks, L. Wagoner; Gilsey —J. Follis; Holland—K. Maddox; Manhattan—W. C. Ralston. Mme. de Cortez leit the St. Cloud to sail on the Kaiser ‘Wilhelm II for Genoa. . NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Chapley—Poor Weston! You know, he is color blind? Booz—Yes; well? Chapley—He’s fallen in love with a poster girl.—Philadelphia North American. Boastful New Englander —But you ecan’t deny that the pilgrim fathers blazed the way to all the greatness of our Nation. Westerner—Bldzed the way? Yes, by burn- ing witches—Detroit News, She—You seem to forget yonrself, sir. He—How could Ido otherwise in your pres- ence?—Judy. She—I think I might love you more if you were not so extravagant. He—Iv's my extravagaut nature that makes me love you so.—Life. Ethel (weeping)—I took & leap-year chance and offered Charley my heart and hand on Christmas. Agnes—And he refused you? Ethel—Y-y-yes; he said he didn’t telieve peopleshould give expensive presents.—bos- ton Traveler. Maude—T'll never marry a clergyman, for he’s always about the house; and I won’t marry & newspaper man because he's out the greater part of the time. = Harriet—Why not make a compromise? Maude—I can’t; there’d no compromise be- tween good and evil.—Adams Freeman. gether before winding on the spool. The silk inus made is rendered incombustible and the | skeins are thrown into ammonia to neutralize the acids. KATE FIELD'S WRITINGS—M. J., West Berke- ley, Alameda County, Cul. All that the late Miss Kate Field wrote for publication has not been preserved for future generations to read, as much was for the daily papers and was published anonymously. Much of what she wrote was of the character described by Judge Hun his eulogy of the late J. Ross Jack- 50 best work of newspaper writers is s ephemeral as smoke in the air or foam upon the wave. The spun of ils existence iscom- passed by a single day and the prin Precious, scarcely survives the iss paper that boré it.” Still there are of her writings that have been published and are to be had in the libraries or through th booksellers. In: the list are ‘‘Planchette’ Diary” (1868), “Adelaide Ristori” “Mad on Purpose,” a comedy (1868), Photographs of Charles Dickens’ Rea “I am sorry that Miss Bankum is out, You won’t forget to mention that I eallea?’ ‘‘No, indade, sor. Oi'll Tun roight up an’ tell her now.”—Chattanooga Times. ncle Simon, what is a phenomenon?” ““A phenomenon is a man who gets so rich that he won’t accept a pass on the railroas Chicago Record. She—What charming teeth Mrs. Highsea has! He—You flatter me, madam. 4 She—Oh! pardon; you are her husband? He—Oh! no; only her dentist.—Clips. The Doctor—You'll be all right soon. The Victim—Glad to hear it, doctor. T'd hate to die just now, when I've only had the wheel three weeks. York World. He—How the blithering blazes did my shay- ing brush get full of sand, I want to know She—Oh, some must have accidentally got THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897 e e STHR B FRANCIGEOGOMEE. EATHRDAGGGANERRG S, 8w . into it when I was using it to lather my bicyele tire to find where the puncture was.—Indian- apolis Journal. “But what does your mother say when you tell those dreadful lies?” “She says I take aiter father.”—Boston Trav- eler. & —_— PARAGRAPHS ABOUI PEOPLE. George Parsons Lathrop bas joined Augus- tin Daly’s business staff us press agent. Bishop Ellicott of Bristol and Gloucester, who is 78 years of age, has taken to the bi- escle. Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, will celebrate his golden wedding on Febru- ary 16. , President Cleveland will be 60 years old two ‘'weeks after the expiration of his present term of office. Jean de Reszke, the famous tenor, is a rich mun, and is said to have made $95,000 on his racing stable alone last year. His artistic career has becn crowned with enough achieve- ments to satisfy any man. Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the «Grand O1d Man,” has given up the principals ship of Newnham College, Oxford, which she has held for fifteen years, in order to remain with her father and mother. Lady Hoberton, the apostle of dress reform in England, is the wife of the Viscount of that name. She is described as “a weird-looking 1ady, who parts her hair on one side, scorns corsets and belongs to the Pioneer Club.” George Ebers has written another long novel called “Barbara Blomberg.” The scenme is Regensburg in the sixteenth century; the heroine the mistress of Emperor Charles V and mother of Don Juan de Austria, the victor of Lepanto. The late Mr. Abbey, who had many business dealings with Madame Sarah Bernhardt, and dirceted several of her longest tours through the United States, once said that of sll the actresses he had ever known she was the most generous-hearted. Mr. Swinburne’s mother, who was buried in the lovely little cemetery of Bonchurch re- cently, was a very charming and delightful woman. Even ather advanced age—she was considerably over 80—she preserved a keen in- terest in literature and art. The Empress of Germany ordered at Lyons some white silk, with flowers, birds and foliage in relief, at $120 a yard, five-sixths of the price boing the actual value of the raw silk. She intended to make a dress of it, but it was s0 beautiful she used it as a curiain. Alfred C. Harmsworth is called the young Napoleon of English journalism. He isonly 30 and has been in business but eight years. He is the proprietor of eighteen journals, four of them dailies, two of which are London dailies and tho rest weeklies. His fortune, which he made himsel}, is estimated at 8 num- ber of millions of dollars. DRAFTS ALWAYS HONORED. How Naval Paymasters Obtain Funds in Uoreign Ports. The cost of running a ship of war is enormous. To keep a first-class cruiser like the New York in commission means an expense of $1500 a day, inciuding the pay of officers and men. Yet it is not un- common for a warship to start for a for- eign port with hardly a penny in money. This is a matter of no importance, inas- much as no cash can be spent on the way over, and as much as may be needed can be got at once on reaching the other side. On arrival the paymaster on board the ship makes out a bill of exchange on Lon- don, which is drawn to the order of the commanding officer of the vessel and in- dorsed by him. Thisis sold for gold, or paper money if preferred, at any bank that may be convenient. There is no corner of the world popu- lated by civilized human beings where such bills of exchange may not be nego- tiated readily. The signature of the naval commander and paymaster are good for any amount, because Uncle Sam’s credit is behind them. These two officers could, if they so wished, draw several millions of dollars out of the treasury of the United States by signing their names a few times to bilis which foreign banks would eagerly buy. Of course, they would do so at the cost of their commissiors and of punish- ment under the laws if they were caught. The present paymaster-general of the navy was in Japan many yearsago. He was paymaster of one of the ships of the, Asiauc squadron, and his authorization was todraw_for what funds he neeaed upon Jay Cocke & Co. Unfortunately news had just arrived of the failure of Jay Cooke. What was to be done? The cashbox was empty, and oflicers and crew, having just arrived in port, were expecting imme- diate payment of what was due to them. ‘With an anxious face the pay officer pre- sented himself at a bank and offered his credentials. He explained that he wanted to draw a trifle of $20,000. “On whom do you make the draft?’ asked the polite cashier, carelessly. “I have orders to draw on Jay Cooke & Co., New York,” replied the paymaster, “‘but I have only just learned of the sus. pension of the firm, and you will doubt- less realize my embarrassment.” “Draw away,” said the cashier, *You mean that I am to draw on a bank that hassuspended payments?’ exclaimed the pay officer. ““Why, certainly; and I will cash it for you,”” responded the cashier. “You can draw on & sandbank if you wish; the drait will be just as good from our point of view.” Not yet recovered from his astonish- ment the paymaster received the gold, stuffed 1t into & bag which he had brought and accompanied by a marine who had come along as a guard took his departure. _ Officers and men of Unitea States ships in home waters are usually paid in paper money, because it is most convenient to handle. When a vessel starts for the West Indies or for South America the paymaster isapt to take a supply of gold with him— say $30,000 or $40,000 in half eagles, eagles and double eagles. Our gold coins are ac- cepted as legal tender 1n those parts of the world. When a navul pay officer draws money he gets it from the nearest sub- treasury, and he receives itin whatever shape he wants—gold, notes or silver. The cashier of the treasury told the writer yes. terday that the request of a paymaster in this regard had never been turned down up to date.—New York Mail and Express. ————— STRONG hoarhound candy, 15¢c. Townsend's.* BEST peanut taffy tn the world. 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