The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1897, Page 6

il THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1897 SATURDAY .. .JANUARY 50, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .$0.18 Dally snd Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily sid Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. $.00 Dally and Bundsy CALL, three months by mall 1.80 Daily and Sunday OALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. g W KEXLY CALL, 0Ro year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICB: 710 Market Street, San Francisoo, Oalifornia. Telephon 5 5 revreer. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. 2 ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICBS: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untl 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. open 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock, 1 street; open uniil 9 o'clock. 1305 Polk sireet; open untll 9:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. o e S b Cabinet making progresses. MeKinley is doing the job well. Lyman Gage will suit the office and the country. is certainly & myth—there ous cuss. Craelman cannot be any such ubiqu The passage of the glove contest bill gives Nevada a fighting chancefor a boom. The Chronicle calls it ‘‘creelmanizing,” but “longgreening”” would be better. Leave your orders to-day for THE Sun- pAY CaLn and provide your leisure with good reading. All that Nevada asks of the country is to furnish the prize-fighters. She will fur- nish the sand. Eastern storms are destructive, but our so-called storms are rains that bringa blessing with them It seems that Lyman Gage voted for Cleveland in 1884, but he repented early and never did it again Professor Langley gives good reports of his airship and the next thing he givesus | ought to be a public trial When Senator Dubois left the Republi- can party he stepped on the toboggan slide and now he is in the snowdrift. The Legislature is making as much of the payroll scandal as if it expected never to have another, and let us hope it won't. Among the features of THE SUNDAY here are some of special interest to Don’t fail to get the paper and read Idaho sends to the United Btates Senate a Po ist who has mever been known to e a speech. This is a real surprise The Senatorial fight in Washington seems o be so hotat both ends it is im- possible safety. to handie it either way with According to the Yuen the same time, and as for Creelman he is everywhere, The Illinois Legisiature has tackled the job of regulating department stores, just | &s if it were not something of & variety junkshop itseli. If Congress undertakes to prevent the scalping of railroad tickets it ought at the same time prevent the price of those tick- ets from scalping the publ A great splutter has arisen in Chicago over a proposition to give the Mayor $20,000 a year, and it is safe to say that many a Mayor has helped himself to more money without making half the noise. The Fzaminer has at last found out the | -General in | this City, and- if it had not stopped to | name of the Chinese Cons fake that Chinese dispatch it might have found it out on the day Little Pete was killed. San Francisco can well afford to be gen- erous in her aid to the stricken people of | India, for Califernia has profited by the loss of the Indian wheat crop and itis only right for us to help those from whose injury we have derived gain. The rains will be of benefit to miners who wish to work their claims as well as to the farmers and orchardists. In fact, almost every industry in the State has been benefited and the outlook for pros- perity has been brightened by the clouds, The Chronicle recalls the ‘‘special cable’” of the Ezaminer asserting that the Colima had “split on a rock,” when she reaily senk in sixty fathoms of water, “and it is hardly necessary for the Ezaminer to re- iterate the statement and add that it was absolutely true.” Any andevery bill before the Legis- | lature that tends ia any way to prevent or | check the construction of railways ought 10 be promptly rejected. California needs more facilities for transportation and it would be folly to enact laws that would diminish the chance of getting them. It is only a short time ago that the Bradley-Martins were caught in what looked very much like smuggling articles of wearing apparel through the Custom- houte, ard now they are going to givea $300,000 batl and masquerade, but of course none of the family will appear as smug- glers. The rapidity with which Randsburg has developed from the wild and wooliy stage to the customs of high society tonish- ing. Itis alreaay enjoyingz a report that the prettiest married woman in the dis- trict bas eloped Wwith a handsome young man, and all that it lacks now is a di- vorce case, an opera-house and a bicyele rink. % Let us give the little devil his due. When TrE CALL began to supply the people of California with the news service of the United Press Willie Hearst had sense enough to see that it was the best in the world and at once followed the lead of Tre Carvand obtained the same service for the Ezaminer. This showed a degree of perspicacity on the part of the faker, but it does not justify him in bragging that his paper has now a better news ser- vice than THE CALL, BEWARE OF THE BLACKMAILER. The time is approaching when the Supervisors will be called upon to fix the rates which the water and the gas companies will be permitted to charge consumers. This duty is one of the most important which devolve upon the Supervisors, and the people louk to those officials to deal with it honestly and impartlly, so that no extortion or inequalities may be practiced upon citizens by these corporations. Public expectation of a favorable consideration of the claims of consumers against any excessive charges of the companies is at this time well founded. The address of Mayor Phelan on taking office called attention to some of the alleged abuses of the companies, and urged upon the Supervisors a thorough investigation of the subject. If the honest members of the board be upheld there is a fair assurance of relief for the people from many, if not from all, of the things of which they have complained in the past. Until yesterday everything looked well for the proposed reform. There was every prospect that the work would be undertaken in the proper way, that an honest and thorough investigation would be made and good results obtained. There is now, however, a menace of danger. A new factor has been introduced into the problem. There is a threat that forebodes divisions and dissensions. ~ The Ezaminer has entered the field ravening for booale and biackmail. It has sprung forth to attack the companies with a fierceness which can be as- suaged only by money. It has devised methods which will enable it to seize its prey without leaving its ambush. If it shonld furnish facts, figures, argnments and statls- tics on which to base a claim for a reduction of rates it wiil not be done to benefit the public, but to enable itself to levy blackmail. It will get up monster petitions. It will put these to the front. If the companies come down with the coin these petitions will be dropped in the wastebasket. The people are to do the fighting. The Ezam~ iner is to get the spoils. s The Ezaminer methods of dealing with corporations have been frequently exposed and are well understood. When it drew $1000 a month from the railroad company it bad no word to say for the rights of the public. When Mr. Huntington flung off the horseleech it began at once to circulate a monster petition. That much is of record, and its pertinence to the present case is obvious. . 1t is not known to the public whether the Ezaminer in the past has drawn sub- sidies from the water and the gas companies as it did from the railroad, but it is known that in the pastit has never got up petitions against them. Tue duty of the Supervisors to fix rates has long been the same asnow, the abuses complained of have been practiced for years, the rights of the people have been in the past as they are to- day, but the Ezaminer has never been getting up petitions on the subject until now. To those who have watched the course of the Ezaminer and its proprietor of late there will be no surprise in this suaden change of tactics. Cut off from the subsidy it is known to have received from the Southern Pacific Company, and perhaps deprived of wonted subsidies from other companies, the Fzaminer has been a losing fake for many a day. The drain of the New York Journal on Mr. Hearst’s pocket, already amounting to millions, has added to the embarrassment of the Ezaminer. Mr. Hearet has expended all the money he is permitted to draw from his father’s estate. He never earned an honest dollar in his life. Tt is now necessary to make money, how- ever, and Long Green Lawrence has been turnea loose to gather it how he can. To earn money legitimately is beyond the faculties of the Ezaminer management. Fakers they are while faking is profitable, and when that fails they turn to even more questionable means. The offer oi s “yard of daisies” or of bull pups for advertise- ments does not always bring them. The offer of a comic song every Sunday does not appeal to people who care enough for newspapers to subscribe for them. The Ezam- iner is at the end of its fakes and at the end of Hearst’s inherited wealth. It longs to return to the subsidies of old, and is now petitioning for them under the guise of peti- tioning for a reduction in water and gas rates. It is, we believe, unnecessary for us to do more at this time than to warn the | public against the danger which lies in this threat of the Ezaminer. The companies | will not need such a warning. They bave doubtless had the same experience as the Southern Pacific. It is to the people, therefore, the warning must be given. The citizens of San Francisco are tired of that viciousness which thrives on public abuses, They desire to see an end of cinch-bill legislation and blackmail journalism. They wish justice done to property and to manhood alike, Along these lines ot honesty TrE CALL has pursued its way, under its past and its present management. It protects the rights of the people sgainst any possible injustice of corporations or monopolies, but will never fail to defend honestly invested | capital from the attacks of blackmailers. It will expose all such rascals as the | Ezaminer, and continue to hold them up to the scorn and contempt of honest men. across the counter on good security. He recognizes its relation to finance gener- A WELCOME RAIN. Craminer Li Yung | is in Havana and San Francisco at | No illustration more impressive of the difference between the climate of Califor- nia and that of the East can be found than in the contrast of what is signified in the two sections by the word “storm.” We | have just had what we call a storm and the East has had a similar experience. In the East the storm came with heayy snow, driven by icy blizzards, destroying crops | and-orchards in the rural districts, carry- | ing suffering and often death to the poorly | fed people of the cities and bringing ex- 1 treme discomfort even to the richest. In California the storm has come in a rain | which in a literal sense has showered blessings o'er the smiling land. The rains which have just fallen have | been fairly general in their nature and | | will be of immense profit to the State. | The miners in the mountains have hailed them with welcome, because they have enabled mining claims to be worked with | greater ease and profit. Farmers in the San Joaquin received them with satisfac- | tion, because they mean better crops, both |of hay and of grain. To orchardists they have been as timely asif they had been ordered. Thousands of young trees were set out during the fair weather which preceded the rain, and the so-called storm has come just in time to furnish them the moisture needed for their speedy growth and development. Tt would be impossible to calculate the benefit the rain which has just fallen has been to the State, It has been timely in | every sense of the word. It will nourish everything that grows and add to the wealth that will be produced during the | coming season. It gives a fair assurance | to all cultivators of the soil that they will reap from their labors a bountiful harvest and find during the year a prosperity ! | which wiil abundantly repay the work of | their bands. Up to this time the winter has been an almost ideal one. It has furnished rain and sunshine in exactly the alternations that were most benefictal to the people of all | sections of the State. We had the early rains | which were needed tostart the fail pastures :with grass and prepare the way for fall plowing. Then came the interlude of fair § weather which enabled the plowing to | | be done, and afterward in due season came further rain. Then followed the fair weather of the past weeks during which the planting of new trees in orchards was briskly carried forward until the work was accomplished, and now on the young trees has fallen the rain which was necessary for them. Unless something unforeseen happens | and some late frost falls this will be a great year for the producers of California. We call these rainfalls by the name of storms, but we do not think them so. They are not like the storms of the East. They do not come with disasters, but with blessings. They are not dreaded but welcome. LYMAN GAGE. In the selection of Lyman Gage of Chi- cago for the office of Secretary of the Treasury President-elect McKinley has been even more fortunate than in gaining Senator Sherman for the office of Secre- tary of State. Mr. Gage is not o eminent nor perhaps so strong a man as Senator Sherman, but while the Senator will be a doubtful quantity in the State office Mr. Gnge 13 undoubtedly by traning, experi- ence and ability well fitted for the duty of conducting the affairs of the depart- ment to which he has been called. Thera are few bankers in the country more eminent than Mr. Gage and none more favorably regarded or held in higher esteem both by the public and by bankers. His reputation in the community is due to the fact that he has made himseif known as something more than a busi- ness banker. He has studied the subject of finance in all its branches and has taken a prominent part in the recent dis- cussions of the subject. To him banking is something more than lending money | delight to honor. ally, and understands that banking is but a portion of the great work*which finance does inmthe mechanism of modern society. He will enter his office, therefore, broadly cultured on the subject of his duty, and will be well able to fulfill it with usefulness to the public and honor to himself. While Mr. Gage has been more notea as a financier than as a statesman, there can be no question of his fitness to per- form the statesman’s work in dealing with the financial problems of the Gov- ernment. He is a true Republican, and is in sympathy with the party on all the great issues of the time. In a recent in- terview he declared that he was in full agreement with President-elect McKinley notonly on the money question buton the tariff. He stands for all thst isim- plied in sound money, protection and re- ciprocity, and will be a true representative of genuine Republicanism. In another respect Mr. Gage isa man whose appointment to high office will be satisfactory to the people. He is one of those self-made men whom Americans His success in lite has been due to his own industry, energy and talents. He has risen to high positions because he has shown himself faithful in those of a eubordinate character. Every work intrusted to his hands has been rightly performed. He has never beon a deficit banker and he will not bs a deficit Secretary of the Treasury. We can look to him for an efficient management of the finances of the Nation and be well as- sured that when he retires from office he will deserve the commendation of the people in the words, “Good and 1aithful | servant, well done!” NEWS SERVIQE. That the managers of the Ezaminer have no appreciation of the real issue between legitimate journalism and fake journalism is made evident by the manner and tone of the reply which they make to the ex- posure of the Chinese dispatch story which they recently published. Instead of reply- ing to the charge that the story was a fake ridiculous on its face they enter into a long, labored, vehement and uncalled for defense of their general news service. Tue CALL has never condemned that part of the news service of the Ezaminer whicn is genuine. It has had no reason for so doing. As soon as THE CALL passed into the hands of the present proprietor it began to furnish the people of San Fran- cisco and California with the news reports of the United Associated Press. The ex- cellence of this service and its superiority over any hitherto known on the coast was soon manifest, and it is to the credit of Mr. Hearst that he had the sagacity to see itand adopt it. The Ezaminer therefore at the present time receives the same news service as THE Carr. This fact isa suffi- cient proof of the perspicacity of Mr. Hearst, but it certainiy does not justify him or his managers in claiming that they have a better news service than anybody else, or in publishing ridiculous fakes and reiterating that they are true when the public well knows they are false. Our objection is not to the news service of the Ezaminer, but to its fakes. Any reports it receives from the United Press are all right, but the reports it gets by the fakelectrophone from such personages as the Emperor of China are certainly to be condemned. To sell such fakes for news is to obtain money under false pretenses, and to brag about them and to reiterate them shows something like a total de- pravity of the intellect or a degenerativn of the brain tissue. The Chronicle of yesterday pointed out some of the recent fakes of the Ezaminer and showed in a humorous way how ridgiculous the Ezaminer managers are making themselves in persistently brag- ging of its fakes instead of its genuine news. For example, the Ezaminer now boasts of the dispatches it received during the Cbio-Japanese war from an alleged correspondent named Creelman. The Chronicle shows that no Creelman was cor- respondent of the FEraminer at the time when he was supposed to be reporting the war. It recalls the fact that the Eram- iner's boasted dispatch of the wreck of the Colima stated that the steamship had “split on & rock,” when as a matter of fact it had foundered in sixty fathoms of water. Several other raw, lurid and ridiculous fakes of the kind are recalled by the Chronicle, and the showing is one whose humor the Ezaminer may be sure is heartily onjoyed by the public. ‘We have no desire to pour vinegar into open wounds. Qur exposure of the Chinese fake wasdone asa duty to the public, in order to save unsuspecting citizens from the schemes of those who swindle them with fakes instead of news. We also had a desire to awaken Mr. Hearst to & sense of the fact that he is being made a guy by his long-green manager, and is being *‘worked for the stuff’ like the softest thing on record. If the Ezaminer will stick to the news service of the United Associated Press, which it wisely followed THE CALL in obtaining, it will receive public approval.* If, however, it has so little sense of the ridiculous as to persist in bragging and boasting of what the Chronicle calls ‘‘creelmanizing,” it must expect to be laughed at by the general public and denounced by those whom it swindles. PERSONAL. H. Smith of Redding is in the City. H. L. Hobbs of Fresno is on a visit here. E. E. Bryoselbont of Paris is at the Palace. . 8 McLena of Kendrick, Idaho, is at the Russ. F. A. Boale, & merchant of Red Bluff, is in town, M. J. Cady, owner of & hotel at Sonoms, {8 in the Clty. W. H. Peclor, a business man of Orange, is at the Russ. John J. Mooney of Visalia is spending a fow days here. W. S. Bates of Golconds, Nev., arrived here yesterday. Arthur H. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Iows, is at the Grand. G. Stuart Simons of San Antonio, Texas, is at ths Palace. P. J. McKenna of Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived here yesterday. C. 0. Johnson of San Luis Obispo is rival in the City. L. Chandler of Pescadero has arrived here for a few days’ stay. Ex-Congressman Louttit arrived here from Stockton yesterday. R.E. Hyde, 8 wealthy business man of Vi- salia, Is in the City. John Lane, & mining manof Spokane, ar- rived here yesterday. Sheriff James Quirk of Story County, Ne- vada, is on & visit here. C. W. Thompeon, a general-store kesper of Tomales, s at the Russ. George W. Patterson of Bishop, Inyo County, is & recent arrival here. F. L. Savage of Northport, Wash., and Mrs. Savage are at the Grand. Charles Platt of Colfax, Wash., accompanied by Mrs. Platt, is at the Lick. A. R. Colburn of Tacoms, accompanied by Mrs. Colbura, is in the City. J. F. Condon, a mining and pusiness man of Verdi, Nev., is on & visit here. D. K. Slavin of Battle Mountain, Nev., is a recent arrival at the Baldwin. Louis Einstein, a well-to-do merchant of Fresno, is here on & business trip. James F. Farraher of Yubs, ex-District At- torney of Siskiyou County, is in town. Congressman-elect Marion de Vries of Stock- ton and Mrs. de Vries are at the Grand. J. H. 8. Hull of Eldridge, Cal, arrived here last evening and s at the Cosmopolitan. Henry 8. A. Dittenhoefer of New York was one of the arrivals by last night’s Central Pa- cific traiz. H. Rogers, a rancher of Salines,is in the City on business, and is registered st the Cosmopolitan, A party consistiffg of E. J. Daniels, Mrs. Daniels and Miss Cora Daniels of Sioux Falls, 8. D., are at the Baldwin. Ira G. Holtt, ex-Superintendent of Public Instruction, arrived here yesterday from Bur- lingame, and is at the Occldental. John W. Garrett and® Graeme Trumbull, of Baltimore, and W. J. Colton of Pheenix, Ariz., who have been on an extended trip through Arizona and Southern California, arrived here last night. Captain F. R. Brightman, an old whaler of New Bedford, Mass., who is interested in whal- ing ships here, arrived here yesterday and is atthe Russ. He has come in reference to get- ting his vessels started for the whaling grounds. M. A. Kiyama, who has been for a long time past secretary of the Japanese Legation in St. Petersburg, s here on his way home to Russia, W. Fujits, who has been studying in London and on the Continent for eight years past, is with him. Ex-Congressman William Woodburn of Ne- vads arrived here from his home in Carson yesterdey, and is at the Russ. He has come in connection with the Unitea States Mint cases which have been transferred from Nevada to this City for trial. ate ar- CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 29.—At the 8t Cloud, J. W. Booth ; Murray Hill, G. W. Lynch; Belvedere, Mrs. L. R. Stockwell; St. Denis, W. Hotchkiss; Cosmopolitan, J. Redington. A CHARACIER H rtune was bringin'. He did what he conld—left to bexven the rest, An’ went on his pathway a-singin' | By day and by night—in the dark, in the light, ou’ll find iiim serene and contented: The world, (o hig notion, was treatin’ him right, An’ his way with its roses was scented. Rislite was A life that was kind and forgivin’, ¥or who, when the sharp thorns are plercin’ his ect, Can thank the good Lord that he's livin'? But_sometimes I think when the hears in the breast 1s sick with its sorrow and grievin', If things never happen at all “*for the best,”” We can make 'em the best by believin'{ FRANK L. STANTON. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY Grieving husband—Oh, dear; what is delay- ing the funeral? The rooms are crowded now. Undertaker's assistant—Mr. Berriem is mak- ing some final arrangements about the coffin and the corpse is not quite ready yet. Grieving husband—Not ready yet! That's Hannsh all over; she always did like to keep folks waiting.—Philadelphia Press. Donner—I see that a German tailor has made 8 fortune by inventing bullet-proof armor. Blitzen—Thav's good. It will give some other fellow a chance to make a fortune by inventing a gun that will shoot holes through it.—Twinkles, Son—Papa, what is history? Great historian—History, my son, is an in- dividual opinion on an aggregation of nearsay evidence highly colored by the prejudice of the witness.—New York Press. lesson all comfortin’ sweet! Conductor—D1d I get your fare, sir? Passenger—You must have. Youdidn't ring 1t up for the company.—Town Topics. *Iam deeply interested in discovering the lost tribes of Isracl,” said Mr. Musty, 8s he camein and sat down by the busy editor for an hour's discussion of the subject. *'8o?” replied the man of resources. ‘‘Why don’t you advertise for them? The business office is on the first floor. Here, Dick, show the gentleman to the advertising depart- ment.”’—Household Words, “I handed your short story to our reader,” said the magazine editor, with a vicious smile. “Yea?’ queried the author expectantly. “:And the doctor says he thinks he will be able to be about after another week’s rest.”— North American, . WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A SOLDIER? There are many men to-day who would leave & “job'’ to become one of Uncle Sam’s sons in blue. ” The records of enlistment show that “many are offered and few are chosen. But whatever may be your ideas of the pleasant aspect of the soldiers’ life, unless you are e P lcmnl”:m the service you do mot know the facts which THE CALL will tell you about rrow. O has ssue thers will be an srticlo upon how the soldfer gets into the service, what his duties are, his opportunities and emoluments, and how he Iives at his post. 1t will be & graphic and interesung descrip- tion of the type of soldier who serves in the army of the United States to-day. Millionaires ride in Palace cars! S0 do Saurians. THE SUNDAY CALL will tell you sll about the enormousand beautifully finished cars which have actually been fitted up for their traveling accommodation, Not for millionaires. Oh, no! for Saurians | Every one is fond of thrilling adventures! Then no one shouid fail to read the experi- ence of the engineer who faced an awful death! Itisn’ta small thing to face death with your friends around yo Think, then, of facing it alone in the wilds of the mountains amid the blackness of the night! This thrilling story will be told by its hero in the columns of next Sunday’s CALL. What of the Children’s Page? Why, it is going to be one of the brightest ever published. There are going to be stories of winter sports! Tales of what great glee the children are having where there is snow and ice. And they are told in such a glowing and graphic way that you can imagine yourself throwing snowballs and skating and having piles of fun, too. Don’t let the children miss this treat that THE SUNDAY CALL has prepared for them! And whoever expected to see a bicycle with sails! Well, you will see them pretty soon! Read THE SUNDAY CALL and you will know all about this new and wonderful invention that is destined to create a furor among cyclists. Another thoroughly interesting story relates to a California pioneer Wwho country faithfully and Well, in war and in peace, until he grew old and feeble. Now he is found to be dying, alone and in poverty! Then if you are fond of good things to eat you can learn all about the new and delicious dish which will soon be a favorite with epicureans. You like whist, perhaps, and THE SUNDAY CALL has the best edited whist department on the coast. And fasbions! SUNDAY CALL. In every tield THE SUNDAY CALL leads, and you cannot fail to find rare enjoyment in the Pperusal of ita entertaining columns. 1t will be & genuine library of fine literature and superb stories—all for a nickel. rved his You get the very latest modes from Paris, London and New York in THE CREELMANIZING. San Francisco Chronicle. In its eagerness to draw the public eye from the harrowing expose of its Chinese fake the Examiner makes itse!f the special champion of James Croelman in his former capacity of war correspondent of the New York World at the Grand Hotel in Yokohams and the Palace Hotel in this City. Why it goes back two years and more for the benefitof the World when Mr. Creelman needs defense for his recent Olney-Canoves canard, perpetrated for the New York Journal, we cannotsay. That is one of the mysteries of the “n. 1.”” At neither of the hotels where Creelman wrote of battles and sieges in the Chino-Japanese war were his bills paid by the Examiner. The latter had its own man at the “front,” as the bell-boy phrase goes, in the person of one Morphy, of whom more anon. Mr. Creelman was in other employ, though the Examiner was permitted, we believe, to borrow his manuscript and exploit the fact as a mar- velous feat of enterprise; but the connection was not close enough to account for the present anxiety of the Examiner to protect whatever reputation the World man had left when he hurried back to this country four months before the fight in China was over. But as our contemporary is so sensitive upon the point we hasten to assure it that Creel- man has been discussed by us not as a person, but as a descriptive term; not as & propor noun, but as an adjective or participle. The present use of the term “boycott,” once the family des- ignation of an Irish landlord, will make our meaning clear. When & newspaper-reading pub- lic has been ‘“crecimanned” we mean that it has been luridly told, for instance, by sny new journal faker, how the Colima, which foundered in sixty fathoms of water, had “split on & Tock.”” To “creelman” is to report with great circumstantiality of detail that certain bones found in s Siskiyou cave belonged to awoman who happened at the time to be alive and well, and that her ‘‘murderer,” while under arrest, was tormented by the gibbering ghost of his victim. In brief, “creelmanizing” means that some one, not necessarily the original hum- bug himself, has decefved the public with an elaborate journalistic falsehood. Take the case of an slleged statement which the Examiner printed some years ago as coming from ex-Queen Liliuokalani, and of which it now boasts. The story had been put to- gether by a hotel cierk named F. M. English, and had been printed without the former ruler’ s signature. It was a fake pure and simple; that is to say, & creelman. It was entirely natural 10 use so convenient s word to describe the faked story of the arrest {n China, in the night after the “Little Pcte” murder here, of all the relatives of the See Yup leaders in San Fran- cisco. The referencs was in no sense personal to James Cresiman, who was aot in San Fran - cisco or China at the time, but was, at last accounts, watching for that “looming” revolution in Bpain and for the Olney-Cleveland cartel of compiete surrender to Canovas del Castillo, As to local news service {n China in 1894-95, the issue is rather old, not to say stale, though that may account for the tendency of the n.j. to make much of it. However, if the Examiner intends to elaborate the theme there is a wide and unharvested field in connection with the service rendered by its own much-heralded agent, Mr. Morphy—a gentleman whose whereabouts while the Chronicle representative was following the Japanese guldons in China would make an enter.aining story. . AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Lower rates to the coast is what many men interested in large enterprites in California say the State must have before there is great prosperity. More people are needed here. There is an enormous territory comprised in the State bounderies, and but a small popula- tion considering the advantages that are to be enjoyed when the would-be locator once gets here. All this and much more is being set forth by the proprietors of different enterprises. C. N. Hemmett of Chicago, who has for some time been negotiating for a large tract of land in | Northern California for colonizing purposes, is at the Grand. He says that after going into the question of passenger rates to this cosst he dces not know whether ho can carry out his colony scheme. The rates are too high, far more than the people can stand, but the transcontinentai roads will give no reduction, The rate ought to be at lesst half what it 15, Mr. Hammett claims, to properly induce peopie to come and settle here. “If they made investments in land,” £aid he, “the railroad could well afford togive this rate. It would make money by doing so. In fact, if the State was iilled up as it ought to be the railroad would make enormously more than it does uow. It is short-sighted, in my opinion, not to give a reduced rate. “I have put a great many people into Kansas during the last few years and have also been sending them to surrounding States. The railroads were all glad to give a cheap rate to land-seekers, and settlers had other reductions who bought lands. “Kansas filled up rapidiy in many parts. The cheap rates in that State, as in others, were of inestimable value, and the roads made more than anybodr else. There ought tobe vastly reduced rates here. Asit is it takes big sum of momey for the average man and family to come here, and tney just won’t stand it. Theycan’t. They haven't got it.” PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. C. P. Villiers, “Father of the House of Com- mons,” who has just celebrated his ninety- fifth birthday, has represented Wolverton un- interruptedly for sixty-two years. Lady Henry Somerset employs two secre- taries, who are busy ten hours a day in reply- ing to her correspondence, and who have to De diligent then to keep within bounds. De Quincey, who devoted his life to the reading of books, said that the greatest num. ber of books any one man could hope to get through with in man’s allotted time was 8500. Mrs. Theodore Tilton has recently revovared hersight after two years of blindness. She has changed little in twenty years, Her hair shows a few strands of gray at the temple, that is all. General G. W. C. Lee, who has just resigned the presidency of Washington and Lee Uni- versity, was the eldest son of R.E. Lee, and through his mother was a direct descendant of George Washington’s father. The estate of the late Shah of Persia is ‘valued at $200,000,000, of which two-fifths is in cash and bullion. It is rumored that his suceessor will devote $20,000,000 to advanc- ing the civilization of Persia. A “prominent member of the Players’ Club of New York” informs a Philadelphia reporter that Mark Twain received in London recently & letter mailed to him in New York and ad- dressed only “Mark Twain, God-Knows- Where.” G Mrs. Arthur Sewall, the wife of the late Free Silver Democratic eandidste for Vice-Presi- dent of the United States, is an expert amateur photographer, and has received diplomas for her work, not only in New York and Boston, but also in Paris. Oneof the yaluable relics intrusted to the A /DISTINGT GPINION' ON' ' THE|Saves ta the Wosriocios: aamschusalts TREATY. golden urn containing & lock of General Washington's hair. Mrs. Washington pre- sented the lock to the Grand Lodge in 1800, and Grand Master Paul Revere made the urn, A BPECIAL FEAST. Paulist Fathers to Observe the *“Con- version of 8t, Paul.”” To-morrow the Paulist Fathers will spe- cially abserve the “Feast of the Conver- sion of St. Paul,” he being the patron saint of their order. Solemn high mass will be sung at 11 A. M. and the clergy will be vested in the gold vestments recently presented to the church. His. Most Rev. the Archbishop o(' gnl;:c%x‘n)i\: sco is expected to be present on the occa- sion. The sermon wili be preached by the Rey. Father Woods, 8. J., on the “Con- version of St. Paul,” and a discourse of mol;afl:hnn passing eloquence may be ex- pected. A splendid musical programme has been arranged, under the direction of the or- ganist, Miss Georgiani, and which wiil be as follows: Haydn's Mass in C, with Beneds, Gounod; “Meste da’ Sacks Cone Te Devans by Eimer; “Veni Creator,” by Handel, with organ and orchestral sccompansment. Di- ——— rector, Eugene E. 3 — TownsexD's California glace fruits, 50c Ib | Adele’ Rotian s &‘3%:{':1‘:'53 an Dl:v‘l.l'l.e, in handsome joker etched boxes. 627. Palace.* | Annie Devine, M. Byrne, Tillie Pauba, Mary e m§g|n-, Maggie Ryan and Bertha Smith; con- EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, | tralios—Mrs. Leo Paulina Steffani, Misses Ag- business houses and public men by the Presy | nes Be?en, Madeline Bumstead, G.Rottanzi, Clipping Bureau (Allon’s), 510 Montgomery.* | Helen Ford and Jeannette Hughes; tonorse: Messrs. James Lane, Daniel Gilfeather, Henry Dinan, T. Meagher ank Dr. Bonini; bassos— Messrs. William Gordon, William O’Brien, James Allen and Dr. Rottanzl. The solos will be rendered by Miss Adele Rottanzi, Mrs. L. P, 5 “Veni Creator” wil Agnes Bergen. ! i —————— The Tax Keba The Treasurer of the City and County is anxiously awaiting the coming of about 8000 taxpayers who are entitled to e rebate. All rsons who paid personal proverty taxesin 96 to the Assessor only are eniltiod o a rebate at the rate of 57 cents on the $100 valuation. Those entitled to & rebate should call at once and collect it. Bridgeport Morning Union. By forming what the diplomatic world will ins1st as regarding as an offensive and defen- sive alliance with our traditional enemy, we snall offend our traditionel friend, Russia, and her friend, our friend and former ally, Frauce. The support of Russia has been stead- fast and unshaken, and_in more than one crisis her strong arm has been proffered a8 an aid. Asfor what we owe to France, may it never be forgotten. Shall we turn aside from the two nations which alone, out of ail the world, entertain amicable feelings toward us to form an slliance with Great Britain, whose irfendship is a delusion and a snare, and whose history is & history of deceit and cruelty ? A final and incidental reason is that the Senate of the United States should not permit itself to be bluffed into an action for the grati- fication of two gentlemen who, while making a grand-stand play for “universal peace,” re. fuse to lift a finger to suppress one of the mos murderous and bloody wars of modern his- tory, and one that is being carried on at their very doorsteps. CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ a 1b. Townsend’s.* e STRONG hoarhound candy,15c. Townsend's* prim s sttty Four pounds Townsend’s famous broken candy, in handsome basket, only 50c. > Angry caller (at newspaper office)—8ay, I want that little ad. I gave you two days ago— “Wanted, an electric battery in good working order”—taken out. Advertising clerk—What is the matter? Didn't we put it in the right column? Angry caller—Column dashed! The ad. overdid the business, My house was struck by lightning last night.—Dublin World. TRRITATION OF THE THROAT AND HOARSENESS are immedlately Telleved by “ Brown's Bronehial Troches.” Have them always ready. B ——— No TorLET Is complete withouta botuls of Ayer's | 1o Hair Vigor—the best halr-dressing. Ask your drugglst for Ayer's Almanac, SPECIAL TEACHERS NOT N FAVOR The Grand Jury Would Save Money by Dis- missing Them A Committee Report That Offers Suggestions Leoking to Greater Economy. The Piaces of Teachers Living Across the Bay Could Be Supplied From This City. The Grand Jury yesterday heard re- ports from two of its committees—those on public schools and health department. The committee on schools makes several suggestions for reducing expenses. One of these is the dismissal of all extra or special teachers. It also suggests that San Francisco could supply the places of the seventeen teachers that hold places in its schools but who live in Oakland, Ala- meda and Berkeley. Following is the report: To the Hon. Grand Jury in and for the City and County of San_Francisco: Your committeo beg to report as follows on tha Board of Edu- catlon of this City and Count; 1. Number of substitutes engaged—day... 41 Number of substitutes engaged—even- ing.... Sl 2. Number actually employed—day. Number actually employed—night. During December, 1896, by suspension of rules 5 substitutes were elected in excess of the number allowed. 8. Actual cost per month for substi- tutes—Day. .$1,400 Evening 200 4. Number of unassigned teachers. 5. Actuai amount paid to unassigne: teachers per month — the aggregate amount for January, 1897, wiil be. 6. Drawing teacher, per month.. .. $150 7. Lecturer, with stereopticon, per month$100 8. Whole number of teschers. 904 Unassigned. . i1 Day substitutes under pay. 35 Day substitutes not under pay 6 Evening substitutes under pay 6 Evening substitutes not under pay. On leave of absence........ 983 This committee recommended that the last fifteen substitute teachers elected be not paid 8 salary, but shall be paid only for actual ser- vice rendered, & saving of $600 per month. PUPILS, TEACHERS, SALARIES. The following revort covers period from 1880 to 1895 inclusive: Pupils increase of 3637, about 12 per cent; teachers increase of 208, about 29 per cent; salaries increase of §250.677, about 40 per cent; average salary 1880, $8645; average salary 1895, $94 10; average number of pupils in class 1880, 40; average number of pupils in class 1895, 35; decrease of average, 12}4 per cent. Increase of salaries may be accounted for by the decrease of pupils in each class, thereby increasing number of classes and teachers for samo; the number of special teachers now em- ployed by the department at large salaries and also the eleven unassigned teschers, drawiog on an average $75 per month each. Teachers’ salaries increase about $7000 per year, due to increase of pay for time service, amounting to about $100,000 for the period above stated,and $100,000 for special teachers, and $50,000 of the above for natural increase. Reference is made to the methoas em- ployed in the shop and supply depart- ments. The carpenter-shop wasabolished two years ago, and the chairman of the Building and Grounds Committee of the Board of Education employs and dis- charges the men. The inspector of build- ings assigns the men to their work and keeps their time, which he reports to the storekeeper daily. Carpenters are paid $250, plumbers and painters $4 and me- chanics $350 per day. Most all supplies are contracted for and samples furnished the storekeeper so that he may make com- parisons with goods delivered. It is sug- gested that a double entry account. be Kept with each school so as to keep track of its cost. The committee suggest that the follow- ing teachers be dropped, namely: Que physical culture. One Spanish (day). One Spenish (evening). One drawing teacher. One free-hand drawing. Three cooking. Two manual training. These teachers cost $1150 per month. There are seventeen non-resident teachers in the department as follows: Residing in Oakiand—Miss E. A. Dunn, Miss M. J. Maylorn, Miss M. Simon, Miss C. M. Pale mer, Miss K. E. Whittaker, Miss K. Shepherd, Miss J. M. Stewart, Mrs. F. Osborni In Berkeley—Mrs. K. Thompson, Mrs. A. M. Brown, Miss M. E. Whirlow, Mrs. M. . Hay: urn. In Alameda—Mrs. G. D. Mitchell, Miss A. F, Sprague, Miss M. E. Hopps. In East Oakland—Mrs. M. A. Hoggs, Miss E, Fontin, Your committee believes San Francisco c: pable of supplying teachers from her ow community and recommend that teachers non-resident be dropped from the roll. Re- spectiully submitted, L. 8. Kast (Chairman). R. B. KITTRIDGE. 3. W. CUDWORTH. Chairman Brunt of the committes ap- vointed to report upon the Fish and Game Warden recommended the continu- ance of that official in office—that is to say, recommended the continuance of the office, “'as the City and County is insuffi- ciently patrolled by the officers of the Btate Fish and Game Commission.” No action was taken on either report. ‘The Grand Jury will take up at its next meeting the inquiry into the alleged at- tempt to bribe Supervisor Dodge by Frank Marty in the latter’s effort to secure the contract to supply the Almshouse and City and County Hospital with milk, Lecture on Hygiene. This evening a lecture will be given at the Mechanics' Institute by Lieutenant. Colonel Greenleaf, United States army, on “School Hygiene” The lecture will be free to members of the Meehsnics' Institute and their friends, and in addition, as this is a matter of importance to educators, schoolteachers and all parties interested in the subject are espe- clally invited to be present. e — POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavent bealthfuiness. Assures the Tood azaine: athm and forms ulteration co ol forms of mmon to the cheap ROYAL BaKING POWDER Co.. New York, e