The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1897, Page 6

* 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: y and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrl Dally snd Bunday CALL, oue year, b mall. ... Datly «nd Sunday CALL, &ix months, by mal Dally apd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, e monith, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. W EERLY CALL, OD6 year, by mail.. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Stree, California. ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Maln—1874 Telephene.... BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery street, corner Clay; .open untll 9:20 o'clock. y 889 Hayes street: open until 9:30 e'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open sntil 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth strect; open until 9 'clock. 1305 Polk street: open untll B:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: €08 Broadway. | EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 an 24 Park Row, New York Olts+ | DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. SPEAKS FOR ALL. | T THE CALL During the week ending Sat=-| urday last THE CALL published 44929 inches of advertisements, which ‘is 8 1 8 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper duaring the same time. for the inaugural. The advance agent of prosperity is on lifs way. All abo: We may begin to date the new era of prosperity on Thursday. Cleveland will go wild goose chasing to the marshes of innocuous desuetude. Until the Ezaminer can get a subsidy from samewhere it will snarl at every- thing in sight: They call it “yellow journalism” in w York, but from the noise it makes " would be better. This time it will not be .the Federal building, but the opponents of the build- ing who will-be stuck in the mud. Tne Senate amendments to the appro- priation” bill were decidedly good and the House ought to push them along. We are goine to have a rejuvenated Kearny street before long. The spirit of enterprise is already at work on it. If there isany trust which should have been riveted against the shocks of trade it was the bolt trust, and yet it has col- lapsed: That paper is the best friend of labor that does most to promote the upbuilding of the -City and to provide work for the | unemployed. legislators in Illineis and some | in Wisconsin sre talking of regulating department ‘storos when the chances | ure they haven’t sense encugh to regulate | a-junkshop Postmasfer -Hessing of Chicago says that town is the dirtiest large city in the world except Constantinople, but & Con- stantinople man might take a different view of ‘the c Work on. the new municipal building should be kept up steadily until the struc- ture is completed. Whenever there is a cliance. to give: work to the workers it should be given. Den’t forget that we are to inangurate 11 this y & movement to promote the construction of the new Federal building on the same day that McKinley is inau- gurafed in Washington. As.the’Spaniards seem to make no dif- feren¢€ belween American -citizens in Cuba.and; the patrifts, why should we? Bisice . the:"Spaniards assail both why sliould not We protect both? 1f-Willie ‘Hearst cared anything -for California, “or the working people of tlie State, hé:would not carry away the money :-his fathér made here to waste it on 4 yellow dog journal in New York; So'much attention is paid-io General Weyler's typéwriter there is danger the excellence of his fiat:money mill may be overlooked. - The two machinés are of equal merit and without the-one it would be inipossible o keep the other going with £uccess. There is a -society in Chieago which is frequently referred to by the press of that city by the initials'C; P. S. E. M.:B. A., and yet not asingle paper inthe lot has enterprise enough to issue & supplement cecasionally and print the name in full for the benéfit of a wondering world. Senator-elect Platt of New York his been frequently accused- of being *‘fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils,” but atl the same he has.music in his soul, for at nt banquet he astonished the guests | y singing the *Battle Hymn of the Re- public” in vigorous style Governor Pingree of Michigan desires his State to build a new Capitol and con- vert the present building into a lunatic asylum: ‘Whether he proposes'to leave the legislators in: the building ‘after the change is not stated, and yet it.is ‘oné of the most important parts-of the scheme. Mrs. McKinley is ofle of the few moth- ers in our -history wlio have lived to see taeir sons elevated to the high office of President, and on ‘inanguration: day she will share the honors with the son she so worthily raised. The hearts ol the-people will'be with her, and for-her it will be in- deed a.day of unalloyed triumph and honorable joy. i from brought in only $8,116,991, as against | $150,349,601 handled by foreign ships, and | of - exports- carried by us.there were but | now seeks to defeat the early boginning of it labor,” and to andeavor, thereby, to-create so far-weaken the efforts to bring about a s: benefit, that if it can get the people divided and qu against those who are workitig with it. cessful. they are capable of observing what: goes strong to retdin a knowledge of what they most diligently to promote the upbmlding workers. they are not likely to be deceived either by which is now trying by indirection to Federal building in this City as effectually bolder methods of direct, attack. this juncture of the world’s history best se the one'who has served best the cause of b tbe world. THE CALL believes itself fairly entitled ing to.unite the peole in a resoluts move: Federal building, which the Eraminer has and éontinuous prosecution of-the work of it is giving every aid il its power o all und building of the State. be a benefit to all classes of people. *Sure is devoting its energies fo supplyirg them, tenting himself with getting mews by f: Li Yung Yuen,: the King of treecoand Pacific Company. and that which has been taken by the Era interests and Pacific Coast men. It seel is opposed to everything’ which tends ‘t struction of thé Federal building. inclines men to work together for a. murual benefit. Californians o unite in a vigorous and combined effort to procure an immediate con- THE FRIEND OF LABOR. The Ezaminer, which for a long time openly opposed:the construction of the new Federal building in this City, no longer dares to display its antagorism boldly, and work by assailing Tuk CALy for supporting The latest move of the faker has been to denounce THE CALL as ‘the enemy of dissensions among the people which will peédy beginningof the work of constructing the Federal building as will result in its postponement for a'long time to come. This trick of the Ezaminer is older than the Ezaminer itself. his Long Green manager are bit carrying out a policy which malicious minds devised for preventing good work: almost as sooh as men began to co-operate for mutual It ig the trick of creating dissensions among friends. Willie Hearst and The Ezaminer knows arreling’ it can succee 1 in cbstructing once more the work on the Federal building, and perceiving that THE CALL is at _this time the foremost advocate and champion of that work it cunningly directs its efforts to ereate among the people of the City & spirit of antagonism against THE CALL and 1t is hardly likely that these efforts of a discredited fake newspaper will be suc- The workingmen of San Francisco are intelligent. They know how to read, on, and they have memories sufficiently have read and what they have seen. - They are aware that the truest friend of labor among newspapers is that paper which labors of the City and to provide work for the They know THE CALy, has at all times been an "earnest supporter of every- thing which tends to public'harmory and an earnest advocate of every measure of co- operation in the direction of advancing the general welfare. Knowing thess things, the snebrs or by the lies of a fake paver defeat the movement for erecting the new as it defeated the movemeat before, by the It is an honorable ambition to be known as a friend of labor. Possibly no higher title can be bestowed upon a man or a newsnaper at this- time. age when labor problems are the most important we have to confront, and he who at We are living in an rves the interests of labor will be accounted humanity and the advancing civilization of to be ranked among the.most earnest, the most consistent and the most progressive friends of labor among American news- vapers. Take the present condition of affairs as an example. Tue CALL is now striv- ment to bring -about the construction of a long opposed. -It is urging the beginning erecting the mew municipai buildfng, and dertakings of. private enterprise for the up- The construction, of ‘these works will' give employment to men whe need it, will put money into circulation, will revive the activity of trade and will Iy the earnest and persistent advocacy of measures of this kind is ah evidence that THE CALL recognizes-the needs of labor and In the meantime what is being done by Willie Hearst and the Long Green man- ager of his newspaper in this City ? Heatst has turned his.back on California and is withdrawing & large portion’ of his father’s estate from this commonwealth to main- tain his sensational and disreputable journal in New York City. rence, his manager here, has abaridoned the field ot legitimate journalism and con- Long Green Law ake dispatches from the Emveror of China, Prince of Coburg, has been endeavoring to raise money by -extorting subsidies from corporations to'make up for the loss that was sustained by the Eraminer when it ‘was cut off from the payroll of the Southérn We, need not elaborate on the contrast between the course pursued by THE CALL miner. . THE. CALL staids for Pacific Coast ks to bring dbout in California a universal spirit of harmony and co-operation. 1t seeks to unité men’ and not.divide them. It o- dissensions. It favors everything which For these reasons it urges all Tue CALL has great gratification in knowing that this movenient has been cor- dially supported by the Legislature, the Mayor and Board’ of Supervisors, the State Board of Trade, Chambér- of Commérce, Association and the Labor Council of San Francisco. afford to despise the sneers and lies of the organ of dis«ensions, malice and subsidies. Tug CArn claims to be the friend of labor, and in justification of 1ts claim points to the record of what it has done in the past and calls attention to.what it is daing now. Merchants’ Association, -Manufacturers’ ‘With that.support it can well OUR MEROHANT MARINE. The necessity of adopting some of the plans for - building up our merchant marineis made very clear. by the fizures on the subject collected by the prestdent of the National Association of Manufac: turers and recently published in bis an- nual report. Something over five' times as much of the imports of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1895, came in foreign Vessels as was brought by our own, and in the export trade the foreign vessels car- ried eleven times as much-as ours. sidering the trade with Great Britain sin- gly the figures show.a contrast still more galling to American pride. Of the imports that ' country -American vessels $108,229,615, while $395,632,206 went in alien bottoms. ~That is; the ‘American share of tramsporting. the British trade was only 8.18 per cent. With France the proportion was a-little’ better, being 6.56 per cent, but with Germany it was -only one-third of 1 per cent. The extent of the proportionate decrease in our mercharit marine is revealed by the fact that in 1845 American’ ships carried four-fifths ef eur import and export trade. The steps in the rapid decline are’shown thus: In 1855 American ships handled thirds; in 1870 a little :over one-third; in 1895 to little Tore thai-a tenth: : The rarity of an American vessel enter-. ing the portsof the Qrient.is g0 noticeable that the Asiatics are. said to have derived.: the impression therefrom that the United Statés is not a commercial nation. The American Consul-General at. Bangkok re- ported that of over 500 merchant.steamers that entered Bangkok in 1894 not one was’ American, and.that of over 1700 vessels entering the ports-of Japan the'same year only thirty-two bore the stars and stripes. The. fecord of many important ports show the_utter dispropartion Lietween our importance as a.commercial nation and the insignificance of our snipping. Two striking. examples. may be singled.out from_ the long list. Thée steamers that entered Shanghai in 1895 were: British, 1789; German, 445; Swedish and Norwe- gian, 143, and but 2 were American. At Canton.. there were entered in 1895 only one American vessel to contrast with 1596 British steamers, and the solitary Ameri- cati was only a sailing vessel. That. America should not have made a great advancement in the proportion-of her foreign trade she carried would have been bad enough, but to go backward at such an enormous rate is not to be su- pinely ‘acquiesced in, = To expand our metchant matine is something more’ than a matter of National pride, for on many lines of mannfacture we have outgrown the home markets, and facilities for export- ing in our own ships are gréwing more and more a necessity. : - The. advantages- that. ‘other nations give to.their shipping interests must be et by legislation adequate to | put our people on an equality of com- petition, Careful studsnts of this subject differ_as to the proper method in which this is.to be accomplished, but they In dn address:before the Press Club of Liverpool, on “his Teturn from ‘America, Dr. John Watson (Ian: McLaren) “said: “I'he press of America will tell on the yress of England in the_diréction of vi- vacity,-and the press of England will tell and is telling on the press of .America in the direction of dignity.” The phrna is ) a pretty one, bug if there. has- been any increase-in "the dignity of the. American press in recent years it hasn’t béen widely noted in this country. e 2 should get- togéther and concur in some definite plan to recommend to Congress, and. Congress ‘should no longer delay in doing something that would encourage the building up of a great American marine that would bear some reasonable proportion to our commerce. As New York convicts are not allowe to work at trades the prison authorities aré teaching them to draw and sing. They will soon be a cultured crowd. Con- | three-quarters ‘of the trade; in 1860 two- | 1890 wo had dropped toan eighth;-and in | | - SENATE AMENDMENTS, “ The old saying, *‘Tie better the day the better the deed,’” has received & new 1llus- | tration in the results of the extraordinary | session’of the Senate held on Sunday. It ( Las been rare indeed in our history that | either house of Congress meets on that | day of the week which has been set apart [ for rest; but on this accasion. the urgency of tlie situation required it and the results | accomplisned justify it. : { During the Sunday session the Senate { materiaily amended the appropriation bill in the direction of the public welfare and, !mov’euv:r,_re:tored 1o the public domain | some. twenty-one million acres which Mr. [ Cleveland had recently set aside as a for- | est reservation, Both of these results are for thie public welfare and will tend to aid the return to prosperity which has been s0 long desired. 2 | "Among the amendments to the bill | which will affect California were an-appro- |:priation for the payment of sugar boun- | ties, a clause authorizing the Secretary of | War to make contracts for the-completion ' of- Opkland hsrbir improvements at a | cost of §680,000, of which $20,000 is imme- | diately available and $200,000 is to be con- | tracted for during thié present vear, and | an appropriation of $4700 for the purchase |"of fish-hatcheries at Battle Creek in order | to propagate salmon. | indirectly California ‘will be benefited by the act of the Senate in restoring to the people -the land which Mr. Cleveland had set aside for a forest reserve. By this act of the.Senate the people of the States in which the reserve was located will be _enabled.to enter upon the land for the purposes of making homes, opening mines and procuring timber necessary for the varied-heeds of industry. Nome of the re- serves were located in California, but what adyances the weifare of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Idaho and South ‘Dakota, in which States the reservations were made, will advance our welfare, and we can rightly be pleased by the action of the Senate in restoring the lands to the people. It 18 to be hoped the House will promptly accept the amendments and that the bill will be passed as adopted by the Senate. If Mr. Cleveland chooses to vent his spite upon the people by vetoing it let him do 80." It will be his last chance, and an ex- | tra session is coming when thére will be a new President in the White House and a new order of things in our politics. THE INAUGURATION. The great event of the week will be the inauguration of William McKinley as President of the United States. To that ‘the attention of the people in all parts of the country is now turned. It is the main subject for conversation of all intelligent men and occupies the attention of the leaders of cowmerce and industry and the workingmen generally more than any- thing else of a public nature. McKinley is already speeding on nis way to Wash- ington, and from now until his inangural address has been read and studied by the people it will be the chief theme of their thoughts and speculations, It is inevitable that this should be so. We have seen many Presidents inaugu- rated heretofore, but never since the inau- guration ot Lincoln has the country been 50 vitally interested in a new President a it is to-day. Mr. Cleveland, partly by the defects of his nature, partly by the policy of his adminmistration and partly by the blundering of his party, has brought the country to a condition of distress which would not have seemed possible had it not been accomplished. After destroying that system of protection which promoted home industries and revoking those treaties of reciprocity which advanced our foreign commerce, and in these ways injuring man- ufacturers and trade, so that thousands of men were thrown out of employment, he even refused to carry on the work which Congress had provided, and thus denied to labor the small chance of earning wages in that way. His financial blunders were as great as those in industry ana commerce. He brought a great panic upon the country and so seriously impaired public confi- dence that bankers refused to advance money for private enterprises, and thus {the natural progress of the people was checked and injured. Asa result of all these offenses the activities of the Nation were stopped and the American people, once the most prosperous in the world, were brought for four years to a condition bardly better than thatof the working- men of the older and less resourceful na- tions. It is natural under these circumstances that the people should look to the inau- guration of McKinley with hope and ex- pectation. The President-elect is radi- cally differens from the man who Is to go out of offics on Thursday. His dominant characteristic is not egotism, but patriot- ism, His policy is not the upbwlding of foreign nations, but of America. He will put our finances in good condition, he will restore the protective tariff, he will re-establish the reciprocity treaties, he will set to work on all public improvements for which Congress has provided, he will -give work to the workers, he will build up the country, he will hasten the coming of 8 new era of prosperity, which will be even more prosperous than the old. It is for these reasons the reople are now awaiting with eagerness the coming of the 4th of Marcn. Swiftly as the days fly, they will pass too slowly for the im- patience of the workers who have 80 long waited for & chance to earn the wages necessary for the support of their families. They will read with eagerness every line which tells how Cleveland. is packing up to retire from office and how McKinley is moving ever nearer to the White House. Inauguration day ought to be made a public holiday and a day of National re joicing throughout the country. The people are prepared to celebrate it as a festival, for all hail it as the dawn of a new era of prosperity and the close of a long term of debt, deficit, depression and disaster. PERSONAL. . H. George of Junean is at the Grand. . V. Conborg of Clilcago is in the City. E. Roussequin of Bakersfield is in town. A. D. Robinison of Spokane is in the City. T.:C. White of Fresno is a lato arrival here. F. M. Halstead of Point Reyes is at the Lick. Austin Smith of New York is at the Palace. Thomas McGovera of Alnsworth, B. C, is at the Russ. - E. H. Winship, 8 merchant of Napa, has ar- rived here. Very Rev. N. McNeeley of Paterson, N. J., is in the City. sig Wormser of Kingsburg is among the lat- (1) est arrivals hére. ¥hilip Fox, a businéss man of Madison, Wis., is on' & visit here. J. Langtry and wife of Niles are staying at the Cosmopolitan. R. E. Jack, the banker, ofSan Luis Obispo, is alate arrival here. George W. Horne, advance sgent of Camilla Urso, 18 in the City. - L. Schyayos Piesiro of Ventura County ar- rived here yesterday. Autonio Bintez of the Spanish Legation at Tokio is at the Palace, Mrs. T. E: Hughes and Mrs. William A. Foote of Fresno are at tlie Lick. i . Charles Mortis, a well to do merchant of Montana, s at the Palice. . Ponsonby Ogle of London is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Ogle. Oliver Lippincott of Buffalo, N. Y., has ar- rived nere and is at the Lick. J. K. Ormsby, the big dealer in Californis fruit in Chicago, is in the City. . A. K. Zelgler of Challis, Idaho, is in the City and is registered at the Occidental. R. F. Ballard, a business man of Kansas City, Mo., 15 staying at the Cosmopolitan. g J. Guler, a busiriess man of Fremont, Mich., is In the City, accompanied by his wife. K. W. Millican of Keswick, who is counecied with the noted Iron Sountain mine, hasar- rived here. : % The Misses Maylott of Antioch are on a visit tq the City and have taken apartments at the Cosmopolitan, . J. M. Fulton of Reno, general land agent ai that point of the Ceutral Pacific Railroad, is at the California.. = 2 Senator J. H. Shine of Soriora s down from Sacramento, the guest of his friend, Major Fahey, of the Cosmopolitan.” : 3 Daniel Macleay, the banker and grain broker of Portland and ex-president of the Portland Board of Trade, is in the City. . Atnold Aaron, a general store owner of The Needles, on the Colorado River, is° here on a business trip and-1s at the Russ. i " Carleton H. Clark; Commissioner from Cali- fornia to the Central American Exposition at Guatemala, lefton the Acapul¢o yesterday for Guatemala. : Matt~ Clarke, for some time contracting freight agent-in this City for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, has resigned to accept the same porition with tne Union Pacific. Judge John Hunt has gone to Eacramento for the purpose of holding court to try the Daily Bee libel case. He wili also hear argu- ment in regard to the county government act in Sacramento County. Judge Fraunk M, John- son is sitting in Department 5 of the Superior Court in this ‘City -during Judge Hunt's ab- sence. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., March 1.—At the Wind- sor, J. P.Clarke; Netherland, C. L. Fair; Hoff- man, W, M. F. Fie.q, L. F. Glissler; 8t. Denis, y; Continental, A. McBean; Metro- politan, G. Pine; Gilsey, A. McD. Riddel; St. George, M. Weintraub. Mr.and Mrs, David J. Spence and son arrived in trom the Adriatic Sea on the Ems. M. Luddersieft the Windsor o sail on the Trave for Bremen. THE 5OUERN DRAMA. The hero Is accusec of crimes he never did at all; The herolnu does nothing else from that time on but bawl; ‘The vilialn smiles and says: Ha—ha! they're in meh POW'r AL last” Adventuross smokes cigaretts and thinks It deuced st. You never see a lawyer who Is young and up to souft; The piaywright thinks that ninety-elght is plenty young enougn; Accomplices are always tough and looking for the swag; The mald'a In love with Iondly checked-and-watch- chain-wearing wag. He always scornn the villain's gold, but borrows #rom the mald. ‘Who serves her misiress Just for fun and cares not to 3 And then the retribution comes just a8 the curtain The ‘u}rlbl the heroine, whostill Is swept with qu The handcuffed villain hisses as he's led away in rage, And everyining ends Rapolly when worked cut on the stage. AROLD MACGRATH, Letters From the People. THE UNEMPLOYED. The Classes of Men Out of Work and tha Canses. To the Editor of the Cali—DEAR SIR: Just now, while the subject of the unemployed is 50 prominently before the public, it might in- terest many of your readers to loarn some of the causes that lead to so many being out of work. The unemployed are divided into four overlapping classes: (1) Those engaged for a short period who have finished their job and have not yet found another; (2) members of [ton, k. S; P. So trades which fluctuate as to the volume of work and who at agiven time are unable to get work; ¢3) those trades which cannot yield a liveiihood to all who compete for work in them; (4) those who cannot get work because they ‘are below the siandard of efficiency elther in skill or personal characteristics. AS 1o the direct causes of non-employment, they may be thus summarized: ( asons fluctuations, particularly in the building trades; (2) yearly fluctuations dependent on seasonal changes; (3) regular fluctuations such as those caused by imports and harvest- ing cessation; (4) fluctuations caused by changes of fashion; (5) fluctuationscaused by the shifting of seats of industry; (6) changes of process of manufacture, such as the dis- placement of hand by macnine labor; (7) gen- eral changes caused by the general depression in trade. “A consideration of these heads will show cause for the acute distress that exists in our midst to-aay. Very respectfully, W. L. BULLER, 126 Ellis street. FRATERNAL NEWS. The Enights of Honor—They Will Hold Thelr Grand Lodge Session on the 16th Inst. The Past Dictators’ Assoclation paid a visit to Fudelity Lodge last Friday evening. A delegation from Charter Oak Lodge was present. There was & programme of vocal and insirumental music presented and & pleasant time was had by all present. Grand Dictator Archibald visited Liberty Lodge on'Monday evening ard witnessed the officers per- form the ceremony of initiation. No books were used, and the grasd dictator complimented the officers upou thelr proficiency in the work. Saxon Lodge had two appiicatious for member- ship at its last held meeting and has more for the next. o Lagle Todge had & good attendance on Wed- nesday eveniug. Grand Dictator Archibald and Grand Reporter Johnstoue were among the visi- tors. Amendments Lo the by-laws were cou- sidered” and lwid over until the next meeting. Deputies Summers und Eiders, who were present, addressed ihe lodge. Speeches were made by Kepresen tative Polack aud eporter Phillips. Leland Stanford Lodge was visited on Thursday by Grand Heporter Johnstone; Judge John A, Carro.1 was aiso present. Grand Dicta or Archibald and Grand Guide Learned visited £ ortuna Lodge on Thursday. This iodge will iniuate three candidates at its next meetng. Preparations are now being made for the meot- ing of the Grand Lodge, which will convene on March 16 in the Alcazar, at 10 o’clock in the fore- | noon. Tuis bring the first blennial session great interest is manifested by the members and im- portant subjects of legisiation will be brought be- fore the body. Knights of Pythias. Grand Keeper oh Records and Seals Herman Schaftner during the past week visited Union Lodge of Sonora, Angels Lodge of Angels and Holmes Company, U. K., also of Angels. He also delivered an address at Stockton on Friday last ut tbe celebration of the anmiversary of the order. Te will vist Vita Nuova Lodge of Redding on y next. Congdon is organizing a lodge at James- town, Tuolumne County, and anotuer will proba- bly be organized at Stent,in the same county. San Andreas is expected to have alodge ere long. Past Sacuem Master-ai-Arms George H. Morri- n delivered an address at acramento on Friday lust, the lodges having combined in celebrating the auniversary of the order. On Tuesday, the 2:d iust., he a 80 delivered an address at a similar cel- ebralion held at -anta Kosa. Lathrop Lodxe of Lathrop has organized a sec- tion of the éudowment rank. Coionel T. A. Nerney of the brigade staff visited Visalia on Wednesdny last in the interesis of tbe | uniform rank. Itis probable that a cowpuny will shor.dy be organize there. s The Graud Lodge will convene at Hanford ow Monaay, May 18. Election for represeniatives will be field in subordinate lodges at_the first con- vention 1o April. In eddition (0 oiner officers, a supreme rej resentative is to be elected for a term of four years. Sunser 101ge of Mendota celebrated the third anniversary of the lodge by & graud bal ou Friday Lodge sdded nine new members during th of Febiuary. - lor +. F. McGlashan i preparing 1is to the lodges in the southern “The Supreme Tribunal of the order (its supreme cour. by which all litigaulon 1s decid«d) has ren- dered un opinion - that the new ricual £or the uni- sorm_rank was not legaily adopted, and therefors that the supreme keeper of recoras aud seal was no authorized to publish the same. 2 United Ancient Order of Draids. The follawiig-named officers of Manzanita Grove were iastalled last Mouday by H. J: Goller, district Ceputy, assisted by W Greenwood, D. D. G. A, and Pas: Arches C. Lorenzen and- A. W. C. Kelly, PoA; R, utton, N. A.; 0 H. T. Mor- auto, C.i J. ¥our candidates T L G Tass, 1. G.; L. B. Niizen, O. G. were initiated that night. . Aurora Grove will be instituted next Wednesday night, in Liverty Hall, at Tweunty-ficst and Mis- sion streets. Forty applicants have sigoed the Toli for u charter. ‘W. Greenwood, D. D. G. A. for Sacramento, who visited several of the groves in this City-last week, reports the order In zood condition In his district Urange Vale Grove, formerly of Orange Val:, will hereafter meet in Sacramento and wiil bé Enown as Orange Grove. Oskisnd Grove at 1.8 last held meetiug conferred the second and third degrees and received ssveral applications. Loma Grove of Oakland fs steadiiy Increasing its memberstip. The annual ball given finauncial success, F. Cavagnaro, R. N. G. A., has just ‘returned from an extended trip through the southern part of the Biste and reports the orderin a liealthy condition 1n the various parts he visited. by Templar Grove was a Enights and Ladies of Honor. Grand Vice-Protector Mrs. Belle W. Conrad, ac- companied by Grand Treasurer Mrs. L. J. Wheel- ock and Grand Cheplain Mrs. A. Thomson, paid an official visit last Thursday evening to Goiden Rule Lodge. The members listensd to very inter- estimg addresses by tie Visitors. Assessments 451 and 432 have been levied for the month of March, and they will be delinquent on the lust day of the month. : The supreme protector has issued a circular, which has been sent to every lodge, in re ation to an extension in the matter of prizes, which are now Deing compsted Yor. ivery member Is interested in this and should-g0 to the lodge to hear 1t rea Amertcan Legion of Honor. Grand Commander Fi ben visited Mizpah Conncil at San Mateo on February 19 and explained the new laws to a large ' membe:ghip, Grand Secretary Burton: reports a good ‘deal of - interest in the new laws, and’ states that there are many changes to class A which 1s tobe estab-. lished during the current inoush. Transters to ass can b made uncouditionally up to July 1, sfter that conditions will be sttached. 5 'Preparations are being wade for visits to interior councils In the near future. 3 On account of a slight incresse in the death rate and for the purpose o making prompt payments an Increase of one-third of & full rate has beew added to the February assessment. Order of Pendo, - Deputy Supreme Counctlor A. D, Butler rcently Instituted Council No. 58 at Kan 1 Santa Monica Council No, 69; was® insiituted at Santa Monica last week by Deputy Supreme Coancilor yeorge R. Street. - B Golden Gate Council has appointed & committee to make arrangements for an entertainn.ent to e given shortly. - 3 ~upreme Chaplain G. W. Jacksen, who recently lett for his home in Helens, Mont.; and Supreme Nentinel, A. Fortier, who left for his home in Ana- conda a iew days iater, expressed themselves as delignted with thelr stay in Culifornia. Loyal Circle’s Fish Pond Party. Loyal Circle, Companions of the Forest, branch of the Friendly Soclsty, A. O. F., gave s very in- teresting fish pond party and dance on Saturday night in Social Hell, A. O. F. building. There was agoo! attendance and there was much amuse- ment for all who attended. The members of this circle have the happy faculty of knowing how to entertain and how to entertain weil. ‘The affair on saturday night was under the manage Mrs. A. E. Corwin, Mrs. Sadie Fosier, Mrs. Het- ty Forciae, Mrs. L. Pritchard, Mrs. Alice \V.[fier, Mrs. Clara Timmins, Mrs, Mary Large and Mrs. Florence N. Morrow. G. W. Corwin was the floor mansger and he was assisted by Mrs. Marie Tack- [ Jusitce Circle of the same order has made ar- rangements for a social to be given on the ing of the 37th of March. Chebra Ahaboth Zion. The following named have been efected officers of the Chebra Ahaboth Zion £or the ensuing term: 8. Myrson, president; O. Moses, ¥ice-president; J, Gans, secretary; D. Davis, treasurer: M. Wolf, H. Rubin, L Rotb, trustees; J. A. Alexander, messen- ger; A. W. Perry, M.D., phys.clan. Star of Bethlehem, Star of the West No. 15, Order of the Starof Bethlehem, gave a_very enjoyable entertainment and dance in Mission Opera Hall Iast Thursday evening. There was a good a.tendance and tne success of the affair is due to_the committee of ar- rangements composed of Sir F. 0. French, Sir Harry A. Davenport, Sir Roy Burt, Lady Edna Alar.ch and Lady Nellie Rowe. WANTS HIs; RECLRD TO SPEAK. Some of Lyman J. Gage's Chicago {riends intimated to him the other day that they would like to give him a public dinner before he went to Washington. *You must excuse me.” was his reply. *I want no demonstra- tion in my honor now. If, after four years of service as a member of the Cabinet, my neigh- bors think I have served my country so faith- fully that they desire to show their apprecia- tion, a dinner would be all right I prefer, however, to enter my country’s service with- c‘m heraiding. Let my record in office speak for me."” THE BOULEVARD - Work May Begin Upon a a Part of It This Morning. The Spring Valley Deed for the Extension Has Been Filed. The Work of the Relief Committes of the Unemployed Keeps Growing. ‘The situation.of the big army of the un- employed at the barracks on Howard street was not materially changed yester- day except by an accession to their ranks. The *‘commissary department,” with the- donations secured yesterday, was fairly well provided for. The cosl supply, which, was entirely exhausted the night before, insomuch that the cook was embarrassed, was yesterday replenished by ‘a donation of a full ton of the biack diamonds from a dealer in them. . The wagon was out yesterday on two ex- | peditions and each time returned with a Several bundles of clothes wete received. | The relief committee, composed of five members of the organization, have.a busy. and distressing time of it during their every afternoon sitting. o them is re- ported all the cases of distress of married | men or families that apply-for relief, but | who do not live or take their mealsat the | barracke. y of these cases are pitiful | in-the extreme. - The committee holds its sessions in a small room at the head of the stairway leading from the stréet. The room is unlighted save. by a small oil lamp. Around a table sits the commitiee and hears the applicants ‘one by one. The apphcant is required to state his or her: circumstances, and if they are physically able are required to pledge themselves to do their share toward collecting the pro- visions upon which they wish to draw. If they decline to -do this they are turned away with empty bands. This.isoften a | sticking point, and the applicants rather than take hold of therope of the wagon. goes away hungry. = © Chairman of the committee and vice- resident of the organization, Charles A. avis is chief inquisitor. -He explains to the applicant that, “to be plain, the men here have begged these goods. - You wilk at once see that you are asking them to have gone outupon the streets and begged. OI coursé, it 1s humiliaiing to have to beg, anu these men here do not like the task any more than da other peopie.~..You will | ses, therefore, that it js not fair to ask thém to beg for you. Now, if you' expect to get a share of the goods you will have to sharein the work of collecting it; you will have to take hold of therope with the¢ | rest of the boys. Wiil you do it?” ; Of course this’ speech is madified . and of the applicant. If it is an'old man, or a person in any way disabled, they are esked -as to their willingness to as-ist in any way .they can; to ride on the wagon, for instance. In almost every.case the utmost willingness is expressed, though sometimes with a of swallowing of {that something that es in the throat of | sensitive people in facing such- conditions. In a few-instances the conditions were too | much aed the applicants went. their way unassisted. Sometimes the applicant is | set.to work at something about the bar- racks, such as sweeping down- the stairs, Indeed, the stairs were swept again and ‘again yesterday in this way, for in every case.'where the persons were able, som vork was exacted of them.. . 2 'No less than forty-two applications | were heard and relief granted. Where | any doubt existed concerning the truth of the tales of woe that were told they were investigated by men gppointed for- the | purpose. Among all the others there was one’ purticularly painful case yesterdsy. An old man and old woman, man and wife, who live together in a little cabin ‘beyond the Five-mile House, walked all | the way 1n to:the barratks yesterday to | ask for aid. When they arrived they were 80 exhausted as to be almost unable to |tell their story. The old woman, being asked if she was hungry, answered “No’ and began to cry. They were taken up- stairs, however, and .food placed before .them, and they ate as though hall- famished. They were given some sup- | pliés and’ then asked how they intended ‘| to. get back home and they replied that they would have to -waik. They were given carfare after the.vld- man had “done his turn” at work about the place. | A committge, headed by President.| Leflingwell, ‘visited tbe Y. M. C. A, rooms yesterdgy with the expectation of stating the case before the Monday Club of Ministers, but they did not know the hours of meeting and were too Iate. | -Mrs. Sheppard, an old. lady living at 2028. Lombard 'street, gave to the relief committee $10 i gold to be used.for' the felief of destitute families. .. - ' Following is a list of: tontributions se- .oured yesterday by the wagon men: ; Three sacks potatoos, 160 pounds fresh meaf, 3 sacks flour, butter, box mataroni, 25 pounds | Tolled oats, 75 pounds corn meal, 60 loaves bread, haif barrel corried beef, 2 bottles wine, 8.hams, 4 cans salmon, 2 cans fomatoes, 2 cans fruit, 2 cans fish, bucket appie butter, 10 pourids tea, dozen saucers, dozen plates, aozen cups, 3 coffee-pots, 2 lots ¢lothes, pair shoes, 6 cans milk, ton of coal, 2 The executive ' committee have made arrangements for the publication of “Hard Times,”- which will contain official an- nouncements together with a’complete list of articles and the names of those who have so generously donated them from time to time. The committee states that while the daily press has been very lib- eral 1n giving space it cannot be expected to publish every detail which the commit- tee feels shouid be given to the ‘public. The paper will be publijshed on butcher paper and sold “from door to door by the registered unemployed only. It will make its appearance early next week. “The Spring Valley Water Company has prepared the form of-a deed giving a strip 100 feet wide for the extension of Sevéntn avenue and this was presented to the Board of Supervizors yesterday. -Adolph Sutro telephoned that he would have the deed for the strip he will donate ready on Thursday morning. It is expected work will begin on the Spring Valley half of the bouieyard to-day. S ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HEALTH CLUB—J. F. H., City. The club you inquire about is & private concern, and this department cannot advertise it. WisLEY LEWIS—J. H. L., City. The case of Wesley Lewls, charged with an assaulton Florence Rea.ly, is in the Superior Court. ALUMINUM FAC10RIES—S. C., City. There are aluminum factories in’ Milwaukee, Wis.; Brideport. Coun.; Boontop, N. J.; Lockport, N. Y.; Jersey City, N. J., NisiJgreey CItY, N. J., and Flusuiag, Long LILIVORALANI—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. The name of the dusky lady from the Hawaiian Islands is pronounced Le-le-uo-ka-la-ne, the © with the sound of that letter in meat, the o a8 in poke and the a as in fate. A JaNrTRESS—Mother, City, It does mot al- ways follow that & person comvetent in every Way to hold the position of janitressin one of the public schools 1s retained because of her competency. Persons who hold positions through political influence must expect to va- “| cate when a new -admin BEADY AT LAST; number of bags and boxes of needfuls. | | share with you the supplies that they | varied sccording to the physical condittor | tration takes hold. It may not be.the proper. thing to remove a -| competent person, Eul. when the victors get °| 1 they want the 'spoils and janiterships are spoils viewed from the stand of the politician, . THE CORRECT SEN1ENCE—G. M. L., Ctty. ‘The sentence, “Some of dur people is English,” may be-correct ih the_section ‘of the country in which.Chimmie Fadden ' was discovered, but from a grammatical standpoint “some of our people are English” would sound better. ST. Jouns IstANp—W. C. H., Galyeston, Tex.; W. C., Healdsbuy Sonoma- County,-Cal., and 0.8, City. Theisland about which there has_ been se mech written by Sensational journalss of late is the largest of a group -of small isl- | andsin north latitude. 154 and: longitade 4 west. They are west of New_Ireland, an_isl- land itself northwdst of Papua or - New Guirea. The islands are so small that they are not down ‘on the ordimafy charts. That the islands “are inhabited solely by women who afe pining for husbands’’ is prob- ably a f&iry tale. ~ Areport by the master of the brig Bonanza, now ia the: archives of the hy- drographic office in'this Uity, says: ‘January 9, 1896. — Brig Bonanza . became becalmed efght miles east of St. Johns Island. Two.ca~ 1| noes came off to the ship, each .manned by twelve nutives entirely nude, bariered young cocoanuts and bows end arrows for tobacco andold elothes...There ate four isiands be- . longing to the St. John group. There are no white people living there. This department cannot advise the correspondents if it is & good place for & cdlony or not. " NOT A JaY . CABINET. YET THERE I8 A SINGULAR PREDOMINANCE OF J'8 IN THE NAME. 2 New York Sun. The J’s iave it by & large majority -imthe Cabinet of President McKinley, .as thus far arranged.- J. Sherman is‘Secretary of State;. L: J. Gige is Secretary ofthé Treasury; J. D. Long 18 Secretary of the Navy;J. McKenna is Secre- tary of the Interior: J. A. Gary is Postmaster- General; J. J. McCook, a doubte J.. {s Aitorne General, and J. H. Wilson is Secretary of Aj culture. i Infact, ¢ Cabinet of J's i and his surname, sounded, with the NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Dora (sweetly)—Fred didn’t blow his brains out because you jilted him the other night; he came right over.and proposed to me. . Maud (super-sweeily)—Did he? Then he must have got rid of his braihs some other way.—Tit Bits.: : 2 «“Consistency,” remarked the castist, “is.cer- tainly a jewel, and jeweliy, except on very great oceasions, is vulgar.”—Detroit Journal. non-J who intrudes into tha A. Alger, Secretary of War, should be the’ wa: sofs, or lke - “wIf the fellow were 1otbeneath my notite,” said the colonel of the policeman who had moved him on, “I would wreak the vengeance of & Kentuckiiin and a gentleman on him. The idea of his calling me & mug?” = “I don’t wonder you feel hurt,” sald. the friendly sympethizer; “a mug is something that holds beer.. Why didn’t he call you a demijohn ?’—Indianapolis Journal. “Now, children,” said''the téacher, “/good little people go to heaven, but bad little peo- Dlo=r I know,” interrupted one of the “angels,”. “they go to bed without their suppers.” —Phil- adelphia North American. - e —] PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE A Beethoven circle-to. last fhree weeks is talked of in Berlin in1898. The iaes is noth; ng less than the performanee of all the works of Beethoven without a single exception, There is s good deal of talk and gossip among. society folks about the ‘fact fhat neither George Gould and wife nor-any of the Goulds were invited to the Bradley Martin ball. 2 ‘Only two Presidents were born between April'and October. The record by months is as follows: January,.2; February, 8; March, 4; April; 4; July, 1; August; 1: October, 8; November, 4; December, 2. 5 . Miss'Eaith I Brown of Boston; whose pic- ture, “Sabina,” was exhibited in last year's salon, is a singularly. gifted young American woman, of whom' those familiar with her progress expect great things, SIr G. 0. Trevelyan’s retirement from Parlia- ment and political 1ifs bids fair to fall out to the advantage of letters. 'A mnew edition of “Lord Macaulay’s Life and Works” is an- nounced by the Longmaus under his editor- ship. A Special Edition. To commemorate the first anniversary of the battle of Adus, L’Itaiis, the local Italian newspaper, has issued a special edition of six- teen pages. The paper is profusely illustrated with pictures of she Abyssinian war, and a history of the struggle forms a prominent feature of the edition. : D ———— CALIFORNIA Glace Fruit 50¢ Ib. in fire-etched boxes at Townsend’s, Palace Hotel building, * —_————— EPECIAL intormation daily to manufactursre, Dhustness houses.and public men by the Prasy Clipping Burean (Allen's). 510 Montgomey. * ——————— Willie~I had a little brother go to heaven last night. Bobbie—Oh, that's nothing. I had a little brother come from heaven last nignt. Willie (after thinking a moment)—May be it’s the same baby.—Boston Globe. Excursion to Washington. For the benefit of those desiring to witness the inauguration of the next Presiflent of the Unlted States the Baltfmore and Ohio Rallroad will sell excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip from all points”on Its lines in-Ohio, Indiana and Tllinois. Tickets will be sojd March 1,2 and 3; valld for return until March 8. Similar tickets via B. and O. R. R. will be 5old by all the railroads throughout ‘the West. In addition to being the shortedt and most direct line to Washington the B. and O..passes through a region of greater sceni magnificence and historic interest than any in all America. ~Passengers also have the option of trav+ eiliig via Akron and Pittsburg or via- Bellaire aud Grafton either golng Or returning. The through trains of the B. and Ocars vestibuled throughout, equipped with Pullman sleepers and the dining- car service is unsurpassed. Information In detall will be chieerfully furnished upon application by L. 8. Allen, assistant general passen, 3 —_—————— 4 The Overland Limited’’—Only Thres and a Half Days to Chicago. The Unfon Pacificis the only Hne running Pull- man double drawing-room and, tourist sleepers and ainipg-cars, San_Francisco to Chicago daily without change. Buftet, smoking and library Ogden to Chicago. Tickets and sleeping-car vations at 1 Montgomery st. D. W. Hitcheook, Genoral Agent, Ean Francisco. Y ————— JEwELRY store, 5-7 Third, removed to 303 Kearny. Large stock of dlamonds, watches, etc. ——————— ““Do you think, professor, that the theory that Mars is inhabited has eny practical value?’ . “Do I think so?” returned the professor. “I know it. Some periodicals pay $20 a page for articles on fhe subject.”—Washington Star. NEW TO-DAY. ' Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its gFeat leavening. strefigth a healthfulness. ‘Assures the food against alum l:g all forms bf adulteration common to the cheap ‘brand: P ROYAL BAKING POWDEE Co.. New York NS —— e ————————— T S —— e