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

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MARCH 6, 1897 During the week ending Sat-| urday last THE CALL published 4429 of advertisements, which is 8 1 8 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. inches Things are moving already. The extra session is in sight. McKinley's inaugural address was a ten strike. Keep the ball rolling for the Federal building. This is going to be a workingman’s ad- ministration from start to finish. Bryan got out of Washington before in- suguration day, but he wasn’t missed. The protective tariff bill will be ready to report as soon as Congress meets, and there will be no delay By providing work for the unemployed | the new boulevard will open a way for vrosperity to return to many a household. There is reason to believe that even the Senate will quit fooling and promptly at- tend to business when the tariff bill comes up. You will wish all the news and lots of er good reading for your leisure to- morrow, so leave orders.to-day for THE £UNDAY CALL, The biscnit trust is a combination which should have been well cooked up, bu it were dough. It range bedfellows, but it never cut a nger caper than when it put Cleve- and Hill into retirement together. McKinley said nothing directly abouy Cuba, but his pledge to insist *‘upon the enforcement of the lawful rights of Ameri- ns everywhere” had better be read care- fully by the Spaniards and duly attended to. st land Cleveland had a talent for making ene- mies, and McKinley has a genius for mak- ing friends. That is the difference be- #¥een the two men, and it will makea graat difference in the government of the country. It does not sesm that the Democratic nomination for Speaker of this Congress would be much in the way of spoils, and vet Bland, McMillin and Bailey are hehting for it as if it were a bone with meat on it. As the Boston Herald asserts that in that city *the men worth knowing are not the men who are socially known” it is clearly evident the editor isn‘t getting the invitations to swell parties he thinks he has a right to. The most disturbing condition of the Government 1s the deficiency in the reve- nue. Itamounted to over $4,266,000 for the month of February, and the Pre; dent has certainly acted wisely in calling Cougress together to remedy the evil. It is hard to believe that so good a fighter as Theodore Roosevelt desires to back out of the row he has raised in New York, but all the same his eagerness to obtain a place at Washineton as Assistant Secretary of the Navy looks like a willing- ness to take waler. Weyler's retnrn to Havana was probably prompted by the knowledge that 1 his treatment of American citizens in Cuba he will have a different administration at Washington to deal with hereafter. It is time for him to hunt a quiet place in the palace and devise a new policy. The President sa: “Congress shoula give prompt attention to the restoration of our American merchant marine. To my mind few more important subjects so imperatively demand its intelligent con- sideration.” That is the right kind of politics. It means trade, it means com- merce, it means business. With the retirement of Hill, Voorhees, Vilas, Blackburn and Palmer there will be hardly enough Democratic statesmen left in the Senate to organize a caucus or conduct a parliamentary battle. If old Senator Morgan should break down the Democratic Senators would have to follow Populist leadership or resort to bush- whacking. A Minnesota heiress induced her mother to go to a matinee, and then sent for her lover and a preacher to come to the house, When the father returned from business and the mother from the play they found the daushter had made a play that meant business and was safely married. That scheme beats elopement on a bicycle and breaks the record. A bill has been introduced into the Mas- sachusetts Legislature authorizing any railroad corporation in the State to con- struct along public highways branches of its main line to be operated as electric rouds under the same terms as street rail- ways. The bill if passed is expected to work a reyolution in local transportation and has caused as much comment as if it were an insurrections HIS BEST FRIEND. He is the best friend of laporing men, skilled and unskilled, who gives them employment at remunerative wages. Every private and public enterprise that gives such employment to our people should be encouraged. American workmen are the bone and sinew of the country. We are a nation of toilers, in shop and factory, in forest and mine, on farms and rivers. Federal and State Government should inaug- urate and resolutely carry on wise xnd permanent improvements. Here in San Fran- | cisco the Federal building should be pushed to early completion. The erection of | this much-needed building would give employment, directly and indirectly, to thou- sands of our citizens, many of whom are now seeking in vain for work. ‘Work means | wages, and wages bring food and shelter to wives and children. During the four years just past the people have drunk deep of the cup of sorrow. We have been taught in the hara school of experience; we have seen the rnh} wrought by unwise legislation; we have had brought to our own hearths and fire- | sides want, misery and despair, and this in a land of wondrous natural resources and | opportunities! Business depression has prevailed everywhere. No State, no section of the country has escaped. Idle mills and shops, idle men and women—these have been the immediate cause and the effect of the hard times. It is the duty of statesmanship; it is the duty of the Government—Federal, State | and municipal; it is the duty of citizens, in their private capacity, to give the largest possible employment to our people. Laws should be passed with the avowed object of favoring American laborers in every calling. It is believed that a brighter and better day is dawning. Light is breaking through the clouds that have hung over us like a pall. As Oslifornians, let us assist one another, and to that end let us work in harmony; let us bend every energy toward furnishing employment to our people; let us put forth every effort to build up our State—develop our mines, increase onr domestic trade, add to the tillable acreage of our valleys and hillsides, encourage by patronizing home manufactures—and generally, in season and out of season, endeavor nevertheless it has flattened out as if | well known that politics makes | | aue effect at Washington, to hasten the return of business activity, w. happiness. brethren and with every organi hich means individual contentment and | In this good and patriotic work Tme Cary will continue to co-operate with its ation whose purpose is the development of California | | and the welfare of ber people. { THE NEW OABINET. It is gratitying to the country to note that in selecting his Cabinet President McKinley has exercised a choice which | shows him to be not more wise 1n defining a policy of governmental action than in selecting fit men to carry it out. Many a | man capable of plauning sagaciously | lacks the talent of selecting men able to execute what has been planned. Presi- dent McKinley snows that he is not of that nature. He posseses both the quali- | | ties necessary for a chief executive. He | can direct wisely and is also a sufficient | judge of men to know how to choose the | agents who are to carry on the work. The only selection made by the new President against which any adverse criticism has been directed was the choice of Senator Sherman for Secretary | of State. Fortunately the Senator has | been so long 1n public office and for many | years has so ably acted as chairman of | | the Senate Committee on Forelgn Rela- | | tions that his record is a sufficient answer | | and refutation to the attacks of his assail- | | ants. In every othercasa the man chosen | for the office has been so clearly fitted for | the performance of its duties that public | approval has followed promptly upon the | announcement of the name. Itis certamn that this will be one of the | most notable Cabinets in the history of | the countr; Sherman, Gage, Long, Mc- Kenna, Bliss, Gary, Alger and Wilson con- | stitute a notable assembly of statesmen. | | While each hasa special fitness for the | work for which he has been selected, all are well versed in the general affairs of | the country, are skilled in the conduct of | business and will form not only a wise | council for the President, but an able and i | | | | | efficient corps of executive officers to ad- | minister the great departments of the Government, In one notable respect the new Cabinet differs from that which has just gone cut of office. It does not contain a single un- known or untried man. All of them have | bad experience in the conduct of great | aifairs, and all of them have achieved emi- | nence and distinction 1n the country. The people do not have to search around to find out about these men asthey did about | those whom Cleveland raised from com- | parative obscurity to Cabinet offices, not so much to advise him as to take orders | from him in the management of official | business. | The country is to be congratulated upon | this Cabinet bardly less than upon the ac- | | cession to office of the Pr:sident who has selected them. They will condust the business of their various departments in | such a way as to add to the efliciency of | the Government and to subserve the best interests of the people. California may rightly rejoice in having a representative among them, and she can find satisfaction moreover in the knowledge that he who represents her holds not the least impor- tant office in the Cabinet, nor is the least fitted for the honor bestowed upon him or for the responsibilities of the duties he has undertaken THE FEDERAL BUILDING. The action taken at a jomnt meeting of the principal commercial bodies of the City on Thursday will go far toward bring- ing about a speedy beginning of the work upon the Federal building. The action was in full accord with the prevailing sen- timent of the people and will, undoubt- edly, find cordial support from the Cali- fornia delegation in Congress. As a result of the meeting a memorial was addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress urging the necessity and wise policy of promptly constructing the building, and a letter was addressed specially to the California delegation requesting acsive aid in pro- curing the commencement of the impor- tant work. Both the memorial and tne letter were excellent 1n tone and in terse- ness of language. They will not fail to have effect upon those who receive them, and we may count upon seeing more energy displayed in the work by the Gov- ernment officials than has been done at any time since the construction of the proposed building was first advocated. As was pointea out in the letter to the California delegation the present time is especially propitious for the commence- ment of the work. Building materials are lower than ever before in this market and a large number of men are unem- ployed. The public service needs the building and as the money has been pro- vided there is no reason why the work should not begin. The new administration will be as favor- able to public enterprise as the Cleveland administration was adverse. Its sym- pathies are with the workingmen of the country, and its officials will be only too glad to afford employment for them as promptly as possible. We may confi- dently count, therefore, upon a favorable response to the memorial and to the letter. Trs Cavr began the new agitation on this subject because it recognized the im- portance of acting promptiy at this junc- ture, and having now the assistance of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, the Merchants’ Association, the Builders' Exchange, the Oakland Board of Trade, the State Board of Trade and the Labor Council, it feels certain that the agitation will be rewarded with complete success. The movement for ob- taining the building has been well ad- vanced in this City, and we have no doubt the enerzy here displayed will have its A THE EXTRA SESSION. The action of President McKinley in calling an extra session of Congress to meet within ten days is the first proof given to the country of the energy with which the new administration will direct itself to the task of removing the evils which now depress our industries, and of providing a means for a speedy re- turn to prosperity. As the President said in his inaugural address: “Business conditions are not the most promising. It will take time to restore the prosperity of former years. 1f | we cannot promptly attain it, we can resolutely turn our faces in that direction, and ald its return by friendly legislation.” This much is well understood by the peo- ple, and they therefore hail with gladness the action of the President in summoning Congress at once to enact the friendly | legislation which is required to promote the public welfare, The peopie share with the President the belief that Congress will not be founa lacking “in disposition or ability to re- lieve the situation as far as legisiation can do so.” Itis true that the *‘restoration of confidence and the revival of business which men of all parties so much desire depend more largely upon the prompt ana energetic action of Congress than upon any other single agency affecting the situation,” It is to Congress there- fore that the people now look with expec- tation and with confidence that it will be | found not unworthy of the task imposed upon it. There is every reason for believing that a new tariff designed to increase the reve- nues of the Nation and at the same time afford protection to American industry will be passed without any factional oppo- sition. The Atlanta Constitution, one of the leading Democratic papers of the Union, recent!y obtained opinions from prominent Democrats of the country on the subject of the tariff, and the prevail- ing sentiment was in favor of permitting its prompt adoption. Senator Jones of Arkansas, who was at the head of the Democratic National Com- mittee during the last campaign, ex- | pressed the general sentiment of the lead- ers of his party in saying: “Since the people of the country have given the Re- publicans a sufficient number of votes to pass their bill the Democrats will give them full opportunity to do so.”’ Senator Morgan of Alabama, who will be the dominant Democrat in the Senate, de- clared that his party “‘will throw no cap- tious opposition in the way of the Repub- lican administration in enacting such measures as they promise will bring pros- perity.” The outlook therefore is good. The Re- publicans of the Ways and Means Com- mittee will have a tariff bill prepared in time to submit it as soon as Congress as- sembles. As the House is overwhelm- ingly Republican, and as its proceedings will be directed by Speaker Reed, it is rea- sonably certain that the new bill will be promptly passed and sent to the Senate. The assurances given by Jones, Morgan and other Democratic leaders promise an equally speedy adoption of the measure there. We will probably have the new tariff before the close of the present fiscal year. There will be an end to deficits, disaster and debts. All hail to President McKinley, all hail to the extra session, all hail to a protec- tive tariff, all hail to returning prosperity! BEET SUGAR. The great and growing interest which California has in the best-sugar industry makes it weil to note with close attention what is going on in foreign countries in regard to it. The United States Consul- General, in his latest published revort to the Department of State, says that the long-vexed problem of sugar legislation has not been so definitely settled as to eliminaie it from German politics, and that the sugar manufacturers are prepar- ing an appeal petitioning for the pass- ing of a new act to safeguard their in- dustry. Such movements in foreign countries should be closely watohed in the interest of the American industry, and every ad- vantege and stimulus European Govern- ments give to the production of sugar by their people ought to be promptly met by an insistent agitation in this country for such protection as will place our farmers and manufacturers on at least an equal vantage ground in competing to supply our home market. s Germany is the most important country to keep an eye on in this mauter, because it is beyona all comparison the largest beet sugar producer, and her lead must be followed. Her sweeping reaches for con- trol of the world’s market must be met with counter efforts by all countries who do not want to surrender the industry en- tirely to that empire. Germany produces something over a million and a half tons of beet sugar out of a total Kuropean yield of something less than four and a half million tons. Our American production is so comparatively insignificant that we have only eight factories to the 1245 plants that are running in Europe. If we expect to preserve this little start and make it grow till we have a proper share of this greatindustry it is obvious that the policies of those countries which are so far ahead of us must be studied either for adoption or to fortify ourselves against their invasions of our own mar- kete, The subject is of especial interest to Cahforniana. Noother State of the Union has such possibilities of achievement in this ingustry. California can produce sugar enough to supply all that is needed by the people of the United States. Much bas already been done for the State in developing this industzy by such capi- talists as Claus Spreckels, but he and others should have encouragement and assistance by such legislation as would wrest from the foreign producers the un- due advantage which their Governments are seeking to give them. FOR YOUR SUNDAY PLEASURE THE SuNDAY CaLL will fill every require- ment in a literary way. The range of subjects is exceedingly wide. For instance, you will learn all about the marvelous new X-ray discovery re- cently made by a San Francisco phy- sician, and for the first time given to tne world through the columns of THE SuN- DAY CALL. A scentific disquisition on light will be a very readable article. “A Bird Medley,” by Miss Adeline Knapp, will have especial charms for you. 1t is full of nature’s own poetry. The story of the human telephone will be as interesting as it is strange. And the new motor that threatens the extinction of the fire-horse will he fully describad in THE SUNDAY CALL. Eastern styles for women and men will ben feature of the fashion page. The children’s page will bave aload ot good things, as usual. In fact, there is no department devoted to the little folks in all the wide West that compares with Childbood’s Realm in THE SUNDAY CAUL. Tke description of & genuine rattlesnake ranch will make your hair stand on end. It is all true, however. Then you don’t want to miss Otive Hey- den's sweet poem nor the story of a Biski- you ball that rivaled the Bradley Martin affair, Van Dyck Brown will tell you in his rare style the romantic story of the his- toric valley of the Avon. There will be a multitude of features, literary, scientific ana illustrative, in the best of California newspapers, THE SUNDAY CALL. Sena in your address early. BUSINESS METHODS IN THE NAVY. The Union Iron Works and the Cramps have presented claims for several hundred thou- sand doliars, which these firms allege to have loston the Olympia, Oregon &nd otler ships through delays and changes o the part of the Navy Department. To those familiar with the business methods of some of the bureaus the claims do not appear extravagant, for the builders have been sadly bampered, notably through non-delivery of armor and guns. It bas been the aim of four successive Secre- taries to improve the business methods of the | Navy Department. Chander called attention filteen years ago to the need of reform, and Whitney inaugurated a system devised by Commodores Brown and Meade, a lieutenant of marines and a lisutenant of the Washington navy. Itis, perhaps, needless to say that the system found little favor and failed to work. Secretary Tracy also essayed to organize a sys- tem upon the toundation of which the present Secretary has bullt up the existing business methods of the supplies and accounts of the navy. Itisall very well so far as it goes, but no plan hes yet been devised by which bureau chiefs and clerks can be made to attend to business, and It is on this account that nearly $1,000,000 extra expense is claimed by the contractors, Judging from the numberless forms of blanks, quadruplicate requisitions and reports, the convening of boards of high rank officers to sitas a jury to determine the cost of Tepairs to & chair with a broken leg, and the many other intricate methods by which the public in- terest is guarded, the system is no doubt a success, and it has only this ope fault, that the object s lost sightof in order to carry out all the preliminaries to their final end. The commanding officer, although he may be an admiral, has but little to say as to how things might be expedited, for he is tied up with the same red tape thatextends from Washington to the Atlantic seaboard and back to the Pa- cific Coast. A little incident which occurred about nine years ago at Mare Island will illustrate what the so-called business methods were then, and how much room there was for an improve- ment. It was during Commodore Russell’s time that two boats were ordered built with- out delay for the Ranger. They were of the Ingersoll patent, without frames, and having instend a double skin of planking. A half-dozen men were set to work on each Dboat, and the work went along with a rush until the outer thickness of planking v ready to go in place. The foroman boat- builder then made requisition for one bolt of canton flannel, but none was to be found in the storehouse. The commodore promptly telegraphed to the proper bureau in Washing- ton for permission to purchase one bolt of canton flannel. The chief of the bureau wired the next day, “What is the canton flannel wanted for?’ The commodore promptly re- plied, “For the Ranger's boats.” Still the chief was not satisfied in his mind that all was right, and Inquired by telegraph, *‘Will noth- ing but canton flannel answer the purpose?” The commodore answered laconically, ‘No.” On the fourth day after the telegraphic corre- spondence had begun a dispatch came from Washington authorizing the purchase of the canton flaunel, and on the following day the stuff came up from San Francisco by express, its purchase having been ordered by telegraph from the yard. As a business transaction the account stood thus: Telegrams, $7 20; cost of one bolt of canton flannel, $5; total cost of the flannel, $1220. This, however, does not cover the actual expense of the flannel, for during the four days’ telegraphic correspondence two gangs of men were practically idle, and allow- ing that they worked one-half of the -time there still remains $108 (at the rate of $450 & day to each man) to be charged to the canton flannel, thus making 1ts total cost $120 20. The difference of $115 20 might have been saved if the commandant had been intrusted with discretion in the matter, but then it was the navy's way of doing business, a system somewhat complicated and not suited to the ways of civilians. It is aileged now that with the new system. Do such exiraordinary delays and expenses are incurred, and yet the contractors com- plain. THE GAME BiR0 OF FREEDOM. Dam Liberty’s chicks are a vigorous brood, And the little game bird of freedom roosts hign: Little Greeos spreads her wings in belligerent mood, While Gomez gives Spain a black eye. ‘The powers of kurope are dowa on thelr luck, And the bloody Turk shakes In his shoe: S0 frecdom’s game bird ciucks a satisfled cluck, And the rooster crows cock-doo dle-do! Then hail to King George and his brave fighting men, And down with the base Turk in Crete! Then hail to the patriot Gomez again, And down with Spain’s kin «flete! Hurrab for the spirit of true Y ankee pluck, And three cheers for the red, white and blue: For freedom’s gume bird chirps a vigorous cluck And the rooster crowscock-doodie-do! —New York Evenlng Sun, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “] hear you have a big pile of money up on the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.” “Yes; I have a bet of $5000 that Corbett will win, one of $5000 that Fiizsimmons will win, another of 5000 that one or the other will whip, and still another of $5000 that it will I'm taking no chances on this "—Chicago Tribune. ‘‘At least there is one thing that can be said in favor of the Turks—tihey ara & highly re- ligious people. ““Oh, any one can see that from the way they fight.”—Indianapolis Journal. She—You won’t object to having dear mamma live with us after we are married, will you?” He (a young doctor)—Not at sll. In fact she ‘Wil be most welcome. She—It's 50 good of you to say 0. He—Not atall. You see, she is always ailing and I really need somebody to experimen: 1 98.—Comic Cuts, s e e e S e e e e e “THE CALL” Letters SPEAKS FOR ALL. Public Readers on Matters of Interest. From Our McKinley’s Word. Edtor San Francisco Call-SIR: President McKinley’s word is made g0od by his inaugural address. All doubt is cleared away as to his understanding of the platform on which he was elected. It was made by politicians for him to get in on, and now he aflirms his intention to stand on it as President. Considering the conflicting interests which were compromised at St. Louis when that platform was made and which were held in line during the campaign, but which will now seek to control the administration on differing lines—the gold men and bankers striving for one line of policy and the honest international bimetallists for another line of policy—it must be conceded by all candid men that President McKinley has given proof of a robust honesty of conviction and intention most decidedly refreshing and inspiring to all fair-minded citizens. I have tried to read the President’s inaugural address with fairness and candor, forgetting for the time thatIdid what I could do bonorably to defeat him as a candidate for the Presi- dency; and so great is my desire for the prosperity of our country and the speedy relief of the vast multitudes of suffering people al! over our country now in abject poverty and dependence, With the future growing hourly more hopeless and desperate, and with even a Jarger number of industrious American citizens who are desperately struggling to save their business or incum- bered property from annihilation, think 1 succeeded fairly well 1n reading this inaugural address in 8 somewhat hopeful spiritand n real fairness 1o President McKinley and tho poiitical party he represents. My confession is at once openly made that there is more of the straightforward man and far less of the shity politician, more of the stalwart American and less of the crafty ‘‘head of a nation” in this inaugural address than [ anticipated. While holding that the wording of the platiorm which outlines the Nationel policy he was elected to enforce is to be taken to mesn just what it says, to a plain man of ordinary inte.ligence, and asserting in terms de- Yoid of equivocation his full purpose to carry out that policy to its logical sequence, ha places himself before the Nation in the simple but sublime dignity of the National Executive, not as the arrogant dictator Who preceded him, when he distizctly calls upon Congress to assume its entire responsibility for ‘‘prompt, energetic and intelligent action” fo ‘‘secure, as far as legislation can do so, the restoration of confidence and the revival of business which men of all perties so much desire,” because “upon such action more than upon any other agency” the return of prosperity depends; and in this we see n change of administration quite to the satistaction and delight of the Anierican people from that which four years ago autocraticaliy sneered at “‘haying Congress on its hands.” McKiuley thus stands as an American President, not s a bloated corporation autocrat. It must also be noted here to the credit of President McKinley that he takes cognizance of the gravity of the situation which confronts him as he enters uvou his duties as Chief Magis- trate. Indeed, he opens his address by reference to his “responsibilities which are sugmented by the prevailing business conditions, entailing idleness upon willing labor and loss to aseful enterprise.” ‘*The country is suffering,” he says, “from jndustiial disturbances from which relief must be had.” As remedies he proposes greater economy in Nationsl expenditures and an increase in revenue, “secured by & system of taxation, external or internal, or both.” These are old remedies and 1n line with the fixed policy of the Republican party. Indeed, I find no intimation in this inaugural address of any departure from the prevailing policy of the party for the past thirty years. Will it suffice for present conditions? Vithout a radical change, such as President McKinley nowhere intimates as desirable, I cannot understand how the return of prosperity will follow in any satisfactory seuse the measures proposed in the inaugural address. Fifty years agoa close studentof the causes which roduce nationaldecline and disaster had the courage to speak his mind as to the result ot nfluences then at work in our country, although he was jeered by our countrymen without the least snow of respect for his dismal anticipations. It was the crabbed aud blunt critic Thomas Carlyle, who Is now more admired by both English and American readers than he was filty years ago. He then safd: “The republic west of us will have its trial period, its darkest of all hours. It is traveling the high road to that direful day. And this scourge will not come amid famine’s horrid stride and ordinary punitive judgments. It will comeas a hiatus in statecraft, a murder- ous bungle in policy. It will be when health is intact, crops abundant and the munificent hand open. Then so-called statesmen will cry overproduction. the people will goto the baliot-box amid hunger and destitution and ratify this infamous lie, thrown upon the breeze by the eervile editors of & corrupt press.” I think the present generation of American voters will recognize the *direful day’’of Carlyle as a 100 familiar fact of the last election and of existing conditions. At the time Carlyle made his unwelcome predictiois nothing seemed more preposterous to the American people. { the people of our country, by a considerable majority, possessed the clear intelligence, the historical knowledge, the subtle discrimination, the sturdy integrity, the moral cour: age and the wise foresight of Thomas Carlyle they would see in the broad open light of mid- day the causces which have brought their conntry to its present deplorable condition, and any man of ten millions could name the only remedies which cen by any human possibility cure these evils. Rellef willnot be found in continuing the policy under which our country has traveled to its present “direul day.”” While I hope for the best, I do mot see bow our country can enjoy buta temporary and fictitious prosperity, and I jear but little of that, until we have an’'entire change in our political economy. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, March 5, 1897. ‘The Way of a Faker. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: We herewith take pleasure in expressing our thanks to THE CALL for taking the pains 1o ascertain the facts before publishing the particu. lars about the case of Emma W. Krenz in THE CALL of the 22d ult. Emma W. Krenz commit- ted suicide in u fit of despondency on the 20th ult., and the following day the Examiner not knowing what to do for some sensational news and never stopping to find out the facts pub lished an account of the case to fit its own ideas, coupled with a love story. This story was ridiculous, ana was denied by us ana the lady where she had been at service. However the Tonarch of Fakers” immediately published another equally ridiculous story to the effect that she had committed suicide because she did not get a new coat. We took no notice of these sto- ries because we thought it the work ol one of its second-hand reporters and thought the Exam- iner wouid discover its mistake at the Coroner’s inquest. Such was not the case, however, for after the Coroner's jury had heard the cvidence and rendered a verdict of “suicide in & fit of despondency,” the “Monarch of Fakers” would still have its own way, and the following day published the verdict in this style, “Suicide on account of not receiving & new coat.” We hope you will be kind enough to publish thisand let the public know the truth. Thanking you for past favors, we are as ever, F. W. KRENZ (brother). :MRs. ED ULLMAN (sister). 0. KRENZ (father). P, 8.—Have been a subscriber to the Examiner for tne last eight years, but 1 now find I can obtain truthful news for the same money by subscribing for THE MORNING CALL which I have already done. Respectfully, Mes. ED ULLMAN, Islais street, near Mission road. A Plea for Single Men. To the Editor of the San Francisco Cali—SIR: Your correspondent Mr. Orr points the un- employed of the City to the placer gold gravel bars of the State as a place where a dollar & day can be made by hand labor, but this scheme would not suit the numerous married men who seek employment nefr their homes and families, And this suggests to me the question, “Why are so many married men idle”? Seeingthat the benevolent phiianthropisis of the City always give the preference of Work to these, leaving the single men to fight the world as best they can, and why is it that men and women are so foolish as to persist in marrying and raising families when the world apparentiy has no use for them; they breed only more slaves to minister to the luxury of the capitalists and the more they breed the more numerous the capitalists become and the more numerous their slaves. If wisdom instead of selfishness ruled the world, instead of subscribing funds to make employ- ment for these selfish, marsied men, these would be left alone to stew in their own juice, and employment provided only for the provident single men_like myself, a rusty, crasty old bache- lor. PATRICK MCGINNIS, Bernal Heights, san Francisco, March 5. PERSONAL R. Foster of Gibsonville is in town. H. 0. Ewing of New York is at the Palace. Allen 8. Baker of Los Banos 1s at the Russ. J. J. Maloney of New York is at the Palace. H. T. Williams ot Los Angeles is at the Russ. John A. Jonnson of Elmirais a late arrival nere. R. Baum of Chicago is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 8. F. Simonde of South Acton, Mass., is at the Palace. P. Dunbar of North Dakota is at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. B. V. Sargent, the attorney of Salinas, is at the Occidental. Henry F. Greene, manager of the Cissy Fitz- gerald Company, is at the Baldwin. Judge E. H. Lamme, a leading silver Repub- lican of Los Angeles, is in the City. J.D. Goodman, who is interested in mining in Plumas County, is at the Occidental. Mrs. R. Hamilton and daughter of Winnipeg, Canada, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 0. 0. Boggs and family of Derby, Iowa, are in the City and are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. P. F. Morse, Mrs. Morse and Miss Steers of Portland, Or., arrived at the Palace yesterday. James Mitchell and O. T. McConnell of Chehalis, Wash., are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Edward F. Penser, a business man of Su ville, is down on & short visit and is registered at the Lick. Among the arrivals here yesterday was John Smith of Smithville, founder of that town and reported to be the richest man in it. Ralph Metcalt, formerly one of the owners of the Tacoma Globe and afterward of the Tacoms News, 18 among the arrivals at the Grand. John J. Boyce, ex-District Attorney at Santa Barbara, arrived here last night, ac- companied by Mrs. Boyce. They are at the Occidental. F. W. Bradley, superintendent of the widely known and rich Bunker Hill and Sullivan sil- ver and lead mines at Wardner, in the Cceur d@'Alene country, Idaho, arrived here yester- day. John Sparks, the gray ploneer of Nevads, who has for many years been in the cattle business, and who isoneof the foremost of the beef barons of his State, was among yester- day’s arrivals. He is at the Palace. Luman R. Wing of Chicago, one of the largest dealers in California dried fruits, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Wing. Mr. Wing is inthe State to examine into the fruit re- sources for this year and probably to buy fruit. He has at different times shipped fruit to Chi- cago by the train loads. A. L. White, editor of the educational de- partment of the New York Tribune, arrived here last night and is at the Baldwin. Mr. White says be is here on & half business and pleasure trip and will probably visit Nevada before he returns. Mr. White was for some years prominently connected with the Chicago and Denver papers. In the latter city he was at one time manager of the Lyceum Theater. He is the inventor of & novel shorthand sys- tem, which has been successfully introduced in Europe and Amerlca. CALIFORNIANS iN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., March 5.—At the Plaza, W. E. Glover; Stuart, J. Ryan. Mrs. W. B, Pauley and Miss Charlett L. Lebnhardt left tho Plaza to sail on the Werra for Gibraltar and Naples. Bhe—Did you have any trouble in getting papa to listen to you? He—Not a bit. I began by telling him I knew of a plan whereby he could save money. | —Cincinpati Enquirer, A CO0PER MEMORIAL. An Effort to Perpetuate the Memory of the Great Kindergartner. The following appeal has been issued: Itisthe desire of the co-workers of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and of the residents of San Francisco to perpetuate her memory in a memorial which shall be & living testimony to g}e value of the work she has done in this ty. As the exponent of Mrs Cooper's teachings and realizing the far-reaching intiuence of her labors, the Golden Gate Kindergarten Associa- tion belleves that this memorial should be a continuance ot her lifework. It, therefore, most earnestly appeals to you, as & resident of San Francisco, to ald in carrylng on the work among the litile children in the kindergartens established and superintended by her. ~ These children are too young 1o obtain rudimentary instruction in any public educational institu- tion in the City. Through these kindergartens they bave been lifted irom ignorance and its consequences of mental and moral deteriora- tion, and thus far butone of the 22,000 chil- dren enrolled in the Golden Gate Kinder- gartens is known to have been arrested for misdemeanor or crime. ‘The united evidence of the officials of this City is to the effect that in the districts where kindergartens have been estabiished discrderly and vicious ele- ments have invariably diminished. Generous men and women, prompted by Mrs. Cooper and under her direction, have founded kindergartens among the needy and destitute in various parts of the City; but there remain fourteen kindergartens, formerly !nm)orud by subscriptions from the general public, unprovided for. The finaucial strain in the business world has been severely felt by the association. The amount of its subscriptions has decreased and, without a more generous income, the associa: tion cannot su port these kindergariens. What, then, shall be their fate? To give up any of thom closes the door of hope to many children; and substitutes degrading for elevat- ing surroundings, and lessens the influence of the noble woman whom the City delights to honor. Itremains with you, who recognize the benetits received in the past, to decide if these kindergartens shall live. Witn this statement and in the name of the noble woman whose life was dovoted to the uplifting of humanity the Golden Gate Kin- dergarten Association appeals to you for finan- cial aid, believing that the preveution of im- morality and vice is a more effective method of reform than the industrial schools and Pprisons you are taxed to support. In conclusion you are asked to fill out the intlosed card with the amount of your sub- scription or donation, and to mail the same to the treasurer of the Golden Gate Kindergarion Association, Mrs. F. A, Frank, 1601 Van Ness avenue, bi_‘ly. Y%flrl truly, MILY TALBOT WA MINNA V. GADEN, Becra;u",“" bbb OATHOLIO LADIES' AID 80OIETY. Entertalnment Successfully Given in South San Francisco. The Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society of All Hallows parish gave an entertainment last Saturday evening in South San Fran- cisco Opera-house for the benefit of the re- Uef fund. The entertainment was well attended and proved a decided success. An f::ellont programme was rendered as fol- Overture, La Migissiere band; vocal solo, Miss Grace Maguire; recitation, “The In- ventor's Wife,” Miss Maud Jones; vocal solo, D. W. Irvin: tabieau, “Rock of Ages”; song, :(.llsll ‘B‘l:‘:’;)ubly: v&(}ll l‘?lo Miss lNelllo Man- 3 ance, Spellman; selec- tion and chorus, La Migissie: p:blen ‘Chris- tian Graces’’; vocal solo, Mrs.'C. P. O’Connell; ? ano lo.lfl, Miss Josie Rahlimann; recitation, . M. Toner; tableau, ‘‘Believer's Vision'’; vocal solo, “The Holy City” (by request), J. Dnh'ox‘ldm‘q lm:‘o "il:'u’.m‘"“ Ervin; and ‘selection, Igissiere; tabloa “The Landing at Mon{erey.” © e At the conclusion of the entertainment the cnairs were removed and dancing was indulged in to the strains of Tichnor's cn'cl:‘hosl?.i affair was under the management of thefollowing commiittees, cial credit is d:e: SRraa | Committee of Arrangements—Miss M. Mc- M. Ford, Miss C. Graves, Mis ?"z"u"u‘}%‘u‘?;.,fi',‘z‘é‘. Miss F. Greves, Migs M. Wal-: Miss K, 0'Brien. Miss A. Daiyy Mrs. J. O/ Brl Mrs. M. Doering, L. Harr! ingion, rs! Teiman, Mrs. Trapp, Mrs. Knobloch; floor manager—H. P. Desrosier; floor commitiee— P Screnkel, J. Regan, A. Hanratty, P. Mu; phy, M. O'Bfien. THE FRAT@RNITIES. Dramatic and Effective Ceremony of Installation of the Ladies of tho Maceabees. Of the many fraternities 1n San Francisco that install officers in public, there are but few that do so with more impressive and dramatic effect than do the Ladies of the Maccabees. On Thursday last the officers of Modin Hive No. 19 were installed in public in the soctal hall of the A. O. ¥. building, and the beautiful ceremony was witnessed by a Iargo number of the members and friends. The officers do not wear regalia, butare designated by the insignia of office affixed to a neat bow of black and red ribbon. When the time for in- stailation was called the various officers occu- Died their respective stations, and soon. therc- Diter there came from an Anteroom teu young facies who aro known as the staff-bearers, each carrying a long siaff or wand, having tied o the top & bow of red, white and black ribbo; the colors of the order, and each wenriag broad red ana biack sash across the shoulde These stafl-bearers marched in column of two up o the altar, saluted the lady commander by piacing the left hand over the beart, then opened and stood facing cach otherin par- allel lines. At a signal irom the organist the Staf-bearers crossed staffs forming a long bower of youth and beauty on each side and silk overhead. The lady sentinel, passing un- der the bower, advanced to the aitar, gave the Salute and announced that Lady Henrietta Cook, supreme deputy commauder, was in waiting to install the recently elected officers. She was aamitied, and after passing tnrough the bower was conducted to the lady com- r's station. b6 several officers, upon request of the lady deputy, vacated their siations and each de- posited her insignia of office upon the altar, after which the newly elected officers, as their names were called, 1ok seats in a circle re- servea for them at the eastern ¢nd of the hall facing the installing officer. Then followed the calling of tae new lady commander, who passed through the bower escorted by the mistress-at-arms _and, after the salute, the staff-pearers circled around the altar and with their stuffs formed 8 sheltering canopy over the heads of the two who were waiting the pleasure of the inst@fing officer. She explained the nature of the obligations tne lady com- mander-clect would have to assume and re- ceiving her assurance that she was willing and ready to asstme them the deputy ad- vanced to the altar and administered the oath 10 her, the lady commander during the time holding horleit hand on the Bible, after which she was decorated with the insignia of the office, and the chaplain offered upa prayer. The 'new officer was conducted, to the sound of a march, to Ler station by the mi tress-at-arms and ‘escorted by the staff-bear who then formed in two lines and circled vack to their stations at the rear of the aliar. Then the other officers, one by ome, wero brought forward end each was charged, with more or less obligation, according to rank. The entire proceedings were very solemn,which was added to by the {mpressive manner of the installing officer, who performed her part of the work in & most creditabie manuer, deliy- ering all her charges without the aid of a book, The installation ceremony being declared at an end, there was then given a Vvery pretty exhibition of floor work called ““the march of the Ladies of the Maccabees,” that closing by the stafl-bearers, the ten officers and two la- dies from other ‘hives forming one after an- other four hying letters, L. O. T. M., the_in- itials of the name of the order. The effect was charming, and the participants were Ioudly applauded. The new officers are: Lady commande M. Devega; past lady commander, Mrs. E. R. Waddell; lady lieutenant-communder, Dr. ¥. Sprague record-keeps iss’ Holen Black; lady per, Mrs. L Mannings lady chaplain, Mrs. M. Boell; lady sergeant, Miss J. Fitzgeraid; lady mistress-at-arms, Mrs. Creig; lndy sentinel, Mrs. K. Wheeler, and iady picket, Mrs. C. Shatman. A short impromptu programme followed, in which Miss Bertha Moody. the Misses Carrio and Ethel Manning and Mrs. 8. J. Tully took part. The deputy, Mrs. Cook, made a few re- marks, and then there was dancing and re- freshments. During the evening the hive was visited by the members of Modin Tent in a body and General Supervising Deputy for the Pacific Coast, C. 4. Luckenbac. Osceola Tribe’s Social. Osceola Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, gave its quarterly social in the Alcazar build- ing last Thursday night, and there wasan & tendance that crowded the large social hal Fred B. Swan, James PLillips and P. J. Leun, composing the committee of arrangements, had prepared a programme which, thougn shori, was much appreciated. It was & song and dance by John Guerrero aad John Seivers Jr. The latier in response to an encore gave & whisting solo, which was & wonderful per- formance, one which it is said can be equaled only by two men in the United States. The dancing was enjoyed to the fullest under the management of 1. McCarthy, assisted by D. M. Ross, Charles W . C. Francis, floor committee. e Builders Nominate Directors. A special meeting attended by about 200 members of the Builders’ Exchange was held yesterday afternoon at the heaaquarters in New Montgomery street, and the following nominations were made for eleven directors, to be electea on March 15, for the ensuing vear: C. C. Morehouse, piasterer; Elam, carpenter: Thomss W. Butc) and_builder; uus V. Daniels, paintc A. Wilson, mason and butidér: J. W. mason and builder; John Tuttle, mag; S. H. Kent, carpenter and builder ward B, Hindes,” manutacturer; J. R. Tobin, lastcrer; R. Chartrey of the Joshua Hend achine’ Works; Richard Rice, plumbe: Thomas McLachlan, carpenter and builde Richard Herring, millman; C. P. Moore, ca; peuter and builder; J. P. Fraser, painter; David Dillon, teamster; James Conlon, roo: M. C. Lynch, carpenter and builder: Jam: ilfoy, roofer; J. D. 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