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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897 i 8 e e e _MARCH 30, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, | Editor and Proprietor. { SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: | unday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.15 | mall..... 6.00 | by mall. 3.00 mail 1.50 | Dally snd Daily BUSINESS OFFICE: 0 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone 5 <eceenseieens MAIN—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. .Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: y sireet, corner Clay; open until open until 9:30 o'clock. SALINAY' BRIGHT PROSPECTS. When the Balinas correspondent of THE CaLL remarked yesterday tbat “Salinas, the county seat of Monterey County, has brighter prospects to-day than any town of similar size in California,” he bordered very closely upon truth. Orainarily, sweeping assertions of that kind are made under the fervid inspiration of home vride, or by the sufferance of the tradi- tionat license which topographers have long been permitted to enjoy as compen- sation for the general dull sameness of their theme; but in this particular in- stance, nathless it were a mere happen-so, the resort to wholesale praise has hit the nail squarely upon the head. The precise factor which gives a solid foundation to our correspondent’s happy hit is the circumstance that Salinas has been chosen as the location for the largest beet-sugar factory on the Pacific Coast, and already the residents thereabouts are thriving upon the anticipation of it. The sugar-beet industry is exceedingly profitable. The producer trades directly with the consumer, gets good prices for his product and keeps the handling of lis oney within his own commercial circle. None of the money which is paid to him | for his beets comes out of his partof the | country. ts: open till § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: | 208 way. | | FASTERN OFFIC | Park Row, New York Clty- )LTZ, Fastern Manager. Rooms 81 m DAVI i = — E - THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. i About all the powers can do in the L vant is to blockade the schemes of one an- other. It it were not for the valor snd vigor of | King George the Cretan crisis would be | one of the best plots for a comic opera oa record. can now be understood why Glad- | to be one of the foremost He bas learned to ride the bike. The rival kennel clubs may go to the dogs, but not to the bow-wows. Thereisa prospact shead for peace and a chance for 5 good show. Assoon as the present boulevard pro- ject is completed there will be anoner to extend it. San Jose has taken notice of it and is already reachin One of the items of news which creates se is the announcement that the | action of the Greeks bas disgusted the | capital in Europe. The statement that the Kaiser's policy egard to Greece is not actuated by any ¥ to the Greeks seems to imply that it is the outcome of pure cussedness. nia farmer: nga tenewed in beet-sugar cuiture and areright There is a big thing in it and not let the East get ahead of us. Il the country that has any stock or sissippi River is going to ition of free liquidation this river is booming mow and | acon jng. Those Eastern workingmen who are cing for higher wages before the tariff nto operation are trying to kill the goose belore it has 8 chance to lay the golden egg. The new tariff bill bears the title, “An 8ct to provide revenue for the Govern- | ment and to protect the industries of the | ted States,” and that is why the Demo- | there are county and municipal ng to learn that the anish troops in Havana have become They have been there long | enough to have felt the influence of the | air of freedom and tie atmosphere of re- volt. It seems the Greek army is determined | 10 mareh to the 1 n of Crete or else to Ath to w the King, and e Constan e is therefore wise in lead and keeping it headed to- | ey. A Chicago dramatic critic declares the | people ‘of that city who do not attend | ing Lent are divided into two classes: those who are too rude to enjoy music and those who are too poor to pay forit. Itisve nt here. nce the accession of a Republican ad- istration at Washington Spain has | treated American citizens in Cuba with | more respect, and before long she may be | compelied to treat the Cuban patriots ac- cording to the rules of civ There is more trouble in the Senate over Iver Republicans who boited the St. platiorm than over all the Demo- s and Populists put together. The | stray lambs should get back into the folds of protection and stay there hereafter. As young Carter Harrison is running for | Mayor of Chicago on the promise to undo ali the Republicans have done in the city | t i3 easy to foresee that he will be beaten. Chicago has had too much experience wit! Democratic undoing ever to try it again. According to the descriptions given it will be worth while to visit Los Angeles during the fiesta just to see the costume of the queen. Itseems to be calculated to discount the inangural robes of Mrs. Me- Kinley and throw a luster over the whole pageant. If King Geo: against Turkey for her failure to keep her agreement with the powers to protect the Christians in her dominions the diplomat- ists of England, France, Germany and Russia would have a really delicate duty 10 perform. The canvass for the city elections in Chicago and Bt. Loms shows that gold Democrats and silver Democrats cannot sgree even on & municipal ticket. When it comes to making up the slates each side wisbes to have sixteen candidates to one for the other. Some of the enterprising men of Salinas are projecting sn electric line to connect the city with the sugar-mill erected by Claus Spreckels, and thus a néw illustra- tion is given of the way in which the com- pletion of one enterprise compels the be- ginning of another. When & community gets started it is bound to keep moving. The object of the pure food ordinance is to prevent the sale of goods containing injurious substances under the form and name of genuine articles of food, and the Board of Health should be careful to con- duct their enforcement of the law in such a way as will enable it to accomplish what wi med at. If the ordinance is used to harass dealers in goods which are compounded of pure food articles it will cease to have the support of the | the Union and that it | of a few t! | contemplate it. should declare war | people and will eventually become a dead letter, It comes from the sales of the sugar, mostly in the East or in other parts of the State, as does also the money which is paid to the factory workmen and wood- haulers of his immediate i ing could be more financially beneficial than this arrangement of always bringing in and never taking out. No wonder that Salinas’ prospects are bright. She foresees in Watsonville, her near neighbor, a state of affluence to which she herself is bound to attain, through tue same experiences and by virtue of the same advantages. WHAT AILS NEVADA? The Eastern press is much concerned for the future of Nevada. Her recent aa- diction to pagilism has served more than anything else to persuade the Eastern edi- torial mind that she is deplorably unregen- erate and going speedily to perdition. The Boston Advertiser solemnly avers that the State is a “disgrace” and a “menace” to such a community to possess statehood without having “sufficient manbood to make a respeciable State.” F The Washington Post, while mildly cor- rective, deprecates violent denunciation on the ground that Nevada has a consti- tutional right to do as she pleases in the matter of prize-fights, also that other States, including Massachusetts and New York, have barbored just as brutal fistic encounters as the Carson fght without incurring marked reproach irom every other portion of the country. Another journal points with a scandal- ized uplifting of hands to the fact that Nevada has recently introduced a legisia- tive resoiution forpidding her legislators to speculate in stocks or sscurities whose market value i3 susceptible to legislation, affirming thereon that this is a tacit ad- | mission that her legislators would be thieves if she would permit them to be. All of these complainers need reminding that the delirious beat of accusation hes caused them to overiook. First, Nevada in countenancing prize- fight is not much worse than those locali- ties which permit prize-fights by an evasion of the law. Hardly a week passes without a prize-fight in some Eastern city, | and the East therefore has small right to condemn the West on that score. In the second place, while Nevada’s pro- | vision against corraption on the part of her legislators is not creditable to them as individuals, it is to be remembered that | the individual legislator of Nevada bas plenty of protot: a few baven’t the es outside of Nevada, in Massachusetts we slightest doubt. Besides, ordi- nances everywhere which forbid public officials to irade with the county or the city which they officially represent lest they might swindle the taxpayers. Itisa very vractical precaution and makes due allowance for a well-known human weakness, So perhaps it would be as well to let Nevada alone. Until pots can reasonably call kettles black and people in glass houses can safely heave pebbles promis- cuously about, Nevada will not be much worse off than the rest of us. THE MISSISSIPPL Again the hopelessly insecure residents of the Mississippi Valley are shrinking before a rise in the river. The great “Father of Waters,”” superb'y indifferent to all the puny restraints which man may presume to urge upon it, goes grimly on flooding things as though men were reeds whose faint rustling by the wayside was lost in the fathomless sweep of its cur- rent. In spite of levees, in spite of arti ficial outlets, in spite of all that mortsls have been able to devise for its subjug | tion, it rises to-day as easily over the con- fines on either side of it as it did years ago when those confines were unfortified by man’s little digeings and shovelings and pattings of earth along the tops of them, and when the world was unedified by the spectacle of him in the cheerful | performance thereof. For no matter how high its banks may be buil, its bed will e, and is all the time rising, from the sediment which constantly drifts into it, and its surface will correspondingly keep up within easy reach of an overflow. The problem of how to control the Mis- sissippi flatiy baffles all who venture to The fact that this tre- mendous volume of water can by no ap- parent human possibiility be stayed when it proceeds to run over its banks and drown the adjacent country is one of the masjestic natural conditions before which the ingenuity of man must needs lower its bead in silent admission of its ultimate futility and insignificance. At present the telegraph tells us that the water is raising at the rate of six inches per day, and the dwellers in the lowlands are already preparing for incon- tinent flight, their arms full of bed- clothes and their skirts and coat-tails fes- tooned by clinging urchins dolorously au- dible over their enforced migration. This seems to be their only resort. And the fature holds out no promise of a betier one for their children or for their chil- dren’s children. It is merely to be as- sumed that the people of the future will be forced to regard the situation as con- siderably more serious than do the people of the present, since it is a situation that will do exactly the reverse of improving with age. PARK IMPROVEMENTS. In the decision of the Commissioners of Golden Gate Park to flood it with elec- tric light and so make it into a great pleasure ground by night as it has here- totore been by day, we see another long stride forward in metropolitan greatness. San Francisco herein shows again her progressive spirit in providing with a munificent generosity for those legitimate enjoyments which by amply supplying an outlet for the natural desire for pleas- ure in an energetic population not only | stimulates theiz capacity for achievements dangerous for | i | | | | | | | in all forms of industry, but also has a tendency to limit those vicious and un- wholesome pleasures which enervate a community and retard its progress. It is the purpose of the Commissioners to use in this improvement the system of lighting best calculated to secure at once the most thorough efficiency and close economy. The park will furnish its own electric current from a power-house built within the grounds, and thus make sure the light 1s supplied at actual cost. The copper conductors will be laid under- ground, thus ensuring the public against any possibie danger from live wires. The development of the illumination will be gradual, but there will be an ample re- serve force in the power-house to ulti- mately extend the great arc lamps over all the main driveways and make a broad sheet of white light within which bicy- clers and horsemen can take delight and prace their nerves with open-air recrea- tion. Of course the chief glory of the park will be for daylight enjoyment when the colors of the flowers and foliage can be plainly seen and the contrasts of light and shade on the lawas join with tne view of the green hilis in the distance to delight the eye, but the way in which the night light- ing will work to the City’s betterment in happiness and power will be the opportu- nity given for open-airrecreation for those many busy men who burn up all theirday- hghtin arduous toil in office and store. Among these are units of the communi- ty's growth and welfare who both need and deserve a bracing outing the most, and the big park alit will be a gracious boon to them which they should plan to profit by. Another feature of the wisdom of thus adding to San Francisco's attractions is that such things draw like a magnet the most energetic. capable and ambitious people from all sections to come and make happy homesin a place so enticing, and 80 cause the City to more rapidly grow in business greatness as well as esthetic and joy-giving excellence. THAT POSTOFFIOE. fornia Architect, referring to THE CALL'S recent prodding of the Federal authorities in charge of the Postoffice site, goes to the point of *‘commiserating the daily press if they really think that any efforts, however herculgan, will have any effect in piercing the invulnerable hide of official inaifference to the needs of San Francisco.”” Yet this extraordinary remark does not discourage us from pur- suing the subject a while longer. So long as the agitation has resulted in any kind of action—even the somewhat chestnutty action of testing the already overtested site—there is hope that the advantage of the authorities’ attention may extend itselt to other stazes of.the work, per- chance to the stage of laying a foundation for the building. Activity is manifestly preferable to somnolent inattention and idleness, and TrE CALLis not without hope that per- sistent reference to the matter of that very much delayed Postoffice will ultimately be crowned with the reward of beholding that institution actually looming before an a well-pleased populace. PERSONAL. A. C. Bryer of Formosa is in the City. W. E. Conrad of Pasadena is on a visit here. | Dr. . F. Pilgrim of Portisnd is at the Bald- win. Clemen Ogg of Esmeralda County i in the City. Joseph B. Hughes of New York s at the Palace. W. S. Greene of Washington, D, C., is at the Palace. H. Heyn of Shanghai is a recent arrival at e Lick. Charles Copenharve of Butte, Mont., is in the Cit: Hugh J. Cannon of Salt Leke arrivea here yesterday. Bernard A. Sylvester of San Diego is at the Occidens F. H. Leving and Mrs. Leving of Kobe are at the Occidental. J. 3. Pratt, e fruit dealer and packer of Yaba City, is in town. J. R. Garrett, a weaithy merchant of Marys- e, is at the Lick ge R. A. Ballinger of Seattle was among yesterday’s arrivals. k, & miner of Harrison Gulch, a, isat the B Dr. Robert B. Greer of Butler, P of yesterary’s arrivals. Mr. sna Mrs. C. L. Steverin of New York arrived bere yesterday. Editor R. A. Thompson of the Ssnta Rosa Democrat is in the City. Captain White and wife of Oakland are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. S. Barnes and Miss M. Siscons, of New York, are at the Cosmopolitan Hote!. H. L. Tibballs Jr. of Port Townsend is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. W. H. Schuize, & business man of Trinidad, Colo,, is here, accompanted by his wife Mrs. D. Griffiths and Miss E. Jones, of Chi- cago, T1L., are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. £ J. Habeggar, & prominent business man of Portiand, Or.. is at the Cosmorolitan Hotel. S. H. Friedlander of the Columbia Theater will leave for New York on Saturday for a three months’ trip. J. H. Sturtevant, J. H. Banks and C. Ban- babbe of Hopland, witnesses before the Fed- eral court 10 an impending trial, are at the Russ. George F. Hooper of Sonoms, who lately sold his fine vineyard there for $75,000, is in the City. Heis s brother of Major N. B. Hooper of the Occidental Hotel, A promineat party of Des Motnes, Tows, people consisting of F. M. Langren, Mrs. Lang- ren, Miss Grace Langren, Miss May Tone and Mrs. M. L. Bethel, are at the Grand. C. A. Luckenbach of Los Angeles, grand chief of the Knights of the Maccabees, is smong the arrivals at the Lick. He is sc- companied by seversl other members of the order from the southern part of the State. Among the arrivais here yesterday was the Pennsylvania excursion of eighty persons from various parts of Pennsylvania and the East, illiam J. Atwood, & business man of New Heven, Conn., who is in the party, ssid that afier remaining here a few days they would go East vis. Ogden. They are at the Palace. Mrs. Mary Josephine Lynch left the Hotel Wentworth yesterdsy for Southern Cali‘ornis, where she will remain several months for the benefit of her health. She will visit her many friends and relatives in that section of the State, including her nephew, Robert Cromwell, the well-known olive-grower of San Diego County. Jane L. Stanford has returned here weeks’ absence in the East and is at the California-street mansion. It is given out that while East Mrs. Stanford consulted with the Tiffanys in New York with regard to the sale of her diamonds and other jewels, in order the better to help the university. These jewels are said to be worth from $500,000 to 1,000,000. Among the arrivals here on Sundsy was ex- Governor Claude Matthews of Indians, 50 years old, a farmer, and, like ex-Governor Brice of Towa, a prominent candidate for Pres- ident before the last Democratic National Con- vention. Mr. Matthews only remained over night. Hesew Chinatown and took s hasty view of cther parts of the City, and took his departure yesterday forenoon. Ex-Governor Brice of lows, who has been visiting friends here for nearly a week past, left yesterday fof'his home in Waterloo, The ex-Governor is an extensive farmer, having 8500 acres under cultivation. It ts the time for cutting cornstalks, sowing wheat and oats and plowing up the ground for corn in his State, 80 the Governor concluded he could stay no longor. He is greatly pleased with Caliornia, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Chiet Justice I. N. Sullivan of Idano was smong the arrivals at the Lick yesterday. The Chief Justice hails from the Wood River country, and went into office when Idaho be- came a State. He is about 50 years of age, and settied at the town of Hailey in 1882. The Judge has come to California on a vacation, and will remain about ten days. ““I suppose Idaho is about as well off ss any of the States,” said he. “Lead and siiver are pretty low, but cattle ana sheep are high, and wheat brings s pretty fair price. Overin the Wood River country, from which I come, it is presty quiet, because it is silver-mining there, and there is almost no money in silver now. “Our_livestock-growers have been making money lately. The sheepmen have been doing particularly well. Many cattlemen have changed to sheep during the last two or three years. “The great grain belt in Idaho, centering about Moscow and being a continustion of Little, Brown & Co. It will be fllustrated witn nineteen portraits and plates in photogravure and twenty-one maps and batile plans. Frau Amslie Friedrich Materna, the great ‘Wagner singer; whose career on the stage has recently come to a close, has determined to devote herself hereafter to training pupils for the operatic stage, and especially for Wag- nerian roles. The father of Senator Gorman, Peter Gor- man, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com- pany, used to play cards with Daniel Webater, and the Iatter, when Secretary of State, had Arthur, a boy of 13, appointed a page in the Senate. Webster died soon after. The Boulangist play which fs about to be produced in Paris is the work of General Bou- langer's last surviving confidant, M. Pierre Denis. Denis is now nearly 60 years old, and leads the life of a recluse, eating the simplest food and patching his own boots and clothes, A marble bust of Dr. Arnold of herofc size CHIEF JUSTICE I. N. SULLIVAN OF IDAHO. the Palonic and Potlatch belts in Eastern | Wasnington, has been producing vory large quantities of grain. This belt is probably 50 | miles long by some 30 wide in Idaho. “Though there is a duty on Cenadian lead, | yet the exigencies of the case regarding the 1daho lead mines does not seem to work we! The miners say the difficulty is in collecting the duty. - “I believe tne election of Mr. Heitfeld is to be contested in ihe United States Senate. Heitfeld is a good substantial farmer. He was a member of the State Senate two terms. He 1s recognized as & good, honest man, but not exectly the man for that position. Still, he may develop, as other men have done. You never can tell how a man will come out. “The population of Idsho is now about 185,000; of Boise, the capital, which is the biggest place in the State, 9000, and of the Wood River district about 5000. “We have, of course, the usual number of aspirants in Idaho for Federal positions. I have heard, however, of only one for s large office. That is W. B. Heyburn, who would like to succeed United States Judge McKenna. Judge Heyburn is a very honorable man and a splendid lawyer.” Chief Justice Sullivan was one of the Su- preme Judges elected October 1,1890. After (hey were elected hey drew lots for the long and short terms. Mr. Sullivan drew the short term and was the first Chief Justice. He was re-elected, and is now serving the last two years of his six years’ term. ALL FOR NOIHING Sweet Mamfe was a fair young thing, Bat her paps was gamey : And when be heard the doorbell ring. He's got to leave by haf.past ten?” (Sure, he was 00t 10 blame: he Was seting racher tired by ihe.) “Yes, dear papa ! said Mamie. But when it got to baif-past ten This cool youog man who came, he Stayed on. just like the other men, And pale and wan grew Mamie. There came a voice chock full of sand— She thought it sald, ““Obey m She up and t0ld the young man, He said good-by to Mamfe. Now, Mamie. as she went to bed, (She went, though, ail the samee 1) She sobbed and wished that she were dead— o mortified was Mami Then she stole up o pa, ‘Before she saiu her lay-me— Alss! i hat noise was papa’s snore; And ob, how mad was Mamie! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. How He Works It. “You say that Jones s leading a dual lffe? I astonished!’ “Yes: he has rented a private box at the peatoffice and gets letiers from his wife, who is visiting her people, without having them pass through the handsof his typewriter.” Cleveland Leader. __ Ready for Orders. “In summer time,” seid theloud-voiced man in the streetcar, “vou should drink the coldest water and keep all your eatables cold.” “I suppose you sre a doctor?” said the lady next to him. “No, mada; 3 an ice-dealer.”—Free Press, Must Not Be Too Scrupulous. The mother—Of course I don’t know whether Minnie will make a gooa salesgirl or mot, but 1know one thing about her—she’s s very con- scientious girl. Manager (0f bargain store)—Well, it’s possi- ble, you know, o overdo that sort of thing. The only vacancy we've got for & girl is at the linen handkerchief counter.—Chicago Tri- bune. Prospective Horror, “I hear that Judge Blucketts is studying mind reading,” said the lean lawyer. “If that is the case,” said the fatlawyer, *T am going to' leave town before I get arrested for contempt.”—Indianapolis Journal, Heart Trials. “Madge has been ordered by her parents to give up Jack altogether.” “Willshe do it 7" “She says she can't; he brings her a pound of caramels every evening.”—Chicago Record. MEN AND WOMEN Isaac Keenan, a colored man under life sen- tence in the Baltimore penitentiary, sent $5 to the City Marshal to be used in siding the distressed poor of the city. Some citizens In Kansas are trying to raise $1000 for 8 marble bust of Charles Robinson, | originaliy i the first Governor of the State, to be placed in the chapel of the State University. ‘Captain Mahan's “Life of Nelson” is set down to sppear next month from the press o | hasjust been unveiled at Rugby, Archbishop Temple, bimself a former head master of the school, making the address. The bust was nded for Westminster Abbey, but was rejected as being too large for the space assigned to it. Miss Kate Greenaway, who unpretendingly invented her own branch of art, lives in aan old and picturesque house in London, pro- vided with & roomy studio on the top floor. She went through a long course of study at | | the London art schools, and worked for years before her peculiar merits came out in a group of children, entitled, “Under tne Window.” Her own explanation of her success is that it is due to hard work and love of children. ENDS AND ODDS. In Boston it is proposed to hold song sery- | fees 1n the city prison for the cheerof the criminally inclined. Doubtless the worthy Puritans have suffered their inherent philan- thropy to obscure the modern sssumption that people are put into prisons because they do not deserve the blessings of {ree society. It tock two wagon-loads of police to see that the customary disorder at the Democratie city convention in St. Louis last week did not break forth into a free-for-all fight. Clubs were frequently called into service upon the heads of the mors fervidly Democratic, and | the ticket of nominations was punctuated by several small rough-and-tumble combats. Finally completed, however, the ticket was held triumphantly sloff and pointed out as the “representative ticket of good govern- ment!” The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle says: “The brethren of Ian Maclaren have been read- ing his books with theological spectacles, and have found what they were looking for—indi- cations of heretical beliefs, Accordinely he will be summoned before the English Presby- terian Synod next month to aunswer.” The charm of mere luxurious irrelevance will be aiffused over this solemn and stiff-necked pro- ceeding by the circumstance that Author Mac- laren’s book-characters’ heresies are none of the synod’s business. The advertisement here following was re- cently inserted in a London newspaper: “Applications are requirea for the position of offictal hangman tos British colony. Salary £250 per snnum,with expenses. Passage paid out. Address, stating qualifications, past em- ployment and full particulars, to R. 718, care of Deacon’s Advertising Offices, Leadenhall street.” More than 200 responses to this were re- ceived, indicating that there were more than 200 reasons not originally counted on by the suthorities for the appointmentof a public hangman. It is now comfortably expected that the one who is chosen from this excellent outfit will live toattain the happinessof hang- iog all the rest, and eventually get himself well hanged by his successor. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORE. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29.—At the Plaza— R E. Burns, R. P. Patterson, J. Rogers, P. C. Stewart; Holland—G. Cromwell, L. L Scott, J. Sloss; Bartholdl, F. J. Fleete; Continental, W. Mackie; Hoftman, W. F. Shaw; Ashland, Mrs. E. J. Smith; Grand Uniou, J. M. Stevenson; Netherland, Miss McAllister; Barrett, Miss F. Earle; Manhattan—F. Kuchenbelser, Mrs. W. L. Wordner, Mrs. Alexander Hill, child and nurse. Mr. and Mrs. C. Hoeffer and H. P. Winslow left thie Plaza and sailed on the Cam- pania for Liverpool. Mr. Myberg and Tad- achi Shirasu sailed for Europe. H.S. Nathaa 1s here buying. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS SENATOR MAHONEY—L. M., City. BState Sena- tor Mahoney represents the Twemty-fourth Senatorial District. THE CARNIVAL—A. L G., City. The carnival that will be held in this City in May is named Golden Gate, because it {s to be held within the Golden Gate thatguards the water entrance 10 San Francisco. BCHOOLS IN JOHANNESBURG, AFRICA—A. O. 8., City. There are twenty English schools in Pretoria, forty in Johannesburg and one or more in each of the other towns. The instruc- ti0n is similar to that imparted in the schools of England, DEBT OF NATIONs—T. 8. C., Tone City, Amador County, Cal. At the close of the fiscal year, July 1, 1896, the total interest-bearing debt of the United States was $847.363,890. The Na- tional debt of England is 653.540,105 pounds sterling; the debt of France was at the close of 1896 3,373,907,578 francs. CrviL SeRvicE EXAMINATION—A. J. W., City. An aspirant for & position under civil service Tules can procure the necessary papers from the department in this City in which the as- pirant would like to enter. Itis impossibie to 4 bow mauch 'a girl with an ordinary gram- mar school education knows,” but if she1s & Dbright, inteliigent girl she might receive the Tequired percentage. She should try. THE FarALLONS—J. M. D., City. There is no daily communication between San Francisco and the Farallon Islands. né" L .1]:?7; . islands. Carrier-p Soretakan o he isands about ihres monihs R0, when the watch was beinyg kept up for the arr{val of the Swanhilda with Murdezer Butler on board. AT A WEDDING—G. M., Fruitvale, Alameds County, Cal. How long one should remain at a wedding reception given between 1 and 5 00,00k in the afterncon depends very much upon the degie: of friendship between the bride and the caller, also upon the char- ncter of the recepiion. 'The cailer should be governed by the circumstances. AN INFANTRY COMPANY—G. W., City. The officinl army register, published by order of the Secretary of War, under the head of regi- ments and companies gives the following as the composition of & company of infantry of the United States army: Captain, first Lieu- tenant, second lieutenant, first sergeant, four sergeanits, four corporals, two musieians, two ariificers, one wagoner, fifty-one private: Commissioned officers, 3; enlisted men, 63 aggregate, 68, TEACHER-PROPESSOR—H. E. P., City. “Iam’s teacher of Italian,” and “I am s professor of Italian,” aro both correct. A teacher isone who teaches or instructs. A professor isone who makes instruction in any branch his business. The titie *professor,” now the highest that a teacher can receive. appears to have originated in the Itaiian universities. The title s often given to teachers of special brauches in secondary schools, and locally to principals of common schools. DICE SHAKING—G. S, San Jose, Cal. There is no rule in dice shaking that says that “a man who turns out five of a kind out of the box ai the first rattle loses.”” That is a barroom trick played on the fnnocents. It & greenhorn in shaking dice turns out five of a kind, his opponent calls out, “that’s the drinks on you,’ and all the others standing by coincide “with the speaker, and the “greeny” mot knowing better, stands treat for all hands. Five sixes are high at all times except in razale-dazzle. AERONAUTICS—C. E., City. Since 1890 tne science of aerial navigation has made consid- erable progress. To Hiram S. Maxim is due the credit of baving invented and built & machine that really lifted itself from the ground by its own internal force, without the aid of & balloon. His machine consisted of & great kite-like aeroplane, with smaller sero- planes above and others on_the sides, the pro- peliing machinery being borne on & truss deck velow the large seroplane and flankea by other smaller seroplanes. The propeiling vower used was steam. Some mechines bave been made to work by means of wings. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Next Session of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United ‘Workmen. The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen will meet on the morning of the 6th of April in this City, in B. B. Hall The committee on credentiais will meet en hour before that time in one of the lodge- rooms. In addition to the regular business that is to be brought up before the convention there will bean exemplification of the flacr and degree work, which will bs iliustrated with the stereopticon by the Pacifie drill team, assisted by the Mount Hamilton drill tesm, on the evening of the 6th, and on the evening of the Tth Past Supreme Master Workman Wii- liam H. Jordan will deliver a lecture on Cuba, and he will iliustrate it with stereopticon views. The evening previous to the calling of the Grand Lodge will be devoted to conferring of the Mogulion degree on & large class of cen- didates in one of the lodgerooms of the { L 0. B. B. building. The current mouth shows an unususl activ- ity in the order. At the close of business last Friday 537 appiications had becn paseed upon by the grand medical examiner. Since the insu.uration of the new plan in this jurisdic- tion Gegrees have been conferred Upon neariy 2000 candidates. Next Fridsy gvening Yerba Buena Lodge will confer the workman degree on ten can- didates. This evening the deputy grand master workman and the grand lecturer will confer the degrees on forty candidates for Merced Lodge. The following night they will confer the degrees on forty-five candidates for Visalia Lodge. X A new lodge will be instituted at Orosi on Wednesday. To-night the grand master workman will institute & new lodge at Concard, Last Monday Point Loma Lodge conferred the degrees on seventeen candidates. This evening Mount Hamiiton drill tesm will visit Stanford Lodge at Palo Alto to confer | the degrees on a number of candidates. Oak Lesi Lodge last Wednesday evening paid s fraternal visit to Upchurch Lodge in East Oakiand, when an address was de- livered by the grand recorder. There were other speeches and there were also songs and recitations. Oak Leaf Lodge at its last held meeting received six applieations. Mount Diablo Lodge of Walnut Creek will ceiebrate its eighteenth anniversary on the 16th of April and on_that occasjon addresses will be delivered by Past Grand Master Work- man Barnes aud Grand Recorder Hirshberg. A new lodge was instituted by the grand master workman at Martin, Sants Clara County, last week. Grand Overseer Schaffner is visiting lodges in Butte and Glenn counti Richmond Lodge, recentl; Richmond district, and of which William P. John- son is the master workman, will hold its first open meeting in Hamilton Hall next Wednesdsy evening, when a fine programme will be pre- sented. Instituted in the The Degree of Honor. Silver Spray Lodge Is making arrangements to entertain_three of the A. O. U. W. lodges on the evening of the 6th of pextmonth. A commitiee is at work arranzing a programme. ‘Workmen’s Guarantee Fund. The Workmen’s Guarantee Fund has leviea a $1 assessment for the mon:h of April, due on the st and payable on or before the 28th of the month. The Native Sons. Stantord Parlor will have several candidates for imitiation th's evening. On the evening of the 24th of April this parlor will enteriain the delegates of the Grand Parior who shall be n ihis City on that The entertaiament will be in Banquet Hall, Native So Among the signers on Grand Secretary Lun- stedvs register are: J. J. Wyatt of Salinas, J. F. ‘Aldoiph of Truckee, F. Chappellet Jr. of Sierra, R. H. Wail of Antioch, J. F. Treblicox, H. C. F. Athet, John Fraok, W. K. Dibdie, J. C. Byron, A. E. Cilnch, F. M." Miller, W. J. "Morris aud 1L, 3. Campbell, of Quariz Na. 58 ‘of Gras Vailey: 3 W. Monroe and J. M. Bugbee, of Alton. William M. Henderson, who was grand marshai of the Sacramento_celebration n Sacramento in 1895, was in (his Clty |ast week Visiting reia ives and reaewing acquainiances in the local pariors. Californin Camp 0. 4 0f the oider of the An gonauts has been organized with James J. Jami- Son as president and Fraok B, Kyan as secretary. The camp will mee: between the 16:h and 20th of April 10 initiste about for.y appiicants for degrees. "'ie members of Sutter Camp of the Argonaas who were here scme time since 10 confer the de grees have writien from their moustain home a Tetter expressive of their appreciation of the kind treatment received whiie here. Rincon Parior will have several Initiations next Wednesday. Grand Trustee Rust will during the week Vist: several of the local pariors. C. C. Dunoar, grand 1nside sen'ine’, & resident ot Santa Rosa, was in the City last week in the inter- est of securing the Naiive Sons’ celebration for Sania Ross next september.” great contest before the Grand Parlor will be for the officeof grand trusiee. There are soven 10 be elected and the followine-named are candi- dates: . M. Woster 0f Observatory Parios, A. McConaghy of Eden Parlor, P. E. Zabala of Santa Lucia Parior, F. Sabich: of' Ramona_Parior, C. Br Hete/in of San Francisco Parlor, A. W. Hall of Humbolds Parior, M. D. Garratt of Mission Parior, J. K. Hawkins of Pacific Parior, W. W. Shanoon of California Parlor, K. W. Levy of Bay City Par lorand Guy P, Hull of Redwood City Parlor, Court Sutro Helghts, F. 0. A. Court Sutro Heights, Foresters of America, held & summous meeting receutly, which was marked by an unususlly large atteadance. On looking over the reconds It was discovered that the court bad doubled In members as well as finances, a showing which many courts eannot boast of. After an interes:ing business meeting the fol- l.'lnilnflfl programme was rendered: Grand Sub- hiet Saunders, ~enior Woodward Samuels and D. G. C. B. Sam Weller each made & fow weli- stated remarxs to the eftect that the court is wiib~ out doubt the ban .er court of San Franciseo for the year 1806 W.B. Faulker favored with shuo s0l0, George Strong sang a soug, Professor eorge Little sang a popular song and t0ld a fuany story, after which Yehl eutertained with & piauo solo. Then fodowed a sonc by George Swall. & comic recitation by “Jigs” Pariridge and then the Boukofsky brothers enterials with mandolin and guitar. E. S Harding and Edward N. Boukofeky will represent this couri in the Grand Court that lato wmee: in Marysville. Companions of the Forest. Loyal Circle announces a parts for Apsil 91, Migerva Circle will give one ox the 138 of the same month. The ways and means committee Will give an entertainment during the coming MONLh (0 Taise ‘t'nlldl 10 entertaln ihe delegates 0 e Grand CRESWELL STANDS BY HIGH HATS Rottanzi’s Order Said to Be in Derogation of Civil Liberty. The Polica May Suppress the Three-Story Bonnets if Ttey So Desire. Dr. Cinton Champions the M asure and Claims That Ladies Have No Right to Wear Them. Supervisor Rottanzi's theater-hat or- dinance is in a fair way to follow in the footsteps of many another well-meant measure, for City and County Attorney Creswell has put the official stampof his disapproval on it, and pronouaced it “in derogation of civil liberty.” He says that the police may banish the three-story-and-a-basement hat from local playhouses, but what gallant guardian of the peace would interfere with a lady’s beadgear, even if it was aa tall as the Tower of Babel? Attorney Creswell sent the following communication to the Board of Sapervis- ors yesterday in response to quiry as to the legality of the proposed ordinance To_ the honorable the Board of Supervisors c the City and_County of ciscr: 1 Bm examined into the power of the Bosrd of § pervisors to pass an ordinaes character of hesd ador ladies when in attendence other piaces of publ.c s formity to the wish of the J tee of the board herew. ion on the same: If this right exists at all it mu the police power of the governm it may ‘‘preserve and promote the publ fare, even at the expense of privaie righ Ifit is intended by the proposed ordinan to promote the convenience of patrons of the theater and other places of public amusem the board has no power o psss and enfor the orainance. The poiice power does not co fer upon governmenial sgencies the t legis.ate for the conv. ce alone of the pu lic. The proposed ordinence in my opinion sumptuary in i1s naiure and in derogation of civil iiberty. HAREY T. CRES Attorney and Counse.or. Supervisor Rottanzi w0 found an u pected champion for his measure Clinton when the matter came up tef the board yesterday afternoon. Dr. Rot- tanzi was wroth that the legal adviser of the municipality hed decided agains: him and instead o! moving for a reconside tion of the matter as he had promised to do at the meeting when his oraer was knocked into a “‘cocked bat,” he asked fo a week’s further time. He will consult eminent legal lights to get opinions to offset that of Mr. Creswell. Dr. Clinton ssid, while the discussion was going on, that he thought Dr. Rot- tanzi's measure eminently proper; that ladies had no right to obstruct the view of male patrons of the theaters by wearing sky-scraping bonnets. and that when the ordinance came up for final consideration he would vote in favor of it. D Art Institute Election. Following is the reguler ticket for eles of directors of the Mark Hopiins I Arttobe held to-dey: Latimer, Edward Bosqui, Jsmes D. Phelsn C. Jonnson, Joseph D. Grant, Arthur Henry Heymen, Irving M. Scott, Wi Stafford and James W. Byrne. Poils will b open from 1 t0 6 .3 The annual meet will be held ing. SPECIAL inform: business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bure: len’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_——— repared in Californis comparison is really absurd; fire-etched bxs. Try them. Palace Hotel bidg.* St o “Look at the successful men inlife,” ssid the philosopher. “They are not the faul finders. They arenot the people Who mak: study of grievances.” “Humph!” replied his irritable friend, “that is easily explained. They are so situsted asto be able to have their own way about tuings.” —Washington Star. s Santa Fe Limited From San Francisco Three and a Half Days to Chicago . Via Sauta Fe Roaute. To accommodate our Northern California p trons, on April 2 and each succeeding Monday Friday the first-class Pullman sieeping-car 1 ing San Fraucisco at 5 P. & will connect at Ba stow with the Samis Fe vestibule train, carryiag dinlog-car, buffet, smokingcar znd Pulmsa pal- ace drawing-room sicepinz-cars for both St. Lonis and Chicago via Kacsas City. This shortens the running time tweive hours. Send for llteraiure Gescriptive of our route. Saa Francisco tickes office, 844 Market sireet, Chronicie bafiding; tele- phone main 1531, laad, 1118 Broadway. —_———— Railroad Tickets to the East via Rio Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At lowes: possible rases, with throngh Pullman buftet and tourist sleeping car service every day. Personally conducted excursions leaving Toesd: Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permi stop-over at Salt Lake Cliy on a'lel Detatled Information and tickets furnished st 14 Montgomery sireet, or 314 California street. 2 Dee = Change of Time. Taking effect March 28, the Northern Pacific overiand train will leave Portiand at 114 X In- stead of 1 P. )., thus making conmection at Spo- kane for all points in the new Kootenal mining district. Tickets ai lowest rates to Rossisni, Northport and Trail T. K. Stateler, geaeral agent, 638 Marke: sireet, San Francisco. ———— FoR CovaEs, ASTHMA AND THEOAT DISORDERS =Brown’s Bronchiai Troches ™ are an effectusl rem- edy. Soid only in boxes. e As a stomachic, when the digestive organs are inactive and need sumulating, especially atter dinner, nothiag can equal Aver's Pills. It is seven and s half years since the Kaiser came 10 the throne, and 1n that time he has xilled, according to the official statistics, 25,372 head of game. This list includes ona whale, two surocks and three large bears, but takes no account of very small game, snipe, ete. Absolutely Pure. Celobrated for ity st leaves: atre: Doalthiuiness. - Assi 1ot the oot Akt e aad ..ll":;. of adalieation commeon to the cheap ... 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