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

§ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1897. APRIL 9, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CaLx, one week, by carrler..§0.15 Dail CaL1, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dail; six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dail; three months by mail 1.50 Daily one month, by mall.. .85 unday CALL, one year, by mall. 1.50 WXEKLY CaLL, one year, by mal 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, San ¥rancisco, California. Telephone 8 Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephone BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Cl ©:30 o'cleck. treet; open until wclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenti and Mission streets, open untl] 8 o'clock. 2018 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until § o'clock. 1506 Polk street; open until 9:30 0'clock. NW. cerner Tweuty-second and Kemtucky Streets; open 111l 9 o'cloci OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Kareweil, Chief Crowley; all bail, Chief Lees. ‘We have lost 2 good Chief of Police, but there is another. It is springtime, says the slmanac. It is summer, says tke weather bureaun. The experience of the boulevard workers is that even & barbecue isn't always what it is cooked up to be. The wool industry has siready felt the effect of the coming protective tariff and prices have begun to climb. The touievard fund claims attention once more. Now is the time to giveita lift and keep the work moving. There seems to be no leader in Europe either for war or for peace and everything is drifting to & general cataclysm. 1t seems about as difficult to blockade the war movement in Europe asitis to re- stram the Mississippi in this country. This is the kind of weather which gives & man the tired feeling at his business, but a superabundant energy for a holiday. The Qaeen’s jubilee will be a wastetul holiday for the American tourist and a barvest time for the London shopkeeper. It will be noticed that McKinley hasn't overworked himself and been forced to go fishing for a rest. He isn’t that kind of a statesman, The Mississippi floods tnis year are said to be the largest in the history of theriver. They have a faculty of growing up with the country. The workingmen in the Eastwho have begun striking for higher wages are de- cidedly premature. The Dingley tariff is not in operation yet. The Dingley bill will have a hard strug- glein the Senate, but there is no danger that it will come out so tattered and shorn as the Wilson bill did. Now that the Towa has been tested for speed and proven good it wouldn’t be & bad idea to send her to Cuban waters and try her fighting powers. Carnival talk is now heard all over the State from Los Angeles to Lakeport. It is going to be a festal season for California and a zood time lor all who have a frolic- some spirit. Jerry Simpson’s attack on Speaker Reed emphasizes the importance of the Reed rules to the House. Just imagine what the proceedings would be like it Jerry were permitted to have his own way. Protection to American ships should be provided for at the same time as protec- tion to other industries. With the in- crease of our products there should be an increase of commercial power to send them all over the world. It is said the loss entailed by the Missis- mppi floods this year would have more than repaid the cost of works which would permanently prevent them, but the trou- ble 15 nobody seems to know how such works should be constructed, even if the Nation were willing to pay for them. Not asingle alliance arranged by the diplomatists of Europe has withstood the strain put upon it by the Cretan criais. Public opinion has overcome secret in- trigue and the press is now doing more to shape the course of the nations than ali the diplomatists and statesmen put to- gother. The Board of Heaith hasadopted a good line of work in enforcing the pure-food law, and if it hews to the line it will have public support, mo matter where the chips may fall. California produces an abundance of good foods of all kiuds, and there is no reason why adulterated arti- cles should be sold here. In attacking the Salisbury Ministry and supporting the caue of Greece, the Lon- don Chronicle declares: “England’s hizk- est and holiest concern is to be the helper of free nationalities.”” It is evident from this that enthusiasm can attain to uncon- scious humor just as easily as the sub- lime can reach the ridiculous. The city elections in the East this year constitute a decided case of mixed pickles. Chicago went Democratic, bt St. Louis went Republican. Several towns in Ohio elected Democrats, but in Kensas the Re- publicans had the best of it. Itlooksa: if the people everywhere wanted a change and had started a variety show. 8t. Helena has orgamized a Board of Trade and will work fof the establish- ment of a sugar refinery, a creamery, a cannery and a fruit-dryer. These aims are not beyond the attainment of the com- munity, and if the people generally give proper support to the leaders in theenter- prises all of them may be accomplished in a comparatively short time. The fact that a steamship is to be fitted with refrigerators to carry ice from Cali- fornia to Alaskna is one of the curiosities of commerce. It is notstranger, however, tban many other commercial ventures. In fact, “‘carrying coals to Newcastie” is now & commonpisce of trade, and there is scarcely a department of commerce thai does not show some apparent paradox of the kina. WATCH THE TARIFF. The Senate Committee on Finance is busily engaged in revising the tariff bill as it came from the House. What alterations will be made cannot be foreseen. Parties are closely drawn in the Senate, and tne chances for a reduction of duties from the House rates are hardly less than those for an increase. The situation is at any rate one which requires watchfulness on the part of the members of every industry whose interests are involved in the bill. Incessant vigilance is particularly necessary to Californians. ington show that New York importers are Reports from Wash- making earnest efforts to obtain areduction on the duties imposed upon fruit, nuts, olive oil and other products which are pro- duced no where in the Union except in Cal despise. upon the committee is tremendons, That without our aid, of cours greed of the New York importer. impossible to enact a tariff which will not finish with i have the Dingley duties reduced on wool the tariff. antagonistic to California industries and interests. but if it does so it will make one against us. vigorous in maintaining our cause ourseives we cannot expect others to be so. The California influence should be felt at Washington not less than the New York in- finence, for otherwise the industry of the California producer may be sacrificed to the The party of protection as a National system does not control the Senate. ley bill, so wisely drawn in the House, may be baaly distorted before the Senators . This is the danger which confronts us. call for earnest attention on the part of the peopie of California. ifornia. A strong attempt will be made also to break down the duty fixed on wool. In fact, a fight for free raw material and food products will be waged all along the line, and in the present evenly divided con- dition of the Senate these assaults constitute a danger we cannot afford to ignore or Well-informed correspondents say that the pressure that is being brought to, bear pressure we must counteract so far as it1s The Senate can make a tariff bill If we are not 1t must be remembered that the Senats is so divided at this time that it may be be to a large extent a compromise bill. The Ding- 1t is sufficiently serious to We cannot affora to , fruit, raisins, lumber or any other product of the State. This, therefore, is the time for incessant vigilance on our part. Watch EX-CHIEF CROWLEY, the position of Chiel of Police, which he has so long and so worthily filled, affords to the people of San Francisco a good op- portunity for making known to him the popular esteem for his coaracter and the public appreciation of the manner in which he has performed the arduous, dangerous and compiex duties of the office. It is right and fitting that the press should give some expression to public | sentiment in this regard, and Tue CALL | glacly and cheerfully does so. Kor many years Chief Crowley has been the most noted Chief of Police in the United States. He has enjoyed a National fame rather than a local reputation. Among officers of the law throughout all parts of the United States his work has besn known has been high. No other city in the Union has had an official in a similar capacity who has served it so well or whose general repute has been so wide- spread, and 1n whose energy, honesty and sagacity there has been 80 much pub- lic confidence. The duties of a Chie! of Police are of a nature that require the highest personal characteristics in the man who is to per- form them with success and honor. A sonally, free from all evil association. He 10 see his way clearly to the solution of the most difficult problems of law and crime so that the evildoers may be sup- pressed and the innocent saved from wrong. He must be a man of courage, whom no dangers can daunt, and of hon- esty which no bribes can subvert. He must have, moreover, that discretion in the management of delicate matters which will enable people to entrust him with con- ill be disclosed. All of these character- with them he had an energy which en- abled him to put them into good effect in every emergency that arose. After more than twenty-four years of service, in which he has faithfully per- formed every duty entrusted to him, the Chief now goes into retirement with a record on which there is no spot or stain or mark that mars. It is a clear, clean, be proud and in which his children and his children’s chilaren may rightly re- joice. The people of San Francisco may also take a just pride in having had so excel- lent an officer in this difficult position and in having supported him in it for so long a time. His career is as creditable to the community that upheld him as it is to himself. Now in his ola age, as he zoes 1nto retirement to enjoy the rest and pension he has so well deserved, he will continue to be honored the past. He will long serve the people of San Francisco as a model by which all future chiefs of police may mold their standard of action, and it will be ac- counted praise for even the best of them to be said that he is 2 worthy successor of Patrick Crowley. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. The act of Congress appropriating $200,- 000 for the reliet of the sufferers by the Mississippi floods will be well received by the country.. Congress in fact could have hardly done otherwise. Since we have been liberal in giving aid to India and other foreign countries we could not hesi- tatein extending help to our own cuun- trymen when they need it. The fund thus bestowea by the Govern- ment will be but a small part of the help which will be given to the stricken peo- ple. Private charity will far exceed it in generosity and in amount, and it is certain that so far ascharity can repair the evil wrought by the flood it will be done. The serious feature of the situation is that the relief granted by the Government or given by private generosity will be only a temporary expedient. It will not in any way prevent the occurrence of simi- lar disasters in the future. ln fact the Missiesippi problem is rapidiy becom- ing chronic. Floods to a greater or less extent occur every year, and, moreover, they increase in the amountof damsge and disaster which they bring to the peo- ple who live along the banks of the great river. Thus the work of relief done this year will probably have to be repeated next year, and so on until at last appro- priations for the Mississippi flood suffer- ers may become a permanentcharge upon the Government. It is evident that the attempts made to restrain the river by levees are worse than futile. They aguravate the evil instead of apolying a remedy forit. The higher the levees are built, the higher is raised the bed of the river. The more narrow the bounds of the stream are made the more terrible are the floods that overflow them. All the waters which drain into that im- mense basin whicn lles between the Rocky and the Alleghany mountains must be carried off by the single great stream, and it is a physical impossibility to dam up these waters on their way to the sea. The problem is one of the most difficult which confronts American engineering. It seems that the only solution must be one which will widen the mouths of the Mississippi =0 as to allow a freer flow of water to the sea, or else a system of irriga- tion which would enable it to overflow the whole of the lowlands of Arkaonsas, Louisiane and Mississippi, as the Nile overflows Egypt. To each of these plans lzhen are objections, but they are not so serious as those which can be urged sgainst the levee system. While the f The retirement of Pairick Crowley from | and the esteem in which he has been held | Chief of Police must be a clean man per- | must be a man of marked sagacity, able | fidential secrets without fear that they | istics Chief Growley posses:ed, and along | honest record, one of which the Chief may | s he has been in | levees stand there will be overflows of in- creasing magnitude, whereas by the adop- tion of either of the other plans, such evils as result would be of a fixed nature, easily calculated beforehand, and would not entail the dangers which result from a continual rise in the bed of the river and a continual increase in the extent of its | recurring floods. THE REED RULES. The attack of Jerry Simpson upon the rules under which the House of Repre- | sentatives does business is not wholly to | be regretted. As Speaker Reed himself | said, it is just as well to have the subject brought up for consideration in order that the people raay understand it and if any- thing wrong be discovered the remedy | applied promptly by Congress. | Mr. Simpson began his attack by read- | ing an article from a Washington news- | paper and an extract from an article in | the current number of the Forum by Sen- ator Hoar to which we called attention a | few days ago. These articles, according | to Mr. Simpson, afforded him authority : for declaring tnat the present rules of the | House are subversive of the independence of the members and deprive them of the power of rightly representing their con- stituents. Using them as texts he deliv- | ered a harangue in which he alternately denounced the Speaker as & czar and tne | House as & body of cringing slaves. ‘The article by Senator Hoar affords Mr. Simpson no authority for his assertion, although some passages in it could be | selecied which seem to do so. The gen- eral tenor of the article is that it woald be | impossible for the House to transact busi- ness atall without the new rules which have been adopted, and which are so vig- orously enforced by Speaker Reed. Sena- tor Hoar points out that obstruction in the Senate is as nothing when compared to the obstruction practiced in the House whenever it is permitted. Under the former rulss of the House it | was possible for one or two men by filibus- tering to render it impossible for a ma- | jority to carry out any legislation what- | ever. What Senator Hoar said about the | new rules, therefore, was not intended by | bim and would not be construed by any | intelligent reader as a condemnation either of the Speaker or of the majority in the | House. His whole object was to show that the House is not a better legislative body than the Senate, and that current criticisms on Senatorial proceedings which account them as inferior to the method of procedure in the House are unjust, un- fair and not supported by facts. | The reply of Mr. Reed to the attack of the member from Kansas was exactly what it should have been. Clearly and coolly the Speaker called attention to the fact that be is simply the agent of the | House, entrusted with the duty of execut- | ing the rules which the House jtself has adopted. He has no power to exercise except that which has been given him by the majority. That power, he has reason to believe, is not seriously objected to by | any considerable number, even among the members of the opposition. Leaders of the House of all parties recognize the necessity oi the new rules for the transaction of business. This was shown by the manner with which Mr. Simpson’s attack was received. It found no support from any man of weight and influence on either side of the House, while on the oiher hand the delense of the Speaker was greetea with general ap- plause. The sentiment of the country is | the same as that of Congress. The people desire that public business shall be promptly transacted, and by enforcing the rules which engble the House of Rebre- sentatives to fulfill this desire Mr. Reed Las made ‘himself the most popular Speaker since thedaysof James G. Blaine, THE NEw THEORY. New York Sun. ‘““Greet the brethren with a holy kiss” was the old Chrisilan injunction. ‘“‘Greet the brethren with shot and sheil” is the new theory of the great powers ol Europe. And the heathen rejoice exceedingly. OLDEST WEST POINT GRADUATE. A correspondent of the Washington Star cor- rects the siatement tnat Genmeral Ruggles 1s the oldest living graduate of West Polnt. The honor, he says, belongs to Brevet Major-Gen- ernl George S, Greene (first lleutenant, U.S. A., retired), who entered the academy on June 24, 1819, was graduated in 1823, nine years be- fore General Ruggles, and served with gal- laatry i the volunteers during the Civil War. He is now in his ninety-sixth year, and is still able to attend banquets, reunions, ete. He is ihe father of Colonel Francis V. Greena of this city. THE RiCHEST AMERICAN. Chicago Record. It is said that William Waldorf Astor will be & billionaire before he reaches the allottsd age, and that he will follow the precedent set by his great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor, in transmitting his fortune to his eldest son. Ehould he become a bilifonaire his income at 6 per cent interest would be $60,000,000 8 $5.000,000 & month, $1,171,154 a week., $166, 849 a day, £6952 05 an'hour, $11587 & min- ute and $1 93 a second. Asto the weaith of Andrew Carnegle and John Wanamaker, the 1ron and steel king is said to be worth $20,000,000, and the mer- chant prince $10,000,000. ORIGIN OF 1HE WCRD TARIFF Harper's Round Table. Every day when we oven our morning news- paper and read the political discussions in its columns, we are sure to come across some- thing about the tarif. Every one knows the meaniug of the word tariff, but it is not gen- erally known where it originated. It is of Moorish origin, and descended to us from the time when the Moors occupied a goodly part of Spain. In those days they built & fort to Fuard the Strait of Gibralter, and they called |1t Tarlis. It was the custom of these people to levy duties according to a fixed scale, which they adopted and cnanged from time (o time, even as much as we do our own tariff laws, on the merchandise of ail vessels passing in and out of the Mediterranenan. They claimed the right by virtue of strength, and for years netied 8 rich income. CABINET MEMBERS AS SINGERS. Becretary Long is reputed to be the musical member of the Cabicer, He sings bass in the cholr of the Unitarian church at Hingham and belongs to a musical soclety in Boston which gives oratorios, cantatas and other seri ous music. Itisclaimed that the Secretary can carry the bass to an anthem, writes W. E Curtls, as well as any singer in all the six States of New England, and that he used to sing in church when he was young. Secretary Alger is a good deal of a hand ate war song, and will be a great addition to Sen- ator Haiwey’s choir at Loysl Legion banquets, but he does not pretend to have any technical knowledge of religious music. Mr. Sherman does not know one tune from suother. During the last campsign, while he was stumping in Ohio, the band played “I'm Looking for the Bully of the Town” to open his meeting. As soon as it finished that splen- did air Mr. Sherman arose and declared that nothing so inspired a citizen with patriotism for the performance of his duties to his coun- try as the majestic siraina of our grand old ational hymn, “The Star-spangied Banner,” and he thanked the band for giving him the text for his speech. Everybody laughed, of course, and Mr. Sherman said afterward that it was the most irreverent sudience he has ever addressed. ———— PERSONAL. 3. M. Life of FortJones is at the Russ. F. P. Johnson of San Diego 1s in the City. A. G. White of London is at the Occidental. D. H. Griffiin of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. Robert L Hargrave of Maders arrived here yesterday. Walter McDougal, a business man of Chicago, isin tow! John W. Butler of Marshfield, Or., is on a visit to the City. Dr. H. P. Mathewson of Visalia is registered at the Russ. General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluft is a visitor here. L. Lorenz of the steamsnip City of Everett is 1n the City. Dr. Osborne Kaight of Auckland is here on a tour of the world, General P. W. Murphy of Santa Margarita is at the Baldwin, J. A. McKenzie, a merchant of Merced, ar- rived here yesterday. Charles Muggleson of Janesville, Wis., s among recent arrivals, J. D. Bradiey,a business man of Merced, is quartered at the Grand. George G. Stead, a leading merchant of Christenureh, N. Z., is In the City. Colonel J. E. Campbell of the British army in India is here en route to England. Isasc Gibbs, manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Auckland, is in town. Androw Brown, a genersl merchaut, mine and mill owner of Ke-nville, is at the Grand. C. C. Clarke, a wealthy resident of New York, 188t the Palace, sccompanied by his servant. George Pirie, who is connected with an ex- tensive woolen-mill in New Zealand, is in the City. 0. E. Krausse, a business man of Salem, Or., fsat the Lick sccompanied by his wife and children. Colonel T. W. Brooks of Pomona arrived here yestorday and is at the Grand. He has not been here before for ten years. Hon. A. L Clark, Attorney-General of Tas- mania, was one of the arrivals by the Mono- wai yesterday. He is at the Occidental. John Brockman, the discoverer of the Pearos mine, Pearce, Aniz., and D. M. Barringer of Philadelphia were among yesterday’s arrivals here. Major Elliot of the Fortieth Regiment, and secretary to the Governor of New Zealand,who 1s the Earl of Glasgow, is at the Californis. The major s a cousin of Lady Glasgow. John C. Lynch of Cucomongs, San Diego County, ex-speaker of the Assembly, who, ac- cording to a late Washington dispatch, is to te Collector of Internal Revenue, is among the guests of the Baldwin. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y., April 8.—At the Plaza, F. T. Brennan; Continental. H. B. Chapin, Miss Chapin; Grand Union, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Goddard, H. Waldick, E. B. Blackwell, of Cali- fornia; Ashland, J. F. Valentine; Grand, A. Goldberg; Gilsey, W FOR MAHOMET. BALLAD OF THE TIME. Tt was the good Lord <alisbury St0od at the castie gate. A maoy men and many ships Upon his bidding walt. “Go for.h.” he said, “ye seamen, Great is the Suiian’s need, The crescent falls before the cross Unless ye make g00d speed. 70 sea! to sea! brave sailors, Hold me the sea-gates fast, For Marathon and Salamis Are 1:ving from the past. Mahomet fears Greek valor Led by t king's son. Oh, conntrymen of Nelson ! Haste, ere the fight be won!” Then, put to sea the vessels, While hearts English cheers For Prophet and for Crescent Amaz-d surrounding ears. And in th» ancient Hellas ‘The snidiers gathered free, From the cities and the country Aud the land beyond the sea. But all the warships clustered Like 1008 round their prey, And Italy ani Germany And Franoe were there that day. King Lou.s the Crusader Gazed down from heaven high With many » Hohenzo lern ‘And many a Pope thereby. ©h! woe for slanghtered Christians! Woe! for the wasted Iun Alasand woe! when time shall show The lightnings of God’ ‘His purpose will not tar His messages are stroni And they who fight againat that might Wage not the baitle long 'w York Times. WITH YOUR CCFFEE Jenks—That was a tough thing about Lowry, wasn'tit ? Jones—What was that? Jenks—The rubber hose he got tangled up in. McPherson—McLaurin must be & man of very large wealth. McKirdy—I hear that everything he has is in soak. McPherson—Impossible! wealth was in real estate. McKirdy—So it 1s, but i's down along the Mississippi. A slzte fell off a roof and fatally injured an aged office-seeker, whose life had been spent in & ceaseless quest for ple. When the doctor told him he must prepare for another and better world he faintly smiled. “At last,” he feebly murmured, “at last I'm slated for & mighty good place.” And then ho died.—Cleveland Plain Deater. “When you are absorbed in your business cares downtown to-day, Herbert, you will for. get your little wife entirely.” *No, darling, that steak you cooked for me with your own sweet hands this morning for breakiast will keep you {n my memory every minute of the day.”—Chicago Times. “What do you consider the hardest problem of a man's existence?’’ ‘Getting his own consent to crawl outof bed in the morning.”—Chiecago Record. 1 thought all his Moss—This paper says that 5000 people can be crowded into La Scala In Miian. ¥oss—We have something in this country that can beat that, Moss—What is it ? Foss—A New York elevated train.—New York Tribune. Dr. Ende—There's nothing serlous the mat- ter with Patsy, Mrs. Mulcahey. Ithink alittle so0ap and water willdo him as much good as anything. Mrs. Muicahey—Yis, dosther, an’ will Of give 1t to him befoor or afther his males.—Judge, Amy—Mabei, do you ever think about mar- risge 7 Mabel—Think is no name for it Iworry.— Harlem Life, STEALING COFFIN BOARDS FROM INDIAN GRAVES. That is what led to the femous Indian outbreak on the Rogue River, Oregon, forty years ago. The white settlers ravaged the graves of the Indians’ aead for the boards of which the coffins were built. The Indians, whose relatives were thus horribly insulted after death, finally uprose and precipiteted & massacre. Lieutenant George W. Miller, an active participantin that remarkable affair, now resides at Belvedere, where a CALL writer interviewed him this week. His graphic narrative, fully iliustrated, will appear in next SUNDAY'S CALL. The advent of Easter week will see the advent of the Easter Girl, decked out in the most wonderful of fine feathers. An Easter girl has written all about her lovely type and what she has been doing in the way o preparing for Easter, and on one of the pages of next SUNDAY'S |- CALL she will bloom in regal splendor. 1t you're a man, perhaps you marvel at the man out shopping among the milliners’ stores ver went along and tock snapshots of him while in the first shock of surprise at what he learned, and while in the act of retreating from the miliiner’s austere glance es she demanded to know why he didn’t send his wife along. The picture of a trolley-boat flying across the Atlantic under water, together with the text explaining how it might be done will be another singular feature of TiE SUNDAY CALL. ever hear of s “chloroform spree””? One who tried the has related her thrilling sensations for the readers of Did any of our San Francisco gi experiment, “just to see how it felt, THE SUNDAY CALL “‘Remiuniscences of Adolph Sutro,” with an tunnel agitation and for the first time presenting the famous capitalist in illustration as & miner, will appear in the same paper. There will also be: A freshly illustrated and carefully written book page. A complete theatrical page. An up-to-date society mirror. “Marcelle’s” inimitable fashion letters, fully illustrated, supplemented by some special Easter desig A chatty New York letter. A letter from London on Alfred Parsons, the artist, who recently attained fresh dis- tinction. An unusually readable mining review, illustrated. , which every little one in California knows ana loves and watches for eagerly every week. Something very important next Sunday. A page devoted to the Childhood’s Realm, A we!l-informed fraternal review. Adeline Knapp's “1dyls of the Field.” Weekly whist review, announcing something new in local whist clubs. Another admirable article on the State University by John Bonner. And ail the usual details which go to round out the family Sunday paper of the Pacific Coal awtul cost of Easter bonnets, THE CALL sent s this week, and his experiences were rich. Cul- interview, recalling the days of the great Sutro AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. A. Smith, edito1 ot the Santa Cruz Penny Press, is one of the new converts to the beliel that California is the coming country. Smith came from Chicago about five months ago and bought the little Santa Cruz dally, since which time ho has been content with life and enraptured with the world. “I have been in many paris of the world lately,” said Mr. Smith, as he smoked a Havana. at the Grand Hotel, yesterds: continent as Santa Cruz. You couldn’t get me back to Chicago, with its jam and nolse of human beings and its erratic climate. The dust and smoke, blizzards, winds and sun- | strokes of the East are encugh to drive one mad. “Santa Cruz s a dream in climate and scenery, and business fs picking up now. New | stores are being opened, tourists are coming Editor | “but I had not | believed there was such a paradise on this | MEN AND WOMEN. The Prince of Wales has a collection of over | 172 walking-sticks. Richard Harding Davis has resumed connec- | tion with Harpers Mogazine, ana sailed for | England to write up the Queen’s jubilee for that periodical. | The fact is noted that with Mme. Hirsch’s | $1,800,000 the total amount of the Hirsch charities is $14,300,000. The Hirsch famiy holds tne record for charity. Mary Reed, the missionary to the lepers, has been requested by the Rajah of the province 10 esablish & school at Ascoti, he promising her the ground and building. The Financial Scorcher is the name by which Baron Alfred Rothschild was known during his recent sojourn in Vienna., Heisa sirst-rate bicyelist, butsomewhat tooquick and | I 1l EDITOR W. A, SMITH of the Santa Cruz Penny Press. in, trout-fishing is beginning and everybody down our way is happy. “The Big Creek Power Company is about to startin on a large scale to supply power for the electric-cars. 1t is only one of many possible enterprises that are yet to make the city and county famous. Ihave come to stay, and the Penny Press pleases me greatly. It has also come 0 remain, rumors to the con- trary notwithstandin, ANSWERS 10 (URRESPONDENTS. MUSICAL GLASSES—W. W., City. Some inal- viduals who perform on musical glasses dip the ends of their fingers in lime julce just be- fore the performance. LOCATION OF RANDSBURG—F. E. H.,Woodland, Yolo County, Cal. The location of Randsburg, Kern County, is section 35, T. 29 south, 40 gaat, and section 2, T. 30 south, 40 east, FEDERAL OFFICERS—Subscriber, City, and F. N. 8 C., Gilroy, Santa Clara County, Cal. Jonn Daggett as Superintendent of the Mint' took office August 1, 1893; John H. Wise as Collec- tor of the Port took office June 1, 1893. BIRTHPLACE AND EDUCATION—A., Alameda, Cal. The individual named in your communi- cation has been asked the question asked in your letter, but for reasons best known to himself he has decline dto furnish the answers. DISPOSING OF PROPERTY—E. A. §., Los Angeles, Cal. If a married man wishes that after his death his widow may enjoy his property witn- out cost and trouble of an administration in court he can in his lifetime deed his property 10 her. TELFPHQNES—W. W. B., Sebastopol, Sonoms County, Cal. In the City of San Francisco there is the main telephone office and nine stations or branch offices. Thereare telephone stations in about 600 cities and towns in the State outside of Sau Francisco. TENNYSON — Correspondent, City. Alired Tennyson the poet, died at Aldworth Honse, near Haslemere, Surrey, October 6, 1892. The temporary resting place was St. Faith’s Chapel, in Westminister Abbey, and on the 12th of October they were Inid to rest in the poet's corner, close 1o the grave of Chaucer. The magazines of 1892 and 1893 contain many articles on the poet and his lile. These can be seen at the Free Public Library. SAILED FOR ALASKA—R. S, P, San Luis Okispo County, Cal. The following named vessels sailed from San Francisco for the far North on the 6th, 7th, 10th and 11th of April, 1896: 6, schooner Prosper for Cooks Inlet; 7, brig Hidalgo, on whaling voyage; 7, ichooner R. W. Bartiett for Nichol bark Theobald, Cool Marion, Cooks 'Inle J. Morse for Karlck. AUTHORITY—G. E. M., Watsonville, Banta Cruz County, 1f a postmaster or a United States marshal should be murdered in the State of California the State authorities would have jurisdiciion of the murderer. When United States Marshal Richardson w: kiiled in San Francisco in 1856 by Charle Cora the authorities of San Francisco took charge of the murderer, and would have tried him had not the vigilance commitiee taken him out and hanged him. Arroyo Grande, {ski; 11, Inlet; 10, barkentine nd 11, suip Liewellyn rash in his fight to suit either the Viennese cyclists or the pedestrians. General Schofield and his wife are passing the winter in one bf the Ponce de Leon cot- tages at St. Aucustine. The general has a book of army experiences and recollections in the press. Eugen D’Albert, the pianis recently playing in London, has just been giv- ing a series of recitals in Moscow, where he has met with great success,netting over $1500 at each concert. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is passionately fond of bull-fights, and makes it & rule to visit the “ring” whenever she is in Spain. In fact,at theend of a performance notlong ago, she presented the toreador with a diamond scarf- pin. The Countess of Warwick, better known to fame as the Lady Brooke, who testified in the Prince of Wales’ baccarat mess, was thrown from her horse while following the hounds near Kinoulton recently and dislocated her arm. Her Majesty the Queen has a double in the person of an elderly lady who occupies—or occupied—a position in the Middlesex Hospi- tal, where she was known the “Queen of Middle: She is the exact age of the Queen, and becam® a widow 1n the same year that the Queen lost her consort. who was only While the Emperor William was celebrating tne birthday of his little daughter, Victoria, recently, by a children’s party at Po'sdam, NEW TO-DA There are times when the variation of a pulse beat tells the practiced physician twhether the scale will go down and mean death or up and mean life. But suppose the medicine he prescribes is not the medicine which your child is taking, but some- thing the druggist thought would do just as well! Who is going to regulate the bal- ance then? A druggist who will offer you something else when you ask for Scott’s Emulsion will do the same thing with his prescriptions. |Get what you ask for] . the children wanted to dance. It being in- convenient to call in a military band, the Emperor sent out into the street for an organ- grinder, and after the dancing was over gave him £8. Miss Mary French Field says that ber father didn’t make a cent out of his popular poem, «A Little Peach in the Orchard Grew.” Her- bert Smith, the man who set it o music, real ized $35, while publishers of the soug cleared $50,000. THE latest Easter eggs at Townsen?’s, —e———— TourtsTs—California glace fruit, 50c 1 elegant fire-etched bxs. Townsend's, P — e FPECIAL information datly to mnnu(acm;en\ business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. —————————— I guess,” remarked Willle Washington hopelessly, “that I have said the wrong thing again.” “To whom?” “Miss Seeranbraun. I was complimenting her on her costume, and on & venture I told her that she looked the part completely—that it was positively lifelike. I have just found out the character she was assuming. “What was it?” : A lady of the preceding century.”’—Wash- ington Star. . in ce.® Santa Fe Limited From San Francisco Three and a Half Days to Chicago Via Santa Fe Route. To accommodate our Northern California pa- trons, on Mondays and Thursdays the first- class’ Pullman sieeping-car leaving San Fran- clsco at 5 P. M wil conmect at Barstow with the Santa Fe vestibule train, carrylaz dining-car. buftet, smoking-car and Puilmsn pal- ace drawing-room sleeping-cars for both St. Louts and Chicago via Kansas City. This shortens the running time twelve hours. Send for literature Cescriptive of our route. San Francisco ticke: oflice, 844 Market street, Chronicle bullding; tele- phone main 1831 Oakland, 1118 Broad way. e el e o Railroad Tickets to the Kast via Rio Graude Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At lowest possible rates, with through Pullman buffet and tourist sieeping car service every cay. 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