The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. —Postage Free: 414 Sunday CALY, one week, by carrler. .§0.13 and Sunday CALL, ope year, i 6.00 8.00 1.50 65 1.50 1.50 &y CALL, one mouth, by mail.. one year, by mall ar, by mall Eunday CaLL WAEKLY CaLL, oo BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 arket Street, an ¥rancisco, Callfornia. Telephone .. Maln—1808 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone...... Main-18574 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open untfl 5 Hayes atreet; open until 9:30 o'olock. 615 Larkin street, open until 8:50 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open BEifl @ o'clock. 518 Mission street, op n nnttl 9 o'clock. 187 Ninth street, open untll 8 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until §:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky atroets; open till 9 o’ciock. OAKLAND OFFICB. 998 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York CliFe DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- That European obert the Dey concert has played with Rcobert left out. There is & rade for California in South Americ led she takes the trouble to go after it in the right way. Since we abandoned the carnival for Balboa avenne, we cannot afford to aban- don the avenue. The money needed to complete it must be pungled up. of Representatives might at The Hou least appoint a committee to inquire into | Cleveland’s management of the civil ser- vice. The thing is well worth looking into. There will be no complaint of slow ac- tion in the Senate on the tariff if it w make a thoroughly protective measure. It1s not £o important to settle the bill at once as it 1s to settle it rig It was kind in the State of Tennessee to invite King George of Greece to att exposition, but he will have to send regrets. He has several important en- gagements now nearer home. Mexico buys apout $5,000 000 worth of goods from England anc $12,000,000 from France annually, and it would seem that w little o senterprise we might that tradc for our- Joe Jefferson is growing old, but he an- nounces that he will never retire from stage as long as any portion of the A can people wish to see him act. Jo: a genius, a gentleman and a publi ited citizen. Tha Gove: arope sympathize with Turkey simply because they do not 10w how to divide her up. If they could once agree on the division the ardor with which they would enter upon a war for Chris and civilization would aston- ish the natives. fter taking a sacond, third and fourth thought on the subject, Chicago 13 set- tling down tfo the conciusion that the reason why Carter Harrison was elected is because a creat many people believe he is a good deal like his father, and his father was a great Mayor. There will be a strong fight made to se- cure in the new tariff a proic- ve duty on hidges, ana the Californian 1 Congress should sssist the cattle States 1n making jt. Itissaid the value of American cattle decreased $60,000,000 under the Wilson tariff, and in the new bill something should be done to restore the loss. ity In 1817 the Turks possessed 218,600 square miles of European territory, but this has been reduced by and treaties to 51,200 square miles, and still there are statesmen in Europe who talk of the preservation of the Turkish empire as if it had never been despoiled in the past and should not be in the future. Jerry Bimpson’s attempt to organize an obstructive party or faction in the House of Representatives is by no means such a wild-eyed venture as one might suppose. Young Bailey has not made a very effect- ive leader, and Democrats who wish a fight for the sake of making reputations for themselves may yet break away from him and follow the Kansan. It would be difficult to say how large might have been the number of persons taking part in the parade at the dedica- tion of the Grant monument in New York if an arbitrary limit had not been fixed by the officials in charge. It issaid thatover 50,000 had asked to be assigned places in the procession before the committee de- cided to fix a limit, and that was some time ago. It is proposed in Vienna to hold this year some sort of celebration of the cen- tennial anniversary of the meerschaum- pipe. It was in 1797 that the first that kind was m has been n c skill employed in the manufacture. The work of some of the meerschaum artists is worth many times its weight in gold, and this facs, taken in connection with the delizht which men have found in such pipes, seems to justify the proposed celebration. Despite the fact that the vote on the Vest resolution seemed to show that tae majority of the Senate was favorabla to the retroactive clause of the Dingley tariff, it is now said the clanse may be stricken out because of the threat of ob- structive tactics on the part of the Demo- crats if its adoption is insisted on. It ia to be recretied that there should be any un- certainty on this point, and in some way | the Senate should speedily make known to the country just what is to be done about it on the final vote. In many cities of Europe large baths ere constructed in the basements of pub- lic schools for the benefit of pupils, ana a movement has been started in Boston to introduce the custom in this country. Quite a number of our schools already contain libraries, gymnasiums, large lec- ture-rooms, and some have equipments for cooking-schools. If this process of development continues at the same rate for the next fifty vears, the schoolbouse of that time will be the most complex structure of modern civilization and will contain nearly everything required by humanity except bedrooms and a coffin 4actory. iccessive wars | THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF. Complaints are being made in mauy quarters concerning the slowness with which the Finance Committee of the Senate is performing the work of revising the tariff bill. | mediate future. ation. dustries of the people. theless 1ill-founded, inasmuch as it results from an inconsiderate These complaints are the outcome of & natural desire on the part of men en- gaged in commerce and industry to put an end to the uncertainty of the situation and have it clearly established under what terms our trade is to be carried on in the im- It isinevitable that this impatience should be felt, but it is never- ew of the situ- Tt is not an easy task to adjusta tariff that will be equally fair and beneficial to all the varied industries of a country so large and so diversified as the United States. The task in the present instance is rendered more difficult by reason of the necessity of arranging tariff rates so tbat they will supply a revenue to ths Government suf- ficient for its needs and at the same time afford an adequate protection to all the in- The Dingley bill, as reported from the House, is an excellent measure in the main, but has some defects which should be removed before its enactment into law. The Senate is charged with the duty of making the necessary revision, much better fitted than the House to deal with matters of this kind. That body is It represents | all the States equally, most of its leaders have served for a long time and are familiar | wi h the interests of their States and the Nation generally; their discussions are less | stormy and excited than those of the House; and it is altogether right that more time for deliberation and debate should be taken by the Senate than would be advisable in o other branch of Congres: The people of California and the greater West generally have good reason for be- shape affords. g gratified that the bill has not been rushed through in the Senate. interests that require a fuller degree of protection than the Dingley bill in its present There is ample evidence to justify a belief that this protection will be We have large given in the measure as it wiil be reported from the Finance Committee, and we there- fore will have profited much from that very deliberation and apparent slowne which so much complaint has been made. It must not be all to pieces. few and of a conservative character. of ipposed that the Finance Committee 18 engaged in tearing the bill All reports from Washington give assurance that the alterations will be There is, of course, a strong pressure from the free-traders to bring about a great reduction in the rates of several schedules, but this pressure is more ttan counteracted by that of the earnest and vigilant protectionists who are seeking to revise the measure in the direction of giving more instead of less support to American industry. We can reasonably expect that the bill as revised by the Senate will give a fuller protection to California fruits and raisins, to wool, and will add a duty on hides, which will materially benefit the cattle-growers. We stand, therofore, a chance to gain much and run comparatively little risk of losing anything. Much the same may be said of all other sections of the Union. The Senate, therefore, is serving the public interests in making haste elowly. The matter is not one that can be hurried. The country it is true needs a rest from tariff legislation, but it cannot have that rest until such slation has been permanently settled by being settled right. EUROPEAN ALLIANOCES. The new aliiances which are evidently eing shaped among the nations of Eu- rope will be better founded than those which have prevailed in recent years, and promise, therefore, to be more permanent and more beneficial to the nations making them. Europe has been for a loug timein a condition of instable equilibrium, and now seems to be settling down upen a | basis broader and better than ever before. The nce between Germany, Austria and Italy, which was formed to maintain the peace of Europe after the Franco- Prussia 1 war, Was in its very nature re- iable and temporary. That it was not | highly regarded even by Bismarck, who made it, has been shown by the recent revelations that at the very time when | tha talliance was first launched Eismarck had reached a secret understanding with Russia and was negotiating a sep- arate alliance vetween Germany and that country. The attempt at an alliance between France and Russia was even more futile than the Dreibund. The French entered on it more from a desire to have some means ot counterbelancing the alliance of the thres other powers of Europe than from any identity of interests between France and Russia. About the only point on which those two countries could have acied together would have been a de- | mand for the evacution of Egypt by Eng- | land. This, however, was something which, while ardently demanded in | France, was a matter of comparative in- | difference in Russia, and even on that | point, therefore, the alliance was never | strong enough to be a material factor in | the problem of the European balance of | power. The new slliance between Germany, Russia and Austria will be of a aifferent | | nature. Tuere are many reasons why the | Czar and the Kaiser shoald join forces, and not a few why the Austrian Emperor | should join them. The Governments of all three of these powers are more or less | the people of Western Europe, and it is | | sntagonistic to_tne growing liberatism of | | | natural that they should combine to- gether in order to more effectively with- stand the tendencies of the age. They | heve no geographical causes for dispute, and there seems no reason Why the | aliiance they have formed may not be as | permanent as any internationai agree- | ment can ever become. On the other side an allisnce of Eng- tand, France and Italy seems to offer as | many advantages to those countries as will be gained by the opposing powers | from their alliances. England and France bave long been enemies, but at | the present time they have no cause for | antagonism except some disputes over the boundaries of their African colonies. These disputes are slight in comparison | with the much greater benefits they may | | expect to gain from a firm alliance with | one another against the aggressive com- | bination of Russia, Germany and Austria. Events now in progress in Greece may s00n force them to act together in war, | either for the preservation of Greece or | else for securing to the people of the Balkan States their rightful share of the | division of the falling Ottoman empire. | OONDITION OF TRADE. | From the commercial point of view the State is evidently working into better suape. the surface as in the undercurrent. n of veople. This does not appear so much on | It is | 100 gradual to be observed by the general | But that there is a real | improyement in the situation is apparent | to those whose business interests leaa them closest to the center of trade activ- | ity. It may not be amiss to survey those nproved conditions in dezail. The bank clearings form the best ba- | rometar of trade, of business. s they show the voiume When times are dull they lose, when times are active they gain. For | | i {severnl weeks thess clearings have been | eaining, and last week the Increase was | over 9 per cent. This in itsell is a pretty Then there is the rapid advance in wheat, which rose from $130 to $1423¢ during the week,and carried up with it barley and oats. The advance was due to the European war and. poorer Crop prospects in several wheat-producing countries, ag- gravated by a hot north wind all over the State. Wheat, at suy $140, is a profitable the price will stay there the great valleys of California will do very well this year, High wheat means better prices for hay, which is a great stspie in California, so the hay farmers are taking a more hope- ful view of things. Wool, too, has been remarkably active of late and enormous purchases have been made. Fruiv prospects are flattering as far as the volume of the output is concerned, and, with the exception of one or two varieties, the crop promises to be heavy. The stock of dried fruit is running low, and dealers expect to see it all cleaned up good indication of the trend of the tide. | crop as conditions are nowadays, and if | 1 by the time the new crop coms q forward, | which will help the dried-fruit interest. Thus it will be seen that the great staples are on & highly favorable footing. Money is plentiful for commercial bor- rowers at the usual rates of interest. City collections are satisfactory, but country collections are somewhat slow. Failures are few and small as arule. These de- tails show business in general to beon a good sound footing. Only one thing is necded to make times really lively, and that is the tariff. Until we get it con- daitions will not be apt to show much im- provement. Everybody is waiting for it. All through the Eastern States, from New York to the Rocky Mountains, busine: in a state of suspease pending the final passage of the bill. While it hangs fire and its ultimate fate is more or less uncer- tain trade drags. Manufacturers are cau- tious about opening their mills, and im- porters hardly know what to do. Mer- chants are ail at sea whether to stock up or not. Farm products Jangnish because nobody knows what they will be worth when the bill is finally passed, and so it goes. In spite of this great drawback, how- ever, there is, as has been said, a slow im- provement in trade ail over the country. | Everybody is agreed that some sort of a tariff bill will eventually go into force, and this in 1tself begets confidence in the future. Meanwhile we are better off than we have been under the low tariff, and even this improvement is not to be de- spised. : _ SOUTH AMERIOAN TRADE, Now that the question of the extension of trade into South America is being dis- cussed by our business men it will be well o give attention to information on the' subject furnished by the National Asso- clation of Manufacturers, with head- quarters at Philadelphia. A recent publi- cation by that body affords convincing evidence that there is a great undeveloped field for the enterprise of our merchants in all sections of that country. Among the points brought out in the publication it will be well to note a piece of advice given by one of the members of the association, Mr. Willlam Harper of Philadelphia. Beware, he says of treat- ing small orders as if they were insigni- ficant. They must be regarded for the potency 1in them for future development. They ure like the small sack of seed which by repeated sowings through several seasons may produce a great crop. The foreign buyer, if he is a good busi- ness man, will be ept to order cautiously at first. Treat the little order courteously, carefully, not so much for what it is as for the latent possibilities in it. The Ger- mane, who are rightly held up tous ss models in the art of great conquests in commerce, treat the little orders as pre- cious acquisitions. They are nut experi- menters. Their success has proved their wisdom. Mr. Charles A. Schieren of New York, who has thoroughly studied foreign trade methods and whose firm does a great deal of exporting, compares Germany’s rapid advauce in the markets of the world to those marvelously well-planned military movements of 1870, which astonished the world with the swift success in which her thoroughly disciplined armiss executed them. We must adopt similar methods if we would achieve similar success. 1f our South American trade is to be developed into a vast commerce we must be careful at the beginning not to despise the day of small things. U0AST EXCHANGES. A public park for Ventura is being advo cated by the Free Press. . The Napa Register announces that its town is to have & boot and shoe factory. The Visalia Times wants a fruit exchange organized in Visalla, and says *‘this is the time to ac The Madera Tribune hi sixth volume. It casionally it sparkl entered upon its = live local paper and oce A lively improvement association is meeting with praiseworthy regularity in Pasadena, ac- cording to the news columns of the South Pasa- denan. The Sutter County Farmer haswitnessed six- teen years of journalistic life and is entering | upon 115 seventeenth full of promise and good intentions. The Redding Free Press 18 working for the estabiishment of & special train service be- tween Redding and Keswick for the benefit of shippers in that section. The Placer County Republican indorses THE CALL'S contention that the coast artillery re- serve should be maintained atr National ex- pense and be a National organization. Two new varieties of fodder plants have been tested in alkali soilin Kern County. Accord- ing to the Bakersfield Californian the experi- ments bave been completely succcessful. A noteble addition to Acampo's enterprises is a fruit-handling firm, which the Stockton Independent mentions as having recently be- gun the construction of & large packing-house- The nine new improvements in Banta Rosa's industrial circies have been moted by the Republican of that place. An electric railroad is in sight as one of the fmprovements of the near future, The Los Angeles Herald asserts that the past | filteen years have proved that there is “scarcely anything so stable as the value of irrigated land in the Southern partof Cali- fornia.’ The Pleasanton Times has a long review of the crop prospects in the Amador Valley in its latest issue. Itsaysa trip around the valley issufficient to convince one that the crop con- aitions are first-ciass. The Farmers’ Club has been organized in Healdsburg. The Enterprise announces that the organization is designed to advance local industrial interests and will meet twice & month for that purpose. The Stockion Mail prints in its news col- umns the announcement that & strike of natural gas was made at the mouth of Corral Hollow Canyon last Thursday. Ex-Assembly- man Shields was boring for waterat a depth of only 170 feet when ho made the discovery. Commenting upon the recent purchase of an immense body of land in Merced and Stanis- laus counties by a Rothschild syndicate, the | Alameda Encinal and the Fresno Repub.ican | rise in concert 1o advocate the enactment of & law prohibiting any one buta citizen acquir- ing real estate in this country. At the head of the editorial column of the Sutter Independent is kept standing the line, *Only one Sacramento Valley,” It is to be presumed that Sacramento Velley thinks there isonly oue Sutter Independent, inasmuch as it has contributed to the support of ten volumes of that healthy newspaper, whica is now start- ing on volume XI. The Martinez News is trying to stir up local enthusiasm with a view to raising Martinez outol the industrial depression which it as- cribes toit. On the 1st of July the News will publish & twenty-four page svecial edition to tue number of 5000 coples for distribution abroad. ‘‘We want them 1o know something about the best county in California,” remarks the News editor. The Oroville Mercury points with pride to the fact that not one of the many creameries recently built in Butte and neignboring coun- tles has proved a isilure. The Woodiand creamery, in Yolo, is referred to as an exam- Pple of the progress that has attended cream- eries in that section the past year. Twelve months ago this institution was taking only 100 pounds of milk & day, wheress it is now taking 500 aaily NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. There were deaths from accidents in the British navy last month on three ships at- | tached to the Channel squadron. Onme, s stoker, was killed by an explosioni two sea men were suffocated by sleeping in an air- tight compartment and two boatmen and & surgeon were drowned. i'France is buuding five triple-screw battle- | ships, named in order of state of completeness as follows: Massena, Bouvet, Charlemague, | St. Louis and Gaulois. They are of about| 12,000 tons displacement and are to haves | speed of 17)5 knots. Three triplescrew | cruiser: named the Jeanne d’Are, Guicheu | and Chateau-Renault, are also in course of | coustruction. Their speed is 10 be about22 | knots. | The fatal bursting of a torpedo on the Brit- | ish cruiser Theseus, at Malts, March 23, was caused by = tackle breaking and the torpedo fell to the deck wiih such force that the com- pressed air chambers exploded, bursting the | torpedo. Some of the fiying fragments struck two petty officers, inflicting injuries which necessitated amputation of & leg of each man. One of the men died the same night. The court of inquiry founa the accident due to the defective “tackle, which had decayed | irough dry rot. The British Admiralty is at last recognizing | the importance of steam engineering in the | DAVY by increesing the salaries of the engi. | neer-in-chief and several other officersi. the | engineering department of the Admiralty, | Commencing with the new fiscal year Mr. | Durston, the engineer-in-chief, will recetve; $9000 per anuum, instead of $6500, as paid | hitherto. The chief engineer inspector will receive an increase of $995, and two others | $350 and $280 respectively. Telent and | responsibility are much higher paid in the British navy than in ours, for whereas the | dirsctor of naval construction and the engi- | neer-in-chie! get a salary of $12,500 and $9000 respectively, our chief constructor and the engineer-in-chiel receive only £5000, The raise of salaries in the engineering branch 18 5a1d to have been in recognition of the un- | qualified success of the introduction of the | water-tube boilers in the Powerful and Ter- rible. The London Engineer of April 2 containsan | fllustrated article comparing the relative seaworthiness of the British battle-ship Prince George, lately completed, and the United States battle-ship Alabama, now in course of construction at Newport ‘News. The argu- ment is made that the American battle-ship is overweighted and that, owing to its little free- board, it will be in & hazardous predicament | when heeling atan angle of 30 degrees. Ths | Prince George, on the other hand, is claimed | 10 be perfectly safe at that angle t0 heel. The following dimensions and data of each ship are given by the Engineer to bear out1ts con- | clusions: | Prince DaTa. George. [Alabama. Lengib, feet. ... ... | 809 368 | Cosl capacily, tons The illustrations show the ships heeled over to thirty degrees, in which position the decks of the Alabama have a great quantity of | water. This weight in connection with the | heavy armament and turrets are, it s argned, | liable to endanger the safety of the thip. Itis | pointed out that the American ship on 3000 tons less displacement carries a main nrmn»‘l ment fifty-six tons in excess of the British ship, and that the Alabama’s turrets ana gear are heavier by 320 tons than the Prince George' PERSONAL. H. T. Maguire of Lowell Hill is at the Russ. Major A. L. Nichols of Chico isat the Grand. 1 H. Coutolenc of 5t. Helena is at the Grand. Charles Erickson of Oakdale is at the Grand. L. L Chamberlain of Auburn is at the Grand. A. Brizara, merchant, of Arcata, is at the Lick. Papa” Peakes of Stockton isstopping at the Palace. E. L. Shumar of Fresno is at the Cosmo- politan. A. Tiaz of politan. L. Mebius, Bacramento oapitalist, is at the Occidental. Gus G. Grant of Stockton is & guest at the Grand Hotel. L. W. 5hinp, a well-known Carson miner, s at tho Grand. Lieutenant . P. Tomkinson of Santa Monica isin the City. John Mulqueeney Sr. of Livermore ia at the Cosmopolitan. . Lieutenant E. P. Tompkinson and wife of BSacramento s at the Cosmo- Santa Monica are registered at the Grand Hotel. Col. James L. Wolfe of Minneapolis is at the Cosmopolitan. | G. D. Plato, a well-known Modaesto merchant, is at the Grand. Miss R. Richards of Sprague, Wash., is at the Cosmopolitan. W. R. Dyer, a merchant from Sacramento, is &t the Russ House. J. Dinsmore, a merchaut from Eureks, Cal., at the Russ House. J. A. Muir, a prominent Los Angeles railway man, is at the Palace. L. H. Cotolenc, a prominent wine man of 8t. Helena, is in the City. Charles Erickson, a well-known railroad contractor, is at the Grand. J. B. Peakes, prominent mining man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. E. r. Page, correspondent for an Eastern Jjournal, is a guest at the Palace. J. M. Wilmans, a mining man from New- man, is & guest at the Lick House. G. A. Johnson, & prominent mining man of Redding, Cal. t the Occidental. G. D. Plato of Modesto is visiting this City, and is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Martin Cuddihy of Happy Camp, on the Klamath, is in town on a short visit, W. H. Hilton of Glen Ellen, fruit-grower and Wwineman, is visiting friends in this City. B. T. Catlin, an officer at the Yountville Sol- diers’ Home, is a guest at the Occidental. J. A. Muir, superintendent of the Los An- geles division of the Southern Pacific, is at the Palace. W. F. Robidoux, a prominent and popular young man from Santa Clars, is on his wed- ding tcur. Dr. A. E. Osborne ot Eldridge, in charge of the Home for Feeble-minded, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. and Miss Ferguson, wife and daughter of the well-known harness man of Eurcka, Cal, are at the Baldwin. C. F. Montgomery, proprietor of the Antioch Ledger, is on a visit to this City and is quar- tered at the Occidental Hotel. Mrs. Emma Shaw Colcleugh, correspondent of the Boston Transcript and of the Provi- dence Journal, isat the Occidental. AS WE JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE. T sometimes wonder ef the man thet's hurryin’ ho an’ fast Don't find thet his success wa'nt wuth the trouble at the last. Fur there's pleasures, An’ tiere's treasures, In thelr time, fur one and ail. IUs the green frul: nceds the shakin'; Ripe an’ ready fruit will fall. The one thet travels fast will be the fust ter gly back hum, But the linserers her the wild flowers an’ the music, when they come. Ez fur Duty, There’s no beauty Thet's 100 fair fur her to boast: Them ez lets her jine their pastimes Is the ones ez loves her most. —Washington Star. WIln YOUR COFFEE, “He accused her of using paint.” “To her face?” ““Yes, and on her face.”—Philadelphia North American. ““Does your poetry pay? “Well, it just keeps the wolf from the door.’” “I suppose you read it to him?’—London Tit-Bits, Lady Shopper—I want to get something suit- able for a boy of 10 yeers. Salesman—Slipper counter down in second aisle; turn to your rightl—Boston Trauscript. “I'm told Charley Binks is quarrelsome,” “He is. Why, when that fellow was ap- pointed a committee of one to decide on a cer- tain matter ut our club he put in & minority zeport!’"—Harper's Bazar. Mr. Manu—For mercy’s sake, what are the children quarreling ebout in the next room? Mrs. Mann—Their music-teacher came in a few minutes ago, and I suppose they sre now engaged in a study of harmony.—Boston Tran- seript. MEN AND WOMEN King Oscar of Sweden is an interested stu- aent of mathematics. George Brandes, the noted Scandinavian literary critic, has recently received the cross of the Legion of Hounor. Professor George Ebers, more widely known 8s a novelist than as an Egyptologist in the faculty of the University of Munich, cele. brated his sixtieth birthday recently. W. H. Mallock is to be the editor of the con- solidated National Observer and British Re- view, which perpetuates in full the titles of both weeklies. All contributions will be snonymous. Professor G. W. Gibbs, who holds the chair of mathematical physics at Yale, has been elected & member of the Royal Society at London. This is an honor given heretofore to only six Americans, among whom were Pro- fessors H. G. Newton and J. D. Dana of Yale. Anna Dickinson was awarded 63 cents dam- ages by ajury at Scranton, Pa., in her suit against G. B. Thompson, Allan Eggleston and others for §500,000 damages, on the allega- tion that they, at the instance of her sister, forcibly took her from her home at Plttston, Pa., in 1891, and incarcerated her in the Dan- ville Insane Asylum. HOW MODERN WARS [EGIN New York sSun. The assertion of the Porte is that Greek troops invaded Turkish territors without warning and that war existed without a formal declaration of it from Athens. | Such s statement, be it observed, however founded, does not at all settle the question as 10 the relative degrees of merit in the Greek and the Ottoman causes, but it furnishes a striking {llustration of how small a part the mere form of & declaration of war may play in moderu times and how little reliance can be laced on baving time for planning either de- fonce or aggression aiter it comes. A report from a committes of Congress has compiled siatistics on this subject, derived, we belleve, from European sources. Without recording wars against barbarous or semi- barbacous countries, it finds that nearly or quite every leading power in Europe has at times waged war without declaring it. Not to o into details, it found that “from 1700 to 1871, inclusive, less than ten instances have occurred in which declarationsof war have preceded hostilities; on the other hand, 107 cases were recorded n which hostilities have Dbeen begun by Europe or by the United States of America, without previous declaration of war.” The most noteworthy case ascribed to our own country is the resolution of May 13, 1846, in which Congress, instead of declaring war against Mexico, declared that war already s the resuitof Mexican aggre:sions, which President Polk’s message had recited. Indeed, when war seems to be almost inevi- and how, apart from chance collisions between armies 'of observa- tion, the advantago of the inliiative may lead to hostile acts. That the movements of the Greek irregulars several days ago were di- rected upon strategic points was perfectly obvious. Sofar as we are concerned ho lesson taught by the rapidity with which events have fol- nd the actual berinning of between Greece aud Turkey when all the great powers of Europe apparently had the desire Lo keep them apart is that prepara- tion for defense must not be delayed until war is threatened. and still less in order to see whether war will really be declared. The dis- covery that “War exists'’ 1s very apt to take the place of & formul declaration thereof. “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.” Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. The Vine Hoppers. To the Editor of the San Francisdo Call—Str: 1have read in THE CALL about the mew pests which have made their appearance in the vine; ence with grasshoppers some thirty-five years tucky. Ithink these vine hoppers probal ards around Fresno. I had a similar experi. 8go, while I was living at & nursery In Ken. belong to the same family, and it may be of some beneflt to somebody to say thatldrove quite s lot of hungry chickens right between the flowers. The chickens did not touch the young plants; ihe hoppers with such rapidity that the nursery was cleared in a few hey only ate they did not scraich the ground; ere are hun- ays. dreds of turkeys raised in Fresno County, and it would not hurt the grapevines now to try the experiment. Haywards, April 24, W. MrLLER. 1 REAL ESTATE | MARKET REVIEW Last Week Was a Fairly Good One for Realty Business. Circumstances That Tend to Foster Property Matters Multiplying Daily. The Southwest Corner of Powell and Ellis Streets to Bs Sod at Auctioa. The weok has been a fairly good one for reslty business. Inquiry i developing more generaily and traaing 1s becoming of & more positive character. There is nothing in the | immediate situation to indicate the proba- | bility of lessened activity. On the contrary, circumstances are almost daily multiplying | that help in fostering property matters and | give additional impetus to everything asso- | clated with land operations, whether in town | lots or in suburban acres. Probably the most important auctifon sale this year will be the offering by Baldwin & | Howell, in the near future, of the propert: the southwest corner of Powell and streets, by order of the Auzerais estate. property has a frontage of 48 feet on Powell street by a cepth of 75 feet on Ellis. The improvements consist of a five-story and basement brick building under rental, it isstated by the agents, of about $10,000 & year. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. There were 113 deeds recorded during the past week. The mortgages for the same time numbered eighty-nine and aggregated $251,000. Among the principal ones were the following: By the Hibernia Bank to Elias J. Baldwin, £85,000, for one year at 634 per cent, on prop- erty in this City and Los Angeles County, alresdy described; by thesame o Charles and Catherine Herbst, $7000, for one year at 63 per icent, on property in fifty-vara block 199: | on ‘the 'west line of Meson streer, 42:9 morth of Turk, north 20 by west| 75; by the Geérman Bank o Ernest Rochat, $6000 for one year at 7 per cent on property in Western Addition biock 468, on the northeast corner of Vallejo and Devisa- dero streeis, east 63:9 by north 105; by Ellen d Charlotte E. Dore to Michael C. Taylor, 14,000 for two years at 614 per cent on prop- erty in Mission block 22, at the junction of the east line of Guerrero stréet with the southeast line of Market, south 52:9, 3:414, north 15. northwest 78: ; by the Hibernia Bank to Frederick Gereke, %6500 ior one vear at 634 per centon property in fifty- vara block 16, on the southeast corner of Green and Battery streets, east 137:6 by south 45:10. There were flfty-six releases recorded, amounting to $141,380. The larger of these were the following} From the French Bank to Bernard Sarthou, $8000 on property in West- ern Aadition block 303, on the southeast cor- ner of Fillmore street and Golden Gate avenue, east 55 by south ¥7:6; from the Hibernla Bank to Adolph and Helena Schlesinger, $3000 on property in Western Addition block 61, on the west line of Poik street, 30 feet south of O Far- rell, south 30 by west 97 from the same | to Henry Casebolt, $800f on property in Western Addition block 188, on the southeast coruer of Greenwich and Laguna streets, east 62:6 by south 80; on the south line of Greenwich street, 220 east of Laguna, east 55 by south 80; on the northeas: corner of Filbert and Laguns, east 62:6 by th 85; on the north line of Filbert sireet, 165 east of Laguna, east 110 by north 85, and on the north line of Union street, 45 east of La- guoa, east 65:5, porta 120, west 110:5, south 60, east 45, south 60; from the same to the same, $3000 on property in Western Adaition block 188, on the east line of Laguna street, 26:8 south of Greenwich, south 26:4 by esst 62:6, ana_in Western Addition block 189, on the east line of Laguna street, 60 north of Unjon, north 60, east 110:5, south 21:7, west 3{. south 385, west 6473 NEWS T1EMS. A cottage house is to be constructed by Julia O’Kane on the nortieast corner of Twenty- first and Folsom streets. R. W. Collins has let contracts for the bufld- ing of a cottage house at the northeast corner of Chattanooga and Twenty-second streets. Charles Oliva is to make several alterations and additions to the building on the west line of Elgin Park, between Hermann and Thir- teenth streets. John M. Lippincott is to build two flats on the south line of Sscramento street, 112:6 feet west of Walnut. Several alteratious and additions are to be made in the building of Emina Joseph, on the southeast corner of Sacramento and Gough streets. A two-story frame building arranged in flats 1 10 be built on the northwest corner of Twen- second street and Treat avenue by Charlotte Habn, Mary Hanley has contracted for some addi- tions o her premises on the north line of Eighteenth sireet, 50 feot east of Harrison, ‘The bullding on the south line of Green street, 172 feet east of Dupont street, belong- iug to Walter Compagno, i8 to be converted info a three-story siructure, Edward Wharton is to build a two-story residence on the north line of Fell street, be- tween Lyon and Lott. On the north line of Sacramento street 137:6 | feet west of Cherry, Frank H. Foot will shortly commence the building of two flats. Four new cottages have been commenced during the past week in the Heyman tract. One of the new buildings is at the northwest cor- nerof Alvaredo street and Hoffman avenue, and threc are on the north side of Tweaty- thira street, ebove Hoftman avenue. A 8. Scandrett is to construct & two-story and basement frame building on the north 1tue of Fulion street, 125 feet east of Lyon. Alexander Wilson'has let the contract for carpenter and mill work for a three-story brick and frame buflding at the southwest corner of Turk and Taylor street: Julian Sonntag has let contracts for the bullding of & two-story residence on the northeast corner of Scottand Vallejo streets. On the west line of Folsom street, 65 feet south of Twenty-first, T. McEneany will con- struct & three-story irame building, to be ar- ranged in flats Catherine Reinspach is to build a two-story frame residence on Jessie street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. A three-story frame building of three flats wi:l be built by Dauiel Nunan on the east line of Powell street, between Clay and Sacra- mento. H. K. Devely is to construct a two-story frame building on the north line of Union straet, 84:5 feet east of Laguna. Joseph Fyel has let contracts for extensive alterations and additions to_the premises on the north line or McAllister street, 137 :6 feet west of Pierce. A two-story and basement frame buflding 1s 10 be built by L. Friedlander, consisting of two flats, on the east side of Lyon street, 25 fect | south of Golden Gate avenue. | A club was formed auring the past week cousisting of sume prominent members of the | Mission district, which will have for ifs ob. Jects the securing of a park and zoological garden for the Mission. George D. Shadbirne was chosen president of the new organ:zation and J.J. McEwen secretary, The Richmond District Improvement Club intends to begin another agitation to close the cemeteries, and will petition the Board of Health and the Board of Supervisors to take | action. Ihe construction of the new driveway on First avenue, between the park and the Presi- dio, was commenced during the past week. Several plows and teams were put to work by the contractors at Washington street digging up the macadam preparatory to laying the concrete foundation for the bitumen rock, With the exception of the block between Washington and Jackson streets, First avenue will have 8 smooth pavement. The grade be- | tween Washinzion and Jackson streets is too steep to permit the use of bitumen, so basalt rock will be iaid between thoss points. The Supervisors will be requested 1o exempt the owuers of property ironting on Corbe:t road from being sssessed for the opening of Seventeenth street. G. H. Umbsen & Co.will offer at_auetion on the 10th of April, a choice line of City prop- erty, consisting of the foltowing parcels: Lot and improvements on the northeast cor- ner of Turk and Steiner streets, 87:6x137:6 feet, With L 50x50; lot and improvemenis on {he east side ‘of 'Valencia street, between Twentieth aid Twenty-first; administrator's sale of Howard-sirest flats, near Fourteenth ; ccttage house, 1413 Fulton street, near Brod. | erick; southeast corner of Larkin and Sac mento streets, lot 25:6x100 feet,with improve- ments; €OZy cottuge, on the norih side of Nineteenth street, eighty-tive feet east of | Castro; southwest corner of Fulton and Walb- ster, lot 25x82:6 feet, with improvements, consisting of & two-flat house; mannfacturing | site on First street, with improvements, now selectiy | Guartet, Brothers D. 3. Lawrence. 5.C. Cronar g r §206 month; lot 187:6x187:6 S fv;xlx\t"e.zenl on' the north line ot i Ao Larkin, including a row ofCottage houses, Nos. 1412 to 14213 threy buiiding lots on the south lmg‘ul Market I et 31 *foet east of Fourteenth; tenement ity on the north side of Bryant street, o ana o two-float house, 1308 east_of Fourth, d 130814 Steiner street. A ¥ vos Rhein & Co. report the fol is: Lot 31:4x187:6 feet, west line e L S et south of Mission, §3 530: "ot bost South iine of Eddy 250; 10’ 7:6 feet, o o Cvest of Leavenworth, § 000, rents for $170; lot 52 76 feel, west 1 »{ Webster street, 47 fee t south of Grov 0, rents for $60; lot 34x111 feet, sout d_ Clav street: West _corner Devisadero and, 58, rents for $90; ot 24x62 feet, est corner Jones and Union street lot 20x50 feet, west line o x 117:6 t mnorth of lot 14x23 feet, on east line of D alley, 2 fect north of Merchant street, $2500; lot 25x 114 1 ath line of ’l\\anl\»nvrsl svl_rl,«_. 225 feet ea i Guerrero, $14.000 106l4 .;:}‘Mnj e es Lafayette street, 6 feet Lt O ain: #2000; lot 2580 feet, on north line of Fehama street, 37:6 feet northesst ot 25185 feet, on south line 726 teet west of Howard, 5 el thwest 5. rents $50; 10t 25x80 feet, on southw Corner of Jones nnd Greenwich Sireets, 83200, painweld, Buckbee & Co. report the sale o Criglar orehard of ten acres at Berryessa, San 00, and the Logan ranch a, consisting of 950 acres, {0; $10,500. *he 1013 acres of the Hatcn-Armstrong ranch near Acompo 533 acres have thus far ecn sold by Bo ' & sonntag st an s 3 75 an acre, tis true t! average price of $175 an aore. 1 t is all choice orchard property. The remain ing 480 acros are atlin elght-year-old almonds, i e and farm buildings. of Fo rth, and include the resider This is the cream of the place and will com: 1a slightly higher price. Commencing next Saturdav, and continu- ing during the summer months, Easton, dridge & Co. will run excursions once a week to Oukdale, Stanislaus County, leaving this at 6 P. »., and returning the City on Satiirda following Monday morn et 5 A. M. The fare for the round irip will be $2 50. Owing to the numerous inquiries of late for the pur- chase of desirable grain and fruit lands the nts have inaugurated this plan for con- ng prospective purchasers to ome of the most desirable nnd diversified farming sec- tions of California, where they are offering large tracts of propert 0DD FELLOWS’' DAY. How the Seventy-Eighth Aunniversary of the Order Will Be Observed in This City. To-day is the seventy-eighth anniver- sary of American 0dd Fellowship, and the day will be generally observed throughount the Btate by the several subordinate lodges, the encampments, the cantons and the Rebekah lodge: The most extensive of all the celebra- will be hetd in Santa Barbara. The inates of Alameda County and the Rebekahs of the same county will have a grand picnic in San Lorenzo Grove, while in this City the only celebration will be by Oriental Encempment No. 57 and Oan- ton San Francisco No. 5 in Odd Fellows' Hall this evening, It will consist of & re- ception entertainment and ball under the direction of the following committees: Executive committee—J. W. Harris (chair- ), General J, F. Crosett, General E. H. ack, Colonel H. C. Brower, Lieutenan olonel W. 8. Potter, J. M. Williston, R. C. Black, N. E. Flint, J. Thompson, G. W. Lemont, H. Knobel, X. Mefret, Captain A.J. Duncan; reception committee—J. A. Foster, Fred Fill- more, W. J. Phillips, Joseph Adams, G. H. Wi , A. H. Kelton; floor manager, John Thompson; floor committee—D. C. Malcolm, W.T.Galloway, W. H. Manuel, G.R. Meye: derks, James Davis, A. D. McLean. Past Grand Master George H. Morrison will sct as master of ceremonies and the following numbers will be presented: Music, orchestre; welcome and address; chairman; selections by the celebrated Ladies Lyric Quartet, Mrs. Martin Schuitz first so- prano, Mi:s Ethel Tilson second soprano, Miss Amy Partridge firstalto, Miss Nellie Pariridge second alto; Professor Martin Schuliz, musical director; selection, Miss Lottie Graebcr, elocu- cutionist; Miss Maude Noble, trombone sol ns by the iraternal Kuickerbocker C. M. Eiliott, L. A. Larsen; Miss Dalsy Gil- more, elocutionist; concluding incidentals, Sheriff Richard I Whelan. ———— CAL. glace fruit 50c per 1b., at Townsend’s. * s e s £PECTAL Information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_— Mrs. Box—There’s thirteen at the table. Johnnie—I can eat for two, that makes four- teen.—Judy. Faster Time on the Santa Fe Route. Three and One-half Days to Chicago or St. Louis—Four and One-half Days to New York. Leaving San Franclsco Mondays and Thursdays, at § ». ., connection Is made at Barstow with the famous Sants Fe limited train. Dining-car; buffet smoking-car, vestibuled Pullman, palace drawing- room, sleepers. The handsomest traln on earth— equipment and appointments faultless. Dally throngh sleeping-cars, bo:h palace and tourtst, Oakland pler to Chicago. Tickets alao sold via Ogden, Portland, Molave, Los Angeles, Deming or El Paso, to all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Ticket office 644 Market street, Chronicle Bullding. Telephone Main 1881 ———— Railroad Tickets to the East via Rie Grande Western and Denver and Elo Grande Rallways, At lowest possible rates, with throngh Pullman buffet and tourist sleeping car service every day, Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permitting stop-over at Salt Lake Clty on all classes of ticketa Detatled Information and tickets farnished as 14 Montgomery street, or 314 Callforma strees —_—— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup® | Has been used over fitty years by millions ef mothers for thelr children whiie Tecthing with pers fect success. it soothes the child, softens the guma, alleys Pain. cures Wind Collc, regulates the Bowely and 1a the best remedy for Disrrhceas, whether arip: 1T0m tee.hing or other causes. kor sale by drag n every par. of the world. Bo sure and askt for Mrs. Winsiow's Eoothing Syrup. 96c a bottlea, ——————— Comoxa tmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, belng entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam.- ship, Including fifteen days board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perdsy. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, ——————— Bx sure and supply your toilet with a bottle ot Ayer's Halr Vigor. It keeps the halr soft and gioesy, and the scalp cool and clean. —————— “I suppose your daughter is just like mine— rather ride a wheel than eat.” Not exactly; but she would rather ride a wheel than cook.””—Chicago Record. NEW TO-DAY. The greatest praise other emulsions can take to themselves is that theyare “Just as good as b4 Scott’s Emulsion” Measured by this standard of the world are these un- known preparations the thing for youto buy when health and life are at stake ? SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.” (CRANOLA; ARAMEL EAT A 3 G \IRANOSE PRI FRE A STHECENA/SANITARIUM “HERLTH Fo00Col Send JorCiFEUBr § HEENA L CAL . e A {