The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1897. W CHAR]EES M.*SVHORTRIDUI:, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CAL1, one week, by carrier. .$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail 00 Daily Daily Daily Sunday CaLL, o WERKLY CAL i, three months one month, by mail.. fan ¥Francisco, California. Telephons.. ....... Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ...Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICE: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner 8:80 o'clock + open oty 8 Hayes street; open uniil 9:30 o'clock. 815 n street, open until 8:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. . open uatil § o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open unil 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky atreets; open till 9 0'clo OAKLAND OFFICB: Rooms 31 and DAVID M. FOLT: THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———— e New York has a right to be proud of that monument. The dedication festival was local to New York, but the sentiment which inspired it was National Greece bit off a great deal more tnan she could chew, and now the powers insist that she sna!l digest it. Bland and McMillin are determined the Democrats of the country shall know that not leading them. 8o long as Balboa avenue is incomplete, %0 long will it be *imely to urge subscrip- tions i0 the fund for completing it. There is wit, wisdom and eloquence at the Woman's Congress, ond it will be worth anybody’s while to attend it. Now that the metropoiis of the East has dedicated the long-promised monument 1 be quite approprizte to r 8s Greater New York. recognize b It is reported that the Spanish Govern- | ment in Cuba will have to face this year a deficit of $100,000,000, which looks very much as if We Cleveland adm tration there. It is said of a certain Kansas State Sen- ator that whenever he saw anything hs did not like he would introduce a bill abolishing it, and he seems to have dis- ilked about everything besaw in the State. ex-Governor Alt mixed un with Bank failure, his 1 considered closed choose to take him u of him. seems to be Globe Savi; anarchists ke the most No tributes to the memory of Grant are more grateful to the Nation than those which came from the South, since they afford a proof that {he magnanimity of the hero has awskened the honor and lova of his foes. Washington City has been clever enough to set her police to work to take a census while the office-seckers are in town, and as a result lays claim toa population of 277,483, being an increase of about 5000 since 1895. One advantage was gained by New York by being slow in the completion of the Grant monument. She has had Mec- Kinley for the chief figure of the day in- stead of Cleveland, and that was well worth waiting f The powers were prompt to interfere when Greece sent an army to the relief of Crete, but tney will not interfere when Turkey invades Greece, and thus does diplomacy redeem itself from the charge of being monotonous. The duties imposed upon President Me- Kinley at the dedication of the Grant monument were undoubtedly fatieuing, but as they relieved him for a time from office-seekers he probably regarded the occasion as a holiday. According 10 a Washington correspond- ent the strength of the Msine delegation in Congress is due to the fact that it has not been changed in fourteen years, but it wouid be just as accurate to say that the feason it has not been changed is because it was strorg Lo start with It is asserted that manv of the Kansas Populists who howled against capital in the Legislature have gone home with more money in their pockets than they ever had before, and as a result nearly every otber Populist in the Siate has become a strong advocate of rotation in oflice. The London Times recently stated: ‘‘In no case will Turkey be allowed to gather the fruits of victory over a Christian peo- ple.”” I that statement expressed ihe set- tied conviction of the powers it is full time for them to interfere, for it is now ‘evident that Tuckey has the longer pole, | and if it is not taken away from her she will soon have the persimmon. Shipments of gold to KEurope have be- gun again, but this time they disturb no- body. Business men know that we have now at Washington a business adminis- tration, and that within a comparatively short time we will have a tariff which will provide a revenue for the country and a degree of protection which wiil put an end to heavy importations, and that then gold shipments will turn the other way. It is said at Washington that some ot the petitions for office filed by applicants for positions are more elaborately pre- pared and decorated than the essay of a sweet girl graduate. In some cases they are written on vellum, and are engrossed and illuminated in the most elegant style, 50 that the eost can hardly have been less than §100each. Itremains, however, now, as heretofore, that it is not the petition so much as the plain pull that gets away with the pie. Ivhas peen suggesied that all convicts in the prisons of the States affecied by the Mississippi floods should be set to work on the levees and other under:.akiangs to pre- vent similar floods hereafter and the sug- gestion seems to be well received. By the provosed plan convicts Would not only be removed from comvetine with free labor, but they would assist in makine the work of free laborers more remunerative throughout the whole region subject to overflow. ler had been running a | eer may be | ] THE GRANT | | If any further evidence had been needed that the aspiration for a restored union | of love and loyalty, South as well as North, which General Grant expressed in his | | memorable words, *'Let us have peace,”’ has been amply and abundantly realized be- 7 | fore the during the ceremonies which attended the solemn and patriotic dedication of his generation which took part in the mausoleum on Riverside drive yesterday. | The procession, which began the ceremoni of its bri. well as of the North. Nor was it by their | attested their veneration for the memory | They uttered words of eulogy so infused wi gratilying conviction that the bitterness of beaten side, and that hereatter the war will | which we shall learn lessons of patriotism, | ences or distrust. “not be doubted. These words, widely read, will carry throughous the country the | future ages,”’ might with truth be said of al | of his own generation see him 100 near to comprenend the full ontline of the great | proportions of his character, and are too much involved themselves in the struggles | | in which he is engaged to impartially estim trasted features of his excellencies and his delects. For that reason final judgment upon Grant cannot be said to have been yet pro- | nounced. We have had eulogiums upon bim from the ablest orators now living; from | personal friends; from profound students of current history, and from ardent | | patriots, who feel deeply the vast importance of his services to his country. All these, | | however, have but furnished the facts which are yet to be fused into one perfect whole | to make the true and rightful character of Grant known to the American veople. We | | can be satisfied with the knowledge that | higher yet in the esteem of the world. The mausoleum which has been raised to such a purpose. It takes rank among t! manifests by its imposing architecture the | patriotism of the great man whose body mecca for patriotic pilgrimages for all time to the influence of European fashions and sentiments of patriotism or lacking in American. nt spectacle, was made up of men from all parts of our common country, and equaily conspicuous among those most prominent were mea of the South as | What Lord Bacon said of himself, “I leave my fame to foreign nations and to public it will but add praise to praise and Jift our great general and great President city of our country is one of the greatest and most beautiful structures everdedicated Americans hold the memory of their greatest general. | never fail to awaken in the minds of all who see it a remembrance of the loyalty and | New York may well be proud of the patriotism which she has displayed in erect- ing such a monumentand the Nation at large will be gratified with this evidence that the people of the metropolis are not so wholly given over to commerce or so subject MONUMENT. war has passed away, it was furnished and formed the most imposing part presence only that these Southern men of the great leader of the Union ardy. | th genuine feeling that their sincerity can- a civil war has passed away even from the be to us a glorious page of history from | free from any feeling of sectional differ- | Imost every great man. His countrymen ate the value of his services or the con-| when this true record of his life is made to him on that noble site of the principal | he great tombs of the world, and worthily esteem in which the present generation of | Its impressive beauty will lies entombed within it, and it will boa | to come. society as to be indifferent to the noblest | the fervor of a spirit that is thoroughly | | THE WHEELMEN'S DUTY. | The suggestion made by TnE CALL some | time ago that the wheelmen of San Fran- | | cisco should come to the front and take an active part in raising money for the com- | pletion of Balboa avenue has met with a | response sufficiently favorable to encour- | age the hope of good results in the imme- | diate future. Several wheelmen have | shown a willingness to take the leadership | in a movement to interest all the bicyele | clubs in the work, and there can be no | doubt they will raceive a cordial support from their fellow cyelists, To assist in the work of constructing the avenue and to take a leaaing and prom- inent part in raising the money necessary | to complete it is a duty which the wheel- men owe to themselvesand to the City. The propesed avenue will be largely | | for their benefit. They will de- | rive more pleasure from it, perhaps, | than any er class of citizens, Ivis, therefore, with justice and reason that the peop'e of the City look to| the wheelmen to bear a share of the cost of constructing the road and to per- | | form a laree partof the task of raising the | required money. Where many men are engaged in an undertaking of this character not much | will be required of any one person if all do their share. The number of wheel- | men in San Francisco is so large that if | each woula contribute buta very small sum of money the amount now needed to | put the avenue inté good condition | throughout its extent would be very small. | If, therefore, the bicycle clubs take up the | subject vigorously they would not have to asic heavy contributions from their mem- | bers in order to make a good showing of | civic patriotism by raising a sum which | would assure the completion of the work | on the avenue without delay. | The work that has been thus far done in ‘ | promoting the enterprise has been in the highest degree gratifying. The contribu- tions of money have been prompt and liberai, and have come from sources suffi- ciently widespread to attest that the in- terest taken in the subject is shared by the people generally, and that the move- | ment is in the faliest sense of the word a public enterprise. By means of the money thus raised employment has been afforded to many industrious men, who would otkerwise have been without work and wages, and whose families in many cases would have been left destitute. The City | has made headway in the construction of | a thoroughfare which will be one of the most famous in America. These are good results and the wheelmen of the City might take a just pride in allying them- seives with such an enterprise, and giving it such aid and assistance as will render i its completion assured y the near future. | S | RESTORED CONFIDENCE. | A complete proot of the restoration of | contidence in financial and commercial | circles throughout the country is afforded | by the fact that the recent heavy ship- ments of gold to Kurope have occasioned |iriovatasin whatever, and that the people | everywhere read the reports of such ship- | ments with undisturbed serenity. It will | | be remembered that a very different feel- | ing prevailed in the country when gold shipments occurred under the Cleveland | administration, and in the contrast be- tween public sentimeut now and what it was then we have a standard by which to measure the extent to which the McKin- | ley administration bhas revived confidence and restored the hopefulness of the people. It is not difficuit to understand why the present gold shipments create none of the alarm which was occasioned by similar shipments before the Republican success in the elections of last year. The people are now aware that we nave at Washing- ton an administration of statesmen who understand the needs of the country and are capable of rightiy directing its legisla- tion. The deficit tariff, which bas been the cause of so many ills in the past and which compelled the Government again and again to borrow money to pay its | running expenses and to maintain the | gold reserve, will soon be replaced by a new tariff, which will not only supply an ample revenue for the Nation, but will afford protection to American industry and put an end to those heavy importa- tions of foreign goods which now draw money away from us to Europe. It was announced yesterday in New York that there would be shipped from that port to Bremen $977,000 in gold bars, and on the same day it was announced that from Boston a shipment would be made on Thursday of §500,000 in gold. From both cities, however, came the tur ther statement that these shipments are based solely on business lines and have been received in financial circles with an entire absence of tho disquieting uncer- tainties of last year. Even the report that the entire gold exporis for the week 1 will probably aggregate 3,000,000 has not | | | | | | East, she had noted and has repeatedly in any way unsettled the money market in either city. It seems clear that we have at last reached the period of restored confidence. After this it will not be a lcng step| toward the revival of prosperity. Now | that business men are so well satisfied with the ontlook that they can watch the | arain of gold without feeling any uneasi- | ness we may be sure it will not be long | before they will begin to engage in those | enterprises which are needed to afford | employment to our people and to develop | the resources of the country. As soon as | the tariff bill is enacted and uncertainty | in regard to import duties is over we may | look for renewed activity in all lines of | business. The McKinley admmistration | is doing its work well and the country has | no reason to comvlain of the results| which have been accomplished. THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS. In reply to the welcome which was ac- corded her by the audience at the Woman’s Congress on the opening dag Mrs. Helen H. Gardener stated that, while she lived and was educated in the | stated at gatherings in all partsof the country that the most progressive werk of the time is being done in the West. We may rightly accept this as something more than a complimentary phrase. The greeting given to Mrs. Gardener was sin- cere and it is but just to accord to her an equal sincerity in her response to i If the most progressive work of the time is being done in the West and if this | fact has been noted by observant and re- flecting leaders of thought and action in tie East, then we have encouragement to 20 forward in what we have began. It is time for the West, as well as for women, to open what Dr. David Starr Jordan so aptly called ‘“‘the sealed orders” under which we have been working in the past. Itis time for us to read the signs of the age, to know where we are going and to work energetically to reach the destined port | by the nearest courses and the most favor- | able winds which science and experience | can reveal to us. It goes without saying that the men of | Catifornia and of the Greater West count | | much upon women to aid them in the great tasg of attaining all which destiny promises, We are so near to the pionesr days that we have not forgotten the emi- nent services which were rendered in the | upbuilding of our young commonwealth | by those brave women who shared all the dangers, trials snd hardships of those struggles which were necessary to convert the West from its former condition into its present stage of civilization and pros- perity. | Knowing these things accomplished by | women in the past it is easy for usto| understand how much help can be given | | by women in solving the problems of the | future, and in the West, therefore, it is inevitable that woman should be accorded | a recognition in every arena of human en- | deavor into which she was willing to ven- | ture &na in whose struggles she was | ready to take part. The Woman’s Congress will therefore receive in this City the attention which it s0 weli merits. Our people recognizs that among those who are 1o take part in its cebates and discussions are some of the most earnest leaders of the time, and that among the problems which it will under- take to solve there are many which rank | among those of the greatest importance | both to society and toindividuals, We nave received from Mrs. Gardener the praise that the most progressive work of the time is being done in the West, and it is our duty to ses to it that this com- mendation will be deserved in the future as in the past. —_— IN ‘HE KIICHEN. A8 cook read the news while she walted one morn For the {0 ks to come down o their meal, 8be had for the Turk the most virulent scorn “Ihata genuine Christian could feel. She felt in her beart, as she glanced o'er the That the war was an excellent thing 0 Could the Moslems te whipped, and endeavored to gauge ‘The sirength which to bear they could bring, But then came a sizzling, a spu'ter and smoke, With & flame shooting up in the air, And cook dropped her paper,and i gook, dropped pape; loF the range To discover the cause of the scare. Her knowledge of cooking was e And she fond when she went t 7 inquire, Sbe afierward said, "It was grease (hat’ jumped u: ©Of the frying pan into the fire.” —Pittsburg Dispatch. LI S, AMERI A’S ARMY. New York Herald. Every year seems to make it more probable that the close of the nineteenth century will mark an epoch in the history of the world. The thoughts of ‘the nations have for some time now been turned to the subject of war, and, incredible though it may seem, in the event of a general call to arms, nearly 40,000,000 men could be placed in the field. According to the London Daily Mail’s esti- mate, the United States can call’ upon s T about, | terday. | Bath, Me., who has been here for three wee! | entirely devoid of eare. greater number of trained roldiers than any other couutry in the world. Altoough the standing army numbers only 27.000 men, eaoh State has (o support its own miiitia, and sbould it become'necessary as & 1 upward of 7,500,000 men could aésist i main- tsining the indepeidence of the States. To defend the coast there would be s navy of some seventy ships, with 10,000 men, Of the European armics the biggestis that of France. The number of men in the active army and iis Teserve is 2,350,000, The, terri- torial army 13 900,000 strong, nud its reser~e 1,100,000, making s total of some 4,350,000, It is not likely, however, that under _#ny con- ceivable c.reumsiancesmore than 2,500,000 men could be called out. The navy, with 451 also hasa reserve of 114,000 men, of v about 25.500 are scrving ai the present time with the fleet. Next in point of numbers on a war footing comes Germany. The pence strength of the standing army is about 520,000. There has been no late return of the war strength, but in the last extremity Germany would hi an ermy of not far shortof 3,000,000 trained mew, while 22,000 men couia man_the 220 0dd vessels coustituting the pavy. The third great power is Russia. The total peace f0ot- 1ng of this country is 900,000. PERSON 2 L. Rev. E. Graham of Chico is at the Grand. Colonel T. W. Brooks of Pomona isin the City. Alexis Bjornson of Coronado isat the Occi- dental. Leo Courtney of Victoris, B. C., is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. Oito Siepermann of Newark, N. J., is at the Lick. D. B. Fairbanks, s banker of Petaluma, is at the L George Lacy of Colorado is registered at the Baldwin. H. E. Pickett, a mining man of Placerville, isin town. L. Chouillon of Rouen, France, is at the Occidental. Ernest Peyske, a business man of Omaha, is in the City. S. Hollister, a business man of Denver, is at the Palace. P. Caldwell of Hawail is one of the late arrivals here. A. L Horner, a business man ol Seattle, is a lste arrival here. James Beidson of Butte, Mont., 18 at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. J. R. Garrett, a general merchant of Marys- ville, is at the Lick. A. G. Thompson of Seattle, Wash., isat the Cosmopolitan Hotel. S. Whipple and wife of North Ontario are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor L. P. Lowe of Pasadena is a late arrival at the ifornia. F. A. Hihn, the millionaire, of Santa Cruz, is among the arrivals here. E. P. Stacey, @ fruit buyer and shipper of Minneapolis, is at the Grand. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett of the Cali- fornia National Guard is in the City. . E. Hyde, the banker and extensive land- owner of Tulare County, is at the Palace. Mrs. G. Watney and Miss L. Summer of Sea tle, Wash., are at the Cosmonolitan Hotel. Rev. P. 8 Casey, recior of St. Peter’s parish, Bas been ill for some time with heart trouble. George A. Lowe, a business man of Salt Lake, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Lowe. Mme. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop has taken up ber home while in San Franciscoat the Palace. Charles King, a commission merchant and cattle-grower of Hanford, isin the City on a business trip. Joshua Grige, a wealthy resident of Cleve- land, is at the Palace, sccompanied by Mr Grigg and two daughters, Colonel E. F. Preston and Mrs. Preston came down from Portals, their country home, last night and sre at the Palace. W. H. Dailey of England and A, Acheson of Chicago, who have business interests in the West, arrived here last night. D. Sullivan, city editor of the Boston Daily Globe, the paper owned by General Charles Taylor, s ona t here. E.S. Reisterer, one of the directors iri the Missouri Pacific Railroad, but whose home 1s at Tonawanda, N. Y., is at the Baldwin. Charles R. Drake, & leading business man ician of Tucson, Ariz,, is here, accom- a by Mrs, Drake. They are at the Palace. Colonel Pars Henshaw of Chico, the land proprietor of Butte and inspector of ifle pra tice of the N J. T. Argsle. a mining man of Wallace, one of the towns of Ceear d’Alene district, Norine ern Idaho, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife and son. Congressman J. A. Barham, who'arrived here from Washington, D. C., nearly two weeks ago and has since been at his home in | Santa Rosa, grrived here. yesterday and is at the Occide E. B. Ewing, ex-United States Consul to Mexico and one of the prominent Democrats of St Louis, who has been here for several days, left for a short trip to Monterey and | Santa Cruz yesterday. Thomas Cole, president of the Potost, Julia Consolidated, Buliion and other mining com- panies, has been dangerously 111 with pneu- monia, but is recovering. Mr. Cole is at a health resort in Sonoma County. Eugene F. Lacour, formerly of this City but for some time past manager of a large coffee finca in Guatemals, is at the Baldwin. He has rec been on a t to Europe and Enstern cities and is now on his return to Guatemala. Artiur Sewall, the wealthy ship-builder of pest, and whose son, H. M. Sewall, was a few s ago appointed Minister to Hawaii, has beeun taking life easy since his arrival in Cali- fornia. He has been in and out of San Fran. cisco every few dars seeing near-by places of interest, and yesterday he packed his grip { again and set forth from the Palace, accom- panied by a friend, to be gone 10r two or three daysmore. Mr. Sewall the elder seems now No one would ever think 10 1ok at him that he had ever worried over business, built a ship or ran for the Vice- Presidency of the United State WI1H YOUR COFFEE. “Have all the preparations been made for the reception of the poet ?” +“Oh, ves; I have just cut the leaves of his coliected works and put them on the table.”— Fliegende Blaetter. “‘Why does cvery one watch & newly mar- ried couple “Single people watch them because they ex- pect to see some love-making, and married pe;;nlu because they expect 10 see & quarrel.” —Puck. “I wish,"” sald Adam savagely as Eva timidly drew his attention to a patent medicine ad- vertisement, *“that you would not always nudge me in the rib! I never in my life knew A woman that did not insist on reminding her husband every half hour of the time he first met her!”—New York Press, “Those people next door are still in their honeymoon.” ‘Have you seen him kissing her 7" No; but ae lets her read the morning paper first.”—Chicago Record. “What cowards these men are! HereIam, 40 years old, and no one has ned the courage 0 propose to me!"—Fliegende Blaetter. +Doctor, do you thiuk that my son has what they cail a tobacco heart 2" 1 sincerely wish that he had, madam. His cigerette heart.”—Detroit Free Press. Gadzooks (affer service)—What a perfeot command of language Dr. Longwind has! Zounds—I don’t agree with you. Ishould say his language has a pecfoct command of him.—New York Tribune. £mith—I tried to pay the new woman & com- pliment last night, but it didn’t seem tobe appreciated. Robinson—What aid you say ? Smith—1 said that the new woman would leave large footprints on the sands of time.— Boston Traveler. “I have heard,” said the pensive-looking girl, “ibat poets usually speak in numbers.” *“Yei replied her father, ‘‘the trouble is that the numbers never have any dollar marks in front of them.” —Washington Star. ational Guard, arrived here yes- | i AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Frank W. Hawley of New York, who is well known upon this coast as an organizer of elec- trical enterprises, came up irom the south yesterday with a party of friends on a tour of inspection of various electrical plantson the Pacific Coast. Mr. Hawley is vice-president of the Cataract General Electric Company and general manager of the Erie Canal Traction Company, which distribute and use electricity generated at Nisgara Falls through the State of New York. Mr. Hawley was asked as to the use of elec- tricity as a motive power upon the Erie canal, and replying said: “Yes, electricity will be in use upon the canals of New York within the next two years and will furnish the motive power for the transportation of 4,000,000 tons of traflic from Loke Erie to- tidewater. It will operate 3000 canal-noats in this work, doubling the nnm- ber of trips per season and_greatly reduce the cost of transportation. It w.ll give to the POTts of the Great Lakes cxtraordinary facili- ties for marketing the products of the North- west in the city of New York and revolution- ize ‘the movement of freight as it has the transportation of pussengers upon street sur- face railrouds. Mr. Hawley was asked as to the electrical development in general, and in replying said: “Electrical developmen: to-day is In its in- fancy. We have just come to kuow how to generate it economically and how to put it in service at the least possible expense. Even the young canrecollect when it first served the Purpose in transmitting & message. To-day it is made available in the factories of the world. It is especially serviceable4n your State, and put to work can greatly redtice the cost of develop- ing mining properties. A current of electri- city can be generated in nearly every canyon in the Rockics, and the power thus developed transmitted many miles upon an economical and commercial basis. Itcan perform as effi- cient service two hundred miles away as at the point of generation.” Mr. Hawley was asked as to how the power could be used in the mining districts, to which he said: “A method of applying the power which most commends itielf to me is by the use of the cable way system. This is simply the carryiug of a load by an electric motor oper- atiug upon acable instead of a track. The cable is suspended from a pole line and the motor draws the carrier, which is also sus- pended. It is most simple, in_construction | and.most efficient in service, The current of electricity pusses through the very cable that carries the load, and it thus furnishes the power to operate drills, derricks and elevating macninery at the mine, as well as the motive force which propels the car contain- ing the ore in its transportation to the smelter or poiut of shipment. The cable crosses tue canyon and follows the linesof the gullies through the mountains. ' It may be horizontal at poinis and perpendicular at others. The motor, however, maintains & uniform rate of speed_and operates witn. abeolute safety and certainty. The moterman may control a dozen of these motors and thus reauce the cost of transportation to a minimum.” Mr. Hawley was asked as to whether the water in irrigation ditches could be used to generate power, to which he said: “It certainly can be put to such a service, provided at its source it can be carried to & point where it can operate turbine wheols. The water after operating the wheels can find its way into the irrigation trenches, and the electricity thus generated can operate pump- ing equipment which can be made mcst ser- viceable in some sections of this mountainous | country. There are many pumps operated electrically which are available in reciaiming valuable land.’” Mr. Hawley was requested to express his opinion upon the electrical development which he has seen in this country. he sald, “can well be proud of what it has done in the way of the transmis- sion of power over long distances. While ex- periments have been made in this and foreign countries. the first long-distance power trans- mission to operate upon & commercial basis | was installed within the limits of your own State. 1 have visited several planis in the South, where I find power being transmitted over long distances at & very moderate cost and at a very much less price than a current could be generated by wood or coal. The time | Das passed when steam can be used to make electricity {h competition with water power.” MEN AND WOMNMEN The citizens of Roxbury, Mass., are taking active steps 1o raise $20,000 to erect s monu- ment to General Joseph Warren. The Queer: of Italy has founded a soctety for the reforming ot ragged street children. They are to be taught some usetul trade. General Cadorna, who commanded the Ital- ian troups when they took possession of Rome in 1870, died recantly et the age of 82 years. Two Americans—W. T. Dannat, the painter, | ahd Rodman Wanamal ou of John Wan: maker—are among the new Chevaliers of the | Leglon of Honor. i Robert Bonner mentious the striking fact | that, when he bought his first trotting horse | in 1856, only nineteen horses, living and dead, had trotted a mile in 2:30. Now there are more than 15,000 in the list. Astrange blending of art and mammon s reported from Budapest. Tie picture of | Loutsa Blaha, the Hungarian nightingale, a she has been called since her first appearance at the Budapest Volka Theater, is to adorn the new 1000-guiden note, and it is thought that this may help to raise her salary from 1000 guldens a week to 1000 & night. Dr. Jameson, according to the Caps Town | Times, will retura to South Africa to carry the | Rhodes transcontinental wire to Lake Tau- | ganyiks. seems a happy one for turning Jameson's ‘siriking’ qualities to account in the land of his former triumphs and failure. His many friends hope the doctor will do better at con. necting the wire than at cutting it. The idea is Mr. Rhodes', and *it | Mme. Louise de Chapelain de Serreville do Crenny, Comtesse Douairiere de Sparre, who | has just died at the Chateau de Brunette, | Vaucluse, might possibly have been Empress of the French. When she lived as a girl near Arenenberg Queen Hortense tried to get up & marriage between her and Prince Louis Napo- leon. The young lady, luckily for her, pre- ferred the Danish Comte de Eparre, 8 godson of the Comte de Chambord. ANSWERS TO (ORRE>PONDENTS. Back DATES—A. ., City. The 28th of April, 1869, fell on a Wednesday. and the 6th of Junuary, 1879, on a Monday. DURRANT'S LIFE—H. B. W., Lompoc, Cal. This department has no information as to any book company that will publish a life of Durrant, CONFEDERATE WAR RECORDS—J. F. £, Stock- ton, Cal. For information about the war rec ords of the Confedcrate army communicate with General George Moorman, iiew Orleans, La. Books — Subscriber, Livermore, Alameda County, Cal. This department does not adver- {ise the price of law or other books. You shouid write to & first-class bookhouse for such fuformation. = HORSERADISH—J. D. H., Stockton, Cal. There is no article in the markets of €an Francisco known es black horseradish. There is a black raaish which is very pungent. It is probably that to which you refer. THE WORD CONTEST—S. J., City. As the Golden Gate Carnival committee has gone out of existence by reason of the indefinite post- ponement of the carnival, there is no one to take charge of the word contest. SANCHO PEDRO—H., City. In the game of sanciio pearo the countis: High, low, juck, game ana pedro. It W and C are playing and weach has three 10 go, if W makes high and pedro and C makes low, jack and game, ac- cording to the count C Wins, TiNe JREQUIRED. FOR A PATENT—J. C., City. The time usually required o obtain a decision from the Patent at Washington, D. C., after an application has been filed, is from six to efght weeks, but.in some cases it some- times requires 'several months, depending upon the number of applications on hand. Tne record of a patent is not destroyed. THREE Bic Crties—W. McDi, City. The fol- lowing figures of population are those that were furnished by the Mayors of the respective cities named in the latter partof 1896: New York City, 1,957,284, besed on Sigures fur- nished by the Health Department; Philadel- phis, 1.300,000; Brookiya, N. Y.’ 1.400,000. The figures for Brookiyn inciude Fiaibush, Flatlands, New Utrecht and Gravesend. ART ScHOOL—L. E. R. B., City. There is no free art school in San Francisto. The Califor- nia Schoolof Design that meetsin the Hop- kins Institute of Art opens on the 15t of August and closes on_the 15th of May follow- ing. The iees vary from ®6 to$8 per month. For further information or for a_circular ad- dress the secreiary of the school—Scnool of De- #ign, California and Mason streets. THE JUNIOR REPUBLIC—A ccrrespondent asks for information about a bratch Junior Re- public, said to he located in the State of Cali- fornia. This organization was started some years,ago in a place called Freeville, New York State, and it isrun ou tne Government pinn, with president, cabine:, executive officers and the like, with the idea'of teaching those who are connected with it & clear notion by piac- tical {liustrations of the manner in which tie Government is earried on he United States. Does any reader of this department know of such an organization in Cslifornia? 11A MaTcH—Perplexed, City. There does not appear to be any printed explanation of the meaning of the act of & young man handing the unsulphured end of a match to & young 1ady. If handing the sulphured end of a match by & young man to & young lady means a pro- osal, the logical conclusion” is that if he ands her the other end he does not want to shight her. Mateh flirtation may be all very well in its way, but if 8 young man wants to propose to a young lady he ought to do so in a way that cannot be misunderstood, or if he does not_want to propose let him have the courage to tell the young lady 5o, in so many word FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Doings of the Knights of Honor—Dis- trict Deputies Named by the Grand Dictator. The 'Past Dictators’ Association of the Knights of Honor paid a {raternal visit to Friendship Lodge last week. The members of Liber'y and of Yeroa Buena lodges attended in a body. During the even- ing there were many visitors from other lodges. Taylor Rogers delivered a very inter- esting lecture before the meeting on “True Fraternity, as Exemplified by the Knights of Honor and Kindred Associations, and the Re- lanonship of Society to Them.” On Wednesday evening Grand Dictator Archibald and siaff of grand officers will visit Occidental Lodge in B. B. Hall. The visitors will be accompanied by the Past Dictators' Association. There will be the initietion of three candidates, and Supreme Representa- tive Charles F. Curry will deliver an_ address. An invitation has been extended 10 all the members of the order to be present. The grand dictator, who has been visiting the lodges in Newman and Modesto, will re- turn on Wednesday. The printed proceedings of the recent ses. sion of the Grand Lodge are in the hands of the binder and will be ready for distribution during the week. Deputy Grand Dictator M. L. Crowe, who re- Cently returned from Sacramento and Fresno, reporis a large acesssion of members in each place. The following is the list of the districts and district deputies designated by the grand dic- tator: Alameds County, District 1, Lodges 1745, 1889, 2019, 2058—G, R. Miller, Ala- meda; Alumeda County, District 2 1876, 3902 —A. E. Hart, k. County, District 3, Lodee 1¢ Chico; Butte County, District 4, Lodge 16! Ed Higgins, Orovilie; Colusa County trict 5, Lodge 1688—I §. Jamison, Colusa; Fresno County, District 6, Lodge 3455—George Lawson, Fresno; Los Augeles County, ct 7, Lodge 5—R. D. Wade, Los An, pa County, District 8, Lodge 1897 Epley, Napa; Nevada Count; Lodge 1954, D. B. Marwicl Nevada Co District 10, Lodge —J. McBride, North San Juan; Sacramento County, District 11, Lodges 1580, 2088—H. Bennet, Sue Sau_Diego County, Dis- trict 12,' Loage 33281, 0. San Diego San Joaguin County, District 13, Lodge 15! John W. Hart, Stockton; Solano Count. trict 14, Lodge 2013—. Hatheway, Valiejo Solano County, District 15, Lodge 2806 Anderson, Suisun; Sonoma County, District 16, Lodge' 1923—F. W. Brown, Petaluma; So- noma County, District 17, Lodge 2093—G. W Wolcott, Healdsburg; Souoma County, Dis- trict 18, Lodge 2208—Dr. R. Press Smith, Santa Rosa; Stanislaus County, District 19, Lodge 1992—E. P. Grant, Modesto; Stanislaus County, District’ 20, Lodge 2409 — Henry Klebn, Newman; Santa Clara County, District 21, Lodge 1808—Dr. H. J. B. Wright, Lodges “Butte | Santa Cruz County, District 22, Lodge L L. Blaisdel! nta C ; Sania Cruz Couuty, District _Lodge 20! S. W. Coffman, Wat- Yuba Couuty, District 24, Lodge . W. Pine, Marysville; tra_Costa District Lodge ' 3320—Francis Crockett; San Francisco County, Dis- trict 26, Lodges 1788, 1841, 210’ rank Lawrence; San Fran County, District 27, Todges 1731, 3449, 3496—R. A. A. Summers: San Fran District 28, Lodges C. Mctuilough; strict 29, Lodge ncisco County, District 30, Lodges 1716, 1756, 1990, 2204— ilder; San Francitco County, District 2324—E. Worth; , District 32, Lodges 1. Friedmau. 1930, San Ladies of the Grand Army. During the session of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic held in Salinas last week the following named were elected officers for the enmsuing term: President, Pauline Willis of Seven Pine Circle No. &, San Francisco; senior vice, Sarah E. B. Todd, Sheridan Circle No. 5, Oakland; junior vice, Eliza 1. Waggoner, Edward Roby Circle No. 2, Sacramento; treasurer, Mary Smith, Anna E.la Carroll Circle No. 1, San Jose; chaplain, Fanny B. Stothard, John B. Wyman Circle No. 32, Oskland; council of administration—M. Arnold, Sants Rosa; Mary Brough, Vallejo; Lena Scholton, San Francisco; delegate at lurge, Miss Maud Welch, San Jose; first dele- gate, Lydia C. Hinckley, San_Franc ond dolegate, Sarah E, B. Todd, d delegate, Anna Paulg, Cramento; al ternate at large, Lena Sholton, San Francisco; | first alternate. M. Arnold, Santa Rosa; second alternate, C. M. Devereaux, Santa Rosa; third alternate, Susan Hines, San Francisco. The subject of memorial grove-tree plant- ing was brought up, as the ceremonies wiil be held in Sscramento on Saturdsy next on Rrounas set apart for the purpose by the Capi- 1ol commissioners. The idea of & tree-p aut. ing originated some months ago with Mrs, Eliza H. Waggouer of Edwerd Roby Circie of Sacramento. Since then the proposition ex- ended to such a degree thut it was decided to have the department, instead of one circle, take charge of it. A 'large number of trees have beon contributed, and each will repre- sent some spot that is historic in the war of the Rebeliion. One is & tree_donated from an ex-Confederate scldier of Appomatiox, whose house was the headquarters ot General Lee at the time of the surrender. The Woman’s Relief Corps. The following-named ladies will be the offl- cars of the Woman's Retief Corps for the ensu- ing vear, they having been chosen at the con- vention held last week in Salinas: Depart ment president, Mary E. Hartwell, Los Angeles; senior vice, Abby D. Sylvester, River- side; junior vice, Edith L Baker, Salinas; treasurer, Ida L. Jarvis, Pasadens; cnaplain, Jennte A. Briggs, San Jose.. Executive board— Carrie A. House, San Diego; Effie M. Patterson, Emma Pruit, Auburn; Helen E. t_Los Angeies; Josie Wa.den, Los Angeles. National delegates—Cora Merritt, deiegete at large. Oakland; Louise Smith, Oak. iand; Anna W. Lewis, Carrie A. House, San Diego; Eliza Shepard, Onkiend. "Alternates— Jennie Bridges, Allie A. Hewitt, Los Angeles; Avby C. Weeks, Holen E. Megs, East Los An- Norwal Mexs, geles; Mary Newcomb, Valie) Twelve members were elected to the Home Board Association, W. R. C.’s home at Ever- reen, Cal. as foliows: Lue Tripp, No. 2; izzie_Condy, liza Shepard, : Julia E. B Laura Robinson, No. 3: Cecilia_Holt, No. 2! essie Barnacd, No, 76 Mary Farmer, No. 30; Eva Bell, No. : Louise Buckley, No. 87; Hannah Felier, 57: Annie Leavitt, No. 61. The convention acknow'edgea greetings from Past Depariment President Mrs. B. J. Russell, Mrs. Mery Z. McHenery ana Mrs, Jennie L. Southwortu, aiso passed & vote of thanks to he cilizen’s of Salinas for their many courtesies and efforts to entertain. Special mention was made of the loyal manner in which the teachers of the public schools instrucied the youth of the city and instilled into their yourg minds the irue principles of patriotism, as evinced by their grand salute 10 O0ld Glory. On the last day of the session the newiy elected officers were installed by Mrs. Eliza- beth d’Arcy Kinne,and just before adjourn- ment Mrs. Lanra J. Robinson, the retfring president, was presenied wich 3 boautiful sfl. ver tea set, and Mrs. Mary E. Hartwell was presented by Mrx. T. W. Harris with a basket of exquisite flowers. The next department comvention will be held in Nevada City at the same time that the next depariment encampment is called. The Native Daughter: Columbia is the name of the new parlor re- cently instituted at Columbis, Tuolumne County, and it is No. 99 on the roll. The in- stitution was by Deputy District Grand Presi- ident Mrs. M.J. Wells ot Dardanelle Parlor, assisted by Mrs, N, A. Rother, president; Miss ils | ! Hannsh Morrls, past president; Mrs, M. J. Hampton, marsnal; Miss Irene G. Hall, secre- tary, rnd Mrs. M. Hender, Mrs H. Hartvi: and Miss Ellen Carroll, all members of Dard: nelle Parlor. The new parlor starts out witn twenty-one churter members and it has a promise of many candidates. The officers clected and instailed are: Miss Maggie Co: 1in, past president; Miss Louisa Eckel, pre dent; Mrs. Rose Fallon, Miss Laura Sieve and Miss Frances Arnold, vice-president Miss Lillie Rehm, recording and financial s retary; Mrs. N. Grant, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Almedia, marsbai; Miss N. Slebert, Mrs, Louisa Price and Mrs. Smiih, trustees, and Leura Bacizalupt outside seutinel. At the close of the ceremony of instaliation thers was a gathering around ihe festal board and a splendid time was had until the “wee shors hours ayent the iwal.” The young ladies of Dardanelle Parler of Sonora were quite busy for several weeks pat preparing for a minstrel show ennounced to be given in Turn Verein Hail this evening. Tt 15 10 be & burnt-c erformance, and wiil by the “Darktown Girls” up to date. The Daughters Will Help. Martha Washington Council, Daughters of Liberty, has decided to assist the movement for the erection of & monument to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, and to accomplish that end will give an entertainment and dance in Union-square Hall on the evening of Monday, May 12. An excellent programme will be offered, and the committee in charge will do all it can to make the affair a success so thata good financial showing for the fund can be made. Leo Assembly’s Anniversary. To-morrow evening Leo Assembly No. & of the Y. M. C. U. will give its ninth auniversary entertainment and dance in B'nal B'rith Hall, Afinoprogramme will be presented at 8 0'Clock. and at 10 o'clock there wili be dancing. Ladies of the Maccabees. The members of Modin Hive, Ladies of the Maceabeos, are making proparations for . so; cial to be given iu Social Hall of the Foresters’ building on the evening of May 7. GIVEN A SABER, A Pleasant Coremony at the Headquar~ ters of Company A, League of the Cross Cadets. A pleasing ceremony took place at the headquarters of Company A, League of the Cross Cadets, 331 Golden Gate avenue, Monday night, Besides the members of the company, which is the pioneer company, a large number of ladies and gentlemen were present. First Lieutenant William C. Hopper pre- sented Captain Frank S. Drady with a gold-mounted saber, belt ana swordknot, on behalf of the company. Captain Drady was emphatically taken by surprise, but succeeded like a soldier in guickly recov- ering bimself and expressing his thanks. A musical and literary programme foi- lowed, during which Rev. Fattier Yorke delivered an extended and appropriate aadress, paving a high compliment to Captain Drady for the great personal in- terest he had always taken in his come mand. ———— Too Much Damages. In the case of Frank K. Thiele against Simon Newman the judgment of the Superior Court s reversed by the Supreme Court and & new trial ordered. Thiele brought action against Newman to recover trebie damages for injury done to hisland by a fire kinaled by one of Newman’s employes on s own land, which adjoined the plaintif’s land, and which sprend over and upon the Thiéle property. The jury found a verdict for tnree times the amount of the actual demages. From this verdict Newman appealed and with success. —_———— Died ¥rom Avpendicitis. Policeman M. J. Heaphy of Captain Gillen’s division died at St. Mary’s Hospital early yes- terday morning from appendicitis. An opera- tion was performed to save his life, but it was unsuccessful. He was born February 17, 1361, and joined the force February 26, 1892. Ho leaves a widow and three young coildren, who will get $1000 {rom the Widows’ and Orphans® Aid Association and $100 for funeral ex- penses. CAL. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib,, at Townsend's. * } EPECTAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ! Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The spring exhibition is now open daily 1rom 9 A. M. 105 P. 3. and Thursday evenings 10 10 o’ciock. - B b S William Bayly recently disposed of 51 per cent of the stock of the Tom Boy mine at Telluride, Colo., to an_ English syndicate for the sum of $2,225,000. The mine has pald $800,000 in dividends the last two years. Faster Time on the Saata Fe Route. Three and One-half Days to Chicago or St. Louis—Four and One-half Days to New York. Leaving San Francisco Mondays and Thursdays, at 5 2. ., connection Is made at Barstow with the famous Santa Fe limited traln. 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