The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAI:L, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 189%. S;l()RTRlDUE: CHARLES M. Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, Gb Dafly and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall Dally and Sunday CaL, six months, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mall Daily and Stnday CALL, one month, by mail. CaL1, one year, by mail.. . 6.00 00 .50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, ¥rancisco, Californta. Totopheno - s Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Sizeet Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:rest, coraer Clay; open untfl £:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes strect; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 8:30 o’clock. &W. corner Sixteentis and Mission sireets, open 9 0'clock. 8 Mjssion street, open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1605 Polk street; open until 9;30 o'clock. NW. coraer Taweuty-second sad Kemtuoky 90" k. stzeets; open L OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFIC Booms 31 and Park Row, THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going 1o the country on a vacation? 1If £0. 1t is no trouble to forward THE CALL to vyour address. D ¢ it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Rusiness Office will receive prompt TRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per moath summer mo: for the tar. Aldrich will explain everything. McKinley will do the right thing for Cuba. Home politics is full of snarls that need untangling. San Pedro harbor we need, and San Pe- dro harbor we must have. The job on the Hall of Justice is lees like work than 1 a scandal. Democracy in the Senate hasn't decided whether to kick or lie down. just at present California has lots of iness at Washington, and big business hat, at There is a prospect that Uncle 8am may | r's bands and | | soon take Cuba off Wey show him how to pacify it. It is said the Democrats are going to make a hard fight to carry Ohio, but the | chances are Ohio wili never know it. It will probably take the diplomatisis | longer 1o settle the trouble in the Levant | thsn it took the soldiers to fight 1t out. The military 102y not have shocked Russia as much as 1t did Greece, but she found it a surprise party. vigor displayed by Turkey We may count it that the Lincoln League will make a monumental success, and ia a time much shorter than some people suppose. All the Eastern cities are talking m of their baseball teams than of anything else, but 1t is only in those cities whose teams are winning that the talk is printed. We may now expect to hear from Con- stantinople a statement from the Sultan of the kind of nerve tonic he uses, accom- panied with pictures showing how the sick man revived. As Philadelphia proposes to borrow $8,000,000 to fix herself up for the recep- | tion of the new era of prosperity it is evi- | dent that those who cali her slow haven’t got on to her style. Athens can at any rate assert that her army made a better showing than the Chicago baseball team has done, and thus in one vociferous city of this coun- try criticism is silenced. It is said the practice of hissing what is not liked on the stage is becoming com- mon in New York, and if so we trust Chi- cago will take care to head it off. We doa’t wish it in the West. The European doctors have agreed that Turkey being a sick man should have no pie, but the nurses who have been watch- ing the patiert gre by no means certain they can take the dainty away from him. David Beonett Hil! has just told an in- terviewer, “‘the discord in the Democratic party 1s like a row between man and wife,” but as David has never been mar- ried, the opinion will not have weight as | that of an expert. It was recently decided by a committes that news can be best defined as *‘tne lat- est information,” and now comes a man who says it is “the earliest information,” and thus the subject is openea up again and the end is not in sight The Mississippi has retired from its early rise and gone back to its bed again, but the people are not yet out of the wet. There is a June rising coming when the snows melt on the upper Missouri and begin to stir things up lower down. The Pennsylvania Legisiature is talking of appropriating $1,000,000 for the improve- ment of public roads, and the people of the State, while admitting that such im- provements are needed, are wondering what road the Legislature will take to get the meney. The Russian Embassadcr has refused to indorse the passport of an American who wishes to visit Russia, giving as a reason that the man is not a Christian. If we are to have theology in matters of this kind how pould it do to wipe Russia off the earth? She isn’t orthodox. The Chicago Herald says, “Nevada’s statehood continues to be a subject of dis- cussion,” and it should have added, the discussion is confined to Eastern people and fools. This is an indissoluble Union of indestructible States and Nevada is one of them. She can be neither put out of the Union, nor destroyed within it. Eastern people who object to the Senate | tariff bill because 1t raised the Dingley duties on citrus fruits and low-grade wools and added a duty on hides are now as- serting that these changes were forced on the Finance Committee by Senator Jones, and if they can prove the fact the Senator will not suffer any loss of repute as & pro- tectionist. I'be tariff must be made for the industries of the whole country and not for those of the East alone, attention. | | MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. | work of administration. | provements until they are assured the funds raised for them will not be wi | used for the enichment of ward politicians. & Large interests affecting aimost every industry of the State to a greater or less degree are involved in the tariff issue at the National capital, and much attention aatp—1874 | must necessarily be given to the contest there, but there are issues nearer home of An economical and progressive City goverpment will be as beneficial as a good tariff, and we must fight for the one as earnestly as for the other. { hardly less importance. While there is mach at Washington, in Cuba and in the Levant to interest the | people of San Francisco, nothing which occurs in either of these places should lead | our citizens to overlook or ignore the issues at home. We have to fight incessantly for 1897 | municipal improvements and against municipal scendals, and in this tight, as well as | in that for liberty, there is needed eternal vigilance. | The activity of commercial and industrial organizations in this City has moved the Washington officials to take steps toward the immediate beginning of the work of construction on the new Federal building, but in the meantime our local enterprise of o week, by carrier..$0.18 | building a new Hall of Justice lags, while the money lies idle in the City treasury | | and industrious men are walking the streets in search of employment. Many forms of maonicipal improvement are needed, and the Merchants' Associa- 5 | tion has outlined a worthy programme of work to accomplish them, but at the same % §23 | time there are evidences on all sides of the waste of public money in the routine The taxpayers will with good reason object to further im- ed or | Every good citizen desires to see Balboa avenue completed, our unem ployed pro- | | advance their welfare. vided with work on the new Federal building and the Hall of Justice, the programme of improvements outlined by the Merchants’ Associatiou undertaken, the Mission Park movement carried to speedy success, municipal extravagance checked and the administrative evils which have caused so many scandals in the past removed as far as possible from our City government. We cannot, however, accomplish these things by desires, no matter how intense the desires may be. must give our thoughts and our energies to the task. The larger cities of the East are laying plans for extensive publia works by way of preparing for the coming era of prosperity. 1n New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston ths people are about to begin a series of enterprises which will materially It would be a profitable thing for us if we could keep up with this movement of our sister cities, and 1t is certainly worth our while tostudy seriously | every department of municipal affairs, to see where we can make improvements, either by spending more money or by checking the waste of money expended now. ‘We must work for them. We THE TARIFF DEBATE. Few speeches have been waited for with more 1nterest by the country at large than that with which Senator Aldrich is ex- | pected to open the tariff debate to-day. | The revisions made 1n the Dingley bill by | his committee, while in some respects im- proving the measure, have not asa whole | been satisfaciory to the people. It is not the measure the country expected irom such noted tariff experts and stanch pro- | tectionists as are the men who compose the Republican party of the Finance Com- mittee, and it is therefore with no little eagerness the people wait to hear the argu- ment that is to be advanced for it. Mr. Dingley bas, of course, abstained from any extended criticisms on the i changes made in his bill by the Senators, | but he has pointed out briefly some serious | objections to them. The most notable of these is the increase of duties on beer and cigarettes, and the establishment of a high-grade wools, dried fruits and wine. If more revenue were needed than the Dingley bill provided, why lower the duties which would bave afforded protec- tion as well as revenue? 1f more revenue were not needed whby should we have a duty on tea and beer? It is difficalt to understand how Sena- | tors Aldrich, Morrill, Piatt of Connecticut and Jones of Nevada were induced to con- | sent to the proposed duty on tea. dustry, and imposes on a necessary of life a tax which wiil fall much beavier on the poor than on the rich in proportion to their means. All the revenue 1o be ex- { pected from it could be raised much better nits, wines and the higher class of wool. here is in fact no need whatever to sacri- fice the principle of proiection in order to to its expenditure. Whatever Senator Aldrich and his col- leagues on the Finance Committee may | say in its defense, their biil is not at likely to be accepted by the Senate in tLe | form in which it has been reported. The | antagonism of the people to the duty on | tea has already become so pronounced that this feature of the measure is sure to be removed. The question will then erise | asto the best means of making up the | revenue which would have been derived | from the tea duties. On that point there | may be some differences of opinion. It is | not easy to see, however, how the West- ern argument for higher duties on fruits and wines can be answered or ignored | when the question is considered, and it would seem therefore that our battle for | protection to Californian industries is in a fair way to be won by reason of tke popu- lar opposition to the duty on tea. THE OHIO ELECTION. The press of the Eastern Statesis giv- ing no little attention to a consideration of the approaching State election in Ohio, where the issues involved are not only the election of a Governor, but a United States Senator. It is known that the Democrats will make every offort to carry the State, and the outcome seems to be regarded in some quarters as sufficiently uncertain to render speculations concern- | ing it of general interest. It is difficult to see upon what grounds the Democrats base their hopes of success, | The Republicans carried Ohio for McKin- { ley last year by a plurality of 48,494 votes. In the State contest they were even more successful than in the Presidential vote, and ot present the Legisiature stands 112 Republicans to 37 Democrats. It will cer- tainly take en immense change in public { sentiment to overturn such majorities as these, and there is nothing in the present situation to justify a belief tbat any such change has taken place. | For many years there has been in Ohio a strong factional fight in the Republican ranks. These dissensions have not infre- quently led to Democratic successes, and as a resulr, almost ever since the close of the war the Democrats have had one Sen- ator from Ohio, and at certain times they had both. If there were any evidences of | a continuance of these factional disputes | this year, we could understand on what | the Democrats were counting for suc- | cess, but there is no such evidence to be found in anything of recent occurrence in | Ohio potitics. The Republicans have determined to make an early beginning of the campaign and conventions have already been held in many counties. These have shown that | the varty is well nigh unanimous in sup- porting Governor Bushnell for re-election and Mark Hanna for the Senate. There has baen no appearance of any decided opposi- tion in any county, and where the delegates have not been instructed for Bushnell and Hanna they have been left free to act as they think best when tbe State conven- tion assembles. ‘While harmony is thus well assured in the Republican ranks there are abundant manifestations of discord among the Dem- { ocrats. The old fight between the silver and the gold wings of the party remains to be fought out. It is fair to assume the silver wing will win, and the gold Demo- crats, therefore, will act with the Repub- lican party in the State election as they did in the Presidential contest. Estimating the vote on that basis there is every assur- ance thrat the Republican victory will be I about as complete es it was last year, and dutyon tea, while lowering the duties on | | i | | Tt ai. | Ana uttering itself through the Herald to fords no protection to any American in. | 87€T that the sewer question thereabouts :by any neeiless diversion. A {th | | Herald calls it. | that this editor with a nose so violently by restoring tho Dingley duties on dried | “a#ddictcd to sewer gas has suffered t L triv aipart of him to obscure the sense of | patriot jor the Goverament &n income equal | | brate the Fourth of July or shall we just that there will be no falling off in the party vote beyond that which is to be ex- pected in off years. While the Republicans are eager for the fray, and have shown their earnestness by providing for an early beginning ot the campaign, the Democrats are still hesitat- ing and doubtful. They have no strong candidate either for the governorship or the senatorship. At the present time it appears probable that Paui R. SBorg will be their candidate for Governor and John R. McLean for the Senate, but neither of these gentlemen is likely to poll the full party vote, and those who are looking for a Democratic victory in Ohio this year must bs basing their conclusions on somethine which they can read in the stars, for there is no evidence on earth to sustain it. INDEPENDENGE DAY. The interior part of the Stateis indus- triously laying fuses for the fourth of next July. In scarcely any quarter do the cares ot local government or the stringenciesof bard times diminish the fire-of patriotism whoich smolders there irom one year's end to another'sand splendors its equ nox with blue and 1ed lights and spires oi fire that reach to beaven. Only one voics is this season heard dis- affirming the glory of that yearly dav of light and smoke—one voice down in Santa is 100 engrossinz to admit of interferencs “little ke Indevendence day” is what tie It is obyioucly regrettable 1 which ought tolie behind it, | but su ems to be the coid, impassive fact, expres<ed by him with a stndions calmi that would frecza the festoi a Bston patriot. S By asingular coincidence the Santa Mo ica Qutlogkrises todemand: “'Shall we cele- keep on listening to the kickers against sowers?’ Sewers seem to wield a peculiar influence over the destinies of Independ- ence day celebrations this year. Is the sewer afce to the perpetuation of that divine devotion to country which every vear wells up audibly into the throat of every man, woman or child who bas a heart deep enough to nurture a bubbling spring of it? We should hope not. Let the coupling of sewers and independence in the same breath be hereafter tabooed, else no one may teil what will come of it. That celebration in San Jose is to be a marvel of brilliance, unless the great white light which is gathering for the Fourth above Oakland shall succeed in darkening it by comparison. With two such fires rising on either side of San Francisco to beacon the night of uncon- cern which shrouds her as the anniversary ship comes speeding on, this City may find herself sufficiently well lighted for the ship to see how to land when it reaches here, Otherwise there might hea capsize, for San Francisco’s Fourth of July fires are not burning very distinctly as yet. ‘We rejoice to see the country preparing for this one hundred and twenty-first birthday of American independence. The country is always alive to these revered bequests of the fathers—these days of special festivity to recail the brave deed of a hero, the noble innovation of a na- tion or the greatness of a statesman. Even when their hurrying, crowding metropolis Is too busy to fittingly note the annual recurrence of these various red-letter days the interior districts main- tain their ardent devotion to and enthusi- asm for them without abatement. It would appear that the kind of patriotism which people call “healthy patriotism” is the kind that lives in the country. THEY KEPT UP APPEARANCES Chicago Times-Herald. In the boom times a syndicate of Kansas politicians started an Associated Press paper upinalitile town in Central Kansas, It was & hummer, and for a time had all the facilities of & metropolitan journal. Then the fun ran shorter and shorter. One fatal night they gave out. Governor Glick was the president of the paper’s syndicate and he was tele- graphed to for help, He refused and the force was left to get out the paper as best they could. The orders were to keep up appear- ances at_any cost,and it was done. For sev- eral weeks the paper came out every morning with a full plfie of telegraph hews, not o word of which was authentic, The Abilene Gazette had probably the most varied service ever known on a pretentious Jeper during that time, The for had & le of the Cineinnati Enquirer a or two old, and the telegrams were rom that and dated on the day preceding at such places as seemed best for the “telegraph editor.” Long tariff speeches were taken from the old coples of the Congressional Record and the country weeklies were robbed for happenings. A rsin “was good for two columns of special dispatches from a score of towns telling of the benefit to the crops. P.oy.l’ wrote in to say that when the dispatches were sent the ground was frozen two feot deep and iarmers could not have been "lfi'lnflonu" as siated—but it made no difference, e i to the end and many people never knew that for weeks not & word had come over the wires. THE EXI(INCTION OF BROOKLYN. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Perhaps at some later date that famed New Zoalender will take & run across the Atlantic, and, perching himself on the rail of the East River bridge, despite the protests of the bridge policemen, will let his eye turn ta the east and overrun the wastes of boarding-houses and the scattered forest of church steeples, and will then rip up a heartfelt sigh as he sadly exclaims: “And this was Brooklyn!” For Brooklyn, to all future intents and pur- poses, is no more, Swallowed up in the maw of Greater New York, her identity is gone. her insular pride crustied, her nama is but & figment of the past, All tnose glories which in the mind of the loval Brooklynite clustered about her ure scattered to the winds. Her tabernacle, her dramatic clubs, are but an iridescent dream. Whatever Brooklyn mey do within the few months that intervene ere the shackles are finaily clinched will redound only to the lory'of New York. Wheu those shackles are rinly welded the spectacle of hosts of New Yorkers swarming over the East River bridge on Sundey, going to Brookiyn for their beer, will be seen no more, The same excise law will govern both sides of the river, and the thirsty will have to go s much longer way o find tho iand o’ license, But Brookiyn can find a glint of sunshine | even in the dark shadow of approiching dissolution. The comic paragrapher can an- noy her no longer wiih his slurs and gibes and unfeeling digs.” She ean at least be thankful | for that. S e— THE CAMPFIRE RxSono New York Press. [12 he “Vampire” kicks Kipling can sue if he feels like it.] A man there was and he wrote & pome (Even as you and 11) Ot adrab and a jab and a Hindoo dome (It scared the critic away from home), For he painted his landscapes all in chrome (Notes you and11) Ob, the words he used and the oaths he used, And the jungle junk he jawed ! The public never had heard it before, (But they thought it was great and tney Sowled for more And every one haw-hawed. A man there was and he wrote and wrote (Even as you and I') He got as perk as a yearling shoat (For rule and school he cared nary a groat) And every one studied his lines Lo quote, (Even as you and 1) Oh, the toil we lost and the spoll we lost, And the lovely plots we planned And the stuff that delighted his publisher’s eye (Now we know that they never knew why) ‘That they did sot understand. The man was sent by a paperto Greece (It wasn't you or I1) At a dozen theu, per month, if you please, (Just to keep his inky pyjamas in crease) And he saz {n Crete to write his piece, (Not asyou or 1) But it ein't the worg and it ain’t the shirk That stings like the pricily Leat. 1t's thinking of him aud Steevie Crane (Oh, the crimson crash and the blood-red raint) If they shouid v r meet ! AN ANCIENT CANTEEN. Was PLOWED U oN A NEW YORK FARY, AND Now PUZZLES THE ARCHZOLOGISTS. A very queer fossil relic was recently turned up by & plow on & farm in Tompkins County, New York, says the Populer Ecience News. The whence and when must be determined, 1f it can be atall, by the what—what it is. It Wilder, Wright, Burkhalter and Noble; H. J. 8mall, superintendent of motive power, and AMessrs. Curtis and Wallace, left for Portland last night on & genera: inspecting trip of the road. General Passénger Agent Goodman and C. F. Bmurr are due from Chicago. Mr Herron and one or two other of the officials will remain in' the Windy City & little while yet. CALIFORNLANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., May 24.—At the St, Cloud, R. Moore; Holland—H. Bratrobr, B. Bienenfield, Mr. and Mrs. J. Marks; St. Denis— Miss Cresseler, Miss B. Russ, Miss G. Russ, { Miss E. Russ, V. Kalsky; Grand Union—P. J. Cadigan, L Weale; Murray Hill—S. P. Cham- berlin, M. P. O'Sullivan; Sturtevant, G. Greowney; Windsor, W. F. Herrin; Man- battan, Miss King; Marlborough, J. McManus; New Amsterdam, W. Mackie; Ashland—V. E. Nelson, J. F. Valentine; Astor, B. M. Thomp- son; Stuart, L. A. Saalfield; Imjerial, Mr. and Mrs. G, W. Nichols. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. California Camp of the Argonauts Will Hold a Special Degree Next Friday. James J. Jamison, president, and Frank B. Ryan, secretary, of California Camp No. 4 of the Argonauts, have announced the camp will hold a special Argonaut degree night in Shasta Hall in Native Sous’ building on Fri- day, and extonsive srrangements for the affair are in course of preparation. In a cir- cular these officials say: The principal reason for holding the Initiation 98, Uils BIght ls the expediting of the work of glv- ing the degrees. We desire to avoid the delay in handling a large number of candidates by baing compelled to wait uutil the parlor adjourns. The arrangements made enable us to begin the glving of the first degree by 8 o'cl The intentlon s as fullows: Say (here are fifty candidates present, twenty-five will be initiated together in Lhe firat degree, fol.owed by the second twenty-five candidates. After all have (aken the first degroe. two candidates will be selected for the secoud degree. and initiated one at a time, the re- maining forty-eight candidates merely witnessing the work. Tuis wiil enabie the degres to be gvex lo all caudidates by asy 11 g'clock. Che “Argonaut”” degree 15 pronounced by the grand officers—all of whom have taken ir—-aod others to be the perfection of side degrees for beauty of sentiment a regards the ritua, an weil #s the magnitude and merit_of the paraphernalia, ‘The degree has so_far cos: $650. N umber of cau- didates initiated 151, 1 he entire paraphernalia are and will become the properiy of California Parlor No. 1, and the only object of the committes who has brought the degrae to its praseut perfect staie s 10 provide a side degree of high merit for the en- tertainment of the X, S. G. W., 83 well as enrich our social fund, after all expenses are paid, for the celebration of 1900. The committee and ihe arill team having done their duty, 1t remalas entire y with the members (0 crown thelr efforts with suc- cess. Grand Grove of Druids. The following is tne list of representatives to the Grand Grove of California of the United | Ancient Order of Druids whose names have up is five inches in one diameter, three in the other, with wail about a quarter of sn inch thick, and it bolds 11§ pints of water, the round opening being between the lips. Of the usuai materinl, reddish-brown color and hardness of earthen ware, it has a brilliaut glaze, which at once forb ds the idea of Indian origin. There is & semi-glaze on some potter relics in Guatemala only, so far as can be ascertained. Several archeologists have seen this vessel, and can make nothing of it; they can merely suggést that some things of some- wheate similar styie he been reterred to ewrly Spauiard settlers in the South. In the New York museun collections broad nosewings, as in this), ana some with openings throuzh the mouth, but with little or 1o gleze. The hair of this, inio the cceases representing which some whiting was rubbed befors phiotographing, ix pevnliat in arrange- ment and may affo date. Of course, it may be & freak of some white man's po tery, and of recent date; bul 1f 80, how came it 1o be Inearthed, aud on that farm? Among details that may be mentioned, there 1s black pigmeut baked into the sunken corners of the eyes, and no attempt to repre- sent eyehds. Possibly the relic dates back to the early Dutch seitlers, who imported oddities in pot- tery; many of the Duteh, especially from New Jersey, migrated to Western New York and beyoud. The hair arrangemont on this can- teen may perbaps favor this supposition, PERSONAL. L. Switt of Fresno is among the arrivals here, H. W. Patton of Los Angeles is at the Grand. C. W. Tuttle of Seattle 1s at the Cosmopoli- tan. Dr. J. M. Proctor of Placerville is on a visit here. Russ. The Rev. M. Coleman of Marysville is in town. Charles J. Palace. C. L. Barham of Red Bluff is at the Cosmo- politan. W. P. Thomas, an attorney of Ukiah, is in the City. % Ex-Senator Harold T. Power is registered at the Grand. T. W. Patton, a real-estate dealer of Fresno, is in town. W. H. Daily of England isone of the recent arrivals here. F. Roberts, a business man of Carson, Nev., isin the City. C. R. Hart, a mining man of Coulterville, is on a visit here. Captain E. B. Babbitt of Benicia Barracks is at the Occidental. D. W. Chase, a hotel proprietor of Cincin. nati, is at the Baldwin. W. E, Duncan Sr., a business man of Oroviile, was in the City yesterday. A. Jackson and wife of San Jose are regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. W. H. Bowlby and Mrs. Bowlby of Berlin, Canada, arrived here yesterday. Samuel T. Black, State Superintendenf of Public Instruction, is at the Lick. William Carkeek, a mining and smelting man of Butte, Mont., is at the Lick. W. H. Bowlsby, a business man of Marsh- field, Or., 1s among the arrivals here. Congressman J. A. Barham of Santa Rosa spent several hours in the City yesterday. R. Robertson, manager of the Paraiso Springs and the hotel at that place, arrived here 1 night, Superior Judge Edward Sweeney of Redding arrived in the City yesterday. He is at the Grand. Captain R. Birnie of the United States army, Washington, D. C., arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental, 8. J. Wetzell of Yreks, a dealer in general merchandise and the owner of two stores, is among the arrivals at the Grand. United States Circuit Judge W. B. Gilbert of Oregou and Miss Gilbert arrived here yester- day. They are at the Occidental. J. W, Conant of Redding, formerly one of the owners of the Young Americs gold mine and now interested in other leading mining property, is at the Russ. F. C. Roberts of tne editorial staff of the Evening Post and one of the vice-presidents of the International League of Press Clubs, left last evening for New York to attend the meet- ing of the league. He expecis to be gone a little over a montn. General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Sonth- ern Pacific and Division Superintendents N. Brown of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Emory of New York is at the there | are faces on 0id Peruvian pottery (several with some hint ot source and | to date been received at the office of Grand Secretary Mollison. The grand body wiil mect in Petaluma next month. Wathalla Grove No. 6—William Perry, William Greenwood, Henry Meyers, W. Dante No. 84—R. Mander| Granaucct. Pewiuma No. roib, J J. Jensen, , A. Bodetti, L. —L._Engelke, Jacob Brecken- Frederics. sanJ H. Blafr, C. 5 | Califorf Fisher, E. | Laurel > tone!li Malpite, J. C. Ber v A. Chase J. Haran lam' Tell No. 77—D. Baneis w G. Banchero, A. Muzzio. enn No. 4l—Alex Hauser, W. A. Garner, A. N. Arnold, s. Perettl Mcdesio 3. . Sonoma Luis Medina. Perseverance No. 10—, | 3. Michel, L. Chaseazn | V. Dasiernege, P. Borel, M. Kupfe | ~ConcordiaNo.' §8—G. Allegrew, G. S. Silvla, | G. e zzet, G. B. Garribottl. Ottavio No. 103—Frank Monticelll, Valentine Angelo. pegorian No. 86-M. J. Land, T. . Sanlo, J, Go- erit. Gianninl, F. Vil “arnes, ¥. Queyrel, Norma No. 5—G. H. Bertram, C. C. 0'Donuell, 3. W Goetz Mayfield No. 45— L. G. Wissiar, C. Ducker, V. Anzini. Guerneville No. 69—G. W. Heason. J. M. Hal- tung, J. k. Peening. San Francisco No. 2—C. Berghofer, J. E. Mohle, Charies Lester. Mendocino No. 105—B. Bolassl. Morton No. 8 .—J. Violi, F. Sesma. Soiano No. 72—s. Carpent: Companions of the Forest. At the recent session of the Supreme Graad Circle of the Compenions of the Forest Mrs. Sarah Beverson, the supreme grand chief companion, said in her of the Ancient Order of Foresters: Our relation to the A. O, F. hs Closeat kind for the iast fourtes membership bas always been ow contiued to members of the Anclent Order of Foresters in £00d standing: In fact. our prime objec: has at all times been “ihe advancement of the A.O, F.. and more particulsrly the Subsidiary High Court of the Pacific Coast. When the eecess'on took placeIn 1889 we rallled around fts standard and contributed not a little 10 the success that followed, turning defeat into victory. We believe we dia right and proud that right has won the day. Twice tave we been recognized as a “branch” of the A. 0. F., firs; in Detroit by the Subsidiary High Court o t! United States in the year 1885, and agaln by t Subsidlary High Court of the Pacific Coast in th year 1889. In 1893 we applled to the High Court of the World for its oficial recognition: tiis was unani- mously granted, on condition that we form iuto courts. Atameeting of the 5. H. G of the Pacific Const held at San Jose in the year 1893 the dele- gatex voied unanimously agains: the advisabiliiy of “female couris” The Companions of the For- est, always «nxious for “peace and harmony,” no- tiffed the High Lourt of the World that under the present circumstances, In our ju_gment, it would nou be for the best interes h this const_should Wwe at that time apply for dis- pensauons to form Into courts. Thus matters rested until last June, when your present execu: tive board was no:ified by the seventh k. C. of the Pacitic Coust S. H C. that a8 we did_not comply with ihe requirements of the High Cour: of the World we were no longer a brauch of the Ancient Orcer of Foresters, but a separate and distinct order, Let'me say, &3 your supreme chiet companion, that while | am fully aware that every mamber of our order would be grieved In any break in our fraternal reiazions, und while every member is deeply Interested in the advancement of the An- clent Order-of Forester, 33 we know it to be the greatest beneficial order In existence, however, should the Subsidiary High Court of the Paclfic Coast declde, In fts wisdom, to sever our con: tlons with it, so T0ad8 of the LWO Orders should oiverge, iraternal”’ and les carve out success for liself, and on its o0 that the Ancient Order of Foresters and Companions of the Forest may contiuue to do good under the common banner of fraternity. The Cymrodorion Society. A new Welch society called the Cymrodor- ion was organized last week and the following named were elected officers for the ensning term: President, Hu Jones; first vice-presi- dent, J. T. Smith; second vice-president, B. B, Roberts; third vice-president, Hugh T. Rob- erts; recording secretary, Miles G. Owens; financial secretary, R.J. Hughes; treasurer, H. J. Lloyd; sergeant-at-arms, Richard Wil- s; musical director, J. C. Hughes; musi- cal cgmmllul. Davia Lewis and Thomas Long- worth. In connection with this society will be ity votoes, aud the mABAors. exbect 1o ks n; it oyxu of the prominent ul'x:m-.l organizations in 8an Francisco. The new society will hold an oven meeting on the 8th of June, when a })ro‘nmv embracing musical and social features will be presented. been of the AN ABSENCE OF CHANGE. 8t. Louis Republic. Pullman palace-car porters are said to be complaining of the fact that travelers have quit tipping them. In these times of mereiless com] ‘nuon no quarter geems to be the pre- a No. 59—J. Hoftman, J. Gaa.hi, O. E. | et TOWBOATS AND THEIR DUTIES Learned Opinion by District Judge Morrgw on the Subject. Of Great Interest to Owzers of Shipping in American Waters. Jobn D. Spreck:ls Bros. Company Not Liable for Damages to th: Mate of the Danielson. United States District Juige Morrow yesterday delivered a learned opinion which will be of great interest to the own- ers of shipping and others. The action was a libel brought by Louis A. Pederson sgainst John D. Spreckels & Bros. Company to recover $20,000 damages for the loss of one of Pederson’s lezs caused by the varting of a towline while the company’s tug Vigilant was towing the schooner S. Danielson, of which Pe- derson was mate. Judgment, with costs, was given by Judge Morrow in favor of the John D. Spreckels & Bros, Company. Pederson, the libelant, was represented by H. W. Hutton, and Samuel M, Short- & Bros. Company. District Judge Morrow’s decision, which is one of great importance to the towboat interests of this coast, 1s as follows: This is a libel in personam by Louls A. Pader- s0n to recover damages in tie sum of $20,000 irom the John D. Spreckels & Bros. Company. Danfelson. At the time of the accident, which 1895. the schooner was being towed in the waters of the Santa Barbars Channel by the tug Vigilant, ownea by the respondent. The towline was made fast 10 the pajibitt and had been passed through the side or breast chock on the port bow. There were two chocks on tbe port bow, the torward and side or breast chock, On the statboard side thiere was only one cnock, the breast caock. What had be- come of the forward chock or how it had been removed does not appear. The libelant, as mete of the schooner, had himself supervised the manner of making the towline fasi to the sehoouer, and at the lime | | and the ehock, on the inboard side of the tow- | line, engaged 'in parceiing the line. Toe tow- ing had been going on for wshiortperiod of time, variously estimated by witnesses at from four 10 twenty minutes, when the_chock through which the line had been passed broke or was carried aws struck by the line, thrown against the capstan and his leg brogen. Thatlimb was so severel: injured that ampuistion was made necessery. itiscleimed on behalf of the libelant thai the accident wes caused by the negligence of tnose in charge of the tugboat, in towing at such an excessive speed that the chock through which the towline had been passed was pulled in_two, thereby causing the tow- line to catch the libelant’s leg and throw him agninst the capstan, resulling in the seri v referred to. The respondent denies on glizence in towing =t an excessive speed, and claims that the acciGent was caused the libelant himself, to which the bad sceering co d, The questions involvea are pur y of fact, tiie cred:bili Toe fi made fast on boa and involve to a great deg nesses on both side tow is as (0 whe to th r who were acti maie's orders. 1dence was trotuced on bebalfof the re- onuent teiding 10 850w that woeu a huie 15 ¢ fast to the pallbiti, 431t was in the case at ber, it sheuld be pas d 'chock, end it | wine | side or bre: ed through tne foi is made fast to ti d through th 1t is Const this method jor the ressonthat the lead wi be more siraight end the sirain on the chock and tne Jead stzeifless, In the case at bar, ns previously stated, the towline was passed through the breastchock and made fast to the palibitt, which was not in accordance with good seamanship. As it was made fast to th alibiit it should bave passed through the orward chock, or being plsced through the breast chock it should have been made fast to the windlass-pitt. Either one of these ways would have obviated the unequel and unnec- essary strain which results when the line is passed through and made fast as it was in this case, As'this wes done under the orders of the li- belant, who himself supervised making fast the vesse!’s end of the owline, it results that if the carrying away or breaking away of the breast chock was caused proximately by the unequal and unnecessary strain placed upon it, this wouid debar the libelant from recover- ing any damages for his injurias trom the re- spondent company for the reason that he con- tributed to the accident and injury himself, Aside from the fact that the Jibelant person- ally directed how the towline snould be mads fast to the schooner, it is well settled that the 10w is generally beld responsible for. the man- agement of herend of the towline. As was said in The Merrimac, 2 Sawyer, 586, 17 Fed. Cas.126: “Whilein this case the tow had her master «nd crew on board,yet they had nothing 10 do with the navigation of either vessel ex- cept to sieer the tow in the wake of the tug, to work her pump and handle her end of tha towline.” See, aiso, upon the geveral duties of the tow, The Marearet, 5 Biss. 353, 16 Fed. Cas. 713; Sproul v. Hemmingway. 14’ Pick, 1; the Ciampa Emilia, 46 Fed. R. 866; the Jacob ete., 59 Fed. R. 194. manner in which the towline was made fast and passed through the breastchock on the schooner was what caused the unequal strain on the chock and carried it away. it is, how- libelant that the efficient and proximate cause of the breaking or carrying eway of the breast chock was the excessive speed at which the tug was towing the schooner. Testimony wi Introduced in support of this contention tend- ing to show inat the tug was going at the rate of nine to ten miles an hour, and that this speed under the circumstances was excessive, and caused the breaking of the chock. This testimony, however, is flatly contra- dicted by witnesses on behali of the re- spond=nt, whose testimony strongly tends to show thatthe tug was going no iaster than six or seven miles an hour, and that this rate, under the conditions of weather then prevail- ing, i-es reasonable and proper. The weather wes caim aud pleasant, the waier smooth, The schooner’s register was 87 tons gross, 83 tons net. 91.9 feet in length, 27.6 feet in breadth and 6.8 feet in depth. On this particular oc- casion she carried 5 tons of iron, She was about ten years old. Whether or mot there was anythiug faulty about the chock itseif does not appear from the evidence. Itseems, however, that the forward chock on the star: board bow was goue. When this happened or what caused iis disappearance doss mot ap- pear. Upon the whole of the evidence pre- sented on this point I am inclined to nccent the testimony of the witnesses for the re- spondent &5 being more reliable and accurate. 1t is true that there are some discrepancies and contradictions in the testimony, but upon the whole of the evidence I come to the cone clusion that the tug was going not more than seven miles an bour, and that this, under the circumstances then prevailing, was not an un- reasonsble and improper raie of speed, and Was not the proximate cause of the bresking of the breast chock. It is further claimed by respondent that bad sieering by the captain of the schoomer, who was in charge of the heim, contributed to the bresking of thechock by increasing the strain thereon. But, hows ever that mey be, 1 am satisfied that the acci- dent was due, for the most part, to the manner in which the line was passed through the breast chock a1d made fast to tho pallbitt. There is 10 question as to the sufiiclency or stability of the rope. To whom it belouged, Whetber to the schooner orto the California Iron and Wrecking Company, is not entirely clear, but one thing is ceflain, and that is thas itdid not belong to the tug. It w. new rope, having been used but & few times before this occasion. It broke some fifteen minutes after the aceident which befell the libelant. Counsel for ibelant cloims that this indicates that the tug was going at an excessive speed, for the reason that a new rope would not break upless the strain upon it Were of an extraordinary nature. But there is testimouy whicn tends to show that the Tope alter the chock broke was subjected to chafing and that its breaking was caused by this fact and not from eny greal or exiraerd; ridge appeared for the John D, Spreckels | The libelant was the mate of the schooner S, | i v, end the litelant was | | | Brandow, 39 Fed. K. 831; the Invertrossachs, | T'am convineed from the evidence that the | ever strenuousiy contended by counsel for the | us | primarily by the contributory negiigence of | 1 the schoouer, s coniended, aiso | qnes. ] Lof | i Letter seamanship to pursue | | | Dixon vs. Plum: | eharze of the tug. narystrap placed upon it by towing at an excessivejoeed. Counsel ‘or libelant has cited many cases 10 support hid contentions. Ij fail, however, to sce how aig of themn can be deemed applicas Dle 10 the frgts of this case. There canbe no quesiion Ab the general priziples applics- ble to the cate at bar, In the: first place, it is weli settied iat tugsengaged in towing ves. sels are 1ot Gkmmon carriers; that they aro not fnstrers, int aré bound simuly 10 use or- dinary care a1g skill in towing. (The Webb, 14 Wall. 406; 3he Margaret, 96 U.8.494) In the second piac, the burden is cast upon the libelant to show. by a fair preponderance of evidence, that te respondent has beea guilty of negligence Wiich proximateiy ofused the accident and inury to libelant.” (Shesrm. & Redf. on Neg.. 8¢¢ 12,14.) No presumption of negligence can faxly be suid to arisein this case from the mery tact thai the libelant was injured. \ This 15 Dot & case\where it can fairly be pre- dicted from the evilence that the thing which caused ihe injury to lbelant was under tae manegement of exdusive control of the re- spondent, bringing te case witbin the rule 1aid dowh: in Byroews. Boadle, 2 Hurl. and Colt., T London Dock C pany, 3 596, 601; Kearn ys. Loudon, e Go PrgBs 3Q Homser va R Co., ¥0 Md., 14 Cal., 384-389. The acci- 100k pince on board tho dent and inju Semooner and or of the fug: the towiine was furnished by the wessel sud not by the t and it was made fasturnder the directions personal supervision\ot the libelant, the m| oi the schooner, and not by virtue of any ‘nrr der, supervision or advice irom those haviug Upon the entire evidenc in the case I am of thaopinion that the libe ant has failed to proye by & fair preponder ance of evidence thai the towing of the | schooner by the tug Vigilant was negligent, and was the efficient, proximate cause of ths accident and injury which befell the libelant. The libel will be dismissed with costs. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “] saw your mother going to the meighbor's as I crossed the street. 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