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——— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, AN A T B KR ) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1897. S R AR S S CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-PusI-pf Freey Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by cirrier. .£0.18 £nd Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 #nd Sunday CALI, six months, by mail.. 8.00 v and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily snd Sunday CaLx, one month, by mail.. .65 CALL, one year, by mal . 150 | WRLKLY CALL, one year, by mi 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, £an Francisco, Californta. Telephone......... ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Sureen Telephone. .Matn—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s.Teet, coraer Clay; open @ntfl 8:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteentn and Mission streets, open tntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until § 1505 Polk stree NW. corner Twe streets; open till 9 o OAKLAND OFFICB 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row. New York Citys DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. [— THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou gol the count acation ? If S CALL to ¥o, 13 1s no trouble your address. Do 1ot o will Tiss it. Crders given 10 the carrier or left at Business Off attention. NO EXTRA ve prompt The farmers have quit praying for rain and are busily making hay while the sun shines. The tariff debate 1s turning outto be a walkover instead of a contest. Protection wins at every lap. An interview with Chapman on the Havemeyer case would be interesting if Mr. Chapman would be candid. It is probably putting it mildly to say that the veil which charity draws over the Barillas episode is full of holes. The Sultan is like the rest. Having knocked out a feather-weight he feels like challenging all the champions in sight. One more Representative has run up against the Speaker, and one more d'stin- suished citizen will monkey with the buzz- saw no more. It looks as if England intends to run a Monroe doctrine of her own in South Africa and would bar out arbitration as an impertinence. Leave orders for THE SUNDAY CALL to- day and you will provide yourselves with a whole magazine of good reading for your day of leisure. “That eternal want of vence which vexes pnblic men” bas now struck the School Board, and before long it will be vexing the private taxpayer. Tke first carload of wheat of the season has been marketed at Stockton. It was an early bird, but it caught no grub worm. The price paid for it was a tit bit. If the Senate committee appointed ‘o inyestigats the sugar-deal scandal should revive itself and reca!l Mr. Havemeyer for further examination there would be a circus. It takes the Board of Supervisors about as long to frame & tariff of water ratesas | it takes Congress to frame a tarift of cus- toms duties for the whole Nation, so it isn’t always the biggest body that moves slowest. Morgan Hill, in Santa Clara County, isa small town and a new town (bardly more | than three years old), but as it proposes to organize a bicycle club it evidently in- tends to keeo up with the procession, and may yet challenge the metropolis. Call of Florids, so long known in the Senate as the National bora, is no longer in the Bexate, bat he 1sas bigabore as ever and is now working ing McKinley into surrender or death. The most interesting elections of the vear will be those of Obio and Maryland. Tne political fortunes of Hanna will be dependent on the result in one and those of Gorman in the other. Thessare big men and will make big fights whether they win or go down. The celebration of Lincolnday has been observed with due loyalty and patriotism. Now let us show forth the earnestness of these feelings by subscribing to the fund for the erection of a monument to Lincoln in Golden Gate Park which wilt be worthy of the City and of the man. A Kernville correspondent, in eailing attention to the climatic advantages of his section, declares that “'did the livelihood of our doctors depend upon their practice they would surely starve.” Is it possible that Kernville doctors have to go out and saw wood or bale hay for a living? The San Diego Sun, noting that the kineioscope has settled the dispute be- tween Corbett’s and Fitzsimmons’ friends, is cheerfully inspired to hope that the same mezns may be employed to deter- mine whether there be any fowls in the fight between Turkey and Greece. There is one, a very bad one—a Crane. The humorist of the Hollister Bee has heard of a Kansas man who has a corner on onions, or an onion on a corner—he isn’t sure which—bat he ventures to con- clude that the onionist under either cir- cumstance can make a few scents on his investiment. He may do even more—he may make so much that everybody’s breath will be taken away. A Michigan man, 65 years old, has just regained his speech afier a dumbness of balf acentury. Itis a cruel fate, how- ever, that fills the voyager with jubilant hope only to wreck him and dash him to pieces on the shore of good fortune. Since this Michigander found his voice he has been talking almost incessantly, until, as aresult of his wild joy, his reason is tot- tering on its throne. The appeal of Colonel Ethan Allen, president of the Cuban League of the United States, for contributions to a mil- lion-dollar fund to advance the cause of free Cuba ought to meet with a liberal re- sponse, In the East, where a large busi- ness is done with Cuba in times of peace, it should be easy to raise that sum simply as a means of recovering the trade which the war has destroyed. clock. | Fif:y cenis per month | his powers as an | office-seeker with the intention of talk-| BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS. Crop prospectsin California have bright- | May, and tne reports now being received from interior points are of an encouraging nature. The grain yield, as a rule, will be much better than growers had reason to ex- pect from the indications on the first of the | month, Under the favorable conditions | of the past few weeks, wheat and barley | have been filling out to 8 consideratle ex- | tent, slthough the cropwill be short in | comparison with that of last year. In the Sacramento Valley, the promise is quite good, as a general thing, a meager showing in one section being fairly made up by an abundance in another. This is particularly true in the matter of fruits throughout that region. Hops are grow= ing satisfactorily, while the grape crop bids fair 1o be.a very profitable one. The fruit-growers of the lower partof the So- noma Valley are naturally joyous over the fact that their fruit crop will exceed that of last year; but their brethren in the middle and upper end of the valley do not share their measure of sausfaction, reports from th sections exhibiting a variable coudition as to iruit, apples and prunes making a greater showing than in | 1596, but other fruits falling behind, and | making it evident that the fruit crop | there, on the whole, will be rather light. There will be, it is feared, short crops of wheat, barley and hay 1n the Napa Valley, where the fruit crop, however, is more promising. The yield of plums and apricots will be equal to thatof last year, and while peaches do not show up so well as in the previous season, there is a marked in- crease in almonds and walnuts, and the vines of Napa Valley are as heavily laden | as ever. Variable conditions as to the fruit crop, | in comparison with the season of 1896, are reported from Santa Clara Valley. In the | vicinity of San Jose, the crop, as a whole, | will be much betler than that of last year; | especially is the product larger in apri- cots, peaches, plums, walnuts and cher- ries. The hay crop will be light in the valley. The grain crop of the 8an Joaquin Val- | ley has been improvea on account of bat- | ter weather, and from the Tulare region | comes the assurance of fuil peach and | pear crops. In Southern California, the fruit crop will fall short of last year's | product, as a whole, but farmers in the | lower counties have reason to bless the recent moist weather for the improved appearance of their grain crops. We have reason to be thankful for the outlook as a whole. Some good April rains would have made us happier by far; but, considering the reported shortage in East- ern fruit crops, we may possibly hove to fare better than usual in the matter of | prices. THE FREE MARKET. The second conference of the Harbor Commissioners with representatives of various organizations of farmers on the subject of the proposed free market re- sulted like the first in a demonstration of the need of fuller information concerning the prebable requirements of such a mar- | ket than has been obtained up to this time. The project is one of the largest which now engages public attention, ana | 5o powerfully affects so many interests that it would be foolish to enter upon it until the full extent of the enterprise has been studied out and some definite con- clusion reached as to what is needed and | how it can be best attained. The delay made necessary in order to obtain the required information concern- | ing the amount of business to be handled | at the market and the ways and means of | handling it need not pe long. At the | present time the Farmers’ Ciub of this | City is engsged in collecting that very | data. At the next meeting, which is to | be held in a short time, it is the intention | of the club to submit statements from | competent authorities on every phase of the subject. These are to be published either in full or in their main points and conclusions, and will therefore furnish to the public as well as to the club the facts and statistics necessary to anything like a business consideration of the project. There can be no question that the peo- ple of San Francisco desire such a market with as much eagerness as the farmers, The act of the Legislature providing for its establichment is as cordially supported in the City as in the country. All would atonce. This has been made manifest by the ardor with wkich the public has pressed the Commissioners to start the | work. All why have read the proceedings of the various conferences on the subject nave learned by this time, however, that the enterprise is one of such magnitude that haste might mean waste, and that the wisest plan is to follow the old pro- verb and look before we leap. MORE WAR OLOUDS. The report that the British Government | has arranged to send to Soutn Africa at | once an army corps of 30,000 men provided | with horses, wagons and all equipments for an active campaign is significant of | something more than trouble with the | Boers. The unprogressive cattle-nerders of the Transvaal, however valiantly they may defend their own borders, would never seriously disturb British domina- tion in South Africa, nor give cause for a war which would involve the transporta- tion of so many troops to the scene of action. There is evidently another enemy in sight of the British lion in that quarter of the world, and 1t is because of that enemy he is putting himself on guard. Recent events show that Great Britain has reasons to believe that alliances have | been made in Europe which threaten not only to isolate her so far ss Europe itself is concerned, but to check her advancing empire in other parts of the world. The letter of Kaiser William to Presigent Kruger may have been only another of the many indiscretions of speech on the part of that eccentric war lord, but it showed, nevertheless, in what direction his sym- | pathies tend and how gladly he would baffle England in South Africait he could. More significant still was the recent | utterance of the Austrian Embassador at | Berlin concerning the objects and the ex- tent of the policy of the newly formed alliance of the three emperors. That policy, he declared, is to maintain the ex- isting condition of affairs wherever the influence of the three powersextends. He expressly included South Africa as within the scope of the new allisnce, and ir terms almost direct gave notice that Russia, Germany and Austria would not permit any further extension of Britisn territory in that part of the world. These statements wers not idle words. Germany is eagerly desirous of building up a colonial empire. Bhe Las enacted laws to prevent the emigration of her sur- plus population to this country and to direct it to her own colonies. One of the largest and most promising of these new foundations is in South Africa. ln that region she has set herself up as a rival to Great Britain, and therefore regards every extension of the flourishing colony of the Cape 2s inimical to herinterests. It is evidently with the intention of meeting the thres emperors that the like to see the market put into operation | ened materially since the beginaing of | our time l British army corps is to be sent to South Africa. If war should break out it will find her prepared. The British lion in submits with more or less patience (0 a good deal of tail-twisting, but he has notyet reached the point where be will permit his prey to be taken from ‘him while he is still hungry. BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY The vroposjtion of Glaus Spreckels to colonize for beet culture his lands In the Salinas Valley on terms that are really philanthropic in their design, with the consequent prospect of an immense in- crease in the California yield of beet sugar, makes appropriate some reference to the remarkable growth of the beet-sugar indus- try in America. According to Lewis S. Ware, the eminent Philadelphia authority on this topic, the tation for the promotion of the beet- sugar industry of the United States was commenced early in the seventies, at which time there did not exist a sin- gle beet-sugar “factory in the coun- try. Iiterest was graaually awakened among farmers in various parts of the country and as a result factories were built in California, Maine, Delaware and Massachusetts. The original Alvarado factory, under intellizent management and with advantages of soil and elimate not enjoyed in the East, alone survived. The fluctuations that followed are made evident by impor:ant data furnished by Willett & Gray. In 1878 the production of beet sugar was 200 tons; in 1879, 1200 tons; 1880, 500 tons; 1881-82, less than 500 tons; 1883, 550 tons; 1884, 953 tons; 1885, 600 tons: 1886, 800 tons; 1887, 225 tons. Wat- sonville and Chino in this State, Norfolk and Grand Island, Nebr., Eddy, N. M., and smaller piants which were established about this period helped to increase the United States’ annual production of beet sugar as follows: 1888, 1910 tons; 1889, 2600 tons; 1890, 2800 tons; 1891, 5359 tons; 1892, 12,000 tons; 1893, 20,453 tous; 1894, 20,443 tons; 1895, 30,000 tons; 1896, 40,000 tons (estimatea). The practical example of tha Alvarado beet-sugar factory in Alameda County, where white sugar was early extracted to find & ready sale in San Francisco, served to estabiish a more general faith in the future of the industry, the possibilities of which capital was induced to consider more earnestly. During the infancy of beet-sugar manu- facture in this country it had 10 contend against the sorghum craze, in which mil- lions were invested, but with the aid of the Agricultural Department at Washing- ton the friends of beet sugar were finally able to make capitalists understand that it was through the beet, and through it alone, that we could produce our own sugar. Itis confidently claimed that the 40,000 tons now made will be increased within five years to 100,000 tons per annum, Infact the beet-sugar industry, the best authori- ties concede, is destined to revolution- ize the farming and manufacturing industries ot many sections of the United States, and the day is not far distant when this country will manufac- ture all the sugar it consumes. This means more to Caiifornia than to any other State in the Union, for in no other part of this country are the natural advan- tages of soil and climate so great as those which we afford for sugar-b:et culture. The industry has been taking mighty strides here year by year, and now, under the direction of Claus Spreskels, we are about to see the largest beet-sugar factory in the world rise in the Salinas Vailey. The sugar-beet farmer is the most success- ful farmer we have. We want 1nore of him. Beet-sugar factories and beet farms are going to do more for Califor- nia’s prosperity than her gold mines. POSTAL BAVINGS BANKS. That some of the leading statesmen and thinkers of the Nation are becoming in- terested in the idea of postal savings banks in the United States is a fact which encourages the belief tha: favorable legis- { lation on the subject will not be very long deferred. Hon. Robert P. Porter, the well- known statistician, has written a letter strongly advocating the system, which, be declares, woull be of incalculable ben- efit to the Government, while itsinfluence in counteracting any anarchistic tenden- cies would be yreat. Quoting the last available report, as an illustration of the working of the system in Great Britain, he shows there are in the United Kingdom 5,748,239 oven postoffice savings accounts; and this means that five or six millions of people have direct financial dealings with the Government. He rightly argues that the effect of such an army of turifty men, women and chil- dren dealing with their own Government must be beneficial. As far back as 1878, a bill for the estab- lishment of such institutions was intro- duced in Congress. The measure was lost, but Mr. Porter remarks that1f the bill had become a law we should have had several million de- positors, and *‘there are strong probabili- ties that it would have ended all the wild financial notions that have brought so much disaster to the people of the coun- try.” While making inquiry into the working of postal savings banks in Eagland, Mr. Porter discovered t:ie interesting fact that the honor of originating the postoffice savings banks system 1n that country was in a large measure due to Hon. William E. Gladstone. The growth of the system in England bas been steady and remark- able. Instead of injuring the private sav- ings banks the latter have gone on in- crea<ing in their deposits. Beginning in 1861 with deposits ot $8,000,000, in round numbers, there was steady increase, until in 1876 there were over 3,000,00 denosits and a balance on hand of $140,000,000. Since then :hese depositories have trebied their business, and the balance on hand, exclusive of investments in Government stocks, now exceeds $400,000,000. “The country,” says Mr. Porter, “will recognize at once the universal boon of a bank thus maintained at the public ex- pense, secured by public responsibility, with the assets of the Republic for its capital, with a 'branch 1n every town and village, and numerous branches in every city, open at almost all hours, and paying a fair amount of interest. The establish- ment of these banks would do much in uitimately winning over the vast masses of the industrial classes of the United States to those habits of forethought and self-denial which bring endur ng reward to the individual and materiaily add to the safety of the state.” ANERICAN> iIN LONDON, New York Sun. Americans are arriving in London in large numbers and locating themselves in the best positions to see aud be seen witnout the siightest regerd to prices. Ogden Goelet has taken Wimborne House for tho monthsatsa rental of £2500. This can hardly be called extrayagant, as its windows overlook the line of the parade and it isone of the finest resi- dences in London. Fabulous stories have been told about the price paid by Mrs. Bradle: Martin for a window in St. Paul’s churchyard. It is there ore somewh: amusing to know thatshe has not taken a window anywhere, but will view the parade from the Bachelors' ul : DECORATION DAY READING. The text and illustrations appropriate for D:coration day, which THE CALL will to-morrow Iay before its read :rs, have been got togegher for the occasion partly through careful research and application and partly through fortunate circumstances. - Without announcing them in detail, which THE CALL refrains from for several reasons on special occasions, such as the pres ent oue, we may warrantably assure the people of San Francisco that the proper place to look for the most complete, most readable aud most artistic matter pertaining to the great day which we shall all be celebrating to-morrow will be THE SUNDAY CALL. Turning from features specially designed for the occasion the reader will drift Into the usual scenicstream of Sunday reading which he or she has become accustomed toin this favorite California family newspaper, and wil glide enjoyably along_it, noting with restful attention the striking changes in the letiered landscape as each page is lingeringly pussed. There will be described at length the projecting and handling of some queer farms which the American Government has been conducting in the Arctic reglons—the reindeer farms, whose recently published failure has filled with dismay the Washington officials in charge of it. Nearly 2,000,000 has been expended in an_attempt to propagate reindeer for Alaskan overland and overice traffic. This article 1n THE CALL covers the movement from beginning to end and is compreheustvely illustrated. -~ Among the Valuable documents possessed by Hon. Frank McCoppin at the time of his death was an order appointing & Postmaster-General for the State of California, The order was from Washington and dated 1848, when California was so isolated that an inde- pendent postal system was necessary. The document is intensely interesting, as is the ac- count of the circumsiances connected withit. THE CALL to-morrow will present both in full, Mr. McCoppin having loaned the document to this paper a short time befors his death, Actuated by the numerous reporis that the San Rafael County Jail contained a haunted cell, a writer for THE CALL gained permission to occupy the cell one nizht last week, and her experiences were interesting to say the least. The illustrations accompanying them are nard'y less so. How many lady whist-players ere there on the Pacific Coast? Thousands and thousands of them, assuredly. THE CALL to-morrow will contain a unique article concerning the more prominent of thesa fair experts, togetner with portraits of fifteen leaders in the various coast whist clubs. The author of “Only Waiting,”” one of the most widcly known ballads of the present get- eration, is now residing In California. She is temporarily retiring from the publicity to which she has.been accustomed 8s the author ot several notable poems, and has chosen Los Gatos as the little haven wherein she may uninterruptedly regain the health that she nas Jost through overwork. A CALL writer visiied this gifted lady recently, and has written enter- tainingly concerning her for to-morrow’s raper. The Childhood’s Realm is devoted largely to themes befitting the solemn and impressive day on which it will go out to its thousands of young readers. These messages to the youth of our land are chosen with & full sense of the responsibility which attaches to the task of fur. nishing literature to the growing and fmpressionable mind. THE CALL'S devotion to the litile ones of the fami.y will always be found 1o be as careful of their trainiag as it will be sincere in its desire to please and entertain them. The usual departments of the pazer will follow and do their share in making this issue of THE CALL & memorable one in local jonrnelistic annuals! THE ADMIRAL AND THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR. In November, 1869, a Japanece high commission composed of Prince Wooyeno Pantocno- kemi and Prince Micoa Thuneyetobi arrived in San Frunciscoon their way to the Hawailan Islands. The Commissioners were to ascertain the condition of several hundred Japanese who had left Japan during the revoit there the previous year, and if possible induce them to return | to their native country. During the scjourn of the Commissioners in this State they paid a visit to the Mare Island Navy-yard, where they were received by the commandant, Rear-Admiral T. T.Craven. The two Princes and their suite with the commandant wended their way from the guardhouse up toward the steam engineering buildings, and as the quecr-looking procession slowly walked along it naturally attracted much attention. The peculiar habiliments of the Japsaud the full-dress uniform of the commandant, who ordinarily wore a shabby but serviceable hunting “The men quit work and stared at the procession.” snit and slouch hat for service 1n the tules, were something new and startling to the workmen along the water front, and they quite nacurally ceased working and stared at the procession. The old admiral and visitors first passed Lhe workmen engaged on the sloop St. Marys, ran the gauntlet of tho-e on the Ossipee, and when they came to the Pensacola stiil further up the commandant spoke in an under.one to ths gaping workmen something about attending to their work, but without effect, 8s when he turned round tosee if his order was obeyed he observed some sixty men in a transfix=d state of wonder. As s00n as the visitors had left the yard Craven sent for the captain of the yard, Reed Wer- den, or as he was commonly known, “Black Jack,” and instructed him to ascertain what par- ticuiar quarterman had charge of the men who disobeyed his order. Captain Werden went down to tne Pensacola and asking one of the carpenterson the wharf who his quarterman was, he was answered, ‘*His quarterman was Mr. Hiil.”” Upon reporting this to the admiral the latter grumbled sometuing about aischarging the quarterman and his whole gang, but Cap- tain Werden talked him out ol it for the time htlndg. It so happened, however, that the admiral and the nayal constructor, Eiward Hartt, were not on friendly terms, ana a few iays aiter, when they nad a disagreement, Craven thought of the Japanese incident and inquired of Captain Werden if tbe men had been discharged. When he found they were still at work he insisted upon the immediate aischarge of the glunsrmnn, and the requisition was made out and sentto the naval constructor, who signed it with the following indorsement: “Discharged on account of, as the commandant s, neglect of duty.” This, of course, did not put Craven in any better humor, but Mr. Hill was sent for and told that he was discharged and without a hearing he went over to the Valiejo side. The queer part of the business was that only two men of the Pensacola gang which had so grievously offendea’ the admiral belonged to Mr. Hill's division, and the others, who were the offenders, were under another quarterman. l'e“Cfl structor Hartt loved nnmlqug better than to fight with a line officer, and told Hill to lay off for u few days, when ail would be settled. The next part in the play was introduced by the constructor undlng llg a list of dis- charges of sixty shipwrights to the commandant. The latter wanted to know why it was doue, and was told that as he (the commandant) had discharged the quarterman, the men were' without a leader, and work would have 1o be suspended on the Peusacols. Craven fumed, but had to sign the discharge order, and sixty men, none of wnom had been uilty of ignoring the commandant’s or terof attending to their work, joined Mr. Hill in Vallejo. A week passed, when one day Hill presented himselt at the office of the commandant asking to be informed what the charges were against him. Craven toid him how the men had disobeved his order by refusing to attend to r work, and how he had naturally tried to hold the quarterman responsible, but if he (Hill) had any explanation to offer no doubt it would be & satisfactory one. Hill took the hint, and wrote a brief letter expressing his Tegret at the occurrence. To this document the commandant afixed his signature, and in- dorsed it, “Exolanation sai ctory,” sent word to the naval constructor to start up again on the Pensacoln. and the quarterman, with his sixty men, resumed work. The ill-feeling which existed between the commandantand the naval constructor cost the workmen, col- lectively, about $2000, afforded the constructor much amusement and worried the old miral; but as he retired irom the active list on the 1st of January folowing nothing was heard from the Navy Department relative to the suspension of work on the Pensacola. mnjor of the American Home Guard, com- posed of the membership of the Junior Order, has made the following appointments: Lieu’ tenant Moenning, regimental adjutant; Ser- geant Hoilis, regimental guartermaster-ser- nt; Sergeant Eisen, regimental commis- FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Members of U S. Grant Council, Junior Order, Entertalu Its Friends | farmer lose his last cent against the shell With » Mock Trial. Last evening thero wasa large attendance of the friends of the memberso! U. 8. Grant Council of the Junior Order ot American Me- chanics in their hall in Shiels buflding, where, under the head of good of the order, they were entertained with a mock trial and musical numbers, The trial, which was the most striking event of the evening, wae productive of great deal of enjoyment, being a representation of Wild West justice in the early days, when cowboys and rustlers were the peincipal inhabitants of the country in which the trial was supposed to have taken place. Tue following were the characters in the trfal: Judge, C.T. Quires ; Attorneys for defendant, C.D. Brandom and A. F. Plate; Prosecutin Aitorney, J. W. Rogers; Cowboy Shenff, J. Becker; Detective,H. A. Moenning; subjects for trial—Smalil boy to be tried for keeving lato hours, Charles Cottreil; for receiving stolen cattle, G. W. Smith; for shooting snipes in the city limits, D. A. Hemphili; for bribing the jury, G. H. Riddock and Benjamin Willinms. At tie conclusion of the trial the Sheriff was taken a and assassinated, just to show that his services were not appreciated. There was a rendition of & number of popuiar songs by the_ Owl Quartet, composed ot C. Ilerson, F. A. Biakesice, H. A. Moenning and W. A, Whiting. - U. 5, Grant Counctl was the fourth councit organized in this City, and numericaliy it ranks second at this time. Ithasalwaystaken an active interest in matters pertaining to the order, and has always been &mong the first to advance ideas tendlig to benefit the member- ship and cement the bondsof fraternity. It has many act:ve workers in its ranks, and the council is neld in high esteem by the other conucils. C. D. Brandon of this councl!, who is the y sergeant, and Sergeant Colby, first ser- geant of Troop A. Court Violet, A. O, F. Court Violet of the Ancient Order of Forest- ers gave a pleasant soctal last Thursday night in Soclal Hall in the Foresters’ building under the direction of the following named commit- tee: J. P. Faivre (floor manager). W. C. Ellis, M. . Ciausen, C. Ericksou, M. Fredenburr, J. arper, 1. Israelsky, C. Saylor, Dr. P. J. 0'Connor and C. E. Perry. There was a fine programme of dances and many couples passed several hours in the pieasutes of the ance. This court will elect its officers at the meet- ing 1o be held on the 7th of June. Daughters of Montezuma. The monthly socfal given by the Daughters of Montezuma Council No. 15 of the Degree of Pocahontas in Ruby Hall, Red Men’s building, last Thursday night, was in the nature of a gathering of members and friends and it seemed like a largo family reunion atwhich every one made up his or her mind to be happy end have a few hours’ e joyment in pleasant _conversation and in _delightiul dances. There were many pretty princesses of the forest in the hall acd not & few gallent braves to help them keep time to the music as they moved in the dances of modern time, phich bave supplanted those of the time of Montezuma. he function wes under the di- rection of Mrs. L, J. Pinkham, Mrs. E. Candage and Miss Millie Candage, who very acceptably filled the office of floor director. - The Fijis’ Social. The second social given by the Fijis in Lau- rei Hall, S8hiels buildiug, Jast Thursday night. nder the management of the committee on entertainment, composed of C, Sharp, D, . L McCauley, Frauk Mitchell and J.Busch, the last named acting as floor man- ager. It wasattended by .a numberof the irienas of the members, who tound a pleasant evening’s entertainment in the programme of aunces that was offered. Tne Fijis recently gave a plcnic in Mill Val- ley that was attended by many and was a very delightiul outing. Independent Order of Foresters. Court Watsonville No. 3352 of Watsonville tendered High Chief Ranger G. A. McEliresh a grand reception on the occasion of his visit to the court on the 26th inst. More than 300 specially invited guests were prosent. A ftine musical programme was remderes by locai talent. The high chier’s address was o con- Viicing as to tne merits of the Indepeadent Order of Foresters that twenty-two gentle- men came iorward and made applications for membership, aiter which tne members and guests repaired to the Hoffman House, where 8sumpluous banquet was enjoyed by all. PERSONAL J. F. Reddy of Spokane is at the Russ. 8. P. Burtley of Arizona is at the Grand. M. Berliner of Seattle is on & visit here. George R. Ogg of London has arrived here. B. A. Brown of Palo Alto is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Hon. John F. Davis of Jackson, Cal.,isin the City. David Starr Jordan came up to the City last night, B. C. Holly, the horseman, of Vallejo, is in the City, the Lick. K. Okazaki, & business man of Tokio, s at the Paiace. Dr. G F. Hall of Lakeview, Or., is a recent arrival here. Philip E. Cluan of London is here on a pleasure trip. Alex Melrose of Adelaide, South Australia, | 1s at the Grand. H. H. Pitcher, president of the Bank of Liver- more, 18 in town. W. F. Peterson, s merchant of Sacramento, is a recent arrival. C. P. Podgett of Santa Harbara was among yesterday’s arrivals. Judge J. C. B. Hebbard is absent from the Clty on his vacation. Charles L. Fox, a business man of Riverside, arrived here yesterday. R. A. Thompson, aditor of the Santa Rosa Democrat, is 1n the City, B. Wilson of Stockton is among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. R. M. Shackelford, proprietor of the Paso Robles Springs, is at the Occidental. Thomas Y. England and Mrs. England of Philadelphia arrived here yesterday. Dr. 0. H. Simms, who is interested rather extensively in mining near Redding, is in the City. C. W. Fielding, mansging director and lead- ing stockholder in the fron Mountam Mining | Company, limited, is in the City. The Baron E. de La Grange ot Paris, who is interested in gravel mining in Trinity County, was among the arrivals at the Palace yes- terday. Ex-Governor H. H. Markham of Pasadens, who has not visited San Francisco for a long time and who has been at his Sonthern Cali- fornia home ever since ne went out of office nearly two years ago, arrived here last nignt. He is at the Palaee. John W. Keily of Washington, D. C., who is | atthe head of a Government expedition of eight to go to Siberia and bring over reindeer to the people of Alaska, is in the City. He ex- pects to transport many thousands of the snimals. The party will probably sail ina day or two. Frank Deardorf, who has made a specialty of Japanese art for several years past. will leave to-day on the Belzic for Japan anc Korea. 10 study art in those countries. He formerly lived for some time in Japan, and on his re- turn here in about six months he wiil publish & book on that country. CALIFORNIAN> iN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., May 28.—At the. Plaza &, W. Seaman; Murray Hill—D. B. Bowsly, S. Bows!y ; Holland, F. W. Connor; Brosdway Ceniral—Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Postman, Miss R. N. Postman; Cosmopolitan, P. Bott; Astor, F. J. Heney; Morton, F. G. Madden; Bartholdi, D. M. Moses; Windsor—A. B. Bowers, J. H. Miller; Marlborough, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gold- stone; Park avenue, E. 8. Gorham. WITH Y UR COFFEE. He (salesman)—Dear little hand (absent- mindedly); I wonder if it will wa Sbe (con spirito)—No, sir, it won't; nor it won’t serub, either; but, if youwant it to play the piano, it’s yours, Georze.—London Tit- Bits, “Say,” said the man who had seen the game, “didn’t you know that fellow is a rob- ber?” “Ho, wal,” sa1d the agriculturist, “I got the mouey somethin’ in the same way, so it don’t matter. I made it sellin’ maple mullassiz.”— Indisnapolis Journal. Tifington—Boftington, your wife’s Easter gown is very plcturesque. Boffington—Picturesque? That gown cost more money thau any picture you ever saw.— Detroit Free Press. Hiram Humjay—Say, 'Mandy. them news- Daper eritics must be pesky mean. I jest heerd thet feller over there say that & newspaper critic cracked thet big pictur’ up tew e sky. —Judge. She—You have broken the promise you made me. He—Never mind, my dear; don’t cry. I'll make you another.—Comic Cuts. “Maude says she doesn't care two cents for bim.” “That is no sign she does not think a lot of him. Just think how women will fight for bargains that are marked down from %3 50 to $3 48.” —Indianapolis Journal DEN ANU +O0.EN. Fedor Vossileff of Moscow was pensioned by the Czar in 1872 because ho had elghty-three living children, Lester Philbrook of Laconia, N. H,, owna a builseye watch made by Jonathan Wadleigh of London, Eng., in 1610. The Duke of Connaugnt will command the troops in London on the day her Majesty cel- ebrates her diamond jubilee. The Prince of Wales has been unanimously re-elected for the (welfth yesr in succession grand master of Eaghish Mark Masons. When the Queen, now in her 78th year, as- cended the throne the poke bonnet was the most characteristic feature of feminine attire. That was in the year 1837, Lady Harris, wife of Sir James Harris, Brit- ish Consul at Nice, has inaugurated a success- ful commemoration of the Queen’s jubilee. It takes the form of an English ward in the Protestant hospital at Nice. John Tannis and his nine sons voted at the spring election in Sheridan Township, New- age County, Mich,, and had to pay the penalty afterward by sitting for & photograph s the gxum family of voters in the Wolverine tate. Nowadays, when women are just vonturing to ride horseback astride, 1t is interesting to know that Queen Anne, consort of Richard IT of England, was the first womsn to ride & side- saddle, previous to that women riding as did the men. Sir Isaac Pitman, the shorthand man and vegetarian, who dled a short time ago, Wi peculiar in his habits. He arose every morn- ing at 4 o’clo and went to his desk, where he worked, with short pauses only for his sim- ple meais, until 10 o'clock at night. On Sun- days ne preached in tne Swedenborgian Church. POLISHEL BY .XPERIENCE Wichita (Kans.) £agle. Jerry Simpson is brightenough now, but when he first went to Washington a friend asked him to step Into a store a minute to buy & pairof pum “Hold on, you idiot,” said R. C. Minor, an attorney of Stockton, is at |- | By the arrangement of doubls CABS WITHOUT HORSE: Operated by power bottled in-New York anq brought to Chicago balf a dozen or more cop,. pressed-air motocycles will carry passe up and down Michizan avenue next says the Chicago Becord. The horse risges are under comstruction in the shops & the Hartley Power Supply Company, wher one of Fred Stoll's pneumatic letter-collectors runs over the floors. The motocye es which will be turned loos next month will be the firsi to be oprated by acoempany which intends placing ¢ tire, self-running wagonettes i parks. The system of supply power is novel, as applied to The compressed’sir will be boit power station and sent 10 the vi u cycle stands by a compressed-air del Yo first “bottles” will be charged at ounds pressure to the square inch ir Qork. for the company wili not hav compressing piant in operation fc weeks. The “bottles” are of stecl. m Jess outof asteel ingot, and are s size and shape of & five-gallon m bottle. The skin of tne steel bottle 2000 Pneumatic Postman. ervolr will safely sustain sn interior pre: of one ton to the square inch. This bottied energy will furnish enough power to'a sma motocycle capable of carrying two men, or a parcel-delivary wagon, 10 permit it to travel twenty milss ata good road speed. This moto- cycle will carry two bottles, so (hat a disiance ot forty miles can be covered before the pre sure s reauced below the working iimit The engine which will be used on the parcel- delivery bicycle or the mail motocyce is s compact . contrivance ‘whicn weighs twelve pounds and which develcps two horsepowe pistons. tha effect of a compound engine is secured, and ali vibration due to reciproeation of the parts is done away with. If the plans are carried ot Chicagoin short time will have hansom cabs operated compressed air running noiselessly ove strects. In every motocycle is an auxi reservoir, into which the compressed air ir the bottle is fed, so_that the initial storag pressure is reduced to a working preseure from thirty to_fifty pounds. Under this rese volr is an oil fire, whieh heats the anding it so that more pressure is ob n case the air gives out at points where Dbottled power cannot ‘be obtained this ux iary reservoir can be transformed into a sieam boiler, for the engine is fitted for elther nir or steam. Itissaid thata mail collector on his air mo- tocycie will be able 1o make fifty miles & day with more comfort than_ he ean make thirty- five miles with horse aud wagon. ANSWERS 10 «ORRESPONDENTS. “B1G BETSY” —P. M., Sacramento, Cal. The gun known as “Big Betsy” is on board the Monterey. JAKE KILRAIN—A. 8, City. Jake Kilrain wanted to be the champion pugilist of worid, but & man by the name of John L. Su livan ‘met him at Richburg, Miss., and pre- vented him from attaining’that pugilistic honor. BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's." CREAM mixedZcandies 25¢ Ib. Townsend’s. * ———— CALIFORNTA Glace Fruils; 50c 1b., in elegant fire etched boxes. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* ... Prince Bismarck, as is well known, on his retirement devoted himself to agriculture, his | ehief hobby being the exploitationof his forest lands. From all parts of Germany he received applications for oak saplings from his domains, and these oaks have been planted | all quarters of the fatherland and are known as “Bismarck osks 2 —— - fFprerar information daily to manufacturers. bustness nouses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e ey e “Mrs. Anna L Diggs has beea appointed superintendent of the Girl’ Industrial School &1 Beloit, Kansas. - Mark Hopking Institute of Art. Last week of spring exhibition. Lastecon- cert Thursday evening. Qpen Sunday. * e Miss Frances Bray has the honor of being the second woman in the United Kingdom en titled to add the letter< LL.D. to her neme. The first, Dr. Letitia Walkingion, is likewise an Irish ‘woman, and a native of Belfast. Excursion 10 the East and Yellowstone Park. A party I3 now being formed o make the toar of the Yellowstono Park, leaving here the 20th of May. Ttwill be.in charge of Dr.J. C. Branner of Stanford University. Rates will be very reasonable and accommodations first class. The Yellowstone Park can justiy Jay claim to hav- 1ng more natural wonders and magnificent scen ery within iis bounds than sny otherspot in ths worid, and a trip there is one that will never bs forgotten. 1 you would like to foln the party cummunicate at once with J. E. McDoweli, Stan- ford University, or I. K. Stateler, geperal ageut Northern Pacific Railway, €38 Market st, 3. . L Pl s The Great Santa Fe System Leaves dally at 5 P. 3. Through cars to Chicago, with Pullman palace, drawing-room aod modern upholstered tourist sleepers now daily. Tickets al30 told v.a Portiand, Ogden, Los An- geles, Deming or El Pasoto all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico. and s eamship ticke:s to all points in Europe see time-table In adver- tising column. San Franciseo ticket ofhce, 644 Market street, Chronicle buliding, telephone Main 1531; Oakland, 1118 Brosdway. e e .t REMOVE the causes that make your hair lifeless and gray with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. PARKER’S GINGER TONIC cures inward palns. i Suge 5 PAROXYSMS 0f whoopin< cough sometimes canss the rupture of a biood vessel Ayer's Cherry Pec toral gives instant reliet. - Governor Pingree of Michigan has received the following letter from Charles A. Busiel of Laconia, N. H.: “My attention has been called to the controversy in regard to your serving as Mayor and Goverior at the samo time. Your case is (he same as myown. I was Mayor of the city of Laconia when elected Governor of the State of New Hampshire. I was inaugurated January 1, 1895, and served out my term as Mayor, euding March 15, 1895. Governor Western did the same thing, he serving ou* an unexpired term as Mayor of Manchester.” —— NEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. GROVE L. JOHNSON AS REMOVED HIS LAW OFFICES FROM Sacramento o Francisco and formed & Dpartnership with Walter H. Linforth and George Jerry, “you are going into s shoestore!” E. Whitaker, with offices at 310 Pine st <o | i I | | %

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