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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDA JUNE 9, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. Datly Dail Daily Daily Daily Eunday CaLL, one year, by mail. W EEKLY UALL, one year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, #an Francisco, Ualifornts. Yelephone o CaLx, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Cav1, six months, by mail.. 3.00 #nd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.60 and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. l.: EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ulay Street. Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open untll 30 o'clock. 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open uutil §:30 0'clock. SW. corner Sixteentn and Mission sireets, open untli 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street, open untll 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open unil 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweut open i1l 9 o' OAKLAND OFFICE: | 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOLTZ, Faste! ew York City. Manager. — THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MUNITS. Are you poing 10 the country on a_vacation ? ¥o, your address. 1 it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier or left at usiness Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTKA CHAKGE. Fifty cenis per month for summer months. —_— It has opened up as a hot summer for | the Fire Department. 1t will never be a Bryan ana a Watson ticket any more. M tson won't have it. | The Spanish generals say there isno war n Cuba, but the soldierssent out to march | across the country think otherwise. | . Sonora may be fairly called a capital | city just now, for wherever the Native | Daughters meet there is the center of gov- ernment. ule from the committee, and this time it may be a sugar stick, for it wiil very likely stay. We are to have another sugar !chedAi | When Tom Watson gets his Nashville | convention fairly under way the Bryan boom will be seen drifting with the wind | and sagging like a punctured balloon. | There is a growing danger that when the Bryan hippodrome comes to town the whole Democratic menagerie will break loose and turn the circus into a slaughter- house. The Indisn braves who have donned their war paint and begun their war dances may have heard that Generat Miles has put on a new unilorm and started on | the warpath and thought he was headed their way. The new Russian sect which teaches the doctrine of self-burial is not likely to spread far, as it never gets well started in | a community before it runs all its votaries | 1nro a hole in the ground. A good protective tariff bill would bea | most appropriate thing to celebrate on the | Fourth of July, since it would be a declar- | ation of the independences of American in- | dustry and would inspire the people with | a new enthusiasm. The fancy ball to be given by the Duch- ess of Devonshire is expected to eclipse the Bradley Martin affair in splendor and | numbers, but it is doubtfal if it will make | 80 much talk. In this, asin other things, itis only the first extravazance which creates a sensation. Men will soon be at work clearing the gronnd for the construction of the new Federal building, and we shall then have & visible proof of the benefits of working together at homs, working hard and work- ing continuously when we wish to obtain anything from the far-off Government at Washington. A Cape Colony paper has suggested that, in order to celebrate the Queen’s jub lee, an extra month be established and called the month of Victoria. Instead | of having twe!ve irreguiar months, he | thinks it might be decided to have thir- teen months of uniform lengih. The Queen owes that loyal editor a reserved window on jubilee day. A New York expert estimates that Amer- ican tourists on returning from Europe bring into this country apward of $150,- 000,000 worth of foreign goods iree of duty every year. There seems to be no easy way of stopping the business because thay are generally the richesv and most re- spectable citizens who do the most smug- gling. “May I aska question?’ said Senator Stewart, the stalwart champion of free coinage. *Isitanything about free si ver?” replied the sarcastic Senator Gray. “No,” retorted the Nevada man, 'l am notgoing to ask you a question about what you cannot understand.” Thus we see the Senale has its humors, and the tariff adds to the gavety of the Nation. It is probable thal from this session of Congress we shall get not only a new and better tariff, but a monetary commission to report on the banking question, in ad- dition to the commission now appointed to arrange for a return to bimetallism by international agreement. Never has pub- lic business been more promptly attended toin our history; and yet there are foolish blatherskites who declare the administra- tion is not keeping its pledges. Seven Democratic Senators—Bacon, Clay, McEnery, McLaurin, Martin, Raw- lins, Tillman and White—voted for pro- tection to the lumber industry because their States have large interests of that kind. They have voted, however, against protection to the industries of other State: thereby displaying that intense and nar- row sectionalism which is the defect of Democracy and prevents it from framing a policy suitable to the whole Nation. Senator Morgan’s recent stalement that the House cannot constitutionally ad journ for three days at a time when it has not s quorum has led a raember of the House to develop the argument thus: *The House is not in session, therefore Congress is not in session, therefore the Senate is notin session, therefore Morgan did not make a speech in the Senate, therefore he did not say what be is reported to have said, and therefore the right of the House to ad- journ three days nnder the circumstances bas never been disputed.” | ure. | appointed to arrange for a return to bimet- | pledges and advancing the welfare of the |to settle them and are being dealt with in a manner which promises | the best solaution in thne speediest | country cares to hear. BRYAN IN CALIFORNIA. Bryan's visit to California is to be some- thing more than a lecture tonr by a man whose career has awakened public curi- osity, and who has a widespread reputa- tion for excellence in popular oratory. The Democrats of the State will welcome bim as aleader, and all that their party machinery and party organs can do to give to his coming the prestige of an ex- traordinary political event will be done. Uniess, therefore, tie public is unusually apathetic to politics, or has become utterly indifferent to the *‘Boy Orator,”” we may expect his visit to be received with some- thing like an ovation wherever the Demo- crats are strong enough to muster a crowd and prompt it to acclaim. 1t will be well under these circumstances for Mr. Bryan and his friends to under- stand the temper with which the 1ntel- ligent portion of the people of California will receive him. We are a hospitable people and we delight in oratory. For both of these reasons Brvan will be wel- come. He and his friends, however, must not suppose that any sort of effusive rhetoric or high-sounding declamation will please elther the mood or the taste of the people at this time. Tne veriod for stump oratory closed for a time when the campaign closed last November, and there is nothing in the condition of affairs now to call for further speech-making of that | kind. Mr. Bryan comes to us heralded as the leader of a great political party and a prominent aspirant for the Presidency. He will be expected to speak as a states- man, and by that expectation he will be judged. The people remember the speeches McKinley made in the courss of his great tour during the panic which followed Cleveland’s inauguration, and Bryan’s aa- dresses here will be measured by the lofty standard McKinley set up. If he desires his words to have any weight or influence hs must point out real evils, describe their nature, trace them to their origin, demonstrate how they can be cured by the adoption of right remedies snd make clear what those remedies are. Two things are certain. If Mr. Bryan’s oratory depends for its force solely on the ring and the clang of phrases of little | meaning like ‘‘crowns of thorns” and “crosses of gold,” he may win applause | at the moment from the unthinking, but | ne will achieve nothing of permanent value either for himself or his party. If he follows the lead of Democratic organs and undertakes to misrepresent the Mc- Kinley administration, by charging that itisnot fulfilling its campaign pledges, | he will meet an even more disastrous fail- | ure. The people know the Democratic free- | trade depression cannot be overcome in a | month. They know the Republican party | bas already framed a good tariff, and is carrying it throngh Congress more rapidly | than was ever done with a similar meas- They know & commission has been allism by international agreement. know thess things have been accom- plished by the present administration within three months, and knowing them the people will not listen with patience to any silly declamations against a Gov- | ernment which has shown itself so eager and so active in fulfilling its campaign The; Republic. The money problem and the tariff prob- | lem are no longer before the people. They are now in the hands of a Congress elected time possible. On these issues, therefore, Bryan can have nothing to say which the There is aiready criticism, fault-finding and calamity bowling more than enouh. A political leader ought to havean affirmative poli He should stand for something more tha a negative. If Mr. Bryan has such a p. and can support it with sound reasons, the people of California will give him an | attentive hearing, but otherwise his com- ing will have no eftect upon public sen- | timent, and all the uproar raised atout him will be but “sound and fury nify- ing nothing. PROFITS OF FRUIT-GROWERS, Fruit-growe:s throughout the State will find something of interestand importance to them in suggestions made 1n hisannual report by President T. R. Weaver of the San Jose Board of Trade. Speaking with reference to the orchardists of Santa Clara Valley “who have been able to realize a good living from the profits of their busi- ness in the recent past,” he advances the opinion that it is possible for them, by their own effort and under present condi- tions, to incresse the profits of their busi- ness 25 per cent without materially adding 10 the cost of conducting the same. How can it be done? *‘Simply by the organiza- tion of the fruit-growers into co-operative fruit-growers’ unions’’ is President Weav- er's answer. Five of such unions already exist in Banta Clara Valley, and these furnish ample evidence of the soundness of Mr. Weaver's opinion. ‘I take the position after several vears of practical experience and close observa- tion,” says Mr. Weaver, ““that tue produc- tion of the fruit, and the curing, packing and selling of it, are entirely separate and distinct propositions, and that when the average fruit-grower has properly cared for his orchard and brought his fruit to the highest state of perfection and taken it from the trees, he snould then entrust the further care and disposal of it to some one specially prepared and qualifisd to do 0.’ According to this same authority every fifty orchardists should have a co-opera- tive Jrier located at some convenient point. Twenty acres is about the average size of orchards in Santa Clara Vall The average crop of green fruit is estimated at fve tous to the acre, and, therefore, each drier would handle about 5000 tons of green fruit. A co-operative drier such as would take cars of the fruit of the fifty stockholders, with all the necessary machinery and appli- ances, including & good building on leased land, would cost not to exceed $10,000, or $200 for each of the fifty stockholders. “No individual grower with twenty acres ot fruit can fit up a drying plant with the necessary dippers, graders, sulphur- houses, trays, trucks, tracks, etc., to properly preyare his fruit for market for twice the last-named sum.” Mr. Weaver declares that if 90 per cent of the :ruit of Santa Clara Valley could be packed by unions the growers would real- ize 25 per cent more on their products. The fruit grown and packed by the fruit- growers’ unions “‘commands not only the preference but in many cases a better price than fruit not under their brands, The reason for this is that they have adopted a uniform system of grading, drying and packing, and the dealer has learned that he can depend absoluteiy upon the package under these brands con. taining exactly what it purports to con- wain.”’ Citing his own Interests, for example, Mr. Weaver showed that last season, when thousands of tons of prunes were sold by individual growers for less than $.0 per green ton net, the prunes sold by the co-operative union to which he be- - | | difficult 1o master. did not affect the supply, | bow short a time, to jeopardize the good longs bronght an average price for seven | sizes of §30 per green ton net. In the lat- | ter instance the fruit sold quickly for cash, and twice the amount sold could have been as readily disposed of. At$30 per ton, with five tons to the acre,’a twenty- acre orchard would represent quite a com- fortable little income. WATER AS A PRO1ECTOR. The wisdom of bavin: large water- mains in the manufacturing districts of and in those districts in which \dings are crowded and built of material that burns rapidiy wasillustrated | in a most forcible manner by the fire in the box factory on Berry street last Mon- day afternoon. The building stood in the centerof a block crowded with highly inflammable stuff—lumber piles—which ignites read- ily and, next to a hay fire, the most The engines respond- ing to the alarms took suction from the hydrants connected with the 12-inch main | which was recently substituted for a much smaller one on Berry street, and seven- teen streams drawn from it at one time but furnished the means by which the fire was pre- vented from reaching adjacent property and a vast teriitory saved from the ravages of the flames. At the previous bie fire in the south- ern part of the City about three years ago there were but small water- mains for the engines to draw their sup- ply from, with the result that when one engine took suction ata hydrant it con- trolled the flow, and the engine below it could not obtain water enough to throw a stream twenty feet from the nozzle. At the fire on Monday seven streams from the fireboats did effective work, but even | without taem the supply of waler would have been sufficient to enable the depart- ment to accomplish what it did. San Kraucisco has a good Fire Depart- | ment and with Chief Sullivan’s idea of | many engines at the start and large water- | mains it is safe to assert thatno wide- spread conflagration can follow. GAMBLERS DRIVEN OUT. The energetic and successful fight made by the cit:zens of Sausalito against a | swarm of gamblers who threatened, in | defiance of law, to open ‘“‘resoits’” in that | charming little city, merits unqualified | praise. Ourneighborsacross the bay have done nobly to crush the evil scheme in | the shel Sausalito has a promising future. Itis| becoming a favorite vlace for suburban | homes, and as a locality for summer resi- dence its popularity is ever-increasing. Its citizens cannot afford, no matter for name of their fair city by permitting a horde of faro-sharps and wheel-of-fortune | operators to ply their nefarious games within its confines. Needless tosay, these so-called ‘*'sporting houses” attract a| wholiy undesirable ciass of people, and | exert a demoralizing influence on the | ¥ men and boys of a community. | It is weil that the citizens of Sausalito | were fully alive to their danger when tne | invasion was attempted. The games were to have been running in full blast by Mon- day night, according to the programme of | ramblers; but law and order triumphed. | There will be no relaxation of vigilance. No gambling hells, no vice-breeding dens wiil be tolerated in Sausalito. The towns- people over there Lave good, stiff back- bones as well 25 a healthy moral tone. DEATHBLOW TO FUSION. Tom Watson of Georzia is to-day the | most prominent and poweriul of the Pop- | ulist leaders. He has fought for princi- vle, while such professed Popalists as | Senator Allen of Nebraska and ex-Senator | Butler of Norih Carolina have been fight- ing for spoils. He has maintained his position in *“the middle of the road” in spite of strenuous efforts on the partof | Demo-Populists to drag him away, and in | | <pite of the savage abuse heaped upon | him by Pcpocratic tradesmen after they had repeatedly failed to swerve him from his devotion 10 the Populist faith, The famous Georgian has finally tri- umphed over his enemies. The broposi- tion that the Populist conference, to be held at Nashville, Tenn., on July 4, re- solve itself into a convention to reorganize | the party by repudiating Chairman Marion | Butler and electing a new National Com- mittee, originated with Tom Watson, who is neither forgetful nor forgiving, so far as the shameiul treatment of him in the last campaign is concerned. Torough his newspaper in Atlanta, Ga., Watson is communicating with the Popu- lists of the country in terms that cannot | be misunderstood. | *‘Let us eliminate the thres B's—Bryan, Batler and Bargains”—he cries. ‘“The first repudiated Watson, the second isa traitor and the third means fusion.’” A dispatch in yesterday’s CALL informs us that Watson now proposes to take ab- solute charge of the party. His influence will certainly dominate the Nashville con- vention, and only Watson Populists wiil be given place on the National Committee. This Iatter body will command the alle- giance of the masses of the party, and Marion Butler will find himself out in the cold politically—his influence dead and his following & dream of the past. All this will have un important effect on the other political parties. It will be the deathblow to fusion, as Watson firmly de- clares that in future he will trade with neither Republican nor Democrat. Here is one point, at least, where every citizen who has the country's best interests at heart wili agree with Mr. Watson. Fusion has never been a success. It lowers poli- tics to the level of bargain and sale. It is fraught with trickery and deceit. It should be done away with forever. REDEEMING THE PLEDGES. That the American people will be pre- sented with the new tariff law as a Fourth of July present is the belief expressed by leading statesmen at Washington. Senator Aldrich has notified the President that the tariff bill will pass the upper house and bs ready for conference about the 2lst of this month, and Speaker Reed ha: sured the chief executive that the con' ence committee will consume no more than a week 1n its consideration of the measure. Oa tbe 22d of June, or immediately after the passage of the tariff bill in the Senate, Presideat McKinley, in a special message to Congress, will ask for power to appoint a Currency Commission of not more than fifteen members, his object being to bring the matter before Congress and enabie that body to discuss and vote upon it while the tariff bill is in conference. Our National Legislature may then pass both the tariff and the currency measure at about the same time. The progress made with the tariff bill has been highly satisfactory. On July 4 only four months will have alapsed since President McKinley’s inauguration, and he will have fulfilled bis party’s pledge to give the American people such a measure of relief as will bring about a new era of industrial prosperity, in which ail classes and conditions of people in this country | who came with | and Mrs. Herman Frese and Henry Frese I will share. Th-re has been no delay on the part of the administration. Such expedition, of course, does mnot meet with the approbation of the Demo- cratic press, which is naturally antag- onistic to 8 protective tariff. The free- trade organs would not be consistent if they did not keep up the small-fire of abuse aimed at the President. In this they are ably assisted by that free-trade journal on the other side of the Atlantic, the London Times, which on Monday opened up one of its editorial batteries to | the following effect: Six months have passed since Mr. McKinley was elected, yet nothing has been done to re- deem the pledges to which the business world attached the chief importance. A strictly American administration, with a genuine American policy to guide it, is rather obnoxious to the Times, as a matter of course. The remarkable thing about the above extract is that it furnishes evidence that the Times takes its cue from the Democratic press. That the statement contained in the extract is not true is not remarkable. PERSONAL. Dr. W. 8 George of Antioch is at the Grand. J. B. Bridges of Tacoma arrived here yester- Arthur Rithet Broadlea of Scotland is in the city. James Kiefer of Seattle arrived in this City | yesterday. W. Loof, a tobacco-grower of Sumatrs, s at the Palace. D. C. Mitchell of Moscow, Idaho, bas arrived in the City. Garrison Turner, a business man of Modesto, is at the Grand. B.S. Grosscup of Tacomsa is on a visit here, and is at the Palace. A.H. Mitchell of Rossiand, B. C., is Tegls tered at the Grand. G. H. Fancher, president of the Bank of Merced, is at the Lick. Thomas L. Foster, registering from Irkutsk, Siberia, is & late arrival here. George A. Smith, an extensiveland-owner of Courtland, is a visitor to the City. E. S. Ellithorpe and Mrs. Ellithorpe of Prophetstown, Iil.,are at the Russ, M. C. Nason of San Diego is at the Lick. He has just completed a trip sround the world. . L. Webb. a leading produce-dealer of Se- attle, 1s in the City, accompanied by his wife. W.F. Jewett, a mining and business man of Arizons, arrived here yesierday. His wife is with him. Professor Edward &. Lck Observatory, Mount Hamilton, arrived here yesterday Charles A. Morden, for several years fore- | man of the comvosing-rooms of the Evening Telegram, Portland, is In the City. W. Wilmans, owner of two mining proper- tles in Tuolumne County, near Sonora, and of & general store at Newman, is in town. Dr. George M. Terrill has just returned from & twd months’ visit to the hosptais and clinics tn New York, Philadelphia and Balti- more. Paul R. Isenberg, sugar-planter of Hawa Who has been bere for two mouths past, siop- ping most of the time at the Occidental, left on the Peru for home yesterday to look after his large interests. im remain. Colonel A. E. Buck, the new Minister to Japan, sailcd on the steamer Peru yesterday for his post in Tokio, acconipanied by Mrs. Buck. Colonel Buck is & wealty iron manu. facturer. He lives at A , but his iron operations are largely in Alabama. John Washington, who left here some four years ago for New York, where he hassince | occuvied the position of Harbor Inspector, has returned and intends wandering no more Mr. Wa hington was 1or years connected with the daily press of this City, and afterward was in the City Hall for several vears. He looks | just as he did when he went away. NEW YORK June 8.—Plaza, C. Jar- ; Contine J. D. Boyer; Hoftman, H. R. Robbins; Metropolitan, F. E. Colver; New erdam, C. K. Harley, Mrs. A. Hariey; minster, A. A. Maybee; Imperial, C. C. Moore; Marlborough, chomoeser. Mr. t the Plaza and sailed on the Havel for Bremen. H.Grun and August Germany. Mrs. Mary Wiide of Los Angeles ed on the Servis for Liverpool CALIFORN1ANS 1 EW YOR IMPENDING POLITICAL OPMENTS. To the Editor of 'M(* ‘an Franciseo Call—SIr: Portentous signs in the political sky begi: be discernible by men who usually pay LEVEL. 10 tle | heed to polities until the storm of a campuign bursts upon them. Not the least sigmificant of these is the approsching delegate confer- enceof the People’s party at Nashville. Itis nota matter of surprise that the Bryanized Populists view this conference with alarm, or that the fusion office-holders should strenu- | ousiy oppose it, for if they had not become the beneficiaries of fusion they would still be in the ranks fighting for principle instead of scheming to become successful office-holders. The chairman of the National organization of the People’s party is Senator Butler of North Carolina. He was elected to the United States Senate by Repubiicaun and Populist votes and quite naturally is & pronounced fusionist. senator Allen of Nebraska was the auto- cratic chairman of their National con- veution at St. Louis and it was by his tactics and arbitrary ruling chiefly that the unorganized majority of the delegates ‘was cajoled, misied and bulidozed into nomi- nating the Democratic candidate ior the Presi- dency. He was elected to the United States | Senaie by Democratic and Populist votes and is & strong fusionist. And so on throvgh the 1ist of “leadirs” at Washington. Moreover, many of the National committeemen and Siate cosirmen are rank fusivnists. In a word, by preconcertea scheming the party organization is now practically under tne control of fu- sionists who have no relish for the “sweets of adversity,” which are the only sure reward of political Teformers. It was under the conditions here briefly in- dicated, but not fully stated, that the Na- tional Reform Press Association meton Feb- ruary 22 iast, and after much deliberation de- cided that the interests of the party demanded the assembiing of a National conference for consultation with intention to reach u deci- tion as to varty policy with reference to this question of fusion, and also to consider such new questions as’have arisen since the last election, and at the same time to use every possible means to promote the harmony and awaken anew the zeal and confidence of the party. A committee was sppointed to take im- mediate steps to call euch a conference. They G the matter before the chairman of the National Committee, Senator Buller. He Dot only declined to call’ & conference but set himseli sirongly againstit. Thisonly empha- 8ized the necessity for it in the judgment of the commititee, and the call was soon issued, Owing 1o ihe absence from the State, and the open opposition to the conierence,of E. M. Wardali, the chairman of the Siate Cent Lommitiee of Cal fornia, no concerted action has been taken in (his State to send delegates, and it has been left to each county 1o take the necessary steps, although the State of Wash- ington and mauy Western and Southern States wiil send full delegations. Accordingiy, on Saturday night, June 5, the iocal organiza- Hon, with a large attendance, passed ihe fol- lowing reso.ution almost unanimousiy, there being but two votes in the negative: “‘Resolved, By the members of the County Commitice of the People’s party of San Frau- clsco, a8 an expression of our most profound couvietions, that we do most heartily approve of the holding of the proposed National con- ference at Nashville, july 4, for the purpose setforth in the foregoing preamble, and that the County Committee meet on Saturday even- ing, Juue 12, at Labor Bureau Hall, 91515 Mar- ket street, and that'the active Populists or the City be invited to atiend and unite with the committee to choose Celegates 10 attend such National conference, and to take such further action as said meeting may determin Iam assured thata fuil attendance is desired by the committee and that all Populists who attend will be entitled to an untrammeled ex- rnl!ion of opinion and s chance to take part n the election of deiegates. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON, 855 Marketstreet, June 7, 1897. Paderewskl recently gave a benefit perform- ance in the Galety Theater, s, 10 & house sold out at high prices, for tne fund for the erection of a monument to Litoff, the com- oser. The receipts amounted to 14,000 rancs. Holden, director of the | MISS CORA B. HIRTZEL, Chicago’s New Assistant Corporation Counsel. Much interest has been produced by the recent appointmentof a woman as Assistant Corporation Counsel of the great city of Chicago. Miss Hirizel, says the Times-Herald. walks, talks and acts like & woman who likes 10 be like a man. She doesn’t care a fig for Delsarte. Society novels are philosophical flimsies. She loves Thackeray and Blackstone, writes without putting the point of her pencil in her mouth, and whittles with the edge of the kmfe blade toward her body. She plants her foot down hard when shesteps, is an ex- vertin bringing legal fights toa compromise settlement, wears shirt waists and collars, and the biggest law firms in town trust her with the preparation of their briefs. She is #ud does all this, but she dodges when & man asks her how old she is—proof that she is & woman despite the fact that her name is on the office door as a lawyer. s Hirtzal's views are worth considering. She knows what it means for a woman to take hold of her shoe tops and lift herself into professional distinction in a big city. | ‘¥hersara only elghtior ton! others whehevs gone through the mill. There is none other who has been honorea as she has, and the struggle has left no mark. There are no wrin- kles fn her face and her keen eve is a true sign of a shrewdness which lawyers have learned to value. She is shortla stature,without mannerisms, plain inspeech, convincing, business- like. Corporation Counsel Thoruton, who made the appointment, is anxious to takeall | the credit for the appointment of Miss Hirtzel. He says nobody recommended the action. He did it because it was a wise and good thing to do. He did not know anyone in town | proper line in his life. | tfornians. | iog-cars of the latest pattern. | tourist sleeping-cars run daily tbrough from Oak- Several of his relatives | uitze also sailed for | better suited 1o be an a information of which Miss Hirtzel has madea nt in the law department than she is. He needed exactly the specialty. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Lorimer Stoddard is assuredly “the son of | his tather,” but is also considerably more than | thatepithet generally impiies. Charles War- | | ren Stoddard stands in the first rank of Amer- {ican men of letters, and his young son has already won un enviable position asa maker of suceessful pla: In spite of his success the dramatizer of “Tess” is more modest than many people to whom s certain sllotment of | fame has come. He is out here to superintend | the production. “Ihave been acting for about ten years, and have written plays during the lastsix,” said be. “Inalll havewritten twenty-two plays, | six of which have been produced. Not quite one-third of the output to see the light of day, but, after all, if & man geis one piay a year produced it's not a bad average.” Possibly later ou when the suthor's fame | gets noised about mansgers may be found | who w give the other sixteen to an expect. ant pu! “My pronounced success,” continued the playwright, “was my five-act | drama ‘Napoleon, in which Mansfield ap- | peared for two seasons. The New York er iiked it, and it gave me some good advert “Then actors and manag about the drama! possir Hardy's book, *Tess e ' Urberville: in- nie Maddern Fiske had seen the manuseript of one of my pieces (by the way, it was the one Mr. Frawley is about to produce here) and she said, ‘The man who can do work like this A be selected to dramatize Tess.” | he job, and with Mrs. Fiskein the | mediate and & longrun followed. About the new picce the | Frawleys produce here? We haven’t hit on a suitable title yet. Seversl have been sug- gesied, but none seemed to meet the require- | me. Ibelieve the managementis to offer 2§50 prize to the person who finds the right | name for it. “The play is Iaid in thatartificial paradise of | rich New Yorkers, Tuxsdo, and one of the | scenes I think most effective is in & woman's | club. Idon’t know as the San Francisco pub lic is familiar with this idea, but woman's | clubs are much ir evidence in the East 1 think the atmosphere of the place is well sus- tained in the play, as I have been on the | ground and carefully observed the ins and ouls of the frequenters of these ultra-fashion- ing. s began to talk a leading part its success was i he couple in which the interest centers are unsophisticated people from the West who have suddenly acquired wealth. Com- ing to the abode of fashion and intrigue both are thrown futo contact with people of a dit- ferent sphere, which contact affects each dif- ferently. “The woman with a past, and not too savory present, who is the soclety ruler of this coterie, recognizes in the Western woman a rival, her protector having falien in love with the newcomer. Then follows & combat be- tweea the na tural woman and the soclety prod- uct, in which nobleness of nature is pitted against subtle intrigue. “Tae husband’s contact with the deuizens of this hollow world serves to broaden and strengthen him. At the same time hisper- fect faith in the purity of his wife remains steadfast, and when the mesh of intrigue, aided by circumstance, is tightening around her he comes to her rescue, nobly thwarting the designs of her tradu: “Itisnot easy to describe the motive of the play.” concluded Mr. Stoddard. e must see it to thoroughly grasp the workings of the plot. However, I hope your public will iike it, for human nature is the same tne world over, and if this factor is well brought out it is generaily appreciated.” “It's all right,” added Mr. Morris of the Frawley company, who happened to be pres- ent, “and the piece ought to hit ’em hard here.” WHO'S AFRaID IN THE DARK? #Oh. not I.” said the owl, And he gave a great scowl, And he wiped nis ey, ‘And fluffed his jowl—“Tu whoo!" Baid the doz: *L bark 3 Out loud i1 the dar<, Boo-00? Sajd : eMi-ew! 'l scraich uny one who Dare say that Ido Feel araid—Mi-ew " #atrald,” sald the mouse, f the dark in the house! Hear me rcatter 's the matier? Then the toad in bis hole. Ana the bug in the ground, They both shuok their heads Atd passed the word uround; And the bird In the tree, The fish and the bee, ‘They declared all three i biat you never did ses One of them afraid In the aark! But the little boy who had gone to bed Just raised the bedclothes and covered his head, —Louisville Western Kecorder. COMPLEXION OF THE SENATE. ‘Washington Post. With the swearing in of Senator McLaurin the political complexion of the Senate is ex tablished for some time o come. It is &s fol- lows: Repuolica: Democra: Populists.. Silver Re Vacancy (Oregon). Total.. Necessary 1o mjority .48 38 o | rare is in the possession ot Captain William L. i | the first containing the laws made from the : | the American colonies in 1783. The third in- ENGLAND'S PROTECT.ON POLICY. MEANS TAKEN To Burip Up THE Co SHIPPING AND COMMERCE. NTRY'S A book of much historical yalue and very Merry of this City, who in view of the infor- mation that it contains will send it to Senator Frye. It waspublished in 1792 and was in scribed by John Reeves to Lord Hawkesbur. president of the committee of the Privy Cou cil “for the consideration of all matters re- | lating to trade and foreign plsntations” of Great Britain. The,book was comoiled for the use of the committee at their request. The in- terest which it possesses at this time is direct, for it includes an account of whatis known as the acts of navigation and a citation of the | various methods which England early adopted to build up its shipping and com- merce. The history is divided into three periods— eariiest appearance of such down to and in- cluding the act of nayigation made in 1651, during the time of the Commonwealth. The second begins with the famous act of naviga- tion, passed in the twelfth year of Charles II | and continned 10 the declaration of peace with cludes the period from 1783 10 1792, the date when (he committee of the Privy Couucil was considering the whole subject and planning how to make Great Britain permanently the mistress of the seas. The first provision ever made by Parlfa- ment thatcan be classed asa navigation act provided that all ships of England and Gas- coigne whicn came into Gascoigne should be first freighted to bring English wines into England b:fore all other. This act did not prove especially valuable, and so it has been | lttle made of historically. What is generally styled the first act of navigation was adopted in the time of Richard II, and in the begin- ning its purpose 13 expressed to be “‘for the increase ot the navy of England, which was greatly diminished. It was thereby ordained that none of the king's subjects should ship any merchandise going out or coming into any port within the realms of England, “butonly in ships of the kiog’s liegauce,” under the penalty of forfeit- ing all the merchandiss shipped in other ves- sels or the vaiue thereof. Thislaw was subse- quently modified so that if English ships couid not be secured or the owners demanded an unreasonable {reight, foreign ships might still by law be employed. Up 0 1792 two principles were steadily ad- hered {o, one being the encouragement of fisheries, a means of increasing shipping | and navigation. The other was the confining of the coasting trade to English shipping. A very interesting part of the history shows that dutler imposed by Parliament in favor of the English carrying trade were practically prohibitive in some cases as against any other nation. For instance it was provided that: “No goods or commodities of the growth, production or manutacture of Asia, Africa or America may be imported into Great Britain in any other than British-buflt ships or in British ships owned by his Majesty’s subjects and navigated by a master and three-fourths atleast of the marines British subjects. “No sort of wines (other than the Rhenish), no sort of spicery, grocery, tobacco, potashes, t, resin, deal boards, fir timber or y be imported from the Nether- 1ands or Germany upon any prefense inany sort of ships or vessels whatever.” : The following indicates the opinion of the author in the concluding paragraphs of his work: “No ome can doubt but thatitis the policy of Great Britain to give her principal attention to maritime affairs; to carry on her own trade in her own ships directly to all parts of the world, and to encourage her fish- eries in every sea. And from these sources | she may always hope 10 obtain a naval force adequate to guard her shores from hostile in- vasion and to secure her domestic felicity, both public and private, firm and unsheken a5 the foundations of the island. MEN AND WOMEN John W.Greaton, the well-known chemist and metallurgist, who invented the alloy used in the 5-cent plece, died recently a: his home in Brooklyn. Mark Twain's forthcoming book, describing his recent trip around the world, will be writ- ten in a vein similar to that of “Innocents Abroad.” “Personally,” remarks a London writer, “‘the Marquis of Lorne has quits lost his familiar Highland ladaie appearance. He is English— Qesperately English, A Presbyterian clergyman in Belfast inserted a clause in his will directing that if his sons indulged in smoking each must pay $2500 of hislegacy to hissisters. The courts declared this clause invalid. Lady Naylor Leyland scems to have recov- ered her social position, which was quite lost for a time after her husband’s desertion of the British Conservative party. She has been present at about every reception to ruyalty at Cannes or Monte Carlo. The bhand-knitting industry which was or- ganized by Lady Arran in County Mayo, to { mon further north. WITH YOUR COFFEE The other dsy a ragged newsbor went to the Postofiice and asked the price of & box. He was told it was so much a quarter. ‘Quarter of what?” said he. After the explanation had been duly made and impressed, the urchin was asked for what purpose he wanted the box. *‘Well,” said he, “I've writ a letter, and I want a box to put it in When the answer comes.”—Portland (Me.) Argus. enjab seems such & ladylike novelist.” «Ladylike? Why, he never wrote an im- —Chicago Record. Uncle Ned—Instead of coming to me, why don’t you borrow from your {riends? Dick—Why, because they are my friends, une.e.—New York Tribune. Gibbs—What are you loafing about town at this time of night for? Dobbs— Fraid to go home. Wife t0ld me to | be sure and remember something, and I've forgotten what it was. Gibbs—It wasn’t groceries, was it? Dobbs—Do. Gibbs—Baby food, tacks or theater tickets? Dobbs—No; but I've thought of it. Gibbs—What was it? Dobbs—She wanted me to remember and come home early.—Tid-Bits. Young Man (alrily)—Excuse me, but haven't I seen your face before? : Colonel Scrap—Quite likely; I’ve never worn 1t behind. —Harlem Life. A great lawyer once said to his client, ““Whenever you ara tempted to write & conf- dential letter, use a postal card.”—Columbia C.) Register. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's~ e FPECIAL information daily to manufacturery, business houses and public men by the Pres Clpping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomers e Watts—It is something surprising the way the Greeks have lost their popularity. Potts—I knew it would happen as soom as I read about their seizing the war correspons dents’ horses.—Inaianapolis Journal. $25 Rate to Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. An oppartu- nity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- Pullman Palace Drawing-room Skeep- Modern upholstered 1and pler to Chicago. Sce time-table in advertis- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 1531 Qakland, 1118 Broadway. —————————— Greatiy Reduced Rates to Spokane, Helena, Butte and St. Paul. Tickets both first and second class sold to the above-mentioned points at a great reduction. These rates may onty be in effect for alfmited pe- riod, 50 buy your tickets at once. Now is your time to go tothe Kootenal mining district on | these low rates. Call on or address T. K. 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B “Well, Mariar,” said the old man, as he got down from the wagon-seat where he had been patiently waiting, “did you see all the ani. mals?” “All but two,” she said, with a sigh. “r hunted the longest time, but I couldns seem to find the cernivora aud the egress. I expect they was the best part of.the show, t60."— Washington Times. NEW TO-DAY. JFCUTTER EXTRA 0ld Bourhon has been a staple family and medicinal whiskey fora quarter- century. B HARTIN & CO,, 411 Market 8t, San Franclsco. AUCTION e VON RHEIN «® co., THURSDAY, JUNE 17th, AT 12 M. SHARP. 518 CALIFORNIA STREET. J. P. CLABROUGH ESTATE. 1. Corner Lot, E. cor. Ashbury and Frederiok; street aczepted; surrounded by fashionable homes. 3 Ashbury-St. Lots. 5x100; adjoining the above on the ; take Haight-s:. cars. S.Room Modern Cottage. iine Frederick, 100 feet E. ot ooms; all modern conveniences; sements, ete. 9-Room Corner Dwelling. 41x100; NW. corner Frederick and De Long 9-room 2-story awelling; double base- ; & sunny corner. Pacific-St. Business Property. 26x168; 513 Pacific, bet. Montgomery st. and Monigomery ave.; heavy brick building: large stoce and basement wnd l4-room lodg. {ng-house. lfl-_l‘?om Corner Dwelling. 25x75; NW. cor. of Bush and Lyon; No. 2900 Bush. Broderick-St. Building Lot. 25x100; E. 'ine of Broderick; 50 feot N. of Grove; street work and sidewalk complete. a3 nl.:;‘l‘cve-sm Corner Lot. X72; NW. cor. Lake and 13th ave,; & cash payment; baiance to su't buyer. o San Miguel City Lot. 50x160; NE. line of Genova ave., 187 &ive employment to her husband’s tenants. has proved a success financially. Seven thou- sand pairs of stockings were knit last year, and £600 spent in wages. SE. of Howth; in 1or2iots; Ingl pass, fare e, s oy Redwood City Cottage. 100x150; cor. Eim and Phelps, Red: with “covert” cottage, stable?’gronn';:.m:&‘, i