The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1897, Page 4

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OAKLAND GFFICB: 908 Brosdway. FASTERN OFFICE: RBooms 81 and 2, 24 Park Row. New Yorke Citse DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Mansger. e THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the counirs ona vacaton® Tt | i e for us to forward THE CALL to Do nc miss you for you will | miss Orders given 10 the carrier or left at | Business Office. will receive prompt stteution. 20 EXTRA CHAKGE. Fifty conts per mouth for summer months. Bryvan makes a pessimist about the Fourth of July gone coon. speech time he 1s The calamity howler complains that is not moving, but he never ks of giving a hand to help push it ness sad thing that the only feature of erand jubilee which remains is d there is no way of get- of it. ting ri The Senate may not be making as much speed with the tariff as the country would like, but it is breaking all previous records in great shape. As David Bennett Hill has recently de- clared he is not & pessimist w2 may infer that he doesn’t agres with the proposition that Bryan » renominated in 1900. Boston has the finest library building in America, but it seems she has no money to buy new books, and the culture of the city has to satisfy itself with archi- tecture and cld novels. The announcement that Cleveland is writing a book which is not to be pub- Jished during his life leads to the sus- ion that he intends to hit some fol g them a chance to hit back. Competent autborities declare there has not been a time in many vears wnen the Republ of Ohio were so united as now, and the outlook for victory is as bright as the dawn of a new era of pros- perity. without g icans The great naval parade at the jubilee is a reminder that all the use made of naviesin these days is to display marine pageants or carry dignitaries from one country to another. They migat as well be armed to shoot fireworks, One of the freaks of the time is the fact that some New York parers, considering Gorman's chances of re-election to the Senate to be very slim, are booming him for the Speakership on the theory that 1f he runs for the House he will sarely be elected. In 1892, under the McKinley tariff, our trade with Brazil amounted to $183,000,- 000, while this year it will haraly reach $85.000,000, and the figures furnish a con- vincing answer 10 the free-traders who as- sert thata protective tariff will injure our trade with South American countries. Flying-ships have had their dav and now 2 Georgia newspaper reports that a number of people in that State have seen fiying through the air a strange figure re- sembling a woman with long floating hair. There need be no suspicion that Mrs, Lease is making a Southern tour. She has renouaced politics. Tt has been discovered that the member of the South American commercial dele- gation now visiting the East, who has been muking most fuss about the tariff, is an Englishman who has been living some years at Buenos Ayres. This fact ex- plains the mystery of his irritation as well as the meaning of his talk, Philadelphia has bobbed up at Wash- ington with a delegation requesting Con- gress to pass at this session not only the tariff bill, but the bankraptev bill, an im- migration bill, a Paris exposition bill and a measure providing for the appointment of a monetary commission. And yet there are people who call Philadelphia slow. In-a school district near Btockton the trustees thereof recently elected a teacher by tossing up & coin. The teacher used to be secretary of the Y. M. C. A.in a neighboring town, and it is said that his Iriends were so solicitous of his feelings in the delicate situation that they per- mitted him to pretend ignorance of the fact that he was gambled into office. The salary is $30 a month. The provident young man’s inability to discern is one of the phenomena that have arrested atten- tion in that part of the country. A New York society writer says the fashionable woman of the period *‘begins the day with tea in her bedroom at 8; then there is breakfast st ; light re- freshment at 11 or 11:30; luncheon, with its complement of coffce, follows; then comes afternoon tes, with sandwiches; dinner at 8; coifee at 9:30.” It is an easy inference from this that fashion has an appetite which grows by what it feeds on, but when do the fashionables with all this eating find time to wash the dishes and put away the things. A recent report of the State Geologist of Indiana is said 1o forebode the failure of the natural gas fields of the State atno distant day. A decrease in the nressure of the flow was first noticed in 1896 and it is still diminishing, so that within a year or {wo uniess more economy in the use of the gas is practiced that source of light and tuel in Indiana will have to be aban- doned. Nature ran a big gas factory in ages gone by, but she seems to huve dis- continued it and when the supply on hand is exhausted there is no more forthcom- ing unless men make it themseives POLITICS AND UNIVERSITIES. Atthe recent meeting of the trustees and tellows of Brown University Congress- man Walker denounced Dr, Andrews, president of the university. for teaching free trade and bimetallism, and on his motion a committee was appointed to notiiy Dr. Andrews to reirain from such teaching hereaiter. The Boston Herald declares it to be the general opinion that the doctor, who is now in Europe, will on his return re- sign rather than surrender his intellectual liberty. ThLis was probably understood by the trustees at the tims the committee was appointed, and the intention evidentiy was to dismiss him from office. If this case stood alone it would still be worthy of the attention of the American people by reason of the priuciple involved, but it derives much of its importance from the fact that it is one of a series of similar occurrences which bave taken place within a comparatively short time and which show a growing tendency to subordinate pro- fessorships of economics in our univer-ities to the demands of politicalplatforms. The first case of this kind took place hardly more thau five years ago, when a pro- fessor of economics was dismissed from the University of Nebraska after the Governor of the State had publicly Genounced him for teaching “socialism.” Other cases fol- lowed rapidly, the most notable being the dismissalof Professor Bemis f:om the University of Chicago because his teachings did not suit the men who founded the institution; and this year movements were begun to remove professors from the Uni- versity of Kansas for teaching economics adverse to ths Populist platform, and from the University of Texas for teaching s opposed to Democratic ideas. It will be seen that all sections of the East, from Rhode Island to Nebraska, and all parties—Republicans, Democrats ané Populists-—have had a part in the effort to suppress the freedom of university teaching. It is gratifymg that the West has had no hand in the business. The Republican trustees of Stanford have never even suggested the removal of Professor Ross for advocating the free coinage of silver, nor has the Democratic Governor of California hinted at the dGismissal of Professor Moses from the State University because his teachings do not agree with the Demo- cratic platform on the money question. As we in Catifornia are free from any local complications with the issue we are in & position tojudge itimpartially, and thera can be but one judgment pronounced upon it. The inteliectual liberty of the profsssors of our universities is of more importance than any particular theory of economics, no matter how true that theory may be. We have no symy y with the free-trade philosophy of President Andrews, yet it he can be justly removed from offic by protectionists on the charge of economic heresy we must concede an equal right to the controllers of the University of Kansas to dis- miss those whom they regard as economic heretics from a Popalist stand point. We have secured religious liberty in this country by the total separation of church and siate, but we can never separate education from the State. Our educational sys- tem, from the primary school to the university, is inextricably linked with our political system. Thorefore we must be the more carefal to fix the limit beyond which zovernment shall not interfere with instruction. Inteliectual freedom does no injury to the country, to no people and to no party, but the slightest restrictions upon it would be a loss to all. The influnence of Harvard is potent for 200d, and protection sentiment in Massachusetts is not weakened by the fact that President E iot 1s a free-trader, but no inspiring influeace can be exerted by Brown or by the University of Chicago when the people have learned that the pro- fessors, instead of seeking the trutn in freedom, are merely trying to retain their sal- aries by advocating the political opinions of the irustees. |THE AMERICAN WORKWOMAN. A stuy of the American STATE OF TRADE. Indications that trade is improving nre woman with Heretofore most of the ;. multiplying. im- | referenc: to the labor problem y K. provement reported has come from the | Levasseur is published in the current East, but the signs are now evident at|number of the London Humanitarian. As our very doors. Curiously, they are not | reported exclusively by merchants. True, | there is an increase of trade, but it is outside quarters, not in the central chan- nels. We are getting the first signs of the coming wave from the rural districts. We are told that the summer resorts are unusually w+ll patroniz:d tnis year. In fact, some of them are full to overtlowing. The camping spots, too, are filled. It was different last year and the year before. The dry-goods dealers nave Gbserved this, and report a good demand for light sum- mer fabrics such as are usually worn by Cily folks during the summer season. The railroads also report a larger passen- ger traflic to the suburban resorts. Now, if there be any sign of zood times surely this must be one. While summer outings are sometimes economies for the rich, they are generally luxuries for the ordinary ¢ asses. Noeuterprse feels hard times quicker than the summer resort, as | bas been amply proved Guring the past | three or four years. If this is the case the | reverse must also be true. The improvement is also noticeable in | stabler lines. There is the fruit trace, for instance. Frait is bringing pretty 200d prices this year. Thus far there ha been no glut. All that comes in sells. The hay farmer, tou, has been lately gratified by an advance in hay, something almost unprecedented at this time of the | ear, when the new crop is coming for- | ward. It is generally the other way. Then there is the provision market, which is active and advancing. Wool, 100, is firmly beld and buoyant, and buyers have 1o pay full fizures if they purchuse. Last, but not least, country lands seem 10 be looking up. A certain demand for small farms is reported by the real-estate | the writer bases his findings chicfly on the census reports of 1890 his observations hardly do justice to the situation at the present time. Great changes in condi- tions take place in the course of seven years. Nevertteless Mr. Levasseur's article is interesung and instructive to a cons. derable extent. He finds that domesticservice is one of the pursuits in which American women least willingl engage, and higher wages are thus ob- tained in household work. The wage of women is, in all countries, inferior to that of men. The d flerence is found great fault with in this country, but does not | appear to be greater than in England or France. He observes that most American wo- men live en famille, and if they work at their homes or in the workroom they con- sider their earuings as a supplemen: of in- come rather taan a portion of the prin- cipal household fund; and this is one reason why they are less exacting in their wage: With certain exceptions, the number of which, moreover, is on the increase, wo- men have not hitherto been organized, like men, in syndicates, in order to give force to their claims; and this is set down as another cause of inferiority, which must not be lost sight of. Incertain trades whers women can take the place of men they are sought after not only because they cost less, but because they are more manageable and less liable to indulge in strikes. From one of the reports of the Labor Comm'ssioner, devoted to women's work Slates, it is found that the lowest average rate exists at Atlanta, Ga., where it is $4; while the hizhest rate of wages is paid in the City of San Francisco, an average of agents. A year or two ago all country ($691. The Now York rate is $524, and lands went begging. Now a handy farm | (he general average of the twenty-two issalable. The buyers are peovle looking | cities is $5 24 Nineteen-twentisths of the for homes and moneyed meu, Who believe | that country real esiate is 8 cheap as it ever will be, and who, therefore, consider it 2 good time 1o buy. As for the mining business, that was never in betier shape than it is to-day. In fact, the commercial and industrial sky is full of cheerful portents. The ad- vance agent of prosperity is doing exactly persons over whom this inquiry extended were girls or widow: pproximately, it is said, women receiving industrial wages earn one-balf less than men; but it woula | not be accurate to apply this ratio to all the industries where women and men are engaged in the same kind of work. Our women are paid double the wages re. ived by women in Eneland or France, men, what be told us he would do last fall; bUt |in both of which countries, however, this is only the beginning. There will be | women's wages are one-half those paid to still better times later on. The \ixie.s‘ | — OUR SAILORS THE BEST PAID. The controversy with regard to the pa: of men in the United States navy as com- pared with that of men in the British serv- ice has brought out facts and figures which tend to show that it is of marked financial advantage for a sailor to en- If it were more rapid it might be sus. | list in the United States navy. This Na- picious; but it grows gradually and has | ion pavs & midshipman, for instance, b fakoled Bl | $1200 a year, while England pays him The foreign trade balance still runs in | ©0ly & valtry $160. The United States ourfavor. During the first eleven months | P3YS @ naval cadet $500 a year, while the of 1807 imnorts into the United States de- | British cadet must content himselt with creas-d $440%0000, and the exports in- | $90. We pav a mate $1200; England pays creased $161,000,000. This showine ought | M 8bout $500. We pay our gunners and to be good enough to suit the most | bOStsWains from $1200t0 $1800a year, while cbronic growler. England pays hers from $500 to $750. We | pay petty officers from $426 to $810; Eng- GREATER BALBOA AVENUE. |land pays bers from $160 to $500 The ‘The people of S8an Francisco, as well rising slowly, but it 1s rising surely. In a few months more the wreck and desola- | tion and hard times of a low-tariff De- mocracy will be a reminiscence. The increase in manutfacturing in the | East, already noted, continues. Mills | long idle are starting up everywhere. This is no boom, but a steady expansion of trade. Its chief merit lies in its slowness. American sailor has far the best of it. But the tables are turned when the high | those of San Mateo and Santa Clun}umc,r, of the navy are reached. We counties, are thoroughly interested in | yave neither admirals nor vice-admiral the futurs progress of Balboa avenue. [ - | A rear admiral in the United States nav Thus far only this City is dirzctly bene- | recelves $6000 a yoar at sea, while H)i fited by the splendid, broad driveway from v § o i only the beginuing of a magnificent |(ish commodore's pay is $6600, while an scheme that will bring three counties | American's is only $5000. Our eaptatue into closer social relations, and make a| ot $4500 a year, as against $4650 for a driveway for fifty milesalong the bay that | British captain. Coming down to com- ‘wnl!be a u’r'nable ‘thing of beauty and a | mander, the American again more than joy forever. holds bis own, 3 Therefore, we shali watch with high | (pe Brl[;n'. 325;;, M}u‘,o; .“5;(1,’0..‘!1“'::: anticipation the new work of extsnding | rank the Knglish high officers are far in Baiboa avenue to the county iine. When | the lead in the matter of salaries. this is done, as it certainiy will be in the | 1t s sailor be prompted merely by mer. near future, if our City i3 alive to its in- | conary motives and wants the best of it terests, the first link in the chain will be | 4 along the line it behooves him to stay complete. Then San Mateo will take up | with the American navy until he is in. the work and build t.o road on through | yested with the rank of commander, and that picturesque county till it reaches the | (j,en to switch over 10 the service of the Santa Clara divide, whence it will speed- | Queen and go on up the list until he con- ily be extended through the charming | yrolsa royal fleet and has mone, to burn. Santa Clara Valley to the Garden City. 00AST EXCHANGES. Shade trees and stately homes will rise along the paved avenue all the way from A San Jose to wbere the majestic ocean drives his white-necked chargers forever in his vain aitempt to cross our City’s fringe of golden sand, Such a driveway, The Los Angeles Herald will, on July 4, Is- sue a large sveclal edition in honor of Mr. Brysn—eand incidentatly George Washington. Abalone shells bring 28 per ton at Lompoe such an avenue, will benefit all three | lanaing, according 10 the Pasadena Star. That counties in every wav, fuc litating trade | appeers 10 be one kind of » shell game which and sugmenting pleasure travel, By all | Frys means let us have without any long delay | 1Itis considered provable by the Riverside the Greater Balboa avenue. | Press that the Senta Fe steam line between in twenty-two great cities in tae United | Redlands end Los Angeles will be transformed into an electric lin The Marysville Appeal devotes a page in one of 115 recent issues to the town of Wheatiand with the design of aavertising the prosperity of that lively little town. George E. Caldwell has succeeded George E. Colwell in the editorship of the Napa Reflector. After this nobody around Napa need doubt that there is something in names. They are still deternained to maintain peace in Europe, says the Post-Intelligencer, and in order to assist in guaranteeing it Herr Krupp has doubled his capacity for turning out guns. Noting with some wonder the report that the New York health officer thinks la grippe is transferrea by kissing the Morgan Hill Sun dauntlessly remarks: “Pshaw! Who's afraid?” A suburban resident writes to the Los Augeles Record to ask why there 15 no law im- pounding chickens. He says the two-bit hen of a neighbor reguias y destroys his § gar- den and then goes home to lay. The Contra Costz News has in course of prep- aration a magnificent special edition. Better still, it hus contracts signed for all but 100 copies of the contemplated issue. Evidently times are fmproving in more places than one. The sage who thinks things for the Placer- ville Nugget observes that there are a large number of California young men whose only visible means of support is the spectucle of their father’s returniug in the evening froma day of toil. The San Diego Tribune says that a mad dog is reported at Fuilerton. This is the first mad dog case repcried in Southern Califoruia in years. Specialists think this instance of ca- nine madness is the outcome of the San Pedro harvor squabble. This from the St. Helena Sentinel is one of the ghastly littie plessantries walch enliven the monotony of journalistic lite 1n the inte- rior: “There is no fool as bad asan old oue. The editor of tae Calistogian is still young; that is oue consolation.” The San Bernardino Sun is authority for the statement that State division is again baug agitated in many of the paperssouth of Te- hacnapi. “The Iaiest move,” says the Sun, *'see1ns to have originated at San Dicgo, where | Staie division leagues are forming, aud litera- tuze is being disseminated.” taluma is waking up,” isthe startling headline with which the Budget iniorms the public that the prospects are good for a big suoe 1aciory being started in the city by the creek. And it would seem that Petalumans heve good cause to be startled and also 1o re- joice, for the shoe factory in question will, when fiuished, Le one of ihe largest iu the country. The menagers of the river transportation companies, says the Vallejo News, have changed their attitude and now practically wdmit thet their stcamboat lines come witnin the jurisdiction of the Board of State Raliway Commissioners. They will, iberefore, furnish the annual reports required by the commis- sion. The managers do not wisn, however, that the informat:on as to losses or earnings be given to the publie. The Santa Cruz baseball team got very gay over iis v.ctory iu the game with the Alumeda Alerts in Central Park last Sunday. Accord- 10g 10 the Surf, it went bome iuspired and composed the following ode ior the edification of lccal litterateurs: Who are—who are—who are we? We are—we are Cliy by the Sea, Santa Cruz! Well—well—well We beat the Aler s all to —! Well—well—well 1! The proposed bridge which it is expected will be built this summer, says the Tulare County News, will cross the main Kaweah River just below the North fork. Tnis bridge will not only be an accommodation to the North fork people, but to ali those residing on the no: side of the Kaweah River, number- ingin all about eighty people, men, women sud calidren, who are uow isolated from the rest of the county during nearly tures months of each year. According to the Free Piess of Redding a number of changes wiil be made at the begin- nin fishery on the McCloud River. ston Stone, superint trunsterred to New Yo company him. F, M. Wise of the staff of em- ployes iias been ordered to the Fort Gascon ident, bas been ordered trout fishery on the Hoopa Indisn reservation, | six.y miles trom Eureks, Humboidi County. He will leave for his new station in a iew days. Nothing in the way of agricultursl or horti- cultural progress iu the State escapes the vigi- lance of the interior press. To the long list of pupers whicu bave been tonstantly noting California’s advance in these liues the Sutter County Farme- adds a bit of testimony in the fo lowing: “Soutnern California bhas this year merketed about 1000 cars of lemons, & four-fold increase duriug the iast four years. The acreage not yet in bearing is very large. obody cau predict the raie of incrcase for the | future, but tt will be very rapid.” The editor of ths Winters Ezpress doesu’t Propose to allow certain of its contemporaries 10 imagine that it isw't ‘‘onto them’ when they atiempt any ‘unny business with it. It bas calculated things down to & fine point, as witness this: “The Ezpress prinis Crop re- POris and sends & pupsr to the Government crop service siatious; there the news is pub- lished in bulletins and com s back to other newspaper offices, wuere it iy reprinted as neys. Our contemporaries cou'd give their readers {resher news by reading the Express.” The Woodland Democrat gets up on the roof 1o demand of the community round about, Do the people of Woodland want u fair?’ It thinks toat if they do it is about time for some action to be taken and & programme be arranged, “so thatthe horsemen wuno intend to make the circuit cam ac: accordingly.” Warming up to the subject, the Demoerat de- clares that “the main question 1s, Will the people of Woodland raise §1000, the amount necessary 10 insure a meeting? It is under- stood that the hotel and resiaurant people are willing to subscribe much more ifberal.y than they did iu past years.” The Washington Press of Irvington states that the expenses of the San Jose Mission celebration somewhat exceeded the sum of m ney collected aud mukes a novel sugges- tion for raising theiequired smouut. Itsays: ‘Tne amount will reach in tLe neighborhood of $125. The people o¢ this district guve nobiy and meny of them gave willingly ail they’ could possibiy spare at the time. It would be hardly fair tosgain call on those Who were not directly benefited. Would it not be & good plan for the saloonmen of the Mis- sion to douate the amount of the deficit as they reaped a rich harvest during the celebr. tion and can well afford to make up the amount?” The present franchise of the Monterey- Fresno Ralirosd Company for right of way, water front and depoi grounds at Monterey wili expirc oa the 1st of July next, says the Salinus Indez, uud it 18 said tnat there will b an entireiy uew deal in the managemeut of ihe enterprise aiter that date. A new com- pany is (o be organized, which will include several Hawaimn cepilalisis. Appiication will be made for a new irauchise and as soon 851t is granted work will be commenced on the road aud counection be made with the Pajaro Valley narrow-gauge as soon as pos- sibie. A wharf will be constructed at Mon- terey and, {f business should warrani, a line of steamers will be placed on the route be- tween there and the Hawatian Isiands. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Shipwrights on board ship in the British navy are scarce, the number being 200 short of the allowance, and the admiralty has con- cluded to modify existing conditions in order 1o obtaln the requisite number. A tug-ol-war came off recently at:Shimudza between sailors trom I. B. M. 8. Grafton and native fishermen. On a former oceasion the Japanese had been defeated by Britishers, but this time the Japs came out victorious twice iu succession. The British offic:r who acted as umpire much admired the prowess of the viciors and comp imented them through an interpreter. The iatier, according 1o & Tokio jourual, calmly and unblusuingly told the cfli- cerihat these men who bLad wom the game of the fiscal year, July J, atihe United | Liviog- | . His family will ac- | I had been disqualified ss soldiers on account of their Inferior physique, aud that the sol- diers were much stronger than the fishermen who had just puiied a picked crew of British saiiors over the cleats. Since 1885 Great Britain has expended £517,000,000 for new naval vessels and their armament. The Increase amounts to 270 ves- sels of 1,136,575 tons displacement and 1,674,700 horsspower. The personnel has in- ereased from 52,600 in 1885 to 100,050 for 1897. During the above period the United States has expended about $100,000,000 on its new mavy and increased the personnel from 11,000 to about 13 000. ZThe condition of the Italian navy was se- verely criticised in the Chamber on June 11. It was asserted that but few of the so-called fast cruisers heve a speed of over 14 kuots, and the armored snips under construction were entirely inauequate for the service in. tended. The regular navy appropriation of £18,800,000 was submitied, and extraordinary expeuditures to the amount of #1,400,600 were also asked for 10 1ucrease the navy, but the latter expense has but little chance of be- ing allowed owing to the depleted condition of the treasury. The three battle-ships Canopus, Goliath and Ocean, building at Portsmouth, Chatham and Devonport resvectively, had on May 15 worked into them in the order named 2200, 2050 aud 2105 tons. The two first mentioued had been building up to that date thirteen weeks and the Ocean nine weeks. There is evidently a strong rivalry between the three dockyards, in which the Devonport leads considerably, not- withstanding the fact that the Ocean is tbe first armored ship built at that dockyard. Fully a fourth of the total weight of hull and armor has already been worked into the ship, & feat in shipbuiiding never as yet accom- plished in any yard, public or private, in so short a period. Interesting tables of gunnery practice ou ships in the British navy have just been fur- nished by the admiraity. They contain the ‘records of ali the saips in the navy in which target practice at sea were held during the past year, and gives a preity fair ides of the unrelinbility of guunery ac sea. The largest gun, 111 tons, on the Benbcw, fired thirteen rounds, with no hits. The 13}4-inch breech- loaders were fired 117 timesand nit the target thirty-six times. Oae 12-inch gun fired seventeen rounds and netted one hit, while the 10-inch guns, with 115 rounds, scored twenty-two hits. Twenty-one ships nveraged 25 per cent hits with the quick- firing 6-inch guus, and thirty-nine ships which practiced with the 4.7-inch quick-firing guns gave an average of 29.7 per cent hits. Tne target is 20 feet wide and 16 feet in heiznt, and the firing distance rangesfrom ihe minimum of 1400 yards to as high as 2000 yards. The regulutions prescribe that vessels shall steam at the rate of twolve knots when q ring guns are practiced, and a speed cf eight knots isallowed for all ordinary breech-loading guns ranging from eight inches upward. Two runs of six minutes each are al.owed for the practice. For the larger guns atarget iriangular shsped, having & bas: of 56 feetaud with wing additions, forms the objective point of the gun trials. While some of the ships gave much higher results the gen- eral average wouid seem 1o beone hit out of four shots, to be further reduced at disiances exceeding 2000 yards. PERSONAL. Henry W. Hall of Siam is at the Occidental Dr. Fred F. Sprague of the Gaelic is at the Paluce. C. L poliian. Lieutenant George W. Melver, U. S. A, is in the City. L. Wiimot of Livermore is at the Cosmo- politan. . K. Gwyer of Scotland is a guest at the Oc- cidental, Jusn Regenstein of Mozatlan s stopping at the Palace. J. J. McDon California. Mme. Barri Pelace Hotel. N. M. Porter of El Paso, Tex., is at the Cos- mopoliran. Clyds Peck of Kalamazoo, at the Baldwin. Rev. Thomas at the Occidenta R. P. Duncan of London registered at the Palace yesterday. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento was in town yesterday. S. Blum, a merchant of Martinez, arrived in the city yesterdsy. W. Heeht, a tobacco merchant of Chicago, is registered ai the Baldwin. James F. Webb. a miniug man of St. Louis, is registered at the Palace, J. H. Summers and J. B. Parsons of Chicago, 1L, are at the Cosmopolitan. G. P. Wilder and wife of Honolulu are regis- tered at the California Hotel Dr. E. A. Winchester of Sants Barbara is the City, a guest at the Grand. H. Moss, a tobacco-grower of Lancaster, Pa., registered at the Paluce yesterday. Paul Bleckmar, a jewelry manufactures of Chicago, is stopping at the Palace. §.T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was at the Lick yesterday. Dr. E. A. Bryant and Dr. F. K. Ainsworth of Los Angeles registered at the Grand yesterday. Miss E. T. Clifford of London is a guest at the Palace. She arrived from the Orient yes- terday. J. A. Vogleson, United States Geological Sur- vey, Is in the City, stopping at the Occi- den:al. Surgeon-Major Dempsey of India arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace. Thomas Clerk, a mining man of Placerville, came to town yesterday and put up at tne Grand Hotel. R. E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, was in town yesterday. Ho registered At the Grand. State Senator E.C. Voorheis of Amador ar- rived in the City last evening snd registered at the Palace Hotel Paul A. Fusz and James Willoughby, mining men of Granite, Mont., are in the City, stopping at the Palace Hotel. A. Bearding, a wealthy merchant and busi- ness man of Ferndale, Humboldt County, is regisiered at the Grand Hoel. W. T. Sesnon of Sacramento is a guest at the Lifornia Hotel. Mr. Sesnon was formerly County Clerk of San Franeisco. Mr. and Mrs. W. Clezy Brown ot Melbourne, Australia, are at the Occidental Hotel. Mr. Brown is & prominent merchaat. Schmidt Leds, the Germsn Consul-General at Yokohams, arrived from Japan yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel, Lieutenant-Commander Ingersoll, United States navy, arrived in the City yesterday acd registered at the Occidental Hotel. W. R. Guy of San Diego, who was chalrman of the Ways and Means Cummiitee at the last session of the Legislature, is in the City, stop- ping at the Grand. Willlam H. Alford of Vis chairman of the Democraiic State Central Committee, ar- rived in the City yesterday and registered at the California Hotel. Mme. Cros of Paris arrived from Japan yes- terday and registered at the Occldental Hotel. She is on a trip arourd the world and isac- companiea by a courier. John Twombly and wife, Boston; Mrs. 8. C. Twombly, New York, and Mrs. M. E. Fiaville, Chicago, are guests at the Palace. They ar- rived on the Gaelic yesterday. Guy 8 Warren and Thomas B, Warren, of St. Louls, were passengers irom the Orient on the stermship Guelic, which arrived in this har- bor yesterasy. They left St. Louls last Jan- vary and have been traveilng since. Hon, koug and Singapore were visited and six weeks' time was given for exploration of Japan. They enjoyed their travels in the Orient, but eame nome better Americans than ever before. CALIFORNIANSIIN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27.—Congress- nan Barham and Danie E. Cole of San Fran. cisco arrived to-night. C.D. Lane, George P. Kearney, Mrs. Michael Thompson of Stockton Mrs. C. C. Morse and G, A. Tresler of San Jose are in the city, Flack of Stockton is at the Cosmo- 1d of Chicago is stopping at the s of Guatemala isa guestat the Mich., is stopping Murray of England is a guest in the | A STEAM PILOT-BOAT. The steam pilot-bont New York, the pioneer steam vessel in 1hat service, has justgoneinto | commission. Viewed from the exterior the new pilot-boat is not a hendsome vessel. fler bows are 100 blufl. and her lines are not sharp enough to indicate either grace or great| speed. The siern is not an exact ellipse: it meets at a point in the center, ard » distinet riage runs from the base of the taffrail to the ‘ top of the rudder-post. The new vessel was built of steel in Har.an & Wolff’s yardsnt Wil- mington, Del., and is 155 feet long, 28 feet beam, 19 7-10 feet deep. Her hull s sub- divided by four iransverse bulkheads, which | run from the keelson to the upper aeck. Tne | Greatest Nation on Eartn” in the July Ladies’ Home Journal. “But it is equally true that there is always sunshine on some part of Uncla Sam’s great possessions. When it is 6 P. M. on Attoos Island, Alnssa, it i3 9:36 A. M. of (he day foilowing at Eastport, Me. 11 we locate the center of the United S.ates, caleu- lating it a<midway belween longitude 67 of Eastport and longitude 193 of Attoos Is.and, will be found on the 1261h degree of long tade, about 280 miles west of San Francisco, in the Pacific Ocean.” ALASKA'S NEW GOVERNOR. New York Times. The limitless possibilities of American life e % o7 2l INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW 1, engine: 2, room; 8, engine-room skylight; 9, galley 12, ptio-house; 13, dining-room; 14, sailors’ a 16, pantry STEAM PILOTBOAT bath; 3, after saloon; 4, staterooms; 5, waler tanks; 6, 10, officers’ dining-room; N YORK. sk smokin 11, officers’ quarters nd firemen’s rooms; 15, wrecking apparatus w main deck is flush from bow to stern. The engine-room of the New Yurk s the wonder of beholders. Besides her compound engines of 800 horsepower, the T00m CONAIRS A DOW- erful steam pump,a dynamo which illumi- | nates the steamer with eiectric Jight, and the generator tha. furnishes sieam to the steering- | gar. The steam pump is not alone for the | safely of the New York. The new boat has a | double missio: to perform, for the is not unly | expected to furnisa pilots to_incoming v 10 20 10 the succor of any crait s istress. She is fitted with & complete wrecking oulfit | | i o WITH YOUR COFFEE. “My wite cleans house eight timesa year, said the applicant for divorce “Decree granted,” said the Judge In a voice that shivered.—Detrott Free Press. Pedestrian—It was only last week that I gave you money to bury your wife, and now you say she is starving. | B:ggar—But, sir, this is a new wife I have.— Puck. ‘ farry my daughter? No, sir; you young | jackanapes! I forbid you the house.” Oh, sir, we didu’t expect this house. We | wou d be sstisfied with a much smaller one.”— Detroit News, | “How would you like tils frieze, Mrs. New- bond ?” “Frecze, eh? Ishould with that row of naked babies sitrin’ damp clouds. think as much, with 1 them | ~Cleveland P.ain Dealer. “After my experience with Tom Reed,” said the Populist Congressman, “my wife wiil have no terror for me.” “But 1 don’t see the comparizon, irtend. “Then you don't know my wife. She never lets me geta word in edgeways.’—Cleveland lain Dealer. quoth his *John,” saia the father who had jnst listened 1o his son’s commencement oration, ‘I bope the man that you are zoing to take a position | with didn’t hear you read that piece.”” | | | “Why not? I thought it was first-rate.” “It was fine. 1'm airaia that if he finds out now much more you know than he does he’ll get Jealous and won’t want 0u in the same business with him.”—Washington Star. OUR "“EAST.” Cast, 107z looking backward over sea 17 siudy of wi.at used (o be, Has grown to treat our West with the same scorn England nas fel: for us since we wej You'd thin, to hear this Fastern judgment hard, The West wia jus: New Englan i's back -erd ! That a1 ihe West was meant for. (u-t und least, Waus to raise pork und wheat Lo teed the East! A piace to travel iv, for rest and hea! A piace 10 siruzgle in und eet the weaith, The 0 1y uo.mai end ot which, o1 course, 18 10 recurn to its bisto. ic source. Our Western acres curving to he sun. The Wesiern s'reng b whereby our work is done; Al Western progress (hey at.ribute fair To Eastern capital invesied there! New 1 ngland never liked Old Fngiand's Do they think thelrs more eusy o be vorn Or tha: the Enst, Brisuin’s reveil,ous chiid, Will find the grandson West more meek and mild? In umion still our sovereignty nas siood, A union formed with prayer and sealed with blool. We staud together. Fatieace, Mighty West— Don’t mind the scolding irom your lust year's nest ! CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON in Topeka | Sta.e Journ MEN AND WOMEN. | The chair of biology in the Catholic Univer- | sity iu Washingion has been offered to Dr. An- | tonio Crocicehia of Baltimore. Captain Franeis Mertin of Detroit, wno has just ceiebrated his ninety-seventh birthday, was present at the funeral of Napoleon. Mrs. Noble Prentis has recently been ap- | pointed one of the executive committee of the Pingree Commission in Kaasas City, Mo. Mrs. Clarinda M. Cop:, Mrs. Winnie M. Cris. sey, Mrs. Sarah Crowley and Mrs. F. H Greene, all of Chicago, bave been appointed depuly factory inspectors for Illinois by Gov- ernor Tenner. Bishop Whipple (Episcopsl) of Minnesota preached a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral, England, on June 3 commemorating the ihirteer-hundredth anniversary of the bap- tism of Echelbert, the first Christian Saxon King. Count Nicholas Esterhazy left a will making his cousin, Count Moriz Esterhazy, the heir ot his vast estate. He lefta large sum also for varlous charitable purposes. All his em- ployes and servants who had been in his ser- ¥ice ten years or mo-e were pensioned. Isaac McClellan, the aged poet sportsman of Greeaport, L. L, who recently celebrated his ninety-first birthday by playing whist all evening at his club. is roubled but little by his age, and has his boats, fishing-tackle and shooting implements aiways ready ior use. Kipling's Canedian tariff poem doesn’t please Canada at all. His reference to that country as “The Lady of the Snows,” says the Montreal Gazetie, “is calculated te give possi- ble British ewigrants to Canada a chilly feel- ing that they had better go somewhere else,” Mrs. Tewis, who discovered manuscripts of the'gospel in a Syriae convent ou MouutSina, has been exploring the convent again in com- Ppany with her sister, Ms. G:bson, and has ex. amined iwo Palestinian Syrisc service-books of the twelfth century, written In the dialeet | supposed to have been spoken by Christ, Their text will soon be published. | WHAT GREECE Phoilade phia Ledger. Five million pounds Turkish, or, in round numbers, $18,000,000, is said to be the utmost that Grecce can pay Turkey as the price of being whipped. In view of the coudition of her finances it is difficuit to understand where €ven thal sum is to come irom, but it must be confessed that, considertng ail things, particu larly the disgraceful attitude of the powers throughout the whale sffair, Greece Wwill get oft very cheaply if she has to sacrifice noihing more than $18.000,000. SUN NEVER SETS ON UNCLE SAM’'S DOMAINS. “The Britons proudly boast that the sun never sets on the Queen’s dominions, as if they were special subj:cts of solar favorit- | irmed Governor of | stop off av the famous | table above, are well illusirated by-the careerjof John Green Brady, who was recently appointed and con- Alaska. He.was born in this city and in what is Row called the Tender- 1oin district. He knew nelther parents Lor relatives and was & veritable strect Ara . In 1860 a society was organized to care: for home- less waifs and little “Jack” Brady, with a number of others, was put in a car and taken to Indiana, where they were given 10 anybody who wou d take them. When the cor arrived at Tipton and a number hed been passed off a certain Judge Jobm Gresn, then & prominent citizen of that city, went to the car and called for tne ‘‘ugliest, rag- gedest and most iriendless’ of the loL The menager of the boys presented ‘“Jack.” The Judge was at first inclined 10 reiuse o re- ceive him, but finally took him home and pre- sented him to his wife. She was mortified and d, but after washing up boy she ht shs might learn to love ack appreciated his new home and spent his le ure time 1n_study. Afler & few years he was graduated from the Tipton sehool~. The Judge then sent him to Waveland College and aiter- ward to Harvard. jAiter his graduation sent to Grent Britain, where he (00k & t ical course and rerurner to Tiptoti in 1876. He was sent (0 Alaska in 1877 s a missionary by the Presbyterian church. He became inter- ested in the new Terriio: 1 1n 1881 r turned to tne States, bring specimens of gold and siiv its wonderful resources. Prospeciorsand cab- italists beeame interested aud a rapid erowth in population is the resuit. He gave agreat deal of intormarion on Alaskan resources for the census oi 1890, and was one of the Ter torial Ccmmissioners under the - Harrison ade ministrason. g with him many rrock and tola of CaLIFORNIA glace fruits, e Frrcrar fnformation daily to manufacturacs, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— “Timmins has a good deal of dry wit.” “Why shouldn’t his wit be dry? Think of how often it has teen warmed over.’—Indian- apolis Journal. 1b. Townsend's* $25 Kate to Chicago via the fanta Fe Koute. eat The Jow rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. An opportu- Rity 10 visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- rornfans. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sieep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholsterad tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from vake land pler 10 Chicego. Sce tisie-table in advertis. ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Mar<ot street, Chronicie Lui ding. 'lelephone -Main 1531 vakland, 1118 Broadway. LLaimnde E LHS $32 50 to St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago, Tickets will be on sa'e July 12 to the 17th. Good final limit, August 15: stopover allowed 1t'sa splendid opportunity 10 take a (rip- to Chicago and Yellowstone Park. Send ts In stamps for illustrated book, ‘‘Wonder- t0T. K. Stateler, general agent Norchern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market sreet, San Fraucisco. - “3Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap™ Has been used over fiiy years by miilions of mothers for their children whi'e Teething with per fect success. It sooihes the child, softens (e gums, sllays Paln. cures Wind Colic, regulates :he Boweig a0d 15 the best remedy for DIarrhiceas, whether arig~ 1ng from tee.hiug or other cuvses. kor sale by drug glsta In every part of the worid. Bs sure and ask for Mrs. Wiisiow's Eoothing Syrup. 25C & botde iz .- CoroxADO.—Atmosphere Is perfectly dry. soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon forther north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, iucluding fifteen days board at the Hoteldel Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Appiy 4 New Montgomery sireet, San Franclsco. ————— “For pity's sake, Georg d a distressed wife, do get a bottle of Aver's Cherrs P.c for that cough and give usa rest.” He did so. R 2 “Do you accept the theory that man is a {ree moral agent?" “Well, it may be all right in theory, but I've been married thirty years ”—Chicsgo Journal. NEW TO-DAY. 6c Dressing-table makers are up to their business—know how to tempt you women folks. For instance, look at the dressing The shape—curved ends—curved front—tapering legs —carved claw-feet. g In each of the small drawers is a secret jewelry till, lined with pur- ple velvet. Isn’t that tempting ? And the price—not extravagant —$45. ; Others with curved legs, shaped mirrors and all that, $13.50. 66 'sorts in all. Yes, the stool is for $3.50, any’ color. sale, too— California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Carpets 1sm.” writes William George Jordan on *‘The 117 Geary Street s Mattiugs ok