The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1897. 6 e e e SRHERN REGEEN ARG VAR R TURE Rt e e e Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALY, ane week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3. Daily and Sunday CALz, three months by mail nd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. CALL, one year, by mall.. W AkKLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Francisco, Ualifornia. Fan Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew Telephone . Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open antd 9:80 o'clock. 480 Hayes street; open until 9130 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock- SW, corner Sixteensh snd Mission sireets, open until 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street, opén until § o’clock. 167 Ninth street, open until § o'clock. 1605 Polk street; open until 8:80 o'clock. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky open till o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 208 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Cith DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going fo the country on a_vacation? It ¢0.1t 1§ ne trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompi attention. NO EXTKA CHARGE. Fifiy cemis per momih for summer months. It was a glorious day and a great cele bration. Calamity howling was lost in the gen- eral jubilation. Wecan now devote all our attention to the Christian Endeavorers. It is reassuring to learn that the Senate renews the promise to finish the tariff bill tois week. There is a prospect that McKinley will call British attention to the seal fisheries with a sharp stick. We can once more boast of our climate, for gave us the best Fourth of July weather in the Union. Rest yourself to-day from the exuber- ance of yesterday and get ready for the convention to-morrow. Santiago de Cuba is about to be pacified to the satisfaction of its peopie. Weyler is going back to Havana. The East may send us all the yonng men and women 1t has. The sampleson exhibition here now are fully satisfactory. Bryan’s flying trip will enable a good many curious Californians to see him, but he should go slower if he wishes to see the Californians. Abdul Hamid may possibly give up Thessaly, but not without a fight or money enough to build a golden bridge over which to retreat. Between sunstrokes and snowstorms the people of the East, from Denver to Bos- ton, are finding the weather the most sen- sational topic of the hour. While Bryan is deciaiming that inter- national bimetaliism is a humbug, the movement to establish it goes right along as if it were not aware that anybody is shouting at Co-education at the University of Chi- cago seems to be a howling success, as no less than ten couples of tue junior class are said to be eugaged to marry as soon as they graduate. A German editor predicts the United States will some_day have to fight Great Britain, Spain and Japan, and it is com- forting to know he doesn’t doubt our ability to whip the eombine. The story that the Spanish Government bas instructed Weyler to sbandon his harsh wvolicy in Cuba would fiad more favor in this country if the Government would abandon its own policy and recall Weyler. California may jastly pride herself on her independence day orators. No State in the Union had more eloguent speakers than those who cheered us and gave ut- terance to the patriotism of our people yesterGay. Henry Watterson continues to alternate his criticisms of Cleveland with denuncia- tions of Bryan, and shows a strong desire to convince the Democratic party that he' should be permitted to do all its 1aiking for the next four years. New York importers are praying for de- lay in the enactment of the tariff bill, but the prayers of the wicked avail nothing." The tariff bill will be a Iaw before long and then American industry will do busi- ness while the importers take a rest. Tke report that Charles A. Dana has been advised by his physicians to give up all newspaper work for a while and go to the monntains for a rest will probably be regarded by Cleveland as opening a pros- pect for him to get a rest without taking to the hills. Many of the crowds of Eastern people who this vear escape the heated summer of that section by visiting the Pacific Coast will fina the season here so de- lightful they wiil return again. In fact we are going to make among our guests of the werk some friends who will stay with us. It said that Senator Clark of Wyo- ming is trying toarrange a baseball match between the Senators and the House of Representatives, to be played while the tariff bill is being considered by a con- ference committee. It is scarcely neces- sary to say the game is to be for charity and must be considered in that light. That the evil effects of the Democratic free-trade aepression remain with us is made evident by the fact that the miners of the East have had to strike for living wages. Fortunately the new tariff wiil bring in a new prosperity and then there is reason to believe all American workers will bave wages equal to the needs of American life. 1t is asserted that while Governor Stone of Missouri made speeches for Bryan in the last election, he bet his horse, buggy, harness and hitching strap that MeKin- ley would be elected. They are now teiling the story on the old man and taunting him with the fact that his money talks better tbaa his tongue. THE CELEBRATION. The celebration of yesterday was worthy of the City and of the occasion. In every feature of it there was evident not only the enthusiastic patriotism of the people, but a spirit of genuine optimism and cheerfulness in marked contrast to the feeling which has per- vaded the public mind during: the de- pression of the past four years. The sanguine temper born of the conscious- ness of a returning prosperity added to the loyalty and the joy of the people, and made it truly a National festival and a glorious celebration. Itis altogether probable that the com- memoration of the day was more univer- sal and more inspiring in San Francisco than in any other large city in the Union by reason of the fact that we are prepar- ing here for the reception of a convention of earnest young men and women from all sections of the Union. Many of the visitors to the convention are already with us, and their presence not only belped to swell the throngs along our | streets, but animated us with a desire to show our loyalty with more than usual exuberance, We were celebrating Inde- pendence day and entertaining visitors at the same time, and the two things to- gether made the day with us one of the most notable celebrations in our annals. ‘While we claim for ourselves this pre- eminence on account of the exceptional feature of the coming convention, 1t is not to be denied that in all parts of the Union the demonstrations of the day par- took of a popular rejoicing over the as- surances of the coming of better times. Our Repubiic has long been confronted by problems so serious as to give patriots much cause for anxiety. These problems were ageravated by bhard times, and appeared at certain periods to be fraught with danger to the Republic. They are not yet settled, but they are no longer menacing. We can see our way ciear to the solution of them by statesmanlike methods, and can count upon the support of those methods when- ever the gquestion is submitted to the popular vote. That much was made clear by the election last November, and as & result we came to the celebration of the natal day of the Nation this year with a confirmed faith in the welfare of our country, as well as a loyval determination to uphold its laws, its prestige and its dignity. TEN THOUSAND COME TO0-DAY. The advance guard of the vast Christian Endeavor army—10,000 strong—will ar- rive in San Francisco to-day. It is a mighty number, and yet it represents merely a third of all the members of the organization who will have reached the City by Wednesday evening. We shall have reason to be proud of our guests. They are people of ideas and energy, and they believe in the broadest kind of Cbristianity, There are many distinguished names on the roll of the order, and many eminent people from the far East will be among the visitors here. The society officiais are persons of high inteiligence and culture, and the member- ship generally are people of education deeply interested in the betterment of the condition of mankind. The Endeavorers will find elaborate en- tertainment prepared for them, ana we trust thev will have a world oi true enjoy- ment here. The citizens of San Francisco may con- gratulate themselves on the fact that, although fifteen international Christian Endeavor conventions have been held, the City by the Golden Gate was the first to build an arch of welcome as an evi- dence of the prevailing spirit of hospi- tality. During the remainder of the week the streets wiil be thronged with wearers of | the purple and gold. We want them to come right in and make tuemseives at | home. Caltfornians will do everything in | their power to make the stay of the | visitors so pleasant that they will go back East again almost with reiuctance. That is the California way, We want them to seae all the rare sights of this City and viciniiy, so that they | may take back with them a wealth of im- pressions of the land by the sundown sea. ‘We want them to try our fruits, and help themselves to our flowers, and, among other things, compare our climate with that of the Mississippi Valley and the At- lantic States. These Christian Endeavorers can be de- pendedon to tell the truth and the whole trath about us when they return East, and that is just what we desire. When the facts about the Golden State are uni. versally known, we shail have a continu- ous stream of visitors here ai all seasons of the year. Thatis what we want, too, and we shall be gratified if all who come are as desirable as these Christian En- deavorers. FIGHTING FOR DELAY. Contrary to exvectations the new tariff bill may be delayed in the Senate. The champions of protection had practically completed the bill on Saturday, but thers are many ways by which the minority can clog the wheels of legislation for a period. Amendments, introduced unexpectedly at the last moment, is one of the methods, and discussions purposely prolonged is another. 3 When Senator Allen, the Populist, of Nebraska, on Saturday afternoon intro- duced the amendment for the payment of a bounty on beet sucar it was 1mmedi- ately seen that much additional time would be necessarily consumed in the con- sideration of that proposition. Every possible effort is now being made by shipping men or ‘their agents to stay the tariff bill un(it far into tne month. They are anxious to pay duty under the Wilson bill on cargoes now afloat from Antwerp, Amsterdam, Southampton and other foreign ports in the hopa that their ships will come in before the new bill takes effect. The vessels in question cleared the foreign ports before this Con- gress met, and shippers contend that they are therefore entitled to the lower rate of duties imposed by the Wilson bill. They have been unsuccessful so far in the en- deavor to secure an amendment exempting these cargoes from payment of the Ding- ley rates. Chairman Dingley of the Ways and Means Committee of the House is of the opinion that the new law will, after the enormous stock of foreign goods now on hand has been absorbed, produce suffi- cient revenue to comfortably meet the ex- penses of the Government; but he states that it would scarcely be reasonable to ex- pect it to meet the running expenses in the first few months of its operation. ‘‘As everybody knows,” says the author of the original bill, “there is more than a year's supply of foreign wool in the country. By some it is estimated that there is two years’supply. There is prob- ably nearly or qu.te a year's supply of sugar on hand; there is a large supply of woolen goods and many months’ supply of tobacco, to say nothing of hundreas of other articles which have been brought-in in excess of the usual demands and of the immediate requirements. So I shall not be surprised if the law fuils to produce ! |a clothesline enough to meet running expenses during the first few months of its work.” There is no question in fact but that, under normal conditions, the new law will be ample to meet all revenue require- ments; but the benefits of the Dingley bill will not be fully enjoyad until impor- tations resume their usual course. We observed some time ago that such would be the case and quoted figures to show that in tie first five months of the present year the imports of foreign goods in valu- tion were equal to the total amount of imports for the twelve months of 1896. In other words, at the end of the month of May, the supply of revenue-producing articles for 1897 was already sufficient to meet the demand for the full year. Another month has elapsed since then, and the supply on hand in this country has been largeiy increased, and the longer the bill can be deiayed the greater will grow the stocks of imported goods with which our warehouses are already full. Even this immense speculation in foreign goods pending the final passage of tne tariff bill augurs well for the era of pros- perity, which is as certain to come as day issure to follow night. Those shippers are shrewdly planning to profit by the good times which the acts of the present American administration will bring about —g09ad times, not for any section or class— but good times for the whole country and all of its people. The shippers may now get a few months’ start of the Dingley bill; but the bill will catch up with them, and then the race will be a walkover for the genuine American principle of protection. WASHINGTON IN A BACK YARD. The objection in last Sunday’s CALL to a Mission-street back yarld as a site for the historic staiue of George Washington was not altogether a wild and unreason- able flight of sentiment. Even tnose who cavilat sentiment (mistaking sentimental- ity therefor) are not likely to set up a cru- sade favoring the average back yard as a site for anything butadomicile for the domestic horse or a coop for the house- hold hen. And the particular back yard which surrounds the statue of Washing- tonis not an average back yard—it is a thing apart, a special contrivance of that ingenious spirit who invoked the amazing transposition trick of placing the yard around the statue instead of placing the statue in the yard. To be accommodated to this plan ana to the planof town-lot subdivision which the Wocdward -heirs instituted on the ground of the old Woodward’s Gardens, the statue’s back yard, according to a divine fitness of things, bad to be freakishly ursightly, uniquely irregular ana painstakingly un- civilized. It succeeded in being 21l three. A more unholy picture than that back yard with its patriarchal 1mage of the father of his country rising gauntly and lonesomely out of it would puzzle a mis- sionary in Africa to discover, even in the spectacle of his own head peering at him out of an unconverted missionee’s stew- pan. The head of this famous old land- mark of San Francisco, looming above the board fence on Mission street, seems to wear upon its reverent face a wmute ap- peal to heaven, uncomplaining but pa- tiently inquiring as to why these men of the earth have so basely betrayed it ana cast it aside. There is a mellow dignity upon the finely chiseled countenance which seems to iift it above its associa- tions there among the ruvbish and the yardlings and the clotheslines fluttering with their muslins and calicoes in the Mission winds. The fact that one end of is fastened to ihe staiue itself detracts not a whit from the kingly bearing of our patriot’s head, but, on the contrary, accentuates it by contrast with the ignobility of those who so irreverently misuse it. The sculptured form of him who is “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of bis countrymen” (evidence whereof is attested by his countrymen’s loss of his carven image in a rubbish heap) stands in the blue air of freedom which its immortal original bequeathed to us, and no one sees the sun k the seams in its aged face, nor the winds caress the clinging pariicles which hang about its crumbling head. He stands alone, unseen, unhonored and unsung, but the grandest patriot of us all never- theless, not only on the Fourth of July, but on every day of the year. ‘What are the peonle of SBan Francisco going to do about this? It has been pro- posed to reclaim it and setit up in Golaen Gate Park. Who will have the ordinary sense to second the motion? Who will thereupon act? Now that we dre done parading and shooting firecrackers, is our patriotism played out? Who dares to be proud of his celebration of Independence day, which Washington made, remem ber- ing that the only statue of Washington in the City stands in an obscure back yard. Washington in the back yard, baseball players in the park—ana the noise of fire- crackers dinning in our ears a mock reit- eration of America’s defiant cannonading 0f 1776! ’Tis an unbalanced performance. Surcease of it be invoked by every heir of the Revolution until that figure of the father, which is the ideal material evi- dence of 1776 that has been handed down to us, shall be lifted reverently from its pres:nt disgraceful position and set upon a plane before which we may bow with fitting respect and gratitude. 'MINOR SUMMER RESORTS. Among the advantages and attractions of our State which render it superior to any other equal area in the Union are the number and the excellence of its small summer resorts. - California 1s particularly rich in what are little more than nooks and corners of places, where 'if diversion and repose be the primary object of a va- cation a holiday can be had ai a cost that is comparatively small, and where socia- bility exisis in conjunction with pastoral simplicity. To the brain-fagged dweller within the gates the small summer resort is a verita- ble godsend. Here he is at his ease. Here can he indulge to the full the love of outdoor life that is ingrained in the neart of the Californian. Does he fancy the pleasures of the chase? The Santa Cruz Mountains, with their tens and scores of resorts, are conveniently near his | city home. Is he a devotee of the rod and reel? Within a couple of hours of San Francisco may be founa unlimited possibilities in that line. Is he in the habit of dining not wisely but too well, and as a natural corollary is he perioai- cally reminded thas he is the owner of a liver? Then let him hie to the spaslo- cated in various sections of California, where he can indulge in matutinal doses of natural hunyadi, soda, sulphur or arsenic water, thereby treating his systewa to what is literally a spring cleaning. And there is another matter in which the small summeéer resort attracts. Taking his ease amid its pleasures the seeker after health is not obliged by the usages of society to observe tho:e niceties of dress and formalities of fashion demanded in more ostentations places. Here the swal- low1ail is not demanded and the immacu- late shirf front of the city is not required. Thusdoes the msle member of society avoid being misiaken for the witer, in itself no mean advantage. Welcome then the small summer resort, with its rural surroundings, its simple .and wholesome food, its sociability and its absence of conventionality. PERSONAL. A. L. Nichol of Chico is av the Grand. H. M. Kutchin of Washington, D, C., is at the Palace. B. M. Spencer, & merchant of Santa Rosa, is in town. C. M. Mori of New York is at the Cosmopoli” tan Hotel. J. Wells Smith, a mining expert of Denver, isintown. Mme. Cross of Paris was one of the arrivals yesterday. # ’ Richard Reynolds of Palo Alto is at the Cos- mopolitan, C. H. Bromley, an attorney of Marshaltown, Iowa, is in the City. Charles Madsen of Dayton, Ohio, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Dr. E. Ward and wife ot Chicago, IiL, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Miss Harrist Craig of Evanston, Ill, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. D. Campbell and Leonard W. Coleman, Keswick, are in the City. Sgate Senator D, A. Ostrom of Yuba is in town. Heis atthe Grand. Alexander Martin and wife of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the Cosmopolitan. Brainard F. Smith, secretary of Folsom prison, is one of the late arrivals. Joseph Bmith of Salt Lake is here to see the sights, and remain a week or two while the Endeavorers are here. I Boye, Gothenburg, Sweden, is in the City. Charles W. Richards of Cleveland, Ollo, is visiting San Francisco. Max Friedlander, the commercial man, left yesterday for a two weeks’ stay at Los Angeles and other places in Southern California. William R. Castle of Hawail, who is promi- nently engaged in business in fr. Dole's re- public, is & lawe arrival at the Occidental. F. H. Zane of Salt Lake, son of United Slates Supreme Justice Zane of Utah, is atthe P ace. Heison his way 1o Humboidt County to visit friends aud enjoy & vacation. Mr. Zane is an attorney of Salt Lake. He will be in this State several weeks, Colonel Charles McCormick, who has been mining in the Sheep Horn range of moun- tains, among the wildest in Western Colorado, isin the City. He says that there isa great deal of prospecting in that region, and that much mineral has been struck, mainly, how- ever, silver, but that enough gold has been discovered to create quite an interest among mining men. The region is one of the most attractive on the globe, being permeated with the loftiest mountains, despest gorges and most attractive valleys. CHEYENNE. L Have you been to Cheyenne? ‘Lhere's the loneliest piace, The drearicst and gearest You'.l find on the face Of the carth. And hard by Lieth Laramie tow! Ouge & camp of renown As the home of bill Nye. Empty bottles and gravel, And cactus and cans, «n vows und old boops ~cent the hot wind that tans The parched plain Going back ‘Te the bottie and can— 1 was broxe in Cheyeune. 1L Years after T sat 1n the manager’s car As it sify ped o'ur the sreel Trai with never a jar. And our train orders ran Us by way of Cheyenne. ‘What a wonderfu' change Had come o er the pince! Oh, th - women were fair. There w »oae whonad eyes Jusi the h e skles: And the low winds were sof , And the things that were quaffed— Well, we iaid over there. “Ah, so much depends.” Tsaid, with a sigh, As the houss flew be, “On a fr.end and his friends. Say, Deuel, how can We go away from Cheyenne?’ CY WARMAY, il v ew York Sun, BETTER TIME.. Every business article and every market re- portin every leading daily paper of the coun- iry contains allusion to the improvement of business conditions and the signs of returning prosperity.—Indianapolis Journal. I am basing all my operations now,’ says Philip D. Armour, “in my belfef that we are starting in on very much better times. The stock market feels it already. Everythiug will show it before long. The prices of grain will improve along with everything else.” That's what every other Seusible business man is doing.—Kansas City Star. Increases in loans by the New York banks have become & commoun thing inrecent weeks. Iberefore, the one which occurred in the six days just ended will notattract any particular attention. These expansions in the demand for money, however, represent a growth in financinl confidence and are important factors in the business situation.—Globe-Demoerat. The keynote of the business situation is in. creasing confidence. This is shown not oaly in tne stock market, where an old-fashioned bull movement has been in progress for about amonth, butin lines of legitimute thade as well. Dun’s weekly review sa; “There is no step backward in business, aithough the season of midsummer quiet is near. The im- provement continues gradual and prudently cautious as before and in many branches evi- dent where no signs of it appeared a few weeks ago.’—Minneapolis Tribune. A PROSPECTIVE STATE. Atlanta Journal. It is probable that Oklahoma and the Indian Territory will soon be admitted to the Union anone State. No other Territory ever gained population so fast, and if the proposed new State were admitted now it would outrank fitteen of the present States in point of num- bers. Itis believed that there are 650,000 people in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, and the number is increasing very rapidly. Of the 650,000 people in these Territories 550,000 are wuite people. There are 60,000 individual ferm-owners and 40,000 persons engaged in other occupations. It is natural that this great populntion should clamor for itatehood, especialiy since Congress lhas con- ferrea it upon several Territories with not one-filth a8 much population as Okiahoma has. REFLECTIONS OF A BALHELOR. New York Press. - Women are a good desl like cats. ’Most every one thinks she can sing. ‘When a man proposes e nlways has to fight against an inclination to whisper it. The devil won't burn the worst men; he will make them heip clexn house. Somehow babies are never as bright as usnal the day you meet theifr mothers out with them. Every woman has in her head the plan of an ideal house with a garret where she can o to cry over old Jetters. A girl always triesto make a man think that though alot of men have tried to kiss her, none of them has really suceeeded. MEN AND WOMEN. Professor John Fiske of Harvard will deliver the commencement address at the Woman's College of Baltimore June 15. His subject will be “Old aud New Ways of Treating His- tory.” o Brander Matthews recently sent a copy of Rudyara Kipling’s *“Many Inventions” to its author with the request that he should write something on the fiy-leaf. There happened to be four fly-leaves and Kipling wrote a new Ppoem on each of them. The Archbishop of York has been a soidier in his time; but iis record, says an English aper, is mild compared with that of Bishop ‘urner of the American Episcopal Methodists, who has been a postmaster, a Custom-house inspector and a detective. The Marchioness of Breadalbane, while in Hyderabad, went on & shooting expedition and had the good fortune to kill & tigress. A message was sent to friends saying: “The Marchioness Breadalbane shot a fine tigress today.” When it wasreceived it resd: “The Marchioness Bread and Bones shot five tigers to-day.” ’ The Duke of Portland is at the head of a movement in England for the abolishment of check reins, or bearing reins, as uu; ‘are called over there, and has made several speeches against this familiar method of tor- turing horses. Not to be outdone, the Duch- e:s of Portland, his wife, has lately been using her influence agaiast the use of aigrettes and birds on women’s hats, & fashion which en- tails the wholesale slaughter of millions of birds every year. The Queen Regent of Spain his'a marriagea- ble daughter on her hands. Mercedes, Princess of the Asturias, is now 17, and propositions for her hand have bezn already considered at the Spanish court. For six months before the birth of the King Mercedes, who was named for the tirst wife of her father, was Queen of Spain. But Alphonso XIIT appeared on thescene, and she was given a back seet. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Chollie—What is your idesmof & fool? Dollie—aA man who neglects to kiss a girl who has asked him to tuck her sleeves in her coat.—Yonkers Statesman. “Iam trying a new brand of shaving soap, sir,” remarked the barper. “How does itseem togo?” : “Ivsrather better than the kind you've been using lately,” said the customer. “‘Seems tosofien up the bea d better, doesn't e “Yes, and then it’s a change. I was getting tired of the taste of sassafras.”—Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Scareface — Why, General, I didn’t think you would remember me. What & mem- ory you have for fac General Blunt—Madam, yours is a face one could never forget. — Philadelphia North American. “They say that socialism can produce no practical results]’” shouted the excitable man. t isn’t true.” *Of course it fsn’ replied the good-na- tured citizen. ‘‘Anybody knows that you can take socialism and sit down and write & book about it, and, sometimes, sell several thousand copies.”—Washington Star. Bashful Lover—I leave here to-morrow. How long shall vou remain, Miss Ethel? Up-to-aate Girl—Remain Miss Ethel? I leave that to you.—Brooklyn Life. Friend—Now, confidentially, how do you fig- ure what to charge for a prescription? Druggisti—Well, our system is perfectly fair toeverybody. Alter the clerk makes np the prescription he goes to the back eof the store and shakes up & lot of cards in a hat. The cards are marked with prices ranging from 25 cents to $1 50, and whichever card he draws settles the price of the preseription.—Puck. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. €ourt Sutro Heights. Court Sutro Heights No. 136, Foresters of America, expect to initiate fifiéen cancidates next Thursday night in the Aleazar building. An informal programme and jinks wili follow the ceremony. On the 15th inst this court will publicly initiate its officers in Social Hallof the Alcazar building, and after theofficers shall have been obligated there will Le a dance. Loreley Circle, C. O. F. Loreley Circle, Companions of the Forest, Foresters of America, will hold a public in- stallution of the officers recently elected. This will be in American Hall, A ¢ zar building, on theevening of next Thursday and it is ex- pected that there wiil bea large attendance as the many friends of this popular circle have been invited to be present. After the cere- mony of installalion there will be an informal recepton 1o the new officers and reireshments will be served. ¥. M. L. Elections. Vinyes Council hes elected J. C. Enos presi- dent for the eusuing term; Wiiliam Foley, first vice-president; R. Powers, second vice- president, and 8. J. Hou:ihan recording sec- retary. Pioneer Council has chosen for the ensuing term M. E. King as its president, R. first and & L. Sul'ivau second vice-pr und J. J. Borden recording secretary. St. Cathriue Council has elected J.J. Mc- Namara president for the ensuing term, John Keily first and John Hittman second vice- presidentand M. H. Huriey recordiug secre- tary. Alta Parlor, Native Daughters. The officers of Alta Parlor No. 3, Native Daughters of the Golden West, were installed last Saturday night by District Deputy Grand President Dr. May B. Campbell, who was assisted in the work by Past Grand President - Miss Elizabeth Spencer, acting in the capacity of grand marshal. Atthe con- clusion of the ceremony, which was in the presence of members of the order only, Mrs. A. A. Pomeroy, tue retiring president of the parior, was on behaif of the parlor presented n gold watch and chain in recognition of her services whi e in the chair during her term of office. There was n feeling response. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. THE DURRANT CAsE—E. D. S, City. The evi- dence against Durrant was circumstantial. WATER ON THE Hair—P. C., East Oakland, Cal. The use of water on the hair is not in- jurious to it A DiME oF 1853—J. G. V., City. A d.me of the tssue of 1853 is worth only its face value to dealers in oid coins. CHARTS—D. S. City. This department does not know where such charts as named in the communication are to be had. THE WHIE House—Subscriber. There are thirty-three Tooms in the White House in Wasnington, D, C., fifteen of winich are in the basement. CuBA—A. 8, Florin, Cal. Americans who have gone to Cuba to help the revolutionists and joined the Cuban army are under the orders of the Cuban officers. ARITHMETIC—A Reader, City. Itis a rule of this department not to answer questions in arithmetic, and as your question is one of that character 1t cannot be answered. PORTUGAL'S POPULATION—Subscriber, City. The latest figures on the population of Portu- gal are for 1890. These show that in that year the population exciusive of the depen- dencies was 5,082.247. DEXTER THORNE—S., City. The following is the pedigree of the stallion Dexter Thorne for three generations: Dexter Thorne, by Dexter Prince, dam Clyde, by Huwthorue, ot of Nut- wood; second dam by Chieftain; third dam by Odd Fellow, son of Chloroform (thorough- bred). SHOULDERS—A. U. V., City. If one of your shoulders is higher than the other you ought 1o consuit one verSed in anatomy, who wiil adyise what you might do to bring it down to the level of the other. It might be that it isa natural defect and ihat couid not be judged eXcept Upon an examination. Yerrow FEVER—A. 8., Florin, €al. There are no diseases indigenous to Cubs. The yellow fever which breaks out with renewed virulence regulariy with the wet season in the coast lands and seaports of the isiandis un- known iun the interior. During the dry season that disease is not known on the is.and. THE LINCOLN MONUMENT—S,, City. The mon- ument erected to the memory of Abranam i Lincoln in the city of Washington, D. C., was completed in ihe year 1876 and was dedicated that year. It was built by popular subscrip- tion, but this deparument has uot been able to ascertain the cost. PoisoN OAK —G. 8., Fruitvale, Alameda County, Cal. The chewing of the leaves of the poison oak is not necessarily dangerous, but productive of very unpleasant results. The assertion has often been made that the chewing of the poison-oak leaves will serve as a preventive against being affected by the oison afterw: The writer has 1n mind an ndividual who tried that experiment snd 1o sorrow sscertained that the remedy was much worse than the disease. MARRIAGE LICENSE—P. C., East Oakland, Cal. When au individual spplies to the County Clerk of & county in this State for a marriage license he is sworn to give truthful answers to such questions as may be putto him in the matter of procuring such license. He is re- quired to give an oral answer to each guestion asked. The fee for a license is $2. Whena marriage license is issued the fact becomes a public record, but the County Clerk does not publish such. Newspapers send reporters to examine the records and in that way obtain for publication the names of those to whom licenses were issued CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ ib. Townsend's.* ———————— FPFCIAL inlormation Qaily to manufactursey, ‘business houses and public men by the Prass Clippng Buresu (Allen's), $10 Montgomery. * TOM HOGHEY GREEN SHIRT It Went Home to Sacra- mento Covering a ; Lioser. So Brilliant in Hue It Aroused Supernatural Expec- tations. Oakland's Reliance Baseball Team Won the Palm at Central Park Yesterday. The Gilt Edge Club from Sacramento started out to win the baseball game at Central Park yesterday, but Pitcher Tom Hughes’ bright green shirt proved to be a cross-eyed mascot, and the latter part of the play proved disastrous for the visitors from the Capital City. When Mr. Hughes first donned his emerald-hued garment as he went to bat 1t struck terror to the hearts of the Reliance team from Cakland, but when results proved that the raiment lent no extra power to the wearer, the voung men from California’s Athens, tak- ing new heart, went in and won at a can- ter. For some reason, it frequently hapvoens that trouble begins in the seventh inning, and so it happened yesterday. Up to that time the Senators had a good lead and the rooters from Alameda County were very glum., When the seventh closed with a bunch of six for the Philosopners such a howl went up as is seldom heard even in Centrul Park, and an enthusiastic sup- porter of the Reliance colors kept tally after the scorer’s gong by firing his six- shooter. As seven-shooters are no longer worn 1n the West it is difficult to imagine how he would have got along if there had been seven runs to record. Yesterday’s disaster was the first set- back that the Giit Edge Club has experi- enced, having four winnings to its credit. The Reliance is also high up in the honor column, with three winnings and losings. Mclntyre’s luck helped him to win the laurels of the game, though he was dis- abled at the close of the play and a substi- tute had to b2 put in his place. Spike Hennessy was a favorite among the rooters on both sides and justified the admiration of his friends, though he was not as fortunate as some of the players who showed less merit. It must not be understood ' that Hughes was a failure in any sense of the word, but because of the brilliancy of his raiment 80 much more was expected of him than any buman be- ing could peériorm that the crowd was foredoomed 1o disappointment. Throughout the game the play was spiz- ited, and it was shown that interest in the National game is by no means dead in this City, as the crowd seemed as enth=: siastic as in the olden times when the popular amateurs were in the field and subsequently when the giants of the pro- fessional class were giving their exciting exhibitions. Following is a summary of the game: CENTRAL PARK, San Francisco, July 5, 1897.— Champlonship basebull tournament: GILT EDGE. A.B. R. RH S.B. P.O. A. E. Denny, 2 b, 2de 3T torespaiyisg Hennessy, 1b. 4 1 B0 00 00 Hughes, p A 2 B0 1 .8 0 chanuahan, ¢ sy O S usae a0 Watker, 1. gt Ak guiteio Y ef Netbercote, 3b.....4 1 1 0 0 1 2 Pommer, 3. R G e TR Doteriy, r. 1. 4 [ o 0 0 [ [ Devine, c.. &€ 1,370 j6 13779} & T T T TR AB B BIL 5B PO A E 6 2 3 2 13 0 [ 4.0 28 L0 9T ST e L N T e Bl el A ST e I T R {adarie i B T IEE TS e e CEB R S G [Sabl SR T T 18 18 13 27 18 4 NNINGS. 30 21 Reliance. o Bace bitl 10108 SUMMARY. Earned runs—Gilt kdge 3, Rellance 8. Three- base hit—Magulre. Two-ba: hits—Hughes 2, Ireland, Lange. Sacrifice hits—Arlett, Nealon, Doherty. _First base on errors_Gi't Edge ce 4. First base on called balls—Giit kdge 4, Rellance 2. Left on bases—Gilt Kdge 5, Rel ance 6. Struck oui—By Hughes 5, by Doyle 4. Hit by pitcher—Pommer, Hennessy, - Double plays—Doyie to Maguire, Ireland Lo Lange, Denny 10 Devine 10 Hennesiy. Shannahan to Denny. Pussec balls—(reiand 1, Devine 2. Wild pitc Time of game—I hour 50 minures. D. N. Knowles, Hughes 1. Umpires—0'Neill and Geggus. official scorer. ASKED 10 CONE. WESY Invitation to President McKin- ley to Visit This State Prepared. Will Be Forwarded to Washington by the Delegates to the Detroit Convention. The members of the committee Te- cently appointed by the Republican joint committee of San Francisco and.Santa Clara counties to extend an invitation to the President to visit the State met on form of a memorial that will te forwarded to Washington as soon as it can be suit. | ably illuminated and embossed. The form of the invitation is as foliows: To William McKinley, President of the Un: States, Washington, D. (.-lloxom:nlsm: 1?‘1‘: with great plessure that we, citizens of San Francisco and a commitiee appointed by the joint convention of Repubiican organizations of San Francisco, San Mateo and Sania Clara counties, have b of the contemplated trip of yourself to this Western coast, after the adjournment of the present extra session of CoRies gommitte 1a 8 committes would be recrea duty if, in view of this fact, it did nn‘:‘h::l;: to sssure the President of the United States of its earnest desire on behalf of the citizens of the City of S8au Francisco that he should visit their City during the present year, and, if the public service should preclude, that a visit be | mede at the earliest possible trme. Come and honor California, the Golden B[llekt diadem in the crown of Union, liberty and Republicanism, and San Francisco, the great metropolis of the Pacific Siope of our common country, with your presence, even though it be for & few fleeting moments. Visit California, that you may by personal yision erceive tne wondrous resources, unbounded rtility and ummu“pmibum" of our great State; stand on the tern slope of the Re- gnhlle and view the handicraft of man, em- lematic of the commerce of the civilized world, wendiug its way through our Golden Gate, and, above all, enjoy the hospitality of our citizens. + We have the honor to subscribe ourselves, n your fellow-citize. San Francisco, Cal., July 2, 1897. . . and means will be consid- e _to have the docnment suitably inscribed and illustrated. A committae on finance was appointed for this pur. pose consisting ‘of 8. Baichelder, I J. Truman, Martin Murray, Dr. Levy and J. Meneses. It is proposed to forward the invitation to Washington by a special | cominities: consisting of the deiegates to | may be repeated. Friday afternoon and decided upon the || the coming convention of Raqu can.. clubs which meets shortly in Dezr:n:r 2 The complete roster of the generalcom mittee baving the affair in charge is as follows: . v ex-officio chairman; A.de La ary; 2 lLl;ieD\;oun%, il‘mfl:.yn . ar Jr., Harry Piper, Z. U. Dodge, C. L. Tay~. fi?fi Tivine Graham, I. Steppacher, (J;;chw_:, Lewis, Willlam Cluff, D, M Cashin, Joht Lnchman, Charles M. Shortridge, Edward Holland,” William MeIntyre, Thomas 1% Collins, L. J. Trumau, C. S. Laumelster, B | Williams, R. A. Cro hers, John F. Sheehan, C.W. Kyle, H. I Kowalsky. E. W. Williams, Martin Murray, E. C. Paimieri, George Stone, J. P. Jackson, George E. Morse, William - . Schooler, Moses Greenbaum, Frank Sumner, A. L. Black, Isaac Upham, W. E. Hale, J. e~ néses, J. C. Cuprier, T. B. Morton, J. J. Sulli- van, Irving M. Scott, M. T. Taylor, Mrs. A. L. Ballou, A. B. Spreckels, M. 8 Bluckbura, .1 McPermott, W. S Barnes, H. C. Firevaugh, Vuughn Morgan, Frank D. Wor:h, R. Valen- tine, Mrs. N. J. Vidaver, George H. Fairchild, H. J. Crocker, Bepjamin E. McKinley, C. F. Tay, A.B. Patrick, F. L. Brown, Mark Lare, R. Pacheco, E_L Wolf, J. A. Waymire, Charies F. Curry, C. W. Manwaring, Wendell Edston, J. D. “Siebe, Dawson Mayer, George A. Fletcher, H. 8. Martin, ;- W. @GP E. L. Head, R. C. Me ers, J. D. Spreckels; Ruef, Géneral Backus, Lyman L Mowry, Rujo, E. H. Levy, Judge A. B. Treadwell, F. Shule, Hon. A. G. Booth, General John H, Dickinson, Sanator k. F. Bert, R.C.McPlher- son, L. A. Grade, Colonel T. C, Mastellar, Leon Deunery, James McNair, R. R. Duckworth, H. Lewls, Arthur Spear, T. 6. Waikington, Dr. W. J.‘Hawkins, Colonel C. M. Kinne, W. R. Smed- berg, Ira G. Hoitt, H. Alrerits, J. Rivara, E. Navarreti, F. L. Whitney, George Jewett, Jonn A. Drolet, M. Nava, R. Nieblas, E. Vaca, F. Estrada, Captain N. Pierce, Stanley Samuels; Charles G. Nagie, A.L. Black, A. H. Gelerry, Colonel T. V Eddy, Major Frank McLaughlia, Y. W. Montague. NATIONAL GUARD NOTES. The New Uniforms That Are to Be: Chosen—No Ovens for Camp Yet. Delays in Reports. Complaints are frequently made of de- lay in receiving information at different headquarters. That, in a great measure; is due to the neglect of commanding offi- cers in failing to forward their reports, re- turns and demands at the time, as Te< quired by law. Monthly reports are due at regimental headquarters by the 5th of the month, at brigade headquarters by the 10th, at division headquarters by the 15tA and at general headquarters by the 20thy These delays have been a source of great; annoyance and the indications are that somebody will in the near future be banled over the coals as a feariul example for all delinquents. Colonel Fairbanks in regimental orders issned last month draws tho attention.of commanding officers to the necessity- of having all papers properly made out in time and forwarded. During the month of June two men were aischarged at the expiration of term of service from the Fifth Infantry, Second Brigade. Yoa Tke adjutant-genersi has nominated Brigadier-General Dickinson _(retired), Colonel James ¥. Smith of the First Reg ment Infantry, Second Brigade, and Lieutenant-Colonel Horace G. Platt (re- tired judge-zdvocate) a board to recom- mend and inspect the new uniforms to be vrocured for the National Guard. The poard is composed of three attorneys, and if it does not take care in the matter and call in as an advisory board some of the rembers of the guard who are well versed in ihe matter of cioth, its color, durability and make-up it is possible that the mistakes that were made when 3 previous lot of uniforms were obtainea. The gentlemen com-. posing the board are no doubt competént to judge if a uniform looks well and- fits well, but not one of them is a tailor-or cloth merchant. Captain W. R. Johnson, Company A, Sixth Infantry, has been re-elected. A. C. Corwin has been re-elected fir<t and R. Ewell second lieutenant of Com- pany H, Sixth Infantry. The time for the departure of the sol- diers tor camp is approaching rapidly, but as yet none of the ovens wh ch were prom- ised some time ago, and which each com- pany was to have to prepare its rations, i.ave been distributed. It is said that th have not yet arrived., It they de notcom soon the campers will have to fall back on the old system of providing rations for the men. Company U, Captain Maclay, Fifth In- fantry, had its first shoot last week under the new regulations. The shoot was at the silhouetle targets. The men com- plained that the targers being of a dull gray color made it difficult to see them at. Torre Jr., secr A, A. | the regulat.on distance of 400 yards, still the men did meritorious work. Captain Maclay placed his men in skirmish line, and ut command they advanced in double time and when within 400 yards fired at the targets, and then continued firing as they retreated. The captain expressed: himself well pleased with the result, ' Peking’s new Russian bank was opened at the end of May with great pomp, Prince Oukhtomsky, the Russian special envoy to China, being present. See Southern California. Los Angeles, the most beautiful city in the United “tates. “an Diego, Pasadens, Riverside, Redlands, Coronado Beach, Catalina Islands, and the thousand aud one ocher delig.tiul places must be seen, . You can return to the Esast through-the orang - groves of Southern California without ad- ditionsl expense aud you will always regret it 1" you'fsil to see Los Angeles and her sister citles. The Sarita Fe trains furnish the highest character of mccommodations, and consume only . thres nights Los ‘Angelesto Chicago, Call at 644 Markes sireet, Chronicle bullding. —————— $25 Rate to Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Route. : The low rates made for Christian Endeavorsrs’ will be open to the public as well. An opportm- Dity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Ci fiornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleé Ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholstered tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from land pier to Chicago. See time-table in adve: ing column. San Francisco ticketoftice 644 Macces street, Chronicle building. 1elephone Maini33E " Uakland, 1118 Erosdway. = e o $32 50 to. St. Paul, Minneapolls ‘and Chieago. . Tickets will be on sale July 12 to the 17th. Good. final limit, Auguse 1 topover aliowed. lt'sa splendid opppriunity w take a irip to Chicagoand stopoftat the famous Yellowsione Park. Send 6 cents in stamps for illustrated Look, *‘Wondet-. | 1and,” 16 T. K. 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