The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1897, Page 6

.THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 FRIDAY. PRECKELS, Proprictor. ~ JOHN D. § PUBLICATION OFFICE 710 Market street, San Francisco E ..517 Clay street ITORIAL RCOMS Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in th § city aad surcounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway ..Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. Esstern Manager. NEW YORK OFFI DAVID M. FOL A surprising feature of the latest lynching story from the South is that it turned out not to be true. Miss Cisneros not a martyr! Absurd! Hasn’t she acquired the friendship of journalism’s yellow twins? The effort to have the slayer of Lawson at Los Angeles par- doned can be partly explained by the fact that Lawson was & private detective. Revision of the course of study in San Francisco schools would have been appreciated before the pupils’ satchels were bulging with useless and expensive books. Collector Ivey up in Alaska has succeeded in so thoroughly ng the dislike of the whisky ring that he has only to keep 1t to be sure of a reputation worth having. It would appear that Canada is perfectly willing that broth- erly love shall continue along the Klondike provided the brother from the American side has the price of it and is williag 1o give up. The habit of swearing that a 15-year-old girl is 18 and then marrying her without parental consent is exceedingly common d far from commendable. There must be some good reason, 10t, however, a matter of common knowledge, why nobody zoes to jail for it. Perbaps the Sitka saloon-keeper who has been selling drugged whisky to the Indians may plead that knowing the effect of his whisky minus the poison he added it merely to suorten the agony of his customers. Still, to hang the gen- tleman would not do any particular harm. Wellman’s scheme of Arctic exploration does not seem to excite much enthusiasm. He would be wise to wait until Peary has been gone a little longer. Then he can call the expedition arelief party, and find backers. The anxiety to get a man close to the north pole is never quite equal to the anxiety to get him away again, The Board of Health does not look with favor upon the practice of festooning the fronts of butcher-shops with fresh at. Neither does any one else, although the errant dog who occasionaily obiaing a nip at some low-hanging carcass may lend approval. When the atmosphere is more or less per- meated by hurtful microbes the human system can absorb more than enough without actually setting a trap for them. EPORTS from Juneau lisbed in Tn ancther il that part of the world. OUR KLONDIKE NEWS SERVICE. R the curate, but and other Alaskan points pub- e CAvL yesierday when compared with those of e date in any of our contemporaries afforded OQur dispatches were not only more ac- were much more complete in detatl, and in every re- sed those published in any other paver on that r s superiority of service is a simple one. Tur CaLy seat to Alaska no fancy writers, imaginative gushers, akirs of any kind. The public desires news of the gold fields, of the routes by which to get there and of the for- tunes or misfortunes of those who are now on the way. To supply that demand THE CALL sent to Alaska men who knew how to gather news and are not afraid of the work of doing ic. Our special correspondents waste no time nor space on poetic descriptions of their feelings and e motions in the frozen north, but they get the facts of the great rush and they present them to the public with a graphic vividness. It is the intention of THE CALL to make its news service in every way superior to any which has ever been known on this coast. Our reports from Juneau, Skaguay and other points alone the Alaskan coast will soon be supplemented by direct special reporis ifrom the Klondike district itself. Our readers will then know exactly what has happened and is bappening there, In the meantime every particle of news brought out either by St. Michaels or by Juneau will be caught by our correspond- ents and promptly transmitted {rom the nearest telegraph station. Whether it be from near at home or far abroad, from Eurove or from the Kipndike, when youn read THE UALL you get the news, and what is more you get it straight, fuil and accurate. Some peopleare inclined to adversely criticize Mr. Bryan for naming $1500 as his price tor a free-silver speecs in Ohio. This is not fair. A public speaker’s services are worth what he can get. The judgment of people who would pay the $1500 de- mended might, indeed, be called into question. A Chicago man has eight living wives anc a Kan<as City man has wedded the same woman eightdifferent times. Simple facts, but showing that a uniform marriage law strictly enforced would change the habits of some people with a suddenness little short of violence. 2 A contemporary remarks that a Klondike company is born every minute. Before long the death rate of these companies will probably form another interesting study. FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. E the remaining months of the present year. This seems to be accepied as 4 foregone conclusion by American finan- ciers, whose equanimity will not be disturbed by the prognosti- cations of British bankers to the contrary. During the corre- sponding period in 1896 our imports of gold were $70,000,000 in excess of exports, under conditions far less favorable than now SAVY gold shipments from Europe will probably mark prevail, and the largest transactionsin specié were made with England, so that the balance of 1¢ considering the increased shipments of cereals due to the shortage in Eurovpe, ought to leave last year’s gold import record far in the shade. On the other hand, if we assume that the published opinions of the banking kings of London have a sound basis in fact, and that there is no tangible ground for believing exceotional ship- ments wiil be made to this country from Epgland, and that, anyhow, England will equalize matters largeiy by the return of American securities instead of specie, there is still very strong reason why Uncle Sam should congratulate himself. The more we'cut down the foreign holdings of American securities, the safer this country becomes, in a financial sense, for the future; for, in the event of a panic abroad, we will then be less in fear of having our securities dumped upon us sll of a sudden, when perbaps we may be ill-prepared for the strain upon our money market, There 1s now plenty of money in this country, and there isa growing tendency here to invest in home securities. This indi- cates as much as anything the return of contidence among our own people. The outlook for the United States is, 10 say the least, highly encouraging. This is the most prosperous Nation on the globe to-day. America is the world’s supply-house, and our abundant yields of the products most in demand in foreign countries will bring us much golden treasure. It makes no difference 10 us whether England sends us gold or the cquivalent in securities. We shall have all the gold we need—no doubt about that—and if we settle with Britain in a measure by practically canceling a portion of our debt to her, it putsuson a stll better footing, and saves us from paying interest to speculators on the other side of the Atuantic. There is in this country the utmost sympathy for any woman oppressed by the hideous ru'e of Weylor. Nevertheless 1he frantic squall of the yellow kid of journalism in behalf of Miss Cisneros may be traced to a colicky disposition, an impulse to attract the nurse’s atiention, rather than to a heart palpitant witn pity. The girl instead of having been condemned to twenty years’ penal servitude has not even been placed on trial. There seems no definite occasion for creaiing a phantom future of dread for per, and then in contemplaiion thereof indulging i ysteria. The truth as it develops may be bad enough and 1! for intervention, but there is no end to the horrora prac- ticed horror artist can compress into a falsehood, and this, so far as the prisoner is concerned, seems to call for nothing. However, omething akin to a spank might weil be bestowed upon the kid save for the fact that this small attention would ples-e bim, notoriety being to his constitution meat, milk, cupihing syrup and unmeasured joy. stration of the superiority of our news service in | | | | this handicap there is a chance for some good work.” A FALLACY EXPLODED. RISE in wheat and fall in silver is an event that makes politics bv answering a fallacy. When a bushel of wheat touched $1 an ounce of silver was at 51 cents, and nearly two ounces of the metal were required to exchange for a bushel of wheat. Mr. Bryan’s campaign last year was made upof the indissoluble relation between silver and prices. He caught the cry from its inventor, Stewart of Nevaaa. When the pressure of a swollen production and economic reductions in the cost of procucing made wheat fall, Stewart turned to the wheat men with the theory that an ounce of silver and a bushel of wheat | had always been interchangeable values, could not be divorced, and that when go:dbugs put down silver it was for the purpose | of making the farmer a peon by taking value out of his wheat. In 1892, however, wheat rose again to $1 03, and silver fell to 87 cents. At the same time cotton fell to 8 cents, the lowest price since 1849, and Stewart turned from the wheat-grower to the cotton-pianter with theinformation that cotton had fallen to follow silver, the price of the two being reciprocsal. From the year 1825 to 1872 silver held all the time §1 29 and above per ounce. For the three years 182527 wheat was 92 cents a bushel and cotton was 12 cents a pound. For the three years 1828-30 wheat was $1 14 a bushel and cotton was 8 cents a pound. Here seems to be some relation between high wheat and low cotton, but none between either or both and silver, which remained at $1 29 ver ounce. The relation between wheat and cotton is that of a natural law. When wheat is high men pay more for bread and less for clothes, and the demand for fibrous substances, cotton and wool, goes down. In the ten years 186372 wheat averaged $149, silver $1 32, In the next decade to 1882 wheat was $1 22, silver §118. In the next decade, to 1892, wheat was 93 cents, silver 99. Turning to cotton 1t was 8 cents in 1829, 1831, 1832, 1840, 1842, and from 1843 to 1848 1t was all the time down to 7, 6 and 5 cents a pound, while silver was above $1 29, and it was at 8 cents in 1892 when silver was 87 cents and wheat at $1 03. The theory of a connection between wheat and cotton prices and silver has no foundation in the facts derived from the his. tory of prices, nor does there seem any basis for the volume of money theory in relation to prices. 1ln 1860 wheat was $1 45 and cotton 10 cents, and the money per capita was $13 85, and in 1885 wheat was 86, cotton 10 cents and the money per capita $2302. The increase 1n money was 66 per cent, and if the vol- ume of money determines prices wheat should have been $2 40 per bushel and cotton should have been 16.6 cents per pound. Of course it was easier for the free silver politicians to sek votes by appealing to the distress caused producers by low prices than it was to seek the profound cause of variation in prices and instruct the people in the facts. The whole Bryan movement in politics depended upon a fallacy as to prices, and that movement is now thoroughly dis- credited by the movement in values due entirely to natural causes. No wonder that Mr. Bryan suddenly ceases talking and that his followers so little miss his voice in the cheerful roar of a prosperity that makes the world jocund and smiling. THE ONLY HANDICAP. | TdE plan of campaign advanced by TuE CALL in defense of | the taxpayers of San Franciseo before the State Board of | Equalizers has won such warm approval and cordial support from business men and the public generally that even the Ezam-~ | iner has been forced to follow the procession and advocate it. | We regret, however, that the seeming support given by our con- temporary of the absentee editor is of such a churlish and irri- tating character as to be more likely to do harm than to do good. | The Eraminer declares that the State Board of Equalizers | has dealt unfairly with San Francisco by demanding proof that the bulk of property here is assessed at or above its selling value, while ignoring “the fact that no other county is assessed at anything like its full cash value.” Itadds: ‘“‘But even with Then follows a mean insinuation in the phrase, “OFf course if the three members of the State Board have determined that San Francisco must be cinched, evidence or no evidence, it will be wasted labor to go to Sacramento.” Having devoted the greater part of its editorial on the sub- | ject to these attacks and insinuauions against the State Board | the Eraminer concludes by saying: “But in the hope that rea- | son and justice are to have 2 show the business men and prop- | erty-owners of San Francisco should have a heavy representa- | tion at the meeting with facts in regard to San Francisco assess- | ments and comparisons with the valuations accepted in other | counties.” | 1f the delegation of San Francisco taxpayers are to go before | the State Board in any such temper as is displayed by the Ez- aminer, or with any such assertions or insinuations as those made by it, the result will hardly be beneficial uniess the mem- bers of the board are so devoted to justice as not to be moved by | attacks upon their character and sneersat their regard for their | official oaths. Itisa poor policy in dealing with the average man to accusa him of intending injustice when you are asking him to do justice. | There is no reason for believing *‘the three members of the | Staté Board have determined that San Krancisco must be cinched.” It is an assault upon their official honor to in- sinuate it. They have appointed a day on which to give San Francisce a hearinz. T'hey have expressed a willingness to lis- ten to all we bave to say. Itis for us to present our case, and it will certainly be a folly on our part to present it with either covert sneers at the fairness of the judges or with open declara- tions that they bave not dealt fairly with us. The only handicap upon those who are earnestly and ener- cetically striving to prevent a raise in the assessment of San Francisco is that which has been imposed by newspavers which for the sake of making a sensational attack upon public officials do not hesitate to run the risk of prejudicing the equalizers against us. Fortunately the members of the board are likely to show themselves snperior to such attacks. It is to be as- | sumed they will dismiss such charges from their minds as be- neath notice, and give an impar.ial hearing to the taxpayers and the officials of the City who approach them in the right spiri There is, therefore, a good prospect of winning despite the Ezaminer handicap. Those who seek juslice by doing jus- t.ce are rarely losers, ALL COMING OUR WAY. he will be found right on the throne at the old stand in 1898, if unanimity among the prophets is enough to clinch peliei. Desvite all the efforts of the bears to hold wheat below | the dollar mark it boomed up again Wednesday, «nd, although small fluctuations may be expected at times as the result of the deals of biz speculators, there can be hardly any question as to the certainty of wheat keeping comiortably close to the top of the ladder for many months to come. (ndeed, there is a possi. bility that all past records for wheat may be eclipsed before the winter is over and that the American farmer may be in a posi- tion to dictate prices to Oild World consumers for several yeara. The famine year in India left Europe to resources other than her Asiatic supply-house, for in the matter of agricultural prod- ucts India has of lata years been the rival of this country in the great markets of the Eastern Hemisphere. ‘Tbe low prices of wheat during a number of years past were attributable ro the competition of India, with its almost limitless wheat area and its cheap labor. The dry year in that Eastern county caused an awful condition of starvation and death. It will be remem- bered that Californian generosity prompted the sendingot a shipload of our grain as a donation to feed those famine suffer- ers. Europe was compelied to look to the United Siates for her food supplies, and hence the realization of dollar wheat. This year the droutb was broken in India and the genera! rains there gave assurance of an ordinarily g od season at least. The farmers of India were about to begin planting when there came the uprising on the border, and this mutiny, inspired by religious fanaticism, may spread like wildfire. Meanwhile the United Kingdom ana Europe will be dependent on thiscountry for bread. It means a continuation of high prices for wheat and of blessings for the agricultural industry in America. Europe isal:o extremely short in rye and potatoes, two staples that rank almost equal to wheat as food for the masses. As compared with her average crops she will have a potato shortage of one billion bushels, rye 325,000,000 bushels short, and wheat 300,000,000 bushels. Verily the American farmer is the salvation of Europe this vear. and Europe can well afford to pay him bonanza prices for subplying the food to keep her mil- lions alive. KING of the situation this year is the American farmer, and ————p——— Two brothers at Salinas, aged 12 and 7, went hunting re- cently. They «id not et much game, but one succeeded in blowing off the other’s head, a result that & thoughtful student of events might have anticipated. If the mania for killing Presidents should extend so as to secure Kruger victim England would have a hard time to imitate the style of a mourner who will not be comforied. v e e i Santa Rosa’s woolen-mills are making blankets for the Klondike; a process that gets the gold without the inconveni- ence of going to the iuhospitable region after it. PRINCE LUIGI’'S ROUTE. He Left the Tried Paths and Breasted the Malaspina Glacler. Whether viewed in comparison witn pre- vious attempts to scalc the summits of the mighty St. E.{as or solely on its own merits to the effort and result Prince Luigi’s achieve ment must teke high rank among the deeds of exploration and adventure, and the ides of its magnitude only grows as his plans and their consummation are the more fully realized, From the very first he made his plans on & different line and a different scale from any of those who had preceded him. Thoroughly understanding the dificulties which they had met and before which they had turned back, he prepared to meet ena outstay the mists and storms that linger on the slopes and sweep the sides of the peaks, and the question of vrovisions he settled at the start by taking enough and more for any emergency, and enough perhaps to follow promptly with the supplies in the path opened by the explora- tion party proper. This plan was a large if PERSONAL. G. Beckingham of Seattle is at the Lick. Dr. A. H. Ticell of Nevaaa Cily is at the Grand. Leon Carteri of Santa Barbara is at the Grand. James Topley, a druggist of Vallejo, is at the Grand. F. C. Lusk, an attorney of Chico, is at the Palace. F. E. Gaddis, an attorney of Woodiand, is at the Lick. E. E. Long, a Suisun attorney, is visiting at the Lick. E. E. Gaddis, a merchant of Woodlana, is at the Russ. S. P. Sanderson of Los Angeles is at the Cos- mopolitan. Wiltiam Tormey, a hotel man of Vallejo, is at the Grand. 8. J. Stabler, a big orchardist of Yuba City is at the Lick. A. M. Boyd, a rancher of Los Olivos, Santa Map of the Southern Approaches of Mount St. Elias, Showing Prince Luigi’s Route From the Sea Coast to the Summit and the New Glacier Which He Discovered on the North Side and Christened ‘“ Colombo.” not the largest factor in his success. Then, t00, in making his final assault he followed his own carefully mapped out plan instead of the paths chosen by others. The Schwatka party and some others since started up from near ley Cape tp the southeast of the mouu- tain peak, while Professor Russell in 1890 be- gan the land journey at the head of Yakutat Bay, some forty miles northeast of Foint Manby, and from near Icy Cape the following year. Prince Luigi’s party landed at Point Manby on the 23d of June and at once began their march up the very face-front of the Malaspina Glacier—hitherto uptroa by man, arciving at the mouth of Seward Glazier aftera journey of nine days They ascended along the mo- raine to the upper port and turned into Dome Pass. Resting here for a brief period, they made their way through this pass and across Agas- siz Glacier to the ‘mouth of Newton Glacier. Here the most dangerous and diticult work of the whole journey wasencountered. Crevasses and ice-walls to he found nowhere else on the habitable globe were met, crossed and scaled, though the Swiss alpine climbers with the party had to perform feats and surmount ob- stacies to which their former experience was a stranger. After many days of dragging toil the glacier was scaled snd they found themselves at the foot ot the depression between Mount Newton and Mount St. Elias. They bhad nearly two weeks’ provisions on hand and were favored with five aays of con- tinuously bright, clear weather. On July 30 they ascended the divide and pitched their tents niear the base of Mount Newton atan al- titude of 12,400 feet, and the following day at 1 A. M. began the crowning effort of the expe- dition—the ascent of tne culminating peak of the great mountain mass—St. Elias itself. After eleven hours of hard, steep, up-bill climbing, they reached the summit just be- fore noon of July 31. Pausing there for an hour while they raised and saluted the Italian flug, took some photo- graphs and viewed the hitherto unscanned country to the north and northeast, discover- ing a new and grandglacier, which the Prince christened Colombo, they began the descent to the camp on the diviae. “This they reached in two hours—very different from going up. After a couple of days’ »est they began their return march to the seacosst, which was reached in due tme without the lossof a man or even & serious accident to any of the party. 1In addition to discovering and naming Co- lombo Glacier, lylng to the nortneast of St Eliss, between the Augusta range and Mount Logan, several other mountain peaks were discovered beyond, which hawe never been noted by any previous explorers. The results of this expedition, when pub- lished in detail, will prove & most interesting addition to geographical as well as giacial literature. — A MODE«N BLUE STOCKING. She is a College Maid and kno vs full weil Her ologies and 'isms—sne can tell Of pte. vdactyis, rhizopods, and such Uncunistian, oreepy, palievzoic things: ‘The moons of Jupiter, and ¥aturn’s rings— ‘And what she doesn't know is no: wor.h much. Her formulw and coefficients drr, Her chemical reaci.ons, and her high And psych logic microcosm wise, Make n e rejoice ber clever head i8 z0'd, Her clever iips are red—w Her stockings are not biuer thau her eyes. —Puck. e WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Speak to me, Edwin,” she pleaded. But he was silent. That was what came of trying to write with & fountain pen. Her lover could not speak ; he could not do a thing until the ink flowed again. But would he understand ?— Detroit Journal. How blessed the makers of peace. Jiow easy and pleasant their work! They have (o take nohing whatever from Greece, And give everything to the Turk. —Pick:Me-Up. It is related that s sophomore one com- mencement day was crossing the campus of Emery College, Oxford, Ga., With his sweet- heart, who siopped to read the inscription upon the stone to the memory of Ignatius Few, the first president. 3 “What does this mean?”’ she asked, pointing to the line “Viyit—nen mortuus est.” Proud of bis ability te tran:late Latin, the student explained: “He lives. No, he don’t; he’s dead.”’—New York Christian Adyocate. “Any fool can write a novel,” said Griggle. 'You car make thiugs come oul just asyou want them to.” “Very true,” replied Dixon, “but you must admit that there are some fools who do not write novels.”’—Bostan Transcript. Pennibs—If you could own any copyright you wished, which would you choose- the ‘most successiul play or the most successiul novel? Spacer—Nefther. I'd choose the mother-in- law joke.—Harlem Life, “Where shall we go this summer?” “ldon’tcare; only let’s g0 to some place that we won't have to read up on?—Chicago Record. Barbara County, is at the Palace with his wife on their way to Taronto, Ontario. P. A. Buell, a lumber man of Stockton. is & guest at the Grand. 0. R. Runyon, an orchardist of Courtland, is registered at the Lick. W. W. Middlecoff, an attorney of Salinas, is registered at the Grand. L. L. Chamberlain of Aubura is smong the late arrivals at the Grand. F. Ward and wife of Seattle, Wash., are regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. Amony the guests at the Lick is W. B, Wal- lace, an attorney at Visalia. Ex-Judge Daly of Ventu; | Commissioners, is at the California. M. G. Rhodes of San Jose, who is interested in mines in this State, is af the Lick. Dr. A. M. Gardner of Naps, a member of the State Lunacy Commission, is at the Lick. Joseph D. Sproul, a prominent Native Son from Chico, is at the Palace with his wife. George Otterson of Honolulu, a business man on the islands, is at the Grand, with his wiie. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti of Jackson, one of the three Code Commissioners, is at the Lick. Louis Crepaux, once a member of the Grand Opera at Paris, returned to this City yesterday after a three months’ visit in Paris. T. K. Stateier, general agent of the Northern Pacific, left yesterday for a vacation with his daughter in the Santa Cruz Mountains, M. Tognazzi of Swilzeriand, a young civil engincer recently graduated at the University of Munich, arrived at the Grand yesterday from Europe, and will make this City his home. Captain Stewart Menzies has returned home afier an absence of three mouths on & trip to his o d home in Scotland. He saw the Jubilee during his stay in London. From there he proceeded to Scotland and the North of Ire- land. CALIFORNIANS NEW YORK, N. one of the Code IN NEW Y ORK. Y., Aug. 26.—At the St. Cloud—A. H. Wilson; Manhattan—B. Beh- rendt; Morton—F. Beckerle, Mrs. E. E. Newell; Sayoy—Mr. and Mrs. A. Heunisch; Marl- borough—C. L. Hopkins; Astor—S. C. Hough- ton; Warwick—H. Titcomb; Holland—Mrs. H. McDonnell, Miss L West; Imperial—J. J. Meyers, A. M. Ne.son, Miss C. A, Sutro; Stuart H. 8. Millzner; Normandie—L. C. Strauss; Everett—Miss Cooper, Miss Head, Miss Hilheit. WHY SHE DIUN'T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN. XKennebec Journal. One of Caribou’s bright four-year-old girls, in auswer 10 & questii n, surprised and amused the hearers. The conversation among the older people was in relation io heaven and some one asked the little miss if she did not want (0 go to heaven when she died. The young girl turned, looked at ber iather and sai 3 Ido not want to go to heaven. where papa goes.” ) I want to go s NO ACCOUNT. York Sun. Captain Leontieff, the Ru: u adventurer who acted as Prince Henri of Orlean’s second. enjoys the distinction of being the first Abyssinian Count. Emperor Menelek did not know what a Count was, but on beine assured that it meant only & title and carried no salary with it said: “Theu a Count counis for nothing and costs nothing; just the thing for Leontieff.” MEN AND WOMEN. The Duchess d’Uzes has some 14,000,000 bottles of champagne in her cellars in Paris, and as many more in her wine vaults at Rheims. President Kruger has presented a rare speci- ‘men of native gold to the Royal Geographical Museum at Berlin, The gift is éaid to be worth about £300. Wilhiam Emory Quimby, late United States Minister at The Hague, who recently returned to this country, will shortiy resume the prac- tice of law at Detroit. Molly Elliott Sewall, the young authoress, is one of the most enthusiastic club women of Washington. Most of the clubs to which she belongs have for their object the advancement of iiterature and art. Mlie. Lucie Faure, the daughter of the Presi- dent of the French Kepublic, is most decidealy religious in her propensities. Matins, mass and ve pers are never missed by her, though her gentle grace never aroused the ire of mod- ern esthetic Paris. The Infanta Isabella Fernandina Francoise ~Josephine, aunt of the King of Spain and sis- ter of the ex-King d’Assisi, who died the other day in poverty in a wretched inn in Paris, was the most beautiful princess in the Spanish court twenty-five years ago. The King of Siam is in England, and there is a discussion over his name. Itis commonly supposed to be Chulalongkorn, but a member of the Athen@nm writes to the London Times to protest that this is a “mistransliterativn.” The real namé, he says, is Kulalangaram. PHELANS REPLY 10 BRODERICK Mayor Warns the Treasurer Not to Pay Demands for Printing, Claims That All Bills for City Printing, Unless Advertised | For, Are Illegal. | Blanks and All Printed Stationery Held to Come Under the Law. Mayor Phelan brought the matterof pay- ing the printing bills that he believes to be illegal to a focus yesterday by sending through his clerk the following communi- cation to the Treasurer: August 26, 1897. Dear Sir: 1 have been directed by Mayor Phelan 10 call your atiention to the fuct that some demands on the City for printing in amounts under $100 will be preschied to you for payment, and as these supplies have been | coutracted forina manner contrary to law, | be wishes you to withhold payment for same | as they constitute an ilicgal and invalid claim | against the City. J In reference to the action of the Auditor in signing demands for amounts less than $100, Mayor Phelan said yesterday: “The bills that the Auditor audited were foramounts Jess than §100, and under the veto law were not presented to the Mayor for his approval or disapproval. But the -same vprinciple is 1nvoived, of which the Auditor had notice, ttat if the law requires bids to be invited ‘or City “printing,”’the bills for less than $100 are, of course, illegal demands upon the treas- ury, “The Supervisors have noauthority but what is given to them by law. Section 9 of an act of the Legisiature approved May 17, 1861, requires them to pay for all books, blanks ana stationery out of the speciai fee fund, and the question is, does thatact give them authority to pay any price for goods furnished and to order them, or have a special committea of the board, as bas been the custom, to order them, without inviting bids. Section 69 of the consolidation act very plainly says that all contracts for *“‘printing to be done for said City and County” must be given by the Board of Supervisors to the lowest | bidder offering adequate security arter due public notice. “The Auditor holds that ‘printing’ bere means the advertisement of the resolu- tions, ete., which is now done by the offi- cial organ. Ot course, this is only the Auditor’s interpretation. ‘Printing to be done for said City and County’ certainly means, in any common-sense view of the | Zeiss, Mrs. S. Meyer, Miss Weinberg, Mrs. S. case, more than that. It means printing blanks, specifications, letterheads, et which are commonly called stationery, and does not mean pens, ink and giue. “The City and County can only act through its officers, and when they make requisitions on the Board of Supervisors tor blanks, spec.fications, etc., requiring printing, such printing is printing done ‘for the City and County,’ and is a charge against the same. The Mayor intends Lo require all printing to be done aiter com- | peuition, if possible, and to have the ques- | tion judicially determined. The Auditor | admits that by competition several thou- sands of dollars could be saved every month, and it would serve to destroy job- bery and favoritism.” | | | | A TOAST TO AITKEN. | The St. Andrew’s Society Drinks His | | Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. = Meal.h and Makes Him a Life Member. | Last Tuesday evening the friends and members of the St. Andrew’s Society held a reunion at Scottish Hall, 111 Larkin street, the occasion being the presentation of a life member’s ticket to James Aitken, one of the charter members of the society, before his departure from San Francisco to Santa Rosa, where he intends in future to reside. J. T. Webster was called to the chair as master of ceremonies. Andrew Wilkie, president of the society, in meking the presentation referred in eulogistic terms to the many good quali- 1ies of Mr. Aitken and the great services he had rendered the society since its for- mation in 1863, and concluded by propos- ing the health of Mr. Aitken. Mr. Aitken replied, thanking the mem- bers for the honor they had conferred upon him, and expressing the hope that he might still be of service to them for many years lo come. The toasts of “'Sister Societies,” *'The Charter Members,” “St. Andrew’s Soc ety’”’ and ‘“‘President and ex-Presidents’ were duly proposed and eloquer tly rjpliad to. Songs were ably rendered by James Sultivan, James Aitken, A. C. Ballingal, George St J. Bremner, Y. C. Lawson. John McLaren and A. Cbalmers added much to the pleasure of the evening. ———————— THE PRESS OLUB ELECTION. Wells Drury Made FPresident by a Very Close Vote. One of the cleanest and at the same time most exciting elections ever held in the Press Club took place yesterday. The big fight was over the presidency, ard Wells Drury, an oid and well-known news= paper man on TuE Carn s:aff, won by ihroe votes from L. G. Carpeater of the Post. The polls were open from 10 o’clock yes+ day morning until 6 last evening. and Following was Lwo votes were cast. the result: ; President, Wells Drury; first vice-president, H. L. Br secoud eut, E. D. De= ment and George third vice- president, Luther . Fitch; recording sec tary, Fred 8. Myrtle; financial secretal & Montague; librarian, Howard V. an Directors—Theodore F. Bounnet, James S. Tyler, W. 8. Dreyvolcher, L. E. Stover, Joseph 8. Jordan, W. G. Zeizler. ction board—Stephen von £zinnyey (ciairman). W. K mball Briggs, Phitlip Mills Jomes, C. A. Webster, James P. Booth, W. C. Bunner. The election was of special significance because of the fact that the newly elected board will have charze of the arrange- ments in the new clubrooms now being erected on Eilis street. e e FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Daughters of Judsh. The first ‘at home” of the ‘recently organ- ized lodge of the Daughters of Judah, the suxiliary of the Order of B'me B'rithin this City, was given last Wednesday nightin the B'nai B'rith building, and the ladies who ar- ranged the entertainment must have felt proud to note the large number of friends who accepted the invitation to be present. The ex- cellence of the programme that was presented warrants the statement that not only those who were present but meany more will attend the next ‘“‘at home.” Tne numbers that wers presented by the committee on entertainment, consisting of Mrs. M. E. Kresteller, Miss A. Goldstein and Miss Morris, were: Piano solo, Miss Meyers; nddress of welcome, Mrs. H. Guttstadi; song and dance, Miss Vera Eilon; vocal solo, M. Abrahamson; recitation, Miss Stella_Hamburger; violin solo, Fred Landt, Miss Muller accomyanist; recitation, Georgs Alexander; piano duet, Miss Eura and Master Leon Jacobs; violin solo, Master Alexander Cohn, avd vocal solo, Willfam de Blois. During the evening there was presented to the lodge a nighly ornamented cake, and each one in the room was given & numbered ticket. The ome having the number corre sponding to one held by the committee took the cake. The winuer of the prize was re- quested to cut it for the benefit of the come pany, and aid so, to discover that the highly ornamented exterior was a hollow shell filled with sawdust. Alumni Association. Considerabie interest is being manifested in the election of the officers of the Alumni As- sociation of the Commercial and Polytechnic High schools, which is to_take place to-night in Snasta Hall, in the Native Sops’ buiiding. The association has been in existence about two years, and those who are tne recognized leaders are doing their utmost to make it one of the grandest institutions of the kind in the United States. Minerva Circle, C. 0. F. To-morrow night Minerva Circle No. 20, Companions of the Forest, will give a social in Washington Hall, on Eddy street. The com” mitiee in charge of the affair will be Mrs. Lowe, Mrs. 8. M. Massey, Mrs. E. Barrett and Mrs. Aunie Page. Mesaames James, Kilcoyne, Mrs. Butier, Mrs. Klinc and Mrs. Glancy will act as the reeeptios committee. The Independent ¥ ifles. The Lady Friends of the Independent Rifles wili give an *at home'” on the evening of Fri- day next in Foresters’ Building, on O'Farrell street. This organization, which is compos of relatives and lady friends of the Indepe dent Rifles, was organized less than a year ago and it »xireadv has more than $600 in the | bank. 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