The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1807. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. EAK , Manager. +eiveeee..... 710 Market streot, San Framcisco Telephone Main 1863. 517 Clay street EDITORIAL RCOMS. Telephone Main 1 e 3 i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail 6 per year; per th 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ..Roows 31 and 32, 34 ‘Park Row. Montgomery street, corner Clay; 9 Hayes street; open until 9:3) o'clock. ntil 9:30 o’clock. autil 9 o'clock. street 0 0’clock. 1i1l 9 o’clock open until 615 | BRANCH OFFICES— 9:30 o’clock. & SW. corner Sixteenth and | open | 2518 Mission street; until 9 o'clee! . corner Twent “AN IDIOT’S TALE” N Sunday evening a small piece of cloth covering the O cinematograph at the Orpheum caught fire, and for a few seconds blazed into an open flame. Some members of the audience became alarmed and started for the doors, but the fire was extinguished in a moment, and they returned to their seats. The entertainment of the evening was interrupted for only about five minutes, and the sole effect upon the per- formance was to render it impossible to give the cinematograph exhibition. The incident, trifling in itself, gave the Fzaminer a chance to fake up a lurid sensation, and it proceeded to do so. On the first page of that paper there was printed yesterday two pic- tures. One represented the interior of a blazing theater; the balcony was wrapped in smoke and flames, the main floor cf the auditorium was thronged with a rushing, panic-stricken crowd, in which one man was pictured dragging another bodily backward over the seats, while a third was in the act of jump- ing on him, and the whole scene was designed to give the im- pression of a fierce and fateful conflagration devouring a holo- caust of victims. The second picture showed a mob of mad- | dened people on the streets with several stalwart citizens in the | midst trying to prevent a truck-driver from rushing his team through the crowd and crushing mangled bodies beneath the feet of his fiery steeds. The account given of the affair was made to accord with the pictures. Evidently the artist did his work first, and the re- porter was instructed to follow along the same lines. The pub- lic was tofd that “‘blazing flakes fell on the heads of the audi- ence below.” That a panic broke out and *‘the audience piled into the aisles headlong and topsy-turvy. There was no con- Men trampled and shoved. Women sideration for age or sex. shrieked. Then clothes were torn. One woman was thrown down in the nisle. She managed to get to her feet with a bleed- ing face.” To pile horror upon horror’s head the Ezaminer proceeded, after exhausting its screaming adjectives on the incident it- self, to recount the ‘‘disastrous fire in the charity bazaar in | Paris, when the noblest of the French aristocracy perished in the flames.” It soggested a parallel between the two occur- | rences, and expressed wonder, surprise, astonishment, amaze- ment that nobody was killed. Thus it spread the verbiage for something like compelling the reader to go through all that mass of words 1o find out from statements scattered in the mixture that *‘the affair was all over in a | moment or two”; that “the panic did not la: that “so far | as learned none of the audience suffered anything worse than a | little crowding end a bad fright.” This is the way 1n which the Ezaminer reports happenings at home. Itreports happenings abroad in the same way. The public may be excused if it is sometimes deceived by sensa- tional dispatches in the yellow faker from the Emperor of China and other foreign dignitaries, but by noting the lurid way in which the affair at the Orpbeum has been exaggerated | the people can readily estimate what an FEraminer report is worth from any part of the world. In fact when you see itin the Ezaminer you know it is “an idiot’s tale, full of sound and fury, signifying nothine.” five columns, at One rumor has it that C. P. Huntington offered a relative $10 not to go on the vaudeville stage, and another places the sum at $25,000. In view of Mr. Huntington's well-known habit of not letting go of $25,000 and the fact that the relative is on the stage a consensus of opinion is thatthe former amount is correct, —_— . The spectacle of a dog out of jail on §500 bonds is certainly unique, but somewhat of a refiection upon the integrity of the animal. Many a prisoner not entitled to half the respect any worthy dog may claim gets released on his own recognizance. SRR The Massachusetts women whose battle cry is *“No Bach- elors in Politics” are inconsistent. Surely bachelors have as much right in politics as can be clainied by a Jot of old maids. THE MONKEY-GARDEN SCHEME, HEN Tue Caun first announced its opposition to the Wscheme for establishing a park and a zoological garden in the Mission an effort was made in some quarters to duce the public to believe that the great majority of taxpay- s in that district desired the park; that they had a night to it 8s their share of municipal improvements, and that antagonism to the scheme was antagonism to the interests of the Mission itseif. That effort has faiied. Among the men who in interviews with THE CArL have expre:sed a decided opposition to the pro- posed increase of taxation for the zoo and the park, none have been more forcible than those who are themselves residents of the Mission. The taxpayers of that section of the City are in accord with those of other portions. There is no sectionalism in the issue whatever. Itis pot a question of one quarter of the community against the others. It is simply an issue of taxpayers against a land-seiling scheme. That is the way in which it is regarded ‘througnout the City, and in the Mission as well as elsewhere the course of TrE CarLL is heartily sustsined by nearly every citizen upon whose prop- erty the scheme would entail an additional burden of taxation. San FPrancisco has no money to spara for a zoological gar- den, nor for another park. Such money as we can afford for pleasure grounds will bring the best results if expended at Golden Gate, Our improvements for many years must be in the line of bettering the condition of our streets and sewers. ‘We have a park which 13 an ornament to the City, while our streets are a disgrace t¢ it. We have all the vpleasure ground and breathing spaces we require for the holiday enjoyment of our people, but our sewers are an increasing menace to public health. The Mission taxpayers understand these things as well as any one else, and are not giving the land boomers the support they claim. Let us quit monkeying about the monkey garden and go forward to other and more important things. Somebody has taken the trouble to telegraph from Spokane that Bat Masterson is not dead. Doubtless there are many other people in Spokane equally free from the inconvenience of rigor mortis, and in some instances the circumstance is really of greater importance than in the case of Masterson. A Chicago minister who explains that he has been “‘frozen out” of the church is on his way to the Klondike. Probably he found the process he mentions so disagreeabie that he intends to completely reverse it by being frozen in. | ver falling while other prices rise. | rather than argumentative. | level and keep them there by a financial system which will BRYAN VS. BRYAN. R. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, who calls himseif a bimetal- M list, has given his views of the rise in wheat and other prices, and the readers of THE CALL have rea:! his au- thoritative statement from his standpoint of the reasons for sil- Mr. Bryan’s statement is long but not lucid, and will be accepted only by the thoroughly thick-and-thin element among his followers. It is to be regretted that his statement, like many of his | repetitions of speech, is not in logical form, but is rhapsodical The comminuted quality of his style serves admirably, however, to conceal the infinite contra- dictions in which his position makes it necessary to involve himself. He says : “Bimetallists contend that the law of supply and demand is universal. Wheat has risen because the foreign crop has been exceedingly short.” Then, after wandering over some ground that we will traverse later, he says: i “While the Republicans seem to have come over to our position there is an essential difference between them and the bimetallists. The latter desire to raise all prices to a bimetallic furnish a standard money sufficient in volume to keep pace | with the demand for money.” Having just said that the law | of supply and demand is universal he proposes to raise all | prices to a bimetallic level, whatever that may be, and then | keep them there. Is it notlplain then that he proposes to raise | prices and keep them up regardless of the law of supply and demand, which he has just said is universal? is a natural law, and if a natural law the bimetallists can | affect it as little as they can the law of gravitation. Suppose that Mr. Bryan has raised all prices toa bimetal- lic level and the crop fails again over two-thirds of the wheat zone, by what dewice does he propose to keep wheat from rising above the mythical bimetallic level? How is he going to keep | it there if supply and demand act as a universal law? If the wheat zone pours out a vast supply, exceeding the world’s de- mand, by what device does he propose to keep the price from | going below the bimetallic level? | Let it be understood that we use the term “bimetallic | level” only because he uses it. Itis one of those abracadabra | in which his statements abound. He never defines it, never | tells what prices would be under the influence of this mythical | jackscrew. We attach no meaning to it, and it has none ex- | cept as an imaginary level above that of present prices to | which all values are to be elevated by act of Congress, re- gardless of the universal law of supply and demand. Leaving that there are two elements in his statement ! which deserve reference. He says: ‘““We were told last falll that an appreciating dollar was a national blessing.” By whom were we told anything of the kind? A man of Mr. Bryan’s | public prominence must be exact In statements of fact. In| what platform, speech or effort of persuasion in the campaign last fall appears the declaration that an appreciating dollar is a national blessing ? We are aware of the difficulties of Mr. Bryan’s position. A discredited prophet is like a mill when the stream changes its | channel—it is not further useful as a mill. Mr. Bryan’s place i in politics was achieved by his consummate art in playing‘ prophet. Itis his misfortune that he frequently became specific. i A prophet shoull lurk in the shadows of figurative expression. | He fixed public attention upon his often-mads declaration that | wheat and silver go together in price, a bushel of whaat and an | ounce of siiver bsing always equal in the marketplace. | This declaration wzs never true. The history of prices | shows that we had wheat at 85 cents and wheat at $2, both 1 with silver at 81 29 per ounce. The universal law of supply | and demand made the price of wheat and silver ihen, and the ‘ same law now sends wheat to $1 and sinks silver to 56 cents. | The next immaterial, incompetent and irrelevant observa- | tion of Mr. Bryan is the statement that wages have not risen : with wheat and other prices. He should know that wages did not fall with other prices. i It is true that the sum total of wages paid was less, because | millions of laboring men were out of employment since the | panic of 1893. But as most of the country’s great wage-pay-i ing energies were destroyed or paralyzed the scale was but | little affectsd. As industries begin to move again labor is be- ing gradually absorbed in employment, and having had nothing | with which to pay low prices at least has something with which | to pay the higher prices now current. | But why does Mr. Bryan talk of wages here when in | Mexico he has a chance to study the “‘bimetallic level” prices and wages all at once? In that country it takes 82 40 in silver to buy $1in gold. Therefore in t'ie market what costs $1 here approximately costs there $2 g40. Silver bsing the Mexican standard of valueand medium of exchange, as its valuz declines so does its purchasing power, and prices appear to rise to Mr. Bryan’s bimetallic level. But have wages risen there in re- sponse to this fall in the purchasing power of silver? Mr. Bryan knows they have not. The Mexican wage scate is nor- mally about one-third the United States scale, and stands un- changed while “bimetallic level’” prices of the necessaries of | life have risen 140 per cent. Evea the outsyoken opponents of pugilism will agree with | Rey. William Rader that a Corbett-Fitzsimmons affair is less | disgusting in its brutality than such an episode as the recent class rush at Berkeley. Ount of this came one youtd, wandering about gibbering like an idiot, his head and face bearing the im- print of shoe heels and his brain jarred beyond a thinking con- | dition. Another did not come out at once, a broken leg prevent- | ing. Higher education lacks much of verfection, and human endeavor cannot remedy all the defects. But such glaringly disgraceful episodes as these rushes may easily be eliminasted. THE STATE FAIR OPENS. LABORATE and comprehensive is the exhibit of Cali fornia’s raw and manufactured products at the State Fa(;-' just inaugurated at Sacramento. 1t embraces our agri- cultural, mechanical and industrial resources, and is altogether of a character that older States ol the Union well might envy. 01 cereals, fruit, vegetables, wool and wine there are dis- plays whicn might challenge comparison at any international exposition. In fact, there is ampls evidence to prove that the highest grade of agricuitural development is being attained in the Golden West. The fair grows wider in its scope every year, and is of greater merit and attractiveness than e It affords a liberal education on the question of the many advantages: offered by the soil and climate of the various parts of the State. There is a fresh demand for agricultural machinery that will lessen the expense and increase rapidity of action in the handling of the soil and its products. Hence, the farmer who is in clover now is taking a lively interest in the exhibit of improved implements of bis industry there. The horse-racing programme for the season is declared to be a superb one, and it is not improbable that record-smashing may mark some of the contests in trotting, pacing and running. The California livestock display will be quite comparable to the livestock shows of Kentucky and Tennessee, and we are des- tined in time to surpass those rivals. : The capital is filling up with visitors and is taking on an appearance of bustle and excitement the like of which it has not seen since the last session of the Lagislature. A trip to the fair will mal Californian prouder than ever that he belongs t9 this martchless, glorious State. When a saloon is known to be the resort of thieves and is continually contributing large items to the local criminal rec- ord it would seem to be a matter of public policy to find some way of closing it. The ability of an American gunboat to nose out reefs and make the location certain by bumping into them ought to he valuable to the makers of marine charts, but it is hard on the gunboats, Senator Tillman’s statement that he does not prepare his speeches is not surprising. Nobody seems to do it for him, either, If universal, it | * PERSONAL. J. W. Drysdale of Madera is at the Grand. J. Maher of Merced 1s at the Cosmopolitan. Thomas E. B. Rics of Modesto is at the Russ. Dr. C. R. Alken of Covelo is aguest at the Russ. M. Michael, & Woodland merchant, is at the Grand. Dr. George Fee of Reno, Nev., is at the Grand, D. G. Buckley of Grass Valley is at the Cos- mopolitan, 3 Miss A. Wier of Santa Cruz is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. Lewis R. Morrls of New York City is at the Occidental J. H. Hoever, a jeweler of Willows, is visit. ing at the Grand. Char’es A. Baylon of Victoris, B. the Cosmopolitan, Dr. Charles B. Younger of Santa Cruzisa guest at the Palace. P. P. Danbridge, a civil engineer of Mon- tere:, is at the Grand. . 8. Freeman, a grain-broker of Woodland, is a guest at the Grand. C. A. Campbei], a merchant of Red Bluff, is registered at the Grand. C. A. Campbell, a general merchant of Red Bluff, is registered at tne Grand. C. P. Moorman, a wholesale liguor-dealer of Louisville, Ky., is at the Palace. 3 W. E. Briggs of Sacramento is at the Califor- nia, accompanied by his wife and daughter, T. F. Nichols, an Episcopal clergyman of Ox- ford, England, returnea yesterday to the Occi- dental. Alexander H. Rutherford of New York, the young stepson of George Crocker, registered esterday at the Palace. J. A. Fillmore, general manager of the Southern Pacific, left Sunday for Bartlett Springs for a two weeks’ outing. Dr. David 8. Jordan of Palo Alto, president of Stanford University and of the California Academy of Sciences, is at the Palace. T. M. Patterson of Denver, Colo., proprietor of the Rocky Mountain News, and a prominent attorney, is a recent arrival at the Palace. S.W. Rosenstock, the retired merchant, re- torned to the Palace yesterday, accompanied by his wife, after a sojourn at different near- by resorts, Louis Koehler Jr., the wealthy young brewer of St. Louis, who a few days since married Miss Margaret Craven in this City, returned to town yesterday from Del Monte and is at the Palace with his bride. Al Shicbe, one of the Palace bellboys, yester- day defeated Phil Newhouse in a mile bicycle race on the park cinder track, covering the distance in 2:28!£, settling a long dispute as to the hotel championship ana winning a side bat. , 18 at GOOD TIMES SONG. Good times comin’, Au’ de mill wheels fly, When de pork sells cheap, An’ de cotton selis high. Good times comiw’, When de ciib's full of cora— Good times, nigger, When de hard times’ gone. Good times, good times, dat’s my song, Boss man, boss man, push ew erlong: Sciape dai floor when de sugar milis hum, Swing de gals when de good times come. Geod times comin’, Whar dar’s ducks fo' to snoot, Good times, nigzer, When de steamboats toot. Good times comin’, Tell de tarift-tinkers dat, When de taters am sweet An’ de possum am fat. 4 Good times, good times, dat’s my song, Boss man, bo.s man, push em erlong: crape dat floor when de sugar mills hum, Swing de guls when de good times com. ew Orieans Times-Democrat. A QUESTION OF LABELS. . Sept. 6. SAN F c1sco, Cal To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—DEAR | SirR : Iu vour issue of the 4th inst. there ap- pears under the heading, “‘Sang a Song of La- bels,” & report of the procecdinzs of the San Francisco Labor Council wiih reference to the | request of the Ironmolders’ Union that the various branches there represented gether statisties showing the extent to whieh they | are affectoa by the importation and sale of | prison prodncts in our midst, and while said report is in the muin correct I am' afraid a fa'se impression is likely to be created in the public wind regarding the true sentiment prevailing in the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association of California toward or- ganized labor, and belleving it to be for the | general good that the irue relation between Tabor and capital represented in ¢aid associa. tion be knowu 1o the pub ic gene y [ have determined to write you ashort letter, with the request that in & spirit of fafrness you give 1t place in the columns of your great newspaper. Being a member of the executive committee Iam iu & position to know just what it is do- ing and what are its aims. "I cannot siate its objeets more brieflv than by guoting the fol- lowing from a circular issued short time 8go: “The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California is an or- gan:zation formed jor the purpose of encour- aging and essisting the manufucture and con- sumption of home products. Allgood cltizens are interested in the prosperity of the com- munity in which they live. This assuciation appeals to you to assist in the good work in which 1t is‘ engaged by buying and using art- cles of home production’ whenever yon can without a sacrifice of price or quality. By so doing you will help nrlce‘)die men at work in nearly every faciory of this'Stale, their earn- ings will go into the varions channels ot trade and we will indeed see the dawn of prosperity for all our peovle. “We know that there are many articles—food products, wearing spparel and of household and general use—muade in this State that ai of equal or better qualliy and t will cost ! no more than the imported article, ““We ask you 1o give this matter your careful and earnest attention, and, when buying, give California products pieference, everything be- | ing equal, nud by so doiug you will help not oniy the community, but yourself as wels.” The objects of the association are such that all good Citizens can and will join in the work they have on hand. Said association has no conn:ction whatever with the late Engineer: and Iron-founders’ Association, which hi long since censed to exist. The latter seemed to have for its object the destruction of the various labor uuions and I must admit that the fight was long and bitter, as Mr. Furuseth said on Friday evening, and the niolders were in it, but the unions still exist while that association is dead; itis true that some of its members are now in the Manufaccurers' and Producers’ Association, but they are wiser and more liberal men for the experience :ney have had, “If wise men did 1ot make mistakes, it would go very hard with the fool in this world,” and I would like todeciare 10 every trades union man, wher- ever he may be located, that now, so far as I can learn from conversation with the members of the executive committee of the Manutac- turers’ and Producers’ Association, there is not the slightest enmity existing toward organized labor; on the contrary, the feeling from date of organization to the” present time has been most friendly, My predecessor in the execntive committee ‘was Mr. McGlynn of the Typographical Ueion, and when he resigned I was elected in his place. They all know that I have been tdenti- fled with the Ironmolders’ Unfon for twenty years, yet tiey haye made meamember of their commitiée without any suggestioa from my union or myself. The molders heartiiy appreciated this as a token of good will to ail organized labor and hope it marks the dawn of a new era in which labor and capital en gaged in manufaciuring here shall be friends instead ot enemies. For many years the Molders’ Union has been fighting against prison producis coming in competition with those of free l1abor, and in conjunction with other societies we have suc- ceeded in having the evil aimost obliterated in this State, but unfortunately these products are being dumped into California from nearly every otlier State {n the Union, to be sold st any price they will bring, thos seriously crip- })llns our home industries, because uo manu- acturer can szl the products of free labor at & profit in competition with prison-made wares; be must stand aside until all the vile trash is disposed of and theu supply the defi- ciency in tue market at whatever price he can get, and out of his m2ager profits pay taxes to support the institutions that are ruimng his business. Heretofore organized labor has been con- tending alone ageinst this evil, but now manu- facturers are wiiling to jomn in'the fight. With that end in view the Manuiacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Ascociation have proposed that statistics be gatherea from every line of in- dustry showing the extent to Which we are efilicied by this competition, with the hope of haviug laws enacted to give the necessary re- lief. The molders giadly adopted the sugges- tion of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association and requested the San Francisco Labor Council, of which we are & part, to join in the good work, and, to our surprise, that body of representative men refused to grant our’ request or do anything id the matter until the mazuiacturers would consent to put union labels on sil their y its consent a | good!, something which they have néver yet een requested 10 do. In’ other words, union men, they would work like Turks single-handed for a worthy measure when thero was liitle or no prospuat of success. but just as soon as the promise of help comes from men who, joining hands with Jabor, wili make success almost certain, they will do nothing but find fault ard obstruci the path to victory. The union label is a good thing, but to put unon labels on all free produc instead of properly identifying the objectiona- ticle, 1s 10 my mind like the poor sim- pleton who had Irst the proper bung for hs Gider barrel, and finding a misfit bung In his 8hop, had a pew barrel made to fit it, instead of having a bunz made to fit his barrel. For my part 1 hope the day will soon come when employer and employe will be friends and work’ ln{emar for their mutual efit. can see no good iu keeping up strife and stir- ring up mud. My union 1s with me in this feeiing, and I am sure the rank and file ot every iabor union in the City also share this sentiment. The council has recousidered its (rucucnuv granted our request. e succeed it will benefit them quite as much as it will us, and that is our object. Let us have home iudustry, then we can organize the workers into unions, and when we create the necessury demand for uniou-made g0ods uval’{ manufacturer in town will want union labeis, and not till then. *‘Dou’t put the cart before the horse” Respect:ully submitted, 2138 Guerrero street. 8AMUEL MCKER THE MAYOR'S POWER. To the Editor of the San Franmcisco Cal{—SIR: All thoughtful men who may in any true and large sense be called geuuine Americans and therefore sirongly attached to our republican institutions, and yet whoareled tothink favor- ably of a municival charter which practically makes the Mayor a dictator as a means of se- curlag better government, must now and then be haunted with misgivings and perturbed by qualms of conscience. It cannot be true that they never have moments when they are at least dimly conscious of the inconsistency of upholding in theory our form of government as the best, and in practice of repudiating it as & foilure. Unsuspected by these men, there may lie concealed in this theory a subtle purpose, cherished by the leisure class of this couutry, whose great wealth and social aspirations un- fit them for much sympathy with the common people without refinement of manners, whose hands are hard and rough with rude and coarse work, but which has been I[rankly ex- Brested by Professor Peck of the Columbia | University. _ In a paper written by Professor Peck on “Modern Educaticn’ for the July number of the Cosmopolitan Magezine, on page 270 he holds that the higher institutions of learning shouid produce only, as he puts it, “a small snd highly trained putriciate, a caste, an aris- tocracy, if you will, ® * * whose intel- lectual force'and innate gift of government enable them to dominate and control the des- tinies of States, driving in harness the hewers of wood and drawers of water, who constitute toe vast majority of the human race, and whose happitiess is greater and whose welfare is more thoroughly conserved when governed than when governing.” No believer in the divine right of kings and the superiority of nobles could speak with less concern or regard for ““the vast mejority of the human race” than this teacher ¢f Latin in the great New York university, of which Seth Low is president. Ibeg to dissent from this view of the proper place of the vast majority as hewers of wood and drawers of water driven in harness by an aristocracy in our American commonweaith or in any other country, and I turn from Professor Peck to President Lincoln, with his deep love and tender sympathy for the great plain people as the true American and noble putriot. I think it not wise and not safe, if I can read aright thesigns of the times, to begin toset up smull dictators in the deiusive name of law and order in our American cities and throw discredit on the intelligence, nonesty and trustworthiness of the American people. It | will be a sad day for our country when this visw prevails. Mark one first resultand con- sider well the sequence of events. The first result will be the implanting in the public mind of the idea thatsuccessful ecity governmeni must have a dictator for Mayor, Many of the great daily newspapers from which most men teke their po.itiCil views are already industrious'y inculcating this 1dea of a dictator for Mayor. These newspapers are not ownea by poor men who voice the convic- tions of the great plain people, but the mass ot readers do not seem to be alive to this impor- wnt faet. Indue time the public will become accustomed to the dictatorship of the Mayor nd will be Inled to sleep on the brink of a | precipice. When they awake they wil bs at | the bottcm and a dictator will be in the Presi- | dential chair. JOSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, Sept. 6, 1897, | WITH YOUR COFFEE. | A —Have you ever heard the eight-year-old | violtn-player who is creating such a seasa- | tion? B.—Oh, yes; I heard him in Berlin twelve years ago.—Tit-Bits. *Thank you,” she said, with considerable cordiality, when he had saved her from | arowning. For giris feel free to do things at the seaside which they would never think of doing in town.—Datroit Journ | Ie—Miss Quickstep, they say you tabulate your admirers as *‘preerred,” *eligible,” “(ol- erable,” #50-50,” “emergency,’” “intolerable,” “not to be thought of,” and the like. Where do Jcome in? Bhe—I—I'm afraid, Mr. Rinckley, you area littie too late to classily.—Chicago Tribune, Here's some more of the horrible work of the blamed monopolists,” said Farmer Hay- ricks, as he hung his coat over the foot of the bed. “Goodness, where 7"’ asked his wife. “Here'sa sign what says ‘Don’t blow out the gas’ Is'pose they make these fdlks burn it all pight, s0’s to run up their bills on ’em. Gosh, I don’t know what this country’s comin’ tol"—Cleveland Leader. Little Girl—Mrs. Brown, ma wants to know if she could borrow a dozen eggs. She wants to put’em under a hen. Neighbor—So you've got & hen setting, have you? Ididn’t know you kept hens. Littie Giri—~No, ma'am, we don’t, but Mrs. £mith’s going to lend us & hen that’s goin’ to set, an’ ma thought that if you'd lend us some eggs we'd find a nest ourselves.—Household Words. MEN AND WOMEN. Though a simple and unaffected monarch, King Oscar of Sweden is the sovereign who ‘makes use of his crown most frequently. The youngest member of the House of Lords, the Duke of Roxburghe, attained his mejority | July 25, and is qualified to take his seat. In a sermon at Salinas, Kans., on s recent Sunday, Rev.J. H. Lockwood said: ‘‘Let us give & man a little more taffy when living, and not somuch epitaffy when he is dead.” Long Wolf, an old Indian warrior on the Upper Columbia River, is the possessor of a lariat made of the hair of white women who have been scalped. It is said to be strong enough to hold a wild buffalo. Charles Dickens’ greatcharacter, Sam Weller, is snid to have had an actor named Vale as its @iginal. Vale at that time constantly intro- duced queer comparisons on the stage, and many are reproduced in ‘Pickwick Papers.” FElizabeth Marbury, playwright ana adaprer also of Sardou d other French dramatists for the American stage, has just been decor! ed by the French Government with the purple ribbon that indicates an officer of the French Academy. e UNCLE SaM’S REINDEERS. New York Tribune. The Government reindeer farm mnear Fort Clareuce, Alaska, in the vicinity of the Lower Yukon, now has more than 1000 animals, and they are multipiying rapidly. The herd w: started five years ago. None of the animal have beeu utilized as yet for any purpose, a though it is said that some of them may be ut to service in transporting th2 meils. The Eoswn Traveler now suggests that a certain number of the deer be sold to the seekers alter wealth in the Klondike, The revenue derived from thelr sale, it is argued, would reduce the heavy expenses attending 1he mainter.ance of the rest of the herd, and they would be the greatest possible aid to the miners. ITALY’S QUICK-FIRING RIFLE. New York Tribune. Italy’s military authorities are devoting great atiention to a remarkable rifle.which hes been invented by an officer of the “Ber- saglieri,” and which is declared (o be superior to the Mauser, to the latest design of Mann- licher and tne Lee-Metford. Its characteristic s that eighty shots can be fired in a minute without the weapon being removea from the oulder. Iis acceptance, which is regarded probable, will involve the rearming of the entire Italian army at an enormous cost, ‘which the country caa ill afford. MISSION RESTOENTS MAKE STRONG TALKS AGAINST THE SCHEME Those Who Have Taxes to Pay See No Necessity for a New Park Just at Present. NEED STREETS AND SEWERS FIRST | Supervisors Should Stand by | Their Ante-Election Pledges. SOME FIGURES IN THE CASE. | A High Price That Seems to Have an Ulterior Object in View. ‘While those who are engineering the Misston Park and Zoo deal have the satis- faction of knowing that residents of Berkeley, Alameda and other suburbs are strongly in favor of taxing San Francisco citizens for the purpose of building a zco- logical garden and incidentally paying an exorbitant price for the property, the peo- ple living in the Mission and who pay taxes on property there are strongin their denunciation of the scheme. The whole plan has been to give the idea that the taxpayers of the Mission are crying for an animal show, yet the people there are doing all in their power to pre- vent the consummation of the deal whereby it is expected to unload a lot of property on the City at many times its value. Following are more expressions of the taxpapers in the Mission: John Center, one of the ear- liest settlers im the DMission, having located in that section | in 1849, and atone time owning | forty acres of land all around | where he still resides at the | present time. He is now ome | of the heaviest taxpayers of real estate in the Missiom: I louk upon this thing of locating a park | and a so-called zoo out on the Gum Tree Tract as one of the modern schemes of | plundering the people. And Iam forced | to this conclusion from my experience in | the late deal just had in the buying of the | school lot for the Mission High School. As un example of how property is bought for the City 1 will cite my experience. When they came around here to get my views on the subject I offered them a piece of property at §23,000. The answer was: “Yoo little; make it §33000. You know, we want sufficient to meet tha expense of | the brokers.” Now, I suppose the amount | | i asked for the Gum Tree land has been set much upon this vrinciple. So much for the land,and the rest—the greater sum—for the brokers. But this does not matter much if the taxpayers are made to stand the deal. ~1f 1 thought that for a morent a park would be of any benefit to the Mission I | would be one of the first to advocale its location in the Mission, because anything that would benefit the Mission wouid cer- tainly benefit e, as all my interests are located in this place. And as it is with me s0 it is with all others owning prop- erty in this section. Hence we would one and all be the tirst to advocate the propo- sidon. But there isno such scheme on foot. Itisa scheme to dispose of & piece of almost worthless land to the City at more than three times its vaine. The land offered never was worth $500 an acre. It would make any man poor to own it. It is & barren unproductive piece wholly un- fit for s park. It faces the westand is at all times exposed to the chilling effect produced from the winds that blow from that quarter. And, besides this, it would require hali a million of doliars to put it into anything like condition to even give it the appearance of a park. “As for the zoo, why, it is so absurd on its face that a person would be disposed to look upon it as a huge joke. We all recollect the animal collection ‘that had been at Woodward's Gardens. As long as Woodward lived the gardens and the animals were taken pretty good oare of. But as soon as he died the gardens and the animals were neglected, and the Mis- sion residents petitioned time and agajn to have the nuisance avaled. Tken, when it was deemed to be a filthy nuisance, no one could be found to take the collection for love or mtoney. In the end the ani- mals had to be shot. *Look at our streets and sewers! Why, we should be ashamed of them; and add to this condition the schoolsand public buildings—all are in a deplorable state. Thousands of our little children are walk- ing about the streets for want of school accommodation. We have three County Jails, all looked after by aset of poliu- cians, when one good and substantial building should answer for that purpose. Again, our ¥ire Department is struggling along under great ditficulties because of | the want of sufficient funds to properly equip ft, and as a result insurance rates are high. Yetin the face of all this we are asked to buy a piece of land for a park and a 200, for the keeping of a lot of wild animals! Why, it is enough to makea man wonder if the promoters of this bub- ble are really sane or if they consider usa pack of demented fools. We have an.ex- cellent park as it is, and to keep it in good condition is sufficient of a tax on the peo- ple. It mightas well be understood now 2s at any otber time that the Mizsion resi- dents and taxpayers are to a man deeid- edly opposed to the Gum Tree bubble and the few men who are behind it. “1 am, bowever, pleaced to find that we have omne paper in the City, THE CALy, thatis willing to throw aside all selfish- ness and come out in the interest of the people. 1 consiaer it nothing short of robbery to ask the taxpayers to pay $387,- 500 for the proposed land. It is assessed for something l.ke $60,C00, and I am free to state all the Mission real estafe is now assessed at 10 per cent over its real value. And in the face of this the sciemers who have the brazen audacity to foist this tract of land upon ths people are askin, more than three times its value. An this in the face of hard times, when wa have thousands of willing boys and men walking about the streets looking for work, with no manufacturing indus- tries open for them, and this in a measure because men of capital are afraid to invest in manu- facturing pursuits because of the high rate of taxation and the uncertainty that their investments will not be over- taxed. As a consequence, the gemerous people had to contribute out of their pock- ets over $30,000 last year to give the un- employed work on a boulevard. This was done as an act of charity, and yetin the face of this we have alot of schemersin our midst who wish to saddle us with such bubbles as a zoo and a large park ' out at a distance from any portion of the City where it can be reached by the peo- ple without carfare. It will be recog- nized that the proprietor of THE CALL has an interest in the Mission second to none, and if a park and a zoo were to benefit the Mission or the Mission people surelv | ne would ve among the first to advocate its being wplaced there. I know of no man so thorou hly identified with the interests of the Mission and its people as is the proprietor of THE CALL, Mr. John D. Spreckels. He has, tesides his home in this place, moneyed interests amounting to thousands of dollars, and for bim to oppose a park upon any but good reasons would be so absurd that the most stupid man on earth would not for a moment believe it. But, like the balance of good citizens, he sees in the proposition a huge scheme to draw from the taxpayers money that there is no ne- cessity for unless it is to make a ‘few schemers wealthy at the expense of the many.” George XK. Fitch, formerly one of the pro‘)rletors of the “Morning Call’” and Evening Bulletin, and alsoe a large property-owner: ‘“Well, realy [ nave been so busy with other matiers, which the people of this City are some- what conversant with, that I bave not given the matter much thought; but, on the face of the proposition, I am 1n favor of the people in the Mission bavicg a park, or, in other words, of having a large park out in the southern portion of the City. But not now, however. I do not want the Supervisors to violate their vledges. They were elected on tae dollar- limit pledge, and it would be unfair of the people or any portion of the people to ask them to violate that pledge. A park out south, say in twentv or thirty years from now, would be a great benefit to not only the people residing in that locality but to the entirecommunity. But before that should take place the proposition shou!d be submitted to the people at the ballot-box. There are other and far more 1mportant questions which need looking after than the purchasing of a piece of land for a. park at the present time. Oar City has needs of a great many improvements that could be done if we had an economical administration as the ity Hall. But, perhaps, by-and-by there muay be a change for the better in that di- rection. At least we shal!l hope so.” C. W. Welch, capitalist and Iand - owner, 728 Guerrero street: "I have been aresident of the Mis<ion for twenty years and have many thousands of dollars invested i land bere. The zoological scheme is a fraud. Thbe price asked is four times its value. The location 1is not in the Mission distriet, neither is it the Gam Tree Tract. It is a steep guich, a mile west cf the Gum Tree Tract, and can never be made into a park. This scheme to rob the City must be stopped. We want good streets and clean sewers, No more parks.at present. The Board of Supervisors have no right to spend the taxpayers’ money for wild ani- mals. We bave elephantis enough on our hands already—at the City Hall. Weof the Mission bope THECALL will keep up the fight. Where are the other morning papers? Thomas Kerby, retired builder and contractor, 40 Hill street: The people of the M ssion do not want 8 wild animal rancheria. They have never asked for it, and the pro- ctors of this scheme, when they sar the ission_wants a zoo, are not telling the truth. We have parks encugh until taxes are lower. [f the Board of Supervisors buy the wortiless gulch offered fuy this purpose they should be impeached. The whole scheme is & fraud. The land can- not be and is not intended to be converted into & park. The programme is to sell the lena to the Ci'y for five times its| value, divide the profits and abandon the Volt, mining engineer, 3520 wenty-first street: Tue people of the Mission do not want a zoo- logical park. They have never asked for such a thing. The want clean sewers and | good streets. . P. Yan Duzer, attorney and secretary of the Mission Defense Union: “Sell the land for tie mongkey barracks to the City for $400,- 000; nctual vatue of same (highest ficure) $100,000; profits in the deal $300,000, di- vided thus: Placed where it will do the most good $50,000; net profits of the real estate ring which is promoting the steal $250,000. In this programme, as usual, t.e arhemoulgm rich aud the taxpayers get robbed. ne above are frozen facts, and I commend them to the consideration of Protessor David Starr Jorden, president of Stanford University, who, from his re- cent letter in the Post, seems to have lent- hirmse!/f—innocenily, no doubt—to this outrageous swindle.” CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's® ——————— Major Elijah Halford, who was private sece retary of President Harrison, has made a rep- utation in Denver as a church-debt raiser. Ha was largely instrumental in wiping off a mort- gage of $60,000 on Trinity Methodist Church, in that city. st S i The town of Dawson, Northwest Territory, was named after Judge “Lafe’” Dawson, a Mis. souri politielan, who died at Maysville, Ky., & few months ago. — - SPECIAL fnformation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres3 Clipping Bureau (dllen’s), 510 M&utgomery. * ——— e — NEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, s ‘wholesome and deticious. ROWDER ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.