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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1897. TUE JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 710 Market street, San Francisco n 1863, PUBLICATION OFFI EDITORIAL RCOMS. +eeee 517 Clay street Telephon ‘M:\‘ n 18’ 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 month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway Fastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE ....Room 188, World Building BRANCH OFFICES 9:30 o'clock 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until ) Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o’clock corner Sixteenth and open until 9 o'clock. 18 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cleck. 1505 30 o’clock. NW. corner Iwenty-second clock A CUTTER IN DANGER. HEN the management of Tue CArn changed a few months ago our esteemed contemporary, the Vermiform Appendix of the New York Journal, kindly presented us with some suggestions as to how to conduct the paper. We do not recall thatin this journalistic code there was any method prescribed for procuring news by stealing early copies of papers from the pressrooms of rival journals, but we do remember that a leading featurs of our contemporary’s suggestions was ¢hat in order to survive as a newspaper we must get the news and publish it first. As we understood the matter at that time this was based on the idea that the essence of news is its fresh- ness, and that unless a newspaper prints fresh news and gets first into the field, it does not stand a very great chance of com- Is in business. veting with its riv. The intimation of the esteemed Vermiform Appendiz w that it bad a right to frame a code for the management of THE Care, being itselt a noisy champion in journalism and unri- valed in gathering fresh information and publishing it first. Undoubtedly our contemporary always has been a champion in nush, for it can turn out a page of fake, or two es of screaming headlines, with greater facility than any other journal in the world; but as a purveyor of real news it never was anything but a fraud and a pretender. Recently we have not only distanced it in getting the news of the Klondike go!d discoveries and the opments of the Hawaiian ques- tion, but in the smallest Jocal events we get the information Yesterday the fact that the decision of the United States Court in the Durrant case had been aflirmed by the reme Court at Washington was posted on THE CALvL'S bul- boards, which are maintained exclusively by us throughout ate, over an hour before the sleepy crowd 1n the cilice of ppendiz kuew the deciston had been handed down. Asa general thing we post up the resuits of the races at Ingleside from balf to three-quarters of an hour ahead of our contem- porary. In short, to get the news not only is the public com- pelled to d Tue CaLy, but it is also forced to come downtown to look at our bulletin-boards. Nor will it help the Vermiform Appendiz torush toths rescue of the stranded Arctic whalers. It rmay give up $2500 of its ill- gotten baseball tournament money—which money, it should be noted, was taken from the public on the pretense that it was going to be devoted to the Children’s Hospital—and it may make adesperate offer tc donate $2500 out of its own pocket. But the fact remains, that it has not printed the news ot the plight of the Arctic whalers. Every word it has had on the sub- ject has either been stolen from Tue CALL or made up out of our news. We would suggest, therefore, beiore affl cting the public with anotber offer to handle its money in behalf of “charity,” that the esteemed dppendir get some news about the Arctic whalers. The truth is, our contemporary is falling behind in the race. Instead of being entitled to teach others how to conduct a newspaper, itis really ina position to be itsel! instructed. But one thought remains. Newspapers are like men, when they cease to progress they coramence to retrograde. There is no such thing n this world as standing still. The fact that the esteemed _ippendiz has begun to steal THE CALL'S news and to substitute contributions to relief expeditions for the dearer journalism of getting the news and publishing it first, is proof positive that it has taken to the journaiistic toboggan. When a newspaper relinquishes the honest quest for news, it begins to steal. There is a point in this for the Government. The Treasury Department havicg furnished a ship to relieve the Arctic whalers, if the Appendiz persists in bavinga hand in the expedition, the authorities at Washington should keep an eve to windward. It is but a step from stealing news to ealing shi Qur contemporary’s predatory instincts may ca the Government in this matter to turn up with a missing revenue cutter. the field of first. THE KLONDIKE CRAZE IN THE EAST. DISPATCH from New York states that a steamship lying at one of the docks in that city is a daily center of attrac- tion to large crowds of spectators, and on Sunday the dock visited by upward of 5000 people. There is nothing in the structure or the history of the ship to attract attention or ex- cite interest. She draws the crowds solely because it has been announced that she will start early in December on a voyage for Alaska. Her cargo and her passengers are to go to the Klondike. From this single incident we may infer something of the hold the 1dea of the new gold region has on the minds of the people of the East, and the extent to which their imagnations deal with it. This ship has carried no gold to New York. Neither it nor any of the crew is known to have even seen the coasts of Alaska. It has no past associations with Ei Dorado. It charms the muititnde only through their hopes and dreams of the future. Itis going to the coasts of the land where the Klondike flows, and the eager souls who would like to go with it are gratifying the shadow of that desire by taking a daily look at the wonderful vessel. In all parts of the East scenes not widely dissimilar from this are going on. From all sections of the Union we hear of parties making preparations for an expedition to Alaska as svon as the meltingice opensa way next summer. Itisgoingto bearush greater than that of '49 even, as faci.ities for travel are greater now than then, and the number of men eager for adventure is greater. Out of all this rush :here will come trade for every port along the Pacific Coast. It will be a season’s madness in the East, but it will mean business for ns. When 5000 people go to look at a ship simply because she is to sail for a particular country we may know the minds of men are at fever heat of desire to sail with her. The South African gold craz> was a speculators’ boom. Ouly the rich could hope 1o get wealth from those hard quartz ledges far down in the earth. The Alaskan boom will be a poor man’'s movement. The popular belief is that pick and shovel are all that are needed to dig out and scoop up the gold. There will be misery, disappointment, crime and death in the coming rush, but there is no way to stop it. The migra- tior of men under such excitements flows as resistless as a fload of mighty waters. One might as well attempt to dam the Mississippl. The crowd is coming, and all we can do is to see that it is well outfitted and provided with a'l toat 1s needed for life and comfort in the land to which it is directing its course, — Yellow journalism has scored a notable triumph in print- ing as new a yarn ten years of age. When not engaged in do- ing something like this it is apt to be busy printing the full particulars of events that never happened. With consistency never wavering it follows one of these policies or the other, re- fraining always from simply telling the trath. In this day of injunctions it would seem about time for somebody, in the name of justice, to get out a writ against RELIEF FOR THE ICEBOUND WHALERS. ashington comes a response to the P‘JII for relief- for the sailors of the whaling fleet icebound in the Arctic Ocean. The Bear will be at once prepared for the expzdition, and, as speedily as possible, will make her way to the north, carrving food and supplies sufficient to save the crews from all danger of destitution. THE CALL speaks for all Americans in commending the vigor with which the administration has acted in this emer- gency. The sympathies of all are with the brave men who, in carrying American enterprise into that frozen region, have been overtaken by the swift approach of winter and are threat- ened with a peril whose horrors can hardly be imagined by persons who are not familiar with the terrors of the Arctic avinters. It is gratifying to know that the power of the nation will be used to save these brave men, and that there will be no delay in employing it. From the time when the danger of the whaling fleet was first made known, THE CALL has been active in urging the Govern- ment to send the expedition of relief. It furnished to Secre- tary Long the information on which the Cabinet based its de- termination to dispatch the Bear, and also pointed out the plan by which the necessary supplies could be carried north. Nor did its activities end in words. When the Secretary of the Navy expressed a doubt of the ability of the Govern- ment to provision a relief expedition without an appropriation from Congress for the purpose, THE CALL at once offered to furnish all the supplies required. This offer was intended by THE CALL and was so understood by the Secretary and the President to mean a willingness on the part of THE CALL to provide all the supplies to be taken by whatever ship the Gov= ernment sent to the relief of the unfortunate whalers, The Government was saved from the difficulty in the way of provisioning the relief-ship by the arrival of the revenue cutter Bear at the Sound. The Treasury DLepartment has authority not possessed by the Department of the Navy for the equipment of relief expeditions, and accordingly the sup- plies will be obtained for the expedition in the usual way and the cutter will be sent forward as soon as she can be made ready for the vovage. Although this solution of the difficuity is a fortunate one it does not in any way separate THE CALL from the work it has undertaken for the relief of the unfortunate sailors. Although not called upon to furnish the complete outfit of the expedition THE CALL will nevertheless cordially co-operate with the Gov- ernment in providing the equipment, and will add whatever it can to increase its value and efficiency. It must not be overlooked that the men who are to go for. ward with the Bear, and particularly those who are to carry the supplies to Point Barrow, have been called to the perform- ance of adangerous duty. The difficulties will require a hero’s strength, and the dangers will demand a hero’s courage to overcome them. Such anoble deed as this relief can be done only by noble men. THE CALL recognizes this fact, and while commending the administration for its promptness in authorizing the expedition gives honor to the brave men who will undertake it and by heaven’s grace succeed. CORNSTARCH IN THE FLOUR SACK. SHORT time ago we called attention to a circular said to have been sent out by the so-called Glucose Trust, advis- ing all manufacturers of flour that the trust was pre- pared to furnish at low rates cornstarch which when mixed with flour in certain proportions would add to the commercial value of the flour by improving the color and smoothness. This circu- lar gave rise to considerable protest in all parts of the United States and we are now hearing of it from Europe. Our dispatches of Sunday reviewing the events of the week in Germany siated: “The agrarian press warns the public against purcuasing or using American wheat or flour, claiming that the latter is admittedly grossly adulterated with maize, thus render- ing it inferior in quality and injurious to health.’ This statement is ore of the exaggerations common in the agrarian press of Germany. It represents the hostility of the agrarians to any kind of farm products imported into thag country, and is in accord with attacks that have been pre- viously made upon American fruit and American meat. It is not true that ail American flour is grossly adulterated with maize, nor is it true tbat such adulterations if made would render the flour injurious to health. To that extent the repre- sentations made in this instance are false and should be refuted by our Consuls in Germany. There is, however, some justification for the clamor of the agrarians. A widely disseminated circular sent out Ly a great cornstarch manufacturing company, recommending the mix- ture of corn products with wheat flour, affords a basis for the charge that the adulteration is common in the United States The whole ot our foreign flour trade is thus handicapped by a practice which if not pernicious to health is at least a deception on the public. Wueat and corn combined may make a better flour than wheat alone, but if so the mixture should be sold assuch. in the long run there will be no profit to anybody in an adultera_ tion which, however harmless in itself, tends to diminish the demand and depress the price of American food productsin foreign countries. Daniel Lamont is credited with being a shrewd business man, and such he undoubtedly is. Yet it must be remem- bered that the element of luck has not been absent in his case. To have been asscciated with a man who was able to save from a $50,000 salary a fortune of several millions is far from an ordinary experience. It is not surprising that the relatives of C. P. Huntington should take to the staze. The old gentleman is not 7, bad actor himself. Nothing, for instance, could exceed tke adroitness with which he poses as a iriend of Californians while having his bands in their pockets, and mourning because they have no more pockets. The report from Los Angeles that lynching in the case of a certain colored man is feared is doubtless correct. The man himself has a monopoly of this natural emotion. Other peo- ple are somewhat nervous, too, their apprehension arising from the thought that the man may get away. Poet Miller’s failure to return is giving rise to a fearful sus- picion that he is perched somewhere on an iceberg inditing another letter, despite his promise to reform. However, there is the hope that he may freeze to the berg, and to this hope the sanguine will cling. Yellow journals are priatingin small type and under modest heading the information that capitalists are ready to bid for the Kansas Pacific. It will be recalled that the scheme to do thisis in direct contrav.ntion of orders issued by the yel- lowest in the lot. Announcement that the next proceedings in the Durrant case will take place at an early date will be regarded as en- irely satisfactory if the nature of the proceedings involve necessity for an early inquest. A correspondent writing to correct one of the errors ofa New York journalistic freak premises his remarks by the statement tnat he always supposed that sheet to be edited by men of in- telligence. Why? Some of the sailors arriving at this port either tell the wildest stories ever spun Ly a tar, or some of the captains de- serve to be hanged at the yardarm. Notevery man with a little brief authority can be a Weyler without sooner or later being called down. L The Frenchman who confesses to iwenty murders elther wrests from all competitors the title of “Criminal of the Cen- tury," or he is such aliar as to constitu‘e him a class by bim- seli—in either case, doubtle:s, viewing his achievements with pride. . New York is still suffering from an attack of Klondike Durrant’s attorneys. These gentlemen have carried to an an-| fever, the victims there not having had the chance to apply tue urving extent the noble art of defying the law’s intent. Arctic frost cure, PERSONAL, G. H. Peters, a horseman of Yreks, isat the Grand. R. E. Hyde, a banker of Visalls, Is at the Palace. Dr. W. D. Rodgers of Watsonville is at the Occidental. Ex-State Senator A. F. Jones of Oroville is at the Palace. F. T. Dwyer, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Palace. E J. H. Peters, a Yreka merchant, has a room at the Grand. W. F. Knox, a lumber dealer of Sacramento, is staying at the Grand. 2 J. J. Pratt, a fruit packer of Yuba City, is registered at the Grand. William F. Runyon, a mining man from Courtland, is at the Lick. Charles Lempfert, an English tourist from New Zealand, is at the Russ. W. E. Gerber, a Sacramento banker, s mak- ing a short stay at the Grand. James W. Minturn, an orchardist from Min- turm, is staying at the Palace. J. M. Cremen of Marysville, late postmaster of that place, is at the Grand. J. M. Beck, an insurance man from Chicago, is making a short visit at the Grand. Warden Charles Aull of the State Peniten- tlary at Folsom is a guest at the Grand. John P. Sheridan, a banker of Roseburg, Or., is among the late arrivals at the Lick. D. P. Durst of Wheatland, editor and pro- prietor of the Four Corners, is at the Grand. Louis P. Werdle, a merchant of Virginia, Nev.,isin town. He hasa room at the Grand. J. M. Hixon, a commission merchant of Seattle, Wash., is at the Grand with Mrs, Hixon. . Ex-Judge and Mrs. M. P. O'Connor came up from San Jose last night and are guests at the Palace. V. Shibata, an extensive tea merchant of Najaska, Japan, is registered at the Cosmo- politan. W. R.Spalding of Truckee and of the Truckee Lumber Company arrived here yesterday and 1s at the Lick. Captain D. F. Dewell of New Bedford, Mass., master of a recently returned Arctic whaler, is at the Russ. Jokn M. Mitchell of Salinas, merchant and extensive land-owner, is at the Russ. He ar- rived here yesterday. Dr. 0. L. Elliott, registrar of Stanford Uni- versity and author of several economic trea- tises, is registered at the California. Samuel T. Black, State Superintendent of Pablic Instruction, is in town from Sacra- mento. His headquarters are the Lick. General and Mrs. M. N. Muller of ¥resno ar- rived at the California last night. General Muller is at the head of the Third Brigade, N.G. C. Ex-Judge A. P. Overton of Santa Rosa, chair- man of the board of directors of the State Home for Feeble-minded Children, is staying at the Russ. “Uncle George” Bromley of Oakland, the | venerable Bohemiau, is going down to Hono- Julu. He will depart Thursday on the steam- ship Alameda., Judge E. A. Belcher of the Superior Court is again able to occupy the bench in his depart- ment of the Superior Court, having entirely recovered from his recent indisposition, Count A. Rozanoff arrived here yesterday from Alaska, where he is associated with the Alaska Commercial Company. The Countis staying at the Grand. He has been hore be- fore. M. L. Espinoss, a member of the Olympic Club, who bas been in Salvador for the past year, returned here yesterdav in the steam- | ship City of Sydney, and is a guest at the Oc- cidental. Congressman F. G. Newlands of Nevada, who has been staying at the Palace with James Newlands Jr., will leave to-night for an outing in Nevada. James Newlands Jr. preceded him last night. Clayton Chambers, son of Chief Justice Chambers of Apia, Samoa, one of President McKinley’s appointees, will leave here next Thursday on the steamship Alameds, for Apis, where he will be his father’s secretary. C. W. Green of Kausas City, Mo., traveling passenger agent of the Big Four Route, with lines connecting Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi- cago and St. Louis, arrived here yesterday on & lwo weeks’ visit to the coast. He is at the Palace while in the city. United States District Judge Henry C. Cald- well of Little Rock, Ark., arrived here on the Central overland train last night and is at the Palece. With him are Mzs. H. C. Caldwell and Miss Cornelia Caldwell. Taey are on their way to Honolulu, and will leave here Thaurs- day on the steamship Alameda, The Frawley Company will depart for Hono- lulu the day aiter to-morrow in the steamship Alameda. In the party are: Miss Bat s, Miss McAllister, Miss Johnston, Miss Wrenn, T. Daniel Frawley, I. D. Blakemore, W. Enos, T. Perry, G. Boswortn, Mr. McQuarry, H. Carr, William Lemers, Fraok Worthing, H. C. Clarke, Mrs. E. O. Deming, Miss Alice Dem- ing, Miss Adelside Deming and Miss K. Harrub. Among the arrivals yesterday at the Palace was & Parisian society party on a pleasure tour of the world. In the party are G. de Mevey and his son F. de Mevey, who is in the French army; D. Latapie and A. de la Bergas- siere, a son of General de la Bergassiere of the French ermy and a student who aspires to enter the diplomatic service. They will de- part to-day in the steamship Peru for the Orient. In India they purpose to deyote some time to hunting big gam CALIFORN ANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov.8.—At the St. Cloud, W. A. Doran; Imperial—A. C. Knight, M. L Calen; Hoffman—S. Ackerman, L. N. McQuesten; Jef- ferson, H. F. Adler; New Amsterdam, Dr. W. P. Chalmers; Gilsey, C. H. Holt; Gerlach, Mrs. A. P. Hotaling; Holiand, Mrs, C. M. Johnson; Murray Hill, J. P. Newman: Broadway Cen- tral, S. Wyatt; Albert, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lan- sing. S. Bauman is here buying. Mr. and Mrs. Raiph L. Hawthorn arrived on the Aller from Genoa. | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Samuel Flint of San Francisco, National; Mrs. A. Boomer and A. R. Boomer of Ban Francisco, Coch Commander W. M. Folger of the Petrel is in the city on business betore the Lighthouse Board, and is at the Metropolitan Club. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO.} CHICAGO, Nov. 8.—W. G. Reynolds of San Francisco at the Wellington. M ss Green- leaf of Pasadena is at the Auditoriuwm. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. Dr. Hicks, the Exglish Bishop of Bloemfon- tein, South Africa, is a distinguished scientist, as well us theologian, having carried off hon- | ors and prizes in chemistry, biology, anatomy | and animal physiology in the University of London and at Cambridge, and beiug the au- thor of “‘Standard Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry.” “For my part, said Colonel ;R. G. Ingersoll the man who bas lived acres from his boyhood, who cultivates the fields where in youth he played, and lives where his father lived and died. I can imagine no sweeter way toend one’s iife than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power.” According to Vanity Fair Kaiser William II is tninking seriously of adding to the splendor of his imperial crown by the purchase of 8 monster sapphire. He has always admired the English imperial state crown, which was made in 1838. The gross weight of this is 39 | 0z 5 dwt, troy, aud in the middie of the front is a lerge, partly-drilled sapphire, purchased for the crown by George 1V. Czar Nicholas, before leaving St. Petersburg for Darmstadt, where he is now staying wiih his consort on & visit to his brother-in-law, the Grand Duke of Hesse, gave orders for the draiting of a decree, which he exoresses his intention of signing immediately on his re- turn to Russia, and which provides for the introduction of compulsory education, free of cost, for all classes of the population. —_— Low's horehound cough syrap for cough and colds, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * I THAT AFFAIR OF GLADYS, THE INGENUE. Mr. Frawley was at rehearsal, but he came out obligingly and, ushering me into the tiniest of offices, he said: “I'm not 1n this act, and Mr. Enos will attend to things.” “Mr. Frawley,” I began, “have you read the charges Miss Wallis makes against you?” *Yes,” said Mr. Frawley, pushing his stiff hat back and planting his elbow on the little green-covered table between us. The paper was sent to me to San Jose.” “And do you care 1o say anything in answer?” *‘I can’t fight a woman,” said the manager, shutting his teeth hard—a trick of his; “and 1 can’t getdown into the filth of the affair. See what a position I'm placed in. 1'd rather you'd talk to the firm or to any member of my company about myself. I cant follow Miss Wallis down into the nasty mess she has made. Why, it's horrible! What can a man do when a woman puts him into such & posi- tion? Why, you'd, think Miss Wallis, for her own sake, wouldn't say such a thing as—as that.” *To what do you attribute—" “Colonel Kowalsky,” the manager answered “T CANT FIGHT A WoM promptly. “I mean, to what do you attribute all this trouble?”” “Oh, 1 was going to say that it seems impossible that such shocking charges could emanate from Miss Wallis, ana that I attribute them to Colonel Kowalsky. He made up thatstuff. He edited Miss Wallis’ opinions. “But tne beginning of the whole thing is the fact that Miss Wallis got & good part to play. She was all right till shemade a hitin ‘Pudd’n Head Wilson.” After that there was no stand- ing her. Why, she rode roughshod over the whole company. Mr. Hamilton—you know it is his play, I leased it from him—came tome and said he'd have to quit, because Miss Wallis would insist upon giving him directions. Why, she would obey no rules, observe no direc- tions. Sne was never on time. In Seattle I had to have three overtures played betore letting the curtain go up. Oue nightat Portland she refused altogether to go on.” “Why “Why,” repeated Mr. Frawley gloomily, putting both elbows on the table now and leaning his head upon his hands. “Why? Because she knew she cculd. Because she knew that I could get no one to take her place just then. Because she knew that I'd have to send the audience away if she wouldn’t act. Because she knew the company would have to disband till I could get somebody to fill her roles. “She takes advantage, you see, of her size,” explained Mr. Frawley. “She’slittle, you know, and that makes people think she’s young. And so they bear more from her than if they knew she was—"" “What “Twenty-eight.” And, now, I know that there will be war to the knife. Twenty-eight! Will Gladys Wallis —can Gladys Wallis {—forgiving, as Mr. Frawley's story of the occurrence in the Crane com- pany, shows her to be—can she forgive this? “Tell me, Mr. Frawley,” I said, smiling at the mental picture the words conjured up, “do you come to rehearsals with- your coat collar turned up and your hat pulled down, and are you cross and do you scold?” There wasn't the ghost of & smile on Mr. Frawley’s face. Just now, at any rate, the manager has no sense of humor. He nas only a sense of being wronged and being unable to hit back. Still, he did pretty well. ““Well, Isuppose I am morose,” he said, sim- ply. “My temperament is a nervous one. I have lots of things to make me irritable. I haveto study the dispositions of eighteen peo- ple, who come to rehearsals in the morning, having got out of bed the wrong way. I have to smooth things down and meake things go. And I suppose I am eross.’’ “Particularly so with Miss Wallis?? “My God!” “exclaimed Mr. Frawley, earn- estly. “Why, I think that woman’s insane! She's—she’s irresponsible. She doesn’t know what she’s saying. She never did a thing asked her. If I hadn’t sent her away four other members of my company would have left.” About Miss Bates. “Oh, that was the moost cruel thine. That hurt me worst. That Miss Wallis, not satisfied with putting herselr in such a filthy story, should drag Miss Bates’ name in with her horrible insinuations. That hurt me worst.” *——About Miss Bates’ dress, I was going to say.” *“Oh, weil,” said T. Daniel Frawley, all earnestness. “From time immemorial it has been the custom among theatricel people to allow the leading lady the courtesy of choosing her dress first. Every lady in the company—except Miss Wallis—wou!d consult Miss Bates as to what gown she intended to wear. In ‘The Great Unknown’ Miss Wallis had been in the babit of wearing white. Miss Bates wore pink. One night in Seattle Miss Wallis appeared in pink. “ *Are you going to wear pink? " Miss Bates asked her. ¢ I will if I feel like it "’ Miss Wallis answered. ““Well, I happened to be there and overheard it. So I sent word to Miss Wallis that she should not wear pink. Of course she was very indignant. She had got to think herself the star of the troupe. “When I heard about that Tivoli business—very dishonorable of Miss Wallis, T call it—I knew I was 1n for it. Iwas simply being held up. She knew I couldn’t get any one in a hurry to fill her place, s0 she threatenea to leave. They were for holding her to her contract at £70 & week. But Iknaw she couldn’t be made to work for the best interest of the whole company, to make a perfect ensemble”—Mr. Frawley waved his hand—*so I made up my mind to sabmit as gracefully as possible. The Tivoli offered her $100. I raised it—I knew I had to and that she knew I had to—to §110 a week.” Again Tuoticed that i1tte trick of Mr. Frawley's of talking through his teeth. He spoke with feeling. He had evidently suftered. “‘Miss Wallis speaks of my wanting to monopolize the stage,” he went on. “Why, I rarely act with this company. Iefface myself. When I cast a play I take the part that's left—any- thing to fill in. Ican’t getany one to manage the play justasI wantitdone. Ican’t do jus- tice to the acting and to the managing 100. I wanteveryone to score—I want to work for the whole, for a perfect ensemble, you know. *And you consider yourself a better manacer than an actor?” “Ihaye had to sacrifice my ambition for the sake of the success of the company, for I can’t act and manage t00.” “About the gum?” I suggested. No further hint was needed. Mr. Frawley understood immediately just to whatgum I uding. He didn’t smile, but answered in all seriousness: “Miss Wallis seys I allowed Hope Ross to chew gum in that act. I put astop to that, too. Miss Wallis used to chew gum, and— and” (there was a look of disgust on Mr. Fraw- ley’s serious tace) “I don’t consider it refined ‘business.” Besides, it gotall over the stage, and the ladies and gentlemen got their feet stuck in it. When I sent word to the property- man that there should bs no gum Miss Wallis refused to go on.” ‘Do actors and actresses usually make a stand on such trivial things 2"’ ‘'O, yes,” seid Mr. Frawley, wearily. *‘Act- resses are high strung, nervous people. A role is made up of lots ot little things, and they re- sent any change being made. That's where iUs nard being a manager.” “Are you a happy fami'y, Mr. Frawley 7 I asked. “Do things run smoothly as arule 2’ “There 1sn’t & company in America to-day e said Mr. Frawley, proudly, ‘‘where there is = ! lessof the bickering and quarreling of actors "WE Gov QUR FEET STUCK IN GUIV' lesoftne bick 3 ““Miss Wallis says she has had no trouble with any other compeny.” “‘For the last three weeks of her engagement with John Drew’s company they gave her no part to play. They just kept her out; and the first question any one asked of Drew's manager when they heard that Miss Wallis was in the company was, ‘Had any trouble with winsome Gladys yet?' ‘“‘She can’t go back to a single company in which she has plaved. No manager who has had her will take her again.” *And about the Crane company—Miss Wallis says you were to blame there.” “Well, I don’'t know that I'd better say anything about that.” “Why?” “Well, it was this way. You know if there’s anvthing 1hate, if there’s anything I've tried to keep out of, 1’s the reputation of being a cheap theatrical minstrel-masher.”” Mr. Frawley spoke very earnestly. His gray eyes looked steadily at me, and of course I nodded my head assentingly. “The women in my company like me. They’re good emough to think of me as a pal, as a comrade, as & chum, you understand, We work together and I never was accused”—Mr. Frawley held out his hands appea ingly—"‘I never was accused before of inflicting my atten- tions upon the ladies of any company. +“In the Crane company there was—well, there was one young lady I was rather fond of. I don’t want to mention the lady’s name—" *‘Oh, of course not,” I murmured. “Well, Miss Wallis was in the company, and she kept nagging and saying things to me— calling me a masher, you know; and when I was talking to other ladies on the stags, she’d come up and keep saying these disagreeable things. Idon’t know why, unless perhaps be- cause I didn’t pay any attention to her,” said Mr. Frawley sweetly. *I told her [ was getting tired of it. Iaskea her repeatedly to stop. I begged her. T said: * Miss Wallis, please don’t bring any personal quarrels; don’t bring my personal affairs into the company.’ “But she kept on. She wouldn’t stop. So one day I turned to her and said: “‘You nasty little faggot, will you stop that?’ “Then she slapped my face.”” Mr. Frawley illustrated with a slight blow upon his cheek. *And then?” “And then I turned her over my knee and spanked ner.” Y10 wesR BNk (F B €5EL LIKE oF I~ Ehe'd say the nastlest things, the meanest things. Ye goas and stage-struck maidens. will you Penken to that? There's a piece of discipline or you. Quickly Ilooked up and questioningly. But Mr. Frawley’s {ace was serious, un- changed. The m"“f" sat there, [grave, un- smiling, troubled a bit over this unfortunate effair, but utterly unaware, evidently, of how the thing sonnded. “But after that?” I asked when 1 could get my breath. ““Oh, after that it was all right. The man- agey ihsisied upon Miss Wallis apologizing—" "Miss W—"* es; and then things were al! right again. We played six months together after thatin Crane's company.” “Ygudid—siier that7" - Lhe ‘‘Yes,” sala Mr. Fraw'ey, easily. “She a liked to play in the same oca: came 10 join my company here she said to me: e e hen e turne Sy Frawley, you'll find me a changed girl’ And so she was il her little head got urned. *Is Miss Wallis clever?’’ I asked, thinking of the malicious things the li s Bave said before she was di-elblined, »ie b - brignir" &8 fi1g 1l o oulip)te muist ‘The cieverest, the best little ingenue in America to-day,” said Miss Wallis' enthusiastically, »s ne stepped 10 open. the A00r for me. L Teis ke, ““How aboui Miss Wallis’ case against you?” I asked, ns we separated. e has no case. It is 10 come np to-morrow, I understand. It'll be couldn’t keep her and keep_my company together. She had to go. She's really lrresponsible. To say such things—my God! Why, me about tue thing. Justimagine how she must leel! Why, it’ Ican’t fight a woman.” No, of course he can’t. Bui he can spank one, There is—there must be some camfort for Mr, Frawley in that. MIRIAN MICHBLSON. Her little head's turned. my mother has telegraphed Wwiull And what can Ido? dismissed. Why, I ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GABRIEL GrepLEy—J. L. H., City. Gaoriel, the daughter of the late Horace Greeley, dlt‘{ notmarry. She was fora time in a Catholic convent, where she studied. MaP OF ALASKA—C. R., Lodi, Cal. The best map of the Territory of Alaska and Klondike district is one that was prepared for the San. Francisco CALL by Professor George Davidson and published in that journal some time ago. CRIBBAGE—S., City. 1f in playing the game of crivbbage the cards are played in the foliow. ing order: Aleads2, Baking, B3, A3, B2, AB5and B 4, Bis entitled 10 a run of 4. The fact that one 3 wus played after the other does not cut any figure in the connt, The scquence commenced with the second 3. GreaTER NEW YORK—T. C., City. Greater New York embraces New York City, Brooklyn, Richmond County, Flushing, Port Hempsted, Jumaica, Long Isiand City, Newton, ;Y:f;:',f,“ , Enst Chester, West Chester and Pelbam. Y s ;nm.«q.mm miles is 339.75 and the population 1n cxcess ot 3,100,000. By the cons Dos of 1892 the population of the places hamed was 2,955,422, The number of police in the city 0f New York was ou the last day of last Jnne 4958 To THE KLONDIKE—W. F. C., Santa Rosa, Cal. The numerous questions asked in relation to the Klondike, with the request to*‘explain in full,” cannot be answered in this department for want of space. An examination o; ::e 1 ) since the discovery of the {s‘nfife‘lli}\’fi}u‘ K.ondike will give a full explana- tion of all the matters asked about. As 10 cost of transportation, thut information si:ould be obtained from those who carry freight and passengers and have agents at points of des- unation. i IN Gop WE TrRUst—N. P., Oakland. The motto, “In God We Trust,” is taken from our national hymn, *The Star-spangled Banner. In 1862 the propriety of recognizing the sovereignty of God and our trust in him inthe coins of the United Btates was Sug- gested to James Pollock, then director of the mint. Inoneof his reports he said of the motto quoted: “The sentiment is familiar Cvery citizen of our countrs; it has thrill the hearts and fallen in song from the lips milii of American freemen. The time is propitious; ’tis an hour of national peril and danger—an hour wheu a man’s strength is weakness, when our strength and salvation must be of God. Let us reverently acknowl- edge his sove y. and let our coinage de- clare our trust in God.” In the following year, on Aprill 22, 1864, a 2-cent piece, bronze, was authorized by Congress, and on this was first stamped the motto, “in God We Trust.” Ou the 3d of March, 1865, the directorof ihe mint was authorized to place the motto on ail the gold and siver coin of the United States susceptible of such addition. NEW JOURNALISM. Sixty-nine pages of rubbish, Twenty-two pages of ror, Forty-six pages of scandal vile, Served Lo us piping hot. Seventeen hundred pictures— Death, disease and despair— Lics and fakes and 1.kes and lies Biuck in 'mos. everywhere. Thirty-four sad comic pages, Prited in 1eds. greens and blues: Thousands of items we don’t care to read, But only tw ws. M1TH, in Life. FLASHiES OF FUN. “Walsh came down town with his overcoat pockets full of potaioes and turnips.” “How did that happen?” “Well their flat is so small that his wife hasn’t any other place to keep vegetables and she had forgotten to take them out.” —Detroit Free Press. wonder why it is that foreign women never come 1o America for husbands?’? “They are probably afraid. American 'girls give our men such bad recommendations by marrying foreigners.”—North American, A newspaper paragraph says that in Dublin there is & collie dog which plays football with greatintelligence. But then, being a dog, of course he doesn’t know any better than to play it that way.—Boston Transcript. Mr. Mushly—How young-looking Mrs. De- winks is. Miss Oletimer (abstractedly)—Yes; she doesn’t look & day older than she did twenty vears ago—(suddenly)—so mamma tells me.— Judge. Young Lady (tailor made)—Take my seat, Please. 0id Lady (near sighted, but grateful)— Thauk you, sir. You are the only gentleman in the tram.—Tit-Bits. Miss Margaret Hoggley (of Chicago, to her sister in a London drawing-room, harshly)— See here, Mabel; sisteriy love is sisterly love, but if you aldress me as Mag again in the presence of Lord Loveus I'll cut loose when we get home to our rooms at the hotel. —Judge. A SEASONABLE SONG. De mockin'bird done hide bis head— Col’ time in de country, Col’ time fu de town: Ketch dat cane juice drappin’ sweet, And shake dem 'simmons down! De spry gray squerrel 100k alive— He Know dem hunters well De bee done house up in de hi’ Lecked in de honey cell, Col’ time in de country, Col’ time in de town; Roas’ dem :aters, Mandy Jane, En cook dat 'possum brown. —Atianta Constliution, —_— NATIONAL PROGRESS. Indianapolis Journal. The man who snould have predicted, twenty years ago, that the United States would hold the place of supremacy in the iron trade would have been regarded as something of lunatic. To-day the organ of the British iron interest acknowledges that this country as good as occupies the position now. ERVERSITY. Globe-Democrat. Montane’s totat output of gold, silver, cope per and lead during 1896 was valued at $50,- 782,099, or over $1000 forevery voter. Yet that State voted tor a 50-cent doilar in order to be prosperous. INEXPLICAELE CALIFORNIA glace iruits,50¢ 1b., Townsend's.* EPECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Eureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— THE CONVEN ENT INDEX Oakland Inqutrer. THE CALL has adopted the plan, which is not a bad one by any means, of printing on its first poge in black-faced type s condensed index oi the contents of the paper. or the news of the day. 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