The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1897, Page 6

'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL , THURSDAY, DECEMRER 30, 189 THURSDAY..... DECEMBER 30, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.... Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .......... 27 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mcil $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ...... 908 Broadway Enstern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE........Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, C Riggs House respondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, cornper Clay: opep until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:20 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street: open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. 1a California- At Gay Coney Island.” “An Interuational Mateh.” Alcasar— The Girl T Left Behind Me.” Morosco's Tncle Tom's Cabin.” other Goose." Vaudeville. Boston Ladies' Military Band.’ Cosmopolitan Orchestra Oberon Bush—The Thalla German-Hebrew Opera Company, Saturday snd Sunday nights. Ingleside Track—Races to-day. mpia—Star] Vienna Orchestra. AUCTION SALES. day, December 30, Purniture, street, at 11 o'clock. Friday, December 81, Horses, at Twelfth t 11 o'cloci. * INDULGING IN LUXURIES. JHEN one man calls another a liar and pays \V for the privilege $274 40, a question arises as as to whether the luxury is worth the price. But the present is an era of extravagance. Possibly President McMullen of the bridge company felt am- ply repaid as he drew his check for the amount men- tioned by the court. For is it not of record that Capitalist Bradbury paid $5 for the privilege of copious expectoration and was not aiterward heard ? Men of expensive tastes and the means to gratify them are led to various indulgences. Howard Gould gives a banquet before the splendor of which the feasts of ancient Persia pale; Hunting- ton buys a Legislature; Russell Sage enwraps him- self in a §9 coat; Bradbury spits on a car floor, and McMullen rises in the Federal court to call a man a liar. amples be led to extremes. to complat The good old habit of terming a man a liar may prevail to a certain ex- tent, and if the allegation be true, be commendable, yet not at the price mentioned. There is in it a sat- faction amounting to joy, but at the figure set by dignified authority it is beyond the rcach of the worthy poor. DOCTOR JAMES 1. STANTON. loses an official and San Francisco a citizen of the highest rank in public esteem. He was one of the Native Sons of whom the State was justly proud, and whose influence both in public and in private life was in every way beneficial to the people whom he served and the society in which he lived. In the nature of things Dr. Stanton will be chiefly remembered for the acts of his official life, and yet the thousand deeds of kindliness and helpfulness done by him in behalf of persons of all classes and conditions, though unknown to the world at large, will endear his memory for years to come among all who were fortunate enough to know him. He was by character the ideal physician. He fol- lowed his profession not as a lucrative trade, but as a means of benefiting his fellow men and saving them, as far as possible, from the pains and pangs of disease. His ministration$ were not confined to those who could pay him money for his service. All that his skill, his energy and his care could do to cure and save were given as freely to the poor as to the rich, and in many an humble-home his death will be mourned as a personal loss. The genuine qualities of a true manhood which made him so honored in private life were conspicu- ously shown in his official career. He was a type of the class of men who do not seek office, but are called to it by’ the popular voice, and who fulfill with eminent ability and integrity the duties imposed upon them. These characteristics were strikingly shown in the office of Railroad Commissioner, which lie held when he died, and his death occurring at this time when so much remains to be done by the com- mission renders it in the fullest sense a loss to the entire commonwealth. THE VOTE FOR FREEHOLDERS. HERE were cast at the recent freeholders T election 26,163 votes, or 35 per cent of the total registered vote of the city. The average vote received by the successful candidates was 13,215, or about 17 per cent of the total vote of the city. The officials who represent 17 per cent of the -vote are about to make a charter for the other 83 per cent who have either taken no part in the proceed- ings or have opposed the propositions of the charter committee. It will be seen, therefore, that great wisdom will be necessary in framing the" instrument as to which thus far there has been antagonism or indifference on the part of such a large majority. Of the vote cast on. Monday, of 26,163, the majority 1s 13,082. The average vote of the successful can- didates being 13,215, it is just 133 votes only in ‘ex- cess of a majority, which is a rather narrow margin. ——— P Y the death of Dr. James 1. Stanton, California One objection raised to the order forbidding fur- ther burials in the old City Cemetery is that it will result in leaving a number of municipal employes on the roll with nothing to do but draw their salaries. In the history of local government a condition pre- cisely similar has often been known to exist, and yet the plan of reform has been not to find these officials something to do for the sole purpose of let- ting the salaries continue, but to cut off their pay as speedily as possible. Tt is to be fervently hoped that the row between Judges Campbell and Low may soon end. There is already confusion enough as to the interpretation of the statutes without having these two jurists at outs, and adding to the suspicion that a law clearly saying one thing was really intended, generally, to say another, ¢ December 3, Japanese Art Goods, | 80 M. But the average citizen will not by these ex- | EUROPE’S GUILT AND OURS. ENATOR CULLOM and others are quoted S as saying that events on the Chinese coast are making votes for the annexation of Ha- waii. Why should that be the effect of land grabbing in Asia? If an honest man see a thief rob somebody, does that make it necessary ior him to go and do likewise? We all profess aversion to the policy now be- ing exploited in the East by four European powers. Japan revealed the defenseless condition of China, the lack of martial spirit among her people and ‘the weakness of the government in external admin- istration. This information is being taken advant- age of by Europe to push a policy of territorial ag- grandizement. China has had no wars greater than the Black Flag rebellion for many gencrations. Her people are not trained in the art of offense and de- fense. The country has not even roads. Horses are little used. The population is congested along the rivers, which furnish the most primitive means of | transportation and intercourse. It is evident that Europe has only to agree where to cut and carve and the vivisection will take place. But viewed from the standpoint of traditional Am- erican policy the whole proceeding is an outrage. The world has been preached to for nearly twenty centuries about the blessings of peace, and of the time when nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But it has come to pass that a people who have ceased to learn war until its dark spirit had fled from them are to be overrun by the sword because they can- not defend themselves. And we have lost our right of protest. The amiable character oY the Hawaiians, their indisposition to fight, the ease with which Dole stole their government under the guns of our war ship, have all been quoted as good reasons why we should rob them of their sovereignty and autonomy. | With this proposition pending in our Congress, the nations which rob the defenseless in th: uttermost parts of the earth laugh at our petty larceny hy- pocrisy. An* American should love his country and serve the republic by maintaining its honor as stainless as a star. Our honor is tarnished by the Hawaiian | job and our moral power is departed from us, if that job be accomplished. What thoughtful American desires to see his coun- try shine in such company as now prowls around | the Chinese coast, fearful only that some one may get an undue share of the helpless victim which cowers and trembles before them? The guilt of that dark crime which is in process on the other side of the Pacific is at our door. | There is every reason for believing that the fleets of Europe would never have assembled in those seas, with no casus belli against China, to divide her with | the sword, had we not proposed a meaner larceny in Hawaii. The moral obliquity of those who argue that the joint crime of Europe makes imperative a similar crime on our part is something astounding. If we are right in seizing Hawaii because its people are | weak, and as the marvelous Morgan i ts, because “it is not our policy to consult the natives of a country we want to annex,” then Russia, Germany, England and France are right in seizing the country from the Isthmus of Kraw to the Korean Peninsula. That expression of the Senator is an exact state- ment of the policy now in operation at St. Peters- burg, Berlin, Versailles and London. The Call when it was first uttered characterized it as breath- ing the spirit of tyranny and oppression, and its ready adoption by the war lords of Europe justifies our view of it THE FREEDOM OF, THE PRESS. ONCE more the Supreme Court has interfered to protect the press of the State from the ill- advised action of some judge of a lower court, | and in doing so has given another guarantee of that | freedom which is essential to journalism in the per- formance of the double duty of publishing the news and guarding the rights of the people. The facts involved in the case under consideration are interesting. A divorce case was being tried in Sacramento behind closed doors, and the Sacra- mento Bee published what purported to be a part of the evidence. The attention of the judge of the court having been called to the publication he an- nounced in open court that the account given was a false statement. The Bee defended the report it had made and severely denounced the judge for his asser- tions, whereupon the judge braught the editor be- fore.him and adjudged him guilty of contempt with- out 2 hearing. An appeal was taken tc the Supreme Court, and the decision just given fully sustains the Bee in all particulars. The court declares: “The publication of the truth as to legal proceedings is not a contempt of court; and the criticism of the action of the judge if made cnly in propersresponse to an unjust charge against petitioner’s veracity, and without intent to improp- erly influence the proceedings of the court, would not be ccntemptuous. * * * A judge on the bench, no more than any other, can cast aspersions on the character of a person not a party or partici- pant in a case on trial without a right in the latter to defend himself. Petitioner might have been able to establish his defense, but he was not permitted' to make the effort. * * * Tt is a transgression of a fundamental right guaranteed to every citizen charged with an offense, or whose property is songht to be taken, of being heard before he is condemned to suffer injury.” The decision is one on which the people as well as the press of the Stats may be congratulated. The dignity of our courts and the respect in which they | are held will lose nothing by the maintenance un- diminished of the right of public criticism of the ac- tions of those who preside in them. The Bee has made a good fight for a principle in which much was_at stake, and by its victory has rendered an im- portant service to the profession of journalism and the cause of iree speech. i e e Nicaragua is, perhaps, not to be bfamed for want- ing to play the bully toward Costa Rica. Appar- ently the only nations not setting her the example are those unable to find a people weaker than them- selves. Science may ascribe this to the influence of sun spots, but human depravity is always too glad to find an excuse, which, in this instance, is not a good one. P e DT i The fact seems evident that sooner or later Japan must fight some more. It emerged from its affair with China afflicted with that Monte Cristo feeling which took the form of the exclamation: “The world is mine.” Now, the world is not Japan’s, and some portion of it will have to rise up and explain to the Mikado wherein he errs. The fellow who tried to kill himself because he could not give his sweetheart a Christmas present was evidently determined to do something for her benefit, even if he could afford nothing more than a cheap dose of poison. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. T is significant of the earnest interest taken by all [ American communities in their public schoels that while justly proud of the system as it pre- vails, there is everywhere an incessant criticism directed at its imperfections and a persistent effort to remove them. Addresses made at teachers’ conventions and at all meetings of educators mingle praise and blame in about equal proportions. The praise, however, is frequently conventional and perfunctory, while the points of defect are pointed out with terseness and | vigor. It seems as if our teachers have adopted the creed that nothing is done so long as anything re- mains to be done, and that not content with exist- ing good they demand perfection. One result of this critical spirit on the part of our teachers is the belief in each community that some other has a better school system. A few weeks ago the Boston Journal reported a speaker at Faneuil Hall as ‘having said: “Education should be made thoroughly modern. From what observation I have been able to give to the public schools of Boston and | the vicinity they seem to be lacking in certain re- spects now common in communities further West.” Against this compliment to us it would be easy to quote the saying of Western teachers that our schools are lacking in many good things that are common in the East. That the critical spirit so prevalent in educational circles in all parts of the Union is on the whole ben- eficial to the cause of public instruction is beyond question. Without it we should have made no ad- vance in the past nor make any in the future. Like all good things, however, it becomes injurious when carried to excess. It is an excellent thing for a man to have a wholesome self-contentedness with his work and with the standard of accomplishment re- quired of his profession in the community where he lives. Too much criticism leads to too much change, and change is sometimes bad simply because it is a change. In the addresses delivered at the teachers’ conven- tion now in session in this city there is abundant evidence of the critical faculty. Fortunately a good deal of it is directed at criticism itseli. Some of the leading speakers have pointed out that the faddists and others who wish for change in the course of study or discipline are not always good guides to fol- low. As a matter of fact, it is the teacher rather than the method that makes the school, and withsuchcom- petent men and women to educate our youth as are now engaged in the task, we could well afford tp have a convention of jubilation once in a while and remind ourselves that the East is in many respects behind us in school work as well as in climate. BEWARE OF CENTRALIZATION. S . F the fifteen gentlemen chosen on Monday to l frame a new charter shall unfortunately assume that their election is an indorsement of centraliza- tion in the municipal government, they will make a serious mistake. About, one-third of the voters went to the polls on Monday. Of these a bare ma- jority concurred in the selection of the charter con- vention nominees. Had not factional quarrels | among the leaders of the party organizations been among the “issues” of the contest, it is doubtful whether more than one or two of the successful can- didates would have been elected. It is a well known fact that the Republican and Democratic “outs” combined against the fusion ticket on the theory that the charter convention nominees were impliedly pledged to a “new deal”; and this to a large extent explains the result. Tre workingmen did not vote. Monday was not a legal holiday and none of them could take the slightest interest in the election without losing a pay. The polls opened at 7:30 a. m.,, after the ngmen had gone to their toil, and closed at | 5 p. m., before they had returned. The result of the clect’on, therefore, is in no sense an index of the sentiment of the bone and sinew of the town upon charter questions. Nor is it likely that centraliza- tion has been indorsed by a majority of those who voted for the charter convention nominees. The latter expressly disavowed pledges before the elec- tion. Some of them openly stated that they would | not agree to an autocratic Mayor, and in the behalf of all it was published that they had been left free to follow their inclinations except with respect to “homg government, economical rule and civil service reform.” We argue thus because the Mission street boodler, which affects to be the newspaper organ of the suc- cessful candidates, already announces that the elec- tion was not only an indorsement of the centraliza- tion principle, but that it was a distinct approval of the course of Mayor Phelan in ousting the old Board of Supervisors in violation of law. The purpose of this allegation is to mislead the Freeholders elect. It.can have no other purpose, for the claim that Monday's election was anything more than a doubt- ful expression of opinion by one-sixth of the voting population is clearly unfounded. It will be unfortun- | ate if the charter-makers are hurried by any such | “claims” into making an organic law which shall | introduce fads, experiments or antagonisms into the general election next year. The Call, in common with most persons who de- sire to see San Francisco prosper and grow beautiful, is anxious for a new charter. It supported the fu- sion candidates at the late election because it thought they were, owing to the comservative influences which had put them forward, better qualified to frame a successful organic law than the charter con- | vention nominees, who were supported by a Demo- cratic faction and a notorious boodle newspaper. We know, however, of no reason why the charter convention Freeholders cannot frame a good char- ter on conservative lines. They are certainly quali- fied so far as ability and character are concerned. But we will never get a charter if the instrament is to be framed on the principle of centralization or s0 as to confer on a single official the power to oust | Supervisors and other legally elected officials at will. The moment an organic law containing an autocratic Mayor is presented to the people it will be antagonized on every hand. Thousands who did not go to the polls on Monday will arise to wipe it out of existence. The people of San Francisco are hostile to political bosses and they never will con- sent to the creation by law of a boss with the politi- cal power proposed to be conferred upon the Mayor by the charter of the Citizens’ Committee. This may be set down this early as certai S —————— There is an-excellent scheme afoot to discourage the form of vice known as the insanity plea. If the truth could be recognized and acted upon, this plea would be less received in ninety-nine cases out of a bundred as a declaration of guilt, and a defiance of the courts to do anything about it. Young Edison’s claim to have photographed thought may safely be set down as ridiculous, but a pen picture of the elder Edison’s thoughts when he read about it would be worth inspection, \ | are few MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. On many occasions, and in divers for- eign papers, very complimentary notices have from time to time appeared giving accounts of the successes of our fair townswoman, Miss Michelson, and what is more to the purpose, telling of the ad- vantageous engagements she has made in various capitals. Flattering notices alone do not go for much as they are constantly bought and pa!d for, especi- ally in the Paris papers, and no one at- taches any value to them. But an en- gagement is quite another thing. The New York Times says: ‘“An American girl known on the stage as Fannie Fran- cisca has made a genuine success in Mi- lan. Her real name is Michelson, and she comes from San Francisco. She has followed the example of Meiva and Al- bani in forming her stage name. I have seen a ream of criticisms of this girl from French and Itallan papers; and they all praise her Marguerite, in most extravagant terms. She is singing at present, or will sing very soon, at the Teatro Lyrico In Milan. Among the papers left by Antonio Ru- binstein, a notebook was found in which four trumpets, three trombones, two bass tubas, one pair of kettle drums, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, glocken- splel, one low bell, two harps, the usual strings and an organ. In the Boston orchestra there were all the instruments Strauss demanded. Mr. Pauer had dili- gently and intelligently studied the music and there had been endless re- hearsals. In 1900 the Seventh Regiment of New York will go to the Paris Exposition 600 men strong. For this occasion the band will be increased to seventy-five men, with forty drummers, making a total of 115 men. They have many fine bands on the other side, but the band that will ac- company the regiment will be one that will open the eyes of our forelgn breth- ren. The well known piano manufacturer of Vienna, Ludwig Bosendorfer, has “in grateful recollection of Hans von Bulow, who opened my concert hall twenty-five years ago,”” offered the sum of 4000 crowns, divided into three prizes, for new plano concertos, with orchestra. Com- MISS MICHELSON, WHOSE STAGE NAME IS FANNIE FRANCISCA. he had entered his ideas from day to day. Many of them have been quoted | 80 often that they have become like old saws, but here are a few, translated from the Russian, which are quite new; “The truth, In art as in life, is not al- ways to be told. A lie is sometimes nec- essary.” ‘“Pretty women do not know how to grow old, and artists do not know when it is time to retire; they are both wrong.” “I consider Brahms as the continuation of Schumann; I have tried to be the same to Schubert and Chopin. Between us, I believe we com- ‘prise the third epoch of the musical art.” “There are some thinkers who come into the world too soon, others too late. The | first are martyrs—the second useless. The difficulty is to arrive just at the right time, and those privileged persons in number.” “Death some- times comes so suddenly that I am con- stantly haunted by this thought. In an instant thou wilt be no more!” Ts it not this fear which explains my exagger- ated application to work? I alse would leave something to posterity.” *“If one asks my opinfon, I give it without re- serve even if jt is disagreeable to hear; but If 1t is not asked for, I very willingly hold my tongue.” ‘“Talent, even genius, without application, does not go far. Without talent, but with application, it is quite the contrary. That is why gen- ius so often comes to nothing while sim- ple workers succeed in becoming valua- ble.” “The public is not always a hydra with a hundred heads. It is often a most excellent many-headed being. I have arrived at this conclusion in going to the theater. In nearly all the splendid edifices which have lately been raised in large cities, a part only of the public see the stage and can follow the action, an- | other part only see half, and the third part see nothing. And notwithstanding, all pay the same price for their places and nobody protests.” (This must have been written before the high hat era.) “Shall we ever arrive at the time when dramatic and lyric artists will -play roles corresponding, not only to the char- acter of their talent but also to the na- ture of their physique? I remember having assisted at a representation of “Iphigenia in Taurls’ by Gluck, where the role of Iphigenia was taken by a celebrated singer who had passed the forties and whose embonpoint was truly excessive, while a svelte young girl of twenty Incarnated the character of Cly- temnestra. And this esthetic contra- diction is constantly seen on the stage. How many big soprani at the side of small tenors!” Richard Strauss’ much talked of sym- phonic poem, ““Thus spake Zarathustra,” ~| was performed Iin New York last week and evoked much, and varfed, criticism. To stimulate the imagination of the com- mon-place listener an exhaustive and analytical programme describes the Sen- sations and emotions which the music is intended to inspire. But even with this assistance the impressions are likely to be confused and obscure. A New York paper says: In conception and in exe- cution the symphonic poem is huge— almost stupendous. It i{s Intended to convey the enduring human aspiration toward a receding ideal, the incessant strivings and longings and dissatisfac- tion of the sons of men and the varfed and empty rewards of their quest. It is Intended as a kind of epic of the restless- ness of certain minds in these last years of the nineteenth century. There is no doubt Strauss has tried to force and overpass the limits of music in “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” Music cannot rea- son; It cannot reflect mental states. There are times when the listener is ready to call the symphony a “shilling shocker.” There are other moments, though much fewer, when he is equally ready to use the word sublime. It tests the capacity of the modern orchestra to its utmost limits. A mere list of {nstru- ments required is impressive—one piccolo flute, three flutes, three oboes, one Eng- lish harn, one E-flat clarionet, two ordi- nary clarionets, one bass clarionet, three bassoons, one double bassoon, six horns, | bronchitis; price 10c. 417 Sansome | petitors may be of any natfonallty, and | the works wiil remain the property of | the composers. | _ At Salnt Petersburg a monument in honor of the great composer, Tchalk- | owsky, has just been raised in the ceme- | teryof that city, where he dled four years ago. A beautiful bust from the hand of the sculptor, Kamensky, makes part of the monument. | A very Interesting publication Is an- nounced from Berlin. J. S. Bach, who | was in the service of the Prince of An- | halt-Koethen from 1717 to 1723, composed, | it appears, several melodies for a ring of bells which that Prince possessed. These melodies have only just been discovered | and are going to be published. | _'The latest news is that M. Theodore Loewe, director of the theater at Bres- | 1au, has been appointed to the direction of the theaters of Hamburg and Alton to succeed M. Pollini, whose death was re- cently announced. The most fmportant part of the cele- brated collection of musicians’ auto- graphs’at Vienna has fust been sold in one lot to Dr. Prieger of Berlin; these are the autographs of Beethoven and Haydn. The price, which should be very considerable, has not been published. At Munich, for the centenary of Pa- ganini, M. Cesar Thomas gave a grand concert, which, as usual, met with great | success. The new version of Offenbach’s “Grand Duchess'* was produced last week at the Savoy, London. Emma Juch was heard for the first time this season in the Guilmant recital in Mendelssohn Hall. e IN LOVE WITH ALL. I'm mighty fond o' summer, an’ spring’'n o; i8 & hufamer, but I like the win- er to0; Chilly winds a-sweepin’ icy leaves that fall, Sowin' time or reapin’—jest in love with alit Spring an’ summer find me lng'rin' mighty sorter An’ avtumn late, Waitin' fer the kisses o the sweetheart at the gate: the winter whistles, I hear the fia- An £ mised i In the o' I'm mixed up in the music, an’ I" - 10 her around! B Thing that makes me haj h e Ppy—mighty happy! Is fest ter know I'm lvin', an' the world's a-rollin’_right; g . the summer's better than the winter's drivin’ But both air life, an’ livin' In this world's n’ sleet, uncommon sweet! ~—Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald, ———— ~FLASHES OF FUN. “T want ter know,” sald an old-time darky to his employer, “what yu gwine give me for Chris'mus? ““Well, Jim,” replied the employer, “I'1] either vaccinate you or give you a bi- cycle.” “Look hea, man!” sald the darky, “T gwine to let you alone fum dis on. T doan want no waxination, en I knows durn well you ain't gwine give me no bicyele. Go ’long.”—Atlanta Constitution, Boston Lady (at the seance)—Is that my son Chesterfleld? Spirit Form—TIt be. Boston ly (with a shriek)—Oh, Ches- terfield! lgl‘fln't I tell you before yeos“ died not to associate with any but Bos- ton spirits? Where did you ever pick up such grammar as that?—Boston Traveler, ‘Voter—No, sir. I couldn't conscien- tiously vote to put you in an office which is itself an emblem of what you profess to be warring against. Candidate—What do you mean? dv'n‘t:nt—h‘.vthy. haven't ygn all along de- a; You would have no do with trusts? g Ao Candidate—Most assuredly. Voter—And yet, in your speech Just now you vehemently declared that public office is a public trust.—Boston Courler., ———— Low's Horehound Cough cures st, e PERSONAL. Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare is at the Grand. F. C. Lusk, a lawyer of Chico, is at the Palace. Ex-Judge C. Clarke of Siskiyou is at the Russ. Dr. D. W. Edelman of Los Angeles is at the Palace. > Deputy Sheriff J. J. Wight of Fresno is at the Grand. 3. Jerome Smith, a hardware dealer of Stockton, is at the Lick, James W. Rea, the San Jose politiclan, is a late arrival at the Baldwin. State Senator J. M. Gleaves of Red- ding is registered at the Grand. J. F. Stuart, a cattle-raiser, of Crows Landing, is registered at the Russ. Captain J. Hodson has been given the command of the schooner Maweena. ; hn McGonigle, a newspaper man o Vg:l:m, s making a brief stay at the Grand. Santa . C. Clark, an educator from Cr?m.cls imong the late arrivals at the Grand. i ¢ Stan- Herbert C. Nash, librarian ol ford University, is staying at the Cali- fornia. . C. Bulmore, a mining man of New Alc:naden, is at the Lick, accompanied by Mrs. Bulmore. Professor George Krichn of the de- partment of history in Stanford is a est at the Palace. g“PX'Ofa!SOr Natban Abbott, head of the law department of Stanford University, is at the Occidental. J. R. Hebbron, cattleman and late member of the State Board of Equaliza~ tion, is at the Grand. J. F. Burch, a Southern Pacific Rail- road man trom Concord, Contra Costa county, is at the Lick. Robert M. Clarke of Carson City, la/ / Attorney-General of the State of Neg vada, {s at the Grand. W. A. Brewer, a teacher in St. Mu thew's School, San Mateo, is making a short stay at the Occldental. W. H. Chestnutwood, a merchant of Stockton, accompanied by his wife, ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. F. S. Wensinger, a dairyman of Free- stone, accompanied by Mrs. Wensinger, is registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Carolan and W. S. Pullman came up from Burlingame yes- terday and are guests at the Palace. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare is at the Pal- ace. He is the Southern Pacific Raflroad physician and surgeon for his district. Professor Edward Howard Griggs of the department of ethics in Stanford University is at the Grand on a four days' visit. Manager John C. Kirkpatrick of the Palace Hotel returned last night from the East after an absence of three weeks on business. Professor Edwin Diller Starbuck, head of the department of education in Stan- ford, is {ll at the Grand. Dr. N. Rogers 1s attending him. R. P. Hammond, late Surveyor-Gener- al, and formerly of the.local real estate firm of Baldwin & Hammond, ‘has re- turned to this city and is at the Grand. E. R. Zion, who was a student at Berkeley for two years and subsequently a student in Stanford for over six years, is a guest at the Palace. He is a teacher in the San Joaquin valley. B. Van Etten, general superintendent of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, will arrive here this morning from the south in his private car. He will spend several days here. John Marshall Jr., one of the leading insurance adjusters of the United Btates, formerly of this city, but now of Chi- cago, arrived on last night's overland or a visit to his parents, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Marshall is the daughte of Mayor McMurray of Denver. First Officer Zeeder of the steamship China, upon arriving in port a few days since, was made captaln of the trans-Pacific steamship Aztec. Manager Schwerin of the Pacific Mail says that the China’s second officer will now be acting first officer, but that no other pro- motions have yet been made. ———— UNIFORM NATURALIZATION LAWS. This year it {8 proposed to make an earnest effort to secure the considera- tion by Congress of legislation to intro- duce uniformity in the naturalization of foreign-born citizens. 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