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SATURDAY. i ; JOHN D. SPRECKELS; Proprietor. to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 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 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway Eastern Represcntative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. - Room 188, World Building Address All Communications ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 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 untll 9o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 -o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open untll9 o'clock, 1505 PolK street: open until 9:30 o'clock. NW: corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. — AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—*“The Jucklings. At Gay Coney Island.” An Interuational Match.” Alcazar—"The Girl T Left Behind Me.” Morosco’s—"Uncle Tom’s Cabin.™ Tivoli—Mother Goose.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Boston Ladies' Military Band. nopolitan Orchestra. lia German-Heorew Opera Company, Saturday dces to-day. Vienna Orchestra. AUCTION SALES. REASON FOR GRATITUDE. HE public doubtless feels duly grateful for the Tcnterprise of yellow journalism in ‘publishing a picture of the tooth brush and the hair brush for which a condemned murderer is not much longer to_have need. There has been in the community panting unrest, not for a sight of these articles them- selves, for human ambition has limits. To have the privilege of seeing the actual brushes would be too much to hope, and in the absence of this possibility what so soothing as their artistic portrayal? After all, the - brushes have much the aspect of other brushes, but think of the association! The ordinary brush, smoothing the locks of the uncondemned or imparting to his incisors a pleasing luster, has no power to enthrall. And only for the thoughtiul and painstaking idiocy ofyellow journalism this genera- tion would have passed away not knowing what sort of brushes the prisoner used! Nay, not even know- ing him to be addicted to any, but, misled and un- enlightened, borne to its several graves an idea that he employed his hair mostly to tear and his teeth to gnash. a THE PROé_PéCTS OF THE YEAR. 5! nations of Eutope and Asia. Here we need exercise cnly the most ordinary prudence and industry to achieve prosperity, but in the Old World there will be required the utmost care and watchfulness to avoid widespiead war and almost universal disaster. Fortunately the outlook in even the most menaced portions of the world abroad is not so bad as to weaken the sanguine hopefulness with which we can go forward to the work that awaits us. The power RIGHT and full of promise are all the pros- pects of the new year for America, but gloomy known as the “concert oi Europe” understands too | well the dangers of war to permit any single nation to lightly disturb the existing peace. ~More than once in recent years complications as serious™ as those which n fill the nations with fore- bodings of immediate war have been solved by the concert and peace maintained, and an equally good result may be expected in the scttlement of the con- flicting claims of the Orient. Even if war breaks out it will not prove directly injurious to us. Our industries are largely indepen- dent of European or Asiatic conditions. The articles we export to those lands are mainly of prime neces- sity and will be needed by their consumers in times of war not less than in times of peace. Both our in- C dustries and our commerce, therefore, are as safe as human affairs can be, and the outlook of the year is full of promise for them, notwithstanding the menac- ing situation elsewhere. The revival of industry following the enactment of the protective tariff has been the most salient fea- ture of the past year in the United States, and as tariff issues are now out of politics confidence has re- turned to the people and new enterprises are under way in every section of the Union. All that is lack- ing to a complete assurance of business is the settle- ment of the currency problem, and that may be rea- sonably expected in the near future. For California and all the Pacific Coast the pros- pects are unusually bright. The wonderful stories of gold discoveries brought from Alaska last summer and confirmed by reports that continue to come in have attracted to this coast and to gold mining the attention of the entire civilized world. Thousands of enterprising capitalists, bold adventurers and hardy miners are coming West, and San Francisco will be the point of rendezvous and outfitting for the great majority of them. This means a stimulus to our commerce, a demand for our products, a new era of development in our mines and an increased activity in all lines of industry. Well assured of good legislation at Washington and of good conditions for trade in all sections of our country, we can without fear of disaster go forward in all avenues of advancement that are open to us. It is a year of opportunity for California, and the only responsibilities it imposes are those of enter- prise, diligence and the continuous manifestation of a spirit of harmony and mutual co-operation. That too much zeal may be exercised even in so worthy a cause as the sale of second-hand goods there is no doubt. Two clerks in St. Louis have as- certained this fact at some cost. They dragged a man into the store, determined he should purchase, and he had to shoot them both to get away. As one of them will die and the other has a bullet in the arm, reform is sure in the first case and probable in the other. Yet the method of the reformer will strike as severe the conservative who happen to have escaped béing shanghaied by a street clerk. Too bad an expert cannot be employed to analyze the gas bills as minutely as the gas itself is to be ex- ploited. They are not exactly deadly, but they are enough to make a man sick. nuary 10, Horses, at corner Van and threatening are those which confront the THAT “SEPARATE LAW. ND President Dole said, “I believe the United fl States will give us a separate law, by which we can get laborers here.” Referring to executive document 1, part I, Fifty- ‘ third Congress, we get an idea of the kind of “sep- arate law " expected by President Dole to fit the “peculiar conditions and needs of labor” referred to in President McKinley’s message. In an inquiry made into the form of labor required by the planters this revelation occurs: “Suppose a contract laborer is idling in the fields, what do you do?” “We dock him; we give him only half or three- quarters of a day, and if he keeps it up we resort to the law and have him arrested for refusing to work.” 2 “What do you accomplish by putting him in jail?” “For the first offense he is ordered back to work and he has to pay the costs of court. If he refuses is inflicted, which the planter can pay and take out of his wages, or eise he is put on the road to work: For the third offense he is likely to get three months imprisonment.” 3 3 Now the laws of the United States. make it un- lawful to prepay transportation or in any way assist the importation of any alien under contract, parole, express or implied, to labor in the United States. The thirteenth amendment to our constitution, which abolished slavery, provides that: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as 2 punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Now the kind of law which Dole believes will be given “separately” to the islands provides for in- voluntary servitude, for it compels the performance of labor under penalty of imprisonment. * President Dole’s laws now in force are perhaps the best definition of what he believes will be per- mitted by the separate law necessary for the islands. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, who: has been in Washington lobbying for annexation as an agent of Dole’s purposes, in his report made last summer on returning from his Hawaiian junket says offi- cially: “My investigations through the Ha. waiian Islands have brought to my atten. tionm many new conditions and phases of Iabor, the most important of which is the Asiatic hordes that now infest the islands and predominate in mumbers upon the plantations. I have seemn 20,000 bare. footed laborers, half of whom work un. der a penal contract; Thave seen rewards offered for their arrest when they violated their contract and deserted the plamnta- tion, with their number printed across their photograph in convict style.”” Let it be remembered that every law now on the statute books of Hawaii has been put there by Dole or remains there by his sufferance. He has been the supreme oligarch of that country for four years. The penal contract law and -the involuntary servitude under it are therefore regarded by him as necessary to the industries of the islands, and their continuance is what he believes will be permitted by a separate law of the United States after annexation. Ii the plantations could be run on any other sys- tem he has had four years in which to demonstrate it. He has had four years in which to abolish in- voluntary servitude. Lincoln began and closed a war for preservation of the Union and freed 4,000,000 slaves in four years. But in that time Dole has not been able to abolish penal contracts for labor, and now believes they will be continued by the United States. We repeat this matter must be lovked squarely in the face. Either the planters, on whose estates white labor is impossible, are to be cheated and ruined or the constitution is to be violated by a separate law compelling the stars and stripes to wave over in- voluntary servitude in Hawaii. Which is it? s e ——— THE PASADENA FETE. ASADENA, by holding an annual festival of roses in the open air on January 1, does much to make known to the shivering East the win- ter charms and attractions of California. In some re- spects, therefore, the rose fete is a matter of more than ordinary interest to the entire commonwealth. It is a Californian glory in which all Californians bave a right to share. The festival is the more appropriate this year be- cause it follows so closely after the stories of the frost in that section of the State. It will carry to the East full assurances that Southern California has not been blighted by the cold wave, that her roses are still in bloom and her people in a mood to make merry and rejoice among the brilliant blossoms that adorn their gardens. From the preliminary reports that come to us it appears evident that Pasadena understands the value of making an exceptionally fine display this year. The parade and tournament today promise to be the largest and most attractive ever made on a similar occasion. It will be something more than the perfunctory observance of a customary holiday, and unless the weather by some-extraordinary freak proves wholly unpropitious, the celebration will be a most auspicious opening of the season of floral festivals throughout the State. It is fortunate that at least one city in the com- monwealth celebrates New Year's day in this way. it serves to emphasize the difference between life in California and that in any other portion of the Union. New Year’s observances in the East are not widely dissimilar from those which are common in England and France. The customs of celebration there have been brought from the Old World. It is not so in this land of winter sunshine and January roses. We have a climate unique in the Northern Hemisphere, and it is fitting that our pleasures as well as our lzbors should be adapted to the advan- tages it gives for open air fetes at all seasons of the year. Hardly is it reported that Li Hung Chang has lost his yellow jacket than information comes that he is again - high in royal favor. It must be these intervals répresent the times when the garment has been in the renovatory. 5 : * It is unfair to accuse Ezeta of trying to raise an agitation in Salvador. The last heard of him he was trying to raise the amount of a month’s rent in Oak- land. Chicago should not boast so much about its low death rate. Everybody knows the reason to be that Chicagoans are not prepared to die. : e i Another model young man has gone wrong, of course. He knew what was expected of him whe: that absurd title was given hem. L to obey orders he is arrested again and a light fine | A PLETHORA OF NORMAL SCHOOLS. N his address before the California Teachers’ As- l sociation Samuel T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, expressed the opinion that California has not a sufficient number of normal schools. At the present time it maintains three of these institutions, and another will be opened within a year. Mr. Black says that California, with her 160,000 square miles of area, should be thickly dotted with normal schools. He does not say anything about the expense of maintaining them, but he thinks if such schools were smaller and more numerous they would do a deal more good than the lim- ited number now in existence are doing. As we understand it normal schools are designed for training teachers. teachers is obtained in the grammar and high schools. It is the normal institution which puts the finishing touches upon the individual who is sent out to instruct the young idea how to shoot. Therefore, normal schools are no. part of the general system of education. - Fed Californiia ‘Has-a population of about 1,500,000, oneé-fifth of whoni are children. Unless everybody is going to go' to school and the entire State is going to be devoted to edication it would seem that the four. normal schools in ‘existence and on the way cught to turn out a sufficient supply of teachers to satisfy the most exacting. It is said that statistics, if compiled, would show that in California at least one out of every three young women graduated from the normal schools never teaches at all. They either fail to get into the School Departments of the State or they get married.. Of course education is a good thing, but it can hardly be maintained that the taxpayers should pay for educating the wives of the State. Nor can it be successfully established that they ought to pay for educating ‘any more- teachers” than are nccessary to provide the schools with instructors. The truth of:the matter is, probably, that Super- intendent Black, like most men engaged in an ob- sorbing occupation, has been carried away by his business. ‘He undoubtedly thinks that normal schools are the salvation of the country, and that without them we would speedily relapse into a state of dense ignorance. As a matter of fact, however, teachers are born, not made. Normal schools never can make pedagogues out of some pecple. Some of the best instructors ever known never saw the in- side of a normal school. No one desires to abate the educational system in | any respect, but the taxpayers ought to have some- thing to say about the creation of normal schools. We do not want a normal school in every county. One well equipped institution would undoubtedly supply a sufficient number of teachers. Four ought to be enough for the next fiity years. FIGHTING POSTAL REFORM. ONGRESSMAN LOUD has given notice of an iatention to press the enactment of his bill providing for the amendment of the postal laws relating to second-class mail matter, and, as a | result, the opponents of the measure are engaged in a vigorous agitation against it. It, therefore, be- hooves the friends of the measure to be equally ac- | tive in order that the much desired reform may be accomplished. The issue is one that has been long discussed and is generally understood. The bill proposed by Mr. Loud is in the interests of economy and fair dealing, and has been well received by merchants and other business men throughout the country. The object is simply to put an end to abuses practiced under the | law by which the revenues of the government are diminished and the postal service readered a burden upon the government instead of being self-support- | ing. The bill as reported by Mr. Loud admits to the mails as second-class matter all newspapers and peri- odical publications which are issued at stated inter- vals and as frequently as four times a year, but pro- poses to prohibit the admission of books or reprints of books and to abolish the sample copy privilege to newspapers. The amendment is as necessary to justice between citizens as to economy of service. At the present time the publishers of cheap and trashy books issue them as parts of a so-called periodical library and get low fates through the mails while the publishers | of standard works have no such advantage. The government is thus put in the position of promoting the circulation of comparatively vicious literature at the expense of that which is instructive and valuable. The “sample copy” abuse is even worse than that of the petriodical “library.” Under the pretense of being sample copies of regular newspapers millions of what are really no more than advertising circulars are sent through the mails at the expense of the tax payers. Thus the public has to pay for advertising private business in which the people have no inter- est whatever. The leading opponents of the reform have held a meeting at New York and organized for the fight. A committee has been appointed to carry on the con- test, and there will be a pretty strong lobby at Wash- ington to defeat the measure if possible. This, there- fore, is the time for public sentiment to declare itself on the subject. The friends of the measure in Con- gress should be strengthened in their resolve to press the reform this winter and put an end to abuses that have been tolerated too long. : Nevada will never tone local morals up to the proper pitch by sending anonymous letters to any- body giving warning to leave the country. That State is understood to sustain a system of courts largely for the purpose of conserving order. If a man'’s offense is not such as to entitle these courts to deal with him he has a right not only to remain, but to load a shotgun and greet with the contents thereof any gang of intruders who may visit his premises with such crude and unhealthful implements of re- form as whitecaps usually carry. [EETY St Judge Low, having secured a victory over Judge Campbell, will now take that gentleman’s old station at the head of Western jurists. Yet Low has never been mentioned for the place on the Supreme bench to which McKenna was called. R 2 If the Pension Commissioner is certain that pen- sioners are being robbed by their attorneys, his at- tention is called to the fact that there are jails in this country and not all of them overcrowded. From the way Colorado has been turning out gold this year it is half suspected that the gentleman who fransmutes silver into the more precious metal has located there. e Senator Teller wants Hawaii annexed, but then there are several things for which the Senator has pined at various times without obtaining. If Carman’s trip to Chicago was for the purpose of attracting attention he has met a volume of success little Jess than overwhelming. The general education of | lerestingz4stronomical v PHENOMENA === 1898~ HE astronomical occurrences for the year 1898 include three lunar and three I solar eclipses, but the Pacific Coast is debarred from Usal interest in nearly all these phenomena, being on the sunny side of .the gobe when the moon | passes through the shadow projecting from the opposite sde, and within this | shadew of night when two of the solar eclipses occur, and t00 far north for obser- | vation on the other occasion. However, on the evening of January 7 the moon will rise lefore the partial | eclipse of that date is fully past, the earth’s shadow lingering on the western side | of the disk until 5:23 P. S. T., when it is several degrees above ‘he northeastern borizon. A mearly similar glimpse will be obtained of the lunar ecCipse of Decem- ber 27, 1868, -a year hence, the total phase being past when it rises into view. The intermediate lunar eclipse of July 3 is invisible here. In 1852 three Wnar eclipses | also’ occurred, the greatest number possible in one calendar year. Rut the most important astronomical event will be the solar eclipse of January 21 &nd 22, when the moon will completely obscure the sun's disk along the path of totality in Africa and Asia. Though California will then be in the midnight hours, it has an | especial interest in the event as the only American expeditions are those from the ! Lick and Chabot observatories. The duration of this temporary gloom which gives such choice glimpses of the sun's surroundings will vary from about one to two minutes, according to the position of the place of observation, As railroads from | { both Calcutta and Bombay are convenient to the line of totality, desirable stations | Wwill be easily selected, the west of Hindustan being especially favorable. Weather | reports indicate the probability of a clear sky in January, and there are zood | grounds for anticipating valuable information as to the solar corona, the .c.\icr‘\ Jlgia.” @ } ~Moon's Pati 3 flty‘mf [ 1 Atlas @ prope. @ object of observation. Professor Campbell of the Lick Observatory is equipped for spectroscopic work, and Mr. Burckhalter of the Chabot observatory will test his ingenious instrument for photographing the corona with an exposure graduated to suit both the brighter and fainter luminosity. Another interesting. event in the beginning of the year will be.the occultation’| of the Pleiades by the slightly gibbous moon on the evening of January 30. This. will be more favorable for Pacific Coast observers than elsewhere, as the well- known little group will not be far west of the meridian when it commences to dis- appear behind the unilluminated side of the lunar disk. The diagram, in which the mythological names of the principal Pleiades are given, conveys-an idei of this | occurrence, which affords an opportunity for a useful and interesting observation that can be made even without magnifying power. 2 “ In the evening skies of spring and autumn the planets Venus, Jupiter and | Saturn will be conspicuous objects. Venus glides past the sun in the middle of February, and transfers its luster from the morning to the evening sky, where it will gleam in the west until the end of November. September 22 the greatest east- | {ern elongation occurs; in other words, the planet will be higher above the western | | horizon and longer visible after sunset than on any previous or subsequent even- ing during the season. At this time it may be seen in ‘the afternoon near the | meridian long before sunset. In February Jupiter appears in the east at 10 P. M., | Saturn rises about the same hour.in May toward the southeast, and Mercury will ‘tflim;ner in the western sky for a few days about April 10, August 8 and Decem- | ber 8. : | In November, 1893, meteoric .showers may be looked for with more confidence than in previous years, as a return of Temple's comet is due early in 1899, and the Leonid shower, with which it is mysteriously connected, may appear in advance, | as on former occasions; and Biela's lost comet, if it still exists, will be also ap- proaching, and its attendant meteors may appear in unusual numbers; but such phenomena defy prediction. The same applies to the new comets and new stars | | that may perchance gleam down on us during the coming year. ROSE O'HALLORAN. FALL AND WINTER LITERARY FASHIONS. “Eleclge | | | | | | An interesting showing of the mental pabulum on which San Francisco has | been feeding during the fall and early winter has resulted from some special re- | | searches into their records of circulation just made by George T. Clark and A. M. | Jellison, the respective librarians of the public and the Mechanics’ libraries. | Perhaps it is not an exact use of words to lump it as “mental” pabulum, for half the enormous amount of “reading” supplied to the people of this metropolis | by these two great literary storehouses is fiction, and serves mainly as emotional | | Pabulum. The great flood of novels pours forth unceasingly and reaches thousands | of homes, grand and lowly, by way of every street and alley in the city from | Richmond to the Potrero. This tide of fiction goes forth to satisfy the hunger of | the imagination, to tickle the fancy, to touch heart strings as it may be given the | player to do,and toenrich lives that mayseem commonplace to thosewho livethem. | "rheae novels are not read for the dash of science or philosophy that may be in them, but because they minister to the emotional interest in human life. Weakly or well, they daily bring before a legion of people in varied form the great realities | of life—its right and its wrong, its impulses, emotions and passions. | . Whatever the waste or the profit of it, these two libraries alone supply nearly | #00,000 novels @ year to the San Franciseo public, including juvenile fiction, and this is but a part of the total annual novel consumption. ¢ | It is interesting to note as a partial measure of current public taste what works | | of fiction rise ffom amid the mass as the ones in greatest demand, and it is this | scale of popularity that has been approximately figured out by these two librari- | ans. The taste of the thousands of borrowers from these libraries is fairly repre- sentative of the general average of the taste of the whole fietion-reading public. At the free public library Mr. Clark had compiled a list giving in sequence, ac- cording to thé number of times issued, the hundred novels of greatest circulation during the preceding eighteen weeks. It is not a perfect measure of the demand. because the demand did not have free play owlng to variations in the number of copies and e inadequacy of the number of th i v ol e 0se most wanted, but it serves its The most popular novel during that period was Anthony Hope's * 7:enda, sixteen copies of which were issued 230 times. yAnd p:{ipe,Pr‘l:iot.:erh?: *'Phroso,” holds second place as well, 152 readers being able to enjoy the nine. copies circulated. Du Maurier's “Trilby” is third on the list, and then begins the‘ interesting showing of how strong a hold on the reading public the favorite old masterpieces preseibe, for “Ben Hur” stands fourth and “The Count of Monte Cristo”. is next, Just preceding that favorite of the day, “The Choir Invisible,” eight conies of which went to 103 borrowers. £ | As the list runs on in the very gradual decline of the scale, the alternations of the old and the mew are very interesting to note. Here are 3 the n the order of their popularity: FE “The Wandeéring Jew” (Sue), “A Rose of Yesterday” (Crawford), “The Mar- ers Burned Away,” “St. )" “Quo Vadis,’ “Last “Equality,” “Peter * (Crawford), “Soldiers of Fortune” tian,” “Les Miserables,” “Uncle Bernac" (Doyle), “Barri Elmo,” “Ramona,” “The Christian,” “David Copperfield l?nys of Pompeii,” *“The Three Musketeers,” “The Manxman Stirling,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “‘Saracinesca’ (Davis), “Second Wife"” (Wister), “Romola.” The showing at the Mechanics’ library is not so exact free access to the shelves, and classified records are not“kfiii‘usi‘;efizfis e};(:‘gi figures are those of the registrations of requests for the new and popular books which may be kept for one week only and which are issued to members in the order of registration. A djfference follows, too, from the difference In the naturei of the two institutions. The Mechanics’, depending for prosperity on the dues of members, must cater to their wants. It {s-prompt to get the latest books and | Plenty of them, often putting fifty copies of a new book on its shelves at once. Its policy must be to suit the intellectual wants of its customers. The Hbmnan' and book committee of the free library, while anxious to supply popular wants, indulge their higher motives in the interest of what ought to be. P The So ‘the latest literary fashions are more noticeable at the M ech: . register for the fiction-hungry there exposes “Quo Vadis" at the hed ot ihe Lot it. At the free library Since September 1 there have been 192 registrations for ‘Quo Vadis” was sixteenth on the list. *“The Choir Invisible" Was next in demand, new books published | n;xd a;:';"l‘he Clx‘ll"luan" third. This list includes only the | since September 1, and hence does not show the general scal Jellison, however, places “The Prisoner of Zenda' as third in ot‘h:m 3,‘11“1"3;“”5' Soldiers of Fortune” fourth and ‘“Phroso” fifth. In a general way the total 3 . mand for the old and the new corresponds to that of the free library. Of t:‘ bocks published since September 1 the request register shows the rollo;wln 'd 6 of popularity after “The Christian”: “Soldiers of Fortune,” | “Farthest %corhe'x: ':;;rome." “On"the Face of the Waters,” “A Rose of Yes:ax’d‘ay “Hugh “‘Iyl:xtxe"' Mlzgt:‘i‘?mnn‘ ‘Saint Ives,” “The Damnation of Theron Ware,” “Seats of the The total output of fiction for home readin; i last fiscal year was 192434 volumes, of which JAgo xfifiufrfilrgb;:ifinfll’:’“fi? was 48.46 per cent of the 397,122 volumes supplied for home use without mone ; without price. About 0,000 novels were taken home from the Mechanics’ l',t'; w2 and the other libraries, the bookstores and the lenders of books send th? to; ;"y into the region of mere speculation. Perhaps this is a £00d deal of the jo 3 “2 sorrow of life to mix with our own, and perhaps it is a slight and weak dl)l' :‘in after all. It represents, though, a good many thrills and smiles and sigh: ru ai manner of city folks and a good deal of what we have collectively uog S joyed, rattled through with or reflected about. It includes a great xnnna a:: e and dramas of human life, perhaps no stronger or more profitable unty L than those about and within most of us, but lifted up; labeled and camloo i \set apart in unity as on a stage that our simple perceptions ma: s thing is interesting. Y note that the J. 0. e T S A MR. FI_LCHE_R_ EXPLAINS. gre'llg -mted the value of that plan. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27, 1897, To the Rditor of The Call—Sir: Referring to an editorial article which recently appeared in The Call re- lating to_the publication called “Califor- nia, the Land of Promise,” and referring to the article on “Transportation” found therein, permit me to say that the mem- bers of the board are conscious of the omission of the names of many railroad companies from that article. The San Joaquin Valley road, the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe, the San Francisco and North Pacific, the North Pacific Coast and various small branch lines in the State are not mentioned, and the only mention made of the Southern Pa- cific Company is incidental. The point taken by The Call is in a sense just, and the members of the board will accept it in the spirit iIn which it Wwas to show from the geograph: Pography of the State that the eoen Wwashed its entire western coast; harbors existed at shor o 't in v that coast, and that oce&nte:‘r::l!!p.ol:t gg::n :: .‘né'f,‘l"{h'" the commerce = e il control of its degree of supremacy. California comprises W, area bordering the Pacific Ocean. State in its greatest width is not ov miles, while to the eastern limit fertile area from the Pacific Oce: distance is not greater at an poi: % miles. To the center of the S S:In Valley or the sh?)rt.‘“fie Inawherl. entire purpose of articl; :1.17 to show that the ocean x: ow l':ls Fny. or the Atcl , or the:l-n hm:::i:‘o | and in 1uture .ed ofaflaw' . | *.map of California lying purpose of the article !/| through the land to the effect that the trdnsgort:\tion facilities of California were so monopolized that its develop- meént_was_obstructed, if not wholly ar- rested. The purpose of the article on “Transportation” was to remove this in- jurious impression. ¥ I he work performed by the editor of the book was very onerous, and no mem- ber of the board, nor in fact any mem- ber of the community, will question his patriotic motives. The board decided on the publication of the book only a Shtol:t time previous to the coming of e Christian Endeavorers. Each writer was assigned a subject and given an outline of its treatment, and the outline given to the gentleman who contributed the article on ‘“Transportation” is herein above set forth. d'l'hc board has secured the publication of a second edition of 10,000 copies. In doing th it contracted to furnish stereotyped plates of the book as oriz- inally published, and it was this sterco- typing feature which l.as reproduced the book with whatever imperfections or er- rors the original edition might bave o tained. It would scarcely be possible to insert an article concerning the rallroacs whose names are not mentioned. WhHAt would be required wou"‘(’]l'r‘;ia;:rtarfinn i struct the article on °7F .":;nboo‘:v_im;g we expect to.print another edition Six-months—the article will be based on a different pla ¢hich confronted the il as the One -difficulty. h board concerning . this matter wf the cost of- maps. No - discussion of th fransportation question relating to {ho State is»cnmp!et?‘ withmt\ton;z'x‘:)as‘.‘ o \1. Hook -were. t00 S 2 Pages of fornia preseriting the various % ‘of transportation. and a large map, “!X'I‘I‘\N:\‘; a folder, to be. ado_quake, musg lave ahout four times the size of one o the hook's pages. The matter will, how- erars be remedied in the future. ¥ have Wriien this simply to declare that which every one krows and _believes to be true, and that is that the State Bog: tl(: Trade is earnestly striving to benefit the State, and in this work is not obstructy ¢d by’ the partisansbip Of AR enter- hoard mor by any DPred > {ained drdvidualy ot colectively, Yours very trulys geretary and Manager. PERSONAL. Fred Cox, s banker of Sacramento, at the.Grand. ' : Ex-Judge J. A. Wall of Salinas City is ‘at the Occidental.’ *_‘Henry Levy, a merchant of Halfmoon Bay, is-staying at the Lick. George Lingo, a cattleman Of ‘Blrds Landing, is a guest at the Grand. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt County is at the Russ, registered from is | Bureka. Bruce Cartwright, a wealthy resident of Honolulu, will depart for home on the 6th. inst. C. R. Tillson, a lawyer of Modesto, ac- companied by Mrs. Tillson and Miss Till- son, arrived at the Lick yesterday. C. H. Lewis and wife of Albany, y % | and Miss Grace Lewis are touring the State. They are at the Cosmopolitaa. H. C. Myers and S. W. Young, teachers in the department of chemistry at Stan- ford, are registered at the California. Alex Gunn, a capitalist from Mungers Springs, who was formerly Mayor of San Diego, is a late arrival at the Grand. E. E. Bush, a real estate dealer of Han- ford, who owns part of a coal mine near there, is among the guests at the Lick. A. Mullock of Vancouver, B. C., and S. A. Whitaker of Philadelphia are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. J. F. Conway, an extensive coffee- planter of Guatemala, who is up for the winter, Has apartments at the Cosmopoli- tan. Mré. George R. B. Hayes, widow of the late George R. B. Hayes, attorney, will leave here on the 6th for Homnolulu in the Moana. James E. Mills of Mexico and his son, Willlam ¥E. Mills of Quincy, Plumas County, both extensively interested in mines, are guests at the Occidental. Professor Edwin Dillon Starbuck of Stanford, who was ill at the Grand, had so far recovered yesterday that he was able to leave for Palo Alto with his wife. C. F. Richardson, manager of trans- portation of the Southern Pacific, will leave here on the 6th inst. in the steamer Moana for Honolulu, to be gone a month on a pleasure trip. Mrs. Richardson will accompany him. B ] CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 3lL.—At the Great Northern—S. B. Hayes, R. H. Raphael, Albert de Leur, Los Angeles; Captain H. H. McGregor, Mrs. Harry Springs, San Francisco. Leland—T. H. Speady, San Francisco. Auditorium—George E. Ham, San Francisco. Auditorium An- nex—Dr. and Mrs. Perrin, A. M. Bar- nett, M. Wirner, San Francisco. Palmer— Charles F. Hanlon, Miss M. Martin, San Francisco. Wellington—R. C. Tenner, San Francisco. —_—e——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3L—Mrs. O. W. Childs and daughter, Los Angeles, Eb~ bitt House; Henry E. Newcomb, Oak- land, The Riggs. —_————— Peanut taffy,best in world. Townsend's* Townsend's famous broken candy;2 1b25¢c* —_————— 2 Ibs choice cream mixed candies, in Japanese baskets, 50c. Townsend's. * ——— Special information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bpreau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. . Speciai Sale. Old Missions of California, beautifully fire-etched on white wood boxes, will be sold (for New Year's day only), filled with 1 1b of Cal. Glace Fruit, for 50c each. at Townsend's Palace Hotel building. * —_——— The Hon. 8. H. Ellis, worthy master of the Ohioc State Grange, in his annual ad- dress urges the selection of Columbus as the location for the proposed Ohio Cen- tennial. CHRISTMAS and New Year's Tables are incom- plete without a bottle of DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOS- TURA BITTERS, the exquisitely flavored appe- tizer. Beware of imitations —————————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCRES" are of great service in sudbduing Hoarseness and Coughs. Sold only in boxes. Avoid fmitations. ———————— PARKER'S HAlR BazsAx Is the favorite for dressing the hair and renewing its life and color. HINDESCORNS, the best cure for corns. 13 sea Ve (RS T s, Coughs and colds cured, Low's Hore- hound Cough Syrup; 10c. 417 Sansome st® pustisiin et “mt ey The Baroness Burdett-Coutts recently orgshized a charity matinee at the St. Janes Theater, London, on behalf of the Oxygen Home, which realized £500. / NEW TO-DAY. Absolutely Pure ‘was written. It is due in exact justice | Fe. alfy; nor was e e e R T A say e editor of s g ¥ fo ning ..nt:ruel! on mth dm.“mm Son m‘:::jm Ly h?ir n‘ !:v‘g\lx'l‘s simply present relation been mentioned. ‘ocean to the {:‘t vnfl:g of California. the Southern Pacific Du‘ymwuul‘:: Mr.”Curtis, the able ai of the ar- | tended to dissipate the j}jurious impres- ticle, was asked to write it, and he him- | sion which has been cast ROYAL BAKING POWDER €O., NEW YORK.

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