The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1898. THURSDAY... 98 3 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “hddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts,, S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...217 to 221 Stevenson strae Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. = THE WEEKLY CALL = OAKLAND OFFICE . Eastern Representati NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. .One year, by mall, $1.50 = 908 Broadway e, DAVID ALLEN. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corper Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until So'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 8:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. Baldwin Californt “The Henrietta. Lecture Recitals. - y Coney Island.” “The Girl T Left Behind Me.” The District Fair.” Alcazar- Moro: Orpheu Bush—The Thall The Chutes—Vau on—Cosr side ] AUCTION SALES. Livan & Doy at 11 o’eloc Eillip & Co. day, January 10, Horses, at corner Van Ness avenue, at 11 0'clock. ~Friday, January 7, Horses, at 2013 Mis- I be recognized as having points of excellence. Yorker will tell you so. It is also cultured to a crystallized —— e GOING NEW YORK ONE BETTER. HE plan to make a separate State of the majestically swollen city of New York will That place contains much of the wealth, the aris- tocracy and the brains of the land. Any New degree almost awesome. Anybody who doubts this has only to reflect that its best people had into a select Four Hundred and that this aggregation has been pruned down to a super- select Seventy-fivee. Where but in New York would so just and proper a division have been made? Every one of these Seventy-five knows what to wear to dinner, and in the park rides be- hind a bang-tailed horse. They are blue-blooded, too. None in the lot admits descent from a clam peddler, calmly and with unquestioned wisdom eliminating such ancestors as irrelevant to the present situation. So New York deserves to be a State if such is its desire. But it is too modest. New York should be a kingdom. To set up a throne and on it place the mighty Croker, to build up a local nobility—for which much raw material is now going to waste—nothing could be finer nor more in keeping with the genius of the times. With a nobility of its own New York would no longer be under the painful necessity of hawking its daughters to paupers from abroad. It could sustain with the United States such relations as must nat- urally obtain between the pedigreed and the scrub, and by erecting a dividing wall keep the plebeians of the West from getting too fresh. Altogether it is a beautiful scheme. The only embarrassment to be anticipated springs from the multiplicity of ap- plicants there would inevitably be for the position of court fool. THE RUSH FOR @LASKA. RECENT dispatch from Chicago to the New fl York Press says that Western passenger agents are now making their arrangements to handle the Alaskan rush, and the longer they study the traffic the larger it appears to them. It is said, “There is hardly a Western passenger man who does not expect the traffic to amount to fully 200,000 persons.” That the estimate is exaggerated is beyond ques- tion. It is hardly probable that anything like that number of persons will start for Alaska from points where the roads of the Western Passenger Association will get 2 share of the business. The exaggeration itself, however, is a proof of the ex- tent of the Alaskan excitement in the East. It seems to be of even larger proportions beyond the Rockies than on this coast, and is apparently in- creasing every day. As every ship that comes down from the north brings additional confirmation to the stories of last summer concerning the marvelous richness of the new placers there will be no diminution of the popular ardor on the subject. On the contrary, many of those who at first doubted the wonderful tales told of the Klondike have ceased to be skep- tical in the face of the evidence given of their es- sential truthfulness. - Another factor that will have a tendency to in- crease the number of adventurers is the extension and improvements of facilities for reaching Daw- son. It is now certain that the journey next season will be far less hazardous and difficult than it has been. Moreover, there will be hardly any fears' of famine next year. These facts will solve the doubts of many who would have hesitated to venture into the frozen north under past conditions and will thus swell the number thatwith the coming of springwill hasten to this coast to arrange for the journey to the gold fields at the earliest date possible. All signs tend to the conclusion that those who are looking for an extraordinary rush to San Fran- cisco early in the spring’ will not be disappointed. We can hardly overdo the work of preparation for the coming trade. There is but one city on the Pa- cific Coast that can handle such an amount of traffic. That city is of course San Francisco, and even with her commercial facilities she may find her energies strained to méet the emergency. As to the actual situation at Dawson, it seems to be that there is sufficient shortage of food to stim- ulate the commercial instinct and induce specu- lators to see which can get there first with the privilege of charging famine prices. e Colorado produced more gold than any other State in the Union last year. It is hard for Calj- fornia to give up its accustomed place temporarily, but it might as well do so pleasantly. It still leads in so many things that it can afford to be gracious. A month’s run at one Amador County mine yielded $50,000. Naturally there are some people to whom it is useless to talk of the riches of the Klondike. JANUARY 6, 1898 | -| gated front raises an apoplectic SPECIAL LAWS FOR HAWAIlL HE Chronicle should not get reckless. It Tahould trust to the healing influence of time to cicatrize the wound made in its hopes by the defeat of annexation. Such a poultice as its editorial anger makes will inflame the sore spot. It bas said, among other enraged and lurid things, that the labor organizations don't know what they are talking about, that the “annexation treaty ex- tends our humane labor laws to Hawaii and sub- stitutes freedom for slavery,” etc. Well, if that is so, the labor organizations are in the distinguished company of President McKinley, who says in his message: “What the conditions such union (with IHawaii) shall be, the political relation thereof to the United States, the character of the local ad- ministration, the quality and degree of the clective franchise to the inhabitants, the ex- tension of the Federal laws to the territory, or the enactment of special laws to fit the peculiar conditions thereof, the reg- ulation, IF NEED BE, of the LABOR system therein, are all matters which the treaty has wisely relegated to Con- gress.”” The Call has said that somebody is being cheated, either the planters of Hawaii or the white labor of the United States. The Chronicle flies mad at this, and with congested face and corru- shriek of “You of lie!? Will it tell frankly whom it is trying to cheat by telling white labor that the treaty “extends our hu- mane labor laws to Hawaii” when President Mc- Kinley says it does not? Why not tote fair? The plot stands exposed. Shah Dole and his planters know that they must have Asiatic labor, and savs he believes we will give them a separate law to protect penal contracts with such labor. We don't think the Chronicle will deceive any one but its clients, whom it may deceive into the belief that it can deceive white labor in this State. But white labor is not like its description of the Azores and Cape Verde islanders in Hawaii. It reads and writes and ciphers, and can figure as well as the Chronicle. It knows on which side to butter its bread and uses butter for that purpose. is the contest which a factious minority of Bthc Ohio Legislature is waging against the election of Senator Hanna to the office he now holds by appointment. It appears from all reports to be a fight made solely from motives of personal spite and is not justified on any ground of public benefit or even party advantage. The appointment of Senator Hanna to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Secretary Sherman was cordially approved by almost the whole membership of the Republican party of the State When the time came to prepare for the campaign of last summer Mr. Hanna was put forward by the Republicans as their candidate for the Senate. Nearly every county convention of the party indorsed him. His candidacy was a conspicuous feature of the can- vass. The attacks of the Democratic and Populist fusion were directed much mere against him than against the Republican candidate Governor. The election of Republican Legislature under such circumstances was a proof that Mr. Hanna is the choice of the Ohio voters as well as of his party for the Senatorship. The Republicans who are now opposing him are therefore violating their ex- press pledges to the people and the express com- mands of the people to them. If the Republican bolters gave any reasonable excuse for their opposition the case against them would not be so bad. They have advanced, how- ever, no excuse whatever except to assert that Mr. Hanna has treated them badly and they are now re- venging themselves. Even the Governor, who has taken a prominent part in the fight on the side of the factionists, has no defense to offer for his course except to assert that since he appointed Hanna to the Senatorship the Senator has “waged a cruel and unrelenting war” upon him. The Governor’s plea of “cruel and unrelenting war” is eclipsed, however, by the plea of Represen- tative Griffith that he can never comsent to vote for Mr. Hanna because of indignities heaped upon his wife. In the extraordinary letter addressed to the public on this subject Mr. Griffith does net state the nature of the alleged indignities, nor does he give the names of the men who committed them. He simply strikes the attitude of an indig- nant husband and makes a grand stand play of avenging a wrong done to his spouse. Under ordinary conditions the people could af- ford to laugh in derision at this faction quarrel of little men over petty spites and imaginary griev- ances, but unfortunately the conditions of politics are not ordinary. The Republican administration at Washington needs a strong and vigorous sup- port in the Senate, where the equal division of par- ties threatens to seriously interfere with the enact- ment of important legislation essential to the wel- fare of the country. A factional strife in Ohio that threatens to weaken Republican supremacy in the Senate is therefore a matter of national concerp. If the bolters persist in their determination to’ de- feat the will of the party and of the people they might as well bid farewell to political life. At the next election the Republicans whom they have be- trayed will follow the counsel given by a stalwart of party discipline and “conciliate them with an ax.” e o s e The matter of pugilism is of no great importance, and yet the literary persons who pose as champions manage to keep up a sort of interest in it. This in- terest just now takes the form of wonder that two large-fisted non-fighting fighters who are so bliss- fully certain each that the other is making a bluff do not call the bluff and let the world have peace. he THE OHIO CONTEST. Y no means creditable to them in any respect for a One lady correspondent in the Klondike has be- come the wife of “Nigger Jim.” We hasten to con- gratulate the gentleman, as there are, it is under- stood here, a paucity of eligible women in that country. However, out of respect to his new dig- nity he should insist on being called “Negro James.” It is reported that the train robbers who attacked an express car at Kansas City were very nervous. As they-got what they went after and nobody at- tempted to interfere it seems probable that however nervous they may have been they had no monopoly of the prevalent tremors. There has just been a peculiar pair of duels in Hungary. Somebody got hurt in each event. ‘Such a violation of precedent will be apt to discourage statesmen from resort to physical rudeness. It is just as effective to make faces at the opposition. | ism? CORRUPT JOURNALISM. 'HE attention of all respectable people may at Tthis moment with much propriety be called to the serious plight of the two moral reform newspapers of this city. Within a month these sheets have jointly conducted a campaign for “good government.” They have supported a Board of Freeholders nominated by a respectable association of merchants, and in the name of those merchants they have claimed a part in the victory which has been won. Each has loudly proclaimed itself the possessor of all the virtues and the repository of all the morality of the town. Yet while thus masquer- ading in the livery of Heaven each has been serv- ing the devil in true Satanic fashion. One of these moral reform organs was long ago convicted of contracting with the Southern Pacific Company for thirty months of editorial silence at $1000 a month. The brazen effrontery with which it has since coughed down this judgment has been the wonder of the State. Evidently it has reasoned that repentance is unprofitable, for while ignoring its record and while conducting the reform cam- paign to which we have referred it has been de- tected in and convicted of falsifying a telegram, distributing anonymous circulars in the name of a local trade committee for the purpose of injuring the business of a rival, and publishing false “want” advertisements, to the injury of humble people who are sufficiently foolish to rely upon its advertising columns. | At the same time the partner in “reform” of this | degraded sheet has been caught and convicted of tricking business men into signing contracts for advertising and collecting money by threats of legal proceedings under such contracts. Conifront- ed with its infamy, this moral reform organ has acted exactly as its coadjutor in crime did when confronted with the railroad “advertising” con- tract. It has made a loud display of its virtue and emitted a torrent of abuse of its critics. The Call cherishes no ambition to become the journalistic censor of San Francisco. We do not set ourselves up as a paragon of virtue, nor can we compel any other journal to imitate our efforts to publish truthful news or conduct its business as the business of an honest journal should be con- ducted. It is disagreeable to expose newspaper cor- ruption. We know that .when the mask is torn from the face of a journalistic scoundrel a reproach is cast upon the entire profession. We know that thoughtless people will say that in exposing the | Bulletin and in laying bare the hypocrisy and cor- ruption of the Examiner we are governed by ig- noble motives. Yet somebody must do this work or journalism in this city will soon be in the gutter. When a newspaper like the Bulletin, upon whose roll of honor are emblazoned the names of James King of William, James Nesbitt, Dr. Tuttle, J. W. Simon- ton, Benjamin P. Avery, Loring Pickering and George K. Fitch, descends to securing advertising contracts by fraud and extorting money thereunder by threats it is certainly time for somebody to rush to the rescue of journalism in San Francigco. Philip A. Roach and George Penn Johnston long ago turned over in their graves for the Examiner. The illustrious dead of the Bulletin will have to arise in their winding sheets to do their feclings jus- tice. But what is the remedy for this kind of journal- Will the people continue to patronize news- papers which thus, in the guise of moral reform or- gans, practice the arts of highwaymen, which black- | mail corporations and business men with equal recklessness and which sell their subscribers to the criminals of society without compunction? The Merchants’ Association is paying the penalty of as- sociating with the Bulletin. Thirty-six of its mem- bers at least have been robbed. All the people of San Francisco may yet be called upon to pay the penalty of supporting the Bulletin and Examiner. When that time arrives they will not have it to say that they were taken in unawares. The Call at | least will be able to affirm that it did its duty, dis- agreeable and exacting though it was. A LOS ANGELES ACCOMPLISHMENT. NE of the notable successes of holiday jour- O nalism has been achieved by the “midwin- ter number” of the Los Angeles Times. The publication is an attractive one and forms a valu- able advertisement for the whole southern section of the State. The main portion of the edition is issued in a form half the ordinary size of the paper and con- sists of eighty-eight pages. This is a veritable com- pendium of the resources, attractions, advantages, industries and prominent leaders of Southern -Cali- fornia. It is well written, well printed, handsomely illustrated, and will be found instructive as well as interesting to all concerned in the welfare and progress of the seven flourishing counties to which Los Angeles serves as a metropolis. While the edition as a matter of course is largely devoted to the wonderful fruit industry of that sec- tion, considerable space is given to the mineral wealth and mining industry. The number is there- fore pertinent to the coming exposition”of mines and mining in San Francisco. It will recall the at- tention of the south to her great mineral resources and make known the importance of exhibiting them where all the world can see. Taken alto- gether, the number is a successful one in every re- spect and deserves a wide circulation, not only in California, but throughout the East. ——— The question of whether or not a man having fired two bullets into his brain could summon up fortitude to fire a third and then compose himself to rest, after having carefully laid the pistol aside, is troubling the local officials who have such prob- lems to deal with. It would be presumption to pro- ject an unprofessional opinion into the situation, yet the humble intelligence of the layman has a firm grasp of a conviction that though a suicide might have conducted himself this way, he mighty seldom does. A bullet in the ordinary brain has a tendency to dull the activities. i Probably Lady Anne Coventry has been married to Dhuleep Singh of Lahore, since all the dis- patches agree on this point. However, this is no excuse for ringing in an old Patti photograph as that of the bride, an error into which about nine out of ten papers have fallen. Senator Teller seems to be wise in opposing the partition of China. The habit may grow upon the powers so that inetime they will take a notion to divide us. They could not do it, but the effort would lead to a straining of relations. There is an easy explanation of the fact that an Oregonian failed to die after shooting himself twice, both bullets entering his head. The surprise and novelty of having anything in his head merely acted as a stimulant. | more did the sirens and the voluptuous | transfiguration and the death of Iseult— MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. On the 10th of last November Wagner's ‘‘Meistersingers” was produced in Paris for the first time, with the most gorge- ous decorations. No expense was spared to make the opera a success, and the | result fully realized the most extrava- | gant expectations. The French nation had set itself obstinately against Wag- ner and his works, and it has taken thirty years to overcome this prejudice. The recoil has been as violent as the at- tack, and now Wagner is the idol of the hour in Paris. Nearly thirty years ago | the “Meistersingers” was produced at the Theater Royal, Munich, under the | patronage of . Ludwig, King of Bavaria. At that time very favorable criticisms appeared in the French papers, and M. Victorin Jonciere, a painter and a musi- | clan, sketched M. Betz in the role of | Hans Sachs during the performance. He also drew the scenery of the second act, and both appeared in an illustrated sup- plement of the Figaro of the 5th of July, =y e TR SRR M. Franz Betz as Hans Sachs, at the Koyal Opera, Munich, 1868, 1868. After he had written “Tannhauser” Wagner thought of writing an opera that should be a comic counterpart to | this work. In his own words, “I sud- | denly concetved the idea of a comic play | which might follow my minstrels’ con- | test in the Wartburg as a significant | satire play. This was the mastersingers | of Nuremberg, with Hans Sachs at their | head.” On this occasion Wagner broke | with all his dramatic traditions. No pagans of Venusberg appear; no knight | in white tunic and sparkling coat of mail descended on his legendary swan from the celestial heights of the Holy Grail, as in “Lohengrin”; the love philters, the aspirations and the enervating buddhism of “Tristan and Iseult” equaily disap- | peared. The action passed in times and places with which we are still famillar— in the imperial city of Nuremberg to- ward the middle of the sixteenth cen- tury. It Is said that if the finale of the third act of “Tristan”—the scene of the | did not exist, and the representation could be reduced by half an hour, !hei cel” ballet. After these concerts, which were for him a perfect ovation, M. Saint- Saens was named Commander of the Or- der of Isabelle the Catholic and a mem- ber of the Royal Academy of Madrid. The next Saturday, under the direction of the composer, the first perférmance of amson and Delilah” was to take place, | with M. Dupeyron in the role of Samson. Schopenhauer, who, like Nietzsche, was a great musical amateur, speaking one day of Wagner, expressed himself in these terms: *Tell your friend Wagner that I thank him for the copy of his ‘Nfibelungen,” but he ought to give up music. His aptitude is for poetry. As to me, I remain faithful to Rossini and Mozart. He has sent me his trilogy, but the boy is no musician.” When Schop- enhauer spoke of Rossini he devoutly raised his eyes to heaven, but yet one day when Rossini was spending a few days in Frankfort he refused to be introduced to him, saying that it was impossible that the fat Frenchman could be Rossini. Schopenhauer possessed a complete col- lection of Rossini's operas, arranged for the flute, and played them every day, from 12 till 1, but he never permitted any one to listen. It is rumored that the great maestro, Verd!, is agaln a candidate for matri- mony. And why not? Years are not al- ways a guide to ege. Some men are old at 40 and others are young at 80, and the truly “grand old man’ must possess won- derful vitality, for when people were look- | Ing for him to be overwhelmed with grief | he wisely buries the past and determines | to makethe mostof the future,incompany | with another celebrated singer. Mme. Stolz is expected to be the third Mme. Verdi. At Monte Carlo, on the occasion of the second classical concert, a, new ovation was accorded to M. Leon Jehin for the remarkable execution of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D minor, which was lis- tened to with profound attention. The | overture to “Tannhauser’” and the very curious suite of Greig upon Peer Gynt and the “Hallujah Chorus,” by the or- chestra and chorus, followed. The Royal Opera, Budapest, has just given the premiere of Leoncavallo's “Boheme’ with great success. On the eve of the performance a concert was given, at which all the elite of society assisted. Mme. la Countess Vasquez and Mme. Bardossy sang, accompanied by the | maestro. A grand banquet foliowed the concert. At Riverside, Cal., the Arlington band (twenty-five pieces) is fast becoming one of the best military bands of Southern California. It is in charge of Professor Reynolds, who is an accomplished band- master and a finished cornet soloist. A new device has been applied to the | clarinet, the invention of M. Prepeschi, an Italian. The peculiar advantage claimed for it is that while it does not require any change of fingering the key arrangement is such that passages which are difficult even for the Boehm system become as simple as the common chord. R S e A POLYGLOT MAGAZINE. The announcement from St. Louis of a magazine published in twelve different | parts and twelve languages and dialects It is the intention | s most interesting. of the publishers to make this publica- tlon serve the interests of good American citizenship. The proprietors are men of business, who perceive that there is a field for a popular magazine to reach im- migrants newly arrived in this countr: among the great numbers of German Swedes, Norwegians, Russians, Italian: Hungarians, Louisiana French, C fornfa and New Mexico Spanish, ete who never learn to read the English | language. In the second generation many forelgners read and speak our national tongue with facility; on the other hand there are thousands of Americans born SCENE IN THE SECOND ACT OF THE MEISTERSINGERS, opera of the ‘‘Melstersingers” would be ‘Wagner's chef d'oeuvre. The accom- panying drawings are exact reproduc< tions of the sketches made by M. Jon- ciere and published in the Figaro in 1868. M. Franz Betz, the celebrated barytone, who took the part of Hans Sachs, re- tired from the Imperial Theater, Vienna, on the first of last September. The Em- peror of Austria has made him an hon- orary member of the opera, and he will appear from time to time in-his prin- cipal roles, Hans Sachs, Falstaff, Tell and Kwewenal. Some more of Rubinstein's thoughts and aphorisms: ‘“The greatest good that been given to man is the light of sun. Oh! the beautiful rays of the I cannot understand how men who under the blue, sun-lit sky can have the same social and political discontent as those who are obliged to live in the fog or under a gray sky.” “It 1s not the same thing to be shot as to be hanged. The latter mode of execution is regarded as more dishonor- able. There are, then, two kinds of deaths—one for great lords, the other for moujiks.” “Everything can be replaced except lite.” “I find it very strange that the law permits people to marry even to the third time, and not only after the death of one of the parties, but even during the life of him or her in the case of divorce. ‘What astonishes me most of all is that women make most use of the permission, notwithstanding that they make greater pretensions to constancy and morality.” “Which is the most flattering compli- ment that a lady can address to an art- ist? Is it thi: ‘Your playing has made me quite 1II'; or is it this other: ‘Your playing has completely cured me'? We often receive these two compliments, and the ladies who make them are equally grateful for having made them {ll or hav- ing cured them.” “‘An unexpected visit always has for its object an unexpected demand.’ “What is the supreme object of the believer? To fulfill his duty toward his God. And that of the atheist? To fulfill his duty toward humanity. I find the latter the most idealistic, for the bellever is sure of his recompense, while the atheist has nothing to expect.” M. Saint-Saens has had a great success in Madrid, where in fifteen days the Concert Soclety gave under his direction three performances entirely devoted to his works. The firat, which took place in the hall of the Prince Alphonse Theater, comprised “Phaeton,” the prelude to the “Deluge,” the “Breton Rhapsody,” the Symphony in A minor, of which two pleces were encored, the “Danse Mac- abre” and the airs of the “Stephen Mar- under the stars and stripes living in communities where only the parental tongue is used, and who never come into any useful knowledge of the English language. For these people, as well as for the newly arrived, a separate maga- zine in their own languages, yet all tend- ing to explaln American institutions, may me a vast power for good citi- zenship.—Boston Transcript. ———— SONG. A spirit haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers; To himself he talks; For at eventide listening earnestly, At hi ou hear him In the w-.lk.’;: .- e Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the moldering flowers; Ee l.lfl ‘k’ damp and hnul;"d, and close, a sick man’s room when he tak pose An hour before death; i My very heart faints a&nd my whole ieves soul &ri At the moist, rich smell of the rotti And the breath o I Of the fading edges of box beneath, And the year's last rose, Heayvily hangs the broad sunflower er its grave {' the earth. so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. —Tennyson. —_———— ° NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. Lieutenant Olofsen, the Danish ex- plorer, will next year fit out a new ex- pedition to the Pamir regions in order to make geographical and ethnological in- vestigations. Miss Lydia Bustis, niece of James B Eustis, ex-Embassador to France, is pre- ¥afl:g’ to s,s': a series of recitals in New ork in conjunction with the Adam Quartet of Boston. Pl H. 8. Townsend, who fo Black Hawk war when he :i:xtlih;egl{: old, and was a life-long and intimate friend of Lincoln and Grant, is lving at Maryville, Me,, hale and hearty, at the age of 83 years. A new issue of postage stamps will be made in Holland to commemorate the coronation of the young Queen next year. Professor Stang has been commissioned to paint her portrait, which will be used as the copy for these stamps. General George A. Forsyth, U. S. A., retired, has been in New Yark City late- ly, arranging for the production, at a leading theater, of a play he has writ- ten. The plece, which is a four-act soclety play of modern life, was begun by General Forsyth several years ago, while on the frontier. —_——— Stop that cough with Low's Horehound Cough Syrup; price 10c. 417 Sansome st, * ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE OLD BfiIDGE—JA S., City. The old bridge between Third and Fourth streets was remgvemg%, CUBAN LEAGLU ‘W. H. N., Eureka, Cal. _The head of the Cuban League In San Francisco is Faust E. Mascherini of 718 Greenwich street. ROAD—F., Farmers’ Cal. The Post-street an Francisco was opened POST-STREET Home, Visalis cable road in on the 18th of August POLAND-CHINA HOGS—J. It W., Nor- dvke, Nev. For information about Po- land-China hogs address a communica- tion to the editor of the Butchers’' and Stockgrowers’ Journal, this city. SALIC LAW—S., Hueneme, Cal. The law that you refer to is the Salic law of France, not of England. You will find that law in the ninth edition of the En- | cyclopedia Britannica. | ROSEBERY—A. S. S, Sulsun, Cal Had you been a close reader of Answers | to Correspondents, as you write you are, vou would have seen the answer to your question in the issue of December 25, 1897. FLOW OF WATER—A. S. W., Suisun, Cal. The flow of water increases ome- fifth in every twenty feet of fall. Water flowing through a pipe doubles its ca- pacity with every eighth of an inch of increase of pipe. THE NAVY—A. W. T. Weimer, Placer County, and K. O., Oakland, Cal. An in- dividual desiring to enlist in the United | States navy at this time should make ap- pilcation on the ship on which he wishes to sail or address an application to the commandant of the Mare Island station Those wishing to enter the navy as ap- prentices should apply at the recruiting ation for such, at 10 California street, | San Francisco. A PATENTED ARTICLE-L. M. E, City. If you desire to know If an article has been patented go to the reference room of the San Francisco Free Public Library and there you will find all the Patent Office reports on file, and by ex- amining them you will be able to learn if the gflrti!"\ has 'ht:"n patented. This department d t know of any such manufactory you inquire about, and if it Gid it would not advertise it in the depariment, is maintained for the purpose of rting _information. but not for advertising individuals or firms. T e PEARY'S METEORITE. By the way, Lieutenant Peary's *“‘me- teorite” is still on sale. Good fron ore is worth in Egland some 11 shillings a ton; metallic iron sells at about 5 shillings a ton. So, taking the latest statement as to the weight of this “meteorite,” it may be worth £250. Metallic iron is not a very valuable commodity in either England or New York; so that it ap- pears a pity to have deprived the Green- landers of what, according to Peary, was sent to them as an iron mine directly by Providence from the heavens. That the block is a meteorite is open to question. The Greenland basalts contain a percent- age of metallic iron in what petrologists | call the “interestitial groundmass” of the rock. This appears to owe its presence there to the reducing action of beds of carbonaceous material, with which the molten basalt came into contact. There have recently been described several in- | stances of the segregation of the ferru- | ginous constituents of molten rocks into great masses. It is probable that Peary’s | block of jron was formed in this way, | and is of purely terrestrial origin. 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