The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 189S. FRIDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. " LEAKE, Manager. ““hddress All Communications to W. S PUSU&ATION OFFIEE ...... .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)!s served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .... ++.....908 Broadway Eastern Representa , DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 930 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 untii9o'clock, 1505 Polk street open until 9:30 o'ciock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. At Gay Coney Island,” to-morrow night. ong and Lecture Recitals. Alcazar— The Girl T Left Behind Me.” Morosco’s—"The District Fair.” Tivoli— Mother Goose.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—The Thalla German-Hebrew Opera Company. The Chutes—Vaudevill Oberon—Cosmopolitan Orchestra. Ingleside Track—Races to-d: Coursing—Ingleside C Cooper Medical Coliegs rsing Park, 1o-morrow afternoon. Lane Lectures. By Sullivan & Doyle—This slon street, at 110 By Killp & C Ness avenue and ) off? THE SOUTH AND THE FAIR. OMMENTING upon the celebration of the C Golden Jubilee and the coming mining ex- position the Redlands Citrograph expresses the belief that these things will be good for San Francisco, but asks “Where does South California get Answering the question according to its own no- tion, it says: “South California has not one particle of direct benefit to gain through this proposed fiesta and but the merest trifle in indirect benefit.”” Then to prove the truth of this extraordinary assertion it adds: “Days and nights have we sat in the Occi- dental, the Grand, the Palace and other hotels in San Francisco and told mining men of experience of the vast mineral wealth of South California, not alone gold, but silver, and iron, and borax, and salt, and asbestos, and laminar mica, and petroleum and asphalt and many other mineral and non-mineral substances, and have been met with contempt that we could be crazy enough or ignorant enough not to know that the ‘mother lode’—whatever that may be—‘broke off’ some 300 miles north of here and no precious metals ever were or ever could be tound south of that ‘well defined’ point. And San Fran- cisco does not to-day recognize South California as a gold or silver producing region.” If any considerable number of people in the south hold the dolorous creed propounded by the Citrograph they will come near proving the asser- tion that South California will have no benefit from the mining exposition by the simple neglect to seize the beneficial opportunities offered. In the swift ad- vance of the State in all lines of enterprise at the beginning of the new era of prosperity there will be no inclination on the part of any to stop and con- dole with those who stand aside swear. to criticize or Prosperity will be only for those who join the movement and keep up with the procession. The editor of the Citrograph has been unfortunate if in sitting in the hotels of San Francisco he has found no man who would take an interest or place confidence in his stories of the bountiful mineral resources of the south. Perhaps if he had made his talk in places where San Franciscans resort to do business instead of in the lounging places of the hotels where rural roosters come to acquire style and have adventures he would have had better luck. There is many a capitalist in this city who has made investments in the south and found them profitable, and reports of their experience have made the wealth of that section better known here than the Citro- graph thinks. If, holever, San Francisco people are really ig- norant of the extent of the richness of the southern mines it is surely time for the southern people to enlighten them. Nothing can be gained by sitting down on undeveloped mines and swearing at met- ropolitan ignorance. The only proper course to pursue is for the south to send to the mining expo- sition such an array of exhibits as will open our éyes to the truth and excite our minds with ad- miration. If this is done there will be no further question as to where South California is to get off. She will not get off at all, but catch on, stay on and share in all the benefits the new gold excitement “promises to every enterprising and rich mining dis- trict on the Pacific Coast An unknown man has been killed at Martinez by an officer. His crime was that of being a tramp. In the category of crimes there are worse offenses. A tramp has even been known to be such against his own desire and in spite of desperate effort. The officer may have been justifiable, however, for tramps do questionable things occasionally, and yet the chances are that the slayer would be sleeping more soundly o’ nights if he had not felt impelled to take a life which seemed to him at the time to be of little value. That one member of the Salvation Army at San Bernardino turns out to be a burglar 1s no possible reflection upon the organization. But his haste to be convicted 5o as to return and resume the preach- ing of the gospel will hardly appeal to people of reason. Doubtless he has a mission, but it seems to be that of posing as the necessary “terrible ex- ample.” According to college authority the recent killing of Manwell on the football field will have no effect on the game. The view is hardly correct. Mr. Manwell will no longer participate in the chaste joys of the gridiron, and some who saw him killed will remember the circumstance to the dampening of their enthusiasm. LS SR Actor Ratcliffe, who was in jail for the beating of his wife, has established a reasonable doubt and is at liberty. There had been before a very reason- able doubt, but this was as to whether the sentence given, being only six months, was long enough. REFORM THE CRIMINAL CODE. HE Durrant case has gained such wide no- Ttoricty and the vicissitudes and changes which it has undergone have been so dramatic that it may- be made to serve some purpose besides that | of satisfying the unwholesome taste for the morbid and abnormal. For nearly three years some phase of this case has been before the public. Of that necessity which cannot be avoided, it has been in some form in every newspaper. In some of them, however, it has appeared with unnecessary frequency, or has been written up so as to wring from it every possible ab- normal and crime breeding suggestion of which it was capable. It has been used in pictures and text by such papers with an ingenuity sometimes hellish to touch into diseased and dreadful activity any germs of erotic crime that might be latent in the community. These papers have reveled in the spume and feculence and foulness of it and have scattered broadcast every suggestion which can serve as a mental ferment for the perversion and undoing of the weak and wayward. The case has been made to be a moral pestilence, a psychopathic infection, incapable of being quarantined and against which no lustration could prevail as long as the sensational press had the excuse of parading it as news because of its constant recurrence in the courts. Observing this, those members of the community who have noted the spread of moral gangrene, losing their judgment, have accused the courts of being the septic centers of the contagion, and the bench has lost standing as a result. Probably no other matter ever made the subject of judicial inves- tigation has inflicted as much harm in the form of damage to morals and loss of respect due to the courts as this. Therefore, before the lesson passes and is overgrown by some other grewsome sensa- tion let the only possible virtuous use be made of it. The courts are not to blame. They are created to administer the civil and criminal code. The rights of a man accused of crime begin in the Fed- eral constitution and lie embedded in the statutes. These being constitutional, the courts are bound by them. If a lawyer choose to use his case as an ad- vertisement of his aptness in getting time, gaining delay and balking justice in a labyrinth of techni- calities, armed with the Criminal Code he has the courts at his mercy. He has also the admiration of a certain section of the community if his case be capital and capital punishment be hanging. So it happens that not only in California, but in other States, justice lags. The tenderness shown by the law for the innocent, falsely accused, has erected a system of statutes and produced a line of decisions which render punishment of the guilty difficult and tedious. Those who make it their business to decry and defame the Federal courts have fed their grudge on the Durrant case. But those courts cannot bar the presentation of a case before them, nor can they in the first instance, if a Federal question be alleged, prevent an appeal to test its existence. Without at present pointing out the particulars in which amendments to the statutes may be had, we call attention to the need of such statutory re- form as will repress crime by its prompt punish- ment rather than encourage it by delays which the innocent do not need, but which avail the guilty in various ways and recruit the criminal ranks by sug- gestion. The ends of justice and the ends of morality are to be served by such reform. In not a single aspect is crime a desirable presence. Nelther in repen- tance nor in punishment does it teach. “The way of the transgressor is hard” may be written on the lintel of every prison and carved on every gallows, and yet that way will be trodden to the end by those who believe themselves exceptions to the hard rule that has dominated those gone before in the same path. Moral diseases have their origin in pathogenic germs as certainly as do physical disorders. We ex- pend large sums in the sanitation of our cities, the destruction of foul and noisome things and in a proper drainage and disinfection of sewage that the germs of fever may be prevented. The purpose of the Criminal Code should largely be a moral sanitation. Give the wrongly accused opportunity to prove his innocence, but when judg- ment has fallen upon the guilty put the noisome matter away; get it out of sight and out of mind and thereby purify and keep clean the minds in which the subtlest of natural laws has,lodged the capacity to catch disorders by contact. HOT TIMES FOR PENSION ATTORNEYS. NLESS all indications fail, one of the liveliest U fights in Washington this winter will be made over the zlleged “pension scandals,” with pension attorneys in the middle of the scrimmage catching kicks and licks from both sides. H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, desires the pas- sage of a law to the effect that in future no fee shall be paid to any attorney or claim agent for any claim filed for pensions, and as he is reputed to be a good hard fighter the chances are he will either get such a law or know the reason why. In a recent statement on the subject Mr. Evans says: “The ordinary pension attorney is worse than the most pestiferous ‘varmint’ that ever invaded a hen roost.” It should be remembered that Mr. Evans is a resident of Tennessee and in that State the word “varmint” is not libelous. At most the pestiferous creature referred to in the simile could be only a coon, a possum or a skunk, and as the phrase is expressly applied not to extraordinary attorneys, but only to the ordinary ones, there can be nothing in the epithet which a jury would con- sider derogatory to the reputation of the person accused. Passing from phrases to facts, the Commissioner 2sserts that under the present law the Government virtually pays a bounty of $25 to the pension attor- ney for every pensioner who can be induced to file a claim that can be proven up and admitted. Under this system there have gone into the business up® ward of 50,000 pension attorneys, and according to Mr. Evans “they are practically so many drum- mers—soliciting agents—that do nothing but hunt up claims and claimants for the Pension Bureau.” The country will be glad to have this issue probed and thoroughly investigated by a Republi- can administration. The work of reforming abuses in the system, if abuses exist, should be entrusted to the party that framed the pension laws and is known to be loyal to the brave men who saved the Union at the peril of their lives. The pension roll was de- signed to be a roll of honor and should be kept so. Henry Clay Evans is one of the men who fought for the mation during the war and after its close went South to maintain the cause of reconstruction and liberty against Bourbon hate and intolerance. He has shown himself to be a faithful and coura- geous man in many posts of duty, and if he has now good reason for believing that the honorable pensions bestowed by a grateful country upon de- serving veterans are being distorted to the use of fraudulent claimants the sympathy and support of the people will be with him in his new contest to uphold the right and redress the wrong. fl a newspaper whose purposes are insincere. 4 The Mission street boodler is anxious to get a “cinch” into the proposed new charter which will compel the Southern Pacific to offer it another “ad- vertising” contract. It is aware of the fact that the corporation never advertises unless coerced, and it knows of no better way to coerce it than to secure the adoption of a provision in the charter which will threaten to confiscate its property. Hence the sup- port it is giving to the proposition to forfeit, upon their expiration; the franchises of the Market street railway system. In an attempt to show this boodle sheet that it is throwing its energy away we said the other day that no such “cinch” could be valid for the reason that, being in conflict with a State statute providing for the sale of railroad franchises, it would be un- constitutional. 'Our motive was kindly. Having no objection to the boodle sheet again entering the employ of the railroad monopoly, we intended merely to direct its mind into more promising chan- nels, for it is certain that it will never get another “advertising” contract by threatening the forfeiture of the franchises of the Market street company. But our kindness seems to have been misplaced. The boodler denounces us as a corporation organ and says that we know less law than necessity, which knows no law. Nevertheless, we must insist that the boodler is wasting its time. Section 8 of article XI of the con- stitution provides that “any city * * * may frame a charter for its own government consistent with and subject to the constitution and laws of this State,” etc. This section has never been modified A SILLY BOODLER. S a general thing it is useless to argue with or repealed. The amendment of 1805, providing that charters shall be supreme in “municipal ai- fairs,” does not apply. Selling railroad franchises is not a municipal affair. The State owns the streets. At common law the King held the fee simple of all the highways, and our King is the State. The use of the streets and the authority to improve and maintain them is granted to the city by the State, which creates the city and from which it derives all its powers. The State having passed an act establishing a uniform rule for the sale of railroad franchises covering its own property, all charters must bé consistent with it. Davies vs. the city of Los Angeles the Court decided that the charter of that city must be controlled by a general law providing for the open- ing, widening and extending of streets. Why must not the charter of this city be controlled by a general law for the sale of railway franchises? But of what use is it to call the Mission street boodler’s attention to law? The last things in the world it cares about are statutes and Supreme Court decisions. What it wants is a “cinch” which will compel the railroad monopoly to “advertise.” The recollection of that $30,000 contract must linger in its memory as the perfume of new-blown roses is said to hang around Paradise. However, there is no question whatever that in this matter of franchises the boodler is wasting its words. That matter contains none of the elements of a good “cinch.” The power to make it effective does not reside in the Board of Freeholders, but in the Legislature. The corporation attorneys, of whom it occasionally speaks with so much re- spect, are undoubtedly laughing at its ignorance. What the boodler should do is to go for the water and gas companies. Is it aware of the fact that Spring Valley is earning 6 per cent on its stock and that last year the Gas Company paid a million dol- lars in dividends? The Market street company earns only a miserable 25 cents a share, and that not more than once in three months. The boodler ought not to desire to fleece the poor. For men who deliberately sell diseased meat to the community no adequate punishment has yet been devised. That morally they are on the plane of the murderer there can be no question, but the dif- ficulty of tracing any particular homicide to them is apparent. To make them pay a fine out of their ill- got money falls far short of justice. At least the fine imposed should be so great that no man-killing butcher could possibly pay it, and in lieu of satis- fying the demand would have to spend in jail the rest of his unnatural days. While the threat of one city official to pull off the nose of another naturally sent a thrill of horror through the community, there is comfort in know- ing that the nose is still in place. The dove of peace lost a few feathers, but this seems to have been the extent of the catastrophe. When Secretary Gage has retired and Secretary Sherman has retired there will be a chorus of “I told you so’s” of impressive volume. But if neither of them leaves the Cabinet the silence of the prophets will be worth listening to. —_— To the unbiased observer it does not seem that putting handcuffs on a schoolboy so as to be able with a minimum of discomfort to give him a beat- ing is a plan which ought to be allowed to be habitually followed. b The public will be relieved to know that the in- terviews yellow journalism is presenting as coming from Durrant are absolutely fictitious. In spite of the means of communication which ex- §st at present between the two hemispheres, it seems that Europeans are bent upon remaining in absolute jgnorance of American affairs, says the Illustrated American. Some of the mistakes made by leading and In- fluential journals on the other side of the water In expatiating upon American problems are too absurd even to be classed in the category of humor. In this nnection it is interesting to quote some few ex- from the Petit Parisien. This newspaper Iis mx)bll-hed in Paris, and has a daily circulation of 000 copies. Such a newspaper may not improperly be taken as a falr exponent of Parisian sentiment. With respect to the war power of the United States this paragraph occurs in the paper: “The United Btates hag no war power. Its navy is composed of a ‘ew modern ships, which cannot put out to sea, and ts army, or, rather, what is so called, is made :&or 8 great many generals and a few n and Indian , without arms or d.lsclg)llm." fl?flhflflm de- clares that “either Japan or Spain would find the task of vanquishing the presumptuous Yankee easy enough.” Such ignorance as statements like these clearly Imply is without excuse, even among the lowest class of ropeans. who never travel and know but little of what is ng on in and around them. But for utter nongense s statement caps the climax: ‘‘Canada Is, indeed, a great country, and roud of having been the birthy Washington.” Still PBuropean ignorance is disclosed in the followh ph: “The city of Eureka sprlnf-. one of the 08t beautiful towns of far Arkansas, lles on a beau- ful bay of the Pacific n."” Were it not for the fact that the United States is confessedly one of the Breatest mwen on the globe, such ignorance in re- mrd to this country might well cause us to stop and m'l;.l; but as this ignorance spi solely from In the case of | Supreme | BALLOON MADE Herr Schwarz of Agram built a cyl the balloon was 134 feet long, 46 feet weighed only 5720 pounds. The trial trip was made at Berlin after the in- ventor's death. The ship was wrecked, material for use in balloon construction. \ Al A2/ X\ OF ALUMINUM. indrical airship of aluminum. Aithough igh and 42 feet 7 inches wide, it but the officers of the Royal Prussian navigation office say that the test proved the suitability of aluminum as a ation. We concur with the former. grossest lack of judgment or the PSS Sa R e e s s s s o o o e e e e e e e e e e e S S S UNION SAILORS CENSURE FITZGERALD. Coast Seamen’s Journal. Several of the newspapers of Californla and a number of the trade unions In that State have expressed their dissatisfaction with the attitude of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald toward the question of Hawaiian annex- Mr. Fitzgerald supremest shows elther the contempt for his office. Whichever way we look at It, we cannot help feeling that that gentleman is providing a stronger argument in favor of abolishing his office than any of its open enemies have yet been able to construct. PEIPIPIIP 0000000000000 00000000000 0000000000000 GOOD THINGS IN NEXT SUNDAY’'S CALL. F you took any interest in Li Hung Chang’s remarkable trip around the world you probably remember that he freely visited every city on his direct route, but that when he started west from New York he took the great- | est pains to avoid San Francisco. | Why? ) He was warned that he would be assassinated by a powerful society in that city, a society whose mem- | bers reach around the globe and who are banded together for one | certain object. | So dangerous is that organiza- | tion considered by the Chinese Gov- | ernment that every member caught | is swiftly beheaded. A Call yepresentative has joined this society, and he thrillingly re- lates his weird initiation amid gruesome surroundings, and tells of the object of this remarkable organization. Nothing like it on this continent has ever been described. Read this dramatic story in The Call and you will learn of things == more strange than have ever been set forth in stories of meetings of nihilists, Ku-Klux-Klan and the like. Nearly a month ago an industri- ous grave digger unearthed about 50,000 skeletons on a supposed pre- historic battlefield in the Mississippl Valley. Scientists considered this a remarkable “find” from an eth- nological point of view. A Califor- nia miner has just upturned to the light some forty skeletons that from a scientific point of view com- pletely eclipse everything found on that prehistoric battlefield. Read next Sunday’'s Call and you will learn about the wonderful things that this Californfa miner is bring- ing to light in the Sierra foothills. Richard Roe and H. O. Hoe have always led notable lives in a legal way, but their troubles, adven- tures and shortcomings are scant and barren compared with the eventful career of one John Doe. If you don’t belleve it read what Judge John Hunt has to tell of the lneage, life and quaint sayings of this historical character. In the rush of events Thucydides, Pliny, Gibbon, Macaulay and Bill Nye somehow overlooked the agile John Doe, but he is properly pinned down in black and white at last, and if you look at next Sunday’s Call you'll see how very cleverly it has been done. Lord Kelvin, the greatest Mving scientist, also tells about his fa- mous “vortex"” theory and gives his ideas on gravitation and the abso- lute zero point. The article con- tains a number of things most in- teresting to those who are fond of mnatural science. These are only a few of the many good things in the budget of next Sunday’s Call. If you want the best and brightest news of the day; if you want to know what is “‘the latest” in books, society, fashions and in the theatrical and musicai world, READ NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. ———— UNCLE SAM'S GROWING NAVY. The present strength of the United States navy Is officially stated at 140 vessels of all kinds, including nine first- class battle-ships, two armored cruisers, six double-turreted momitors, thirteen single-turreted monitirs, thirteen uapro- tected ci and ten gunboais. It is gratifying to learn that the number of steel torpedo-boats has been increased to twenty-two.—Globe-Democrat. ————— Low's Horehound Cough Syrup cures bronehitis; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. * COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS W. H. McKenzie, the Fresno banker, is at the Lick. George E. Goodman, the Napa banker, is at the Palace. J. Norton, a business man of San Jose, is at the Baldwin. F. C. Lusk, a Chicago lawyer, is stay- ing at the Palace. J. D. Biddle, a banker of Hanford, has gone to the Grand. J. M. Williams, a mining man of New- man, is at the Lick. A. L. Nichols, an attorney of Chico, is a guest at the Grand. C. W. Miller, a Chicago capitalist, is a guest at the Baldwin. H. C. Evans, a business man of Louis- ville, is at the Palace. A. J. Pllisbury, a newspaper man of Tulare, is at the Grand. 3 E. M. Carlus, a mining man of Grants Pass, Or., is at the Russ. B. Benjiman, a business man of Ta- coma, is at the Occidental. L. S. Gray, a Fresno raisin packer, has registered at the Occidental. E. 8. de Galyer, a mining man of Los Angeles, has arrived at the Palace. “*oooooeeseessesee The show held at_the California A BIT OF Theater for the advertisement of SOLDIERLY b society and inci- IT. dentally for the e benefit of the ®-¢-**- Children’s Hospi- tal gave occaslon for a rather clever bon mot on the part of General Warfield. Some real militia soldiers took part in the performance and Impersonated vet- erans with a flerceness which would have put the old original of '61 to blush. The officer warriors of this gallant brigade, when not on the stage, were accustomed to deposit their hats with a boy, who would write thelr names on a card and attach the card to the top of the hat. A young lady passing with General War- field and seeing one of these pieces of pasteboard sticking amidst the feathers which surmounted a bit of martial head- gear, asked what it was. “That,” replied her witty escort, “is Colonel Z's nom de plume.” Frank J. Carolan came up from Bur- lingame yesterday and registered at the Palace. Colonel J. A. Hardin, the Santa Rosa capitalist and stockraiser, is a guest at the Russ. Dr. H.. W. Taggart of Stockton has been In the city visiting his old class mate, Dr. Charles V. Cross. C. C. Crow, the owner of Crows Land- ing, is registered at the California. Mr. Crow leaves to-morrow for Klondike, go- ing by way of Seattle, Ed W. Dunn, the advance agent of the Courted Into Court company, which was booked to open at the Columbia, is at the Baldwin. Mr. Dunn arrived in the city Just In time to see the fire at the theater at which his company was to appear. District Attorneys Frank D. Ryan of Sacramento and B. A. Harrington of Santa Clara County, and Sheriffs G. S. McKenzie of Napa, John Burr of Los Angeles and W. C. Conway of Placer County, have come up to witness the last act in the Durrant tragedy. They are at the Grand. >esesessesesseses To commence A the new year properly has long GOLDEN been one of the most Jealously NEW YEAR. { guarded of man's prerogatives; and the lucky individ- ual who could open small bottles on that ausplcious occasion was second only to the fellow who could open large ones. This year, however, 2 woman took a hand in the game, and not only stood for small bottles and large ones, but went the sterner sex one better and opened a gold mine. The mine opened was The Tracy mine at Angels Camp, Calaveras County, and the woman doing the opening was Mrs. Dr. Lichau, living at 423 Geary street in this city. Mrs. Lichau went to Angels Camp New Year's eve, and just as the clock struck 12 she formally chris- tened the mine. Though the company has been organized but a short time, it has enough machinery on the ground to go down 1000 feet. Much of the capital was raised in Germany through the exertions PO of Mrs. Lichau. The principai officers and stockholders are: President, T. R. Bannerman; vice-president, Mr. Reed; secretary, W. J. Miller; treasurer, Bank of California; superintendent, W. G. Drown; directors, Dr. and Mrs. Lichau, ‘W. G. Drown and W. H. Drown. F. J. McWilllams, who has been G. W. McNear’s outside man for a number of years, has left the employ of that gen- tleman to accept a very flattering offer made him by the Siebe Shoe Company. Mr. McWilliams is one of the best-known and most popular of the younger genera- tion of grain men, and will be much missed by the merchants along Califor- nia street. A party of rallroad men consisting of A. A. Mohler, general manager of the Oregon Rallway and Navigation Com- pany, B. Campbell, the company’s freight agent, R. Koheler, the Oregon manager for the Southern Pacific, C. Markam, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific for the same territory, and Carl Spuker, are in the city on business con- nected with their several roads. Yester- day afternoon these gentlemen held an informal meeting in the office of J. C. Stubbs. Nothing was done, however, be- yond discussing the affairs of the two ‘lines and talking over matters of mutual interest. Though it is whispered that the business that brings them here is to set- tle various matters on which the two lines conflict, nothing definite can be as- certained as the gentlemen absolutely re- fuse to speak for publication. The whole party is registered at the Palace. +eeeoesesesseeese The San Fran- cisco Child Study TO STUDY Club wil resume ceekly meet- CHILDREN. dental next Fri- day afternoon at 2:30. An extract from Sully’s “Study of l‘hlldhood' \\lgl be read, also an article from the l\o.r d‘ western Monthly. Mrs. Hester Harlc:rf A who is the president of the club, Is act yox Iy furthering the preparations fm; ; State meeting, in March, of the California Home and Child Study Association, tr{ which the club meeting at the Ocmt':eu\tmb is auxiliary. The membership of this ap contains many mothers and teachers 20/ all persons, whether members or nn:’. = cordially invited to attend the meetings. —_——————— NORMAL SCHOOLS. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4, lflfll&r_ Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: ?3;}_ ring to an editorial in The Call of Ty uary 1, 18%, entitled “A Plethora of "o0 mal Schools,” permit the writer, him ae a Normal graduate, a teacher of S(‘ years' experfence, with also some e% perience in the employing of teache: 4 a few words pertaining to the subject. Not only Mr. Black but other educators have on every occasion during the pnsg few years at least, whenever they coul catch the public ear, never failed to re- mind the people of the State that “xm Normal Schools were unable to supply the demand for teachers. Now every Trustee or Director whose duty it is to employ teachers has every reason to believe quite the contrary, and if Mr. Black will give us the facts upon which he based this assertion the people may become convinced. It certainly cannot be that Mr. Black has been called upon for teachers and that he and the principals of the different Normal Schools have been unable to re- spond to these calls by giving them the names of one or more good and worthy teachers. If so, these gentlemen at the heads of education in the State need only to call on any School Board. My expe- rience assures me that every board in the State has enough teachers on its sub- stitute list to fill all the vacancies that will occur during the next ten years, and besides the names of enough proficient and worthy applicants whose letters are filed away to fill all the vacancies for a succeeding ten years. Mr. Black and the principals ought to know that every year School Boards are beset with appli- cants in such numbers and to such a de- gree as to make them feel like hidiug themselves away from home to avois meeting applicants only to say “We have no place for you.” Nor can these wor- thy educators claim that the unsuccess- ful candidates for teachers’ positions are unfit for the places. On the contrary, they are oftentimes more competent than those now occupying the positions. Now either Mr. Black and the princi- pals or the people who employ teachers are wholly ignorant of the facis in the case Tn_the light of the taxpayer and of the School Trustee I belleve that there are now too many Normal Schools and too many teachers. If the Normal Schools made only good teachers they would still have capacity to suppy more than are required. For almos: every place in the business world there are two persons who could fill it, and for every vacancy there are a hundred applicants. Do the people of the State want to bur- den themselves with additional taxes, to throw more and more people into the ranks of a Jsrofesslon already very much overcrowded? It s all very well for @ man to be en- thusiastic in his_profession and want to establish more Normals, but we have heard so much of it of late that to School Boards at least it is becoming slightly nauseating, and the only thing that will cure the nausea is to hear no more of it, or hear from Mr. Black some facts to convince us that the stand he has taken is based on reasonable and sufficient grounds. It is one thing to make an as- sertion and Juite another to establish its harmony with the facts in the case. Do we need more teachers? No, most certainly not. Then we surely do not need more Normal Schools except it be to create positions for the teachers al- ready out of employment. Yours respect- fully, S. H. STRILE. ANSWERS TO___ 'ORRESPONDENTS. EUCHRE—S., ¥. In a four-handed game of euchre if the dealer turns down the trump the next player can make it, though he may not have a trump in his hand. TWENTY-DOLLAR PIECE—Mrs. A. T., Santa Cruz, Cal. 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