The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1898, Page 4

= X < THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1898. PLANS FOR CURRENCY REFORM. RECIPROCITY AND CALIFORNIA. |2SRo@iuuuooonuuy| fame, has, it Is stated, got his fiying | talist of Bast Oranse, S . suest ; § % | machine—on which he has been st "p i 4 prominent resident of .4 HE revival of trade and the gradual substitu- MONG the political affairs California will | 5 INDIVIDUAL ~ THOUGHTS, g work [oF years—go mearly perfecto® | Victoria, B. C., is at the Occidental tion of more prosperous cond:il:ions for the fl have to watch with close attention this win- | & k=3 ae:ial :agir:::::: c:m‘;):cn; :: (;he o |- Mss‘(’;n'm s::sfl:t! eg%ev?rtnevolfuethi: MONDAY. .JANUARY 10, 1898 stress and pinch that began with the panic of ter are the commercial treaties now being ar- | BY @ MODEST CRITIC. i | ket at once. His latest alaim is that he | SITT8 G0 0o days, 4 = 1803 have somewhat diverted public attention from | ranged with foreign countries under the terms of | & 4 % | has overcome gravitation by what he | ' Chauncey R. Burr, the well-known JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. v;\ddress Al Communications o W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE _Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 2I7 to 221 Stevenson stres Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .......ccoooiiiannnnnnn ....908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ... Riggs Houso €. 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll So'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st. 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 Man From Mexico.” ‘A Night in New York.” ‘Esmeralda.” Morosco's—"The Plunge! Tivoli—“Mother Goose." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—The Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Company. Oberon—Cosmopolitan Orchestra. Sherman, Clay & Co. Hall-Debut of Miss Frances Davis, Tuesday evening, January 11. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. California Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races To-day. AUCTION SALES. By Eillip & Co—This day, January 10, Horses. at corner Van Ness avenue ana Market sts., at 11 o'clock. HE new year opens most auspiciously. In fact, prospects are the brightest of any new mercial horizon appears a cloud. = The reaction in trade mentioned along in December as being al- slowly gaining force, and from all lines of goods come reports of an increasing demand for supplies. THE FIRST BUSINESS WEEK. I year for a long time. Nowhere on the com- most unprecedented for that time of the year is 1f indications for the past month are realized, 1808 | will be the liveliest business year the United States | has ever seen. The statistical showing of the country at large in 1897 is now at hand and the exhibit is gratify- ing. In failures, the year was the best ever known. | Thé total number of failures of national, State, sav- ings and private banks and loan and trust com- panies in 1897 was 103, a little more than half those of 1896, and less than one-fifth those of the panic vear, 1893. Liabilities also showed a heavy falling off, being 60 per cent smaller than in 1896 and go per cent smaller'than 1893. The number and lia- bilities, however, were slightly larger than 1804. The percentage of assets to liabilities in 1897 was only .76, the smallest reported since Bradstreet's record of bank suspensions was begun. | The bank clearings of the country last week kept | up their favorable showing, there being an increase of 23.6 per cent over the same week in 1897, only three cities of any importance showing a decrease. The great commercial cities exhibited gains rang- ing from .8 per cent (Boston) to 41.8 (Minneapolis). "The gain in New York was 29.9 per cent, in Chi- cago 39.4 per cent, and in San Francisco 31.7 per cent. The prospects for the manufacturing staples is brilliant. The feeling in cotton manufacture is re- ported beiter, while in woolens the mills are buy- ing heavily to keep abreast of their orders. The c mption of wool during the past five months has been the heaviest ever known, which is well illustrated by sales of over 7,000,000 pounds at Bos- ton alone during the closing week of the year, something unprecedented. The iron trade is en- joying an unusually fine business for the season, with excellent prospects for a still better movement ‘as the year advances. to show a marked increase. On this coast prospects are as brilliant as in the East, if not more so. Dealers in almost all lines are reporting increased demand- for goods, though there is no marked activity as yet. The possibili- ties contained in the Alaskan demand are but 6ee1.nly shown at the moment, but there will be lively times in this trade in a few weeks. The great produce staples are showing renewed life and stocks of the majority are well reduced. It only needs a little quickening in the demand for wool to start another boom in this staple. Dried fruits and raisins are meeting with more call, and at the present rate of consumption stocks of both will Le found practi- cally nil when the new crop comes forward. Hides have advanced since last review and are active ana firm at the improved quotations. The provision trade rules dull, but this is the normal condition of this market in January. Beef and mutton are strong, and hogs are slowly advancing under a growing scarcity. Hay has again crept up slightly and bids fair to do some more creeping in this di- rection. The humble potato, too, that common- place esculent which generally is the reverse of sen- sational, is slowly advancing in price under a grow- ing scarcity all over the United States. When the potato starts in to rise what possibilities are not contained in the more pretentious staples? The light rain of last week did not produce much effect on the local markets. Wheat was undis- turbed. Barley weakened, curiously enough, for the fall was insignificant in the most important dis- tricts. Hay advanced in the face of it, and oats, too, rose with light stocks and smaller offerings from the north. The butter market dropped shatply. The local financial market remains without fea- ture. For many days the Examiner had been writing funny stories about proceedings in Judge Camp- beil's court, stories designed to make the jurist smile, to woo him to mellow moods. Perhaps the jurist smiled, but he did not get mellow.. It will be long beiore the Examiner will be able to find any- thing funny in the department over which he pre- sides. The Judge is no joke. Perhaps there is something in the rumor that the Kaiser has secured a gold brick in getting the bay of Kiaochau from the Chinese, and confirmation of this will be cheerfully received. The world is just 4 mean enough to enjoy a laugh at the burglar who laboriously drills into an empty safe. —_— While the president of the gas company states freely that the gas he sells at a high rate is not un- _duly poisonous he has not been observed in any ef- fort to promote his health by breathing it. | s ficates redeemable in silver dollars. Railroad earnings continue | the statutory errors in our financial system, which all observers believed had much to do with that calamity. Panics come under all systems, but if it be possible to limit and lessen the known causes which produce them, leaving them to an entirely natural origin in the common impulses which ai- fect men in the mass to a loss of confidence and courage in the future, they will be less frequent, less distressing while they last and of less duration. The sound-money men and the fiatists alike trace cither the panic itself or its destructive duration to errors in our financial legislation. These may not have been errors in the beginning, but have become so by lapse of time and the growth of the country. The tailor who cuts a suit for a boy should not be held guilty of blundering because it does not fit the owner when he is grown to be a man. It is quite the fashion of the fiatists to rail at the Re- publican party or at the old Democracy which dis- appeared in Bryan’s shadow, because a banking and currency system quite adequate for thirty millions of people is not ample enough for seventy millions. The sound-money men waste no time in accusation, in “pointing with pride,” or “viewing with alarm,” but have set about finding a remedy, and have pro- posed their plan. Between this plan, or some one like it, and the plan of the fiatists the people will be called upon to choose next November in the elec- tion of a new House of Representatives. The plan of the sound-money men should be wide- ly known, for the plan of the fiatists is kept continu- ally before the public and gains a percentage of con- verts because no other plan is kept In sight. Cali- fornia must help in the choice and decision of next November. She has in Mr. John P. Irish a rep- resentative on the Executive Committee of the Monetary Conference of the sound-money men, and in Mr. Louis A. Garnett a representative on the Commission appointed by that Executive Commit- tee, which has just reported. 4 The Commission consists of ex-Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont, General George E. Leigh- ton of Missouri, T. G. Bush of Alabama, W. B. Dean of Minnesota, Charles S. Fairchild and Stuy- vesant Fish of New York, J. W. Fries of North Carolina, Louis A. Garnett of California, Professor J. Laurence Laughlin of the Chicago University, C. Stuart Patterson, dean of the Faculty University of Pennsylvania, and Robert S. Taylor of Indiana. Every division of the country being represented, it is fair to assume that the needs of each are met and merged in the report. The plan reported by this Commission is em- bodied in a bill offered in the House by Mr. Over- street of Indiana. It deals with: | First—The standard of value. | Second—The silver currency. Third—The demand obligations of the Govern- ment. * Fourth—The banking system. To-day The Call undertakes to state the plan under the first head and will follow it until it is com- pletely before our readers. The Commission proposes to make silver certi- The people, by their Government, own a large stock of silver bul- lion, silver dollars and silver in the smaller coins, | and are therefore interested in the continued use of silver as currency, and in the maintenance of the currency at par with gold. The dollar, by reason of its bulk, has proved un- suitable and unpopular for circulation. Though transported free by the Government in order to force it into circulation, the highest sum ever in circulation was $67,000,000, and at present it amounts to $60,196,778. There are now in circulation $354,355,031 in paper notes as currency in $1, $2 and $5 bills, of which $154,065,473 are silver certificates and $199,380,558 are greenbacks, treasury notes of 1890 and national bank notes. Retiring all of these small notes except silver cer- tificates and supplying their place with such cer- tificates in the same denominations will make room for $109,380,558 of such certificates. As there are | outstanding in larger denominations silver certifi- | cates amounting to $220,205,031, their conversion into the smaller bills will leave in circulation of the, large bills only $20,815,473, to be redeemed in silver dollars when presented. The small notes in green- backs, national bank currency and treasury notes of 1890, when retired would be replaced by larger notes. When these steps are taken the currency of the country of all denominations below $10 will be silver coin and silver certificates redeemable in coined dollars of that metal and the $250 and $35 gold pieces. If it be found that parity is not en- dangered, the whole stock of 452,713,703 silver dol- lars owned by the Government may be issued in these small notes. If, however, this stock be so large as to imperil parity and put the standard of value in danger, the stock may be reduced by with- drawal and sale of the coins as buHion. This part of the plan, like all its parts, is de- clared by the Commission to depend upon inflexi- ble maintenance of the gold standard of value, as the only means of securing an ample and flexible medium of exchange. The other features of the report will be consid- ered in their order. 3 The enterprising officer who arrested a Stanford professor as a counterfeiter offered to bet $20 that he had the right man. Of course he would have lost the money, which would have made him un- happy. Now he has only to worry him recollec- tion of the fact that he put an honest gentleman in jail; which, judged by common knowledge con- cerning officers in general, will not be reckoned a burden grievous to be borne. Uruguay's President, the telegraph states, is pre- paring for an emergency. He must be a peculiar sort of official to be in need of this. Part of the duty of a President down that way is to be pre- pared all the time. The Government in Uruguay | consists of a series of emergencies, with here and there a climax. —— The man in Paris who killed a woman just after she had thrown vitriol upon him deserves well. There is no adequate punishment provided for the class of offenders to which she belonged, but in lieu of a suitable treatment for them even mere killing is better than nothing. —_— Accounts of lynching in communities ordinarily law-abiding do not form pleasant reading. In fact, there is nothing less desirable, except accounts of the manner in which criminals are permitted to escape. Thoughtiul people have figured out that there is some connection between the two. the Dingley tariff. While it is fair to assume the administration will gnard the interests of this State as well as of the rest of the Union, there is never- theless a possibility of injury to some of our largest industries unless we ourselves keep guard over them. Under section 3 of the tariff the President, in ar- ranging commercial treaties, is authorized to sus- pend duties upon argols, wine lees, brandies or other spirits, champagne and all other sparkling wines, §|ill wines, vermouth, painting and statuary. Under section 4 he is permitted, with the consent of the Senate, to reduce any or all duties levied by the tariff 20 per cent in making such treaties. It will be scen that if treaties are negotiated under section 3 the concessions granted to foreign countries will fall almost wholly upon the wine and spirit industry, and this is one in which California has a most im- portant stake. The countries that have shown most willingness to arrange treaties of a commercial kind with us are France, Germany and Italy. All of these desire con- cessions in the way of lower or no duties on wines and fraits, and Germany and France desire also a reduction of the duty on sugar. Negotiations for these treaties are now under way and of course some of the demands of the foreign countries will have to be granted. It so happens that articles of export from the three countries named come into conflict with the products of California more than with those of any other State. Many sections of the Union would willingly admit wines free of duty and sugar and fruit at reduced duties from Germany and France for the sake of obtaining markets in those coun- tries for pork, wheat or corn. The East would gain by such treaties and California would be a heavy loser. The dissimilarity between California and the East is the source of danger in this regard. Our rural products are more like those of Europe than like those of the States beyond the Rockies. The products on which they would most willingly grant conces- sions are those on which we have the most need of protection. It is for this reason that watchfulness on our part is necessary. It is clear that if we grant a free admission to the wines of Italy, France and Germany California would suffer. If we grant a 20 per eent reduction ecn sugar and fruits to those countries California would suffer. Against any propositions of the kind, therefore, the State should be prepared to act promptly and vigorously. Reciprocity is an excel- lent thing when wisely carried out, as was done by Secretary Blaing during the Harrison administra- tion, but it will be far from excellent if negotiated on terms that will give all the benefits to one section of the Union and throw all the cost upon another. B of the Democrats of Chicago will neither in- crease nor diminish his reputation. It was essentially the same as all his utterances from the stump—a distortion of fact, a misrepresentation of political opponents, an appeal to class antagonisms’ and an effort to prove that the property interests of the country are hostile to the rights of the people. Bryan declared the legislation accomplished by the McKinley administration has in no wise ad- vanced the welfare of the industries of the country. In the face of the general revival of trade and the advancing prices of the products of all forms of ru- ral industry this was a bold assertion for a man to make even at a banquet where the spirit of truth is sacrificed to the spirit of the bottle. BRYAN'S LATEST. RYAN'S. speech at the Jackson day banquet Mr. Bryan, who does not drink and was intoxi- | cated only by the exuberance of his own rhetoric, felt that he had got himself upon a dizzy height and sought for some fact to stand on. He found it in the recent reduction of wages by the New England cotton mills. Here he said is the proof that wages are going down all over the land and the manhood of the nation is being crushed by protection and gold money. It is true there has been a reduction of wages in New England cotton mills. It is equally true the reduction was forced by the competition of the cheap labor of the Southern States. Bryan has two remedies to offer—free trade and free silver. The first would expose the wage earners of every American industry to the competition of the cheap labor of the whole world. The second would re- duce the value of wages from the gold standard to the silver standard, a reduction in purchasing power equal to about 50 per cent. For a wage carner to accept either of these remedies would be like cut- ting off a leg to cure a corn. In a tirade directed at Secretary Gage, Bryan said: “He possesses a sublime faith in the super- iority of money over man, and a supreme contempt for the rights, the interests and the opinions of the people at large.” With all due respect to the dig- nity of a man who has been a candidate for the Presidency and is still traveling on it by the aid of free passes from railroad corporations, that asser- tion was positively silly. Mr. Gage no more than any other Republican believes in the superiority of money over man, but he does believe a man with- out money ought to have a chance to earn it and ought also to get good money for his work. Mr. Bryan would do well to ponder the wisdom of the aphorism of Speaker Reed: “It would be better for some men not to know so much than to know so many things that are not so.” ——— Without presuming to offer much advice to the people in the Klondike, it surely will not be amiss to suggest that some of the confidence men now bound in that direction offer fine material for the old vigilantes to use in getting into practice again, It seems almost like a waste of time for the powers to open a field wherein missionaries may teach a creed in which “Thou shalt not steal” ap- pears. The powers are not leaving anything worth stealing. —_— Dr. Wilson's scheme to provide a home for work- ing women is so reasonable and humane as to ap- peal to everybody who desires to see the world made better and happier. : Turkey is in some respects a polite nation. Once more it has been told that it must settle the claims of America. Yet nobody has heard Turkey ex- claim “Chestnuts!” —_— Gas Inspector Taylor might profitably employ some of his time in ascertaining the nature of gas. Knowledge of this kind is useful to one in his line oi business. feg=3=3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1 The annexationists must jsurely be in the last ditch. Truly enéugh, they never have had a fighting chance since the truth began to be told about the neat little schemes to abandon the Monroe doctrine, saddle on this coun- try a few million dollars of debts, and admit to American citizenship a horde of" coolies. There has never been a sound argument made on the side of annexation, for the very good reason that mone can be made. We have, nevertheless, heard some erratic views on the question. For instance, Senator Morgan was recently reported as say- ing that he saw a revolution approach- ing in Hawaii {f annexation were not accomplished, and therefore it was sup=- posable that in his mind it was neces- sary to hurry up with the diabolical job. What occult power the Senator has I know not, but he saw anything but revolution some months ago when he was there. The situation may have changed materially since then, but if 80 we have heard nothing of it on the Pacific slope. What we shall 1 by letting the Hawaiian people adied to their own affairs is not apparent. Again, this prominent Democrat an- nounced on the occasion when he honored us with his presence and opin- ions as one reason for annexing the Sandwich group that when he was in Honolulu he saw no great opposition to annexation shown by the natives. That is a very strong argument on his chosen side of the case clearly enough! I have no desire to lampoon this distinguished gentleman, but if he will hie him to Patagonia he will find no great opposition on the part of the Patagonians to become free and en- lightened American citizens. Let us proceed, then, with all due celerity to annex Patagonia, and in heaven's name let us fortify it too. We shall surely have to fortify the Hawalian Islands if we are to make them part of American territory. Driven by ridicule and fair argument from the position which it has main- tained as to the commercial and stra- tegic value of these islands to us, the Chronicle has fallen back on the salu- brity of the climate as a reason for an- nexation. At great expense, doubtles: it has added to its staff an astronomer and a meteorologist for the purpose of ttaching the public that heat is felt in direct proportion, the world over, to the height of the mercury in the tube of a thermometer; that trade winds are unvarying, and that the sun's ecliptic has recently been changed for the benefit of annexatjonists only. The meteorologist has probably never been outside of San Francisco or he would know that radiation and humidity have as much to do with oppressive heat as has the amount of heat emit- ted by the sun’s rays. To illustrate: I have found the heat much harder to bear in New York with the thermome- ter at 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade than I have in Calcutta when the temperature was 100 or over. This scientist would find also, had he the necessary experience, that trade winds do fail, and those of the North Pacific Ocean are least of all to be relied on. But the statement by the astronomer that the sun is never vertical in Ha- waii, already referred to I believe edi- torially, is most comical of all. Burn- ham and Barnard have vowed that places between a line drawn 23 degrees | and 28 minutes parallel to and north of the equatorial line and a line drawn in like manner at a similar digtance south of it have the sun in the zenith twice in his yearly course. But, then, Pro- fessors Burnham and Barnard may have been wrong, and they were not interested in annexation anyway! So how could they know? Sensible ar- guments on the annexation side truly | grow apace. The “tempest in a teapot” in the Ori- ent seems to be over. It has, as usual, preduced some remarkable cablegrims from foreign correspondents of the Creelman type. (By the by, what has become of this interviewer of Kings, Princes, Sultans and Popes?) A few days ago we were seriously told that England had ‘“ordered out the naval reserve on the China station.” That would be a fighting force of about ten men—at most twenty. The English naval reserve is mot fashioned after our plan. It is composed of sailors serving at sea regularly, who are drilled on board a Government vessel or at a shore battery a specific num« ber of days in each year. It is seldom that any ship has among her crew more than two men of this reserve, and I doubt much if there are forty to be found in all the British shipping in this port. Now that the trouble over the Chi- nese territory is apparently at an end let us see what probably caused all the fuss. It was something like this: Ger- many applied to China for the privilege of a coaling station on the Chinese sea- board. The request was refused. It was again urged and again refused, and then pressure was brought to bear. Most of the other great powers have facilities in the Orient that Germany did not possess, and she had a perfect right to ask the courtesy. It is more than probable, too, that she offered to lease the land she wanted at the begin- ning of the negotiations. That the Chi- nese were alarmed. at the landing of German marines is easily credible, their late experience with Japan being still fresh in memory. Fearing further dis- aster she gave way. The idea of John Bull negotiating an $80,000,000 loan for China was proof enough that there was to be no dividing up of Chinese terri- tory, and that peace was well assured. Mr. Bull is a pretty astute and a very careful financier. Professor John W. Keely, he of motor guammaimwsssunuamunasususasusflsmmusu DESERVES CREDIT FOR THE DEPARTURE. saying with the poet— BRBBRBBBRBE N ERRRER | States. Oakland Enquirer. “It is by design, and after mature deliberation, prints the story of the Durrant execution without any and with no attempt at embellishment of the plain facts.” The Call of this morning, and it deserves credit for its departure from the usual custom. Whatever one's calm judgment of the merit of capital punishment may be, whenever he sees in a newspaper a pic- ture of a man on a scaffold with a rope around his neck, he feels like “The n.llow-‘ tree! e Breath of Christian charity, Blow and sweep it from the earth!” NN NNNENENERNNNRNNRNNRRRNEERS < calls “sympathetic outreach.” Theterm is not explicit to the ordinary mind, but Don John W. Keely is no ordinary man; he is a gerius, as the New York Tribune pointed out in a very humor- ous editorial many years ago. At that time it was the wiggle motion of the gilder fluke for his motor that this in- ventor depended on for success, which is not much more understandable than is the sympathetic outreach. Some of the Tribune's editorial is well worth quoting, for it may guide investors when Dr. Keely’s prospectus reaches this coast. Among other things it said: “When Dr. Keely is called upon by some doubting stockholder to explain the workings of the motor he is all smiles, and conducting the victim into the presence of the machine he says: ‘You see, my friend, the way we op- erate the motor is this: Taking hold of the lever we pull it toward us. "This causes the small flip-flap to be with- drawn, allowing the flibber-snatcher to fall into its place on the rairod. As soon as this happens it acts directly on the slam-bang, causing it to make a half revolution and start the get-up- and-get motion of the flunker-flopper which in turn communicates its energy to the wapper-chock. After these things have run for about five minutes they cause the jig-jag valve to turn and the asthmatic gas to flow through the pipe to the cylinder and gives the. wiggle motion to the gilder-fluke. That's the point we are striving after—the wiggle- motion of the gilder-fluke. Why, my dear sir, without the wiggle-motion of the gilder-fluke you wouldn’t think of putting your money into the motor. But with it, sir, we are—eh? another share? All right, come into the office and I'll have it made out for you inside of a minute.” Mr. Keely's mental endowments seem to run in particular lines. He appears to have no mechanical ingenuity, his strong point being his ability as a col- lector. He has one of the largest and best arranged collections of other peo- ple’s money to be found in the Unitea Having during a fit of tempo- rary insanity constructed a machine | that no power on earth can start he now sits down calmly and allows this same mechanical nightmare to make his living for him. This is genius. The man who can create a company stock in which is placed among the holder’s liabilities when he fails, and then con- tinues to sell this stock every day, is doing something that ordinary men of talent cannot do. He has risen above them. This is John W. Keely. He toils not, neither does he spin; but he has got a hysterical collection of crooked pipes and lop-sl'ded wheels tied up in | his back room that extract the reluc- tant dollar from the pocket of avarice without fail. And there is little doubt but that his flying machine with its *“sympathetic outreach” will continue the good work | of keeping Professor Keely in royal style—the work so ably begun by the wiggle-motion of the gilder-fluke. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS C. V. Trust, a Boston capitalist, is at the Palace. H. W. Crabb, a vineyardist of Oakville, is at the Grand. Dr. F. P. Mitchell, a physician of Red- ding, is at the Grand. W. J. Conners, a leading New Yorker, is a guest at the Palace. L. F. Barnes, a leading business man of Redding, is at the Grand. F. Payte, a grain man of Marysville, ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. F. A. Boole, a lumber man of Sanger, is among the guests at the Grand. ‘W. F. Robinson, a mining man of Moke- lumne Hill, is staying at the Lick. J. M. Errill, a well-known New Yorker, | will be at the Baldwin a few days. B A gentleman who has been i REMARKABLE f for many vears interested in the FEATS trade between z OF.DIVING. } tnis port and the | 4 jslands of the * Pacific is stay- ing for a few days at-one of our leading hotels. Yesterday in speaking of the pearl fish- eries to some friends he said: “The most remarkable thing to my mind about the natives of those islands lying along the line of the equator is their ability as di- vers and the length of time they can stay under water. “In the lagoons of these coral atolls, where the pearl fisheries are carried on, it is no uncommon sight to see the whole village—men, women and children—in the water at one time, diving for the prec- ious shell. . “The average depth to which the full- grown diver descends is from fifteen to twenty fathoms, though a plunge of twenty-seven or twenty-nine fathoms is an occurrence so common as to excite no comment. The time spent under the water is from three to five minutes. “The greatest dive I ever heard of was made by a prisoner from the Marquesas, who went down thirty-six fathoms to res- cue a native who had become exhausted and unable to get up to the surface. He succeeded in the attempt and was re- warded by a pardon from the French Government.” At the Baldwin are registered Willle Collier and his “Man From Mexico.” J. R. Foote, a mining man from Mon- tana, is with his wife at the Palace. J. W. Ivy, a prominent society man of Portland, is at the Lick with his wife. D. V. Arthur, a leading business man of New York, is staying at the Palace. Hermann Stoll, a coffee planter of Cata- lina Island, is at the Occidental with his family. Lieutenant Harris Luning, U. 8. N, is in the city. He is staying at the Occi- dental. . W. H. Barrington, a well-known manu- facturer of Chicago, has registered at the Occidental. Charles F. Spalding, a well-known capi- that The Call illustrations, So says RVRBB BB BN RRRS physician of San Jose, is at the Occl- dental. He is accompanied by Mrs. Burr. D. M. Levy, a prominent business man of Vallejo, and Willlam Shaw, a well- known attorney of Sacramento, are reg- istered at the Grand. eesssosoeseees “Smiling” Ed- die Dunn, the WHY DUNN’S advance agent of the “Courted SMILE Into Court” | DISAPPEARED. ¢ Company, which is to follow Nel- lie McHenry at the California, where all the plays that were booked for the Columbia will ap- pear until the repairs made necessary by the fire are completed, arrived in this city last Thursday on the 8:45 overland train from New York. Upon leaving the boat at the foot of Market street Mr. Dunn entered an ad- jacent hack and heaving a gentle sigh of satisfaction, settled himself among the cushions and bade the jehu drive to the Baldwin Hotel. The driver, looking down from his box, cesocoecososse replied that it was impossible to get within two blocks of the Baldwin. “Why?” demanded Dunn; ‘‘don’t the Wwheels go round or has the current been shut off from the horse?” “‘Oh, the wheels are all right, and so is the horse,” answered the hackman; “but, you see, the Columbia Theater is burn- ing down just across the street and I can’t get through the crowd.” “My God! The place where I am going to open,” gasped Eddie, and then, with the famous smile supplanted by a look of agony, “Drive me to the nearest hos- pital and ring up for a priest.” —_— e ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Stephen T. Gage of San Francisco is at the Manhattan- W. P. Scott of San Francisco is at the Holland House. A. C. Hinz of San Fran- cisco is at the Belvedere. S. W. McKim of Sacramento is at the Albert. —_— ANSWERS 1? CORRESPONDENTS. HAROLD FREDERIC—Reader, Bels mont, Cal. The address of Harold Fred- | eric. the author, is, “care of the New | York Times office, London, England.” A BIG SALAR A Healdsburg, Cal. Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, as ent of that association draws a salary equal to that paid the President of the United State | i 1 DUKE OF MONTROSE—A correspon- dent of this department wishes to know in what publication he can find a poem | entitled “The Duke of Montrose.” Can any of the Readers of Answers to Cor- respondents inform him? | LEPERS — Oakland Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. The place where lepers in San | Francisco are detained is at the Twenty- | sixth Street Hospital. If you desire to | send a package of books there direct it };a]‘lhe San Francisco Health Office, City | WHIST—J. T., City. The law of whist, | 28 laid down by ‘Poole, says: “Any ! player may demand to seé the last trick turned and no more. Under no circum- stances can more than eight cards be seen during the play of the hand, viz., four cards on the table which have not | been turned and quitted and the last | trick turned.” METERS, 788—A. S., City. The gas companies demand a deposit-because it is a rule and they claim that it is to pro- tect themselves from possible loss by reason of persons moving away without settling for the amount of gas used. There is no city ordinance requiring gas companies to place meters in premises on the request of those who may wish to consume gas. MEDICINE—-M. C. M., City. It is probable that the person you cite in your | communication was suffering at the | time mentioned from the preliminary ef- fect of the disease that confined him to his room for several weeks. The drug he took did not produce the disease de- scribed. A number of physicians and druggists to whom the question was sub- mitted are of the opinion that there is {10 drug that would produce such symp- oms. 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