The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898 It 6 | MORGAN AGAIN. @’fij@ ENATOR MORGAN is making his annexation i = | speech to the Senate in executive session. THURSDAY ....JANUARY 20, 1808 is on the installment plan and will last for some JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Teleph ain 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 2I7 to 221 Stevenson strez 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 mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE..... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . .. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner 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 iLarkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open until So'clock. 9518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st; open until9 o'clock, 1505 PolK street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second end Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. .One year, by matl, $1.50 ......... 908 Broadway AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* The Man From Mexico.” Californta—“Courted Into Court.” Alcazar—+A Man’s Love" and *Forbidden Fruit” Morosco's—“The Blue and the Gray." Tivoli—“Brian Boru." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—The Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Company. ifta and Vaudeville. AUCTION SALES. By Easton & at 224 Sutter st By Willlam G. L Horses, at Occldental By Shainwaid, Buc tate, at 215 Montgomery v, January 20, Turkish Rugs, & Co.—This evening, January 20, Exchange, 225 Tehama st. & Co.—Tuesday, January 25, Real Es- ot. at 12 o'clock. “Hor: SAN FRANCISCO TO THE FRONT. I PPARENTLY for some reason, but really for /\ a lack of reason, the Chicago Inter-Ocean has been endeavoring to underrate the importance of San Francisco as an outfitting point for Alaskan and Klondike trade. In a recent issue it declared: “The Golden Gate people have been caught napping. While they have slept Seattle and Tacoma have knocked the plums into their basket. Even Port- land, Or., feeling secure in a full share of the busi- ness, has failed to advertise and is in the same con- dition as San Francisco. In Chicago and the East neither of these prominent cities is mentioned in con- nection with Alaska. It is their own fault.” 1f San Francisco is never mentioned in connection with Alaska in circles where the Inter-Ocean is read it is only because the Inter-Ocean does not publish the news, and that is not the fault of San Francisco. This city has furnished news, and lots of it, on that subject, and all live papers in the East have given their readers the benefit of it. San Francisco has sent through the East a travel- ing committee to set forth the advantages she has to coffer to all persons going to Alaska either for pleas- ure or profit. She has prepared an exposition of mines and mining that will be of immense value to ali who wish to study that industry through attractive object lessons. Her merchants and her manufac- turers have advertised extensively in Eastern papers but possibly not in the Inter-Ocean. She and her people have done all that could be expected of them to enlighten ignorance, and if ignorance remains it is clear the press of the East has not done its duty. The attempts of any paper in the East—or in the West for that matter—to underrate the prestige of San Francisco are of course unpleasant, but none the less they are evidences that we are going forward. Movement always begets opposition. Even the wind copposes the advance of one who moves rapidly, and | under its new management the Inter-Ocean is windy. By the resistance we meet we can measure the force of our motion upward and onward. San Francisco had praise enough so long as she sat idly by the Golden Gate, and she is denounced now only because she is going to the front. We can make San Francisco known in connection with the Alaskan trade even in the ignorant circles where the Inter-Ocean is read and forgotten, and we are going about it in the right way. The Golden Jubilee and the Mining Fair, taken in connection with the revived enterprise and energy of our merchants and manufacturers, are receiving large attention throughout the country. Many of the most influen- «tial papers in the East have devoted much space to these undertakings, and the city is now talked of wherever the Pacific Coast is known or the Alaskan excitement felt. It is only in certain cliques in Chi- cago that the Easterners are out of date on such subjects. o ——r It is perhaps a coincidence that the report of a Southern Pacific accident due to a defective track, and the report that the Southern Pacific was cutting down expenses by discharging track-walkers, should have appeared in the same issue of the daily papers. It will have a tendency to render economy unpopular, and economy is really a valuable thing. L K The absurd plea is made that the method of slaughtering calves by first hanging them on steel hooks thrust through close to the tendons of their legs is as merciful as has been devised. Anybody advancing such a plea might by being strung up in a similar fashion for a while be brought to a state of mind approaching the lucid. BTSN S Now that the courts have decided that a man who dies from accidentally taking poison is not a victim of accident, they should have gone far enough to let a wondering world know what did ail the man, any- how. Is there such a thing as an accident accidental enough to win the acknowledgment of an insurance company? . N L We learn with interest that a man arrested in Dixon for being drunk was taken to the town pail, and that his age was about 0o4. While these facts seem surprising they are gleaned from an evening paper which points with pride to a record for accur- acy. M S i The Golden Nugget and Jubilee edition of the Re- port appeared yesterday and fully bore out the prom- ise of being a2 good number. It contained twenty- eight pages, with many illustrations, as well as much information most appropriate at this time. Huntington’s desire to secure American registry for his ships is something which not every land lubber can appreciate. But his desire to secure American registry for the thousands of Chinese in Hawaii does not need to be explained by diagrams. The sailor who brought suit for $50,000 damages and then shipped at regular wages, letting his suit go by default, evidently indorses the common belief as to the relative value of the bird in the hand and the pair outside of it, time yet. The Senator has got through the sugar part of his argument and closed on Tuesday with blood. He insists that we want the islands in order to get cheap sugar. We pay now $100,000,000 a year for foreign sugar, every pound of which can be profitably raised by American farmers and by white labor. When the reciprocity treaty subsidized Hawaiian sugar the total island product was 20,000,000 pounds a year. It has increased now under a bounty taken out of American taxpayers amounting to $8,000,000 a year, until the crop is 330,000,000 pounds per annum. It is the habit of annexationists to say that this is a small and inappreciable amount, but in fact it is equal to half the entire cane and beet sugar product of the whole United States for the year 1896. It is wholly the result of the reciprocity treaty, which taxes American beet sugar growers to main- tain and enrich their competitors in the islands. In 1896 we produced only 52,000,000 pounds of beet sugar, so that Hawaiian planters, supported by tax- ing our producers of beet sugar, sent into their market about six times as much sugar as our beet growers produced. To say that such competition is not op- pressive of the American farmer is to utter a char- acteristic Morganism. The Alabama Senator turned from sugar to blood- shed. He assured the Senate that retusal to annex the islands will inevitably lead to an effusion of gore. Why should it, and how will it? The Senator is in the habit of seeing blood on the moon and elsewhere. With France and England already bound in a Solemn treaty to let the islands alone, and standing therefore ir line with the United States in guaranteeing their independence, what nation dare attempt to interfere? There is none that will or wishes to. England is the only power outside the western continent that can cver menace us and she has her military base on this coast at Esquimalt, in touch with coal and supplies. v would possession of Hawaii sirengthen us against an attack made from that base? Senator Mor- gan quotes Captain Mahan in favor of taking Hawaii as an ocean military base, but he suppresses that part of Mahan's argument in which he says that to take it without an extra fleet to defend it and the construc- tion of vast fortifications to protect it would be “a ruinous mistake.” If Senator Morgan intends ever to be honest with American taxpayers here is a good place to begin. Let him tell the truth, for a novelty, and tell it all, as a sort of penitential offering. Taking Hawaii means defeat of the rising hope of the American farmer as a producer; it means taking from him $4,000,000 to pay Dole’s debt, and $8,000,000 a year to pay the island planters excessive profit, and none can tell how many hundreds of millions in for- tifications and a navy. Paying taxes is a necessity and not a luxury. The | American taxpayer is apt to get too much of it. Sen- | atorial buncombe comes high, but we don’t have to have it. IS THERE ANOTHER CONTRACT ? HE fact that the Mission street Boodler and TCollis P. Huntington agree om the subject of Hawaiian annexation is a matter of more than ordinary concern to the people of California. When those worthies were last together they had a contract which contemplated the general befuddlement of the public. On its side the Boodler had agreed to abuse the Southern Pacific only so much as might be neces- sary to maintain its character as an “anti-monopoly” organ. On his side Mr. Huntingtof had agreed to pay the Boodler $1000 2 month for thirty months of | “advertising” which never advertised anything. Mr. Huntington and the Boodler got along very well for twenty-two months. Then the latter thought it saw a chance to bleed the Southern Pacific more copiously. It went over to the railroad strikers and abused the corporation far more vigorously than its “advertising” contract permitted. Thereupon Mr. Huntington struck it off the payroll. This all oc- curred in 1894. The affair was kept a profound secret by both parties for nearly a year. Then, apparently angered at the Boodler’s abuse, Mr. Huntington re- vealed the truth; the “advertising” contract was pub- lished and the Boodler stood convicted of being the most contemptible of all boodlers—namely, a boodler that will not stay bought. Of course we are ignorant of the arrangement that has now seemingly been effected between the Boodler and Mr. Huntington on the subject of Hawaiian an- nexation. - Naturally, if the latter has executed an- other “advertising” contract the fact would be kept from us. The mainspring of contracts for editorial influence is secrecy. Indeed the famous $30,000 docu- ment was, as we have already said, withheld from the public for nearly a year after the parties to it had quarreled. But we are far from considering that the feeling between the Boodler and Mr. Huntington is irretrievably hostile. The Boodler is a business sheet and constantly out for the “stuff.” Mr. Hun- tington has shown that in protecting the property in- trusted to his care he is willing to be garroted occa- sionally. What more natural, then, than that the two should get together on Hawaiian annexation? Certainly there is sufficient money in an- nexation to yield several profitable “advertis- ing” contracts. If Mr. Huntington succeed in having his foreign ships annexed he will make a good deal of money. It might pay him to hire the Boodler to advocate Hawaiian an- nexation at a higher rate per month than $1000— though we must say that in our opinion $1000 a month for its influence is a boom figure. The ques- tion of greatest moment, however—assuming that Mr. Huntington has negotiated another “advertising” contract with the Boodler—is, will the sheet stay bought? We are safe in saying that it will not stay bought any longer than that condition con- tinues profitable. But has Mr. Huntington now got it tied up so that Hawaiian annexation will yield it no more than the price we assume he has agreed to pay? ‘We discuss this thing from a moral standpoint be- cause the example of the Boodler in jumping its edi- torial contracts is calculated to reflect discredit upon boodle journalism, besides setting a bad example to boodlers generally. Colonel Mazuma has no words of contempt sufficiently withering to characterize a boodler who will not stay bought. An evening paper criticizes The Call for not having favored the “useful and handsome” tunnel under the main drive in the park. No such tunnel has ever been constructed there. The elongated hole beneath the drive is damp and unsightly, and people who walk thereabouts cannot be induced to walk through it. They prefer to cross the road at grade and take such chances as there may be. IR b There is one stép by which the Los Angeles League for Better Government could yet win respect. The possibility of disbanding is a thing to which its at- | tention is invited as worth its while to try.- THE JUTE BAG EXPOSURE. HE accounts given in The Call of the methods employed by the State Board of Prison Direct- ors in disposing of the jute products of the San Quentin institution establish one. fact beyond the peradventure of a doubt. Whether wittingly or not, it is certain that the directors have been used by the bag manipulators of the State for their own profit. The letter as well as the spirit of the Ostrom act has been violated with a frankness which is amazing. While it may be that the directors have not com- mitted an indictable offense, it is unquestionable that they have laid themselves liable to removal for neg- lect of duty. - State Prison Directors are honorary constitutional officers. They are appointed for ten years and they receive no salary. The law prescribes their duties with particularity. Among other things they are re- quired to do, astonishing as it may seem, is to at- tend to their business. The Wardens are their agents in the management of the prisons, but the Wardens have no authority to violate the law in their names. The constitution authorizes the Governor to remove them after a hearing for neglect of duty. The evi- dent intent of this provision is to make them attend to their business or resign, The most charitable thing that can be said of the present Board of Prison Directors is that they have left the duty of enforcing the Ostrom law and dis- posing of prison-made bags to take care of itself. For this the Governor is authorized and directed to deprive them of their offices. The first board ap- pointed under the constitution was removed by Gov- ernor Stoneman for offenses compared with which the placing of the product of the San Quentin jute- mill at the mercy of the Pacific Coast bag ring is as a mountain to a mole hill. The jute factory at the prison was established for the purpose of emancipating the farmers from the thralldom of the local bag manipulators. Tt has cost the State upward of a million dollars. There never was any intention of making a profit out of it. The purpose of the Legislature was to provide a means of throwing upon the market annually a sufficient num- ber of grainbags to break up the “corner” by which a few capitalists in this city used to fleece the grain- raisers of the State out of a million or so every year. For a long time the prison product effected this pur- pose. Lately, however, the bag manipulators have | been getting in their deadly work. It is the duty of the Governor to thoroughly inves- tigate this affair. The constitution, indeed, makes it his duty to do so. If he find that the price of jute- bags has been managed by the Prison Directors so as to play into the hands of the dealers—whether de- signedly or not—he should not hesitate to at once re- move them. This he owes to the farmers of Cali- fornia. THE LOS ANGELES WATER FIGHT. F the terms of a contract are binding upon the l party of the first part they are equally binding upon the party of the second part. In this fact lies the strength of the people of Los Angeles in their cffort to prevent the water company from deirauding them out of a sum but a little less than two millions. For thirty years the people have abided by the terms, although as the city grew it became farcical for them to accept $1500 annually from the corporation, how- ever fair these figures may have been for the adobe village of three decades ago. The same contract which gave the corporation the right to supply water for a term, now about to expire, stated in the plainest of words that the right would be at an end in thirty years, and that then the plant must be| turned aver to the city. Controversy arises because the corporation does not propose to be bound by the terms when they are no longer satisfactory to it. MUSIC AND The success of “Sapho” at the Opera- Comique, Paris, was enormous. Musl- cians went from all parts of Europe to Witness the first performance, and agree In pronouncing it a great work. Mas- senet’s other compositions have been so uneven as regards merit that much curi- osity was felt as to which of his other operas it would resemble. The box-office receipts are the most reliable test of a work having found favor with the pub- lic, and these have averaged for the first nine performances, with the three first devoted almost entirely to the press, 8923 francs 50 centimes for each performance, and the house booked in advance. Much of the success of the opera is due to Mme. Calve, who created the role of Fanny (Sapho). Arthur Pougin, the French critic, writes: “‘The success was brilliant —success for the composer and for his interpreters, Mme. Calve at the head. I| | and some wood. “MUSICIANS. seventeenth century, which have never been printed before and which is very curious. The first chapel of the court was constituted in 1593. It comprised a chapel master, two instrumentalists, a violinist and a lute player and eleven singers, of which three were soprano, two were con- tralto, three tenors and three basses. The | master of the chapel, who was named Hans Heroldt, received annually 57 florins (about 180 franes) with an extra florin a week for his food, and besides that, 9 floring in summer and six in winter for his clothes. And lastly, so that he might, on occasion, treat his musicians hospit- ably, he was allowed six measures of grain, three barrels of beer, some game Quite a patriarchal ar- rangement. The pay of the musicians varied from 20 to 30 florins a year; one only, one of the contraltos, named Kusch- | ler, was better paid, and received &2/ MLLE. EMMA CALVE of the Opera Comique as Sapho. have already sald what she was. She not | only sang, but composed the trying role | of Fanny as a truly great artist, showing Herself to be a clever comedian, supple, surprisingly varied and full of power, and at the same time an inspired singer of the first order. One could not be too prodigal in praising this talent, so com- plete, so rich and so true. How she was feted! what bravos! what recalls! what | acclamation: Le Petit Journal says: The duty of the Mayor seems to be to take posses- | sion of the plant at the time specified. It is in his | power to accomplish this without violence, and no | | means except such as the law provides will be neces- | sary. When he has done this the corporation can demur, and to make a showing in court will have to | state why it objects. Then the arbitration provided | for in the original contract will be inevitable, and the | people can demonstrate that the property for which | the water company demands $3,000,000 is in reality worth only a little more than a third of that sam. | Tkis has been made plain already in a thorough bat | not wholly effective way. It needs to be made a mat- ter of court record. This having been done, there will remain nothing for the company to do but accept a fair figure and retire. The situation in the southern city is peculiar. Pre- cisely the reason the daily papers there are on the side of monopoly, just why they desire the people to be fleeced for the benefit of a corporation which has been receiving immense returns on a small invest- ment, there is no necessity to discuss here. It is enough to know that the Los Angeles daily press has been wooed and won by the seductive influence of entrenched capital and that it dares not or will not say a word for the people. It not only tries to aid the water company in a scheme that is mildly to be called nefarious, but to the efforts of others to see that justice prevails responds with abuse, trying to hide its own guilt in the clamor. That it has won to its side the boodle paper of San Francisco is not sur- prising, nor does this in any measure strengthen its case. The recent offer of the company to sell does not appear to have been made in good faith. So far as known the price demanded is still $3,000,000, and that any sum approximating this will be paid is absurd. The Call expects to see Mayor Snyder faithful to his election pledges, and it therefore believes that in July the water works of Los Angeles will be in the possession of the city. Such was clearly the intent of the framers of the contract, and any violation of it must be in defiance of the popular wish and to the ignoring of all principles of equit The men who go to the Klondike and accumulate large piles of gold have reasons for being careful when they get back to civilization. There are many people so constituted that they would rather steal the dust gathered by somebody else than go up north and get dust of their own, and those people are just laying for fresh arrivals from Klondike. It really seems strange that so large a number who have been successful in the Yukon region would, had they re- mained away from the fields, have certainly blown out the gas. Sl e There is general satisfaction over the appoint- ment of Ina Coolbrith to have charge of the Mer- cantile Library. The assistant librarian, who has resigned rather than submit to what he is pleased to term petticoat government, might have retired with better grace had he omitted this remark. The sister of Uber, the man lynched in Nevada a few weeks ago, writes to his lawyer to look for his re- ward in heaven. It must be conceded that this is giving the gentleman a poor chance of collecting. It would occur to the casual observer that the Bul- letin is in a position to say but little, and say it in low tones, about the painful subject of libel | Who could believe now that at her cebut | She made that evident in “Mlle. Emma Calve seems born to inter- pret passionate roles. Grand, superb, with beautiful black eyes, which seem to | flash fire; a high forehead under thick, | Jet black hair, she did the drama itself. On the stage she was the most ardent. she was the coldest of singers, gauche and considered to be without any dra- matic talent? All at once she set out for | Italy, where she went to create ‘Caval- | eria Rusticana,’ and when she came back she was completely transformed. ‘Carmen,’ in ‘La Navarraise’ and finally in ‘Sapho.’ Conscientious to the last point, she care- fully studies the smallest detail of her roles, and afterward renders them with astonishing fidelity. She is a marvelous artist. She is also an excellent woman, simple in her tastes, charitable to those who suffer; in a word, a voice and a heart of gold.” 7 Apropos to the present craze for pro- gramme music, it is Interesting to see what Rubinstein says on the subject: “I had a strange dream. I found myself in a temple, where all the different instru- ments of the orchestra had met together, when the plano, with an arrogant air, advanced and requested to be allowed to enter. The instruments made it submit to a rigorous examination and execute after them different melodies and series of chords, after which they finished by declaring that it was not of their family. The piano at first felt very much re- buffed, and began to cry; but, taking courage all at once, it declared with pride that it was a whole independent orches- tra by itself, and did not require the other | Instruments. These, very much provoked, sent it out of the room. I have endeav- ored to render this dream musically In my third concerto (in G major). I had also intended to give an explicative ‘pro- gramme,’ but persuaded that in this kind of composition one auditor hears one thing while another comprehends some- thing quite different, I have finally re- nounced trying to express the plan of my compositions.” Wise Rubinstein! It re- minds one of the piece of music which was written to express an Englishman changing his religlon, quitting his coun- try and leaving his umbrella behind him. And his horror when it began to rain! A writer in the Menestrel speaks in the folowing terms of Alphonse Daudet, the celebrated novelist: ‘“We need not re- trace the grand literary career of the poet-novellst who has just disappeared s0 suddenly, torn from the admiration of the world, an irreparable loss to France. But we must not forget that two of his finest works have served the genius of two of our most celebrated musicians. First, the ‘Arlessiene; on which Bizet | threw the first rays of his glorious youth, and yesterday this ‘Sapho,’ by which Massenet has continued in so happy a | manner the musical series of his great works. It was this last which led us to revisit Daudet, whom we had lost sight of for many years. He was seated before his desk, -still with the beautiful Christ- like head of his early years, but the abundant hair and wavy beard were streaked with silver threads. ‘Ah, good day, friend; how goes the old house?" And the conversation continued as if twenty-five years had not elapsed since it commenced. It is only in Paris such a thing could happen. Twenty-five years in the agitated and preoccupied life we lead is like a drop of water in the ocean. And all at once death arrives. We know each other, often love each other; have the same sympathles and the same esteem, and there is scarcely time to see each other or to say what one feels. The only hope is in the hereafter.” In Germany there has lately been pub- lished a serfes of documents upon the music at the court of Welmer, in ‘the | reigning in London at present. florins, doubtless on account of her ex- ceptional talent; and this one, as well as three of her companions, received, like the chapel master, one florin a week for food. A sad condition of affairs seems to be In a let- | ter from John F. Runciman, the London | critic, the following passage occurs: “For | two or three years every musical soul has been oppressed by the number of tickets | he has been asked to take as a favor. A musical critic is sometimes appalled when he finds himself in possession of tickets for a dozen concerts on one day; but fancy the state of mind of the.ordi- nary amateur who has had the tickets sent him, generally through a friend, and who has to rack his brains for an ex- cuse for being so rude as not to attend! And the last result of all thisisthatnowa- days no one will pay to go to a recital of any sort. The public has been pauperized by free concerts! It is scarcely fair to place the entire blame for this state of | affairs on the shoulders of the piano man- | ufacturers. There are others in search of advertisment—singers, players, recit- ers—and these will buy seats if they are permitted to perform.” The fight over the fortune left by Brahms still rages, and the number of claimants increases. Hamburg and Vien- na both lay claim to it, the former be- cause he was born there, and the latter because he spent nearly all his life there, and on that account had forfeited his German nationality. The Senate of Ham- burg proposes, in case of being put in possession of the money, to devote a part of it to erect a vast monument to the composer, in one of the public places of the city. Here is certainly a bizarre pro- ject. It appears that a great city, wishing to honor a citizen, in whom it takes much glory, s willing that he himself shall pay the price of the glorification. George Thatcher, the minstrel of Prim- rose and West fame, has become a boni- face. He is proprietor of the ‘““Maple-in- the-Pines,” an Elizabeth (N. J.) hostelry. The house-warming of the Maple-in-the- Pines took place last week. Henry Russell, who will be remembered by the elder generation, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday on Christmas day, and there will be many who will be glad to hear that the veteran composer of “Cheer, Boys, Cheer,” “Woodman Spare That Tree,” “The Ivy Green,” “The Old Arm Chai: and other once popular melodies, is still in excellent health. ‘Willis B. Bacheller is planning to in- augurate a serles of song recitals to be given at his home, 1417 Clay street, the first of which will be on the evening of January 28. His programme will consist of works by Boston composers, and on subsequent occasions he will take up the works of other Americans known to the musical world. Assisting Mr. Bacheller will be five of his pupils—Miss Flora May Bristol, Miss Mindell F. Dreyfuss and Miss Mary B. Morse, sopranos; Duncan E. Smith, barytone, and Henry A. Melvin, basso. Mrs. Carmichael-Carr will also as- sist. It will be exclusively an invitation affair. The programme in full will be as follows: Bullard (a) ‘“Beams from Yon- der Star,” Beach (b) ‘‘Alone,” Mr. Bach- eller; Beach (a) “Night,” (b) “Fairy Lul- laby,” Miss Dreyfuss; Foote (a) “I'm Wearing Awa',” Johns (b) “Where Blooms the Rose,” Mr. Smith; Chadwick (a), “Dear Love When In Thine Arms,” Foote (b) Irish folk song, Miss Morse; Bullard, “Here's a Health to Thee,Rob- erts,” Mr. Melvin; Chadwick (a) “Sweet Wind That Blo' " (b) “The Danza,” Miss Bristol; Chadwick (a) ‘““As in Waves Without Number,” (b) “Was I Not Thine?” Mr. Smith; Chadwick (a) “The Columbine,” (b) *O, Let Night Speak of Me,” Foote (¢) ‘“Memnon,” Miss Morse; Chadwick, *“Bedouin Love Song,” Mr. Melvin; Chadwick, “Sweetheart, Thy Lips Are Touched With Flame,” Mr. Bacheller. “Varsity Football” is the title of a striking and tuneful march by Gertrude Voorhels, daughter of Senator Voorheis of Amador. This pretty composition has | just been issued and has already reached | a high degree of popularity among local meritorious and clever bit of work. It has all the dash and swing of Sousa's marches. The melodies are catchy, and judging from the amount of praise that has been lavished on it it is destined to be one of the successes of the season. FAREWELL TO FATHER SCANLAN. Editor San Francisco Call: The parish- foners of Sacred Heart parish of North Temescal would thank you for the use of your columns to tender to Father Mar- tin P. Scanlan this proof of their affec- tion. Rev. Martin P. Scanlan, now pastor of the parish of Dixon, has been our sistant pastor for the past three years. A big man with a big heart, he has e deared himself to everybody, from th old man to the little child, as the expre: sions of love and regret prove. Lovin and sympathetic to a fault, he has s tered among the sick and the poor u der his care a good part of the small salary he received. The splendid success of our late fair was in no small part due to his efforts, and when lately our house of worship was destroyed by fire he ex- cited our admiration by his energy in getting means to rebuild our temple of God. Our Archbishop has taken him away from us and given him a larger field action by making him pastor of the par- ish of Dixon. Tke change was sudden and unexpected and few of us could shake hands with him before he left. Therefore, Father Scanlan, through the Call, we wish you God speed. May God grant you health and strength in your new labors and crown them with success. May your new parishioners appreciate your great zeal and kindness, as do THE PARISHIONERS OF THE SA- CRED HEART CHURCH OF NORTH TEMESCAL. —_—————————— d CARD OF THANKS. Editor San Francisco Call—Dear Sir: The sorrowing parents, brothers and sisters of the young man Edgar Allen Miller, who recently died at the pesthouse in your city from typhus fever, as stated at the post- mortem examination, desire to tender, through your columns, ‘heir deep and heartfelt Sympathy with the bereaved rel- atives of the brave, self-sacrificing hero- nurse Willlam Hawkins, who so mobly volunteered to nurse our beloved boy; also to the doctors, nurses and friends, who, as we are informed, did all in their power to relieve_his sufferings and master the disease. We also thank your paper for the notices made of the case from day to day, and its showing the great wrong done in taking him from the room in St. Luke's Hospital, ; tloned quarters as to preclude any pros- pect of recovery. ‘We are pleased to learn that the health authorities caused all of his clothing and effects to be burned. Through this let- thr we hope to hear from other kind friends in San Francisco, for which we will be ever grateful. T u for this publication, I am fait Irs. R. E. MILLER Stane House, Beer, near Axminster, Dev- onshire, England’ December 30, 1597 R THE SEX OF THE ANGELS. San Francisco, Jan. 17, 1808. To the Editor of the Call—Dear Sir: In vour last Saturday’s issue, last page, in giving a description of the Breon arch, you have the following: “On the main passage is a figure of the guardian angel of heaven itself spreading her divine in- fluence over the whole structure, etc.” Now, as a matter of fact, the Bible everywhere speaks of the angels as be- longing to the male sex. In the last chap- ter of Daniel, first verse, is the follow- ing: ‘‘At that time shall Michael, the great prince (i. e., the Archangel), stand for his people,” etc. In Revelation, chap- ter twelfth, seventh verse, is the follow- ing: ‘‘And there was a war in heaven. Michael (the Archangel) and his angels fought,” etc. Michael is the protector of Germany. Yours truly, CHARLES NIEMETZ. —_——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS OPPER CENT—R. R. C., Sacramento, CAIOTA Gopper ent of 1839 does mot co 7 City. As mand a premium. TRANSPIRATION—G. M., the trouble you complain of is the result of conditions you should consult a first- class physician. THE CLAUS SPRECKELS BUILD- ING—J. S., Keswick, Shasta County, Cal. The height of the Claus Spreckels bufld- ing at the corner of Third and Market streets, in San Francisco, is 327 feet to the top of the lantern on the dome. SAMOA NAVAL DISASTER—S., City. The disaster at Samoa which destroyed a number of vessels occurred March 15-16, 1889. The American warships Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic and the German warships Olga, Adler and Eber were wrecked. THE POSTOFFICE—W. 8., City. To secure a position in the postoffice out- " side of chief clerk and cashier or laborer the applicant must take a civil service examination. Application blanks can be had from the Postmaster’s clerk at the Postoffice. - MARIE BARBERI—A. G., Pian de Dria, Italy. Marie Barberi, who was sentenced to be electrocuted in New York in 18% for the murder of her lover, had, through Susan B. Anthony and other prominent women, her sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. A FEDERAL EMPLOYE—A. J. M, City. The Collector of the Port would undoubtedly have the right to dismiss from the service a man in his depart- ment if it were proven that he had been adjudged by a court of competent juris- diction of having defrauded a person of several hundred dollors. —_————————— Gulillet’s potato, filbert cake. %05 Larkin. —_————————— Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.® —————— Special information supplied dally t) > business houses and public men by t Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 MOI: gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. —_———————— British antiquaries are exclaiming with indignation against Lord Tankerville,who contemplates pulling down tzle old Peel Tower at Doddington, in Northumber- land. This is one of the few perfect Peel towers, and it has a most picturesque ap- pearance, with a good parapet and a fine staircase. — e THE GENUINE “BROWYN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are sold only in boxes. They are wondertully effective for Coughs and Throat Troubles. ' ————————— NoTHING contributes more to digestion'than the use of DR SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS. See that you get the genuine. ————— Major Drury, who lives at a historical old seat on.the James River, a few miles below Richmond, was a schoolfellow and personal friend of Edgar Allan Poe. During the poet's short and sad life Major Drury was his stanch friend, and, although poor himself at that time, he often helped him financiallly. He says that Poe was not a drunkard, as has often been charged, but, on the contrary, seldom drank spirituous liquors. NEW TO-DAY. HOT BISCGUIT and cakes made with Royal Bak- ing Powder are | ‘musiclans, who declare it to be a very