The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1898. JANUARY 28, 1898 JOHN D. SP&EC“KELS. Proprietor. Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .PI}BLICATIDN OFFICE .. " Market and Third Sts., S.F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... .2I7 to 221 Stevenson strae Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)!s cerved 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. One vear. by mall, $1.50 ......908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. sorner Clay: | open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open untll | ©:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkip street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open untli So'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open uritil 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. e Girl From Par! ourted Into Court. Alcazar—“The Arablan Nights." Morosco’s—"Brother for Brotier.” Tivoli—“Brian Boru.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., Saturday evening. Olympia, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladies’ Orchestra. Anditorfum, Mason and Ellis streets—Song Recltal i The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanics’ Pavilion—Mining Eair and Klondike Exposition, Saturday night. Lybeck Cycle Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Racetrack—Races to-day. Pt et S e AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, January 23, Furniture, at9i4 Howard street, at 11 0'clock. By G.H. Umbsen, Monday, January 31, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery street, at 12 o'clock. S shamelessness ever merits rebuke, there is| CONCERNING THE REV. C. O. BROWN. / \ occasion for speaking once frankly concerning | the Rev. C. O. Brown. | All men are so far from perfect that grievous shortcomings may be overlooked, more especially if | followed by repentance. The bopk from which Brown still has the presumption to select texts teaches that only the one without sin has a right to cast a stone at the offender. But a minister of the Gospel stands on a different plane. He is supposed to be qualified to point out the way of salvation to others, and when he descends from the pulpit to revel in wickedness he makes of his high calling a2 mock- | ery and a scoffing. Therefore Brown is not exempt from correction by decency either in or out of the church. The man appears to have no good in him. So far as may be judged by his record and his present attitude he is a moral pervert as incapable of genuine remorse as was Durrant, and with egotism as mon- | strous. From the time he was first exposed as a hypocrite there has been in his conduct no gleam of a noble nature, no hint of a generous sorrow. Throughout his trial he lied, sometimes with uaction, sometimes with a venom undisguised. And at the end he deliberately sent abroad false reports of the result, a crime which he later repeated at Chicago. Before the mask had been torn from him Brown pursued a course which could only have been ac- tuated by depravity the most shocking. He gath- ered about him a brood of evil women, taking one of these into his domestic circle, her presence there being an unspeakable insult to his wife. These women he dared to address as “sisters” in assem- blages where'people had gathered to worship God, called upon them to pray, openly clasped them by the hand. Then meeting outside he plotted with them how his deeds might be covered. He did not hesi- tate to slander the innocent, nor did he stay his wan- | ton tongue when the grave had closed over two of them. With a blasphemy appalling and disgusting | he even ascribed their taking-off to the wrath of the Almighty exercised in his behalf. Now, after there is no longer question of his guilt he “confesses.” To what? The so-called confession is only anothér of the | long list of Brown deceptions. It is really an attempt at self-glorification. By implication it tries to convey the impression that although Brown was not wholly innocent, he had been far more sinned against than. sinning. It speaks of “a deep and malignant con- | spiracy against his home.” He knows that no such conspiracy ever existed; he knows that people are aware of this knowledge on his part. The charge | comes with ill grace from a man who had deliberately sullied that home by installing within its walls as favorite a creature of the streets. There is naught in the confession indicating regret; its abjectness has no ring of sincerity, its promises are hollow. It is not what it purports to be. It is a palpable sham, | a crowning infamy born of a character wholly barren | of the elements tending to respond to an impulse toward reform. Yet this man calmly proposes still to serve a cause to which he is more than a reproach. | He has become a stench in the nostrils. ‘\ 1f Brown were an ordinary scoundrel caught in his | guilt he would have seized upon the chance to slink | from the gaze of men. Realizing that he had yielded | to temptation, he would at the first awakening of his better nature have deserted the pulpit he had made | unclean, nor thought boldly of demanding the privi- | lege of returning. Rather in solitude would he have | supplicated not alone to be forgiven, but f(;rgotten. and upon his bowed head have heaped the dust of abasement. His contrition he would have showed in good works and mayhap have won his way anew into esteem. Brown did none of this. He had no better nature to awaken. With a lie on his lips he sought other fields, and with another lie he comes back, unblushing, unregenerate. Now let him go or let him stay; through with Brown. this paper is There is some curiosity to know why the United States has not the same right to have a ship at Ha- | vana that any other nation has. Spain is not looked upon as the dictator of this country. Bunko men caught trying to mfi people bound for the Klondike ought to be sentenced to a term of years in that region and forced to spend it in packing | goods over the trails for honest folk. People who are induced to buy brass jewelry at | gold rates cannot be regarded as astute, but in mak- ing their trouble known they earn the right to be classed as heroic. The proposition to reduce the mail carrier service of San Francisco does not excite anything which the authorities at Washington can possibly construe into enthusiasm. A | which are public in the sense of being at the cost of | tide of public spirit in Oakland and IMPROVEMENTS IN OAKLAND. N Oakland correspondent assumes an attimd_e of regret that The Call is opposed to public im- provements in that city, in the line of parks, boulevards and other betterments and blandishments the whole city. Some recent remarks printed over the signature of our Oakland reporter are quoted as conclusive of the policy of this paper. It seems hardly mecessary to say that the corre- spondent is entirely in error. The Call has re- cently indicated in the plainest and strongest way its desire to assist Oakland in this very line of improve- ments, and that policy is not changeable by the passing opinions of a reporter whose contacts im- pressed him with the feeling that the people are not unanimous in their enthusiasm for a spirited public policy. What we did and do deprecate is that every rising elsewhere is taken advantage of to float some speculation in real estate. This was evidently the case in Oakland. When the filling in of the fetid marsh, which is the city’s front door, at Sixteenth street station, had progressed so far as to impress the people as a long needed im- provement of vast benefit to the city, there origin- ated a strong public feeling in favor of acquiring as much of it as possible for conversion into a park. Turning to the account of the celebration of this fill- ing by a flag-raising on the marsh, we find that the Mayor in a speech declared in favor of such acquisi- tion and the applause manifested the universal ap- probation. With this policy, favorable to a long and much needed public improvement abroad, the speculator soon appeared. Every agent of a ranch within a half day’s drive of the city began to declaim upon its fitness for a park. Land on the mountain tops on the line of Contra Costa County was extolled as the only fit place for an Oakland park. Other land far beyond the city limits and adjoining the cemetery was presented as another “garden set eastward in | Eden.” | The energy of the speculators was demonstrated in a petition for the purchase of a ranch seven miles | beyond the city limits, signed by four times as many { people as put their names to any other petition. | In addition to these fantastic evidences of an ef- | fort to pull the people around by the nose was the | course of one Oakland paper. When it seemed probable that the Council would select a tract differ- ent from the one it favored it insisted that no ground should be purchased except by condemnation. When the Council seemed to turn toward the tract favored | by the same paper it ceased suddenly and entirely to advocate condemnation. | All of these signs are so plain that no observer | mistakes them, and if the Council shall succeed in| spite of the pressure of selfish interests, and threats | that a yellow newspaper in San Francisco will burn | it up if it favor any but one tract, in presenting a| proposition that combines and reconciles public and | not private interests, no support will be heartier than | The Call’s. As we have said heretofore, no plan for public im- | provements in that city which omits the comprehen- | sive reclamation and parking of the West Oaklandi marsh will be worth considering. No city in the | State has a better location for a level park than that. It commands the bay and the mountains in an en- chanting perspective, and if laid in lawn spaces.( fiecked with foliage forms and brightened with flowers it will help the whole State and be of such interest to San Francisco as a sort of verdant ve: tibule that rich people in this city will not be ap-| BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE. | MONG the local items of the smaller papers of fl the interior there are frequent announcements of entertainments of one form and another | given for the purpose of raising money to purchase books for reading circles or to lay the foundations of | free circulating libraries. These items attest the eagerness of persons who live in remote districts to obtain the advantages of a library, and afford con- clusive proof of the benefit that would result from the | establishment in this State of the traveling library | system. . The plan projected for the proposed traveling li braries is simple and inexpensive. The first step is to be the formation of library associations through- out the State. These need not be large. A dozen responsible property holders is sufficient to organize and maintain one, and there is hardly any community in California so small that it cannot fur’?h a library n:embership to that extent. For the use of these associations the State is to furnish out of its many volumes at Sacramento a series of libraries containing from fifty to one hun- dred books each. These are to be sent from oné as- sociation to another, each association paying the freight charges and guaranteeing the preservation of the books and their return to the State, The asso- ciation may restrict the use of the books to its own members or may circulate them generally as it pleases. When one set of books has been read it is packed in the case provided for it and forwarded to another association, while a new set is received in ex- change. The plan has been put to the test of practice in several States in the East and has been f8und bene- ficial in every respect. It is the most economical way of providing standard works for the general mass of readers in rural communities, and is the only way tc make a State library accessible to the great ma- jority of the taxpayers who support it. The papers of the interior which are giving so much kindly notice to the entertainments undertaken among their readers to establish libraries and reading circles should direct attention to the travel- ing library system. It is far superior in every way to the old form of making small collections of books in cach sparsely settled community, inasmuch as it pro- vides such communities with new books as fast as desired and gives a far wider choice to select from. No State in the Union has a greater need for tray- eling libraries than California, since few States are so thinly settled, and in none are the people more in- telligent or more given to the habit of reading and studying standard works. In the State library at U Sacramento there is a splendid store of volumes from ::vhich to draw the proposed sets of books for State circulation. The cost of putting the plan into prac- tice would be little, and if a general demand is made for it the next Legislature can be counted on to pro- vide it. There will be few objections to war with Spain_ or anything else if the yellow editors will only agree to enlist. An evening paper states that a certain man “sui- cided,” but no dictionary in the land will uphold the § verdict. NO CHANCE FOR A CONTRACT. HE Mission street Boodler, with a confidence | which only could arise from a long and intimate | acquaintance with Colonel Mazuma, informs its readers that it has “no water works for sale, no axes | to grind and no interests to serve but those of the | people.” This is interesting but not news. Every intel- ligent person in the State of California knows that the Boodler does not deal in “water works,” “axes” or “interests.” Its business is confined entirely to get- ting “advertising” contracts out of corporations.. In these contracts it agrees for a stipulated sum to main- tain such attitude toward its victims as ‘will enable them to apparently overcome its opposition. The famous Southern Pacific $30,000 contract was of this character. Under that agreement the Boodler was to receive $1000 2 month for thirty months in consideration of which it offered during that period to refrain from criticizing the railroad monopoly ex- cept in so far as criticism was necessary to maintain its character of a sand lot sheet. The thirty months covered a State campaign and two Legislatures, and the contract was consequently equivalent to two and a half years of editorial silence upon the material “interests” of the Southern Pacific Company. Who will say that this is not more profitable than selling water works, grinding axes or serving the “in- terests” of the people? Who would expect a sheet like the Boodler to waste its time on such trivialities | when it can get $1000 a month for serving the Southern Pacific? It should be remembered that al- though the subject of this famous $30,000 contract was “advertising,” the railroad monopoly never ad- vertised. The Boodler never took the trouble to earn the money. All it did was to keep dark and on the first of each and every month promptly present its voucher for $1000. The Call has at least one good reason for protest- ing against the entry of the Mission street Boodler into the Los Angeles water fight. The influence of the Boodler, so thoroughly are its motives under- stood, works in an inverse ratio to the square of the object upon which it is exerted. That is, the people always “copper” it. If the Boodler were to say that the sun shines it would be a safe bet that the orb of day was under a cloud. So in the Los Angeles water fight, even if the Boodler did not succeed in getting a fat “advertising” contract out of the corporation which is endeavoring to purloin the water works of that city, it could do nothing but harm. Were it to espouse the people’s interest an inquiry would have to be undertaken immediately to determine whether | somebody had not blundered in organizing the fight tc recover the water plant. We trust the Boodler will perceive the extreme propriety of keeping out of this affair. There is no chance to get an “advertising” contract, and any attempt it may make to break in can only result in confusion. The Boodler for the present should con- fine itself to scandal, crime, lying and faking. In those lines it has no competitor. CALIFORNIA IN CONGRESS. P to date there have been received by The Call 151 bills introduced into the House of Repre- sentatives by members of the California delega- tion. They include nearly all bills by California Rep- resentatives presented to the House at this session, and make a comparatively full showing of the ob- jects to which the energies of our Congressmen are directed. Almost exactly half the total number are pension measures in one form or another, and of these by far the greater number are private pension bills. The list stands thus: Twenty-eight bills relating to na- pealed to in vain to aid in its decoration. | tional affairs, eleven to public improvements in Cali- | fornia, twelve to general Californian interests, twenty- five to private claims, fifty-eight to private pensions, fiiteen for the removal of records of desertion, an two pension bills of a general nature. : All the bills to remove records of desertion are virtually pension bills, as the object of removing the charge is simply to render the applicant eligible for a pension. Of the two general pension bills one pré- vides that all soldiers who served in both the Mexican and the Civil wars shall be entitled to a pension of $24 per month, widows and minor children of such veterans being included. The other provides a pen- sion for all enlisted men or appointed petty officers of the navy who have served for thirty years and have reached fifty years of age. Of the twelve bills affecting the general interests ~f California the most important are bills providing for the preservation of timber in Yosemite Park, to locate roadways to the park, to provide for the ex- amination and classification of mineral lands, the im- provement of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, and to reimburse the State for money expended dur- ing the Civil War. Among the appropriations asked for parficular dis- tricts are $100,000 for a Government building in Ala- meda, $330,000 for a building in Oakland, $1,000,000 for a gun factory at Benicia, $50,000 for a postoffice at Woodland, $50,000 for Grass Valley, $150,000 for Eureka, $40,000 for Santa Rosa. and an increase of $175,000 in the amount appropriated for a Govern- ment building at Stockton, making the aggregate cost $250,000. Of the bills relating to national affairs the more notable are Mr. Loud’s measures for reform in the postal service and for the establishment of a cable between the United States, Hawaii and Japan; Mr. Maguire’s, to establish a postal telegraph system; Mr. Barham's, to create an executive department of mines and mining, and an extraordinary one by Mr. PBarlow providing for the collection of an income tax, an inheritance tax and the organization of the unemployed into an industrial army of the United States. Taken as a whole, the bills make a good showing for the work of the delegation. The proportion of private claims and private pensions is not large when compared with similar bills presented by members of other States. The interests of the State generally are being well looked after, and if proper support is given to the efforts that are being made at Washing- ton we may reasonably expect good results from the work of the session. ——— The soldiers of the German army are, it is said, to be armed with guns bearing the inscription, “The King’s Last Argument” But there may be some strong debaters on the other side. e e Since the Evening Bunko is forced to take back most it says, the wisdom on its part of refraining from saying anything suggests itself to all but the Bunko. —_— The Chicago Record.furnishes an example of the chemistry of oratory in this paragraph relating to the northwestern orator who reels off choice rhetoric at the rate of 200, words a minute: James Ham- fiton Lewls of the State of Washington in his speech yesterday begged the members of the House of Representatives to “respect the blood-bleached ‘bones of your ancestors,” T | { | * @ & L4 3 R d 2080000000000 00000000002000000060800066 THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE. ® @ e e 9000000000000 9090060000000000000000000 The announced success of the eclipse observations in India has awakened an interest that cannot be fully satisfled until further details arrive by mail, but from the few facts sent much can be in- ferred. The ethereal and beautiful corona, the chief mystery of the sun's surroundings, has been photographed in & manner never before accomplished, and the picture re- cefved will remaln a historic relic, in- creasing in value as the centuries pass. The accounts compare the form of the solar aureole on this occasion to those of August, 1886, and August, 1896, shown in the fllustration, but the extensions were equatorial, as in the well remembered eclipse of 1889, which was visible here. Such an outline was particularly adapted to test the ddmirable invention of Pro- fessor Burckhalter of the Chabot Ob- servatory. The difficulty with previous coronal pictures was that the denser inner lumi- nosity was overexposed and consequently blurred while awaiting the impress of the outer and fainter streamers. Sometimes the latter were photographed piecemeal and attached partly by conjecture after- ward to plictures of the inner detalls, Corona of August, 1886. WHICH RESEMBLED THAT OBSERVED IN INDIA JANUARY 22, 1898. gained by a short exposure of the plate. To remedy thisdrawback Professor Burck- halter has devised an ingenious instrus ment that allows an exposure, graduated | by means of rapidly revolving screens, to euit the different degrees of luminosity. The true structure of the fantastic forms can thus be traced from the solar limb to the verge of invisibility. ‘Willlam M. Pierson, who provided funds for this experiment, is to be congratu- lated on his insight in aiding such a valu- able sclentific advance. In accordance with it, no doubt, the preparations for the eclipse of 190 will be conducted, for the genlus of Charles Burckhalter has opened a new era in eclipse photography. But Californian triumphs do not end here. It is to be interred from the word- ing of the cablegram from the Lick Ob- servatory expedition that the existence of the reversing layer (a spectroscopic name given to the portion of the chromo- sphere that rests on the solar surface) is a certainty. Unless .ae necessary brevity of the dispatch obscures the meaning., Profesor Campbell corroborates the views of C. A. Young of Princeton, that the sun is enveloped in denss flamelike gases, that, to a depth of about 600 miles, gleam out in a bright line spectrum for a few moments at the edge of the sun, the in- stant the white disk is obscured by the moon. This is what is meant by the spectrum of the flash, mentioned in one dispatch. The spectrum is changed or re- versed from comparatively dark lines to bright lines wuen seen apart from the glowing background of the sun's surface. a fancy float to cover the watery space, providing the musicians with life pre- servers and rubber suits, hiring a marine I'band, ana one artistic individual has sent in a letter suggesting that the space be left as a pond which shall be stocked | with gold fish and bordered with flowery paths and used as a promenade between acts. The most feasible plan and the | one which will probably be adopted is to organize an orchestra composed of Demo- cratic politicians who can render thelr selections while floating on their own self esteem. | 3. 3. McConnell, one of the best known | and most public spirited citizens of Wood- | land, is a guest at the Baldwin. No less an authority than Sir Norman| E. F. Finley of the Santa Rosa Press- Lockyer (recently knighted during the| Victorian jubilee for his spectroscopic at-| tainments) has questioned the correct- ness of this theory. However, though he | went to India equipped with a larger prism in front of his six-inch object-glass | than has been before used during a eclipse, the announcement of his success ful observations i{s non-committal on the| subject. There is little doubt but that valuable photographs of the chromo sphere and prominences have been also | obtained, and when developed and com- | pared much informatfon will be forthcom- ing on the subjects which the expeditions | went forth to investigate. These includ- ed, besides the chromospheric phenom- ena and the outline of the corona, an in-| vestigation as to its relative brightness, | its rotation and the matter of which it | | | | [ | | Corona of August, 1896. is composed. In such researches Profes- | sor Campbell, chief of the Lick Observa- tory party, is especially skillful; but he has alsd obtained photographs of the in- ner corona with the same forty-foot tele- scope so efliciently used by Professor Schaeberle in 1893 in Chile. The marvelous aerole that glimmered | above the shadowed tracts of India for a | brief two minutes has not, then, flitted by as a mere vision of beauty. Seldom, if | ever, have so many efficient equipments | been conveyed to a strange clime, despite | the rumors of plague, famine and political | disturbance, and been favored with ciear | weather In so many localities at once. | Foremost in the band of scientific. travel- ers are the Californian astronomers, with their unique instruments, their hépe, their | skill and their endurance; and foremost, no doubt, will be the result of their ob- servations. The announcement of their success | seems strangely opportune in this jubilee | week, as if the gleam of the corona was | needed to complete the significant cele- | bration of the progress of the Golden State from a few scattered mining camps to a center of clvilization and intellectual | attainment. ROSE O'HALLORAN. " THE CALL AND THE CITY OF OAKLAND, Editor Call: Your paper, owing to its extended circulation, can materially aid or injure this city, and it is a matter of regret that your local correspondent, who is held in high esteem here, is not more in sympathy with that element of our citizenship which is earnestly engaged in an effort to lift Oakland out of a rut and place her in her proper place in the list of Western cities. In the development of a public spirit in connection with the pro- posed purchase of park lands The Call is in position to prove an important factor, | but it has been evident for some time that your correspondent has not shared the enthusiasm feit on that subject by thousands of the progressive men and ‘women In this city. In to-day’'s paper he says: “Next Monday night if the City Council can read the trend of public opinion it will entertain and pass a resolution to lay the whole park matter on the table. There is no desire for a park and never was. The people have not asked for one and do not seem to appreciate the fact that the controversy arose when a real estate man offered to sell a large tract to the city for a generous price. Then every other real estate dealer who had any kind of an old section to dispose of called it a tract, gave a free picnic to the grounds and generously offered it for sale at any number of prices. The proceeding has been a farce from beginning to end, and has now become so ridiculous that its further discussfon is beneath the dignity of the city government. Anybody that thinks the people of this city will vote bonds- for half-a-million dollars’ worth of schemes and jobs is pitifully ignorant of the truth. Oakland is read the trut Y for the next All of which is calculated to give to your readers generally—and especially those in other sections of the country with whom Oakiand is particularly de- sirous of appearing to good advantage— the impression that this is an unenter- prising community, absolutely devoid of public spirit and occupled with chasing bubbles. The “controversy” in regard to parks did not arise “when a real estate man offered to sell a large tract of land to the city for a generous price.” A year and a half ago the Board of Trade ap- pointed a committee of five to take the matter under consideration, and through its chairman, E. C. Sessions, secured an immense amount of practical informa- tion by correspondence with park com- missioners and park superintendents in many of the leading cities of the country. Partlal reports were made by this com- mittee at various times, and Aiscussions had at meetings of the Board of Trade. Prices were also obtained on suitable tracts of land. About five months ago a proposition was made direct by the owner to the| Council to sell the city a tract of 276 acres of landfor$360,000. The Council appointed | a committee to take this propositionunder various Democrat is down here on a pleasure trip and is staying at the California. Clarence Urmy, a well-known society man of San Jose, is up at the city on a business trip. He is staying at the Call- fornia. E. L. Mumford, a millionaire of Provi- dence, R. I, is one of the arrivals on last night’s overland who went to the Oc- idental. J. C. Ruddock, a trustee of the State lum at Ukiah, has come down to the city from that place and is stopping at | the Granad. Samuel J. Ruddell underwent a serious operation yesterday morning, which will confine him to his bed for several weeks. The operation was performed by Drs. D. | F. Easton and J. J. Morrisy. Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster will speak before the San Francisco Child Study Club this afternoon at the club’s regular weekly meeting, in the parlors of tne Occidental. Her address will be supplementary of that of last meeting, on the moral edu- cation of children. W. Crawford, a merchant of New York, Charles H. Wrught, a prominent business man of Elkhart, Ind., and C. R. Russel, the agent for the Western Sugar Refinery for all the territory west of the Missouri, are in the city together on a visit to the coast, combining business | with pleasure. They are registered at | the Palace. ot | +eeesesecseseee A ladyin the city | has a young WHY MAMMA hopelult of tgn N T years of age who | WANTED is at present in THOMASHOME § the country on a visit to the ranch of one of his uncles. Yesterday her husband recefved the following letter from the youngster; it had evidently been prepared with con- siderable care and shows a rapid pro- gress in worldrly wisdom fromassociation with his somewhat pessimistic relative: My dear papa: I have been down here nearly two weeks and am having a good time. A horse kicked me yesterday on the hand and broke one of my fingers. I aint going to walk on the same end of that horse any more. Uncle Ned says horses is different from men because they can only kick one way. I ciimed the high olive tree three times and fell down twice, the last time a wasps nest broke my fall, the hired man's boy fell with me but he lit on top. I dont like wasps as much as I did. Uncle told me that when I got older I would find that stings hurt worse when a fellow is down than when he aint. I found a giant catridge that some workmen left in the quarry, but uncle took it away from | me and would not let me see it go off. He sald that if T played with many of them I would not see mamma again until T met her in a place where only very young bovs and very old women ever go. He said you would not be there. Give my love to the baby. Uncle says he dont like boy bables because they are young and never grow out of it, but girls is different. I hope you and mamma are well and will think of me when you get this letter. Your loving son, THOMAS. Thomas has been telegraphed for by his mother. SHINGT WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—H. C. Downs, San Francisco, Raleigh; H. J. Chapman, San Francisco, St. James. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wollner of San Francisco, who have been at the Arlington for a few days, left for home to-night. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. advisement and to ask for proffers of land from other property owners. This | committee appointed a half dozen leading | real estate men to serve, in an advisory | capacity, in regard to prices and author- | ized them to act in conjunction with the | Board of Trade park committee and a like | body appointed by the Merchants’ Ex- | change, the result being that proffers of | land were secured from nearly a dozen owners of property suitable for park pur- poses, which sites were Inspected by these | three committees, acting in concert, and a carefully prepared report as to their respectiye merits was presented to the Council © committee. Later conference meetings were held by delegates selected from nine local organizations and the subject fully discussed, these organiza- tlons representing all portions of the city, with a combined membership of probably | 2000. At these meetings there was no di- vision of sentiment as to the value of parks as a factor in a city’s growth or of the importance of prompt action in this regard being taken by Oakland while desirable sites may be obtained at a | reasonable outlay. In all of the proceed- ings real estate men have shown public | spirit of the highest order, freely giving their time, experience and service to fur- thering the object in view, and in no in- stance obtruding their private interests or appearing as the advocates of any particular site. Favored by nature to a remarkable de- gree, Oakland's prosperity, or the lack of it, depends entirély upon her citizens. I | was in Los Angeles this month and was | amazed to see what the wideawake resi- | dents of that city have accomplished in | a portion of the State far inferior to this in natural advantages and attractions. What is needed here is a fostering and | encouragement of the disposition recently manifested in varlous ways to develop local advantages, improve local resources, make the city attractive, and invite en. terprising people from all the corners of the earth to come and see us, with a cer. tainty that when they come they will be so favorably impressed that they will de- cide to join with us in building here a great city. ‘Wil not The Call aid in purpose? Oakland, Jan. 22. this worthy JOHN T. BELL. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS W. J. Blinn, a large merchant of Sa Jose, is at the Lick. 3 William Rule, a mining man of Dutch Flat, is at the Russ. F. L. Lusk, a leading lawyer of Chico, is staying at the Palace. 8. 8. Bradford, a capitalist of Sos is at the Russ with his wife. i 8. B. Wren, a prominent business man of Portland, is registered at the Grand. F. F. Dwyer, a Sacramento bank presi- dent, is among the guests at the Palace. J. C. Kemp Van Ee, a celebrated Eng- lish mining expert, is a guest at the Pal- ace. J. V. Snider, a large real estate man of Nevada City, is at the Grand with Mrs. Snider. J. J. Birmingham, a wealthy mining man of Tracy, is one of the late arrivals at the Baldwin. 8. T. Black, State Superintendent of Instruction, was one of yesterday's ar- rivals at the Lick. E. H. Smith, a globe-trotter from Han- ley, Eng., is at the Occidental on his way through the State. State Senator A. J. McCone of Virginia City, Nev., is at the Occidental, accom- panied by Mrs. McCone. P. Sweed, one of the most widely known merchants of Petaluma, s registered at the Lick, where he will remain until the conclusion of the jubilee celebration. ‘W. C. Parker, a vineyardist and fruit raiser of Kenwood, is to be seen at the Grand for the next few days. . D L S }E)ver ;dnce Mayor h fi AfNoys Ry atet ORCHESTRAL § With the Spring DEPARTURE- § Nad iroutss wies : ¢ the aquatic ele- ment. First he erected a beautiful fountain that should serve to allay the thirst of the weary wayfarer of the future and perpetuate his name by telling generations yet un- born of the grandeur that was San Fran- cisco’s and the glory that was Phelan's. The fountain was a magnificent success that needed only one thing to make it perfect; that one thing was water. Now, Mr. Phelan is building a theater on a portion of his San Jose property and, realizing the'Sahara-like thirst that consumes the average theatrical musi- clan, he has provided for future emer- gencies by following the example of an- other leader of men, Moses, and has smote the rock directly on the site of the prospective theater’s orchestra, and, behold, a natural spring has gushed forth. Charles P. Hall, the future lessee of the theater, who is in the city at present, is somewhat worrled as to how he will his orchestra when the building NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—J. E. Alexander of San Francisco is at the Grand Hotel, and Dr. W. A. Hendryx of Los Angeles is at the Murray Hill Hotel. AGRARIANS AND THEIR BUGS. And now the German agrarians have found a new danger lurking in an Ameri- can product. The Agricultural Soclety of Berlin has addressed a memorial to the Government requesting the exclu- sion of American fruit, trees and shrubs because they are infected with the San Jose bug, “which,” say the memori- alists, “is a nstant danger to German fruit-growers. It wonderful how many of the inflictions, under which, if real, our agriculturists would be weighed down, are first brought to our notice by the lynx-eyed Germans.— Philadelphia Record. — e Townsend's peanut taffy, best in world.® - e Broken hoarhound 15c b, Townsend's.® B e — A choice present—Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits. 50c 1., in fire etched boxes. '* — e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. - — VIRGINIA LEADS IN REFORM. 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