The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 189S8. FEBRUARY 1, 1898 | TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. J Address All Communications o W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE....... Market and Third Sts, S. F. | Telephone Main 1S5S. | EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 221 Stevenson stras Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)!s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | €5 cents. } THE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by mall, $1.53 1 O \KLAND OFFICE.... 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorper Clay: open unti! 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open untll €30 o'cloc’- 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. €6 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock £W. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open untll € o'clock. 25i18 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.: open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk stree! cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | end Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. e e e e L e e e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“Gir] from Par Alcazar—Victor Durand. Morosco’s—“Down in Dixie. Tivoli—"The Pear] of Pekin.” Orpheu le ! Macdono land—"The Man From Mexico,” Friday. | February 4. | Olympia, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladles’ Orchestra. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vandeville Mechanies' Pavilion—Mining and Klondike Exposition, Lybeck Cycle Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. | Pactfic Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Race track—Races to-day. | AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield - Groceries, at corner Fifteenth and | Dolores streets, 2 By Fra Rugs, at 116 Sut: By Willlam G. Layng at Occidental Horse E: —Wednesday, February 2, Turkish | t2and SP. M. | Thursday. 5 Teh: . Feb. 3, Trotting change, 22 THE WEAK WAR ARGUMENT. ERHAPS no proposition to abandon a historic p policy and step outside the -constitution has ever before received as much assistance from circum:stances as the proposed annexation of Hawaii Everything has happened that can happen to blunt and dull the sentiments of justice, coasistency and hunianity by au :ppeal to the thirst for glory which in fighting races I'’ke ours is often mistaken for pa triotism. The islaud oligarchy understood the situa- tion perfectly and proceeded to intrgue for an issue | with Japan in the hope to nag that truculent nation “ into a demonstrztion that would fire the Ainerican heart. Dut japanese statesmen saw through the pur- of the archy and conducted themsalves with | ukable fcrl earnce and commenaable pradence, s> that fire died ovt. Next came the Earapean de- monstrations on the coast of China, and these seemed | certainly to be worth the half dozen votes which | the treaty lacks in the Senate. But, to the sober | minds of thinking Americans, “the events in the far Fast” did not change right and wrong at home. They did not make good policy that which beforei was bad. They did not make constitutional that which before had been unconstitutional. They ser\'edl rather to prove the strength of our declaration that | governments derive their just powers from the con- | sent of the governed. It was observed that this de- claration was brought into plainer view by the acts of the predatory nations, forcing upon the Chinese a | government by invasion and without their consent. | In vain was the military argument used. “The key | of the Pacific” unlocked no new reason for this un- safe departure. The possession of a naval frontier | 2000 miles away, to be utilized at all only by send- | ing coal that long distance to fall a prey and become | the prize on deep water of any naval power with which we may berat war, was seen to mean the weak- ening of our defensive force rather than its re-en- forcement. It is apparent to the merest tyro in strategy that Hawaii must itself be defended and that it cannot de- fend us. If we take it for military reasons it must be fortified, supplied with great guns and munitions of | war, garrisoned and patrolled by a fleet. Its fortifi- cation alone will cost our taxpayers more than the protection of all our continental seaports. To properly garrison it will demand a large increase in our stand- ing army, and to patrol it a like enlargement of our navy. Our people see in this a definite acceptance of the policy of the predatory nations. They acquire far lands and expand their military systems to defend and hold them. Spain once led the world in this policy. She seized the richest islands and principalities on continents and flourished while she dreamed of uni- versal dominion. But fate has foreclosed its moral mortgage. One by one these possessions slipped away until only the Philippines and Cuba remained, and now Spain is bankrupt in trying to restrain their attempts to escape. It is useless to say that there is a preserving salt in our institutions to protect us against these conse- quences, for our entrance upon such a policy is in defiance of those institutions. Hawaii can furnish nothing in her own defense. She has no coal. Make her independent and neutral. No other nation can make a coaling station there. A local supply imported cannot be taken by a man- of-war in a neutral port, for coal is contraband of war and cannot be supplied by a neutral to a bel- ligerent. With no coal mines Hawaii is a better de- fense to us independent and neutral than she can possibly be under our flag and loaded with coal to tempt the enterprise of any naval power with which we may be at war. The Greenway throne is said to be tottering. For fear some may not realize the solemn import of this information it must be added that before this throne | society has been wont to kneel. If it is permissible to throw in a word of advice at this crisis society might be advised to get out of the way and let the throne totter to absolute smash. History is full of accounts of other thrones which have done the same thing. AT Statements that the attorneys for Ratcliffe, the imported matinee idol and wife-beater, are worried about his condition are the first intimations that the man is nearly broke. Possibly the handsome cook of Maitland Kersey, the New York society man, caused his arrest simply to prevent his going to Klondike, a trip too danger- ous for a handsome man of fortune to undertake. The charge that John Hancock was an embezzler does not impair the impressiveness of his signature. PRl France exhibits every symptom of an overdose of absinthe. Call | ingness to equip its cars with safety appliances if the | with increasing force. The urging of the people, the | -act. WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOTHER death has been caused by delay in providing proper fenders for the street cars. This death, like most that have preceded it on the roll of street car accidents, was due to the lack of precautions which the law requires, which public safety demands, and which could be provided by the car companies at comparatively little expense. How much longer are we to wait for the enforcement of the law? As the death, of little Hulda Johnson on Sunday was not the first caused by the lack of safety ap- pliances on cars that run rapidly through the streets, so it will not be the last. Before many days go by another victim will be claimed. The dread death roll grows fast. The fenderless car is almost as destructive as the juggernaut. It is a continual menace to life and limb in the city, and neither man, woman nor child knows when it may strike, so sud- denly and without warning does it come in its swift approach. The issue is one to be dealt with by the Super- visors. By the passage of an ordinance requiring the street car companies to adopt such fenders as the board may approve, they have taken upon themselves the responsibility of the existing evil. Until the Su- pervisors have specified what form of fender shall be used the railroad companies cannot act. The San Mateo electric line has notified the board of a will- board will decide what shall be used. Still the Su- pervisors have not acted. They have postponed the subject from week to week, from moath to month. Again and again public opinion hus demanded a remedy for the evil. As each new life has been crisshed out popular indignation has been expressed insistence of the press, have alike been in vain. Al- ways the Supervisors have put the question by. In the face of public clamor, in the face of an outraged community, in the face of the horrible record of deaths, so rapidly increasing, they have refused to Even yesterday, with the swift and awful death of little Hulda Johnson fresh in their minds, they again postponed the issue. What do the Supervisors want? What are they seeking in these continual delays and postponements? Is there a price to be paid for their action ? Fenders are used in many cities oy the Union. "It is not difficult to find some appliance that will save the city from the incessant recurrence of these fatal accidents. Upon the Supervisors rests the duty of selecting that appliance, and that solemn duty is al- ways met with an evasion. Is it any wonder the public indignation grows? The postponement of yesterday should be the last. The Supervisors must act or the people will kniow the reason why. It will be the duty of the Grand Jury to inquire into this criminal delay. The death roll is increasing too rapidly while the Supervisors hold out for a price. It is time to protect the people and save the lives of children. o e w——— M@AKING THE ISSUE PLdIN. HE object of the silver men in taking up the TTellcr resolution in the Henate was to prevent any attempt at financial legislation in the House at this session. They intended to serve notice that no currency reform bill could be passed, hoping thereby to discourage the advocates of sound money and lead them to leave the money question vague and uncertain until after the coming Congressional elec- tions. Although the scheme was cunningly devised and boldly carried out it seems now as if the object de- sired would be defeated by the very means adopted to attain it. The Teller resolution, so far from dis- couraging the champions of national honesty and sound finance, has roused them to action. We are now more likely than ever to have a financial bill | passed by the House at this session. Public senti- | ment in favor of such action is increasing and will | continue to increase as the importance of the issue becomes better understood by the country. In his bold, direct and masterly speech before the National Association of Manufacturers President McKinley urged immediate action with the vigor and force of a true leader. “Under existing conditions,” Le said, “our citizens cannot be excused if they do not redouble their efforts to secure such financial legislation as will place their honorable intentions be- yond dispute. All those who represent the great conservative and business interests of the country owe it not only to themselves, but to the people, to insist upon the settlement of this great question now | cr else face the alternative that it must again be sub- :mitted for arbitration at the polls.” Aiter these words the Chandlers and Wolcotts of the party will in vain attempt to delude the people into the belief that there is a divergence of opinion between the President and his Secretary of the Treas- vry. Mr. Gage himself has never so warmly or more strongly spoken for honest money and immediate action. The President, it is clear, understands the meaning of the great victory of 1896 and is eager to go forward and present to the country a bill that will mzke the issue plain and leave no doubt as to which party will assure the stability of our money and the inviolability of our national obligations. The Call has contended from the first that the bat- tle for financial reform should be aggressively fought at this session of Congress. It noted with regret the apparent weakening of the sound money forces at the assembling of Congress, and has been pleased to see their ardor increase as the session progresses. Since the President has now spoken so clearly and so for- cibly for immediate action, it is hardly possible there can be much further delay. Surely Congressmen will heed the words of the Dresident: “Whatever effort is required to make the settlemert of this question clear and conclusive for all time we are bound in good conscience to under- take, and if possible to realize. That is our commis- sion—our present charter from the people.” — REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CLUBS. N preparation for the work of the coming cam- l paign the California League of Republican Clubs is arranging for a State convention to be held prior to the national convention of the league, which is to assemble at Omaha in June. This requires that all clubs throughout the State which are asso- ciated with the league, shall begin to get ready for the call. There is time enough for all old clubs te reorganize, if necessary, and for new ones to form and take part in the State convention, but there is no time for delay. It is a custom in this country to speak of each suczessive campaign as the most important in the history of the republic, but this time the old phrase has more than ordinary meaning. It is now certain that nothing can be done to settle the currency prob- lem at this session of Congress, and accordingly that problem will be the dominant issue of the Congres- sional elections. It is an issue that will affect every man’s interest as well as the national welfare and | statement. honor. It therefore behooves all good citizens to get ready to take an active part in the contest, and the best way to do that is to organize in strong as- sociations in order to act with the greater force and more effectiveness. The League of Republican Clubs is one of the best associations ever formed in the history of our politics. The league represents no particular can- didate, and has no personal interests to advance. It is formed solely for the purpose of bringing stanch Republicans together and enabling them to work in unison and harmony for the maintenance at the polls of the great’political principles and legislative poli- cies which the Republican party represents and to which all other parties are opposed. The value of the league has been attested by the arduous proof of service rendered. The Republican convention of this State said in its platform at the last campaign: “We indorse the work of the Na- tional League, and the efforts of our young men to make it a potent factor in prosecuting a vigorous and successful campaign in this State.”” President McKinley also has spoken of the value of the league to the party and has borne witness of its services to | genuine Republicanism. No argument nor urging should be necded to in- duce all active Republicans to ally themselves with the State League and through it with the National League by organizing local clubs and taking part in the proposed State convention. This work should be undertaken at once. It is not an easy campaign that is before the champions of sound money. The recent vote on the Teller resolution in the Senate shows that body to be under control of the silver fiztists. They will make a determined effort to gain control of the House in the Congressional elections this ycar and the Presidency in 1900. Against such opponents the Republicans must be watchful of every point of the contestr The duty of the hour is to organize. . Let every Republican join the league and prepare for the battle. , —— / \ the School Directors in administering the de- partment will be welcomed by the people, and THE SCHOOL SCANDAL. if the Grand Jury undertakes one that will be thor- ough, comprehensive and searching it will have gen- eral approval. It matters not whether there is any foundation for the alleged -scandal or ‘not. ~School investigations are always in order. We never can: have our School Department too clean, and every Grand Jury is ex- pected to try its new broom in making as good a sweep as possibie from one end of it to the other. It is of course desirable that public officials should not be harassed by incessant ‘charges and investiga- tions.. Nevertheless, as a general rule wherever there is a scandal or a wide rumor of evil an examination should be made. - The public schools - should -be free from all taint of corrupt practices, and a School Director should be ready and willing at all times to assist any official investigation into any charges made on good authority either against the School Board as a whole or against some particular member of it. In all cases of this kind, however, the investigation should be radical and far reaching. It should seek out the authors of the charges as well as the officials against whom they are made. If an accused official is found innocent the examination should not stop at his acquittal. The guilty accuser should then be put on the rack and exposed as a slanderer, even if he cannot be otherwise punished. The recent school scandal in Los Angeles is a cuse in point. Grave charges were made there against a member of the School Board; and he found no de- fender among the newspapers of his city. He could rot even get a hearing for his side of the case until The Call, moved by a'sense of justice and fair play, gave him a chance to defend himself in a written He was seemingly condemned in ad- vance, and yet when the evidence was brought out in full he confounded his accusers and left some of them without even a fragment of any good reputation they may have previously enjoyed: In the Los Angeles case a victory was won for jus- tice and honesty in the School Board by the earnest- ness with which The Call sought not only the truth, but the whole truth. In that instance not only were the innocent acquitted, but the guilty were morally convicted. A similar method should be pursued by the Grand Jury if it makes charges that call for an investigation of the School Board here. Let us have no half measures. - Let us have the whole truth so thoroughly made known that no guilty man will escape, whether be be the accused or the accuser. INTERESTING NOTES FROM ABROAD. Queen Victoria has eccentric tastes in the ar- rangement of her bed, according to the Whitehall Review. At Cimiez she uses two mattresses, the one with the springs on top. N investigation of the methods and practices of Scarva, County Down, boasts a 114 year old post- master in R. Taylor, who, besides being the oldest active postal servant in the United Kingdom, is also the oldest country storekeeper. French railroad rules are strict. A bad accident, in which several lives were lost, took place on the line from Paris to Marseilles recently. When a lady who escaped uninjured from the wreck applied for her baggage the day after her arrival in Paris, she was charged 10 centimes for her delay. Pope Leo received gifts valued at $12,000,000 on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of his ordain- ment as a priest. Among the cash gifts were a check for $40,000 from the Duke of Norfolk, $20,000 in gold from the Queen Regent of Spain, $12,500 from Kaiser Wilhelm, $40,000 from the Austrian Bishops and $40,000 from the Hungarian Primate. —_— Marriage, according to Dr. Schwartz of Berlin, Is the most important factor in longevity. Of every 200 persons who reach the age of 40 years 125 are married and 75 unmarried. At 60 years the propor- tons are 48 to 22; at 70 years, 27 to 11, and at 90 years 9 to 3. TFifty centenarians had all been mar- ried. The doctor asserts that the rate of mortality for husbands and wives between the ages of 30 and 45 years is 18 per cent, while that for unmarried per- sons is 28 per cent. —_— Sweden will send two scientific exmeditions to Spitzbergen next summer. One, under Mr. Jaderin, will try to measure a degree of longitude; the other, under Professor Nathorst, the palaeontologist, will examine the waters to the west of the islands. Pro- fessor Nathorst has engaged the steamer Antartic and takes a staff of seven scientific men with him. He will steam along the west coast of Spitzbergen, then northeast toward King Karls Land and Gillis- land, taking deep-sea soundings and collecting natural history specimens, Fat men must be on their guard when traveling on French railroads. A 340 pound citizen of Lille who had bought a third class ticket, after failing to wedge through the doors of a third class and of a second class carriage, entered a first class compart- ment and rode to his place of destination. The rail- road sued him for the Aiffarence in the fare, to which the defense was that, having sold the ticket, ‘the company was bound to provide doors to the third class carriages wide enough to admit him. The court, however, held that he must have known his own girth and the size of carrlage doors, and should have bought a ticket admitting him to a wide ;xlmuh compartment. It refrained from making m pay for excess weight, P P PN gfififififififififififi)}i&fifififififififififlfififififififlfiufiflfi o o L 308 308 308 08 308 206 308 108 0 308 106 08 0% 30 106 308 0% J0HIE 10 06 30K 30% X0 0¥ 10¢ 10 30¥ 10 108 308 306 106 X K N EVERY country, royal yachts are paid for out of the INTENDED FOR d PRESIDENTIAL YACHT. except Russia, o b2 social hall, was the scullery, and jusf out- side .of this came the pantry. Adjoining public funds on appropriations passed the latter was a little snuggery, adapted by law to that effect, but the Czar, with his absolute power, simply or- for a peaceful smoke in seclusion. Oppo- site the scullery was to be the cabin ders a craft built and the country pays stores, consisting largely of the kind con- for it. Since France became a republic tained in bottles, and next to it came a it no longer maintains yachts for the sole stateroom with bathroom attached osten- use of its President, nor does the United sibly for the commanding officer, which States President enjoy the marked favor latter, however, would have to bunk else- and distinction of a crowned monarch in Where when the gunboat was on a yacht- this respect. Yet at the very outset of bullding a new ing cruise. The arrangement as a whole offered ail navy, ten years ago, it was planned to the comforts that could be expected In reserve one of the smaller vesseis for his a war vessel utilized for yachting pur- Excellency Grover Cleveland. The cruis- ers Charleston and Baltimore were con- tracted for during the last month of 1886, and one month later Cramp took the con- tract for the Yorktown. This latter ves- poses, the stateroom referred to and the little cabin away aft being reserved for his excellency as sleeping quarters and where affairs of state could be discussed or stirring stories of duck-hunting and sel was launched April 28 in the following trout fishing could be tdld. year and it was during her completion for sea that the Navy Department, of which William C. ‘Whitney was Secre- The twelve berths in the Social Hall ‘which could be converted into as many temporary staterooms, gave promise of a tary, conceived the idea of fitting the real good time while cruising, for only Yorktown with the accommodations of a & select dozen of guests would sleep on yacht. The language of the law passed by Con- board. When in port there would be no difficulty in getting thirty-six more tem- gress authorizing the constructlon of the porary guests to sit down to a dinner, vessel was: ‘““One heavily-armed gunboat [[Apter cavem =) i Cavtn \ fops ’-_"' ] EhE _\\\ Torpedo aa e fl "'-'tll\ fi acy AS T of about 1600 tons displacement, costing, exclusive of armament, not more than $620,000."” The Bureau .of Construction, under date of October 25, 1887, published descriptions and {llustrations of the ves- sels in course of construction for the new navy and diagram No. 1, accompanying this article, shows the original plan of the quarters under the poop deck of the Yorktown. Im conformity with the idea of making a Presidential yacht out of the craft, a radical rearrangement in the quarters under the poop deck was decided upon, a plan of which is shown in diagram No. 2. The after cabin was not extended, but some changes were made in its arrange- ments, as will be noted by a comparison with the original plan. The captain’s for- ward cabin and the torpedo-manipulating room were made into one room, forty-two feet in length, with six settees on each side, serving as berths, and with curtains separating each division from the one adjoining and the general room. In this large room three tables were to be located; one at which twelve per- sons could be seated and two accommo- dating eighteen each, making a total seating capacity for forty-eight people. On the port side at the forward end of this room, which might be termed a but the little table could always be sure b3 b £ 2 b i o o o o Q o o P D m AD CHANGED FORA * 2 ”PHEJIDEHTMLYACH,‘. 3 TQDAY APPEAR of having around it His Excellency, Whit- ney, “Fighting Bob,” Surgeon Rush, “Duke of Buckingham,” *“Lord” Chad- wick, Dave Hatrmony and George Brown, and other celebrities. These changes in the arrangements of quarters under the poop-deck were car- ried out as designated, but as the Presi- dential election in November, 1888, rele- gated Cleveland and his Cabinet to pri- vate life the Yorktown naturally revert- ed to a gunboat. President Harrison had no use for a yacht, and so the ten ward- room officers who were to have messed in the ward-room on the berth-deck in dark and contracted quarters took possessior of a part of the Social Hall. Some modi- fications were also made, as will be seen by reference to diagram No. 3, by which the captain secured an after cabin and a stateroom, the latter on the port side flush with the ward-room skylight. The space forward of the cabin bulkhead is divided by a fore and aft bulkhead, the room on the starboard side used as a library and that on the port side as ward- room messroom. The scullery and cabin storeroom have been removed and there is nothing at present to indicate the pur- poses for which Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy designed the vessel. O+++4++44+++4+444+4m WHAT EXCHANGES SAY ABOUT THE GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION. O++++++4++444+++4+40 DISTANCED COMPETITORS Dixon Tribune. The San Francisco Call distanced all its competitors with its Jubilee Edition. Not only was the paper one of the most creditable ever issued in Ban Francisco, but' the enterprise of the management went further and arranged to have the edition dellvered to subscribers in the remotest part of the State within a few hours after leaving the press. Manager Leake is infusing new life into The Call, and it is now setting the pace for its rivals. b SR BEATS THEM ALL. Cordella X-Ray. The San Francisco dailies issyed splendid editions the first of the week in honor of the Golden Jubilee. The Call especially issued what might be called a superb edition. The Sunday Call was a valuable addition to the historfcal data of the State, and is ‘well worthy of preservation for future reference. The management of that progressive journal might now very appropriately change its motto. We would suggest instead of “The Call speaks for all,” that it read “The Call beats 'em all, Lo PRAISED EVERYWHERE. Solano Republican. The San Francisco Call’s enterprise in the publication and distribution of its Golden Jubilee Edition , has won unstinted praise all over the State. The_ edition, from a literary stand- point, was a triumph of journalism, and its excellent resume of the mining industries should be preserved as a part of the history of this State. Two special tralns were chartered to dis- tribute the Jubilee Calls. One was started for Los Angeles and the other for Sacramento, and the runs were made In an incredibly short space of time. This enterprise following “.sc closely the recent publication of the New Era Edition is evidence that The Call will make it interesting for its competitors and will make them hustle. B Ske Tttt et ettt R R R R R R RSP —e— TAKES THE MEDAL. Palo Alto Times. The San Francisco Call has, if pos- sible, outdone with its Jubilee Edi- tion its late triumph, the New Era Edition. to the people of California a paper filled with valuable and interesting information regarilng the discovery and development of our gold mines, but it dellvered it to them from the length and breadth of the State simul- taneously on Jubilee day. This is a feat that certainly deserves the sin- cere commendation of the public and places another medal on the breast of the great daily. Semee s AHEAD ALL THE TIME. Fresno County Enterprise. The Call beats them all. Not only in excellence, but also in time. Last Sunday's Jubilee Edition arrived on a special train before Selma was scarce- ly awake. . FILE IT FOR REFERENCE. Arbuckle New Era. The San Francisco Call {ssued a splendid Jubilee Edition last Sunday, ‘which was distributed to all the prin- cipal cities of the State by special trains. It contained much valuable reading matter and should be filed for reference by all those wishing to keep pace with our State's advance- ment. Such senterprise is certainly deserving of successs. —_—— IT SETS THE PACE. Los Angeles Caplital. One of the greatest feats ever per- formed by a California journal lies to the credit of the San Francisco Call. For the first time in the history of the State a paper printed in San Francisco reached Los Angeles the day of pub- lication. Last Sunday morning, at 2 o'clock, a special train, bearing thou- sands of copies of the beautiful ju- bilee edition of The Call, steamed out of Oakland. At half-past 2 o’clock Sunday afterncon the boys were cry- ing The Call on the streets of Los Angeles, and it was purchased by eager thousands. Two hours were lost en route by the breaking of a piston- rod, so the actual running time con- sumed on the trip was ten hours and a half. The Call is growing greater day by day, and with its enterprise, courage and honesty, it is setting a pace which other journals find hard to follow. The Call is now the most ex- ‘tensively circulated San Francisco paper in this city, and rames are being added to the suoscription list at the rate of 100 per day. —_— WINS NEW LAURELS. Downle Champlon. The Jubilee number of the San Francisco Call was in the hands of its Los Angeles readers at 2:30 p. m. of the day of its publication. The spectal train bearing a big coachload of this grand number left Oakland mole at 2 &. m. on the 28th inst., and at 2:30 The Call not only presenied - P. m. wag placed in the hads of fits agent at the Arcade depot. The run of twelve hours was the fastest time ever made over the road, notwith- -standing the delay of one and one- half hours by the breakdown of an en- gine. This remarkable feat of journal- ism indicates the stamina of the push- controlling the business department. " of The Call. It takes brain as well as money to produce such a paper as the great Jubilee Edition and place it in the hands of its readers so far away to the north and south while fresh and crisp with the nforning news. The compliments of the press in honor of The Call's New Era number were hardly cold before new laurels are conceded to that journal by its admir- ing cont PR in W W wl fe: = it. ck ket of al 00QO000000O0 the name of John, and the truth has earned for him among the Ananias. |COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS John M. Wood, a banker of Stockton, is at the Grand. E. J. Leon, U. 8. N., has taken rooms at the Occidental. L. H. Howe, a large mine owner of So- nora, is at the California. Dr. A. H. Ziekland, a physician of Ne- ada City, is at the Palace. T. J. McCarthy, a prominent architect of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. John Slallinbick, a wealthy mining man of Idaho, is a guest at the Lick. H. J. Laughlin, a merchant of Santa Ynez, is registered at the Grand. T. 8. Hanley, a capitalist of Santa Bar- ara, is staying at the Occldental. Thomas E. Hughes, proprietor of the Hughes House in Fresno, is in town. A. Bettergon, a well-known merchant of ‘he Dalles, is staying at the Baldwin. W. W. Williams, a well-known railroad man of Portland, is registered at the Oc- cidental. H. L. Ferguson and Francls §. Semmes are two naval officers who are registered at the Occidental. F. T. Russell, a well-known and wealthy business man of St. Louls, is at the Pal- ace with his wife. Oo0o0oo0oo0o0o00c One of the my- 3 O riad tales which THE TALE o make upthestory of prospectors, OF A 9. their lives and their luck, was PROSPECTOR.g 000000000 told to a party of miners at tha alace Hotel last evening by Tom Me« onald of French Gulch, who is one of the Shasta County crowd enjoying the Jubilee. the widely known mining men of the State since he got rich out of the Mc- Donald mine adjoining the great Brown Bear at Deadwood, and put a Iot of his Mr. McDonald has been one of oney into San Francisco real estate. “It was old Weaver Sebastian who found the Brown Bear that has yielded three or four millions,” he recalled. lived for a good many years in a cabin *“He a gulch-not far from Deadwood, and as one of those fellows who live that ay, raise a few potatoes, go hunting and fishing, do a little prospecting and hen money is short go and wash a w dollars’ worth of dust out of a creek bed. Do you know, Sebastian found that mine fifteen years before he located it. While out hunting one day he found a chunk of rich float near a spring wherehe stopped for a drink. laziness, or what, T don’t know, the cuss just buried it there by the’ spring and ‘Whether it was ent on with his gun. He didn't pay any more attention to it for fifteen years. Then, when the Monte Christo was lo- cated on a hill near there, he remembered that chunk of ore and went back to hunt The spring had closed and opened again a hundred feet above, but Sebas- tian found his rock and then he found the ledge close by. He got $50,000 for the aim that became the Brown Bear. He came down to the city, made presents to the girls and so on, and now is living in another cabin up there Gulch, just about as he did before he came across his fortune.” at French James W. McLachlin, a leading DOI," clan of Pasadena, is one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. B. Stanley Revett, a wealthy mining man of Breckinridge, Col., Is at the Cali- fornia for a few days. T. B. Hamilton, well known in Spokane business circles, is at the Lick, accom- panied by Mrs. Hamilton. State Senator J. M. Gleaves has come down to the city on a business trip, and can be found at the Grand. E. S. Valentine, the popular insurance man of Fresno, is stopping at the Grand while on a business trip to the city. Mr. and Mrs. . Walter Brooks, well known society people of New Yeork, are at the Palace with their child and a gov- who answers to whose aversion to flicials of the road the sobriquet of On a recent trip the porter had n experience that will last him for some time, even if it does not effect a per- manent cure upon his inability to come anywhere near the truth. John was making the western trip a few weeks ago, when, as he tells the story, the train stopped at San Antonio, and an old lady with a parrot that she carried in a large cage boarded the train. The bird along with $2 was given to John, with the instructions that he was to feed and take care of it. The porter put the parrot away in the buffet and limited him to a strict water diet. ‘When Yuma was reached the next day the old lady asked to see her pet. John brought Polly out, and as he set hi im down the old lady asked: 2 “You have fed him, haven't you?" “yas, mam; I'se feed him all he can eat.” John turned to leave with no reproach f conscience, but this was the parrot’s gue. Lifting up his voice he shrieked in d ci feaders, has been shrouded in mystery. It has now been discovered that he was cause Bronchial Troubles. interred grounds in Boston. his high falsetto: “He's a liar, I -haven't had a cracker for a day. Only water, nothing but cold, amp water.” Jol‘:n swears that he would not take are of another parrot even if his life depended upon it. —_——e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3L—Judge B. M. Carpenter of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. Angeles is at the Arlington. — Mrs. W. H. Collins of Los ‘W YORK. D. G. Davis of CALIFORNIANS IN . NEW YORK, Jan. 8L i Hotel. P. San Francisco is at the Grand Liebes and J. Kelly of San Francisco ars at the Hotel Vendome. Francisco is at the Hotel Imperial. M. Davis of San Cal.glace fruit 60c perib at Townsend's.” —_—————————— Mocha pistache, pineapple cake. 905 Larkin. —_—e————— Special _information supplied daily to houses and public men by the l!;‘rl:‘!'!w(s)?h)plng Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * — e ——— many years the exact burial place fF‘g:mes Otis, one of the revolutionary in the old Granary burial DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS, the world renowned appetizer and invigorator, s used over the whole cfvilized world, Beware of imitations. —_—————— BRONCHITIS. Sudden changes of the weather “Brown's Bronchial Troches” will give effective relief. —_—— Dr. Carl Johnson of Denver, who has been appointed vice-consul at Amoy, Chi- na, is known to the medical profession through his researches and discoveries in c onnection with morphine poisoning. 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