The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1898, Page 6

WEDNESDAY EBRUARY 2, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, tions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Proprietor. Address All Communications to PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS....... .2IT to 221 Stevenson stras Telephone Main 1874 ¥ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 ©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. BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montgomery street. eorner Clav: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll | €30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 65 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open untll Co'clock. 9518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock | 106 Eleventh st.. open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second apd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“Girl Alcazar—V: Moroseo's— Dow Tivoli—“The Pearl of Pekin.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. | Olympla, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladles’ Orchestra. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vauderille. Mechanies' Pavilion—Miniig Fair and Klondike Exposition, Lybeck Cycle Skating Rink—Optical Illustons. Pactfic Coast Jockey Club, Ingleslde Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butter y, February 3, Turkish | Rugs, at 116 Sutter street, at 2 | By Willlam G. Layng & Co.—Thursday. Feb.3, Trotting | Horses, at Occldental Horse Exchange, 225 Tehama st. THE FOOL AND THE GUN. HE time is here—in fact has long been here— | when the particular fool who kills a friend unloaded, should be treated as a criminal homicide. The presumption that any gun, under any circum- stand. When the friend is dead the fool goes into spasms covers, and while he may have been reformed by the \ experience, other fools have not been impressed, and | latest instance of this sort occurred at Stockton. The | killed will be duly buried in a day or so, and among; to be almost crazed with grief.. He ought to be entirely crazed, then he could bat his empty head weapon wherewith to blow holes in the anatomy of acquaintances. The better course would be to send | of idiot to keep him company. BOODLE RAMPANT. l Monday in taking the public pound away irom | the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to who will conduct it in the interest of lawlessness and boodle is the last of a long line of offenses against supervisorial ring. Captain Delany is responsible for this stroke of statesmanship. He is chairman of the | has made the other Supervisors “dissatisfied” with | the administration of the pound. Members of ‘the | clare that his dissatisfaction has arisen out of a failure to blackmail them to the tune of $500. issues permits for prize fights. According to an ex- pugilist quoted in yesterday’s Call he and his col- Mitchell” is willing to swear that a broker claiming to represent members of the Committee on a ring contest shall disgorge from $250 to $500 before the necessary permission to victimize the public is mail the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is positive and direct. Moreover, its source mony is equally positive and direct. If it be true, as is thus specifically charged, that on Health and Police are spending their time holding up citizens for money, instead of continuing in offi- | stituents their proper place is in jail. Surely there is a law against the sale of prize fight permits as well | is the Grand Jury? Is it possible that| body will pass these charges by un- this city become so blunted by constant contact with boodle Supervisors that it cannot be aroused when blackmail is being jingled under its very nose? So far as the public pound is concerned its trans- | ture of an official crime. The boodlers in the Board of Supervisors who have brought this about deserve highbinders over whom none of the moral restraints | which keep ordinary rascals out of jail possess any prosecute them. They have unquestionably taken the pound awayfromthe decent people who were con- to the corruption fund which they have established. An investigation of the prize fight permits may be | subject of the pound should be taken up by some- body who will instantly land Captain Delany and his There is a limit beyond which it is_intolerable to press human patience. -We think this limit has been Tthmugh the impulse to point a gun, presumably stances, is unloaded should not be permitted to of grief, from which, unfortunately, he ultimately re- they go right on swelling the mortuary record. The | the mourners will be the killer. He is reported now | against the walls of an asylum and be deprived of the him to jail and send every other of the same brand]‘ HE action of the Board of Supervisors: on Animals and placing it in the hands of a politician decency which have been committed by the present | Committee on Health and Police, and it is he who | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals deA: Captain Delany’s committee is the same one that leagues are issuing these permits for coin. “Young Health and Police demands that every promoter of granted. The evidence of Delany’s attempt to black- | is eminently respectable. “Young Mitchell’s” testi- Captain Delany and his colleagues on the Committee cial positions where they may misrepresent their con- as against attempted official blackmail. Where | noticed? Has the moral sense of the people of it is discovered that the dirty coin of bribery and fer to the domain of politics once more is in the na- no consideration whatever. They are a band of influence. What should be’ done with them is to ducting it because they could not make it pay tribute left to the slow processes of the Grand Jury, but the collection of official bandits™in jail. reached in the pound matter. Fault is being found because the crews of Qak- land ferry boats are slow in rescuing would-be sui- cides. No very good reason appears for haste in this. It is because of the possibility that non- suicidal people may tumble overboard that there ap- pears a reason for the crews to learn to launch a sav- ing craft without indulging in so much deliberation. It is said that the purpose of sending the Mohican to Samoa will be to give the natives an object les- son. This is playing on the simplicity of the natives. If they get scared at the Mohican they would prob- ably fall in a dead faint at the sight of a real modern ship, WHERE BLAME -RESTS. IRTUALLY ‘the whole responsibility for the Vnumerous accidents. resulting from (he-f:pdcy- less street cars in this city. rests upon the Su- tcn—isors. They have the power to compel the com- panies running the cars to adopt suitable safety ap- pliances, but they refuse to exercise it. - More than two years ago they adapted an ordinance requiring | all street cars in the city to be equipped with suitable guards for the protection of the public. - This ordi- nance is to go into effect thirty days after a form of fender is approved by the Supervisors, but from that time to this they have never decided what form- of guard should be adopted nor.given approval to any suggested by the companies. - Not long ago the -San Mateo electric’ line for- mally notified the Supervisors that it would at once equip its cars with a safeguard if they would ap- prove it and declare it to be suitable "within - the meaning of the ordinance. .The Supervisors, how- ever, neglected to do so. They are seeking a fender of their own, it seems, and until they have found one the cars are to be left without safety appliances and the people are to continue exposed to the danger of death at almost every street-crossing. Under these circumstances public indignation. will not waste its force on the street car companies. It may please the groundlings and the mob to. howl against the officers of these companies, but intelli- gent citizens know that the true offenders in this case are the Supervisors, who for more than two.years | have failed to perform their-duty, and wha, even in the face of the present storm of indignant grief over the killing of little Hulda Johnson, have once more postponed action—even the pretense of -action—for two weeks longer. * The way in which the Supervisors have dealt with their duty in the case would have been. a. farce if the rapid succession of fatal accidents resulting from their ‘delay had not converted it into a series of tragedies affecting a hundred households. ' They have played at making tests with dummies of straw and gone through a dozen ‘other foolish antics to ‘delude | the people into the belief they were about to ‘take | action. Each successive death by the trolley has been followed by some such performance of folly or fraud. The talk goes on, the tests continue, and so do the deaths, but we are apparently as far from the adoption of suitable safeguards to-day as we were a year ago. y Unless all evidence is at fault there is but one ex- planation for this shameful and criminal delay on the part of the Supervisors, and that comes so proniptly. to the mind of every citizen it is hardly necessary to state it. The Supervisors are clearly waiting for an arrangement with some . company that manufactures fenders. They are not making tests to see which fen- der is the best, but holding out to see which com- pany will pay the highest price for their approval -of its goods. Every delay bears all the marks of being nothing more nor less than a bid for boodle: The situation is too plain to be mistaken. The lives of the people are endangered while corrupt officials dicker for coin and seek to make a profit out of the blood of the victims crushed beneatn the wheels of the fenderless cars. It is an issue - for. the - Grand Jury. The Supervisors must be made to act whether they get their price or not. e ——— N his speech on the Teller resolution’ Mr. Bailey l for the fiatists said: “There is not a lawyer in the United. States or any ot.her country who will ver- national bonds can be paid in silver.” Mr. Bailey has therein the singular experience of stating a fact. ~Every one knows that the United LAW AND EXPEDIENCY. ture, on his professional reputation, to deny that.-our | States can pay their debts in silver, for the Govern- ment is a sovereignty and there is no power to com- pel it to pay at all. It can give its bondholders something or nothing, just as it pleases. It can re- pudiate every penny it owes and its creditors will be absolutely without recourse. Therefore, of course, it can pay its debts in dollars worth only 50 cents. Mr. Bailey has made no discov- ery. Repudiation of the half or the whole of the national debt cannot be prevented. There is nothing in the constitution to guard against it. - There is no tribunal before whose bar the nation can be:sum- moned to plead if impeached for the dishonor. Whenever the people elect a President and a ma- jority of the House and Senate in favor of repudia- tion every obligation of the Government will be- come worthless in the hands of its holder. = Mr. Jailey and those who stand with him desire at pres- ent to repudiate half of the debt. But in a little while they may seem to stand where they now accuse the sound money men of standing, for by teaching the safety and expediency of repudiating half the national debt they invite into the field the past masters of demagogy, who will challenge Mr. Bailey to give a good reason why the whole debt cannot be repudiated, as well as half of it. It is the knowledge of the absolute correctness of Mr. Bailey’s position that the debt can be half re- pudiated that drives into common association in politics the men who know that repudiation, while not prevented by law, is canonized against by ex- pediency. Whether practiced in whole or in part, it finally destroys our public credit. "A nation without credit is a nation without hope. It may lose eredit through exhaustion of resources and be comforted by the world’s compassion. - But if it lose credit by willful repudiation while solvent and abounding in resources it wins the world’s contempt and its citi- zens may be spat upon by slaves. It is the ambition of Mr. Bailey’s party to control the next Congress by a majority large enocugh to override the veto and enact repudiation of half the debt. If this be done the Fifty-seventh Congress will be clected on the issue of repudiating the other half of the debt, and Mr. Bailey can safely ask the same question and his challenge will get the same answer— The United States can repudiate 50 per cent of its debt. re- e ‘While the Police Commissioners are planning. to shift a few captains they would be wise to shift a few patrolmen entirely off the force. Policemen who ‘without warrant assume the right to invade private houses ought to be treated as burglars, and if " the householder abstain from shooting them, to be glad of no worse penalty than dismissal. Sacramento. is- likely to be feft without a.police court, but the loss will be less than San Francisco’s would be under a similar experience. _Sacramento has no-Judge Campbell, and' its judicial whiskers are of an ordinary type.. ; S A Detroit capitalist proposes to prove that the Bland-Allison bill is unconstitutional. Possibly it is. If it stands in the way of the capitalist undoubtedly it is. Gradually a suspicion is-arising that the con- stitution is unconstitutional. - L pesk There is something almost pathetic in-the state- ment of the Spring Valley Water Company that it lost money during the last year. Has the gas com-- pany also suffered the buffeting of poverty? . = - municipal THE OA_KLAN'D WATER COMBINE. l'T is now evident the exposure ma;'le by The: Call - of the proposed combination of the rival watéer companies of Oakland was most timely and op- portune to the interests of the people: of that city. Warning having been given, the citizeéns of Oakland are ‘on their guard and prepared’ ‘to contest every effort that may be made to fix water rates at exces- sive amounts for the spoliation of the public and the enrichment of the combine: & Under “onr ‘law, as. construed ~by the courts, authorities.. in ~fixing water rates are compelled to allow the water. companies ‘a fair degree of interest on - the capital invested. It is. therefore of prime importance to the people of every community. to see to- it that investments in public utilities are Honestly and legitimately made, for | if two.companies can combiné their capital stock at the amounts fixed by themselves it will be ‘equally possible for a dozen' to. combine and demand rates sufficient to return a profit on the whole. The ‘proposed combination in" Oakland,- if carried out, will have-a capital stock of about $12,000,000, and rates fixed to yield 5 per-cent interest on that:amount would compel the people of Oakland to pay $600,000 annually for water. Moreover, the way would be prepared for another set of capitalists, -‘or perhaps the same set, to start a third company and eventually add another $6,000,000 to the stock on which: interest must: be -paid. . It would be a bonanza to the water companies, but death to the consumers. The danger of excessive capitalization by means of combination and reerganization of companies con- trolling -public utilities'is by no means a remote one. More than oné community in the United States is stiffering now ‘the .evil: effects of - just such - trans- actions. - It is an easy methotl of settling controver- sies between competing’ companies and has proven so profitable to the owners of-the ‘companies that -all of them'are more or-less inclined to adopt it. All evidence points to. the conclusion: that the two companies which have been sipplying:Oakland with water are now .ready to pool their issiies and com- bine at the expense of the general public. ~A: year ago, when water rates were under: consideration by the Oakland City Council, a representative of one of the companies said to . the .Councilmen:: “If . you do not abide by the law and give us a fair rate of interest on our investment, there is-but one resource leit to capital; that is combination.” : ° The' Call has taken up this question as it-did that of the water contest in Los Angeles in the interests | of the general good. It has no antagonism to in- vested. capital. It will give continuous. aid to - the cause of justice and fair dealing -with: thé public, but the battle in each city must be fought by the citizens themselves. = The ‘warning has been given to' Oak: land; and the scheme of the combine exposed. . Now let ‘the voters see to it that-their- Councilmen do not betray them on any point involved in the contést. e THE NEWS FROM THE ORIENT. OUBTLESS the - dispatches from - European D capitals concerning the. situation in China are as amusing to.the gifted ‘gentlemen who con- coct them as to.the American. reader. To send an- nouncements at one time that the Kaiser has: the upper ‘hand on the Chinese coast, on the next day that Great Britain is dominant and on the third day that' Russian_has grabbed and holds everything - in sight, must be a-pleasing occupation to-a man.who is:paid for it and has nothing ‘else to do. In the meantime the situation in China is-an-affair of grave importance, in which serious people take:an interest.. - That ‘interest is -not satisfied by the ‘ever changing reports-and ‘rumors of European capitals: It does not require a telegram every day to let us know that British- papers claini- Great Britain has won a diplomatic victory, that ‘German -papers as- sert the supremacy of Germany' in the Orient to be an assured thing-from this time on, and that Russian newspapers say nothing. - One might as well read the startling interviews with Pope and Queen and Kaiser which the yellow journalists write as they sip their beer in the dives of New York. Under these circumstances it is ‘gratifying to be able to announce that The Call will soan receive its news from China direct and not through the medium of European journals.. This is to be accomplished by the alliance of The Call with the New York Her- ald, a special correspondent, J. L. Stickney, repre- senting the two papers, being now well on his way to the scene of European aggression on the Chinese coast. -His dispatches will not have to pass under the supervision’ of -diplomatists ‘and official censors. They will give to the public definite information con- cerning the situation and enable the reader to form an intelligent opinion of the movements of the rival powers. In a time comparatively short the special letters to The Call and the Herald will be forthcoming. No expense will be spared to get these accurate and full reports as swiftly as can be accomplished by the use of steam and electricity. Mr. Stickney is one of the most energetic as well as one of the most pains- taking and reliable of the younger generation of cor- respondents and. can be counted on to forward. the news of every important event in his field of action as soon as it is possible to do ‘so. Although the dispatches which have reached this country -of the situation in China have tbeen contra: dictory and confusing, enough has been made known to show the serious nature of the complications there and the imminent danger of a generalwar which would involve nearly all Europe as well as China and Japan. It would be difficult under such . circumstances to overraté the value of reliable news from the scene of the impending conflict, and The:Call and’ Herald dis- patches will be of vast importance since they will afford the only information open to the general pith- lic on which an intelligent estimiate may be made of the prospects of war or peace so long as the present crisis lasts. Wamen have been recognized at last. New York’s new State House is to contain in marble the faces of Captains Molly Pitcher and Susan B. Anthony. But where is Charlotte Smith? Now there’s a female who in justice to herself-and humanity ought to be turned into stone right away. ‘The o!?servant spectator cannot ‘help but wonder whether. Vining does not experience a sense of dis- appointment when one of his justly celebrated cars mierely bumps 2 citizen and doés.not kill-him.- -C. P. Huntingtor’s tendency to confound his iden- tity with that. of the United States will soon result in his. contributing his mortal parts to the creation of a dull thud. < : It w_ou’k‘l be: gratifying to. be able to state that the charges of blackmail against - certain. Supervisors camie as a surprise. : 3 G 1 ‘There is no avoiding thie conclusion that. the time for Senator Teller to shed a few more tears has ar- "The pound vis’n'ow‘i_n politics, and & fot of ‘politi- |- cians ought to be in the pound. 2, FEBRUARY 1898. DOLE MAKING HIS BOW TO THE WASHINGTON COLLECTION. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. 0000000000000 00660060 * ORIGINAL OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 2 PRPEGOPO0OCOOOOOOOS REDERICK 8. JARVIS, who has just-been, retired from active service in Scotland -Yard; London, is said to the: -original Dr. ‘A. Conan Doyle's “Sherlock Holme: Mr. Jarvis is one of the ablest. detecttyes in the world, and has been in-the ‘sérvice of the metropoli- tan police of London ever since he was 19 years: old. To. tell a tithe ~of ~“his great exploits would require a book. ~His most sensa- y 7 FREDERICK S. JARVIS, Said'to be ‘the original of A. Conan Doyle's *‘Sherlock Holmes." tional and dramatic work was done in connection “Wwith ‘the ‘arrest and convic- tion of Mendell Howard for extensive bank note. forgeries in England, America, France and Germany, Mr. Jarvis is a native of Devonshire and is of tremendous stature and most powertul physique. He has been regard- ed with great favor by the wealthy classes in London, who look upon him as a protector with more than human power. — e COURAGE: It ia not that they never knew Weakness or fear who are the brave: Those are the proud, the knightly few ‘Whose joy is still to serve and save. But they who, in the weary night, Amid the darkness and the stress, Have struggled with disease and, blight, ‘With pitiful world-weariness: They. who have yedrned to stand among The free and mighty of the earth, Whose sad, aspiring souls are wrung ‘With starless hope and hollow mirth— ‘Who dle with every day, vet live Through merciless, unbrightened years, ‘Whose swestest right Is to forgive And smile divinely through their tears: They are the noble, they the strong, They are the tried, the trusted ones, And though their way is hard and long— Strafght to the pitying God it runs. —Harper's Weekly. —_———— FLASHES FUN." “Gordon tells me that his wife saves a great déal of money for him now.” “How's that? Is she doing her own housework?"" “No, but she has learned to walk so as to make an ordinary petticoat rattle like the costliest silk.”—Cleveland Leader. Mose—Mistah, Uncle mah money. Bookie—Why, uncle, vour horse bolted. turned around and ran the other way. Uncle Mose—I tole you I played him ‘bofe: ways.—Philadelphia Times. Browne—Did you'ever see & man who really. wanted the earth? Towne—Oh, yes. Browne—Who was he? Towne—A first-trip. passenger on an ocean. liner.—Brooklyn Life. “Without ‘word. of warning he: threw himself at my feet.” “Oh, well, you know he couldn’t miss them,”’—Cleveland Plaindealer. Tramp—Cud yer. spare a dyin’ man a few pennies, mister? . Citizen—What! A strong, healthy-look- ing man ltke you dying? Tramp—Dat's wot I sald. Me efforts to live widout workin' is Kkillin’ me, an’ me gimme . doctor says I need:a little change, gee?— Chicago News. g QS EQUAL TO EVERY OCCASION. Willapa Harbor (Wash.) Pilot. California’s Golden Jubilee, to:com- ‘memorate Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter’s fort, is heing celebrated in San Francisco this week in a manner hefitting the importance of the event. As a memorial of this gigantic cele- _bration the San Francisco Call issued a forty-eight-page edition’that “chal- lenges the admiration of the news- per- world. The .great mining en- {:rpflsea of the State are traced through -their successive 1tageu and developments from Marshall's discov- g to the opening 6f the Jubilee in a 9 iphic _and -intensely interesting manner, and the illustrations are su- e-Call is equal to every oc- _IT LEADS THE VAN. 5 Saratoga Item. - The Jubilee Edition of the San Fran- clsco Call Is & great effort in modern journalism. - The Call . seems to be leaving the front béhind. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Dr. Hatch of Sacramento is at the Lick. C. C. Beekman, a capitalist of Oregon, is a guest at the Grand. Cy Mulkey, the prominent horse ralser of Napa, is at the Grand. D. H. Coles, & wealthy mining man of Sonora, is at the Baldwin. Superfor Judge T. E. Jones of Weaver- ville is staying at the Grand. ‘W. A. Bowden, the well-known attor- ney of San Jose, is at the Palace. , E. R. Gifford, a large mine owner of Auburn, is stopping at the Baldwin. T. E. Udell, a prominent merchant -of St. Louls, s registered at the Palace. W. M. Wright, a prominent member of the Board of Trade, is at the Palace. Justice W. D. Gilbert. of the -Circult Court of Portland Is at the: Occideéntal. Dana Harmon, a wealthy mine-owner of Nevada City, is registered at the Lick. J. M. Fulton, a prominent attorney and raflroad manager of Reno, 18 at the Cali- fornia. Jerome E. Young, a physician of San Jose, is at the Lick. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hopkins came down from Menlo Park last evening and registered at the Palace. Among the arrivals at the Grand is Jus- tice of the Peace and United States Land Commissioner Dante R. Prince of Fresno. 0000000000 - Two - bellboys o O at the Palace o ONLY O Hotel are close O A SLIGHT o friends, and. o o while one is in- O ACQUAINTANCE. 2 Ty “f 0" va sportive - and is 0009000090 ,n liiveterats gambler at horseraces, the other is a model young man and more domesti- cated in his tastes; and up to last pay day he had not been allured by the blandishments of the fickle bookmaker. On that day the two boys’were given a half-holiday in addition to their month- ly salary, and the good bellboy com- menced to bemoan the sad state of his financial affairs, deploring the fact that his wages were so low and tips so few and far between. The bad bellboy con- doled with his, at the same time saying, “Why don’t you play the races and make a winning?’ The other one replied, “It's against my religious principles, and, what's more, I don’t know one horsefrom the other, so that will not help me any; and then suppose I would lose?” “Why, my dear boy, you can't lose if you play the way I tell you,” the tempt- er answered. *I have been watching the faces for a long time now and you can bet that I know the horses all right.” The specious arguments finally over- came the conscientious scruples of the good boy and they both went out to the races, where the guileless one ventured $20, which represented the sum total of his earnings, in every case following the tips of his knowing companion. It is needless to state he lost it all. ‘When they were coming home his vol- uble friend was explaining how it all happened; that the horses they had picked to win were not in good form, the jockeys were & little off, and he indulged in the ‘“con” race talk characteristic of losers. The good boy, thinking this a small measure of consolation for his lossed,with sad intonation of voice and with doleful visions of the lately departed double eagle, interrupted the other by inquiring, “Say, old man, did you say that you knew the horses?” “That's what I sald,” his friend re- plied. “Well,” said the other, “don’t you think you had better get anotherintroduction?” Lieutenant Byron L. Reed of the U. 8. 8. Corwin and Lieutenant L. T. Cutter of the U. 8. 8. Rush are located at the Cali- fornia. George J.. Apple and wife of Dawson, who have been visiting in the southern part of the State, have returned to the Grand. ‘W. Forsyth, the vineyardist and raisin- grower of Fresno, is convalescing from his late serious illness. He is at the Occidental. Mrs. Sherwood and her daughter of South Ascot, England, who are making a tour of the world, are guests at the Occidental. Edward Percival McDonald of New York, who keeps a fashionable stable of bhunting horses on Long Island, registered at the Palace last night. H. W. Pratt, ex-Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and. S. R. Sargent, proprietor of a large woodenware factory at Cleveland, Ohio, are on the hotel register of the Pal- ace. “ E. O. Brandt, assistant auditor of the Burlington and Missourl River Rallroad at Omaha, who has been here on business connected with his road, will leave to- day for his home. f 8. F. Loughborough of New York and a cousin of the lately deceased Alexan- der Z. Loughborough, is stopping-at the Grand. He has extensive mining inter- ests in British Columbia and Arizona and is en route to the Klondike, where he proposes to invest some of his surplus cash in mining property, as he is a firm believer in the golden promise of that country, 3 0000000000 Numerous and o O .varied are. ‘the o A 0 jokes that are told at -the ex- o , COSTLY 2 pense of theprin- O MISTAKE. ter, many the o strange and 0000000O0O0O laughable con- structions of the Queen's English as the result of typographical errors. Apropos, here is a story upon a reporter who, in consequence of the printer taking affairs into his own hands, was suspended for two weeks from the benefits of the pay- roll. Tn Richmond, Va., there is a large organization known as the Hollywood Memorial Association, and every June the ladies set aside a day for the decora- tion of the graves of the many Confed- erate dead who are buried in the ceme- tery from which the organization takes fts name. The society has many adjunct socletles that work under its direction. The president of one of these is Mrs, Blank, a rich society leader, who aspires to literary attainments. Her immediate branch of the organization held its an- niversary meeting last spring and she read before it an especially prepared ad- dress, in which she said: ‘‘Let us never forget that as a soclety we owe our ex- istence to the Hollywood Memorial As- sociation.” She had abbreviated the name and used In her copy the letters “H. M. A" When, with an air of pride, she turned the address over to the pa- tlent reporter he thankfully accepted it and assured her that it should appear In its entirety. In editing the copy the reporter drew a ring around the letters “H. M. A.,” as asign to the printer to spell the name out in full. ' The next day when he came down to the office he found upon his desk a note from the managing editor asking for a few moments of his valuable time. He entered his chief’s sanctum to find there Mrs. Blank, who with a deeply in« jured air was telling how she had been made to appear ridiculous in the eyes of her friends. ~ Then the reporter was ins formed in no- unecertain terms that he could ‘work for two weeks just for the fun-of the thing. It occurred to him that he might find an explanation in Mrs. Blank's address, and he did, for there, in hard, cold type, the printer had set up the sentence, “Let us never forget that as a society we owd our existence to the Holy Master Above.” CALIFOR: NEW YORK, Feb. 1.— Judge Curtis H. Lindley of San Francisco is at the Fifth- avenue Hotel. W. H. Cameron of San Francisco is at the Murray Hill Hotel. M. Hale of San Francisco is at the Neth- erland Hotel. NS IN NEW YORK. C.ALIFOR"NIA NS IN \\'AS!iINGTON. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—J. J. Cousins and C. N. Clarke of San Francisco are at the St. James. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIGHT SHIP—A. S., City. The lightship that is to be located on the San Francisco bar next month will be In charge of A. I. Lowell, a Tresident of Berkeley. SPANISH :NAMES—A. -B., Oakland, Cal.” In Spanish words that commence with %Jo” ‘take the-sound of “Ho.” For instance, Jose is pronounced as if written “Hosa” in English, with the “a’ sounded as “a’* in:fate, Joachim is pronounced as if written Ho-a-kim, and Jonive as if writtten “Ho-nee-v. TOM PAINE—-J. ., -City. Where the remains of Tom Paine are burled is something that is' not known. -On the 10th of June, 1809, his remains were buried on his farm at New Rochelle, N. Y., and they were allowed to remain there until 1819, when they were removed to England by -William Corbett, a then prominent radical, who had an idea that the re- publican : notions - he ‘favored would be fostered by that act. In that he was mistaken and_eventually, in 1836, the re- mains were seized as part of the property of Paine’s son, who became a_bankrupt in that. vear. They were heard of in 1844 as béing in the possession of a Mr. Tilly in London. The assertion is made that Subsequently the remains were taken to France and it is believed that they were buried there. CITIZENSHIP—Subsecriber, City. Tha fact that a German served ten years in thé army of the United States and received an honorable discharge does not confer-on him the right to vote without being naturalized.: The law is that: “Any alien of the age of twenty who has been in the armies of the United States and-- has been honorably - discharged therefrom may become a citizen on his petition, -without .any previous declara- tion_ of intention, provided that he has resided in the United States at least ons year previous to his applicaunn and is of good moral character.” LICENSE—E. B., Taylor, Shasta Coun- ty, Cal. There is no provision of law In California that authorizes a man to ped= dle without a license because he is a vet~ eran of the war of the Rebellion. 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