The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. Call .FEBRUARY 3, 1808 "THURSDAY.. JOH?V D. SPéECKELS, Proprietor. Address Ail Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market ond Third Sts.. S. F. ‘Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... .27 to 22| Stevenson straez Telephone Main 1874 THE .SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is gerved by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5:cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE .. | .One year, by mall, $1.50 | 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Bullding WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE. C. C. CARLTON, C; EBRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll ©:30 o'clock. 621 MoAlllster street; open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until Co'clock. 9518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.. open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ond Kentucky streets: open until 9 o’clock. — .. Riggs House cspondent. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“Girl from Paris." Alcazar—Victor Durand." Morosco's—"Down in Dixia" Tivoli—~“The Pearl of Pekin. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night. Olympia, cor. Mason and Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladies Orchestra. The Chutes—Ci a and Vaudeville Mechanies' Pavillon—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition, Lybeck Cyele Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleslde Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By. Frank W. Bi This day, February 8 Turkish | Rugs, at 116 dutter street, at 2 and S P. M. | By Wiliam G. Layng Co.—This day. Feb. 8, Trotting | Horses; 4t Oceidental Horse Exchange, 225 Tehama t. THE SCIENCE OF FORGETTING. EMORY has been reduced to a science. Ifa man has 2 knowledge that his recollection of | /\/\ names is bad he can overcome the defect. | For instance, if the name of ‘a person to whom he isj introduced is Snow, and he is certain that he could not engrave this on his mental tablets, he has only to make a note that the name signifies something | which'is white and cold and piles up in drifts. This is very simple and there can be no danger that in- | quiry will have to be made when next they meet. By | an impulse which quickly comes to be second nature | he will extend his hand and say, “Delighted to see you, Mr. Snow.” . Such is the science of memory. The science. of forgetting is something different. There are no rules for it. It is a matter of instinct. Mr. Colnon seems to be a master in the ability to forget, to do it judiciously, modestly, effectually, for- getting only that which if he had a choice in the mat- ter he would rather not remember. This may be for- tunate for him.. To the world outside the Harbor Commission it may appear somewhat in the nature ot | a calamity. If there has been crookedness in that | body, which heaven forbid, people would like to | know about it. By a natural impulse they turn to | Colnon, and are met by the assertion that he cannot | remember. Well, if he cannot, to refresh his mind is | a simple duty, and this The Call has for several days | been trying to do—not, it must be confessed, with the approbation of Colnon or the other members of the | board. ‘We venture the prediction that if they will | carcfully read the information printed in the local | columns it will stimulate thought until fading recol- lection shall revive and the whole picture of the transactions in which the board has been concerned | will stand out like a masterpiece of bas-relief. Then, | glancing at the picture, Colnon will be able to de- scribe it in terms the most explicit. Often when a man disappears with money belong- ing to some other man he turns up later broke, tell- ing a story of having forgotten all about his act of | going away, of spending the money, or of getting back. The cruel world has a habit then of railing at him, advising him to spin his yarns to the marines and otherwise of making light of his sorrows. Let the Colnon case be a lesson to the world. Here is a | man in a responsible position who can forget as fast | and accurately as the victim of the circumstances de- tailed above. l have little knowledge of the world are engaged in gambling. It is an atrocious thing that men should be helping them along a path the course of | which is downward. It is beyond comprehension that a Grand Jury supposed to ferret out crime, to act without fear or favor, should ignore the existence of poolrooms not only illegal in themselves but doubly illegal in that they cater to lads who are| hardly beyond the stage of short pantaloons. Pupils of the public schools play the races. They | have learned not only to do this, but they have been corrupted by the vernacular of the track. They talk, not of youthful pleasures, but of “tips.” They dis- cuss the qualities of various horses as shrewdly as a lot of jockeys. The slang of the tout is at the ends of their tongues. Upon the outcome of a race they freely bet their money. That this course must lead them to neglect their work as students does not need saying. That the in- fluence is bad in all respects is too plain to be con- troverted. That it will lead many into actual crime there can be no question. Some boys do not have money to waste on races. Nothing can be clearer than that these boys will in some instances be led into obtaining the necessary money regardless of conse- quences. As no man can serve two masters, no boy can attend to the important duties of boyhood—the preparation for manhood—and at the same time give himself in any degree to the passion for gaming, a mad passion which has brought many a promising career to a somber close. Why do not the police shut the iniquitous places where the money is taken from boys? Why do they permit poolrooms to defy the law and be a trap for children? If they do not know these things they will appreciate this information. If they are not able to find the offensive institutions The Call will point them the way. The boys need protection. They have a right to be guarded against the tempter. The community owes this much to- them and their parents. LURING THE BOYS TO RUIN. T is a startling fact that boys who should as yet The man who says he can produse Mrs. Leutgert in court will probably never be able to claim the reward, but at any time he may wish to join a liars’ club he will find nothing barring his way. R A Telegraphic advices are that Chile and Argentina will “keep the peace”” Why they should want to keep anything for which they have so little use is not exolained in the dispatch. ; VICTORY IN SIGHT. ICTORY is in sight for the people in the battle Vagainst the fenderless street cars. Public sen- timent, roused at last to the point of determined insistence, has had its effect. As was announced yes- terday by The Call exclusively, the directors of the Market Street Company have resolved to wait no lenger for action by the Board of Supervisors, but will at once equip their cars with safeguards for the protection of the public. William F. Herrin, in speaking of the conclusion reached by the directors of the Market street system, said to a representative of The Call: “We propose to exercise our best judgment in applying a device to save human life and will equip our cars with fenders. Should the Board of Supervisors hereafter pass an ordinance requiring our company to put on some other fender or device we will go into court and fight the proposition on its merits. The Supervisors will be compelled to prove they have found something better than we introduced.” There can be no question that the decision reached by the Market Street Company is fully justified by the delay of the Supervisors. As was pointed out by Mr. Vining in his statement to The Call, the com- pany has been waiting for action by the Supervisors ever since 1805. During the pgriod that has elapsed the company has made tests of thirty safety devices, but has never been able to get the Supervisors to approve of any of them. Patience under these cir- cumstances has ceased to be a virtue. It is time to act. The Supervisors are waiting too long. There have been too many deaths. The announcement of this decision of the Market | Street Company was the most important item of local news published yesterday. It was received with grat- ification by the public, but not with entire satisfac- tion. There remains the question: Since the com- pany is to act at last without the sanction of the Su- pervisors, why has it waited so long before doing so? | Why did not the corporation act promptly in the public interests without waiting until repeated maimings and killings had roused public indignation almost to the verge of a popular outbreak? The long delay of nearly three years in the settle- ment of an issue so comparatively simple as that of equipping cars with safety appliances similar to those in use in other cities is a matter of grave public con- | cern. It remains an issue demanding investigation even after the railway company has decided to adopt fenders without further waiting. It is a common rumor on the streets that a majority of the Super- visors refused to select any particular device because | some of them demanded $500 each as the price of their approval. They have held out all these years it is said in order to get that much coin. Common rumor is not good authority, but in this case all the circumstantial evidence tends to justify the report that the delay in the adoption of fenders was a campaign of rascally inactivity for the sake of boodle. Recent disclosures in connection with the management of the pound and the issue of per- mits for prize fights confirm it. companies know that the Supervisors were holding out for money? That is a question the Grand Jury would do well to ask and investigate. Victory is in sight for the people, but it will not be a complete victory unless the men who are respon- sible for the deaths by trolley accidents in the last three years are exposed. To have gained the desired safety appliances on the cars is good, but the battle should be kept up until not one guilty rascal capes unwhipped of justice. THE FARMERS’ STAKE IN ANNEXATION His presence in Washington has brought no strength to the annmexation treaty, and he is about to leave for a tour through the South and will sail for home in a few weeks. The wisdom of the makers of the constitution in requiring concurrence of two-thirds of the Senate to ratify a treaty is again illustrated as it was in the San Domingo affair. The annexationists boasted in November of one vote too many and gave notice that the treaty would go through early in December. The Call at that time denied their strength and de- clared that the treaty would not be ratified in De- cember, nor at all. Our position was proved to be correct by the proposition to annex by joint resolu- tion. We have shown the unconstitutionality ot such method. Congress may “admit States” by such reso- lution or by a bill, but it cannot annex alien terri- tory in any other way than by treaty. While the friends of the treaty are laboring to holi what strength they have in Congress the antagonisin n the country is consolidating and increasing. The tarmers in the reliable Republican States of the Upper Mississippi Valley are asserting themselves in a way that admonishes the Republican party. The Congressional elections this year are of the gravest importance. The Republican party cannot afford to alienate the rural communities which were its staff and stay in 1896. The farmers want for themselves our domestic sugar market of $100,000,0.0 a year. They have the land. the white labor and the disposi- tion to take that market and hold it. The tinplate market annually was a small fraction of that sum, but the tinplate inanufacturers deter- mined to have it for themselves. Under the stimulus afforded by the McKinley bill, American ingenuity took that trade. It adapted devices in manufacture, cheapened production and bettered the product, un- til now American meats, oil, fruits, vegetables and even plum puddings go all over the world cased in American tin. What was done for tinplate and for steel rails, for benefit of the American manufacturers, can be done in a far greater degree for the American farmers by letting them conquer the home sugar market with their beet product. Cane sugar has to be produced by some form of cheap labor. It is a tropical product and white labor has never been domesticated in trop- ical plantations and never will be. Beet sugar, on the other hand, is a product of the temperate zone. It is produced by white labor, paid and living on the scale of temperate zone civilization. Thirty millions of people get their living in this country from its farms. They can add to the profifs of.their present crops and add to that the profit of a new crop, if they are permitted to supply to American consumers the $100,000,000 Worth of sugar they use every year. The new crop used in rotation will benefit the soil and will increase by at least one-fourth the farm value of the crop with which it rotates. All of these facts are known to the American farm- ers. They are watching the politicians and it will go hard with any political party that snatches this prize from their grasp by annexing distant fields of competition in the far tropics. The treaty being dead, it is best to let it stay dead. Domestic problems crowd Congress for solution. Let them occupy the legislative mind. HE mission of President Dole seems to be a failure. People who are rushing to the Klondike for, the purpose of starving to death might accomplish the same end by remaining at home and have here the advantage of being comfortably buried. Did the railroad | es- | THE INSOLENCE OF BOODLE. BSERVING persons can scarcely have failed O to notice that what the bard of Avon called the “insolence of power”‘looms up conspicu- ously in all the boodle exposures now running. At Los Angeles, where a newspaper and political ring has been unearthed working to take from the city a valuable water right, the cohorts of reform have been met with counter charges, abuse and refalsifica- tion. At San Jose, where ‘“gang politics” has smirched the judicial ermine and brought reproach upon the government, a cry for an investigation has been met with an insolent swagger and a demand to know what the people are going to do about it. At Oakland, where two water corporations have formed a combination to loot the public, an exposure is met with sullen silence. In this city—but here language fails and deduction grows sick at heart. The atti- tude of our boodlers can be described with but one word—defiance. : A story illustrative of the spirit which animates the political corruptionists now being exposed to view is told of the late Boss Tweed. Soon after stealing himself rich Tweed ordered a magnificent residence. Desiring something that would “lay over” the resi- dences of the plebeians who had acquired their money honestly, he employed a famous European artist to decorate his house. Strolling through his palatial corridors one day with this gentleman, he espied in a niche a fine statue of Mercury. “Who's that?” he asked. The artist gave him the name of the mythological god and briefly narrated the story of his birth and life. “Yes,” said Tweed, “I under- stand; but what did he do? Why is he entitled to a statue?” “Mercury,” replied the artist, with some hesitation, “represents the predatory idea; he was the god of thieves.” “Thunder and lightning,” roared the famous boss, “you’ve got him in the wrong place. Take him down from there and put him over the main entrance to the building.” Yet history records that society finally swept this rascal to prison and kept him there until he died. The insolent defiance with which the charges pre- ferred against certain members of the Board of Su- pervisors of this city have been met can be likened only to the celebrated remark of Tweed's—“So long as we count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” Is it possible that the people of San Francisco are not going to do anything about the disclosures made with reference to the public pound, the sale of boxing permits, the street car fenders and the other charges of rank corruption in the Board of Supervisors? There seems to be no question of the guilt of the parties charged. Is the insolence of power—the defiance of boodle—to bowl down the moral storm that must be brewing? The Call does not share the popular distrust of the capacity of the law to bring all classes of criminals to the dock. But it must be admitted that those pro- cesses are slow and the results in political cases quite unsatisfactory. Burglars, footpads and petty lar- cenists are arraigned, convicted and sentenced with certainty and dispatch. But political highwaymen and official garroters are treated with singular ten- derness and regard. Canndt somebody put fire into the law at this time? It is quite evident that if official corruption is to be brought to an end in this State the people must land some of the rascals now in public life in prison. All scalawags dread the bas- tile, and vote selling and buying will cease only when an example is made of some of those who seek office for the purpose of making money. As things are going it will not be long before Mercury will be the reigning god at every city or county building in the State. Tnew navy which must ever be a puzzle to the landsman. One of these is the immediate ne- cessity for repairs which springs into existence with the launching of each ship, excepting, of course, and gladly, the Californian product. It would seem as if a ship was hardly more than a skeleton on which to hang an elongated series of repairs. If the de- partment decides to dispatch a brand-new vessel to VAGARIES OF THE®' NAVY. HERE are some things in connection with the some foreign port, there to be impressive, there is | always a preliminary delay while repairs are made. Is it possible that the young ladies who break bot- tles over the prow of each ship added to the navy use too much force in the process? Perhaps it would be safer not to break the bottle, but to uncork it quietly and let the contents escape without subject- ing the craft to violence. Recently the Brooklyn col- lided with a zephyr and a dash of spray and was ready for the drydock. Not long before that the Texas had stubbed her nimble toe in trying to prance overland. We confess to lack of sympathy with the Texas. It should have stayed out in the wet. Now the Indiana’s boilers have been leaking. No particu- lars have been received, and specifications of the right of the Indiana’s boilers to spring a leak have not been received. We assume, however, the expectation that a ship costing millions shall be equipped with boilers more robust than inspire the cough of the donkey engine which acclaims along the water front as it hoists coal from the hold is not unreasonable. ——— Since a seven-year-old girl of Santa Monica has died of hydrophobia caused by the bite of a dog, the opportunity is again here for science to declare that there is no such malady. Science seldom neglects a chance to do this, and to chide in convincing tech- nical terms the careless people who die of it. Of course the claim will be made again that hydrophobia is imagination, but a little child with an imagination developed to, the fatal point must indeed have pos- sessed an active mind. Justice Richardson of Los Angeles County has cither been sadly misrepresented or he is the most vacuous ass who ever misconstrued law. It was he who would have turned loose two men who accord- ing to the evidence thus far made public were guilty of wanton and peculiarly cruel murder. If Richard- son has an excuse for his conduct the people would be glad to hear it, and in the absence of excuse they would be delighted to hear of his resignation. Yesterday afternoon the Examiner bulletined as news considerable information which readers of The Call had had the privilege of seeing in the morning. However much such enterprise is to be admired, we feel that common journalistic courtesy would have prompted the yellow sheet to give us credit. Explanation is made that the original of Sherlock Holmes was a Scotland Yard detective. It is im- possible to accept this without a feeling of disap- pointment. It had been hoped that the original was simply a composite San Francisco sleuth. If the wife of young Hanna succeed in leaving the family, as is her ambition, she will stamp herself as a bright woman. It is seldom that the Hanna family gets left. There are criminals for whom hanging is too good, and one of these is the scoundrel who is literally snatching Chicago schoolgirls baldheaded. ! | from the obscurity of married life to sing some | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. If Alexander Guilmant,the great French organist, decides to visit San Francisco it will be Interesting to see whether he will down the encore flend and crush the enthusiast who breaks in with untimely applause before the last notes of the ac- companiment are sounded, as he has done in New York. In New York the encore flend reaches the ne plus ultra of his ~ development, but Guilmant. has downed him; and as for accompaniments, they have been listened to at his recitals with as much respect as if they were solos. It is difficult to say where the Guilmant audiences have come from, be- cause they have been different from all other New York .audiences this winter. Perhaps Henry Wolfson has had them educated to order, for every one knows that Wolfson is the most obliging of im- presarios. The probability is, though, that organists, cholrmasters and earnest devo- tees of church music have made up the it is said, 25,000 francs. In recording this news the Mondo Artistico cries out, “A Minister of the Kingdom with artistic proclivities? One must see it to believe i M. and Mme. Massenet left Paris last week, according to custom, to Seek more sunny lands. M. Massenet will not re- turn to Paris till the end of Kebruary, when he will give all his attention to the final studies of the reproduction of “Thais’’ at the Opera, with new scenes composed by himself. Genoa has never forgotten that it is the city where Paganini was born, and it has just proved it once more. On Christmas day, at the Paganini Theater, a new Jdrop scene was mounted, representing ‘“The Triumph of Paganini.” This curtain is the work of a talented young painter named G. Grifo. No time is lost at Berlin, The first | da admiration of all the sisters connected with the place.” ) In the building there arenumerous plas- ter of paris busts representing differest saints, and never .would this recogstruct- ed sinner pass one of them withnut’_knee]- ing down in front -of it.and making: @& short act of devotion. "A’ new bust was received a few days ago-and placed at the end of the hall upon the second -floor. Yesterday a couple-of the sisters.passing there found the hospital's protege kneel: ing in front of it and praying with the greatest fervor, but, unfortunately for him, his piety in this instance was but a waste of time. The new bust represented George Wash- ington. Ex-Secretary of State Drury Melone has come down from his :home atr Oak Knoll and will be found at the Palace for the next few days. F. H. Pane of England and George A. Grahame of Scotland afe - two tourists from Great Britain who have apartments at the Occidental. A W. Simpson, the millionaire lumber man of Stockton, is at the Occidental, where he arrived vesterday on a business trip from his home. M. Mittag of Shanghal and L. Saunders of England are two passengers who ar- rived yesterday from ‘the Orient and reg- istered at the Palace: W. A. Akers, well known in New York's financial and business circles, s making a short visit.to the coast, accompanied by his wife.. They are staying for the present at the California. Michael Cudahy, the big Chicago packs er, arrived at the Palace last evening, ace companied by his son, Edward Cudahy. Mr. Cudahy’s present. visit here is taken with the twofold: object of visiting his | daughter, Mrs. Jack Casserly, and look- ing after his business interests in Los Angeles. James McWilliams, an old pioneer busi- ness associate of Ralston in the palmy ys of the bonanza, and one of the largest flour men on the coast, bas re- turned to the ¢ity after a business trip that has.carried him to every quarter of ALEXANDER GUILMANT, THE GREATEST LIVING ORGANIST. sum total of Guilmant’s New YorK ad- mirers. And what audiences! At the| concert where Emma Juch emerged | for Guilmant the final high notes at the | end of her most florid song did not elicit one single rustle from the audience till ‘Willlam Carl had sounded the last chord of the accompaniment, and deafening as was the applause given Guilmant he only bestowed two encores in the whole re- cital, and those more by token of good nature than because the audience de- manded its pound of flesh. Guilmant is more than the greatest of living organists —he is a musiclan who can make a whola assemblage of people act as If they them- selves were artists. Victor Capoul has astonished the Pa- rislans by his prompt and what they call “Yankee”” methods of applying for a po- sition. For a number of years the fa- mous singer has been teaching in New York. When he read in the Herald of the | death of Carvalho, director of the Opera Comique, it struck Capoul that he woul ltke to shine as director over the stage where he had formerly won renown as an artist. He immediately rushed to a tele- graph office and put in an application by cablegram. In answer to his anxious in- quiries he was told that he must have a guarantee, whereupon he at once cabled the sum of 1,000,000 francs to the Minister of Fine Arts, in whose hands the appoint- | ment lay. Capoul left for France by the | next steamer, accompanied to the wharf | by a string of his pupils and the good wishes of all his New York friends. The day of his arrival in Paris Capoul saw the Minister of Fine Arts, to whom he conflded his ardent desire to direct the fortunes of the Opera Comique. Fortune favored a rival, however, for Albert Carre received the appointment. Without waiting an hour Capoul began to repack his valise to return by the next steamer, when a servant came up to tell him that a messenger desired to see him. *Not at | home,” cried the sjnger. *But it's a | message from the Minister of Fine Arts,” sald the servant. ‘“Ah! that is another matter,” cried Capoul, stirred by the hope that perhaps Carre had declined the appointment. The messenger was ad-| mitted and Capoul smiled grimly at his own disappointment when he was handed | a draft for the 1,000,000 francs that he had sent by telegraph. In the excitement of | hustling for the position he had forgotten | all about the money. | The failure of the recent series of Sun- day night concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, was due to a combination of causes, the chief one being | a new application of the star system. It | was announced first that Ysaye, Pugno, Plancon and Gerardy would appear at all these concerts. There was a great rush the first night and the receipts probably covered expenses, but it was found that a packed house was necessary every time to make it pay. The management tried reducing the number of stars, and then | the public would not go. Thé concerts in which Mmes. Sembrich and Nordica | appeared were the only ones which were | profitable. R. E. Johnson, who was the principal agent in bringing out thesestars, has been attacked by very serious illness and has had to retire from managing the company. An Ttalian journal remarks on the musi- cal aptitude of many of the officers of the Itallan army, among whom, it says, is found united the worship of Mars and Euterpe (old style). Thus it names a major, M. Robandi, author of that “Stella confidente,” which has had a universal success. Then the Under-Becretary of BState, now the Minister of War, General Afandi Rivera, who is a great amateur singer, possessing a fine tenor voice, and lastly a young lieutenant, M. Saverio Rasalli-Rocca, who has just published quite a series of plano pleces which re- veal rare talents as a genial and inspired composer. : M. Lorenzo Parodi, composer, and music critic on one of the most important jour- nals of Genoa, gave a most interesting concert, in the hall of the Institution for the Blind, on the occasion of the centen- ary of Donizettl. M. Parodi wrote and produced at this concert with great suc- cess, a cantata, “A Gaetano Donizetti,” for mezzo-soprano, with accompaniment for strings, flutes, hautbois, harp and organ. The verses of this cantata were due to M. Ciro a Caversazzi, and it was sung by Mlle. Emilia Gautier, who shared the success with the composer. The new Italian Minister of Public Tn- straction, M. Gallo, has entered into ne- | ratt and R. S. Abernethy are four army gotlations for the purchase of an auto- graph score of one of Bellini's operas, “Beatrica di Tenda.” The price will be, volume of “The Blography of Johannes Brahms,” by M. Heinrich Relimann, has Just been published, and is said to be a very Interesting work. Since the 1st of January, in the orches- tra of the Imperial Opera, Vienna, a musician has been engaged to play the viola d’amour when occaslon requires. It is M. de Steiner, first alto of the Ime perial Chapel. It is announced at Berlin that a special military music journal will shortly be published, Die Militar Musik. The foun- ders of the paper are several chiefs of army and navy bands. Victor Maurel, the barytone who plays the role of Don Juan, both on and off the stage, was one of the unsucccessful can- didates for the post of director of the Paris Opera Comique. At the Paris Grand Opera the five hun- dredth performance of Gounod’'s ‘“Romeo | and Juliet” was recently celebrated. COLLECTED IN ‘ THE CORRIDORS Sheriff George S. McKenzie of Napa is at the Grand. J. E. Brown, a mining expert from Mexico, is at the Palace. | C. C. Crow, the owner of Crows Land- ing, is at the Occidental. T. E. Johnson, a capitalist of San Jose, is at the Lick with his wife. H. Lindley, a lumberman of Klamathon, Or., is registered at the Palace. John D. Ford, U. 8. N., is one of last| night's arrivals at the Palace. | Colonel J. M. Morehead, the San Jose capitalist, is registered at the Palace. W. R. Caswell, one of the leading busi- ness men of Sacramento, {s at the Bald- win. L. A. Spitzer, Assessor of Santa Clara County, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. S. Montrose, a mining man of Phoenix, Ariz., was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Baldwin. C. Gray, a newspaper man of Oroville, is at the Grand while on a visit of pleas- ure to the city. Rev. E. Maynard, one of the most prom- inent divines of Los Angeles, is registered at the California. C. S. Vance, one of the best known and : most progressive business men of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baldwin. P. F. Staub, R. F. Gardner, E. 0. Gar- | officers who are staying at the Occldental. Alex Rutherford and Henry Dater, who came out from New York yvesterday with Geo~ge Crocker, are staylng at the Palace. At St. Mary's Hospital there is among 9000000000 the Sisters one o whose tender o A CASE OF heart and chari- | table disposition | 0. MISTAREN o e madcr o g IDENTITY. O well known ‘to| o et oacoOOOOOOa" ‘Wandering ‘Willies” who ren- dezvous about the wharves which fringe the foot of the hill upon which the hos- pital stands. None ever apply to her and go away empty-handed. For the penurious saint she has an open larder, but for the men- dicant sinner she not only opens her lar- der and bestows upon him things of ma- terial comfort, but exerts herself to im- press upon him the necessity of strength- ening his soul with spiritual food, and | great is her satisfaction when, after a course of earnest pleading, she succeeds in moving the heart of some hardened old reprobate and bringing him back into the paths of righteousness from which he has wandered. Naturally, her good- ness is often imposed upon, and all of those who profess conversion are not as sincere as she imagines them to be. Some time ago an extremely ragged and hungry-looking specimen appeared at the gates of the hospital, and upon seeing this Sister poured out the customary tala of hard luck, telling with unusual elo- quence how it happened, winding up with the statement that he had not come seeking charity, but what he wanted was work in the hospital, where he would be continually surrounded by an atmosphere of sanetity and separated from the temp- tation of the outside world. He 8o impressed the Sister with his story that he was given a job as general utility man around the place. He had been there but a short time when he de- veloped a character for devoutness which became the talk of the hospital and the the civilized world. Mr. McWilliams has heretofore made his headquarters at | Seattle, and his-present trip to San Fran- cisco is ‘a visit of pleasure, to see his grandson, Fred Siebe Jr., and renew old business acquaintances ‘along California street, where he -has been for many years a power in the world of wheat. Mr. Mc- ‘Willlams is at the California. Rev. J. Fell, the head of the Seamen'’s Institute on. Steuart street, has down to Los Gatos to spend a couple of days with some friends: “He expects to ® | give up his supervision of the instituta and return to:his home in England in about three weeks. Mr. Fell was the founder of the: institute, which during the five years it has been under his charge has grown from practically noth- ing to be one of the leading charitable institutions of the city, while the good it has done among the saflor population of San Francisco is incalculable. Mr. Fell's contemplated departure will be read with regret by the many friends he has made | since he first arrived among us. 0000000000 - A young man o was passing o FOUND o through the of- O. 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