The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY @all _FEBRUARY s, 1898 S, Proprietor. The SATURDAY. " JOHN D. SPRECKEL JOH Address All Communication: PUBLICATIDN’ bFi’lCE .Market a Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... .21T to 221 Stevenson straet Telephone Main 1874 s to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. gt B nd Third Sts. S. F. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY !s cerved by carriers in thls city and surrounding towns for 15 cents c week. By mall $6 per year, per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE..........Room 188, World Building 'TON (D. C. OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. One year, by mall, $1.50 .....908 Broadway WASHING BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner Clay cpen untli 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until €30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkln street: open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets: open until ¢ c'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk streat cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cnd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. —— e AMUSEMENTS. ‘Girl from Paris. eater—Black Pattl's Troubadours, Sunday night rietor Durand. Down in Dixie” Pearl of Pekin.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalla German-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanics’ Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition, Lybeck Crele Skating Rink—Optical Illust Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Racotra Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park, this afternoon. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—Thi Rugs, at 116 dutter street, at 2 and SP. day, February 5, Turkish AL MONG the local items of Santa Clara County @ BONANZA FOR CALIFORNIA. /C\ noted in the last issue of the Mountain View Register is one to the effect that driers are being rushed night and day trying to fill orders for evaporated vegetables. At one of these driers some- thing like 200 tons of green onions have been worked vp, and the Register adds: “The price has steadily risen all the fall and winter, and they are now worth §2 25 a hundred and are scarce.” The item itself is of little moment but its signifi- | | with the principles of international morality, the as- | sent of Japan would not be necessary. IS IT DOLE’S HAND? E have had'no doubt from the beginning of W the intention of the Hawaiian planters to force a permanent advantage in our sugar market, securing for all time our protection of $19 per ton on sugar in lieu of their present free entry given by the reciprocity treaty, and at the same time to se- cure as permanently the enjoyment of cheap Asiatic labor for their plantations. To do this it was necessary for them to escape the operation of our labor laws. To do this by indirec- tion was too risky. It might be done for a few years, but doing it would rouse the same spirit that went Iike a moral conflagration through this country against the inequalities produced by our own system of slavery. Therefore it became necessary to pro- tect their cheap labor by a prior agreement interna- tional in its character. With such an agreement in force any change raises international questions of such portent as to protect the planters indefinitely. It appears by the latest news from Washington that this plan has been adopted. It was undoubtedly the real object of Dole’s visit. It became necessary for him and our State Department and the Japanese Minister to confer together, and that conference has attained the object and is cloaked behind the osten- tatious announcement that Japan has withdrawn all objections to annexdtion. If we are in the right in annexation, if it be in ac- cord with our principles of government and in line with our natfenal policy, if it be in the interest of American farmers and of white labor, if it be square Her objec- tions would not be worthy of consideration and her opposition would excite derision rather than appre- hension. There would be no need to negotiate for withdrawal of her objections, and no sinister purpose would necd ambushing behind her attitude. ~The re- ported outcome suggests the suspicion'that there has been all the time an understanding between Dole and Japan, or that that wily oligarch has been astutely piaying Japan and the United States against each other for the purpose of this outcome, which he seems to have secured. It makes the situation still more grave for Ameri- can labor and for the American farmer. Just how much can those classes in California stand? With Germany shutting out our fruit by subterfuge, and the cheap labor of the island plantations competing our sugar beet industry out of existence, the future is not rosy. The producers of this State should renew and re- state their opposition to annexation. Every influence possible is being brought to bear in its favor at Washington. So far the ranks of the successful oppo- cance is of far-reaching importance. It is a straw showing the way the commercial wind blows for the | rural industries of the State. The Alaskan demand | for dried vegetables has created something like a | boom for the vegetable grower, and a new avenue | for profit has been opened for the California farmer if he chooses to take advantage of it., The Klondike rush is in fact a bonanza for Cali- fornia, and particularly so for the producer of fruit | and vegetables. This fact should not be overlooked | in the excitement of the time. The man who re- mains in California and raises vegetables for the Alaskan trade will have surer profits than the man who goes north to seek nuggets of gold in the Yukon Valley. The gold-seeker has big chances in one re- spect, but very small chances in another, while the cultivator of the soil of California has about as sure a thing as any human industry can be. Many a man in California is now outfitting for the Klondike who could do much better by staying at | home. In the crowded East, where thousands of men are barely earning a living, where the soil is not fer- tile and the climate in its swift changes from summer heats to winter blizzards is almost as bad for the poor as the climate of Alaska itself, there is some rcason for the rush to the gold fields, but-these rea- sons can apply to but few people in California. In- dustry can earn a living here and a competence for old age without taking desperate chances. When ‘the prices for vegetables are rising and driers running | night and day to fill orders, California has her share of the Klondike bonanza at home without having to go to the frozen north to hunt for it. BALBOA BOULEVARD. T is to be regretted that there have arisen compli- l cations which threaten to interfere with the early extension of Balboa boulevard to the county line. The proposed work is one oi the most impor- tant municipal enterprises now before the people, and anything which tends to postpone or delay it is a public evil of no small magnitude. The threatened delay at this time is the more irri- tating because San Mateo County has now under consideration a well devised scheme for highway im- provement which includes a grand boulevard through the county from the line of San Francisco to that of Santa Clara. An election on the question of voting bonds for the purpose of providing these improve- ments is soon to be submitted to the voters of San Mateo, and the prospects of a favorable vote would be greatly increased if the San Mateo people were | assured that San Francisco would do her share to complete the boulevard and make it a great thor- oughfare, placing all the towns of San Mateo in easy communication with the metropolis. As the matter stands there is a part of the boule- vard, as originally designed, still incomplete, which the city must construct within four years to make good the right of way granted by ex-Mayor Sutro. For this part of the line the city has a right of way given by the Spring Valley Water Company. The controversy arises over the means of providing for the cost of the work on this portion of the road. The water company is unwilling to pay for the road work. To create a road district for the purpose would compel Sutro to pay taxes on his land in the district, and his deed of gift of right of way expressly provides that he shall not be assessed for grading and macadamizing the road. The city must of course keep faith with Sutro, and that necessity blocks any prdposition to create the proposed road district. There seems to be no way out of the dilemma but for the city to defray the cost, and as the boulevard when completely opened will be of general benefit, the city might wel!l afford to do that. It is under- stood that if the city will provide for the construc- tion of the road the water company will give a right of way to the county line through Lake Merced Ranch, thus enabling the San Francisco boulevard to be connected with that of San Mateo. This being so there should be little hesitation in adopting some plan of action which will permit a speedy prosecution of the enterprise. As the maiter stands the city has an assurance of getting the right of way for riothing, while if the project is postponed indefinitely it may be necessary hereafter to condemn a right of way and pay for it. Suggestion has been made that the importation of German wines be stopped. Good idea, California. | to overshadow the others. sition stand unbroken, but their purpose may be strengthened by the people here. The whole coun- try looks naturally to California in this matter. The farmers of the United States, who are massed around the definite purpose of taking for themselves the do- mestic sugar market of $100,000,000 a year, need the support of the pioneers of American beet sugar in California. In like manner the white labor of the whole country looks to this State, as it always has, for leadership against Asiatic invasion of the labor field. It is not sufficient to have spoken once. As the phases of the issue change at Washington the voice of California should be heard again. EXPOSITION WORK. N the matter of expositions San Francisco is hav- ing an experience of the old adage, “It never rains but it pours.”” We have a mining expo- sition of our own open and running with great suc- cess, and now in addition come two other projects of a similar character—one to provide from the exhibits at the fair a permanent mining display at the Golden Gate Park Museum, and the other to prepare a com- plete exposition of the industries of the State for the Omaha exposition. Each of these enterprises merits consideration, ap- | proval and support; but no one of them is sufficient ; ‘We must promote and | advance our own fair by a liberal and generous patronage, but we should not neglect for that reason the claims of the proposed permanent display at the | Park Museum, nor those of the coming exposition at Omaha. The mining fair will do much to make known the | mineral resources of California and the advantages of | San Francisco as an outfitting point for the Alaskan trade. It is, however, of a temporary nature and is largely local in its influence. Though widely adver- ticed, it will be seen by comparatively few of the thousands of people in the East who are more or less interested in the Klondike gold excitement, in gold mining investments generally, or who are thinking of making homes for themselves in portions of the United States where the climate is more pleasant and the soil more fruitful than in the places where they now reside. | A mining exhibit at the Park Museum would not be temporary, but permanent. A display at Omaha would not be local, but would be seen by great | throngs of people from all parts of the East. The benefits to be derived from providing the two ex- hibits are therefore too apparent to need elaboration. | Both projects should be cordially supported. Let us have a comprehensive mining display at the Park Museum by all means, and also a display at Omaha which will demonstrate the thousand advantages Cal- ifornia and San Francisco offer to all enterprising men, whether they intend to undertake the hazardous exploration of the gold districts of the north or de- sire to do business and make homes in a locality of genial sunshine, cultured people and assured pros- perity. A woman who can go into insolvency with liabili- ties of $10,000 and assets of $23 need not fear but she will be recognized as a financier of ability. Yet she can but feel a pang of jealousy in noting that a Mar- tinez man is $80,000 in the hole and hasn’t a cent. S Shells tested here by army officers are found to be defective. The company which furnished the shells is known. There seems no difficulty in reach- ing a conglusion as to what should be done. Parents whose boys are betting regularly on the races instead of attending to study have an oppor- tunity to do something. Why not cause the arrest of the pool-sellers? Prince George as Governor of Crete may do very well, with Russia’s backing, and yet he will probably expend much time in looking around for something from which to retreat. Compliments to Joe Rosenberg, bookmaker, and when the gentleman again desires to cheat his patrons, will he please apply to some other paper to help him? L e o For the time he has been at it General Blanco has managed to achieve as picturesque a failure as could AN EXPLANATION WANTED. RDINARILY The Call is disposed to allow O attorneys the utmost latitude in the practice of their profession. An attorney is employed to take the place of a person who has invoked the law for the ascertainment of some right or the re- dress of some grievance. He is a proxy and what he says and does he says and does to promote the cause of his client. His oath requires him to bring only such actions as appear to him legal and just, to util- ize only the truth in his work, to maintain inviolate the confidence and, at every peril to himself, preserve the secrets of his client, and never to reject, for any consideration personal to himself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed. Most respectable at- torneys keep this oath in mind and many of them make it the basis of a legal code of morals which safely protects them from the temptations of a trying and distracting business. Owing to the fact that attorneys act in a represen- tative character and usually speak other thoughts and sentiments than their own, we are disposed to be very lenient with them. What they do they are employed and paid to do, and if there is any wrath to be visited upon the cause which they advocate it seems to us that it should relate back to the promoter of the cause and not fall upon the attorney who is employed by that promoter. We, therefore, believe that in the in- junction proceedings brought by the Paraffine Paint Company against the Harbor Commissioners, now on trial in Judge Belcher’s court, the attention of the public should be directed to the principals and not to the attorneys. Perhaps the lapses of memory, the vanishing books, the absent defendants and wit- nesses and the general air of mystery with which the contracts between the Harbor Commission and the Dundon-Slade syndicate are invested, may be the in- ventions of the attorneys. But if they are we should reflect that the attorneys are hired to fight each other and on that ground are excusable. (But there is one attorney in this litigation who should be made an exception to the rules we have 1aid down. It is unprofessional for lawyers to ap- pear on both sides of the same case. When an at- torney does that it is a ground of disbarment, and even by lawyers who make a practice of selling out their clients and betraying the law the offense is re- garded as highly penal. Among the attorneys who are acting in the Par- one of the attorneys for the Harbor Commission, corporations which is accused of enjoying the favor mission that the truth regarding its transactions with torney continues to be interested in the welfare of plain, because he is a reform Senator in the Legisla- tiun more suspicious would be to turn up as the at- phases of the litigation and be able to speak with the | bor Commission and the Dundon-Slade syndicate is | this is the fact it might be interesting for the reform | N effort now being made to procure Congres- | able attention in the East and should have cordial laws which will check food adulterations of all kinds, The extent to which adulteration is practiced in practice threatens the important milling interests of product have reached such magnitude as to percep- California as to Minnesota, and if the trade of our fore our millers will be subject to the same injury. the Eastern millers to obtain the legislation in the put on the market are in the main harmless. They manufacturers to be equally as good as the pure ar- that the consumer is cheated and the wheat flour flour. . reported to have at present in Washington a power- will take earnest and persistent work to convince ficent discovery of science which cheapens the price pure flour. Modern science enables the unscrupulous to adulter- in competing with them. It is nothing more than prefer the “sophisticated food” at the cheaper price 1898. 20000000000000000000000000000006060000090 ® THE BELLS OF THE MINING FAIR. 0000600000000000000002609¢000000060600000¢ 4 @ & that implies a readiness to converse. “To tell the truth, my dear,” answered have swung gently out in the real blue of the beautiful old town. “Yerba Buena!" “‘San Francisc ute to the old Franciscan fathers’ patron dians to prayer for forty years before the seem to see them, a thousand of them Those were tough times. An’ with the first brazen note from me, jes “‘Horrible!” shuddered Senora Dolores. ““Well, let me tell you, ma’am,” began Bell interrupted. to set the falr going. “You,” she went on, ‘““Alcalde!” repeated the Middle Bell. sisted.” crossly. lores, tartly. women!"” RN “It’s really quite a pretty sight,”” sald the Middle Bell with that affable unreserve The Bell from the Mission Dolores didn't answer. “Don’t you think so?’ continued the Middle Bell, unabashed. the Pavilion looks very pretty to-night with all that pale starred blue above and the crowd of people below. I love a crowd like this, don't you, Senora Dolores?” “I was saying that the Mission Bell, “I cannot beqome accus- tomed to it. Think that for a century I have dwelt aloft in the old belfry out at the Mission. Since the good Franciscan’s hands bound me with rawhide to my place, I the heavens, or slumbered peacefully; as peacefully as Monterey herself was sleeping the day the fathers and I left And then a week ago, suddenly I was disturbed. dreaming up there in the dusty belfry of the old times before Yerba Buena—'" epeated the Middle Bell, scornfully. admitted Senora Dolores, gracefully. I was “It is only another trib- saint. But I had called the Mission In- little shanty was built that started your great city. I was dreaming over the old times, then, of the broad flelds which the patient Indians cultivated out In the Mission, under the fathers' supervision. I still and more, trooping into the rude little church, their dark heads reverentiy bowed, their strong hands meekly folded, while the fathers—the only white men north of San Diego for a time—blessed them sol- emnly. It was a beautiful, calm, patriarchal settlement—" But slow, rather. Don’t you think so?”’ The Middle Bell turned to her neighbor on tuhg right, the blackened, forbidding old Vigilance Bell. 'You bet!"” responded slangy Colonel Vigilance, “Why, when me 'n’ the ploneers came out”—the Vigilance Bell's English is more forceful than polite—‘‘the village hyarabouts was snoozin’ away in the rain and In the sun, nuthin’ doin’, not carin’ to do anythin’. Jes waitin’ fer a ship to come along 'n’ take off the hides they'd got together. Senora Dolores,” continued the Colonel, with a gallant sway toward the shapely, small, Mission Bell, “was queen in them days, though the monks had lost the possession of the government some time before. But I put her nose out o' joint. Women had to take a back seat. ready to pull the rope to ring me a shiver of delight would run clear through me. ‘Why, when they'd get watch the streets flll. Jes watch the boys :[t their work. I tell you, they got more and more expert at it as time went on. It n't take no time at all before there’d be one or mebbe two, or sometimes thres corpses, with feet and hands bound, hanging from beams in the roof.” “‘My mission was all for peace, yours—" the Vigilance Bell, hotly, but the Middle ‘“After all,” she sald, complacently, “It doesn’t make much difference now. That's all ancient history. In me, and in my connection with the Mining Falr, all the old faults are forgotten. And, really, I'm quite proud of my position. Think of my hold- ing the center of the stage while the Presldent of the United States, with his hand on the button and the whole city of San Francisco waited for the first clang from me turning to the Mission Bell, “might have had a share in it if you hadn’t been so haughty.” “‘Why,"” exclaimed Senora Dolores, “I was s0 shocked when the Alcalde—'" The Mayor,” Senora Dolores corrected herself. “When the Mayor struck at me with his cane—-'l had never been so treated—I shivered with {ndignation at the insult. And a century’s dust from the old mission fell like a cloud upon him and he de- “You seem altogether out of sympathy with the times,” sald the Middle Bell, “And you seem quite properly a part of the whole thing,” returned Senora Do- “‘Old fogy!” exclalmed the Middle Bell under her clapper. “Vulgar parvenue!” murmured the Missfon Bell to herself. “Jes my luck,” sighed Colonel Vigilance, ““to get a chance to talk to a fellow bell after half a century, and then find myself stuck up alongside a passel of scoldin’ MIRIAM MICHELSON. OO0 00600000006600 AREVOLYING TOVER FOR 1900, & COOOOOOVOOOO000600606 ENSITIVE Parisians have at times suspected that the ingenuity of de- vising the Eiffel Tower was matched, if not surpassed, by the construction of the Ferris Wheel at the Chicago World’s Fair. Inspired by the patriotic duty of concelving some stupendous project whereby to reclaim their supremacy and outdazzle the American triumph, the novelty producers of the French capital have racked thelr. resourceful brains. The revolving palace is the result. This structure, designed by M. Charles Devic, will consist of a hexagonal shaft 350 feet in height, divided into twenty stories. The entire palace is to be covered with nickel plate, aluminum, ornamental tiling PROPOSED REVOLVING PALACE. and glass. Tllumination will come from 20,000 incandescent and 2000 arc lights of varied colors, arranged so as to bring out clearly all decorative lines, balconies, turrets, pillars and statues. In the lof- tiest part of the palace are to be a chime of sixty-four bells and a powerful organ played by compressed air. Above these, and crowning the whole, will perch the weather vane—a cock fifteen feet high, and formed from 1200 incandescent lights. The entire structure is to turn on a pivot and be moved by hydraulic apparatus, al ways at the same speed, ing a co plete revolution once an hour. Specta- tors may thus occupy the same position and see spread out before them the én- tire panorama of the exposition, with the city of Paris and its environs. —_———————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Love was made blind so it could not gee how beautiful it was. There is only one thing sweeter to a woman than an offer of marriage, and affine Paint Company’s injunction case there is one who owes an explanation to the public. He is now The evidence shows that he has been previously, if he is not now, the legal representative of one of the of the board. There is here a plain conflict of in- terest. It is necessary in defense of the Harbor Com- the Dundon-Slade syndicate should come out. How can the truth come out while the commission’s at- the syndicate? We do not suggest that this attorney should ex- ture from Alameda County. e merely suggest that | the only way he can make his position in the litiga- torney for the Paraffine Paint Company in some | other case. Then he would be familiar with all the | voices of all the litigants. We do not intend to in- timate that the gentleman’s connection with the Har- in any way dishonorable, for it appears that at the | present, at least, their interests are the same. If Senator to explain why their interests are the same. FLOUR ADULTERATIONS. / \ sional action to prevent the sale of adulterated 4 flour as the pure article is receiving consider« support from California and her delegation in Con- gress. The movement is in the direction of procuring and no State in the Union is more interested in the enactment of such statutes than ours. the flour trade is much greater than is generally sup- posed. The St. Paul Pioneer Press states that the Minnesota, and adds, “Already in some . sections, particularly in the South, the sales of the adulterated tibly affect the trade in honest flour.” The flour milling interest is almost as important to sister commonwealth is now suffering from the ef- fects of dishonest competition it will not be long be- For local reasons, therefore, if not for the general good, we should be prompt and energetic in aiding interest of pure food they are now fighting for. It is admitted that the adulterations of flour so far consist chiefly of mixing a percentage of corn flour with the wheat, and the combination 1s claimed by its ticle. This claim need not be denied by the advocates of the pure food law, for the fact would still remain miller injured when a cheap mixture of wheat and corn is put on the market and sold as pure wheat The “corn flour” men are by no means either few or weak. They have a strong organization and are ful lobby to fight the proposed law. The advocates of the measure have no easy victory before them. Tt Congress that even if the claims of the corn flour then be true, and if the adulteration be truly a bene- of bread for the people, it nevertheless should be sold under its right name and not under the name of Sooner or later Congress will have to undertake in earnest the task of preventing food adulterations. ate almost every kind of food in common use, and the producer of pure foods is heavily handicapped right that all articles of food should be marked with labels showing exactly what they are. If the people no one can object, but they should not be duped into buying it by false pretenses. In estopping the importation of American fruit, Germany clearly shows itself to be a short-sighted pig. We import various things from Germany, but to get along without them would be quite possible. Italy is about to send a warship to Hayti. People who have wondered what Hayti is for may now have been expected. | know. It is to send warships to. that is another one. Probably the strongest {nstinct man possesses is to turn up his coat-collar ‘when he needs a shave. Until a man has been married he never can realize that a woman can feel better because she cries. Probably none of the women who be. lieve in Christian Science have faith enough to stick the !tmap on a letter be- fore they write the address. ‘Whenever you see a man trying to go around with a haunting look in his eyes COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS R. E. Jack, a leading business man of San Luis Obispo, Is at the Palace. George Lingo, a big cattleman of Birds Landing, is a guest at the Grand. C. A. Molson, a rich mining man of Helena, Montana, is at the Palace. A. Baker, a prominent merchant of San Jose, is at the Baldwin with his wife. Frank Bartell, a well-known railroad contractor of Livermore, is at the Grand. E. S./Blalr, a wealthy mining man of Butte, Mont., is at the Lick with his family. & Guy A. Boutell, a big lumber man of | Stockton, is one of last night’s arrivals at the Grand. Dr. C. C. Marckers, a leading physician of San Jose, is at the Baldwin on a short visit to the city. George B. McKee, a well-known and well-liked merchant of San Jose, is a guest at the Grand. 0000000000 o o g TURN ABOUT © o FAIR PLAY. The paying tell- erof theCrocker- ‘Woolworth Bank has rather an un- enviable reputa- tion for politeness over the counter. His manner, at times, is rather brusque to the customer not possessing a large bank account, and as a general thing the aggrieved party | has no other redress than to grin and bear it. He tried it on once too often, however, with the result that he received the worst of it at his own game. The other day one of the deputy sheriffs from the City Hall came down to the bank to have a check cashed and, instead of tak- ing his regular turn, sought to take ad- vantage of the supposed prestige of his position and get waited on first. The tell- er, instead of humoring him, ordered him back to his proper place in the line with more directness than politeness. Mr. Dep- uty took his rebuke with surprising meekness and waited patiently until his turn came, when he transacted his busi- ness and quletly departed. He went di- rectly from the bank to the Tax Collect- or’s office, where he hunted up the name of the teller on the assessment roll, and taking a pencil from his pocket wrote, "gre: Dcpuué X. about this.” e next day the teller took adv: of his lunch hour to run out to t::t)::l.i and pay his taxes. Upon arriving at the tax office he gave his name to the clerk there, who opened the ledger and seeing the notation refused to accept any money until Deputy X. was seen. A messenger was dispatched in search of that individ- ual, but though the teller waited a whole hour he could not be found and the un- fortunate tax payer had to leave without transacting his business. The following day he again Wwent out to the hall, when the same thing was gone through; this time, however, after he had waited twen- ty minutes the deputy put in an appear- ance, and glancing at the note he had made on the book told the clerk that it was all right and that he could accept the p:.l);ment: then turning to the teller he sald: ““You thought you were some one when you were down at your bank, but out here you don’t amount to a white chip in a no- limit game. I only did this to give you a taste of your own medicine, 80 you could see how nice it is to be kept waiting when you are in a hurry.” The teller said never a word, but de- parted a much more politic man than he entered. ‘W. D. Haslane, the cashier of the First National Bank of Santa Cruz, is regis- tered at the Califorina. Baron Von Schroder has come over from his home in San Rafael for a few days and Is staying at the Palace. 5 . B. A. Foster, a merchant of Santa Cruz, ‘who i8 up to the city attempting to or- ganize a Klondike expedition, is at the California. * Frank Thompson, one of Vallejo’s prom- inent business men and leading politi- clans, is at the California for a short stay in the city. o o [} 0000000000 braces Minnesota, the Dakotas, Idaho, Montana and a portion of Washington. There Is no official significance in his visit. He came here for recreation and pleasure. 7. H. Strowbridge, one of the best known and most popular business men of Portland, Or., is in the city with Mrs. Strowbridge on pleasure bent. They are at the Occidental. There is a cer- 0000000000 A b4 o tain young magn, o A ROMANCE o the son of a gen- tleman prom i- o OF THE O nently connected O PAVEMENT. © with the law de- partment of the Southern Pa- cific, who may be found standing on the corner of Sansome and Sutter streets every evening from 6 to 7 wearing a bunch of violets in his buttonhole and an air of expectancy on his face. Should he be questioned by the passing stranger on his reason for dallying there he would answer with ambiguity and cross to the other pavement until he had rid himself of his acquaintance, when he would re- turn #nd take his original post to resume his lonely vigil. ° The reason of his constant watch s this: The young fellow in question, while he may not be exactly one's ideal of per- fect manly beauty, has an air of knowing a thing or two of the ways of the world which, coupled with a suave, insinuating address, makes him a great favorite of the ladies, and many a weird tale does he relate as he smokes his cigar in the hotel office of an evening of the strange and romantic adventures he experiences with love-lorn maidens unable to resist his attractiveness; who make his life miserable by haunting him nightly and waylaying him on dark corners where the silence is only broken by their re- proachful sobbing and the fitful splutter- ing of some distant electric light. Some time ago three assoclates of this lothario, who are known as John, Doc and Pullman, decided to have some fun, and to that end addressed a letter signed with a woman's name to this Romeo ot Montgomery street asking for a meeting. appointing the hour of 6 as the time and the above-mentioned corner as the place. The letter was sent regularly through the malil and, old as the scheme was, he rosa to it like a fish to a worm, and, attiring himself in his most gorgeous apparel, went down to the corner, where he has been spending the last - three evenings without seeing anything more lovely than the face of Officer Tom Walsh, and, un- less he reads this, is likely to continue down there until, in the cold wind, he catches a dose of pneumonia instead of the lady he is looking for. o o 0000000000 — e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Henry Gray of San Francisco is at the Imperial Hotel, and C. M. Sadler of San Francisco is at the Hotel Albert. _————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NEWSPAPERS—F. K., City. There is no civil service examination for those who seek employment on the daily news- papers of the United States. LETTER BOXES—F. K., City. The let- ter boxes in the office of the San Fran- cisco Call are for the benefit of advert ers, and letters intended for them placed therein to remain until called for. WASHINGTON MONUMENT-J. C. P., y. The Washington monument feet in height and at the base is feet square. The Claus Spreckels buil ing at Market and Third streets is 75 feet square. A FOX TERRIER—A. O. 8., Vallejo. ‘There is no rule for positively determin- ing that a fox terrier is a thoroughbred, without a pedigree. A thoroughbred ter- rier may be black and white, tan and white or almost white. THIRD ARTILLERY—L. W. M., City. None of the histories of the State of Cal- ifornia make any mention of the firing of a salute at Monterey by Battery F, Third United States Artillery, in honor of the declaration of peace between the United States and Mexico. ARCHITECT—M. G. B., City. This de- partment is at a loss to understand wha 1s desired by “an account long enough to flll three pages of foolscap of ‘eve: is the architect of his own fortune' it is your desire to write an ess: on that quotation, Answers to Correspondents cannot furnish you the material, for the reason that if it did it would not be your essay. You will find the quotation in “Love’s Pllgrimage,” by Fletcher and Beaumont, act I, scene 2, and in “De Re- publica Ordinanda,” by Sallust. C LEAP YEAR—E. B. N,, City, The 1900 will not be a leap year. If a year were exactly 365% days long we would have a leap year every four years, but as there is an excess of 11 minutes and 10.3 seconds every year, this excess is compensated for by dropping the leap year at the be- ginning of three out of four centuries and thus equalizing the time gained through the century. The length of time thus established makes an error of only one day in 3325 years. 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