The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1898, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1898. F?BRUARY 8, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS...........2I7 to 221 Stevenson strazt Telephone Main 1814 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s | eerved 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.. QAKLAND OFFICE ... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. -.Room 188, World Building | ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | | One year, by mall, $1.5 ...908 Broadway | ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll €30 o'clock. 621 MoAlllster street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll € o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk strset cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. win—“Girl from Paris.” eater—Black Patt{'s Troubadours. ets—Speciaities. Vauceville. g Fair and Klondike Exposition, 11 Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. February 8, Turkish Rugs, | February 8, Turkish Frank = d s 116 Sutter & CHALLENGED BY THE MORMONS. /7~ ONGR on, 1 h; ISSMAN KING of Utah is a Mor- and proud of it. On behalf of his faith s thrown down the gauntlet to the ortho- dox churches and thus won the approval of his own | and the chance of re- Chere is no other church which thoroughly ‘politics and religion as does the While it has much good in its creed, and which according to generally accepted tenets bad, it cannot be denied that it is perfect in organ- The head of the Mormon church is more ction. s0 business, ization respected in Utah than the head of the National Gov- ernment. The fiat of the land is of less weight than the o expressed wish of the man who holds | the p! When the | church tells an adherent to do a certain thing he does | it. There is no thought of questioning the wisdom | of the decree. Yet it could be desired that the Mor- h, like other churches, might attend to its business. It has no right to be a dictator in poli- It has no warrant for obeying laws under pro- test, and teaching that its own laws are more to be respected than those enacted for the whole people. Congressman King must not overlook the fact that he was elected for other purposes than to glorify the church, albeit therein he is an ornament and a shin- ing light. l the Board of Education have engaged in the busi- ness of selling places in the department, no pun- ishment prescribed by the law is sufficiently severe for them. Hanging is too good for a man who will | accept the sacred trust of School Director and betray it. Such a man, in order that he may pocket a few | filthy dollars, would corrupt the morals of a genera- | tion of youth and sow the seeds of dishonesty where the rank resultant growth may never be cxtcrmm»f ated. In advance of an investigation or a public trial, perhaps an opinion cannot be properly expressed as | to the truth or falsity of the charges which have been preferred against two School Directors in this city. | But it must be said that the allegations of the ac- | cusers bear all the marks of circumstantiality, and are in strict accord with the probabilities. In a gen- eral way the public will believe that a man who as | School Director will make places for all his relatives in the department will also sell positions when he gets a chance. Foisting one’s ignorant and disquali- | fied relations upon the schools is not any more cred- itable than selling the places they fill to qualified persons. In both cases it is a boodle proposition, | and in each case the result is to degrade the service and drag the schools through the political mire. Probably a determined attempt will be made in the Grand Jury to whitewash these accused School Di- rectors. This will be the case whether they are guilty or not. But even if probable cause is found against them by the Grand Jury the difficulty of proving such charges in court nearly always enables the cul- prits to escape with everything except their reputa- tions. The great problem that confronts the people, therefore, in connection with this affair, is not how to get rid of dishonest School Directors, but how to provide a remedy for their corruption. To convict and to send to prison the entire present Board of | Education would not prevent a repetition of the of- | fenses charged. In November next another board is to be elected, which, under the present system, will probably contain more boodlers anxious to gather a profit out of their trust. Even if the people should make a special effort to get honest Directors next | time, at some subsequent election the boodlers will again appear on the scene. Evidently corruption in the School Department has its root in machine politics. So long as the men chosen to conduct the schools are selected by politi- | cal conventions from the ignorant and selfish mem- bers of the community, so long will they be dragged in the mud and continue to be the football of corrupt politicians. What should be done with the School Department is to take it out of politics. This might be done by conferring the appointment of three or five Directors for long terms upon the Mayor and | paying them a moderate salary for their work. Ex- | perience has proved that Boards of Education should | not be elected in this city. If the Freeholders now in | session do not adopt a provision which will take the schools out of politics, they may anticipate the dis- graceful defeat of the instrument they are framing. e —— ce once held by Brigham Young. mon h, tics. — — | THE SCHOOL SCANDAL. | F it be true, as charged, that certain members* of | Somebody thoughtlessly accused this paper of get- ting after the corruption of school boards in other cities and overlooking the corruption in its own. Well, if there is any corruption it is overlooking near home it is because local experts have been success- ful in concealing it. Ii, as stated in the daily news, Uncle Sam holds the key to the situation in the East, he would better hang on to it. Somebody with less qualification as a cus- todian might secure it and monkey, with the lock. | free State. | resolute and determined. PRINCIPLE? I ing on the relation of annexation to the prin- Statesin 1893, there were about 16,000 qualified voters and its judiciary. We had recognized them in their IS ANNEXATION REPUBLICAN IN HERE is something more than the alliance with Gorman to put Republicans to think- ciples of their party. Under the Government Wl’:lich was overthrown, for Dole’s benefit, by the United in Hawaii. They were by its constitution thg makers of the Government. They elected its legislative body capacity as electors by entering into treatic-s ra(ifie.d by the Senate which they elected, and by diplomatic | relations with the Government which their votes in- stituted and maintained. Under the Government of the oligarchy which we made possible, these electors are disfranchised. Their places have been taken by about 2500 men, a considerable number of them be- ing adventurers new to the islands who went there since 1803, attracted by the opportunities for plun- der and piracy always to be found where government is subject to revolutionary changes. Conniving with this limited number of electors, and with a Govern- ment upon the form and functions of which even they have not been permitted to vote, we propose by annexation to force a people resistant and unwilling into our system in spite of their protests. Members of the Republican party are told that this is a party measure and their allegiance binds them therefore to its support. Now no measure can be a party measure that is not justified by party principles. Every political party has certain fixed principles. These are its rea- sons for being. The Republican platform came into existence on a platform of principles every one of which is antagonized by Hawaiian annexation. After the admission of California to the Union as a free State, there was a struggle to maintain the sectional balance in the Senate by dragging Kansas in as a slave State. War broke out in that territory. Federal power was on the side of the slaveholders, but a majority of the people of Kansas were for a In this situation it became necessary to suppress the expression of the majority and force the State into the Union in defiance of the popular will. This was attempted by the Lecompton constitution, and then the Republican party, loosely organized in 1856, suddenly advanced to a first position as a de- fender of human rights. No better statement of the issue was made than that by James G. Blaine in his speech in Farmington, Me., in 1860. After describing the issue made in 1856, he concentrated the entire contention in this sentence: “The contest goes on and has been deepened by the atrocious effort to compel Kansas to enter the Union under the fraudulent constitution made at Lecompton against the will and wish of her people.” Has the old spirit died out? Remembering the early principles of his party, what Republican can reconcile with them the forcing of Hawaii into the Union against the will and wish of her people? When considered as a violation of national policy and of party principles and with a train of evils fol- lowing it, it is no overstatement of the case to de- clare that annexation is the most repulsive proposi- tion ever made to the people of this country. THE CORRUPTION OF YOUTH. MONG the offenses known to Athenian law F\ and punishable by death was that of corrupting the morals of the young. Against no class of offenders was the public sentiment of Athens more It was under that law Socrates was put to death. Neither his splendid in- tellect, his personal virtues, nor the potent influence of powerful friends could save the philosopher when once his enemies had succeeded in convincing the people that by his teachings and his example he was “a corrupter of youth.” Under our law we have no such specific offense as that of corrupting youth. There is no penalty against it as such. Even when carried on by prac- tices which violate statutes and ordinances we allow it a large toleration. It seems at times, so indifferent is public opinion on the subject, as if the youth of the city were regarded as of no value. A thousand cor- rupting influences are permitted to be spread about the streets to entice the young, and so careless are the public officials in respect to it that it requires persistent and vehement urging to induce them to ar- rest an offender even when in his viciousness he has openly defied the law. A striking illustration of the extent to which the corruption of youth is permitted in San Francisco by practices in violation of law is to be seen in the mul- titude of downtown pool rooms where young men and boys, and occasionally even young women, are enticed to gamble away their earnings, and tempted to steal in order to gamble more. A city ordinance forbids the running of such places. To maintain one is to violate the law even if none but grown men re- sorted to it. Nevertheless they are more than tolerated by the community and its officers. The ne- farious trade is carried on without a pretense at con- cealment, with insolence as well as with infamy. It is gratifying to note that the pastors of our churches are not among those who regard the cor- ruption of youth in these pool rooms with toleration or indifference. More than once the churches have spoken in earnest warning and indignant protest against the evil. At one time in cordial co-operation with The Call they took up the issue with such force and vigor that a public sentiment was aroused which compelled the closing of the pool shops. . As soon as the storm blew over, however, the trade began again and proceeded until now it is conducted as openly and notoriously as ever. One more a concerted and combined effort must be made to put an end to the evil. If there be any defects in the law let it be remedied. If any lack of zeal on the part of the police let that be seen to. The wrong is one of the most pernicious which affects our civil life. As was well said by the Rev. William Rader on Sunday: 2 “It is time that the ministers of the gospel should rise up and assist the authorities in their fight for purity and right. Women are forced to remove their hats in theaters, Chinamen are forced to quit gam- bling and stray dogs are caught and put to death, but the pool-room evil lives on. And murderers, drunk- ards, broken homes, blighted hopes, ruined young men and women and poverty are its children.” Certain contemporaries seem to be not pleased with the language employed in describing the cap- ture of the Dixon murderer. Their disapproval is not unnatural, and yet the burden of their displeasure is not grievous to be borne. We scan their columns vainly for a description of the affair in language either good, bad or indifferent. Perhaps this fact is the basis of their sorrow. Evidently the vigilantes of the far north have not been educated up to the 49 standard. The report that they have permitted a murderer to be rescued by ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS.. HROUGHOUT the East in nearly all the TSta!es where the result of coming Congres- sional elections is regarded as at all doubtful, the Republicans are making ready for the campaign. The preliminary work of organization has begun, clubs are being formed, workers are being enrolled in all counties, and steps taken to awaken the spirit of the rank and file so that when the contest opens the party will be ready to enter upon the fight at once with vim and vigor. This wisely directed action in the East should be imitated in California. This State, though reasonably safe for protection and sound money, is by no means assured. Of our seven members of the present Con- gress only three are Republicans. When it is remem- bered that these Congressmen were elected in the year of a Presidential campaign, when the full party vote was brought out in almost every section of the State, it will be seen the result does not incline to overconfidence. To carry districts that were lost in '06 and to elect at least five out of seven Congress- men this fall will require a long contest fought ar- duously from first to last. The Democratic State Central Committee has al- ready held a meeting and started the ball rolling in that party. In several Congressional districts one or more Democratic campaign clubs have been formed in the interest of popular candidatds. The silver men, who in this issue are virtually all Democrats, though some of them still style themselves Silver Republi- cans, have perfected a strong organization in the southern part of the State and are actively at work increasing the membership of their clubs and win- ning converts where they can. The enemy, in fact, is alert along the whole line. It is time for Republicans to be at least as active as their opponents. It will be folly to wait for the cam- paign to open before we prepare for it. In every Con- gressional district and every county the work of or- ganizing clubs should begin forthwith. As the domin- antpartyin the nation the Republicans will be’expect- ed to take the initiative in the contest of the fall, and for that reason they should begin now to arrange for a State convention at a comparatively early date, so that full time will be given afterward for carrying vigorous war into the Democratic Congressional dis- tricts and electing Republicans there. A JAPANESE INVASION. EPORTS from Hawaii are to the effect that a R syndicate in Japan is arranging to transport about 5000 Japanese laborérs to the Klondike gold diggings this summer. Most of the laborers are to be taken, it is said, from coolies now employed in the Hawaiian Islands, but considerable numbers will, of course, be carried direct from Japan itself; and it is equally a matter of course that if the venture prove profitable this year, there will be a large in- crease in the number sent to the diggings in the following season. As the coolies are to be taken to Canadian terri- tory, and as the syndicate, it is said, will arrange to transport them without landing on American soil, the matter is one with which we cannot directly interfere. It is for the Canadian Government to decide whether or no the proposed Asiatic invasion of the gold fields will ‘be permitted. If Canada consents to admit the coolies to free competition with her white miners, then the United States will have to watch the Alas- kan mining districts carefully, for once established on the Klondike it will be easy for the Japanese to spread over the whole Yukon Valley. European aggression on the Chinese coast makes much noise and attracts the attention of the whole world. A thousand diplomatists and ten thousand newspapers are kept busy in giving warnings of the disasters likely to result from that invasion. Never- theless it is doubtful if the accomplishment of all that Russia and Germany aim at on the coast of China would so seriously affect civilization as would a free admission of coolies to any part of the Pacific Coast of America. The one invasion goes forward with a beating of drums and the roar of guns of mighty warships, while the other is as silent as the spreading of a pestilence, but the pestilence is more terrible than the battle. The white man and the yellow man are face to face in a struggle for supremacy on both sides of the Pacific. While the white man of Europe aims at political domination in Asia, the yellow man aims at industrial domination on the American coast. The Chinese and the Japanese are hereditary foes, but in this issue they work together with a common will, and the exclusion of the one will be futile if the other be admitted. The people of the United States have therefore a great, though indirect, interest in the proposed in- troduction of coolie labor into the Klondike. The home of no man is safe when pestilence has found its way to the house of his hext-door neighbor. Coolie labor in the upper Yukon Valley will sooner or later affect the white miner who develops the pla- cers in the United States territory lower down. The issue is one of growing importance, because the danger of an Asiatic industrial invasion of the American coast increases with the years. Even un- der present conditions it has been found impossible to wholly exclude Chinese from the country. It is casy to see that the difficulty of guarding the white labor of the Union will be much greater if Hawaii is annexed, or if coolie labor gets a footing in Alaska. The issue at present is in the hands of Canada, but so far as the Government or the people of the United States can do so, they should exert every influence to prevent the consummation of the Japanese scheme. The German Government invited us to make a dis- play of our fruit at the Hamburg Exposition, which we did with such success that the German people de- manded large quantities of it. Now the Government proposes to shut it out on the ground that it is un- sanitary. This is what we get for sending abroad such fine fruit as to make the foreign growers feel sick at the very sight of it. R A g According to the view taken by himself the latest man to shoot his wife in Oakland is crazy. Possibly he is an expert in the matter, and yet the probability that he is prejudiced is too reasonable to be over- looked. In either case any interference with his scheme of starving to death seems to be immaterial and irrelevant. ¢ —_— Prisoners in the City Jail complain that they do not get cnough to eat, and if they do not, they have good right to make a fuss about it. They cannot reasonably expect to be fed on pie nor furnished with napkins, but bread is inexpensive. “What conflict with Spain actually means,” is the recent theme of a diplomat. He devoted to its con- sideration an unnecessary amount of words. Every- body knows it means that Spain would get a worse licking than it has ever experienced. 88 & F] & 8 &8 degree of provocation—and then promptly John Lynn of Oakland casually called Ting out in the street. Then he carefully her body. ““The Lord told me to do it,” he said, a beaten. Vanier, too, followed the Scriptur: dens upon the Lord. And then he became day last after siruggling in convulsions fo Husbands will readily understand that And to be human and a wife at the same new decree of fashion is to be followed. of Correction—for the Signor- Steiv poor—bona fide—madman’s despair. But never leave Lynn. a sitting posture. This sort of collapse is appears to be an inert bundle of flesh, a other. pers fell. No spoken word seems to penetrate withdrawn. It was only when his wife's that he was not wholly unconscious of the filled the little cell. Your wife will live. Are vou glad of i “Yes—yes—yes-s-s—" and a nodding of But Lynn's jallers will tell you that it wife,” were spoken there was a quick star Once the jailer helped him to raise his his short neck. And then the weak face lack of expression, with its wandering pal But John Lynn, despite the excellent oj vagaries of insanity, making of the actor that which he pretend: insane now, he will become so if he continu sort. ‘88323888338888838888828888888883388888388?888?888283888888838382888983?; ON THE MERRY MADNESS OF GENTLEMEN WHO MALTREAT THEIR WIVES. 8 R R R R R RN NNRRRNNNRNNNNRBRBR BN, The latest fad @mong husbands is not wholly original. It's a variation upon the old doctrine that a good wife is all the better for a good beating. The rule is nowadays, catch your wife, administer the beating or the murder—according to the D. C. Vanler of 1113 Jones street in this city brutally beat his little wife, and when she complained and made trouble for him, he beat her again for objecting to being Steiva, an Italian over in Berkeley, is a follower of the prevailing mode. He had long abused his wife. A week ago she complained to one of her neighbors that her | husband was trying to kill her. If that were true, he succeeded: for she died Mon- | I don’t know whether Steiva will claim divine instigation, but as surely as he's arrested and accused of the crime, he’ll become insane, too. These are only a few cases happening in so many days. But they are the Paris fashions In murders, the advanvce sheets, so to speak, of the new spring designs. It therefore behooves the up-to-date husband to study with care these artistic productions, in order to work out appropriately the special kind of wife-beating or wife-murdering that may suit the degree of his ferocity and of her offense. As to this last, gentlemen will be glad to know that much patience is not re- quired on the part of the husband in the very latest. marital code. A comparatively small sin on the part of the wife is all that is necessary. beautiful old idea that wives are property, like one’s furniture or one’'s horse. If, my dear sir, your old arm chair, in which you have sat and smoked so comfortably and so long, were to rise against you and decline longer to bear your weight, you would be justly incensed, and if the concoction of wood and springs could feel, you— it you would follow the latest style in husbands—would certainty administer cor- poreal punishment. Just as you do when your horse tries your temper. It is treason, then, against the most sacred rights of husbands for wives to object to punishment. * For to question the justice of the husband's decree is to Question his supremacy. And where can you find bloodier treason than that? It is high treason, punishable by death, for a wife to leave her husband. The petty excuses she may proffer are irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent. If she weary of non-support, if she tire of wrangling and bickering, if she be fastidious about intemperance or any other of the manly vices, she presumes to be human. I would recommend to diligent students, anxious to qualify in the new school of nuptial ethics, the case of Mr. John W. Lynn of Oakland. ately, has no diploma, Judge Low having sentenced him to six months in the House awkwardness with which he simulated insanity, presumably. is not yet a graduate, as the Coroner is only now investigating Sig- nora Steiva’'s death. But Mr. Lynn is an adept, having had unequaled opportunities in the insane asylums at Utica and at Agnews for studying just this most im- portant branch of a husband's education—how to feign insanity. Of course, it may be possible that Mr. Lynn's mastery of the subject is not that of the amateur, but of the professional. But if his insanity be not feigned, it must be real, wherefore it is more and more worthy of study. I saw John Lynn in the jail at Oakland Saturday. spoken no word. His lips move continually, and if one listens closely he can hear disjointed sentences and numberless repetitions of phrases. “O Lord! O Lord!"” he Wwhispers. I remembere a lunatic of my acquaintance who punctuated the babel of | sound that came up from the yard in which the insane were kept, with this same ““0 Lord! O Lord!” spoken in as many different tones as there were moods to this words there is not the slightest tinge of expression. nerves and his endurance. They have subjected him to what would cause a normal man acute physical pain. But Lynn did not wince. Yet his Jjailer, who has watched him closely, believes him to be sane, and he has the testimony of the two men who Lynn was lying upon a cot. He had been sleeping, or pretending to sleep, all morning. To rouse him, the jailer had to shout in his ear and literally drag him to brown hair and a face that looks absurdly immature. His head was bent and from his rapidly moving lips only the faintest whis- heavily upon those who support him, falling back limply as soon as the support is lips the hissing “yes-s-s” falls continually, the body appears to be on the verge of dlsi But Lynn did answer, though perhaps not in words. whichever of his other senses have left him. rolling gently as an infant’s eves do, seemed that of s Tl o ;lxportunlties he has had for studying the nnot continue his role—if it be a role—for az i The fearful strain which such an impersonation e ready unbalanced, his present weakness, bodily and mental, be transformed into the violence and insane vigor of the ravi In either case he is recommended to the patient study 8 b 8 E become insane. his wife’s attention to something occur- emptied the contents of his revolver into nd then subsided Into wordiess insanity. al injunction about casting all one's bur- garrulously insane. r forty-eight hours. the new fad is merely a survival of the time is utterly out of the question, if the Mr. Vanier, unfortun- Since his arrest he has to the everlasting repetition of Lynn’s The physicians have tested his the latest stage of Lynn's insanity. He little man, growing bald, with scanty His hands lie feebly in each to this man’s consciousness. He leans name was mentioned that one could tell presence of those who for a few minutes Lo the sessile head. wasn’t an answer, that from this man’'s and that the head bobs weakly just as | ntegration. When the words “your t of the arm the jailer held. Lynn hears, heavy with 1 e blue head which hung animal-like from ts additional weakness of an uttef eyes, uncontrolled by the muscles, an idiot. must necessitate will culminate in s to be. If this would-be murderer is not e to act the part so well. And if he be al- his utter collapse will | ng maniac. | of husbands of the Lynn | MIRIAM MICHELSON. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS A. Alexander, a large rancher of Wat- sonville, is at the Baldwin. F. J. Brandon, ex-clerk of the Senate, is at the Grand from his home in San Jose. F. A. Johnson, a prominent business man of Toronto, Canada, is registered at the Lick. Henderson Hayward, a leading mer- chant of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Occidental. ‘W. H. Tobey, a big railroad man of Carson City, is staying at the Palace with his daughter. C. R. Scott, a leading merchant and politician of Portland, Or., is on the reg- ister of the Occidental. State Senator C. M. Simpson of Pasa- dena has come up to the city on a short business trip and is at the Grand. 0000000000 When the re- o O cent scandals o+ A'YELLOW o connected with the Board of Su- o JOURNAL i pervisors and the o SCOOP. O School Directors o O. were first puh- ©000000000 jignea by TheCall the effect of the news was to cause every office in the City Hall to swarm with re- porters from the scooped papers the next day, In the forlorn hope that something might possibly be found that had been overlooked by their hustling rival. As District Attorney Barnes was away on a trip in the southern part of the State the supreme authority of the office was represented by his assistant, Mr. Hosmer. That gentleman had hardly seated himself in his chalir on the morn- ing spoken of when his office boy entered with the announcement that waliting without was a representative of a Mission street publication devoted to fiction, who said he must see the Assistant District Attorney, as he had a very important question to put to him which his paper intended publishing exclusively the next day. The scribe was admitted, when the following conversation ensued: “Good morning, Mr. Hosmer. I have come to tell you that a red-hot story has been dug up in the Board of Supervis- ors.” “So I see,” sald Hosmer. “What do you think they will do about it “I have not the slightest idea.” “Well, what I .called to particularly ask was, What will you do if the matter 1s taken before the Grand Jury?” “Why, I will do what I would in any other case—perform my duty to the best of my ability,” replied the Assistant District Attorney. “Would you mind putting that on paper?”’ again queried the visitor. “You see, my editor told me this time he wanted a story based on facts.” “I have not the slightest objection to putting my name to such a statement,” replied Mr. Hosmer. Whereupon he did so, and the reporter hurried away with the happy glow of anticipated triumph mantling his features and the light of an exclusive story beaming from his shrewd eyes. Captain J. L. Coster, manager of the Spreckels refinery at Watsonville, is reg- istered at the Grand from that place. T. G. Johnson, a well-known mining man and vineyardist of San Jose, is at A Board of Education should’ have something “Soapy” Smith is a surprise. Vigilantes really keyed { more to do than furnish citizens an opportunity to to the proper pitch would have hailed the interfer- ence as a glorious opportunity to hang Soapy, | gate. be ashamed, and the Grand Jury a subject to investi- the Lick for a short stay in the city. Colonel J. F. Gaynor, W. F. Gaynor and Eugene Hughes constitute a party of well-known New York society men on a visit to the coast who are at the Palace. Dr. W. H. Davis, formerly a well- known physician of New York, hut now heavily interested in Klondike business schemes, is at the California. His pres- ent visit to the city is for the purpose of securing, if possible, ships for the Alaska Skaguay Gold Mining and Transportation Company, of which he is the organizer. S. T. St. George Cany, a wealthy En- glishman on a sightseelng tour of the United States, is one of yesterday’s ar- rivals at the Palace. 000O0OOOOOOC o A STORY OF o o WOUNDED o o VANITY. o o of the place. He | o 0000000000 stands high in professional and financial circles, while his mentality and education cause him to be a welcome guest wherever literary and artistic people congregate. Yet, with all these attributes, he has one weakness | which overshadows all else and which he can never resist indulging. That weakness is to be considered the model of all that is proper and conventional, according to the standard of our English cousins. If the Prince of Wales had his hair cut to- day this gentleman would be found in the barber’'s to-morrow; while the informa- tion that his footwear did not conform to the latest thing in Piccadilly would send him walking on his hands until the terri- ble defect had been remedied. Not long ago he had a carriage built after a pattern of his own, which he de- clared was the only thing fit for a gentle- man to drive in, and which was being used by the aristocracy abroad, to the ex- clusion of all other styles ¢f turnout for road work. When the vehicle was re- celved it proved to be an affair that looked like a cross between a roller-coast- er and a spider threshing-machine, paint- ed in colors vivid enough to cause any passing dog a bad attack of nervous pros- tration. The first day he used it he drove q the Palace Hotel to make a call, ag;n;ettl: the rig in charge of a friend while he went inside. When he returned he found two unmistakable English swells gazing with rapt admiration on his new acqui- sition. Motionless, with gratified vanity he stood on one side, not ‘wishing to s turb them, when suddenly they turned toward him, and one said: *Tell me, me good fellow, is that curious-looking thing what you Westerners call a buckboard?’” The answer that was received left an odor of sulphur in the air, while the team departed at a gait that awoke the Dpolice- man quietly slumbering on the corner and set him trying to remember if there was not some sort of an ordinance against fast driving. There is in this city a gentleman whose many ac- complishment s make him one of the leading men E. 8. Barnly, a mining man of A is at the Palace. S F. G. Baker, a capitalist of San Jose, is a guest at the California. James O'Neill, ex-Sheriff of Sacra- mento, is-staying at the Grand. Lieutenant J. H. Holcome, U. §. N., reg- istered at the Occidental last evening, Thomas Flint, State Senator from San Juan, was one of those to register at the Palace yesterday. W. S. Bethen, a well-known mining man and politician of Denver, was one of last night’s arrivals at the California. J. H. Rearman of Los Angeles and A. B. Rodman of Woodland arrived in the city last evening and went to the Occidental, Jacob H. Neff, president of the State Miners’ Assoclation, arrived in the city on a business trip yestérday and went to the Palace. J. Friday, a large distiller of Pitts- burg, is-at the Palace. with his wifs They are making a tour of pleasure through the State. M. Reis, one of the largest theatrical men in New York and probably the most widely known man in the busiiess in the United States, is at the Baldwin on & pleasure trip. Mr. Reis, who has been shown everything by the theatrical people of the city and who has been largely en- tertained by the foremost Hebrew fami- lies 4 this place, will return to his home in a day or two, carrying with him the impression that the hospitality of Cali- fornia cannot be surpassed. Albert W. Wishard, United States Dis- trict Attorney for Indiana, and L. P. Newby, a Senator from the same State, who have been at the Grand for ‘the past week, will leave on Thursday next for their home by the way of Salt Lake City and Denver. During their stay here they have been largely entertained. On Monday evening they were the gnests of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Carlton at the Hotel Savoy and participated in a theater party, which wound up the evening. DISTRICT IRRIGATION To._the Editor of The Call: The great- est need of the State to-day is an intelli- gent development of her agricultural re- sources. These resources are practically ufl“mlted. The State can be made to fur- nish food and clothing in great abun- dance for the entire present population of the United States, with enough to sell to bring in all the foreign luxuries the wildest fancy could desire. I have Rnown Chinamen to grow vegetables for sale to farmers and realize $1000 an acre. These Chinamen used both irrigation and fer- tilization—in other words, intelligence. The State is nearly all arid or semi-arid, and needs an intelligent use of water for irrigation. We have no system of irriga- tion, and that fact is a libel on our in- telligence as a people. When water was first diverted from streams for this purpose there were those Who applied to the courts for the enforce- ment of what is known as riparian rights—which means that the man at the mouth of the river has a right to see all the water go by him undiminished in Quantity and unpolluted in quality. This conflict went on for years, and millions of property rights were built on no_bet- ter foundation than the sufferance of the man down the stream, or at best on shotgun law. Men frum one end of the State to the other worried over this con- dition and met in conventions to devise ‘| a way out of the difficulty, and finally it was agreed to ask the Legislature to create districts with the powers of a pub- lic corporation, so as " to bring every clalmant of every kind into court and have his damages assessed. From 1884 to 1887 this phase of the problem was dis- cussed more than all other questions combined. In 1885 a committee appointed by a convention held in Fresno prepared with great care a district bill that passed the Assembly, but it was defeated by the use of money in the Senate. Other con- ventions were held and an extra session of the Legislature was called, but the proper amount of intelligence or pa- triotlsm or honesty was lacking and it came to naught. Public opinion, how- ever, had crystallized in favor of the dis- trict system, and at the session of 1887 there was no opposition to a district bill. It was most unfortunate that the same bill was not passed, but one was passed which, though very crude, was correct in principle. But it was not destined to go into operation without the old enem{' ap- pearing against it. The large land- owners, who wanted to own the water as well, had the ear of the banks and the money power. The bonds were attacked before issued and thoughtiess men every- where were urged to oppose it. The courts at first sustained the system, but finally, on the most flimsy pretexts, knocked it all over. Now the first great, crying need of Cal- ifornia is a system of irrigation. Wa have great valleys of magnificent land, with climate unexcelled in the world, and | these valleys are bordered around with mountains ~adown whose sides flow the life-giving water. An insignificant amount of labor will put the land and the water together, with a result more astounding than any Arabian tale; and all that is wanted is intelligence enough to make a system. 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