The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 18Ys. The TUESDAY.. FEBRUARY 15, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e~ e A A~ A A A A A~ PUBLICATION OFFICE........ Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... .2I7 to 221 Stevenson street | Telephone Main 1874 THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is 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..... ©eeeeese. ONE Year, by mall, $1.50 it, because every business | paying industry, every profitable occupation in the ©OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway | Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. | NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building | WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE................. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay | cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll | ©:20 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: ~ open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock | €W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until € o'clock. 9518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o‘clock 106 Eleventh st open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. i ik bt bbb STRC AMUSEMENTS. Paldwin—The Bostonians. Callfornia—Black Patti Troubadours. Columbi: ppened to Jones." Alcazar 's Aunt.” Morosco nenandoah.” Tivols d Pasha.” Orpheum-—Vaudevlle. Bush—Thalia ¢ Metropolit Olympfa, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. The Chute: hiqu! 4 Vaudeville. Mechanies’ Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition, Caltfornta Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. rman-Hebrew Opera Co., Wednesday night. 11—Lecture. % AUCTION SALES. , February 16, Stationery Store, at sdav, February 24, Real Estate, at clock. in | By Emil Cohn—Wednes: 713 Larkin street, at 11 0'c arket street. at 12 0 PUT UP OR SHUT UP. / s news item published in The Call was met J yesterday by an offer of The Call to deposit among the charitable institutions of the city, if the | Examiner could prove that The Call was wrong— | amount to be distributed in the same way if The Call was right. The Examiner was challenged to In quoting from the Examiner the passage which the attempt to discredit The Call was made, | cult for sensible men to quote senseless things with accuracy.) We do not intend, however, to allow the | e therefore return to the subject in order to give the extract from the Examiner accurately so that it | it The case is this. The Call published a statement | Agnews Asylum for the Insane, to the effect that | Peter Camarinos, a patient in the asylum, had been | made an attempt in Oakland to kill his wife. Griffiths claimed to have been an eye-witness of the | TUpon the publication of this story in The Call the Examiner said: “John R. Griffiths, who is respon- of the asylum at the time the alleged murder was committed, and he has been quoted as saying that he | says he went to Fresno. This was about November as near as he can fix the date. As a matter of last, or nearly a month subsequent to the time when Griffiths claims Camarinos was murdered.” present at Agnews when Camarinos died, and chal- lenges the Examiner to make true the charge of away from the issue on the ground of misquotation. The Call stands by the accuracy and reliability of | derial? Here is a chance for the Examiner to do some- its reports are not always fakes. We repeat what we said yesterda; of its rivals, and so incessant in boasting its regard for charity, it can hardly decline the proposition we gatherer and as a patron of charitable institutions. The issue before it is therefore plain. It must put up | By Von Rhein & Co N attempt of the Examiner to discredit a $1000 in the hands of Mayor Phelan to be distributed | provided that the Examiner would put up an equal | meet this proposition: to put up or shut up. a mistake occurred in the use of names. (It is diffi- | Examiner this loophole to escape from the issue. cannot make a pretense that we have misl’epresemed1 from John R. Griffiths, a former inmate of the failed by his attendant, John W. Lynn, who recently assault of Lynn upon Camarinos. sible for the story, claims to have been an inmate saw Lynn kill Camarinos. After the crime Griffiths | fact and record P. Camarinos died on December 8 | The Call repeats the statement that Griffiths was error. The yellow journal cannot dodge nor sneak | its news. Will the Examiner stand by its words of] thing for charity and at the same time prove that The Examiner is so quick to discredit the reports have made without stultifying itself both as a news- | or shut up. It is presumptuous and vulgar in a disreputable paper to try to boom a scheme to have Lin- coln’s birthday made a national holiday. In the first place the plan is not original. In the second place the paper in question is a discredit to any cause it may espouse. For it to link its own un- clean personality with the honored name of Lincoln is an insult to the memory of that great and good man. There is involved a principle similar to that actuating the thrifty tradesman who stamps on the national flag.the advertisement of a patent medicine, and then, unfurling the emblem to the breeze, proudly calls attention to his patriotism. It is not often a funeral is marked by so much in- cident as that recently held in token of the death of James Brogan. One brother was there in charge of | two policemen, having been permitted to leave jail for the purpose. Another brother was taken from the carriage of the chief mourners and dragged hand- cuffed back to the House of Correction, whence he had escaped. The Brogan home may indeed be a house of mourning, but rather for the living than the dead. The dangers of living burial are being greatly magnified, but with what purpose does not appear. There may be a chance of being interred while there is still animation in the body, and there may be a chance of being carried to heaven in a chariot of fire. The evidence in support of either possibility seems to be equally strong. Some fault is being found with an Arizona woman for having peppered a cowboy with bird shot, and doubtless the criticism is just. It is accepted as estab- lished that when an Arizona cowboy goes on the rampage his case cannot be treated successfully with anything smaller than buckshot. Apparently one of the strongest reasons urged why Sherman should resign is that a gentleman named Day is in that condition of mind which gave Barkis a place among immortals, | community. | upon the active stage are told that it is no use to | to morality and self-denial; | and declare that its repulsive aspect will pass away i prophesy for their policy, can they point to a present | will bring them office and power. OUT OF TOWNE. MR. TOWNE has opened the silver campaign at the south end of the State. His speech at Los Angeles is that of the politician whose vocation of office-holding is gone, and is being pur- sued in its retreat in the hope of overtaking it .by attacking all other vocations. He arraigns every in- terest and every industry. Success in any is to him a sign of infamy and evidence of oppression. Raising | high his banner, inscribed with free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, he summons his hearers to do battle under enterprise, every wage- country is arrayed against it. He enlists all who have failed, and all who have made no effort, and there- fore have not risked failure, and all politicians who | Contemplation of that horrible thing should be en- tirely forbidden. If people are to be permitted to look at it, breaches of the peace in the vicinity of Third and Market streets will be frequent and flagrant. We trust the people will retire Judge Campbell to | private life at the next election. He has no right to dispense law in this way. What does he want in this hanker after power, and have not found favor with | | their party. An observer of events must be impressed | by the prospective effect of such politics upon the; The generation of men just coming | strive as their fathers strove; that confronting the | battle of life they must lay down their arms without | | striking a blow; that education and the qualities of | self-control, thrift and temperance, industry and | honor, will not avail any more. They are told that | all the successes they see around them, won by the ‘ generation that preceded them, are the spoils of\ craft and crime; that government is a fraud, law a | threat, Judges are jugglers and business an offense against the rights of man. When the young were taught that success was open that fortune was the | good man’s prize; that, given health and spurred by | industry, the world was open to achievement; that no man could carry the pathway to fortune with him as he walked its length, but must leave it to be pressed by the feet of every generation that fol- lowd him, the tendency was to cultivate in men the known elements which led to success. As these were consistent with honesty and squared with honor and manliness, generation after generation passed in which they were preserved and depended upon. Now there has arisen this new school of politicians who impeach every human activity and denounce | every human effort that has paid the wages of labor and profited by success. They coddle every man who fails, for he is a victim of the criminal success of another. They enter the home of content to destroy its peace, by exciting greeds and grudges. They set men against men. They incite labor against its | employer, and advise that he be ruined. A percent- age of those just entering active life will take | them at their word that business is a criminal occu- pation and will enter it in that spi Others will | lag at the beginning and survive to recruit the army of theoretical or practical anarchy. Whenever the | old moralities and the old manhood can be driven out of their place as the promoters of contented lives they will be expelled. Now, who are these men who are making this campaign against the structure of social health and propose to tear down society and rebuild it upon the foundation of its failures and its diseases? Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne are the leaders of that school. What industries have they founded? What wages have they paid, what men have they employed? What | hands have had labor and what mouths have been | fed by anything they have done? Have they so far experimented with the industrial | and financial status which they impeach as to till al farm, start a shop, employ labor, or pay wages? | They are both lawyers, and have both practic:d.! | Did they succeed in their profession? Are they not[ doing better now as agitators than they ever did as | lawyers? ~ What practical experience have they in | business enterprises that makes them the judges of | the world, and enables them to condemn every man | who has taken risks, who has borne the cares and | anxieties of business, who has strengthened his‘; manhood, sharpened his ingenuity and has found, in his experiences, kindness and not condemnation for his fellow-men? They draw a black picture of existing conditions under free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. How do they know that? If every evil they pretend to see were upon the country, how would their plan cure? Is there anything in conditions in Mexico, China and the other silver countries to prove what they say? If the full habiliment of silver and its free coinage as money can create the Utopian conditions they | or a historical example to prove it? Can their free coinage scheme make business virtuous, men honest, courts upright and legislation pure? If so, where has it done these things; where has it worked thess transformations? There be those among their followers who are honest but deceived, while the promoters of the movement who give it impulse everywhere are simply agents of the deception in the hope that it PERVERTED JUSTICE. HE most extraordinary case of miscarriage of T justice which we have encountered for a long time happened in Judge Campbell’s court last week. A man named Kirchhoff, who says he is a grocer at the Mission, was arrested on Wednesday at the corner of Third and Market streets on a charge of looking too hard at the new Examiner building. It was alleged that Kirchhoff was making some kind of a disturbance, but to the arresting offi- cer he said he was protesting against the architecture of the edifice. When arraigned in Judge Campbell's court he informed that eminent jurist that the building had given him sore eyes, and he argued in extenuation of his offense that the trimmings and terra cotta cor- nice of the architectura] nightmare were sufficient to malée anybody swear, especially if he contemplated them in the light of two or three cocktails. “I don’t see why a man should be arrested for saying that a building like the Examiner’s gives him a pain,” said Kirchhoff; “I deny that I made the remark in a loud or boisterous manner, and the officer stretched his imagination when he charged me with disturbing the peace.” Judge Campbell remarked that he had seen the Examiner building himself, and that it had also given him a pain. He regarded the edifice as the very worst that had ever been perpetrated upon the people of San Francisco, and he strongly intimated that if the building were up before him on a charge of assaulting the rules of architecture he would find it guilty instantly. Regarding Kirchhoff's case, his Honor said: “You were quite right in expressing your opinion. The Examiner freely expresses its opinion about everything, and I have never heard of the proprietor being arrested for disturbing the peace.” Thereupon he dismissed the case. It is such arbitrary rulings as this which are cal- culated to bring down upon the law the execrations of the people. Kirchhoff should have been convicted. | He had ‘no right to look at the Examiner building. town? Anarchy? e ‘ BRANDED SEALS. N many respects the most important news sent [ down from the revenue cutter Bear, now at Unalaska, was the announcement that the seals branded by the United States officials have in large numbers returned to the seal islands, and are now at their usual rookeries. This news, given on informa- tion received from Colonel Murray, the treasury agent in charge of the islands, is authentic, and may be regarded as finally settling the question of the | feasibility of solving the problem of protecting the seals by branding them. Many plans had been proposed and not a few of them tried, for protecting our seal fisheries from poachers, before President Jordan of Stanford sug- gested the advisability of branding the females so as to render their skins valueless and therefore of no profit to the poachers. The plan met with a good deal of opposition. The most potent and frequently made objection was that branding would so frighten | and pain the seals that they would abandon the islands and seek rookeries elsewhere. This objection is now disposed of. The seals have returned, and there is no danger the rookeries will be abandoned. Another objection often made was that the brand- | ing would not so sufficiently destroy the fur as to yender the skins valueless for commercial purposes. This also has been refuted by the reports from the islands, as a number of the branded animals have been examined, and in every case it has been found that the brands are clear and distinct. According to our special correspondent, Lieutenant Berry, “not | a single vestige of hair or fur remains in the wake of the iron, although the mark is at least a year old.” From these reports it seems clear the controversy over pelagic sealing is settled, and the United States has accomplished the protection of its seal fisheries without the aid or consent of any other nation. In- ternational tribunals will no longer be necessary to provide laws for the prevention of pelagic sealing. We shall not have to carry on a further controversy with Great Britain over the Canadian practice of seal poaching. ~What statesmen and- diplomatists could not do, a simple plan devised by the exercise of common-sense has achieved. It will not have escaped the attention of intelligent men that this important item of news was treated ! yesterday in a manner worthy of its importance by no newspaper in the city except The Call. The Chronicle contained the bare announcement from its correspondent: “From Colonel Murray, special agent in charge of the island, it was learned that the branded seals were returning to the island rookeries.” The Examiner had a hardly more extended notice of the fact, and that was huddled confusedfy in the body of a long report dealing with the general events of the voyage of the Bear. 2 The information thus carelessly treated by our contemporaries will be received throughout the United States with more than ordinary gratification. It promises to put a speedy end to an international dispute which threatened to become chronic, and involve the United States in endless difficulties with Canada and Great Britain. It also assures relief to the Government from a considerable portion of the cost of patrolling the seas around the islands. As our correspondent says: “With the female seals branded in such a manner that the skins are value- less and with the bachelor seals herded in the salt lagoon on St. Paul Island until the weather be- comes too bad for pelagic sealing, there will be no profit in the business for the sealing schooners. And we can easily protect the herd from raiders on the islands, within or without the sixty-mile prohibited area.” R Lieutenant Berry, show that the expedition of the Bear for the relief of whalers imprisoned in the ice of the Arctic Ocean had been attended with good fortune up to the time of writing, and the RELIEF FOR THE WHALERS. EPORTS from our special correspondent, | prospects then promised a successful accomplishfient of the relief. As The Call was first to make a move for the relicf of the whalers,and as it was due mainlytotheagitation of The Call that the Government sent the Bear northward on its mission of humanity and patriotism, the good news is particularly gratifying to us. It will be remembered that at the time the expedition was proposed it was asserted in some quarters that the season was too late for anything to be achieved in the way of relief, and The Call furnished from ex- perts the information which finally determined the Government to act. At present the Bear is at Unalaska, safely har- bored, and the expedition under Lieutenant Jarvis is making its way over the frozen coast line toward the place where the whaling vessels are hard bound in the ice. The distance to be overcome is estimated at 1440 miles. It is impossible to calculate how much time will be required to make the journey, but the expedition is well equipped, and began the march under favorable auspices, so that there is every reason for hoping success will attend its efforts and relief arrive for the whalers before any of them perish from destitution in their prison of ice and snow. It is an heroic task that has been undertaken. The sympathies of all classes of Americans are with the brave men who in response to the call of duty have dared the dangers of the Arctic winter for therelief of their fellow-countrymen. Out of this sympathy there will come a popular demand for greater care in the equipping of Arctic whaling fleets hereafter. If the Government is to interpose to save sailors from the consequences of ill-supplied ships sent to the north, the better way to do so would be to interpose befora the ships start, and see to it that the supplies are sufficient. ‘ — Perhaps against the $2000 claim of Belew the Examiner can set up the contention that it did not know it was buying a second-hand confession. How- ever, in the eye of the law, ignorance excuses no man. By carefully reading The Call the Examiner may keep clear of such mistakes and avoid the necessity of lagging more than twenty-four hours behind. If the persons who were publicly married on the showing that they intended to go to the Klondike were simply engaged in a pretense, there should be some punishment for them. At least their presence in this city casts a shadow of doubt over the police assertion that all the bunko folk have left town. | of men, was able to connect cause and effect. INCREASE OF OPHTHALMIA IN SAN FRANCISCO. An Open Letter to the Board of Health. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 1898. To the Board of Health, San Francisco, Cal.—Gentlemen: The importance of the subject to which I beg to call your attention must be my excuse for addressing your honorable body. I feel it my duty as a citizen and as a scientist to bring before your motice one of the gravest of dangers to the pub- lic health. Partly through accident, partly because of the direction of my sclentific investigations, I am gnabled to point out to you the beginning of an epidemic which threat- ens our city. That the disease of which I speak rarely re- sults fatally, only crippling and disfiguring its victims, is not a reason that it should be ignored by public officials, to whom, the care of the city’s health has been intrusted. 1 refer, gentlemen, to the alarming increase of ophtl;a.lmxa in San Fran- clsco. It has not escaped the notice of even the most careless observer that th'e proportion of those afflicted with some disease or other of the eye—nature's most beautiful, most useful organ—grows greater annually. The knowledge that with each succeeding year more and more people are wearing glasses is common property. But the sudden increase, to which I refer, and which has brought forth this communication to you, is a more serfous as well as a more insidious danger. And this menace it is my duty as a scientist to lay be- fore you; and yours, gentlemen, as public officials, to avert. For, as 1 have said, it is only the beginning of the ophthalmic epidemic that I have to chron- icle. Whether it is to spread and destroy the sight and the beauty of our peo- ple, or whether it is to be stamped out in its comparatively innocuous birth, rests with you. S It is seven days now since a citizen of San Francisco sounded the first note of warning. On Tuesday, February 8, a worthy grocer of the Mission, B. Kirchoff by name, was standing on the corner of Third and Market streets. I quote from The Call of February 10. His eyes fell upon the Examiner building and in- stantly he became aware of acute suffering. “That building,” remarked Kirchoff, in his crude way, makes me weary.” Kirchoff, you see, though not a scientist, and perhaps not the most cultured He suffered, and it was the Ex- aminer building which caused his suffering. When an officious policeman re- monstrated with Kirchoff, the latter only repeated his complaint, adding that the sgight of the building gave him sore eyes. Poor Kirchoff! He was the first of a long army of ophthalmic martyrs. The suffering grocer was arrested and brought before a police judge whose fame is as great as his beard is long. The judge looked searchingly at the un- fortunate grocer, who sat still, shading his aching eyes with a trembling hand, and a wave of sympathy came o’er the judicial breast. “Release the prisoner!” exclaimed the wise man. “I have seen that bulld- ing myself. The only way to be near it and escape getting sore eyes is to be blind.” This is the story. How have we benefited by Kirchoff's terrible experi- ence? What steps have been taken by the guardians of the city's health to prevent a repetition of that experience? . It is with regret, gentlemen, that I must admit a feeling of keen disap- pointment when day after day passed and in none of the newspapers ard I find fufther mention of this most important matter. I inquired at the office of your honorable secretary, supposing that the Board of Health had taken action in the premises, and that its decision had, in some inexplicable way, been overlooked. I was informed that the Board of Health of the city and county of San Francisco had absolutely ignored the vital question; that no record of its even having discussed the matter was in the secretary’s posses- sion. I, therefore, deemed it proper to address you in this public manner. It has been asserted that the proprietor of the building on the south- east corner of Market and Third streets is a very shrewd business man, who, seeing the opportunity to make money out of his fellow-creatures’ pain and disfigurement, has invested largely in the various opticians’ establishments in San Francisco, which are doing a Klondike business, I am informed. It is difficult to believe that any human being, however degenerate, would deliber- ately provide the means of affliction, and afterward, in the most cold, yellow- blooded manner, make arrangements to benefit financially by the suffering caused by his own bad taste, his own inartistic lack of a sense of the beautiful. I must acknowledge, gentlemen, that my feelings in this matter are unus- ually strong. My own eyes have always been rather weak. At present I wear two pairs of eyeglasses of such strength that it is necessary tc have them made to order. In addition, I am provided with an extra pair of green goggles with extensions on the side, which I use on the street. Yet I tremble, gentlemen, I tremble, should those eyes, already weak and worn in scientific THE ALARMING “that building research, by chance light upon the Examiner building. Of course, I never, consciously, turn my steps in the direction of its hideous, eye-blasting, dis- cordant yellowness. Any detour I am compelled to make when business calls me from my quiet study out into the whirl of city life is gladly undertaken. I count no cost of extra time or exertion that will spare my poor eyes the sight of that architectural monstrosity. But it is no secret that students, like myself, are absent-minded; that un- worldliness and a dearth of where-am-I-ativeness is the penalty science ex- acts from her devotees. I admit, frankly, that my mind wanders amid scien- tific abstractions at times, and forgets to watch closely over the body. Judge of my horror, my dismay, when only the other day I found that, all uncon- scioué]y, I had walked in the direction of the Examiner, that Medusa of build- ings. I was actually but a few yards distant and facing the awful thing when the close train of thought that had held me came to an abrupt end and I realized my danger just in time to escape. Hastily I raised my thick um- brella—which I carry for just such frightful emergencies—held it carefully between what is left of my precious eyes and that sight-destroying building, and, boarding the first Market-street car, on the north side, of course, I was soon out of danger. But think, gentlemen, think—if a corporate body can think—of what might have happened! Nay, of what may happen any day if, in the abstraction of deep thought, one’s eyes chance to really see that building! As for my own eyes, I have watched them closely. I have had them ex- amined by the best cculists in San Francisco since that fateful day, and they assure me that no irrevocable damage has as yet been done. I appeal to you, gentlemen, to save my eyes. Not only my eyes, but those of a multitude of sensitive souls, who any day may be plunged into the black- ness of blindness by this unnatural, this cruel, this fearful sight. I appeal to you in behalf of the children who rush carelessly upon their faie, all unknowing the awful consequences of looking, though but once, on the Examiner building. B I appeal to you—yes, gentlemen, such is the impersonal justice of science —T appeal to you in behalf of those misguided, unfortunate men and women whose energies are spent in the service of the man who has cursed San Fran- clsco by the erection of this building, which out-trolleys the electric cars in the cruelty and ferociousness of its appetite for sightless victims. I plead even for the Examiner reporter. Though lost, apparently, to all the better instinets of humanity, though deaf to all those sweet, elevating influences which distinguish man from the lower animals, he is yet human. Save his eyes, T implore you, though his soul be already lost. Use the power which the people have placed in your hands. My incapacity in practical, every-day matters forbids my suggesting the means which your honorable body might use to defeat the plans of the man who has schemed to destroy the sight of San Francisco, that she may not see the depth of his jaundiced iniquity. I deprecate lawlessness, though its employment may be, apparently, for the ends of justice. I would not have the architect of that building lynched for this reason. Besides, there is another point to be taken into consideration. No architect, in his right senses, would have constructed such an edifice. The man who did this is either insane, and therefore not responsible; or—which is, no doubt, the true solution—the Examiner building is the architectural child of its proprietor. The architect was but the instrument in the accomplish- ment of this crime against the structural beauty of our fair city.. 1 realize that the real criminal is beyond the jurisdiction of San Fran- cisco’s courts. I am aware that he has powerful reasons for expatriating himself. He dares not face his yellow Frankenstein. He fears for his own eyesight, for even he could not look with impunity upon it. But, gentlemen, I have faith in that excellence, in that intellect and in- tegrity, which must have shone conspicuously in you before your fellow-citi- zens selected you for the distinguished positions you now hold. Whether you shall decide, in your solicitude for that most precious thing, the health of the people, to erect a wall about this eyesore, or whether you shall decree that every eye (even that of the Examiner reporter) which, by any possibility, might chance to gaze upon the blasting, blighting thing in all its hideousness, must be guarded and veiled behind specially constructed and adapted spec- tacles, I know not. But with the fullest confidence, the utmost trust in your hu- manity—now that I have opened your eyes, which are themselves in danger, remember—and in your ability to serve the people, and to save us all from be- coming eyeless bipeds, walking in a Mammoth Cave of darkness, over which the Examiner building, like an exultant yellow fiend, shrieks triumphant. I re- main, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, 2 PROFESSOR A. B. CDEFGHI, J.K.L.M,N.O,P.Q, X Y. Z John E. Pannler of Wisconsin, recently elected County Judge, is only 21 years of and is the ungest judge {"l’lted States. s ) 120 COLLECTED THE CORRIDORS D. C. Reed, Mayor of San Diego, is reg- istered at the Grand. A. C. Bingham, a capltslist of Marys- ville, is at the Palace. \ J. L. Butler, a railroad min of Ogden, i3 staying at the California. Judge H. C. Bell, a prom! ent jurist of Oroville, Is a guest at the Grand. Dr. J. C. Perry of the United States Marine Hospital Service, is a the Palace. F. T. Johnson, Sheriff of Sacramento, 1s at the Grand on a business trip to the city. G. G. Manheim, one of the foremost merchants of Fresno, is registered at the Occidental. P. Blockburger, a large wool buyer and merchant of Humboldt County, Cal., is at the Brooklyn Hotel. Alice Neilsen, the leading lady of the Bostonians, arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Palace. A. D. Shepard, general passenger agent for the Southern Pacific at Los' Angeles, is at the California with his wife. Lewis Purcell, a rich young English gentleman who is traveling for pleasure, is one of yesterday's arrivals at the Pal- ace. 0000000000 Yesterdé.y,c as . Carlton C. Crane, g CRANE OPEN & tno popular Pa- o TO cific Coast agent CONGRATU- © of the Vanderbilt L LATIONS, © lines, was stand- o “ G Ing in the door of 000000O0O0O0O0his Montgomery street office, gazing off into space and wondering what the future had in store for him, a Wells Fargo messenger en- tered and, depositing a small package on the counter, took a receipt for its de- livery and left. The package was ad- dressed to Mr. Crane and, upon being opened, was found to contain a mag- nificent rolled brass watch, with the fin- est cast iron works and fully jeweled with priceless coal chips, each one of which was fully 37 carat fine. On the back of this tasteful gift Mr. Crane's initials are engraved in Chinese hieroglyphics, while inside the case is a pen and ink sketch, which imparts the information that the watch had been presented to the popular representative of the Vanderbilt lines by the heads of the company in ap=- preciation of the valuable service which he had rendered on the coast, and in to= ken of the esteem in which he is held. As the present arrived at a “late hour yesterday afternoon, Mr. Crane did not have an opportunity to do the occasion justice. But he now wishes it under- stood that he will keep open house to- day, and extends a cordial invitation to all of the railroad boys along the street to drop in and see his present and smoke a good cigar in honor of the event. John M. McMullin, a wealthy banker of Fresno, is at the Occidental, where he will remain for the remainder of the week. g E. E. Lytle, president of the Columbia Southern Railway Company, with head- quarters at Wasco, Oregon, is in the city on a short vacation. J. M. Fuller, a railroad man of Reno, Nevada, is in the city on a business trip. During his stay, which will be but short, he will be at the California. Baron de Batz, the famous French civil engineer, is at the Palace from Paris. He is accompanied by his friend, V. Von Goat, a member of the -Parisian aris- tocracy. Miss Rose Hooper, daughter of Major ‘William B. Hooper of the Oceidental Ho- tel, has returned home after a visit of several months’ duration in Boston and New York. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bosqui, members of the Bosqui family of Ross Valley, are registered at the Palace from Bodie, where they have made their home for some time past. Baron C. von Swain, a young German noble, arrived at the Palace last evening to join his mother, who has been there for several days. They are sightseeing in California and will go south from the city. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—R. B. Mott and ‘W. Gates, of San Francsico, are at the Astor House. Mr. and Mrs. George Crocker, who are going to New Orleans to attend the carnival which begins next Saturday night, leave to-morrow in their private car for the South. They will take with them as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Childs and Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Oelrich: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. JOHN A. SUTTER—P., City. John A. Sutter of Sutter’s Mill fame 1803 and died June 17, 1886, N an THE GODEN GATE—A. 8., Tiburon, Cal. The Golden Gate at the narrowest point is 5100 feet, a little less than a mile. GLADSTONE—A. §., Oakland, Cal. W. E. Gladstone is a Latin and Greek scholar, and he speaks the French and German languages. — Genuine eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up.33 4th.e —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_—— Mocha pistache, pineapple cake.905 Larkin, —————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Ailen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, & Husband’s Calcined Magnesla.—Four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label.® —_———— The Russian gifts being taken to Abys- sinia by M. Leontieff include an image of Saint George the Victorious, destined for a new Abyssinian temple to be built on the memorable field of Adowa. Time Reduced to Chicago. Via Rlo Grande Western, Denver and Rio Grande and Burlington railways. Passengers leaving San Francisco on 6 p. m. train reach Chicago 2:15 p. m. the fourth day, and New York 6:30 p. m. following day. Through Pull- man Palace Double Drawing Room Sleeping Cars to Denver with Union Depot change at 9:30 a. m. to similar cars of the Burlington Route for Chicago. Railroad and sleeping car tickets sold through and full information given at 14 Montgomery st. W. H. Snedaker, General Agent. —_—————— THE most efficacious stimulant to sharpan the appetite is DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS. Don't accept an imitation. —_——— IRRITATION OF THE THROAT AND HOARSENESS are immediately relieved by ** Brown's Bronehiai Troches” Have them always ready, —_———— The originator of the famous three * alliteration, “readln?, ‘riting and ‘rithme- tic,” was Sir William _ Curtis, a Lord Mayor of London. In 179 he proposed it as a toast before the Board of Education. 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