The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1898. "FEBRUARY 22, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. P e PUBLICATION OFFICE ...Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ......... .2IT to 22| Stevenson street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)Is | served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns | for 16 cents a week. By mall $6 per year. per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE ... ..One year, by mall, $.50 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFIC “Room 188, World Bullding | WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE..... ..... Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll 930 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 o'tlock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § e'clock. 2518 Mission street: opep until 9 o‘clock 106 Eleventh st open untli9 o'clock, 1505 Polk streat cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—The Bostonians. California—Blaex Patti Troubadours. Columb We Forgive Her.” 4 Charley's Aunt “The Last Stroke." ‘The Vice-Admiral” 1 Vaudeville. 1alia German-Hebrew Opera Company, | streets—Spectalties. | heum The Chutes—Chig Paclfic Coast Jockey Cl utter street Frank W. § Sutter stree M W. Butterfield—This day, February 22, Groceries 11 o'clock. ntal Rugs—Wednesday, February 23, at 234 Sutter street, t2and 8 P M = zyu Von Rhein & Co.—Thursday, February 24, Real Estate, at 636 Market street, at 12 o'clock adison & Burke—Thursday a . A —This day, February 22, Turkish March 3, Real Estate, at 625 | ERHAPS it is due to the New York Journal | xplain why it made itself ridiculous by of- 1 $50,000 reward for the wrecker of the | did puzzle people who while con- | scious that the paper in question failed to represent a high order of intelligence or morals believed it con- trolled by something above idiocy. The matter has The Journal was scooped on the great tragedy of the Maine. The Herald came out | th a full story, the Sun with a fairly good one, the | with nothing. Imagine the grief which must held in the office when the proprietor found that his young men had been sleeping. The anguish must To fire everybody was not practicable. | D been cleared away. w Jou I have SWi d’etat was necessary. ed. al the fact of having been beaten was equally out of the question. So it was decided to make the | not that it was expected to be impressive, but that there was hope it might attract enough at- on to divert the public eye from the awful scoop. | aightway the Journal went into hysterics. Whether | it offered a billion dollars or a pound of caramels | made not the slightest difference; it just had to do something. To conc offer, | GETTING INTO LINE. | :NERAL GROSVENOR, in his recent ad-| dress at a meeting of the Republican Con- | gressional Campaign Committee, pointed out | the importance of organizing for work at once, and | directed the attention of his colleagues to the elec- | tion in Oregon, which is to take place in June. That | election is to be the first State contest to be \\'agedi thi less | year, and the result is certain to have more or effect upon the popular mind throughout the country. The struggle is the more important because it is to as well as local affairs. Con- gressmen in addition to State officers and members | of the Legislature Moreover, the | financial issue will form the dividing line between the | Such at any rate is the outlook at | present, and it is not likely anything will occur to | materially change the situation. | At a convention held in Portland a short time ago the Republican League Clubs of the State re: affirmed the last national platform, indorsed McKin. ley's speech at New York as a true exposition of the monetary policy of the party, and resolved: “That we are in especial accord with the administration and its wise and efficient Secretary of the Treasury, Ly- man J. Gage, in their efforts to resist silver mono- metallism and to give additional stability and strength to our present financial system.” The League Clubs, of course, do not bind the rank and file of the party like a State convention, but nevertheless as these clubs represent much of the strength and leadership of the Republicans of the State there can be little doubt the State platform will be substantially the same as that adopted at Port- land. The Republicanism of Oregon is therefore on the side of sound money. It will make a straight fight on that issue and accept no compromise of any | kind whatever. ‘ While there has been no binding action on th part of the various factions in the State opposed to | sound money, there are abundant evidences that fu- sion will be accomplished and Democrats, Populists and so-called Silver Republicans will act together in the contest. The financial issue, therefore, will be the dominant one in the struggle, and Oregon will be the first of the States to record the vote of her citi- zens on the present phase of this momentous prob- lem. The beginning of energetic work on the part of the Congressional Campaign Committee and the | rapidity with which the opposing parties in Oregon are lining up for the contest, are incentives to the Republicans of California to set about preparing for the battle. This is the time to start the formation of clubs and to make arrangements for a complete organization of the rank and file of the party throughout the State. The Republicans of California cannot afford to be laggards on the eve of the great battle for honest money and national honor. An appeal for Republican organization has been made | at Washington and we should be among the fore- | most in responding to it include national are to be chosen. opposing parties. | That bodies of the dead are being robbed at any of the city hospitals is an ugly rumor. The officials in charge of the hospital should-be the first to de- mand investigation. If they are innocent the fact can doubtless be established and if théy are guilty to send them to the penitentiary would be acma[ THOSE WHO DRAW INTEREST. HE Bryan Democratic manifesto, to which Twe have referred, devotes to destruction the drawers of interest who avoid th.e | risk of active business. The Populist mani- | festo characterizes the same class, but calls | them “traitors,” who are to be shot down, | and “Tories,” who are to be expelled from the coun- i try. The red rhetoric of the Populist manifesto be- comes pale pink in that of the silver Republicans, which accuses these pernicious drawers of interest of | an “assault of the enemy on the last ramparts of our social and industrial independence.” In all three of the documents the phraseology of bloody war and stirring military movement is used. Again we ask who are these drawers of interest, these “traitors” and “Tories,” this “enemy” assault- ing “the last ramparts,” within which Mr. Bryan and Senators Jones and Butler are standing under arms to repel the foe? S E i Will some organ of these three proclamations in California name some of the men in this State who “avoiding the risks of active business merely draw interest,” with the purpose of transferring to them- selves “the property of all those engaged in active business”? . In this State 159,000 depositors in savings banKs draw interest on $131,000,000 of capital. ~A*vast ma-* jority of them are laboring people who have thriftily saved their wages. Another large class among them are small shopkeepers and vendors of one kind and another. Are they “traitors” and “Tories”? ‘Life and fire insurance companies are another class of in- terest drawers. They insure for the premiums paid by the people. These premiums they invest at in- | terest to accumulate a surplus out of which to pay losses. If they insure a man on a life policy for $1000 they become his trustee for that amount of money. In this way they are trustees for hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to the American people. Are they the drawers of interest who avoid “the risks of active business”? Are they the “traitors” and “Tories” deserving of death or exile? Another very large class of interest drawers are the building and loan associations, a favorite means | for the investment of a small surplus by millions of people. They have enabled the working classes to own their homes all over the country and have given to hundreds of thousands of families that safe and happy anchorage which comes with possession of their shelter. Are the building and loan associations the enemy “avoiding the risks of active business” for the purpose of gaining all the property of the coun- try? Are they the “traitors” and “Tories” who are besieging the last ramparts? What class of interest drawers is left to the oblit- erating besom of the patriotic partnership of the three wings of fiatism? Is it the commercial bank- ers who loan on personal security? Do they take no risk in active business? In truth and fact they carry all the risks of every kind of business. The risk of every crop that grows, of every train that moves and every ship that sails, is theirs. They distribute and are trustees of all that part of the loan fund of the country that animates trade on the credit of commer- cial paper. Take one business enterprise in San Francisco 2s evidence of the criminal machination of these commercial banks, denounced in these procla- mations for “confiscating the lives and liberty of-the laboring millions.” Within a few weeks thousands went jocund as to a holiday to witness the launching of the Chitose at the Union Iron Works. She cost, | say, a million. The company that built her employs in that and similar construction 3000 men. Their | wages, feed, clothe and house 12,000 people, young and old. In its work that company may be a bor- rower of millions on commercial paper, carried as a credit by the commercial banks. Let us suppose that it borrows a million of the loan fund handled by the Bank of California, the property of 10,000 depositors. Ii the commercial bank were not there as a trustee of that loan fund the million could not be borrowed, for a separate transaction with each of its 10,000 owners would be a business impossibility. The bank as trustee does it in one transaction, on one note. The company draws on the resulting credit to buy mate- rial and to pay the wages of 3000 men. When the ship is finished Japan pays its price and the company pays its note and the million goes back into the loan fund to be used over and over again in like opera- tions in every department of active business. This, then, is the process denounced by these politicians as “the repression of life and happiness,” the “cruel con- | fiscation of the lives and liberty of the laboring mil- ions,” “the most stupendous crime that has been committed in the annals of civilization.” In the hy- pothetical case of the Union Iron Works ask the 12,000 persons dependent on this distribution of the loan fund by banks if they have thereby been put “under a hard and bitter burden.” Let these three gangs of politicians who issue these three proclama- tions—not one of whom earns wages or pays them— let them make plain to the laboring millions where the credits will arise necessary to the great lines of business in which their bread is earned when these drawers of interest have been suppressed and these “traitors” have been put to the sword and these “Tories” have been expelled from the country. e — SEE THAT THE SHIPS ARE SAFE. HE rush of-travel -and freight to Alaska has T already been characterized by the loss of life and property, probably through the unsea- worthy condition of craft'used in that trade. When the ’49 excitement in California broke out everything that would hold together long enough to float out of port was drafted into transportation service. By loading beyond capacity many ships were made unseaworthy and there were appalling tragedies as the result. Our Government regulations for inspection of hulls and boilers were not as good as now. There is also more knowledge of the safe stowage of a cargo and the dangers of overloading. In the present demand for transportation many ships, on both coasts, that have been long out of commission, are being put in now, and many that were built for an entirely different service are being diverted-to this. It has: been assumed that Alaskan waters are very safe to navigate, but the striking on unknown rocks and subjection to strange currents seem to prove that caution 'is needed in those quiet waters to a greater degree than on the open ocean. Already there has been sufficient stimulate the strictest official oversight, warning to The Gov- | ernment provides a survey of ships which is a guide 1 to the load they may safely carry and also an inspec- tion of hulls and boilers. There is every reason to believe that this official oversight is rigid in the port of San Francisco, and that_its efficiency will be maintained here. It is already noticed that this is 'an element in the at- flattery. traction of - Alaska transportation. - Travelers and cargo seek a port of departure where official vigilance will be a guaranty against overgreed. The marine underwriters are also affected by these considerations and are willing to give better and cheaper indemnity on risks than where events prove that there is official laxity. While there is an élement of adventure in these mining rushes that blunts caution for the time being, the lesson of a few disasters restores ordinary prudence in the conduct of men and brings such business as travel and transportation back to the plain principles of certainty and safety. This port having the largest continuous trade, coastwise and deep water, of any on the Pacific Coast, has of necessity the best official inquiry into all the means of making that trade as safe as possible against dis- aster; and this fact is not unnoted among the cal- culations of Alaska travel and commerce. OUR SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE. OST gratifying in every respect have been the /\/\ manifold evidences given of pfiblic‘apprecia-’ tion of the special® service pmvidcd’by; The! Call to supply the popular demand for news of the latest developments at Havana. In every town to which the swift trains have carried it The Call has’ been eagerly received by the people and every copy placed on sale has found a’ prompt and early pur- chaser. : et % ; : This service is an illustration™ of the zeal and energy with which The Call fulfills the duty of a great journal to the public. ~ As soon as the startling! news came of the destruction of the Maine the man- agers of The Call recognized that there would be an' intense and impatient eagerness on the part of all| classes of people to learn.every detail and circum-! stance of the disaster. They, therefore, at once set about providing for the swiftest possible transmission to the public of-every item of news, or information, that could be gathered by the Associated Press, by. the special correspondents of The Call and those of its ally, the New York Herald. In performing the work of distributing the news bulletins were sent as rapidly as received to all the principal cities of the State and promptly displayed on The Call bulletin boards. That was much, but it was not enough. The popular excitement de- manded far fuller reports than could be given by bulletins. To meet this demand The Call started its special trains carrying the paper to Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Monterey, Marysville, Woodland, Ukiah, and all intermediate points, in time for the people to read at their breakfast tables. There was no attempt on the part of The Call at self-advertising or self-laudation in this matter. It was an enterprise of legitimate journalism undertaken to meet a popular demand for news at a great crisis in the affairs of the nation. It was not done for rivalry with other papers, nor to cause factitious in- terest in- The Call itself. It was done solely as a means of meeting a need of the time, and conse- quently may be accepted by the public as a proof that The Call will always furnish the news as swiftly as any emergency or popular demand may require. As was foreseen and announced yesterday the en- terprise of The Call forced the Examiner, now in the sere and yellow leaf of decadent journalism, to make a spasdomic effort at enterprise itseli. How severe the strain of the spasm was upon the jaundiced system of the faker was displayed by the way the paper screamed in type yesterday over the fact that it had followed The Call and sent out special trains of its own. It filled so many columns with steaming and puffing descriptions of the trains that an unin- formed reader who chanced to see the paper would have thought no such feat had ever before been ac- complished by a newspaper in all the history of journalism. The Examiner was two days late in following The Call. Our special train service had impressed the public and ceased to be a wonder before the slow- going faker had found out that important item of local news. Not until the second day of our special service, when we published an announcement of it, did the Examiner know what was going on. Even at the present time it is not giving The Call the complete imitation that is needed to meet the emer- gency. The people demand special trains only for the sake of the news the trains bring, and since the Examiner has been threatened with prosecution for violating copyright and stealing news from The Call and the New York Herald it has been compelled-to get out Klondike editions, or devote whole columns of space to florid descriptions of its special trains in order to make a show of having any news at all. —— GREATER NEW YORK. HE experiment in city government known as T Greater New York is turning out very much as was anticipated by observing students of local government throughout the country. It was estimated prior to consolidation that the amount of money which would be required annually to con- duct the consolidated government would not exceed $75,000,000. Indeed, some of the enthusiastic advo- cates of the charter thought that the expenses could be brought down to $60,000,000. It is now found that the budget for the first year will be at least $100,000,000, and there is every prospect that when the greater city is placed in thorough working order a great deal more than this will be required. As in most experiments in municipal government something “new” has caused the increase. In the case of New York it is the borough system. While the charter creating the greater city was pending the borough system was regarded as the most wonder- ful ‘discovery of the age. The politicians solemnly reiterated that the only thing necessary to make the people of New York the happiest people on earth was the adoption of the borough system. Yet nearly all the department estimates made by the various heads of the new government show that many hun- dreds of thousands of dollars in addition to the com- bined sums expended on the different cities prior to consolidation will have to be spent in caring for them under the new dispensation. It is found, for instance, that the Health Depart- ment of the greater city, which it was thought would cost less than it cost under the old law, will require an expenditure of at least $350,000 more than was spent upon all the Health Departments of all the cities under the old system. This is caused by a multiplication of new offices and the general intro- duction of higher salaries. The charter merged the various park boards into a single organization. The new board is going to cost a-quarter of a million dollars more annually than its little predecessors. On the other hand all the departments want more engineers, more lawyers, more experts, higher salaries, more clerks and more money. The interesting thing about the entire ex- periment is that Boss Croker is spending the money through Mayor Van Wyck, and that gentleman is taking good care that none except loyal Tammany- ites get the offices. On the whole it may be said that the people of the greater city are in a fair way to be soon treated to a dose of “economical” gov- ernment which will last them for a long time. V0000000000000 06066060 @ YEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. 0000000000000000060@ The premature explosion of a shell in| a six-inch quick-firing gun on the Brit- ish gunboat Bouncer killed two and wounded six men. The accident occurred January 2, while the vessel was at gun practice near the Nore. Some seven or eight rounds had been fired, and on the weapon being again loaded the cartridge prematurely exploded from some cause yet unknown. As the breech had not been locked, and there being no resist- ance,. it flew open, the cartridge shell struck a petty officer and a seaman, Kkill- ing them on the spot, and the fire severe- ly burhed six other men around the gun. An inquiry into the accident was ordered the next day, the proceedings of which were held with closed doors, and its re- s\'lllu have not yet been made public. The Russians have taken out the Du Temple water-tube boiler of two torpedo ‘boats and will replace them with Yarrow straight tube boilers. The cause alleged is the rapld deterioration of the Du Tem- ple boiler tubes owing to inability of properly cleaning them out as they have curved ends at top and bottom. The British crulser Diadem, 11,00 tons, has completed her four hour trial under forced draught with satisfactory results. Steam was carried at 291 pounds; the revolutions were 116, air pressure only -3 inches, developing 15,861 horse power and a speed of 20.5 knots. The coal con- sumption was 19 pounds per horse power per hour. The British admiralty have ordered gas buoys laid in the roadsted of Spithead to Indicate the anchorage for ships of war. At Viadivostok a dock, 560 feet fin length; ninety feet wide and thirty feet of .water over the side, has just been completed. This dock was cut out of the solid rock, and has been under construc- tion about five years. The ponderous ice-breaker built in Denmark for use.at Vladivostok has proved its utility in breaking ice twenty- eight inches thick and progressing at the rate of three knots an hour. The prob- abilities are that the harbor can be kept open barring exceptionally severe win- ters, and the Russian Government has ordered two more ice-breakers. The Britsh cruiser Powerful did not develop any extraordinary speed during her recent voyage from Portsmouth to Shanghai. Her average speed did not exceed thirteen knots. On her last stage of the trip from Singapore to Shanghai the orders were to make the distance at the rate of twenty knots, but for some reason—sald to be due to condensers get- ting out of order—the cruiser averaged only thirteen and a half knots. The Spanish armored cruiser Cristobal Colon has just made a run from Cadiz to Geneva and averaged nineteen and five- eighths knots under natural draught. This ship is of practically the same de- sign and size as the Garibaldi recently dellvered to the Argentine Government, but the latter's speed under the same conditions as the Cristobal Colon has not exceeded eighteen and three-elghthsknots. The Spanish ship is 680 tons, and was purchagsed from Italy, taking her off the hands of the builders, as the Govern- ment was in: financlal straits. She was then named the Varese and rechristened when sold to Spain. The sister-ship Garibaldi, sold to the Argentine, was re- named San Martin. A BORDER PATRIOT'S OPINION Don't talk to me In that ‘Bout patriotism a bein’ Jest let that chestnutty idee lay Till it starves to death in yer cranky head! Don’t stand an’ holler About the dollar A bein’ the idol to which we krieel While we grind our honor beneath our heel, An’ say we think more o' the greenback rag Than we do of our Yankee Doodle flag! grumpy way lead! Jest stop yer unpatriotic. blow, < Fur I tell you, pard, an’ I say it slow, Sech-talk-don’t-go! Jest look at that incident t'other night When the pride o' the navy, the peerlees aine, With her steel sides shattered went out o’ sight An’ the rumor flew it was done by Spaln. Like a lightoin’ thrill, Or a 'lectric chill The news went scootin’ from east to west, An’ right on the altar of every breast The fires o’ loyalty flashed an' blazed, An’ hot-eyed men at the bulletins gazed An' got thelr teeth, while their breath come hof As a sulphur breath from the devil's pot, An’ they itched an’ twitched fur a chance to %o An’ prove their loyalty by a blow At the haughty foel It wa'n’t the loss o' the noble ship, It wa'n't the lives o' the gallant crew, That made men bite at their under lip An’ swear till the winter air was blue! ‘Twas the insult hurled At the flag unfurled * In regal pride in the Cuban air That roused the patriots everywhere To the mood fur a suddent scrap, an’ fed The loyal flames that you say are dead An' buried so deep ol' Gabriel’s trump 'D fail fur to start 'em on the jump! It's a lle, you chump! So don’t you talk in that sassy way ‘Bout loyalty seemin’ to mope an' lag, Fur it blazes up till there's hell to pay ‘When an insult's aimed at that good ol’ From coast to coast - There's a countless host O’ patriots feedin' the loyal fires That was built by our Revolution sires, n' a chip's on the shoulder of every one That 1s 0ld enough fur to pack a gun! Our loyalty dead? Say, pard, if I Had a’thought that way I'd go off an’ dle, Fur a man with them idees hasn't got No right on earth to a breathin’ spot In a country with patriotism fraught! That’s what —Denver Post. fihg! THE DIPLOMAT'S GREATEST PERIL, ‘Washington Post. The Dupuy de Lome episode serves to recall to mind the fact that the theft of confidential letters and papers is the one peril to which diplomats are exposed more than to any other. The entire Drey- fus affair is said to be based either on the theft of a letter from one of the em- bassies, or else on the tampering with a private letter passing between two for- elgn diplomats. Four years ago a clean sweep was made of all the French ser- vants of the English embassy at Paris, many of whom had been in the employ thereof for more than twenty years, ow- ing to Lord Dufferin’'s confidential old man servant, Noel, who had been with the Marquis for the major portion of his life, seeing one of the French servants opening the Embassador's dispatch box with a false key. A trap was set for him, and the same man was caught in the act of opening the box .and reading the contents by Mr. MacFerran, who was the Embassador's private secretary. The Germany embassy at Paris went through identically the same experience, and has now nothing but domestics of its own nationality, finding that either through g‘atrln!lem. or through love of g:fi:, rench servants always try to spy for the benefit of their own country upon their foreign masters. Every diplomat has in hig possession at one time or an- other confidential papers, the betrayal of which to the Government to which he is accredited is calculated to do irreparable injury. Yet the exgeflence of Lord Dut- ferin, as well as of many other equall; shrewd and clever envoys, shows how dif- ficult it is to shield against this peril. —_———— HOW WE PROGRESS. The bank clearings of twenty-two cities in the United States were 33 per cent greater in January, 1868, than they were in January, 1897; 30 per cent greater than they were in January, 1896: 31 per cent greater than in January, 1895, and 48 cent greater than in January, d yet there are purblind persons who see no outlook.—Minneapolis grosperlty in’ the ournal. . ———— ROOM FOR EXPANSION. Much more beet sugar is now made in the world than cane sugar. The making of the former. is a fast-growing industry. The United States as yet has made only comparatively Iittle beet sugar, but it is loa@oo0oo000000 awakening to the fact that the more than $100,000,000 it pays to other nations for sugar ought to go to its own people, and cfi!n l!uut as well as not.—Cleveland Plain ealer. COLLECTED IN - THE CORRIDORS A. E. Saxton, U. 8. A, Is at the Occi- dental. V. D. Black, a banker of Salinas, is. at the Palace. S. J. Skinner and wife of Chicago are at the Palace. De Lancey Stone of New York guest at the Lick. F. M. Mooers, the ploneer of Rands- burg, is at the Palace. 1. H. Parker of the Colfax Sentinel registered at the Grand. Rev. D. Alexander of New York is guest at the Occidental. Arthur Cox, a trader from Tahiti, registered at the Grand. ‘W. E. Baine, a wealthy mining man of El Verano, is at the Lick. State Senator E. C. Voorhies' is at the Palace from Sutter Creek. ‘W. F. Knox, the Sacramento lumber- man, Is staying at the Grand. M. J. Farrell, a mining man of Grass Valley, is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dunlap are regis- tered at the Palace from New York. President and Mrs. Dole have returned from Washington, and are at the Occi- dental. H. M. La Rue, the Sacramento Raflroad Commissfoner, is a guest at the Occi- dental. is a 1S a President Dole o O of Hawail seems o ANOTHER O to have the fac- o INTERNATIONAL o t¥ of belng able 0 pu s foot in O DISPUTE. © it on most all o O occasions. He 0000000000 traveled all the way from his island home to Washington to endeavor by his sophistry to mentally | trip the level-headed anti-annexationists | who compose the majority of the states- men at the nation’s capital, and failing in his attempt, returned to San Francisco, where he yesterday tried to square him- self by taking a fall. out of an inoffensive Englishman. Yesterday morning President Dole went out for a drive, accompanied by his sec- retary. They were in an open hack, and enjoyed immensely the mild breezes and warm sunshine, all the more for the pleasant contrast they afforded to the terrible frosts the two distinguished vis- itors have lately been experiencing in the East. So much were they impressed with the beauty of San Francisco’'s environs that when at last they were forced to return to the hotel they did so with much regret. Finally they arrived in front of the Oc- cidental, where Mr. Dole started to alight | just as Valentine Seasons, a loyal subject of her Majesty Victoria I, Queen of Great Britaln and Ireland and Empress of In- dia, was passing. Valentine has not been in this country long enough to forget his native traditions and customs, and had | his trousers rolled up to a point midway | between his ankle and knee. The trousers were large and baggy, and Mr. Dole, mis- taking one of their checks for a flag in | the pavement, placed his foot on it, with | the result that the sclon of a hundred earls measured his length on the pave- | ment. The secretary at once picked him | up, and expressing in the language of dip- lomacy his profound sorrow for the oc- currence, extended every courtesy in his | power to the unfortunate victim of the | disaster. Owing to the friendly relations | at present existing between England and Honolulu, it is not thought that any | serious complications will result from th incident, unless further investigatio proves that the accident was the result of | malice and was authorized by the Ha-| wallan Government. Mr. Seasons threatehs to bring the | matter to the attention of the English Government end insist that an indemnity | be exacted from the Hawaiians to com- | | pensate him for his loss of dignity and | the damage done to his unmentionables, which have been rendered utterly worth- | less through a large hole in their port quarter. Mr. Dole claims that the hole is not the result of the collision, but re- | sulted from spontaneous combustion, en- | gendered by the heat of the garments, | which were of the most vivid colors | known to the cloth market. | | H. D. Sautte and O. S. Richardson are | two business men of Pittsburg who ar- rived at the Palace last evening. C. F. Fitz W. Hall and Guy Cleve, two | wealthy young Englishmen traveling for pleasure, arrived in the city last evening | and went to the Occidental. B. Campbell, traffic manager of the O. | R. and N., is registered at the Palace | from Portland. He comes to attend to | the business of that road in this city, as | Mr. Connor, the local agent here, has | made arrangements. to leave the company | and accept the agency of the Panama Railway Company for the Pacific Coast. Stephen W. Roach, the youngest son of the famous shipbullder, John Roach, is | staying at the California. Mr. Roach, who is president of the Morgan Iron ‘Works of New York, is a great lover and patron of clean sport. He is a member | of several swell yacht and athletic clubs | and the owner of the Parthenia, one of the handsomest steam yachts in this| country. About seventy ladies and gentlemen, comprising the excursionists who have been making a tour of the country in the special train of six cars sent out by the Minneapolis Journal, arrived at the Palace yesterday from the southern part.| of the State, which they visited on their way from Mexico to San Francisco. The party, which is under the managément of A. W.. Warnock, one of the editorial | writers on the Journal, will only remain in this city until this evening, when they will leave for their homes in Minnesota. and an intimate O COME TRUE? © 144y friena of thy latter tells an o 0010 00 = DOI0N0 amusing story about the couple. It was confided to her by Mrs. Brown with a strict injunction to keep it a profound secret, but, woman- like, she told it to another lady friend, also with the understanding that secrecy should be maintained, and in that way the story became common property, and is now going the rounds among the friends of the popular married couple and causing no end of amusement. The story goes that Brown woke up one morning rather earlier than usual, and addressing himself to his better half, who had also awakened from her peaceful slumbers, informed her that he had just had a dream in which it seems that he had gone into a millinery store and pur- chased for his adored life partner a beau- tiful. $20 bonnet, incidentally telling her that it was a delicious dream of a bon- net, to which she sarcastically replied that most probably it was ‘“only a dream,” and the price had been to him a 0000000000 Mr. and Mrs. T. o O H. Brown are o DO O staying at a o DREAMS o downtown hotel, (] o find it this time,” and then she softly hummed the refrain of that tuneful song, “I Wonder if Dreams Come True.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MRS. BERRY-F. -H. B, Canvon, EI Dorado County. Mrs. Clarence Berry of Alaska mines fame, is not dead. ELKS—H. L. D., Yankee Hill, Cal There does not appear in the list of fra- ternal or secret societies the n:me ‘o( the Elks, but there is the kA % rotective Order of Hike, which has one grand lodge and 400 sub- ordinate lodges. CALIFORNIA TRUST COMPANY— Mrs. H. D. B, City. The C:Lllforn:a Company started in the sixties in g;:si‘rfl.ncigcoybecnme the National Gold Bank and Trust Company in 1872. The concern went into liquidation in 1880, and its affairs were wound up in 1883. AN OLD SONG—A correspondent wants to know where an old song in, which oc- cur the words s There is a fabled country ne’er seen by mortal eyes, Can be obtained. The verses were writ- ten about the New England States. AN AUTHOR ASKED FOR—A' corres- pondent wants to know who is the author of a poem in whicn are the following lines: Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage! THE BLAIRMORE—C. A. W., Vallejo. The British ship Blairmore was capsized in Mission Bay, San Francisco Harbor, April 9, 139%. Her master at that time was Captain Caw. She was owned by Thompson & Dickie, and is still owned by them. She has been repaired and put in a seaworthy condition. DRUIDS—H. E. P., City. The society now known as the United Ancient Order of Druids was organized in England in 1781. There was some dispute as to whether the order had been organized in the United States in 1833 or in 1839. The matter was investigated hy the historian for the New York World' Almanac and he discovered that the first grove in the United States was Instituted in New York in 1 CIRCULATING LIBRARY—H. L. D., Yankee Hill, Cal. Each circulating li- brary fixes its own rates. The expense of belonging tor such a library is the amount charged per month or quarter. In this city there are several, the principal ones being the Mechanics’ Institute Library and the Mercantile Library. A letter ad- dressed to the librarian of either or both will be answered by a circular stating terms. —_———— CONFLICTING LEGAL STYLES. A good anecdote is told of the two cele- brated barristers, Balfour and Erskine. Balfour's style was gorgeously verbose. Erskine's, on the contrary, was crisp and vigorous. Coming into court one day Erskine noticed that Balfour's ankle was bandaged. “Why, what's the matter?”’ asked Er- skine. Instead of replying, “I frell from a gate.”” Balfour answered in his usual ndabout manner: was taking a romantic ramble in my brother's garden,” he said, “and on coming to a gate I discovered that I had to climb over it, by which I came into contact with the first bar and grazed the epidermis of my leg, which has caused a slight extravasation of the blood.” “You may thank your lucky stars,’ 'said Erskine, “that your brother's gate Was not as lofty as your style, or you would have broken your neck.’—Pittsburg Dis- patch. ———————————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Most girls would rather you sneered at their parents than to insinuate that their hair is thin. The average woman can see a subtle meaning in the way 7-cent molasses runs t of a stone jug. ‘iden can bej contented without being appy, but it takes a vu;ioman to be happy vithout being contented. “The woman who marries a man to re- form him generally has a lot more chance than the woman who worrles him to re- form him. Haass When a woman has had such & disap nt that she won't do anything but Eg:n:l’:de chew candy she is said to be eat- eart out. 5 ms\"l:glhyou go into an old bachelor’'s room you generally see either a necktie holder or a fancy shaving paper which some girl has made him and which he has hung up on_the wall, thinking it was an ornament.—New York Press. ————— BORING FOR STEAM. The deepest well in the world will soon be completed near Pittsburg. It is now more than one mile deep, and when fin- ished it may reach down two miles into the earth. It is being bored in the in- terest of science. The object in pene- trating so decply is to determine just what the interior of the human footstool is like. It is the intention to continue the boring until something entirely new is developed. It has long been the the- ory that if 1t is possible to go deep enoug] some new geologic condition or econom! feature would be found to cxist. As the temperature increases the notion grows that the ‘natural steam” will be en- countered or the bottom will be so hot that cold water may be pumped down and superheated steam pumped up. But if the auger should melt?—Law Digest. —_— ce———— THE WORLD LOVES TO LAUGH. Publications like that story of the Lon- don Star, that the Klondike relief ex- pedition is another ‘“Jameson raid,” in- tended to secure control of that country, are welcome. They add to the gayety of nations and afford a pleasing relief from the monotonous current of news, in which it is so often impossible to distinguish between the true and false. If the Star prints any more such stories they should be cabled in full, regardless of expense. The world loves to laugh.—Philadelphia Ledger. R Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_———— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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President—She will do her work very well; but she had a suit made by my wife's dressmaker last week, which cost $7 more than the one that had just been finished for Mrs. Millyuns. Of course, the fool of a dressmaker had to blab it.— Cleveland Leader. hideous nightmare. Disdaining to notice the cruel reflection contained in that remark, Brown con- tinued to relate thaf in his dream he had ‘wished to surprise his dear devoted wife, and instead of ordering the bonnet de- livered. he had brought it home with him. He had laid it down somewhere, but to save his life he could not remem- ber the precise spot where he had placed the feminine headgear. He had looked in every room of the house, still dreaming, but was unsuccessful in his search, and concluded: “Mary, I was looking for the bonnet when I woke up.” Mrs. Brown looked at her husband with a merry twinkle In her eye, and innocently said: “Theo, suppose you go to sleep and lool for the bonnet once more, maybe you'll ADVERTISEMENTS. and healthfulness.