The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1898. 6 3 | The £ | SATURDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. P T e e PUBLICATION OFFICE. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1888. { EDITORIAL ROOMS...........2I7T to 221 Stevenson street | Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)!s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. ..Room 188, World Building One vear, by mall, $1.50 ....908 Broadway WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House | €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until ©:30 o'clock. 62! MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock £W. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open untll € o'clock. 9518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk stree: cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cnd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwi; Californ ans. Troubadours. i—Th rpheum day night. cclalties. d Klondike Exposition. t Ingleside to-day. Park, this morning’ Park, 10-mOrrOW morning. AUCTION SALES. , February 2, Furniture, at Gallagher— Mor t ek { hursday March 3, Rea) Estate, at 628 TURN THE RASCALS OUT. ‘ g HE attempt of the Phelan Democracy at its rmcctn:c on Thursday evening to cast upon Boss Rainey the entire blame for the corrupt local government of the past year is quite certain to prove futile. The Democratic party as an entirety must be | held accountable for the “Shifs ght” in the Board | of Supervisors, the “Solid Nine” in the Board of Education and the general demoralization which has resulted all around from putting Democrats “on gvard.” Otherwise there is an end of party respon- sibility. Rainey can no more be held accountable for the corruption than Boss Phelan, Boss Sullivan or any other of the numerous bosses who sport tlre | Democratic label. | The truth of the matter is the Democratic party of this city, as at present organized, is incapable of giving us good government. The sign by which it | conquers is “the offices.” In this respect Mayor Phelan is no better than his followers. Upon the platform he talks statesmanship and reform glibly, but in the filthy pool he is nothing more nor less than a patronage grubber who would load down the muni- cipal payroll with his friends, supporters and rela- tives, and perhaps sell his soul for an office. If Mayoér | Phelan were as much of a statesman in politics as he is an intelligent gentleman in private life he would | recognize his system as utterly destructive of good | government and reform. No man who spends his | time creating and filling offices can ever do anything for the people. It is true that the Phelan Democracy, which no\v{ endeavors to make out that Rainey is responsible for | all the boodling which has lately taken place at the City Hall, has generally opposed the policy of the | “Solid Eight” and the “Solid Nine.” But it may be questioned whether this opposition has been due to | its inherent virtue. The fact probably is that Colonel | Sullivan and his politicians are now howling -for “good government” mainly because Boss Rainey has | had the offices for two years/ Had they controlled | the places dispensed by him they might now be apol- ogizing for “Cappun”/Delany’s combine and de- nouncing the Grand Jury for taking an unfair advan- tage of the angelic Waller. Among Democrats the offices are the source of all virtue. If Mayor Phelan’s| friends were drawing down the salaries paid at the City Hall undoubtedly this, in his eyes, would be a model government. The conclusion to be drawn, as we have already remarked, is that the Democrats are incompetent. What the people should do next autumn is not to appeal from | Phillip drunk to Phillip sober by dismissing Rainey Democrats and placing Phelan Democrats “on | guard,” but they should fire the whole crowd for cause. What the city wants is a clean Republican admin- istration throughout. A respectable Board of Super- visors, a decent Board of Education and a Republican | Mayor would soon straighten things out. A change from Democrats to Democrats will simply add to the *agony of misgovernment. | | i | | | There is no more reliable paper in the South than the Richmond Times. In a recent issue it remarks that the city of Richmond is making money by selling gas at $1. The gas is said to be of a quality pro- ducing light, visible to the naked eye. The statement is quoted not to cause anybody distress, but to assure local concerns that at $1 75 they can, by encouraging their agile meters, keep out of the poorhouse. There will be no objection to the bill of Boutelle to pay to the families of the men who diea as the Maine went down the salaries | which would have been earned during a year of s¢rvice. It is really a much better idea than to erect a monument, although there would be no objection to fthis| either if the funds were to be collected by clean hands. The proposition to ta‘_t bachelors in New Jersey excited some interest un’il the public realized that it was only a new way forf Charlotte Smith to make a fool of herself. The lacjy is under no obligation to thus exert the peculiar faculties which have won her fame. She is already made. R A cowboy regiment \\jo_uld make a great impression | in Cuba. A lot of hofses of the untamed variety | cowboys ride were sent to that island once and suc- | ceeded in making a lot of impressions just about the size of a soldier in repose. | There may be no danger of war, bur all the same it I is pleasing to observe that the Government is over- hauling the powder magazines throughout the coun- try and getting ready for the unexpected. Sy The gentleman who proposes to erect a fence 150 feet high should be firmly told that if he do so he will deserve to be kicked over it and football teams hired to practice on him. e It is strange that the representatives of Spain this country should have so generally consisted of voice and a gaudy, uniform. in b . Aan impression FOR ' IMMEDIATE RELIEF. ATRIOTIC sentiment and popular sympathy p for the familics of the brave sailors who per- ished at Havana with the destruction of the Maine will have in San Francisco an opportunity to manifest themselves in a form of practical charity next Monday evening at the entertainment arranged by the directors of the Mining Fair for the purpose of raising a fund for the relief of the stricken house- holds. The public will bear in mind that the money raised at the fair will be applied for the immediate relief of those for whom it is intended. Moreover, the entire net proceeds will go to the families of the dead sea- men of the Maine. There will be no 10 per cent rake-off for “wealthy men” who will agree for that consideration to undertake the collection of the money. Nor will the fund be kept indefinitely “in trust” until the persons designed by the public to be the beneficiaries 6f their charity are forced to sue the | trustees ‘for accounting and distribution. At a meeting of the committee appointed by Mr. Denicke to take full charge of the work of relief it was decided that the money raised should be given without delay to those for whom it was designed and for whose sake the people have been invited to contribute. This decision was reached after | an effort had been made to have the fund, or at least a portion of it, turned over to a self-constituted trus- tee for a monument enterprise or for some other pur- pose that would leave the money in trust for a long time. The determination of the committee was, therefore, well considered and is final. All the money raised will be devoted to thc relief of the families of the noble dead, and the relief will be immediate. The people of San Francisco can hardly need urg- ing to attend the fair on Monday evening and help te swell the fund designed for a purpose that appeals at once to the sentiment of patriotism and the in- stincts of humanity. The families of the heroic dead need help. Their strong support has been taken from them. The men who by their service on the Maine earned the honorable wages that maintained their loved ones at home have perished, The savings which a sailor’s family can store away are at best but small. To them, therefore, relief should be gen- erous and immediate. San Francisco leads the way in the performance of this public duty and her people are counted on to see to it that the sum raised will be worthy of the cause and the city. Let the date be remembered. Let the people get ready. All minor engagements should be put aside on Monday evening in order that the attendance may be large enough to fill Mechanics’ Pavilion to over- flowing with generous, loyal, charitable, patriotic people. True hearts should prompt willing hands to show the sympathy of action and liberality on an oc- casion of this kind. The appeal is for the immediate relief of the families of the American sailors who died at the post of duty. The response will show the ardor of our patriotism and the fervor of our sympathy. GOOD RAINS AT LAST. T last the rains have come, and, what is more, /\ they have come, it seems, in season for the 4 greater portion of the crops throughout the State. The fears of drought have vanished and every prospect now justifies the hope that the farmers and orchardists of the State will have good harvests to profit by the advancing prices caused by the general revival of industry in the manufacturing centers and the increased consuming power of the people. It would have been a calamity indeed to have a dry spring in California this year. After an almost rainless fall and winter a lack of rains between this time and the coming of summer would deprive the State of almost every advantage it has expected from the return of better times. As it is we can look to the future with sanguine expectation. The augmented demand for wheat, wool, cattle, hops, truit, rasins, wine and oil will find Californians in | the market with a bountiful supply. The benefits resulting from the rains will accrue, not to the rural districts only, but to the whole State. The stimulating effects of the refreshing showers will | be felt in business as well as in the fields. The throngs of Eastern people on their way to Alaska in passing through the State for the purpose of outfitting in San Francisco will see the whole commonwealth flourish- ing in the possession of present good and buoyant with expectations of the futu‘re“ Words of cheer come from all sections of the State where the rains have fallen, and the area has been a wide one. Santa Clara County reports: “The rain came in the nick of time. Orchardists are de- lighted, as well as ranchers and stockgrowers.” From the San Joaquin Valley comes the statement: “The crops are in splendid condition, and should two or three inches of rain result from this precipitation the harvest of grain will be immense.” From Napa, Woodland and Santa Cruz come similar reports, and only in the southern counties are there still to be heard expressions of doubt and anxiety concerning the crops in districts which lack the advantages of irrigation. As a whole the outlook for the State at present is decidedly bright. The long dry spell is broken and the rains promise to be ample to make sure the pros- perity of the people by harvests of a bountiful char- acter. — There has arisen a strange and unjustifiable habit of ridiculing the naval reserve. It would be fair to per- mit this organization at least to have a trial. The local organization makes a fine showing in times of peace, and when boats are to be manned a volunteer who has cultivated a pair of sea legs is certainly as valuable as one who has never smelt salt water, and in all probability more s¢ | i B Actor Ratcliffe is finding thg‘ way of the trans- gressor so hard that it must make him wish he had traveled some other. He is now being sued by two women for divofce and alimony and has to face the public opinion that each deserves more than she asks. — el Spain’s claim that the court of inquiry is discrim- inating against the accident theory is hardly borne out by reports reaching this country. And, strange as the fact may seem to Spain, this country is also in- terested. — gl While there is so much talk of Spain’s buying battleships there appears no good reason why the United States should not go into the market if ne- cessity arise and do a little bidding herself. It is said that Lee has not advised Americans to leave Cuba, and yet a really prudent American find- ing himself there would be apt to act as though he had received advice of this kind. The fact that England and Russia are so notably at peace that correspondents make a memorandum of it shows that each is yet uncertain whether it can lick the other. De Lome is said to be bitter. He leit that sort of S ! and an outsider can easily wish that it may become | in the subsequent events. It is shown that in Chicago THE OUTBREAK IN OAKLAND. T was natural and perhaps inevitable that the out- rageous water job perpetrated by the shameless six of the Oakland City Council should have re- suited in an outburst of public indignation that threat- enegd the summary punishment of ore of the betrayers of public trust. Official corruption tends to popular violence, as ex-President Harrison pointed ‘out on Washington’s birthday, and the only way to surely guard against the one is to remove the other. Popular outbreaks undoubtedly have an effect tending to check governmental wrongs. They frighten the perpetrators of corrupt acts and serve as a warning against repetitions of the offense. Not infrequently base men in office, who have been indif- ferent to the law, to reason, to justice, to honor and to decency, have halted in their course, retreated and yielded when confronted by an enraged community, threatening personal punishment and showing an in- clination to inflict it sternly and switly. Notwithstanding these things, however, a commun- ity loses more than it gains by such demonstrations of violence. In a country where government is of the people, for the people, by the people, there should ve in the law itself sufficient redress for any and all forms of wreng that may be committed. The people of Oakland should not forget that it was by their votes five of the shameless six were elected to office, and the remaining offender, appointed to office, would have been powerless for harm without the support of the elected gang. There seems a fair chance for Oakland to obtain redress for the wrong done her citizens by an appeal to law. If the result prove that the schemers have been cunning enough to carry out their outrage within the forms of law, then Oakland will have had an impressive lesson on the importance of electing honest men to office, and if her people profit by it the increased water rates of this yearwill be none too high a price to have paid for the benefits that will result. In the meantime the directors of the water com- panies and their tools in municipal offices would do well to give heed to the meaning of the popular out- burst in Oakland on Thursday night. Official cor- ruption in the interest of corporate greed has become a sore point with the American people. When so eminent a man as an ex-President of the United States, on an occasion so solemn as that of the anni- versary of the birth of the founder of the republic, makes that offense the subject of his speech and ad- dresses a stern warning to the offenders of the con- sequences of their offensive acts, it is time for even the most reckless wrongdoers to pause and consider. Water companies have been serious offenders against public morals in California. Even at the present time the water company of Los Angeles is threatening an act of spoliation worse, if possible, than that attempted at Oakland. The people have been irritated to the limit of endurance with respect to these offenses, and the significance of the outbreak of Thursday is a warning to all concerned to beware lest worse befall them. SHALL WOMEN PAY TAXES? PROPOSITION is before the Illinois Legisla- fl ture to exempt from taxation all property owned by women until woman suffrage is se- cured by an amendment to the constitution. It is put forward by the suffragists in the expectation that if it pass their prayer for the ballot will be speedily granted. A powerful movement is already behind it | the law for the sake of the instruction that would be alone there are ten of millions of dollars in property | standing in the names of women, and it is estimated that in the whole State such ownership of property is so large that the exemption will greatly reduce the amount derived from taxation and will make it ne- cessary to largely increase the assessment and levy upon all property that is in male ownership. It is expected, of course, that under this spur the men of the State will be positively tumultuous for woman suffrage. We leave out of the question whether exemption of property, not by its use but by its ownership, will | stand the judicial test, for we prefer to consider the movement as intended by its advocates, to advance the cause of woman suffrage. Is it true that it will incline all men to that cause? | Obviously it will not. Experience proves that | where there is an exemption of property from taxa- | tion, based on its ownership, the tendency is for prop- | erty to flow to the point of exemption. If church | and ecclesiastical property is exempt the church and ecclesiastical organization begin immediately the ac- quisition of property until its accumulation in their | ownership becomes a menace to the State. They accumulate because exemption from taxation enables them to pay a higher price than buyers whose own- ership is without such advantage. Therefore in Illi- nois the exempt class would finally*absorb all the property. Not.only has our sister woman specula- | tion in her eyes, but our brother man would imme- diately proceed to confer his estate upon her in a trust partnership profitable to both, and he would never vote for woman suffrage because it would de- stroy the profits of the trust. Nor would our wise | sister woman care for the shadow of suffrage when she enjoyed the substance of ownership exempt from taxation. Therefore, instead of a step toward suffrage this exemption would set against it the impassable | barrier of self-interest and the pride and profit of possessions. The State would find itself impoverished by holding on and at the same time be unable to let go, for men, being exempted by the new law, which enabled them to tie all property to the family apron- | string, would refuse to vote for its repeal. The State would be driven to support itself by occupation taxes, licenses, excises and those means of revenue which arise in the use of property and not in its ownership. This Illinois experiment is so original and interest- ing that those who are not to be affected by it should desire it tried for the sake of the lesson that is in it. ————— When the Vizcayastarted from New Yorkher course was got toward the bottom of the bay. The atten- tion of Spain is respectfully called to the fact. It illustrates the difference between being civilized and being something else. By means of a newly designed apparatus all the cows in a dairy can be milked at once, & vacuum tank being connected by pipes with air-tight pails near each animal, with flexible rubber tubes for at- tachment to the teats to draw the milk into the pails as soon as-the valves in the pipes are opened to ap- ply the suction of the vacuum tank. Express and mail cars are to be fitted with a new safeguard to prevent robbery, consisting of a trian- gular compartment set in the sfde of the car, with one end pivoted to allow the opposite side to swing outward a short distance and open the loop and sight holes through which a gun has a range along the side of the car. To do away with the rudders of ships a new steer- ing apparatus is being used, which will turn the boat around without the use of its propellers, a shaft | very competent and Intelligent men, be- being set across each end of the ship’s hull with small propellers at each end and power aplied to the center to revolve them and turn the boat EAD NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL, and you'll get a very good idea of how the perennial revolutions Republics. i President Gutierrezhas written toafriendinthis city that one is A “professional revolutionist’ city looking after the business interests of the forthcoming revolu- tion, and indirectly he tells how .it was born and how it is being ripening in his capital. developed. That's only one of the features in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. There’s a rattling good story about the rush of several compa- nies of United States troops to suppress what was reported to be a threatened Zuni uprising. It proved to deal of feeling has been aroused over it. ‘What the reputed witch did, how she was punished by the high priests of the tribe and daringly rescued by NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. The description of voice pictures and how to make them will more than repay you for the cost of the paper—5 you from a scientific and a good many other points of view. Then there’s a chance given you at ful picture {s made when Jessie Bartlett Davis of the Bostonians sings “O, As a contrast is the rugged picture made by the voice of Eu- bass shakes the instrument in one of his Promise Me.” gene Cowles famous songs. when his great Of course, you're taking a great deal of interest in the Maine disaster, and, like everybody else, you're eyes are centered on the wrecked vessel lying If the wreck affects people way off here 8o tre- mendously, how do you suppose it affects the everyday people engaged in everyday life in Havana? Red-handed revolution has stalked through the island for several years now, and Havana and its people have been threat~ in the bay before Havana. ened time and again. How do those same people employ themselves during all this excite« ment? How do they amuse themselves? Read NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL, and you'll find a graphic description of life in Havana as it is in the midst of all this hubbub, worry, excitement and death. Ice farming as conducted on the Truckee is an exceedingly lively and NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL tells all about the inter- busy life while it lasts. esting life of the hustling mountain ice and the very slick way in which he harvests his crop while the summer boarder is hibernating in ease and high hopes. The law recently proposed in Ohio marriage by physical examination has East and West. cans regard the problem. The disaster to the Maine has started people to talking about torpedoes. How they're used and the difficulties of using them, and a whole lot more is fully set forth in NEXT SUNDAY'S about torpedoes, CALL. big and little, Pages of graphic pictures and columns of interesting stories iy NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. FIVE CENTS————READ IT! BUY IT! Read in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL how some San Francis- are started in the Central American is in this be a Zuni “witch chase,” and a good a white woman is told in detall in cents. It's a fad that will interest the same time to see what a beauti- farmer, his terrors of a snowstorm by Assemblyman Parker to regulate caused a great deal of discussion THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT. | The Cuban Government I found to be working with just the same routine as any well-recognized government. Major- | General Bartolome Maso, the President of the Cuban republic, impressed me as be- | ing a very conscientious, energeticand in- | telligent man, and, above all things, a great patriot, and one who has the repu- tation of being one of the most honest men on the island. He was born in| Manzanillo in 1834, and took part in the insurrection of 1868 On the 24th of Feb- ruary, 1865, he left ‘Manzanillo, and has | been in the fleld ever since. He was elected Vice-President of the Cuban re- | public on September 18, 15%, and elected resident October 2, 1597. The Vice-President, Mendez Capote, 1s also an exceedingly bright and _clever | man, and is a great diplomat. He has | the rank of brigadier-general, and was | born in Cardenas, in the province of Ma- | tanzas. He holds the degrees of LL. D. | and Ph. D. from the University of Ha- vana, and is secretary of the Spanish- | American Light and Power Company, Consolidated, and was counsel for the rallroads of Havana. The members. of the cabinet are also longing to some of the best familiés in Cuba. The Secretary of War, Brigadier Jose B. Aleman, is ‘a native of Santa Clara, and is 34 years old. He is not only a planter, but the editor and owner | of La Defensa, a Liberal newspaper pub- lished in Santa Clara, and has served as Alderman of the Santa Clara Munici- pal Council. The Secretary of the Treasury, Colonel Ernesto Fons Sterling, was born in Ha- vana. He is 28 years old and belongs to one of the best families on the island. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, | Colonel Andres Moreno de la Torre, was born in Cardenas, in the province of Ma- tanzas. He is 38 years old and holds the degree of LL.D. He is the owner of a sugar plantation and 1s a well known law- yer of Havana and Cardenas. The Secretary of the Interior, Lieuten- ant-Colonel Manuel Raymond Silva, was born in Puerto Principe. He is 3) years old and holds the degree of doctor of medicine and is a well known physician in Puerto Principe.—Harper's Weekly. THE SECRET OF THE WATERS. Dead, down there in that tepld sea Where the sharks hold high thefr revelry, Some sailors have found a sallor's grave, Beneath the turmoil of wind and wave, Away from the battle of free and slave. Dead, and their ship is their winding sheet, Its folds of iron around them meet And hold them close in a cold embrace, That the hungry sharks may not displace, Dead are they, and the great white ship Has gone with them on their final trip; Together they rest down in the deep— Ah, me! will'the waters the secret keep ‘Which clasps in its hand the sunken Maine And Cuba's tD-mgrtgw,Lnnd the fate of Spain? in New York Sun. LAW AND. MATRIMONY. A correspondent has requested Law Notes to advise him how many women a man may marry at once without violat- ing any law. This being a mixed question of law and love, and our specialty being law, we feel some hesitation in express- ing our opinion. There seems to be no reason why he may not marry as many as will have hinh, provided the ceremony be not performed “in a Territory or other place over which the United States has exclusive jurisdiction.” The cariiest statute on the subject of olygamy (I. Jac. 1, c. 11) enacted “‘that Ft any person or persons within England and Wales, being married, or hereafter shall marry, do marry any person or per- sons, the former husband or wife being alive, each offense shall be felony.” The statutes 35 George 111, c 67, and 4 George 1, ¢. 11, have merely chanied the punish- ment (1 East P. C., 464). The statutes of the several States go no further, in terms, than to provide that no person “who has a former husband or wife liv- ing shall marry another.” Under these statutes 1t would seem that it was not unlawful for a single man to marry as many single women simultaneously as can place themselves within reach of his Voice and the voice of the preacher or officer performing the ceremony. It may be that a court to whom a ques- tion were presented would, by some -re- finements and subtleties, and by “consid- ering the intent of the Legislature,” and construction of the statute “according ‘o its spirit,”” etc., devise some means by which to interrupt the wild career of con- jugal feliclty which dur correspondent gromles and send him to jail, but Law otes, construing the statutes as all penal statutes should be construed, strictly, sees | ready married, in ignorance of the pre- | who hereafter simultaneously, or on the | William T. Cushing. no offense in the multifarious marriage which he has in mind. We feel indisposed to extend the language of the Legisla- ture so as to make it include cases not embraced in its terms. It is not unrea- sonable to presume that the Legisla intended merely to protect innocent and unwary persons from marrying others al- vious marriage, and to prevent wives and husbands from deserting their consorts | for others. We do not know that the Legislature intended to prevent a man from marrying more than one woman simultaneously, when it could so easily and in such few words have said so. This position finds strength in the fact that the Edmunds act (act Con. March 22, 1882), declares expressly, in addition to the usual provision, that *“any man same day, marries more than one woman, in a Territory or other place over which the United States has exclusive jurisdic- tion, is guilty of polygamy,” thereby rec- ognizing that the usual provision does not meet the case in question.—Law Notes. —_——— SIGSBEE'S GREATEST GLORY. The Army and Navy Journal in its last issue, commenting upon the Maine disaster, says of Captain Sigsbee: “‘Again has the country received proof of the character of the men who com- | mand our navy. Could there be a more severe test of a man's quality than that to which Captain Sigsbee was subjected? How well he met it is shown by his first dispatch, in which he counseled a sus- pension of judgment as to the cause of the calamity.. It Is those who suffer most from this disaster—who are best able to Jjudge of its full extent and appalling sig- nificance—who have been the most.-calm and collected, and who have done the most to restrain hysterical utterances and to prove to the world that Americans may always be depended upon to show in the presence of a great emergency the calm- ness of true courage; the reservation of an invincible resolution which can wait ;x‘mu the proper time comes for its ac- on. “It is a gallant action to blow up the enemy’s warship in time of war as did It is an equally gallant action to stay by your own ship after she had been biown up, amid dead- 1y peril of more explosions, until your men are off; and it argues even a higher and nobler gallantry to stand between this awful experience and an imminent Sutbreak of popular frenzy and by cool, brave counsel avert the greater calam- ity. This did Charles D. Sigsbee. No man ever better earned the thanks of Congress. His country already thanks him and is proud of him.” ———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ST. MICHAEL—S.,, F. and others. There are a number of comparties that are or shortly will be engaged lnl the v of passengers from this city to §?r rn’d‘i:fiael gnd otggr points north. The announcements of such companies will be found in The Call in the advertising ‘tment. de}g:rms.l will leave for St. Michael until the latter part of March or the early part of April. SECOND PAPERS-J. 8. D., City. It at thé time you made your declaration to become ‘a citizen of the United States you said that your name was John Doe and were known as such at that time, you will have, on applying for your sec- ond papers, to obtain them under that name and be identified as ‘the party named in the first paper, and the ident{- fication will be necessary, as, since you made the declaration, you have parted vour name in the middle by the use of the nitial 8. If the officers who issue sec- ond or final papers are sticklers you will probably have to file a new; ol b L and then walt the allotted time before the second papers can be issued.’ RIVERS—G. O. B., City. It is impos- sible to glve the exact measurement of the great rivers of the world, for the rea- son that no measurements have been taken and all flgures are estimates. “Which is the longest single: world?” is a question that swered, for there Is not a riyer that at some point or another is n ed by a tributary; but if by the question is mezm. ‘Which is the longest river in the world having one name?’ then the azon is entitied to that claim. It is estimated that its length is 3750 miles. 'There_are some who set up the claim for the Mis- sissippl; but upon examination | that the Mississippi pro }r:glwlflr: source to where it joins the Missouri Is, it is estimated, 3200 miles; from there to the ocean is about 1200 miles. The Mis- COLLECTED IN. THE. CORRIDORS I P. Ware, U. 8. A, is at the Cali- fornia. J. H. la Holcome, U. S. N., is at the Oc- cidental. A. L. Foster is at the Palace from Hart- ford, Conn. 3 S. E. Holden, the Napa banker, 1s at the Grand. Lieutenant J. J. Bradley, U. S. A., is at the Occldental. C. L. Ruggles of the Stockton Independ- ent is at the Grand. W. 8. Patter, a Colorado mining man, is a guest at the Lick. W. E. Richards is registered at the Lick from Nevada City. A. O. Petersorff, the Bakersfleld wine- grower, is at the California. C. H. Burs of Chicago is registered at the Occidental with his wife. J. Warren Green of Brooklyn, N. Y., ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. David M. Ellis arrived at the Occidental last evening from Philadelphia. . 'W. Murphy, the millionaire rancher of San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. Jessle Bartlett oo 918080190 0.0 O Daviag at pres- ent playing with 2 o (AH g the Bostonians, o CHILDIS was the recip- o HEART. O jent of a very I pretty compli- 0000000000 pentlast Thurs- day night from oné of her juve- nile admirers in Los Angeles. Mrs. Davis seems to have the faculty of mak- ing children her friends, so when Mr. Morgenstern, the cashier of the Bald- win, received the following letter with a twenty-dollar bill inclosed he was not as astonished as he would have been were he not acquainted with the unusual influence the pretty singer exercises over the little people: Los Angeles, Feb. 21, 1898. Friend Louls: When the Bostonians were here my little daughter, Helen, went to the matinee and fell head over heels in love with Mrs. Davis, and will give me no rest until I have some flowers sent to her. If you will have the inclosed money invested in some nice flowers and sent to Mrs. Davis (Jessle Bartiett Davis) with the inclosed card you will greatly oblige me. She will know who they are from. Yours truly. A. C. JONES. Mr, Morgenstern did as requested and the floral plece that went over the foot- lights was one of the finest that have been received since the company has been on the coast. F. A. Gray 1s registered at the Grand from his country home at Ben Lomond. Frank Brown, ex-Governor of Mary- 1 1and, s registered at the Palace from Baltimore. Colonel Forsyth has come down to the city from his home in Fresno and is at the Occidental. Sheriff W. B. Johnson of Riverside and Rev. W. D. Nichols of Palo Alto are both guests at the Grand. ‘William F. Holden has gone East on a business trip that will keep him in Chi- cago for the better part of March. Mr. Charles A. Pillsbury, a large wheat man of Minneapolis, is at the Palace, where he will remain for the next two weeks. Judge C. C. Bush of Redding is at the Palace. The Judge, who has always been one of the strongest supporters of the Re- publican party in his section of the coun- try, did most effective work in the nom- ination of Blaine in 1884, He will remain here for some days. © GOOD TIME. o 0000000000 at ending.” nzrfiog ‘was gsntlng on the sidewalk In front of the Lick, when a clgar butt thrown from one of the windows of the hotel fell, striking him on the head. He started up with a mad yelp of affright and ran full tilt into the legs of a stout old gentleman who was coming hurried- ly along, upsetting him completely. The old gentleman used violent language and picking himself up grabbed a small boy, who was standing by laughing ot his discomfiture, and proceeded to box his ears while reading him a lecture on the respect due from youth to age. Two express wagons stopped to see the fun and when it was over and they started to drive away their wheels became en- tangled. The drivers, after abusing each other like a couple of drunken pirates, climbed down off their wagons, In re- sponse to mutual invitations, and a rough and tumble was soon In’ full swing. An jmmense crowd gathered, two policemen appeared on the scene and took charge of the belligerent drivers, while a wo- man, who got mixed up in the crowd and who had fainted with fright and ex- citement, was taken into a neighboring drug store and treated for hysteria. The dog was the only one coanected withthe whole performance which did not suffer in some way or other. He dis- appeared at the inception of the trou- ble and was not seen again until every- thing had quleted down, when he was noticed standing on the corner and quiet- 1y smiling to himself as if he had some good joke that was all his own. of the old adage, “a small begin- ning often makes 0000000000 The following o O sequenca of ° A o events that tgr-k DO place yesterday 2 G-GONE g are fllustrative o Salted Almonds, 50c 1b; Townsend's. * —_———— Horehound Candy, 15¢c 1b; Townsend's. * —_——— The most nutritious food for Alaska is Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits; will keep in any elimate; 50c ™. 627 Palace Hotel. * B s a— Bpecial Information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———— Mrs. Bradley Martin has the finest col- lection of diamonds in America. She has ‘whole ropes of them, each stone almost as large as a filbert and as clear as a dew- drop. 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