The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1898, Page 6

Call "MARCH 3, 188 ECKELS, Proprietor. THURSDAY . 1k JOHN' D. SPR s s el gesed address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Shsle plen e IR e b b PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...21T to 221 Stevenson strest Telephone Main 1874 YHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is 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... DAKLAND OFFICE .. Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building vee...One year, by mail. $1.50 ..908 Broadway 3 WASHINGTON (D. C, OFFICE Riggs House C. C. GARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. sorner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until | £3Z0 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open until 9:30 | c'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 930 o'clock | £W. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open untll | ¢ o'clock. - 2518 Misslon street: open until 9 o'clock iC6 Eleventh st: open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk streat cpen until 9:30 o'clock.. NW. corner Twenty-second ond Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. | AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—"Robin Hood.” Columbia— Shall We Forgive Her.” Alcazar—Faisé Shame.’ | ved From the Sea.” | Tivoll: Orphenm—Vaudeville: Bush—Thalta Germau-Hobrew Opera Co.. Sunday night. | Anditorium. Mason and E1Lis streets—Violin Recltal Saturday afternoon, March 12. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaitles. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeviile. Mechanics' Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition. Pacific Coast Jockey Clnb—Races at Ingleside to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Sullivan & Doyle—This day, March 3, Horses, Carriages, ete., at 1902 Mission street, at 11 o'clock. | By Madison & Burke—This day March 3, Real Estate, at 626 Markét street. at 12 o'clock. By G. H. Umbsen—NMonday, . Maro gomery sireet, at I3 o'clock. , Real Estate, at 14 Mont- A NATIONAL DISGRACE. HE Senators and Representatives who have Tsmrted for Cuba in the pay of a notorious and unclean. sheet would better be at Washing- ton trying to earn their salaries. The junket | is a disgraceful affair, and no participant can expect | to retain’ a hold on public respect. Even when selling | out, a Senator has been known to do it in a decently | dignified way. - In the present instance there can be | 110 ostensible: decency, and there is no element of dignity. Every one of the officials who shall con- tribute a line to-the paper “whose staff of fakers he | has joined will deserve to be forced out of public life He brings reproach upon the distinguished body of | which he has mistakenly been made a member, and if | the Senate has no power to expel him, at least his | resignation may be demanded from another source. BERKELEY ON EXHIBITION. the gentlemen chosen to rile the destinies of | Berkeley there is no denying that city has an ex- cellent nucleus for'a zoological exhibit worth going miles to see. The Trustées have decreed that anybody. desiring to give a dance must first secure their permission. Naturally no attention will be paid to a fool order of this sort, and the result will be that the places at which the ordinance is aimed will openly | defy it. The Trustees seem to think—if anything they may.do can be regarded as a mental process—that 2 respectable. citizen who wishes to entertain his friends may not permit waltzing in his parlor without | | al license. - Perhaps school children who take the liberty | of stepping in time to the music of the chance hand organ will find that they have violated the law and be haled howling to the calaboose. It is strange that if the musical ear of Berkeley is annoyed and jts moral tone endangered by nocturnal revels it can- not remedy the ill without making an unholy show of itself. A man’s house is his castle, even in Berke- Jey, and to darce therein until the plaster falls is his | inalienable privilege. 'Not only. this, but he would be false to his birthright if, when a minion of the law sought to interfere, he did not whack the nose of the | same and kick him clear across the lawn and into the highway. l fate of the ill-considered proposition on the part of the Supervisors to impose a special tax upon the use of premises extending beneath the sidewalks. The committee to' whom the matter was referred is reported to have decided to recommend that it be disposed of that way, and next to killing the scheme directly that is perhaps the best way of dealing with it. Had the proposed tax been imposed it would have been something unique in American municipalities, or at least among cities of anything like the rank of San Francisco. It would have been a distinction of which we would not have been proud, and, moreover, it would have been not only an unjust imposition upon a certain class of citizens, but would have been an unnecessary addition to the already cumbersome and complex system of municipal taxation. With respect to revenue and municipal expendi- ture San Francisco is now in a position where a penny saved is even more than a penny earned. We need not more revenues, but less wasteful expendi- tures. The Supervisors would do well to stop their search after subjects for taxation and seek a little more earnestly after some means for economically using the money they have. There is little need to dive down under the sidewalks to find something more to tax when in the open light of day on the strects and in the City Hall they can find ample cpportunities for reducing expenditures and saving 2 good deal more than the suggested tax would have brought in. Indefinite postponement is the proper fate for the proposed scheme, though we do not like to see the Supervisors indefinitely postpone anything. It seems to be getting a habit with them. There is the indefinite postponement of the construction of the Hall of Justice, for instance. If a new tax is required let one be imposed on every contractor for public work for each day that he exceeds the time called for by his contract for completing the work. That will speedily bring us either more revenues or better work. A WISE- CONCLUSION. NDEFINITE. postponement will probably be the The Pasadena crank who attacks every wheelman at whom he gets a chance has doubtless been em- bittered by an experience with a scorcher. Still this is no excuse for him. There are cyclers who do not merit a beating. The crank ought to be run over, not by a mere scorcher; but a locomotive. That the price of oil is rising presages a princely | addition to its territory. The constitution says that | division has proved best for both States, as their ter- | sion of the latter as a State in 1837 Wisconsin, under gift from Rockefeller to some institution which does wat need it HAWAIl COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. —~HE annexation press accompanied its recent '] announcement of the withdrawal of the treaty with the statement that such action will be fol- lowed by a joint resolution annexing Hawaii as a county to California. A constitutional study of this proposition is not without interest. In the fundamental law there is no authority given to Congress to- attach new territory to an existing State as a county thereof. Nor is there any authority given to a State to accept such no new State shall be formed within the jurisdiction of another State, nor shall a new State be formed by junction of two or more States or parts of States without the consent of the Legislature as well as of Congress. It was under this provision that the State of West Virginia was formed out of Virginia. But in that case a Legislature, recognized by Con- gress, in Virginia assented to the division. Much ill- feeling was caused by the manner in which that Leg- islature was organized, and the issue was one of the causes of great embitterment of the South against the Federal Government. It gave rise to the r:pudia- tion policy of old Virginia which put Senator Ma- hone for a time in power. But in the long run the ritory was delimited by a natural frontier and their | industrial destinies were on divergent lines. Congress may attach unorganized to organized | territory, as the territory now comprising Wisconsin and lowa was attached to Michigan. Oa the admis- the act of 1836, became separate territory. It is probable that under these precedents Hawaii could be attached to the territory of Alaska, but not to the State of California. The constitution of this | State bounds the territory which shall comprise the State of California. Congress has no authority to change that boundary, as it has none to amend the constitution of a State. It may amend the proposed constitution under which a State asks admission into | the Union and may change the proposed boundaries, as it did with the first constitution of Iowa in 1846, but then the Territory may refuse to enter the Union with the changed boundary, as Towa did. But after the State is admitted Congress loses power over its boundary, except in case of its division into two or more States, which may be by assent of its Legisla- ture, as in the Virginia case. But in no event does the constitution empower Congress to add to the ter- ritory of a State.or a State to accept such addition. Latitudinarians may make an argument, under the general welfare” clause, for creating the county of Hawaii, California. If they prevail and accomplish what is proposed, what will follow? The people of Hawaii, now on her soil, will become | citzens, not electors, of the United States, and under the Federal constitution “shall be entitled to all the | privileges 2nd immunities of citizens in the several | States.” The State of California cannot legislate against the right of any one in the county of Hawaii to change his residence to any other county in the State, nor can any other State exclude them from its jurisdic- tion. The State constitution forbids special legisla- tion against their choice of domicile in California, and the Federal constitution makes them free com- moners of the Union. { The 40,000 Asiatics in Hawaii County could come and go as they please. If this plan materialize it will become an issue in this year's campaign in California. Are the Repub- lican papers which favor annexation prepared to go | to the people with a proposition to add so heavily to our Asiatic population? Have we not national and State issues enough already to call for every energy of the Republican party in carrying this State next fall? The Call has opposed annexation for public and not partisan reasons, believing that service to the public interest is the best work for party. Annexa- tion in any form burdens the Republican party in the | coming campaign. As the treaty is dead, it should be the shroud of the whole proposition. THE POWER OF THE BOSS. R. H. J. B.-WRIGHT of San Jose, in an ad- D dress from which elaborate extracts were yes- | terday published in The Call, directed the attention of the voters of that city to the power exer- cised by the local political boss and the pernicious influence it has upon municipal affairs. The doctor gave specific instances where citizens having business relating to street and school work had been referred by Councilmen and by School Trustees to the boss for an answer. The officials in each case added: “Whatever is satisfactory to him will be satisfactory to me.” In the instances cited by Dr. Wright the business which thé citizens had with the Council and with the School Board was perfectly legitimate. There was nothing in either case which the officials might not have brought up and decided in open meeting. There was no taint of a job, no suggestion of boodle involved in either application. Still the officials did not feel free to act without the boss. His consent had to be obtained for the performance of legitimate duties as well as in matters that have to be kept dark for fear of exchanging a seat in the City Hall for a cell at San Quentin. It is a perplexing study to determine where the boss derives such powers as these. The development of his existence in American politics is one of the most extraordinary features of the times. As a rule power carries with it responsibility but the boss has no responsibility. Great service worthily done natur- ally gives the performer power in the community, but the boss renders no service. He has no power of office, nor of intellect, nor of wealth, nor of social position. Nevertheless he rules the free and restive people of the United States with apparent ease. It matters not to him which party triumphs, which fac- tion succeeds, what policies are voted up or down, what principles are sustained or rejected. Serene amid the clash of parties, undisturbed by the voies on election day, he holds on his way, and when the elect of the people are installed into office he appears be- fore them and calmly proceeds to dictate what they shall do. There have been some bosses in the country whose political power is partially explained by their zeal in promoting public improvements. Such men as Boss Shepard in Washington and Boss Tweed in New York, by undertaking great works and providing em- ployment for the people even while they tolerated and shared a general plunder of the taxpayers, per- formed something that appealed to the civic pride of the rich and the necessities of the poor; but the average boss does nothing of that kind. He gener- ally opposes public enterprises and municipal im- provements, does not care even to keep the streets clean or well lighted, and carries on every department of municipal government in the most shiftless wav possible, preferring generally to enrich himself and his creatures by a specics of petty larceny from funds I | periment now being tried in Greater New York. Al- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898 provided for routine werk rather than venture upon the big schemes of Shepard and of Tweed. Some light is thrown upon the problem by the statement in Dr. Wright's address that when the citi- zens referred to had in due form made application to the boss he granted their requests, but they were in- | formed, “Of course if we should need your help at | any time we should expect you to stand in with us.” The boss, it will be seen, gives nothing. Every fa- vor has to be paid for. The honest citizen cannot get legitimate business transacted without giving a| pledge to stand in on any job whea the boss wants him. Against this form of city government San Joseans are in revolt. They desire to have their municipal af- | fairs in the hands of responsible officials instead of | in that of an irresponsible boss. The fight they are making is a part of that widespread movement now sweeping over the whole country, which is destined tu give to boss domination in politics an end even more sudden than its rise. May their victory be com- plete. e ———— A LESSON FOR FREEHOLDERS. F HE Board of Frecholders engaged in preparing a charter for this city may, if they choose, obtain inspiration by studying the governmental ex- though the charter under which New York was con- solidated with Brooklyn and adjacent cities has been in operation only about two months, the people are already becoming tired of it. While the instrument was in course of preparation the politicians at Albany declared that an era of milk and honey would be ushered in the moment their work was finished. The project was carried through the Legislature mainly on the theory that it would cheapen and render effi- cient the old government with which nearly every- body was thoroughly disgusted. As things have turned out, however, the public has beengrossly deceived. Instead of having been cheapen- ed the government of Greater New York has been made more expensive than ever. In order to keep the ap- propriations down Mayor Van Wyck has been com- pelled to recommend that many offices created by the charter be not filled. It has been shown that the borough system, out of which the charter-makers de- clared that a heavenly government would surely pro- ceed, is going to cost many thousands of dollars more than was expended upon the local governments which it has displaced. Each of the five boroughs now comprising Greater New York has its president, with a salary of from $3000 to $5000 a year, and ac- cording to all accounts not one of them has a thing te do.” All the borough boards have engineers, secre- taries, clerks and superintendents in abundance. The salary roll thus created promises in the near future tc swamp the taxpayers. The cost of legislating for the new city has been increased enormously. The Municipal Assembly, consisting of eighty-nine members, has a salary roll of $173,000 per annum, which is double what it cost to maintain all the local councils displaced by it. Moreover, this assembly has no real autherity. Its time so far has been consumed in passing silly reso- lutions and granting permits for parades and boot- black stands. The real source of political power is | still at Albany, and the officials of the city for two | months have done nothing but suggest bills for the amelioration of the evils which are constantly being | developed as the charter is examined and enforced. | It is said that over one hundred amendments are | pending in the Legislature designed to change the charter and interfere with some local function. The | “larger measure of home rule” promised by the politicians who conceived consolidation is, therefore, | shown to be a farce. The source of all the trouble is said to be the fact | that the Charter Commission authorized to consoli- | date the municipal governments about Manhattan Island attempted to frame an entirely new system ofE government. The members of that body, as one Gotham paper remarks, “shut their eyes to the teach- ings of experience in municipal government the world over for the past half century and took the po- sition that the mere act of consolidation would so transform human nature that what had failed utterly | in the past would succeed here in the future.’” The commission abandoned simplicity and adopted com- plexity, set aside experience and adopted theory, flew from existing evils to others they knew not of, and croduced muddle and befuddlement everywhere. There is a lesson in all this for the local charter- makers. There is one thing the latter shouldever bear in mind: Constitutions and charters, like houses, come into being slowly. They are made by laying stone upon stone and brick upon brick and by carefully | measuring each corner and holding a plummet against each wall. A builder who abandoned ex- perience in constructing an edifice would be ac- counted crazy. Yet in making laws men unhesitat- ingly adopt the theories of cranks and regard the idle imaginings of politicians as the wisdom of the learned. The Flannelly murder trial is certain to attract in- terest. It is comparatively seldom that a man shoots his old father and then has the nerve to plead self- defense. However, if the prisoner can make out a good case there will be no course but to overlook an act due to circumstances which must have been pain- ful to him and hang him for the murder of an offi- cer, which occurred soon after. Perhaps a man who had been hanged for shooting an officer could make his later explanations with less embarrassment than if he had been thus treated for shedding the blood of | a parent. The public is willing that Flannelly be given every reasonable chance. Doubtless there are large quantities of gold in the far north, but nevertheless persons who are ready to guide prospectors to a place where each man can wash out $100 a day may excuse a credulous public for viewing them with suspicion. The natural im- pulse of a pOQSCSSDl’I of such knowledge would be to get a chance at the virgin field himself. However, perhaps the preference for securing gold ready | Munich, in Bavaria. minted is not surprising. Doctors in discussing the outbreak of fever along the Klondike trail have not managed to make public much information that was not already common property. But when they ascribe it to the activity of the micrococcus lanceolatus encapsulatus it must be admitted that they are telling something of which a portion of the community had been ignorant. If all the people who think they know all about the cause of the Maine's explosion could get their ideas on record the board of inquiry would accumu- late a mess of rubbish out of which there would be no possibility of drawing a conclusion. ~ Governor Bushnell’s idea of erecting a memorial monument upon the ruins of Morro Castle seems a little premature just now, but the time may come when it will be looked back to as having been al- most prophetic. Ernest Lent will appear both as violon- cello soloist and composer at the ninth symphony concert, March 24, at the Tivoll Opera House, as the management has selzed the opportunity of this well-known musician’s visit to California to engage him. Ernest Lent was born in Branden- burg, Germany. He studied at the Lelp- sic Conservatory under Reinecke, Klen- gel, Schroeder and others, and after graduating accepted a professorship at the Koenigsberger Conservatory. He soon made a tour through Northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden and after further work in Buda-Pesth and Switzerland came to lhfi§ country as a member of the Metro- politan Opera House Orchestra. For the last few years he has been the conductor of the Georgetown Orchestra and the La- dles’ String Orchestra of Washington, D. C. Among his published compositions are ' MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. sort of examlnation fs, however, that it must be cagicult for the director to know whether tie persori he Is engaging 1s really the singer who sang into the pho- nograph. To judge from newspaper reports a great composer has just been revealed in Sylvio Lazzari, a young man who has | had several compositions produced at a concert at the Casino, Monte Carlo. The works that the critics rave over most are | the prelude to his lyric drama *“‘Aemor,” a sufte in F, which has an especially | beautiful “scherzo,” tgo little choruses, | with harp accompanisient, “The Bird" and “In Spring” and a couple of songs, “Never More’” and ‘“Calmede la Nuit.” The Paris Figaro says of the young com- | poser: “This concert has shown us the very serious qualities possessed by Laz- | zarl. He has a very noble though rather | | - & ERNEST LENT. Who WI1ll Be Heard With the Symphony Orchestra. a trio for piano, violin and cello; cradle song and spinning song for piano, four hands; numerous plano solos and soprano songs, Dbesides a number of orchestral works, one of which, “Suite Erotique,” for strings, with horn and harp obligato, will | be performed by the Symphony Orches- | Mr. and Mrs. Lent are coming here | to visit Mrs. Lent's sister, who Is the wife of Professor Ross of Stanford University. | Mrs. Lent, who is a pupil of Moszkowskl, is sald to be a very fine planist. Baron Franchetti, the well-known Ital- fan-Jewish composer, has just secured a divorce from his wife, Margueret Levi, at' In order that the sentence may. also hold good in Italy, Franchetti has had all the evidence brought before the Court of Appeals at Modena. Franchetti is a many times mil- lionaire, with much more than the aver- age dilettante’s genius for music. His first opera that made any stir was *‘As- rael,” the first act of which is laid in hell and the second in heaven. The young composer spent a fortune in staging the work at La Scala, Milan. Celebrated painters were called into consultation, | and both the *paradiso” and *“inferno” | scenes surpassed in a scenic way any- thing that had ever been seen at La Scala. The ‘“hell” ballet was a dream of lurid magnificence, and the ‘‘paradiso’ was represented by a mammoth flight of golden stairs, half veiled in silk gauze, studded with glittering stars. The sing- ers were dressed like Dante Gabriel Ros- setti’'s angels, and had huge wings of real white ostrich feathers. Franchetti wanted to conduct “Asrael” himself. Facclo, the conductor of La Scala, refused to give up his baton, even to a millionaire, and a regular row ensued, which resulted in the triumph of Facclo. ‘‘Asrael,” which is very Wagnerian in its tendencies, had much more than a success of esteem. Since its production Franchetti has pro- duced a number of operas, with varying success. They have all shown undoubted talent, but have just fallen short of great- | ness. Not long ago he built himself a magnificent theater at one of his country houses that operatic works might be per- formed for his own amusement. It is said that the baron never loved Margue- ret Levi. In his student days at Dresden he fell passionately in love with a young American student of singing and pro- posed marrlage. His family would only | agree to the match on condition that the young lady embraced the Jewish faith. She refused to give up her own religion, and the young people parted. Later on he married to please his mother, who was a Rothschild. A singular scene took place the oth night at the Brunetti Theater in Bolog! during the performance of Puccini’s «“Manon Lescaut.” Bolis, the basso (Ger- onte), did not give popular satisfaction and the audlence let him know it with that frankness which is characteristic of Itallan audiences. Bolls, who expected quite a different sort of reception, lost his temper and running to the footlights shouted: “Good night” (Buona sera), and dashed off the stage. The audience grew indignant because he would not come back and the curtain was finally lowered. It happened that the chief of police was in the theater and he promptly went be- hind the scenes to remonstrate with the recalcitrant Bolis. Instead of showing the respect due to the chief's office Bolis gave the official a bit of his mind and defled ail the police of Bologna to make him go back on the stage. The climax to the controversy was that the chief ordered Bolls to be arrested and the basso spent the rest of the night in dur- ance vile. That the phonograph can be utilized in a hundred different ways is already well known, but the following story, vouched for by a Berlin newspaper, is certainly something new: Anna Lankow, a New York singing teacher, desired a short time ago to get some of her pupils to sing for the director of the Imperial Opera of Berlin. To send them from New York to the capital of Prussia, how- ever, on the mere chance of securing en- gagements would have been too costly a risk to run. Mrs. Lankow was not to be beaten, however, and she made each of her pupils sing an operatic selection into a phonograph and sent the cylinders to the director of the Berlin Opera. He in his turn presented the cylinders to the examining committee and two of the pupils have been engaged, so to speak, phonographicallv., The difficulty with this severe inspiration, a perfect command over the resources of his art, a praise- worthy tendency toward certain daring | innovations, a constant desire to strive | after what is new and good luck in find- | ing it, and above all, a perfect command | over the resources of the orchestra.” | 1t is remarkable how many long-haired critics and melomaniacs' cry out that Ttalian opera is dead and burfed and that German opera is the only music that will satisfy the masses. In spite of all their cries Italian opera continues to live and flourish. Hackneyed Itallan operas, as “La Traviata,” have paid better than | any others at the Metropolitan this sea- son, Walter Damrosch’s fame as a con- ductor of German opera notwithstanding, and in spite of the cry that Itallan opera 1s to be shelved at the next Covent Gar- den season, the latest news from London is to the effect that seven of the operas will be in German, seven in French and elght in Italian. The San Carlos. Opera-house at L.sbon boasts of a singer who is known as the “Tenor-Actor-Journalist-Novelist.” This universal genius. who bears the name of Gugliglmo Anastasi, Is meeting with im- mense success in his vocal capacity. His. triumph in “Andrea Chenier” was cut short by the Portuguese police, who ob- jected to the opera because it contains the “Marseillaise,” but the literary tenor, not to be daunted, has now become quite a popular idol in “Mario Wetter” and in Puccini’s “La Boheme."” Adelina. Patti has gone to San Remo, on the Riviera, accompanied by her maid, | two chambermalds, two footmen and her | head butler. She occupies a splendid suite of apartme..ts in the Royal Hotel, adjoining those occupied by the Princess | Trani. Patti is dressed in the deepest mournine. and recetves no one. T. e ru- mor at San Remo is that she will réemain in absolute seclusion for six weeks and that then she will probably go o Flor- ence. Nicolini left behind him a fortune of about a million—reckoned in iranes. In his will he divi..u the money between Patti and his three children by his first marriage; but Patt! has renounced her share of the wealth. Some of the foreign papers, notably Il Trovatore, critielze her for this, as they say Patti might have founded a home for destitute and aged artists with t.e money she herself did not need. A grand festival of Widor's works was given the other day at Lille, Belgium, with marked success, the composer con- ducting. The works especlally . praised were a Spanish overture and a concerto for violin and orchestra, the solo part of which was played by Delsart. Widor is practically unknown in this country, but his fame is very great in France and Bel- gium. Cremonini, the handsome tenor who was so popular at the Metropolitan Opera- house a year ago, has been giving himself so many airs in Buenos Ayres that an open rupture with his manager has en- sued. The tenor has retired from the company and the manager has sent in haste to Ttaly for Borgatti, another warbler of the Cremonini flk. “A Basso Porto,” an opera by Spinella, telling a low-lived Neapolitan tragedy, is booked for twenty opera-houses in Germany and Austria during the comiug season. The work has for some years met with great success in Italy. Mario Ancona, a barytone not unknown in this country, has been made a Knight of the Order dl Christo by the King of Portugal. Cesar Thomson, the Belgian violinist, is so {ll that he has had to ¢ancel his engagements. Marmontel, one of the best-known pianists in France, has just died in Paris. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EX-CHIEF CROWLEY—A. 8., Santa Monica, Cal. P. Crowley was chief of the San Francisco Police Department from 1866 to 1873 and again from 1880 to 1897. From his public expressions it appears that he approved the nomination of his successor. AGE—H. 8., City. When a man is be- tween the ages of 25 and 45 he Is spoken of as in the prime of life. Middle age i m. 35 to 45 gener applied to the time llotted span of three applied to a man fr 0ld age is generally of life beyond the a score and ten. A BACK DATE—W. C., City, The 3d of August, 1833, and the same. daté of. the month In 1§78, fell on Saturday. Gwin Mine, * Cala- If yau desire:to join ates send appli- the navy THE NAVY—P. veras County, Cal the navy of the United: St cation to the commandant of yard, Mare Island.. ° AN ANNI\«'ERS.ARY A.O.P., City. A person born upon the 29th of - February can, in the strict sense, celebrate an an- niversary of birth only once in four years, | but- as 190 will not be a leap year the party will have to wait until 104 to cele- brate the next anniversary. TORPEDOES—. M., City. - Captain David Bushnell' of. Connecticut, -in 1777, was the originator of .the idea of torpedo warfare, ‘but Robert Fulton, who lived at that time, . first . called a magazine of powder for use under water a torpedo. During the Revolutiohary war Captain Bushnell made several unsuccessful ex- periments with torpedoes and ‘what he did gave rise to the poem entitled “The Battle of the Kegs.” Fulton experimented abroad before the war of: 1812, but as there appeared to be-an opposition to that kind of warfare all efforts were stopped until the war’ of 1861-64, when torpedoes and submarine mines were used. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. J. E. Cane, U. 8. N., Occidental. Judge S. S. Holl of Sacramento is a guest at the Grand. W. B. Stevens Sr. is one of yesterday's arrivals at the Paiace. J - W. W. Willlams is registered at the Occidental from Spokane. E. C. Hahn, a ranch-owner of Liver- mgre, is staying at the Lick. F. D. Ryan, Distri¢t Attorney of Sacra- mento, Is a guest at the Grand. is a guest at the Officer Thomas 00000000DC o O Walsh, common- \ o BROUGT BACK o l.\;r known ’at “Fommy the 2 HER © ‘Thrush,” ‘Is the O |RISH HOME. © sweet singer of 4 O -the California- 0000000000 geet station, of whom people read in the daily papers whenever the musical guardians of the peace decide to give a concert. Tommy is third substitute, and stands by at all entertainments, in case any one of the regular singers should discover a leak in his pipes and be forced to retire. It would make no difference whether the incapac- ftated one should be the first temor or the third bass, as Thomas can siny _in one place quite as well as in another. Al- most any style of singing is his as long as it runs in the tender, sentimental or ballad line, but his strong suit is re- ligious music, and he can render that in a manner to move the heart of the un- speakable Turk. The other night Mr. Walsh was on his way home along Montgomery street when he was stopped by several gentlemen in front of the Occidental and. was told that they were having a dispute as to whether a certain tune was ‘“Tantum Ergo” or “Adeste Fideles,” and asked if he would kindly hum the latter to settle the ques- tion. Would Walsh hum it? Well, rather! He would do more than that. He would sing it for them as it ought to be sung. He threw out his chest, and while the enraptured audlence -stood - spellbound with admiration, went through the piece from beginning. to end. Just as he had finished an old woman emerged from out = the shadow of & neighboring doorw and said: “Sure, 'tis yerself thot's th bye fur swate singin'. Of hev not herrd the bate ave that cum-all-ye since Oi wor a lass an th' hills av Kerry. Wud ve moind givin’ -us wan more shmall touch agin?” Walsh stammered for. a moment, then, with a tace like a thuhder-cloud, he van- ished up the street. .He is now looking for the man ‘who put up the job, and the clerk on. California street wha wants to cross the bay has merely got to say to him, “‘Adeste Fideles.” Mr. and Mrs. T: J. Field have come % from Monterey, and. aré at the Palace. W. B. Simpgon and wife of Santa Rosa are at the California, on a short visit to the city. John H. Sheehan of Utlca. N. Y., is at the Palace. -He is accompanied by Mrs. Sheebhaa. A large. party of Raymond excursion- ists arrived in.the city yesterday and went to the Palace. Charles E. Frick, a capitalist of Phil- adelphia, s at the California with his wife and ‘daughter. 0000000000 - Aluncheon was o © - recently given at ° SOME o the Palace. One of the guests, a © AMPHIBIOUS. o gentleman . well o WIT. © known - for his o O wit, was invited, 0000000000 pyt was unavold- ably detained by an unexpected plece of business, and arrived rather late, coming in after the first two courses had been disposed of. He went up to make his excuses to tha hostess, who, after listening to him, said: “Why, that's all right, Mr. X.; but I'm sorry that you did not arrive a few min- utes. sooner, while the fish was being served. “We had some delicious whiting that was sent out to me from England, preserved by & new process, and I am sure you would have enjoyed it.” ““You are mistaken,” answered the gal- ‘Jant X.: “The only regret I have is for the moments of your society I have lost; and as for the whiting, it has always been my bete noir.” NEW YORK. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, March 2—D. Samuels of § San Francisco is at the Hoffman House. 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