The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAKCH 11, 1898. IDAY 35 ....MARCH 11, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor S Aiess ARG munications VKE Manager. { Address All Communications to W. S. LEA! ..Market and Thir Main 1868. 217 to 221 Stevenson Stree! Main 1874, PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone EDITORIAL ROOMS. Tele; THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month | | publishing | talking about it making it news, in the twenty-four !THE FAKED RAMPOLLA INTERVIEW. HE public does not always discriminate be- Th\'een what a daily paper may publish as news and what it manufactures out of whole cloth. | A morning paper, connected by wire with every con- | siderable city on the planet, as it is, is warranted in what the world has talked about, the hours that pass between each issue. All events talked about by the people of every nation may not turn out to have been true, but they are al- | ways matters of public interest because they were talked about. The fact that they were passed from mouth to mouth is true, and 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...... ...Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market i street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o’clock. !5!8] Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. ———— AMUSEMENTS. ......One year, by mall, $1.50 | ......908 Broadway | Baldwin—* Robin Hood." Columbdia—Primrose and West's Minstrels. California—" Town Topics,” Sunday night. Aleazar—+A Gllaed Fool. Morosco's—"The Woman in Black" Tivoli—*The Geisha." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speclaltles. Auditorfum, Mason and Ellis streets—Violin Recital to-mor- | row afternoon. Metropolitan Temple—Lecture on Phrenology. Monday night. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. LEASING PUBLIC UTILITIES. California Jockey Club, Oakland—Races to-day. MORNING contemporary expresses the hope | /L\ that if the Freeholders retain in their charter | the provision already adopted relating to the acquisition of “public utilities” by the people they | will consider the propriety of amending it so that in | case the people find it unprofitable to manage thei~ “utilities” afterward they may lease them. Concern- ing the abstract sense of this hope it is unnecessary to speak. Ordinarily a business man who owns property, which he cannot make profitable esteems | the privilege of leasing to some one better qualified to kandle it than himself as of consi ble value, urd we know of no sound reason why this privilege would not be valuable if conferred upon the people in their aggregate capacity. But the chief objection to making provision for | leasing the “public utilities” which are to be acquired under the proposed charter is that any such arrange- ment will be entirely useless. Is our contemporary so silly as to believe that the politicians of this city would ever relinquish the management of a “public utility”? Did it ever hear of a good thing which | these gentlemen turned over to anybody else? Doubtless the County Clerk’s office, the Street De- | partment, or, in fact, any other purely administrative bureau of the city government, could be managed for half what it now costs to conduct them were they leased to an individual or a corporation. What would the politicians say, however, were our contemporary to propose in cold blood that these departments should be leased? So long as the “public utilities” of this city con- | tinue profitable there is little likelihood that the peo- | ple will care to purchase them. Elections may be called for the purpose of acquiring them, but the propositions submitted will be rejected while divi- dends continue in sight. But if the charter is adopted the moment the street car lines, the gas and water plants and the telephone system cease to pay, a great agitation will be set on foot to sell them to the people. The people do not always understand, | or try to understand, the schemes of the politicians to | fleece them, and therefore it is not at all improbable that when this time arrives a “utility” or two will be packed off upon the municipality. | The fact that it is a poor “utility” indeed which ,will not yield a lot of patronage renders any further | bother about managing it entirely irrelevant. The leasing of the Philadelphia gas plant, and to which our contemporary refers, was an unusual occurrence. Evidently some one stole a march on the politicians | in that case, or perhaps they were asleep. At all events, the howl of “fraud” which has followed the action of the Council indicates that an unfair advan- tage was taken of the bosses. It is always easy to imagine the history of “public utilities” in the hands of the politicians. The first thing to be done after one of them is acquired is to increase salaries all around. Then it is in order to divide up the work. Two men under the Govern- ment cannot render as much service as one in private employment. Finally, to get the utility in such a shape as to constitute it 2 potent force in elections is highly desirable. Such a thing as making it pay never occurs to anybody, for are not the taxpayers rich and able to have their business conducted as it | should be conducted? We are of opinion that our contemporary’s sugges- tion is out of order. Leasing a public utility in this city would be impossible, and therefore no such pro- vision need be placed in the charter. Our bosses cannot be fooled as those in Philadelphia have been. e e — Chicago's energetic Mayor announces that if the street railway companies there succeed in electing a City Council subservient to their interests he will eat his hat. It is not altogether clear what, beyond the destruction of the hat, would be accomplished by this, and yet the spectacle would be worth witnessing and the occasion ought to be made a gala day. The prospects that the Mayor will have an opportunity to adopt the peculiar diet hé suggests are excellent. It js not known that the Yerkes gang is weaker than it has been during all the years it has owned the town. Tt therefore behooves the Mayor to choose a hat which will the least interfere with his digestive pro- cesses. — San Jose has a practical joker who should be iso- Jated as rigorously as a case of smallpox. His latest burst of humor was to pour gasoline in the shoe of a friend and set it on fire, the foot being in the shoe at the same time. It is not too much to say that this form of merriment is reprehensible. When the friend has recovered he ought to get a new shoe, a heavy one, and apply it to the jester. Captain Eulate has vindicated his right to be called a gentleman. The neat and effective way in which he kicked from his ship a Spaniard whom he had heard insult the United States commends him to fa- vor. Spain with more Eulates and fewer Weylers would escape the trying experience of being always in hot water and the danger of being blown even out of that. The Redlands Citrograph says a graceful word of praise for the Mission zoo, thus living up to the kindly rule of saying naught but good of the dead. | in inducing the person interviewed to enlarge | opinions in its columns. the press has, in a majority of instances, no time nor opportuhity to trace the talk to its source and verify it. These conditions are always present in a time of high excitement and potent passion like the blowing up of the warship Maine. The press gathered from the talk of men what they were saying about it. The | intensity and interest of what they said was in pro- portion to their nearness to the scene, and the reader is expected to appreciate this and discount it to the percentage justified by his own coolness of judg- ment. But all these conditions disappear as we approach the newspaper interview. An interview is the result of deliberation. The paper desires an interview with an individual upon a subject of passing or of perma- nent interest. It sends its representative to seek the | interview. It is to be published, to influence opinion and thought in proportion to the importance and po- sition of the person interviewed. The paper’s share the transaction is what it gains by its enterprise his The readers do not always, however, discriminate between the kinds of responsibility assumed by the paper in publishing what people are saying publicly and generally about events and what an individual | says in a deliberately sought interview. This failure | to discriminate has promoted the vice of the faked or false interview which has become a specialty in Hearst's two papers, the New York Journal and the Examiner. He procured the forging of the letter from Mme. Dreyfus and of many other faked and forged per- sonal communications. His latest performance was the faking of an interview with Rampolla, the Papal Secretary of State at Rome, on Spanish and Ameri- can affairs. This interview was printed with the usual froth and flourish of yellow journalism and boasts of enterprise in getting what amounted to an expression of the Pope's personal views upon an in- ternational question of the highest interest. It was accepted by the few who believe in Hearst as a stroke | of stupendous enterprise. But now, ten days later, comes Rampolla, in a let- ter to Prime Minister Sagasta at Madrid, denying that such interview was ever given or sought, de- | nying that Hearst’s representative ever entered the Vatican on such an errand and denouncing the in- terview as a lie from end to end. To a person of any sensibility, with a fraction of | the qualities that make up a gentleman, such an ex- posure in the arts of a liar and sneak would be a | blow followed by excuse, confession and apology. Not so with Hearst. He is proud to have been proved a liar by the Pope. His perverted instincts | accept it as an honor to have been proved a black- guard by the Vatican. It is the only advertisement he could get from that quarter, and the disgrace of it is quite lost in perverted pride at his achievement of any notice. Nevertheless his offense is most indecent. Leo XIII holds a position in the world’s affairs that is not all due to his headship of the world’s most ven- erable and enduring institution. His Christian cour- tesy and politeness, which have been saluted alike by. Czar and Sultan, are personal qualities among those that mark him as a man of genius and a primate among the world’s intellectual factors. Surely it is an insult to all fair-minded men when Hearst invades the distinguished seclusion of such a Pope to parade a faked interview with his chief confidential officer and publish falsely views that were never uttered in a conference that was never held. Such a thing is not journalism. Tt is crime and of a nature that might lead to the saddest of conse- quences. But in Hearst's view such considerations do not weigh against the chance to sell a few papers by lying and to boast of an enterprise that exists only in faking falsehoods. After these exhibitions of hardened vice what con- fidence can be put in his dealings with lesser subjects affecting a smaller circle of interests and individuals of less note in the world but with the same right to protection against a lying publication that belongs to the Pope? THE OMAHA EXPOSITION. O which will serve the double purpose of show- ing what the Mississippi and Missouri valley States have accomplished and of stimulating the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States to make a | similar exposition of their resources and industries. The prospects are that each of these purposes will be fully achieved. The valley States will make a splen- did demonstration of the work of their people, and the Western section of the Union will receive an ob- ject lesson in the value of such enterprises which will prompt its people to imitate the energy of the Nebraskans and eclipse their accomplishment. In one sense the Omaha exposition, like all others of its class, is designed to afford an opportunity for an exhibit of the products of all nations, and this design will of course be carried out to a greater or less extent, Certainly all the States of the will have considerable exhibitions there, and most | of the nations of Europe will be represented in some forms of their industry. Nevertheless it will be vir- tually a Mississippi Valley exposition. Nebraska and the surrounding States will have the attention of investors and home-seckers while the exposition is going on. Visitors will see what opportunities are offered in Omaha and the region round about it for trade and industry, and these opportunities will con- | stitute the most important exhibit of the fair. The States of the West can show many of their products and specimens of their resources at Omaha, and from them considerable profit will be derived; but the only way by which to show the West as a | whole, or even an important section of it, is to hold an exposition in the West and bring home-seekers | and investors out to see the country itseli. What we could send East, if we exerted all our energies to that end, would be but a fraction of what we can show to those who would come to San Francisco. We can- not take the West to the people of the East; we | must bring them to the West. ‘What Omaha can accomplish San Francisco can eclipse if she exerts herseli. What the States around Nebraska can do the States allied with California by geography and history can surpass. The coming ex- position of the Golden West ought to far exceed in every way what will be achieved by the trans- Mississippi exposition. MAHA will open on June 1 an exposition Union | it will, therefore, be worthJSeaion-' our while to study the Omaha exposition closely so as to be able to profit by every lesson it teaches. It promises to be one of the most notable expositions ever held in a city of the class of Omaha in any por- tion of the world. The model will be an excellent one and can hardly fail to rouse Western emulation to active efforts at achieving greater things in the proposed exhibit of 1900. e ——— /E\ litical _campaign isto beginmuch earlier this year than is customary when there is no Presiden- AN EARLY CAMPAIGN. - tial election to engage the attention of the people. In the Eastern States evidences of activity are notable among the leaders of all parties, and the activity is not of a factitious character, for popular interest in the approaching contest is much greater than is usual so far in advance of the time for holding con- ventions and nominating candidates. Among the events likely to hasten the opening of the campaign is the expected early adjournment of Congress. The business of both the House and the Senate is so well advanced that the prospects are this will be one of the shortest on record of what are known as the “long sessions” of Congress. As soon as the Congressmen get back to their constituents and set about repairing their fences the struggle will commence in earnest. The people seem to be as eager for the contest as | the most ardent politician. In all sections of the Union political discussions are beginning to be heard. Men are announcing their choice of candi- | dates for various offices, and not a few aspirants frankly announce themselves as candidates. All these | things point to the conclusion that the opposing parties are desirous of hastening the issue as much as possible, and the leaders will not have much to do to start the campaign and set it rolling rapidly almost as early this year as if a Presidential election were in sight. In this condition of the popular mind and with | such prospects before them the leaders and organ- izers of the Republican party in California should at once set about the task of forming clubs and bring- ing the full membership of the party into close rela- | tionship with its organization. This Is to be a peo- ple’s year in this State. Any attempt to run machine politics or to carry a slate made up by bosses to suc- cess at the polls will be defeated almost to a cer- tainty. It is therefore a matter of great importance to get the rank and file of the Republican party or- ganized so that the members can act with effective- | ness in determining the course to be pursued in all | nominating conventions. If this is not done the | campaign will be one of hazard, but if carried out victory will be virtually assured. This, then, is the situation that confronts Repub- licanism in California. An early organization and a free and fair field for all candidates with an untram- meled expression of the choice of the rank and file will mean victory for all that Republicanism stands for. It will redeem several Congressional districts in the State now represented by Democrats or Populists. It will assure California for sound money and protection. Any delay in organization, any at- tempt at boss dictation or at any sort of a cut and dried programme arranged by a clique will endanger everything and may lose the State and even some of the Congressional districts now in the hands of Re- publicans. The duty of the hour therefore is or- ganization. Let the party leaders see to it. ———— LL signs point to the conclusion that the po- THE LESSON OF THE CRISIS. fl MERICANS of all parties are Justly gratified with the swift action of Congress in passing the bill appropriating $50,000,000 to provide for national defense, and are also well pleased in the consciousness that President McKinley deserves the confidence reposed in him and will make prompt and cffective use of the money in preparing the nation to meet the emergency of war if it should arise. There is one aspect of the vote, however, which is by no means pleasing, and that aspect discloses itself the moment the people begin to consider why the vote was. necessary. It is generally understood that in case war breaks out a very large portion of the amount will be expended in purchasing warships. In fact the reports are that Commander Brownson has gone to Europe for the express purpose of making ar- rangements for the purchase of ships in case such action should be necessary, and the estimates are that upward of $20,000,000 may be expended in that way. : 1f we have to make this hasty vote of $50,000,000 and hurry an official abroad to negotiate for war- ships because of a possible war with a nation so weak as Spain, it is easy to see what would have happened had we been involved in a war with England over the Venezuelan question when Cleveland sent forth his startling ultimatum on the subject. To have pre- pared ourselves in a sudden emergency to withstand | the matchless navy of that ruler of the seas we would have had to buy half the warships on the globe. The moral of the situation is plain. The United States should have a navy sufficient to meet any pos- sible emergency without having to rush in hot haste to buy ships from foreign countries after the emer- gency arises. It is gratifying that Congress has shown a willingness to vote $50,000,000 for national | defense, but it would have been more gratifying if the money had been voted long ago and had been ex- pended in building ships in our own nayy yards. The United States has faithfully cherished the memory of Washington and the people have made a household proverb of his words, “To be prepared for war is the most effectual means to preserve peace,” but for all the wisdom that Congress has learned from them they might as well have been forgotten. We have not prepared for war. We have built some ships, but not enough to guard our wide, extended coasts and protect our numerous ports. The result is that in a moment of crisis we have to vote $50,- 000,000 without debate and be proud of it. The lesson has been impressively given and ought to be profitably employed. The amount voted for national defense should be made absolutely devoted to that purpose whether we have a war with Spain or not. We should no longer leave ourselves in a con- dition that compels us to buy foreign ships when a third-rate power that cannot whip Cuba threatens us with immediate battle. —— The engagement of a theatrical manager having been announced, that gentleman hastens to the front with a denial. The journalists who have selected a wife for him and all but married them off may justly feel aggrieved at this. Still, to have informed him of the identity of his bride would have been a piece of thoughtfulness on their part. A man naturally feels jarred by first learning from the public prints whom he is to be led with to the altar. Professor Wickson of the State University should not have joined the croakers who are worried over the drought. The unexpected still happens. Cali- fornia may be drowned out before the end of the SPECIAL FEAT EBRUARY 8 AND 8:08 O'CLOCK, BEFORE HOUSE NO. 8. READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL If you want to learn what that fatal run of eights meant to the ill-fated President Barrios of Guatemala. The intensely interesting events lead- ing up to the assassination and that tremendously dramatic scene are viv- idly described in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL by a gentleman who was only a short distance away wnen the daring assassin fired the fatal shot. A missionary just returned from the South Sea Islands claims to have con- verted several hundred cannibals this last year. The horrible orgies of these man-eaters and the last great feast on the Fiji Islands, where a venturesome missionary and his followers were trapped and eaten is told IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL By an eye witness. How the.deflant feasters themselves were trapped and punished forms part of the same weird story. Another fad for the sick is come to town. It originated in Paris and has attained such vogue that the ingenious Parislans have given it a name and are erecting institutions for its devel- opment and practice. Described sim- ply it is the laying on of animals to cure diseases. It may sound odd, but read about it_ IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL And you'll learn to what remarkable extent the idea is being conducted in France. The hospitals haven't an- nexed zoological gardens as yet, but provision has been made for supplies of animals to meet the increasing de- mands of patients. Of late the settlement of several es- tates has brought to light a number of romantic stories regarding the love ad- ventures of a number of argonauts who came to this coast in early days and took Indian brides. Were they legally married or not? That is the simple URES NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL questions the heirs and other interested | parties are trying to determine. NEXT SUNDAY’'S CALL Contains one or two of just such in-| tensely interesting romances. All of them are vividly up-to-date now, for love Is lost in lucre; and “The old, old story” forms a backgrouhd for the bit- ter contests over valuable property. Is American Domesticity Decreasing? READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL And find out what some of the most thoughtful women of the city think on that very vital subject. Every man, and weman, too, for that matter, who doesn’t know where else to go to for a fortune is rushing for the Klondike. Bags and baggage are load- ed on sleds. “Whoola!"” is shouted to | the barking dogs, and, clad from head to toe in heavy furs, the adventurers are off toward one end of the earth. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL Read about another army of adventur- ers bound for the other end of the earth in a similar mad rush for gold; | only instead of being incased in furs they march headlong clad in the light- | est of wearing material; instead of urg- ing on barking dogs they prod along lolling camels, and their destination is not limitless ice fields, but the limitless burning desert. And the gold is there in great glittering yellow gold nuggets, at this southern sunlit end of the world the same as it is in the northern starlit circle. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL Also you'll find the very latest great song hit that has come to San Fran- cisco. It is entitled “I Don’t Want to Talk Any More,” and the way Jose- phine Sabel sings this fetching coon air is enough to make you want to buy the paper just to see what the melody looks like when written out in music and words. | But these are not a tithe of the spe- | cial features in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. If you want to get ’em all THE SONG OF THE DRUM. Do you hear my summons hammer thro' the ! crackle and the clamor, { | Do you hear my throb and thrill? When I meet the smell of powder, oh, my merry note grows louder, ‘And my song shall not be 5(!]}, Follow, each beside his fellow, 'neath the vapors gray and yvellow, ‘Wiidly cheering, sternly dumb, e smoke- And rumble, rumble, rumble, Wwhen t wreaths toss and tumble, You shall hear the rolling drum. Follow the drum! Men forget their fears and follies as they face | the blinding volleys, | And the young recruits they come, | With their simple, sunburnt faces, from the | quiet country piaces, | To the call of me, the drum. Come, plowboy lad and carter, and your life- blood freely barter | For the bullet sure for some. And rattle, rattle, rattle, through the din and roar of battle. You will hear the rolling drum. Follow the drum! When the boys that follow fast there, drop aside and fall at last there, From the surging lines of red, Then no more of pomp and ruffle; my notes while I muffle, “™TAnd T moan and mourn the dead. But the losing battle needs me, and the whist- ling bullet speeds me; Through the reeling ranks I And clatter, clatter, clatter, where come, the ‘broken {ments scatter, | T8 You will hear the rolling drum. Follow the drum! —Pall Mall Gazette. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. H. L. Talbot of Boston is at the Palace. W. J. Pollard of Augusta, Ga., Is at the | Palace. F. D. Cobb is at the Baldwin from Stockton. J. D. Whalen of Pleasanton is registered at the Russ. Joseph Tr.uey, U. 8. N, Is a guest at the California. | E. de Bavier is registered at the Palace | from Shanghal. Judge John C. Gray of Oroville Is stay- | ing at the Grand. Chiet of Police J. M. Glass of Los An- geles 1s at the Palace. 1. R. Fanell of Baker City, Or., is at the Lick with his wife. L. A. Spitzer, County Assessor of Santa Clara, is at the Grand. J. R. Bane, a Santa Rosa hotel man, is staying at the California. E. W. Hale, the Sacramento merchant, is a guest at the Baldwin. H. A. Hall and wife are at the Occiden- tal from Washington, D. C. ‘W. H. Parsons, a big rancher of Cal- istoga, is a guest at the Russ. ‘W. E. Moore of Peru, IIL, is at the Call- fornia with his wife and family. Charles Truman, a traveler from Lon- | don, is one of last night's arrivals at the Occidental. F. H. Caub, Otto Sauer and Ph. Zanz are three Denver merchants who are reg- istered at the Grand. 2000 9®®®®® “It happened in Boston a few weeks @ e o HOLLAND'S ¢ ago," said Manager & ECCENTRIC- e Bradley otithe Mysterious Mr. ® COSTUME. ¢ Bugle Company. “Holland and I OO DOOP S DD were riding on a trolley car down Tremont street, and, 1 expected, Holland soon became the cen- ter of attention. He was clad in a mag- nificent fur coat that he had bought in Montreal that would be the envy of the Czar of Russia. But this was not the only remarkable thing about him. He was wearing a pair of old carpet slippers. The contrast between the moth-eaten slippers and the princely coat was so ri- diculous that it soon set every one gig- gling, and the majority decided Holland | see a yacht belonging to a friend of his | shoes he shot out of the room as-if struck | by lightning and presently returned with | dental. 1 Was making a fool of himself to win some bet or other. Joe pretended to notice | nothing, and with thatexpressionless face he can assume if he wants to he simply gazed into space. Holland is a yachting enthusiast, and he had taken me down to lying in the harbor. We got into a leaky boat and rowed out to the vessel, in doing which Holland got his beautiful patent leather shoes soaked with sea water. Re- turning to shore we went to one of the clubs and a boy took his shoes to have them dried. We stayed quite a while talking and drinking with some friends, and when Holland asked the boy for his a woeful expression, holding out some- thing that looked as if they had been shoes once on a time. The boy had put them in the oven to dry and forgot them. It was on Sunday and no shoes to be found anywhere, so Holland wore the only available substitute, a pair of old carpet slippers belonging to the janitor.” Coroner George H. Clark of Sacramento is in the city and is a guest at the Baid- win. Carl E. Lindsey, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, arrived at the Grand yester- day. August Gelmer is at the Palace from St. Louis, accompanied by his wife and family. ‘W. H. Bryant, a mining man of Den- ver, is registered at the California with his wife. Dr. J. A. Lobe of Chicago and Willlam Mullany, the Sacramento politiclan, are both at the Grand. H. M. Yerrington, the Carson City rail- road man and capitalist, is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. Thomas Flint Jr., State Senator from San Juan, is a guest at the Palace, where he will remain for the next few days. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wensinger have come down from their country home at Freestone and are staying at the Occi- J. V. Rider and wife and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Lacy are a party of tourists who arrived at the Occidental yesterday from Dubugque, Iowa. Mitchell Harrison and a party of eight are registered at the Palace from Phila- delphia. They are making a tour of the coast for pleasure. Lieutenant N. E. Irwin, U. 8. N., and wife, and Lieutenant J. Wallace. U. 8. N., arrived from Washington last night and went to the Occidental. E. L. Lewis, a popular railroad man has been promoted as agent of the Bur- lington route railroad in Southern Cali- fornia. He left ‘Luesday night for the south to commence his new duties. CO0O0000000 0 T went slum- . THE o ming last night." < & said a gentleman in o MONTGOMERY 2. ips_omcs af tha & STREET California, “and o TOBOGGAN. was much amused | € by the method the: ©0©006060 0 vy of getting rid | of customers at a certain cheap pot house | on Montgomery street near the top of Telegraph Hill after they have succeeded | in getting all their money. The house, which is known as the ‘Stew Pan,’ stands on the corner of Montgomery and one of the cross streets that run well up near the top of the hill. It is approached by a board sidewalk running up the side of Montgomery street at a very steep angle. The boards on this sidewalk are always damp and their slipperyness is further in- creased by grass that, springing up be- tween the cracks, covers more than half the surface of the wood. “The men and women who frequent the place are of the lowest order in the city, and, while many kinds of poor liquors are sold, the most popular beverage is a de- coction known as ‘all sorts’ that is com- posed of the refuse of the buckets in the | onds. better class saloons. 1 Is bought up during the day and retailed at a profit at night. ‘All sorts’ is very powerful in its effects: one drink “will cause hilarity, two will Increase the hilarity, and three will efther produce a lethargy or send the victim home to murder his family, acc ing to his temperament. “But to come to the manner of getting rid of those who have taken the third de- gree, fallen {nto a comatose state and been relleved of what little money they may have had. The bouncer is called and the slumbering unfortunate taken to the door and thrown out on the sidewalk where he lands, and. striking the slippery boards, descends with the velocity of a toboggan to the level street two blocks below, where he lies until the policeman on the beat runs across him, and, sending for the patrol wagon. starts him rf\'pidxy westward on the course of empire. e REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. It the average man didn’t smoke he wouldn't be fit for a woman to live with. The happiest dream a man has is when he dreams that he only dreamed that he was married. The chair that a girl thinks is the pret- tiest in a room is always one that a man is afraid to down on for fear it will break. 5 Probably a woman is never quite so completely happy as when she has got her rupbeér plant in the bathtub and is spraying the leaves with an atomizer. The Lord isn’'t near so deaf as some ministers seem to think. Lots of men can date their first suc- cess from the time some girl made the mistake of refusing to marry them. Probably the limit of a girl’s unhappi- ness isn't ever reached till she takes dinner with a man and gets a dish she doesn’t know how to eat. 3 Life would be a lot happler If the av- erage woman Knew temperature is best she does about what is best for castus.—New York Press. A good woman's love is like a star. The it doesn’t always shine is be- PGt than the clouds.—New cause it is higher York Press. —_—————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. IN EQUITY—E. S., Palermo, Cal. Ac- cording to the common law, as laid down in ‘“Fearne on Remainders,” prospective inheritance is assignable in equity in Eng- land. FOREIGN CONSULS—Subscriber, Vi- salia, Cal. The consul for Nicaragua in San Francisco is E. Calderon, 119 Bush street, and the consul for Costa Rica is J. M. Tinoco, 511 California street. HORTON, THE JOCKEY—X., Presidio, Cal. The complaint charging Willlam Horton, a jockey, with the larceny of dia- monds from Miss Isabel Caylor was dis- missed in the Police Court in which the case came Up. BANKS OF ENGLAND—A. 8. F. Y, City. This department has not the space to print a list of all the banks of England. You will find such a list in Whittaker's Almanack, to be found in the Free Public Library, reference room. SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKES— 1., City. What is generally known as the big earthquake of San Francisco occurred at 7:53 a. m. on the morning of the Zlst of October, 1888. The shock lasted 42 see It was followed by a shock at 9 a. m., another at 10:30 a. m. and then by several slight tremors during the after- noon. RANK IN THE NAVY—A. L. B.,, Mar- tinez, and D. B. C., city. The highest rank in the United States navy at this time is rear admiral, created by the act of Congress, July 16, 1862. Then the rank is in the following order: Commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant-comman- der, lieutenant, lieutenant junior grads and ensign. The office of vice-admiral and then admiral were specially created for David G. Farragut in recognition ot his services to the country during the Re- bellion. 1In 1862 he was commissioned rear admiral and was the first to hold that rank in the navy. The same rank was conferred on Goldsburough, Dupont, Foote and others to the number 0f eleven. and on the 12th of August of that vear Farragut as senior rear-admiral hoisted the square blue flag at the mainmast- head of the Hartford, then at New Or- leans. Subsequently the law was amend- ed and Farragut as rear-admiral retro- graded his flag to the mizzen. On De- cember 21, 1864, he was advanced to vice- admiral, and_he placed his flag at foremast, and when on the 2th of 1866, he was created admiral, he raised his flag to the mainmast-head. When Farragut was made admiral David D. Porter was advanced to vice-admiral, and upon the death of Farragut in 1570 he succeeded Farragut as admiral. These were the only two men in the navy that the Government desired to honor, and in later years there was passed a law which says that “vacancies —occurring in the grades of admiral and vice-admiral shall not be filled in promotion nor in any other manner, and when the offices of said grade shall become vacant the grades shall cease to exist.”” The office of admiral ceased to exist with the death ot Porter, February 1891, A choice present for Eastern frie Townsend's Cal. glace fruits,50c ib,in s ——— In San Mateo, store and six living rooms; large lot; will rent furnished or unfurnished. Gaman & Lyon, 215 Kearny s SEST 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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