The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1898, Page 6

TH SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1898. WEDNESDAY vever.----MARCH 30, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriator. Lo g e R e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ;UBLICATIOV Oi?FICE“ Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... 21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding tow: for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per menth 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 untll 9:330 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untlil 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'tlogk. 1941 Mission street, open uptll 10 o'clock. 2291 MarKet street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 e’clock. 2518 Mission street, open untd 9 e¢’clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until © o'cleck. 1505 Poik street, open until 930 o’clock, NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open umtil clock, ittt e AMUSEMENTS. —_— Baldwin—*4A Gay Deceiver.” Columbis—~A Naval Caded Calfornis—Lecture by \ Marion Orawford, this afterncon. Aloagsr—*The Mummy." Morosco's—“Ten Nights in & Barroom.” Tivoli— The Widow O'Brien.” Orphenm—Vaudeville The Chutes—The Zoo, Vandeville and Lion Hunt. Olympta, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. Emporium—Delorme's Sunlight Picture, “Interieur de Ferme.' Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Track—Races to-day. One year, by mail, $1.50 +ee....908 Broadway AUCTION SALES. By P. J. Barth—This day, March 8, Furnitare, at 1305} Golden Gate avenue, at 11 o'clock. By Sullivan & Doyle—This day, March 80, Horses. at 87 Stxth street. at 11 o'elock. Jmbsen—Monday, April 4 Real Estate, at M Mont- © 12 o'clock. THE COMICAL BRYANITES. HE efforts of the Bryan Democrats to keep Tthemsclvcs in evidence are always comical and often interesting. During the past year they | have introduced into the various State Legislatures in which the Almighty in his inscrutable wisdom has granted them the privilege of sittir _ bills for the pur- pose of forcing the 16 to 1 policy down the throats | of the unhappy people whom they claim to represent. A late measure of this character has been passed by one branch of the Kentucky Legislature. This bill makes contracts payable in gold illegal and declares that Kentuckians shall at all times take gold, silver and currency in payment of their debts on equal terms. Of course this is all nonsense. The State of Ken- tucky has no power to coin or emit money, nor can it restrict the right of the people to make money con- tracts payable in gold or any other commodity. All it can do is to show to the world that upon the subject of finance it is utterly devoid of sense, and this one of its Houses, at least, has succeeded in doing. A similar attempt to control the monetary policy of a State was made in Washington a year ago. The Legislature of that commonwealth passed an anti- gold contract law, which enacted that all debts should be payable in lawful money or currency without re- gard to the contract between the parties. The Bryan- ites have introduced bills of like import into the Legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mis- souri and Tennessee, but none of them were enacted. ssee the Assembly passed the bill, in this respect setting an example for Kentucky. Outside of any influence which the Bryan pro- gramme has upon the reputation for sanity of a State lature, it reflects heavily upon the credit of the people. The 16 to 1 legislation is designed to cheat creditors and openly flouts the National Government. It is an attempt by the mannikins of a State to defy the laws of Congress, and it partakes of the same character as the nullification acts of South Carolina which aroused the anger of Andrew Jackson. But the Bryanites are dead, nevertheless. They may think their blood still circulates, but they are mistaken. INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS. MENDMENTS to the sundry civil appropria- fl tion bill agreed upon by the Senate Commit- S tee on Appropriations are in many ways fav- orable to California and afford evidence of the ex- cellent work done by our delegation in Congress in advancing the internal improvement of the State. If the amendments are adopted by the Senate and ac- cepted by the House the bill will be much more ad- vantageous to us than in its original form. All the appropriations made for California in the original bill are retained. The fight against San Pedro failed in the Senate committee as it failed in the House, and the prospects are that this long struggle for a much needed improvement has now seen decisively won. There is, however, one more chance for the monopoly to win. It has some strong supporters and faithful servants in the Senate, and not until the final vote on the bill has been taken can we rejoice in the assurance of a completed victory. There will be a good deal of gratification over the appropriation of $250,000 for the improvement of the rivers, to carry out the act of 1896 for the erection of restraining dams. This amount, taken in connection with that made by the State, gives for river improve- ment the sum of $500,000, and under judicious man- agement a vast benefit can be accomplished for the State by its expenditure. It is of course not sufficient to defray the cost of all the work required, but it is reasonable to assume that the results achieved by it | will be sufficient to demonstrate the value of such im- provements and thereby incline Congress to make further appropriations hereafter to complete the work and keep the rivers in good order. There are several other amendments recommended by the committee of less note, but of considerable in- terest to the State. Among these are appropriations for Yosemite and Sequoia parks, for repairs or im- provements on mnational buildings in this and other cities, and for Iightships and light stations along the coast. The bill is in every respect a more liberal mca;nre than that adopted by the House, and for once at any rate the Senate has proven its usefulness as a check on the lower branch of Congress. It has prevented in this instance a seeming economy in the work of internal improvement which would have proved in the long run a wasteful and foolish policy. Sullivan’s charge that Corbett and Fitzsimmons have done much to injure prize-fighting can hardly be denied. Sullivan himself was the noblest exponent of the noble art. Corbett licked him, Fitzsimmons licked Corbett, and the world is looking for some- body to lick Fitzsimmons. It wants prize-fighting fniured some more | feeling of discontent is natural and in no measure to THE COUNTRY’S DEMAND. HERE could be no merit in an attempt to Te\-ade the fact that the message of President McKinley to Congress was a distinct disap- pointment to the people of this country. They had been led to expect, not that their chief executive | would breathe the spirit of war, but that at least the stand to be taken by him would be dignified, abso- lute, final, rather than a bid for peace. It had not been anticipated that he would make a mere state- ment of the findings of the Maine board of inquiry and leave to Spain to determine as to their accep- tance. That such are the present conditions friends of the administration must, however reluctantly, ad- mit, while enemies proclaim it, and” in far away Madrid there is rejoicing undisguised. The tDons in their conceit believe a victory to have been won, that their idle boasts of ability to subdue the United States have had effect, and that their right to sneer at the “Yankee” is more firmly established than ever. But it must be remembered that the President has more at stake than any other individual. Upon his action now must rest not alone his hopes of future preferment, but his place in history. It is not rea- sonable to suppose that he has taken a step without the mbst mature deliberation. It is possible he has information yet withheld from the public, that feel- ing war to be inevitable he desires to throw the bur- den of its declaration upon Spain, so that with the coming of the crisis that decayed and reeking mon- archy shall not have even the moral support of any other nation. Therefore it is ill to be hasty in pro- nouncing a verdict. A day or a season may supply the most complete vindication. Whatever the future may bring forth, the present be regretted. It is an expression of patriotism. There were insults to be resented, murder to be avenged, and the eager citizens got a note saying the matter had been referred to the people guilty of the insult and the murder, that adjudication had been left to the sense of justice and to the honor of these people. It struck them as being a mockery, and they were un- able to pierce the veil discerning the wise statesman- ship behind. They entertain the notion that Spain has no sense of justice; they read history and know that Spain is without honor, that she has stained its pages with the record of perfidy, and the record | is written in blood. Weeks ago the Maine, laden with gallant men, was | sent by an act of treachery most dire and unprece- dented to a grave in the harbor of Havana. Certain | as was the feeling that these men had been assassi- | uated, no hurried conclusions were reached. The | first impulse to smite the miscreants with all the im- | placable wrath embodied in Mosaic law gave way to calmer thought. Inquiry was begun. We were told to wait. We have waited. The inquiry has estab- lished everything that had been suspected. It has shown that the Maine, in port on a friendly mission, was deliberately blown up, znd that the Spanish Gov- ernment is responsible there can be no question. Still | we do not hear an unequivocal demand for such re- | paration as is in the power of that Government. We | do not observe it ordered, as it deserves to be, to re- | move its hateful presence from the Western Hemis- phere, where it is an affliction and a blight. We are | | still told to wait. Wait until when? Wait for what? | Until Spain shall get ready to reply that the findings | of our court of inquiry were fallacious. This coun-i‘ try will submit neither to the delay nor the incvitable]‘ impertinence with which Spain has been invited to crown it. There is nothing to leave to arbitration, nothing over which to quibble. Either the United States must exact retribution, naming its own terms, or stand disgraced among the nations of the earth. There is no desire to possess Cuba. The wrongs of that island would have gone unredressed and unre- strained had it not been for the crime against the Maine. It was for this that the spirit of war swept across the land. It was for this that Congress made a vast appropriation and sent abroad to purchase ships full panoplied for battle. And now that the climax has come there is an effort to pass it over as an in- cident. This the people will never abide. There are | already mutterings which must warn the adminis- | tration that whatever may be its ultimate policy it | must soon be revealed. They will never be content | to have the Maine forgotten while the Spanish flag | still flies above the spot where the bones of that noble } craft lie bleaching, and in graves which do not shield them from the gibes of the populace its seamen find | rest on a foreign shore. Whether or not Spain pay a money indemnity matters nothing. This is not the place of poverty. We do not think that gold is a balm for hurts. The injury has been too monstrous for settlement on a cash basis. It is for thisthat Amer- ica demands that Spain take her trumpery of con- quest, her banners and her guns and go back to the domain where once she was glorious. Her career on the Western Hemisphere is close to an ending. With the point of the oppressor’s sword she has | carved her own fate. Assuredly in the matter of precedents President McKinley need have been at no loss nor have turned to the time of Buchanan. Monday morning was cited in this paper a message from President Pierce | provoked by acts infinitely less outrageous than the affair of the Maine, yet calling upon Congress to do what lay in its power to check aggressions and prom- ising to make quick use of any authority conferred upon the executive. As long ago as 1803 Thomas Jefferson laid before Congress a message detailing the depredations of a ship belonging to the Emperor | of Morocco. It was not accompanied by information | that the matter had been left to that Emperor, nor did it intimate that his personal opinion was of | value. On the contrary it closed thus: “In the mean- time it is for Congress to consider the provisional authorities which may be necessary to restrain the depredations of this power should they be con- tinued.” In 1805 the same President rounded out a message | relative to the hostile acts of Spain as follows: “But | the course to be pursued will require the command | of means which it belongs to Congress exclusively to yield or to deny. To them I communicate every} fact material for their information and the doc- | uments enabling them to judge for themselves. To | their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue, and will pursue with sincere zeal that which they shall approve.” There are other precedents established by Jeffer- son, and still more by Madison, but there seems no precedent for the injunction, “Wait.” Yet it must not be understood that the popular attitude is for war. It is for honor. If this great Union made up | of States almost any one of which has material re- | sources sufficient to enable it unaided to vanquish Spain cannot present a front bold enough to intimi- date that fading monarchy into withdrawal and de- cent behavior, force her to profess contrition and be- take herself hence, then war is essential and delay can only add to its length, its cost and its terror. In a country where the law against murder is prop- erly enforced the slayer of Charles Gates of Oakland ywould be buried in quicklime in less than thirty days. QUARANTINE TROUBLES. THE HE Federal Government, at much expense, has Testablished a quarantine station in this port. It is for the facilitating of commerce and travel. Instead of lying for weeks in the stream, as under the old system of State quarantine, passengers can be fumigated and landed. The cargo can be disinfected, the ship subjected to germicides and docked for her return voyage. It is a change thoroughly appreciated by the mercantile and traveling community, and its full benefits should be theirs. The State authorities have made some attempts at contesting the free pratique given by the Federa! authorities, but the very necessary and very positive orders of the Secretary of the Treasury have put an end to this. No sooner was this phase passed than there has appeared a conflict among the Federal offi- cers themselves. A ship entering the port is first in charge of the quarantine officer. The customs author- ities have to board her, but their authority is subordi- | nate to the quarantine officer’s until he gives her free pratique, when his authority ceases entirely and the | customs officers are paramount. They must guard the landing of passengers and under the law inspect their baggage for articles that may be either contra- band or dutiable. They must also have charge of the cargo and of its discharge. If the quarantine officer assumes to land passengers and their baggage at the same time that he orders the customs officers detained as prisoners on the ship he goes beyond his authority and interferes with customs regulations. Having no authority himself to search the baggage of passengers for dutiable goods, he cannot take such baggage away from the officers who have that authority. It will be well for the peace of this port and the dig- nity of the Government if passengers are hence- forth free from this pulling and hauling by the re- presentatives of two different divisions of Federal authority. There is no sorcery about the treasury regulations. Any ordinarily intelligent person should be able to understand where the quarantine authority ends and the customs authority begins, and a conflict over so plain a thing in the presence of passengers is inexpressibly belittling to our Government. The health and customs officers are the first repre- | sentatives of the United States met by travelers. Their relations’ and conduct should impress upon strangers the dignity and uprightness of the Govern- ment they represent. There is no alternative for the customs authorities. They must remain. Their functions concern the | protection of the Federal revenue. The alternative for the quarantine officers is a return to State con- trol. Such return is against Federal policy and the interests of commerce. It is to be hoped that no more exhibitions of conflict will occur to make such return seem desirable and proper. FOREIGN PRISON-MADE GOODS. | H | | MONG the “clouds,” or special at- tractions, of the exposition of 1900 will be & terrestrial globe In relief, on such a grand scale as to allow even the minor features of outline and topography of the various countries to be plainly and intelligently shown to the eve. The idea originated with the celebrated geographer and savant, M. Elisee Reclus, the author of “The Earth and Its Inhab- itants.” The plan of the structure was worked out by M. Louls Bonnler, one of the board of consulting engineers of the exposition. The globe itself will be made of sheet metal with a diameter of 26 meters (about 100 feet), and will stand on a cylindrical column of steel about ninety feet In height. The whole affair will be enclosed CORRESPONDENT of the American Econ f\ omist, writing from Germany, says: “From what I have learned I am positive that a large quantity of prison-made goods is being shipped to the United States. There are in this empire fifty-six full-sized prisons, many containing a thousand souls, and a great majority have workshops where quanti- ties of cheap stuff are turned out. The authorities do not wish this material to come into competition with local tradespeople or dealers, as it would se- | riously injure their business, and so they wink at the export of these prison-made goods to foreign coun- | tries. Consequently the export of prison-made stuff | to the United States is on the increase, greatly to the | injury of the working classes of America.” ; The Economist does not give the name of its cor- | respondent, but vouches for his report and says “he | is accurately informed as to the facts in the case and | his statements are undoubtedly reliable.” On this showing it becomes the duty of our customs officers to exercise more than ordinary care in the inspection of European imports. While the report to the Econ- | omist speaks of German prisons only, it is not likely that the Germans are the sole people who unload their prison-made goods on us as far as they can. A close watch will have to be kept on the whole im- pert trade. The Dingley tariff provides for the exclusion from our markets of all foreign prison-made goods of whatever kind. The language is emphatic and clear. It is declared that “goods, wares, articles and mer- chandise manufactured wholly or in part in any for- eign country by convict labor shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited.” The opposition to the import of prison-made goods has long been the policy of the people of the United | States and is well founded. At the present time a | bill is before Congress prohibiting the export of such | goods from one State to another and has been strongly supported. It is an evidence of the earnest- ness of the American people in the struggle to pro- tect free labor from the competition of convicts, and may be cited as a proof that the competition has been felt te be injurious even within the limits of our own country. If this is the consequence of the sale of goods made in home prisons it is easy to see that the impert of the product of foreign prisons would be ex- tremely pernicious. £ The matter is one which should be attended to by our foreign Consuls as well as by our customs offi- | cials. It can hardly be wholly guarded against at the port of entry. There must be a watch kept at the | point of export. The Economist has done well n | directing attention to the extent to which the evil is i carried on, and it is to be hoped the Government will at once take steps to check the practice. Boston women have petitioned for a modification of the ordinance forbidding high hats at the theater. The country had looked to them for more lofty ideals | than expressed in a desire to be nuisances. No won- | der the Boston woman remains unmarried. She is something to be scared at. It is to be regretted that the headquarters of the Union Mission Army should have been the scene of a fight with hatchets, and even more deeply to be deplored that no fatal results ensued. These bogus armies are getting too numerous, and too many of them are still out of jail. To a proposal recently sent to an Eastern girl she returned the following: “Too late, you jealous fool; engaged.” If the man who received that note is not busy congratulating himself he is more kinds of a fool than the dear young lady called him. According to the Spanish report as to the sinking of the Maine, the American report will be wrong at every point. As Spain will probably refuse to re- treat a step, the easiest way to peace would be to sub- stitute her report for our own. When a man dies from the effect of having eaten two dozen hard-boiled eggs at a sitting not many tears will be shed over him. There is a human preju- dice against a hog, even though he walk upright on two legs. | next bar they met a large ! o’clock in the morning, and which in an egg-shaped metallic covering as hown in vertical section in the accom- panying cut, whose top will be 250 feet above the ground, with two flanking tow- ers some seventy feet higher still. Under- eath the structure and below the level of the ground will be placed the machin- ery for operating the affair. By means of a spiral staircase of gentle ascent one can pass over every degree of latitude and longitude of the earth’s sur- face and study the features thereof in minute and connected detail. The relief feature will be shown on a well-chosen exaggerated scale as in the true proportion. The Himalaya Moun- tains, five miles above the sea level, would rise on the globe but one-sixteenth of an inch in height. As far as possible everything will be given in natural col- ors. The icy covering of the poles, white; FEFEAERE R XX R R F R R R RERH i oo s HR R KR K KRR N R ENK * : HUGE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE : : GREAT PARIS EXPOSITION : the waters, blue, black, yellow and green, as the case may be; and the lands green, gray, black, etc., according to the prevall- ing general character of the different countries. The inside surface of the envelope will be covered with historical writings and plctures illustrating the evolution of the human race, and the pecullar features of life, manners and customs of the differ- ent lands. Cafes, reading and sitting rooms will have convenient and pleasant location in the upper part of the main edi- fice. The site which M. Reclus ‘selected for | this gigantic affair and for which the ap- | plication has been favorably considered | by the authorities is the tract of land fm- Z4 E——— N v el — \ | 72 L | BENEFITS OF IRRIGATION. Salinas Index. | The fich body of land surrounding King | City has not been profitable for farming purposes, owing to the lack of rain | With sufficient rainfall the crops of this section are very fine. Water is the one thing needful. & The Salinas Valley Water Company has been orgatized to make this fertile land | “blossom as the rose.” The company three sources frem which a suppl ter could be drawn, viz.: The renzo Creek, the Salinas River and the Arroyo Seco. The first ditch was run from the San Lorenzo last year, and about 300 acres of the King ranch was irrigated last sea- son as an experiment. The owner states that the net income of this land from barley was $24 66 per acre. The company pushed its work on the ditch from the Salinas River, the dimen- sions being thirty feet wide at the bot- tom, forty feet on top and five feet deep. It taps the river seven miles above Kir City and extends to the Coburn’ranch, four miles below the town. This ditch will cover the lands of Whitan. Ulrey, Walker Bros., J. B. H. Cooper. the King ranch (now owned by the Spreckels Su- gar Company). and Coburn. The system embraces seventeen miles of ditches. The land near these ditches is laid off ready for the water that has failed to come. This is the first time in thirty-four years that the river has failed in its supply of water, the rainfall in the mountains hav- ing always been much greater in other dry years than this. The company has bought the Arroyo Seco ranch of 7000 acres and has taken the water from the Arroyo Seco to irrigate it. This stream has never -failed in its supply of goocd water. The intention is to divide this 1and into emall tracts and sell it to fami- lles at $40 per acre, the company guaran- teeing a plentiful supply of water to irri- gate each acre. Seven miles of ditches are now completed and the water is now on the land. ‘As the water in the Salinas River has fafled to'flow into the ditches in suffi- cient quantities to be of much use, tha Spreckels company decided, after inves- tigating, that there is plenty of water in the river bed flowing under the sand. With this idea uppermost, they are now putting in a large pumping plant, ex- pecting to grow a crop of beets by irri- gation this on. For that purpose a well 100 ¥ long, 25 feet wide and 30 feet deep Is being excavated just below the bridge and within 60 feet of the river. Piling, to_be lined with grooved boards, {s being driven on each side of the well 30 feet into the ground. It is hoped that sufficlent water will flow into this well from the underground current of the | river to supply three large centrifugal pumps of 21,000 gallons per minute. The pumps are to be driven by three large engines supplied with steam by eight bollers. The entire cost of the plant will be between $40,000 and $50,000. —_———————— | { mediately behind the Palace of the Troca- | dero, with which it will be connected by an elevated passage way. cost of the whole Is estimated at $800(000, and while the projectors claim to | be actuated solely by a desire to promote | the interests of geographical science and | education generally, in the absence of a | grant or allowance of the money to meet this large expense, an arrangement has been made with a syndicate of capitalists, | who will advance the funds needed for | the completion, and look for reimburse- | ment to & small fee which will be charged to visitors. Viewed from a standpoint of utility in comparison with the Eiffel Tower, the Ferris Wheel and other mechanical mon- strodities that have been such attractive | features of other expositions it would seem that M. Reclus’ enterprise should | be rewarded with a still greater degree of | popular favor. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. C. Needham of Modesto is at the J. | California. E. D. Goodrich of New York is staying at the Lick. Dr. L. P. Hall of Petaluma is & guest at the Grand. 0. S. Bond of Toledo, Ohio, is registered at the Baldwi:. Mr. and Mrs. F. Finnell of Rockfield are at the Occidental. G. A. Pennyman, a San Jose capitalist, 1s a guest at the Grand. F. H. Le Favor is registered at the Oc- cldental from Mare Island. James L. Full and wife of Philadelphia are staying at the California. Among yvesterday's arrivals at toe Pal- ace is State Senator Thomas Flint of San Juan. J. A. Johnson of Morris Is at the uccl- dental, where he arrived yesterday morn- ing with his wife. A large party of excursionists from Massillon, Ohio, arrived here yesterday and went to the Palace. 0000000000 *Two gentlemen o 5 © who arrived here = THE 0 a few days ago and who have 0 SHOSEHALING g been living at *he O CAME HIGH. Palace on the European plan o ©000000000 were standirz In the 1nbby of the hotel the other evening, when they were approached by an ac- quaintance who resides in the clty and invited to go out to his house and dine. They were reluctant to accept the invi- tation at first, but as he continued to urge them, saying that there was no rea- son why they should not go with him and | enjoy a good dinner instead of dining downtown at an expense of a couple of dollars, they finally accepted, and the whole party started out of the hotel. As | they passed a well-known saloon the host suggested that tney go in and shake for & cocktail. approval of the other two, and the trio went inside, where they remained long enough to shake three times, one guest losing twice and the other once. ‘At the friends of the host just after one of the guests had been stuck, and it cost him $1 2 to pay for what they drank. A cigar- stand was their next stop, and it cost one guest $1 50 for what he lost shaking, while the other dropped $3 40 in the machine, winning a sufficient number of cigars to make it unneces: .y for the host to buy. On the car they matched for the fare, and again It was one of the guests who paid the conductor. At the house a miserable dinner awalited them, after which the host propos:d a game of poker, which lasted until 3 re- sulted in the two visitors being complete- ly cleaned out and signing notes for amounts which ran way into the three figures. The next day the two gentlemen, after paying the'r losses, compared notes, and found that the Invitation had cost them together exactly $792 45, all of which had gone either into the pockets or stomach of their hospitable entertainer, whose ac- quaintance they had made on the train. It is understood that during the rest of Lent they will accept no courtesies. They leave for their homes in Chicago on Easter Sunday. J. M. Edgett, who, with his wife and family, is at the Palace, where he ar- rived yesterday from the southern part of the State, met with a rather serious accident a few days ago while staging from Lompoc to Senta Barbara. A wheel came off ige stage, and the whole party His proposition met with the | crowd of | was thrown out, Mr. Edgett sustaining | | bruises that will inconvenience him for | some time to come. Mr. Edgett Is a otel man of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr of London are at the Palace. Edward H. Wagner, from New York, is at the Lick. G. B. Assan of Bucharest is a guest at the Palace. ‘Walter F. Parker of Los Angeles is at | | the Baldwin. B. W. Button of Bridgeport, Conn., is at the Grand. James Wilcox, from Madera, s a guest | at the Baldwin. | R. Binder and wife of Ouray, Colo., are | at the Baldwin. ‘W. Forsyth, a merchant from Fresno, is at the Occidental. R. H. Flint, from Angels Camp, is regis- | tered at the Palace. L. C. Dresher from Sacramento | guest at the California. H. P. Goodman, a banker from Napa, Is registered at the Palace. | | Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and D. O. Mills of | Millbrae are at the Palace. | D. P. Dust of Wheatland, the proprietor | and editor of the Four Corners, is at the | Grand. —_— ee—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. s a NEW YORK, March 29.—Bishop John P. Newman of California is at the Murray Hil Hotel. The critical illness of Mrs. John G. Heckscher, sister of Mrs. William ‘A. Duer, may bave the effect of postpon- ing the marriage of Miss Katherine Duer to Clarence H. Mackay. —_—————————— BATTLE HYMN F THE POLTROON. What Is this thing we are fighting for? Nothing. The merest of bagatelles. We're plunging into a costly war And £hooting away our high-priced shells. | And putting to risk our fine white ships And periling peaceful people’s llves For & lot of Scare crows, with food-strange | lps, And thelr famished children and starving wives. Why not be cautious and walt a space? | Wait. For the sake of the peaceable, wait. Calm and patience will settle the case, For they're dying off at a fortunate rate. Think of the cost of our coal alone; Think of subsistence—its great expense. | Think of the stocks and the bonds we own, And try to act with a show of sense. | Think of the danger of sword and shot; Think of the bullets that flercoly fly. You might be struck. as likely as not, And, what is more dreadful, possibiy I. Heaven has shown us the path of peacs, Shown us the good that concord may bring; Let this threatening turbulence cease— Let's sit down and talk over the thing. Let us have peace. Let the starving starve; That's the due of the helpless who fret. Ave. let them die. Let the Spaniard carve Them into bits with his keen_machet. What is the use of this fuss? What's the us Of these wild war cries that rise and ring Fieht? Why, there fsn . - show of excuse. One more year's hunger will settle the thing. —Chicago Record. o 2 —_——— FERRY DEPOT JOBBERY. ‘The charges of jobbery in the building of the ferry depot at the foot of Market street. made by the San Franeisco Call, seem to be very specific and direct. It is in order for the State Board of Harbor Commissioners to be as specific and direct in refuting them.—Napa Register. The Call has the edge on the Harbor Commissioners in the matter of ferry building frauds. The defense cf ihe crooked work disclosed by our contem- porary is as feeble as the facts are damaging and strong. Commissioner Colnon has not helped himself by his manner of treating the published accu- sations. There is a little circle or set of men in San Francisco who are supposed to embody all the honor and decency of the commonwealth. Colnon man: break inta that circle, and its m-:;dmto ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RUSSIAN EMPIRE—W. F. T., City. The population of the Russian Empire iu 129,545,000, according to the latest estie mates. ELEVENTH ARMY CORPS—F. R. C., West Point, Cal. Carl Schurz was the commander of the Eleventh Army Corps during the battle of Gettysburg. FLAGS—Subscriber, City. When sol- dlers of the United States turn out as such, they march only under the Amer- ican and the regimental flag. When not on duty as a soldier, or rather, when on furlough, there is no law that says a man who has_enlisted as a soldier in the army of the United States may not march under a foreign or religlous flag. A TWENTY ROUND CONTEST—F. P., City. The referee in a pugilistic contest, like the umpire of a baseball game, is “a mighty man,” and he feels-that he can glve any decision that he desires. He can, if he wants to, at any time, stop a twenty round contest and declare it a draw, and you may rest assured that he will have an excuse for his conduct. Ac- cording to Blanchard’s “Fairplay Rules,” “If either principal becomes so exhaust that it is apparently imprudent or da: gerous to continue, it shall be the duty of the referee to stop the contest and give his decision in favor of the deserving man.” WATER WORKS—W. H B, City. answer the question relative tc muniei- palities in the United States that control water works would require more space than this department has at its command, for there are in the New England States, 194; Middle States, 305; South Atlantic divi- son, 77; South Central, 40; North Central, 525; Southwestern division, %: Northwest- ern, 87, and Pacific, Details of these can'be found in *“The Manual of Ameri gn Water Works for 1897, which contsfs the history, description ‘and source of sup- ply, pumps, reservoirs, stand pipes, dis- tributing systems, rates charged, etc., prepared by ) Baker, associate editor of the Engineering News! | - Finest eveglasses, specs, 15c up, 33 th.* el Choice present Eastern friends, Town- send’s Cal. Glace Fruits 50c b Jap bskts.® —ee—————— iaformation supplied daily to the ont- Spectal business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. 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