The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1898. Call FRIDAY. ... APRIL 1, 188 " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. o o e S PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.. Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. | NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 icAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. untll $:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. One year, by mall, $1.50 | ..908 Broadway Riggs Houee | AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—"A Gay Deceiver." Columbia—*A Naval Cadet ” California—“A Jay in New York," Sunday night Alcazar—-The Mummy. Morosco's—"Ten Nights 1n a Barroom.” Tivoli—" The Widow O'Brien.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes— The Zoo, Vaudeville and Lion Hunt. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Emporfum—Delorme's Sunlight Picture, *Interieur de Fer) fic Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Track—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. d pril 4, Real Estate, at 14 Mont- TALL BUILDINGS AND EARTHQUAKES. FOR many years the people of San Francisco were doubtful whether it would ever be safe to erect in this city tall buildings of brick or stone. It was only by slow degrees that enterprising build- ers overcame the fear and ventured upon the con- struction of such edifices of more than two stories. With the advent of the American style of construc- tion, however, which consists in making the entire framework of the building of steel or iron, well braced and bound, and using the walls of masonry simply as a covering, a new courage was born in the city, and since that time there have been erected here some of the tallest edifices of their kind in the world. Most well informed people had confidence in the strength of the new buildings to withstand any shock likely to come against them, but there were still some skeptics, and more or less interest has always been | felt to know just exactly what would happen when a severe shock put the high structures to the test. That test has now been given. The experiment has been tried. The shock of Wednesday night was one of the severest ever felt in San Francisco. It reminded old settlers of the great shocks of the past which are memorable in our history and which led to those exaggerated reports that caused California to be reputed in the East as a land subject to disastrous earthquakes of frequent recurrence. The tall build- ings stood the test without suffering any damage whatever. Not the slightest injury befell any of them, no danger involved any of their tenants. As a matter of fact the new style of architecture is about the safest that could possibly be adopted to re- sist the shocks of earthquake. A one-story adobe house would go to ruins before one of the sky s whose framework is composed of steel de- signed by skillful men to stand every sort of strain, whether lateral or perpendicular, that can be brought en a shock severe enough to shake the walls that inclose such a structure would leave its framework intact, and people within it, how- ever badly frightened, would remain uninjured. After this experience there will be no longer any skepticism of the safety of tall buildings. It has been years since we had a shock equal to that of Wednes- day night, and it will probably be many years before we have another. Even if such shocks came every year they would do no harm to modern structures. The steel sky scraper is proof against any danger of that kind, and hereafter there will be hardly a doubt of it in the minds of even the most timid on the sub- ject. THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.| l:scntatxves has been unexpectedly slow in pass- ing the naval appropriation bill. The debate on it, which has been prolonged by frequent interrup- tions for the purpose of discussing the crisis with Spain, has not up to this time disclosed any valid cause for delay at all, and yet it is by no means cer- tain when it will be adopted and sent to the Senate. The delay is the more surprising because when the bill was reported from the committee it was received with marked favor not only in Washington, but throughout the country. It is the most liberal naval appropriation measure on record in the United States in time of peace, and is therefore in harmony with popular sentiment and in accord with the needs of the emergency. Had it been a parsimonious measure of so-called economy it would probably have been permitted to pass at once, and it seems therefore that the very feature which renders it acceptable to the public is the cause why it has been objected to. It will be remembered that the bill as reported carries with it appropriations for the construction of five new drydocks, to be located at Portsmouth, Bos- ton, League Island (near Philadelphia), Algiers (near New Orleans) .and Mare Island (near ‘this city). This clause has been the subject of considerable con- troversy, particularly that portion of it authorizing the construction of the dock at Algiers, but from the latest reports it is not likely that any portion of it will be stricken out. As a matter of fact the number of new docks provided for is none too great for the needs of a nation with such an extensive seacoast as ours, and if any alteration is to be made in the bill as reported the number should be increased instead of diminished. The total expenditure provided for by the bill is about $36,000,000. It authorizes, in addition to the new drydocks referred to, the construction of sixteen new vessels, including three battle-ships, makes large allowances for increasing the heavy ordnance of the navy, extending the facilities of the more imnportant navy yards of the country, and for augmenting the naval force by 1750 enlisted men and 250 apprentices. Nearly all of the money required for these works and extensions will of course be expended in the United States, and when it is remembered with what prompt- ness the House passed the bill appropriating $50,000,- 000 for national defense when it was known that most of it would be used in purchasing ships and war equipments from foreign countries, it is a little sur- prising that so much time should be required to pro- vide for paval extension at home. | ling, was nothing more. | summer breeze would have been fatal to it. 1505 Polk street, open | OR one reason or another the House of Repre- | 1 “Line is busy; call again.” EARTHQUAKE @ND THE UNTRUTH. T is impossible to understand why there should i l have been such gross misrepresentation as to thc} { earthquake which did San Francisco the honor o(‘ | calling Wednesday night. Just what was hoped to | i’be accomplished by the statements that great harm! | had been done when in fact the harm was trivial, its | | infliction unattended by danger, is beyond the ken; | of any mind save, perhaps, that guiding the destinies ! | of a journal which keeps upon its staff the entire per- | sonnel of the Vatican, the crowned heads of Europe and a few eminent back numbers like Bismarck and Gladstone. It is true that the shock of Wednesday was the | most severe since 1868, when three or four people | THE | who rushed into the open were killed by debris hurled from the flimsy buildings marking that period. | It is also truethat Wednesday's experience, while start- | Not a structure was injured, unless it happened«to be so defective from age that a Yet an effort was made to create the impression that the city | had undergone contact with a great catastrophe. | How foolish this was is apparent here. In the East the fool statements may be accepted and the result | be injurious. It will tend to scare people away. The East has its blizzards, which yearly claim many victims. It has its heated term, during which people and dumb animals drop writhing and dying in the streets. It has its scores stricken every season by lightning. In the Middle West the dread cyclone yearly reaps its harvest of death. Villages and towns are laid waste and farm improvements vanish before the sweeping cloud like a dream. Portions of the South have an almost annual calamity due to floods. Yet because in California there is an occasional temblor, which ordinarily is wholly innocuous, an effort is made to create the idea that this is a place of chronic disaster. If such effort came from the out- side it might be ascribed to ignorance. As it comes from within, we look in vain for the motive. | California is peculiarly blessed. It has no cyclones. | It does not know the touch of sunstroke. Its winters are kindly, bringing neither blizzard mor deadening cold. paniment of lightning. In fact, it is marked by an entire absence of the natural phenomena which in every other region add to nature the element of ter- ror. Its earthquakes are not frequent, and only a comparatively violent one is considered worthy of more than passing mention. And a violent one, such | as that of Wednesday night, can be classed as nothing | more than an interesting experience, doing less | damage than the sudden April .hower which may | perchance flood a cellar or wash away the promising | crop of early peas. e —— REPORTS OF CROP CONDITIONS. ITHOUT continuing the controversy with the W San Jose Mercury as to whether the recent publication in The Call of an Associated Press dispatch to the effect that a severe frost following a recent rain in Santa Clara County had caused an al- most total loss of the fruit crop in the valley was | | or was not a slander upon the county, it may be | ; fxmed that hardly any department of news gathering is more important to the general public and more | perplexing to newspapers than that dealing with the crop outlook. The condition of crops varies with the weather and other climatic phenomena from month to month, | and even from week to week. So extensive are these | changes of condition and so uncertain is the per- | manency of any of them that the most experienced | farmers, orchardists and vine-growers are often at a | | loss to judge accurately of the real situation of even | the products of their own lands. A crop that looks | | flourishing to-day may be blighted before the har- | vest, and another which to-day seems weak and un- profitable may by some fortunate combination of earth and sky be brought to a bountiful fruition. Insufficient as are the reports, the importance of the information is so great that it is imperative to | make every possible effort to obtain it. It is better | to publish an estimate of crop conditions this 'week‘ | and correct it next week than not to publish it at all. | The agricultural output of any season in this country represents many millions of dollars and involves the welfare of millions of people. Under our commercial system it is necessary for the producer of any kind of product to know something of the condition of that particular crop throughout the country in order that he may form an intelligent estimate of what his crop | is to be worth in the market. Ig would be a pleasant task for newspapers to pub- | lish nothing but optimistic reports—to announce from week to week that all crops are flourishing and | that every county is prosperous. Such reports, how- | ever, would have the effect of convincing many peo- ple that there was to be an overproduction. This would result in what is known as “bearing the mar- ket,” and would do in the long run more damage than good. It is fair to assume that the unfavorable conditions of the winter, the drought and the frosts have had a depressing effect on the farmers of the State, and per- haps their reports at present are somewhat affected | by their fears, and the crops may turn out much | better than has been expected from their reports. Nevertheless, it will not be wise for any producer to discount such estimates too much. It is no slander upon any county in California to remind the fruit- growers that this is going to be a good year, to go slow about selling fruit to speculators at lov prices | on the idea that there is going to be a big crop, as the bear organs assert, under the pretense of booming the county. Joseph Moffett of Oakland says that “life is a gloomy place” for him. It is unnecessary to call his attention to the fact that life is a condition, rather than a place, but so far as Moffett is concerned it ought to be gloomy anyhow. He will be casually remembered as one of the pessimistic gentlemen of this community who has lately murdered a wife and tried to kill himself. At least the community can afford to incite the morose person to the joy born of a realization that it is perfec. - willing to finish the job he bungled. —_— Policeman Marlowe ought to be grateful for the latest charges brought against him.. If he can be tried on them and dismissed from the force it would save him the experience of detailing how it feels to run away from a man who has killed your superior | officer and needs killing himself. S e It is strange that some people should try to poke fun at Colorado for its expressions of patriotism on the ground that it is not where it could be reached by Spanish shells. When Spanish shells begin to fly there will be some Coloradans not far from where they alight. 2 The telephone girls did not say to the earthquake, It has no thunderstorms, with their accom- | THE DRY SEASON. 'HE pressure for removal of the Texas fever quarantine and for raising the grazing embargo from the mountain reservations in this State in- dicates that irrigation has narrowedtheinterests which may suffer from drought. While the wheat and bar- ley crop may be shortened by a dry year, it cannot be destroyed, and the State will have a persistent out- put. But the sheep and cattle interests, which depend upon dry grazing until the rains bring fresh forage, remain to be injured. The gaunt herds and bleating flocks are a sorrow to their owners, no matter how wide the range to which they have title. The dry forage, which in California is of great variety and excellence, if not cropped to exhaustion between the last rains of one season and the first of the next, is injured by the latter, and if they come only in quantity to destroy and not to renew the green feed serious loss, affecting the beef, wool and dairy interests, is sure to follow. In this sore experience is a lesson leading to profit, if well understood. Hardly a range lacks soil and facilities for the artificial production of hay. The nature of our climate permits the indefinite cagrying over, in the stack, of an unused hay crop. In a State where stock-raising is yet and is to be al- ways a very important industry, more attention should be given to forage crops. Even in a usually moist season, with a normal rainfall, there is profit in feed- ing hay to cattle and sheep. They are brought through in better condition, reproduce to a larger percentage, make more meat and fleece, and pay a profit on the extra cost of making hay. A further use for the land is also indicated, and a use profitable to the State, because it carries with it a use for more labor. There are rumors of herds and flocks that have al- ready lost 80 per cent in number, after costly efforts to rescue them from famine and the buzzards. Such a loss would cover the production of hay for many seasons to avert it. There is, too, a certain inhumanity in permitting the pangs of starvation to dumb brutes when a little foresight and a little expenditure would prevent them. For years to come there is to be no downward i movement in the price of cattle, and it carries the price of sheep up with it. The exhaustion of the great bunch grass ranges by overstocking throws the industry back upon methods that involve the artificial | production of forage. The herdsman and the flock- | master of the future must seek his profit in the preser- vation of his animals by providing fodder besides the spontaneous growth of the ranges. The State is a prodiga! producer of natural forage, | but cultivation is limiting the ranges and must follow the reduction in their area by substituting the forage that is produced by cultivation. The loss of one season’s crop of cereals by drought is reparable by the next year's normal rainfall. Only a few months pass before ample moisture brings a hopeful seedtime. But two seasons or three are necessary to perfect the growth of beef cattle or bring sheep up to their highest production of fleece and mutton. Therefore the real loss to be felt by pro- ducer and consumer is the destruction of our meat and wool producing animals. [ \ Supervisor Dodge is correct in his conclusion that Market street should not be reconstructed until 2 modern sewer has been provided for it a great MARKET-STREET PAVING. N esteemed contemporary remarks that if can be paved at all. Although this statement is made for the purpose, as subsequently appears, of introduc- ing some weak arguments in refutation, the cyclonic fact that Dr. Dodge is right sweeps everything be- fore it with the energy of a Nevada zephyr. How can any rational man contend that an expensive pavement should be laid on Market street before provision is made for sewers, water and gas pipes and telephone yrires? The fact that the Board of Supervisors is going ahead to pavethe street with bitumenregardless of Dr. Dodge’s opinion proves nothing more than that it is about to repeat an error committed a thousand times in San Francisco—an error, indeed, which has cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. It will avail our contemporary nothing to argue that years would be consumed in adopting plans for an intercepting sewer in Market street, and that in the meantime generations of horses and pedestrians may be dispatched by the basalt blocks. At the end of all it can say the con- spicuous fact would still remain that a policy of pav- ing streets before the sewer builders and burrowing corporations get through with them is perfectly asinine. A business man found managing his affairs | in such a way would be instantly arrested and brought before the Commissioners of Insanity. But it is always eminently proper for the munici- pality to waste its money. It is considered really en- terprising for the Supervisors to order accepted streets repaved with bitumen without reference to either sewers, pipes or wires. This was done on Stockton street, between O’Farrell and Market, last year. The contractors laid an excellent pavement, but they had scarcely moved their steam dissolver away ere the Spring Valley Water Works marched into the street and ripped it open from end to end. The scar inflicted by this corporation can never be eradicated. Probably other scars will be forthcoming before long. Emissaries of the gas and telephone companies are constantly casting covetous eyes upon the Llock in question, and it is not unlikely that it scon will be necessary to again lance it. Notwithstanding the general public desire for the repaving of Market street, therefore, we do not hesi- tate to affirm that the work should be preceded by the construction of an intercepting sewer. Indeed it is almost criminal for the Supervisors to expend the public money in rebuilding the thoroughfare until such a sewer has been provided for. It is long odds that the new pavement would not be down a month ere all the burrowing corporations, as well as the property-owners, will be seized with an uncontrol- lable desire to repair their pipes, wires and other con- nections. The result cannot fail to be the infliction of irreparable waste and damage. Supervisor Dodge may be a doctor among states- men and a statesman among doctors, but that he possesses an eminently level head on the subject of street paving can never be disestablished. ————rm Havana papers say the United States would back down were Spain to refuse to consider the proposals of this Government. It is plain at the Havana pa- pers need more than a mere censor. They need sense. The rabid fire speakers of Congress seem still to forget the circumstance that an American ship was blown up in Havana harbor. But really, for a day or two, it was a circumstance worth mentioning. PR i From what we know of the feeling in Texas, the Spanish desperadoes who contemplate invasion of that State would be wise to hunt for another spot | through which to break in. i deal of time is certain to elapse ere the thoroughfare | | orchestra, and I swear that this enthus- "MUSIC_AND The San Francisco Oratorio Society is making efforts to bring Mary Louise Clary to this city to sing the solo role in Saint-Saens’ *Samson et Delilah.” Miss Clary is a contralto who first be- came famous as the Trilby larynx. When Mr? Palmer was about to produce the Du Maurier-Paul Potter play he sought far and wide for a woman with sufficient power of lung to be heard by the whole house when she sang “Ben Bolt” behind the scenes., For several days contraltos came In processions, only to sing and be turned away with the remark that their voices were too feeble for the part. At last Miss Clary came, and-the very win- | dows of the box office vibrated when she lifted up her voice. Palmer engaged her on the spot, and she has been famous ever since, partly on account of the large amount of advertising she received for being heard, but not seen, in “Trilby.” Miss Clary has a reputation for beauty, and her friends say that she sings by nature and owes little or nothing to sing- ing teachers. If this is so her voice can- not be expected to last, but she has not been singing long enough yet to have worn it out. Some music by Jan Blockx is to be played at an approaching symphony con- cert, and as a number of musical people have already asked, “Who is Jan Blockx?" a few words about him may be of interest. Last year the Netherland- ish Theater of Antwerp produced a lyric drama In the Flemish tongue, entitled “Harbergsprinces’ (The Princess of the Inn). The music was by Jan Blockx and the libretto by Nestor Tierce, both.men MARY LOUISE CLARY, Who May Soon Be Heard Here. MUSICIANS. musicians are delighted with the idea, | though the management is still hesitating | on account of the vast cost and labor in- | volved. “Armida” requires such compli- | cated and delicate machinery that to stage it according to modern ideas would involve an outlay of at least $60,000, not | to speak of costumes and other accessor- jes. If the opera is produced, it is al- ready decided that Emma Calve sha}! play the title role. Gluck's “Armida,’ which was first produced in 1777, was founded on an old lyric tragedy by Lulli, which first saw the light in For the modern generation of opera-goers it would be an absolute novelty. Aloys Werner, the tenor who sang here recently in the “Elijan,” is meeting in the Fast with an appreciation which he scarcely received here. In Washington, D. C., he sang the other day with marked success, and also in Philadelphia he sang the ‘Prize Song' from the ** Meister- | singer” with the Maennerchor, a chorus ot 200 voices, that is well known in the | East. At this sar e concert he also sang | the “Love Song* from the “Walkyrie.” | During Easter week he will sing the tenor | solo part in Rossini's “‘Stabat Mater” in | Boston, and on Easter Sunday he is spec- | ially engaged as the tenor soloist at St. Francis Xavier's Church, New York. The Eastern critics have devoted considerable space to praising his singing. | The Emperor of Austria is not going to | allow any of his military bands to pay | royalties to composers, and he has shown | his hand with great firmness in the mflt-i ter. The other day the Society of Authors being entirely unknown to fame. The success of their opera was so instanta- neous and startling that great critics journeyed from as far away as Paris to see “The Princess of the Inn,” although it was in an uncouth tongue that they did not understand. Last year the work was produced at other Belgian theaters, always with the same success; finally it was translated into French, and was pro- duced at Ghent on the 10th inst. Its re- ception was even more rapturous than when it was played in Flemish. Le Men- estrel says of it: “The first performande, last Friday, was a series of acclama- tions for the work, and of ovations for the composer, who himself directed the lasm was spontaneous, and was well merited; for the rest you know how cold | and skeptical the Belgians are, especially | in judging the work of a compatriot. The admiration was unanimous! Ah! for how many years has the opera been expected which would fulfill all aspirations, which would be at once scholarly and emotional. I belleve that at last we have found it. The subject is simple and nalf, but it is human without vulgarity, and above all it is very musical. It represents the eter- nal struggle between good and evil, be- tween sensual and ideal love. Tt is a little the history of ‘Carmen’ transported to other scenes, but with a higher aim, and is more truly lyric.” Paris, which sent us Anna Held, is shocked to the very marrow at an oper- etta that has been quite popular in Amer- fca and England. The piece that has made Paris blush, but which is packing the Athenee Comlique every night, is the “‘Geisha.” Tt has only just been adapted, and the critics are about equally ddided between horror and admiration. The se- rious critic of Le Figaro speaks of “the prodigous indecency” of the “Geisha,” but he condones it on account of the alr of unreality given by the Japanese setting. He further remarks: “It Is fortunate that this plece imported from prudish England deplcts Japanese manners, for if it passed on the European continent even the crit- ics least enslaved by ‘cant’ would be puz- zled to designate the place of action, and the heroine’s occupation. Fortunately it is the .nglish who send us the ‘Geisha,’ for if a French author had drawn such pictures and had deplicted English soclety women in such a place as the teahouse of the Thousand Delights, we should cer- tainly have heard a wail of anguish from the other side of the channel, declaring that we were audaciously attributing to chaste Albion the vices of decadent Baby- lon.” Altogether the critics are having a Joyous time getting back at “perfide Al- bion,” which has so often accused French works of a laxity in morals. Paris has not for a long time held up its hands, and s0 loudly cried “shocking!” Lyric art has lost a friend in Alphonse Bouvret, director of the Lyric Theater, Paris, who shot himself onthe Moulineaux railroad, by firing four times at his brain. No one expected such an end for a man whose cheerful, smiling countenance was one of the sights of Parisian promenades. It was when he became executor for the Countess de Caen that Alphonse Bouvret, in managing the estate, had charge of the little theater in the Galerle Vivienne. At first he played little vaudevilles there, and then one fine day he thought he would transform the theater into a small opera-house, where he could revive the cast-off works of the Opera Comique. The success of his little house was re- markable, and the services he rendered to French art were very real. In his hours of ease Bouvret was a song writer and poet, he also founded the Journal des Ar- tistes. At Christiana a young Swedish pupil of Massenet, Gaston Borch, has offered the public a little opera in one act entitled “Silvio,” which is a sequel to Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Silvio, who is the son of Lola and Turriddu, falls in love with Graziella, the daughter of Lola and Alfio. The young man feels that he ought to avenge the murder of his father, killed as all opera-goers know, by Alfio, and something enormously tragic naturally results. Silvio kills Alfio, and Graziella, learning their parentage, becomes mad. This sangulnary tragedy was very well received by the publie, and Gaston Borch was called four times before the curtain. The Paris Grand Opera is talking of re- viving Gluck’s “Armida’” next season, and and Composers was startled by the res- ignation of all the composers who had | any connection with military music. It | soon transpired, however, that they had | resigned in a body vy order of the Minis- ter of War. As if to add insult to injury, the unfortunate soldiér-composers were | ordered to maxe out five varied and com- | plete programmes, containing only such pleces as ean be played without any pay- ment of royalties whatever. Needless to | say, the resigning composers obeyed. J Johann Strauss, the “Waltz King,” has just opened a competition for the | scenario of a ballet, the score of which he - proposes write him- | self. perial Opera of Vienna, whose director, | Herr Mahler, is one of the five judges | that arg to decide the prize of $3840. The scenari6 must be very detailed, and the | time of its performance must not last | longer than three-quarters of an hour. Here is a chance for American writers. to It was the irony of fate that Anton Seidl should have died just as a perma- nent orchestra in New York had become practically assured. Seidl had just re- fused a profitable offer to go to Berlin, | and it looked as if this country would | benefit by his great talent as a conductor for many a year to come. The Emperor Willlam has author!zed | the Opera of Berlin to play a new opera entitled “Ours Is the Victory,” the music of which is written by Paul Geisler. This | authorization was necessary because King Frederick II, the friend of Voltaire, plays a role in the new work. | { | Thenew tenor, Saleza, who hasmadesuch a hit in Paris, is gc 1g to glve a special series of gala performances of “Carmen’ at the Opera Comique next month. Calve will be the heroine. Saleza is coming to America next winter in the Grau Com- pany. Adelina Patti, who has been in seclu- sion at San Remo since her husband's death, has now been advised by her physicians to leave the sea air, as she is far from well. She has gone to Paris for a change. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. M. B. Curtis of Stockton is at the Lick. M. Fralisee of Martinez is staying at the Lick. H. L. Partridge of San Jose s at the | California. | George R. Finch of St. Paul is a guest | at the Palace. | Dr. Leon F. Henry and wife of Denver are at the Occidental. Lieutenant and Mrs. W. S. Biddle have taken rooms at the Occidental. J. W. Siblet, a large foundryman of | Ohio, is a guest at the California. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Carrington and fam- | ily are at the Palace from Michigan. George F. Brown, general manager of the Pullman Company, is at the Palace, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Severance and Miss Fanning, of St. Paul, are at the Palace. H. S. Hanson has come up from San Mateo and is registered &t the Occidental. | George G. Mullins, U. 8. A., is regis- tered at the Occidental from Los Angeles. Dr. N. Green of Watsonville is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived last night. B. B. Bromwell of Tacoma arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Cali- fornia. 0000000000 Detective Ed o O Wren told th o DEIECTIVE Bi e s 5 DINAN’S enna. couple of his o TERRIBLE o Colleagues the Other night to an o DREAM. O appreciative au- 0000000000 dience in the lob- | by of the Baldwin. | In the private office of Chief Lees out | at the City Hall is an electric button con- nected by & wire to a bell in the next ! room, where the desks of his subordinates | are placed. The Chief has arranged a series pf signals to notify his trusty henchmen which particular one he de- sires to see and thus avoid the confusion of having his office filled by the entire force, fiho. in times past, were wont to | to leave a bz | command ‘a premium. | by nationality. The ballet is destined for the Im- |, | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 | of nails. | buy ten pounds of nails. rush in in a bunch whenever they had the slightest pretext for placing themselves in the way to be noticed by the man whose favor often resulfs in promotion. The signals are arranged in nurhbers. For instance, when Lees rings once D tective Colby awakes from his nap and falls over himself to get into the presence that never slumbers, when the little bell s heard to jingle twice Tim Bainbridge cut: short the story of how near he came to capturing a desperate criminal in the fall of '60 and gces in to be detailed to find a lost child, three bells make Dinan heave a sigh over the possibility of work, while four bells mean that little Otto Heyneman must take his book and pen- cil and stand ready to do as he is told. The officials have become S0 accus- tomed to these signals that some of them, upon Learing a car bell, have been known in such a hurry as to make for the proprietor to put it it necess on the slate. Not long ago Bainbridge and Dinan were detailed to go up the coast on & case. They took one of the Pacific Coast steamers, and after the vessel had put to sea and they ad succeeded in casting about all of their bread upon the waters the two weary travelers retired to rest. The motion of the ship made slumber a matter of some difficulty, but at last, thanks to a little bottle carried by Bainbridge that did not contain coffee, | they got to sleep and all was well. Nearly two hours passed when Dinan, springing out of his berth, began to dress as If his life depended on the time con- sumed in getting nto his clothes. The noise he made awoke his friend Tim, who, leaning out of his bunk, asked what was the matter. ‘Sure, th’ ould mon is ringin’ fur me an’ here Of am kapin’ him waltin’; an’ me wid th’ woife an’ childer to look afther. Sorror th' day; Of know Of'll loose me job.” It took the united efforts of the mate and two sallors to keep him in the room long enough to wake up sufficiently to comprehend the fact that he was not in the office, but at sea, and that the bell ha heard was the ship’s bell striking tha hour. Captain J. H. Lombard has come down from Portland and is staying at the Grand. Mrs. Henry D. Welsh, accompanied by her two daughters, is at the Palace from Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. james Coleman of Peta-~ Juma are two of yesterday's arrivals at the California. E. R. Bryson and wife of Corvallis, Or., are guests at the Occidental, where they arrived yesterday. J. L. Madden and C. P. Vicinix are two mining men of Sutter Creek who are reg- istered at the Grand. F. N. Rust, an insurance man of Chi- cago, and J. H. Glad of Sacramento are two late arrivals at the Grand. Charles E. Pugh, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is reg- | istered at the Palace from Philadelphia. W. B. Kinskern, general ticket agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Rallway, is registered at the Paldce from Chicago. 0. L. Sweet of the Olympic Salt Water Company has resigned the superintend- ency of that concern and will again go to railroading. Captain R. H. R. Loughborough, U. 8. A., is at the Grand on his way from Mis- soula, Mont., to Dry Tortugas, where he has been ordered to report immediately for autfy, - TUEER AT L ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DAYS OF THE PAST—A Subscriber, City. The 3ist of December, 1§zs. 1:;;1 on Vi same ate in 28 "I}h?lir';fifi'a S the aame date In 150 on Friday. WORTH TEN CENTS—W. E. C., Los Angeles. A dime of 1584 is worth 10 cents, nless it be one of that year coined at t‘he San Francisco Branch Mint. Such POPULATION BY NATIONALITY—G. F., City: There are no fizgres I%‘i‘n‘_\t %1\'9 s ulation of San Francisco Bt pOpTth latest figures of this character are to be found in the census of 1890. BIRTHDAY GIFT—D. B. D., Crockett, Cal. Not knowing the young man to whom you would like to make a bi_rthd:ly gift, nor his tastes or needs, it is impos- sisible to suggest what would be a suit- ble birthday present. MARRIAGES—Subscriber, City. Mar- riages in the State of California are re- corded in the office of the Recorder of the county in which they are solemnized. “A marriage at sea,” which is not recog- nized in law as a marriage, is not re- corded, for the reason that there is no place where such acts can be recorded. Finest eyeglasses, specs, 15c up, 33 4th.® e Cholce present Eastern friends, Town- send's Cal. Glace Fruits 50c Id Jap bskts.® — e —e———— Special iaformation supplied dally to business houses and public men b; m‘: on gomery street. 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