The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898. 6 The 1L =Call THURSDAY.... ....APRIL 21, 1808 " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S. /LEAKE _Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Maln 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS .....2IT 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 I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE... NEW YORK OFFICE ...Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE....... ~........Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Stranger in New York: —“Delmonico’s at 6." Italian Opera. he Strange Adventures of Miss Brown." Morosco's—The Diamond Breaker." Tivoli—“Sinbad the Sailor.” Tivoli—Concert this afternoon, & Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush-street Theater— Kip Orphanage, ¥. M. C. A. Hall—“The Passion Play." The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville, Wallace, “Untamable Lion." Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Mechanics' Pavilion—Review and Drill, to-morrow night. Sutro Baths—Swimming. fustc, dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, Pacific Coast Jockey Cluo, Ingleside—Races, 8,"to-night. Benefit of the Maria AUCTION SALES. By N. E. Clark—This day, April 21, Turkish Rugs, at 106 Grant avenue at 2 o'clock. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, April 21, Groceries at 1som street, at 10 o'clock. By n & Doyle—Friday, April 22, Horses, at 220 Valencia | street, at 11 o'clock. | By Von Rhela & Co.—Thursday, April 25, Real Estau 63 Market street, at 12 o’clock. ey S ' iro FAREWELL TO THE FIRST. HE march of the First Infantry yesterday was a farewell of which the soldiers might well have een proud. Doubtless it sent them toward the with a new idea of the place they hold in popu- | lar esteem, with their hearts touched and the farewell | robbed of its bitterness. Along the line as they passed thousands of banners waved, thousands of | children shrilled their enthusiasm, and men and women stood voiceless, their eyes filled with unbid- den mist. They loved the men who tramped by, per- haps never to return. They looked upon them as representing the honor of the flag, the dignity of the Government, the certainty that no foe could menace the public safety and go unscathed. | It is difficult to define with exactness the emotions of which the display of flags and flowers was in token. It is not just e: to understand why women shed | tears and why some of them could not resist the im- | pulse to rush into the street and strew wreaths in the | path of the soldiers. Yet such were the impulses | stirring the throng, and it is good that it was so. It renews faith in patriotism, the heritage of a people who fought for their own liberty, a feeling the pes- | has said was dead. And the men, they deported themselves as be- came those who faced the certainty of sibility of death kept time to the peril, the pos- Steady, erect, grave-faced, they wsic every note of which carried them nearer to danger and perhaps to death. It may | befall that the First shall stand guard in far away | Cuba, threatened there by armed foe and by the | more deadly miasma of the tropic swamp. At such a time they can look back to the city which with tears and cheers bade them godspeed and know that here | multitudes who never spoke to them, who only saw | them as they went by to war, hold them in tender | riemory, will follow them with their prayers, and some day, it may be, welcome them joyously home again. ————— UBLIC interest in teleology aroused in the MR. BRYAN AS THE FINAL CAUSE. p outh by a discussion of Mr. William J. Bryan's place in the universe and his part what theologians call “the scheme of salvation,” The Memphis Appeal seems to doubt Mr. Bryan as a final cause. It says: “When the Governor of Mississippi stated that William J. Bryan was the greatest man that had ap- peared on earth since the death of Jesus Christ he made a statement which is hardly tenable. Some people will be surprised that ‘the Governor made any exception at all; while others, pondering upon the fact that such men as St. Paul, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Napoleon, Washington, Jefferson, Clay, Cal- houn, Webster, Bismarck, Gladston tt, Fox, Lin- coln, Lee and Stonewall Jackson have lived since the time of Christ, will be surprised that any sober‘l man should have made such a silly statement at all, Mr. Bryan is a young man of fine oratorical gifts, who made a remarkable canvass for President and | was defeated, and it in no way detracts from our ap- preciation of his character or his talents to deny that he is divine.” The Appeal treads lightly. One admires the cau- tion of the statement that the Governor's position is “hardly tenable,” though there is a gradual vertebral stiffening up to the expression of a doubt of Mr. Bryan's divinity. It is evident that the Appeal feels that denial of the Governor's declaration may be taken as treason to 16 to 1. This fear is shown by his holding St. Paul and sixteen other gentlemen be- tween himself and expulsion from the silver party, just as Russell Sage held a clerk between himself and the dynamite bomb which was exploded against him as collateral for a loan. Whenever it is admitted that Mr. Bryan is merely “a young man of fine oratorical gifts” we may ex- pect a return to reason on the part of his devotees. That admission brings him out of the clouds and enters him in the vocal class along with Billy Mason, Senator Stewart and Perspiration Allen, also of Nebraska. in Mr. Ebanks, who killed two people, wili have to han¥, which is proper, but to bring him to this pass required the highest court in the land, notwithstand- ing there was no question of his guilt, but only as to whether the requisite amount of red tape had been expended in demonstrating it. Citizens of Huntington, Or., think they saw “vic- tory’s sign in the skies.” Oregon whisky and a me- | 7 of chapter 2, article I, of the proposed charter. | given much. But how about the powers lodged in the | fleet after fleet. One cannot come to the help of an- POWERS OF THE SUPERVISORS. DISCUSSION of the proposed new charter /L\ will be incomplete without some attention is given to the power of the Supervisors. The organ of the charter declares that the Freeholders have completely reformed these historical corrup- tionists by taking from them some of their executive and legislative functions. Under the proposed in- strument the Supervisors will no longer directly par- ticipate in appointments to office. This function will be exercised exclusively by the Mayor. Nor will they be any longer empowered to grant special privi- leges to corporations. We do not know but it is a good idea to clip the wings of the Supervisors. Certainly if a system of legislation ever grew up anywhere which deserved the attention of a ruthless reformer it is the system which prevails in this city. Under the tutelage of thé corporations, . the political bosses and the spoilsmen, the legislative arm of our government has earned the disrespect of all intelligent people. No attention is paid to its opinions, its laws are treated with con- tempt by the caurts, and its public fulminations are usually met with jeers. The principal subjects to which its members have devoted their attention for several years is selling franchises and special privi- leges, and ham-stringing corporations which are so unfortunate as to fall into its clutches. Surely a Board of Freeholders engaged in making a charter cannot be censured for dealing such a sys- tem deadly blows. But why, in giving the bodkin to the Supervisors, should the charter-makers have placed a sword in the hands of the Mayor? Not only have they lodged the appointment of all the ad- ministrative bureaus of the government in the hands of the Mayor without check—thus making it easy for the corruptionists by electing one man instead of twelve to capture the city—but they have created. a monopoly in street railway franchises which the Mayor could not, even were he so disposed, over- turn. The plan for granting street railway franchises adopted by the charter-makers fixes the present monopoly in street railway transportation. No - one but a four or five times millionaire could ever secure a competitive privilege from the Supervisors under the system proposed. The merest tyro in the law may readily understand this by reading sections 6 and Under the instrument the Board of Supervisors will have no real power. Even its ordinances may be vetoed by the people. Perhaps this is well. A board which deserves so little from history should not be Mayor? Will not one man abuse them more than many? Is not municipal government after all, like most other human institutions, a matter of character and not of system? Had our people always been careful to elect good men to the offices of Super- visor would the charter-makers have treated the board with the contumely now apparent? There is no principle of government under this shifting of abuses. Instead of stripping the Supervisors of all | power, why did not the Freeholders place checks | upon them and checks upon the Mayor and his ons, and thereby create antagonisms which always prevent abuses in municipal government? It seems to us that the plan proposed is a fire into which we are invited to jump. The question is bound to be, Are we not better off in the frying-pan? THE BURDEN OF ISLAND COLONIES. ’] Her weakness to-day is in what she founded in her flood tide of power to be her strength. She took domain by conquest and colonization, in pur- | suance of manifest destiny, to plant her power and | its outposts all over the world. She has (‘oaling; stations, naval stations, colonial capitals, and instead | of leaning upon them now for support, they are crumbling under her and will let her fall. She must guard her Mediterranean islands and those in the At- lantic and Pacific, divide her military and naval strength and so weaken herself thereby as to expose her home coasts to attack and her peninsular domain to invasion. The United States are happily without such necessity. Our navy can attack the ships Spain which police her islands THE sore straits in which Spain finds herself are the effect of a cause remote in her history. | | | | of and destroy them other without leaving a vital point exposed. If any- thing can-impress our people with the unwisdom of the annexation of Hawaii, or any other extraconti- nental territory which requires a navy to defend it, current events should be sufficient. It is proved that we can not only defend our owh extensive coast line, but can project offensive war against a neighboring enemy, using our own ports as a base of supplies and military operations. Cuba is to Spain what Hawaii would be to us. She has fortified that island and treated it as a strong mili- tary<base, but even if its people were not in rebellion against her, its possession would divide her forces and weaken her position. Spain was once a first-class power, exceeding Eng- land or any of the maritime countries. Her scepter was over distant domain, but the necessity of defend- ing her far-planted standard has sapped her colonial revenues and brought her home finances to bank- ruptcy. Her history is a strong argument against manifest destiny, against dividing the planet between a few strong powers. It is better to let the small nations alone, and to let their people develop institutions suited to their genius and the physical conditions in which they are placed. Schemes of universal empire spring out of this fever for annexation and absorp- tion of small autonomies, but such schemes have in them the germs of dissolution. The United States are just now illustrating to the world the value of a homogeneous people, made one by similarity of conditions, fitted by environment to live under one system of equal laws, and if we are wise we will refuse to build on to this scheme colo- nial and excrescent annexes, which must be adminis- tered under a policy different from that which suffices for our continental po: Cubans in New York announce that they are satis- fied. Surely they ought to be. They have been re- quired to-do no fighting, and now a greater power takes up arms in their behalf, permitting them to re- main in the metropoiis and there wage war to the extent of a bottle of ink daily. e T About as many thousand people as could con- veniently line the route from the Presidio to the ferry yesterday put in a few hours remembering the Maine. When the attitude of the Carlists is considered it can fairly be said that Spain occupies a position be- tween the devil and the deep sea. Torpedo boats may. be terrible engines of war, but the crews seem to be concerned generally in an effort teoric shower constitute a peculiar blend. to keep the things afloat, AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. THERE has, since the open hostility of Spain, particularly since the Maine went down, been a tendency to find fault with Mr. McKinley. It has found expression in statements that he had not acted with decision, that he did not have a ful’ grasp of the American idea. It was forgotten for the mo- ment that upon the President rests a fearful respon- sibility, that to his acts at the time of crisis must be ascribed his own place in history, and upon the in- tegrity of his purpose must rest the reputation of the people who have chosen him to rule them. It cannot be said now by any patriot that the Presi- dent has not acted wisely - and well. He read the will of the country in the dictum of Congress, and to it he has bowed. While he was anxious to uphold the dignity of the country, perhaps by a different method, he has not permitted his personal beliefs to cast a straw in the way of carrying out the popular idea. If he would have given Spai:. more time, he has declined to do so. He has sent an ultimatum about which there is no shadow of uncertainty. He has allowed Spain a reasonable time, no more, in which to make answer. He has assumed that the er- ply will not be in the nature of a concession. The praise of America will be his present reward. No more could have been asked than he has done. The precise terms of the ultimatum are not known yet, but the intimations are all that it has no uncer- tain tenor. The Spanish flag must retire from Cuba. This is the penalty of crime. The people have said it, and their President has conveyed their verdict to Madrid. Perhaps the Spanish excel us in diplomacy. They cannot outdo us in directness of speech and purpose. President McKinley has risen to the oc- casion, as his friends said, and his foes feared, he would. QJ sults of the recent meeting of the Democratic State Committee that if he had given less of his time and attention to making single tax campaigns in other States, and had devoted himself to his duties in Congress and-to the affairs of his party at home, his energies would have been of more service to his aspirations for the governorship. As it is, while he has been fighting all over the country in advocacy of a scheme to place all taxes on land holdings and make the farmers bear all the burdens of the com- monwealth, his enemies have got possession of his party, slaughtered his friends in their homes and achieved a distinct triumph. By reason of the clever move carried out by Mr. Gould the single tax champion has been heavily han- dicapped in the contest for the gubernatorial nomina- tion. Representation in the State convention is to be apportionedamong the countiesnot or the basis of the vote given for Budd, as should have been the case in a State election, but on that given for Bryan. It is well known that many stalwart Democrats voted against Bryan, and many silver Republicans voted for him. Consequently the Gould scheme throws down the Democracy in some of its strongholds where Maguire has friends, and increases the representation | from the silver fusion districts, where the single tax | is not popular. It is not exactly a knock-out blow for Maguire, but it will stagger him. The trick of Mr. Gould is too characteristic . of | Democracy to occasion surprise. That party is es- sentially a party of opposition, of factions and of kickers. All through the year it kicks against the government of the nation, and it begins each’ cam- paign by a faction kick against some of its own lead- e — DEMOCRACY AT WORK. UDGE MAGUIRE has now learned by the re- | was stationed to watch the | protest was delivered, The American | | position of affairs, Not Been +rE++r e PART IL After the Lopez affairs all American papers were excluded from Cuba, and a rigid surveillance was exercised over all correspondence from or to the is- land. In October, 1852, the United States steamship Crescent City, from New York to New Orleans, touched at Havana. The captain-general had be- come incensed at certain paragraphs that had appeared in the New York papers relative to Cuban affairs, which were charged to have been furnished by William Smith, the purser of the Crescent City. Notice was sent to Lieutenant Porter, the commander of the vessel, that the nurser must not attempt to land at Havana. Porter replied that he knew of nothing that would render Smith’s presence on shore necessary, but that if he had dutles which would call him into the city he would leave to the authorities the re- sponsibility of preventing his landins. The purser did not go ashore and the steamer proceeded to New Orleans. On her return trip the vessel again touched at Havana and letters were sent on board and also on board the steamer Black Warrior, warning the officers that Smith could not land. Spanish po- lice officers were also sent on board the Crescent City, evidently to watch Smith’s movements and to prevent his landing. Lieutenant Porter at once in- formed those parties that if they were on board to arrest any one answerable to the Spanish authorities, or to pre- vent the embarkation of any person belonging to Havana, the ship was open to them, but if they were there to watch the officers of the ship it could not be permitted and they must g0 ashore. They accordingly left. Anticipating further trouble the lieu- tenant addressed a letter to the author- ities warning them against offering any indignity to the American flag. The vessel left the port without further molestation. The next time when the Crescent City visited Havana with the mails, on her way to New Orleans, she | entered the harbor without molesta- tlon. At sunrise the Captain of the Port came alongside and asked whether Smith was still on board, and being answered In the affirmative, an order | was immediately given that the steam- | er should have no communication what- ever with the shore. A cordon of boats steamer and enforce the execution of the order. Lieutenant Porter requested permission to communicate with the American Consul, in order to present to the cap- tain-general through him a protest against the treatment to which the steamer was subjected. After a parley on shore this request was denied for some time, but finally, after an inef- fectual effort to ascertain the contents | of the protest—Porter refusing to com- | municate further on the subject ex- cept through the Consul, the latter offi- | cer was permitted to come alongside | In a Government boat, in company with | the Captain of the Port, to whom the Consul, however, was not permitted to | 80 on board the steamer, nor to write home by her. On his assurance that | nothing could be done to change the the Crescent City proceeded to sea with the American flag flying at her masthead. This inci- dent preduced, in connection with other | acts that were regarded as insulting !0{ the United States Government, a deep ers. Never has there been i.. recent years an election | contest of any kind that did not open with a Demo- cratic row of some sort, and as a rule the earnesf ness with which the party was going to make the campaign has been pretty accurately foreshadowed by the keenness of the faction fight that began it. According to the ordinary course of human nature | faction trickery in a party at the outset of a cam- paign would create dissensions that would weaken it | in the contest that followed. Democratic nature, | however, is not human nature. Democracy ne\'cr; really gets its mad up until it has seen its own blood, | and it has to have a fight in the camp before it is | ready to fight outside. Judging the present out- | look, therefore, by the experience of the past, the | knifing of Maguire by Gould is an evidence that the Democrats will make a hard fight for victory this year. There will be nothing in the way of a walk- over for any candidate the Republicans. may put up, no matter how great may be his personal strength. The lesson of the situation is clear. The Demo< crats are already at work—knifing .one other, it is true, but nevertheless at work, and it is time for Republicans to be making ready. The task of party organization should be pushed forward at once. Let every loyal Republican enroll, himself.as a member of some active campaign club and be prepared to do zealous work in the contest that is to come. The resolution to have no fiesta at Los Angeles this year is a graceful and generous surrender to cir- cumstances. These floral events have been most en- joyable, and of a large practical benefit in making known the beauty and productiveness of Southern California. Yet an occasion purely one of merri- ment would not accord well with a time when the country is engaged in war. In another year, when the trouble shall be over, Los Angeles may with pro- priety have a bigger fiesta than ever, and we will all take a week off and go. Butcher Weyler predicts that to accomplish any- thing in Cuba Americans will have to land several hundred thousand troops, that fever will kill half of these, and the Spanish “will take care of the rest.”” After having undergone these dire experiences, it is not easily seen how the Americans will have accom- plished much beyond founding a series of cemeteries. Possibly Weyler is as bad a prophet as he is a sol- dier. Perhaps the practical Mr. Huntington, when he said there was 1o reason to fight with Spain, had not realized that the troops would be transported over his lines, and that thousands of citizens would go to watch them march away, each contributing 10 cents to Mr. Huntington's street car line, —_— It may not be out of place to inquire if the Ala- meda pickpocket who explained that he stole a purse for fun, and who got six months in jail, couldn’t have had more fun in some other way. e During Minister Bernabe’s sojourn in this coun- try he has given evidence of being a gentleman, a particularly notable contrast with the example fur- nished by his predecessor. : Knights of the Red Branch and League of the Cross cadets are ready to enlist for war. In other words, these organizations are made up of patriotic American citizens. . - ] - It is a sort of comfort to know of one defaulting | advantage of the leniency and justice feeling of resentment, and for a time it seemed as if serious trouble would result. In commenting on the matter the San Francisco Alta said: “There are indications of hnstflifiesl to come between the United States and | Spain. Since the famous filibustering | expeditions to Cuba the Spanish au- thorities, both in Cuba and elsewhere, have manifested a disposition to take of our Government, and have done things which they would never have dared to think of doing had not the United States Government disclaimed the action of the filibusters. The Span- iards seem to mistake justice for weak- ness on our part, and upon this false hypothesis have made demonstrations against our vessels and people which they will have occasion to repent ere long. Spain should bear in mind that, while the magnanimity and conscious power of the United States induce our Government to bear with her presump- tuous impertinence, and prompts a de- gree of leniency that would not be shown to a more powerful nation, we are under no obligation to overlook her acts when they become really trouble- some to us. The madman may rave and bluster at the thundering locomo- tive with impunity provided he keeps out of the way, but if he at- tempts to check the career of the subject of his abuse the chances are he will =et run over. So with Spain. She may fulminate as she will against the United States without exciting the resentment or even notice of the Americans, but when she so far forgets herself as to inter- fere with our peaceful and lawful vo- cations she puts herself in a fair way of trouble.” The Crescent City affair was ad- justed by Judge Conkling, who had been appointed Minister to Mexico, and who touched at Havana on his way to Vera Cruz, and had a conference with the captain-general at the request of our Government. Purser Smith made an aflidavit denying that he had ever written or published anything injuri- ous to the interests of Spain in Cuba, and that was accepted as satisfactory. Spain, however, continued to annoy American merchant vessels, and the taking of the steamer Black Warrior by the Cuban Custom-house officers was an incldent that occurred during the administration of President Plerce that threatened to lead to hostilities. In May, 1854, the Warrior stopped at Havana on her way from New Orleans to New York. The port officers no- ticed that she had cotton on board, al- though her manifest certified that she had no cargo, and-the cotton was de- clared confiscated on that account. The owners of the steamer urged that it was not usual for the manifest to men- tion cotton not shipped to Havana; that all vessels touching at that port hq(l uniformly made up their statement in the same way, and that no objection had been made before. If there was an error in the manifest they asked the usual privilege of twelve hours to make the correction. ~This was per- emptorily refused, and the cargo de- clared confiscated. The captain of the steamship thereupon hauled down the United States flag and surrendered the vessel to the local Government. Sen- ator John Slidell introduced a resolu- tion in Congress authorizing the Pres- ident to suspend the operation of the neutrality laws, so far as Spain was concerned, whenever in his judgment such a measure should be expedient. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. On the 1st of August a message was re- ceived from President Pierce by the Senate stating that the formal demand for indemnity, instead of having been satisfied, had led to a justification cn the part of the Spanish Government of the action of the Cuban authorities, and that therefore the responsibility of the acts was transferred to the Soanisn Government. Nothing had been done to remove past grounds of compliint official whose bondsmen are not of the straw variety. or to afford any security for justice ! PGB R R R R R R R R R R R R O R SPAIN'S CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA. The Maine Affair Only One of a Long List Which Have + R R RS S P PR PR T DD PR PP G + + + -+ + + + + Avenged. + and tranquillity in the future. Two days later the Senate committee re- ported that full reparation for the past and adequate guarantees for the fu- ture could alone satisfy the public, and | that they would not hesitate to re- | commend the adoption of such pro- visional measures as would effectually | insure the observance of our rights and the protection of our interests but for | the fact that but four months woula | elapse before the next session, and in that brief interval they deemed it ad- visable to leave the matter in the hands of the executive. At that time Pierre Soule was our Minister at Mad- rid, and under instructions from the President he endeavored to induce | Spain to cede Cuba to the United States. At a conference of the Amer- ican Ministers to Spain, England and France, held at Ostend in October, a | tender of $120,000,000 was authorized to | be made for the purchase of Cuba. The | offer was declined by the Spanish Gov- | ernment, which held that the sale of | Cuba would be a sale of the national honor, and it was announced that the supreme Government had decided on | the abolition of slavery in the island. | The matter there ended. The annual | message of the President of December | 4, 1854, contained this brief allusion to | our affairs with Spain: “Internal agi- | tation, assuming very nearly the char- acter of political revolution, has re- cently convulsed Spain. The late Min- isters were violently expelled from power, and men of very different views in relation to its internal affairs have | succeeded. Since this change lhere[ | has been no propitious opportunity to resume and press negotiations for an | | adjustment of serious questions of dit- ficulty between the Spanish Govern- | ment and the United States.” But the | President expressed the belief that the | new Ministry would be more favora- | bly inclined to comply with our just | demands and make suitable arrange- | ment for restoring harmony and pre- sexrv!ng pPeace between the two coun- tries. ‘WINFIELD J. DAVIS. REMEMBER THE MAINE. Boys in blue, | In your battles for the freedom of the “Islang | in the sea,” In your strife for simple justice and Thrice armed are you. But stronger still will your blows he given, | Stronger still is the oath to heaven, e To avenge the ‘‘Maine’ In the blood of Spain. Godspeed you, God ald you to wipe out that | b | Remember “*Malne. humanity, | remember the | the ‘‘Maine” boys. JUD:S BRUSIE. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. | W. W. Cassley of ew York is a guest | at the California. | H. M. La Rue, the railroad commission- } er, Is at the Occidental. | James Waters, a prominent citizen of | Watsonville, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bingham of Pitts- burg are staylng at the Palace. 8. F. Gill, a big rancher of Salinas, is at the Occidental with his wife. H. B. Maxson of the United States Sur- | vey Is at the Palace from Nevada. | J. D. Goldsmith, a wealthy merchant of Grass Valley, is a guest at the Grand. F. O. Mills of Coulterville, with his wife and family, Is staying at the Occidental. Thomas Scott, postmaster of Sacramen- to, is one of the late arrivals at theGrand. Van Ruyskensied and G. Lutzen of Brussels are both registered at the Pal- G. N. Crystal of Vacaville and E. P. Riply of Chicago are both staying at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson and daughter are registered at the Occidental from New York. : | F. A. Hihn, the Santa Cruz capitalist, is | a guest at the Occidental, where he ar- | rived last night. J. F. Carrere, State Commissioner of In- sanity, {s at the California from his home in Los Angeles. | C. A. Hubbard, a capitalist of Kansas | City, is at the California accompanied by his wife and daughter. Colonel D. B. Fairbanks of the Fifth Regiment, N. G. C., {s registered at the Californfa from Petaluma. | | 0000OO0OOOOO The recent de- o . O parture of the o ROUTED o regulars for the o WITH GREAT o front has given o LOSS. o occasion for ° many heartrend- ing scenes, but it is doubtful if any occurred that were more replete with pathos than the following: Not long ago there arrived from the East a lady of such exceedingly great beauty that it was only equaled by her wit, tact and personal magnetism. She took apartments at one of the fashion- able downtown hotels, and it was not long before she had beaux galore, among whom was a young, handsome and gal- lant army officer stationed at the Pre- sidio. Now, this son of Mars has the reputation of being a great heart-breaker of about 500 stamp power, and that the reputation is based on fact can be at- tested by the aching void in many a snowy bosom where once a heart flut- tered until charmed from its nest by this Adonis in stripes and gold lace, Among his victims was a pretty debu- tante, who was also an intimate friend of the fair visitor from the East. This maiden thirsted for revenge, and, seeing her opportunity, took ¢ne new arrival into her confidence, with the result that Mr. Lieutenant was taken down to the hotel by Miss Debutante and introduced to Miss Easterner. The scheme worked to perfection. He, who had been accus- tomed to call and conquer, had at last met his match and capitulated uncon- Wditionzily. The affair progressed with remarkable rapidity. The first call was succeeded by | a second, after an interval of three days: | the third call came forty-eight hours | later, and the progression from flowers | to theater partles was so rapid that the o 0000000000 began to drift across the continent ang stir the sleepy Presidio into unusual ac- tivity, 2nd finally ghe orders came to march. Our lieutenant was in a dilemma, The call to duty was imperative and not to be avoided, and the girl only half won, What was he to do? Leave lhe‘ma.!lnr in its present state and resume his woo- | ing when the battle should have been fought and wen? Never. There were still a few men left at home, and he could not afford to take chances. He decided to stake his all on a sudden assault. So, the day before leaving, he went down to the hotel, and, finding his lady love at home, proceeded to declare him- self. She listened to him patiently until he had finished. Then, turning to him, said: “Mr. Lieutenant, you do me a great honor, and were it not for thrt‘_e things I might consider your offer. As it is, I am sorry to say it can never be. “Tell me what the three things are, darling?” he implored. ‘Possibly I can see the way to remove them.” “A husband and two children,” she re- plied. “You see, when Miss Debutante introduced us she made the mistake of calling me Miss instead of Mrs. Good-by. I hope—" but she never finished the sentence. Her lover had fled. Dr. F. H. Jenckes of Woonsocket, R. I., is at the Palace, as are also M. G. Norton and family of Winona, Minn. Dr. A. J. Hermonn of Logansport, Ind., and E. Cummings and family of Boston, are among the late arrivals at the Grand, Mrs. Mary Robinson Wright, at ona time correspondent of the New York ‘World in Mexico, is a guest at the Occis dental. Starr Dare, son of the Hon. John T. are, has enlisted in Company E of tha First Infantry, which left for the front yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Beebe and daughter of Stafford, Conn., and Mrs. R. L. Lea of New York are among yesterday’'s ar rivals at thé Palace. Mrs. Frederick Schwatka, widow of tha famous Arctic explorer, Lieutenant Schwatka, arrived in the city last night and went to the Palace. W. M. Hunt, probably the best-known man on Catalina Island, is at the Grand. He has come up to the city for a few days to visit his son and granddaughter. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Strong of Terra Haute, Ind., are at the Palace, where they arrived yesterday with a party bent on sightseeing throughout the coast. They will remain in the city several days. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TER WORF H. W., City. The city and county of San Francisco through its officers could not take the water w s away from the Spring Valley v ompany. It would have to ac- qu them by purcha If the city {.owned its own water W they would probably be placed under some board or set of officers designated for the purpose. RAILROAD SIGNALS—R. H. T., wards, Cal. Upon the sy Southern Pacific Railroad two long blasts of the whistle, followed by two short ones is a crossing signal; three long blasts means that the train has broken in two; five short blasts is a signal to flagman to back and protect rear of train; four long blasts is to call in the flagman from north or south, and four long blasts followed by one short one is to call in the flagman from east or west. CARSON CITY COINS—G. B., Angels, Cal. The catalogue of those who deal in old coins fail to show that they desire to purchase coins issued out of the Carson City Mint, nor do they offer any prem- ium for them. The dealers’ selling prices are as follows for coins from that mint: Forty cents for dimes of 1871, 'T5 and 'T; 31 for 20-cent pieces of 187 and 1876; 85 and 1871; $1 for 75 cents for those 60 cents for those of 1870, *71, '72 and 3 for an. d ; $ those trade dollars of § those of 1877, and > of 0 premitm _is off half_dollar of 1872 nor for and 6L quarters of 1854, EXTRADITION TREATY — Lucius, California. 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SUBJECT AND PLACE ARE APPRO- PRIATE. roposition to erect a statue of Agrh:ha‘;n Lincoln on the battlefleld of Gettysburg—for which a bill making an appropriation of $50,000 passed the United States Senate the other day—is both time- 1y and appropriate. There is no spot with Which Mr. Lincoln's memory will be more intimately and peculiarly associated than | that on which he delivered his celebrated speech to recognition of the services of those who fell in the cause of liberty and unfon on that memorable battlefield, and it is eminently proper that there should five years' bank accumulation began to | go like mist before the rising sun. At| last the end drew nigh. Rumors of war | be placed one of the monuments to his memory which will in after ages be re- garded as historical.—Chicago Tribune. e soe——————— ADVERTISEMENTS. R e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e i Royal is the great- est of all the baking powders in strength, purity, healthfulness