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

THE WEDNESDAY......l000verenn0--..-MAY 11, 188 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, Aaress A o e P o = PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........21T to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. . THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. +e00s2..908 Broadway INEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE... Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes strect, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:330 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. Y —— AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—+In Ol Japan.” Columbia—~Monbars " California—"The Ensign.” Alcazar—Niobe Morosco's—The Prisoner of Alglers.” Tlvoli—Ship Ahoy.” Orpheum—YVaudeville. Mechanics' Pavilion—Masonic Festival. Sherman, Clay Hall—Paloma Schramm, Saturday afternoon. Sherman, Clay Hali—Eneisel Quartet, Monday, May 16. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville, and “Vistons of Art. * Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Spectaliles. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. El Campo—Music. dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, California Jockey Club, Oakland—Races to-day.| AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, May 11 Carpets, &t 125 Tenth street, at 11 o'clock THE MASONIC FAIR. Y common consent of all who have been present at either or both of the two nights since the | opening, the Masonic Fair at Mechanics’ Pa- | vilion affords one of the brightest and most attractive | entertainments ever provided in this city. The in- | terior of the great structure has been decorated and adorned until it glows with splendor, and the presence | of music and fair women gives to the festival every charm needed to make it a scene of genuine delight. | Even if it appealed to the people as a festival for | pleasure merely, the fair would well repay the attend- ance of all. It makes, however, another and higher | appeal. All the work of decoration and adornment | which has resulted in so much beauty was not done solely for esthetic enjoyment. The motive which prompted the undertaking of the fair and animates every movement of its energies is the outcome of the spirit of charity. By that spirit it appeals to the best sentiments of the human heart and will win a response from all who have generous instincts and kindly | feelings. The Masonic order stands and has long stood as one of the most beneficent institutions of human so- ciety. Knowing neither class, nor creed, nor na- tionality, nor race, it recognizes only humanity and | serves the welfare of the world in a thousand ways. | One of the distinguished fc.tures of its good work‘ in the world is the care it exercises over the widows | and orphans of those who in life were worthy and | working members of the craft, earnest, supporters of | the cause in which it has so long engaged. It is for | the purpose of providing a home for these unfortun- | ates that this fair has been instituted. This is the " charity whose spirit pervades the entertainment, and certainly none has a better claim upon the helpfulness of all. Members of the Masonic order are ever among the first toaidand helpin all generous undertakings for the good of any class of people, and by reason r. this they are deserving of popular support in the work in which they are now engaged. [Every citizen who can afford to do so should attend the fair, and in propor- tion to his means contribute to the fund for the pro- posed home. There is in-store for all the double pleasure of aid- ing a good work and enjoying evenings of rare de- light amid a joyous company, in scenes of beauty and to the sounds of sweet music. (st e er— DIPLOMACY’'S DELICATE PROBLEMS. N these troublous times the diplomats upon whose ljudgment must rest the destiny of the nation cer- tainly have much to keep them awake o’ nights. They were prepared for many contingencies, but they | could not foresee that just at this critical juncture the Monocacy would be stuck in the mud. For a score of years this vessel has upheld the American flag and American honor in Chinese waters, being stationed in the harbor of Shanghai. Nobody ever thought of disturbing it. The wild idea of send- ing it to sea never occurred to mortal man. Now the stern demand of neutrality is made that the Mon- | ocacy must get out. This is cruelty to junk. But it can’t get out. For two decades it has settled into the mud and is likely to stay there. An attempt to move it would be costly, and it could not be safely moved. Probably the average ferry-boat crossing San Francisco Bay would be a safer craft upon the briny deep. Even if the Monocacy could be yanked from the mud there is no assurance that it would float. If it would float there is no way of telling in which direc- tion it might choose to drift. To make suggestions may be presumption, and yet the fact is clear that something must be done. Per- haps it would be well to give the old thing to China. This act would constitute no loss to the United States and might please the Oriental, while Chinese seaman- ship is surely equal to managing a craft so securely embedded in the mire that a typhoon would not rock it at its moorings. Some surprise has been expressed that the yellow journals have been able to secure news when all the cables between themselves and the seat of action had been severed. There is no occasion for surprise. Ac- cess to a cable would not only have been an expense, but would actually have hampered the yellow boys. ——— It can hardly be believed that 50 per cent of the militiamen of Montana were physically unfit to be- come soldiers, even if the medical examiners did so + decide. Montana is neither an infirmary nor a resort for the one-lunged. When the correspondents affirm the Government to be ignorant of the whereabouts of the Spanish the thought does not occur to them that possibly the Government is not taking correspondents fully into its canfidence now. oy J | famous park being crippled for lack of funds when | ity which withholds it where it should be freely | granted. | Gate Park was the place for it. There it would have | | of the school of realty sharks who have so zealously | has been exerted to prevent action. AS TO MONKEY BUSINESS. HAT there is no need for a Mission “zoo” no Tquesfion will arise. That the people of this city do nqt desire the establishment of such a con- cern is certain beyond all doubting. That devoting a quarter of a million to the purchase of a site for such an affair would be robbery of the taxpayer for the benefit of the realty shark is a proposition con- cerning which the shark and his accessory will be the only disputants. For a time it seemed that the iniquitous scheme had been crushed, that exposure had killed it, but its friends were at work, and the effect of their efforts was apparent at the last meeti.g in April of the Su- pervisors. On that occasion osupervisor Clinton de- nounced the project as “a clean sieal,” a rather an- omalous term, which seemed fully to meet ‘the ex- igency of the case. He showed that the land for which ‘the city was asked to pay a sum perhaps as great as $300,000 was of no such value, that a vain effort had been made once to give it away, and that for years it had been hawked without a bidder. Now it was to be unloaded upon the public, which neither needed nor wanted it, and at a price satisfactory to the speculators who had originated the job. Such wanton betrayal of the people would, he thought, be a crowning scandal. Evidently the Supervisors were | willing to accept such a crown. Nine of them voted | themselves worthy of the shameful decoration. There is every prospect that the present year will see “hargd times.” There are to be no abundant crops to stimulate trade and keep money in circulation. It is meet that every citizen harbor his own resources and a similar rule should apply to the municipality. It is no season for waste. Yet the Supervisors pro- pose to waste a preliminary quarter of a million. Out of this expenditure there can come no possible good; none is expected; such is not the object. The only purpose is to put the money of the people into the pockets of the schemers. With the tax levy this year there is certain to be a deficit. All the money which can be raised is needed in legitimate improvements, in the streets, the schools, the sewer system, the Po- lice and Fire departments. Why trifle it away on a monkey ranch, a seminary for poll-parrots? There can be no claim made that the Mission needs a “zoo.” That section of the city has free access to Golden Gate Park, now one of the most beautiful in the world, and yet one in which improvements must go on for many years, and to which economy denied this year a sufficient appropriation. San Francisco | will not patiently endure the spectacle of its world- | | money is thrown away needlessly by the same author- If necessity existed for a “zoo” Golden | been common property, no ground would need to have been purchased at ridiculously exorbitant fig- wres, and the only cost would have been for the ani- mals themselves. If the Mission is entitled to a park of its own, so is the Western Addition, so is North Beach, so is the region around Rincon Hill. As a matter of palpable fact the Mission “zoo” was conceived in fraud, is wholly without merit of any sort, is an unmitigated imposition. If carried through it should contain a few cages devoted to the detention and unblushingly advocated the steal, ostensibly for the benefit of the Mission, really with the design of looting the public treasury. — AN INCOMPETENT GRAND JURY. ROBABLY the dismissal of the present Grand Jury for incompetency is about as good a dis- position as can be made of it. For some time it has been evident that it has not intended to do any- thing toward purifying the local political atmosphere. Its investigation of the ferry depot scandal, in which proofs of criminality were abundant, stamped it as in- competent. Damning evidence of fraud in the con- struction of this depot has been swept aside in re- sponse to the “pull” of the criminals, with an in- difference to public interest which was simply ap- palling. But the scandal in the School Department capped the climax. The jury was utterly unable to con- sider with calmness the facts in that matter brought to its attention. The school “pull”” completely de- moralized it. Instead of indicting the lumber thieves of the department the members fell to abusing each other. Every effort has been made to suppress the truth concerning the thefts of lumber, and there has never been a prospect that the rascals would be in- dicted. In fact, it has long been plain that if the jury found true bills against anybody they would be returned against those among its members who have been trying to bring the scoundrel politicians of the city to book. One need not look far afield to discover the source of the internecine troubles of the Grand Jury. Four or five members have insisted on investigating crook- edness and finding indictments. The whole power of the local boodle machine in both political parties The members of the jury have not got at loggerheads because they disagree in details, nor because some of them are “cranky.” They have failed to do their duty because a majority is opposed to apprclending political thieves. It is, therefore, probable, as we have already said, that Judge Belcher's action in dismissing the jury in disgrace is the best disposition that can be made of it. Certainly the body is no longer of any use to the public, and the sooner it is retired the better for the eredit of the city and its people. Perhaps the im- panelment of another Grand Jury will not solve the difficulty. From the new panel all virtue may be absent. On the other hand, fate may project into the box nineteen citizens who will be determined to clean out the political rascals who now infest the city. * In any event, the effort to get a competent Grand Jury is worth a trial. Things cannot continue on the pres- ent basis forever. There must be a revival of civic virtue or San Francisco will have ultimately to be abandoned to the predatory classes. It will be remembered that the Vigilance Commit- tee of 1856 was preceded by two futile efforts on the part of grand juries to indict influential scoundrels. James King of William was himself foreman of one of these juries and was personally assaulted for his aggressive conduct. ] Yellow journalism has added to its list of fake in- terviews one with Sagasta. To have had a signed statement from the gentleman would havebeenas easy, and carried with it the privilege of advertising him as a member of the staff. 1f a Spanish ship is seen in every place at which the sighting of one has been announced, the fleet of Spain must consist of about a thousand more vessels | than appear in the register of the navy. If Weyler really believes he could conquer the United States with an invading army, we violate no confidence in saying that as a fool Weyler shines SAN FRAN THE NEW CHARTER. HE change of a municipal scheme of govern- Tment for a large city is a very serious matter. The change proposed by the new charter framed for this city is so great as to cause well de- fined misgivings. Perhaps no plan ever proposed for any civilized city ever deprived the people at one stroke of as much as this taks from them. We don’t know why a majority of the Freeholders have been moved to such profound distrust of the people as seems to be the -prime motive of the charter. The people are permitted to elect one man and he does the rest. They elect the Mayor and he appoints: A Board of Public Works. A Board of Education. A Board of Police Commissioners. A Board of Health. A Board of Election Commissioners. A Board of Park Commissioners. A Board of Fire Commissioners. A Civil Service Commission. These boards control about 83 per cent of the pub- lic patronage of the city. They are not elected by and are not accountable to the people. Their creator is the Mayor. When once this machinery is put in mo- tion the voice of the people and their influence in their government will become less and less. We must take human nature as we find it. In this country it has al- ways proved dangerous to center all power and pat- ronage of a large city in the hands of one man or of a few men. The statute of the New York Legislature which turned the city of New York overto Tweed was a “reform measure.” It created a small non-partisan or bi-partisan board and gave to it powers that were beyond the reach of the people. The schems cost the taxpayers $30,000,000 stolen outright. While it is true that the people frequently elect dishonest men to office, as they have done here, yet the net result of all experiments is that the peculations are less than under schemes for taking power away from the peo- ple and giving it to a few men or to one man. The new charter for San Francisco seems to have been influenced by Mayor Phelan’s profound distrust of the people. He appointed the original charter con- vention, a body unwieldy in numbers and incongruous in its elements, representing every fad extant. The more grotesque part of its work has been grafted on to that of the Freeholders. The result is a charter which calls upon the people to surrender all the power they have now and create a guide, philosopher and friend called a Mayor, who will take to himself all the power and patronage and dictate the policy of the School,.Fire, Police and Health departments. If it is the conclusion of Mayor Phelan’s brief ex- perience in public life that the people are unfit for self-government, the charter is a proper expression of his personal belief. But one swallow does not make a summer, and he should not be hasty in accepting his own election as evidence of the incapacity of the peo- ple to govern themselves. A NEW FORM OF REFERENDUM. T will be remembered that a short time ago the l people of Oakland undertook to restrain certain members of the City Council from raising water rates, by making a demonstration which threatened something like a personal castigation of the offend- ing Councilmen. The effort was unsuccessful, but the moral effect was such that reason exists for be- lieving that had it been carried to the extent of put- ting the threat into practice a different result would have been obtained. This view is strengthened by reports of the check- ing of a boodle scheme in Peoria, Ill, by the adoption of the Oakland plan on the part of so large a number of determined citizens that the offending city fathers were left in no doubt of what would happen if they persisted in legislating against the will of their con- stituents. It appears that the Legislature of Illinois enacted last year a law authorizing a City Council to grant street railway franchises irrepealable for fifty years. The act was bitterly denounced at the time of its pas- sage and has been generally regarded as a boodle measure concocted in the interests of corrupt cor- porations and passed by means of bribery. The Coun- cilmen of Peoria recently undertook to grant a fran- chise under the law, and at once the people set about defeating the scheme by putting into practice the plan the Oaklanders invented. According to the story, as it comes to us on the authority of the Chicago Times-Herald, the gang planned a coup to take the public unawares. A spe- cial meeting was talled to pass the street railway ordinance. The citizens’ safety committee heard of the project and filled the town with “war bulletins” warning the people that another attempt would be made to grab the streets of the city. Banners were hastily painted advising honest men to attend the meeting armed with clubs. One of the gang who was terrorized by these preparations hastily left the city before the meeting, and the final attempt of the cor- poration to secure a fifty-year franchise was a failure. This method of calling in the people as a mass to check the acts of City Councilmen has manifest de- fects. As a system of referendum it is coarse and crude and liable to internal explosions likely to in- jure the innocent as well as the guilty. Nevertheless, as it is of Californian invention and had its origin in that classic city known as the “Athens of the West,” we cannot wholly condemn it when practiced in Illi- nois. Moreover, like a good many other things in politics, it is to be judged by its fruits. These in the case under consideration seem to have been good, and, as the main object of civic patriotism throughout the United States at this time is to put a check on boodling, the new referendum evidently has merits which entitle it to serious consideration. For openly expressing contempt for the American flag a Spanish sympathizer was recently forced to kiss the emblem and fake a thumping besides. Such treatment may have been impolite, but the sympa- thizer may draw some consolation by contemplating 0 CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 189 ESTIMATES OF YELLOW JOURNALISM. WHERE TO GET THE NEWS. From the Examiner of May 9. The superiority of the Eaminer’s news service has been amply dem- onstrated by the battle of Manila and the movements on the Atlantic coast. The Examiner has had the first, the most complete and the most reliable accounts of the mi'itary movemerts that have been undertaken. The people have shown likewise, in the most practical manner, that they know where to get ths news. They have bought the Examiner and have subscribed for it in such numbers that give it by far the | wife and son. largest circulation in its histery. news first of all the papers, and in th that is possible at the moment of From the Chicago published until this morning. work from various sources. of such journalism. WASHINGTON, May 9.—Editor with the wonderful account of the source stamped it with such value The people can depend upon it that the Examiner will give them the Sunday morning the New York Journal printed an alleged cable- gram of great length from Hongkong, attributing. it to Mr. McCut- cheon, claiming him as its own staff correspondent. ‘was imposed upon and lied to by the Journal, and how that faking sheet attempted to gull the public, let the Record tell in its own words, in the editorial referred to. It says: Mr. Carvalho of the New York Journal told the managing editor of the Record over the long-distance telephone yesterday that the article in question was manufactured from about 500 words of a cablegram which the Record permitted the Journal to have on Saturday, as a matter of courtesy, on the express understanding that it was not to be The rest of the article, Mr. Carvalho said, was made up of a patch- The name of the Record’s staff correspond- ent was signed to this mess of stuff simply because he was known to have witnessed the battle. The Record, which gets its cablegrams at cable rates, leaves the honest American public to judge of the merits The Story The Call Printed. morning permit me to say that I considered it an exceptionally graphic account of the naval engagement in the Philippines, and its reliable tory. For all of which the Herald is to be commended for its efforts and energy in having one of its staff on the scene of battle. GEORGE D. MEIKLEJOHN, Assistant Secretary of War. e mcst complete and reliabls form publication. Record of May 9. How the Record New York Herald: In connection battle given by the Herald Sunday that it will become a part of his- COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Colonel and Mrs. R. Wemple of India are at the Palace. ¢ George. 8. McKenzie, Sheriff of Napa County, is staying at the Grand. ‘W. R. Caruthers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Lick. Ben Laub, a wealthy liquor man of Louisville, Ky., is at the Palace. Thomas G. Perarchey, a mining man from Angels Camp, is at the Baldwin. F.A.Hartmann of Los Angeles, who has large mining interests in Mexico, is at the California. A. W. Balley, manager of the Coronado Beach Hotel, is at the Palace, with his H. H. Meyer of Healdsburg, who has returned from a trip to Salvador, is a guest at the Grand. Professor Jordan and wife are at the Occidental, having come up from Stan- ford University yesterday. A. L. Gilbert and W. J. Hughes, two prominent business men of Oakdale, will be at the Grand for a few days. Rallroad Commissioner W. R. Clark of “Stockton Is registered at the Baldwin, accompanied by his wife and daughter. 00000OO0OOO0COO A story is going o O around of an in- o THE o cident which hap- pened in a West- g AUTHOR © ‘ern theater a few O REMEMBERED. © weeks ago. Ata performance of o 00000O0OO0OOOO liet,”” in the midst of great enthusiasm and applause and after the principals had bowed acknowledgment, a wag called “gquthor,” which was quickly picked up and the house rang with the cry “author!” Presently the joke dawned on the enthusiasts and all wound up in a hearty laugh. Robert Mantell tells a similar tale. He says: “I was playing ‘Hamlet’ in a Col- orado town, small but extremely prosper- ous and enterprising. During the day I had met the treasurer of the theater, a very charming girl of about 19, pretty, educated and es bright as a new silver dollar. She spoke enthusiastically of the certainty of a big house at ‘$2 per,’ and how delighted the camp was at the pros- pect of seeing a real Shakespearian play. In the evening of course the house was duly counted up and my treasurer came back with the receipts, also the young lady. With some pleasant words she proffered three slips of paper filled out on printed blanks, such as we get in metro- politan theaters—one marked ‘manager,’ one ‘Robert Mantell’ and the third for ‘Mr. Bhakespeare.’” Thinking it a joke, I told the pretty treasurer that she was quite a wit, but her serious look satisfled me she saw nothing funny in the transac- tion. Referring to the third copy, I asked her why she tendered it. With a face as sincere as I have ever seen she replied that it was for the author. ‘You know,’ said she, ‘all the fine companies want a statement for the author.’ I asked her if she knew Shakespeare had been dead about 300 years. At this she appeared somewhat surprised, but said doubtless his helrs would require a copy. “To me the comedy of the circum- stances was lost 'n my profound admira- tion of the finished way in which this girl transacted business. Here was a daugh- ter of a pioneer whose sense of honesty and exactness in business would do credit to many an exquisite holding a like posi- tion in an Eastern box office, even though she had not read up the history of the immortal bard.” W. C. Parker of Kenwood, Shasta County, who is extensively engaged in the frult industry in that locality, is at the Grand. F. 8. Morris, R. E. Moody, F. P. Maye, three raflroad men, and W. W. Cotton, an attorney, all of Portland, Or., are among the arrivals at the Palace. Archdeacon Webber, the Episcopal di- vine, of Boston, who came up from Los Angeles yesterday, is at the Occidental, and will return to his home shortly. Count and Countess Poninski of Poland, who are touring the world on pleasure ‘“Romeo and Ju- what an American in Spain would have got for in- sulting the Spanish flag. ‘Weeks ago announcement was made that the Span- ish would'devote themselves to the specialty of cap- turing American yachts. Either these boats are too swift for them or they have changed their minds, or concluded that a yacht would be too dangerous to tackle. Several gentlemen are yielding to “the pressure of friends” to an extent impelling them to consent re- luctantly and patriotically to become candidates for Governor. And the strange part of it is that the friends had never suspected what they were doing. R That the Philippine insurgents need killing about as thoroughlyas the Spanishat Manila is a melancholy conclusion which cannot well be avoided. Blanco has cabled for supplies, but he will have to get an armistice declared in order to get them into bent, were among the passengers on the Peking, which arrived on Monday night, and are registered at the Palace. The death of Joseph H. Sinton, traveling freight agent of the Missourl Pacific Rail- way, has caused profound regret in rail- road circles generally, for he was uni- versally esteemed. He had been ill but a short time, bis death being caused by ap- oplexy, Deceased was 37 years old, un- married, and leaves a mother and sister to mourn his loss. The funeral takes place to-day. A party of prominent Episcopal clergy- men are at the Occidental, and are here to attend the forty-eighth annual conven- tion of the Episcopal church, Cali- fornia diocese, now being = held at Trinity Church. They consist of the Revs. C. Linsley, Sonora; William Hart, Visalia; Willam Lucas, no; Willlam Bours, Merced; Daniel G. McKinnon, Stockton; George Wallace, San Mateo, and J. A. O'Meara, Santa Clara. SOME ASSASSINATIONS. Many and curious have been the as- . Asassinations of history, Mustapha II was i strangled In prison. Achmet III was | Hongkong_ cable, dispatches from Man- ila must‘be carried by boat across the China Sea and there put on the cable to the south. From Hongkong' to Boston a e has an interesting course. From the Cilnese port it is first: sent down | the China Sea over a 460-mile cable to Saigon in Cochin China. Another cable, 630 miles long, conveys it to Singapore, on the Straits; or it may be sent to the island of Labuan, Borneo, and then to Singapore. From Singapore it runs around ‘the Malay Peninsula to the island of Penang, on the western coast of Lower Slam, a distance of 358 miles. Across the Bay of Bengal from Penang to Madras the message is repeated on a cable 1408 miles_lotig, In India the message reaches the first land te egraph line after leaving tre isl- and of Luzon. Across India to Bombay the messap: runs over s) mules of wire. Then it is put on a cable again to cross the Arabian Sea to Aden.on the Gulf of } Aden, a distance of 1851 miles. Up through the Hed Sea to Suez {s another long cable, 1403 miles. Again the message goes oVer- land over the 200 miles of wire from Suez to_Alexandria. The Mediterranean has no direct cable from Alexandria to Gibraltar. The mes- sage must be sent over a S13-mile cable to the Island of Malta, and then repeated over the Gibraltar cable, 1126 miles furth- er. From Gibraltar to Carcavellos, near Lisbon, is a_short cable, 337 miles long, connecting the Mediterranean port with the Ss6-mile ocean cable from Lisbon to Pertheurno, the cable station at Land's Fnd, England. €1on cceen cables connect the E iish, Irish and French cable stations w America, and the message from Man| upon reaching Land's End, may be seu over any of these cables. —_———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AN OLD DATE—J. M. 'W., North Temescal, Cal. The 26th ot July, 1845, fell on @ Tuesday. THE MAINE'S DEAD-T. A. E,, City. The latest report was that all but twenty- six of the dead of the Maine had been re- covered. TEMBLOR—G. A., City. Temblor Is Spanish and means trembling, Involuntary motion procee..ng from fear or weakness. Temblor de tierra is an earthquake. SIX FURLON . 8—Subscriber, City. The hcrse O'Connell holds th~ record of the American turf for flve-year-olds at six furlongs, made July 18, 1895; time, 1:12%4. NOT A PREMIUM COIN—S,, City. A $5 piece of 1850 is not one of the kind for which a premium is offered. The dealer’s price ise from $7.50 to $8.50, so that will give an idea of its value in the market. IN YUNG'S NAME—J. R. E,, City. The unoccupied lot on the south side of Sac- ramento street, between Taylor and Jones, inclosed on three sides by a high board fence, stands in the name of Ro- sina Yung. strangled by his own guards. Tiberius was smothered by one of his favorites. | Louls V was poisoned by his own mother. Feodor II of Russia was assassinated in church. Lothaire of France was poisoned by female relatives. Pope Lando is sup- | posed to have been poisoned. Antiochus the Great was put to death by his own soldiers. Murad was stabbed by a sol- | dier whom he had offended in some way. | Paul of Russia s supposed to have been | assassinated by his wife. Amon, King of Judah, was murdered by some of his | harem attendants. William Rufus was shot by an archer. THE AMERICAN SONG. What song shall America sing, Young heir of the elder world, ‘Whose knee ne’er bent to tyrant king, Whose banner defeat ne'er furled? A song for the brave and the free, No echo of antique rhyme, But a shout of hope for the day to be, The light of the coming time. From the dark lowlands of the ‘.at. Swelling loud o'er the victim's cries, The hero's shout sweeps up the blast Where wounded Freedom dles. The drum’s dull beat and the trumpet's blare From the far-off vears are heard; But the paean of kings is man's despair, And the hope of the world deferred. *Tis the song of the free we sing; Of the good time not yet born, Where each man of himself is king, Of a day whose gladsome morn Shall see the earth beneath our feet, And a fair sky overhead; When those now sad shall find life, sweet, And none shall hunger for bread. Sing then our American song! *Tis no boast of triumphs won At the price of another's wrong, Or of foul deeds foully doge. We fight for the wide worl®'s right, To enlarge life's scope and plan. To flood the earth with hope and ligh To bulld the kingdom orMant | e J. Savage in New York Tribune. THE CALL-HERALD SERVICE. All of the accountsofthebarttleof Mar.ila substantially agree, but that to be found in The Call yesterday, written by the New York Herald correspondent, was the best in minor particulars. The corre- spondent stood on the bridge of the Olym- ia with Dewey and his exeecutiva officer. is account is not entirely free from ref- erence to himself, but anybody who stood on the bridge of such a ship, in such com- any, and through such a fight, is entitled o0 indulge in the first person, singular, in his written account of what happened. It couldn’'t have been the most tranquil place in the world. The correspondent’s name is Joseph L. Stickney, and ke is an honor to his profession. Mr. Stickney, we salute you!—Alameda Argus. For a clean-cut pen picture of one of the mightiest naval duels the world ever saw, the account given by the Herald-Call co respondent surpasses anything we lave ever veen. The limitations of the cable and of.time made it imperative that the narrative should be boiled down to a close compass. Fortunately, the cdrre- spondent was evidently a masler of the art of condensation and description, and as a result we have in small compass a _complete and graphic account, which leaves nothing to be de- sired. Of course, the minor details will be interesting, but after one has read that story he will have a picture of the combat in his mind which is complete. In other battles where there are a mul- tiplicity of correspondents and a great number of published accounts, it is diffi- cult for the reader to draw from the mass of the verbiage a clear picture of the affair. This will be illustrated doubtless in the coming fight with the Spanish fleét on the Atlantic. But the Herald-Call writer had the field to himself at Manila, he was in a position to see the entire com- bat, and being gifted with the power of expression in few words, he has drawn a picture which is without parallel in these %an”l :s padding and verbosity.—Alameda cinal. ——— HOW THB NEWS COMES FROM MANILA. News of the fighting in Manila, on the other side of the earth, travels more than 14,000 miles, over a dozen or more cables and three or more overland wires, before it gets to this city. Very few per- sons, among the thousands who watch the bulletin boards these days, stop to think, when a Manila dispatch is posted, that the message was repeated over and over again, as it was sent from cable office to cable office, in the long journey from the Philippine rt to the Amer- ican shore. It traveled across seas, gulfs, bays and straits, mountains, valleys and plains. But the news that Commodore Dewey was ready to bombard Manila was known in this city thirty-five minutes in actual time after the British operator at Manila opened his key. The cables were rushing things. The Eastern cables are owned by Brit- ish companies, the Eastern Telegraph Company and the Extension, Australia and China Telegraph Company. The two companies are controlled by the same men. Across the China Sea, from Han%- nd, 1i kong to Cape Bolinao, on Luzon Islas in the Philippines, a cable was laid in . The cable is 520.11 miles long. From Cape Bolinao across the island to Manila is a telegraph line about 100 miles long. All the news we have received from Man- ila has been first telegraphed from Man- ila_to the cable station at Cape Bolinao, nk"d from there sent on by cable tv Heng- ong. The news that Commodore Dewey had demanded the surrender of Manila and was about to bombard the city was soon afterward followed by a short cable dis- patch from the office of the Eastern Ex- tension Company in London reading: } for the word GEARY AND GRANT AVENUE—Ad- mirer of . > Call, City. The piece of property at the southeast corner of Geary street and Grant avenue is mnot and was not a part of the Blythe estate. The property stands in the name of Louis Buck. BRYAN—D. M. C., Vallejo, Cal. 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