The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 189 The THURSDAY @l MAY 19, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS... ...217 to 221 Stevenson Strest Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) 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 mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (®. C.) OFFICE.. C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery strect, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes stre: en until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission strest, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. cpen untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'cleck. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky strects, open until 9 o'clock. e e e _— AMUSEMENTS. Faldwin—“In Old Japan " Baldwin Theater—Matinee this afternoon, tn ald of the Masonic Wicows*-and Orphans’ Home. Columbla—~The Face in the Moonlight California—“Moths " Alcazar—Young Mrs. Winthrop ' Moroeco’s—*“The Corner Grocery.” hip Ahoy.” Orpheum-; Vaudeville. Native Sone’ Hall, Mason street—Lccture to night. Sherman. Clay Hall—Paloma Schramm, benefit to the Red Crose Soclety, Friday afternoon. Mechanics’ Pavillon—Dog Show, The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. and “Visions of Ars."” Olsmpia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. Sutro Baths—Swimming, California JockeyCinb, Oakland—Races this day. LET THE DEAD REST. El Campo—Music. dancing, boating, Sshing, every Sunday. S an exhibition of brutal bad taste there has been no recent act of the Examiner more strik- f\ ing than its article yesterday morning concern- ing the late Judge Campbell. To gibe at the pecu- liarities of the living may be permissible, for at least they can defend themselves. But at the border of the open grave is no place for levity or the jingling of a clown’s bells. The peace of the dead no taunt dis- turbs, yet there is custom among the civilized to | respect the silent clay that has been a man, and to step lightly in the house of mourning. /—\ liams concerning the trade of the Philippine Islands, just issued by the State Department, show that in addition to the military interest we now have in the group we have also large and increasing commergial interests there. In fact, as the Consul says, the trend of trade for some years past has been toward us. Nearly all the recent increase of Philip- pine commerce has been with the United States. One exception to the rule is found in the sugar trade. In 1889 we imported from the Philippines 2,135,443 piculs {140 pounds) of sugar, and from that point the importation declined by slow and fluctuat- ing degrees until 1806, when we imported 1,305,882 piculs. In 1897 the importation dropped suddenly to 342,540 piculs. This heavy falling off shows to what extent we are now producing a home supply of sugar and points to a near approach ot a time when we shall have no need to import any at all. It also shows that those persons who are talking glibly of annexing the Philippine Islands to the United States have not considered the effect that policy would have upon the sugar industry of our own farmers. Free sugar from the Philippines would be the ruin of many a Californian sugar-beet grower. With the exception of the sugar trade, however, our commerce with the islands has been advancing by leaps a The Consul reports that during the year 1897 the export of hemp from the Philip- pines increased over that of the previous year to the extent of .485 bales. and that of this increase the | United States took 133,806 bales. Thus the increased shipments to this country were 544 per cent greater | than the increase in shipments to all other countries | combined. We havealso a large and rapidly growingtrade in to- bacco, copra, woods, shells, indigo and coffee. Our total imports from the islands are not far from $1,000,000 a month. There is also a chance for a large export trade. In 1897 Great Britain exported to the islands goods valued at $7,467,000, while the exports of the United States were valued at $4,082857. About 13 per cent of the total imports of the islands were from Spain, while those from other countries were far be- Jow in value the imports from the United States. We are, therefore, a close second to Great Britain in the Philippine market, and as we make the same class and quality of goods which she exports, there is a prospect for us to eventually take the first rank. The most significant feature of the report is the showing made for industrial and commercial expan- sion in the islands. The resources of the group, so far from being developed, have hardly been explored. The six New England States, with New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware combined, have 10 per cent less area than this island empire. Thé in- habitants are lacking in industry and skill to make use of the riches with which nature has supplied them. Under a stable and just government, which would as- sure protection to capital and enterprise, the wealth of the Philippines would soon be multiplied a hun- drediold. | | | THE PHILIPPINE TRADE. DVANCE sheets of the report of Consul Wil- seriously 1 bounds Notwithstanding the excellent example set by a number of recent murderers in undergoing the pro- cess of hanging without any preliminary fuss, the batch now on hand seems inclined to balk. Of course the appeals to the Supreme Court are bluffs to se- cure delay, for this is all that has in any instance been accomplished. i Some of the gold now circulated in Spain is a hundred years old and has just been brought out of a long seclusion. But Spain will in vain devote all her gold of whatever date to winning victory. = That country is up against.a very large “it.” Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont will not be permitted to command an American naval vessel, but he is at liberty to fit out a yacht and divert the Spanish from serious business by giving them an opportunity to capture it. | land, owing to the unfortunate di | Naturally French sympathy is against | the Philippines awa According to latest reports the bombardment of San Juan was not a brilliant success. But there is comfort in reflecting that so many reports have been wrong. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. HILE the war with Spain is not only making W history, but is rapidly crystallizing the nations and the races of the globe into new combina- tions which threaten to bring about a genesal war, and which will certainly so affect international politics as to make the conditions of the political world hereaiter | widely different from what has prevailed in times past, there is lying dead in England a man who has made more history and done more to mold pop- | ular sentiment than any other man of this generation. No man, however great, is ever really necessary to the advancing development of nations. Never- theless at this juncture there will be a wide regret on both- sides of the ocean that fate did not .allot it to Gladstone to conduct the affairs of Great Britain and to speak the voice of her Parliament, her people and her throne in declaring sympathy with the United States in the struggle for free Cuba, and hurling defiance at the banded despotisms of the world. Gladstone’s political career dates back to 1832. He took part in the whole of that movement which in the last sixty years has so widely broadened the bounds of liberty and freedom. He stood forth as the champion of humanity, not only in his own country, but in Italy, in Greece, in Ireland, and lit- erally throughout the world. No heart more earnest than his ever espoused the cause, of man, and few statesmen ever more eloquently supported it with tongue and pen, in Parliament, on the hustings, in the council chamber or in the study. The distinguishing characteristic of his intellect and that which gave him an almost unique place among statesmen was its openness to the light, its capacity for growth and its candid willingness to accept the re- sults of light and growth. Nearly every other great man has continued throughout political life to hold to the doctrines accepted at the beginning. It was | not so with Gladstone. In his early years he was so devout a conservative that Lord Macaulay wrote of him as the “rising hope of the stern and | unbending Tories.” His sympathies were not prim- | which favors the charter. | poration has been endeavoring to “bottle up” Bush | pervisors a franchise and went to the expense of lay- arily on the side of the people. His liberalism was the result of increasing wisdom and not of ar- | dent enthusiasm, and yet in his old age hardly any | young man was as enthusiastic as himself in the | cause of Greece or of Ireland. Among the great social reforms in Great Britain with which his name is inseparably associated are lhe? repeal of the corn laws, the abolition of a property | qualification for members of Parliament, the exten- | sion of the franchise, the disestablishment of the Irish church and the admission of dissenters to the univer- sities. "He did not succeed in doing much for Ire- sions in the ranks | of the Irish party caused by the Parnell scandal, but | he staked his political fortunes on a home rule bill | and went out of office when it was defeated. Throughout Europe his voice was almost as potent as at home. He helped every advance of free- dom on the Continent from the days when in his youth he pléaded not in vain the cause of the patriots of Italy, down to the time when in his old age, his voice trembling but still eloquent, rang over the world in denunciation of the powers that left Greece a prey to Turkey. The lesson of such a life needs no preacher to ex- plain it. Here was a statesman who followed truth even when it led him against the inclinations of his sympathies and compelled him to surrender office. | The memory of such a man is an inspiration to tlzel world, and his death will be mourned as a loss oni both sides of the Atlantic. | THE QUARREL M@Y SPRE@D. OOD WILL between this country and France 6 seems to have suddenly snapped. The old idea that rulers and princes are responsible for war is a mistake. War grows out of feeling gen- | erated and intensified among the people. Its origin | iz most commonly in self-interest. Frenchmen hold | millions of Spanish securities. Some classes of these are based on the Cuban and Philippine revenues. If | Spain lose these islands the securities are worthless. | the United | States in a war for the purpose of taking Cuba and | v from Spain. This antipathy is | reflected by the Parisian press, and as the people were | already on tension in the Zola and Dreyfus affair, it | has not taken much invective to heat every collar in | France. It is significant that the fire-eating Roche- | fort, who at first stood with us, has turned and is bel- | lowing with the best of them for a Latin alliance and | a united front against the Anglo-Saxon. Between Pierre Loti, the academician -and philosopher, and | Henri Rochefort there is a great gulf wide enough | to hold peer, peasant and bourgeois, and all of them | seem to be in accord with the two extremes and | joined in a common bitterness against the United States. It seems strange that this hatred should be re- ciprocated in this country, but it is. We have only recently celebrated the anniversary of Yorktown, and | have just built a monument to Lafayette, facing the ‘White House in Washington. But the ladies are in league to quit buying French goods and the gentle- men must follow by ceasing to open French wines, and out of all this may well come war that started like a small fire in Spanish bonds and became a con- | flagration in French millinery. After all there is not much in historic sentiment. | The past generations did their best for their inter- ests and died and left the present to us. If the Latins and Slavs want to combine against the Anglo-Saxon the result may be the greatest military struggle of the ages. With the United States and England on one side and the rest of the world on the other there would be a duel that would make all past history dull reading. If the Anglo-Saxon win in such a struggle he will have a boundless bourne thereafter, and the other races will pitch their tents only with his permission and will move on when he orders it. Our difficulty with Spain has started a ferment on the Continent which may make war mecessary to the Latin nations, as preferable to revolution. An appeal to the pride of race stirs the most sluggish blood. and Latin blood is not sluggish. The great military es- tablishments which have been maintained by the powers will seem to the people to be paying back their cost if they are engaged in fighting, and their occupation may save Ministries and perhaps dynas- ties. If the assault come it will be met with courage and judgment. The people of the United States are not behind any in their martial spirit, and their resources are as abundant as their courage. i | ‘When a correspondent wishes to be impressive and show his intimate knowledge of affairs of state he tells of “open secrets.” But this fails to impress. There is no such thing as an open secret. Yellow journalism has added the Duke of Fife to its staff. The Duke will be surprised if he happens to find it out. | the Sutter street company has been trembling in its | probable that they will comply. | ARE THEY AGAINST IT? HE theory on which at least one newspaper ad- Tvocate of the proposed new charter proceeds is that it must be a2 good document because the local corporations are opposed to it. No evidence has been produced to prove this allegation. On the contrary, there is excellent reason to believe that some of the local corporations favor the instrument. For instance, the telephone monopoly is satisfied with it. That corporation is completely protected from regulation by a grant of power which means nothing. The water company is indifferent. The constitution prescribes the method under which its rates shall be regulated. But even if the local corporations were unani- mously “against” the charter, that would not be valid grounds for favoring it. All capitalists, we believe, are opposed to anarchy; an unsettled condition of affairs destroys the value of securities and interrupts business arrangements of all kinds. Because this is s0, shall the remainder of the community go in for anarchy? If what one set of men do or think is to become the rule for determining the conduct of others there is an easy way of resolving all State and muni- cipal problems. If we accept Mr. Huntington as the especial bete noir of the commonwealth, all we need do is to ascertain what he thinks and then adopt the opposite view. True, there would be danger that | occasionally Huntington would fool us by pretend- ing to think one way while he was really thinking another; but danger prevails everywhere. No man, no State, no community, is entirely free from it. But aside from the absurdity of reasoning in this manner—the general adoption of which would ele- vate us to the proud distinction of being a com- munity of idiots—we violate no confidence when we say that there is at least one corporation in this city We refer to the Sutter For many years this cor- Street Railway Company. street. In 1885 it purchased from the Board of Su- ing a single track from one end of the thoroughfare to the other. Over this road for ten years it ran a | car once a day. Finally the Supreme Court dis- pensed with the farce by declaring the franchise a nullity. Ever since this decision was handed down boots—if a corporation has any boots and can be | said to tremble in them. The proposed charter, however, brings the cor- poration comfort unalloyed. By loading down street railway franchises with onerous conditions and | making their purchase difficult the instrument renders | it practically impossible for either the Market Street | or Sutro Company to invade the Sutter Street Com- pany’s territory. In case anybody ever seeks to ac- quire a franchise on Bush street all the Sutter Street | Company need do will be to turn the machinery of the charter against him and he will be undone. We understand that the men employed on the Sut- ter street line have been requested to support the charter on the 26th inst. As it is against their inter- ests to encourage competitive street railways which, | by failing to pay, tend to reduce salaries, it is quite In fact, they will probably do what the street car men throughout the city will do. There are a sufficient number of street | car lines. All are now making money. The men have a good thing. If it can be made clear to them | that the charter puts a quietus on further competition | why should they not support it unanimously ? THE MEMORY OF WITNESSES. N these days, when law cases are almost innumer- able and the reports of them fill volumes enough to constitute libraries of great magnitude, it i. not often a novel and unprecedented issue comes up in court to perplex Judges and arouse the interest of people who are usually indifferent to legal questions. Such a| point, however, has recently occurred in Paris and has given rise to a good deal of discussion throughout France. The issue turns upon the responsibility of a witness | for his memory. In a case still pending before a Parisian tribunal one of the witnesses met every ques- tion concerning an important point in the case with | the reply, “I do not remember.” The attorney who | was endeavoring to obtain the information appealed to the Judge to compel the witness to answer, alleg- ing that the memory of the witness was so good on other matters it was mentally impossible for it to be lacking on the point involved. | The court took the question under advisement and called in a committee of experts on mental diseases to examine the witness and report as to the condition of the defaulting memory. The experts after examin- ation came to the unanimous conclusion that the wit- ness was shamming and so’reported. The Judge thereupon instructed the witness to answer, and when the former reply, “I do not remember,” was repeated the witness was sent to jail to remain until memory resumes its throne and is in good working order again. Witnesses who do not remember important facts while they have very good memories for trifles are common in all countries where law courts exist. They are very common indeed in this country, and particu- larly so in cases involving political frauds or muni- cipal jobbery. It has been our custom to assume that they spoke the truth when they made the familiar reply pleading a lack of memory, and no effort as far as we remember has ever been made by an American Judge to test whether or no they were shamming and lying or really suffering from a mental defect. No one disputes that memory is a very unreliable faculty. No man's memory is like that of another, and, moreover, there is a marked variation at times in the memory of each individual. Some men can remember faces, but not names; some remember trifles, but forget matters of important business; some can remember what they read in a book, but not what they see around them. All of these known aberrations of memory tend to make us hesitate to send to prison a witness who cannot remember having been instructed to stuff a ballot or to pay money to a public official. Nevertheless the check which this kind of memory places upon the administration of law is so great as to render it worth while in certain cases to investigate the mental make-up of a witness before we permit him to baffle justice by not remembering. It is known that there are some things they do better in France than in this country, and the thing done by this particular Parisian court seems to be one of them. S ———— Perhaps the late Judge Campbell was not always dignified, but the scramble to get into his place is totally devoid of any element of dignity. In fact it is disgraceful and disgusting. Imagine a Gavigan ag Police Judge! It is one thing to set a snare for the Cape Verde fleet and a very different one to induce the fleet to sail into it. Considering that the garbage crematory is engaged in burning up Examiners, the stench it creates may | be borne with patience. COLLECTED N ~ THE CORRIDORS Mrs. W. R. Clark of Stockton is at the Baldwin. General Charles Cadwallader of Red Bluff {s at the Grand. J. C. Bull Jr., a contractor from Arcata, is registered at the Lick. i Ex-Judge S. F. Geil of Salinas is among the guests at the Occlidental. J. F. Devendorf, a real estate man of San Jose, is staying at the Grand. E. A. Warren, a fruit commission mer- chant of Chico, is registered at the Lick, with his wife. Jefferson Snyder, a prominent citizen of Reading, Pa., Is at the Occidental, accom- panied by his wife. Ms. C. C. Crow and her son, Paul B. Crow of Crows Landing, are among the arrivals at the California. Captain E. S. Morine of Irvington, who is interested largely in Alaskan transpor- tation, s a guest at the Palace. George O. Wentworth of Chicago, W. P. Hussey of Indianapolis and Willlam H. Carew of New York are registered at the Baldwin. Thomas Morrisson, a well known law- ver of Chicago, and E. B. Yerrington, a mining man of Carson City, Nev., is reg- istered at the Palace. Dr. O. L. Barton, a Sacramento physi- cian, who owns some valuable mining property in Auburn, and P. Musto, a Stockton merchant, are at the Grand. o The 000000000 patriotic o O utterance of the o PATRIOTISM o stable keeper who © APPLIED TO o ?dered his host- ler to currycomb g EATING. g & horse with the strict injunction, ©000000000 “Don't forget the mane,” has been duplicated by a South Stde restaurant proprietor of Teutonic extraction, who is undoubtedly loval to the country of his adoption. He has dis- played a sign in his show window which reads as follows: “Notis.—Dere vill be no ‘spinich’ served at my dables until der present war fIs ofer.” ‘Whether the “spinich” refers to ...e veg- etable of that name or to the natives of the country now at war with our glori- ous United States is left to the imagina- tion of the reader, but it is possible that both articles are eliminated from the sa- cred precincts of the aforesald chop- house. A chef at one of our downtown hotels, Wwho is nothing if not patriotic, has cut the description “A la Spanish” on his bill of fare, and has substituted “A la creole” in its stead. The menu reads among other things, “Tripe a la creole,” ‘Beef @ la ditto,” etc., and woe betide the wait- er who calls for an order for those dishes in the old way. It is considered sufficient cause for instant dismissal. The chef, just before the declaration of hostilities, bought a case of olives, the bottles being labeled “Spanish olives.” He opined that it would be traltorous to display these on the tables, but as they were somewhat expensive and he did not | care to destroy them on that account, he at last hit upon the happy idea of remov- ing the original labels and substituting new ones, which now read, “California olives”—this action in itself a sort of re- taliatory measure for the practice of the foreign labeling of our California goods. A. W. Bailey, who has resigned the management of the Coronado Beach Hotel. is at the Palace accompanied by his wife. They are about to return to their home in Denver. B. T. McCullough, an extensive cattle raiser of Crows Landing, 18 at the Grand. He is in the city on business connected with the shipping of a quantity of live- stock to the Sandwich Islands. Colonel L. S. Babbitt, Chief Ordnance | Officer of Benicia,.under whase direction the fortifications in this harbor were con- structed, has joined the military contin- gent now registered at the Occldental. Peter Kelly Jr. and wife were among those who registered at the Palace yes- terday. Mr. Kelly has been connected | with the Custom House for a number of vears, and the couple, who have just been joined in wedlock, will spend their honey- moon at the Yosemite. A Raymond excursion party registered at the Palace yesterday afternoon. The party consisted of Dr. S. Butler Grimes of Baltimore, Arthur W. Tryon and wife of Windsor, Conn., Edward Crary and wite of Hartford, Conn., and the Misses M. and A. Hochhalter of New York City. W. H. Snedaker of the Rio Grande and Western Railway reports tLat quite an oil industry has sprung into existence near Hanford, forty miles west of Goshen, in ibis State. One well produces 100 barrels and a second 300 barrels daily. The oil is superior to the Pennsylvania article for flluminating purposes. There are a num- ber of smaller wells and the total output is some 20,000 barrels monthly. DEWEY'S VICTORY. Oh, de Spaniards blow, en brag, en blus- ter, ‘Twell Dewey come en jerked his duster, En away, Dat day Went de Spanish ships forever! Dey’s some folks tell him: “Wait "twell Monday."” But he knocked 'em all six ways for Sun- day! En away, Dat day Went de Spanish ships forever! come, en he crops up quiet, joose in a mighty riot, En away, Dat day Went de Spanish ships forever! Oh, Dewe: Den tu'n tol’ ’em all dat he boun’ ter ggvor knowed whut de devil hit En away, Hooray!) ‘Went de Spanish ships forever! —Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta Con- stitutio NEWSPAPER WAR SERVICE. “Nobody believes a word that he reads in the newspapers.” This is a remark which was made by a prominent Boston- jan at a public dinner a few weeks ago. It is hardly worth noticing, it so utterly lacks sense and discrimination; but a striking event has happened since it was spoken which should check similar fool- ish remarks from leaving the lips of those who attribute dishonest journalism to “the newspapers’’ without excepting the honest papers. Commodore Dewey won a brilliant victory on the other side of the world last Sunday morning, and on Monday every home in America was told about it. It was all the work of ‘‘the newspapers.” The President, the Navy Department and the Board of Naval Strategy had not a word about that bat- tle except what ‘‘the newspapers” told them.—Boston Journal. ——t—— ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH. A. M. Colville, who has joined Theodore Roosevelt's rough riders, says in a letter to a friends in Topeka: “It is harder to get a place as private in this regiment than it Is to get a colo- nelcy in Kansas. Colonel Roosevelt mads us a speech in Washington and stated that we would have to go wherever we were sent, that whatever we were ordered to do we would have to obey orders. Colonel Roosevelt stated that he was very desirous of going soon to Cuba. He told us that if the horses died we would have to go on foot, and if the yellow fever broke out we would have to stay with it, and after such speech there was not a person scared out, and all enlisted.”—To- peka State Journal. et R B A REGIMENT OF PAINTERS. The Amalgamated Painters’ and Deec- orators’ Union of New York has decided to organize a regiment if it gets encour- agement from Governor Black. A meeting of the organization was held a few days ago, and a resolution was passed to offer t *em— R‘eml to Governor Black the services of a regi- men strong, men uipped at once. Enlistment blanks :nrew o ed, and, after the meeting, two of the members who had been ap- inted a committee to enroll volunteers hard at work for a couple of the members of this union are veterans of the last war from both the Union and Confederate armies, and these shook hands before the enrollment began, and pledged themselves to make common cause in support of the nation.— New York Times. - —_———————————— | THE NEW CHARTER AND THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Cyril Willlams has fully justified his estimate of increased expenditures under the new charter, but, like the Mayor, he has omitted the larger part of salaries and expenditures not specifically provid- ed for in the charter, and which were kept hours. Among the instruction of the citizens. The Mayor, for example, puts down the in- creased expenditure made necessary by the creation of the Board of FPublic Works at $13,800, which is simply the sal- aries of the Commissioners and their sec- retary. The officials now employed by the city are doubtless sufficient for the work now done, but an increased staff must be provided for the new duties for which the board has been created; in fact, without a largely increased appro- priation the board will certainly be pow- erless. In the first place, the charter enacts (page S8, section I)that the Board of Pub- lic Works “shall” devise a gE,ElErfl,l Sys- tem of drainage, which “shall” embrace all matters relative to the thorough, sys- tematic and effectual drainage of the city and county. This alone is a large duty. Marsden Manson is reported as stating that it will involve the expendi- ture of four millions. Secondly—The charter enacts (page 89, section 1) that the board control the har- bor and water front, which now belon or may hereafter belong to the city an county; to build and repair wharves; to collect tolls, etc. Thirdly—7'0 build and repair all the :fihonlls. hospitals and public buildings of e city. Fourthly—The charter epacts (page 124, section I) that the Supervisors within one year must procure, through the City En- neer, appointed by the Board of Works, page 55, section 1I), plans and estimates of the actual cost of the original con- struction and completion of water works, gas works, electric light works, steam, water or electric power works, telephone lines, street raiiroads and such other gubl(c utilities as the Supervisors may esignate; they must further procure and place on file plans and estimates of the cost of obtaining from all of the several available sources, a sufficient and perma- nent supply of good, pure water, and af- ter such plans and estimates shall have been procured and’filed the Supervisors must solicit and consider offers for the | sale to the city of existing utilities. Now the Supervisors, through ihe Board of ‘Works, must order plans?® for bringing down water from the Sierras, from Clear Lake and other sources, which plans will cost many hundred thousand dollars, and until this is done they cannot even nego- tiate with the owners of existing utilities. In order to do this vast work the Board of Works is given power (page 52, sec- tion III) to empioy such clerk: uperin- tendents, inspectors, engineer: urvey- ors, deputies, architects and workmen as shall be necessary to a proper discharge of these duties, and to fix their compen- sation. And there is no restriction what- ever on their salaries and numbers, no enforcement of civil service rules; and the only stipulation is that no compen- sation shall be greater than is paid in the case of similar employment, and for neg-‘; lect of this there is no possible penalty. This power of the Bo of Works is, moreover, absolute, for when power is n mainly from tae | to accel t&%lp of the union, to be drilled | chaser's ought | %o be Included in a statement made for | dav. | | | | | | | | The law requires the railroa Central, +" these tickets from the - pu; family and employes, thus mak- ing them practically good for any person presenting them, SO that in many locali- Ples sealpers will be able to use them, It they find it worth while to take the neces- sary pains to avold being arrested for Violating the law prohibiting brokerags in tickets. This law is simply a soverer application of the revenue reduction em- bodied in the 1000-mile ticket law of two vears ago, and by reducing the minimum expenditure from $20 to $i0 it may easily double the number of 2-cent rides sold. The Erle road contested the constitution- ality of the law, and its suit {s now pend- jng in the Court of Appeals. It is falr to presume that this new law will also be fought unless its validity is settled by the suit already begun. ——————— EVERY ONE A WINNER. Duzzey—T hear that your brother had several of his fingers cut off the other Doohey—So he did. Duzzey—How are they getting on? Doohey—They’re not getting on at all; they're off for good. Tt is sald that one of the most extra- ordinary things about frog-music is the fact that the frog keeps his mouth closed when he is singing. “Think of it!” sald the girl in brown, as she put down the paper. “He gave her a kiss and she sued him for damages.” The girl in blue was very properl} shocked. “The idea of asking payment for accept- ing a luxury!” she exclaimed. An Indiana edifor refers to “these try- ing martial times.” Evidently our friend s suffering from domestic as well as for- eign conflict.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Idler—\. hat became of that cattle car you invented? The Inventor—I couldn’t get the rail- roads to take any stock in it.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WOMAN SUFFRAGE — Z., Sonoma County, Cal. For information about the woman's suffrage movements in this city at this time address Mrs. A. A. Sargent, Thirteenth and Folsom streets, San Fran- cisco, Cal. LOST IN ALASKA—A Relative, City. If you desire to obtain information other than has been published in The Call about the disaster in the Chilcoot Pass address a letter of inquiry to “The Chair- man of the Executive Committee, Sheeps Camp, Alaska.” THE UNIVERSITY—Oaklander, Oak- land, Cal. For information about admis- sion to the University of California go to the libraries in your city and consult the register of the University of California, which contains all the information on that subject. Or you might communicate with the recorder of the university. CUBA—Student, Oakland, Cal. If your purpose is to inform yourself as to events in the history of Cuba since the recent revolution there, you will find such in- formation in the Daily News Almanac and Political Register for 18% and subse= uent years. This is published by the “hicagy Dally News, and Is found in the librarfes. AR THE FIGHT AT CARSON—L. R. Q. City. It is impossible to answer the ques- tion “How much did Fitzsimmons weigh when he entered the ring in his fight with Corbett at Carson City, Nev.?” for the reason that he was not weighed. Some specially given by charter to an_executive | of his attendants have sald that just be- body to make appointments and fix sala- ries without limit or control, the taxing power is compelled to pay them. i the ruling of the highest courts. fore that time Fitzsimmons weighed, in ring costume, 170 pounds. That is the best B:th !i‘ information obtainable on that point. op! e this charter and a machine will be cre-| FORAKER—Two Buckeyes, City. J. B. ated which may rival Tammany in Cor-| Foraker was twice a candidate for the ruption, politics and waste. t is evident that an arm{ of employes will be required to fulfiil t ese new and in}finrtant functions, and a question of a | 1889, when he was defeated. mi jon" may be rightly added to the esti- mate. thus made it quite impossible to The authors of this_charter have | Hoadly, Democrat; A. B. limit | hibitionist, and J. office of Governor of Ohfo. He ran in 1885, when he was elected, and again in At the first for opponents George Leonard, Pro- Northrup, Greenback. election he had taxation to one dollar, and it is evident | At the second election his opponents were that this provision was put in to catch J. E. Campbell, Democrat, who was elect- votes and to deceive the citizens. The | ed; J. B. Helwig, Prohibitionist, and J. effect of its adoption will be to create | H. Rhodes, United Labor. emergency for dept, and the issue of L T = bonds will become a necessity. Perhaps MISS OR MRS.—F. Alameda, Cal. this i= the intention. J. H. STALLARD. —————— NEW CHARTER VACATIONS. ‘Wednesd. Editor 8an Francisco Call—Dear Sir: In an editorial in your yesterday's entitled, A Text from the Charter, perhaps unwittingly do the proposed charter an injustice, in the meaning of section 33 of article XVI, which provides that “No deputy, clerk or | of “Mr: other employe of the city and county shall be paid for a greater time than that covered by his actual service.” | h May 18, 1808. | M. fssue, | custom she is called Mrs. John Jones, +"Vou | she obt A decree of divorce that allows a di- vorced woman to resume her maiden name gives her the right to drop the name of her once husband and again take er parents’ name. That s to say, Miss ary Brown marries John Jones, she, by law, becomes Mrs. Mary Jones and by Sine 5 @varcstand 1h allonal’ is resume her malden name she becomes plain Mary Jones, and cannot properly misinierpreting | take the title of “Miss,” for she is no uch, nor can she take the title as she is no longer a married longer woman. CHINESE—J. W. B, City. A native of It is not | .. na born of Mongollan parents cannot true, as stated in that editorial, that un- become i T t | a citizen of the United States, der that section “a fireman disabled at| consequently, “if so disposed, he cannot his post of duty will suffer the loss of his| ygte in the State-of California,” nor in pay while his bones mend or his burns| zny gther State. Still a native of China heal.” By referring to section 3 of chap-| .4 yote in the United States, if born of ter II, article IX, under the head “Fire Department,” you will find it specifically rovided that “‘when any officer, mem- | er or employe of the department shall | become temporarily disabled by of injuries recefved while in the actual performance of his duty, the Commis- gloners shall allow his salary dvring the continuance of such temporary disabil- | ity.”” The provision of the proposed char- ter criticised in your editorial was intend- ed to apply, and does apply, to that class of deputies, clerks and employes, large numbers of whom are temnorarfig em- ployed by certain officials (notably by the | ‘Auditor, Tax Collector and Assessor) for certain brief periods, and who have in times past in many _instances received | credit by corrupt officials for services | they never rendered, for the purpose of “giving the bovs a job.” Immense sums of money have been squandered by this manner of *“‘doing politics.” It would indeed be doing a grave injus- | tice to the proposed charter to interpret | section 33 as applying to the regular force of deputies, clerks and emploves in the various departments who are employed | on annual salaries. T haveipolmed out how it was misapplied to the Fire Depart- ment. The same is true of the School De- partment, where the teachers are em- loyed at annual salaries, with reference Yo the fact that vacations are not only essential and necessary but have become so well and universally understood to be a part of the school vear that their an- nual emplovments are made with refer- ence to them, and without any allusion ever being made to them. Respectfully, 1. GUTTE. : ————————— WHERE TROOPS GATHERED. Tampa is one long street. It begins at the railway station and stretches for four miles to where the camp now f{s. The stores are like frontler stores in the West and the Middle North, with local differ- ences. The leisurely quality of the South- erner asserts itself. Their stock is a strongly shifting thing, like a geological perlog.yFnshlongu with them are not mer- curial. At this time of the year each elder comes out in his sdme old palm-leaf hat of the year gone by. The men do not even shave once a day, but when you buy a coat from that Southern gentleman be- hind the counter you feel sure that he is only saving his beard for a clipping on Saturday night, and will look clean and honest before his best girl on Sunday. They don’t work much, these men and women of Tampa, but they are not ashamed when they do. I remember one estimable woman sitting on her veranda entertaining a caller, while all the time she squirted a hose here and there about her little front yard, a very practical fancy work. The one street is all sand—all except a few patches of cedar block pavement. The side streets lead to more sand, the alleys to sand. One trolley line keeps a ng only to sweep sand from the tracks, and the boy earns his salary. The wheels of the Government wagons sink to the spokes in sand; your shoes shed san when you kick them off at night. TIt's a dusty sand, too. Perhaps that's why, for a town of its size, Tampa rejoices fn 50 many boot polishers.—New York Com- | mercial Adverti: ——— RATES WILL BE LOW. Governor Black of New York has signed the bill requiring 500-mile tickets at 2 cents a mile to be sold by all railroads in which the regular local fare is higher than that rate, and not over 3 cents; thus, by a single stroke, reducing the fare for a good share of the passenger trips of all important roads in the State, ser. g Teason | stance, | resident there in an official capacity. | except the main line of the New York | white parents and he becomes a natural- | ized citizen, or if born to American r- ents while traveling in China or waua temporarily residing there, as, for in- the sons of American officials born in China while the father was a In- dividuals born in California of Mongolian parents have been permitted to vote on | the ground that they are natives of th | United States. o YANKEE-J. H. K., City. There is no certainty as to the origin of the word Yankee. It is generally believed to bo an Indian corruption of ‘“English.” Thierry says that it is a corruption of the Dutch word Jankie, a diminutive of John, and that it was a nickname given by the Dutch colonists of New York to their neighbors in Connecticut settle- ments. Aubry says that it is from the Cherokee word * del'(.‘kveeg which means ‘“‘coward,” “slav This epithet was applied to the people of the New England States by the Virginians for not assisting them in a war with the Cherokees. Another version is that the word got into_general use in the following manner: In 1713 one Jonathan Hastings, a farmer in Cambridge, used the word as a pumns epithet, meaning genuine Ameri- can-made, that which cannot be sur- passed, such as Yankee horse. Yankes cider, etc. The students at Cambridge Called Hastings “Yankee Jonathan. It soon spread and became the pet name of the New Englander. Since then the term has been applied to any American of the Northern States. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_————— Robert Rembrandt Hill lectures on *“‘As- trology” to-night, Franklin Hall, Bush and Fillmore; . Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press cunning Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 142, ¢ P — TRUTH IN NUTSHELLS. About the best way to get even with a m%{\hl! to pay v;'ha.l you owe him. en & couple are matched mated it is a sort of friction ma.tc‘;n‘.n e A young widow's health usually im- proves when her physician gets married. Any man who can save money during hlul engagement can afford to marry the girl. After a woman reaches a certain age she never mentions it. i It is easy to walk the tight-rope of so- clety if you have a good bank balance. The other half gets all the happiness ;)ut of marriage that the better half puts n. —_—— Ixcursion to the Yellowstone Park. 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