The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1898. JOHNfi D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. __Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager, _ P ICATION OFFICE. Market and Third Sts., S. F. s ‘Telephone Main 1868. JAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street o Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Rigga House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Bullding 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I18 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untd 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. — AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—"Tn Ol Japan.” Columbia—+The Face in the Moonlight " California—Moths." oung Mrs. Winthrop “The Corner Grocery.” lle. Sherman, 11—Paloma Schramm, beneflt to the Red Cross Soclety, this afternoon. Mechanics’ Pavilion—Dog Show, The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville, and “Visions of Art."* Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. Sutro Baths—Swimming, California JockeyClub, Oakland—Races this day. 1 Camp ancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday. THE LATEST EXAMINER SWINDLE. the story of a gross and shameful swindle per- petrated by the Examiner. Facts were set forth, | backed by. indisputable showing that | Hearst’s paper goes by thousands daily fresh from the | press to the crematory, there to be burned. These | papers can be meant to accomplish only one object, | that of deluding the public and blinding an absent 1gly enough, the papers go in a gar- | ” l “HERE was told in the local columns yesterday evidence, proprietor. Fitti bage wagon and are consumed amid other rubbish and offal. | In a prominent place each morning the Examiner | states that more than 90,000 copies are distributed | People reading this are supposed to be- the distribution is to subscribers or by the That a large part of the copies every day. lieve that method of street sales. »eing sworn to has been | kept a secret from them. But while the Examiner this modest figure? The capacity of the crematory by no means been reached. Even with its present facilities it could easily reduce to ashes and oblivion 200,000 copies, and without inter- | fering with its regular business. It charges only 20 | cents per cubic yard, this including cartage and in- | So why does not the Examiner take | A big | lie stoutly sworn to is more impressive than a little | at the lie as now blazoned on the front | It is merely to appear | simply serve the purpose is boasting, wi violate secrecy. a giant stride such as will paralyze beholders? one; not tha page of the smaller than might have been expected there. In this there is involved more than a mere matter 1 of commerce. There is a question of morals, of honor | and of decency. True, these are traits and qualities the Examiner neither possesses nor holds in regard, | but the community has certain rights. Among these | rights is that of protection against rogues. There | could be no objection to the burning of the Examiner | Indeed, were each entire issue to be given | flames the city would be distinctly the gainer. The Examiner is welcome to cremation, but when it to make people think the papers burned are circulated in the manner of legiti- | mate papers, that they go through the mails or di- | rectly to readers, it is guilty of a meaner confidence game than ever played by a bunko sharp. These truths are not mentioned with hope or with desire to reform the swindler. It is apparently jail- proof. There is in it no sound spot on which re- pentance could be grounded. But there is a reason- able hope of warning the public. When it realizes the extent and deliberateness of the way in which it has | been cheated, it can take its own revenge. , | ixaminer is really small. in itself. to the tries @ LITTLE MORE NOISE, PLEASE. HEN soldier boys, already far from their \/\/homcs. come tramping up Market street it is fitting that they should pass between lines of cheering citizens. A common impulse stirs the pa- | triotism of the country. Let the boys know that they are welcomed and honored. Yet, although San Francisco does not make much noise, the people living here are as heartily in accord | with the nation as any other part of it. They have ob- served with regret, and almost with indignation, that some of the recruits were poorly provided with ne- cessities, and these they have hastened to supply. The women of the Red Cross are working nobly. They toil for the men in the ranks as though for brothers and sons. They have appealed for financial aid and the money pours in. They wanted vélunteers for hospital duty, and from every side come trained nurses eager to serve. These women have not overlooked details. As the strangers arrive coffee and substantial fare awaits at the ferry. If the Government blankets are tied up with red tape these ladies send blankets purchased by themselves. They have shod the feet of scores, sent delicacies to the sick, thought out schemes for send- ing comforts to Manila. Yesterday these women watched the Nebraska boys g0 by and waved a salute, at once a hail and a fare. well. And some of them wept because out in the street there was hardly a sign of hurrahing from the hundreds of spectators. Then next time let the peo- ple shout. The soldiers will appreciate it, and the soldiers’ Red Cross friends will be grateful. In making mention of its circulation the Examiner has a habit of jubilantly setting forth its April record and asking “What will it be in May?” There is no way to find out. Perhaps the books of the crematory would throw light oon the subject. Possibly the Examiner can make the plea that it contributes numerous copies of itself daily to the crematory furnace for the purpose of patronizing home industry. Let none marvel hereafter at the fumes of the gar- bage crematory. The smell of yellow journalism could bardly be expected to vie with the sun-kissed violet. | likely to injure the orator than Senator Quay. | went running over the hills like a lot of scared sheep. | | ing thieves of the tenderloin a lady whom he person- CHARTER ARGUMENTS. HE final answer of the morning organ of the Tproposed new charter to the estimates sub- mitted by Auditor Broderick and Expert Wil- lams of the Supervisors’ Finance Committee of the | probable cost of conducting the government under the instrument is exceedingly characteristic. The | organ declares that Sam Rainey, the Dcmocratici boss, has' directed Broderick to compile his figures | for the purpose of deceiving the public. It attributes | the activity of Mr. Williams to the desire of the | “shifty eight” to prevent the adoption of the charter. “What,” shrilly exclaims the organ, “do the voters | of the city think of this sort of opposition? Are they | satisfied to have the city government run by cheap boodlers of the type of the Devanys, the Haskinses, the Sheehans, the Delanys, the Mortons, the Britts, the Smiths and the Riverses? Has the rule of these men been so wise and just that thie people care to ac- cept their views in deciding upon the city government for the future?” This is a highly intellectual argument, and we con- fess our inability to meet it. If the estimates of Broderick and Williams were inspired by Sam Rainey and the “shifty eight” they must necessarily be in- correct. We can conceive of no contingency under which Sam Rainey could add two and two together so as to make four. We have no idea that the | “shifty eight” could compute the salaries authorized | by the new charter and reach an accurate result. It is said that figures do not lie, but we have a notion that mathematics is not a science in the hands of municipal officials who are opposed to the new charter. Really the organ overreaches itself in its charter de- | fense. It assumes that the public is as muddle-headed | as itself, and in putting forth the flap-doodle we have quoted it insults the intelligence of 300,000 people. The discussion of the charter and the determination of the question whether or not it shall be z\cceptedE ought to be a matter of intellectual fencing. We all f desire the adoption of a good charter. | | { | The present | generation is no more interested in the pending in- | strument than generations to come. If the proposed charter is likely to be a failure it is to the interest of everybody to defeat it. | When the organ descends fo the level of ward poli- | tics in discussing this important subject, in our judg- | ment it damages its cause—at least in the minds of | all thoughtful men. WANAMAKER'S CAMPAIGN. ANAMAKER’S campaign against Senator Quay in Pennsylvania is attracting more at- tention in the East than any other proceeding of the time with the exception of the war. Nor is this surprising. Mr. Wanamaker has put forward such a series of grave charges against the Senator that even citizens who are most indifferent to faction | fights within party lines are compelled to give them consideration. It is to be regretted that charges so boldly advanced are not made of a nature so specific and so definite that a direct issue would be raised between the con- tending parties. Mr. Wanamaker has served the na- tion in high office with conspicuous ability, and no one likes to regard him as a reckless and abusive orator, careless of what he says so long as he injures his opponent, and yet from the indefinite way in which his attacks are made a good many will be led | tc think him so. l An example of his method is to be found in a letter | rcad by him in a recent speech to prove that Quay | and his friends in office are in the habit of selling postmasterships for the purpose of raising campaign funds. The letter, which has been widely published and extensively commented on, runs as follows: April 23, 1898. I have flled my application with the | Dear Sir: | Postmaster-General for the postoffice at T——, but it is said that our Congressman is holding it for $3000. Now, I do not think it right to buy the office, and have not the money to do so, and write asking for your aid in the matter. Can you give me any or suggest any course that will help me in securing it? If you can I will be greatly obliged. Yours, etc. The charge in this letter is one of the most serious | that can be made against a public man, and yet there | is nothing definite about it. The name of the writer is not given, the name of the Congressman is sup- | pressed, and even the name of the city where the | postoffice is located is concealed under the initial T. | No one could answer an accusation of that kind, for | no one knows who has been accused. If Mr. Wanamaker has evidence sufficient to con- vict any Congressman of demanding $3000 for a post= | office appointment he owes it to the country to bring | the guilty person to justice. If he has no such evi- | dence he should not make the charge. Campaign- | ing of that kind may attract attention, but it is more | Some weeks have elapsed since Lieutenant Burke | was murdered and the policemen who were with him | The public has not altogether forgotten the tragedy, i and has been denied the opportunity to congratulate | itself over the dismissal of the runaways. Does Chief Lees like a coward? There can be no excuse for the policeman who ar- rests on the supposition that she is one of the prowl- ally knows to be respectable, warrant or no warrant. The time seems to have arrived for the Police Com- mission to weed the ranks of paretics. The statement is made that the captain of the men | who landed from the Gussie witnessed the fight from | on board. There is such a thing as being valiant by proxy and discreet in person. However, there is no | excuse for condemning the captain on the strength of l a correspondent’s rumor. As the plumbing inspector has reported that the | plumbing of the ferry depot is a violation of eleven | rules of the Board of Health, it is fuir to assume that the Board of Health has just eleven rules which apply | to plumbing. The same dispatch which declares Bismarck does not like the idea of an Anglo-American alliance states | that the Prince is suffering anew from rheumatic | pangs. There is, possibly, more than a mere co- incidence in this. Blanco sends word from Havana that plenty of food is coming in, Blanco may not be much of a soldier, | but what splendid material for a “special commis- sionel;” of yellow journalism! An evening paper has seen fit to attack the integ- rity of the Charleston. Of course the facts to justify the attack are lacking, but enterprise is not to be balked by trifles. ] Perhaps the Charleston is overloaded. Tt must be remembered that she has on board one of those pe- culiar impertinences known as a “special commis- sioner.” % Any old thing could get a cirgulation by means of an understanding with the crematory. ! | Korea our naval power.” | endurable conditions among their people. THE PARTITION OF CHINA. HILE the partition of China was never dis- w«:ussed by statesmen as a proposition of prac- tical politics until the war with Japan exposed the weakness of the old giant empire, as a matter of fact the partition has been going on by degrees ever since the development of steam power in ocean navi- gation brought the aggressive nations of Europe into close communication with the Orient. China has been shorn of many of her provinces, and partition is already well advanced. The situation is much better understood in the Orient than here. To the foreign residents of Chinese ports the partition of the empire is not so much a policy to be possibly undertaken in the future as a process under way at the present time. The Shang- hai Press recently pointed out that since 1858 the territory lost by China comprises the Amoor region, 288,830 square miles; French Indo-China, 140,630 square miles; Saghalien Island, 24,540 square miles, and Formosa, 14,978 square miles. The last named island was taken by Japan. All the rest of the lost territory has passed into the hands of European powers, In addition to these wide regions of territory now clearly lost, China has virtually surrendered control over Korea and Manchuria. Thus it will be seen that Great Britain, France and Russia seized a consider- able part of the Chinese empire before they began dis- cussing the advisability of dividing it. Each has taken care to have a good share of the spoils before ad- mitting that any spoliation was to be made. The partition of China has, in fact, been going on at a rapid rate for years, and yet European diplomatists have sufficient composure of countenance to be able to discuss the subject as if it were a new proposition never before heard of. It is the consciousness of the extent to which China has been plundered in the past that makes the various nations watch each other with such jealousy and sus- picion now. They know that what was so easily done in the past can be as easily repeated. More- over, Germany has entered the field as a rival spoli- ator to the other powers, and the new competitor is not likely to be content with a small share of the spoils. In a recent speech Lord Salisbury informed Parlia- ment that Great Britain had taken Wei Hai Wei to “encourage Chinese reform and to show Japan and The phrase is 2 good one, | but the encouragement of reform and the display of naval force might have been accomplished without seizing a Chinese port directly opposite the port taken by the Russians. There is a suspicion that Salisbury desired to make a show of power for the warning of other people than those of Korea and Japan. Even after the extensive spoliation of territory to which the empire has been subjected, there remains to China a territory larger than that of the United States. It is known to have coal fields more than twenty-five times as extensive as those of Great Britain, and is rich in gold, silver, lead, tin and iron. It contains upward of 300,000,000 industrious people and is the largest single market in the world. The temptations to greed are therefore immense, and if the United States expects to share in the Chinese trade for the development of the commerce of her | Pacific Coast she will have to keep a close watch on what is being done there from this time forth. EUROPE AND THE WAR. OWEVER averse we may be toward any inter- H ference on the part of European nations in our war with Spain, we cannot overlook the fact that most of them have strong inducements to inter- vene. The war has raised the price of wheat, and that in turn has caused such distress among the poorer classes of the people of Europe ‘that already bread riots have occurred in Italy and are threatened elsewhere. We have been so much occupied in this country with the progress of our armies and navies that we have given but little attention to the economic situa- tion on the other side of the Atlantic. The riots in Milan and other cities of Northern Italy have been passed over as if they were ordinary street disturb- ances, whereas they were in fact of such magnitude and so portentous as-to amount almost to the de- | gree of a civil war. Indeed, they appear to have re- sulted in a greater loss of life than has been caused by the war with Spain up to this time. Every European statesman is aware of the danger that comes when a dissatisfied populace are rendered desperate by a lack of work or by such a rise in the price of food as to make wages inadequate to the needs of families. All of them are therefore eager to take whatever action promises to break the dead- lock in wheat and restore, if not prosperity, at least A cessa- tion of the war with Spain would undoubtedly have a tendency in that direction, and accordingly all of them would gladly do almost anything to hasten the return of peace. In this condition of affairs their animosity may be directed toward the United States, but most of them have sagacity enough to see that they could not ‘bring the war to a close by siding against us. The much talked of intervention, then, if it come at all, is not likely to take a form that would be resented by our Government. It is more likely to be a pressure applied to Spain to induce her to recognize the in- evitable and seek for peace at once on whatever terms we choose to grant. In that direction lies a fair pros- pect of attaining a speedy peace, whereas an attack upon us would simply precipitate the much talked of Anglo-Saxon alliance and involve the world in a war whose end no man could foresee. Financial experts have noted in the course of the European money markets many signs inclining to | the belief that the great dealers in national securities are assured that peace will not be long delayed. One of these signs was discerned in the rise of Spanish securities after the heavy slump that followed the declaration of war. Spain has won no victories and nothing has occurred to justify an expectation that she will manage to win any or to hold her colonies. The only cause for giving a better price for her se- curities must therefore have been some information that the prospect of peace is better than is generally supposed. Thus while so many rabid Europeans are shouting their antagonism to the United States no one is likely to help Spain. Her most interested friends are those who are most eager to see her drop her arms and end the war. Announcement is made that the administration has declared in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war. This is one of the announcements which might as well be kept standing. It pleaces everybody, and telegraphic tolls for its daily transmission from Wash- ington represent a waste. —_— People will be glad to know that the Americans captured in Cubagare to be exchanged. For once Spain seems to have been generous. It is to be an l:even trade, although the two are easily worth a dozen of the sort of Spanish prisoners held in this country, Hifil E—3 THE SUNDAY CALL - - - MAY 22, 1898, AMONG OTHER FEATURES WILL CONTAIN T T T S S T S S S S TS SHALL WE KEEP THE PHILIPPINES ?Q The Ex-Secretary of State and Chauncy Depew Give Their Views on This Important Subject. % finmmmwumuumwnuwlmnfl HEROIC SERVICES OF THE ONLY WOMAN MADE A MAJOR IN THE - REGULAR ARMY. H H WHY THE SECOND ADVENTISTS SEE THE END OF THE WORLD IN THE PRESENT WAR. = LOOKING BEYOND THE WAR. By Senator William Chandler. HOW TO SUCCEED AS AN AUTHOR. BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. EE R R R R R B R VA SALOMY JANE'S KISS. A Thrilling New Story, by BRET HARTE. KRERERFR T KRR R R KRR RN T RE N REN LE R R R X R 3 “REMEMBER THE MAINE.” Last Great Patriotic Song—Words and Music. HAnd all the Latest and Bost War ows from Special Corre- spondents at ihe Front. COLLECTED IN | THE CORRIDORS { Robert S. Browne of Washington is at | the Lick. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee 1s at the California. W. E. Dunn, a prominent citizen of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dorn of San Luis Obispo are at the Baldwin. Judge H. C. Bond of Santa Clara is among the arrivals at the Palace. John Millzner, a commercial man of Tucson, Ariz., Is a guest at the Grahd. Mrs. C.. H. Lux of San Jose registered at the Occidental yesterday afternoon. E. B. Braden, an assayer and dealer in ore, s at the Palace from Helena, Mont. A. Stlver, president of the City Council and acting Mayor of Los Angeles, Is reg- istered at the Palace. Speclal Revenue Agent Sewell arrived here yesterday from Washington, on a tour of inspection in this State. John Wolfskill, an extensive real estate owner of Los Angeles, is atithe Palace and is accompanied by his wife. Ex-Sheriff E. F. O'Nelll of Santa Cruz, who has just returned from Alaska, is among the arrivals at the Grand. William Ruston of Lincoln, who 1s largely Interested in cattle raising in Arizona, is staying at the California. 0000000000 “Speaking of o O queer epitaphs,” o HE WANTED o said former May- o o ©or of San Jose A e o Sam N. Rucker 5 EARTH. in the Palace Ho- o tel last night, “I © 000000000 reoliect one that was placed over the grave of an individ- ual down our way some years ago which merits being added to the list of those mortuary verselets that have been pub- lished in book form. “This man was a unique figure in our locality in the fact that he had a won- drous faculty for acquiring land. He would either buy it outright or become the owner by foreclosed mortgages, and the old fellow, S8am Johnson was his name, if I remember correctly, had ac- quired Immense land interests in the sur- rounding districts, so much so that it be- came a byword among our citizens that Johnson wanted the earth. He lived a hermit’s life, and one morning he was found dead in bed. “Now the epitaph which I claim should take rank with other more pretentious ef- forts in that regard reads as follows, and it will be remarked that there s more truth than poetry in the lines: “ “To Sam Johnson. “*He had a disposition to appropriate the earth, And he went about with determination that was grim; He was disappointed cruelly, his tone has lost its mirth, Since he sadly realized the earth appro- priated him.’ Lewis Morrisgon, the old-time actor, who comes to play a local engagement, put his name on the Baldwin register yester- day. C. C. Crow of Crows Landing, who has been in the Klondike country investigat- ing its mining possibilities, has returned to this city and is at the California. Mrs. J. M. Griffith, wife of a prominent lumber dealer of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Occidental. The lady is one of the prime movers in the Red Cross Society, and will remain here some time. G. H. Abbott has been appointed ecity passenger agent of the Great Northern Railway, to succeed W. W. Brown, who has been promoted to the position of traf- fie, freight and passenger agent of the same company. A. F. Willlams of the University of Cal- ifornia gave a farewell banquet to his fellow graduates of the class '98 at the maple room of the Palace Hotel last night. Mr. Williams will depart for the East to-morrow, and from there will pro- ceed to his home In South Africa. Twen- ty-one guests were entertained by the gentleman, among them being some of the Stanford Alumni. ———————— ARMY AND NAVY RANKING. The gorrespondence in ranks In the United® States navy and army and the salaries attached are concisely set forth in the following: Vice-Admiral $9,0001 eral ar-Admiral 6,000 En)o Commodore 5,000| Brigadier - Faptain .. 4,500/ eral Commander 3,500( Colonel reaeae Lieutenant - Com- Lieutenant - Col- ‘mander Lieutenant 1,800 [First Li t. 1,200 Second Lieuten- ant There is a decrease of $200 to $1000 a year in the shore pay of naval officers, and a still further decrease when they ‘are on waliting orders. In the army mounted officers receive a little more than those the cases of naval captains and com- manders it is easy fo perceive the reason for this. Captains and commanders are command ranks, and the officers in these grades are usually placed in positions of the gravest responsibility as commanding officers of ships. Furthermore, they are compelled to do a considerable amount of entertaining, which puts them to much expense. Again, naval officers when afloat are obliged to maintain sep- arate establishments for their families. CAVALRY SONG. Our good steed sniffs the evening air, Our pulses with their purpose tingle; The foeman's fires are twinkling there; He leaps to hear our sabers jingle; Halt! Each carbine sends its whizzing ball; Now, cling! clang! forward all, Into the fight! Dash on beneath the smoking dome; Through level lightnings gallop nearer! One look to heaven! No thought of home; The guidons that we bear are dearer. Charge! Cling! clang! forward all,* | Heaven help those whose horses fall!l Cut left and right o aiiRt i de e e o They flee before our fierce attack! They fall! they spread in broken surges! Now, comrades, bear our wounded back, And leave the foeman to his dirges. Wheel! The bugles sound the swift recall; Cling! clang! backward all! Home, and good night! EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. 5 WAR RATIONS. Mr. and Mrs. de Wolf Hopper have been divorced, and De Wolf is now a grass Hopper.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Why do you sit at the plano every evening, Mr. Gruffiy? Can you play? “Nope; no one else, either, while I'm there.”—Truth. For Chicago Girls—Young lady, exam- ining bridal veils—Can you really recom- mend this one? Dry-goeds clerk—Oh, ges. miss; it may be used several times.—Boston Traveler. War News—In a late issue a Chicago aper runs its marriage notices right un- ger its war news, and that is, perhaps, where they belong, from a Chicago point of view.—Denver Post. *“Maud is so patriotic.” “Is she?” “Yes. She's going to make a flag pillow and stuff it with guncotton.—Chicago Record. “I hope, pap: sald Bobbie, *“that the Government isn’'t buying its torpedoes of Mr. Simpkins, down in the village. I got some there last Fourth of July, and half of them wouldn’t go off.”—Harper's Bazar. “Excuse me, but it seems to me that I must have met you before. Are you not a brother or a near relative of Major Gibbs?” “No, I am Major Gibbs him- “Ah, indeed, that explains the re- markable resemblance.”—Tit-Bits. Coming Terrors—“Bridget, who is that at the door?” “It's a poor man, mum. He wants something to eat.”” “If he's another refugee driven out of Spain by the war, tell him. there's nothing left for him. We've already fed eleven ex-consuls this morning.”'—Chicago Tribune. Von Blumer—Did your wife have a com- plete trousseau when you were married? Dimpleton—I should say so. Why, didn’t have to buy her any clothes for three weeks afterward.—Boston Traveler. Handout Harry—Yes, marm, I lost my arm in_the revolution. Mrs. Kindheart—What revolution? Handout Harry—The revolution of a buzz saw, marm.—Truth. Thé Aslatic part of the Spanish na is no longer in the swim. i Yankee Dewey came to town, The town was called Manila; Yankee Dewey fired his guns And sank a hot flotilla. Yankee Dewdle Dewey'll do, He can do 'em up great. Yankee Dewey and his crew— They're the stuff*and that's stralght. —Anaconda Standard. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STAR SPANGLED BANNER—A Sub- scriber, Berkeley, Cal. *“The Star Span- gled Banner” was composed September 13, 1814, during the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md., by Francis Scott Key, & young Baltimorean, who had gone down the harbor in a cartel vessel. t was published and sung at the theaters to the alr of “Anacreon In Heaven,” and immediately became popular. DECLARATION OF WAR—G. W. J., City. For infermation about the time that war was declared, whether April 21 or 25, 1808, this department refers you to the proclamation of President McKinley, Pflbllshed in The Call of April 26. Accord- ng to that document the act of Spain Minister Woodford his passport on the 2lst of AFrll was a declaration of war gx the Spanish Government. The bill passed by Congress and signed by Presi- dent McKinley April 25, declares that war gggve:fn s(h;‘ Ut;lltedegtn!e; llnd the king- pain has existed s brpi ! i e nce the Zlst TUG OF WAR—J. M., Portwine, Cal The following are the rules for conduct- ing a tug of war, where the men stand up and tug on the rope: Teams shall be of equal number of competitors; the rope to be of sufficient length to allow for a pull of twelve feet and for twelve feet slack who are not mounted. The table shows that all the naval below commo- dore receive a larger compensation than the corresponding ranks in the army, In at each end, together with four feet for each competitor. The rope shall not be less than four inches in eircumference, and shall be without knots or other hold: Ings for the hands. A center tape shal'l be affixed to the center of the ruppe and a tape shall be tled at six feet distant on either side of the center tape. A center line must be marked on the ground and six feet on efther side two side lines par- allel thereto. At the start the rope shall be taut, with the center tape over the center line. No spikes are allowed in shoes, and men at the start are not per- mitted to sink holes in the ground with ;Y‘l‘glr s}lxiclsl. g]n lay-aown tugs the cleats nches apart anc ity P an inch in RAILROAD CROSSINGS—K. J., Mill- brae, San Mateo County, Cal. Section 486 of the Civil Code of California says, under the division devoted to railroad corporations: A Dbell of at least twenty pounds weigh must be placed on each locomotive engine. and rung at a dlstance of at least eighty rods from the place where the railroad crosses any street, road or highway; or a steam whistle must be attached and be sounded, except in cities, at the like distance, and be kept sound- ing at intervals until it has crossed the same. here is a penalty of+ $100 for every neglect to comply with the provisions of the section guoted. CARRYING ARMS—J. L., City. Sec- tlon 734 of the Penal Code of the State of California, which is as follows, answers the question as to what arms organized bodies may carry: It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized National ‘Guard of this State and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organiza, tion, to drfll or parade with arms In any city or town in this State, without the license of the Governor thereof, ‘which license may at any time be revoked! and provided, further, that students in educational institutions where mili- tary science is a part of the course of instruc- tion may, with the consent of the Governor, drill and’ parade with arms in public under the superintendence of their instructor; pro- vided, that nothing herein shall be construed so as to prevent benevolent or socfal organizations trom wearing swords. And any person or per- sons violating any of the provisions of this sectlon shall be gullty of a misdemeanor, and subject to arrest and punishment therefor. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_——— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by th Press Cllvpln{ Bureau (Allen’s), 510 fiont. gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_——— Coming Terrors—*Bridget, who is that at the door?’ “It's a poor man, mum. He wants something to ate.”” “If he's another refugee driven out of Spain by the war, tell him there’s nothing left for him. We've already fed eleven ex-Con- suls this morning.”—Chicago Tribune. —_—————— Excursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excursion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, via the “Shasta Route” and Northern Pacific Rail- way. Tourists will be accommodated in first- class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, in- cluding berths, meals and trip through the Park. 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