The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1898, Page 6

JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. BSOS U SV E PSP Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Teleph Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... 2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ wesk. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL........cc... One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. ss...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Adverti: g Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Coprespondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open unttl 9:30 o’clock. 387 Hayes street. 9pen until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. i94] Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second a Kentucky streets, open untii 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—Ysaye Columbla—+A Secret Warrant " Caiifornia—Hopkins Trans-Oceanic Star Spectalty Co. Alcazar—Yorick's Love Morosco’s—*Mrs. Partington and Her Son Ike.” Tlvoli—The Poster.” Orpheum—Vaudevilie. Sherman, Clay Hall—Kneisel Quartet, Thursday afternoon. 0dd Fellows’ Hall—Concert Thursday night. ‘The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. and “Visions of Art. * Olympta—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro Baths—Swimming, El Campo—Music. dancing, boating, fishing, every Sundav. AUCTION SALES. By Sullivan & Doyle—Wednesday, May 25, Horses, at 827 Sixth street, at 11 o'clo sto By E: Eldridge & Co.—Thursday, May 26, Rugs, at 108 Grautav t2 0 clock By Killip & Co.—Thursday, June 2, Horses, at San Mateo Stock Farm, at 10 o'c| 1 SPANISH TACTICS. ™ HE success with which the Spanish fleet in the West Indies has played a game of hide and seek among the islands of the Caribbean Sea for so long a time tells heavily against any hope of a speedy end to the war. To make a campaign short, sharp and decisive it is necessary to have a foe who can be found easily. An artful dodger, however readily he might be overcome in battle, is 10t to be captured | quickly when he has room enough to make good use of his nimble legs. The tactics which have been employed by the Spanish are such as were to have been expected of them both from the conditions of the war and from their national characteristics. No weak people pitted | against a strong nation and forced to fight at a great distance base of supplies would be guilty of the folly of risking everything on the result of a single battle. However daring and bold they might be prudence would prevent them from rushing to a combat where defeat would. mean ruin. The | bravest of races under such circumstances would pur- | sue a Fabian policy and seek to achieve by strategy what they could not hope to gain by direct fighting. These tactics which circumstances render wise on their part are the more acceptable to the Spaniards | because they are in accord with Spanish methods of | making war. It has never been their policy to fight pitched battles when such conflicts could be avoided. Their national existence has been maintained in Europe solely by their indomitable courage in guer- rilla warfare and their fitness for carrying it on. It has ever been easy to overthrow their armies, but never possible to subdue their country. These tactics which wore out the great Napoleon are now to be ap- plied against us, and, jf we are to force the war to 3 swift conclusion, we will have to show not only strength in iting the foe, but a tireless speed in | pursuing him. When Dewey took possession of the arsenal and the wrecks of the Spanish ships at Manila he found that orders had been given and preparations were | being made for the removal of the fleet from that | harbor. Had he not descended upon them with the | swiftness of an eagle swooping upon its prey they would have sailefl away, and he would have had be- fore him a game of hide and seek in the Philippines | as tedious and perplexing as that which now exasper- ates Sampson in the West Indies. To his vehement speed of attack as much as to his daring and his skill do we owe the victory which has saved our Pacific | Coast and commerce from the menace of Spanish assault. It is to be regretted that we were not prepared to strike in the West Indies as promptly as we did in the | Philippines. The conditions, however, were too dif: ferent to render such a course advisable. The result is that the Spaniards have Had a chance to get their ships out of Havana and scatter them around the Caribbean Sea, where they have been lately joined by the fleet commanded by Cervera. Now we have be- fore us the long hunt after an enemy whose course seems to be about as uncertain as that of Andree on his aerial voyage to the pole. What we need most in | our Atlantic fleet are swift cruisers rather than battle- ships, and unfortunately we have hardly enough of them for the work. Unless Cervera commits a blun- der or some splendid good fortune attends our arms, the West Indian campaign of hide and seek will prob- ably last for a long time to come. from their “hief Lees was in evidence yesterday. On a high- stepping horse and decorated with much gold braid he formed an imposing spectacle. The policemen who followed him marched well and wore their good clothes. But people did not throng the streets for the purpose of looking at policemen. Their eyes were for the soldiers. The province of the police should have been to keep order. They should have been ranged along the pavement for the purpose of con- trolling the crowds. As it was, the crowds were un- restrained, and in their enthusiasm made great con- fusion, obstructed the view and created an actual danger. There is no objection to the chiefs being as ornamental as possible, but he and the men under him are paid principally to be useful. It is extremely difficult to get up a scare on the sup- position that this country is to be invaded from Mexico. An idea prevails that Diaz might feel like saying something about it and get his soldiers to illustrate his remarks. LR e L Tf the women declare war on France the effect would be to improve styles, kill off a lot of fads and give the French a needed lesson in manners. Perhaps it will be a consolation to Dewey to learn that the Government has great admiration for him ...Marguette Bullding | | “pull” necessary to keep their places. | suspension no provision has been made. THE SAN fRA CISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 189S8. THE CZAR-MAYOR OF NEW YORK. N object lesson illustrating the Czar- fl Mayor theory in practical operation is opportunely furnished by ex-Judge Van Wyck, the blue-blooded potentate of Greater New York. The light which this lesson throws upen the charter discussion now in progress in this city emboldens us to call the attention not only of the people but of the advocates of the so- called Phelan charter to the plain facts of the case. To begin with, Mayor Van Wyck is a “reform” Czar-Mayor. He was chosen because of his high | social position, pure political affiliations and immacu- late pedigree. He is a descendant of the first families of the metropolis, and during the campaign of last fall not a single word was said against either his char- | acter or integrity. Yet ever since he became Mayor he has been the willing political instrument of the Tammany bosses. All his appointments have been dictated by Boss Croker, and even at this distance it is perceivable that he is engaged in building up a | Democratic machine in the city of New York which is destined to be stronger than any that ever existed in | the Empire State before. | The crisis came in the affairs of the combination, | however, when Tammany attempted to get control of the Police Department. The charter of Greater New | York, like that now pending in this city, provides for | a bi-partisan Police Commission—that is, a commis- | sion of four, two Democrats and two Republicans— {and authorizes the Mayor to appoint and remove at pleasure. Van Wyck started out with two Tammany Democrats and two Platt Republicans—a commis- | sion at once engaging and reformatory in its tenden- cies. But the plan did not work. Either the Platt | Commissioners would not permit the Tammany gam- | blers and blackmailers to “run” the city or they were | dissatisfied with the division of spoils allotted to them. At all events they resisted the enforcement of the Tammany programme, and Mayor Van Wyck re- moved them. Of course there are charges of corruption on both sides. The Tammany bosses declare that Phillips | and Hamilton, the deposed Commissioners, stood be- | tween them and the inauguration of reforms in the | | This, however, is too laughable to ob- | | tain. general credence. The Platt bosses declare that | their men endeavored to prevent the introduction of }.the Tammany machine into the department. There is | every reason to believe that this is true, for Van Wyck | has replaced Phillips and Hamilton with two Tam- many Republicans. Nor is the quarrel likely to end here. Governor Black, a Platt Republican, is talking about “remov- ing” Van Wyck. It appears that the charter of Great- | er New York invests him with some such power. The immediate result, however, has been to completely disorganize the New York Police Department. Chief McCullough has been dismissed and the heads of sev- eral of his captains are on the block. The entire force are now engaged, not in maintaining the law and pre- serving the peace, but in running about to secure the There is no confidence in civil service rules at such a crisis. But it appears that the Governor may suspend Van Wyck. No such authority exists under the charter pending in this city. Here if the Mayor elected under the in- strument were to remove two Police Commissioners who refused to give all the places to the Sullivan fac- tion of the local Democratic party no power on earth could menace him. Indeed, the Mayor is the only official of our proposed charter for whose removal or | department. THE TORPEDO-BOAT. OR years past the interest of the general public l: in naval affairs has been mainly centered in tor- pedo-boats. These little crait that were supposed | to be able to dive under water and come up under or near a massive battle-ship and blow her to fragments appealed to popular imagination. They were sug- gestive of the wonderful ship of Jules Verne's “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” The average man read of them with thrilling interest and held vast and undefined expectations of what they would accomplish as soon as the dogs of war were loosed and they were sent free like demons of the | deep to ravage the ocean and the multitudinous seas incarnadine. We have been at war for more than a month, and the only torpedo-boat that has distinguished herself is the Winslow. Her distinction lies in the fact that she got herself knocked to pieces by presuming on her ability to whip a land battery and sink some Spanish ships lying under its protection. This incident shows that the torpedo is not so invulnerable as popular fancy supposed. It clearly demonstrates that there are some things in the way of naval destruction that the magic craft will have to leave to more old-fashioned ships to perform. Before hostilities began we heard much of the torpedo-boats the Spanish had gathered at Havana, and our patriotic fears were aroused lest in the night they should slip out from the harbor under the cover of darkness, approach our blockading fleet, dive un- der water, sink a battle-ship or two and return in safety to be greeted like the matador who had made a daring stroke in a bull-ring. Not a thing, however, have these marvelous Spanish torpedoes accom- plished. So idle have they been that some people are beginning to doubt their existence. Admiral Dewey steamed into Manila harbor as careless of mines and of torpedo-boats as if such things had no more terrors than so many sea ser- pents. He moved his squadron close in to the shal- low waters of Cavite Bay and banged a\ ay at the Spanish arsenal, land batteriez and ships with as much coolness as if he lived and was fighting in days before torpedo-boats were invented. Indeed, a casual observer watching him as he made his way into the port through the darkness and following his ‘man- euvers in the battle would be inclined to believe that he had never heard of these dread machines of mod- ern war and was brave through a blissful ignorance of his danger. The war is as yet young, and before it closes the torpedo-boat may get in its deadly work. Up to this time, however, the public has awaited in vain for the thrill of its first startling, devastating blow. Spain has many such boats and so have we. Sooner or later one of them will show its ability as a fighting machine and we shall then have a better conception of its power. In the meantime it is significant that neither side seems to rely much upon them. The Spanish have never launched one of theirs against our blockading ships, and we, after putting the Win- slow up against a land battery, will hardly repeat the experiment. The citizen who immediately after fl‘e Manila affair named his new boy Dewey, his own name being Dun- ham, makes his meaning plain enough even if there is involved an assault on grammar. Now the boys of the First know what ‘we'tkink of and wishes him well. - . them anyhow. ANNEXATION ARGUMENT. HE New York Journal yells for Hawaiian an- Tnexation with a zeal which suggests a contingent fee that is needed in its business. In a late issue the Journal says that annexation was the policy of Presidents Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Johnson, Grant and Harrison, and Secre- taries of State Webster, Calhoun, Buchanan, Clayton, Marcy, Seward, Fish, Frelinghuysen, Blaine and Fos- ter. This is a sweeping misrepresentation of history and a palpable falsehood. Of the lists of Presidents quoted only Harrison favored annexation, and of the Secretaries only Foster. It is true that Marcy did negotiate an annexation treaty, but it was at the insti- gation of a weak ruler of the islands, and was never ratified. Marcy’s real policy seems to have been ex- pressed in the reciprocity treaty which he negotiated with Mr. Lee, the Hawaiian representative. ~The other statesmen named are all on record for the autonomy and independence of the islands. American statesmen have been aware of two possi- ble embarrassments in the Hawaiian situation; one arising in their ownership as a colony by the United States, the other in their passing under the dominion of any European power. The latter was amply pro- vided against by the Anglo-French treaty of 1842, by which Great Britain and France agreed never in any manner or form, directly or indirectly, to assume dominion or control of Hawaii. While the United States was not a party to that treaty in fact, it brought that two nations that were into line with us and made the acquisition of the islands by any European power impossible, since any one attempting it must antago- nize Great Britain, France and this republic. The islands were guaranteed in their independence and neutrality with autonomy as a state in the American system of nations and all the rights of a government within the Monroe hemisphere. From that policy we have never varied until the machina- tions of Minister Stevens in 1893 put in power a mi- nority and erected a military oligarchy sustained by 2 per cent of the people. The position of all the American statesmen named by the Journal, with the two exceptions noted, was never better stated than by Blaine himself. In his official letter of Novem- ber 19, 1881, to Comly, our Minister at Honolulu, he said: “The Government of the United States has. with unvarying conmsistency, manifested respect for the in- dependence of the Hawaiian kingdom and an earnest desire for the welfare of its people. It has always felt and acted on the conviction that the possession of the islands by a peaceful and prosperous power, with which there was no possibility of controversy or col- lision, was most desirable, in reference to its own large and rapidly increasing interests in the Pacific. It has declined, even at the request of the Hawaiian people, to assume over their affairs a protectorate, which would only be a thinly disguised domination, and it has confined its efforts and influence to strengthening their government and opening to their commerce and enterprise the readiest and most profit- able connection with its own markets.” Now, that was a plain statement of our historic policy. From that policy Mr. Blaine contemplated only one cause of deviation, which he said would be in a tendency on the part of the Hawaiian Govern- ment to drift toward the Asiatic system, in which event an American solution would become necessary. It will be seen that the Journal's statement is false, as the reasons for it are probably corrupt, and this is a good time to suggest that the people should be on their guard against innovations and novelties in our national policy which are urged by newspapers like Hearst's, notorious for blackmail, corruption and the leasing of their editorial opinions on time contracts to anybody who will pay the price demanded. Our policy toward Hawaii has been to support neu- trality and independence and control her trade by the natural gravitation of commerce. pened to make necessary a change in this policy, and it is unlikely that anything will happen to justify it. D bond clause of the war revenue bill raises a distinct issue against the administration on an intportant measure growing out of the conflict with Spain. It is clearly the intention of the Democratic leaders to make this issue the dominant one in the campaign before the people in the coming Congres- sional elections, and therefore a new interest is given to the contest now going on in Oregon, where a Con- gressional as well as a State ticket is to be elected on June 6. The “war issue,” as it may be called, has been sprung suddenly upon the Oregon voters, for it was not foreseen at the time the party platforms were made and the rival candidates nominated, but it will not take them unawares nor find them unprepared to deal with it. No elaborate campaign of education will be needed to inform the intelligent voters of that State of the meaning of the question submitted to them, nor of the effect which their decision upon it will have throughout the country. They will under- stand at once that it is but a new form of the old issue of good money against bad, of safe finance against rash experiment; and that if they should vote against the administration on this issue the effect would be to weaken the power of the country in war by discrediting to some extent the security of its bonds and the value of its money. it There is no weakness in the position taken b‘ Ore- gon Republicans on the issue between gold and free silver. The declaration of the party platform on that question is a model of strength and clearness. This fact gives assurance that in facing about to meet the new form of fiat money attack there will be no lack of courage or vigor. The conduct of the campaign on that line will be as welcome to them as it would have been to go over again the old battle of'95. The war revenue bill, bond clause and all,just as it passed the House, will find support from every loyal Repub- lican, and the issue between the administration and its opponents will be made as sharp and distinct as any of the Democrats or Populists of the State dare to confront, : THE OREGON ELECTION. EMOCRATIC opposition in Congress to the R Y PSRN Governor Leedy of Kansas should resign, and, hav- ing thus acquired leisure, devote it to kicking himself. He is the gentleman who took the uniforms away from the State troops on learning that they were going into Federal service. In consequence the gal- lant Kansans are here clad just as they came from the farm or store. Happily they may be at home again in time for the next election. The reporter who affirmed that the Minnesota regi- ment was not well equipped showed extremely bad judgment. But he is keeping away from the camp, which shows that he can on occasion exercise judg- ment of a thoroughly sane variety. Sergeant Green of the police force is to be congrat- ulated. There are few men who can send three sons away on the country’s service nndh9n six left at PR R TR R bR R $3E233222338.02 82 03 &3 2 03 80 235000t 00 Ut R et Rinsn a8 S8 00Rn a0 enat et niten B 0nen e e e o BRCn s 85 82 83 80 % OVINGLY laden with flowers the desolate mourners go' is a line from Judge Flinch’s beautiful tribute to Southern women on the Mississippi. _4 And so surely as the seasons come and go do women gather to pay tribute to the soldier dead. The tender hand that waved adieu in '61 is now the wrinkled palm; and the blooming cheek of those eventful days is crossed by many lines; life’s sun-rays slant far past noon; but on this day of days when Southern womanhood does reverent homage at the shrine of its dead, the old hark agaln to the sound of the ringing bugle and to the istirring drum-beat when the boys in gray marched Virginia became the Southern cemetery. And in the lon Rachel has mourned.for her children. It matters little that the issue has been sealed forever. long ago accepted that fact, and from desolation has gathered strength. But there is above it a greater fact, and that is the sacred duty of the eiti- zen to defend the home of his fathers. The boys in gray almost none were left to wield a saber or shoulder a musket. tomb of a Confederate soldier is more august in its stern aspect than a mausoleum. It is not merely a shrine of liberty; it is liberty enshrined. The men who dared all, fought with all strength and lost all, can never cease to be heroes in the sight of thelr countrymen. The South has not forgotten; the South cannot forget. faded like a mist; the mad echo of passion has moaned i patriotism, reverence and love remain; and love distilled in the magic ves- sel of memory sheds J'% fragrance on every grave that soldier of the cause. It stirs the heart, it brings tears to the eyes, it makes in the veins to witness the beautifu ceremony of loving hands wreathing It is a part of the blessed ministry of woman —a right none denies her—a function at which she is supreme. ‘When the country rang those graves with garlands. ‘Wwhether in victory or defeat, the blow has fallen, with tidings of victory, she thought of husband, son or b bought it with his blood; and when sad faces told of the counted the cost and reckoned fearfully on a loss that time And now it is her hand that decks the graves and her heart that treasures deepest the memories of the dead. The country is again at war; the city is filled with troops mustering for fight, and there may be more heroes and more graves. women to-day shows that no man who does his duty wil recognition by the hearts of his countrywomen. ory whether he is a general or the humblest private in the The occasion calls up the lines of John Esten Cook, written at Kelly Ford, where the gallant Pelham, our young Marcellus, was ern band had begun playing the national air, and Cook wrote: v O band in the pine weeds, cease! Cease with your splendid call; The living are brave and noblg, But the dead were bravest gf all. They come with the ringing bugle And the low drum’s hajlow rofir, Till the heart is sick with longing For the forms we see no more. The gallant forms that dared death in the early sixties and bars have almost disappeared; but they live again on Memorial They come to life at the touch of a woman’s hand He will live green In mem- ; they are knights sans peur et sans reproche in the hearts of Southern women—God gblesl our women, the guardians of our dead.—From The State, Columbia, 8. C. R R R R R R R R R L R L] 2 THE VOICE OF THE FAIR SOUTHLAND: forth to battle. g, sad interlude The South has did that until So that the and uninviting The rancor has tself still. But holds a falthful the blood surge Upon her, rother that had defeat, she still could not repay. The act of the 1 fall of loving ranks. slain. A North- under the stars day. $3332225282328 53 83 22 83 80 80 80 02 Qa0 n g 2 an 0 n 0 at s 2 S0t 0 SRt et e G Lt S N S R a0t S N e 20 8 8 |COLLECTED IN for S. H. Mitchell of Selkirk, N. W. T., is at the California. ‘Warren Sexton, an attorney of Oroville, is located at the Grand. Thomas H. Thompson, man of Tulare, is at the Lick. Dr. E. C. Reed and wife of Petaluma are among the arrivals at the Grand. A. E. Gwynne, wife and son, Arthur Gwynne, of New York, are guests at the Captain J. J. Brice, ex-United States Fish Commissioner, will be at the Palace J. Oregon, is among those who are regis- tered at the California. I THE CORRIDORS. Western sea. Lifts the chorus: a real estate ’ a sturdy coast, hero host; Where the great Ohio and plain, Like & mighty people he loud refrain: a few days. Butler, a raiflroad man of Portland, “We 1 Cuba ‘must be traet "1 1Y Strike a blow for lfberty!” Where Atlantic's crested billows dash against en, hist'ry’ crimes of centuries ten; Her gonfalons have floated over seas of human THEY ARE READY. Where the pines bend in the breezes In the | forests old of Maine, Where the orange blows in beauty on the sun- kiss'd Southern plain, Where rise the golden mountains far above the 3 Forward! Eager for the call'to battle stends a gallant rushes past metropolis speaking you can hear “We will break the Spanish chainl” its s bbard to avenge pages with the Baldwin. R. R. Veal, Sheriff of Contra Costa | Pants the sword within C at the Grand from ¢ wrongs of men, ;'(?r:lt:e'z.u e Spain has blackened gore, Bhe las Sown with death and terrors Cuba’s fair and happy shore, Until vengeance cries: ““No more!” Freedom's stalwart sons stand ready for the | thrilling call to arms Nothing has hap~i E. T. Parsons, the Pacific Coast repre- sentative of a paint factory in Chicago, is registered at the Occldental. Mrs. E. C. Wheeler and Mrs. Stoddard, two ladies well-known in social circles in Cloverdale, are guests at the Lick. Lewis T. Wright, manager of the Iron Mountain copper mine at Keswick, in Shasta County, is staying at the Pal- ace. Commodore E. H. C. Leutze, U. 8. N, Lloyd England, of- the United States army, and H. G. Boswell are at the Oc- cidental. Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, & mining engi- neer and proprietor of extensive mining interests in Arizona and Mexico, is at the Palace. Three feminine 0000000000 o © frequenters of the o NEW WAY o races, who are plungers In a 0.5, TOBEATSTHE o TTEEC S s o RACES. O “Yosers” to a con- o O stderable extent 0.0:00 000000 & i S day last week. On that day they went over to the track according to their usual cus- tom, and they came to the conclusion that something must be done to retrieve their losses, which had become painfully monotonous. When the trio reached the grand stand they evolved all kinds of schemes, but they were discarded as be- Ing utterly impracticable and useless. At last, one of the ladies, struck with a sud- den idea, excitedly said: “I'll tell you what we will do. Let us buy an extra programme.” This was done, and the other two wonderingly watched their friend produce a small pair of scissors with which she proceeded carefully to cut out the printed names of the horses that had been posted fo run in the first race. After cutting them all out she mixed the littie slips of paper In her lap, and then closing her eyes, she picked c¢ne of them out, and calling a pool boy ordered him to place a bet on the horse thus drawn. Strange to relate the * horse actually came In first, and the fair inventor of a new system to beat the races was winner on the first race. Her compan- fons now entered Into the spirit of the scheme, and the same plan of drawing the slips was carried out for the succeed- ing five races. Although they lost on one race the system was eminently suc- cessful in all the others, and at the end of the day they divided up $200 as the winnings of that afternoon. ‘Whether or not they pursued the plan after that is not known, but it appears that the system, while not to be entirely recommended as a ‘‘sure thing,” is about as good as any that have been generated in the fertile brain of the habitual race- goer. Willlam H. Hudson of Stanford Univer- sity, accompanied by his wife, and Lieu- tenant M. C, Gorgas and wife of Mare Island are registered at the California. Dr. Wright, a capitalist and extensive sugar planter of Honolulu, is at the Oc- cldental with his family. They have been visiting in the Southern part of the State. | James F. Hunsicker and wife, B. A. Seaborg of Portland, Max Friedlander of Chicago and W. H. Edwards of Melbourne were some of the arrivals at the Baldwin. J. W. Buckminster, proprietor of the Jumper gold mine in Stent, which is con- sidered the best paying mine, in propor- tion to the number of stamps used, in the United States, Is registered at the Bald- win. Colonel and Mrs. R. Temple of India,’ J. J. Byrne of Los Angeles, division su- perintendent of the Santa Fe, and Charles R. Drake, a Tucson merchant, were among those who registered at the Pal- ace yesterday afternoon. ‘William Sproule, freight trafic man- ager of the Southern Pacific Company, left Milwaukee on Sunday night, and will arrive here on Wednesday evening. He has been attending the meeting of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau. H. L. Frank, who has been at the Pal- ace for several months, left last night for Portland and Spokane Falls, and will pro- ceed from the latter place to his home in Butte, Montana. His racing horses, among whom are Imp. Bitter Root, Malakwa and El Mido, and thirteen others, will be shipped to-day to Butte in Marcus Daly's {and placed at the disposal of Mr. Frank. private car which the latter sent here Ready in the teeming cities, ready on & thous- They"ha e 1 already trampled ey have heard too long alr t e Cuba's_walling cry. 3 5 In the shadow of our banner they have seen | her people die; To thelr rescue let us fy! God has weighed in Right's stern balances the myriad crimes of Spain, The hour has come for vengeance; it may never come again; Let the bright lone star of Cuba rise in splen- dor o'er the wave, And her people stand beneath it, ever free and that deep, dry, ironical sense of humor, the ezu'n?n,rk of the American, didb not twinkle in Perry’s eyes, at least it ought to have done so.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. —_——ee————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ALMADEN—A. D. R., Auburn, Cal. Al- maden {8 Spanish-for mine, but the term now is obsolete. STOCKTON—J. F. M., Stockton, Cal The elevation of the city of Stockton above the sea level 12.‘.’% LeeL TO NEW ORf,EANS—F. R. 8., Penn- rove, Cal. The rate of first-class fare ew Orleans from San Francisco is $7 VICE-CONSUL MASON—The remains of the late Vice-Consul Mason, who died in Sausalito several yes o ago, were laid at rest in San Rafae' THE OREGON- City. The Ore- on left San Francisco March 19, 188 Vhat her destination was was not an- nounced by the Navy Department. ADVERTISEME S—Subscribers, City. The department of Answers to Corre- spondents has no knowledge of the stand- ing of the firms whose advertisements are inclosed in your communication. HOPPERS ON THE VINE-L. G. H., San Jose, Cal. For information in regard to the hopper that infests the vineyards write to the secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento, Cal. | TETLOW—A. S. and C. A. W., City. The late Samuel Tetlow shot and vkllled William Skeantebury, in fhe Bella Union, July 10, 1880. Tetlow was at one time an inmate of the San Francisco Almshouse. THE CALIFORNIA HUNDRED—O. T., City. The review of the California Hun- dred by Mayor Teschemacher and Lieu- tenant-Colonel Thompson on Portsmouth Square, in this city, was on the 10th of December, 1862. _ SUCCESSION—Country Reader, Tulare, Cal. If a husband dies without having made a will, if there is but one child and the widow, the property oes in_equal shares to the surviving widow and child or issue of such child. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR—O. M., City. A list of the lodges of the American Legion of Honor in this city will be furnished by C. O. Burton, the grand secretary, on_ application at his office in St. Ann’'s building. THE CLOCK DIAIL—A. L. P, Oakland, Cal. The diameter of the dlal of the clock in the ferry tower is 22 feet. That of the clock in the Chronicle bullding is 16 feet. The numerals on the tower clock are three feet high. OFFICERS OF VOLUNTEERS—Sub- scriber, Madera, Cal. A man named and commissioned as an officer of a company of volunteers of the army of the United States is subjected to the same physical examination that an enlisted man is. THE OREGON—S. A. M., City. The | keel of the United States ship Oregon was {lald November 19, 18%0. She was placed in commission June 26, 1896. She was { launched October 26. 1893. At one time | there was between seven and eight hun- | dred men at work upon her. ROBERT BRUCE—B. S. 8., Livermore, Cal. Robert Bruce of Scotland was con- temporary with Edward I and with Ed- ward III of England. Bruce was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and relgned un. til 1820. Edward I was King of England from 1272 until 1307 and Edward 1II from 1327 to 1377, s THE HEIGHT—G. T D., City. The height to the top of the cupola on the Claus Spreckels building at Mar- ket and Third streets is 327 feet, and the gllt ball on the flag staff above is thirty- ve feet, so that to the top of the gilt hb%”f“ent thé top of the staff the height is 362 feet. PROMOTIONS—R. C., City. There-is no fixed number of promotions in the United States army yearly. Promotions follow the filling of a vacancy. Privates in the army have the right to prepare themselves for examination for second lieutenant. If they pass a successful ex- amination they are recommended for commission. RAILROAD FACTS—A. H. R., Bonnie Doon, Cal. The agent of the Great North- truly_brave, | ern Railway at San Francisco is E. S. ‘With Oppression in its grave. | Blair; that of the Northern Pacific is T. incinnati Times-Star. | R Stately, The Omaha exhibition will PERRY’S VISIT TO JAPAN. Commodore Dewey is not the first American who has led a hostile fleet into a harbor of the far East. Commodore Perry, a brother of the hero of Lake Erle, was before him. Perry’s expedition was not as bloody as Dewey’s, and the| risks he ran were less; there was no chance of being lifted sky-high by an ex- ploding mine—torpedoes were not then the thing.. There was a brilliant, spec- | tacular side to his undertaking. With the coming of day, July 8, 1853, the Japanese got the first glimpse of the| slow-moving, sailless invader ships. With what consternation the alarm must have spread! A stranger, perhaps a con- queror, his ships moving as no Japanese ship had ever moved, was already in the | heart of their bay. | Presently the sun got high enough to dispel the fog and the bay lay open. Still the invaders moved slowly on. Junks, brilliantly painted. hovered toward them, and got no more attention than if they | were soap bubbles blown upon the shining | surface of the water. A fleet of boats | came down the bay to stop the advance | of the ships, and the American plowed | silently through. Immense crowds tnat had gathered upon every neadland stared dumfounded. And then Perry put another touch to his sphinx-like impudence. Slowing down his engines, he began sounding the bay. At every revolution of the paddles the lead was thrown. There was no inquiry of any one where to anchor; no asking of ermission. As indifferent to the junks, ats, crowds, kingdom round about him as it he owned the earth, he quietly hunt- ed for an anchorage, found one to his llkhil]’, and let go his anchors off the city of Uraga, with his cannon commanding it. Immediately two guns were fired, evi- dently as signals, from the batteries of the town, and a rocket leaped into the air. And now for the consummation of Per- ry's peculiar plan. He withdrew to his cabin. Presently an officer came out from Uraga and desired to parley with the commodore. He was met with a most unexpected demand. What was his rank? The commodore would uave no dealin; except with the officials of the very high- est rank. This one was only the Vice- Governor, and back he must go to Uraga. For no such small fry as a Vice-Gov- ernor would inscrutable Perry come out of his cabin. Night fell, and Perry did not move. Ex- citement reigned around Yeddo Bay. Guns were fired. Rockets shot into air. Every battery on the headlands was thronged | with soldiers—had been filling with them all day. Beacon fires twinkled through ht here, there, everywhere. Perry la%:hqu etlyt aé hls'finelé%m. e next day the vernor of Urag: came out to the flagship. This wllua. llta-' tle better than the Vice-Governor, and he 8ot a trifle better treatment. Imperturb- able Perry still refused to come out of his cabin, but he delegated one of his offi- cers_to receive the ‘overnor. But his excellency must distinctly understand that this high and mighty commodors the bearer of a letter from the stiil higher and mightier, the American Presi- dent, to his majesty the Emperor of Ja- pan. The said mighty commodore pro- Posed to give this lefter up to a great prince of Japan, and to nobody lower in rank. That was all there was about it. “There is only one place in Japan,” said g‘fmgl&%%fl&;,b;‘where 2 foreign com- roper] y et a0 th o De properly recelved. You ow began to threaten. For an outer ‘barian to have thrust himself thus coolly into forbidden waters must have surprised Japan enough; but for him to propose a wltfi th must have been all bu 8 that is what Perry did. He issued ultimatum with that for his text. Eith he should get word by Tuesday, July 12, that the sort of interview he desired had been arranged, or he would himself carry the letter to the Emperor. Apparently is amazing commodore, with rns pro- voking supply of insulting calmness, felt competent, he and his six ships. to make one meal of the whole of Japan. at the Japanese Government thought has not been published. but it came to tmw&mn functionary would meet the o , and Thu: v, Ju was set for the interview. might Perr¥ could now come fo: s cabin, triumphant at every 1 1 tl i C Vitoria. T g son. be mailed in time to reach Seattle on_the 14th. pany, but that s nate as a better way to protect the rose bushes and that will prevent reachin; buds. flour of sulphur on the affected bushes or water with an infusion of hellebore. If any leaves show signs of disease of an kind pluck them as soon as_discovered, and in that way prevent the disease from spreading. Destroy all such leaves. Union.” Pennsylvania En, o its fifth 1 ad gave its fifth annual promenade c f\%d"han on the evening of the sg{]}fsfi pril. concert were Mrs. W. H. Leighto = nor and Signora Blanchi, Signora Jors &hlne d’Ormy, zhgrt:lr pléc:‘l [as un “harles Schul or.man ‘ears of St, Francls Yalaer Oioons and for a long time leader of the C: Dia Theater orchestra. Press St clared the young man. my tamden is better than yours.”—Judge. —_—— Excursion to Grand Canyof of the open June 1. There will not be any cheap excursion rates to it from San Francisco. The fare to Des Moines is $35 2. UNCLE AND COUSINS—N. N., City. The law in almost every portion of the world prohibits the marriage of uncle and niece or aunt and nephew, but there is no law that prohibits an uncle from marrying a first cousin, except the law of nature which visits its penalties on those who do. These are often in the form of imbecile children. ARMORED CRUISERS—A. O. §., City. The United States has but two armored cruisers, the New York and the Brooklyn. The guns on these aggregate thirty-eight. Spain has the following named armored | cruisers: Marla Oquendo, Cisneros, Catalina, Teresa, Asturias, Vizcaya, C. ‘olon, Aragnn, Carlos V., Neunanita and ese carry an aggregate of 146 uns. N, RESURRECTION BAY-J. B. K., Bky- land, Cal. Mail for Resurrection Bay, via Orca, Alaska, will leave Seattle about the 5th of each month during the open sea- Letters intended for that place must At other times mall {s forwarded by he vessels of the Pacific Whaling Com- is Irregular. EMULSION—Subscriber, Calistoga, Cal. The following is given as the formula for making an emulsion of mineral oil: ounces of concentrated size, one pound of soft soap, emulsify two gallons of mineral oll. Such an emulsion, used with a sprinkler on rose bushes, is said-to destroy the aphis, which in your communication you desig- Six one gallon of water will *“rose lice.” But it Is sald that s to place & ring of tar on the branches, the aphis from i.“d depositing ssiu in the rose- simple remedy 1is to sprinkle UNION HALL—W. F., City. Union Hall, recently destroyed by fire, was opened for nspection April 29, 1863. One of the local papers had the following on the morning of the 30th: tion the handsomest, and, as we believe “This hall is without excep- t to be, the most extensive in the The hall was inaugurated by ne Company No. 12 of re Department, which Volunteer The artists who took part in the ora_Jose- Fellini, ~Signor The orchestra of the leadership of Signor rossi and sur. Gragg. er Hook and Ladder Company for- —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's.® —_—— T Rare books, valuable to any person, for sale at Odd Fellows’ Library, S Market street. Great bulr:.lns?venm l-:!fl —— _ Speclal Information supplied dafly business houu%u lrlelfl ;znAtfi?e men m“ au Y - Telephone Matd Joig O3 —_———— “And can you give my daughter ail the luxuries she has been accustomed to?” asked the millionaire. “Yes, sir,” modestly, yet proudly, de- “I may even say Colorado. A select party of educators and sclentlsts will leave San Francisco Monday, .une 6, for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, In charge of Professor Emory Smith of Palo Alto. low rates have been made, and a pleasant and profitable trip is Santa Fe office, 644 Market st. Very -sured. Full particulars at