The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1898. The . SATURDAY | RECKELS, Propretor. sopbosid dUunlo el i 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 Street Telephone Main 1874 THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 66 cents. | | THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mall, $1.50 ! OAK'.AND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertis WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHRICAGO OFFICE .Marquctte Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. +ese-2..908 Broadway ......... Room 188, World Bullding ng Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6!5¢Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | et AMUSEMENTS. » the Moonlight " ns-Oceantc Star Specialty Co. ington and Her Son Ike.” Poster.” ideville. wudeville. and “Visions of Art."* son and Eddy streets, Spectaltes. . boating. fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. , Eldridge & Co.—This day, May 28, Rugs, at 106 | lock «d—This day, May 28. Jewelry, at 1036 Market st., | . May 25. Horses, Buggles. etc., at | Co.—This at 11 o'clock. terfield—This day, May 28. Furniture, at | Selock. —Thursday, June 2, Horses, at San Mateo Stock | E.| GOOD FOR THE UNION-STREET LIN EREAFTER no soldier wearing the blue will | H pay fare on the Union street line. This is a generous concession, and will be appreciated only by the soldiers themselves, but by the pub- | to whom the comfort of the soldiers is a matter of close concern. While many of the soldiers have been moved to the Bay District, there are still hun- dreds who in reaching the city will naturally depend upon Union street. All the boys in the Fontana ware- house and those in the Presidio barracks will espe- cially be grateful for the favor of the company. | the lack of force, the insubordination to discipline, the | The sentiments i the people are vitalized and working together to pre- pare comfort and cure for the ill and wounded. Com- IS THIS LOYALTY? N Wednesday Senator Stewart made a free sil- Over speech against the war revenue bill. The telegraph wasted words in telling the country that it was “a long speech.” His speeches are long and also numerous. The matter before the Senate on which he cannot make a long free silver speech, has not yet been introduced to the attention of that body. If it were a proposition to recognize God in the con- stitution Stewart would speak on free silver. The war revenue bill is an administration measure. The President and his constitutional advisers know the difficulties raised by the war and-the plans neces- sary to meet them. They know that our so-called “insurgent allies” in Cuba and the Philippines are, in 2 military sense, a myth. The report of Lieutenant Rowan on the insurgent situation in Cuba discloses incapacity to fight in military formation, of the guer- rillas under Gomez The quality of Philippine patriot- ism is illustrated by the history of the rebel chief, | Aguinaldo, who raised the revolution and sold it out to Spain for $800,000 spot cash. Half of this was to have been divided among the common soldiers who were enlisted under this bandit. He gobbled it all and ran away to Hongkong, whereupon his deserted fol- lowers renewed their revolution, probably in the hope of another cash deal with the home government. Americans will have to do the fighting. Already we have under arms and under call to arms 280,000 soldiers. - Their pay alone is over $4,000,000 a month. Their arms, equipment and maintenance cost many times that sum monthly. We will soon be spending on this war $5,000,000 a day; and Senator Stewart made a long free silver speech. The flower of the country is being hurried to the front, over land and sea. The merchant marine is being drawn upon, and soon we may have to do as England did in the Crimean war and charter our troop ships from other nations; and Stewart made a long free silver speech. | of mercy and philanthropy among mercial bodies and financial institutions are already pouring out money to fill the treasury of the Red Cross; and Stewart made a long free silver speech. With the news of the first battle wives will be widows and children will be orphans. The sweet foun- tain of pity is already affluent, and men and women are organizing to assuage the sorrow and succor the distress that will be upon many an American home; and Stewart made a long free silver speech. The administration is pressed for resources to meet | the emergency. The President and his Cabinet have not only the task of calling and equipping troops, managing the delicate diplomacy required in war, watching the enemy and meeting strategy with strat- egy, but they have to concert the financial measures | which must supply the sinews of war; and Stewart made a long free silver speech. In that speech he said of the administration revenue bill: “It is the most miserable, villainous piece of | legislation ever enacted by a legislative body.” | The British Parliament during the civil wars passed | Nearly all municipal power has been transferred from LRR R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R AR R AR AR AR R AR R AR AR R R R R R R AR R R R AR AR AR R R R SRR R R R is not even satisfactory in itself. The only redeeming and that as such it saluted undisciplined bands of raiders by the title of soldiers of the regular army of hereafter they will be punished. This promises to put an end to the mere looting and raiding of the and his followers may yet prove effective allies in a civilized war for the freedom of Cuba and the cause THE NEW CHARTER. l T i$ characteristic of the demagogues who ride into celebrate their victories by alleging that they have overcome ‘“corruption” after a hard battle. This is ers of the new charter, who have fought in the hope that their schemes of blackmail will be furthered by “corruptionists” defeated on Thursday by these in- dividuals may be understood when it is considered 12,025. This includes not alone those who honestly thought the charter a dangerous experiment, but the who regarded it as inimical to their personal interests. The vainglorious shouting of these demagogues be- whom they overthrew are reduced to a few hundred votes. The truth is the new charter was adopted, not and digested it, but because there is a general desire for a change in our organic system. This was the stitution in 1879. The campaign for that instrument was accompanied, as this one has been, by a weak of Supervisors and a disgraceful Legislature. Prob- ably the Legislature of 1878 was the worst that ever the people when such object lessons in corruption are before their eyes as have been before the eyes of the But the whys and wherefores of the late campaign are no longer of interest. The existent fact is one- entirely new experiment in charter legislation. Should the Legislature ratify it, everybody should thereafter an honest Mayor. Since 1879 the Supreme Court has delivered a thousand decisions interpreting the new than the charter, is still in question. We practically know nothing upon the subject of making charters, ried on Thursday comes to be subjected to legal | scrutiny much of it will be found unconstitutional. feature is that it was designed merely as a salutatory, Cuba, warning them that if they do not act as such past and gives encouragement to the hope that Gomez of humanity. political power on waves of popular discontent to now being done by some of the disreputable support- the instrument. The tremendous combination of that the total vote polled against the charter was school teachers, policemen, firemen and politicians comes ridiculous when the awful “corruptionists” because a majority of those who voted for it have read great influence which operated to carry the new con- Grand Jury, a corrupt School Board, a rotten Board assembled anywhere. It is unavailing to reason with people of this city during the past six months. fifth of the voters of the city have fastened upon it an endeavor to elect honest officials under it—particularly constitution, and yet that instrument, which is shorter and it is not improbable that when the document car- One thing, however, may be set down as settled | P NSNS NEEEERRNEENEN RN NNRRBRRRRBRIRS BRREIIRVINVRIRYY THE SUNDAY CALL MAY 29, 1898, WILL CONTAIN, AMONG OTHER FINE FEATURES: IN ) N Z = PENSIONS IN THE PRESENT WAR United States Commissioner Evans T to Our Boys After th \ ‘ \ "“ ,(!I n X’.‘ pos Ny SALOMY BY | ALL the Usual Departments, Including Books, Theaters, Whist, Fashion and Society, AND THE BEST NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR. READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL HOW TO MAKE A FORTUNE By Twelve Prominent Millionaires. WHALING IN MONTEREY BAY How the Monster of the Deep Is Blown Out of the Water With Explosive Bombs. > READ THE S| CALL poesssd CAMP AT TAMPA WITH ¢ THE ROUGH RIDERS ° Military Company. READ THE SUNDAY CALL ells Just What Will Be Coming e War Is Over. JANE’S KISS BRET HARTE. Tue MAJOR’S CONVERSION : A, DECORATION-DAY STORY. K & & Tne SUMMER GIRL AWHEEL All About What This Interesting Creature Will 8 Wear While Taking a Spin on the Road. S; s b5 88 8 8 8 8 beyond doubt. Unless the people capture the Mayor | ;g g g e i R N NN NURVIUIRBUNURUJURRLS BRILRLRILLIUILLLERLENIRLGY and maintain possession of him they will be undone. the present sources and lodged in the Mayor. “If the | COLLECTED IN half way between Havre and New York| was caught in Connecticut. On the return | voyage Captaln Renaud took from New | ment was advancing the sum of $400,000 quarterly with which to purchase arms and supplies and for fitting out armed vessels, but it was afterward ascertained THE CORRIDORS. | York avout fitty birds, which were re- | EE RR D R !lensed one, two and threc days out. Of | by Benjamin Franklin that the King aid Hon. Robert N. Bufia of Los Angeles, | no news.. The birds orfle‘r;eaixn'}nHai\nreh:r?; e oY i allowed Deen- N . L1 » | N0 news. e g i archals e right to take pplies from who is a prominent candidate for United | gem 'flreed vé'hllése th‘elegefi:;e\:asie?—"vg ";;l:;“ n;‘e ars(‘na}!g \;‘mh the understanding that 4 ; o 7 miles an, m! they shou! e replaced. This led to States Senator, Is a guest at the Grand. |5 ire “Most of these were back in Havre | sui which was settled in 1% by the U William E. Bainbridge of Towa, second | or Rouen the same day, the remainder| ted States Government paying to the secretary of the United States legation at | the next or following days. None was | heirs of Beaumarchals a little in excess predatory classes are permitted to control this official | they will make short work of the taxpayers. There | is not much reason to fear the bugaboo corporations, | The Union street line runs into the Presidio, and | jonio ¢ 2etainder. During our revolution it provided s thicionly one a%)proachmg that point. It runs its | ¢, (e yse of wild Indians as British auxiliaries and cars from the fer It has been noted for its freedom hired Hessians to fight us, which moved Burke to e i5e s 3 v { x b | at down being a rarity, although | o204 the performance of a lustration to purge | but there is great reason to fear the political bosses | he steepest grades in the city. England of the crime. The Venetian Council of Ten who know so well how to organize and win at tHe from accide it traverses some of t | | | | ballot-boxes when there is plunder in sight. Under This kindness will tend to add to its popularity. 5 3 | arrested, endungeoned and tore out the eyes of the He | lost. It has been demonstrated that the 5 R S % & . < ok SR sl Peking, Is at the Occidental wotel. He | lost. as been de: e | of $200,000. pattern set is an excellent one for the Southern | innocent. The French revolution: sembly made the divided responsibility of the consolidation act | caijs on the Doric to-day with Mm‘ste,'gggisittng%mv%:—: tlr}:‘loasned“;)?;?lgdb!ex}ntghellzg?e I S i Pacific. The Bay District track is reached only by | Southern Pacific lines. Of course this great corpora- | tion, having the matter called to mind by the liberal- ity of an associate, will not hesitate to follow so good pattern. We cannot believe the Southern Pacific would take the nickels of the soldiers, particularly when the added traffic in carrying civilians must a nciple from ably swell its receipts. It would be a pleasure to ounce to-morrow morning that the Southern Pa- had taken the hint. LOOTING UNCLE SAM’'S STRONG BOX. HE Transcontinental Freight Bureau is prob- Tnhly made up of gentlemen who never went tipon the highway with a pistol to woo 2 purse from the passer-by. They would be above such an act, and, besides, the purse might have little in it. Kept by pr one avenue of thrift, they sought | another; they became a freight bureau. | Possibly Huntington originated the expression, | “Charge all the traffic will bear,” but he has no mon- opoly of the practice. The same lofty sentiment in- | spiring the utterance is the sentiment of the freight bureau; indeed the bureau may be regarded as the | crystallization of the sentiment. ‘l The particular bureau under consideration has just | held a meeting at Milwaukee and put itself on record as a collective swine by advancing the rates on war! This is done just at the time when there | be a considerable carriage of this, whereas or- | rily war material is a rare sort of freight. If in | peace a road can afford to haul cartridges for $1 a | hundred pounds, it can certainly better afford to do so | when offerings are sure to be heavy and con- | Yet the bureau advanced th: rate 50 per | erial. in wam is. ent, id on every article demanded by the exigency | of the moment made advances, some of them even | more outrageous. i This is business, but it has a savor of treason. It | is thrift, but the unholy thrift of the Shylock. The roads agreeing to the imposition deserve no geod will from the country. If need arise the 'strong arm of the Government should take temporary control of | them and make them seem decently patriotic by de-| priving them of the privilege of looting. } | UR yellow neighbor has at last removed those THE SPANISH AWNING DOWN. flaring red and ings which have O been a source of extr®me irritation to all pa- triotic citizens. Every time a soldier passed within range of these awnings a strong impulse would seize him to tear them down and trample them in the dust. Jesides being about the most unsightly things to be found in the city, these awnings too strongly re- mind one that there are Spaniards on the earth. The Examiner has been compelled by popular clamor to remove them, and it is to be hoped that they will soon share the fate of a large portion of the Examiner’s circulation and be wafted to the breeze through the tall chimney of the crematory. yellow aw: Maurderer Ebanks, who was hanged yesterday, | cerved to illustrate the folly of procrastination. He richly merited all he got, having, indeed, earned it twice over, but he exhibited a most annoying preju- dice against mounting the scaffold. By balking at frequent intervals and appealing to all the courts in turn he managed to keep alive for months and until after the opening of the war. Had he promptly taken his medicine he would have received considerable <pace in the papers, but now a murderer is of no in- terest. Even if Cervera bombard an Atlantic coast city there will be the consolation of knowing whege he is. | &1 | speeches, in which the Government that has sworn | to soldiers of the regular army of the republic. the streets of Paris slippery with human blood and sent Mme. Roland to the guillotine. But Stewart made a long free silver speech asserting that Presi- dent McKinley's war revenue bill is more infamous than all these. The United States hold the center of the world’s stage at this moment. The nations are the audience. Europe, Asia and Africa are the proscenium boxes from which they watch us. We are engaged in an altruistic war to lift burdens and enfranchise men. The great tragedy of war is in action. All bells ring | the tocsin. The bugle calls to arms. The long roll | is beaten through the camps. Dewey’s tired h:md! grips the standard at the Antipodes, 7000 miles from | our coast. It is grand, magnificent; and Stewart made a long free silver speech accusing our own Government of the greatest infamies in history! Tt is a question just how long the fathers who ve their sons to the ranks under call and commission of the President will tolerate these long free silver them to allegiance by a soldier’s sacrament is de- nounced as worse than that whose tyranny we are expelling from her colonies. GOMEZ TO THE FRONT. ENERAL GOMEZ has announced to the peo- ple and the army of Cuba that be has begun the publication of a weekly war bulletin for the purpose of keeping them informed of the progress of his arms and those of his ally, the United States. The first of these bulletins informs the Cubans that their | troops are to be known no longer as insurgents, but as soldiers of the regular army of the republic, and will be expected hereafter to submit to discipline and conform to the rules of civilized war. Warning is given that any soldier or officer failing in such discip- line will be punished. 5 While the world in these days does not value bul- letins from commanding officers as of any great im- portance and would rather have one victory than forty of them, nevertheless this manifesto will be re- ceived with considerable interest. The conservative element of the American people has not had any very exalted idea of Gomez and his army, and the lack of any action of vigor on their part against the | Spaniards since the American fleet appeared off Ha- vana has rendered that element more than ever doubt- ful of their fitness either for fighting or for freedom. The Gomez bulletins are going to be looked for, therefore, with a good deal of curiosity. There are many people who will be glad to learn once a week what the island patriots are doing for their freedom and what difference is notable in their tactics since they have been transformed by decree from insurgents The fault may not be due wholly to Gomez and his soldiers, for the whole West Indian campaign, when contrasted with that in the Philippines, has -been one of exasperating slowness; but even the most ardent sympathizers with the Cubans have been sadly disappointed with the inactivity in the patriot ranks. It had been so often asserted by the Junta at New York that all the patriots asked for was the recog- nition of the independence of their country by the United States and that when this was given they would at once leap forward to drive the Spaniards home there was a general expectation that when the United States began open war with Spain the Cu- bans would strike some effective blow at once and force the war to the walls of Havana. ‘Weceks of hostilities have come and gone, more than a month has passed and nothing has been done. Now Gomez comes with a bulletin instead of a battle. It is pot what was wanted nor what was expected. It | there has been during forty years very little waste and corruption. We trust the centralized government the people ha%e now adopted will make a similar JUBILANT BAKERSFIELD. —= | record. HE rejoicings at Bakersfield over the comple- Tt-ion to that city of the line of the Valley Road | fitly celebrated the accomplishment of another | step toward the emancipation of the great San | Jeaquin Valley from the long domination of the | Southern Pacific monopoly that has baffled its enter- | prises, thwarted its energies, checked its industrial development and prevented its people and cities from atiaining the full measure of the prosperity they de- served. The significance of the new road and the competi- tion it has brought to bear upon the old time monop- oly are well understood throughout the State. Es- pecial emphasis was given to it in all the proceedings of the jubilee at Bakersfield as at all other points which in succession have been reached by the road in its onward progress. It was amply and amus- ingly expressed by a local merchant. One window of his store was fitted to show the condition of Bakersfield in 1888, when the farmer pleaded for lower freight rates and was met by the railroad with the reply, “Oh, my dear sir, you are unfortunately off the line of competition.” Another window showed the condition of affairs since the arrival of the Valley Road. This year the railroader pleads, “Mr. Farmer, can't T induce you to let me haul your wheat?” and is met with the answer, “Oh, my dear sir, you are unfortunate in being located on the line of com- petition.” The extent of the benefit derived by Bakersfield and the surrounding country from the change wrought in the conditions of transportation by the construction of the road can be measured, so far as the present year is concerned, by contrasting freight rates now with what they have been in the past; but the gain sure to come with the future is incalculable. With cheaper rates for freight there will be left in the hands of the producers larger profits from all crops, and these will result in a more liberal patronage of the mer- chants and the artisans of the cities. A healthy growth will be felt throughout the whole San Joaquin region. The breaking down of the railroad monopoly will mean the upbuilding of a hundred industries. The rejoicing at Bakersfield is to be by no means the last of the many celebrations which mark success- ive steps in the progress of the Valley Road. Even while Bakersfield was taking a holiday for her fes- tival the work at the other end of the line was being pushed westward from Stockton toward the Bay of San Francisco. There will be further rejoicing when this westward movement reaches its destined ter- minus, and beyond that there will in the end be a great and final demonstration of public satisfaction when the Valley Road accomplishes its full usefulness to the commonwealth by becoming part of a larger system, thus giving the people emancipation from the monopoly by providing a compeiing line across the continent. > e e Citizens who pined audibly because the first call for volunteers was answered almost wholly by the Na- tional Guard will soon have an opportunity to show whether they really meant it. It is disgraceful for School Directors to fight, but if they will make it a war of mutual extermination the public will be inclined to promote hostilities. ‘Weyler talks of his eagerness to invade this coun- Conger. | Major B. H. Conger of Towa, formerly | United States Minister to Brazil and who | was recently appolnted United States Minister to China to succeed Colonel | Denby, is at the Palace Hotel. He will sall for China on the steamship Doric to- | day, accompanied by Mrs. Conger, their | to lose their way too easily. WAR TIME JOKELETS. Is.there any significance in the fact| that the fii bles of the names De Lome and W forxm the “Dewey" 7—Denver name | lejo, Cal. The number of men in t Federal army during the war of the bellion was 2,018,200. The number of d sertions is given as 199, There were killed in battle on the Union side 67,058; died of wounds, 43,012; died of disease, 199,720; other causes, such as accidents, murder, death in Confederate prisons, 40.- daughter, Miss Conger, and Miss Pierce, | Hicks—T cannot go to_the war. T am | ot Shed. Hho.00t. Bountles were.$3 . | nears! 5 v] i ! i a niece. 1 Wik _§‘ am! éarslghted.BTréat ,% the | ;l;lt‘xltéshea:h‘gfiresemed substitutes paid as | S V] 't go.—Boston ‘ran- 4 RNIANS IN NEW YORK. Loapy ™ o e CALERO ke j esing Treat your friends to Townsend's Cali- NEW YORK, May 27.—C. J. Steadman| “What's the row among the senlors, | fornia glace fruits; 50c Ib; fire-etch bxs.* of San Frnacisco is at the Holland. J. P. | professor?” | —_——————— ¢ them is bent on having | Langhorne of San Francisco is at the Al-| bemarle. J. L. Eastland of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. Frank Stecher, M. | Werner, F. Schulte, G. Morris, C.| Dougherty, A. Bloom, L. Baer, A. Gump | and Mr. and Mrs. Wakeman of San Fran- E cisco and G. Gaghards of San Jose have | gone to Pari THE U. S. S. MAINE. In Havana harbor lylng, with the starry ban- ner flying, Over turrets, decks, barbettes, in the sunlight e, leaming whits Wwith he etrains of music dying, all along her taffrails sighing— Birds about her o'er the water, as she came— Columbia’s daughter, I can ses her yet, our mighty battle-ship, the Maine. Lotty was she, proud as freedom, never fearing hand she trusted, In Havana harbor lying, with the starry ban- ner flying— All'mbne BHt strong in courage, leagues away | from jand that loved her; Duty called her, fast and faster she had come, dreamed disaster— I can ses her yet, our mighty battle-ship, the Maine. Oh, ve brave who died aboard her, those who watch and warder kept, Deep within her bosom lying, starry banner o'er ye flylng, Sons ul’treeficm. sweet your dreaming, God ‘ordered to & but called you while you slept: Sallors true whose cruise is ended, rt defended, Do 'vou see her yet, our mighty battle-ship, the Maine? In Havana harbor dying, 'neath the starry banner lying, On the Spanish’ hills, in sleep that no friend could wish 8o deep, Sadly waves that break are sighing for the horror of your dying, But no bells or bugles wake thee, voice of duty not rouse thee, ou Bave followed her, our mighty battle- ship, the Malne. An, the phantom ship that's sailins, wisttul ‘faces o'er her r Frm:c}ll.vllm Rarbor fiving, with the starry ‘banner 1yin; On her Shastly decks; there are mone can stay ‘satling, Silens now, fdross the water, faithful servant, martyred daughter, home at last, our battle-ship, i Staine: GRACE A. LUCE. e Maine. Y It is better to be lonely than to be bored. ‘Money is everything to the poor fellow who hasn’t a cent. Self-love prevents some people from lov- ing more than once. A thorn In the flesh is more troublesome than two on the bush. The average man seems to think that others expect too much of him. A girl seldom objects to a young man stealing something from under her very nose. When men quit the prize ring and women give up the marriage ring there's new stars in the theatrical firmament. Any fool can distinguish between vices and virtues, but it takes a wise man to act according to his understanding. It is well enough to put your trust in Providence, but it's unwise to go around looking for holes for Providence to pull you out of. —_—————— PIGEONS AS CARRIERS. According to the report of the French Transatlantic Company made in Paris, the experiments lately undertaken with carrier pigeons on board the Bretagne have proved satisfactory, thereby con- try, and there is probably nothing he could do which ‘would please this country betfer. L 1t winl pe recalled titat one bird liberated | firming the stories that were published here about the birds a few days ago. | tional law.” | Francisco he assumed control of the Mer- “Every one o gradyating oration_about Dewey's vic- | tory.’—Detroit Free Press. A lawyer and his client were descending the steps of the City Hall “Suppose,” said the client, “that Spain | decldes to send the fleet from Cadiz to | Manila. Could it coal at neutral ports?” | “That would be a question in interna- “Then I guess we're all right. If they go to law on the point the war will be over long before it gets settled.”—Wash- ington Star. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SHORTRIDGE—A Reader, Millwood, Fresno County, Cal. When C. M. Short- ridge returned to San Jose from San cury as proprietor, as appeared from the announcements made. PENSION—J. F. C., Alameda, Cal. The fact_that a man who fought in the war of the rebellion and was entitled to a pension, has since acquired an independ- ent fortune, does not debar him from drawing that pension, if he wishes to do s0. THE PARIS EXPOSITION—G. H. J., City. It was originally decided the Paris Exposition of 1900 should open on the 5th of May of that year and close on, the 31st of October, but the date was subsequently changed to April 15 to November 5 of the same year. TO MANILA—Subscriber, City. The distance from San Francisco to Manila by great circle is 6237 miles. From San Francisco to Yokohama is 4536 miles; Yo- kohama to Hongkong 1490 miles; from Hongkong to Manila 628 miles. Total, 6654 miles. By the track chart of the | world the distance to Manila via Hono- lulu is 7130 miles. FIFTEEN-INCH GUNS—W. M., Park Ciy, Utah. The only vessels of the United States navy that carry I15-inch smooth-bore guns are the monitors classed as ‘‘coast-defense vessels.” The double-turreted monitors classed as “‘sea- i'oing monitors’” are the Monterey and uritan, which carry 12-inch guns, and the Amphitrite, Miantonomoh, Monad- nock and Terror, which carry 10-inch guns. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius carries three 15-inch dynamite guns. Only uns on board ship are included in naval atteries. THE POUNDKEEPER—-M. K., City. The law which gives the poundkeeper of San Francisco the right to seize dogs is as follows: ‘The poundkeeper and his deputies shall seize and take and carry to the public pound every dog not led by a string, rope or chain, found running at large in any of the streets or places not having around his or her neck a collar with a tag attached No person owning or having the control of any dog shall suffer or permit the same to run at large upon any public street unless a license (I.gm{or the current year for the same has heen s TRANSATLANTIC CABLES —F. J., City. The cable of the transatlantic sys- tem of the Anglo-American Company is from Valentia, Ireland, to Heart's Con- tent, Newfoundland; Commercial Cable Company, from Waterville, Ireland, to Canso, Nova Scotia, and from Canso to New York; Direct United States Cable Comfany, Ballinskellig's B;Y Ireland, to Halifax, 'Nova Scotia. Halifax to Rye Beacli, New Hampshire; Western Union Company, Sennen Cove, near Penzance, England, to Dover Bay, near Canso, Nova Scotia, Dover Bay to New York; Com- Peanut taffy; best in the world. Towns- end’s, 627 Market (Palace Hotel bldg.). * —_—e—————— A trap that did not spring. See the Star to-day. - ——————— information supplied daily to the ont- . Special business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 M gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. 5 — e —————— Rare books, valuable to any person, for sale at Odd Fellows’ Library, Seventh and Market street. Great bargains. . —_——————————— A Paris letter to the London Mal: says: “At the Bristol the Prince of Wales has had his usual small suite of rooms, and aiso his usual companion—a small, dark- haired dog (somewhat of the bull-terrier persuasion), which has traveled with him ever since the little dog which belongel to Prince ‘Eddie’ grew too old safely to leave hom! — ——e———— 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 Ral- way. Tourists will be accommodated in first- class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, in- cluding berths, meals and trip through the Park. Send for circular giving rate and ftiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market st., S. F. — e Excursion to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. A select party of educators and sclentists will leave San Francisco Monday, June 6, for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in chargs of Professor Emory Smith of Palo Alto. Very low rates have been made and a pleasant and profitable trip is assured. Full particulars at Santa Fe Office, 644 Market street. —_— e———— FApED hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of PARKER’S HATR BA1SAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC cures inward palas. ——— DR. 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