The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 1, . 1898. The AY. FRID S ULAL T 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commun nications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1§74. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.... -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .-Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE............ C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertisil Marquette Building ng Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock: 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'closk. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin strect, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock: 106 Eleventh | street, open unti: 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSE FENTS, Columbia—"Fort Frayne " “The Passion Play' “Unel T T in," Saturday evening. Alcazar. at Morosco’s he Gossoon, Tivoli—Boccaceio Orpheum - Vaudeville. The Chutes—: Cc Sutro’s Baths—s: El Camp Oakland K: o, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Mason and Eddy streets, Specialiies imming. Music, danciig,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Races GAS COMPANIES ALL OF A PIECE. P ROBABLY there is no city which at some stage of its career has not had -difficulty in-checking the larcenous tendency of a gas monopoly. For as naturally as water | a mo; gas. company is PO runs downhill. -1i there happen to be two companies, by an easy transition they become one, and, having to - the utmost abolished rivalry,” proceed to steal capacity of the agile meter. Tall | average taxpayer is willing to do something for pos- | be improved at once for the benefit It is not likely there is another city in the world a worse sufferer th Here the charge for gas is $1-75 per thousand feet. The meters are either inaccurate or the employes, neglecting to read ire to the benefit of the hat a householder must n San Francisco. them, make such guesses as corporation. i It is notorious pay for never consumed or tha his supply will be | arbitrarily cut off. So far as appears, he has no re- | course. A short time ago the price of gas was cut | from $2 to the present figure. This was heralded as a great concession. As a matter of fact it made no difference in the bills, and were it to be reduced to 10 cents the met would be stimulated: to new exer- Aion, pumped full of non-combustible but registerable air, or the paid readers of the same be instructed to guess on a-different basis, and the bills would remain where they. are. Just now the London papers are making-a fuss over the chronic thefts of the gas monopoly there. Noth- ing is said about the wicked unreliability of meters, so it may-be they record correctly, which, being the case, lend The London rate has been raised from two shillings and tenpence to three shillings, and throughout' the murky metropolis is heard a howl. of distress. * Yet this increased rate is much less than half the rate charged here, where every householder, it is e to affirm,” pays for twice as much as is consumed on his premises. We sympathize with- the Londonier, but have troubles of our own. Supposing he had the San Francisco-Gas and Electric Company and its aggrega- | tion® of trained meters to contend ‘with! ~Then he would learn to regard the three shilling outfit ‘as a boon and a’ blessing. But if the London Gas and Coke Company can afford to sell gas at three shillings (72 cents) and give fair measure there is. no excuse for the local concern to charge $1 75 and rob the consumer. That it does rob the consumer is a propo- sition so firmly established that none will attempt to controvert it. Yet we hope the people of London will triumph, and even that some time between now and the millennial dawn the people of San Francisco may cease to pay a fancy price for a tallow-dip variety of lluminant. importance to the price. THREATENING SPAIN'S COAST. T this writing there seems every probability that f\ a fleet will be sent to the Spanish coast. The necessity for this will be deeply regretted in this country. The people of the United States would | like to see the war settled without injury to the non- combatant. They are not thirsting for revenge. All they ask is justice. They demand that Spain shall yield. Ii to bring about such a state .of affairs a fleet must be dispatched to Spain, so’ be it. Upon the heads of Spanish diplomats will be the blood thus shed. We would avoid the issue, could it be done with honor. We will not shrink from it if the arro- gance of the Castilian force it upon us. ‘What malign genius is inspiring the fool trip of the Cadiz fleet nobody seems to understand. The only possible use for the ships of Camara would be at home ports. There they would not, as a defense, be in them- selves potent, but they might have the effect of keep- ing our vessels nearer home. If Camara be sent to the Philippines he will but go to his own doom. The force that Dewey will have by the time he can get there will be sufficient to crush him as completely as Montejo was crushed. He can do no good; he can do much harm by spreading and accentuating the horrors of war. The Dons should spare themselves this additional calamity, and in forcing the enemy to inflict it they will supplement their colonial disasters by useless losses in the mother country. From the beginning there has been no hope for Spain. It precipitated itself into a struggle where there was for it no shadow of a.chance for aught but defeat, and yet with a fatuous energy it seems to be trying to make the ‘defeat appalling. - No wonder the decaying monarchy is yelping to the powers for help. It needs more than mere assistance. Its crying re- quirement.is for a guardian. London Truth desctibes the present war as being between a nation with a navy that cannot fight and a nation with an army that ¢annot fight. . There seems no occasion for extended comment. “To say that the editor of Truth is a fool completely covers the case. If news from Manila is to be relied upon the Span- ish there have no idea of giving up without a struggle. The plan of yielding gracefully seems to be beyond the grasp of Castilian intelligence. There are intimations that the Kaiser is in need of Bismarck’s advice. ~ Without doubt he can have it for the asking. | of the hard work done by the Monetary Conference, GOLDEN GATE PARK. E venture to say that every intelligent tax- W payer in San Francisco will heartily support the making of ample appropriations for improving Golden Gate Park. That reservation is a monument to the foresight of the Pioneers which should ever be guarded with jealous care. This is especially so since a deliberate attempt was made to steal it in the early sixties by as unscrupulous a band of land grabbers as ever filched the birthright of a people. In the strug- gle which resulted in the establishment of the park there was displayed more civic virtue than is ordinar- ily seen where a similar amount of loot is in sight. The greatest work of George K. Fitch, late editor of the defunct Bulletin, was done in Golden Gate Park. But for him the land would probably have - been grabbed. As it was the raiders shoved the reserva- tion back four blocks, laid out a panhandle and cut the area down from 1500 to-less than 1000 acres. Now that the people have this: grand evidence of the forethought and virtue of the pioneers, however, it behooves them to insist upon its speedy improve- ment. Heretofore the appropriation for Golden Gate Park has been subordinated by the Supervisors to the necessities of the municipal government. In:other words, after the City Hall employes, the Street De- partment, the policemen, firemen and others have sat- isfied themselves, the remainder, under the limits imposed by the various”taxation pledges, has:been turned- over to the park.. In no instance has the amount allowed by law been : appropriated. ~ Ten cents on the $100 valuation is not too much, but here- tofore the park has been‘lucky to get 6 cents. There are many good ~arguments to sustain a liberal appropriation for-Golden Gate Park. One of the most powerful is a well-known desire on the part | of the generation which is paying for its improve- ment to enjoy some of its beauties and benefits. - The terity, but he is also anxious ‘to do something for | himself. This thing of slowly improving a public reservation like Golden Gate Park in order that un- born generations may sound our praises is a bene- | volent idea, but as a practical proposition it is too cthereal for popular consumption.. The park should of the men, | women and children now living. An issue of bonds would be justified for the purpose. The Supervisors need have no fear, therefore, that a large appropriation for Golden Gate Park would be unpopular. The board may with just propriety grant the Commissioners the full amount allowed by Ten cents on the $100 of valuation will yield in the neighborhood of $350.000, only a small portion of which would be available for improvement. It ought to be noted always that the cost of maintenance at Golden Gate Park is constantly increasing. Every acre reclaimed adds to this bill,.so that even if the full legal limit is appropriated it will mostly be eaten up by current expenses. Upon:the short sums al- lowed during recent years the work of development has been greatly retarded. What the people now want is to see their “breathing spot” placed com- pletely under cultivation. If they are willing to pay for it the Supervisors ought not to object. We are safe in asserting that were the question to | be submitted to popular vote in this city a proposition to appropriate $330.000 for Golden Gate Park would { be carried by a three-fourths majority. | fl ence of 1897 the House Committee on Bank- ing and Currency has been jogged out of its deadlock and has come to an agreement on a report. | As its chairman, Mr. Walker, had declared = such agreement impossible, that it was reached is evidence law. THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. S a result of the Indianapolis Monetary Confer- its executive committee, and especially by its chair- man, Mr. H. H. Hanna of Indianapolis. Mr.. Hanna is 2 manufacturer, who has studied forward from his daily business, admonished by financial conditions in a majority of the States where his trade lies, until he took up arms to try to remedy the con-:quences of our jumble of financial legislation. He is remark- ably clear as to the necessities of the situation, but, with a rare spirit of toleration, has recognized the | need of some few present compromises and modi- | fications of the one straight plan that would give us at once a financial system four square with science. | When the work is finished the business men should not forget that credit for it is due to this gentleman, who is quite worthy to hail from the State that gave Hugh McCulloch to the Treasury and Michael C. | Kerr and Joseph B. McDonald to the cause of sound | finance .in Congress. As has been already stated, a canvass of the House demonstrates that the reform | bill can.pass that branch. -Its fate in the Senate is problematical, but that does not change the duty | | that is' upon sound money Republicans and sound | money Democrats alike. If there were any hesita- tion before, the result in Oregon should have removed it. There these two classes of voters pooled their | issues. They made no fusion and divided no offices. They simply voted together on the basis of support of a common principle. The indications are that they will continte to do this in every State, until the forces | of fusion and fiatism have been routed and a long step toward sound money has been taken by the | adoption of the reform bill now pending. There is some disquiet over the resumption of silver | coinage provided in the war revenue bill. If in that | feature the fiatists had their innings, the sound money | men will have their consolation stakes in the pending | bill, which will pass the House and will probably be ! made better by waiting in the Senate until the fall elections have confirmed the wavering and encour- | aged the timid. Germany is sending another warship to the Philip- pines. The notion that the disposition of the islands | in some way concerns her seems to be deeply rooted. ‘When Germany was absorbing a slice of China it was | not noticed that the United States sent a fleet there. Yet Uncle Sam has a right in the Philippines, while | Germany had in China only the right that a burglar has in the premises of a householder. e It is time to recall that San Francisco claims Gen- | eral Shafter. This city was long his station, and | the Fourth of July parade this year cannot come quite up to the ordinary mark, because there will be no rotund Shafter to lead the military. The Spanish Government is now reported to be in a “doubting mood.” No precise analysis of this emotion is given, but Spain can have no reasonable excuse for doubt. The certainty that it is in for a licking is fully established. —_— The Spanish Minister of War says that ‘he takes a favorable view of the situation in Cuba. For an in- stance of sunny optimism there are few exhibitions surpassing this. When the Terror sought to be familiar with an American war vessel it made a serious mistake. The real field for the Spanish torpedo boat is somewhere out of range. | about his pectoral valves. | army are ours. THE PURE FOOD CRUSADE. Y the arrest of certain grocerymen charged with B selling adulterated food products new evidence is given of the activity of the Board of Health and Inspector Dockery in enforcing the pure food law. In hardly any branch of municipal adminis- tration have the whole mass of citizens a greater in- terest than in this. The sale of impure food, and even its very presence in the market, threatens with danger the entire community. Hardly a household can be free from the menace. The strict enforce- ment of the law against the sale of such deleterious articles is therefore a matter of prime importance. It is to be hoped the activity displayed by the of- ficials of San Francisco in this respect will have the effect to stimulate those of other cities in the State to exercise a similar guard over the welfare of their communities. ~ As the case stands now, the expul- sion of impure foods from San Francisco tends to drive them to other Californian localities. ~Goods which cannot be sold here are packed up-and shipped for sale somewhere else. . The enforcement of our ordinance on the subject, therefore, makes it almost a necessity for other cities to adopt similar regula- tions and enforce them with an equal strictness. The problem of pure food is, in fact, one which shculd be dealt with by the nation. In a broad sense; it is a commercial and industrial as well as a sanitary measure. The presence of impure foods and cheap adulterations in the market seriously af- fects the industries of the producers and manufac: turers of purer articles, and, moreover, gives a bad repute to many kinds of American produce abroad, and this injures our export trade. Congress has taken several cautious, tentative steps in the direction of pure food laws, ana each of these has been attended with good results. Nothing like a comprehensive measure, however, has ever been considered by that body, though a strong pressure has more than once been brought to bear upon the House to get such a.measure before it. ~Last winter a largely attended pure food conventlon was held in Washington, and a considerable amount of data on the subject was prepared and submitted along with a petition for protective legislation, but nothing came of it. It is evident there must be a long campaign of education vet before we can accomplish the elimi- nation of sophisticated and adulterated foods from our markets, or compel %heir sale under proper la- bels. . Ia the meantime what is being done in San Fran- cisco is highly encouraging. ~We are keeping ‘our own marlket fairly clean of these frauds and furnish- ing a good example to other communities around us. No one will assume the guilt of any of the arrested merchants now under prosecution, but the very fact that they have been brought before the cotrts is good evidence of activity on the part of our health officers, and that in itself is a matter of no little gratification. e ————— SENATES @S STUMBLING BLOCKS. PPOSITION to the proposed federation of the OAuslmlian colonies has its main strength in New South Wales, and in that commonwealth seems to be based principally upon objections to the system provided in the scheme of federation for con- stituting the Senate. state of the federation will have equal representation in the Senate, just as in this country, and to that New 1 South Wales, being populous and rich, is not willing to consent. As a consequence the whole movement for uniting the colonies is in danger of defeat. This situation of affairs has led to a consideration of the ‘part which Senates play in the Governments of English-speaking nations, and the suggestion that it would be advisable for the Australians tc frame a con- stitution without one. The London Speaker, in dis- cussing the issue, says: ‘Friends of the bicameral | system will find it hard to explain the part which sec- ond chambers are now playing in the English-speak- ing world. In the United States the Senate, repre- senting the smaller States, has been responsible for economic catastrophes, political deadlocks and per- haps also for the war. In Canada a Senate consisting of effete Tories, nominated by a defeated Government, has thrown out the only practicable scheme of rail- | way communication with the Yukon to please a Tory {eader who has a rival measure.. In England the House of Lords has to be bribed to pass an Irish local government bill. In- Australia the difficulty of forming a useful and representative second chamber has shipwrecked federation.” The indictment is heavy, but it is not fairly stated. Tt is certainly right that small States:should have some protection for. their- interests involved in'legislation against the overwhelming votes of the representatives of larger States. ~The: charge brought against our Senate is, moreover, unfair. If it has blocked some good measures it has-also blocked more bad ones. There is a story to the effect that when our form of government was under consideration Jefferson, sitting ar a tea table with Washington one evening, strongly advocated a single legislative body and asked Wash- ington of what use the second could be. ““Why did you pour your tea into your saucer?” asked Washing- ton. “To cool it,” replied Jefferson. “Well then,” said Washington; “we must provide a second chamber into which legislation can be poured to cool.” There are times when our Senate seems to keep things blocked until they are overcool, and there are other times when it seems to heat them hotter than | when they left the House, but on the whole it has been a useful part of our governmental machinery and few people would like to see it abolished. If New South Wales has no other objection to Austra- lian federation than the one stated, the vote of her people against the plan will be more whimsical than reasonable and more provincial than patriotic. Now the doctors have taken to saying that a bi- cycle rider of the scorching variety is not fit to be a soldier by reason of having acquired extra kinks The statement does not seem reasonable. A man capable of riding mile after mile at top speed surely would be equal to the com- paratively easy marching required of a soldier. The real difficulty would be for him to get the monkey stoop out of his spine and learn to stand up like a gentleman. A correspondent named Hearst sends word from Cuba that Santiago and the flower of the Spanish There only remains, as he makes clear later on, the formality of fighting for them. Camara' may live to thank his lucky stars for the present annoying inability to get coal. . The circum- stance may be all that is to prevent him from taking a view of the sea from the.under side. e - —— . < General Shafter will ‘evidently be a series of sur- prises to the Spanish. They will learn to regard: his habit of not waiting until to-morrow asdistinctly im- polite. The English correspondent ‘who says there are -n6 signs of distress in Havana is either not a mind-reader or he has not used Blanco as a subject. Under the plan proposed each | Gove A Yellow Journal Joins Offi It is now very plain that Alameda| County must decide whether she wants | |to name the next Congressman from {the Third District, ~or ' the ‘next| | Governor. There is an evident de-| sire on the part of candidates for these offices to avold placing the | county in the position of wanting to | | grab everything in sight. Oakland es- | pecially wishes to avoid posing before the State as an exhibition of selfish-| ness. That city already has a United States Senator, a member of Congress, | OAKLAND WANTS ANOTHER SLICE OF - POLITICAL PIE The Railroad Push Booming Par- dee for the Nomination for bination and Boosts the Doctor for | 'wart Republicans of Alameda County Irnor. the Corporation Com- ces tempting to capture the nomination at the head of the Republican ticket on his anti-railroad and Republican record. Nor is it forgotten tha until “the| doctor” became anxious to enter poli- | tics and -be Mayor of Oakland four | years ago he was for » lons period the | oculist of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, which he now so greatly despises. As to his Republican record the stal- are asking where it is. Dr. Pardee first | came ‘into prominence as a politician by stampeding a Republican municipal convention a few years ago. Five years majority for McKinley was not all Aia- meda County did. It is not generaily known, but it is a faci, that Mr. Davis, at the request of the executive commit- tee, drew up the programme upon which the Republican campaign was conducted during the last and decisive month. By st Mr. Davis drew ip a plan whica sent out over the name of Chairman .aughlin to all the speakers, with the request that they use it as their guide. This document was dated the Tth day of October, 189, and no smail share of the credit for t 1t maaner in which the campaign for sound money and re- prosperity was closed in ( stored due to M Davis. Alameda Co i not fear to put forth such a c: 'he above was published about six months ago. Now on nearly every page of the doctor’s paper Pardee is extolled, while Davis is persistently ig- nored or declared to be out of.the run- ning. The Tribune so far has confined it- a middle-of-the- d policy and nothing ‘particularly favora- to either man, :while holding out ble the possibility of the nomination com- ing to this county. It 1s also a fact that the leading adviser of the En- quirer’'s new manager ‘is the BExami- ner’s Oakland ‘correspondent. A careful and impartial su v of the political field in Alameda County would seem to indicate that there are too many men in the county. W ing to profit individually and personally by the county’s heroic: efforts in the Me- Kinley campaign, and that many dire disappointments will be experienced. NOT A DUAL CELEBRATION. San Francisco, June 30, 188 —Tditor of The Call: Under the caption, “Two Celebrations in One,” The Call of this day states “that the Ancient Order of ‘Hibernians of this city will hold at Schutzen Park on the Fourth of July a dual celebration in ordeér to commemorate at one and the same time the natal day | | | | 'The Doctor Is in the Hands of His Friends—Uncle AR & & ’Wf@f-" e ! N Warrer, —-—" Collis and Wasteful Willie. member State Board of Equalization, Superintendent of the Mint, Naval Of- | ficer, Immigration Commissioner a Su- preme Justice, large Custom-house pat- | ronage, a Prison Director, Labor and‘ Deputy Labor Commissioner, and each | of these has provided a number of fat | places for other Oaklanders. Senator | Fred Stratton is already a candidate for one of the Hawalian committee of five under the Newlands resolution, and in addition Oakland now boldly an- | nounces that she wishes to capture the Governorship as well as retain the Con- gressman. Ambitious politicians who are in the field realize that Oakland may be charged with wanting too much, and are forming combinations designed to forward their own schemes and smash | the schemes of the others. Intimations have already been received from the other six counties which with Alameda compose this Congressional district, | that Oakland ought to be content with | | what she has, and a possible Governor- ship, leaving some other portion of the district to name the Congressman. Yet while Pardee and Davis on. the one | hand, and Metcalf and Hilborn on the other, are said to wish to keep the cam- paigns for the two offices entirely dis- | tinct, it is hinted that Pardee and Hil- | born have formed a little mutual ad- vancement society. The conservative element in the Re publican party in that county—and Ala- meda is a conservative county—is some- what perplexed at the prominent part the alleged Democratic Examiner is | taking in Republican politics on the | other side of the bay. It has entered | into a cast-iron contract to boom Par- dee, and for months this has been very | plain both in its local and editorial | columns. To tl: thinking men in Alameda County the foundation for | this assumption to dictate on the part of Mr. Maguire's organ is but | thinly veiled. The entire ‘“push” of that county, which has for twenty | vears done the bidding of the railroad | corporations, is now lined up behind “the doctor.” BEverybody who wants | anything from ‘the Republican party is in Pardee’s camp, and his chief lieuten- ant and most active worker 15 the Bx- aminer correspondent - for -Alameda County. -Another . of the - doctor’s | strongest.. supportérs, who made é: .| very able speech at.a recent Par-| :dee ‘meeting in ‘'the = Third. Ward, ' is. Councilman B. C.. Cuvellier. Mr. | Cuvellier ‘has frequently on the floor of the ‘Council appeared as.the champion of measures desired by the | Southern: Pacific Company, notably the granting of a franchise during the past year. He is opposed to ‘‘cinch” prop- ositions, but is a nephew of General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific, and has frequently stated in the Council that he is friendly to the corporation. Under these circum- stances it is somewhat peculiar that Councilman Cuvellier should be an ar- dent supporter of the man who is at- | meeting into a “Pardee demonstration” | Examiner ago he was the leading organizer of the Municipal League, which put up a non- | partisan ticket, beat the regular Re- | publican ticket and elected the doctor | Mayor of this city. Two years later | he essayed to repeat the trick and | failed. On this occasion Republicans and Democrats outdid “the doctor” at chicanery, for they nominally indorsed his candidate, J. W. Nelson, but voted | for John L. Davie and this ended Par-| dee's political boom. It is also fresh in the public memory that Dr. Pardee, wh) is being boomed as “‘a great fighter,” took a trip to Castle Crag before the breaking out of | the great strike of 1894, at which time he was Mayor of Oakland, and that he sent word that he could not get back to Oakland as the trains were tied up. ‘When this fact became known several offers were made to get Mayor Pardee back to his city within three days if he desired to come—but he did not come till the strike was over. These references to Dr. Pardee’s anti- railroad and Republican rccords are known to no one better than the Ma- guire advisers of the Examiner, and that paper realizes what an easy task it would have should Pardee receive the nomination in beating him and electing Maguire. With this same end in view the Alameda County edition of | the Examiner turns every Republican and plasters over with compliments all of Pardee's supporters, while his enemies, politically, are tarred and feathered. Particularly is this the case with District Attorney Snook, who, un- til a few months ugo, was a most pro- nounced pet of the Bxaminer, but which, since it undertook to nominate Pardee, is his most unrelenting foe and defamer. There is more than one Republican in the county who belleves that Par- dee was injected into this fizht by the and its allles for the pur- pose of beating W. R. Davis. In a legal capacity Davis has been able to | worry the railroad . considerably, es- pecially - in the water front cases, and in a political cdpacity, the railroad will not tolerate him. - Although the EX- aminer-during the trial of these cases | was morally backing -Davis’ side - of the litigation, since-then it has sub- jected him to some severe inspired crit- icism.. The local préss is no guide whatever to-the situation. . ‘While Frank Leach ‘owned the .Enquirer it was body and soul a Davis paper, and not until Dr, Pardee ' bought the whole institution did. it change the color of .its advice to: the people of Alameda County and the Staté. The following clipi.ing. shows the width of the change in the En- quirer's views: Mr, Davis’ candidacy for the office of Governor- stands on its merits. The mo- ment is opportune. It is Alameda Joua- ty's chance. She has earned the right to have the candidate by what she dil for ihe Republican party last year, and if Alameda County will present to the State convention the name of Mr. Davis and back it up with a harmonious dcle- gation he can be nominated. Giving 6000 of American independence and the Irish rebellion of 1798.” ~ Permit me to say that you have been misinformed as to the character of the celebration referred to, and that the gathering of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and their friends at Schutzen Park on July 4 is intended sole- 1y _to commemorate the glorious anniver- sary of -American independence. The. events of the Irish struggle for liberty in , although kindred in their nature, will not constitute any part of the programme on the occasion. The in- sertion of my “‘distinguished phiz’ as one of the group of pictares appearing above the article in The (all has induced me to suggest the above correction. Re- spectfully. THOMAS R. BANNERMAN. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. Editor- Call: In iadorsing the above letter we desire to state that the cele- bration of the Fourth of July as the American national holiday is not optionai, s positively obligatory upon each and division of th: Ancient Order of erians _throughout the Union. a law to that effect having been laid down by the national convention of our order. Yours respectif PE J. McCORMICK, County Presidert A. O. H. in A. E._J. HANNO County Se H. in A, PATRICK B Chairman Pi —_————— Cal. glace fruit Gc per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—— Flags, crepe paper, bunting and war pictures for decorating, cheap at Sanborn & Vall's. . —————— Celebrate the Fourth with California fireworks. Buy direct frfom makers. Cal- ifornia Fireworks Co., 2i9 Front st. * —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 g(nn:- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ —_———— The University of Chlcago expended more than $1,000,000 in the 1897, Of this $309,000 was in ‘he salaries of the facuity. e Excursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excirsion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, vis the “'Shasta Route” and Northérn Pacific Rall- way. - Tourists will be accommodated in first- class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold fn- cluding berths, meals and t4p througk. the Park. Send for circular giving rate. and ftiner- ary to ‘T." K. BTATELER, (General ~Agent Northern Pacific Rai ket st., S. F. —_————— | “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their-children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the|child, goftens the gums, allays Pain, cures Whd Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the begt remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising froh teething or other causes.. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and sk for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. e e CORONADO—Atmosphere - is pafectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely frie from the mists common further north. Rould-trip tick- 2ts, by steamship, Including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65; hnger stay, 5250 per day. Apply 4 New Montfomery st., S. F., or B, S. BABCOCK, Manage} Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal. \