The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUL Tall .JULY 8, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. RSN ST It SUONOTUPU S __ Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. i PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street : Telephone Main 1874 | | THE &AN 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 montb | 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL...coievene.s One year, by mall, $1.60 OAKLAND OFFICE......oveeeieinnn +ssss022.:908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building ! DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. i WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......cen.n Riggs Houes | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. } IRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl, 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana AMUSEMENTS. 1bia—*Fort Frayne “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Frederick the Great —~Held by the Enemy." kado.” wudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. At the Chutes. Thursday, July 4. Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Speclaliles. aths—Swimming. o—Maus| i Race boating, fishing, every Sunday. es today. ad Folsom streets, Sunday afternoon. AUCLTION SALES. | h—This day, July 8, Furniture, at 44 Mo | at 11 o'clock. NO HALF-HEARTED SOLDIERS ARE| WANTED. ‘ S~ ALIFORNIA’S National Guardsmen have | v de a record of which the State is proud. n the first call came they enfisted without or demur, enlisted gladly and eagerly, and the only disappointment was that the Government | did not need the services of so many as offered them- | It is a pity, and to the culpable guardsman will be a lasting reproach, that the splendid record has | been marred by the color of insubordination. | The Woodland company has been ordered home in | i ce. It has only itself to blame. The Governor d named the officers to command in the Eighth | 1ent. He had used his best judgment and had | found necessity for making but few changes of the | militia or As captains he substituted | h of the Redding company, and Bald- | of the Woodland company. In both | instances t s a protest, and in the case of Woc t that the men would have the dis- | aced officers put back in the lead or would refuse | e the oath of allegiance to the United States. | Such could not be the attitude of good soldiers. It | mistaken zeal which was not love of coun- | devotion to the flag. It stamped the men as | to serve in an army where obedience is the first | If the company contained no better stuff than the threat indicated, it is well that something happened 1 to show its true character before it had been sent to | the front. Far better that it should have been dis- | banded. The deposed captain urged the men to stand by | him. The citizens of Woodland took up his cause. There was no compromise on the part of the Gov- ernor, and there should have been none. Far dif- ferent from the action of Ward was that of Smith, | who had been succeeded by Baldwin. He asked the | men to abide by the decision of their commander, to be guided by the same patriotism which had led them | to enlist, and stated that he was willing to serve his | country in any capacity. The result was that the Redding men were mustered in, and the Woodland | boys are to_be soldiers neither of the country nor the State. Their arms and accouterments will be taken from them and their names expunged from the rolls of the National Guard. hesita selves. zations. Lyon for Sr win for W. bespoke a HEARST A4S A TRAITOR. THAT W. R. Hearst deserves to be placed prison is a plain matter of fact. Unless he can establish the plea of insanity he merits the reward of the traitor. If he is a lunatic, there are asylums. | General Shaiter has reported the statement of Hearst that the army was party to barbaric slaughter and rapine wholly unfounded. The report was an official formality. The flagrant lie told by Hearst carried its own condemnation and branded the author as a trea- sonable exile from the country of his citizenship. Ordinarily the Hearst lie is inspired by personal malice or a wanton desire ta create a sensation. It is only since the man, losing faith in the inveracity of his subordinates, has entered the field as a cor- respondent that his hideous and abnormal character has been displayed in all its degradation. In his craze for notoriety, his passion to be seen, he cares nothing that his posture is indecent, his presence a blight, or that his reputation assails the nostrils. Once he merely sanctioned and encouraged lics; now he writes them, shamelessly signing to them a name which has become the synonym for all that is low and foul—his own. Disporting a bogus loyalty, he has proclaimed a patriotism which never existed within him. Prating of love of country, he has abused its leaders, misled its military men by false information, and now he has made a deliberate attempt to drag its name in the dust, to place a stain upon its repute, to have it appear to the world as accessory to assassination, to the looting of the dead who fell in honorable battle. He has exulted with the vultures, and spread before his readers a feast of carrion. Official indignation has been aroused. For this latest crime, the climax of a series, he must answer. Charity suggests that the creature is daft; justice that a madman be restrained, or a traitor punished. When Hearst wrote that a Cuban soldier, one Laine, had inveigled forty Spanish troopers into sur- render, that these had by the Americans been turned over to Laine and other insurgents and by them be- headed, he wrote as silly a fiction as ever in the his- tory of yellow journalism found its way to print. Yet he wrote it as a matter of fact, intended to be believed. He told how magnificent Laine was, how his hand- some face “glowed with enthusiasm” as he related deeds of horror in which he had participated, treach- ery, murder and robbery of corpses on the field. If Hearst recognized this idle boasting as a stupid ut- terance of a lying braggart he had no business to send it. Accepting it as true, had he not been a pervert, he would have been stirred to his depths with an in- dignation which language even better than he com- mands could ill express. He would have exposed the diabolical acts as something to be swiftly and ter- ribly punished. But he gloried in them, lauded the monstrous criminal who claimed to be guilty of them, and with a spirit so flagrantly insulting that it could only dwell within a mind beyond the thrill of noble thought or patriotic impulse, ascribed a part of the nameless villainy to the army of the United States. about Santiago are to be thus held up to the scorn and loathing of civilization, what may alien races, some of them not inclined to be fair nor friendly, be expected to think? 1f there is no specific provision by which this form of treason may be stifled, at least Correspondent Hearst and his staff of malign liars can be driven from the field of activity where they constitute a menace to our arms. Our soldiers are not bent on massacre. To say they are is a wicked slander. None but a Hearst would have uttered it. As to the bloody-handed hero at whose feet Hearst bows in worship, he is a horse doctor, perhaps an authority on spavin, possibly well versed in colics, but | not calculated to grace a pedestal in the midst of an admiring throng. Happily the supply of Hearsts is too small to make a throng. For this crowning lie Hearst ought to be scourged from the haunts of men, as he has been from the State of his birth. He has been a nuisance, annoying and noxious; he has become a peril. Already his sway over the two papers which serve as mediums for his venom or his nonsense has been weakened. It is the duty of the powers now controlling them to protect the public against the ravings of Hearst, as they protect themselves against other forms of his eccentricity. In all the land there is not another so despised and yet so potent for mischief. Until the day when within a padded cell he shall scribble phantom mes- in irons and sent under armed escort to the nearest | ti “What are you going to do If our soldiers braving death on the torrid heights | g ¥ going Happily there are other companies chafing because | sages to the papers he once owned, he needs a lodge there had been no demand for the services they are { in some vast wilderness remote from the telegraph. ready to give the country. One of these can be | There let him gibber to moon or speak words of so quickly brought to the ground that in the forma- | affection to his hérse doctor, but the world craves tion of the regiment there will be no appreciable delay. Woodland will have regrets, but too late. Its rep- resentatives chose to desert the standard. The con- sequences rest upon them. THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. RESIDENT McKINLEY'S procfamation call- ping upon the people when they next assemble at their places of worship to give thanks to God for the marvelous success of our arms at sea will be well received and cordially acted upon. While our people are divided into a thousand different sects, on minor matters of church government and ritual, there are little or no differences among them on the essen- tial principle of a belief in God and his overruling} providence. The destruction of two great Spanish fleets without the loss of a single ship on our side, | and with the sacrifice of but a single life in the accom- plishment of two victories, has inclined the devout to gratitude to the Almighty who holdeth nations in the hollow of his hand, and the proclamation &f the President comes, therefore, more as a response to a deep feeling among the people than as an appeal to awaken such gratitude. Our success as a nation, not only in this war, but at all times, 'has been due to our obedience as a people to those laws which underlie and overrule all human events. We have not been cruel, nor tyrannous, nor wasteful, nor false to the nobler instincts of humanity. ‘We have grown strong because in the main we have lived in accordance with divine law. Our victories at Manila and at Santiago have not begmaspecial provi- dences vouchsafed arbitrarily at the hour of battle, but providences growing out of virtues practiced in the past which have made us strong and brave and united to face the dangers of war. In a certain sense, therefore, the thanksgiving to which the President has summoned the nation will be a new dedication of the people to those principles of virtue and liberty which have secured us in the past, and which alone can preserve us in the vicissitudes of the struggles through which we shall have to make our way in the fulfillment of the destiny that lies be- fore us. The occasion will be a solemn, patriotic ob- servance, and by the great mass of the people will be kept in the spirit of the President’s words: “Let us pray with earnest fervor that He, dispenser of all good, may speedily remove from us the untold af- flictions of warand bring to ourdear landthe blessings of restored peace and to all the domain now ravaged by cruel strife the priceless boon of security and tran- quillity.” ; " rest. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PLAN. HILE the Democrats of California are appar- W ently indifferent to the future of the national organization of their party, and are content to trot along with the old Bryan banners of the cam- paign of 1896, their brothers in the East are earnestly discussing ways and means and devising plans -and policies for the future. The plans proposed are al- most as numerous as the leaders of the party. Every man who aspires to be a Moses for Democracy must have a scheme for getting out of the wilderness, and each one seems determined to have his own. Con- fused as they are, however, they are interesting, for it is certain that out of some of them a good deal of practical politics is going to come during the fall elections. We have recently directed attention to some of these plans. We have quoted from the Richmond Times a proposition that Democracy get rid of Bryan- ism by dropping free silver and setting up a platform of anti-imperialism; from the Louisville Post that Bryan be set aside with his Chicago platform and the party declare for the annexation of all the captured colonies of Spain; from the New York World that the whole programme of 1896 be elim- inated from the future, and that this fall the elections be contested on State issues alone. These plans dealt only with questions of platform. Now comes a suggestion from Georgia that proposes for the party both a platform and a leader. The author is Congressman Livingston, who wishes to have something definite to say to his constituents when he asks for re-election. The Georgian proposes a campaign this fall against annexation, colonization and all other forms of imperialism, and to make the platform solid he urges that the State conventions in- dorse as their candidate for the Presidency in 1900 no less a person than Grover Cleveland. The New Orleans Picayune considers the Georgia proposition with a longing mind, but a doubtful heart. It declares Mr. Livingston is right in holding that the coming contest between the parties will be over the question of colonies, and that Mr. Cleveland would be the ideal candidate for the anti-imperial party, but has little hope that he will get the nomi- nation. In a sentence that sounds like a sigh of longing and a groan of hopelessness it says: “It would be a sort of providential salvation to the republic if in the im- portant emergencies that are going to grow out of the present war Grover Cleveland should become the next President, but nothing is more improbable un- der the conditions that are to be met.” Whether Mr. Livingston will be able to rouse the drooping spirit of the Picayune sufficiently to induce it to make a fight for his programme, which it so evi- dently approves, remains to be seen. At any rate the new plan for escaping the wilderness has been put forward. Mr. Cleveland once more has friends who will nominate him if he will put himself in their hands. DIRECTOR BURNS’' RETORT. T the meeting of the Board of Education on fl Tuesday evening Director Burns made no re- sponse to the charge that he had expended over $100,000 of the school fund without the sanction of the board and without consulting his colleagues of the building committee. Like a lamb in the hands of the shearers, he was dumb. On Wednesday he was a little more loquacious and made an explanation not only of his dealings with the school money, but of his silence at the board meeting. His explanation was interesting. He is quoted as having said: “This whole matter is of no particular moment to me except that it is very disagreeable to have your supposed friends fly in your face and try and cover you with mud. It is only a piece of spite- work, and some day the inside of this business may be made public. No, I will not say what the attack is due to, and these gentlemen may go on and make this’statement or that, I don’t care what.” There is no reason for doubting that Burns was sincere in his statement that the matter is of no inter- est to him beyond the annoyance caused by an attack coming from one whom he supposed was standing in with him. He has witnessed many such storms as this and he has seen them blow over. He has been in many an explosion and he has not been hurt. It is annoying to have one’s manipulations of public money exposed by a supposed friend, but otherwise there is nothing in such an exposure to be of any par- ticular interest to the fellow exposed.. That has been the record of such exposures in San Francisco. They have been so common and so futile that it is difficult for anybody to be interested in them. There is but one way to make this affair interesting to Burns and to the people, and that is by indictment and prosecution. If the members of the board who are now denouncing Burns stop at this point and take no legal steps to bring him to justice and to punish- ment the public, while accepting as true the charges, | since they have been supported by evidence, will con- to be of clude that Burns is right in declaring them merely spurts of mud-flinging—the emanation personal spite. It is a sad commentary on the administration of our municipal affairs and the enforcement of our law that charges of offenses so serious as those Burns is ac- cused of committing should be dismissed by the ac- cused party as matters of no interest, assertions not worth while to answer. Boss Tweed in the days of the power of his corruption in New York dismissed allegations of wrongdoing with the contemptuous about it?” Burns is more contemptuous still. He does not trouble himself to ask what we are going to do about " it. He does not care what is done. He dismisses the whole matter with indifference—“It is of no interest to me.” AGUINALDO'S ESTIMATE OF @AGUI- NALDO. HE $25,000 head of Insurgent Aguinaldo seems to have been turned. - He too freely projects himself into the situation. He needs to be sub- dued and eliminated. The terms on which he proposes to allow the destiny of the Philippines to be molded have been made public. Some of these are good, many of them bad, none of any consequence. The future of the Philippines is still a problem. It will be solved by the Government of the United States. 1f Aguinaldo or any other insurgent who has been alike a traitor to his country and his per- sonall followers be permitted to have a voice in af- fairs there would be no solution, but the perpetuation of turmoil, violence and bloodshed. Aguinaldo’s terms are set forth in fourteen articles. Of these only a few are of interest, and they only be- cause they show the fatuous notion of the man that he is to have the benefit secured by Americans vic- tory. America has not been fighting for him. In- deed, America would read with equanimity that the $25,000 head had exchanged ownership. America, to be frank, does not care a rap about Aguinaldo, and only asks that he attend to his business, which is not ours. The articles are defective in that they declare this insurgent President, that they sanction “temporary intervention of American and European Commis- sioners,” that they propose an American protectorate on the “conditions identical with those arranged for Cuba,” and intrust the administration of justice to a European official. Herein has Aguinaldo writ his farewell to matters of state. He will be ousted from all authority. He has not caught the spirit of the occasion. He cumbers the land. General Merritt is on his way to Manila-with an idea that upon arrival he is to take charge of affairs there. He will in all probability do so. The islands are extensive, but they do not afford room for both an American Governor and a native boss. Europe has nothing to do save keep hands away from a sit- uation which concerns the United States, and every detail of which will be adjudicated by the United States without the advice of any monarchy and care- less of the sanction of King, Emperor or Czar. SOLDIERS WHO CONQUER THE SPANISH VERB. “Forward! March!” And away went fifty men of the Towa Regiment up First Avenue, with the Chaplain in the lead. They were going to school. They were going to the Richmond school- house to take their first lessons in Spanish at the invitation of Miss Fran- ces Hodgkinson and Mr. and Mrs. How- ard. Miss Hodgkinson is teacher of Latin at the Lowell High School; Mrs. How- ard is teacher of French and Spanish at several of the San Francisco schools; Mr. Howard is ohe of the professors of the Romance languages in that depart- ment of the University of California, and these three patriotically disposed and linguistically cultivated people took | it into their three wise heads that a little Spanish would be an excellent thing to add to the equipment of an American soldier going to Manila. The idea originated with Miss Hodg- kinson. She found one of the men of the Colorado Camp ' patiently digging Spanish definitions out of a little old text-book which the years and the lan- guage had left far behind. “I can lend you a better book than this,” saild Miss Hodgklinson. “Can you?” said the soldier. lke it.” He got it the next day. Miss Hodg- kinson spoke to his sergeant about him. “ra \v “There’s plenty more trying to learn Spanish,” sald the sergeant, “and it would be a good thing for them to know a little of it. A Tun might be helped of her vacation to the service of her country, but she could not ask this sac- rifice of another. And it happened she did not have to ask, as Mr. and Mrs. Howard offered. Mr. Howard said that he would pre- pare a sort of grammatical digest, from which Mrs. Howard could ‘instruct the men in classes—supposing, of course, a sufficient number chose to take up the work—and in addition to this, advised the distribution of good primary text- books, from which the men could study, | read and translate, and in this way it was decided that a lot of ground could be got over in a short space of time. The courtesy of the class was offered to each regiment through-its command- ing officer. Those who declined ex- plained that the schedule of the morn- ing duties left their men no time for the work. Those who accepted placed the Spanish lesson on the schedule and detailed their men to it as to any other military duty. Miss Hodgkinson went shopping. She called on Mr. Sims of the Red Cross Society, and received as the contribu- tion of that body one hundred Spanish primers. She called on Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch and ordered one hundred blank books charged to her personal account. When the firm learned for what purpose the books were required Miss Hodgkinson was told that there would be no charge | on them. The first class of fifty men met on raw recruit without any—and all patient, anxious, serious, attentive, studious, grateful. They fill the nar- row forms to overflowing, turn their | men's faces upward like children to the little teacher over them, huddle two lon a bench with arms about one an- | other’s shoulders, to share the still | short supply of primers, twist their | English tongues about the foreign syl- |1able, pant and perspire and learn Spanish with all their hearts and souls. Mrs. Howard is as yet the only teacher. Miss Hodgkinson is pressed | into service as helper at the forms, but | modestly declines the honors of in- structor in Spanish. “I can read Spanish and follow a con- versation, but that is all,” she said yes- | terday morning in the classroom. e 4 do not feel that I have the knowledge to teach the language, or I would be |only too glad to help Mrs. Howard. | She needs help. I wish a few good | teachers would volunteer. It is a great |deal for one to do alone.” The one who is doing it alone, a very small, energetic, dark-eyed, dark-haired woman, stood before her big class of big men with one little hand on her hip and the other holding a book above her head. “Que es esto?” she said, the liquid syllables dropping like honey from the | comb. The class stared helplessly. “Que es esto? This is a question.” They knew it. They had guessed it from tue interrogative twist at the end ' "QUE ES ESTO?” MRS. HOWARD TEACHING SPANISH TO IOWA VOLUNTEERS. 5 out of a bad scrape down there by knowing a few words of Spanish.” Miss Hodgkinson returned :to town with her idea In the embryonic state. If it had been an idea in Latin, so to speak, it might have developed on the spot; but Miss Hodgkinson is not a teacher of the Spanish tongue. She did not know even the best text-books to offer the men anxious to learn Spanish for the good that it might mean to them atwarin Manila. Theone shehad tolend was for a two years’ course, to be taken with all the aid of a teacher. She called Mrs. Howard into consultation. She told her about the man who was studying alone and under disadvan- tages in camp, and she told what the sergeant had said, and she asked Mrs. Howard’s advice about text-books for distribution in camp—for Miss Hodg- kinson’s idea had developed as far as that. “They have so little time,” she said. “And the book will have to take the place of a teacher.” ““That sort of book hasn’t been writ- ten, has it?” said Mrs. Howard. “T'd like to talk to Mr. Howard about this.” Miss Hodgkinson waited hopefully while Mr. Howard was being talked to. These are the sweet, brief summer days of teachers’ idleness. Miss Hodgkinson was willing to gi—e the morning hours Monday at eleven o’clock. day one hundred pupils themselves. On Wednesday came fifty more. It was impossible to- handle them in a body. Mr. Howard cheer- fully arranged to take them in three separate classes. Non-commissioned officers were consulted as to the con- venience of the camp and the teachers accommodated their hours to the mil- itary regulations. The men in com- panies of fifty are marched from camp, up First Avenue,' through the Rich- mond schoolyard and into the class- room and then turned over to their teachers to answer the roll—which is taken back to camp by the officer in charge—and left to return and report at the conclusion of the lesson as after any other military detail. All sorts and conditions of men have responded to the chance offered by two generous women and one helpful man— the university-bred student, with all his classics behind him to help him on with the new tongue; the men from the woods, the farms, the prairie, and the On Tues- presanted hills with their big ambition to learn, strong and unschooled, with- in them; the mnon-com. in the importance of his decorated sleaves, the trim private—in uniform, the of it. But what help was that? Who can answer an interrogation point with- out knowing what goes before it? “What—is—this?"” translated the lit- tle teacher, smiling. ‘Why, of course! How simple! They had guessed it all along. And the sec- ond time it went beautifully, all in chorus. “Que es esto? What is this?” Mr. Howard’s grammatical digest was finished at infinite expense of fine writing and careful tabulation in a large blank book. And from this Mrs. Howard and Miss Hodgkinson must copy each lesson of the day on to the blackboard. And from this each stu- dent of Spanish must copy the same into his blank book. "All of which takes a deal of time and facts heing made known to the Red Cross Society, some one in high author- ity has promised to print the little How- ard grammar in due form and sufficient number. And with plenty of primers and plenty of . grammars and plenty of pluck and plenty of patience what more do the Spanish Students of Camp Mer- ritt need? Nothing. Nothing at all. But Mr. Howard and Mrs. Howard and Miss Frances Hodgkinson need a little help. labor, and these A MONUMENT TO DEWEY. How the Name and Aguinaldo makes the mistake of thinking himself im- portant. He is becoming merely obnoxious. e cm—n The gentlemen who think they could run the war better than it is being run are getting almost numer- ous enough to organize an army of their own, drive out the incompetent regulars, the blundering volun- teers, the ignorant and inexperienced generals, and then lick the Spanish in approved style. Also, they are making people tired. —_— Only two Spanish war vessels have been sunk by American ships since the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. This is a little slow, but if the enemy will put some more within range the men of the United States navy will demonstrate that their intentions are good and their aim accurate. —_— Now the Spanish are saying that if Cervera had es- caped they would have considered the proposition of peace. As it is, pride prevents it. If they had more brains and less pride they would make better insur- ance risks. The destruction of Cervera’s fleet is said to have strengthened the determination of‘slaain to fight to the bitter end. It has also brought the bitter end con- siderably nearer. S It is to be hoped that the society gentlemen being appointed as army paymasters will grasp the notion that soldiers earn their wages and deserve them promptly. The prejudice against French products is likely to extend so as to embrace the style of ocean voyage offered to the public by the French steamship. Manila May Be Perpetuated. Fame of the Hero of To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: Your editorial remark concerning the monument to be placed at the junction of Market ai.d Cali- fornia streets was timely and well put. Some writers are taking up the cudgels in favor of that particular spot for a monument in honor of Admiral Dewey. There is no place too good for a monument for that heroic sailor. The writers take the ground that the business part of the city is the best place because Nelson's monument in Dublin is in the business part of ‘hat city. city for art ana beauty. Many travelers think Edinburgh rathe: than Dublin is a model In the former the business part of the city lies between two very high hills, namely Calton Hill and Castle Hill, on which stand the monuments of Nelson and Burns and many other celebrities, and for Dewey I would consider, in San Francisco, Telegraph Hill to be appropriate; it must be ‘made a thing of beauty and usefulness; beauty in peace, grand, graceful and fearful in war. Now it is an unsightly land- scape being quarried into Pnd made more unsightly every day. It has always been and should be permitted to continue a protection to the har- bor against our strong sea winds that be:t upon the city and harbor most of the summer. If the digging and quarrying isqallowed to go on until it is taken av-ay altogether vessels in the stream and at the wharves will certainly (t. say the least) have very uncomfortable if not dangerous berths. The work of the vandals should be made to cea at once. On the top of the hiu the city owns certain 50-vara lots, in addition to which enough privite prop-vty should be condemned to build a modern fortification with the necessary and proper approaches. The whole hill should be properly laid out and terraced; a certain amount, say 600 feet of the water front and the reclaimed property adjacent thereto, now the property of the State, and private lands between these lots and the summit, should be con- demned and converted into a botanical garden, reaching to the summit of the hill, on which should be constructed fortifications of the most modern and enduring structure known to modern engineering, from which pésition a plunging fire can be had to cover all parts of the bay. The property to be deeded to the United States. The only condition being that its name shall be changed from Telegraph Hill to Fort Dewey or Castle Dewey. . 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