The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIS CO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 189s. FUESDAY oo DB rab 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) !s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE..... NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ............ One year, by mall, $1.50 vese...-908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. street, open untl: 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. Morosco's—"Romany Rye Tivoli—"Fatinitza Orpheum —Vaudev! The Chutes—Zoo, French Celebrat fo Olympia—Corner Sutro’s Baths—Sw El Campo—Must Oakland Racet audeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. At the Chutes. Thursday, July 14. ason and Eddy streets, Specialtles. .boating, fshing, every Sunday. s to-d AUCTION SALES. By A. F. Rooker-Tnis day, July 12, Ho 828, ete., at 721 How ard sireet, at 11 o'clock. By Edward S. Spear & Co.—Thursday, July 14, Groceries Hardware, ete., at 217 Drum sireet, , at 10 0'clock. fl elections must register. Former registration does not count. The necessity oi registering anew applies to everybody. That t does not seem to be generally understood, for although general registration has been in progress for upward of five weeks only about 8000 out of the 73,000 voters of the city have attended to it. The old maxim, “go early and avoid the rush,” is particularly pertinent to the duty of registration. It is a task that requires some little time to perform, and those who delay to the closing weeks of registra- tion find themselves compelled to wait in the office a Jong time before they can get their names recorded. That has been the case in every general registration in the city. There are people who put everything off to the last moment, and their name is legion. That class crowd one another at the registration of- fice during the last days and make a tedious work of what could have been readily and quickly done had they attended to it earlier when there was no rush. It should be borne in mind that rexistration closes August 9 and that time flies fast. Of the total num- YOU MUST REGISTER. LL citizens who desire to vote at the coming ber of citizens who will have to register to vote, only | about 10 per cent have attended to it up to this time. That means that over 60.000 voters will have to regis- ter between now and the closing day. As the time grows_ shorter the rush will increase and the crowd at the office will augment. That means the neces- sity of waiting in line will become more certain, and the waiting longer with the passing of each succes- sive day. A word to the wise should be sufficient. Register now. To-day will be better for the purpose than to- morrow, and to-morrow better than next day. By attending to the duty at once your registration can be made in five minutes. By postponing it until later it may take you half a day to get to the desk. Get your name on the register at once. HEARST'S WEAK APOLOGY. EARST evidently has heard of the laughter and H indignation excited by his story of the beheading of forty Spanish prisoners. He hastens to cor- rect a false impression by explaining that the number was four instead of forty. This is a start in the right direction. He should have eliminated the four and left the cipher as the representative of the truth in his weird yarn. But the real secret seems to be revealed in Hearst's opening words: “On a day when my experiences were uneventful, I sent you from the field near Si- boney a description of Colonel Laine and his story of his day's adventures,” etc. Or, to put the same thing in other language, when there was not truth to tell Hearst sent a fantastic lie. Therc is reason for believing that he regrets now having done so, but his efforts to squirm from under the coniequences are not marked by dignity. The correspondent who in the absence of news forwards a fake cannot get into good standing again. He hoists himself without the pale. The correspondent goes so far as to admit that he cannot be positive of the accuracy of Laine’s story. He does not make clear why he sent it if he doubted it or why he applauded Horse Doctor Laine, who is either an immeasurable liar or an assassin. More- over, Hearst has a wrong idea as to the reasons Americans object to such stuff. It is not out of sym- pathy for the Spaniards. It is because they do not like stupid fakes, and because the honor and welfare of their soldiers is held by them in considerable regard. They do not wish to have the regulars and volunteers rated as bloody-handed marauders accessory to willful murder, nor do they wish such fool reports to reach the ears of the Spaniards, who, believing them, would be goaded to new and in part excusable excess. Hearst’s apology is weak, as the thing for which he apologizes was absurd and malign. e e ez Soldiers deserting from the Spanish affirm that during the last three months their pay had consisted of three packages of cigarettes. Of course no civilian is competent to criticize military matters, but it is almost safe to affirm that such wages are insuffi- cient to keep patriotism up to a white Reat. Some of the soldiers here are beginning to fear they are to see no active service, but their alarm is groundless. If they do not get to Manila there is a demand in Cuba and a promise that things will be interesting in either place they land. If it is true the officers of Cervera’s fleet heard of the battle of Manila only after their capture it is cer- tain the Spanish have such a way of suppressing news as this country knows nothing about. Lare Blanco still urges “war to the end.” If he will glance back at history he will ascertain that the habit of war to keep right on to the end is invariable. Gentlemen who are engaged in wiring verbatim ac- counts of supposititious conversations between Samp- son and Schley ought to send news instead. 106 Eleventh | THE VAGARIES OF AMBITION. HAT excellent aspirant, Dr. Pardee, who gives Tto the public every day his good opinion of him- self in his own newspaper, has agreeably varied the matter by enlarging, through the same channel, his bad opinion of The Call. It is a piece of innocent finesse which moves a pro- fessional beauty to heighten her charms by placing them near a very plain, if possible very ugly, person. The excellent aspirant of Alameda County has been looking around for a foil to his good opinion of | himself, and has found it in The Call. His disregard | for this paper is frankly admitted to be caused by the “fights” it has made. The Call's fight against a cor- rupt or neglectiul Los Angeles City Council and a grasping water eompany in possession of the city’s water plant and demanding an enormous ransom therefor is admitted by the excellent aspirant to be disagreeable to him. He exults that, as he says, The Call lost that fight. He may exult prematurely, but | even hair trigger exultation, fired too soon, may get him the sympathy of the millionaires who dole out drinking water to the people of Los Angeles for a consideration from works that belong to the people. It seems worth trying, and the excellent aspirant tries it. 5 The next feature in his bad opinion of The Call is | his dislike for the fight we made against the gang in | San Jose. Having the push in his own county with | him, his sympathies go out to the push everywhere. | The gang politician whose nights are lushy and whose | days are bleary, whose breath would draw buzzards | and kill them when they come are at present the con- | | fidants of the excellent aspirant, and not a nerve in | him protests when they whisper to him. The push in San Jose are his valued friends just now and The | Call is under the ban for fighting the same. | Gently gliding from censure for the afflictions we | | visited upon these persons and corporations who are | useful to his excellent aspirations, the doctor proceeds to rejoice that the San Francisco charter was adopted, | | not because it is a good charter, but because The Call opposed it. In like manner he rejoices that Ha- waii was taken in, not because it was right to do so, 1 but because we opposed it. Pushing himself into the company of things wrong and men vile, opposed by { The Call, he introduces himself as fit for Governor | because of the company he keeps. | We will be very glad to feel that he is fit, since we | rejoice when unfit men refrain from ambitions that are | too large for their capacity. But Dr. Pardee must bear with us. We were not informed of his transcend- | ent qualities until he bought a newspaper in which to | tell us what they are. His virtues were hidden under a bushel until he bought a phylactery on which to | | display them. As his case, therefore, differs so widely | from that of other aspirants, we must have time to see him as he sees himself. They must content them- | selves with such public statements of their qualities | | as may be volunteered by others. The doctor does | | not wait for appreciation to come to him over such a | slow road. He carries appreciation with hint and puts it on tap in his own newspaper. Perhaps had we | known sooner how well he stands with himself, how | thoroughly he enjoys himself in his own company and ‘y how much he admires his many talents, we wouldi think as much of him as he does himself. But, even | | then, we are painfully aware that we would not stand | well with him. Love is jealous. Behind Cupid flies the bat-winged, green-eyed monster. The doctor | brooks no rival as a lover of himself. The dear | caress, the stolen interview, the balcony tryst, must | | be by himself and with himself. With him love's young dream has himself for its dear object, and no | rival must enter the charmed circle where he sits on | his own knee, affectionately whispering soft nothings into his own ear. ,‘ POLITICAL GASTRONOMICS. | AT | ! T is characteristic of the Populists that at the be- | lgmning of every campaign they look around for somebody to swallow them. The delegates to the State convention of the party which meets at Sacra- | mento to-day have for some time been discussing the | situation with a view to being deposited by the Demo- | cratic organization where the whale deposited Jonah. They have no idea of swallowing the Democracy. They realize that it is their mission on earth to be eaten and they subject themselves to the process with a less laughable | %a self-sacrificing spirit which, in | party, would be sublimely heroic. {‘ It is also characteristic of the Populists that they | generally quarrel over the meal that is made of them. | This is due to the circumstance that among the dele- | gates to every Populist convention there are always a | number of men who do not want offices and who, con- sequently, are devoted somewhat to principle. These men continually object to being swallowed by any- body. They believe their only hope of political suc- | cess consists in maintaining a single flag pole with a | separate set of nailed colors. Some of them know | from experience that when the Demnocrats swallow them success at the polls only results in Democratic | officeholders. They also know that there can be no | assimilation of principles in political parties, even if it were possible for a swallowed party to get any of the offices after election; and so they afways object to being swallowed. At Sacramento to-day the anti- swallowers will be called middle-of-the-road Popu- lists. We refer to these matters, not because they are in any sense news, but for the purpose of calling atten- tion to the tendency of history to repeat itself. The Populist national convention in 1896 was not swal- lowed, but it downed at a single gulp the Presidential candidate of the so-called National Democracy. The result of the attempt to swallow a half-breed Popu- list arrayed in Democratic vestments was over- whelming defeat at the polls. Bryan and the Wat- son-Sewall combination, a freak ticket with two tails, ended where it should have commenced—in a museum. At Sacramento to-day the Populists are eyidently intent on repeating their history. They are going to eschew the gastronomic necessity of their existence, as their predecessors did at St. Louis, and nominate a half-breed Populist for Governor—James G. Ma- guire. Later on the Democrats will choose the same candidate, and thus again the political rag tag and bobtail of the State will enter the campaign with a two-tailed freak ticket. It is said that Mr. Shanahan, Governor Budd’s Code Commissioner, is pledged to defeat this pro- gramme, but we are convinced that ne will not be able to do so. Next to being swallowed by office- | seeking organizations of politicians the chief end of Populism is to place before the people freak tickets. A ticket with two tails will be too great a tempta- tion for the Sacramento faithful. Even middle-of- the-road logic will not suffice to distract the attention of the bewhiskered party from such a delightful situ- ation. The fact that Bryan lost on a similar com- bination signifies nothing. The Populists in one re- spect resemble the Spanish. The only way to get an idea into their heads is to beat it in with a thirteen- inch gun. i —_— Even the most enthusiastic young woman ought to realize that a soldier in a buttonless uniform is labor- ing under hardships which his country never ex- ] pected him to endure OUR NOBLE BATTLE-SHIP. ROM reports given of the naval battle off San- tiago by officers of the American fleet it appears that while all the ships bore their part nobly and all the crews performed their dangerous duty with conspicuous courage the chief praise and honor are due to our own Californian built battle-ship, the Oregon. This special praise and honor is in no wise a reflection upon other ships ot the fleet. How- ever good all may be in any’particular company, there is always one better than the rest. In this case the superior one was the Oregon, and the superiority seems to be like that of Saul among his brothers: “head and shoulders above the rest.” From the outbreak of the war to this time good fortune has afforded the Oregon an ovpportunity to -display her incomparable excellence as a battle-ship. These opportunities have put her to severe tests, and had she been weak in any part or particular they would have been accounted misfortunes rather than good fortunes for her. She was first tried by a long voyage around the Horn and found to be as good an ocean-going craft as ever met the winds and waves with a frolic welcome. Next it fell to her lot to carry the first company of Americans to land on Cuban soil. Finally, as if no honor was to be denied her, she had the glory at Santiago of fighting four Spanish ships at once. All of these opportunities added to the glory of the Oregon simply because she was able to profit by them, master them and compel them to serve as evi- dences of her superb qualities. The conspicuous part she played at Santiago was not due to chance. | As a matter of fact the Iowa from her position at the time the Spanish fleet emerged from the bay had the better chance of distinction, since she was the nearest of the American fleet and got in the first shot. The Oregon, however, was the first to get up steam, and by her superior speed managed to cut out the Iowa and get the place of honor in the forefront of the running battle for herself. The brilliant honors of the Oregon reflect an equal honor upon the working shipbuilders of San Fran- cisco. The brawny, earnest men, whose names are unknown to fame, who constructed the big ship, and who put good, honest, patriotic work into her from the day her keel was laid until the day she was turned over to the Government a completed ship, are the men to whom honor belongs for her glorious record. Give as much credit as we may to her officers and her seamen, their skill could not have carried her through the stormy ocean around the Horn if she had not been well built, she could not have stood the cannonading of four Spanish ships in succession if her armor plate had not been put on well and strong, neither could she have stood the strain of the firing of her own big guns if there had been a weak spot of careless workmanship in any part of her hull or machinery. When we give honor to the noble Oregon, there- fore, let us not forget the workmen of the Union Iron Works. They built a ship that has to-day a prouder record than any other battle-ship on the globe, and San Francisco is proud to claim them as her own. @ HERALD OF DARKNESS. SALT LAKE paper, the existence of which we fl cheerfully make known outside its township, and called therein the Herald, in a recent issue contributed to the gayety and likewise the misin- formation of nations by an attack on The Call and its proprietor, in which The Call is accused of being the “latest ally of Spain,” and of expressing its con- tempt for “American volunteers.” The Salt Lake paper probably has all seasons for lying, and the feculent exhalations from its columns indicate that the name of the president of its company has no lid. The Call is too busy in the promotion of the Red Cross and other public activities and patriotic expres- sions to traverse the Salt Lake organ’s emanation of the pulseless emulsion which it mistakes for brains. The red coal which seems to have touched its rep- | tilian nerve was found in The Call’s criticism of poli- ticians appointed to military commands without the soldierly training, taste or experience to qualify them | for positions in which the lives of thousands of men | depend upon the training to arms and tactics of their leaders. Oddly enough the Salt Lake fellow speaks of Ben Butler as an ideal general lifted from civil life to a command at the beginning of the Civil War. While Butler was probably the best of the cornstalk generals, yet he and Banks and the other politicians cost the lives of thousands of volunteer privates by their ignorance of the art of war and their incapacity to acquire it in actual service. 1t is the opinion of the Salt Lake ergan that igno- range of military matters and lack of training therein are no bar to a commission to command troops. Ite models for officers are frankly announced to be Mr. Hearst and William J. Bryan! One can fancy the pleasure of the seasoned Spanish officers at the prospect of being called on to meet armies led by such commanders! An investigation of the list of stockholders of the Herald Company reveals the cause of its misery. Confirmed idiocy and incapacity had reduced it to beggary and blackmail, and a few silver millionaires took it under shelter. The wandering magdalen has waxed on three meals a day and now wants admission into society as a “lydy.” Remembering Messrs. Bryan and Hearst as acquaintances of old days, they are naturally commended as “gents” for whom noth- ing is too good. e r—— T ——— One of the Pullman boys wants to join the army, but he wants also to have a commission. His im- pulse seems to be of a dual sort. Part of it comes from patriotism and the rest from that quality best described as “nerve.” Civilian kids who want to get into the army and are too proud to carry a musket ought to be encouraged to stay out. However, if Pullman will organize a regiment of sleeping-car porters and arm them with whisk brooms they might forage to the consternation and ultimate disaster of the enemy. = o There seems to be no doubt the Spanish naval offi- cers thought the American ships a lot of tubs, manned by aliens who would not fight, and Americans them- selves much given to words and to nothing more dangerous. It is reasonable to suppose the Spanish officers have changed their minds. The only way to ascertain the conditions prevail- ing in the Klondike seems to be to go there. If you get rich it's a good place; if you freeze to death as ‘the only method of escaping starvation its disad- vantages will have to be acknowledged. Spaniards are denouncing a “bought press.” They have not progressed so far as to term it yellow. Be- sides, this, being the national color, might fail to con- vey the desired meaning. == 5 This country is not ready to accept as true the statement that any of the Spanish have had their heads cut 6ff. They seem to have lost them in some other way. Next time the Colorado boys toss a peddling nuisance in a blanket they should send him higher and then'lose their grip on the blanket. DEMOCRACY OR IMPERIALISM—WHICH? Possible Alignment of Parties. SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 1898. To the Editor of t'.e San Francisco Call—Sir: Since my communication in The Call of Monday, July 4, appeared, so far as that result can be ob- tained by an unconstitutional resolution, Hawail has been annexed. I sup- pose the annexation must be regarded as an accomplished fact, though with- out any law to sanction it. When an Englishman with his feet in the stocks was told by an educated bystander that under the laws of Great Britain the punishment was unconstitutional, he replied, “But, you see, I am here.” In' relation to Hawaii the identity of the situation is apparent. I observe that even Senator Hoar, who has manifested some regard for the consti- tution of his country, was betrayed into gross inconsistency, and while pro- testing against a policy of conquest found an excuse for this gross depar- ture from fundamental American principles. The excuse, however, was as irrational as the act is dangerous. There have been precedents for the un- constitutional acquisition of territory, of which the case of Texas is the most conspicuous. But in that instance the injury resulting from Congres- slonal disregard of the organic law was minimized, because the territory was on this continent and in every sense desirable, and it was converted into a great and prosperous State which some day may be divided into five. More- over, the annexation of Texas in no way interfered with the Monroe doc- trine, and apart from the question of slavery it did not involve the absorp- tion, against their own will, of a servile population, incapable of being even educated into a capacity for American citizenship. . It is useless, however, to cry over spilt milk. So far as Hawali is con- cerned the game is made and must be accepted as it is. The annexation, in its essence, is a conquest, achieved by strategy instead of force. Is this to be the end of the new departure or are we on the verge of revolution? This is the transcendent question now, for if the whetted beak of the American eagle is to be plunged into the flesh of humanity, whether broiling in the torrid zone or freezing in the arctic region, so complete a departure from the theory and the practice of the republic means political revolution and noth- ing less. The British Government is a mass of expedients wonderfully adapted to a settled policy of imperial colonization, which has been slowly developed and Inflexibly extended for centuries. The administration of that Govern- ment at home and abroad hds been an unprecedented combination of power, diplomacy and statesmanship. On the other hand, the Government of the United States, as it was founded and as it has existed for more than a hun- dred years, was the first organized expression of the most deep-seated as- piration of man, namely, for the exercise of his own sovereignty, limited only by the interests and necessities which are common to all. It rested, therefore, upon an eternal principle, and, in an abstract or theoretical sense, was the most perfect government upon earth. Its practical success was measurably guaranteed, not only by the race from which it came, but by the Declaration of Independence and the Federal and State constitutions. Its administration for more than a century, with many defects and perturba- tions and in spite of internal corruption, on the whole' was the most re- markable achievement in history. The Monroe doctrine, while in no respect interfering with the extension of commerce and the ordinary relations be- tween civilized nations, kept our political system free from Buropean and Asiatic entanglements and gave us ample range for the consolidation and elevation of our people between the two oceans and from the chain of great as it may largely do in the twentieth century, while avoiding the debauching influences of Asiatic immigration, Alaska and the great West secured us a commanding position in that mighty development. The mission of Great Britain, whatever the original motives which pro- pelled it in the extension of its dominion, was and is to prepare the world for liberty and civilization. The mission of the United States was and is to establish for all time a government, resting upon freedom and order, without an unnecessary trammel upon the limbs of humanity, and, therefore, adapted to the highest phases of individual, industrial, intel- lectual and social progress. These two missions are distinct from each other, and yet, in the order of Providence, inseparably connected. The one demanded indefinite and rapid expansion—the other, limitation to this continent, until the work of the fathers had been so consolidated and strengthened that the edifice they had projected and founded could not be overthrown. We had sufficient territory for three hundred millions of people. We had almost inexhaustible resources. Under the operation of justly restrictive laws, the necessity for which was slowly forced upon us, we gradually absorbed the best blood of the best elements of the world. We stimulated education and made it general, and, by that train- ing and experience which, in conformity with our institutions, would ulti- mately extirpate religious bigotry and intolerance, while preserving that ele- sential morality which holds society together, have raised citizenship to- ward a height which, if it is ever reached, will enable us to command a view of manifest destiny on all continents and on all islands. What is manifest destiny? It has been grossly misinterpreted by sec- tions of all political parties, and, in the midst of war, it is now being per- verted to an extent which, if realized, would destroy the constitution it- self. It does not mean filibusterism. It does not mean conquest by force of arms. ‘It does not mean the prostitution of our laws to the protection of the speculative enterprises which, as I am credibly informed, are now being pushed from Cuba to the Philippines by men who would justify the false saying that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” It does mean that, when the wisdom of the fathers has been vindicated on this con- tinent, and our Government has absolutely ceased to be an experiment, and the exquisite light of freedom, law and order illuminates the territory we now occupy—then our beneficent institutions will peacefully and certainly extend themselves over other communities, prepared to receive them by the colonizing labors of Great Britain and by the general advance of man- kind in intelligence, education and virtue. When from the summit of Telegraph Hill Father Junipero Serra gazed through the Golden Gate upon the blue Pacific he t ought of the future and his pure soul was fillled with the spirit of prophecy. As Edmund Randolph once said, three-quarters of a century later, an American specu- lator, on the same elevation, turned his back upon the Golden Gate and looked upon the water underneath and he, too, thought of the future which, to him, consisted of water lots at $500 apiece. Much of the sentimental rot printed nowadays about the Philippines and Porto Rico has an underlying motive no higher than speculation. The dream of ¢ nquest which is so per- sistently encouraged in many quarters and which means the sapping of our national vitality under the pretense of spreading American ideas, is to no small extent the suggestion of sordid treason to the Constitution and to every element in true Americanism. But there is another and a greater danger to our institutions which springs from the most ardent patriotism and from conceptions which would be lofty if they were not untrue. Old men watch the trees in their slow growth and discern the forests of the future. Young men become impatient and by undue stimulation produce an apparent luxuriance which ends in decay and death. This tendency is il- lustrated in the history of natioas, and by the history “vhich we are making at the present moment. There are tens of thousands of ardent spirits who wonld not hesitate to attempt the grafting of American vigor and énergy upon the Orfental rottenness ol the Philippines. The thing cannot be suc- cessfully done. It is our country, our constitution, our civilization, that would suffer and not the Philippines. Providence cannot be forced or driven and an American grip upon Asia or upon Spain would not raise them up but would relax our muscles and weaken our digestive functions and our nervous system. 3 Undoubtedly Spain must be thrashed; she is thrashed already. She must also indemnify us for the war and give us security for payment. But unless we are prepared for the failure of our republic we must not be seduced or driven into the imperial colonization which is the peculiar func- tion of Great Britain, or into a policy of conquest, which would destroy our constitutioral system an emasculate ourselves. Still the same class of influences which have secured the annexation of Hawall v 11 concentrate upon the project of imperial development under republican forms, and I should not be surprised if, within a very short pe- riod, the question became a predominant issue in politics. Events crowd rapidly upon us, and there is a queer mixture in jarties as they exist. There are Free Trade Republicans and Protection Democrats. There are Sound Money Democrats and Free Silver Republicans The clear and dis- tinct issues that have divided parties in the past and which were based upon conflicting principles not assailing tae Constitution are either settled or confused, and, in these days, the main controversy is over the division of the spoils. A division upon the Constitution on the one side and Im- perfal Americanism, if such a phase can be tolerated, on the other, would be a renovating fact. In our civil war the Constitution was rudely shaken, but the object of the war was the Union, under and not without the Constitution, and, when secession was defeated and peace declared, though not without much oseil- lation, the ship of state swung back to her constitutional moorings. There she has securely ridden for many years, and, when the present storm is over, I hope and I believe that she will be found anchored in the same place. PUBLICOLA, lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. And when the Pacific supersedes the Atlantic, - in command of the Ameri ban waters. Commndoreca}r«lloweu mands the first squadron Schley the second, Commad, the eastern squadron Remey the naval base at Key West. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THEATERS—H. E. 1, City. The Or- pheum has a larger seating capacity than the Grand Opera House. CITY HALL BOME—W. ‘W. B., City. The height of the dome of the San Fran- cisco City Hall is 302.2 feet. Rosa wishes to kno word Eyota, the na nesota. Can any department furn the Information? THE LADRONE ISLAN: When the commander ] took possession of th about 300 regulars were I cipal island to hold possesiion, gthe | formation has been received af headquarters in this city ' as 1o troops were left there. + REE HARBOR—A. L., City. A free or open harbor is one that is open to ves- sels from all parts of the ‘world. MESSAGES TO SPAIN—W. W. B., City. The Call for several days past has glven accounts of the manner the authorities at Santiago de Cuba transmit messages to Spain. CAPTAIN OF COMPANY A—C. W. P., City. Captaln Eastman was In command of Company A, Fourteenth United States Regulars, which went on the City of Syd- ney for Manila. SIGNaL CORPS—E. M., Mare Island, Cal. There are a number o1 works on ignaling, which may be procured from :rf}? fltsf—clusn book dealer. The Meyers Code Is used in the United States Army. THE CUBAN FLEET—E. MeT. Corn- wall, Contra Costa County, Cal. Com- C., City. troops were on the Austral Peking and City of §:; ‘tlisxga left June 15, and the s ator, Colon, China and Zealandia; diana, Morgan Cit; Para.’ The Valencia left on ;!‘xg ’.I;Iet\;‘pm;{ on the 2th. S time to of men who e e e the reports as modore Sampson, acting rear admiral,’is ' lated at headqu:.l:tg:'mnOt yet been tabu- fleet in Cu- com- ofiom‘modnre e Watson and Commodore EYOTA—A correspondent from Santa W the meaning of the me of a town in - of the readers of’flfis City. of the Charleston e Ladrone Islands prin- no in- army what EXPEDITIONS FOR MANILA-J, 1 The first expeditio; sailed from San_Francisco nr}!amrstm';."l:: Yy o ¥; the second ips Were the Sen- third left June 27, the ships being the In- lel htlmpos!l- Xact nuj went with each exped’l‘:?:; COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Louis Dean, a lumber man of Reno, Is at the Russ. Ira G. Hoitt of Burlingame is stopping at the Palace. S. Frankenau, a merchant of Sanger, is at the Grand. T. J. McCarthy of Los Angeles is stop- ping at the Palace. Senator D. A. Austin of Yuba is regis- tered at the Grand. L. W. Wise Jr. of Washington, D. C., is staying at the Palace. James Hay and Miss Hay of Johannes- berg are stopping at the Palace. John A. McIntyre, a mining man of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. 000000000 Wiliam Alex. ° © Ryan of Los An- o MR.RYAN o geles, a commis- sioner of the 0 PAID FOR 0 5\ /1 3ing ana O THE DRINK. © Toan Association, o is in this city at OO0OO000O0OOO the present time. He never comes here without giving birth to something which is worthy of chroni- cling. As a man of daring enterprise and of thorough gameness he has few su- perfors. On Sunday night Mr. Ryan and Tom McCarthy, the insurance adjuster’® were sitting In the Palace grill smoking their post-prandial cigars and waiting for an after-dinner drink, when Dr. Drucker sauntered in. Introductions followed and the School Director took a seat at the table. He asked the gentlemen to nomi- nate their poison and put a dallar on the table to settle once and for all any pos- sible quibbling concerning the privilege of paying for the first round of drinks. -Mr. Ryan then repeated the actions of the doctor, and he also placed a dollar upen the table, saying, “Doctor, this is on me.” “Oh, no,” replied the School Director, and out came a twenty from his pocket with which he covered his silver dollar. Without any hesitation or manifest sur- prise Mr. Ryan accepted the cue and did likewise. It was now Drucker’s turn to respond to the ante and he did not fail. Another twenty was added to the pile, and almost simultaneously the stack be- longing to Mr. Ryan received an addi- tional story. Up the buildings rose until each man had exposed on the table a gold and silver stack of $14L. I¢ had been a silent game of “I see you” up to this point, but now Dr. Drucker began to scratch his head. This was productive of a wavering apology which evoluted, “I have a $10 and a $5 piece left and that is all, but I don’t suppose you have any ob- jection, Mr. Ryan, to my drawing a check.” With calm deliberation and a most suave manner the gentleman from the south said, “If you do, doctor, I will cash it.” Mr. Ryan paid for the drink. Henry E. Kemp of Phoenix, Arizona, 18 at the Occidental. Senator J. Seawell of Ukiah is regis- tered at the Grand. Seymour Waterhouse is down from the mines of Placer County. ‘Walter B. Gould, a merchant Bangor, Me., is at the Russ. Ex-Senator Marion Biggs Jr. of Oro- ville is stopping at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. James Philip Smith of Santa Cruz are staying at the Palace. Julius T. Wile and Henry M. Lips of the United States navy are at the Occidental, F. W. Covey, superintendent of the Palo Alto Stock Farm, is stopping at the | Grand. from 000000000 Joe Kerr is a happy man. To o ) o TWO DOSES , him has fallen o the lot of being o OF SUPREME O .4, ecstatically HAPPINESS. © happy twice in S the same day, 00O0O0000NO and it is an ex- perienice which—strange to say—he does not wish to have repeated. Yesterday Dr. Kenyon told Joe that he was a father to sdch a boy as the world never saw betcre. Joe was so delighted that he started down the street at once to an- nounce the event in person. Ten min- utes after he reached the city’s main thoroughfare every man, woman and child knew that an heir had been born to the house of Kerr. All Joe said as he walked down the “line” was “it's a boy.” No further explanation was given. In one of the gilded palaces where Joe was portraying the future for his 2-hour son the telephone startled him from prophetic indulgences, and it was discovered that Joe was the party wanted by the person at the other end of the line. It was the doctor attending his wife who wished to speak to him. Joe was advised to come home at once as something very import- ant had happened. Joe lost no time. He was out of that place in a second and had boarded the first car home in less time than the telling takes. He did not even wait for the car to reach his house, but left it two blocks before it arrived there and ran the rest of the distance like a wild man. The doctor received him at the door, and after quieting Joe somewhat he told him he had a very interesting thing to show him. Joe was taken into a dark room and was advised to look on the bed. He did so and some- thing like the following came from his lips: *“Hello, what in the world is this. This is my boy, but who in the deuce is that stranger. Take it away. I don't want him next to mine. Get it out ot here.” Then he ceased his diatribe for a moment and appealed to the doctor: “Doctor, tell me, if you love me, are thers two kids there. I don't see double, do I? Now don’t keep me In suspense!" The doctor sald there was only one; but Joe was convinced of the correctness of his perceptions and he persisted that there was another, a stranger, in the new crib. Whose is 1t? When did it come and who put it there?” Joe continued. The doctor was forced to answer: ‘“Joe, my boy, it is yours also. It was born two hours after the other. There are now in San Francisco a Dewey and Samp- son Kerr.” Joe is thoroughly happy, but let no man wish him many happy returns of the day. J. Albert Hall of London and the Vi- comte I de Gouville are guests at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Curtis and family have arrived frorh Boston and are stop- ping at the Occidental. J. A. Hopper, wife and family, are stop- ping at the Occidental. They arrived from Honolulu a few days ago. Dr. William Pepper of Philadelphia, who visited this coast last vear as the guest of Mrs. Phebe Hearst, is sick at the Pal- ace. He is attended by Dr. A. E. Taylor, also of Philadelphia. Mrs. T. F. Northey, Mrs. J. H. 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