The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1898. 6 The Call FRIDAY..... V......J(_;I:Yizz, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. “‘E_dmss All Communications to W. S. LEAK&M.Mger. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| 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 @ week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advert ‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs Houee €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNLSS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 +eees...908 Broadway Room 188, World Bullding & Representative. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 930 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 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, opem untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky strects, open untlil 9 o'clock. | s ————3 EMENTS, | | Tivolt | Orpheum -V The Chute and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. | and Eddy streeis, Specialtlos. | El Cam: . every Sunday. | By Frank W. Butterfiel day, July 23, Library, at corner Market and Seve ats o clooK p. m. Horses, etc., at 810 | | | | ALWAYS FIRST WITH NEWS. | =0 have the news first, and to have the correct | '] The Call. That it is living up to this ideal of what a paper should be every reader of dailies can tes! Of late there have been many notable demonstrating this. There are at least minor instances in every issue. The great battle of Manila was first detailed in this paper, of all papers on the coast. The account writ- ten by The Call correspondent from notes he had taken during the turmoil of conflict as he stood on the bridge with the immortal Dewey is the best, the most finished and picturesque that has yet been written. It has been complimented everywhere, and its value is attested by the mention made by Dewey of the correspondent. He was there. He heard the thun- der of the guns. cannon, and in vivid language he portrayed the inci- dents of the engagement. ys there was no other account. There were no other correspondents to observe, and when they finally sent in their stories the stories were secondhand, piecemeal. Months ago an expedition was sent to the relief of | whalers imprisoned in the ice. The relation of their rescue, the difficulty of reaching them, was set forth | in these columns Monday of this week. Thursday lagging contemporaries told similar tales of Arctic | adventure, apparently confident they were telling | something new. But the information was stale. They | might have clipped it from the columns of this paper | and presented it Tuesday, thus scooping themselves by forty-eight hours. They might have held back their presses for a copy of The Call and given the story only tardy by a few hours, thus following a precedent set by the Examiner. A few days ago, after city papers had been sent to press, the peninsula was shaken by a mighty explo- sion. Word quickly reached the office that a Chinese murderer, having taken refuge in a powder store- news, is the purpose of instances He was stifled in the smoke of the | For da; house, had blown it up, together with himself and seven other people. Seldom has an event more | startling been chronicled. A complete account ap- peared in The Call, and, of course, nowhere else. People were not surprised. They are becoming ac- | customed to such exhibitions of enterprise. The say- ing of these things is only prompted by the appre- | ciation the public has shown. People want the news, The Call gives it. Particularly ever since the begin- | ning of the war the superiority of our news service | has been marked, and so will it be to the end, but the examples of this are too numerous to cite. As a rule, the news columns speak for themselves. Occa- sionally we cannot refrain from joining the public in commending them. TExprexs Company still persists in its scheme to | evade payment of its share of the war tax is not a pleasant duty. It had been hoped tnat its course | was inadvertent, that when attention had been called to the circumstance that its action was both illegal and unpatriotic it would hasten to correct its policy. The hope was vain. The corporation has been given | time to demonstrate that it is selfish to the core, cares | nothing for the protection the Government throws | about it, takes no note of the fact that by reason of | the war it has an increased revenue. But since Wells-Fargo, having been pointed the way to lead a better life, has refused to make amove in the proper direction, there remains the duty of lend- ing it an impetus sufficient to carry it out of the ways of sin. Merchants of Los Angeles have already taken steps to lead the erring corporation to a sense of its unrighteousness. They object, reasonably, to paying, in addition to their own taxes, the tax the Govern- ment meant the wealthy corporation to pay and have started the matter in the direction of the courts. There will be both civil and criminal proceedings. | Merchants of San Francisco take a similar view of | the position of the company, and the company will | soon realize this. There is no excuse for delay in the ] making of a test case. United States District Attorney Foote seems in- clined to hold back and let a precedent be estab- lished elsewhere. There is no better place than within his jurisdiction for the establishing of a precedent. Every day action is deferred means an additional gain to the corporation, and, possession being so many points of the law, all the money unlawfully wrested from the public will be devoted to the swelling of Wells-Fargo dividends, and not a cent be returned to the public, from which it is being taken without war- | rant of statute or equity. Mr. Foote should press the matter at once. There are other corporations need- ing a lesson, but this express company, being the most flagrant offender, might profitably be employed as the necessary ‘““terrible example.” e e WELLS-FARGO AND WAR. O be forced to announce that the Wells-Fargo The Cubans have a new sorrow. They are not per- mitted to loot a city conquered by American arms and | all railroad and other quasi-public corporations. | young forest, the timber resource of the future. | But, after all, it would be the loss | surmountable difficulty. ‘ FRANCHISE TAXATION. HE regular annual discussion concerning the Tlaxation of corporation franchises, which closed | a few days ago before the Board of Supervisors, | has elicited the usual amount of wisdom from the }$30,000 contract railroad organ and the statesmen | who achieve fame in its columns. Undivided atten- tion this year has been given to the bonded indebted- ness of the street railways of San Francisco, especial attention having been paid to the Market street com- pany, which is always the “horrible example” of our municipal system. The principles which are found to exempt this corporation from confiscatory taxa- tion, it has been contended, are of general applica- tion. Mayor Phelan, for whom taxation demagogy has many charms, has claimed in a letter to Assessor | Siebe that the assessment placed upon the Market street system is inadequate. The property of the com- pany has been valued by Mr. Siebe at $3,206,000, and its franchise at $2,500,000. The Mayor asks the As- sessor pointedly what has become of the company’s bonded indebtedness of $14,000,000, and he attempts to answer his own question by calling attention to the fact that the bonds are not assessed at all. The Mayor’s letter to the Assessor is heartily indorsed by the contract organ, which lays down the broad propo- sition that, judged by its bonded indebtedness and the value of its stock, the corporation in question is not being assessed at above two bits on the dollar. This is all the veriest buncombe. Both Mayor Phelan and the organ know that the constitution and statutes expressly exempt from taxation the bonds of The theory is that the property is represented by the bonds, and if the former is assessed that will be sufficient. With mortgages it is different. They are treated as an interest in the property affected and assessed to their owners. The difficulty of following up bonds and assessing them to their holders evidently induced the constitution makers to abandon, in the case of railroads and other quasi-public corporations, the rule set up concerning mortgages. Nor is the market value of their bonds a safe cri- terion for valuing the property of corporations. The San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was bonded for a million dollars; in fact it cost over a million to build it. Yet when foreclosure came it sold for $350,000. Would it have been just for the Assessor to have assessed that corporation upon the value of its bonded indebtedness? Had he done so he would have wrecked the company long before its time. The market value of corporation bonds is more or less speculative. It is based upon temporary interest paying power, future prospects, schemes of improve- ment, etc. Railroads often mortgage their property for more than it is worth. So do individuals. Al- though the savings banks aim to loan not over 50 per cent upon real estate, they are often unable to realize the amount of their loans and interest on foreclosure. What does all this argue? It simply argues that it is the duty of the Assessor to assess street railway property at its “cash value,”” namely, the amount it would be taken for in payment of a debt by a sol- vent creditor from a solvent debtor. A rule for valu- ing franchises has been laid down by the Supreme Court. The difference between the market value of the stock on the first Monday in March and the value placed upon the tangible property represents the franchise. We understand that this rule is followed by Assessor Siebe in valuing franchises in this city, notwithstanding the organ and Mayor Phelan’s at- tempt to make it appear otherwise. Tcomributed to the spread of the most destruc- tive forest fires that have ever wasted one of California’s most valuable resources. From Folsom to Forest Hill these fires have raged in a great semi- circle that embraces millions of acres of first-class timber, and other millions on which grew promising To the northward of this area the same process of waste has been at work, but nothing has been said about it all, except when a rancher has lost stock and' build- ings, or a miner or woodchopper has lost his corded wood. These losses that are mentioned are but the FOREST ARSON. HE dryness of the mountains this summer has | smallest fraction of the total sacrifice of the common- wealth. The soil being so dry, the fire has not only de- stroyed the standing timber and the chaparral, which is the nurse of young timber, but has followed the roots into the ground and baked the crust of the earth, leaving it as barren of tree germs as the hard floor of a brickyard. It is safe to say that before the autumn rains quench these conflagrations the loss to the State will equal the year's product of gold from her mines. If a common calamity should stop every quartz and placer mine in the State for a year, and stop the year’s output of gold, men would groan over the misfortune. of one year’s product only. The gold would be left in the gravel and the ledges for future development. Not so when fire sweeps the forest. It destroys the wealth that nature has been storing for a century and cuts off the crop for a century to come by destroying the forest producing capacity of the soil, which is baked into barrenness. The cause of it is criminal carelessness, as a rule. Campers and hunters, herders and shepherds, go into the mountains and use fire without a thought of the consequences of letting it get beyond their control. They move on from the night's camp leaving its fire to smoulder and spread. There seems no way of im- pressing them with the gravity of forest arson. They see the mighty flames they have kindled and the piti- ful destruction they have wrought without an emotion of remorse or regret. X It is time to put a stop to this crime. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in our cities in policing them to prevent the robbery of houses, banks and stores. Yet all the losses by burglary in ten years, if there were no police, would not equal the waste of one summer week by mountain fires. The Legislature should provide for the care of our forests before it is too late. It is not a task of in- Many roads lead from the valleys to the foothills. Fewer rcads fead from the foothills into the mountains. A mounted patrol should be maintained on every mountain road. These patrols should be mountain men, not the dregs of city politics. They should be armed and determined. Two on each forty miles of each mountain road should patrol half of it every day. They should have authority to register every camping party and all herdsmen and shepherds as they pass the patrol sta- tion, get their itinerary, direct their camping location, caution and instruct them about fires and arrest them for defiance or neglect. These patrols should be in- telligent enough to make stated reports of what has occurred on their beats, the names of all parties that have passed in or out and the object of their pres- ence in the mountains. When a fire starts every one at the sacrifice of American life. Naturally they are puzzled. responsible for a camp fire near its origin should be 4 halted and held for inquiry, and when guilt is fixed there should be sure punishment, no matter who the guilty one is. We would be glad to impress the importance of this matter upon the people. A continuance, unchecked, of these forest fires in the mountains means a change in our climate, the dehydrating of the soil of the valleys, and finally the conversion of the State into a desert. All this is experience, not theory. The several stages in the process have been undergone in Mon- tenegro and on the Austrian shores of the Adriatic, in the Vosges Mountains in France, in the Bavarian Tyrol and in many other parts of the world. We may heed the lesson they teach and be wise in time, or we may be foolish and wasteful in our day and generation and become the curse of our near pos- terity. WHERE STANDS THE TURK? INCE the war with Spain began an incessant stream of dispatches, overflowing from the press morning and afternoon, have kept us in- formed of the tone of public sentiment concerning us in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna. We have not needed for advices concerning the sentiment of Madrid. We know what all these capitals think, or at least what they are saying. We live and move and have our being in that knowledge. We are animated by the consciousness that all Europe talks of us, and there are some of us who are prouder of that than they are of our May day at Manila or the | Glorious Fourth at Santiago. To our cup of bliss there is, however, one drop lacking. There is one capital from which we have not heard, and in many respects it is the most impor- tant capital in the world. sentiment is always unique, and where the sympathies It is a city where the public | | | MAY BATHE S00N A LA - ANNAHELD Milk to Be Reduced in Price. DAIRY EXPENSES CUT DOWN THUS MAKING FIVE-CENT MILK A POSSIBILITY. Unbounded Joy Among the Bottle- Raised Shannigans at the Glorious Prospect in View. The days when a flat price of 10 cents a quart could be exacted for milk have passed. This, according to the statement of men who have been retailing that ne- cessity of life at § cents a quart and the | additional fact that the dairymen who have maintained this price are taking steps that will ultimately end in a ma- terial reduction. In March last articles of incorporation were flled by the San Francisco Milk Dealers’ Association, of which Jean L. of the people, ever inspired by black-eyed girls and | Vermeil of the X L Dairy is president lemonade, are continually fervent and unceasingly in- terested in love-making and bloodshed. We have never yet been informed of the tone of the prevailing sentiment of Constantinople—the city of the Grand Turk. This gap in our knowledge of the sympathies of the nations is vast and portentous. Of what avail is it to tell us what Great Britain or France or Germany or Russia is likely to do to us when we have finished with Spain and then leave us ignorant of the course the Sublime Porte has mapped out for himself and his bashibazouks? How shall we know what to do or what to leave undone until we are informed of what is being plotted between drinks of cool sherbets and the dances of Circassian girls, beneath the fretted domes and gilded ceilings of the council chamber of the Yildiz kiosk? It is all very well to send from Europe, day after day, iterated and reiterated reports of what says Kaiser William and his Grace of Salisbury and the exuberant Chamberlain, but what the American peo- ple yearn to know is, Where stands the Turk? What thinks Abdul Hamid, brother of the crescent moon and lord of the sanguinary scimiter? When reports of the opinions and possible inter- ferences in the war of foreign powers are being cir- culated around it is absurd to leave out those of Con- stantinople. The Sultan has as much right to be heard and reported as any Czar, Kaiser or Prime Minister. It is true there are no newspapers of note in his kingdom to be quoted, but there are many tongues, and surely they have said something. It can- | not be that the Turks have ignored us and thought | only of opium and their newest wives. When they had wars we talked much of them.and even gave them advice, printed pictures of them and wrote poetry on their deeds. For them, therefore, to pay no at- tention to us now in our war would be an impolite- ness of which it is impossible to believe a Sultan or his people would be guilty. Clearly the Grand Turk has some opinion of this war between Christian nations. Did not the Chris- tians stop his wars? Shall he not now feel inclined to return the compliment by stopping Christian wars? If there is to be any interference will he not fight and flesh again the swords that have grown rusty since the battles with the Greeks? Therefore it is time we were told where he stands; on which side he sympathizes; whether his braves are applauding when they see the stars and stripes, or whether he has given orders that none but red and yellow roses shall be brought to bloom this year in the gardens of Gul. If he is on our side we are all right and need have no fears about a European concert. The Sultan has had experience with such things. He can teach us how to make them as futile as the attempt of a man with tallow legs to walk through Hades. R tion to the benefits resulting from the traveling library system in operation in several of the Eastern States, and now return to the subject, because the New York State Library has just issued a report which in a striking manner shows the usefulness of the system to the general public. The proof of the usefulness is the growing popular demand for the books which the State library circu- lates. The report states that during the twelve months covered by it the library sent out 3000 per cent more books to institutions, students and general readers than in 1889. A development of that kind is something stupendous. It is one of the facts that im- press even the most indifferent mind. With such an increase of circulation as that no one can any longer question that American communities desire access to standard books, and that State libraries are virtually buried unless they are used as storerooms from which the people of all parts of the State can obtain the works they need in their studies. In commenting upon this proof of the widespread demand for books and upon what the State library has accomplished in meeting the demand, the report says: “While we are so much gratified with what has recently been accomplished in this great field, those who best understand its possibilities realize that this work is now only well begun. The public are de- manding more and more because they are learning that it is possible through the State library and home education department to secure more help education- ally than has ever before been afforded by an equal expenditure of time and money.” The record is indeed one of which the New York State Library may be proud and on which the people of that State may be congratulated. California should be roused by it to vigorous emulation. We have a people as intelligent as those of New York and a State library second to none in the Union. With us, however, there is no connection between the library’ and the reading public. The use of the books has not increased with us 3000 per cent since 1889. It is even doubtful if it has increased 3 per cent. We need a traveling library system even more than New York needs it, and the trustees of the State Library should take steps to provide one. TRAVELING LIBRARY WORK. EPEATEDLY of late we have directed atten- An evening paper announces in impressive type that the Washington authorities will stand no “non- sence” from the Cubans. No wonder they won’t. There is a dictionary in the national library. | and Edwin A. Green, manager of the Mill- brae Company, is secretary. The asso- clation was made up of the principal | | | | enz, and sister passed through here yes- brae Company, is secretary of the new corporation and, according to his friends, will be its manager when the organiza- tlon is effected. “This matter is still in embryo,” said Mr. Green yesterday. “‘We have practically not advanced beyond the greumlnary stage of incorporation and ave no plan for future operations ouv- lined. For nearly ten years we have been trying to get together in an effort to con- duct the milk business on the more moda- ern lines in vogue in New York and other Eastern cities. If our plans fill out it will mean reduced expense in the hana- ling of the milk and this will warrant a reduction in price, which is sure to fol- low. When this can be effected is a guestlon. It will take some time at the est.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. E. H. Buffund of Fair Oaks is at the Russ. Dr. Ralph T. Owis, U. Occidental. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. W. F. George, a lawyer of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Dr. J. W. Robertson of Livermore is at the Occidental. D. D. Corcoran, a Benicia, s at the Russ. Jesse Roundstone, a rancher of Grand Island, is at the Grand. C. H. Scherr and family of Salt Lake City are at the Occidental. B. M. LeLong, secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, is at the Grand. C. R. Scott, a rallroad man from Port- land, is in this city attending to rallroad affairs. Harry Chandler, business manager of the Los Angeles Times, is a guest at the Occidental. Knox Maddox and Willard N. Drown arrived from New Haven yesterday, where they have been attending the Yale Law School. J. F. Lorenz, a prominent mining man of Weaverville, his mother, Mrs. H. Lor- 8. N., is at the mining man ot terday en route to Santa Cruz. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, attended by Mr. then left ports as follow | March 1¢ 17; Sand. a spell of uncontrollable laughter. Thers was no parrot. It was his little joke. “Ha ha's” now exude from the Palace. Just ask one of those clerks if he wants a parrot. —_——— — TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND. Editor San Francisco Call—Sir: This nation was founded as a democracy—a just Government, deriving its powers from the consent of the governed. If it is to fulfill the high and holy mission whereunto it was appointed—to teach other nations the science of government— it must needs remain a democrac: Can this be if a national policy is adopted re- sultant from the war with Spain by Which degeneracy to an incipient impe- rialism must inevitably follow? They who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. Let us not forget this scriptural axiom in our eagerness to broaden our terri- torial phylacteries; not for the good of others so much as for our own commer- i g izement. cislea JOHN AUBREY JONES. Fruitvale, July 21. —_——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TWO DATES—A. S., City. December 1860, fell on Thursday and August 4, feil on Mond THE WAR TAX—L. F. H. and F. D. R., City. The full text of the war tax was published in The Call of June 10, 1898. CENTS TO A POUND-S., City. One hundred and twenty bronze cents, United States coinage, weigh one pound, and seventy-four nickel 5-cent pieces welgh within a fraetion of a pound. THE PLUNGER—S., City. The Plun- ger of the United States navy is a sub- marine torpedo-boat. Her keel was laid Her displacement in tons is 165, speed 8 knots, horse-power 1200 and her cost $150,000. Her armament is two White- head torpedo tube THE OREGON'S TRIP—A. de la M., Grass Valley, Cal. The battle-ship Ore- gon in making the voyage to reach the Atlantic to take part in the naval bat- tles, left Puget Sound March 6, 1898, and San Francisco, Callao, April 7; Tamaro, April Point_April 21; Rio de Janeiro, May 5; Bahal Bay, May 10 and Barba- THOSE ADDICTED TO THE USE OF THE BOTTLE WITH A NIPPLE ATTACHMENT HAVE- STRUCK A BONAN- ZA - JOYS THAT COME WITH R & ND THE NEW PRICE ON Bn‘f& A UNpouBTEOLY CAUSE: WEARY wnu&smm USE THE \q L edeiier = A > SPRINKLING CART THE CITY 1GHT ADOPT To REDUCE EXPENSES CHEAP MILK, dairfes, including Ewell's, Miller's, Mill- brae Company, X L and Millbrae Dairy. It was expected that through co-operation the expenses of delivery would be greatly reduced and the saving thus made would warrant a material reduction in price. At the present time hundreds of wagons are required for the delivery of milk. These wagons cover an immense territory and cross one another’s paths at frequent intervals. One man will deliver milk in a certain block and may not have another customer within a mile. Under the pro- posed system the city will be districted and only the necessary number of wagons required to cover any district will be as- signed to it. The reduction will, it is be- lieved, equal over half the present force. The plan as outlined calls for depots in various portions of the city. The milk will be sent to them from the dalries and then distributed. In this merging of the various interests many unnecessary men will be dispensed with, The benefits obtained will all ac- | crue to the consumers, who will thus see | | day an announcement was made to every the realization of their lon hofi)l:s for cheaper but none the milk. Underlying this movement is said to be a desire to crowd to the wall those deal- ers who for three years past have been retailing milk for 5 cents a quart. From the outset it has been affirmed that pure milk cannot be delivered at that price. During that period the inspectors repre- senting the Health Department have been unusually active. Hardly a day passed without their taking samples of ‘the milk vet they have never found adulterated milk in the possession of the representa- tives of the better class of dairies now handling 5-cent milk. 1. Ryder, vice-president of the Santa Clara Milk Company, is one of the pion- neers in the movement for cheaper milk. “It was in October, 189, that we cut the retail price of milk in half,” said Mr. Rider yesterday. ‘‘From that day to this we have had the bitterest opposition from the men who desired the price maintain- ed. We have been successful from the start and the result has been that the others have had to cut their prices in order to compete with us. At the pres- ent time, although their price is supposed to be a fixed one, such is not the case. They will accept any amount, from $1 50 to $3, in order to hold a customer. Our system was to sell for cash, and having our money in hand we had to meet no losses from bad bills. Our sales in- creased at once and we have been able to hold our own ever since. Our success has had the effect of awakening the opposi- tion to a realization that trade was slip- ping away from them and their present move is undoubtedly an effort to enter our fleld and crowd us out. If they could succeed in their efforts they could force Prices back to their old place again. “They have always claimed that we could not deliver pure milk at 5 cents a quart. I think the best refutation-of this aesertion is that althouah samples of om milk are taken almost daily we have yet to hear a complaint from the Inspectors representing the Health Department. At resent we are charging 6 cents a quart or milk, as the producers have raised their prices tem oruni This is neces- sary nwlng to the hi prices that are now paid for feed. hen that becomes more plentiful and in consequence cheap- er, the price will go down at once.” Edwin A. Green, manager of the Mill- fi-deffirrell less purer = 5 | and Mrs. Heleluke and Dr. English otldr\es May 19, and reached Jupiter Inlet | ing passenger agent of the Chicago and | Northwestern, left last night for Salt| Lake City. SHUOOOOU NG What endless o o labors and what o A PARROT o arduous tasks mankind will un- o FOR O dertake when ¥ THE CHASING. & theyareconvinced o G they can get SO U NG something for nothing. Yester- Washington, arrived last night from the capital, where they have been since last | September. The party will return to tha‘ islands next Tuesday on the Gaelic. | Clinton Jones, general agent of the pas- | senger department of the Chicago, Rock | Island and Pacific Rallway; Fred W.| Thompson, traveling passenger agent of | the same road, and C. W. Adams, travel- habitue of the Palace Hotel that there was a parrot on the fifth floor that coulx be had for the asking. The news spread faster than electricity, and in less than an hour at least 100 soliciting parrot- maniacs applied for ownership rights over the green-feathered bird. Perhaps the reason of this anxiety to possess the talk- ing creature is due to the reputation the bird bears. It was spoken of as a terrox that never let a word that could be founa in decent literature pass its mouth. What- ever the impelling force that drove so many applicants into the Palace to securs the parrot the fact remains that a steady stream of strangers and hotel frequent- ers were out after that living object. And they all had a “run for their money." First the hotel clerk would direct them to the fifth floor. The bell boy would then play his hand and the parrot-seeker woulq be sent to the third floor. Miles of ter- ritory would be covered and when at lase a person was found who would acknowl- edge possession of the parrot the visitor was told that he must have a cage to deport It. Out of the hundred applicants at least sixty toured the hotel. Even the ‘“‘unbunkoable’” hotel clerk fell a victim to the parrot-chasing disease. Three oz them, distinguished looking gentlemen in gray, the young and handsome and beau- tifully mustached clerk who goes East on a vacation every year, and the gen- tle, polite and obliging night clerk were on the lookout for that parrot. Heated arguments were bandied back and fortn as to who rightly deserved the parrot. Finally word came down from the fiftn floor that if any one brought a sultable cage or anything that answered the pur- pose of a cage they could have the par- rot. The clerks on duty fell over one another to find something for the de- portation of the bird. Coal ofl cans witn holes punched in them was the substiture ahey “dl:covered. The three rushed to oor five, the cans rattling as t] in whirlwind fashion thr‘imxhh:r{np;fl!fl: The bell boy on that floor rolled over in May 24. The run from Puget Sound to Jupiter Inlet was 14510 knots, the time was 81 days including stops at the var- fous ports.” The amount of coal consumed was 3%8 tons. The consumption of coal daily was about 70 tons, the balance was burned while in ports. The actual salling time was 57 days, and her lay over time 24 days. PHYSICIANS IN HONOLULU-M. P., Oakland, Cal. A physician desiring to practice in Honolulu must make applica- tion before the Board of Health. The re- port of that body is submitted to the Min- ister of the Interior, and if the applicant is duly qualified he is granted a licenss to practice. There are about thirty phye siclans in that city. ———— Stationery and Printing. New tints and shapes in writing papers. Printing and engraving visiting cards, in- vitations and announcements a specialty. Correct styles and low prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —_——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’'s.® —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——— American—You're a fine lot, anyway. You did a great deal of talking before the fighting, but what else have you done? 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