The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1898 —— ....SEPTEMBER 16, 1898 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. WA All_Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 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) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per yeor; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE veeeeass.-908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. Marquette Building C.GECRGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH 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 untll 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 Slxteenth, cpen untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until @ o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 p'clock. 1IENTS, Milk White Flag.” “Camille.” ar—* A Tragedy and *The First Born." Morosco's—"The Land of the Living v rmen." Clympia— o't Baths—Swim T is still remembered that at the outbreak of war l with Spain Judge Maguire denounced the first acts of the navy as no better than acts of piracy. He was not sustained in this view by the public, and later the courts decided him to be wrong. An ex- y, and the Judge explained. It was a remarkable effort. It simply deepened the insult originally given. There was in it no note oi apology and better for him had he kept silent than opened his mouth and therein again tarust his foot. But a slur on the navy was not enough for Ma- He has enlarged his view so as to take in the army as well, and from his ready tongue has come abuse for part of the gallant force which fought MAGUIRE AND THE ARMY. planation became nec guire. so valiantly amid the dangers of tropic Cuba. To be sure, he said a word for the soldier, but upon the War Department and army officials he pronounced a verdict of “guilty” as to the charges of neglect and incompetency. Who constituted him the tribunal? By what means does he know there is truth in the accusations? Many of these, most of them, come from papers notorious for their venom and untruth. As a matter of fact, Maguire talks in this fashion because the struggle so brilliantly waged, and so soon leading to triumph, honorable and complete, was under the direction of a Republican administration. He ignores the truth that an investigation has been ordered; that the President, not content that rumor should go unchallenged, has asked that representa- tive cilizens of every party act as a committee to ascertain where blame should rest, if blame there be. No one is to be shielded. If there has been negli- gence and incompetency the names of the culpable will be proclaimed, and by the very administration which’ Maguire slanders. This is a Republican year, and partly so by the victory of our arms. It is a poor time to decry the ability of the men who directed the war, or clamor for the very evidence which the administration has undertaken to secure, openly, fully and for the pur- pose of giving it to the world f\ gree of the public interest in the problem of protecting our common school system from the domination and contamination of political bosses is shown by the fact that the revolt of the pupils of the San Jose High School has attracted attention and won approving comment not only throughout Cali- fornia, but in the Eastern States. It is everywhere recognized that while the contest is local, the issue is national, and that the boys and girls of San Jose are fighting a battle in which all Americans are more or less concerned. The Philadelphia Inquirer, after a review of the sit- uation in San Jose and a fair statement of the causes that led up to it, says: “If this method of rebuking recalcitrant or criminal School Boards were to be- come more popular the public would have far better service than they have in some places at present. There is too much carelessness in the way parents hand over their most sacred duties, the education of the young, to incompetent politicians.” This statement of the responsibility of parents with respect to the management of the schools to which their children are sent to be educated is not open to any charge of exaggeration. There has been in all American communities too much carelessness on the part of the parents in such matters. San Francisco is as justly subject to this reproach as any other city in the Union. Here, as elsewhere, a profitable lesson can be learned from what has been accomplished in San Jose by the aroused conscience of parents toward public school management. In most cities and counties in the United States the larger part of local taxes are levied for the purpose of maintaining schools. There is therefore an important monetary as well as educational interest involved. Citizens should see to it that they get for théir money that for which the money was paid. A people who know their rights, and have sufficient self-respect to assert them, will not permit the money they pay for the support of schools to be diverted to the support of the henchmen of political bosses. As the Baltimore American says: “To make the child the victim of politics is about the meanest crime a community can commit, and it must be remembered that at the end of the argument the child is the vic- tim. A political public school system, therefore, is a double robbery—it robs the parent, who gives the money, and it robs the child.” The case of the spoliation of the San Jose High School by the bosses of that city is an extreme one, and it is not necessary that other communities should resort to the drastic remedy undertaken there, but the spirit that prompted the resort to that remedy is one that it would be well to see everywhere aroused. What has been done at San Jose has, therefore, been widely beneficial. It has recalled popular attention to the important issue at stake, and is felt as an incentive toward action for the protection of the schools in al- most all sections of our widely extended Union. B e Gomez is said to have resigned, but he doesn’t feel that waye A DUTY OF PARENTS. STRIKING illustration of the extent and de- ABSURD AMBITION. N the course of what he calls a “dignified” edi- torial Mr. M. H. de Young yesterday protested against our expose of his designs upon the Fed- eral Senatorship. He feelingly deprecated the intro- duction of “personalities” into the campaign, es- pecially when they refer to himself and the plans of his political bureau, arrogated to himself the right to keep his secret thoughts dark when he wishes, de- clared that The Call exists only for the purpose of venting the personal spites and wreaking the indi- vidual vengeance of its proprietor, and emitted a few salty tears over the disastrous effect which the dis- ruption of his Senatorial plans (to his mind) will have upon the party and its ticket. In an interview in the Examiner Mr. De Young is reported to have asked: “Why do The Call and Ex- aminer oppose me? Because they know there is a growing feeling throughout the State for De Young for United States Senator. I met a banker the other day who said that four years ago he would have opposed me for the Senate, but now he is ready to vote for me. The same story comes to me from all over the State. But I am not a candidate. I have no money to give out or put into any political fights —not a postage stamp. I worsed too hard for it to give it away in such fights.” The inconsistency of Mr. De Young’s reply to our charge that he is a candidate for the Senate, and, not daring to appear boldly in the open, is making a still hunt for legislators, may be stated in a few words: Large numbers of people want him to run for Sen- ator, but he is not a candidate. We, being aware of the public demand for him, oppoze him for personal reasons. Mr. De Young is mistaken, however, in assuming that our opposition to his candidacy is p:rsonal. We beg to assure him that it is based upon the highest and most patriotic of grounds. In the United States Senate we know that he would not represent thLe State of California; we know that he is conceited, selfish and unpatriotic; that he desires the Senatorship solely for the purpose of self-glorification; that he is regularly attached to the Southern Pacific political bureau; that Mr. Huntington is assisting his absurd ambition in order that he and his ridiculous paper may be kept in line; that, notwithstanding what the banker told him, or what he hears from the country, the people do not want him; that a Republican Leg- islature cannot be elected if it be known that he is a candidate for Senator; the Federal Senate he would be for himself and Hun- tington and against California. There is nothing personal in all this. On the con- trary, knowing these things, in opposing De Young’s aspirations we are simply discharging a bounden public duty. Every intelligent Republican in the State knows that what we have said and what we are now saying with reference to this subject is true. Mr. De Young is a candidate for Senator, and he is making a still hunt for the office. Why should this be kept from the people? Is it good politics, or will it aid the election of Republican candidates in State and city to conceal so important a fact from the rank and file of the party, when the result, in the event of discovery, is certain to be so disastrous? Does Mr. De Young desire proof that his political agents are informing aspirants for legislative nomi- nations in this city that the only condition on which they can obtain them is that they will pledge them- selves to vote for him for Senator? If he does we will furnish it without delay. 5 Our purpose in this matter ought to be plain even to an understanding as obtuse as that of Mr. De Young. In announcing his secret candidacy for the Senate we have merely desired to force him into the light. Why should he be permitted to footpad the Senatorship? Mr. Gage is compelled to appear be- fore the people; so are all the other candidates. Is Mr. De Young especially privileged to programme legislative delegations while keeping in the dark his designs on the Senatorship? We do not think so. If Mr. De Young want the office let him take the stump and fight for it. That is the honorable and manly thing to do, and we violate no confidence when we say that under no other circumstances will he get it. THE COMMON DUTY OF ALL ™ HAT all persons having considerable dealings ’_I with Wells, Fargo & Co. feel gratified by the resolute action of William E. Costley in resist- ing the aggressions of the corporation is a matter of course. No doubt many of them will extend to Mr. Costley their thanks for what he has done, and will assure him of their best wishes for his speedy success in the contest. All such thanks and wishes will be right and proper provided they do not end with words. In matters of this kind where the whole public is concerned there should be something like universality of action. It was by combination that the newspapers of San Fran- cisco compelled the corporation to back down from the attempt to force them to pay the tax which Con- gress had imposed upon the revenue the corporation derived from its newspaper patrons. A similar com- bination among merchants and other shippers would have the same effect. The company can afford to fight one man. It would not persist in its extortions if it found itself resolutely opposed by the whole city. The course taken by Mr. Costley should be taken by others. The Chamber of Commerce might well revive at this juncture its movement toward making a test case against the company in the courts. It is now manifest that the assurance given that the question would be settled speedily by a test case raised in the East was a trick of the corporation to obtain delay; what the church-going president would call a “pious fraud.” Time has passed and the corporation has ex- torted large sums from the public and continues to do so. A fight should now be made all along the line. The suits should be multiplied. There is such a thing as skinning a fraud of its pious covering and forcing its votaries to abandon it. B Some more straw bonds have been accepted in the Police Court. There has not yet been added the in- formation that the straw bondsmen have been ar- rested, although the prisoners have vanished and the straw bondsmen are doubtless known to the po#ce. If the subject were not as old as the Police Courts one would he tempted to ask the reason for all this. S AT Even in times of peace the Oregon and Towa are useful. One day they supply the opportunity for sending a report that they are going to Manila, and the next for denying it, all of which is of course in- teresting. ’{ DE YOUNG'S | —_— % It is pleasing to learn from the Report that that ever modest paper is responsible for the project of making a vice-admiral of Dewey. It is beginning to be suspected of having been responsible for Dewey. ki ARieh L ik There can be no doubt but the stories of some of the tardy witnesses anxious to project themselves into the Botkin case will be regarded as inspirations. It would seem that the Governor l;ad been expend- ing some preliminary thought on the matter of extra- dition. in short, that as a member of | THE ANARCHIST CULT. O many fads in sociology have been sprouted S recently and have grown when watered by the crocodile tears of political demagogues that the aims of anarchy have been obscured. Judge Ma- guire’s speech in Congress against the bill to ex- clude these assassins from this - country has done much harm in misleading public opinion concerning them, Maguire declared them to be the Democrats of Europe, intelligent and educated people, very desir- able as immigrants and worthy to be welcomed to this country. From an ignorant man such an indorsement of anarchy and anarchists might have been excused, but as the Judge has informed The Call by letter that he is a scholar and a writer of eminence, we are com- pelled to assume that his indorsement of anarchists and his desire to invite them to the United States are due to his belief in their principles, of which he can- not be ignorant. The principles of anarchy, as often declared by them and asserted by Karl Marx, who incorporated them with the Internationals, require the destruction of all government. Their venom is against republics as well as against constitutional monarchies and autocracies. They assassinated the Czar of Russia and the Presi- dént of France, Prime Minister Canovas of Spain and Elizabeth of Austria, representing every system of civilized government. They did these murders, all of them cowardly, not because of hatred of. any special form of government, but to destroy all gov- ernment by murdering in succession all who repre- sent it. The President of the United States is con- demned to death by their principles equally with the Czar, Their plan, often stated, is to make govern- ment impossible by killing all officers who represent it. They believe that finally no man will dare repre- sent government, law, order, and that these will then disappear from the world, and men will live without law. They began their cult long before their creed was publicly known. The murders they have committed during this century are not confined to the royal per- sons and others representing government whom they have attacked. Scores of others have been killed in such affairs as Orsini’s attempt to kill Napoleon III and the bomb-throwing in the French Assembly. In this country we have had but one outbreak, the mur- der of the policemen in Haymarket square, Chicago, for which several were hanged, one committed sui- cide and the rest were sentenced to prison for life and | were pardoned by Governor Altgeld, who seems to believe with Maguire that these anarchists are the Democrats of Europe and desirable people to have at large in this country. Every one who believes in institutions, who knows that civilization cannot exist without government and that civilization is worth preserving, regards these cowardly murderers as enemies of the human race. When they are arrested and their records are traced in nearly every case they are found to have lived in violation of the moral laws. They have been thieves; they have defied the marriage laws; they have been untrue to their obligations as sons, husbands and fathers. In their records is an awful warning to the world of the conditions to be expected if they could murder fast enough to destroy government and abol- ish law, for they live in defiance of virtue, honesty and honor. They must not be confused with thé so- cialists, who teach virtue and benevolence and peace and abhor bloodshed. The anarchist stands by him- self, a sworn murderer. The only literature of anarchy is to teach murder as the first and highest duty of the anarchist. Their latest exploit, the cowardly murder of a de- fenseless old woman by stabbing her in the back, is a perfect illustration of their principles. The wretch who did it glories in it and will be toasted and cele- brated as a hero by anarchists all over the world. This bloody event brings into sharp relief the prop- osition to elect as Governor of California Judge Ma- | guire, the only man who ever advocated in Congress the desirability of anarchist immigration to the United States. In view of his record in this respect it is no injustice to him to suggest that his election would be celebrated by anarchists as an event scarcely second in importance to the murder of Elizabeth of Austria. WITH PROFIT TO THE NATION. LL authorities on the naval operations of the fl war agree that an immense service of great value was rendered to the nation by the four ocean steamers—the St. Paul, the St. Louis, the New York and the Paris—which were chartered by the Government and put to use as auxiliary cruisers in the operations in the West Indies. With the exception of the battleships that took part in the actual fighting no vessels in the navy were charged with more im- portant duties or performed them with greater effi- ciency. The profit which the Government has thus derived from these steamers in the time of the nation’s need completely vindicates the policy under which the steamship line to which they belong has been built up. It is a policy adopted by Great Britain, France and Germany before it was tried here, and has been as profitable to those empires as to our republic. It is therefore one which has been fully justified by its results wherever tested, and should be included among the policies which the nation will not only continue to enforce, but will expand as rapidly as possible. The American liners, like the British, French and German mail steamers of the larger class, are granted a certain annual subsidy, not only for carrying the mails, but as a retainer for their use as naval auxil- iaries in case of need. When it was proposed to fol- low the European plan in this respect, and thus bring about the establishment of a great American line of steamships, the object was violently opposed by those who always object to everything that tends to the upbuilding of an American merchant marine. It was said at the time by the objectors that the nation would never have any use for the ships, that the subvention given them would be money wasted, and that the scheme was a job to enrich the few at the expense of the many. It is not likely after the experience of the recent war that such objections to the advancement of our ship-building and ship-awning interests will be urged again during this generation. The four ocean grey- hounds demonstrated their value to the Government too clearly to be disputed. Tt is recognized by all authorities that the navy would have been heavily handicapped without them, as the high rate of speed of which they are capable rendered them almost in- valuable in the performance of certain forms of work in the strategy of naval campaigns. Experience having thus made it certain that the nation has derived a profit from the policy of pro- moting the building of American steamships, there should be no longer any hesitation on the part of Congress in extending the system so auspiciously begun. An American merchant marine is one of the essentials of the coming expansion of American com- merce and American industry, and the sooner we pro- vide for the one the prompter will be the profit of the others. STEPHEN T. GAGE, HENRY T. GAGE AND THE RAILROAD. OROVILL! To the Editor of The San Francisco maintained stoutly that Henry T. Gage You are right. the Southern Pacific or My dear Stephen.” T. Gage, nor is he related to that very astute old gentleman. Henry T. Gage and he is not connected with the railroad. E, Butte County, Cal., Sept. 13, 1898. Call: A great many people in this sec- tlon seem to think that the nominee for the governorship on the Republican ticket is Stephen T. Gage, the old warhorse of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Would you kindly inform me through the columns if your worthy paper if Mr. Henry T. Gage, the nominee, is a relative of Stephen T. Gage and if he has ever been connected in any way with the Southern Pacific Railroad? I have has no connection whatev.: with either Am I correct? AN OLD REPUBLICAN. The Republican candidate for Governor is not Stephen His name s EDITOR THE CALL. The California Bankers' ..ssociation be- gan its sixth annual convention yesterday in the rooms of the Chamber of Com- merce and conducted its business with such dispatch that it is believed that the convention proper will be concluded by noon to-A~+- To-morrow the bankers will make an excursion to the top of Mount Tamalpals, where they are to partake of a fine dinner. At yesterday’s gathering Vice President J. M. Elllott of Los An- geles presided, President J. J. Valentine being absent. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor Phelan, who dis- cussed the situation of financial circles, and expressed the belief that with the closing of the present war businessy in general will take an upward start again. The address was replied to by Mr. Elliott, who spoke of the necessity of the enact- ment of more laws favorable to banking. The annual address of President Valen- tine was read by the secretary, in which, after expressing regret for his absence, he said: The monetary system, so called, of the United States has long been 'a reproach, not to say scandal, to both the Intelligence and business honesty' of the country. For years past it has staggered under no less than ten different forms of money, with variable functions, including a heterogeneous mass of old war-time devices adopted as temporary expedients to meet ex- traordinary emergencies. * ¢ * It will not be necessary here to dwell upon the intolerable embarrassments that have been inflicted upon the business of the country by this condition of things. Business men and organizations have been protesting against it for years and pleading for rellef, but in vain, ¢ *°¢ But the financlal panic of 1893 seems to have at ast aroused the country to a sense of the inhérent dangers of our present monetary ag- glomeration, and Congress has now beconfe very much In earnest in its efforts to effect a radical and lasting reform. To this end a bill was introduced Some two years ago pro- viding for the appointment by the President of a non-partisan commission of eleven busi- ness men which should take under considera- tion our entire monetary status and its rela- tions to the financial and fiscal operations of the Government and formulate a thoroughly conststent and logical system which would e clude the dangerous elements at present exist- ing, and which have so long been a constant menace to our monetary stabllity and national credit. ® s ¢ < Mr. Valentine then gave a detailed ac- count of the efforts of boards of trade, commercial bodies and financiers to have the monetary system straightened out, of the several bills presented to Congress and their failure to pass, and of the bill presented by the sub-committee and now before Congress. This measure is en- titled, “A bill to provide for strengthen- ing the public credit, for the retirement of the demand obligations of the United States and the amendment of the laws r lating_to national banking associations. Mr. Valentine considers this the best measure yet presented to Congress. He recited the many advantages of the meas- ure, and in conclusion said: One of the essential purposes of the bill is to relieve the United States treasury from the ment paper money, and to obviate the neces- sity of selling interest-bearing bonds running for a long term in order to obtain gold for the continued and repeated redemption of notes under the present status. The foregoing is a brief summary of the chief features of the bill. Doubtless it is impossible to frame a measure of this kind that would suit any one in every particular. Even we of our own assoclation, representing only one section of the country, would differ among ourselves as to details, and perhaps, also, as to some principles. The aif culty of securing an agreement of busine: interests all over the land on what is essential in currency and banking reform is known to us all. The bill combines the most important principles to be followed {n the revision of our monetary legislation, those in regard to which thinking minds are 'almost unanimous, in a form politically feasible. It practically retires it maintains the parity of all our moneys, while giving a larger scope to the legitimate use of silver; it affords an opportunity in this coun- try of testing bank circulation based upon gen- eral assets, but makes the banks assume, in return, the burden of the current redemption of Government notes; above all, it is the most direct recognition we have vet had of the fact that all our money is, and must be, based upon the gold standard—at the same time, through branch banks and a reduced minimum capital- ization, furnishing sparsely settied districts adequate provisions for their need of capital, thus silencing the alarmist cry of ‘“‘contraction’* where it has hitherto reached too credulous ears. From the standpoint of sound money, the bill 1e the best that has been presented to Congres, and yet it concedes more than any of the others to the honest inflationist, whose real need is improved banking facilities. As Chairman Hanna jsays: “‘Every advocate of change in our currency laws, and every citizen and busi- ness man who secks safe and stable things in finance, should immediately recognize the vital importance of complete support of this measure. Tt is a great step forward.'’ In conclusfon: Under date of August 29, the press dispatches from New York reported as follows: burden of the constant redemption of Govern- | the greenbacks, but without the issue of bonds; | K. MONEY TALKS AT A BANKERS' CONVENTION ‘“Members of Democratic committees in fifteen States in the South and West emphatically in- dorse the remarks made by ex-Governor Stone of Missourl to the effect that Bryan will be renominated in 190 and that the issue of the campaign will be the free coinage of silver.” We may as well prepare promptly and ener- getically to meet this threatened onslaught of the advocates of free silver—in other words, of flatism, —of this country, and of the commercial world, is gold, and the experience of the United States in the past two years has fully vindicated the gold standard. .. The report of Secretary R. M. Welch showed that the membership of the asso- clation is 150. The total number of banks and recognized banking firms in Califor- nia is 2%, segregated as follows: 3 na- tional banks, 174 other commercial banks, 59 savings banks, 19 private banking firms. Of these 27 national banks, §5 State commercial banks, 31 savings banks and 7 private banking firms are members of this association. Of the 138 banks there are 9 with a capital stock of less than $100,000, indicating that but few of the large banking institutions vantages of a bankers’ association. Treasurer G. W. Kline's report showed for sixteen months ending September 1 receipts of §1565, expenditures $1105 50. Chairman James M. Thompson of the executive council presented a report show- ing the work of the Commission of Banks that assembled in Washington on September 1, 1897, and remained in ses- sion putil December of that year. This commission prepared the currency bill introduced into the House of Represent- atives. in July a resolution was adopted recom- mending the abolishment of the system of taxing credits in this State, which works a hardship particularly upon cit- fes, countles, small municipalities and | school districts. The following committees were ap- pointed by Mr. Elliott: Auditing com- mittee—J. E. Ward, P. E. Bowles and Richard Bradley. Committee on _ resolutions—A. Gold- side, T. 8. Hawkins of Hollister. Committee on nominations of officers for the following year—I, Steinhart of the Anglo Californian Bank, H. H. Hewlett of-Stockton and J. K. Lynch of the First National Bank. Frank Miller, president of the First Na- tional Bank of D. O. Mills, delivered an interesting address upon ‘‘Currency Re- form and Reorganization of the Na- tional Banking System,” in which he, too, discussed the bill now before Congress Considerable of the afternoon was con- sumed by the Hon. F. G. Newlands of the House Committee on Banking and Currency of the late Congress, his sub- ject being “The Monetary System of the Country.” Hugh Craig, president of the | Chamber of Commerce,’ took an opposite vocating the gold standard. Mr. Craig was supported in his_argument by Mr. Albert of the First National Bank of Salem, Or. Several others participated in the discussfon. Among the bankers in attendance on the convention were: James McCormick, Bank of Northern Call- fornia of Redding: Frank Miller, National Bank of D. O. Mills & Co. of Bacramento; D. 8. Snodgrass, Bank of Selma: J. E. Ward, First National Bank of Modesto; Tetsu Aokl Yokohama Specle Bank; T. Harrington, Colusa County Bank; B. A. Becker and A.' W. R. Schmidt, German Savings and Loan Soclety of San cisco; Henry Brown, Bank of Napa; R. M. Welch, San cisco Bavings Unio N. D. Rideout, Rideout Bank of Marysville Alexander Goldsteln, Farmers' Bank of Fresno: S. Mitchell, Producers’ Bank of Visalla; Rich- ard Bradley, Pineer Bank of Porterville; J. W. Henderson, Humboldt County Bank; Charles M. Stone, People’s Bank of Pomona; Lovell A. White, San_Francisco Savings Unlon: James . Lynch, First National Bank of San Fran- cisco; P. E. Bowles, First National Bank of Oakland; G. R. Burdick, London, Paris and American Bank of San Francisco’ J. §. Ei redge, National Bank Examiner: Ignatz Stein- hart and F. E. Beck, Anglo-Californian Bank of San Francisco; J. M. Elliott, First National Bank of Los Angeles; James D. Phelan, Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco; W. E. Street, Bank of Winters; James M. Thompson, Dono- hoe-Kelly Banking Company of San Francisco; F. K. Towne, Bank of San Mateo County; J. Albert, Capital National Bank of Salem, .."T. S. Hawkins, Bank of Hollister; A. Tonn and L. Auerbach, Farmer Merchants” Bank of Hollister; J. Surface of Tone; N. R. Harris of Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Company of San Francisco; Charles Sleeper, San Francisco Clearing-house: M. J. Daniels. Orange Growers’ Bank of Riverside: L. C. Waite, First National Bank of Riverside; J. H. Jewett of Marys- ville; A. L. Willlams, Carver National Bank of St. Helena; F. W. Robinson, Producers’ Savings Bank of Bakersield: George A. Story, Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco; C. D. Fratt, Everett National Bank of Everett, Wash.; C. W. Bush, Bank of Yolo of Wood- afifman of San Francisco; J. E. k of Alameda; A. F. Horstman and Citizens' Bank of Paso Robles, and 2 3 line, Crocker-Woolworth National Bank of San Francisco. land; I. Baker, Banl A Phster, ARQUND THE - CORRIDORS. Senator H. V. Lick. Dr. R. Gross of Eureka, Cal., is at the Lick. Dr. T. Jeft White of Los Angeles is at the Lick. F. C. Lusk, a lawyer of Chico, is at Morehouse is at the the Palace. John W. Boynton, a cattleman of Reno, J. J. Hamilton, a capitalist of Hollister, is at the Russ. is at the Russ. J. R. Hebbron, a cattleman of Salinas, W. R. Guy, an attorney of San Diego, is at the Grand. Sunol, is at the Russ. W. J. Nicholson, Sheriff of Santa Bar- LURAR VYT Y David Starr o] % Bachman, the &% THE BARON and mining man, has just returned % GENTLE TOUCH. & o U mines in British YW LHBGBY Columbia. He last night, looked over the register hast- ily and then asked the night clerk if a stopping at the hotel. Bachman was dis- appointed, for he had hoped to find the he met a few of his friends, who, notic- ing the expression of disappointment quired Into the reason of it. Bachman unbosomed himself in ..e following “You see, I just came down from Port- land, and I had a little affair on with a nearly came to blows. I promised him a meeting when we got in San Francisco thought he would stop at the Palace if anywhere. He was a beauty, the regular the flercest mustache you ever saw—one of those long boys that go chasing off the aged to get a drawing room in the Pull- man and I threw my baggage and traps was early and I loafed about the Port- land station until the time for starting. and I went immediately to my section. ‘This beauty of a German Baron was sit- on the opposite side. Mind you, in my drawing room, which cost me the price is at the Russ. A. M. Jackson, a cattleman of Willows, is at the Grand. H. Trimmingham, a cattle raiser of bara, is at the Bn.l}ilvlfl. young capitalist o WITH A o from a trip to his walked into the office of the Palace Hotel certain Baron Henry von Heinlauch was Baron there. As he was about to leave which had settled on Bachman’s face, in- words: German Baron. He was insolent, and we —not a duel, don’t be a fool—and I article; tall, with a corsetlike shape, and face and point skyward. Well, I man- in 1t as soon as I got on the train,-but I The train was pulling out when I got on ting on one seat with his legs thrown up of two sections. I looked around for my luggage and it was not there; it was thrown out in the aisle of the car. Then I was hotter than a hot day in Cuba. I | asked this descendant of the gods if he knew that he was in my room and told him the quicker he removed his fat shape to another part of the car it would be to my liking. He rose up to his full height and said in broken English: “Young man, I haf dis place now and I dink I vill geep it. It vas de only plaze in de gar vit for a gen- dleman.” ‘With this declaration he handed me a card. Of course I was pleased to meet a nice, big-mustached Baron, but I also wanted my drawing room for my own comfort. I politely told him that it may be the custom in Europe to rush for the best part of the cars—they have compart- ments, you know—but here each man gets | & section and must not wander therefrom. The fellow looked furious and refused to surrender. The conductor, a half dozen porters and as many passengers feared trouble, and they all began to explain at once. It took a long time to appease that German aristocrat. We fixed him, but not until he threatened vengeance. The next morning he apologized, but he said it was a “— bad system,” and this country was “something wrong, anyway.” But that isn't the joke. I want to know what became of a small parcel of some value that I had in one of my satchels before that gentleman of foreign blood dropped into my statéroom.” A. 8. McNell, a mining man of Lowden ranch, is at the Occidental. J. A. Migliavaccl, a wine manufacturer of Napa County, Is at the Baldwin. David Starr Jordan, president of the Stanford University, is at the Occidental, Lieutenant J. O. McGuiness of the Al- batross and D. W. Knox, U. S. N,, are at the Occidental. C. T. Bliss, the lumberman of Carson, ;Za,s 1xm;.n-le(;i o: Wednesday to Miss nowles, a daughter of Captals of Oakland. it el J. R. Herlod, attached to the Unit d B‘(Bl::fl legallol:u (')lbe&Dan. arrived Inest night accompanied by his wife. at the Occidental. i Henry T. Fortman and his two daugh- ters will leave for Catalina Island to- MOTTrOW evening on a pleasure trip. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW. YORK, Sept. 15.—S. H. Friedland- er of San Francisco is at the Bartholdi; George Bowen of San Francisco is at the Gilsey; 8. F. Maltby of Los Angeles and E. P. Deane of Santa Barbara are at the Hoffman; Charles E. Anthony of Los An- geles is at the St. Denis. ::Whnt is firmness, father?"” rmness, my boy, is obstinacy in our- selves. ::Snd what {: aflbmnacy?',' else.”—Chicago Evenlng“?lon.n bl At a session of the council held | jnduced them to recommend The monetary standard—the standard of value | remaining | of the State fail to appreciate the ad-| position to that of Mr. Newlands by ad-| BROKER FRED HARPER : GRAVELY ACCUSED - - SHARP PRACTICE ALLEGED IN A PASTER’S APPOINTMENT. Harry Browne Charges That the Broker Sold Him a ‘“Gold Brick” in the Appraiser’s Store. H. R. Browne, paster in the Appraiser's building, has instructed Haven & Haven, his attorneys, to file suit against Customs Broker Frederick F. G. Harper to recover $2700, which he alleges Harper received from him under false representations. Browne's story is that a little more than vears ago he entered into an agree- trfi‘e‘fft y the %er‘ms of which Browne was to succeed Harper's father as paster, Harper representing that he owned the business and that no one else could come into the Appraiser's building and do any stamping except Harper or his assigns Browne was to pay $1200 cash and halt of the proceeds of the business until the fur- ther sum of $1500 should have been paid. On November 2, 1897, the following bill of sale was given by Harper to Browne: ived I do hereby sell and con- former business of affixing internal reyenue stamps to cigars, snuff and tobacco sent to the - ‘s storg for stamping. United States Appralser's storg for, stampin Per F. F. G. HARPER. Mrs. Browne is Browne's mother, he being a minor at that date and not quanl- fied to enter into a contract. H. Harper was the father of Fred Harper, and ‘was dead at the time his name was signed by hisgson. Browne says that ihree weeks agh he discovered that he had bought a gold brick and that any one had a tignt to go into the Appralser’s store and stamp his tobacco. Collector Jackson said that when the stamp regulations went into effect many years ago there was much confusion on account of the large number of persons— Chinese and others—who crowded into the store for the purpose of stamping toe s. Hence, the tobacco importers wers sted to appoint a man to do thelr stamping for them, they to pay him for his services. Harper's father was select- ed by the importers, and the Collector holding the office at that time appointed Harper a laborer without pay. Mr. Jack- son said that he knew nothing about the relations between Harper and Browne. Browne said that after he had made the agreement with Harper the latter circu- lated a petition among the importers and thof the the place vacated by the death o élder Harper. Browna added that he used to do certain other work for Harper and divide the fees with Harper, and that this work of right should have gone to ‘ne, Hoyt & Co., of which Harper is a member. It was rumored around tne Custom-house yvesterday that Swayne & Hoyt, learning of these things from Browne and certain clients, took Harper | to task last Monday and that a rupture stein of Fresno, M. J. Danlels of River- |in the firm was the result. vt & Co. would not speak of er declined to make Swayne, Ho 2 the matter, and Har any statement beyr)ng the fact that what- ever he had done in the affair with Browne was right and that Browne had no case. | NEED NOT CLEAN WALKS. At an adjourned law term of ths full bench of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, held in Concord, an opinion was rendered to the effect that the ordi- nances compelling citizens to keep side- walks in front of their residences clear | from snow in_winter is unconstitutional, and that the Legislature has no right to authorize the imposition of such a burden | upon the people, which is, in effect, double taxation. It was held that this ordinance is in direct violation of the consiitution of the United States.—Boston Transcript. e e A RELIEF. Tve learnt a lot o' Spanish words, T've got so I kin tell 'Bout “ultimatums,” “protocols™ An’ “armistice” as wel But joyously I hail the time When I kin rest my brain By askin’ “How’s the price of wheat?* An’ “What's the chance o’ rain?” THEIR SIDE- 014 friends is best. These recent themes Were dazzlin’, it is true. - The clash of stéel—the roar of guns— They thrilled us through an’ through. But swords may turn to plowshares now. In comfort, once again, We'll query “How’s the price of wheat?"” An’ “What's the chance o’ rain? —Washington Star. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_—————————— Special information business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main I ———— Any small packages left at the Red Cross rooms, 16 Post street, Friday, Sep- tember 16, 1898, for the troops now in Ma- nila_will be forwarded on the Condor, leaving Saturday. Mrs. John F. Merrl.ll, President. —ee— Trunks, valises, pocketbooks, traveling sets, Mexican carved leather goods, letter and card cases, lap tablets, playing cards, combs, brushes, mirrors, perfumery an: tollet articles for fall trade now on sale. The very best goods at moderate prices, Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. * e e He—Do you know, when you walk you move just like a poem? 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