The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1898 JO;!N D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. BLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. & Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrfers In tbis city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montp | 665 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mall, $.50 +eseesr2-908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. cesenn .-Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correepondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Buflding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 930 o'clock. 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. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—*“Antony and Cleopatra." Columbia—«The Jewess * Aleazar—* Lend Me Your Wife and “The First Born" Morosco’s—The Coast Guard * Tivoli—* Martha." Orpheum—Vaudevilla New Comedy Theater—* What Haopened to Jones.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudevilie The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight Ulympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. tutro’s Baths—Swimming. Sherman-Clay Hall—Durward Lely, Monday, feptember 26 AUCTION SALES, By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, September 21, Furniture. 8t 24 Bixth street, at 11 0 clock. By E, Cohn-—This day, September 21, Grocery Store, st 718 | Douglass street, at 11 o elock. | advance. DANGER ON MARKET STREET. IOVAL of the basalt blocks and cobbles of Market street and the substitution of bitumen Nevertheless it involves a new danger. Time was when the oncoming truck advertised itself a block in | destrian has to be notified by a yell of his peril. The catastrophe will occur when nobody shall be thought- | Drivers cannot be depended upon to give warning. They go through life cherishing the notion that is a trespasser, and that while to make him dodge is‘ innocent pastime, to run him down is far short of a | view is taken. In this view people less elevated fail | to participate. they wished to reach the other side of the street. Now the middle of the block affords as comfortable | drivers urge their horses to achievements of speed, and there is no policeman to raise a cautioning fin- no accidents the pedestrians have all been born under | lucky stars, and the distribution of these stars is not | As a matter of protection pedestrians should sucki* to the crossing. They should also remember that proaching vehicles. It becomes necessary to look both ways at once, and do that which is sometimes R is an improvement pleasing to the senses. Now it rolls up insidiously, and the pe- | ful enough to yell. streets were made for teams alone, that the foot man crime. From the loity perch of the driver a peculiar In former times people utilized the crossings when a place of transit. Midway between crossings the | ger. Hence the menace multiplies. If there shall be believed to have been on such a liberal scale. the ear is no longer to be depended upon to detect ap- tersely expressed as “keeping the eye peeled.” s s s AN EXPLODED ROORBACK. RESIDENT McKINLEY’S prompt action in pproviding for a committee composed of men of national repute and high standing to inves- tigate the conduct of the war has had the effect of | silencing the wild clamors and reckless charges that | have been made against the administration for al leged indifference to the welfare of the volunteers. The people are now aware that the whole truth will be made known and the full extent of the reported evils determined by official inquiries. As a result they are no longer to be moved by the lurid rhetoric of the yellow journals or the howling oratory of dema- gogues. Thus early in the campaign has the one national issue of the fused factions been utterly discredited and | swept away. Even those Democrats and Populists who were most insistent upon making use of that charge as a campaign war cry against the administra- tion have now abandoned it and returned to State issues. The roorback has, in fact, been exploded in the camp of its manufacturers, and all who hoped to profit by it have been overthrown and demoralized. Rarely even in the history of Democracy has there been a worse case of political trickery and impudence attempted upon the intelligence of the people than was this effort to make party capital out of the suf- ferings that befell the volunteers during the past summer. The Democratic leaders in Congress and the greater number of the newspapers of the party began at the very opening of the crisis that ended in the war with Spain to clamor for recognition of the indepen- dence of Cuba and an immediate invasion of the island. It was, therefore, the exercise of something more than ordinary campaign lying for these same orators to denounce the administration for the evils resulting during the campaign, for the lack of equip- ments for a hasty invasion of Cuba, and the early ex- plosion of the lies is only what was to have been ex- pected. The Assistant United States District Attorney has resigned, and an evening paper prints the information that he did so by reason of having been promised a nomination for Superior Judge. Who made the promise ? Is it possible there is a slate? Are dele- gates not to be allowed to enter the convention un- trammeled? Heaven forbid. Owing to the kindly thoughtfulness of an Exam- iner artist, W. J. Magee has been provided with two arms. The fact that he wears an empty sleeve is too small a thing to hamper artistic genius when it feels in mood for flight. oL AU Nobody can blame the soldiers in Hawaii for re- fusing to drill after a breakfast consisting of an onion and a cup of coffee. There is no famine in Honoluly, and no sense in starving troops in times of peace. Perhaps Cervera’s reception in Spain will put him in a mood to return to this country and take out his first papers. An interesting feature of the attempt to poison Aguinaldo is that it probably never occurred, s | perior Court of San Francisco, Cal. THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD. HE political course of Judge Maguire has been Tso tortuous that it is difficult to find any preju- dice to which he has not pandered, any fad that he has not favored. We have frequently drawn upon his record for the enlightenment of our readers, and they are doubtless astonished at’ the chameleon-like changes which it presents. Let it be understood that we join all fair- minded men in respecting one who chooses to adopt an unpopular position, led by his convictions of right, and who abides by it, through evil report and mis- fortune. But Judge Maguire lacks that manly char- acteristic. His politics and convictions belong to the rule of thumb policy. He has been capable of adopting views, stating them with extreme rancor, committing himself to them without reserve, and then abandoning them without explanation or apology. | Having held office ever since he was 19 years old, with very slight intermissions, he has subordinated everything to his life plan of existing on a salary. No man in California ever excelled his success in this line. Since he was a voter he has held office more continuously and drawn a steadier salary than any other man in the State. And yet during this remark- able career, while he has hotly advocated nearly every political fad and vagary, and has in turn belonged to and deserted the Republican, Greenback, Land and Labor and Democratic parties, he has managed to pocket nearly $60,000 in salaries since his office- holding carcer began at 19. His judgment as to the time to desert a party or a principle is infallible. His judgment as to the time ta adopt a party, principle or issue is fallible. We have referred to his contribution to the litera- ture of the Land and Labor party in his book on ““Ireland and the Pope.” After publishing his letter permanently withdrawing from the Democratic party because it would not consent to the confiscation of land, he thought he saw in the Irish land question and the anti-Pope demonstration started by Henry George in New Yotk an opportunity to combine Irish patriotism, land confiscation and anti-Popery all in one grand movement to control American politics. He was then self-expatriated from the Democratic party, and his book was to be a part of the platiorm of the new party which he organized, with the expec- tation of electing Henry George to the Presidency in 1888. We have already quoted from this volume to show the extreme rancor of spirit in which Judge Maguire is in the habit of discussing issues which he projects into politics. We refer to the subject again not to raise religious prejudice, which we abhor, but to aid in the revelation of Maguire’s character and methods. To show how this book was regarded when it ap- peared we quote the following notice from the Mon- tor of June 27, 1888: *“ ‘Ireland and the Pope. A Brief History of Papal Intrigue Against Irish Liberty, From Adrian IV to Leo XIII' By James G. Maguire, Judge of the Su- Published at San Francisco by James H. Barry. “After a careful perusal of this volume we have come to the conclusion that it is a bad book, pub- lished through bad motives, and in its results it is far more likely to recoil disastrously upon the head of its author than it is to have the damaging and de- moralizing effect its author’s animosity against the Vicar of Christ intended. It is an open secret that the author of this vicious volume is a great admirer of Dr. McGlynn and Henry George, both of whom he has already lauded publicly, while at the same time he has poured the vials of his wrath upon the de- voted head of Leo XIII as their enemy. “Any book on ‘Ireland and the Pope,’ emanating from an author whose mind is a seething caldron of passion and prejudice combined, must naturally be looked upon as the result of rancor, and hence it can possess but little or no value in the esteem of men who want to read the truth of history, and not the vaporings of men whose minds are so strongly tainted with vengeance against the Pope that they cannot permit themselves even to speak courteously of the pontiffs whom they present to their readers as the persecutors of the Irish people and as the barriers which ever have been stumbling-blocks in the way of Irish independence. “Had this book been written by an open and avowed Orangeman, an anti-Catholic Calvinist or an ex-priest who had turned Presbyterian, its Pope- slandering contents and its many misleading and malicious statements would not have astonished us in the least, but being as it is, the work of an author who was born, baptized and brought up in the Catho- lic church, and whose position on the bench implies a decent respect for all authority, both civil and ecclesiastical, then, indeed, our wonder is excited that James G. Maguire could sully his Catholic soul and soil the ermine of his high judicial position by placing his name and official designation upon the title-page of a book that is beneath criticism as a literary pro- duction, and which can confer no honer upon either the literary or the judicial reputation of the gentle- man who generated it. We intend to review this book thoroughly, for the reason that it involves mat- ters upon which the truth, the whole truth and noth- ing but the truth should be known. The patriotic impulses of many Catholic Irishmen very often leave them liable to have their minds filled with venom against the Vicar of Christ because of some fancied wrong (or outrage, as Judge Maguire would call it) which the Popes are charged with perpetrating in the past or present against the Irish people; and in order to avoid such a calamity it is one of the most impor- tant duties of the Monitor to place before its readers a full, candid and fair contradiction of just such in- sidious falsehoods as the work under review con- tains.” We quote the above in full, in proof of our con- tention that Maguire is incapable of a candid and truthful discussion of the issues which interest him. While holding a lucrative office given him by the Democratic party, he bolted that party in 1886 and contemptuously deserted and withdrew from it per- manently in 1887. At the same time he bolted his church and signalized the act by this book of “in- sidious falsehood,” “rancor, venom and misrepresen- tation.” But he soon discovered that this bolt from church and party would not get him an office and satisfy his desire to live on a salary, and he bolted back without apology to his party, whatever happened in his church. In view of his instability of purpose and rancor of expression this political and religious prodi- gal son is not worth wasting a fatted calf on. Europe seems to be quite enthusiastic in crying “Down with the anarchists!” But when they go down there should be a rope so adjusted as to keep them from quite reaching the ground. Nevertheless Aguinaldo will not smile joyously upon hearing that more American troops are to be landed in his friendly midst. Perhaps the sensations caused by resigning under fire will not strike Alger as being altogether novel. Perhaps Mrs. Botkin has a notion that the air of Delaware would not be healthful. ; L 4ing hells” which sailors are wont to speak about. THE NEW TAX LEVY. N one respect the tax levy passed by the Board of l Supervisors on Monday may be commended—it might be higher. A cursory reading of the-ap- propriations which have been made, even when no comparison is made with those of previous years, dis- closes to the reader that many expedients have been resorted to to reduce the levy. In all departments the flexible allowances have been reduced, but not a salary has been changed nor an employe dispensed with. In other words, the reductions have fallen upon bureaus and departments which should in the interest of the public be given more money. The cause of this is not far to seek. Salaries are fixed by law and may,be drawn in defiance of the Supervisors, while the appropriations for the Street, Fire and Police departments and for street lighting are changed as the exigencies of the city- demand and cannot be exceeded. Under this system all the reduc- tions fall upon departments which ought to be the last to stand them. There should be an annual ap- propriation for the Street Department of $1,000,000. That sum of money would no more than pay for work which should be done immediately upon the streets and sewers. Yet last year the department re- ceived but $535,000, and this year under an increased levy it gets but $500,000. The total tax rate imposed by the order passed on Monday will be $1 80 on the $100 valuation. Of this 48 cents and 8 mills has been levied by the Board of Equalization for State purposes, and $1 31 and 8 mills represents the necessities of the city and county. There has been an increase of 13 cents over last year in the municipal rate. The money derived from this additional levy goes to make up the deficit of 1897-08 and provide for certain improvements which are deemed necessary. Among these is $73,000 for the proposed St. Mary’s Park and $50,000 for a new City and County Hospital. Neither of these amounts will probably be expended during the current year. Ac- cording to the City and County Attorney the hospital cannot be constructed, the act authorizing it having lapsed, and it is doubtful whether the land for St. jected, can be condemned within a year. The amounts appropriated, however, will go into the general fund, whence they will in proper time be ployes. In connection with this levy but one hope can be expressed, namely, that it will not produce a deficit at the end of the fiscal year. A sufficient sum but it has not been and cannot be properly distributed. Hence, if a deficit is avoided we can cheerfully put up with another year of municipal stagnation in every- —————cr FORTUNATE SHAREHOLDERS. f ; UBSCRIBERS to the stock of the Valley Road them a short time ago to contract to give the Union Trust Company an option of purchasing the stock at par on or before January 1, 1899, have every By subscribing for the stock in the first place they contributed to the attainment of a competing road through the San Joaquin, and by transferring it they provide transcontinental competition. Finally, as they have disposed of their stock at par, they have a handsome profit for themselves out of these enter- It may be accepted as certain that if the holders of the stock of the Valley Road—or at least the hold- ers of the greater part of it—had not agreed to the Bakersfield and Los Angeles could not have been undertaken at this time. The region between the two points is compara- derive but little business from it for a long time to come. To render the venture profitable it was ne- cessary that the proposed line should have control of railway system of the southern part of the State. By the transfer of stock to the Union Trust Company with an option to purchase it at par this control was connecting line has been incorporated and work will soon begin. The whole history of these railway entetprises has the construction of American railways it has too of- ten happened that the original shareholders have lost almost the whole of their investment. The very original subscribers to the Valley Road considered their subscriptions to be contributions to an enter- prise for the welfare of the State, rather than as a parties now find themselves able to dispose of the stock at par, and at the same time and by the same means provide for an additional railroad to the one Mary’s Park, even if the park should be actually pro- duly checked out in salaries by the City Hall em- of money has been raised to conduct the government, thing except City Hall salaries. who took advantage of the proposal made to reason to be satisfied with the results. contribute to the construction of the line which will prises for the general good. transfer of their stock, the connecting line between tively unsettled, and the road that traverses it will the Valley Road as well as connections with the assured, and as a result a company to construct the been one of remarkably successful financiering. In opposite has occurred in this instance. Many of the business investment for personal profit. All of these to which they subscribed. OUR LAGGING WINE INDUSTRY. CCORDING to statistics given in the Moni- /\ teur Vinicole, which may be accepted as ap- proximately correct, the wine production of the world in 1897 was considerably less than that of the previous year, amounting to 2,843,478,920 gallons, while that of 1806 was 3,262,103,820 galions. The figures given of production in different coun- tries show that France is by far the largest wine pro- ducer among the nations. Her output for 1897, in- cluding that of Algiers, exceeded one-third of the en- tire output of the world. Italy and Spain follow in the order named, and Roumania comes fourth on the list. The United States, notwithstanding its vast area and progressive population, is far behind other civilized lands in this respect, and ranks as sixteenth, being outclassed by such countries as Argentine, Chile, Turkey and Greece, and in fact but little ahead of Bulgaria and Servia. The chief cause for our backwardness in wine pro- duction is that the American people as a whole have not learned the uses of table wines and do not con- sume them to anything like the extent to which other peoples are accustomed. No civilized government except our own, and possibly the British, would have sent its soldiers from a temperate climate to the tropics of Cuba without supplying them with a plen- tiful provision of wine, so that they would not have to rely entirely upon the unhealthful waters for drink- ing purposes. If the troops in front of Santiago had been as well supplied with Californian wine as the troops of Germany and France are supplied with their native light wines during campaigns there would have been less sickness, less lassitude and fewer deaths among them. The United States ought to be as far advanced in wine production as in any other great industry, and it is not creditable to our intelligence that so many of our people have not yet learned to use the grape rightly and to profit by the cultivation of it. e ————— The ship which recently reached Baltimore with a cargo of burning sulphur must be one of the “float- . MR. GAGE AND THE RAILROAD. The Candidate Writes of His Attitude Toward the; Corporation. The following letter on his attitude toward the Southern Pacific was written a few days ago by Mr. Gage, Republican candidate for Governor, to a friend in Los Angeles. 149 North Main street, 1.0S ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 16, 1868. J. W. Morris, Esq., box 177,Los Angeles City: If you thoroughly understood the situation, and I desire that you may do so, you would understand that I made no changes whatever in this committee referred to. The committee that made the gallant fight for McKinley in 1896 from Los Angeles County consisted of ine very same gentlemen complained of in this occasion, viz.: Osborne, Flint and Parker. If the gentlemen referred to were good enoufh to fight the battles of 1896 I am quite confident I am not subject to any criticism for having left them there to participate in the present contest. Those men were named on the com- mittee because of the fact that they were recommended to me by the man whom all California has done honor to on account of his noble services in that behalf, viz., Major Frank McLaughlin of San Francisco. On Tuesday, November 7, 1876, I first commenced to speak my sentiments about the Southern Pacific Company, contending that it had no right to go out- side its legitimate sphere and embark upon political enterprises. If you will run back, you wili see that is over one-fitth of a century ago. The speech delivered on that occasion is to be found in the Los Angeles Daily Star of that date, and 1 have been consistent in my sentiments In that behalf ever since that time. n the case pending before the Supreme Court of the United States in the Qotober term, 1692, cases Nos, 2122 And 82-53, entitled “The United States vs. Southern Pacific Rallroad et al.,” in common with my friend Joseph Call, I flled a brief in opposition to the petition for rehearing against that company and In behalf of the settlers of the State of California, contesting the right of the Southern Pacific Company to hold their land grant; and upon the points there referred to and advocated several million of acres were turned over to the public domain, I any of the complaining friends have any doubts in reference to my atti- tude toward the Southern Pacific Rallroad Company, I would most respectfully refer them to that man who has been the corporation’s most distinguished oppo- nent that ever existed, viz., Mr. Joseph Call, whose office is in the Bradbury block in Los Angeles City. Mr. .Tofigeph (.‘ull?ls the ablest champlon the people ever had as agalnst the en- croachments of the rallroads upon the public domain. Before I ever announced my candidacy the Democratic and Republican pa- ers of this State (notable among which were the Herald of Los Angeles and the xaminer of San Francisco) asserted that I was not the preference of the South- ern Pacific Company. Again, within the last three years I have brought suits against those cor- porations, laying damages in the ageregate of upward of $10,000, and I have obtained judgments and collected from them within that period of time nearly 5,000, In the convention that nominated me the other day at Sacramento I sald: “I would rather meet honorable aefeat than be guilty of any such r-actice, and if ever after this political contest is over I return to this beautiful city of Sacramento elected as Governor of this State I will walk down your streets toward the Capitol, there to take my oath as Governor of this State, a free man, not dominated by any corporations, not dominated by any individual, not dominated by anything except the purpose to discharge my duty faithfully to Democrat, Republican and every human being within the confines of our beau- tiful State—no matter, fellow-citizens, whether that person be a miner living in the cabin on the mountain side or the aristocrat in the palace in the city. We are bound as a party to do and will do impartial justice to all our fellow-beings.” These exgressinns, as you will observe, are all consistent. I meant them all; and no man has just grounds of complaint against me so far as corporate influ- ences are concerncd, and no man will make these complaints against me unless he be a corrupt and infamous scoundrel himself. Thanking you for your kindly ressions and thanking you much for calling my attention to what is going on upon the outside, I make these replies to you, in the hope that iney may enable you, as you go around, to answer any charge which may be attempted to be made in your presence. Yours very respectfully, HENRY T. GAGE. COLONEL BURNS AND THE DE YOUNG INTERVIEW. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 1808. To the Editor of The Call: In this morning’s Call appears what purports to be an interview with myself, in which I am made to assume toward Mr. de Young an attitude of personal and political hostility, and am quoted 2s using abustve language concerning him and as criticizing him and his political meth- ods. T say that this is not true. I am not in the habit of abusing my friends. The facts of the alleged interview are these: Yesterday, while passing through the rooms of the Republican State Central Committee, I was stopped by two reporters for The Call, who asked me several questions about political matters. I assumed that the conversation was personal, since I was acquainted Wwith both gentlemen, and had not been asked for an Interview, and so stated at the time. The alleged interview, based upon that conversation, is a com- pound of misstatement and misquotation. Words used by the reporters are put into my mouth, and T am made to say things I never said or thought. In so far as The Call's alleged interview puts me in the position of assail- ing or critelzing Mr. de Young or his political aspirations—if, indeed, he has any—it is absolutely untrue and without foundation. D. M. BURNS. If Colonel Burns in the conversation with reporters to which he refers in the foregoing ever entertained the idea that the talk was personal and con- fidential, that impression was certainly removed from his mind before the parties to the interyiew separated. After the colonel had been talking for several minutes and speaking with a fluency and frankness that surprised his hearers, he quickly arrested the flow of language by an exclamation, “I assume that this is a personal conversation.” He was told then that it was not so understood, but on the contrary that it was an interview for publication. e The Inference must be that the colonel apprehended that he had said more than he intended to say with reference to Mr. de Young’s aspirations for the Senate. It is true that many expressions Colonel Burns did use were not reported in the interview. Only the salient points were set forth. The fact may be that he was so enamored of his gifts of speech that he failed to recollect his sayings. Speaking of the sack as an element in Senatorial as- piration, he tersely did say that he had lived in California since his child- hood and had never seen a great uprising in favor of a candidate for Sen- ator unless there was a great sack in sight. He did say this In connection with Mr. de Young's hopes, bringing out clearly the assertion that Mr. de Young had no chance of becoming United States Senator unless there was a great uprising of the people in his behalf. Then the colonel, with a twinkle in his eye, and his face radiant with a campaign smile, added, “I never saw one of these great uprisings unless there was a big sack in sight.” The colonel surely “pointed with pride” to two interviews which he had with M. H. de Young. Indeed, Colonel Burns said: “I told Mr. de Young that his friends were not brave enouh to say to him that his candidacy for the United States Senate was prejudicial to the Republican party—that the people were not demanding his election, and that he had mistaken the words of a friendly banker as the voice of the people. At the second interview Mr. de Young agreed to announce his withdrawal or declina- tion.” The colonel in conclusion said: “I do not believe that he is a can- didate, and if he were he could not be elected without spending a large sum of money in each Assembly district, and money could not be expended with- out my knowledge, even in a county as remote as Siskyou.” ' After Colonel Burns was informed that the interview was for publica- tion he continued to talk in a fascinating style. Of the people he said: “You may fool them to-day, but you cannot fool them to-morrow. I be. lieve in doing politics in a frank and open manner. Candidates for the United States Senate should come out in the open and announce themselves, I do not blame Mr. de Young for aspiring to the Senatorship. I could name five thousand men who would like the office, but T am not one of them. I believe in honest and open politics. When I go into a campaign I set my stake there and fix a line, which I follow. I may not be right in my judg- ment every time, but I do not conceal my intentions. I do not expect any office or any other reward except the final judgment of the people that I helped to bring about better politics.” The idea that the colonel was giving two friends, instead of the general public, a benefit is absurd on its face. Colonel Burns talked so happily and so earnestly that his friends on the committee should urge him to take the stump for the ticket. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Judge Elliott of Astoria is at the Cali- fornia. O. F. Bishop, a mining man of Colorado City, is at the Russ. Marion Biggs Jr., a capltalist of Oro- ville, is at the Grand. Dr. BE. Kirchoff and Dr. Otto Kruger of Berlin are the Palace. Mark R. Plaisted of the Riverside En- terprise is at the California. E. J. Reynolds, a successful miner of out like a flash and there was §; ort Mc- Alllslera-stundlnganda-prancingt;lght :gt the post and she wouldn’t move. Of course the other skates went like the wind and finished. Our horse moved backward and forward and round in a circle, but never toward us in the stand. I thought it was Jjust my luck and looked for consolation when the man with a fog horn disguised his volce and told us that it was a false start and the race had to be run over. ‘Hurrah,’ I yelled, and Crane, the father, sald that they didn’t want any more ‘busted’ creatures in Sacramento, ang that fellow with the fog horn spotted us and called the tace off. Why, they all raced again. Sporty Mac, our choice, was strong; the other skates Dawson, is registered at the Russ. Dr. U. G. Windell and wife arrived from Chicago yesterday and are at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Leake have gone to Coronado for two weeks' rest and recrea- tion. James E. Keeler, professor of astron- omy at Mount Hamilton, is at the Occi- dental. H. J. Small, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific at Sacramento, is at the Grand. Thomas R. Bard, the well-known capt- talist and banker of Hueneme, is at the Occldental. ‘W. Schneider and Adolph Huer of Ber- lin arrived yesterday and leave for Hono- lulu on the next steamer. 0 308 308 308 308 X8 308 308 X0 ¥ vlognh:;:tfll. II:he o3 WHY ¥ Vanderl main- f= g stay in this city, % HE WEARS and Carleton C. g RED VESTS. X Crane—not junior —went to Sacra- ¥ mento on Friday 06 306 306 306 306 30 3 X0 X ¥ last and returned yesterday. Gill now wears a red and green striped vest and Crane has forgot- ten the existence of his six months’ boy. Back of the vestis a story and some- thing else. Both Crane and Gill are novices when it comes to a horse race, and persuaded by an old-time sport who looks like the betting ring itself they put all their shekels in one pocket and started for the park. Gill thought that Minnie X was a pretty name, but Crane ridiculed such a selec- tion. He looked at the card and chose Sport McAllister, and won over his com- panion to the same choice. The horses went to the post for the three-quarter mile race. Gill was nervous and Crane ‘wanted something to steady him. The horses were well lined and the flag dropped. Gill tells the story thus: ““Gee, but it was exciting. You see. the horses were all up and it looked like a good start. ‘The six other horses went 3 5 were dead wea and we won in a canter. That's whynl, wear this smashing vest and Crane doesn’t know he's alive.” D. Burkhalter, the division superintend- ent of the Southern Pacific, came d?;:v’n from Sacramento yesterday. ‘Walter Dillilngham and R. W. Atkinson are among the arrivals on the Australia. They are the crack tennis players of Hon- olulu. H. C. Somers, the well-known ca; ) pital- ist, has gone to England for several months on account of poor health, He is accompanied by Mrs. Somers. James Hamilton Lewis, Congressma ‘Washington, arrived yesterday and l:v?li attend to the ex‘radition of Davison the Klondiker, who *~ now arrested in Seat- tle for the conversion of mining property in the Klondike belongin, e e ging to a Colorado The following guests from Honoluli stopping at the Oceidental: ., M. Sh:zlt‘:k:;e F. A. Schaeffer and the Misses Schacfyey, H. M. Whitney, John Buckley, Dr. Wap. son, Mrs. 8. Roth and daughters, Robert F. Lange, William A. Henshall, C. A, Johnson, Antonio A, Long. Mrs. Morrisey, wife of John Morris manager of the Orpheum, left lasat mget}:t' for a pleasure trip to New York, Boston and St. Louls. She wil remain East about two months. Morrisey is known to the members of the order of Elks In this city as “Our Tillie.” A num- ber of friends accompanied her to the traln and her sleeper was transformed into a bower of flowers. Before her re- turn Mrs. Morrisey will visf B He Toat oy t her mother ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—F. F. Rockwell and A. L. Clarke of San Francisco are at the Netherlands. J. Kahn of San Fran- cisco has gone to Paris, - S I ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CAROLINES—A. §., Watsonvillé, Cal,_The Caroline Islands were not “cap- tured by the United States during the last war with Spain.” THREE-CENT PIECES—S. A. M., City. A three-cent copper-nickel piece does not com d a premium, but dealers who Bave them for sale demand 2 cents apiece for them. TERRITORIES—T. L. C., City. The information that you received to the ef- fect that population is not one of the qualifications necessary to admit a tverfl- tory as a State of the American Union is correct. A NOT LEFT-HANDED—Mrs. H. E. W.; City. The fact that many people in San Francisco do not keep to the right of the sidewalk while moving in the directioh they are headed for is no proof that they are left-handed. COALING STATION—A. S.,, Watson- ville, Cal. In 1889 there was a conference of the representatives of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, and on the 14th of June of that year they signed an agreement guaranteeing the neutrality of the Samoan Islands. As a result of that conference the United States appropriated $100,000 to establish a coaling station at the port of Pango- Pango. TRADES AND WAGES—E. A. S., Oak- land, Cal. The several questions asked were submitted to Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, who has kindly furnished an- swers as follows: “Glove cutting is con- sidered a good trade in California, par- ticularly that portion covering the mak- ing of the better grade of kid gloves. To be a first-class glove cutter a man has to spend about three years in learning the trade. He must be able to take a skin, stretch it into shape and thickn: He then earns from $20 to $3) per week.” A first-class candy maker earns $3 per day; he must be able to make all the best grades of candies and confections. The time it takes him to learn depends on his intelligence, usually from two to three years. nelper he earns from chinder is usually in . earning from < is per- hey are charge of the $12 to $§25 per we formed by girls principally. paid from $4 to $7 per week.” ORDER OF COLONIAL DAMES—Mrs. M. L. C. Fresno, Cal. The society known as the Order of Colonial Dames of America organized in the city of New York May 23, 18%, and was the first society of women for this patgiotic pur- pose formed in this country. It was in- corporated on the 23d of April of the fol- lowing year. The society is purely patri- otic and educational in its objects, which are (1) to collect and preserve relics, man- uscripts, traditions and mementos of the founders and bullders of the thirteen original States of the Union, and of the heroes of the War for Independence, that the memories of their deeds and achieve- ments may be perpetuated. (2) To pro- mote celebrations of great historical events of national importance, to diffuse information on all subjects concerning American history, particularly among the young, and to cultivate the spirit of patriotism and reverence for the found- ers of American constitutional history. The society has chapters in many of the States. Timothy Matlack Chees- man of York City is the secretary. SE-(ESCIMTUS. Tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis. “Time glides away and we grow old By process of the silent years,’ More fain the busy hands to fold, More quiet when a tale is told ‘Where death appears. It is not that the feet would shirk From that dark river, lapping, cold, And hid with mists from brink to brink. Only one likes to sit and think As one grows old. S Arthur Colton in Scribner’s. Cal. glace fruit 6c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery ctreet. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ) Buy wall paper and window shades at Clark’s, 653 Market street. Country or- ders solicited. . A birdseye view of the city, bay and surroundings. A French dinner as fine as the view. Spreckels Rotisserie, 15th floor, Call building. . e — We have just received a shipment of the prettiest lamps and nicest brass and onyx tables that ever came to the city. Beautiful things for presents or home decoration at reasonable prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street . —_———— SLEEP ON PAVEMENTS. The asphalt pavement in Leonard street, Williamsburg, has been of great comfort to many persons who live in the thickly populated tenements in the cross streets on either side. Lav.cl{ on nights oppresively warm beds have been moved to the pavements, Jews mouopolizing it from Broadway to Johnson avenue and Ttalians from Skillman to Meeker avenue. In the morning the beds are taken apart and moved back to the owners’ houses.— New York Sun. ——— e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty yvears by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugglsts in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle, —_——— First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 623 Market. -—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamship, Including fifteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay $250 per day. Apply at 4 New )} ontgomery street, San Francisco. —_———— LADIES suffering from nervoas affiictions find quick relief in PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. PARKER'S HATR BALsAM slds the hair growth, Only the best for the best only. Among the Barrels, 863 Market st. ADVEBTISEMENTS.( ____ ADVERTISEM b MACKAY’S FURNITURE STILL GOING. gradually disposing of thls de‘;;n:\r:nl_ Five weeks' continuous gelling has made great inroads into our quantities, but our usol{:‘ment is_still e in many es. commpiste, i mnngs uh X U can't afford to miss this chance, a oak dining chairs. Solid cak cobbler rockers. 00 $ 2.25 Solid oak upholstered arm Tockers . 2.90 Cedar box G 735 3-plece Eastern hardwood chi ber sets ... 12.65 Corduroy couches . 623 Bed lounges (patent) 5.25 A large line of fine odd parior pieces, China_closets, sideboards, dining ta- bles, chamber suits, etc., at positively cost. This sale is genuine and we in- vite your inspection of these values. CARPETS In_ this department during FURNI- 'rl,lvllu: CLOSE OUT, low prices pre- vail. We are now showing a most beaut!- ful and complete line of carpets in all es. 43¢ 450 mething new—Rangpur carpets. An elegant quality linoleum. SPECIAL THIS WEEK: 25 pleces Alex. Smith & Son’ try carpet .. ALEX. MACKAY & SON 715 Market St. QP T S B S, S T TR e S ese