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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898, THUR SDAY. ..SEPTFMR;.R 22, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. unications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Cr..2% “Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... DAKLAND OFFICE KEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. * WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Rigge House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ++es..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. .One year, by mall, $1.50 | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventd street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. _— THE ONE HUNDRED JOB CHASERS. ROTESTS from llemocratic sources against pthe action of the Committee of One Hundred have now become so numerous and so forceful, the more discreet members of the committee have begun to ask themselves whether they have not gone too far—whether, in fact, they have not been guilty of that kind of blunder which in the world of politics is worse than a crime. It is impossible to do politics in this country with- out taking the people into account. Even the stupidest of bygone bosses have known that, and even the boldest of them never attempted to osten- tatiously force a ticket on the party of whose ma- chinery they had taken possession. The scheme of the One Hundred is therefore a new departure in our history. It is, moreover, such a departure as could have been taken only by persons whose self-conceit misleads them into the belief that they are them- selves the people, or who are so contemptuous of popular intelligence and manhood as to be indiffer- ent to them. Boldly as the committee set about its work, how- ever, it has now begun to hesitate and consider. | The denunciations from earnest, self-respecting Dem- ocrats are becoming too strong to be any longer ig- nored. It is true the committee succeeded in getting the Democratic State executive committee to set aside the protest of Francis J. Heney against its assumption of the powers of a nominating conven- tion, but the victory was not achieved without a struggle, nor was it a victory that the committee can AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—*Antony and Cleopatra.” .’ Columbta—«The Jewess * Alcazar—*" Lend Me Your Wife and “The First Born.” Morosco's—The Coast Guard * Tivoli—"The Queen of Sheba.” Orpheum~— Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—* What Happened to Jones." Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville The Chutes—Z0o, Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy sireets—sSpeclalues. tuiro's Bathe—Swimming. Y. M. C. A. Auditorium—Coneert. EXTEND MARKET STREET BITUMEN. HILE only a portion of the projected bitumen W for Market street has been laid, the improve- ment over the old condition of affairs is al- ready manifest. The thoroughfare had been an array of cobbles, with sections of basalt, and here and there a miscellaneous patch. It was painful to the eye, perilous to the foot, a trap for horses and for | men. To walk across it was painful; to march over its irregular surface a prolonged agony. It was a creator of noise and confusion, a reproach to the en- terprise of the ci It was the first thing to strike the visitor, and certain to give him a bad impression nothing could overcome. So pleasing is the change now in progress that a hope arises that the improvement will not pause at | It ought at once to be extended to the ! junction with Valencia. With a smooth pavement | practically the length of Market, that avenue of | life and traffic would be something in which citizens could justly take pride. The street is broad and straight, almost as level as a floor, affording the finest opportunity for the creation of an example of perfect Sixth, street. paving. So great is the space between walks that with a double car line in the center there still re- | mains room on either side for two driveways of ample width. Doubtless the Market street company will soon follow the excellent example of the city and do its part of the paving. Then will Market street be indeed a model. Of course the necessity for keeping the bitumen in repair is recognized. The time to mend a hole is when the hole becomes visible to the naked eye. In cities where municipal government has beenr more nearly reduced to a science than here holes in the pavement are not permitted to increase in size nor to multiply. For years there has been talk of the transformation of the roadway in Market street. Now that the trans- formation is actually taking place it ought to be com- plete. C under his shoulder-straps, and finds no com- fort in his gorgeous sash. To him the sword is a thing of no use—not even fit to toast cheese with. Military glory has not come to him, military duty weighs upon him, and he is eager to quit. In a recent interview with a correspondent of the Kansas City Star he is quoted as saying: “I re- fuse to discuss any matters connected with politics, the army or myself. * * * You may say I am not so enamored of camp life that I would at the close of the war apply for a commission in the regu- lar army.” Aifter that much by way of preliminary the colonel went on to give a specific statement of his sorrow and discontent in his present situation. He made no complaint that he had no chance to go to the front and fight, neither did he murmur of the quality of the food given him, nor suggest any incompetence on the part of his superior officers. His grievance arises not from a heart eager for battle, nor a stom- ach longing for better food, nor from a brain de- siring higher wisdom in his commander. The cause of his grief is that so long as he wears his shoulder- straps, disports his sash and carries his dangling sword he cannot exercise his tongue. The colonel’s statement as given by the correspon- dent who interviewed him is this: “If you knew what it costs me to keep still when there is so much to say about things of importance to the people and of lifelong interest and moment to me, you would ap- preciate the strength of my will.” When asked if he would talk freely after release from military service he answered in this expressive simile: “The country knows how it is when a dam breaks; there is no tell- ing when the flood will stop.” Here, then, is Colonel Bryan’s claim for recogni- tion as a hero of the war. He has kept his tongue silent by a mighty exercise of will and the waters of his oratory are mounting higher and higher against the dam which that will has imposed upon them. Every one knows what happens when an ever- flowing stream is restrained. Either the waters flow over the barrier or the dam bursts. That is what is troubling the soul of Colonel Bryan just now. How- ever stupendous be the dam of his restraining will, he cannot much longer hold back the flood of his words, impatient for utterance. The quandary is upon him: Shall he overflow the requirements of his military office and talk, or shall he hold in and burst? o —— Johann Most takes the trouble to say that he was po party to the murder of the Empress of Austria. The declaration was needless. When there happens to be the robbery of a hen-roost in Most's neighbor- hood there will be excuse for his assuming the defen- sive, or even trying to establish an alibi. —_— The Queen Regent of Spain fayors universal peace now. Her country might have enjoyed a larger area BRYAN'S UNHAPPINESS. OLONEL \\'ILVLIAM BRYAN is unhappy be proud of. It was won over the indignant oppo- sition of Governor Budd, and was attained only after the offensiveness of the scheme had been fully ex- posed. It is narrated that a Pullman car porter, after watching the proceedings of a band of train robbers in depriving the passengers of their money, made no other comment than the contemp- tuous one, ‘“How crude.” Doubtless Boss Rainey or Boss Buckley has the same comment to make on the raw work of this committee of job- chasers. It is crude. It is the feat of a clique of petty would-be bosses rendered insane by a greed for office or idiotic by self-conceit. If it achieves any success at all before the people, then Democracy in San Francisco will have as completely abdicated its functions of self-government as the Populist fusion- ists did when they surrendered to the Maguire bosses. THE CZAR'S PEACE CONFERENCE. q LMOST as swiftly as a shooting star blazes across the sky and vanishes did the rescript of the Czar calling for a peace conference me and go across the news of the day. It was hardly more than the sensation of an hour. Com- day of its publication. of action it caused anywhere was a slight movement in New York to have the proposed conference as- semble in that city. To the world at large the re- script ic already a dead letter, and affairs go on very much as if it had never been issued. It is by no means improbable, however, that this rescript, so universally derided and so quickly for- gotten by the average man, may yet prove to be one | of the important events of the year. In the first place it may be regarded as fairly certain the conference will be held. The Czar is a very august personage inaeed, and his invitations are not to be lightly re- jected by anybody who has pretensions in the world oi diplomacy. Our own Government has, in fact, al- ready accepted and given a gracious response to the | invitation to send a representative to the conference, and other powers will surely do likewise. Even those statesmen and rulers who are most skeptical of the results of the conference will be glad to assist in holding it, if for no other reason than that of a curiosity to hear what the Czar has to propose. That none of them have any intention of agreeing to any scheme he may advance may be assumed from the fact that all the great powers are now increasing their armaments just as if a peace conference had never been heard of. Nevertheless, they will attend the council, they will listen to the proposals made, and will then discuss them. It is at that point the subject will become interesting and its possibilities begin to develop. The rescript is accounted of little note now because it is as yet wholly in the hands of diplomatists. When the conference meets, however, and the Czar's pro- posals are made public, that great body of taxpayers who are impatient of the cost of heavy and increasing armaments will begin to assert itself. There will come a discussion among the people as well as among the diplomatists. The evils of the existing conditions in Europe will be made apparent to all. The popular protests against further expenditures for armies and navies will grow sharper, stronger and more nu- merous, Out of it all, therefore, an agitation may come that will have a potent effect upon the politics of every Government in Europe, and what is now re- garded as a half-crazy scheme may develop. into a series of movements of genuine utility to the world. o A — PARTY LOYALTY AROUSED. ROM the degree of interest displayed at the or- ganization of the Assembly District Republican clubs on Tuesday evening an ample demonstra- tion was given of the earfestness which pervades the ranks of the party and animates the activity of its workers. The sign is an encouraging one at this early stage of the campaign and gives promise that the full Republican vote in all the districts will be polled on election day. The evidence thus afforded of zeal in the rank and file as well as among the leaders of the party is the more gratifying because the absence in this contest of great national issues like those of the tariff and sound money threatened to produce something like a political apathy in the public mind. It was noted the voters were slow in registering, and that the total number registered showed a heavy falling off from that of two years ago. Under such circumstances the outlook for a dis- play of Republican vigor in the canvass was some- what gloomy. The situation was the more serious because the experience of the last twenty-five years has shown that Republicans have been more or less indifferent in off years, and particularly so in the Congressional elections following a great Republican triumph in a Presidential contest. It is remembered that after the sweeping triumph of 1888 that elected Harrison and a Congress that enacted the McKinley tariff, the Republicans let the elections of 1890 go by default through over confi- dence, and fears have been felt in some quarters that a similar mistake might be committed this year. From the ardor shown at the Assembly District clubs, however, all such fears will be dissipated so far as San Francisco is concerned, and it is hardly to be doubted that in this respect the city fairly represents the State, Thisis nottobe a year of Republican apathy. The rank and file of the party are aroused. A genuine of it if she had been an advocate of it a little carlier. Perhaps if Bert Schiesinger had s string tied ml Bis resignation hie would be tugging at it right now. enthusiasm prevails and with confidence, but without belng over sanguine, the party will go forward to victory in November, . il s ment upon it was exhausted virtually upon the very | The only discernible ripple | THE HAWAIIAN RAIDS. LETTER from Honolulu conveys the infor- fl mation that a military board of inquiry has been convened by order of General King for the purpose of investigating certain lawless acts of the soldiers and formulating more stringent regula- tions for the garrison. The cause of the investigation is depredations committed by the soldiers. For some time past many complaints have been coming to the commanding general concerning the conduct of his men which it has become impossible to longer ignore. Soon after the arrival of the troops a number of them broke into the barracks of the Hawaiian Na- tional Guard and helped themselves to the relics of royalty which had been accumulated by the native soldiers. When the American bluecoats attempted to ship these treasures home they were detained and an investigation followed which has brought great dis- credit on the perpetrators of the outrage. On the 4th inst. a band of soldiers raided the fruit plantations of Manoa Valley, destroying much property and fright- ening the natives out of their wits. The latter took refuge at the residence of Minister Cooper, who lives in the valley, and that gentleman reported the affair to General Merriam. As soon as the able editors in this country who advocate territorial expansion become acquainted with these facts undoubtedly they will express con- siderable indignation. Indeed, we should not be sur- prised to hear that some of them had called on Presi- dent McKinley to terminate the “outrages.” But the soldiers will have cause to complain if the President or his officers shall set on foot measures to put a stop to raids in Manoa Valley or the housebreaking oper- ations of the military relic hunters. The soldiers know that the United States Government has stolen the island from the Hawaiians, and it will necessarily appear to them the merest splitting of hairs for the larcenist to object to their stealing relics of royalty, pineapples and bananas. Senator Hoar has said that the Hawaiians are children in intellect and dying out so fast that no heed need be given to their sentiments, but the logic of the situation is unchanged for all that. Having stolen the islands as a whole, why should we object to the soldiers stealing such small things as the royal relics of the native militia and the pineapples and bananas of Manoa Valley? Can it be possible that to the minds of the territorial expansionists grand larceny is a lesser offense than petty larceny? Before the Eastern jingoes become indignant at the Ha- waiian “outrages” they should dilate upon the argu- ment the soldiers will probably level at their heads. S MISS ANTHONY'S VIEW OF THE CASE. VERY current that flows in the stream of our E national life is water on the wheel of the mill of Miss Susan B. Anthony, and helps to grind her grist. It would be a strange event indeed in our development that did not furnish her with a new argument for the enfranchisement of woman and af- ford a new evidence in her eyes of the inferiority of man. The latest demonstration of her ability to turn to account whatever comes up is to be found in her re- cent declaration that the results of the Santiago cam- paign prove conclusively that the quartermaster, com- missariat and medical departments of our armies should hereafter be placed under the control of women exclusively. Miss Anthony claims that the housekeeper should be the campkeeper, and that the sex that cares for the food, clothing and nursing of men at home should be intrusted with the same care of men in the field. Had women been in charge of the supplies for the troops that made the descent upon Cuba there would have been no deficiencies anywhere according to Miss Anthony. The hurry of the movement, the necessity of hasty preparation, would not have flustered or flurried housewives who have been taught by long ex- perience how to get dinner ready on washdays or pro- vide for guests arriving unexpectedly. They would have managed to have everything in the camp around Santiago homelike and comfortable by the time the boys had landed from the transports, got their faces washed and were ready to sit down and eat. Miss Anthony has so large a following in the coun- try that her views never remain very long confined to herself. We may therefore expect her conclusions on this subject to be taken up by the woman suffra- gists generally and urged with great vehemence. A proposition to turn the whole camp management of our armies over to the ladies and to use men for the fighting line only is one of the projects we may have to consider when army reform comes up for discus- sion. The opponents of the new womanhood had therefore better get ready fof the coming debate and prepare themselves with arguments against female quartermistresses and commissariats. et THE VIRGINIA SENATORSHIP. ITZHUGH LEE is a candidate for the United F States Senatorship from Virginia, and, accord- ingly, the .incumbent of that office, Senator Martin, is somewhat worried. The General has contented himself with announcing his candidacy. The management of his campaign he has left to his Ariends. These naturaily enough have been extolling his services to the nation in Cuba as an evidence of his statesmanlike grasp of great subjects, and as an inevitable consequence the supporters of Senator Martin have been compelled to take issue with them. Thys it comes about that General Lee’s course as Consul General is undergoing a political investiga- tion, and he is learning that even a hero cannot es- cape criticism when he becomes a candidate for office. From the reports that come to us the ecriticisms thus far made upon the consular career of the General are hardly likely to lower his repute among the peo- ple of Virginia or to injure his chances in the Legis- lature, It is stated that his opponents declare that by reason of his course at Havana Lee was largely responsible for precipitating the war with Spain when one might have been avoided. The charge is made that he is too much of a jingo, and that he did not, while Consul General, and does not now, rightly represent the sentiments of the people of Virginia. From this distance it would appear that such charges are designed rather to help than to injure the candidacy of the General. Whatever view may have been taken in Virginia of the Cuban situation just before the outbreak of the war, that of an overwhelm- ing majority of the people at large was essentially the same as that of Lee. The country noted his course at Havana with confidence and with pride, and, al- though he was a Democrat, there was a general satis- faction when the Republican administration retained him in his office. If the contest is continued on the lines laid down it is a safe prediction that when the next Congress meets ‘Senator Martin will have an “ex” before his title and the General will be known as Senator Lee. — With the opening of the Widber trial comes an- other exhibition of the farce ‘of selecting jurymen. Any citizen who has read of the case is rejected, and any who says he has not read of it ought to be re- jected for stupidity if for nothing worse | [CACROROROXOROXOFOROROROXORORO0OROXOROROROROJOROROROROROXOROXOORORCONONOROROXOXORORORORONOROROXORONOROROROROXOROROOROROROROROROROROXOXOROROROROROROXOROROROROROXOROXORo o XoXoXo¥o Yo Yo XoRoRoYoXoRORoXoRoRooXoXooRo Yo XoXooYoxoloxoRoRororoIoxcIorororororororororororororo) CHANGED HIS MIND. How De Young Condemned in 1886 What He Is Doing in 1898. M. H. de Young has evidently experienced a change of policy since the campaign of #886, when he used the columns of the Chronicle to ac- complish the defeat of all Republican nominees for the Legislature who declined to announce how they stood on the fight for United States Senator in the event of party success and there being a Republican majority on joint ballot. Mr. de Young, notwithstanding his half-hearted denial that he is an aspirant for Senatorial honors, is making what he styled in 1886 ‘“a still hunt” for the office. He was out in open arms against the late A. A. Sargent at that time, and the: Republican legislative niominees throughout the State received a letter from him requesting them to inform him how they intended voting on the United States Sen- atorial fight. Those who refused to give him the information he de- sired were attacked by the Chronicle and their political pathway made anything but one of roses. The editorials of the Chronicle in 1886 are applicable to-day by sub- stituting the name of M. H. de Young for that of A. A. Sargent. Mr. de Young insisted upon Sargent making an open and above-board fight, if he was in the Senatorial race. That is all The Call asks of Mr. de Young in this campaign. Let him practice the principle he so strongly advocated in 1886, In order that his stand in that year may be properly put before the voters of the State, the following few excerpts are taken from the editorial columns of the Chronicle. ~What he then thought of an indorsement by the Legislature is best expressed by a few gems culled from the Chronicle September 15, 1886: If the Republicans elect a majority of the Legislature he (Sargent) will endeavor to secure the aid of the corporations and the Jobbers generally and then should he prove successful he will claim that he has been indorsed by the people. Of course he cannot hum- bug the people by making'such aclaim. . . . An indorsement by the average Legislature seems more like a seal of condemnation than a compliment. . . . Sargent can help us in this matter if he wishes to. Let him ask the nominees who are favorable to his elec- tion to openly declare themselves. . . . There must be plain talk in this campaign. Candidates cannot be allowed to shelter themselves behind the worn-out excuse that they have not made up their minds. Mr. de Young was also of the opinion that the people had a right to know Wwho their candidate for Senator was to be, as is shown by the following ex- tracts from an editorial published in the Chronicle September 16, 1886: Why not demand of every man who wants to go to the Legislature what he intends to do when the time comes to vote for Senator? Surely the people whom the Senator will represent have a right to know who he is going to be. To refuse to furnish them with the in- formation will raise such presumption of intended corruption that no wise candidate will run the risk. Nine-tenths of the men who will shortly be up for election will have to show their hands and in this way the people of California may have a Senator who is their very own choice. Mr. de Young had during that same campaign a wholesome fear of “Dumb Candidates,” for he expressed himself as follows through the Chronicle on September 20, 1886: Things have come to a pretty pass—have they notP—when a can- didate for the Legislature presumes to keep his intentions as to the Senator a secret from his constituents. Have the people of California any distinct perception of the fact that they are being disfranchised by the present practice of the bosses? . . . The danger, standing like a lion in the path of the working of the American system, arises from the anomalous position of the United States Senate. . . . The Senate instead of representing the interests of States, represents nothing but the interestsof corporations, syndicates and monopolists, which are not confined to any one State, but are spread over all the States. Senators owe their seats to boodle and for the interests of boodle, they keep them. That it is a very bad idea to attempt to decelve the people was the opinion of Mr. de Young in 188. That is just what The Call is advising him not to attempt by any half-way denial of his soaring ambition. In the editorial columns of the Chronicle on October 16, 1886, appeared the follow- ing good advice: Sargent had better throw off the mask and play a bold game. He has cast his fortunes with the corporations and there is no use of his trying to make believe that he thinks of the good or ill of the party that he has unfortunately fastened himself upon. He has nothing to do with the party or the people. If he is elected he will owe his suc- cess to corporation money and influence and he will be the corpora- tion representative in the Senate and not the people’s. Again in the editorial columns of the Chronicle on October 21, 188, ap- pears the following: The election of Sargent tp the Senate would mean the defeat of the Republicans in this State in 1888. Once before he was willing to sacrifice the party to his corrupt ambition. He is indifferent to its fate now, provided he can go where he can do more good for the railroad monopoly than “six new men.” In an editorial published in the Chronicle of October 26, 1886, Mr. de Young freely expressed his opinion of a candidate who would go off on “a still hunt.” Among other things he said: Is this not worth consideration? No paper has tried to make any- thing like a straightforward advocacy of Sargent for the United States Senate. . . . The reason is easy to fathom. The papers which really favor Sargent know that they would prejudice his inter- ests if they openly proclaimed their devotion to him, because candi- date and editor wear the same collar. The order has gone out for a still hunt to be made. . . . The still hunt dodge is a good one when no one is watching, but when ine hunters in the shape of vot- ers stand around with independent ballots in hundreds of Pprecincts, ready to lay out the game, there is really no show for it. A few days before the election, in fact, on October 30, 1886, Mr. in an editorial under the headline “An Elective Farce,” sentiments that are appropriate to-day, by er of the Chronicle for that of Sargent: The action of Republican legislative candidates who refuse to state whether they ere for or against Sargent for the Senate furnishes one of the best arguments against our present method of electing a Uni- ted States Senator. It shows that the people have really no voice in the matter. . . . Isn’t it afarce that all this elaborate ma- chinery should be put in motion to carry into the United States Sen- ate a man whom the people, if they could cast a direct vote in the matter, would retire permanently to private life? From the editorfal columns of the Chronicle of October 25, 185, are taken ed s v But no matter how much we may deplore i evinced by the people, if they allowed the corpgmusn to g:v:a:‘h“ez to voting blindly for men who will do its bidding in the Legislature by electing Sargent, we would still feel that we had done our duty in warning them to avoid the path they were treading. ‘We shall never be brought to admit that an election has any sig- nificance unless the issue is clean cut and well defined. . . . Let the voters understand the question. Put it before them in this naked shape: “Do you want a Senator to represent you at Washington or a Senator to represent the special interests of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky?” The hideous deformity of the idea will then be apparent to every one. j de Young, gave voice to the substituting the name of the own- ©@®©©®@©*®@©©@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@8 foYoYoXoXoXoRo¥o¥o¥ololoololoRoxoorooroXoXoJooYoYooyoXoRoXoXoXoXoX oo XOJOROROROROXOROROROROROROROXOROROROROROJOROJOROXO) IO X CXOROXOJOXOXOROXOJOROXOFOXOXOXOXOXO ONoNOFoXoXOXOROXOROROXOROROOXONORONONOFOROXOROROROJOROROROROYORORONOXS RN R N X R OX X OX X XN RO XXX @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Francis A. Fee, a lawyer of Madera, is at the Lick. 8. F. Gell, the capitalist of Balinas, is at the Occidental. Thomas Wylde, a mining man, arrived yesterday from New Zealand. E. B. Willls and wife, of the Sacra- mento Union, is at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. V. 8. McClatchy of Sac- ramento are at the California. J. M. Leonard, assistant superintendent of the Sutro mine in Nevada, is at the Russ. J. 8. Hogg, ex-Governor of Texas, and daughters returned yesterday from a trip to Honolulu. Dr. W. W. Eastman of Sonora is at the Lick, having returned from a four months’ trip in the East. Olive Harrington, manager of a large coffee plantation in Java, arrived vester- ;lnydmx the Alameda on his way to Eng- and. Noonan and Frank Owens, ‘members of a big Vermont syndicate for the raising of prize sheep, have just re- turned from Australia, where they have disposed of some of their fine stock. Durward Lely and wife, the well-known vocalists, were among the passengers on the Alameda. They are at the Occidental. H. J. Emmet, the California ventrilo- quist, has returned to this city after an absence of two years, which he spent in traveling through China and Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Sully arrived on the Ala- meda yesterday and are stopping at the Palace. Mr. Sully is president of the Broken Hill Silver Mining Company at Victoria. Father A. Dorothee, archimandrite of the Greek Catholic Churech of Sydney, is in town and will remain for some time. Judge M. K. Harns of Fresno is regis- tered at the Lick. C. R. Buxton, a son of Sir Powell Bux- ton, the Governor of South Australia, and R. H. Brand, a son of the Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales, arrived in this city on their way to Eng- land, where they will attend college. Austin_Strong, the grand stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, arrived on the Alameda yesterday. He has been at col- lege In Wellington, New Zealand, and will Join his mother in New York. On the trip up young Austin, who is 17 years of age, visited Valima, the home of the il- lustrious Robert Louis. Robert Roberts of Birmingham, the noted writer on religious subjects, and the author of “Christendom Astray,” ar- rived yesterday on the Alameda and will remain In this city for a few days. Frank X. Cicott, formerly coiner of the Mint at ‘San Francisco during the ad- ministrations of Presidents Grant and Hayes, arrived on the steamship Alameda en route to New York City, where he now resides. Mr. Cicott has made a tour of the world, via Europe, E; t, India, Australasia and the South Sea Islands. ———ee—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—W. J. Shel- don of San Francisco is at the St. James. Charles C. Wright and wife of Los An- geles are visiting relatives in Washing- ton. NIGHT SONG. See! the summer, my love, comes anew All that to review. And her scarf flung so free o’er the hills Wakes to laughing the rills. Oh, the odor is sweet, and the dew, By the paths that we knew. Over flelds lighted white by the moon, Comes the wind with a tune. Through the trees gleam the stars, and s0 rare Each caress of the air. Ah, my love, once so true, can it be All forgotten of thee? Know, my lady, the prints of your feet Bless each woodland retreat, And where'er you have been, it is there That I roam in despair. You may smile and forget if you will, | But with me it is ill. But to meet for a day once again! Thus alway I complain. And of you all the night voices croon When the world seems aswoon, Lo, my heart beats in pain unresigned. Oh, my lady, be kind. —Theo. Dreiser in Ainslie’s Magazine. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “WHAT TO EAT”—C. A. J., City. The magazine called “What to Eat"” is pub- | lished in MEnnefiLpfi)l}it ‘M'lnn. | DUPONT TO THE FERRY-J. H. 8., | City. The distance in yards from Du- | pont and Sacramento streets to the ferry landing is 1411. GLADSTONE IN IRELAND-S., City. | The late W. E. Gladstone was given ‘(he freedom of the City of Dublin in Ire- land on the 17th of October, 1§77. THE MORNING STAR—C. F. B., Stock- ton, Cal. The Morning Star recently re- turned to this rt from Honolulu is the same Morning Star that sailed from this | port for the Soutn Seas some time ago. HOME SAVINGS B. —C., City. The latest dividend paid b. People’s Home | Savings Bank in liquidation was the one of the 20th of July, 1888. It was 3 per | cent, making a total of 21 per cent paid. | to that date. If you desire to become a trained nurse you can make ap- | plication to become in either the City | and County Hospital on Potrero avenue, | near Twenty-third street, or the Hos- | pital for Children at the corner of Cali- | fornia and Maple streets. In each of these institutions there is a training school for nurses. —= e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_———— h Bpecial information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the- Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—— Venezuela has an enormous territory, claiming 632000 square miles of area. It is about as large as Alaska and Arizona. —_———— . First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. MOKI TEA POSITIVELY CURES SICK headache, indigestion and constipation. A de- lightful herb drink. Removes all eruptions of the skin, producing a perfect complexion, or money refunded. At No Percentage Pharmacy. —— e Volunteers leaving for the South—Provide yourselves with a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angoa- tura Bitters. Prevents ill effects of bad water. ADVERTISEMENTS. United States Branch. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY F_LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, ON THB 8ist day of December, A. D. 1897, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Cali- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Real estate owned by company......§2,032,077 43 ans on bonds and mortgage: 272,000 08 Cash market value of all stocl bonds owned by compan: 3,951,329 41 Cash in company’s offics 1,457 53 Cash in Banks......... prete 814,964 40 nterest lue an: accrue stocks and loans 47,457 08 Interest due an and_mortgages. . 1,120 00 Premiums in due course of collection 762,562 1 Bills recelvable, not matured, taken for fire and marine ris 1,678 71 | Rents due and accrued 10,040 12 Due from other compa: surance on losses already pal Total BSSEtS ..oeooveseciiniuns LIABILITIES. ses adjusted and unpaid......... $59,0271 in suspense ... 837,184 07 Losses resisted, including expe: 62,075 70 Gross premiums on fire risks ru ning one year or less, $3,211,567 reinsurance 50 per cent.............. 1,605,788 71 Gross premiums on fire risks ru ning more than ome year, $4,4 809 64;. reinsurance pro rata. 2,241,059 50 Amount_reclaimable by the 'on perpetual fire insurance policies 222,251 1§ Liability under life department...... 121,45 75 Due and accru salarfes, rent, taxes, eto 57,288 43 11 other Ay 225,967 83 Total Mabilittes ...... 082,112 88 INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums $4,597,355 53 Received for interesf and mortgages ....... .o 12,6352 Received for intere ds on bonds, stocks, loans and from all other sources.. 179,249 99 Recelved for rents... 41,507 21 Total NCOMe ..oerreesiereeerurensad $4,836, 847 98 EXPENDITURES. Net amount pald for fire losses (in- cluding $465,740 98, losses of vious years) .. Paid or allowed for commission DrOKErAge -.oovveenseeanunnn 3,325 83 Paid for salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, et 240,138 79 Paid for State, national and I g o 117,08 28 All other payments and expend| 253,089 58 Total expenditures ............. Losses Incurred during the vear. Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks,[Premiums. Net amount of risks writ- ten during the vear. Net amount of risks pired during the vear..| 623,744,013 5,689,255 48 Net amount in force De- cember 31, 1397 780,815,754 7,613,115 68 E. F. BEDDALL, United States Manager. Bubscribed and sworn to before me this th day of January, 1808, EDMUND HARVEY, Notary Public. PACIFIC DEPARTMENT Royal insurance Building, COR. PINE AND SANSOME STS., SAN FRANCISCO. ROLLA V. WATT, Manager. JOHN R. HILLMAN, Mgr. Local Department, BRANCH OFFICE : The J. D. MAXWELL CO, $704,857, 441/55,995,897 74