The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1898, Page 6

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Ulympta—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. tuiro’s Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES, By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, September 23, Carpets, at 226 Powell street, at 11 0 clock. THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. N at Washington should be animated by a unity of purpose and of sentiment. While the campaigns of the year may be waged mainly on State questions, there are nevertheless grave and portentous tional issues waiting to be dealt with, and for the right solution of the problems involved in them there ! will be required a full harmony of action between the administration and both branches of Congress. Neither in the domain of domestic nor of foreign politics will there be possible the adoption and en- forcement of consistent, straightforward policies if Congress, or either branch of it, is antagonistic to the administration. We have seen the evil effects of di- vided councils at Washington during the session of Congress which has just closed. Having no effec- tive majority in the Senate, it was impossible for the Republicans to pass a currency reform bill or to pro- vide for the upbuilding of an American merchant marine adequate to the demands of our commerce. Other measures hardly less important than these were also set aside by reason of this antagonism between the two houses. If similar conditions prevail in the next Congress similar results will follow. Currency reform will be again postponed, the fiat money fanatics will resume their agitations, American shipping interests will be again denied the protection needed to emable them to live and work in competition with the subsidized shipping interests of European nations, and the whole iscue of the grave problems of our foreign relations will be left to the chances of party log-rolling and political compromises. These issues affect business interest and every industry of the people. They are not to be overlooked simply because the fused factions of op- position in this campaign are evading great national questions and trying to distract the attention of the voters from them. The nation never had larger affairs involved in the elections of an off year than in this one. Never were the Congressional contests of more importance. Never was it more imperative to elect a majority of representatives in harmony with the administration. Never was it more essential to the general welfare that the Senate should be in accord with the other branches of the Government. It is therefore the duty of every citizen to promote Republican success in the Congressional districts, and to that end work should begin at once. EVER in our history has it been more desirable than now that all departments of the Government na- every A NEW REFORM PROGRAMME. ATSON of the woolly brain and wild voice is W silent, Sam Jones has not been heard to dis- turb the atmosphere for some time, and still Georgia is not without her agitations. A new re- former has arisen in the land where Toombs, Stephens and Cobb lie buried, and proposes a new political movement which, with the fervor of a Sam Jones re- vival, pops louder than Populism itself and threatens to raise Cain and even Hades all over these United States. This reformer proposes that on each New Year's day there shall be held an election in every county in the United States, at which each voter shall declare by ballot whom he regards as the worst and most demcralizing citizen in the county. The person whose name is found on a plurality of the ballots. is under the reform system to be publicly hanged on the first day of the ensuing February. The Governor is to have no right of pardon in cases of this kind, nor is there to be any appeal to the Supreme Court on any question involved in the law or its processes. The argument of the reformer is that under the operation of his proposed law each county would get rid of its worst citizen in the first year, and that thereafter all bad citizens would either move off to some place where they are not known, or else re- pent and reform. There would be, he claims, an itnmediate moral elevation of the whole people. All men, and partieularly all “prominent citizens.” would at once really and earnestly strive to be good. The idea, while too radical for adoption in prac- tical gelitics, is too valuable to be wholly lost. We have been striving for a long time in this country to bring about an elevation of the stage. Why not try the Georgia reform scheme for a season in theatrical circles? TIf it works well there we can then extend it to the nation. Perhaps the policemen who were with Lieutenant Burke when he was killed are not as cowardly as re- ported. At least they have the nerve to remain and try to defend themselves, when they have had all these months in which to resign. France might establish its allegation that Henry really committed suicide, All that would be neces- sary to do would be to demonstrate that having cut his throat from ear to ear, the gentleman swallowed e razor. ¥ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1898. THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD. W E believe that the candidacy of Judge Maguire with the concurrent proposition of constitu- tional amendment No. 2, which is known as the single tax amendment, is having a de- pressing effect upon real estate values. Men will not invest their earnings in real estate in the immediate prospect of its confiscation. Judge Maguire refuses to defend land confis- cation while he is a candidate. He stakes his election on the railroad issue, and tells the people that if he is defeated the East will take it as evidence that Cali- fornia has given up the fight against the funding bill. This declaration ignores the fact that there is no funding bill to fight. A year ago Maguire was hob- bing and nobbing with Senator Morgan and certify- ing him as the apostle of anti-funding. If we mistake not, the Democratic party officially extended its thanks to Senator Morgan for his position on that question. Morgan has fought that issue to a finish, and says that the legislation of the last session leaves nothing more to be done, that the question is settled and the issue is concluded. Now if Judge Maguire’s defeat is going to make such a deep negative impres- sion in the East, what will be the affirmative effect of his election? In his speech in the House, of the 4th of last Peb- ruary, he spotted all of the privileged classes against which he declared war. First in the list he put the private land-owner, whom he called an “aggressor and monopolist,” the “strong and cunning” despoiler of “the weak and undesigning.” He said it was the duty of the Government to restore all land to the people, and did not propose any compensation to thé present owners. These views are not new with the Judge. In Barry’s Starof April 17, 1886, Maguire said: “Believing that the taking of all ground rent for public purposes would place all citizens t:pon a level, I am in favor of an amendment to the constitution of California pro- viding for raising all revenue for public purposes by a single tax on land.” Again, on May 29 of the same year he said in the Star: “We must learn that this is the people’s coun- try, and its land should be and must be of natural right forever the heritage of the whole people. This indefensible monopoly of the God-given land (private ownership), which is merely a government privilege to the monopolist, should be immediately abolished, just as a letter of marque would be canceled or the commission of a guerrilla annulled.” Here it will be observed that he likens the land- owner to a pirate, sailing under letters of marque and reprisal, or to a guerrilla, who robs and murders under a commission. It would be interesting to hear his explanation of these views. Throughout his record on the issue he has dealt in invective and appeals to the prejudice of the non-landholder. Being desirous, as he says, of leveling all mankind, of course his views are attrac- tive to all who believe that some time the thrifty and industrious shall be compelled to divide their prop- erty with those who are not thrifty and industrious. Men whose tastes lead them to rural pursuits invest their earnings in real property. Those whose tastes run to trade and finance invest their earnings in per- sonal property. In Maguire's view the land investor is a robber whose property must be taken from him without compensation, while the investor in personal property is not only to be protected by the laws and courts, the Police and Fire departments, but is to be wholly exempt from taxation to pay for that protec- tion! $ Great efforts have been for years sustained here to attract a rural population to California. We have tried to induce the Eastern land-holder to sell his real estate and reinvest here, and become a producer. The farmer looks upon his land as something more than the means of producing a living. To him it rep- resents not only its first cost as an investment, but it represents the labor by which he subjects it to culti- vation and puts it to its best uses. This increment to the value of his land is the product of labor solely, which has increased its fertility, by draining it where too wet for cultivation and irrigating it where too dry. If the owner’s tastes leads him toward other occupations he desires to withdraw his investment from land by selling it and adding to its first cost, in- terest and taxes, the increment due to his labor. Or as age dictates cessation of the hard labor of the farm he wishes either to sell it and retire, or to rent it and seck the ease and peace required by his age and past toil. Under the Maguire plan of confiscation he can neither sell nor rent. Not owning the land, he cannot transfer it for a consideration, nor can he rent it and live on the income, for Maguire says “All ground rent must be taken for public purposes,” in order to put mankind “on a level.” In the shadow of such a policy all land values cease, No man will sell in another State to buy here. Therefore, when we study the effect of Judge Ma- guire’s defeat, which he says will impress the East that California has given up the funding fight that Morgan declares is already ended, let us remember that the East is thoroughly indifferent to the funding fight anyway. Its various phases have neither pro- moted nor restrained immigration to California nor affected our local development. At one time, when it seemed to involve the possibility of overland rail competition, it assumed an interest with which it can never be reinvested, because the Valley Road has al- ready accomplished that. It is plain, therefore, that Maguire’s defeat will make no impression in the East unfavorable to California by reason of the dead issue of the funding bill. We are then free to consider the affirmative effect of his election, in the light of his declaration that land-owners are “monopolists and aggressors,” the despoilers of “the weak and undesigning,” and are like pirates and guerrillas. Garcia is now declared to be against the indepen- dence of Cuba. The old man ought to try something for what ails him. He manifests' the symptoms of gout, although how a man could acquire this disease on a diet of raw onions and ditch water remains to be explained. No more soldiers on their way to the Philippines arc to be entertained at Honolllu. Perhaps this is the reason the soldiers now in the isl.ands are trying to do a little entertzining themselves, with particular reference to the amusement of the police. R Rumor has it that a clash is likely betweén the French and English at Fashoda. But then Rumor always was an old liar, and it must be remembered that the chance to make a subject of the war with Spain is about over. There can be no excuse for doling out to the sol- diers at Benicia anything but decent rations, and the boys can kick without having their patriotism called into question. Aguinaldo will be judged more by his actions in the Philippines than by any speeches his representatives may make in this country. As matters look just now Dreyfus ought to be lguteful for the prospect of being murdered. GEMS FROM DE YOUNG'S ALBUM i OF THOUGHT. VIDENCE is not lacking that M. H. de Young E has experienced a new birth. The remade De Young retains enough of the old to show the process has not been complete. ~Neither has the operation been an improvement. There seems to have been a hitch, and he came out of the transfor- mation worse than he went in. This is demonstrated by a glance at the files of his esteemed paper as it essayed to mold opinion during the Senatorial campaign of 1886. That series of issues constitutes a veritable Album of Thought, and now De Young would bury its gems and forget that he ever created them. Marvelous change; and all in a dozen brief years. The Call has no personal fight to make upon De Young. It realizes that he is not fit to be a Senator, that in selecting him for this high position the Re- publicans would assume a burden greater than they could bear, that the people of California will not tol- erate De Young, and that bosses attempting to foist him upon the party will send the legislative ticket down to certain defeat and weaken the ticket from end to end. Therefore The Call thinks the present the proper time in which to express its views, which, as to this matter in hand, are the views of the Repub- lican hosts. For years De Young has yearned for the office. He was never near it, and the exposure of his present tactics prevents him from being near it now. He is trying to make a “still” hunt. We are interfering merely by projecting into the situation a little wholesome noise. This is for the public good and not for the purpose of annoying. Despite the fact that quotations from De Young’s own journal were freely given yesterday morning, some of them are so appropriate, so _timely and breathe such sincere conviction, that they are well worth presenting again. Here are a few: September 15—8argent can help us in this matter if he wishes to. Let him ask the nominees who are favorable to his election to openly declare themselves. September 16—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? 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. 8eptember 20—Things have come to a pretty pass—have they not? when a candi=- date for the Legislature presumes to keep his intentions as to the Senatorship a secret from his constituents. October 18—Sargent had better throw off the mask and play a bold game. October 21—The election of Sargent to the Scnate would mean the defeat of the Repub= licans in this State in 1888. October 30—Isn’t it a farce that all this elaborate machinery should be put in motion to carry into the United States Secnate a man whom the people, if they could cast a direct vote in the matter, would retire to private life ? There is much more of the same tenor. We coun- sel Mr. de Young to read it all, to substitute his name understand the popular feeling. De Young is trying to do just what he accused Sargent of trying to do, and should he succeed the effect will be precisely that chance of realizing his ambition, and he is the only man, perhaps, in the State whom this fact has failed to impress. If his political record were not enough furnish the weapon ‘with which he commits hara-kiri. e —————— A NEW ERA IN POLITICS. W diate construction of a railway froni Bakers- field to Los Angeles, thus providing for a competitiye transcontinental thoroughfare, there well as in business. There will be no longer a rail- road monopoly to oppress trade, and consequently no longer an excuse for agitators and demagogues be, in fact, radically changed, and with the altered conditions there will be necessarily a change in the issues of State politics. are wise they will forestall the inevitable by withdraw- ing themselves and their agents from politics at once. There is no longer any reason why that company, active factor in political contests. No Legislature, however subservient the members might be, could save the company from the effects of the competition petition the people have no further reason to desire the enactment of legislation adverse to the road. Under the changed conditions railroading in Califor- competition like any other, and those who conduct it will have no interests in politics different from those which concern all business men. continue to denounce the monopoly for the rest of this campaign just as they have always done. When dogs begin to bay the moon and have roused one the moon has gone down. So it will be in the cam- paign this year. The monopoly is sinking below the horizon, but Maguire and his satellite orators will have nothing else to bark at. That fact, however, should not seriously disturb good citizens. The mon- opoly is dead. needed but one thing, and that is the exercise of or- dinary discretion on the part of the old monopoly officials. They have now nothing to gain by doing for them to close the doors of the Southern Pacific Company against the bosses and the henchmen of all parties. Let them go out of politics and stay out wherever that of Sargent appears, and then he will outlined by himself twelve years ago. He has no to kill him, the editorials from his Album of Thought ITH the assurance now given of the imme- ought to result in California a new era in politics as to howl against railroads. The whole situation will If the managers of the Southern Pacific Company any more than other corporations, should be an of the new line now projected, and with that com- nia becomes a business subject to the restraints of Of course the demagogues of the fused factions will another to rivalry they are apt to go on baying after continue to view it with alarm simply because they For the full clearing up of the situation there is politics and everything to lose. The time has come for their own good as well as for that of t}}e State. Senator Thurston of Nebraska has some derog- gatory remarks to make concerning “space-writers.” What sort of a writer was the Senator when he went to Cuba as a Hearstling? An Oakland wife of fifteen years’ experience in this cold world and a year’s marital experience is suin for divorce. What her husband merits is not so much freedom as lynching. An exposition as to the moralstatus ofa pawnbroker who buys a $150 clock from a boy for 135 cents would make interesting reading which the police. would do well to scan. Resignations of the entire War Department will be cheerfully accepted by the Evening Report. THE SINGLE TAX 4S REVOLUTIONARY A IMPERIALISM. SAN FRANCISCO, September 19, 139f8l:e- To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: I have written for yol: sti- quently on the proposed imperialistic policy which has threatened om; “‘he tutions, and, upon that point, your powertul editorials, especially during oa last week, have almost exhausted the possibilities of argument. Bmdynt have permitted me to express my opinions, as your correspondent, Henry James, heads his weekl- contributions, “With Entire Frankness, and in reference to the speech of General Barnes on Satu oy night, and E;‘ Declally on account of some further observations [ have to offer from the altitude of Jeffersonian Democracy, I wish to say that, in my opinion, £0 much of that speech as sought to propel the doctrine of imperialism upon the waves of oratory was constitutionally unsound, argumentatively weak, and wicked In its influence. - The wickedness 1.as not that of th. :peaker, but of the sentiment he aimed to feed and to excite. ThLe views of constitutional law, in its application to imnerialism, which you have editorially expressed, are as accurate as they are deep. searchin~ and patriotic. Not even a third- rate lawyer, who had studied the question, could venture to iclaim, upon principle and authority, that the constitution of the United States sanc- toned, or that ‘he structure of our Government tolerated, the holding of gonquered dependencies or the acquisition of indigestible populations through the annexation of forelgn territory. The only argument attempted to Justify our subordination to British ideas and policy are based upon Lord Brougham's fallacy that our constitution Is “like a painted stick, stuck in the ground,” and upon the real or pretended political belief that peaceful revolution, the most insidious of all processes, is essential to the fulfillment of our destiny. So far as it has progressed, the proposed subversion of the principles upon which we have relied, and the world has depended, for the perma- nent establishment of the most perfect form of government that the wit of men, almost Inspired, could devise, has furnished an almost exact parallel to the declining years of the Republic of Rome, and the rhetorical appeals to inflamed passions and to speculative and morbid ambition, whether inten- Honally or unintentionally, are mere invitations to treason. There is no con- celvable ground of law or of policy upon which the frenzied suicide ofsthe great American Republic could be relieved of the elements of the most atrocious crime against humanity and the greatest catastrophe of history. I have said before in these columns that a permanent standing army to hold Asiatic populations would be necessarily composed of mercenaries. I add now, as attested by the events of the past, that, to keep it from mis- chief, such an army would have to be constantly employed. Within a few months, upon the streets of San Francisco and in other parts of the United States, we have had practical lllustrations, and many of them, even with the splendid material of our present army, of the effect of the withdrawal of citizens into military life when the activities and the definite operations of war have ceased. Quite enough has been developed to bring home to the American })eople the danger to liberty, to order and to solid progress upon American lines, which the transformation of the United States into a mili- tary power, bent upon conquest and spreading American civilization by the rifle and cannon, must inevitably entail. But, while these reflections are induced by a part of the address of Gen- eral Barnes, not in any way affecting the State canvass now in progress, the remainder of his speech I can almost entirely commend and indorse. He derides Jeffersonian Democracy, which constitutes my political creed, but he admits the greatness of Grover Cleveland, in which I agree with him, and with signal ability and success he exposes the unnatural product of the meretricious union between the flexible representatives of Populism and the politicians who have seized the Democratic organization. As a consistent member of that great historical party, which has helped to develop our country, and, whatever its perturbations in practice, has preserved un- broken continuity tn fundamental principles from Jefferson to Cleveland, I concur in the proposition that the most vital necessity in this State to-day is to defeat a combination which has trampled upon the most sacred doc- trines of American Democracy, which is not the democracy of Greece or of France, and has invaded the citadel not only of Democracy, but of Americanism as heretofore occupied by all parties. It Is said that the single tax is nc: an issue, and yet James G. Maguire and his most earnest supporters—men of convictions, too, and not without strength—are arguing that issue day by day as if it were, as it is, essential to hybrid success to convince the people that they would be benefited, and their contributions to the support of the Government reduced, by that plain attempt to confiscate their property, which would require not only an amendment to the State constitution, but the evisceration of the Federal constitution itself. The single tax proposition is as revolutionary as im- perialism, and it is involved In the platform of the Populists, which Mr. Maguire has subscribed and indorsed. Government ownership of railroads and of other public utilities, the very essence of centralization, Is equally antagonistic to the avowed principles of the Democratic party for a century. The attempt to reduce the three depart- ments of government to one and the supervision of the legislative depart- ment by fluctuating majorities is in the last degree obroxious, not only to Jeffersonian Democrats, but to every American who believes in the checks and balances of the constitution. Attacks upon the judiclary and its actions through injunctions or other- ‘wise are utterly inconsistent with that stability which alone can keep liberty on its legs and furnish it with the means of subsistence. Loose slanders are cheap and frequent, but the judicial department is as necessary as the ex- ecutive or the legislative department, and while our government exists the integrity of each must be preserved. Corrupt Judges can be and should be impeached, and if injunctions, which have been the most useful aids to equity, are too frequent, they can be limited by legislation. The American people have always sustained the courts because that is one of the guaran- tees of the constitution which the wisdom of our ancestors provided for the protection of life, of freedom and of property. The ascendency of socialistic principles or of sand-lot methods would ir- retrievably damage this great State, of which Democrats as well as Repub- licans are justly proud. In these days when constitutional law is coolly brushed aside by politicians who are hungry for office, and when ancient and venerable names which conveyed American ideas are desecrated with a ‘wanton disregard of facts and of fundamental rights, conservative Republi- cans and conservative Democrats, however differing in-their views of policles within the constitution, are necessarily brought Into closer relations than have heretofore existed, and they should at least determine that conven- ticns which have reiterated the heresies of the Chicago platform and have ostentatiously repudiated every citizen who did not vote for Bryan and free silver at 16 to 1, shall not unsettle property and business and shut the dgor in the face of that prosperity which now seeks an entrance to California by land and by sea. On the whole, therefore, I am disposed to applaud General Barnes, though I cannot be carried on the wings of his vivid imagination to the PUBLICOLA. misty region of the Philippines. UNION LABOR AND MANUFACTURER. To the Editor of The Morning Call: In a recent issue of your paper there ap- peared a report of the proceedings of the Labor Council, in which A. Furuseth, of the Coast Seamen’s Union, is sald to have denounced the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Assoclation as an organization of men who neither manufacture nor produce; he also declared that said assoclation made a concerted effort some time 2go to break up every trade unfon in this city, and, as a result of driving out the workingmen, the manufacturers themselves were driven to the wall and are now crying out against Eastern competition. Now, Mr. Editor, being a member of Iron Molders’ Unfon No. 164, which Is represented in the Labor Council, and also a member of the board of directors of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, I deem it my duty to say that the attack of Mr. Furuseth was un- provoked and unjust. Prior to the formation of the Manufacturers’ and - Pro- ducers’ Association there was a society known here as the Engineers’ and Iron Founders' Assoclation, which was organized mainly to crush labor unions, and after a long and bitter struggle, it succeeded In weakening many of the local or- ganizations, but, as Mr. Furuseth knows, that soclety has long since ceased to exist, and I am sure the experience of those connected with it has been that its work was disastrous to all concerned, because our city has not prospered as a manufacturing center since that period. Mr. Furuseth and many other labor men, including myself, attended, by invitation of the manufacturers, the meet- ing at which the Manufacturers' and Producers’ Association was formed, and he knows that ever since its inception there has been one representative of some labor union on the board of directors—Mr. McGlynn, of the Printers’ Union, be- ing the first to serve in that capacity, and when he resigned, owing to absence from the city, I was chosen to fill the vacancy, and I must say that during my. experience of nearly two years there has not been a word spoken nor act performed by sald board that could be comstrued as unfriendly to organized labor; on the contrary, the members have been most friendly to me, and, while labor union matters are not discussed, I can plainly see that they desire to forget the past unpleasantness and are now trying to work for the general good of all the people of our city and State, which they believe can best be attained by the manufacture and sale here of home products, leaving the question of unionizing the workshops to the employes themselves. Mr. Furuseth should know that if the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association is what he terms it I would not be there, and I know that he would not have been present at its or- ganization as a representative of labor had he belfeved its intention to be hos- tile to our Interests as union men; and if he will but study its well known rec- ord for good, he will plainly see that he has made a mistake. I understand that the discussion referred to in the council was caused by the introduction, by Mr. Dunn of the Cigar-makers’ Union, of a resolution in favor of the consumption of home products. About six months ago the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association, through its president, Mr. Kerr of the Occidental Foundry, a strictly union shop, asked the Labor Council, through the Molders’ Union, which s represented there, to join the manufacturers in an ef. fort to obtaln legislation requiring each State to use the products of its own prisons entirely, and thus relieve us of that kind of cheap labor competition. The Labor Council declined to act unless the manufacturers would consent to unionize their shops and adopt the union label; this the manufacturers posi- tively declined to do, and since then there has been no atiempt at concerted ac- tion by either party. The logical result of the advice given by Mr. Furuseth would be to close every workshop to all the mechanics represented in the Labor Councll, for why should any local manufacturer employ a man who, is pledged not to purchase the product of his own hands but prefers to consime foreign goods? The union to which I belong is anxious for home industry that its members may find work; we will battle for fair conditions afterward. We be- lieve in organization, and we attribute 9 per cent of all our distress to low ‘wages, which has taken from the people their ability to consume the products of our factories and has made th¢ goods a drug in the market, thereby eventu- ally closing the workshop doors. As union men we should try to convince our employers that cheap labor is a curse to them as well as to us. I am satisfled that the employers will never, as a whole, force their workmen to join a labor union. I am convinced, however, that with few exceptions they have no ob- jections to their men joining if they are so inclined. 1 consider that it is as unfair for a firm to force a man to join a union as it is to say that he shall not join, and I find this to be the feeling among most of the firms. Therefors ‘let us accept existing conditions and in good faith try to improve them, It us prove to our employers that we are their friends Instead of their enemies, for there should be no quarrel between labor and capital engaged in manufactup. ing—that an injury to elither Interest hurts the other, for they both depend on the consuming power of the people and they should join in every effort possible to increase consumption as well as the production of the necessaries of life. When this is done the introduction of the union label will be easy, and in m,; humble opinion it will have to be Introduced In this way if success is attalney at all. Let us as union men cease abusing our employers, let us be more trust- ful and less suspicious, and finally let us do all we can to Improve the con ditions of the city and State in which many of us must remain as long as we live, for most of us are here to stay, and “self preservation is the first law of nature.” ¥ 8. M 5 San Francisco, September 21. CKE-E ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BATTERY STREET—Enq., City. The published statement in a morning con- temporary -that Battery street in San Francisco was named for the Battery in New York is not correct. The street de- rived its name from h.m of an- clent guns that were ontgom- ery on the line of that street n, - way, in the days of American e:;cuBr::gy before the adminission of Cali ornia into the Unfon. EVERYTHING 1S LOVELY—A. C. R, City. The phrase “Everything is lovely' and the goose hangs high” that is com. monly used s, it is belleved, used. It 8" belleved that the e “hangs’” should be “honks,” the cry of the wild goose when it flles. On clear days wild geese fly high, therefore honk™ bigh, and the phrase, if used with the word honk, would signify that ‘“every- thing is lovely and the weather is fair. BAROMETER—E. F. D., City. This de- partment does not know of any book that tells how to construct such a barometer as you describe. Buch are sold for so small a sum that it would be a waste of time and patience for you to try to make one. - CHANGING A NAME-B. L., City. An individual in this State can have his name changed on application to the Suy- erior Court, setting forth the reasons or the desired change. He does not have to apply to the Legislature for such a change. A WORKING MAN'S WAGES — A Potrero Reader, City. Your letter of in- quiry does not set forth under what claim the assessment is demund?‘i“ there- tmpossible to answer the ques- e lth You will state the facts briefiy so that one may_ gather an idea of the circumstances under which the demand is made, an answer will be given. HALF DOLLAR PIECES—Mrs. M. N., Stockton, Cal, Dealers charge for a half dollar of 1842 from 75 cents to $1, for one of 1853 the charge, for one with a heads at the date and with Tays at the back of the eagle, from 75 cents to 31 2, while for one of the same date Wwithout arrows or rays they charge from $30 to $50, and for one of 1854 the price is 75 cents to $1 2. LEAGUE OF THE CROSS CONTEST— T. R. B, City. Willlam J. Walsh, the winner of the Archbishop’s diamond medal in the League of the Cross con- test held in San Francisco on the 8th of August, 1898, graduated from Sacred Heart College and is now in the senfor class at St. Mary's College, Oaqundé J. Long graduated from St. ol H. Mary’s lege; James O'Brien graduated from Sac- re% Heart College, as also did J. J. Har- rington, and W. H. McCarthy attended St.- Peter's School and the Horace Ma.nr_x School and graduated from the Boys’ High School. 5 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Major 8. D. Sturgis returned yesterday on the China, and Is at the Occidental. Eduardo de la Cuesto, a cattle man of Santa Barbara, is at the Grand. I. A. Lothian and Thomas Vigua, poli- ticians of Los Angeles, are at the Palace. G. M. Frarncis of the Napa Register is at the Occidental. Jesse Poundstone, a merchant Grimes, is at the Grand. H. C. Lee, a noted lawyer of Denver, and wife are at the Palace. A. N. Butts, a mining man of Angels, is at the Occidental. T. W. O'Neill, ex-Sheriff of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is at the Lick. Edward Chambers, the general freight agent of the Santa Fe and Southern Call- fornia, is at the Palace. Colonel J. W. Gilray and wife of Boston are at the Occidental. J. C. Ruddock, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. Charles K. McClatchy and wife of Sac- ramento are at the Lick. Dr. M. P. Campbell of the South Caro- lina State Hospital is at the Palace. Mrs. M. Chinnery of Sydney, N. 8. Wy is on a visit to California. She came over on the steamer Alameda, and will be the guest of Mrs. C. H. Graham while in the city. The only son of Mrs. Graham, steward- ess of the steamer Alameda, is now in Manila with the First California Volun- teers. When his mother was in Honolulu she was delighted to hear that the young man had been royally entertained by Mrs. Judge Bickerton and other of her friends. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—H. Heinemann of San Francisco is at the Imperial. Wal- ter A. Kendrick .of Los Angeles and A. B. Thaw of Santa Barbara are at the Manhattan. A. Tetzan of San Francisco has gone to Paris. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—F. P. Stone of San Francisco s at the Arlington. L. M. King of San Francisco is at the Ra- leigh. of —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_———— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery ctreet. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_—— Exquisite lunch, French cooking, wita wine, 75c. Full course French dinner, with wine, $L. Light refreshments at popular rices. Spreckels Rotisserie, nl;teemh oor, Call building. . —_————— A broad new street is to be run from Holborn, opposite Southampton row, to the Strand at the Church of St. Mary le Strand, in London, the County Coun- cil having voted the improvement after considering the matter for nine years. —_—————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrur” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colle, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. B T —— First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route, Call at the new ticket office, 623 Markat. —_— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay $250 per day. Apply at 4 New 2 ontgomery street, San Francisco, —————— Only the best for the best only. Among the _ Barrels, 83 Market st. % —_———— There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep-sea dwellers and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and’ fins as legs. ADVERTISEMENTS, LEND US YOUR EAR. We want to tell you of the fine laundry work we are doing, and all who appre- clate a beautiful color and fine medium finish on their linen can get the bene- fit of our experience and expert work- manship. ‘There is no laundry in town Wwhere you can get such perfect satis- faction as at the United States. The United States Laundry, offics 1004 Market strest Telephone South 420.