The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ri Add‘ress All_ Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1368. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrters In this city and surrounding towns for I3 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL.. v.--er..One year, by matl, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Breadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. -Room 188, World Buflding | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Riggs Howso €, C. CARLTON, Correspondent. --Marquette Building C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcatative. §—EIT Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'vlock, 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll %30 o'clocl 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, n untd 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untt o'clock, NW. corner Twenty-second ena streets, apen untll 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS, Ealdwin—"An Enemy to the Kiog." Columbia—wOliver Tiwist * Alenzar—*In Mizzoura.” Norosco’s—"Trilby Tivoli—* Romeo and Jultet." Orpheum-—Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—* What Havpened to Jones.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville The Chutes—Pietro Marino, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Clympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialtios Eutro's Bathe—Swimming. Rosenthal—Coming in February. AUCTION SALES, By Frank W. Butterfieli—This day, September 29, Furniture 8t 440 Geary street, at 11 0 elock. By Richard I. Whelan—This “day, September 2, Livery Stable, at 514 Geary street. 4t 10 0 clock. HAT in nominating Charles L. Patton for Mayor the Republicans have done the wisest | thing possible there will be no question. That Mr. Patton is the strongest man who could have been named events have made clear. That he will be the next Mayor of San Francisco the party has con- fidence. The nominee of the Republicans is a man against | whom nothing can be said. He is a high type of the young, vigorous, progressive American. Enjnymg} an excellent practice at law, having standing in the social and commercial world, he has never before entered into politics beyond the exercise of his rights as a private citizen. He only enters now at the earnest solicitation of the party whose principles he upholds, in whose policy he firmly believes. His handling of his extensive business shows him to have a fine executive mind. The muititude of his friends demonstrates that he has the qualities of a leader. Even his personal appearance his favor. Physically much above the average, he has an excellent presence, a dignified bearing. He im- presses on sight and improves on acquaintance. That he has heretofore kept out of municipal affairs -is a distinct advantage to him. He is not entangled with | any faction, nor can he be accused of having a boss or.of being one. He is simply a citizen who has at heart the welfare of the community where he has ac- quired substantial interests, who consents, at the soli- citation of those who, knowing him best, best know | his worth, to .stand publicly for that which. he has sustained in private. He is not ambitious. The honor of nomination came unsought. At first hc! shrank from the responsibility, but when convinced | that none other could so well perform the required duty. he laid aside his objections. The Republicans recognized in him the man of the hour. he campaign in which Patton is now a <:em|'al| figure will be waged for victory. His success will mean much for San Francisco. The city needs a| man, big and broad inteilectually, unwarped by per- sonal ambitions, above intrigue, honest, honorable and energetic. Charles L. Patton is such a man. FRAUD AT THE FERRY. THERE is sometimes a decent pleasure in say- is in ng “I told you so.” This can only be the case when the allegation is a fact. Months ago this paper became convinced that the erection of the ferry building, from street level to | the top of the tower, was a process colored by frand. An investigation was made, carefully, laboriously and without passion. It proved that the suspicion was well’ grounded, that thé officials who had been en- trusted with the important work had proved careless or deliberately unfaithful, that they had betrayed the taxpayers, and that they ‘had connived with unscru- | pulous contractors to. skimp the work, ignore speci- fications and to pay for inferior material and work- manship more than should have been paid for first- class. There is no need now to analyze the iniquity then laid bare. The files of The Call set it forth-in elab- orate detail. The report of the Grand Jury contdins it in a condensed form. The swindling began when ; cheap stone was used at the price of a superior or at least more expensive article. It continued in every department. When pine was substituted for oak the contractors were actually permitted to charge more than they had agreed to accept for the oak, although by the scheme they saved to themselves thousands of dollars. When a floor costing thousands less than the one the contractor had given bond to put in was adopted by the Harbor Commissioners, not one cent was saved to the State. Contractors got it all. If they divided with their friends the matter is vet one of suspicion merely. There was fraud in every de- partment above the foundation. Specifications were ignored, and extra paid for changes on which the State should have had a substantial rebate. The collated- facts were put into the hands of one Grand Jury, but while it dallied with them it was dismissed for an incompetency which had become painfully evident. The present Grand Jury is dif- ferent. It realizes and frankly makes declaration that the public has been robbed. No indictment has been returned, this being explained by a lack of knowledge on the part of the jury as to its rights. Neverthe- less the jobbers, whom The Call made nncomfort- able, have again been held up to scorn. This is cer- tainly better than that they should have been passed by. ‘Moreover, there is nothing to show that the jobbers may not yet-be indicted and forced to make restitution or pay a penalty. To officials so shame- less simple exposure is far from being adequate pun- ishment. — There is something cruel about the courts. Here they Have ‘gorie and decided that Russell Sage must | propose to have it played upon me. | manly canvass of Mr. Gage, and justifies the predic- B THE CANVASS IN THE SOUTH. EPORTS from the southern part of the State, R where the candidates of both parties for the governorship are making a personal canvass from the stump, are highly encouraging to Repub- licans. The meetings of both are well attended, for Maguire draws well as an orator, and people are curious to hear the single-taxer; but there is at the Republican meetings a spirit of earnestness and en- thusiasm which shows that the audiences have not been moved to attend. by curiosity merely. The great mass of voters in the assemblies that meet to listen to Gage and to Barnes are there to greet the next Gov- ernor of California and to evince their approval and give their support to the policies and principles of the Republican party. : As the Republican candidate for Governor lives in the south and is well known and highly esteemed in that section of the State, his personal popularity is unquestionably a potent factor in arousing the earnestness and the enthusiasm of the Republicans there. That factor, however, it ‘s clear, is not the only one, nor even the dominant one, in the canvass. A multitude of evidences show that a Republican re- vival has taken place in the southern counties, and that the falling off from the normal party strength in the campaign of 1896 will be more than made up this year. The fallacies of the free silver agitation of two years ago have been exposed in the radiant light of the prosperity which has followed the election of Mc- Kinley, and many who were deceived in the former canvass have their eyes open now, Nor is it only by the return to the Republican ranks of the wayward free silver men who followed the Bryanite movement that the canvass thus far has shown an increasing Republican strength in the southern counties. A considerable number of stal- wart Democrats and earnest Populists have been led by the excellence of the Republican ticket and the soundness of the party platform to bolt the fusion ticket and confusion platforms. Many of these may | perhaps refrain from voting at all, but a considerable | number have announced a determination to vote with | the Republicans. Among these are men who have | +had no little power in their former parties, and it isi certain their course will be followed by others among | whom they have influence and leadership. The Call has published interviews with a numbcr: of these earnest men, who refuse to sanction the bar- | gain and sale, the swapping and swiping, of fusion politics, and who have resolved to vote the Repub- lican ticket this fall. Their statements show the ex- tent to which the political consciences and common sense of sincere men revolt against Maguireism and the tactics by which the leaders of that movement | have obtained control of the machinery of both the Democratic and the Populist parties. The sentiment | of all these men was well expressed by A. A. Dunn, editor of the Escondido Times, who in a statement to a Call correspondent said: “A <.nfidence game is being played upon the Populist pary, and I do not | The best way | to secure the reforms we are seeking is to defeat Ma- guire and the fusion combination.” A canvass which has accomplished such good re-. sults thus early in the campaign is certainly one of encouragement to all loyal Republicans. The inde- pendent and the doubtful voters are being rapidly convinced that the welfare of the State and the pro- motion of all needed political reforms can be best | provided by the election of the Republican ticket. | Much of this success has been due to the direct and tion made by The Call that the results would prove the Republican champion to be a better campaigner than Maguire, as well as better fitted to be Governor. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OR some time past it has been universally re-| cognized that Theodore Roosevelt is the logical Republican candidate for Governor of New York this year, and his nomination for the office will be accepted as another proof that Republicans al- ways know the right thing to do at the right time and how to select the right man to.do it. The conditions of politics in New York are such that a renomination of Governor Black wou'd have been a mistake. He has been an excellent chief magistrate and his record is one for which the party will not have to make either apologies or explana- | tions during the campaign. It happened, however, that, without fault on his part, dissensions arose | among the Republicans of the State, and for the pur- pose of allaying these it was necessary to choose aj new leader. In Roosevelt’s personality all the * at- tributes of an ideal leader for the occasion were found, and to him the rank and file as well as the leaders of the party turned with the spontaneity - of an instinctive recognition that the man and the op- portunity had met. " While the achievements of Roosevelt in raising and commanding the famous regiment of Rough Riders during the war added to his fame and in- creased his personal popularity, it is not to them he owes this promotion to the leadership of his party in the Empire State and the nomination which is virtually equivalent to election to the office of Gov- ernor. His military service, while brilliant, con- stitutes but an episode in his distinguished career. In fact, he owed his opportunity in war to what he had achieved in civil affairs. Had he not already | proven in public service his force of character and shown an ability to perform difficult duties with an easy mastery, he would never have obtained a chance to demonstrate at the head of his Rough Riders his valor as a soldier and his skill as a commander of irregular troops. Fifteen years of public service has revealed to the people of New York the eminent fitnéss of Roose- velt for the office to which he has been nominated. He has been tried in many ways and has been al- ways found worthy of promotion to higher duties. | No man in politics has ever been more independent, and yet he has never been a mugwump. His par- tisanship has been as stalwart as his statesmanship, and neither has ever been subservient to a boss, a clique or to any consideration other than that of the public good. He now takes the first step in a career of the highest political activity. He will never here- after be called upon to serve as Police Commissioner or Assistant Secretary in any department of the Gov- ernment. From this time forth he ranks among the statesmen of the country to whom the people look for successors to the Presidency. —— Professor Crookes of the British Museum, when he declares that the world’s supply of food is in danger of giving out, is simply making a bid to be placed on ex- hibition as one of the freaks of the institution to which he now lends the illumination of his intelligence. —_— Germany seems to have offered to help Aguinaldo, and if Dewey had only kept out of the way and American troops had refrained from landing, might have done so. No lady should undertake to burn her house with- out consideration of the fact that the act is not re- PHELAN @s A BOSS. T will be difficult for Mayor Phelan’s admirers o l much longer deny that he is fast becoming a po- litical boss of the most offensive description. If he keep on in the course he is now pursuing it can- not be very long before it will only be necessary for him to open a saloon to organize a gang of rock- rollers in order to attain to the position occupied in the politics of this city for so many years by Chris Buckley. Up to. date his methods have been les; studied and the results he has produced less popular than. any ever adopted or prqduced by the late master of the local Democracy. 3 the existence of the Committee of One Hundred, but nctwithstanding the inflexible character of that body he has managed to get out of it about all it has had to give. The nominees for Assessor, Sheriff, County Clerk, Auditor and Public Administrator are known to be his personal friends. If elected they will give him the bulk of their patronage. This is all Buckley would have asked of them, and they could have ac- cepted nominations from him for the same offices without any greater loss of self-respect. Moreover, by a nominating trick the Mayor has captured the Board of Election Commissioners, and at the coming election he will not only control the ballot-boxes, but also the canvass. He is himself an Election Commissioner, and through the Gallagher- Maguire influence he will dictate the course of City and County Attorney Gallagher. He has renomi- nated Tax Collector Block, and in this way has se- cured the favor of a man who can give him control of the commission. This is not exactly clever; any political boss might have seen and utilized the same point. But it shows that Phelan is a boss and that he is struggling to secure what is necessary for the success of every political boss, namely, control of the machinery of elections and the patronage of the offices. It is said that the Mayor named the Board of Supervisors nominated by the Committee of One Hundred last evening. If this be true he will, should his Supervisors be elected, become master of the city government. Through the patronage offices he will manipulate the Democratic machine, and through the Supervisors he will control the tax levy, fix water rates, let gas contracts and handle the legislation of the municipality. In other words, he will hold ex- actly the same position in politics held by Boss Buckley in that individual’s halcyon days, except that he will be a part of the machine himself. Perhaps Mayor Phelan can bring the campaign he is planning to ‘a successful issue, but if he can the people of San Francisco will no longer be entitled to the designation of boss-haters.” The Democratic ticket nominated by the Committee of One Hundred is not even the creation of a popular primary. On the contrary, it is the creation of a small ring of office-brokers, who have selected the Mayor as their boss, and who, with the aid of Deacon Fitch's Non- Partisans, hope to secure control of the government of the city. If such a conspiracy against popular government can succeed on the lines these men have chosen, we shall, indeed, have discovered another wonder of the world. HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. TIIE State Highway Commissioners are reported to haye drafted a bill which they think will find favor with the coming Legislature and result in establishing ‘a comprehensive and satisfactory system of highway improvement and maintenance through- out the State. According to the reports theé plan provides that one-hali of all moneys collected in the counties for road improvements be placed in a separate fund, to be expended on roads indicated as State highways, the contracts for the work to be let by the Super- visors on plans and specifications to be approved by the Commissioners. The Legislature will also be "urged to pass a bill to the effect that when any county completes five miles of road in accordance with the proposed amendment the same shall on petition to the Governor be accepted by the State as a State high- way and maintained as such. Whether the plan as outlined will be acceptable to the Legislature is questionable, -for there is cer- tain to be a strong opposition to it. It is to be heped, however, that, should it be rejected, some means will be devised by which the work of roadway improve- ment in the State can be undertaken systematically and carried on centinuously until our highways are equal to the needs of the traffic that passes over them. At the present time, in the greater part of the State, the highways. are far below the general level of our civilization. In the cultivation of the soil, in the schools; churches, houses and mode of living, the .residents of the rural districts of California are abreast of those of the foremost nations of the world, but in the matter of roads most of our country dis- tricts are hardly better off than backwoods settle- ments. ErES | % x -If we had only a backwoods civilization to maintain we could get along with bad roads. Our energy in all forms of industrial life, however, compels an in- cessant use of roadways, and as a consequence the lack of well graded, well ballasted and caréfully maintained highways entails a heavy cost upon the community. No good road is ever so costly as a bad road in a district where there is much traffic going on. "It is that fact which renders highway im- provement an imperative necessity of the situation. As some-of our counties, such as Santa Clara, have most excellent highways of their own, built up and riaintained under local supervision, they are averse to State action in the matter, partly because they fear they might be compelled to contribute something in the way of revenues to the improvement of roads elsewhere. This and other forms of local self-interest have prevented the progress that might otherwise have been made by this time in the accomplishment of road improvement. The present law, moreover, has been found defective in some important respects. The proposed bill now under consideration by the Highway Commission, it is to be hoped, will prove satisfactory in every way. The urgency of road work is not to be disputed, and we cannot too early ado‘pf a comprehensive system for.carrying it on. C — The arrest of a Santa Maria attorney on the charge of subornation of perjury is a serious and peculiar matter, He is accused of having hired a character- less woman to swear away the character of a man against whom action for divorce had been instituted. There can never be palliation for perjury, and in a divorce suit there is seldom any excuse for it. To get the matrimonial bond severed one party or the other has usually only to express the conviction that the bonds have become irksome. When Dr. de Freye died abroad leaving no visible heirs to a considerable fortune, a fear arose that none _would appear. The fear is groundless. - There will be heirs to burn, and most of them will probably deserve the process. garded as proper, and is calculated to cause unpleas- pay his taxes just like a man with fewer millions. ing remarks if found out. Affairs have progressed far enough to show ‘that Dreyfus may receive justice if France can’t prevent it. Probably the Mayor is not entirely responsible for | Highway Commission and with the approval of the |- NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MAGUIRE. How and ‘Why He Turned His Back on the Democ- racy in 1887, In 1837 vJudgc Maguire formally and forever withdrew from the Demo- cratic party, State and national. letter: His reasons were given in the foliowing [From the San Francisco Bulletin, Friday, January 28, 1887.] : JUDGE MAGUIRE ABANDONS THE DEMOCRACY. Boodle and Bossism Too Much for Him—Socialism of a Certain Sort More Suitable to His Fancy, Etc. The following letter from Judge Maguire to the California State Demo- v-atic Club may .reate something of a political breeze: SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, 1887. To the Officers and Members. of the California State Democratic Club— Gentlemen: 1 hereby tender my resignation as a member of your club. In withdrawing permit me to return thanks to. the officers, past and present, for many courtesies which they have extended during our long and pleasant association. Let me also assure the members, with whom my relations have always been most cordial, that my withdrawal is not prompted by any personal con- siderations, but that it is to me a painful act of duty to political principles and couvictions with which the present policy of the Democratic party is not in accord. As this resignation s the final act which sévers my connection with the Democratic party, State and national, it is but just to you, and to all others who have stood shoulder to sho.lder with mie in the political battles of the past, that I should fully and frankly state the reasons which have moved me to tuls serious step. Early in life I learned to reverence the name Democracy. as represent- ing all that is sublime in the political history of past ages and as connecting the best of political principles. ' The party bearing this sacred name being out of pcwer at the time I reached my majority I paturally entered its ranks, hoping and expecting that it would ever be ‘the aggressive and intelligent champion of liberty, equality and justice, wherever and whenever these vital principles of social happiness might be either neglected or assailed. Finally our party triumphed, but alas! The benefit of that triumph has amounted to no more suffering people, A It has brought no relief to our than the distribution of a few official prizes to the friends and relatives of wealthy aristocrats and to the henchmen of political bosses. There are, of course, exceptions, but this has been the rule. ‘Wealth is still the standard of respectablility, just as it was under Re- publican administrations, and the rights and wishes of the great Demo- cratic masses of the country are just as completely ignored. Rival bidders for the affection of monapolists, the great national parties have become like two peas, both in actions and principles. The great intellectual statesmen, the men of principle and courage, once the glory of our country, have been retired from our Federal Senate, and the people have practically ceased to be represented there. which once held that highest body aof earthly legislators The chamber is now a sort of national stock exchange, wherein seats are sold to monopolists and to wealthy seekers after social standing. In the matter of sanctioning thls iniquity honors seem to be easy between the parties. The entire solid area of .our great country, including the natural oppor- tunities of all our people, the natural resources without which none of our people can live, has been made the exclusive private property of a few thousand alien and domestic landlords, who, by virtue of the absolute con- trol which they do thus, as owners, exercise over the only means of living of our landless millions, are robbing the latter continually of from one-half to four-fifths ‘of the frults of their labor, and are daily driving them to lower and lower depths of slavery and helpless misery. This is a system of human servitude just as complete as chattel slavery, and in many respects more atrocious; yet the so-called “Democrati¢ party,” while claiming to be the friend of the laborer, expressly defends this system and bids for the support of those who profit by it. only matters in which the party has been recreant. But these are not the In the late Democratic State convention an emissary of certain railroad corporations, who acted as a carrier of messages between his masters and the committee on platform, caused that committee to eliminate a resolution condemning the election of the president of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to the United States Senate, and also caused the committee to eliminate Senator Reddy’s resolu- tion upon the Chinese question, which, prior to his appearance, had been adopted. service a Democratic nomination for Congress. The railroad emissary received as his reward for this successful It is but just, in defense of the people, that I should add he was not elected. I will not recount the painful history nor dwell upon the deplorable con- dition of our local Democracy. It is difficult to speak of this branch of the party in the language of polite correspondence. " Let it here suffice to say that our local Democracy is under the acknowledged dominion of a man - who has been publicly charged with having openly and notoriously pur- chased votes on last election day. This charge has been strongly sup- ported by the sworn and recorded testimony of several citizens; yet, al- though this crime against the elective franchise is a blows at the very heart of our liberty, a crime more dreadful In its consequences than murder or open treason, no citizen has -yet manifested sufficlent confidence .in the Democratic officers who are charged with conducting public prosecutions to even flle a complaint against the alleged offender. In face of this public charge and of other .equally outrageous doings, as if to wantonly humiliate the State Democracy and commit it to the rati- fication of such iniquities, the chairman and other members of the State Central - Committée. publicly serenaded this inan,;and the'chairman- thanked him and eulogized him for his statesmanlike services to the party durlng the campaigns. it is unnecessary. a uring And so I might go on, ad libitum; usque ad nauseam, but . As a self-respecting man I would feel justified and bound in honor to withdraw from a party which has fallen to such levels; but there is an- other and potent reason for my immediate withdrawal, which is, that a new national party is being formed for the purpose of restoring the natural rights of the great landless Democracy of America. It is founded upon the idea that all men have an ‘equal right to live, and, as a necessary consequence, that all men have at all times an equal and inallenable right to the use of the natural elements which God made and gave freely for the subsistence of human life; that to secure rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that all American citizens are entitled these . to equal opportunities with respect to to the great natural resources of our common country; that no speculator in the natural rights of his fellow men should be permitted to prevent American citizens from making homes upon land which he does not want to use; that no landlord—alien or citizen— should be permitted to collect toll from Amerjcan citizens,for allowing them . the privilege of using the. natural and indestructible powers of our soil; that the rental value of land, which resuits in all cases entirely from the presence, enterprise, virtue and.industry of the whole people, belongs to the whole people, and should, as a matter of common justice, be taken for pub- Hec use; and that no tax or burden of any kind should -be imposed upon commerce, ‘agriculture, manufactures or other industries or upon any prod- utes “of human labor as long as this rental value of land—which is the margin of production—shall be sufficient for public purposes. To the new party, founded upon these principles, which I conceive to be the very soul and essence of true Democracy, all of the time which I can henceforth give to the political service of my country will be devoted. 1 shall therefore in the next political campaign do all in my power to secure the election of Henry George or some other land reformer to the Presidency of the United States, unless the Democratic party shall in the meantime be- come democratic by adopting the principles which we have espoused. Having deliberately resolved to pursue this course, I desire that my po- sition may be fully and exactly understood, so that my actions and re- lations with respect ambiguous. to political matters shall be neither inconsistent nor Sincerely trusting that our social relations may be as pleasant in the future as they have in the past, I remain, yours, g very truly and respectfull, JAMES G. MAGUIRE. i ~— AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Marjon Biggs Jr. of Oroville is at the Grand. Marioni De Vries of Stockton is at the Californa. . Professor O. Jenkins of Stanford is at the Palace. Louis Dean, a cattle man of Reno, is at the Russ. D. H. Arnold, a rancher of Colusa, is at the Occldental. : John Finnel J., a grain raiser of Tehama County, is at the Lick. : B. P. Earle, a fruit grower of Sacra- mento,- is at the Palace. Lewls A. 8age, proprietor of the Con- gress Springs, s at the Lick. Mrs. Franklin Raney, J. W. Morrison and J. 8. Merritt of Dawson are registered at the Russ. 5 R. M. Powers of the San Diego Gas ‘Works arrived vesterday, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Clarence Berry, H. F. Berry and W. P. Berry arrived from the Klondike yster- day and are at the Grand. Rev. Daniel G. MacKinnon and wife ar- rived from Stockton yesterday and are stopping at the Occidental. John J. Burne, the general passenger agent of the Santa Fe, arrived from Los Angeles yesterday and is at the Palace. Louls Sloss Jr. has just returned from a lengthy trip in the Northwest Territory, having spent most of the time in looking out for the interests of the Alaska Com- mercial Company. He came down over the pass. ¥ The Bertha, from St, Michael, brought a number of Klondikers to this city yes- terday. At the Commercial Hotel are L. N. McQuesten and family. McQuesten has been in the employ of the Alaska Com:- mercial Company for a number of years :and has also a number of fine mining properties in the Klondike. His wealth is estimated at about $300,000. P. J, Me- Donald, who has also a large pile and some very good properties; Tom Ashl;{, Joseph P. Staley, R. E. Peacock, F. liot, George W. Oliver, B. A. Oliver of Belalt, Wis.; A. J. Schaff, chief engineer of the Alaska Commercial Company on the river, and R. E. Lathand, are others from the Klondike. All of them brought down dust in varying quantitfes, B e — THE TALK OF THE DAY. The New Haven News says that'a Con- necticut clergyman on a recent Sun- day gave out the following notice: “The regular sesslon of the Donkey Club will be held, ‘as usual, at the close of this service. Members will line up*just out- | slde the church door, make remarks and stare at the women who pass, as is their custom. Any member known to escort a young woman to a church like a man and sit with her like a gentleman will be promptly expelled from membership.” Mrs. Unsofist—They say that the Min- neapolls can steam twenty-four knots an hour. Mr. Unsofist—That’s what she can do. Mrs. Unsofist— suppose that they steam them so that the poor sallors can untie them more easily.—Brooklyn Life. The real author of “A Hot Timé i Old Town to-night,”” which has bee: :1': scribed since the Santiago fight as the new national anthem, is, according to a | dispatch from Denver, an old negro | woman named Amanda Green, who sang | 1t for| years before it was finally piokeq | up by a traveling actor. The latter got | ‘the tune and fixed up the words to suit | himself, retaining, however, the title and the main idea, Occasion for Haste—"I am the man,” protested the wretched cr;:t‘::;g tb;g wel;le getting ready to hang. e ' chalrman of ‘the vigila; clearly assailed with mlaglvislgs.nt“ i “Hurry!” he exclaimed, addressing those coming with the rope. ‘It may prove that the fellow speaks truly, after all!”—Detrolt Journal. : As an appropriate means for - ing the end of the century the V%?:l‘::?atn Methodists of England propose to raise a million guineas as a twentieth century fund. Of this tetal $1,500,000 would be de- voted to church extension, $1,000,000 to education, $500,000 each to the home and forelgn missionary societies, and $1,250,~ 000 to the erection of a denominationdl house in London. The Roman Catholic -church will probably celebrate the same event by pligrimages to h SYeu=h g oly places. such A SHILT WAIST STORY. . The man and the maid sat down by the sea, And the maid was as blue as a maid could be; For her waist was loud, though the style was grand, Yet it swore at the sea, at the sky and the =and “Oh! what was that sound?” asked the man in awe— And the maid knew then that her shirt waist swore— “’'Twas only the waves,” she said, with a laugh, And she cursed the waist that was two and a half. «“It wasn't the sea,” sald the man, “that's plain— 5 There goes the very same sound again! “Oh,” said the maid, and her cheeks rew red, by %hlnk it was thunder,” was all she said. d all that day upon the sand, %}r:at shirt waist swore to beat the band; But the malid sat still and prayed for the night, And gsh likewise swore—though it wasn't right. But as soon as the night had covered the sky She soaked that waist in a bucket of ve; 3 And the colors all ran, but swearing vet, And lost themselves in the soaking wet. And she said as she saw those colors run: *'Dis just like a life that’s ill begun— It's easy enough to purify If one has handy a bucket of lye And this walst that went about swear- ing so Now %s as white as the driven snow; And that’s the style, so I've understood— I wish_'twere the style to be awfully good! And the very next day she donned that waist (With a pique skirt ’twas in perfect taste); And she looked so cool while the day was ot < That folks all said: *She knows what's what!"” Two morals are hidden away somewhere; One of them—don't let your shirt walst swear; The other—the world’s as dense as night, And easily fooled if you do it right. Philadelphia Times. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AGRICULTURAL PAMPHLETS—W. B. K., Kern, Cal. You can procure pam- phlets relating to agriculture and vini- culture of this State by addressing a communication to the Experimental Sta- tion of the University of California. You can obtain pamphlets on agriculture from the Department of Agriculture at Wash- ington, D. C., by addressing a letter to that department. e RINCON HILL—W. H., City. Rincon Hill received its name from la punta del Rincon, a name that was given in the very early days to a point of land which projected into the bay-and on a part of which stands the old Marine Hospital of the United States and now used as the Satlors’ Home. Rincon is Spanish, and means “inside corner,” and the whole name “punta del Rincon” is “the point of the inside corner.” Rincon School was so named because of its location on Rin- con Hill. TATTOO MARKS—Subscriber, Monte- rey, Cal. Inquiry is frequently made for methods for the successful removal of tattoo marks in the skin. While these are generally asserted to be indelible if roduced by the insertion of somfe ear- onaceous matter, the Chemical News says that the marks will disappear by being first well rubbed with a salve of pure acetie acid and lard and then with a_so- lution of potash, and finally with hydro- chioric actd. To_ one not acquainted with the forces of these articles named the advice is given that a physician should first be con: ed. POROUS GLASS—S. A. N, City. This correspondent asks: “Is it true that if a sealed bottle is forced down into the sea a certain distance it will be found to.con- tain_water if taken up after a certain time?” Ordinary glass is declared to beim- permeable to air and water, even under any kind of pressure. Boatmen on the Lake of Como are in the habit of per- forming an experiment for the amuse- ment of visitors. An empty bottle well corked dnd sealed {s et ‘down into“the - water to a depth -of fifty yards, and en being hauled tp a short time after it is found to contain a glassful of water. By this one is led to suppose that glass must be porous.. But such is not the case. Un- der the pressure of four atmospheres the sealing wax and cork become impregnat- ed, and the water filters through the bot+ tle. This has been proyed. The neck of a bottle has been closed by melting it by means_of a blow pipe and the bottle im- mersed at similar and greater depth than in the lake named, and when taken up there was no water in the bottle. SOLDIERS'’ HOMES—Many Veterans, Napa, Cal. There are State homes for soldiers in the following named States ot the Union: California, Colorado, Con- necticut, i‘daho. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minpe- sota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New . Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Onlo, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South ' Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. No portion of the pensions received by the inmates is retained in the homes of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jer- sey, New York, North Dakota, South Da- kota and Washington. The following shows the amount of pensions in the ag- gregate paid to pensioners in the several Eomes and the amount retained for the ome: Recelved. Retained. 5,765 00 137 0 Minnesota Oregon_ . Pennsylvania . Rhode Island Vermont .. Wisconsin Wyoming These figures are from the latest annual report ending June 3L In the homes in" Idaho and in Ohio the pensioners execute their own warrants. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS—F. C. I., City. The. following are the dates of arrival in this city of troops that were mobilized at is point during the late war wi R D e e AT vath Soal enth California; 7, Cook’s Heavy Artillery from Sacramento; 10, a_ battallon of the Fourteenth United States Regulars: 11, two battalions Sixth California Voiun: teers; 13, battalion Second Oregon Volun- teers: 18, three battalions Oregon Volun- teers , three battalions First Nebrask; , Wyoming Volunteers; 20 battalion N vada Volunteers: 20, Twentieth Kansas Volunteers; 21, Thirteenth Minnesota Vol unteers; 21, battalion Kansas Volunteer: 21, First Colorado Volunteers; 22, two_bat- talions Idaho Volunteers; 22, battery Utan Artillery; 22, Washington Volunteers; ‘23, Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers; 27, Utah Cavalry; 25, Montana Volunteers; Twenty-third and Bighteenth Infantry (regulars); June 1, North Dakota Volun- teers; 2, First Regimént South Dakota Volunteers; 5, band of the Fourth Cav- alry; 6, Troop E, Fourth Cavalry; 10, Fif- ty-first Towa; 10, 848 recruits for Bigh- teenth and Twenty-third Infantry Regu- lars; 15, sixty-five men for the Nevada Cavalry; 16, First Tennessee; 2, Astor Battery; 20, twenty-two men for the Tihrd Artillery; July 13, New York Volunteers. There i8 no official record made up at this time of the arrival of troops and the dates Fven are from the files of The Call. and t includes nearly all of the troops. There were_in addition the Engineer Corps and the Signal Corps, but the dates of thelr arrival at Camp Merritt was not noted.. ————— Cal. glace fruit ®c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Mont- gomery ctreet. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—— Absolute quiet, unlimited view and fine French cooking, make dining at the Spreckels Rotisserie a real pleasure. Fif- teenth floor Call building. 9 e The Boston Transeript says:. “The New England coaches that have been put through the shop “ear the name of ‘New York, New Haven and Hartford,’ while the locomotives come forth bearing no name at all. This seems to Indicate that a change In the name of the rallroad has been. determined upon, but it will not be made just at present. ¢ B —_——————— It you lack appetite try half a wine glass o Angostura Bitters before dinner. Dr. Slegert's | the genutne, imported from South America.