The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1898, Page 6

3 THE SAN FKANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1898. : : ____—_.—_————————_—_——“——————___——_—______—.__—___—————————“ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THURSDAY.................OCTOBER 20, 1898 & JOHN D. SPRECKELS; Proprietor. e Address All C°m"[‘ff‘j‘3j"\',‘i’l§\£° W. S. LEAKE, Mana_ger. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1866. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephome Main 1874 YTHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. GAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Adver WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. .vs...Riggs House €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative, One year, by mall, $1.50 .908 Broadway Room 188, World Building ng Representative, BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until i0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I8 Misslon street, open .until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, epen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Alcazar—""The Wife." Morosco's—*‘Straight From the Heart.” Tivoli—*The Circus Queen." Orpheum—Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—''Where's Matilda?" The Chutes—Lildan Stewart, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties, Sherman & Clay Hall—Second Helnrich Recital. Ingleside Coursing Park-—Coursing Saturday and Sunday. 0dd Fellows' Hall—Masquerade Ball, Saturday, October 32. Sutro's Baths—Swimming. Rosenthal—Coming in_February. AUCTION SALES. By Killip & Co.—This Day, October 20, Horses, at corner Van Ness avenue and Market streets, at 11 o'clock. | and Republican votes to offset the defection of even VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. HUS far the local campaign has demonstrated T:hat Phelan is doomed to defeat unless he can | secure a large number of Republican votes. There is no reason why he should receive these, many | reasons why he should not. | The only Republican inclined to vote for Phelan | will be the one who has the fallacious idea that the present Mayor stands for purity, for good govern- | ment, for lofty principles. With a shade of regret we | announce that Phelan stands for none of these things. He is simply a selfish politician, with no end in view beyond his personal advancement. He has great am- | bitions. He hopes to make the mayoralty a stepping- | stone to larger fields. Let a glance be taken at the record. When Phelan was first nominated he insisted upon the right of | naming the men who should compose the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education. He was permitted to have his way. Two boards more rot- | ten never disgraced a city. There are men in each | who should be in the penitentiary; in each the honest minority is helpless. | In the present campaign Phelan has posed, as he did before, as the crystallization of purity in politics. ‘While keeping up this pretense he contrived the Com- mittee of One Hundred, which assumed the power | to absolutely sway the Democracy, and he himself is this committee. The other ninety-nine are mere figures. In the name of this committee Phelan has overridden the rights of the party and of the public. Under the shadow of its authority he has constituted himself a boss, whose word is law, and whose aspira- tions constitute the one thing to be accomplished. He accepted the nomination of the (non) partisans before they had adopted a platform, and did the same with the Democrats. He did npt care for principles; it was office he courted. Now the fact appears that for the purpose of pro- moting his personal schemes he has induced reputable citizens to go through the form of changing residence so they might be able to represent in his precious board some ward in which they had never lived. He persuaded them that by packing a nightshirt to some other quarter they would acquire the right to repre- | sent it in the councils of the just and holy over which | he expected to preside. All of which is hypocrisy and | nonsense. Phelan has been shown in his true colors. He poses for effect, and the effect is not what he hoped. In the words of the street, people are “onto him.” Why should he have any Republican support? We con- fess to an inability to answer. His own party, the party he assumes to lead by its collective nose, is disgusted. Left to its support alone he would be the worst defeated of any man who ever sought the chair he now, in a measure, warms. But an idea has been prevalent that he is so sweet and pure that he ought to be supported re- gardless of politics. It is this idea, founded on noth- ing, to which he must pin his hopes. It is this idea we feel it a duty to dispel. There is scant excuse for a Democrat’s voting for Phelan; for a Republican’s there is none. An officer of the West Virginia Volunteers has been accused of “spread-eagling” some of his men, and is guilty. There seems to be nothirig to do but dismiss him from the service, and Alger could make 2 hit by having this done in a hurry. When the Examiner turns its vials of wrath tipon the Supervisors it seems to forget that these officials were chosen by Phelan, professional advocate of pur- ity. He has chosen a new lot now, but there is no evidence that they are any better. Friends of General Merriam are certain that he will not protect Lieutenant Merriam because of the mere fact of relationship. Young Merriam had a better chance than almost anybody else to have more sense. We trust that no evening paper has been offended by the modest request to state its price. Perhaps the _ Bulletin refrains from answering so as to protect the foolish friend who paid the price. The place where Mayor Phelan’s meeting “was held Saturday night was Silk Hall, not Silk Hat Hall, We make this statement to offset a possible misap- prehension. “Turn the rascals out!” shrieks the Examiner. Of course. But who turned them in? Phelan, the purist, ‘the good. And he has another set he wants to turn in. —_— It is surprising that the War Investigation Com- mittee sMould have adjourned Saturday for lack of witnesses. Where was Julian Hawthorne? | disobeyed the orders of that convention, disappointed | | mary for the election of delegates to the city conven- | go through the courts. Of course Widber will appeal. The mere fact that a man is guilty never appears to him sufficient rea- apn for passing sentence upon him. el PHELAN I @ND THE PRIMARY. HERE was in existence in this city a Demo- Tcratic County Committee elected at the duly authorized party primaries. There was no claim | that its composition was any worse—and perhaps it was no better—than that of the County Committees of 1882, 1886 and 1892, years in which the Democracy carried San Francisco. But the State Central' Com- mittee set aside this duly elected County Committee and appointed three trustees, one of them a resident of this city and the others from the country, to ar- range a government and organization for the party of San Francisco. Out of this issued the Phelan Com- mittee of One Hundred, which stepped into the place of the regularly elected County Committee, and not only usurped all of its regular functions, but went far ahead of them by appointing the delegation to the State convention. This delegation was contested by one elected at primaries called by the regular County Committee. The delegation of the Committe€ of One Hundred was seated by the State convention, but the committee on credentials reported for that delegation on the condition that in future the party should be permitted to hold primaries in San Francisco. Upon this condition, which no doubt rested on a promise by Phelan and his managers that the Committee of One Hundred would call a primary, that delegation sat in the convention, nominated Maguire, indorsed fusion and did the job lot of things required by the programme. The primary delegation came home, refused seats in the convention, but with the sting of defeat mitigated by the order of the State convention that there should be a primary in San Francisco. It was expected that at this primary delegates would be clected to a city convention to nominate a local | ticket, which, coming from the people, would have the right to ask the people to ratify it at the polls. But it was never the intention of the Mayor to trust his ambitions to the popular decision at a primary. His theory was that at a primary of his party he would be beaten, but that if he could get | upon the ticket again his sustained pretense of re- | form would secure for him enough of independent | a majority of the Democratic voters. Therefore, by his orders and procurement, the Committee of One Hundred violated the agreement which seated its delegation in the State convention, | the expectation of the party, refused to call a pri= tion, and announced that it was the ity convention and would nominate a ticket. As well might the State Committee have announced that it was the State convention. This self-constituted city cenvention teetered for many days on a plank'| which had at its other end the so-called Non-Partisan convention. Mayor Phelan manipulated the €om- mittée of One Hundred, self-elected as a convention, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Frank Sullivan, manipu- lated the Non-Partisan convention, also self-elected. | These two bodies, with no origin from the people, in co-operation selected a ticket for the people to vote. The Mayor is so well satisfied with this method, so pleased with the success of a trick by which his dele- | gation was seated in the State convention on a prom- | ise that has been violated, and so exultant over his success in running the Committee of One Hundred as a nominating convention, and so exhilarated with | his exercise on the teeter-board, while his brother-in- law, Mr. Sullivan, occupied the opposite end, and they chanted, after the fashion of children: “Teeter totter, Milk and water; I'm the Mayor and You're the brother-in-law.” that he has now made proclamation that there will | be no more Democratic primaries in San Francisco until certain things satisfactory to him have been | done. In a speech which is reported in Sunday’s Examiner on page 23, column 3, he says: “Until the Legislature passes a primary law, which it will do next year, it is futile and the mockery of Democracy to appeal to the primary, because it does not represent the Democracy.” This, in Phelanesque verbiage, is a praclamation that there s to be no Democghtic primary permitted in this city until after 1900. The Legislature of 1899 may pass a primary law, and it may not. If it do not, Phelan’s Committee of One Hundred will con- tinue to act as the County Committee, and the city} convention and will renominate the Mayor in that If it do pass a primary law, that law must It must pass the Supreme | Court successfully before proceedings under it can be of assured legality and before tickets based upon it can get upon the official ballot. All this cannot be done in time for action under such law in 1900. Therefore the Committee of One Hundred will do in that year as it has done now—constitute itself-a city convention and nominate a ticket. The Mayor has in effect, proclaimed himself “Phelan I" of San Francisco, and having nominated himself now proposes to do it again in 1900: In the speech in which he gives notice of his intention he 'says: “It is a mockery to appeal to a primary.” Why? This is an unsupported declaration. Phelan I was himself nominated to the office he holds by a convention chosen at a primary. Why is a primary any more of a mockery now than it was then? Was his nomi- nation in 1806 corrupt? He stands to-day exposed in procuring a citizen to abandon his home and ward to register in another ward in order that the Commit- tee of One Hundred may nominate him for Super- visor from the Ilatter- ward. Was there any worse “mockery” in the convention of 18067 The offense is one for which others have been sent to the peni- tentiary. Is it less “a mockery” done by the commit- tee of Phelan I than by a convention issuing from a primary? If a plain man do such a thing and is in dicted for it, does the same thing become lawful when done by the Mayor? In fine, have we gone so far on the road to prerogative that the city legend runs: “The King can do no wrong”? year. Mayor Phelan would reduce the wages of the men who light the street lamps. They get $40, and he thinks $25 enough for them. When the Mayor poses as a friend of labor, the people who labor will be apt te think of this. An unclean organ which is the chief advocate of Mayor Phelan denounces as idiotic the-“attack” made upon him in relation to colonization. There was no attack. The whole thing was a mere recital of facts. 1f the report that a brother of the President has failed to secure membership in a New York club is true, it shows that the club has a lot of snobs and is not free from gossips. Editor Rochefort seems to be a sure enough luna- tic. The fact is to be regretted, becanse he was sub- ject to an occasional idea, and had a way of express- ing it. i “There are reasons to suppose that human hide is & i | should attend to the matter at once. MAGUIRE AND ANARCHY. N his speech in the House against that feature of the immigration bill by which anarchists and ni- hilists were to be excluded from the United States Judge Maguire said that anarchists and nihilists are the Democrats and Republicans of Europe, and that he hoped never to see the time when they will be ex- cluded from this “land of the free heart’s hope and home.” This sounds very sentimental. He could not have been ignorant of the fact that anarchists have hereto- fore come to this land of the free heart’s hope and home, and that they came not to enjoy but to . de- stroy it. Their contact with our people and their ex- perience of our mild institutions in no wise abated their venom against all government, nor their grudge against others whose industry in the midst of our en- larged opportunities for thrift had earned for them homes and property. Anarchy had a great increase in this country im- mediately after the Russian, Bakounin, announced its platform to be: “Do what you wish.” “Everything is everybody’s.” In 1885 there were 4000 anarchists in Chicago. As far as known there was but one Americay among them, the Texan, Parsons, who had outlawed himseli by marrying a negro woman. This anarchist colony in Chicago established a paper, maintained a labora- tory school in which to teach the use of high explo- sives in the manufacture of bombs, and held stated meetings in which the most violeént speechés were made attacking our Government and institutions. The spirit in which these organized murderers accepted the hospitality of this “land of the free heart’s hope and home” was redly revealed in the banners under which they marched in procession through the streets of Chicago. In September, 1885, they had a great meeting, an outburst of hatred against go®ernmental authority and law and order. Four thousand of them were in line. Upon their banners were inscribed the follow- ing sentiments: “Every Government is a conspiracy against the people.” “Government is for slaves.” @ “Out civilization is powder, lead and ‘clubs.” “Liberty without equality is a lie.” “Lawlessness is the only equality.” “Private property is theft.” “Might is right.” Any one who will turn to the news columns of any paper for September and October, 1885, will find fre- quent reports of the proceedings of these Chicago anarchists, who had come to this “land of the free heart's hope and home” and were denouncing it, its people, its government and its institutions. They gathered courage and numbers, and finally reduced their theory of “propaganda by deed” to \ practice by throwing the murderous bombs in Hay- | market square, by which nearly a score of policemen and others were assassinated. For this crime several anarchists were hanged and several more received life sentences to the penitentiary, and were pardoned and turned loose again in this “land of the free heart's hope and home” by Governor Altgeld, with whom Mr. Hearst is seeking a newspaper partnership in Chicago. This speech of Maguire's, inviting anarchists and assassins who oppose all government and denounce private property as theft to this country, expresses sentiments which the order-loving people of Califor- nia do not indorse. They were deliberately uttered by Maguire. They are part of his record. If he is elected that entire record is indorsed. We say deliberately that California will be seriously injured by his election. People do not wish to make their homes or invest their means in a State whose | Governor has often declared that property in real es. tate is robbery, and who has indorsed anarchy and its declaration that “all private property is theft.” e o HEARST, THE BOODLER. HE attention of Mayor Phelan, as the purist in Tchiei of San Francisco, should again be called to the fact that Hearst's notorious boodling sheet is making an especial campaign in his behalf. Amid the conflicting emotions which overwhelm a man who undertakes to boss an entire city, his' Honor may have overlooked that fact. But it is important that he If he does not | do so within-a few days the last vestige of claim he may have to the respeét of ghe people of this city will be swept away. H Of course Hearst himself is a fugitive from justice and cannot be reached. He can with impunity force his services upon any man; but his gang of black- mailers and boodlers are here, and if Phelan desire he can take proceedings against them to prevent their continued advocacy. If he desire to save what little shred of reputation he may have left aftes November 8 he will adopt our suggestion and call off the dis- reputable and abandoned sheet. TIts support is con- tamination; its affiliation political death. / In 1893 Hearst signed a contract with the Southern Pacific to accept $30,000 for its silence with reference to the interests of that corporation. The railroad knew him to be a liar and a blackmailer, and so it made him accept the méney in thirty equal monthly installments covering a State campaign and two Leg- islatures. For twenty-two months he maintained a masterly silence upon railroad subjects. Whenever he spoke of his esteemed fellow citizen, Huntington, it was in respectful terms. There is no doubt about Hearst having conducted this affair; he was then here and \actively managing his paper. The justice of California had not at that time made him a fugitive. At the expiration of twenty-two months he broke his contract. He had decided that the monthly in- stallment of $1000 was not large enough, and he imi- tated the strikers of 1804 in demanding more pay. Huntington resisted further blackmail and .refused to pay the remaining $8000. Hearst has never brought suit for the money, and the installments are now out- lawing. In a few months they will all be barred by the statute of limitations. This fact alone proves that the transaction was blackmail, pure and simple. How is it that Mayor Phelan accepts the support of this convicted boodler? He must be familiar with the facts we are recounting, for they have been pub- lished again and again. = Is the alliance between Phelan and Hearst an agreement between saint and devil? Can purity emerge from the office of a news- paper. owned and controlled by a man who admits that he is a bribe-taker—that he sold his sheet to the railroad for $30,000, payable in installments of $1000 2 month? If Phelan is really a purist he should at once get rid of Hearst and his gang of boodlers and black- mailers. The longer he continues in association with them the lower he is bound to fall in the estimation of all decent people. J | e ‘While hurrying to the hospital with a man who had deliberately swallowed poison the patrol-wagon was upset and a policeman suffered a broken wrist. It the traffic in | does not seem exactly fair. No man who tries to kill |- £ James D. Phelan, Democratic candidate for Mayor, is making a plea to the labor- ing classes for their votes, and through the columns of one of his subsidized pa- pefs he lays clalm to their favor on the ground that it is he to whom credit is due ffor inducing the Board of Regents of the University of California to select San Francisco as the place for the Wilmerding School. Also that to him is due the credit '0f ralsing the money for the purchase of Lue site on which to erect the school. ‘While The Call does not wish to detract one bit of credit due to Mr. Phelan for what he has done in the matter, still there are others who deserve as much credit in this respect as the Democratic candidate. Mr. Phelan’s paper mouth- plece says: who secured the Wilmerding | is to be the great nursery and nt and self-respecting labor, and he gave his first year's It was he School, which school of_intell for San Francisce salary as_the city's chief executive for this purpose. It will be remembered that the Board of Regents were equally divided as to the plac- ing of the school in the city or«n the interlor, and much pressure had been brought to have it In the interior. The regents promised it to San Francisco If the site were donated. Mayor Phelan appointed a committee to raise $16,000 for this purpose, heading it himself with $3000. The records of the Board of Regents show that the case was entirely differ- ent, and that instead of Mr. Phelan us- ing his influence to have the school es- tablished in this city he was pulling for all he was worth to havé that institu- tion of learning built in San Jose, where' he owns thousands of acres of land, left him by his mlllionaire father, which ‘would Increase-in value if the college was built thereon. In othér words, while pretemting to favor this city, he was working for San Jose. He played both ends against the middle, and lost. Now he is trying to make political capital out of his defeat. The facts are these: The most of the credit of having the school located here is due to the Merchants’ As- l!_)oc;&llon. and tq its president, F. W. ohrmann. It was the latter wh the agitation, which was taken b by ihe body. As soon as the regents took cog- nizance of the bequest hnfi a dozen cities made strong efiort to have their particu- lar localities favored. San Jose was among the first to enter the race as shown by the following letter, inspired by r. Phelan: SAN JOSE, Aug. 31, Dr. J. H. C. Bonte, Secretary Board o gents, University of California—Dear Sir: In a communication to our local Board of Trade James D. Phelan has very generously offered a valuable piece of property in this city as a site for the Wilmerding Training School for Boys. The San Jose Board of Trade has ap- inted a committee, of which I am a mem- er, to tender to the Board of Regents this site and to present such other claims as we now have for their consideration. Acting on this suggestion of 1. Hallman of San Fran- cisco T write to inquire at' what time and place the Regents will be pleased to give this com- mittee a hearing. be | very much appreciat BATL 895. £ Four early ‘roply will ed. Very truly yours, P. AUSTIN, Chairman. A day was set by the regents, when the representatives of the cities wishing to se- cure the school appeared to tell of the speclal advantages of their several locali- es. They came from Los Angeles, San Diego, Stockton, Oakland, San Jose and San clsco. The San Jose delegation was headed by Mr. Austin, who acted as the mouthpiece for Mr. Phelan, and he PHELAN'S LAST TRICK EXPOSED BY RECORDS made the following formal offer in writ- ng: PAUL P. AUSTIN, Room_ No. 7, Mayor. City Hall. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE. SAN JOSE, Cal., October 7, 1895. To the Honorable Board of Regents, Univer- sity of California—Gentlemen: r. James D. Phelan has authorized the San Jose Board of Trade to offer to your honorable body as & site for the Wilmerding School a very valu- able and delightfully located tract of land in the southerly portion’ of this city. The area of the property offered is one of our ordinary clty blocks, or elght 50-varas. Should you, however, not 8eem this sufficlent the amount will be Increased to two blocks of sixteen 30- varas. The property is in the highest portion of the city, being about 120 feet above tide- Water and on the line of an electric streetcar system. Its approximate value is $20,000. We believe San Jose offers many inducements and attractions as a desirable and proper place for this school of industrial art. In the selection of a location for a school of the character con- templated there are seperal cssentials to be considered. The school should be of easy access and centrally located. The climate should be equable, the surround- ings agreeable and the soctal and moral at- mosphere as free as possible from taint of any kind, Al these conditions we are convinced revail in this city. It is but a short distance rom San Franclsco and it is easily accessible trom all points of the State. The completion of the coast foad will place It in direct com- munication with the southern counties. The proximity of - this site to our orchards, riers, canneries and other industries give full opportunity for the employment during the spare time of students so situated that they must of necessity, by their earnings, help to pay thelr way through school. This {s mani- festly an advantage to this class of boys eager fo 8t themaelves for advancement in life. We earnestly urge your honorable board to appoint a committee to_visit this city and view the property which Mr. Phelan so generously ten- ders. Yours very respectfully, Y TeSPCPAUL' P, AUSTIN, Chairman of Committee. The San Francisco delegation was nom- inally headed by M#. Phelan, but Mr. Dohrmann and Alfred Bouvier made the arguments, the Mayor keesmg silent. On the second vote San Jose dropped out of the race, and on_ the third this city was selected, provided that a site was do- nated. The statement that Mr. Phelan raised the 20 000 to purchase the site near the Lick School is badly overdrawn. A citizens' committee, consisting. of repre- sentatives of the Merchants’ Association the Chamber of Commerce, Manufactu ers’ and Producers’ Association, Mecha ics’ Institute and the Board of Trade, started out and raised the money to buy the land from Captain James McDonala for $20,000, the owner reducing the price to $16,000, counting $4000 as his donation to the cause. The records of the Re- gents show that the following gave the money to purchase the property: Claus Spreckels, $3000; A. B. McCreery, John_Center, $1000; Louis Sloss & Co., $1000; $1000; J. W. Mackay, $100); Market-street Hailway Company, $§2000; ~Adam Grant, $500; Danlel Meyer, $500; Henry Plerce, §500; Levi Strauss, $500; Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com- B. Hapkins, $250;: Bank of Cali- fornia, $250; 1. W. Hellman, $100; George Me- Near, §100; D. O. Mills, $100; Lloyd Tevis, $100; Mrs. Robert Sherwood, $50; Pacific Gas Im- provement Company, $i00; Crocker-Woolworth Bank, $150; cash, $50; James D. Phelan, $3000; collected by Merchants' Association, $250; Cap- tain James McDonald, #1000, With these facts all a matter of record on the books of the Board of Regents those familiar with Mr. Phelan’s part in the Wilmerding School transaction think | that it is very poor judgment for him and his paper to try and make political capi- tal out of it, in order to deceive the work- ingman and get his vote by deception. There is a full-fledged band of anar- chists in town. The police have been noti- fled and are on their guard, and it is sald that the Chevalier Philip Serra sleeps with one eye open. The anarchists are about twenty strong, and twelve of their number are recog- nized as leaders whose commands are to be rigidly followed and implicitly obeyed. They have thelr headquarters at the cigar factory of Mme. Rosa Reseghini, 1345 Dupont street, where they hold nightly conference, discuss everything in general, proclaim their love for music, and incidentally do a little talking about anarchy. During the day a few of the anarchists work. The major portion of the labor- ers dish out spaghett! at Itallan restaur- ants, and the remainder engage in the inspiring occupation of the job painter. all earnings are pooled and equally di- vided after the leaders have appropri- ated their shares. Anarchist leaders never work. The foundation of the San Francisco an- archist soclety, which is said to be a branch of the great international assocla- tion, dates back to last November, The first meeting of the anarchists is a touch- ing incident, and the spirit which brourht them together a soulful, poetic inspira- tion. The local branch of law despisers was first known to fame as a part of the picturesque though awkward supers of the Ttallan Opera Company which played an engagement at the Californfa Theater ANARCHISTS WITH MUSICAL TENDENCIES last November. Between the acts the enemies of all governments met in friend- ly concourse, and it is claimed that tne brilliant garb of the brigand that they wore was responsible for it all. After the opera season the supers duly organized and established headquarters at “La Boheme,” 428 Broadway. The sa- loon, named after Puccini’s great master- plece, was not a financial success and headquarters was removed to Dupont street. “La .oheme,” however, was doomed to failure, and soon the sheriff's lock ornamented the swinging doors. It was then that Madame Rosa made offer of her factory and the anarchists brought their troubles to the Dupont-street cigar store. On Saturday evening last the society added variety to its meeting by rafiling a picture of Pletro Gori, from the brush of Angella Zocchi, and the rather small pro- ceeds were donated to the fund to sustain the anarchist press. Since the organization of the local branch the anarchists have lpst one influ- ential member, Arthur BIAS. Biagi ap- peared at one of the anarchist meetings in a full suit of clothes and silk hat, and for that offense one Bonini broke his face and destroyed the remaining anarchistic germs within the Biagi heart. The Italian colony, though aware of the existence of thé band, expresses no un- easiness over the organization, and all reference to it is met wtih an expressive shrug and expansive smile. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. R. Gross of Eureka is a guest at the Lick. E. L. Barkis, an Oakdale mining man, is at the Grand. J. M. Beck, a Chicago capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. v V. G. Frost, the well-known Merced at- torney, is at the Liek. Dr. Sewell S. McFarlane of Liverpool is registered at the Baldwin. C. G. Ballentyre, a prominent merchant of Honolulu, is at the Palace. W. R. Donaldson Jr., a prominent St. Louis merchant, is at the Palace. G. W. Hood, a prominent mining man of Helena, Mont., is at the Palace. J. M. Buxton, a prominent merchant of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Palace. 1.. T. Hatfleld, the well-known Sacra- mento attorney, s a guest at the Lick. H. Maltland Kersey has arrived from Victotia, B. C., and registered at the Pal- ace. ! ' A. L. Blakemore has arrived from Ju- neau, Alaska, and is a guest at the Grand. Frank H. Short, a prominent Fresno attorney, registered at the Palace yes- terday. | 8. BEwell, a prominent Marysville dry- goods merchant, {s a recent arrival at the California. Captain-J. Brown, head of the Empire line, mow staying at the Lick, leavled shortly for Manila. John H. Millzner, who represents the San Francisco Glant Powder Company at Tucson, Ariz., is at the Grand. J. H. Ansell, a nent merchant of Guerneville, is at the California, accom- panied by his wite and daughter. = F. W. Dohrmann, president of the Mer- chants’ Association, leaves for Hoholulu to-day, remalning only long enough to attend to urgent business matters. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—R. J. Tobin of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. B. Kingbecker and W. R. Wood- ward of Los Angeles are at the Imperial. the Savoy. cisco is at the Plaza. J. G. Swinnerton and wife of San Francisco are at the Gilsey. General A. W, Barrett, W. H. Snedeker, Thomas M. Cluff, J. F. Burgin and Hen- ry P. Umbsen, of San , are at the Hoffman, - J. Kahn and wife of San Francisco are at |- D. J. Medbury of San Fran- | Through more than two centuries the haunt of slave dealers and pirates, who followed the example set by Captain John Hawkins in 1562, it was the site chosen for the first pracucal attempt to make some reparation for the grievous wrongs gmvlomly done to West African natives. n 1787, at _the instigation of Granville Sharp and other philanthropists, the British Government sent to it a cargo of about four hundred liberated blacks then ‘wandering around in London, with about eighty white women of loose character to keep them company; and on a plat of land bought from the native chiefs, Freetown was started, as the basis of a free com- munity of colored British subjects. This early settlement, added to and repienished by other consignments, was none too prosperous. ‘ine new-comers quarreled Wwith one another and with their neigh- bors. They were turbulent and indolent. sickly and short lived. Matters im- proved when the enterprise was taken over by a Slerra Leone Company in 1791, but {t:was only saved from ruin by seif: sacrificing energy of Zachary Macaulay, the historian’s father, who was Governot ofht‘h!ihsel:':clgllélg' c:)lony from 1785 to 1799, nd later years the - tion, in spite of an appalling deu&fl;:lé was' stea &y increased by tresh supplies {trom the West Indies am{ elsewhere; aad t grew more rapidly after 1807, when Eng- land’s share in the: slave trad v abolished by) act of Parliament, and when Sterra Leone, again pmefi"‘h:figrw?fig direct rule of the crown came to be the rincipal asylum for grom 1llicit slavers, as c:g'lllv;; f;‘e_m;\d%q aways from the interior. Accor g‘amcenlua of 1L, it then contalngsngvg- X liberated Africans and their des- cendants, besides—in so much of the ter rlt,ory As was under any sort of settled ;umore than 40.000 otner black people n ‘Whites.—Fortnightly Review. —_————— NUGGETS OF FUN. “How about that Klondike mining com- pany you were interested in about a year ago? I thought it was going to be suz'h\n big thing?” “It was a big thing. We dis nearly” 300,000 “worth ot stock."Chicags Mrs. Midley—Charles is such a dear fel- low! He never goes away without kissing me. ulln. :(I:arby—yau don't suppose there an; g like ‘“business before pleas- ure" fi his mind wgtn he is going ‘u’wny. do you, dear?’—Boston Transcript. “So you overcame the old antipathy of yours,” her husband remarked, “‘and called on Mrs. Bobbles?" “Yes." ‘Do, you think she was glad to see you “I am sure of it.” “Ahem!-—you must have some reason for that belief outside her assurances.” “I have, I had on the old dress that was made over twice, and my hat was _mn(!nalim'sg" uhf'hdenn. . R CAN VOTE ANYWHERE—X., Marsh- field, Coos County, Oregon. If the father of the young man named became a cliti- zen of the United States during his son’s minerity, by that act the son became a citizen and if he is now of age hesncflin cast his vote in Oregon or any other Stal g wltho:J(1 hnxvlngb to taekeh eo\ll;_ :De‘l:lsngg naturalization, becaus 3 1.';!a his father's naturalization, a citizen. AUTHOR WANTED—B. M., Oakland, Cal. This correspondent wants to kno;v in what publication she can find the fol- lowing lines: : changed since I saw ye last, Thers Something bright from your features passed, er your brow and eye, Wikeh Speais of ‘& world where flowers indst Ale. = Ye smije—but ~our smile hath 2 O! what have ye looked on since MUST RENOUNCE ALLEGIANCE— F. C., City. If an allen, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, cc:meubmo r::: United States and in due time Dbec a gl%iezen thereof, in after years returns to ‘ tention of making England with ihe intention of makig dimness, yet— last we met? that his future home joy the rights of an English citizen, l{l{e must make applcation to become a cit= zen of that country and must renounce his allegiance to the United States, for no an can be a citizen of two countries at one and the same time. RECORD OF THE CHINA-J. C. E, City. The highest speed attained by the steamshin China of the Pacific Mail Com- pany was 19.016 on a measured mile, and 423 knots at sea In a short day of 23 hours and 20 minutes. Her best record between San Francisco and Hongkong was 18 days and 17 hours, including a stay of 26 hours and 30 minutes at Yokohama; or 17 days and 14 hours running time. Her record between San Francisco and Yokohama I8 12 days and 45 minutes; from Yokohama to Honolulu, 8 days 6 hours and 15 min- utes; from Honolulu to San Francisco, § days 7 hours and 40 minutes. MAIL TO SOLDIERS—A. O. 8, City. The mail service at Manila is not as ef- fective as it will be in time. The deliv- ery of letters to soldiers at that place has been very irregular, and there are a_great many complaints. You should address a letter to the Postmaster Gen- eral at Washington, D. C., and state par- ticularly when, how and in what man- ner you directed the- letters sent, givh name, name of company and all thal was on the enyelopes that contained the letters sent. An Investigation will be made_and the letters will no doubt be traced. ARTESIAN WELLS—M. S. H., Trini- dad, Humboldt County, Cal. All water that is obtained from artesian wells has, at some time, been surface wateras F. H. Newell on the subject of such wells say: The principal condition upon which artesian wells flow depends on the existence of pervious strata, such as sandstone, inclined at a gentle angle to the horizontat, and inclosed between less pervious layers, as, for example, shales and clays. Also the higher edge of a rvious bed thus conditioned must receive an abundant supply of water either directly from rainfall or from the drfilmfie of the adjacent country, and there must be little or no escape at lower levels. When this bed is full of water and the water is not in_ motion the pressure at the lowest part of the bed is equivalent to that exerted by a column of water of the height to which complete saturation extends. 1f, how- ever, there is a small outlet and the water moves toward this the pressure at the lowest point of the saturated rock will be reduced and will be less and less, according as the lace of esca] is made larger or is made lower down. When water thus under pressure finds for ftself a natural outlet a spfinf is formed, but when the bed is tapped artificially by a drill hole and the water rises to the sur- face an arteslan well is the result. In all cases water has come from higher ground by working its way gradually down through the minute interstices or crevices in the inclined rock, and, pressed by other particles behind, rises through the easiest’ outlet. -« il v o el Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———————— Don't forget the County Monaghan pic- nic at Shellmound next Sunday. . —_————————— Special information supplied dally to business housc: and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telaphone Main 1042. ¢ ° Poeticus—Have you read Shakespeare's “Love’s Labor Lost2’ ¢ ¢ Cynicus—No; but I've taken a girl to the theater and had her talk to the man next her all through the show.—Taggart's Times. ’ —_——————— Through Tourist Car to S¢. Paul. This car is nicely upholstered in leather, Jeaves every Tuesday night, no change. Goe: via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rall way. The scenic line of the continent. Tick- ets on sale to all Eastern cities at lowest rates, T. K. 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