The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE. .....Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 15. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 2T to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874 i | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. { THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE....... ......908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. -.--Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. : WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Rigge House | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... .Margquette Guilding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. - 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 929! Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 258 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open entll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open: until 9 o'clock. 1 Sea Waves." York.” v streets—Specialties. eville and the Zoo. | 24, as the day for the annua] comes opportunely to the midst of partisan discussions blessings the country enjoys and the has attended our iment, and none it is likely to have Is of the intelligent by allayir ” s and steadying the masses who have been excited by the appeals of demagogues and agitators. “Few years in our history,” says the President, “have afforded such cause for th: giving as this. We have been-blessed by abundant - harvests, our trade and commerce have been wonderfully increased 1 dits T sections of our common country have been | together and knitted into a closer bond of e been improved and strength- | national purpose and. unity. | Nor is it in our dome: airs only we find rea- | son and cause to give thanks for what the year has brought. The very war which threatened to interrupt | our peaceful development of industry has proven a gain to the nation in many w pelled,” s the President, the cause of humanity, we that the conflict has been of brief duration, and: the “As we were com- to take up the sword in e permitted to rejoice | losses we have had to mourn, though grievous and | important, have been so few, considering the great results accomplished, as to inspire us with gratitude | and praise toward the Lord of Hosts. | Angry partisans in the heat of political conflict may | be_loth to agree with the President that this year has | exceptional good to all the people of the | United States, but with‘the passing of the partisan been one conflict on election day calmer judgment will come, | and then all | over, what has been vouchsafed to our industries and | to our arms. The year has been indeed a great and | glorious one for our country, and when the day ar- | rives North and South and East and West all the people will celebrate with glad hearts the solemn and | joyous festival of the national Thanksgiving. [ S only sentiment worth preservation was “Love | Will Find a Way.” This naturaliy calls into question whether love is always justifiable. Would it not, rather, under some circumstances, seem more like the genuine article if it withdrew from the field? There have been several instances in this city lately in which imen believing themselves inspired by this holy passion have slain the objects of their affection. “Love” went too far. “Love,” as represented in the persons of these degenerates, should without delay be | hanged. The ambition to marry a worthy girl is noth- ing of which any man should be ashamed. The re- fusal of any girl to marry a beetle-browed brute who wotild neither provide for her nor appreciate her should not, notwithstanding, be regarded as a capital offenses In addition to the murders inspired by refusal of proffers where acceptance would have been a gross violation of the dictates of common sense, husbands have essayed to correct or intpress their wives, results being serious or fatal. These offenders deserve to be hanged on the same scaffold with the other va- riety. They are exactly what the others would have beert. When crime is rare, its occurrence is to be deplored and checked by legal methods, while the world re- grets. But when it becomes common, when one hor- ror succeeds another in rapid succession, regret is commingled with rage, and there is a human yearning to have worthless necks stretched, not as a method of revenge, but as a protection.” “Love may find a way” to the gallows, and any hampering technicalities will be apt to revive the spirit of the old Vigilantes, = . In th§ press of matter possibly more important: there has not been extended mention of the fact that Mrs. Hamilton of Tennessee street has recovered her _mannygoat, the law giving. it back to her arms after an absence of eighteen months. . We congratulate Mrs. Hamilton, and the goat. with one accord will unite in the rejoicing | “LOVE WILL FIND @ way.” OMEBODY once wrote a song of which the | The gentlemen who wish to raise the Maine as a speculation might also secure Mr. Noah's ark. It would be a fine marine curio, and the two exhibited together would afford an object lesson in the ad- vance of naval architecture. PR ‘Perhaps one reason Henley laments at the pmspeé L tive turning down of Phelan is a_knowledge that:at the same time he will himself be turned down so hard he’ll never get over the bump. If Mr. Grace wants to earn money in large sums he railroad man. | performed, with relations he never sustained. | fully- incorporated in the Record.” | same speech Maguire said that Stanford, Huntington, | | they immediately represented or to the Government | of the United States, diverted $80,000,000 to their own | the laws of the land his estate is liable, as I believe it ! MAGUIRE AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY i /\/\ AGUIRE denies that anything he has said on land confiscation, anarchy or Ireland and the Pope is in issue in this campaign. At the | same time he insists in every specch that what Gage ;‘ has never said nor done is put in issue by Gage's can- | didacy. Ii Gage had ever written or said a2 word. or | done a thing in favor of the Southern Pacific Rail- ‘; rqad, or taken a professional fee from that corpora- tion, does any one believe that Maguire would fail to use it as an issue? Does any one believe that he would fail to hold Gage responsible for it, read it and demonstrate it in every speech he makes? Of course every one kmows that Maguire, while dodging his own record, would greedily seize upon any such fact in the record of his opponent. That he can find no such thing in Gage's record is proved by his not using it. In default of such material he has busied himself in manufacturing a record for Mr. Gage to prove him a | The work is not creditable to Judge | Maguire, but he is an expert in office-seeking and | stops at nothing that will keep the public treasury | open to his salary-seeking hand. So he assumes to invest Mr. Gage with a record he never made, with intentions he never entertained, with acts he never At the same time Maguire denies responsibility iori his own utterances, intentions and relations, to which | his record for years commits him. While he was making a speech in the House oi: the 5th of July, 1898, on the Pacific railroad debt, Mr. Hopkins asked him whether his position on that ques- tion had changed, to which Maguire replied: “It is | the same to-day as it has been on all previous occa- | I do not recall any change in my opinions on this question in the last five years. My opinions are Now, in that sions. Hopkins and Crocker were guilty of “gigantic frauds. | * * x The original directors of the Central Pa- cific Company, in defiance and violation of every ob- | ligation they owed as trustees, either to the company | pockets. Aiter this tremendous peculation of these directors was disclosed the act of 1873 was passed. If upon foreclosure of the Central Pacific the sale shall | fail to produce an amount sufficient to pay the claim | of the Government, I have no hesitation in saying | that the Government has a right of action against | the living directors and against the property of the dead directors who diverted these assets, provided, of course, that the property of the dead directors can be | found in the hands of persons who acquired it not by | purchase, BUT BY GIFT OR BY SOME MEANS | OTHER than purchase. It so happens that of the original directors of the Central Pacific who diverted ail these assets one is still living, * * * his es- tate is within reach of the courts. The other three are dead, but it so happens that all their estates are in such positions that the Government can reach them. Charles Crocker is dead, but his estate before his death was put by giit into a corporation known as the Crocker Estate Company. That great estate, made up largely of the fruits, in many cases the direct | fruits, of these diverted assets, stands there to answer, if under the principles of equity, jurisprudence and s. The Hopkins estate is in the same position prac- tically. The other estate, that of Leland Stanford, has passed in part to the widow of the deceased and is held by her very largely in real property. In'the dis- i cussion of a former funding bill it was suggested that | as Stanford had devoted his fortune, however ac- quired, to a quasi-public tise,in the establishment of a magnificent. university in California, it would be against public policy to disturb it, but it has no relevancy as an argument in favor of a funding bill. * *x * What Congress should do if, in the collec- tion of its claims, the Stanford University were likely to be crippled or closed or made less useful to thei public than it is now, I am not at present prepared to | say. * *.* If this bill should pass * * * you then wipe out all collateral obligations attaching to the original contracts, including those arising out of | the gigantic frauds and breaches of trust to which I have all too briefly and incompletely referred. The directors and their successors, in the enjoyment of | colossal fortunes largely based upon these fraudulent diversions of trust assets, will be immediately set free from all liability to the Government and their offenses condoned and compounded.” Now, there is-a recent, direct and explicit charge that Stanford University is founded and endowed on the fruit of peculation, gigantic fraud and crime, and that. not only it, but the Hopkins Art School, given to the State University, the Crocker Old People’s Home and Mrs. Stanford’s kindergartens, the fine conservatory in Golden Gate Park, the lake and other creations in that park, and all and sundry the many public gifts of millions of dollars given by the orig- inal four directors of the Central Pacific, are the “di- rect fruit” of crime. There is the direct assertion that the Government of the United States can seize all and singular these properties, and that Maguire is “not prepared to say” what should be done if Stanford University “is crippled or closed” by such seizure. Recently Maguire has told certain students that he will take Stanford University “under his wing” as Governor, and by the demagogue arts of which he is past master he is wooing votes in that institution. But will he go to that university 'and, standing in the great court where its founder lay in death and thou- sands came to his obsequies, repeat his speech and his charges of last July? He said in ‘the same speech that upon this subject his opinions have not changed 1or five years. Have they changed in three months? Does he still be- lieve that Stanford stole the endowment of that uni- versity and that jt may be crippled or closed by seizure by the Government? 5 This is something that concerns the character of the young men and women who are students at Stan- ford. It concerns an important section of State Uni- versity students who are related to the Hopkins Art School. : If Maguire told the truth in his horrible accusation against the dead, no honorable young man can stay at Stanford. If :Maguire did not tell the truth, no honorable young man can stay at Stanford and sup- port Maguire. If he do he is, open-eyed, supporting the ‘contention that his alma mater is a monument to “gigantic fraud,” and is trying to put that stain forever upon her walls by aiding in the indorsement of the man who daubed it there in rhetorical ‘'mud only three months ago. < Maguire is talking a good deal. Will he tell the people if he still thinks the money that built Stanford was stolen by its founder? e s s “The Tacoma. News uses type of impressive size to malke this announcement::“Our Soldiers Loose Their ‘Votes.” What's the ground for excitement? Per- haps they will Joose them so they will do the most good.. | terprising men of that city as one of the most public- If France becomes involved in war-good by to the'| THE WINNER IN THE SIXTH. Y the fierceness and the bitterness of the at- B tacks made upon him by the orators and organs of the fused factions of Democracy, Populism and discontent, it is evident the Hon. Russell J. Waters is making a winning contest for Congress in the Sixth District. The very desperation of his opponents is an evidence that the trend of public sen- timent is strongly in his favor. Mr. Waters is one of the most eminent of the pro- | gressive men who during the last twelve years have | done so much for the upbuilding of Southern Califor- nia and the development of its resources. Born in Vermont in 1843, he removed first to Massachusetts, then to Chicago, and finally in 1886 came to Cali- fornia. From the time of his arrival in the State he has | been a leader in great enterprises. As the representa- tive of a number, of citizens of Chicago who desired | to establish themselves in California, he selected and laid out a site for the colony in East Redlands, where | mest of the colonists now reside. Having in this way become identified with the progress of the southern part of the State, he has continued to promote its in- terests with energy and sagacity. He is at present a resident of Los Angeles, and is known among the en- spirited and liberal in promoting every movement de- signed for the general good. California needs at Washington just such men as M. Waters. The State has many great interests in- volved in national legislation, for whose proper man- agement men of trained business ability, tireless | energy and a zealous fidelity to the public welfare are required. The citizen who in the advancement of his private business has accomplished so much to de- velop his section of the State can be relied upon to give an equally valuable service in Congress, and with the election of Mr. Waters the Sixth District will have a representative to be proud of. It is not, however, for his personal reputation only that the popular sentiment of the district is favorable to the Republican candidate. The intelligence of the peo- ple there as elsewhere perceives the importance of hav- ing at this juncture a Congress in harmony with the ad- ministration. The President will have grave problems of foreign as well as of domestic politics to deal with during the next two years, and thg success of his pa- triotic policies will be largely depgdent upon the co- cperation of the House of Representatives. In this emergency the people owe it to themselves and to the country to stand by the President. While this is what is generally known as an off year in politics, it is not so in reality. Rarely were more seriotis problems ever presented to the American people than those which will confront the Congress that is to be chosen this fall. A Republican House of Representatives is essential to the continued prosper- ity of the country, and the voters of the Sixth District will serve the nation as well as their local interests by the election of that stanch supporter of the adminis- tration, Russell J. Walters. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN EUROPE. ONSULAR Reports for October contains a re- C port from Consul General Du Bois of St. Gall, Switzerland, on electric street railways in Europe, from which it appears there were on that continent on January 1 of this year 204 electric street lines in operation, with an aggregate mileage of 1422 miles. This is a surprisingly small mileage when compared with that of electric railways-in the United States, and the contrast is more striking when the statistics are noted for the various countries sepa- rately. Of the total electric street railway mileage of Europe Germany contains almost exactly half, or 707 miles. - France comes next with 246 miles. Great Britain is third with only 97 miles, and little Switzer- Jand ranks fourth with go miles, or nearly as much as Great Britain. Italy has 82 miles, Austria-Hungary 66, Belgium has 42, Spain 37, while the vast empire of Russia has only 19 miles. There are several cities in the United States that have within their limits, or in their suburbs, more miles of electric street railway than all Europe ex- cept Germany, and Philadelphia claims to have more miles than Germany. In comparison with our devel- opment of that means of transportation, therefore, Europe can be hardly said to have reached the electric age. The reason why European countries are so far be- hind us in this mode of street traffic appears to be not so much a lack of enterprise on the part of pro- moters and projectors as an objection to the over- head wires on the part of the governing authorities; and that system seems at present to be the one most favored by companies constructing electric lines Thus of the total number of electric roads in Europe 172 lines have the overhead trolley, 8 lines the un- derground trolley, 8 lines the third rail system, 13 lines the storage svstem and 3 lines a mixed system of overhead trolley and accumulators. It is a curious illustration of how the blocking of progress in one direction leads to its advance in an- other, that the checking of electric street railway con- struction in European cities has been the cause of the adoption there of the horseless vehicle to a much greater extent than in this country. Our cities are so well provided with street railways that we hardly need the self-propelled vehicles for which there is such a demand in Europe, and it will probably be a long time before they are used here for any other pur- pose than that of delivering goods of a light charac- ter. Therefore while we can smile at Europe as being somewhat silurian on the subject of electric railways, we may expect them before long to mock at us for being so slow in making use of the horseless vehicle. There will be general public interest in the outcome of the suit brought in Alameda by Martial Davoust. His wife was killed by a dangling electric wire. Not- withstanding that corporations tacitly claim the right to dangle wires, the consequent slaughter being ascribed to Providence, people not ready to die, nor witness the spectacular taking off of their friends, have ventured heretofore modestly to take issue. Da- voust asks money damages, not that the value of a wife is to be computed in cash, but that the under- standing of the corporation may be aroused. Ladies in congress at Omaha devoted much time to discussion of short skirts. When ladies get together they are apt to do this, and to favor the short skirt enthusiastically. But they do not reach that stage of devotion to reform which impels them to lay aside their own trailing street-sweepers. If Chief Lees and Officer Kane will remain separ- ated by the length of a telephone wire, they will save the public many a shudder of apprehension, though the wire may melt with a fervent heat. Jurymen in an Astoria murder case had a fist fight in determining the question of guilt. The method is unique, but it may be as good as some others. Kansas soldiers will vote at sea, and as returns will republic. the ought to see what candidates can be induced to him for not indorsing them; e <A X af We suggest Dreyfus as dictator under age e R A S o Isea for awhile:: - 2 be long in getting back, the whole State will be at L AROUND THE HEAVY ARTILLERY. NUMBER EIGHT. Editor San Francisco Call: The power of the people may be used against the people. For our protection we have divided and subdivided political office. We trust no politicians. We will give no man so much power that he may become independent of the plain people, of you and me. This is the palladium of our liberties—not Fourth of July speeches, not hollow appeals for good government, not personzl denunciations. We trust no man. The State’s business must be done, but we commit the business to so many hands that no one man may monopolize it to our hurt. . 3 2 The danger of boss rule consists in the attempt to destroy this subdi- vision of power. We do not object to bosses because they control votes. We must have bosses so long as we have leaders. But we do object to the boss who manages to control so many offices that he can afford to use the power of the people against the people. One great safeguard we have—the multiplication of bosses. Thp one boss who can control everything is far more dangerous to the plain citi- zen, to you and to me, than the many lesser bosses who fight and squabble for power. ‘Against the boss who is supreme there is no recourse for the plain citizen, tRat is, for you and for me. Ageinst the squabbling bosses we have remedies aplenty, because we con always use one to whack the other on the head. PLAIN PEOPLE USUALLY LOOK ON THE BOSS As a wonderful and mysterious individual. We picture him as the spider sitting in the center of his web, whence the sensitive threads radmtg to the circumierence of the city or State. He is to most of us a Svengali who by some strange hypnotic influence makes his Trilby subjects warble at his will. But aiter all when we plain people, that, is, you and I, come to think of it, a boss is but a man of flesh and blood, like ourselves. He is dealing, too, with men who are like us in birth, in education, in sentiments. Half of a boss’ strength is in plain people like you and me, whom he un- consciously influences. His immediate followers. are marvelously like us: plain people. They are subject to the same impulses and passions, and are stirred by the same motives and interests. A boss gains power over his t'ql- lowers in the same manner and by the same means that other leaders gain power over their followers. Unless plain people like you and me understand this thoroughly we are liable to make many mistakes in our estimate of political situations in general, and of the present municipal campaign in par- ticular. One of the strongest motives that the boss can exercise over his fol- lowers is the promise of position. Every government in the world pays its servants well and does not work them too hard. There are no situations in San Francisco with such easy hours and such good salaries as the appointive offices in the City Hall. These offices are, of course, filled by the successful candidates on the principle that TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS. Now the boss, when he is making his campaign, considers these ap- pointive offices as his most efficacious weapons. They are his heavy artil- lery. An influential district leader, a promising orator, an energetic vote- gefter, may stand off from the fight and declare that he is not in politics this year. He is deaf to all appeals, to reason, to gratitude, to party loyalty. But fet the boss train one of his big guns on him, a big, salaried position for him or for his friend, and the plain citizen often wonders at the suddenness and energy with which he mingles in the melee. As the boss is the general, he must have the placing of the artiltery. Hence when he sets up candidates he does so on the condition that they will relinquish to him a certain number of the nominations to appointive offices. This is usually euphuistically styled, giving the organization a percentage of the positions. As far as the plain citizen can judge of such things, the usual figure has been about 50 per cent, for aiter all the greediest or most necessitous boss must feel that the candidate who has borne the burden and heat of the day is entitled to at least half his wages. Where we have a number of bosses controlling a number of candidates of course each has his own independent battery, and he directs it as best he knows how. In the cross-fire the plain citizen often escapes safe. Where one boss is delivering his lead into the intrenchments of another, the man that is up a tree, that is, the plain citizen, grins with delight. But if one man can control all the positions, he can direct his fire on the people. All the guns will bark to one effect, to his advantage—that is, to the disadvantage of the plain citizen, of you and of me. MANY PEOPLE THINK That it will be to the benefit of the plain citizen to spike as many of those guns as possible. They believe in cutting down the power of the boss by making the tenure of appointive places life or good behavior. This is what is known as civil service. Plain people have yet to be convinced that there is a governmental precaution that a boss cannot get around. We therefore do not commit ourselves to civil service or to anti-civil service. Some of us are in favor of it, and some of us are opposed to it. Anyhow, like plain people, we agree to differ. But the professional reformers and the. good government people are ' loudly pledged to tivil service. Mayor Phelan is its stanchest advocate. He demands a business administration. and of course we all know that every one employed in Mr. Phelan’s private business has a life tenure of his place. The new charter he advocated because of its civil service provisions. He does not believe in the vulgar cry, “To the victors belong the spoils.” He wishes to prove that he is no boss by spiking the heaviest guns in the bosses artil- lery. 4 But the power of the people may be used against the people, and power corrupts. Mr. Phelan has used the power of the people to take from them their right of nomination; he has used the power of the people to grasp at the complete control of the city government; he is now using the power of the pcop&e, the money of the people, the promise of office, to make certain the ambitious schemes which he has contrived to raise the government of the town to his own high and moral level. EVERY CANDIDATE NOMINATED By the Committee of One Hundred—that is, by Mr. Phelan—was compélled to lift his hand to heaven and promise to the organization—that is, to Mr. Phelan—8o per cent of the patronage of his office. The plaip citizen thinks of Mr. Phelan's words in favor of civil service, and of Mr. Phelan’s acts in demanding a larger share of the patronage than any boss has ever dared to ask. You and I remember the question which is the greatest (lan%_er to us, the many small bosses, or the one boss that ¢on- trols them all? The power of the people may be used against the people. : We are put in pawn to buy workers for Mr. Phelan. He controls all the artillery. It is an irresistible force. It is directed by one hand. It is used for one object—the victory of Mr. Phelan, the capture of the city by those who are pledged to do Mr. Phelan’s bidding. Well, indeed, may it be asked in alarm by the plain citizen—that is, by you and by me, Which is the great- est danger, the many small bosses, or the boss that controls them all? A PLAIN CITIZEN. |THE CIGARETTE AND THE GIRL - Editor of The Call: I am constrained THE CORRIDORS J. J. Drew, a well-known business man 4will ‘You?—Chicago Journal: of Seattle, is at the Russ. H. H. Eddy, a Santa Barbara banker, is stopping at the Grand. R. A. Boggess, a Sulphur Creek mining man, is at the Occidental. Lewis H. Smith, City Attorney of Fresno, is stopping at the Grand. Revenue Agent Bert Thomas returned yesterday from a visit to the north. 8. L. Hogue, chairman of Fresno's Board of Education, is at the Grand. James Sheridan, a well-known mining man of New Mexico, is at the Russ. R. A. Leiter, editor of the college paper at Stanford University, is at the Grand. Professor W. R. Dudley of Stanford University is registered at the Baldwin. John W. Moore, an extensive cloth mer. chant of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. Dr. R. W. O'Bannon of Hollister is among the recent arrivals at the Bald- win. Colonel Gaines Lawson, U. 8. A., has returned from Highland Springs and is at the Occidental. Colonel G. R. Fingle, U. 8. A., has re- turned from Alaska and is registered at the Occidental. Captain Thomas Scallen, a well-known sea captain, recently from Guam Island, is stopping at the Russ. James Hewetson, acco! and Miss Hewetson, is rel Occldental from Riverside. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mitchell, two daughters and mald, are at the Palace, registered from New London, Conn. O. B. Stanton, proprietor of the Victo- ria Hotel at Kansas City, is recovering from a threatened attack of pneumonia at the Palace. J. A. Chanslor of Los Angeles, one of the most extensive oil well owners of Southern California, is registered at the Palace. He is accompanied by R. V. Ellis of Ofl City. « —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW.YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Ralph Lowe of San Jose, Mrs. Willlam G. Stafford and Miss Marjorie Stafford of San Francisco are at the Manhattan. anied by Dr. stered at the Cuteleigh—I'm sorry ‘to hear you're broke, Buteleigh. Buteleigh—Broke? Who's broke? What's the matter with this? (showing a handful of gold). Cuteleigh—Nothing. Lend m tvent)y. s to say that your editorfal, “Saved by a Cigarette,” in The Call of October 19, 1898, in sentiment and good taste falls far below the average editorials appearing in your excellent paper. I think the young man who refused to marry the youn, rl hopelessly addict- ed to the use of 5:& clgarette );ught to be commended and not ridiculed by your facile pen. Just think how it would have been with yourself. Yours in favor of striking every possible blow at the filthy practice. T. H. STEPHENS, Eureka, Cal.,, October 22, ————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CLIFF HOUSE FIRE—O. G., City. The old Cliff Hou: - Cember %, 1504, S Prdin it Te TO THE FARALLONES-K. A. B, City. The distance from the Cliff House to the North Farallones is 26% miles, to the Middle Farallones 23% miles and to the South Farallones 22% miles. WORTH HALF A DOLLAR-T. B. M., Alameda, Cal. A 50-cent plece of 1853 with rays around the eagle is not the kind that numismatists seek. Such a cofn to them Ecv:;:égsj‘:'st 5«1 cen{m Dealers offer them arying from 7 According to condition,. o 0 3B JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS—A. 8., City. There is in San Francisco a Jour- neymen Plumbers’ and Gas and Steam Fitters’ Assoclation which meéts on the first and third Wednesday of each month in the Alcazar bulldluii As to plumbers, union men are paid and work eight hours: in non-union shops the price is from §2 to 38 per day and the hours from elg:rta termht and :uhn.{f and even nine £ man usually begins at is raised to § if competent. ! P DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—P. M. C., Angels, Cal. The exact location of the District of Columbia, the seat of Govern- ment of the United States, is between lat- itude 38 degrees 51 mlnu;es and 39 de- grees, and longitude 76 degrees 58 min- utes and 77 degrees 6 mlngel weut?n l;t is ten miles Xm:s from northwest to south- east, is bounded on the north, northwest, east and southeast by Maryland, and on the west and southwest by the Potomac River and Vlrgnin. It is 200 miles from the ocean by the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. Its area is sixty-four square miles. STRAIGHTS AND FLUSHES-C. E., City. According to Hoyle, a straight is five cards following in regular order of denomination as ace, two, three, four and five, and the cards may be of different suits; a straight will t triplets. straight the ace {h W bea a y8 both g its value is different; v'lwn ,.m’:g,"",!m‘ high- ueen, knave and ten, it makes the gst; when with two, three, four and ‘tlivet,, the lowest. A flush is five cards, al lon the same suit and beats three aces. B the flush the ace counts both WAYS flgen the straight. Ace with the klns‘. }:‘utwol knave and ten will beat ace wit] S three, four and five. Two, three. . Vi 4 that can five and six is the ’°""‘”fl“t’hflush A be held. A royal of straigh it- ranks four cards. of the same denomina tion. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 5l per b at Townsend’s® —_——————— 2 Genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10c, d0c. St 4th. 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Wi PrIBETH WiTHOUT “eoPull Set Of TEsth!Ex- tracting tree..$4.50 up Gl Crowns, 22k, ¢ Fillings - ELECTRO-DENTAL CLINIC, Suite 7, Fiood Buflding, 809 MARKET ST. Otfice Hra.—9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sun.. 9 to 3 pim, STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (F, EARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CON- necticut, on the 3ist day of December, Al D. 1897, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insuranice Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to_the’ provisions of sectioBs 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Com- missioner. CAPITAL, Amount of capital stock, pald up in cash....... Seeturiecansis, eve-+-$1,250,000 00 ASSETS. Real estate owned by company. Loans on bonds and mortgage: Cash market value of . all- and mortgages. Premiums in due course of collection Rents due and accrued........veeeeuee «2-.$10,894,629 23 28,538 49 1,107,871 37 1,034 44 Total assets ............. LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid.......... $147,326 2 Losses {h process of adjustment or s % in suspense ... 2 967 55 Losses resisted, in nses 72,455 23 Gross premiums on fire risks ru; ning one year or less, $4,342,5¢1 3 reinsurance 50 per cent. 2,171,270 88 Gross premiums on fire risks run- ning more than ome year, $5,133, §22 07; reinsurance pro rata 2,637,518 14 Commissions and broker: to become du 75,000 00 Total liabilities $5,304,838 18 *INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums 15,742,564 T4 Received for interest on bonds and ‘mortgages 1,498 19 Received for interest and dividends on bonds, stocks, loans and from all other ‘sources. Received for rents Total income EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for fire losses (In- cluding $453,630 85, losses of pre- vious yearsi.. Dividends to stockholders.. Pald or allowed for commission or brokerage ... Pald for salaries, 315.757 63 6,735 35 $6,139, charges for officers, 434,730 P;Ald for State, national and I . s axes ... G 107, All other payments and expenditures m,g 3 Total expenditures ... 560,018 02 Losses incurred during the yenr‘“.;§,f;%‘,—;éo 28 Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks. [Premiums, Net amount of risks writ-. | ten during the year....| $391,318,441/$7,256,258 52 I ot s en 4 uring the vear..| 559,274, Net amount in force D iy B L] cember 31, 1897 784,504,406 9,476,363.33, GEO. L. CHASE, P: Satesibed aha S S e et g Subscribed and ¢w fore me this: 12th M. B. SCOTT, Notary Publie. H. K. BELDEN, Mauager l’ac;fic Department. WHITNEY PALACHE, Assistant Marager, 313 CALIFORNIA ST., BAN FRANCISCO. Special Agents and Adjusters: d. d ‘AIXARD. _d. d. DENNIS, JOHN 'M; v