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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor #ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. l;ai.LICA'l;lDN OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874 | THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. r | ..One year, by matl, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... +.s..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. .Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE... ......Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. e .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, i 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, THE WEEKLY CALL.. | AMUSEMENTS, nts.” Island.” California +Northern Lig ‘At Gay C —Races To-day. ming n December. AUCTION SALES. November nesday _evening, Howard street. G. ed Horses, BADLY MANAGED SCHOOLS. tperintendent Web- N his annual report, School ster notes the interesting t that between the l years 1896 and 1898 the cost of maintaining the schools of city increased from $32 43 per pupil in the former year to $37 58 in the latter. In other words, the expense of maintaining the School Depart- ment has jumped $5 per pupil in the short space of two years, or at the rate of $2 50 per ye During the hers has in- period of two years the number of t ed 143, while the increased attendance The payroll of teachers has 10unts crea only to 1608. reased $93.412 since 186, ese figures indicate that the mana San Francisco has simply Every Board of Education during the gement of the become schools of wretched. as contributed to this result, and it past five years will not do to place all the blame upon the present combination of politicians who are running the de- | partment. e fact of the matter is, the schools are | in politics, and so long as they remain in it will be impossible to effect a change. | The pressure on each successive Board of Education to make places for teachers is enormous, and Direct- ors seek their offices for the sole purpose of increasing Some years ago the Supreme Court de- the payroll cided that the board could not dispense with the services of a teacher without cause. Hence the an- | nual habit of dismissing large numbers of them and | filling laces with favorit 1d to be dispensed | with. As a substitute, the Directors have simply added to the number without providing work for them to do. Under the new charter it is thought the department The Mayor will appoint will practically be con- the terms of the mem- will be taken out of politics. f Education, whi of that is to say, Board tinuous i bers will expire alternately. One of the first duties of this board ¥ be the complete annihilation of the present system. Exactly how the work will be done oreshadowed; but that the public will de- 1d a decrease in the expenses of the department »m 10 to 20 per cent goes without saying. 1 should continue for a while p the taxpayers. If the present sy Ienger it would sw i campaign did not seem to have adjusted satisfactorily. | Whether the disputed point is any clearer now is not certain, but both of the fighters were bruised and one | of them was licked. Out of evil may come good. Perhaps the plan is not so bad as it seems at first | glance. Every campaign is marked by more or less | bickering and punctuated by the dull thud of the hos- | tile ward-worker’s fist. This tends to make of the | polls a place of disorder, unpleasant for the q\u(‘tl citizen who prefers not to hit nor be hit, nor yet a witaess in the Police Court. If the scrappers would | consent to defer their scrapping until after the fnunt-| ing of the ballots and then retire to a secluded barn, | there to arrive at conclusions, the public weal would be promoted. To be sure, there is a law against fighting; but as | nobody pays any attention to it and husky tribes of pugilists make a business of defying it, while the | world looks on and bets, there is no reason why a politician who knows his enemy needs thumping and who in all probability needs thumping himself should be denied the privilege of getting into the ring and being knocked out of it. Welc\'a§c the morals of his fellow-men; when he begs his colleagues to stand by him and gets from them that which is known in political purity circles as the “trun down,” the case is a sad one. It causes us to ask anew, “Whither are we drifting?” and once more to view with alarm. Supervisor Delany, his heart swelled with appre- hension for the public good, his pocket possibly lightened through having tried to wipe out gambling by tackling it in its lair, sought to deal it a statutory death-blow, and the blow has glanced. People still gamble. They buy chips and squander them. They buy pasteboards from a poolseller, and a little later, looking at these scraps ruefully, toss them into the gutter. In fact, they refuse to know when they are well off or to recognize the sincere and saintly ardor | of the man who would clear temptation from their paths so as to enable them to save their money for | bread and potatoes. laugh, while te offer to lay wagers that he has been making a bluff is little short of crime. e e s ) Utah made a mistake in sending a polygamist to ongress. That body is not perfect, but it is a stick- BARE FIST POLITICS. WO Alameda politicians have just had a round contest with bare knuckles, their object being to settle some mooted question which the ju REFORMER DELANY. HEN a public official has a large yearning to It isn’t right to give Delany the | THESE CUMBER THE EARTH. * there is any specimen of the human race who is less and annoying he is the pugilist. The aver- age prize-fighter has no redeeming traits. He will | not even fight. If he were sincere in his protestations Eof desire to match his prowess against that of others | of his kind much might be forgiven him. But he is | above all else a liar and a fraud. He has no wish to | enter a contest on his physical merits. When he goes linto the ring it is with the understanding that he is to win or that he is to lose, and the purse has been divided in advance. We do not wish to defend prize-fighting, even if it were to be conducted fairly. At the best it would be a miserable business, without legitimate excuse. For a man to have a fair knowledge of the art of self- defense is not a bad idea. If he never has occasion to call his ability into active demonstration, there is health in the necessary exercise. But the man who makes a business of “fighting” is of necessity a brute, and by rapid gradations becomes a swindler. The average “pug” is by instinct a vagrant and a tramp. He will not work. Criminals are his associates. He is willing to be defeated if he can secure a share of the gate receipts. He ought to be in jail or breaking rock on the highway. % 1f recollection is not at fault, Sullivan was the only { decent fighter this country has had in recent years, and the only element of decency about him was that he was ready to meet any foe and put up the best bat- | tie he could. Corbett met and defeated him. In those days Corbett was a giant in strength and a marvel of agility, graceful as a leopard and like a lion for cour- age. He had not learned the tricks of the ignoble trade. To-day Corbett is a wreck of his former self. Sharkey, a simian-browed deck-scrubber, never fought a fair fight and never will. They are a pair of fakers, and they are as good as the best. That a pair of rowdies, ready to swindle the public, should be capable of attracting so much attention is a disgrace to the nation. Everybody knew in advance that the contest would be a sham. Everybody rea- lized that even if not a sham it was a matter of no more consequence than a bar-room brawl. Yet from sea to sea the public flocked to the bulletin boards, and in every city the poolsellers made unholy money. The ideal prize-fight is yet to occur. Occasionally a pugilist is killed in the ring, which is a good thing it goes. In the ideal prize-fight a Corbett and a key will exchange mutually fatal blows. Perhaps Sharkey can whip Corbett; perhaps not. In any event, no matter. The women who quarrel across the alley fence and are ultimately led into the Police Court to explain are of more consequence. We favor an utter suppression of prize-fighting, the conviction of every pugilist as a vagrant. They would be bad enough if honest. As a set of confidence-men they utterly exhaust the patience. Morally they rank with the purveyors of gold bricks. That they should be petted and pampered and tolerated by the police is a reflection on the common intelligence. CORRESPONDENT of the New York Times, who claims to be a social philosopher as well clusion that the election of Theodore Roosevelt was due to the cartoons of the Democratic press repre- THE EFFECT OF CARTOONS. fl as a student of politics, has reached the con- senting him as a wild, ranting cowboy, riding a buck- so far S | ing broncho, loaded up with whisky and bowie-knives and waving pistols and lariats around his head in | promiscuous confusion. His argument is that these cartoons had no effect upon any one except young men who had just come of age. Fresh from their youthful reading of Dead- wood Dick, Red-Handed Bill, the Bandit of Bloody Gulch, and other thrilling tales of a like character, | the cartoons appealed to their love of adventure. Their excited imaginations saw in Roosevelt the ideal fighter from the headwaters of Bitter Creek, and every one of them worked for him, shouted for him and voted for him. From the standpoint of this view of the effect of cartoons it might be argued that the election of Gage in this State was due to the votes of barbers and bald- headed men. The pictures of the Republican candi- date with a mass of hair waving above him like a sunburst of luminous beams above a mountain-top must have appealed to every barber who wished a job of hair-cutting and to every man with a billiard-ball cranium who wished for hair to cover it. Possibly also the great Republican victory of 1896 may have been due to that cartoon representing Mark Hanna in a suit of clothes spangled all over with dol- lar-marks. In those hard times, when every manwas in need of money, many an impecunious cuss must have felt strongly attracted to this citizen, who, starting with nothing, had become so rich that he not only had his pockets full of coin but could wear hundred-dollar checks on his trousers and his coat. To many a voter that picture must have seemed a representation of the ideal American, and they voted for him because he looked like an image of prosperity on a monument smiling at poverty. Imagination reels in an attempt to depict what a dizzy landslide of votes would occur if the next time Belva Lockwood or any of her sister suffragists runs for the Presidency she should be depicted as a ballet- dancer tickling the jocund earth with one pirouetting toe while its light fantastic fellow pointed to the eternal'stars. There would be no stopping either the young voters or the old boys. Youth would be fired and age enraptured. The country would be very nearly unanimous. The conclusion of the whole matter is that the car- toon is a boomerang. It is as likely to come back as to go forward. The grave and serious American is, after all, the most humorous of men, and there is no telling how a picture may appeal to him. It pleases him to depict his revered Uncle Sam not as an up-to- date man of the world, as he is, but as a clock- peddling Yankee of a hundred years ago. So it seems the American not only likes caricatures but likes the men who are caricatured. At any rate, the effect of a cartoon is clearly one of the things “you can’t most always sometimes tell.” e ——— While boys are prone to get into mischief, there is nothing to show that one of them, for playing on the sidewalks, merits the severe punishment of being killed. The tipping over of a box of goods resulting |in the death of a lad was a sad affair. Possibly the | victim had no business there; yet the sidewalks are | provided for people rather than for the storage of merchandise, and if merchandise is to be piled there, certainly the fashion of piling .so as to produce fatal- ities should be rigidly discouraged. ey It is worth while finding out the brutal wretch who sent a dead babe to the garbage crematory. He or she deserves to be sent to one of the repositories society has provided for human garbage, Uncle Sam has sent some more last words to Spain. By preserving them all, Spain can at least emerge from the difficulty with an album of wisdom. For killing a footpad in Mexico an American has been held six months in jail; but if he had not killed ler for appearances. ' | the footpad he himself would have been dead yet. WORSE WEATHER THAN OURS. UR dry weather and fair skies this late in the O fall are not wholly pleasing to us—even the few showers that have fallen have not satisfied us—and the voice of the complainer is heard in the land. Nevertheless, when reports are read of the weather in the East it is probable the most dolorous of Californians will comfort himself in. the sunny days and rejoice that he is not smitten by the blasts that rage beyond the Rockies. The fall weather has been unusually severe over the ertire eastern portion of the country. Snowstorms here and there and occasional blizzards were reported as early as October, and now the winter seems to have come down upon them in earnest. A cold wave, accompanied by high winds and snow, starting from the Rocky Mountains, has $wept over the East and The sweep and range of the storm were enormots. Beginning along the line of the mountains and ex- with a scarcely mitigated severity across the conti- nent to New York and disappeared upon the Atlantic. disaster. Hardly any locality north of Mason and Dixon's line seems to have escaped the effect of the So heavy was the snow that railroads were block- aded, and in some cities streetcars were stopped. The ness was seriously interfered with and nearly all in- dustries more or less injured. Nor did the disaster persons were found frozen to death in the streets, and there can be little doubt that when reports come in perished on the bleak prairies or the desolate plains over which the storm raged unchecked. this the drought in California can hardly be accounted a serious evil. The damage done to property by the | has probably entailed a greater loss in one fierce sweep than was inflicted upon California by the stich reports from the East, we have no good reason for complaining of our weather. Moreover, as the | cause to be satisfied with California. Too many fair days are, of course, not to be desired, but they are FINANCIAL REFORM NECESSARY. =IT is well not to lose sight of the pledge of | its redemption. The measures have been well digested, and the next Congress should lose no time The only way in which the case is to be closed | against the fiatists is by legislation. The need of a | better currency banking system than we have now is felt at all times and in all conditions of trade. Of as in bad; but that weakness is one of the causes of bad times, and the system contributes nothing to We have heretofore shown the complex nature of our financial systent—a mosaic of emergency legisla- | gency. It began during the Civil War, when the | Government-was driven to any and every expedient a man resorts to avert destruction are never such as he calmly adopts in promotion of his interests when { tions, and yet we have adhered to expedients and E systems which were adopted to avert national death. | The banking system proposed is largely that so | long known and successfully administered in-Scotland national debt and the end of using Government bonds as the basis of a safe paper currency. It provides for bility of stockholders as the security of circulation and, by arranging the taxation’ of such currency on a will never willingly return to State banks of issue. The convenience of a national system, with its cur- peorle. The new systenr proposed is, therefore, na- tional, under constant authorized official oversight. the bills of any bank that may fail, and if this ever prove insufficient the Government will assess all the to any demand upon it. The system has every feature of security and adap- banking ever had; therefore the advocates of State banks of issue cannot find a valid objection to it. which became a redeemable medium of ‘exchange, based upon bank assets. cessfully administer such a system, as they did before the war, there is no valid reason why the Federal mulation of experience in the running of a national system also stands the Government in good stead, and the proposed change. The great purpose of it is to put-the surplus loan and easy access to it and as economical use of his credit as the merchant or manufacturer. There is rate of interest between New York and Texas, but there is no good reason why that difference should be To approximate the rates of interest exacted for the use of money and more nearly equalize it between the carried suffering, destruction and-death with it. tending from Dakota to Texas, the blasts continued From every portion of that wide area come reports of wave. telephone and telegraph service was crippled. Busi- end with damage to property. Even in the large cities from the rural districts it will be found that many In comparison with the disasters of weather like single blizzard that has opened the Eastern winter drought during the whole season. Certainly, with | winter comes in and progresses we shall have further better than too many blizzards. financial reform and the immediate necessity for in their consideration. | course, its weakness is not so apparent in good times good times, which come in spite of it. | tion. It can best be reformed when thére is no emer- |in a struggle for its existence. The devices to which no danger is present. The same rule is true of na- It is time to return to the ways of life in our finances. and in Canada. It contemplates the extinction of the the gradual substitution of bank assets and the lia- sliding scale, guards agairst inflation. The country rency of uniform value, will not be given up by the All the banks contribute a redemption fund to secure solvent banks to replenish it and keep the fund equal tation to the public needs that the soundest State Those banks issued a convenient paper currency, If Indiana, New York, Towa and Illinois could suc- Government should not do it now. The vast accu- is reflected in the guarantees and security added in { fund where the farmer and planter may have as cheap some reason why there should be a difference in the as great as it is. trading and manufacturing centers and the producing be accomplished by this legislation. ‘When the system is put in operation its existence awill not depend upon the payment of the national debt and consequent withdrawal of bonds, as is the case with the present national banks. . ——— A condemned murderer, sentenced to life imprison- ment in Canada, alleges as a plea for pardon that he is an English Lord. It is not easy to see what bear- ing this has on the matter. If it have any at all it should be in the direction of making the sentence more severe, which obviously would be difficult. TR Disinclination on the part of the courts to show mercy to highbinders is a little late in putting in an appearance. Highbinders are not particularly given to mercy themselves. They deserve the judicial hatchet. 3 transport Arizona in the place of white men would be listened to with interest and_receive reasonable con- sideration. Keeley had the secret of making people with money | believe he had a secret. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. H, H. Clark of Santa Cruz is at the "Russ. J. E. Poingdestre, a San Jose mining man, is at the Grand. Railroad Commissioner W. R. Clark is a guest at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Runyon of Red Bluff are at the Palace. Fred Cox, a prominent Sacramento banker, is at the Grand. Albert M. Johnson and wife of Sacra- mento are at the California. A. G. IEstoile, a prominent Auburn mine owner, is at the Grand. Dwight Hollister, a well-known Court- land ranchman, is at the Grand. William Currier, a prominent Portland merchant, is a guest at the Lick. A. N. Butts, a well-known mining man of Angels, is at the Occldental. ¥ J. H. Wadsworth, a prominent banker of | Yreka, is a guest at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Goodman Jr. of Napa are registered at the Palace. 40066009996 ‘People have * © no idea,” said a| @ THE & Pullman car con- o & ductor last night INQUISITIVE in the Baldwin ® PASSEN ® Hotel of the & PASSENGER. ¢ “extraordinary in- @ @ quisitiveness dis- P00 ®® 99 played by pas- sengers coming out to this coast. I suppose it is the same on all lines, but fyom Ogden to this city on the Central Pacific the questions that are asked with the expectation of receiving an intelligent reply are so nu- merous and, to some extent, so absurd | that the answering of them all would | plant gray hairs in an ordinary mortal’s brain center. Passengers as a rule re- | ally believe that trainmen are perfect encyclopedias of knowledge, and I am earnestly thinking of petitioning my su- perfors to provide an information bureau on my run. “On my last trip to this city while we were passing through Nevada the ques- | tions asked were of the usual varied | assortment, with some additions. Of| course, my geographical education aided | me in answering such queries as| ‘What's the name of that river? ‘What mountain is that? and others, but when some of the travelers want to know ‘Whose house is that? ‘Do all those children in the yard belong to that lady who is waving her hand to/us? ‘What | is that man’s name and is he married?" and many others of like tenor I gave the task up as hopeless and turned my in- quiring friends over to the porter, who Dbegan to wrestle with the situation after casting a reproachful look on me. “He sthuggled for about an hour and was doing the best he knew how when one of his interlocutors, a lady who had been worrying him half to death,, said, ‘What was the name of that sta- tion we just passed?" “The porter replied, ‘That was Orton, ma’'am; it's a deserted sheep station.’ ““Well, don’t we stop there? said the woman who had been pestering him. “‘No, ma'am, responded the patient and long suffering darky, ‘we don’t even hesitate.” "’ W. T. Turner of the United States Geo- logical Survey is at the Occidental. L. A. Bookson, a large fruit grower of San Jose, is a guest at the Baldwin. George A. Smith, an extensive ranch- man of Courtland, is at the Grand. Mrs. O. Harvey and Miss Harvey of Galt are at the Palace for the winter. E. 8. Thompson, a well-known Michigan Bluffs mining man, is a late arrival at the Russ. F. W. Dohrmann, president of the Mer- chants’ Association, has returned from his trip to Honolulu. Henry Barker and H. Buckman, exten- sive hop growers of Hopland, are regis- tered at the Russ. Al Cooney, a well-known horseman, re- turned yesterday from a two weeks' stay at Del Monte and is registered at the Baldwin. Late arrivals at the Occidental include Rev. L. D. Mansfield and Rev. Dr. Wake- field, of San Jose, and Rev. C. S. Linds- ley of Sonora. — ee—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK districts in the country is one of the great objects to |’ An explanation of the hiring of Chinese for the | NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—George M. Mur- phy of San Francisco is at the Park Av- enue; L. F. Cockroftwf San Francisco is at the Netherland. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chilton of San Francisco are in Washington. A. T. Ballard of San Fran- clsco arrived in Washington to-day. Rep- resentative Hilborn is at the Hamilton. Willlam H. Murray of San Francisco, rep- resenting California Fruit Growers, is at the Riggs House. LOVE IN THE HEART MAKES HOME. Feathers and moss and a wisp of hay, “A wonder,” we say, and the wonder ErOWS. Pressed round by a soft, plump breast, With a leaf looped low 'gainst a ramny day— So the bird has fashioned her nest. As we study the curious thing, "Twas love in the heart That prompted the art And sped the untiring wing. Feathers and moss and a wisp of hay, But the future looks rosy and bright; With a bit put by for a ra.ln{ day, Love makes every burden light. “A wonder,” we say, and the wonder TOWS, Or sunshine or storms may come, Though but twigs and moss Are latticed across, » The love in the heart makes home. —New York Dispatch. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Mrs. Dearborn—Do you like long court- ships? . NFHL Wabash—O, ves; once in a while 1 do.—Yonkers Statesman. “What's the matter with Nora?" “] secured her from that mutual-help office, and she claims that I ought to do half her work.”—Chicago Record. “If you Pa” your college examinations T'll_pay all your debts.” UPhY, tindle, do you want me to work for the benefit of my creditors?’—Flie- gende Blaetter. “Why 1s marriage such a serious step, I wonder?"’ ‘“Because you then come to a pass where you can no longer go single file.”— Philadelphia Bulletin. The fish that escapes the hook ‘Will never bite at it again, But women go out to Dakota And come back after other men. —Cleveland Leader. “To my notion the man who can turn almost certain defeat into victory is de- serving of much admiration.” “Aw, I dunno. Flopping to the winning side is not so much of a trick, if a man knows the ropes.”—Indianapolis Journal. Temperance Man—I was glad to observe that at the recent launching your vessel w‘n:v It’:‘hnstened with pure water instead o €. Old Salt—That's so. I just said - self, “Cap’'n Seu.doi," says I “tmawfi;-!.‘t{g‘ m Jgot to stop. aln'{ goln' to waste “I rather think she 3 fi‘.?xg!{‘,‘,‘“‘ haares prefers a pensive, “Ah! At any rate, when I told her I loved her she advised me not t <3 Indianapolis Journal. LB S “What's all this excitement about?" Nothing worth menti 5 3 knocked down.” oo SMen p Actéidentf" Onié o % ot exactly. e of tHese :L‘::E‘t hc;(ch holflhol youhxd g‘uear;: ‘y'gg r way when you happen them at a crgwdpd c!ognu'mF Clger Sral wmm &mat now. That's all. PSS GRE | Crockett THE MISSION HIGH SCHOOL WELL HEATED Fifteén Furnaces in the Basement. GLARING FRAUDS UNEARTHED CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS IN PURCHASE OF FURNITURE. Superintendent Webster Makes an Inspection and Finds Evidence of Jobbery at Every Turn. There appears to be any quantity of trouble in store for the members of the Board of Education over the building and furnishing of the Mission High School, a large proportion of which will come when they attempt to explain their connection | with the job to the Grand Jury. Bills for many thousands of dollars are awaiting payment by the board, in which are included a large amount on account of the Mission High School, and if all these ELills are paid the board will go out of of- fice leaving a deficiency of not less than £180,000. It was for the purpose of looking into the justice of these bills before signing them that Superintendent Webster, ac- companied by Deputy Superintendent Stone, made a tour of inspection of the new school building yesterday morning. Bills for furniture and supplies amounting approximately to $20,000 are awaiting pay- ment, and Mr. Webster determined to sat- isfy himself of their accuracy. The two officials went over the entire building, from basement to garret, and their dis- | coveries caused them to gasp in astonish- ment.- Not being expert architects or builders they could not tell, of course, whether the building had been put up ac- cording to specifications, but they did find many things that ‘were not as they should | be. For instance, the board sought to ac- cept the building as compreted two weeks ago, but for some reason failed to do so. Now, the specifications provide that tke walls shall be sand finished and tinted, but the tinting has been dispensed with, and the rough, dull gray walls are any- thing but pleasing to the eye. Down .in the basement, however, is where the inspectors were most deeply in- terested, for the most extravagant and complex’ system of heating that probably gver went fnto any bullding has been put in. No less than fifteen furnaces, scat- tered throughout the basement, were counted, while the splendid area is ruined by the muititude of steam, water and air pipes that extend in every direction, at all elevations. Many of them are so low that one has to bend nearly double to pass un- der them, although it would have been as | easy to put them all high enough to allow | the pupils free range of the basement. Why fifteen furnaces, or a third of that number, are necessary to heat that build- | Webster and | i ing is something Messrs. Stope are still pondering over. Principal O’Connor _ complained, and justly, too, that the school is sadly lack- ing in many articles that are absolutely necessary to the health and comfort of the pupils. As an illustration, not a single shade has been provided for the windows and- the children are obiliged to tax their eyes In the glare of the sun without any prespect of relief. Yet up_ in the “practical” department the board has put in thirty solid oak standing desks at a cost of $18 25 each, but they have never been used and are not likely to be for some time, because the board refuses to employ a teacher for that branch; $47 50 tied up in useless and ex pensive furniture, while the eyes of se: eral hundred school children are being ruined for proper window shades. | And then the price of those desks is | to be carefully inquired into. Weber & | Co. had the contract for furnishing them at $18 25 each. They sublet the contract for making them to a Shotwell-street firm, and it has been freely asserted that a practical cabinet maker has offered to dup]lcaleh them in every particular for | each. Then up in_ the auditorium Messrs. Webster and Stone found 1003 handsome | opera chairs, which cost the city $3 5| each. Now the auditorium is convenient for the occasional assemblage of all the classes for entertainments and the like, but that there was any urgent necessity for fitting it up when the School Depart- ment is bankrupt, not even the Directors who voted for this useless waste of money will dare assert. In the physical laboratory auditorium the inspectors found anether instance of what they mildly termed extravagance. The place, which may in time be required to accommodate a class of thirty-five or forty puplils, is supplied with 203 combina- tion chairs and tables of elaborate de- hooks and sign, with springs, hinges, what not, that must necessarflY be ex- pensive. ot half of them will ever be occupied at one time. The drawing department is most beau- tifully fitted up; it is said there is noth- ing like it on the coast. It has thirt elaborate drawing tables supplied Wi(% every convenience and the most expensive materials obtainable. ‘When all the supplies for the chemistry and physical department that have been ordered haye arrived, it will be as con?’- plete as the most exacting professor could ask. Bills for $2600 worth of apparatus and suprlles have already been allowed, while bills amounting to $2900 are walting to be signed, and there is a quantity of stuff coming from Europe, the bills for which are vet to come in. So it was throughout the bullding ‘Webster and Stone found all the furniture the city had been charged for, but some of it was unavallable for the present, much more entirely useless and all show- ed the most reckless extravagance in its purchase. PROSPECTORS FOOLED. ‘Warrant Out for the Arrest of Joseph Arthur tor Obtaining Money by False Pretenses. A warrant was sworn out in Judge Jo- achimsen’s court yesterday for the arrest of Joseph Arthur on a ¢harge of obtain- ing money by false pretenses. e The complaining witnesses -are E. Mid- dlecoff and George Black, prospectors. They were prospecting in the Northwest with some others and last spring went to Seattle, where they met Arthur. He told them of the location of a rich gravel mine in British Columbia and got them to accompany him to locate it. They wandered -around for some time and final- 1y Arthur admitted that he was at fault, but he knew a Captain Hill living in Oakland who knew its exact location. Arthur took a fancy to Middlecoff and Black and told them that if they would pay his expenses to Oakland he would introduce them to his friend Captain Hill. They arrived here on November 10 and they provided Arthur with a new suit of clothes and gave him money sO he could make a presentable appearance to Captain Hill. Arthur kept them on the string for several days by various tales and finally arranged a meeting With Cap- tain Hill at 2061 Central avenue, Alameda. They went there, but neither Captain Hill nor Arthur was known to the people. ’é‘lhan they concluded they had been swin- e Embezzled Diamonds. M. Bravalatsky, a watchmaker at 28 Seventh street, swore to a complaint in Judge Mogan’s court yesterday for the ar- rest of M. Garten on a charge of felony embezzlement. On November 18 he gave Garten a pair of diamond earrings valued at $110, a smmond pin valued at and a old pin valued at $9 to dispose of and e alleges that Garten has appropriated the cles to his own uses and purposes. —_————————— Accused of Forgery. John Anderson, who the police allege is John Nelson, was booked at the City Prison yesterday by Detectives Dillon and on a charge of forgery, He was released on $500 bonds. About two years | name he simply ago Fred Albreeht, a half-interest swin- dler, John Lundin and John Nelson went to Mrs. Emma Dorn, a saloon-keeper at 32 Spear street, and made overtures to pur- chase her saloon. They gave her a check for $600 and got a number of drinks on the strength of it. The check proved to be forged and Albrecht and Lundin were arrested. Albrecht got clear but Lundin was sentenced to three years in San Quen- tin. —_———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOLD COINS—H. S., City. No pre- mium is offered for a $ gold piece bear- ing date later than 1834 The $2 50 pieces for which premium is offered are those of the following dates: 1796, 1797. 1798, 1802, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1821, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1529, 1830, 1832, 1833 and those of 1834 Which have “E pluribus unum’ on the reverse. 5 TRAINED NURSE—A. 8., Falirfleld, Cal. If you will write to the superintend- ent of the Training School for Nurses, City and County Hospital, San Francisco, or to the Training School for Nurses, Children’s Hospital, California and Maple streets, San Francisco, either will, on your furnishing a self-addressed and stamped envelope, mail a circular of Information as to requirements to become a trained nurse. PLURALITY AND MAJORITY—P. M. B., City. In announcing the result of an election if the statement is made that Smith received a majority of 4000 that means that he received 4000 more votes than the aggregate of the votes cast for all other cfl.ndlgutes for the same office. If there was but one candidate against him it would be proper to say that he recetved a majority of 4000. If it is said that he was elected by a plurality of 4000 that means that he received 4000 more votes than the next highest candidate for the same office, there being more than two running. ALWAYS GIVE THE COUNTY—-To Correspondents. When an individual writes a letter and dates it at the place in which he is, he should always add the name of the county to the name of the place, as often there are several laces of the same name in a State. A ew days since a correspondent of this department wrote for information, and inclosing a stamp requested that the an- swer be sent by mail. After giving his added “French Camp, California.” The letter was sent as per direction, but it may be some time before the correspondent receives it, as the Postal Department may have to send it to each of the following places of the same name before the party is reached. There is French Camp in Amador County, French Camp, in Butte County, French Camp in San Joaquin County and French Camp in Siskiyou County. FOR THE NAVAL ACADEMY—H. M. J., College Park, Santa Clara County, Cal. There is no regularly appointed and fixed board of examiners to examine can- didates for admission to the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, nor are_ sample e: amination papers given out. When a Rep- resentative from one of the Congressional districts is notified by the Secretary of the Navy that there'is a vacancy in his district, and_that it is his turn to nomi- nate a candidate for the academy, if there is to be a competitive examination he calls upon educators in his district to act as a board of examiners for the pur- pose of ascertaining who, among the boys who present themselves, will acquire the highest and second highest percen(afi]e. The names of these two are sent to the office of the Secretary of the Navy, the one having the highest percentage being the nominee and the other the alternate. Bright boys with an eye to the future generally go to Washington, D. C., where h place themselves under some retired navy officer who will instruct or prepare them for the examination they will have to take at the academy, as th know what the general course of examination is, but they do not kpow what the specific line of questions will be. Such boys learn as much as possible in the line of sub- jects in which they are to be examined. ‘When there is no competitive examina- tlon the Representative simply selects the candidate and alternate and sends in the names. When there is to be a com- etitive examination the fact is made gnnwn through the papers in the district, and those who wish have an opportunity to appear before the board. —_————————— Thanksgiving dinner not complete with- out Townsend’s plum pudding. 3 Ibs. $1. * —_— e 2 Ibs. cream mixed candies in Japanese baskets, 50c. Townsend’s, 627 Market st. * —_—————————— Make the children happy by taking home Townsend's famous broken candy, 314 Ibs in splendid basket, 50c. 627 Market* J Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —— ettt i California Calendars for 1899. Forty-eight new calendars, “Wild Flow- ers,” “Popplies,” ‘‘Chinese,” ‘Indian “U. 8. Volunteer,” “Boys of 88" etc., 50 cents to $3 50 each. Complete price list mailed on application. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —_————————— Many fine holiday goods now here. Your name stamped in gold letters free . of charge on any of our new leather goods. Pocket books, letter and card cases, trunks and valises our specialties. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. » — e “No; I never carry my business into my home.” : “What is your business?” “I am the proprietor of an intelligence office.””—Chicago News. ———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fiftv years by mililons of mothers for their chldren while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugsists in every part of the world, Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. P —— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $80 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay $2 5 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Franclsco. —_———————— THE charm of beauty is beautiful hair. Secure it with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER ToNIC cures inward pains. GLISH KEMEDY WILL STOP t any time, and will cure the worst :«.ucdu “&ht:rewe hours or money refunded. No Percentage Pharmacy. ACKER'S E — ———— The chrysanthemum is glorious, But before you rashly buy Bear in mind the pumpkin blossom Has a future as a ple. , Truth. The man who allows him~ self to be carried away by his own weakaess may be a very amiable person—but he is just the sort of man who will find the greatest possible help in THE KEELEY TREATMENT, Thousands of “good fellows" can testify to that, Seed for gflnm matter that tells all about it. 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