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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED SDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1898. s All Communications to W. S. LEAKI ” , Manager, _ PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts, S. - Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS... ...217 to 22| Stevensen Strest Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per y per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE..........c. NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (®. <.) OFFICE... vee..-Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Rcpresentative. | —.....One year. by mall, $1.50 | 908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 29291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mlesion street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, epen wntil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-secend aas Kentucky streets, open untli 9 o'cleck, AMUSEMENTa Secret Service.” Gayest Manhattan.” e Politictan." California- Columbta- Morosco's—*"The Commodore. rano de Bergerac.” m—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Gorrilla man, vaudeville and the zoo. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, specialties. Sutro’'s Baths—Swimming. Oakland Race aces to-day. Mech: ’ Pavilion—Charity Bazaar, Thursday, Decem- r L Rosenthal—Coming in December. Palace Hotel Maple Room—Doll Show To-morrow Afternoon and Evening. AUCTION SALES. contracts for roadways, but th Superv By & Watkine—Thursday, December 1, at 11 o'clock, livery stable, at 1620 Harrison street. MIXED UP PAVEMENTS. HE recommendation of the Fire Commissioners Tthat a strip of basalt block fourteen feet in width be laid in certain streets so as to facilitate dragging fire apparatus in rainy and foggy w ather will be apt to strike the local advocates of smooth pavements with surprise. The Commissioners de- | clare that when the bituminous streets are wet it is almost impossible to make time with the engines, water towers and hook and ladder trucks, and they state that a strip of basalt through the center of each block would give them the necessary foothold. Heretofore smooth pavements have been a desid- | eratum for which all classes have yearned. Outside property-owners have not only refused to enter into laying any other than bituminous rock y have appeared before the Board of | yrs and vigorously opposed all attempts to | force basalt blocks upon them. The Mayor and Street’ Committee, amid the plaudits of the people, have recently caused Market street from Second to 1 to be repaved with bitumen, and only the other act was let for continuing the same work tc Van Ness avenue. Now it seems that the Fire Department condemns smooth. strects and wants a strip stone laid | throughout the length of all blocks heretofore paved | We do not know exactly how the | of en. rock contractors and the property-owners | with b bitu asphalt pavements are going to meet | new situation, but that it must be met in some Whatever the Fire Department wants | tely get, for it is the prc r of life and e most important organizz in the city. If property upon bituminized streets is endan- gered by the absence of fourteen feet of stone through the center, it is only a question of time when a change will have to be made in that respect. Prop- erty-owners must have protection, whatever the ¢ From an artistic standpoint, however, the improve- ment suggested by the Fire Commissioners cannot be said to commend itself to the understanding. At present many of the accepted streets are conglomera- tions of cables, car tracks, cobbles, bitumen and ba- salt. To lay fourteen feet of stone through every bituminous block in the city would convert the entire town into a similar mosaic and send us thundering down the ages as the most mixed up people on the subject of pavements that ever existed. N gard to the future of the Baldwin site, but con- cerning the duty of the moment there is no chance for two opinions. The wreck should be razed te the ground without delay. This thing of pottering proper ion CLEAR THE WRECK AWAY. ATURALLY thtre is much speculation in re- around for the purpose of saving a soaked mattress | and a blistered washstand is dangerous and disgrace- ful. The walls may fall at any time, and when they do the second tragedy may be more fateful than the first. Surely there must be some method by which the public can protect itself. If the owner won't or can't attend to a work of such vital importance, the author- ities should brush him aside and for the sake of the common welfare remove the menace. Certaifily not one scrap should be left above the level of the pave- ment. Another matter to be regarded is the indecency of leaving the dead so long in the tomb where their bodies were hurled the night of the fire. As the Baldwin stands now, blackened and tottering; it is a | huge sepulcher. The dead are entitled to respect. It is not fitting that the threatening walls, which are a. peril to thousands daily, and which inclose more than one corpse, should be permitted to stand, even if while they last they serve the purpose of displaying gaudy theatrical posters. Nothing can be done toward saving the bodies until the walls have been leveled. Meanwhile there the bodies must lic under the debris, subject to the indignity of causeless neg- | lect, their presence being in itself a source of palpable corruption and a defiance of the sanitary rights of the living. e Between now and March there will be ample time for Harbor Commissioner Colnon to explain his con- nection with crooked contracts at the ferry. After that date he will be out of office and lost to view. The chance for him to redeem his reputation is while the glare of publicity falls directly and pleasingly on him. If the contractors for the Hall of Justice had been fined according to the terms supposed to bind them, they would have paid all the extra cost of that build- ing. If Becker, the forger, were to be questioned as to his belief in the existence bf honor among thieves, he would ruefully shake his head. S e The Spanish pretender seems to think that if he will only talk enough the throne will start out and seek him. | posure of his disqualifications. | make a full development of the rich and va-ied re- | 1 The subject is pertinent fo the times and the re- | | COLONEL BURNS FOR SENATOR. HE indications of the last few days are that | Colonel Dan Burns is in the fight for United | States Senator. We omit discussion of the qualities for the place which he lacks, for they are all included. When we say this we do not deny that he has characteristics which may become him as a man in his sphere of life, but it is not a sphere in which great parties go seeking for Senators. His disqualifications make up so long a list, and some of them are of such a nature | that they cannot be referred to without regret and pain. In his sphere and chosen place in affairs they may not be noticeable, and therefore he may escape the criticism which is invited and made necessary by the proposed emergence upon a field where he suffers when compared with the least qualified men who have held the office he seeks. His fondest friends must search in vain for any proof that he is qualified and must shrink from an ex- It is avowed that he is selected as a candidate by the Southern Pacific Railroad and enters the field with the backing of that corporation. With it, then, we discuss its choice for Senator. The people have just withdrawn the anti-rail- road fight. They have put the Republican party ir powsr in a high time, when it needs its best trained men in all offices that concern California’s interest in national affairs. Why does the railroad at such a time, when the conditions affecting it here are not merely the truce that lies under the white flag, but imply peace between it and the people, impose upon the State such a candidacy for the high place that was | the capital prize of the campaign? ; Colonel Burns is no stranger to California. The | State tried him in official life, and the office of Secre- ary of State, while he held it, was an open bung out of which ran to waste thousands of dollars of the peo- ple’s money. The waste was a felony—we do not charge that he was guilty, but he was the man on gunard when it happened, and when summoned by | the law to answer he evaded the opportunity to vin- | dicate his honor and prove his innocence, and pleaded [ the statute of limitations! It is the unwritten law that | | when a man is under such charges, that affect his | honor and honesty so far as to outlaw him from trusts like that he is charged with betraying, and he dodges through the statute of limitations, he must finish his | life under suspicion of guilt and the charge that his | plea was a confession. Why does the railroad put him in the painful posi- | tion of bringing all this to the light again, and why! does it seem to so lightly estimate the ending o: public | rancor toward it, as to pass all othérs by and set him | up as a mark of its own lack of judgment and a tar- : get for comments that it should spare a friend, if he | hold that relation to it? The success of such a scheme would put a futurc} burden on the Republican party that would gall thc] withers of every candidate, from Governor to Con- | stable, which it may hereafter present to the people. A LAKE COUNTY RAILROAD. N a communication to The Call a correspondent from Lake County directs attention to the oppor- tunity afforded for the profitable investment of capital in the construction of a railroad which would | | open up the county and enable the people there to | sources it contains. | viving spirit of enterprise. The long depression is | over and we are about to enter upon a new epoch of railroad construction. In no part of the Union ought | this epoch to be marked by a greater increase in | railway mileage than in California. Certainly no | other State at this time offers such advantages for | safe investments in new railways, for in no other | | are there such rich and wide areas of territory devoid 1 of railway facilities. Our railway mileage in proportion to the area of | the State is small when compared with that of most | American communities, and of that area-nearly the | | whole is of a nature that would soon attract settlers | | and become populous and rich if ample transportation facilities were provided. Among such sections of the | State none is more notable in its resources and pos- | sibilities than Lake County. It is renowned for ro- | mantic scenery, health-giving waters; balmy climate, fertile soil, and the wide variety of the products of farms, orchards and vineyards. By reason of the lack of railway communication with the outer world the county seems remote. In reality it is one of the cluster of counties that are near enough to the metropolis to be accounted almost as suburban in these days of rapid transit. A railway would bring ‘it into such close connection with the city that its lakes and streams would soon be among | the popular holiday resorts of pleasure-seekers, and that fact alone would make a large pa.iaenger traffic for the road. . While the mountains around the county are high | and rugged, competent engineers are said to be well | assured from personal survey that there is no in- superable obstruction to modern railway work. The length of road required would be short. Our cor- ! respondent outlines a route by which Lakeport could be connected with the North Pacific Rail- road, requiring the construction of only twenty-five miles of road, and on at least half of that the construc- tion would be easy. The subject is ‘well worth the consideration of cap- italists. California is behind her sister States in the matter of railways. It is time for her to make known | the opportunities that are afforded within her limits for profitable enterprises in that direction. /C\ ators and twelve Assemblymen, representing the seven southern counties of the State, held ar Los Angeles on Monday to formulate plans of ac- tion during the legislative season, is reported to have adopted resolutions in favor of a State appropriation for a display at the Paris Exposition, “provided | ground space can be obtained for a distinctive South- ern California exhibit.” The action of the southern delegates in holding this non-partisan gathering for the purpose of agreeing upon legislation favorable to that section of the State is to be commended. It would be well for Central and Northern California to follow the example. The interests of the counties and the section they repre- sent cannot be too carefully studiéd by legislators, and whatever tends to make that study more compre- hensive and more thorough is in itself desirable. While all that is to be admitted it is none the less true that there are limits beyond which the service of a delegate to his district or his section should not go. I That limit is fixed by the requirements of the ser- TOO MUCH SECTIONALISM. CONFERENCE, attended by five State Sen- vice he owes to the State as a whole. The southern delegates, in agreeing to support a State display at the Paris Exposition only upon the proviso that Southern California is to have ground space for a distinctive exhibit, have overstepped that limit. They should stand for the State display, whether there is to be space for strictly sectional exhibits or not. It is to be borne in mind that it does not rest with any one in California to determine the amount of space the State is to have. The Parisians have the first voice in the matter. The exposition. officials of the United States are next in authority. It will be for them and not for us to determine the amount of space to be allotted to California, and if the space be not sufficient to permit subdivision for sectional or county displays without destroying the effectiveness of the whole, it will not do for us to refuse to make a display at all. The French have granted to the United States a larger space than to any other nation, but the United States is a large country, and every State in it will demand a portion of the allotted area. The rich States of the East, the newly awakened common- wealths of the South, the thriving region of the Mis- sissippi Valley, and the vast domain of the mountain States from Colorado to Idaho, will each have its claim allowed. California cannot expect to receive a very large area. She must manage to make the best use of what is allotted to her. The Southern California delegates should, therefore, reconsider their agreement of Mon- day and stand in for a grand State display at Paris upon the best terms that can be obtained. Where the interests of the State are at stake, there should be no sectionalism. l proposition to pay a quarter of a million for a small part of the Adams land for an Oakland park Mayor Thomas said that he had an offer of $600,000 for the City Hall Park, and that half of it would buy the Adams land and the other half would get a site and build a new City Hall in some part of the city where land is less valuable. A year ago the matter of selling the City Hall site was broached and a committee was appointed by the Council to consider its feasibility. This commit- tee did not report and was recently discharged, and another was appointed with Mr. Brosnahan as chair- man. As soon as the scheme was made public the Mer- chants’ Exchange condemned it, and all sorts of ar- guments for and against it have been made by per- sons whose opinions were solicited. It seems that Oakland’s reform charter contains a joker on this subject, which has escaped attention untit now. That charter authorizes the City Council to sell city property and invest the proceeds as it thinks best, without any reference to the people or their wish. The proposition to buy the Adams land for a park, with forty years to pay for it, having been beaten so recently, it is not credible that the peopl. would now indorse its purchase for near a third of a million. Mayor Thomas has not and will not make public the name of the proposed purchaser. Mr. Brosnahan has said that he knows parties who will contribute $40,000 toward buying a new City Hall site, but he withholds their names. Because of the charter pro- vision and the absolute independence of the City Council to do as it pleases with city property there- under, the scheme takes on features whica are spread- ing a feeling of uneasiness and alarm among the peo- ple. Such a provision is clearly against public policy. Under it a Council may sell property that is increas- ing in value and may go into any scheme for the pur- chase of other property, to the individual advantage of members, and no other citizen be any the wiser. That the City Hall is inadequate is a fact. But in view of the movement, which will soon succeed, to consolidate a city and county government, the feel- ing is that this valuable property should stand as it is, for under consolidation the ccunty buildings will be ample for public use, and then this property could be sold for more than it will bring in these days of depression and the proceeds can be applied as a sink- ing fund to clear off the existing bonded debt of the THAT OAKLAND CITY HALL. MMEDIATELY after the defeat of the bond | city and to construct a much needed system of inter- cepting sewers, which are every day becoming more necessary to the health of the city. The Mayor and the members of the Council who are pushing the matter have certainly not increased public confidence in their scheme by the air of mys- tery and secrecy with which they have surrounded it, for it has the earmarks of a ‘“clean-up” at the end of their official term. d HOUSE FOR THE EXECUTIVE. INCE the law requires that the Governor of S California shall live at the capital, there should be provided for him a suitable residence. , This fact is emphasized just now by the vain search of the Governor-elect for a house fitted for the purposes of a four years’ residence, and yet within the bounds of reason as to cost. Many times have bills providing for an executive mansion been introduced, only to be killed by the jealousy among realty cliques. The State is bigger than any realty clique of Sacramento, and the time has come for it to assert its will. The petty squabbles between agents who have town lots to sell should no longer be permitted to cut any figure in a matter of such interest and of such importance. A residence for the Governor of California would not be for the benefit of any one man. Governors pass in rapid succession. The residence would belong to the com- monwealth, and aid in upholding the dignity of the State. There should be a place in which the chief officer could receive distinguished visitors who call upon him not as upon an individual, but as upon the chosen representative of the whole people. To pro- vide accommodations is a duty the people owe to themselves, to their own dignity; it is a mere matter of self-respect. For an incoming Governor to make any recom- mendation in these premises might be construed as an instance of bad taste, but the outgoing Governor can do it without in any manner subjecting his motives tc adverse criticism. For Governor Budd to advocate the erection of a home for the Governor would be, just as he retires, a graceful and gracious act. We hope that he will do so. Doubtless the Legislature would act according to his suggestion. California is large and rich. The Governor stands for the whole people of the State. The salary he gets is not great. Made greater by the addition of a home during the term of service, it would be no whit too much. Californians favor an executive mansion. There are too many of them longer to be overridden by a self- ish few. Governor Budd has in his power, by a simple word, to impel the Legislature to perform the act of providing for one. To do so would be a cour- tesy to the old executive and the new, as well as to the long line to follow. The cost would be small, and the possession of such a mansion would relieve each Governor of embarrassment, while putting California on the plane of other States no more able nor willing to erect a home for the administration. THE FRIENDS OF HUMANITY ARE DISCREDITED Deception Alleged By Organized Labor. QUEER CHARITY PROPOSITION FIVE PEOPLE CONSTITUTE THE ASSOCIATION. ‘Women’sCo-operative Sewing Society Is Under the Ban of the Trades Unions and Makes a Statement. The executlve committee of the San Franelsco Labor Council has been busy for the past week running down an or- ganization which it characterizes as a fraud, preying upon the trades union men of the city. The organization in question is known as the Women's Co-operative Sewing Soclety, conducted by the Friends of Humanity. Representatives of this organization called at a recent meeting of the Labor Council and tried to dispose of tickets for an entertainment to be held next Sat- | urday evening. They said that the organ- ization was composed of sewing women and that it was run on the co-operative | plan. The Labor Council is not inclined | to take anybody's word without investi- gation, so it placed the matter in the hands of the executive committee. | The executive committee called at the headquarters o the Society of the Friends of Humanity on New Montgomery street and found a great bare room containing | three sewing machines and a pressing | table. Three women were working. They were Joanna Wayne, president of the so- clety;” Mrs. Ansden, vice president, and M. E. Knott, treasurer. A careful inquiry ellcited the informa- | tion that the society is not co-operative | in any sense of the word. It is run by the | three women already mentioned and two | ersons whose names were not dlsclosed. hese five comprise the association and | have done the most of the work recefved | up to date. When they have more than | they can handle they hire somebody to | assist them, but the helpers have no share | in the profits. They are simply emploved | or a trifle over. The three women mentioned have made | a systematlc canvass of trades unIOns% and have recelved considerable . asfils(-! ance, as they have always claimed to be représentatives of a co-operative organi- | zation. -They have always been accom- panied by two men and it is stated on good authority that these two men are the two silent partners in the concern. Monday night they called on the Coast Seamen’s Union at East and Mission streets and told the usual .ale. A mem- ber of the executive committee of the La- bor Council happened to be present at the time and he denounced the alleged co-operative union as a fraud. He said it was simply a company formed to take contracts for work and the majority of the workers were given wages instead of a dividend from the profits. At the next meeting of the Labor Coun- cfl the whole affair will be denounced as a fraud and subordinate unions warned to keep away from it. A representative of The Call called upon Mrs. Wayne yesterday afternoon and she | freely acknowledged that none but the original five had voice or vote in the af- fairs of the association. She said that “if a crowd of old women got in there wouldl be no managing of affairs, as everybody would want to run it; so the original five decided to keep it to themselves. At pres- | ent the profits are divided among the | original five, but we may make different arrangements later on if all goes well.” ANNUAL DIVISION OF | THE COUNTY MONEYS| SUPERVISORS WORKING OVER APPORTIONMENTS. Fire Department May Get an Addi- 'flonu.l $71,000 for Much-Needed Improvements. There will be a supervisorial caucus at 11 o’clock this morning At which the seg- regation and apportionment of funds for the next fiscal year will be considered. The Finance Committee of the board met yesterday morning and spent its session in the discussion of the extra funds that will be required by the Fire Department. A number of improvements projected by the department, notably the new engine house in the Sunset District, and other necessary fire apparatus, and the purchase of a lot and sultable building for the hous- ing of the water tower at some place south of Market street, in the vicinity of the Palace Hotel, will necesfitate addi- tional funds to the extent of $71,000, and this amount the committee yesterday practically agreed to apportion. - When the matter comes up in caucus to- day, however, Supervisor Rottanzi pro- poses to fli)hl its passage. Rottanzi claims that the Police Department is in more need of immediate improvement than the fire people, and, with Chief Lees, he has set his heart upon the new station that it is Fl'oposed to build at Seventeenth and Folsom streets. Rottanzi Is backed by Delany, and a warm time is promised When the discussion opens this morning. The Fire Committee was also in session and passed favorably upon a number of important communications and petitions affecting the department. The petition | of the Sunset District Improvement Club | for a $15,000 appropriation for an engine house, fire apparatus, a hose wagon and | enough fire hydrants to assure the safety of the district was passed, as was a coni- munication from the department recom mending the purchasing of two monitor batteries and six hose wagons. The second petition of the Sunset District Club for a second appropriation of $20,000 was re- ferred to the Chief Engineer of the de- partment, The Sunnyside Improvement Club's pe- titlon for fire alarm boxes at the corners of Chenery and Diamond and Sunnyside avenue and Baden street was also al- lowed, and the firm of Gilyou & Caldle will be granted permission to erect at Central Park a steeplechase raflway if the Fire Wardens agreé that it will not be a menace to surrounding property. The board will meet in spectal sesslon at 2 ¢'clock this afternoon. —_———— THEY WANT THE DIVIDEND. | Request of Stockholders of the Hale & Norcross Company. Stockholders. representing all but 12,- 000 shares of the Hale & Norcross Silver Mining Company. appeared before' Judge Hebbard yesterday afternoon and re- quested the court to modify the order heretofore made and to command Re- celver Groom to declare a dividend of $150 a share out of the $200000 odd still remaining in his hands of the judgment recovered In tLe case of Fox vs, Hale & Norcross. Judge .Hebbard refused to modify his order or to promise that he wmudy and stated that he would only consider the proposition if it was legally brought be- fore him by petition. ———— Big Bituminous Rock Company. The San Luis Obispo Bituminous Roek Company incorporated yesterday with a capital stock of $1,000,000, all of which has been subscribed, The corporation intends to deal In the rock known as ‘‘the Luis Obispo bituminous lime rook." I lowing are the names of the subscrib and the amounts subseribed: 00; ¥. Adams, $166.700; fi}lnd Walke ,%,m. J. A hi I F. Crank. $62,500; 1. W. fi:fimx.afi. m.m‘o’i by the association at the ruling wages | g W. J. Brodrick, $62,500; G. A. Dobinson 1p62.:00‘ L. M. Kords, $83,300, and E. F. se, —————— AMONG THE WHEELMEN. The Famous San Francisco Road Club Has Disbanded. The San Francisco Road Club, one of the foremost cycling organizations in the city, has disbanded. This course was decided upon at a*meeting of the board of direc- tors held yesterday, and to-day the effects of the club house at 503 Golden Gate ave- nue will be removed and sold, and the club will be non est. The road club was organized about four years ago in the heydey of cycling popularity and for several years held & rominent place in the sport here. Latter- the interest has been waning, and the irectors thought best to close its career while the association was still solvent. The club therefore goes down with colors flying. Some of the members will contin- ue their pleasant social relations of the past by holding weekly meetings at one another’s houses, and others will be ab- sorbed by the remaining clubs. Frank J. Cotter, the speedy Olympia, Wash., professional rider, arrived here yestexdayuand will probably remain here . . M. (“Bunt") Smith, the noted record- breaker, has joined the Bay City Wheel- men. The annual election of the Associated Cycling Clubs will be held next Saturday night at the Olympic Club, and a good deal of interest is being taken in it by the or- ganized cyclers, he control of the asso- ciation means a good deal to the racing clubs, and they are all pulling wires to at- tain that end. The scssion promises to be a lively one. THE NEW YEAR TO BRING NEW SCHEDULES PLANS OF THE SOUTHERN PA- CIF.C COMPANY. Los Angeles to Get a Better Service.’ More Freight Facil- ities. The first of the year will see great im- provement in the passenger and freight service of the Southern Pacific. In speak- ing of the practically new service that .will shortly be ' inaygurated Manager Kruttschnitt said yesterday: “The wouthern Pacific has just ordered 1000 new boxcars of thirty tons capacity each. This order has been placed with the companies of Barney & Smith of Dayton, Ohio, and Ensign of Huntington, ‘West Virginia. The road has also or- dered elghty more ballast cars. These wiil be buiit by Wells & French of Chi- cago. 3 “There have just been put in use on the heavy grades over Tehachapi six com- pound mastodon freight locomotives. hese engines are the most powerful of their kind ever bullt and have just been delivered. They will be followed by the first of the year by six consolidated en- gines that are 12 per cent heavier, and all of these will be used on the grades over the Tehachapi, The Southern Pacific has also ordered forty-flve other locomo- tives for use on its Atlantic and Pacific m. Many of these are of the kind known as the Mogul freight engines, and are for use through Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The contracts for this im- mense amount of improvement material was let by the New Yrk office of the | Southern Pacific.” For_the past year the business between San Francisco and Los Angeles has been S0 heavy that it has been difficult for the through trains to make schedule time. We are contemplating the putting on in the near future of a purely local service, which will enable the overland trains to attend only to the through business. This will enable both the through and lo- cal trains to give a better service. The business of the road between here and Los Angeles has entirely outgrown the capacity of one train. “The passenger service will also be greatly improved by the putting on_ of many new coaches and sleepers that have been especially ordered. These will be in service by the first of the year.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A. W. Collins of Napa is a guest at the California. Ex-Judge .S. F. Gell of Salinas is at the Occidental. R. M. Kennsey, U. 8. N, is registered at the Occidental. F. H. Coleott of New York is registered at the Occidental. Attorney A. G. Wissel of Fresno is a | guest at the Lick. Captain C. W. Fisher of Martha's Vine- yard is at the Russ. Captain O. F. Bolles of Menlo Park is registered at the Lick. 4 Banker F. P. Wickersham of Fresno is registered at the Lick. H. S. Blood of Angels, a prominent min- ing man, is at the Lick. Armstrong Smith from Honolulu is a guest at the Occidental. Colonel F. B. Wright of St. Paul is registered at the Palace. ‘Warden Charles Aull of Folsom Prison is registered at the Grand. Deputy Sheriff Willlam Fowler of Red Bluff is at the Russ House. ‘William C. Curlburt, a railroad man of Portland, is at the California. F. C. Barry of Klondike fame, a resi- dent of Salinas, is at the Lick. Banker George E. Goodman and wife ot Napa are guests at the Palace. W. R. Carithers, a prominent merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. V. 8. McClatchy, editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, is at the California. Commander J. J. Brice, U. 8. N,, Mare Island, is registered at the Palace. Dwight Hollister of Courtland, a promi- nent ranch-owner, is at the Grand. ‘William T. Cressler, a prosperous mer- chant of Cedarville, is at the Lick. Raymond Duncan of New York and London is a guest at the Occldental. A. Cane, a well-known traveling sales- man of New Ycrk, is at the Palace. F. 8. Weston and E. H. Brocklebant of London are guests at the California. A. W. Jones, a prominent railroad man from Monterey, is a guest at the Palace. A. Brown, member-elect of the State Board of Equalization, Is registered at the Lick, Samuel Matthews, a prominent cattle man of Eden Valley, is registered at the Russ House. L. A. Scowden, an expert mining en- gineer” from British Columbia, is a guest at the Palace. W. G. Roberts and family are guests at the Palace. Mr. Roberts is a large dye manufacturer of Philadelphia. S. C. Evans Jr. and George Frost of Riverside, prominent orange-grove own- ers, are guests at.the Grand. J. J. Hebbron from Salinas, the man- ager of the Paeific Improvement Com- pany's ranches; s registered at the CGrand, § ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—John W. Pom- erov of San Francisco is at the Empire; Homer A. Baushay of San Francisca-is at the Fifth Avenue; Henry Price of San Francisco is at the Windsor; Walter A. Ross of San Francisco Is at the Im- perial; John D. Scott of San Francisco 18 at the Holland. ——————— Fractured His Skull. James Ragan, 11 Cleveland street, was standing at Elghth and Harrison streets yesterday morning when he was selzed with an ‘epileptic EL He fell, striking on the back of his head and fracturing his 1l. He was taken to the Receiving sku Hospital, e New Mining Company. The Boston and California Gold Mining and Milling Company Incorporated yester- day with a capital stock of $600,000, of which $300,000 has_been subscribed. The directors are N. Hansen, G. Gall, L. M. Gall, John C. Jens and A! M. W. Jens, EVADED THE TAX BUT THEY MUST PAY THE PIPER ° Proper Way to Sell Chewing Gum. ONE VENDER ARRESTED BOTTLES OF WINE THAT BORE NO STAMPS. Proprietor of the St. Germaine Saved the Excise to Risk Arrest and a Big Fine. United States Revenue Agent Bert Thomas has become tired of waiting for retail dealers and others to obey the rev- enue laws and pay their proportion of the war revenue, and yesterday made two sample arrests, which will be followed by more to-day. The first victim was Joseph Palisl, the keeper of a fruit and ice cream soda stand at the corner of California and Leidesdorft streets, Palisi was charged with .aving taken chewing gum out of the original stamped packages and placing it in the show case. The law requires, as in the case of cigars, that the articles must be sold from the original stamped packages. Palisi pleaded ignorance of the law, but that will not be considered by the Govern- ment as a defense. Collector Lynch recently received from ‘the Commissioner of Intérnal Revenue a letter on the subject of chewing gum, of which the following is an extract: You will advise them that cheWwing gum must be ‘sold at retail from the original package ere and place the same in the showcase. & wide difference between chewing gum vend- ing machines and showcase. The gum may be sold and delfvered directly from the machine, Swithout assistance from any person, and the regulation does not. apply to showcases, and you will 8o advise. There is no regulation per- Tnitting the manufacturer to distribute fres samples of chewing gum upon which the tax has not been paid. Later in the day Deputy Internal Rev- enue Collector Fletcher swore to a com- laint made out by Assistant United Sutes Attorney Woodworth for the arrest of G. Pouchau and Louis Schiatter, pro- rietors of the St. Germaine Restaurant, O’Farrell street, for serving wine to guests without affixing a 2-cent war stamp to each bottle of more than a glnt, It is leged that the accused have stamped their bottles once and kept on re- filling them without removing the old stamp and putting on new ones every time the bottles were filled. M. Pouchau was arrested, and was released on giving bonds in the sum of $500. Schlatter will be arrested this morning. —_——————— A CLERK’'S SUICIDE. Caristian Rippe, Tortured With Heart Disease, sent a Bullet Through His Brain. Christian Rippe, a young clerk em- ployed in the grocery store of R. Speckter at 2441 Mission street, committed sul some time last Monday night by shooting himself through the head. His body was found in his room in the rear of the st at half-past 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The deceased was only 21 years gld. He returned from a trip to the Klondike re- fon about two months ago afflicted with eart disease. He spent two weeks in a hospital about six months ago. An in- quest will be held. —_—————— Max Schumann Bankrupt. Max Schumann of this city filed a peti- tion in bankruptcy yesterday in the United States District Court. His liabilities are $1840, and his assets nothing. —_———————— Cal. glace fru.. 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.* ————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ———————— “wild Flowers,” “Poppies,” *Chinese,” “Indian,” *U. Volunteer,” “Boys of *98," “‘Mission: “American Girl,” etc., 50c to $3 50 each. Price list on application. Christmas cards have arrived. Sanborn, Valil & Co., 741 Market street. - L ——e—— The wind across my chimney Wakes no depth of joy in me; For I know that its wild singin Makes my coal bills bllgrger %e. —Detroit ee Press, —_— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’” Has been used over fitty years by millions of mothers for their children 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 teetLiug or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2¢ a bottle. —— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamshlp, including fifteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay $2 35 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, SR s FADED hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of PARKER'S HAIR BalsaM. 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