The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1898, Page 6

; THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1898. ...DECEMBER -3, 188 SATURDAY JOHN' D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. LGS S S SDSS SRS SUCIS S Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts.'S. P 'Telephone ' Main 1868 ~ - 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 15 cents o week. By mall $6 per year: per month € cents. YTHE WEEKLY CALL.... _..One year, by mall, $.50 ©OAKLAND OFFICE........ reierrerencinss B0 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Repriscntative. WASHINGTON (. C) OFFICE...............Riggs House €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ..Mgrquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNE S8, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untH 9:30 o'clock.. 615 Larkin street, open untll - 9:30 o'clock. 941 Misslon street; open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Mariet street, corner - Sixteenth, open until' 9 -o'clock. 2518 Mission street, -open until- 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | wntil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner. Twenty-second ene Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS “‘Secret Service t Manhattan.’” Politician.” -ano: de Bergerac."” ‘The: Commodore."’ he Crust of Soclety."” Calffornia- Colu: rity Bazaar. | Room—Doll Show this afternoon and | After- | >ress Club - Entertainment, Thursday ! s | n Zoo, Sunday. aseball. e Track—Races to-day: gleside Coursing Park—Coursing. ing in_December. December 6, at 7:30 | orner ‘Market street and | "an N venue, | e el | THE PROTESTS OF THE PEOPLE. | pines coming in every day, and from all parts of the country, but mainly from New. England and the Middle States. | nge that New. England has taken the | iead in the corntest against the proposed annexation | of tropic_ islands swarming with cheap .labor, for in | that section of the Union one of the greatest indus- tries, that of cotton manufacturing, is already heavily | har pped by the cheap labor competition of the mills of the Southern States.. The- New England sworkingmen see very clearly that if wages in North- | ern cotton mills have been affected injuriously by Southerh .labor, the competition of the labor of the Philippines will be even more injurious. In order to obtain the advantage of cheap labor | a considerable number of New England manufactur- | ing companies have transferred their plants to | the South, and- others are preparing to follow the | example. The warning is too plain to be mistaken. The Boston Post, in commenting on it, sa “The wages on which the Filipinos manage to live | are small beyond the' conception of any laborer or How long will it be before e taken over there, close to the great to send back their et here?” The danger is perceived by all classes of far-seeing | men, capitalists and workers alike. On this issue Mr. | Carnegie, the millionaire, and Mr. Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, take the | same stand. Both have been earnest in their’ pro- | tests against the scheme. | Great as is the danger to the workingmen and the | industries of the East, it is even greater to those of | California.~ We will be the first to suffer by any com- | petition that ‘may arise from the use of cheap labor | v, at 2 o'clock, Furniture, EPORT Pre 'S from Washington announce that the | m the people—remon- | strarices against the annexation of the Philip- 1t is hearing It is not s operative in this country. our industries markets of the East, or.perha products to supply the home ma ie | | | | in the Philippines to supply the American demand for In a recent address before the convention of the | lebor in “Hawaii and the rates of wages prevailing tion of labor at such prices”” The shrewd farmers | are not less intelligent than those of the East. From people should go to Washington. It is our fight | | THE CHe‘RlfliBflZHAR. | . W itable institutions and the orphan as season i its dual aspect of a season of Christian | the best sentiments of humanity. - In the helpfulness ing, and of the general commiunity for children left giver and the receiver. -Even among barbarots peo- | * degree_ of. their civilization by the extent to which“ Of thie enjoyable:features of the bazaar it is need- upon them the entertainment of their friends, there " bazaar, like all other entertainments ‘of the kind, will would be well worth the liberal patronage of all. H " ing citizen has paid $20 to see two bruisers play a : . ity Bazaar be patronized to the full extent of San | his honor; W THE SENATORSHIP. ~HE Oakland Tribune deprecates the use of personalities in the Senatorial campaign. So do we. Personalities in the sense which we suppose to be meant by the Tribune have not so far | been used by The Call, nor will they be used in fu- ture. An examination of a man’s personal fitness for the great office is not using personalities against him, and it is due to the State that such examination be made. The Tribune says: “Throughout the contest there is no occasion. for anything but the friendliest feeling among bidders for the prize.” That may be true also. If any number of men are bidding, and the place is to be knocked down to the highest and best bidder, it is a mere business tran- saction, and there is no room for personal feeling in business. But how is it with the people who are to be repre- sented, with the press’ which must defend the selec- tion made by its party, .and with the State which has a reputation at stake in the manner of man sent to represent it the greatest legislative body on earth? The bidders may be friendly. Competitors for the honor, who are not bidders for a prize, may meet and dwell in amity. But outside these the people are vitally concerned. The office of Senator is as important now as in any period of our history. The air is filled daily with descriptions of the new importance of the Pa- in ! cific Coast, and with affirmations of California’s en- larged leadership of this side of the continent. The { era upon which we are entering is one in which the most profound and delicate questions of public and international law must be discussed in the Senate. Occasions as great as that which brought on the constitutional debate in which Webster and Hayne immortalized themselves are already above the horizon. For the highest part in the coming intellectual ac- tivities, the Senator whose place is to be filled is entirely qualified. The Republican party here and the State of California will go to judgment on the man- ner of man sent to take his seat. Is it possible that our party has in its ranks no man of capacity com- parable with his? The roll of Senatorial material has been called and many have answered to their names. Many of them have qualities that mark them fit. Some have none: Is'it necessary to go down the class marked by a cipher,- as having no required qualifica- tions, and pass over to the list marked with the minus sign and hunt for a candidate ainong the decimals? If the push insist upon Colonel Burns, his fitness must be examined, not in the interest of any rival candidate, but in the interest of the State and people. When we enter upon that examination the fairest mind in the State can find only disqualifications to discuss. This is as painful to say as is the necessity for saying it. It is not uttered in rancor, for we feel none, To properly fill a Senatorial seat from this or any other State a man must have scholarly training, some intellectual grasp of the science of government, a trained mind, a fair acquaintance with history, and a practical experience which can apply knowledge to the concerns of the people. None of these figures in the equipment and mental assets of Colonel Burns. A’ man fit for Senator must have a nice sense of ipcrsonal honor, a high regard for his good name, and this must be proved by his record. Can any evi- dence of it be found in the record of Colonel Burns; in his former discharge of official duty; in his ac- tion under fire; in his avoidance of vindication of in his neglect to make restitution to the State of thousands that it lost through him? Has there been anything in his subsequent career, in his chosen associates, in the pleasures he pursues, in his part in politics, that needs reward by the Senatorship? Why should the Republican party, by selecting him for the Senate, startle Christopher A. Buckley with a sense of lost opportunity? He had as good right, and by reason of his superior manner and better address a better right, to pass from boss-ship to Senatorship than Burns has to make the same transit. Why should. the Republican party elect Burns Sen- ator and so lose public confidence that before it can carry California again it will have to follow him in pleading the statute of limitations? Do Republicans appreciate’ the length of time that must run before that can be? Viewed from Colonel Burns’ point of sight it is pitiful that these true things must be said. It is piti- ful that his backers must stand silent over his record, mute to the utterance of his qualifications and pain- fully wincing at the list of his disqualifications. But the pecble have not compelled the exhibition. The people have not called him from his chosen ways to expose a naked reputation to the blasts of eriticism. The people have not invited him to exhibit all he has in lack of. merit, preparation, fitness and disqualifi- cation, and it is not their fault that good men feel | like walking backward and dropping the mantle of | oblivion over him. o e — WORDSV SPOKEN IN SEASON. HILE some of the Eastern papers foolishly at- tempted to make something of a sensation out of the report that the bubonic plague had found its way to San Francisco and existed in China- town, it is gratifying to note that the more conserva- tive and influential journals have been prompt to re- fute the rumor and rebuke those who tried to work it up into a widespread scare. The Chicago Journal, for example, in commenting upon the rumor at its first appearance said: “The fear that either bubonic plague or Asiatic cholera will rav- age San Francisco, to which a morning contemporary hysterically gives voice, has about as much sensible foundation as the fear of an outbreak of some disease from the moon. There ought to be enough intelli- gence in any wide-awake American community, and doubtless there is in San Francisco, to save it from panic over anything of that sort.” As the Journal very sensibly points out, there is no really great danger of the spread of Asiatic plagues in civilized communities where sanitary science is un- derstood and practiced. Eastern Europe is more or less subject to the importation of diseases from Asia every year, but invariably the disease dies out before it gets far. A plague that originates in the burning climate and amid the filthy communities of the swarming Orient never spreads any extensive ravage ir the temperate zone, where cities are well drained apd a high degree of private and public cleanliness sugar or fruit or any manufactured goods which that | kind of labor is capable of producing. ‘National Grange at Concord, New Hampshire, Mr. | Herbert Myrick, after describing the condition of | 12 there, said: Neither the American farmer nor the | American . workingman can withstand the competi- of New England agreed with him. Californian farmers :‘ i this State, therefore, and from all classes of people, | even more than from the East, the protests of the | more_ than. tt for we would be the first victjms | of imperialism-and coolie fabor. | ITH the opening. of the®grand bazaar in Me- | chanics’- Pavilion .for the benefit of the char- | the ‘city, ari’ opportunity is afforded to all citizens for | “the enjoyment’ of the beginning of the Christmas { | benevolence and of joyous merrymaking. | The object for which the bazaar is held appeals to ! of the strong for the weak, the robust for the sic! the rich for the needy, the prosperous for the suffer- “without father: or motlier to sustain their infancy, there is to' be found a true gratification for both the ples the instinct of this helpfulness is felt, and the | most enlightened and refined nations measure the | that helpfulness manifests itself in private and in pub- lc charity.” less to’speak. . Whenever the ladies of ‘San Fran- cisco array’ theniselves in festal garments and take is ever a pleasure for all who have the good | .. fortune of admission to the charmed company. The | be bright with music, wit, beauty and flowers. Had it. no other function than that of social enjoyment it Sar{_Francisco has repeatedly shown a lavish will- ingness to support prize-fights. Many a self-respect- .- fake and defraud the public.- It is now time to show . the better and truer side of our nature. Let the Char- - Franciscan liberality, glowing with the joy and the wood will of the Christmas season. e 5 . 1 { 8 g prevails, &0 | foreign imperialism, and every argument of economy The action of the better class of Emm Mmihaulpmiyedlm papers in promptly checking this false report is the more pleasing because the general tendency of the East is to accept as true any kind of frightful story about California. The State has been frequently de- picted as a tropic region of earthquakes, droughts, floods and lawlessness. The plague story would have harmonized well with what had gone before. We have, therefore, good reason to be thankful to the papers that stopped it as. soon as it started. B IRRIGATION .OR IMPERIALISM. CCORDING to the report of the Secretary of f\ the Interior there are at the present time 579,368,274 acres of unappropriated and unre- served public lands in the United States, exclusive of Alaska. Of this area 546,540,655 acres, or more than 04 per cent, are in the thirteen so-called desert land States and Territories. Of the vacant lands in these States and Territories it i estimated that 332,176,000 acres are of a character that may be denominated “desert” under the law providing for the disposal of desert lands—that is, lands that do not produce native grasses in sufficient quantity to make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasons without irrigation. The amount of these lands in the various States and the acreage which it is estimated there is a suf- ficient water supply to irrigate are given as follows: : Estimated Desert and|water syp- STATES. grazing. |ply to re- claim. Acres. Acres, 29,847,000 2,000,000 15h75,000 17,000,000 27,808,000 8,000,000 17,475,000, 7,000,000 49,068,000/ 11,000,000 38,506,000} 2,000,000 46,883,000 ,000,000 20,402,000 500,000 Oregon ........ 17,087,000 3,000,000 South Dakota 12,073,000 1,000,000 Utah. S, .58 16,319,000 4,000,000 ‘Washington.. . 3,847,000 3,000,000 ‘Wyoming ..... .] 33,006,000 9,000,000 Total sessies seesaess...| 332,176,000{ 71,500,000 It will be seen from the table that the Government can by irrigation redeem from desert conditions and render available for farms, orchdrds or vineyards miore than 71,000,000 acres, of which 17,000,000 are in California, and all of them in the vast region of the Greater West which is so rich in minerals and other resources that it needs only a good foundation of agricultural industry to enable it to compete with the East in all the elements of prosperous communities. The people of the United States are rich, but not infinitely so. The amount of money they can afford to expend upon great national enterprises is limited. This being so, no great work can be undertaken un- til after a careful consideration of the cost. The peo- ple have now before them a problem of that kind to solve. It is the question whether they shall employ their energies and their surplus wealth in irrigating the desert lands of the Great West or in conquering, civilizing and supporting some millions of mongrels in the tropic islands of the Orient. There can be no question as to which of the two would be the cheaper. It will cost us more time, more money and more labor to establish order in the Philippines than to irrigate the 70,000,000 acres of Western land. The land when irrigated will maintain not only itself, but a thrifty population of Americans, and pay a revenue to the Government. The Philip- pines, when once subdued, will continue to be an ex- pense. The issue is one of home development against is on the side of home. THE STATUS OF HAWAIL ‘ problems arising out of the war and caliing for prompt settlement, it is probable that Congress the report of the Hawaiian Commission in favor of giving the islands a territorial form of government, other Territories. Unless all signs fail, however, the inclination will son of the strong opposition with which the report has been received not only by those who opposed the The course to be adopted in the case of Hawaii will form a precedent almost sure to be followed when islands which we may take, and if the one is granted a territorial government, t.he others will obtain it The New York Press, a strong jingo organ, fa- voring the annexation of everything in sight, balks the Commissioners says: “They have set Hawaii on the way of becoming a doro, Panay and the rest of the larger Philippines, as well as all those West Indian islands which will, ere ing States. For once the principle is established of the participation of the inferior races of alien dependen- limit but the interests of such peoples and the ex- igencies of our parties. The test of this assertion will Sea islander, three generations removed from can- nibalism, to the House of Representatives, how for a superior, the Porto Rican?” It is gratifying to perceive this evidence that even derstand the gravity of the problems involved in the annexation of tropic islands whose inhabitants are bill comes before Congress a good opportunity will be offered to consider the whole issue of colonial not be lost. Speedy action is of course ‘desirable in most cases, but a measure of this importance is not ONFRONTED, as it will be, by many grave will be inclined to accept without much discussion with representation in Congress as in the case of probably be balked and baffled in its object by rea- annexation of Hawaii, but by many ‘who favored it. the time comes to deal with Porto Rico and other also. at the proposition, and in discussing the. report of State, and have thereby set Luzon, Mindanao, Min- long,be clamoring foradmission,in the way of becom- cies in national deliberations the practice can have no shortly be at hand. Once having admitted the South moment can we refuse the same boon to his infinite the most reckless expansionists are beginning to un- incapable of self-government. When the Hawaiian expansion, and it is to be hoped the opportunity will to be railroaded through without debate. It is not every girl who, shooting a man twice, would put one bullet in the heart and the other in the brain. As a feat of accurate pistol practice this could hardly have been excelled. However, the young woman has probably concluded that she shot not wisely but too well. A dead man is said to rest heavily on the conscience. SR On a recent night six murderers occupied one cell in the City Jail. Each represented a recent tragedy. Most of them are so avowedly guilty that a trial will be mere form. The gallows across the bay ought to be kept in good repair. PG LT Superintendent Webster will be unanimously sus- tained in his contention that the teachers must be paid. They have earned the money, and to withhold it would be robbery. e Z gy If the Baldwin walls are left to tumble of their own | weight survivors can once more have the melancholy satisfaction of uyin;(, “I told you so.” ‘A telegram of sympnhy from Q‘uy_"‘m Tanner SANTA MARIA, 1492—MARTA TERESA, 1898. It was a dreadful working out of one of the decrees of destiny that flung the wreck of Spain's splendid ocean empire—symbolized by the Maria . Teresa—after four hundred . years of light and gloom, ashore near the pluce where Columbus landed from the Santa Maria and gave that empire to the Spanish dladem. ‘What dark, unerring fate is this that flings The wreck of Spain’s imperial might ahead Fast on that western isle, whose beach yet.rings ‘With echoes of the great discovercr’s tread? I walked one miorn & marge of shore and saw:. Out from the east a strange sail slowly draw In landward like a gentle, white-winged dove; 14 A crown gleamed on her bow and high above Flew flags of proud.Castile and Aragon. I saw the sailor ‘cavaller, Cclon, Unsheath a knightly blade and speak the name Of Isabelle, his sovereign Queen, and.claim A broad New World, set like a radiant gem : In azure seas, for her rich diadem. Four hundred years of gloom and glory pressed Down time's worn ways. ‘To south, to north; to west, To east, in wide and wider circles spreau The Spanish sway. Sage, she and matron bled- On red Toledo swords; by altar stone Dishonored maids and slaughtered priests were strewn. Sea-girdled isle and mainland felt the steel-. 5 Hard, cruel hand and crushing, reeking heel Of Spain. In vales full flowered as Paradise V/arm life poured out, a bloody sacrifice— Oblations to the spear—a votive wine Before the fair Castilian Siva’s shrine Afar the robber galléon cruised for gain And swart banditti scoured the distant main} The wealth of Ind, of jeweied Orient, Of ravished palace, tomb and temple, went To fill the lap of Andalusia’s dark- Eyed Queen. In Atahualpa’s cell the mark High on the wall showed Peru’'s millions, wrung Fierce from the Inca’s dying grasp; among The Aztec groves tne royal Montezuma died— Both treasures passing to that volumed tide That ran in golden streams through Madrid’s gates. From Holland's ocean-menaced rich estates To ‘“‘ever-faithful” Cuba's teeming canes, From far Mauila's beach to Quito’s plains, From Porto Rico’s fields to Mexic mines, From Chile's peaks to warm Madeira’s vines, Insatiate, rapacious, ranged the don Of old Castile and Aragon. Four hundred years had passed. I walked once more Alone upon that marge of western shore. *Twas night. I saw the warring tempests heap In savage mountain. swells the gloomy deep. I saw the black veil break, and.through the rift A dreary, dragging fabric beamwise drift. I marked her wallow blindly in the gray Foam-covered surge, abandoned, cast a She swung bow on the shore; I saw again High on that shattered stem the crest of Spain. A pack of white-fanged seas drove her along, Avengers of four centuries of wrong, Until thé wild, resentful waters flung That mass, ineft and lifeless, fast among The rocks where once a world the great Colon Upreared to old Castile and Aragon. 2 Ve I saw the jagged, shot-torn rents yawn wide Deep down her warped and flame-swept side; . The wounds that splintered rail and shattered keel And pierced her strong and foreeful heart of steel; - Her -silken standards lost, her guns asleep, Their thunders heard no more along the deep; Her master, crew, were but the haunting ghosts— Vague memories of those resistless hosts ° ‘Whose valiant might crowned Spain lord over all The blackness rolléd around her like a pall, And upward from the night the mad waves rushed To hurl themselves once more against the crushed And shapéless frame. I saw, last, on her stem The tarnished royal, golden diadem-—- The sign of Spain's vast power by valor ‘won— The arms of old Castile and Aragon, ‘What dark unerring fate is this that fiings The wreck of Spain’s imperial might .ahead Fast on that western isle, whose beach yet rings ‘With echoes of the great discoverer’s tread? TOM GREGORY. HERRIN CAUGHT IN A TRAP, From .the Oakland Enquirer. At last we are fur.ished some light on the question whether the South- ern Pacific Company is in politics, and more especially whether it is inter- fering in the election of a United States Sénator. Mr. De Young and Mr. Spreckels have told what they know, and the revelation is one of the rich- est exposures of corporation politics which we have had for many a day. The Chronicle and Call (otherwise Mr. Dé Young and Mr. Spreckels) do not often agree in their statements, and when such pronounced rivals do hap- pen-to coincide in their statements, it is quite safe to assume that they tell the truth. So general confidence will be put in the present tale. The gentle railroad corporation, which is “out of politics,” has been going about in the person of Mr. Herrin, its chief counsel and official politician offering humble newspaper men the privilege to “name the next Unitedi States Senator.” Mr. Herrin made that offer to Mr. De Young and also to Mr. Spreckels, but, according to the views of both gentlemén, this overture was only thrown out as bait for gudgeons, because while pretending to, name the candidate for Senator, Mr.-Herrin all the time had his own can- didate, or, rather, the railroad’s candidate. When the two editors got .to- gether and cornered the chief counsel, he admitted this by blurting out: “Colonel Dan Burns is the railroad’s candidate.” (¥ This is pretty good testimony to the railroad’s relation t is not all. According to Mr. De Young, the railroad compil?)?“ct;ffi}&‘;ttel; money for the election of men to the Legislature, and did it through.Burns, Moreover, Mr. De Young specially charges that “the political managers of the Southern Pacific Company and Burns have worked together during the whole of this campaign with the end in view of securing the election of Burns to the Unitéd States Senate.” So the railroad has political managers, ;ee‘:c:llt candidates a long time in advance and contributes money for thelx“ efit. 1 X All of this is very funny—Mr Herrin caught by the trap, the tables turned, the biter bitten, the c‘}‘xiet :olme:lm;-:x:ino;e} 'f.r"f"n'; corporation caught in the open ani {rying to break for cover, but unable to do so0 because his coat-tails are held in the grasp of two husky editors. For once the after-dark operator is pinioned and held in the daylight. The meeds‘::e knows now where Herrin was when‘ the llgpu were suddenly It is laughable, but too serious to laugh at. Wha years of hypocrisy and lying! “The railroad not mtpau ‘gg:"?t '%h";w:ur: road blackmaliled by politiclans”; “The railroad asks only for fair treat- ment”; “The railroad does not attempt to interfere with the people’s cholea,” This is the mendacious drivel to which we have been treated for years on years, reiterated so often that some people believed it, not knowing that it was only the screen which the rallroad editors held up to conceal the opera- tions of the railroad politicians while they committed burglary and robbed the people of their own. This single incident is a type of all—the epitome of the yéars during which the railroad company has been making Senators and Governors and Congressmen and debauching Legislatures and Railroad Commissioners. The railroad has been in politics the time and all the time has been ready to lie and say it has not. . It is true a railroad should not be in politics—that it need not be. There is no necessary connection between b g e transportation and political debauchery. been and are too shrewdly managed to in. B P get ut the Southérn ! :., un- by officials of s the corpor: '7' Ld tion, not to mentio AROUND THE 2 CORRIDORS. E. H. Vance, a banker of Bureka, is at the Grand. . R SR ol C. C. Royce of Chicago is registered at the California. . .- . e Sam Matthews, a cattlé man of Salinas, Is at the Russ. s Dr. N. H. Haight of Sacramento s a guest at the Lick. : : Thomas Maculy, a mining man‘of Yre- ka, is at the Grand. : - W. B. Wise of Raleigh, N. C., is:Tegls- tered at the Grand.. - - % Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is a guest at the Grand. - E. E. Morgan,-editor of the Daily Palo Alto, is at the Lick. Adolph Solomon, & merchant from El Paso, is at:the Lick. Luke MeDonald, a merchaiii of French ‘Gulch, is at the Lick: Frank W. Merédith; a mining man from Oregon, is at the Russ. S. N: Griffith, a prominent attorney ot ‘Frésno, is at the Lick. Mr. ‘and ‘Mrs. ‘A, J. Hull: of Napa are registered . at the Lick. :-J. A. Plummer, & merchant of Stockton, is 'a guest at-the Lick. H. 'S. Campbell and wife of Fresno:are registered st the Palace. W. C. Wisé, a prominent merchant of Marysville, is at the Lick. John Irwin Jr. 'and wife, U. 8. N., are staying at the, Occidental. B.. Kellogg of “Stanford - University is registered at the. California. C. T. Grave.and wife of Great Falls, Mont., are at the Occidental. Bank Commisstoner. John. Markley of Geyserville is a guest. at the Lick. F. L. Pritchard, a horseman of Sacra- ‘mento, 18 registered at the Grand. L. B..Cdrpenter, a prominent mining man from Leadville, is at the Palace. R.. W. Poindexter, a prominent mer- chant of: Los Angeles, is at the Palace. - C. K. King of Mansfield, Ohio, and A. D: ‘Woodruff ‘of New York are at the Palace. _'BE. M. Churchill, a banker of Napa, ac- companied by his wife, is at the Palace. Mrs. Robert. Duncan Jr. of Douglas Island, - Alaska, is registered at' the Oc- cidental. Harry - Budge, family and friends are at the Palace. Mr. Budge is a well-known New York capitalist. F. J..Dunbar, Secrétary of State-elect, of Oregon, has been stopping at the Oc- cidental for several days. Cloud Rutter, one of the United States Fish _Commission from = Washington, D. C., is registered at the Russ. Mrs. S. 8. White; wife of Surgeon White of the United States Navy, who Is now serving at Skaguay, is at the Palace. G. E. ‘Babcock: and wife of Coronado are guests at the Palace. - Mr. Babcock i interested . in the Coronado Beach Hotel. Mrs, E. F. Willlams and. Miss Louise M. Williams -of New York, and Mrs. J. McCoy Williams of California are guests at the Grand. Major Matthews; formerly in charge of the division hospital at the Presidio, has returned from Des Moines and is at the Occidental. ~He s back from a thirty days" sick. furlough and will report for duty. to-day. Major Matthews will prob- ‘ably relieve Major Ebert, now in charge of the division hospital, and the latter may go to Vancouver barracks. Dr.. 8, D. Brooks and wife of Boston are at the Occidental. “Mr. Brooks comes to.San Francisco as the United States surgeon. to succeed Dr. Rosenau as quar- antine officer at this port. A year ago Dr. Brooks: was sent to China by the Government to make a study of the bu- benic plague.. He Is considere§f an au- thority on - the disease. . Recéntly Dr. Brooks has been the quarantine officer at Port Townsend. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dee. 2—A. H. Rutherford of San Francisco is at the Waldorf. W. B. Bradford of San Francisco is at the Imperial.. M. Cohn of Los Angeles is at the Broadway Central. C. C. Butler, wifs and .daughter, of San Francisco, are at the Windsor. . -Miss M. Cramer of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. —_———————— Soft baby cream, 15c Ib. Townsend's. ® —_——— Peanut taffy,best in world. 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