The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1898. DECEMBER 14, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE ...... Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS..... .....2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents o week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE ©One year, by mall, $1.60 | S 908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs Houso C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE......................Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, open unt!l 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Milssion street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*'A Parlor Match." Caltforni; Uncle Bob.' Alcazar—''Alabama." Tivoli— ‘The Mascot.”” Morosco's—*"Temptation of Money.” Comedy— “The South Before the War." The Chutes—Gorriila man, vaudeville and the 500. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, specialties. Butro's Bathe—Swimming. Mechanics' Pavillon—Charity Bazaar. Ingleside Race Track—Races to-day. | Rosenthal—Coming in December. | AUCTION SALES. Fees | By Killip & Co.—This day, December 14, at 10:30 o'clock, | Buge Wagons, etc., at corner Fifteenth and Valencia streets. By G, H. Umbsen & Co,—Monday, December 12| o'clock, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery st. 18, at DR. DODGE’'S BILLBOARD. | T | Y a vote of 11 to 1 the Board of Supervisors on | B Monday overruled Mayor Phelan’s veto of a| resolution granting an advertising firm permis- sion to erect a high fence at the intersection of V lencia and Market streets for bill-sticking p\lrpu.\cs,“ Supervisor Dodge, or-clect, championed the fence and apologized to the Mayor for using the moral y force of his prospective patronage against him in the | The effect of Dodge’s influence was seen in | t that but one Supervisor stood by the Mayor | attempt to prevent the estabiishment of a dan- »us and unsightly nuisance. Asse board. the ger It will not do to expect much from defeated Super- sors in the last days of their term, but the public | sume that the present board, not- acter, would decline to extend the | i had a right to i withstanding its ¢ area of the bill board nuisance. Especially will it be disappointed to learn that Dr. Dodge, reform Super- visor and Assessor-elect, is engaged in furthering the interests of an advertising firm, which is one of a number that disfigure the city and render pedestrian- 1 dangerous. yme weeks ago the board showed signs of a dis- to regulate the bill boards. An ordinance introduced limiting the height of the signs and imposing a license upon them. At present they are recognized as dangerous, and it is well known that, though competing with all forms of legitimate adver- tising, they pay no taxes whatever. But nothing has | been heard from this ordinance since the bill board | men called on the committee and “explained” person- | ally why it would not be a good thing to license and | regulate them. The sentiment of the Supervisors toward the nui- sance is now made conspicuous by their action upon Dr. Dodge’s enterprise. They overruled a veto I)y“ an almost unanimous vote—Rottanzi alone voting to | sustain the Mayor. Evidently the public may antici- pate no legislation from this board upon the subject. 1i anything is done with the tall and unsightly signs | it will have to be done by the Supervisors who will on | January 2 take the places of the present aggregation | of solons. Beyond question something should be done with these advertising fences. Their height ought to be regulated and their owners should be made to pay a license. In some localities they should be prohibited altogether, being dangerous on windy days and a foul ruisance during rainstorms. We bespeak for the mat- ter consideration from the new Supervisors. They will be free from the blandishments of the Assessor- clect, and with Mayor Phelan’s assistance may legis- late intelligently. The public has some rights which the fence advertisers should be compelléd to respect, | and one of them is a proper regard for its personal safety. VOLUNTE_ERS TO BE RELIEVED. REPORTS from Washington are to the effect that the War Department has begun in earnest the task of dispatching regular troops to Manila to relieve the volunteers now serving there. Six regi- « ents are to be sent as speedily as possible, and it is believed they will get away by January 1. The volun- teers will be relieved in the order in which they were gned to duty, and as a consequence the First Cali- fcrnia will be the first to be relieved. It is added there is a fair prospect the Californians will be home within three months. This gratifying news will add to the joy of the holi- days in many a home. So long as war continued and the flag had need of defenders on the battle-field Californians were eager to serve wherever duty called them. With the restoration of peace, however, there came a natural desire to return to their homes and their usual vocations. Most of the volunteers are young men who can ill afford to leave their business, and a considerable number have families dependent upon them. Such men could not be expected to will- ingly undertake garriean - 1 mime of peace, and the Gezmmment has acted rightly in arranging to re- lieve them without further delay. It goes without saying that when the boys come home they will receive as grand a welcome as Califor- nia ever gave to the most distinguished guest that has visited her shores, and in the welcome there will be a feeling of love and pride that the coming of no guest could excite. Our boys were the first to respond to the call of the nation. They nobly upheld the glory of the State as well as the cause of the republic. They deserve every honor that can be shown them, and will receive honors in an abundant measure, Three months will soon pass away. With the com- ing of spring the heroes will come, and then San Francisco will have one of the most jubilant days in her history. position ass | mortgaged, but who very naturally wish to go with THE SENATORSHIP. T would be a pitiful, if not contemptible, outcome l of a great battle gallantly won if the Republican party of California should fail to honor itseli and the State by securing the election of a Senator who is | up to the level of our genius and reputation in the | Union. | In his address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh Uni- | versity, Gladstone, in search of a figure that should stand for the best accomplishments of man and a| metaphor of his concentrated genius, chose Califor- | nia, and presented this commonwealth with a bril- liant figure, that should be carved on the lintels of our libraries and institutions of learning. Standing in the two hemispheres and the New World and OId in this dignified attitude, is it possible ' that the party representing a majority of our people is limited in its choice for Senator to Grant and | Burns! In the case of Mr. Grant, it is admitted in his pub- | lished interviews and the statements of his “push” that his candidacy originated in Eastern influences, which have no sympathy with our people, and, in- deed, represent interests which directly antagonize our progress and prosperity. It is also in like man- | ner admitted that his candidacy is not based upon | identification with California, nor personal merit, nor | party service, nor duty well done for our people in | any emergency, but upon money properly placed | where it would do the most good to individuals before | the election, regularly receipted for, and the receipts held as a first lien upon the votes of members of the | Legislature. Let it not be forgotten that a Republican Senator must succeed Senator White, who sought the p]acc‘ saying that he proposed to make it poss‘iblc for a poor | man to aspire to that office and win it ‘on his merits, | and not on his money. Do we expect any more Re- publican victories here if we make it plain that the patty proposes to prevent any aspiration to the Sen- atorship that is not accompanied by a certified check, like a bid for supplying pork to the penitentiary? Mr. Grant's candidacy consists of a name and a check, incumbered by an uninteresting personality, unacquaintance with the State and incapacity for the office he seeks. It has been said that the first-class Senatorial ma- terial in the party has not come to the front, has not offered itself. If this be true, is it not because unfit- ness and unworth aspiring to the office claim to have recorded a mortgage on votes in every county that has a Republican representation in the Legislature, which is to be foreclosed unless some one else offers to pur- chase it as a negotiable instrument? The members of | the coming Legislature should resent the representa- tion by Mr. Grant or his agents that they are held | like wheat or prunes under a crop mortgage, given to the expense of planting and harvesting them as gislators. The broadcasting of this claim of owner- ship is being used to influence men who cannot be | the winner. | Mr. Grant is new to California, and newer still to | California politics. He has never been known as a sound adyiser in party councils, as a faithful worker | for party principles, as having a knowledge of the | State’s needs and aspiration. To elect him is to re- duce California to company with the rotten borough | States, which are used as a convenience by distant, | rival and outside interests, without regard to the pride and seli-respect and seli-interest of our own people. C to the War Department, and it has been ac- cepted. He lays aside the sword, the shoulder- straps and the red sash. His dream of military glory, his hope of a war record that would brighten the tar- nished silver of his past, have gone. There re- | mains to him, of all his aspirations and all his per- spirations under the Floridian sun, nothing but the empty title of an ex-colonel. The colonel’s career as a soldier has been an epi- sode farcical from first to last, and yet there is some- thing of pathos in it. The vanishing of an illusion always leave a sense of disa;‘poimmcm, even in the minds of those who knew from the first. it was an il- lusion and could not last. We shall miss the colonel, not from the fields of war, for he was never there, but from the stump, where he has been appearing so pic- | turesquely for the last four months, laying his hand upon his uniformed bosom and vowing he could not talk to his countrymen because military discipline re- strained his tongue. The prospects are that as a national figure we arc going to lose Bryan altogether. His coming was noisy with the beating of bands and the shouting of throngs; his going will be quiet as that of the Arabs who fold up their tents and silently steal away. This is a world of vanishing illusions. The rain- bow fades from the sky, the aurora borealis dies from out the northern night, the rose withers in the gardens ¢ the south, and even a circus does not long remain to gladden any particular town. Humanity is so used to these things that it will not mourn over the pass- ing of Colonel Bryan. He came with aggressiveness, and he has went with resignation. His followers of the silver camp will soon be themselves resigned. The dewdrop sinks into the shining sea, and Colonel Bryan is lost in the multitude of the colonels who have been. @ VANISHED ILLUSION. OLONEL BRYAN" has sent in his resignation By the death of Garcia the Examiner lost a valued member of its staff. This was probably the hardest blow it had received since its Bismarck was called so | close to the calling of its Gladstone. Happily, the Pope still lives, the Queen Regent is well, and Mrs. McKinley will doubtless continue to be as cheerful a contributor as ever. That some of the essential witnesses in the investi- gation of the T. C. Walker refuse to permit them- selves to be found does not speak well for the condi- tion of the T. C. Walker at the time it had the misad- venture of being blown up. —_— In the French Chamber Monday one Deputy shouted to another, “Come off the tribune.” A translation less marked by the veneer of politeness 'would dou‘)fless have made this “Come off the perch.” s Doubtless Dewey has a dread of coming home. There can be too much of a good thing, and even the prospect of being lionized to death can hardly be alluring. Perhaps the gentlemen who tried to stop the Bot- kin trial have achieved all the success they antici- pated. Their names have appeared in print several times. By the enthusiasm with which American troops are greeted in Cuba, it may fairly be judged that the bit- terness of the native exists largely in the gall of the correspondents. Spain does not seem to appreciate the beauties of One of the queer features of the Nautilus, published in Portland, is that it is published anywhere, peace. The treaty has been signed, but she gives no evidences of being happy. | A | Not if he knows~it. lan eye on them himself. ANTI-IMPERIALIST GRANGERS. T the meeting of the National Grange, in Con- cord, N. H., last month, Mr. Myrick, editor of +the Orange Judd Company’s publications, de- livered an address on the p‘roposed imperial policy of the United States. He said that we entered upon a war solely to set Cuba free, and are emerging from it with Porto Rico and the Philippines in our hands, and with vexatious problems in Cuba, due to arrant mis- representations of the situation in that island, made prior to our taking up arms. Out of this condition comes the demand for interstate free trade with these islands, made by wealthy Spaniards with great inter- ests there, and powerful combinations in this coun- try which lust for the profits of tropical production by cheap labor. Aiter discussing the effect of this policy upon agricultural interests at home, Mr. Myrick uttered these significant words: “Shall our greatest | industry be sacrificed to a few manufacturing special- ties? Shall we rob the farmer of $200,000,000 a year? If Congress overthrow the farmers’ protection by admitting free sugar, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, rice, etc., besides adding to his di- rect taxes, and at the same time continue protection to the manufacturer, let no one be surprised if the farmers and working people vote in 1900 to pitch the custom-houses into the sea.” These are words of truth and soberness, and were applauded and unanimously indorsed by the represen- tatives of ten millions of American farmers. Since they were uttered the National Convention of the Federated Trades has spoken to the same purpose, so that it must be evident to the politicians who have been sprinkling the path of glory and taking a clair- voyant view of manifest destiny, that their jocund | salute of problems abroad will cause far worse prob- lems at home. It required a course of education, ex- tending from the date of Clay's compromise tariff of 1832 to the Dingley bill of 1897, to make the farmer of this country comprehend his interest in protection | and convince him that he shares its profits. The la- borer’s mind on the same points has never been clear, and the extension of the Australian ballot has leit him iree to vote his doubts. With a normal demand for an | annual addition of fresh hands in all departments of lzbor, skilled and unskilled, which calls for half a mil- lion new workers every year, and every immigrant port open to their importation from the overcrowded Old World at a steerage rate of about ten dollars per | head, American labor has remained skeptical on pro- tection. It has seen the natural vacancies in its ranks filled from abroad, and its own children, born in this country, crowded out by aliens, until it stands ready to join the farmer in a crusade against a system from the benefits of yghich both classes will consider them- selves excluded. If the politicians think the interests of the country can stand another tariff agitation, and such an agita- tion as will go far beyond any that has preceded it, let them pefsist in an imperial policy. Already the measured march of a great standing army | jars the ground, and armed fleets whiten the waters of the near future; while our present annual pension list | absorbs all but one million dollars of our total customs receipts, and our brief Spanish war will furnish ap- plicants to take up that small balance. For the last fiscal year our national revenue per capita of popula- tion was $4 56, our net expenses $5 06. The tax paid per head by our people to the Federal Government, by articles, from 1878 to 1897, both years inclusive, was: On liquors and tobacco, average per annum, $2.476 (two dollars forty-seven cents and six mills); on sugar and molasses .606; miscellaneous, .457; other internal taxes, .116; general tariff, besides liquors and tobacco, $2.160, or a total average annual taxation of $5.815 (five dollars eighty-one cents and five mills). The total sum realized from this taxation for the whole period was $6,036,218,134 97. Of this $1,004,- 713,359 was paid on the national debt, and current | expenses absorbed the balance. It is doubtiul whether, at the end of two decades of such taxation, our peo- ple will bear patiently the prospect of its increase dur- ing the next twenty years for the purposes of barren conquest, the pursuit of glory or a Quixotic sentiment of manifest destiny. Large as this burden of taxation seems, it is less than half the per capita taxation of England and the mili- tary nations of Europe. Yet we are, in a politicians’ craze, to imitate them and double our taxes, to be spent in the pomp and circumstance of imperialism. If this policy implied a corresponding increase in our resources and capacity to pay taxes, it would be contemplated with greater patience. But as it will in- | evitably work to a decrease of that capacity, the revolt | of the farmer and laborer is its most certain result. O live in Butte, Mont., under conditions im- posed by the smelters one needs lungs of leather and a throat of brass. The noxious fumes thrown off from the great chimneys, belching night and day the deadly taint of arsenic and bearing it to every quarter, is slaughtering the citizens. In smothered tones, the survivors are crying for relief, and they are told that the managers of the fatal output want time to think about it. There are prospects that some of them may have eternity to devote to reflection on the subject, as they themseclves have breathed the con- tagion turned loose by their own greed. There is no reason why Butte smelters should be allowed to indulge in chronic murder. There are ways known to science by which the smoke may be robbed of its power to harm. Situated in Omaha and Den- ver are the works of the Omaha and Grant Company, | the largest smelters in the world, yet the residents of neither of these cities have suffered, nor has the vege- tation, no blade nor leaf of which can grow in Butte, been in any degree damaged. At Denver are also the Argo works of ex-Senator Hill, devoted to the treat- ment of refractory ores, and necessarily releasing more arsenic than is the case with the simple leads and coppers of Montana. All around the Argo works are clustered the pleasant homes of workmen, and the children playing in the streets are pictures of happi- ness and health. These simple facts are cited to show that the Butte smelters can stop killing people if they care to take the trouble and go to the expense. Moreover, as they are all multi-millionaires, and getting more so, there is no better excuse for them than cold-blooded seli- ishness. It is strange if there is no law to govern them, or, in the known absence of such a statute, that one should not have been long ago prescribed. Banker Marsh, the Philadelphia wrecker who was a fugitive from 1801 to a few weeks ago, has been sen- tenced to twelve years in prison. If he had taken his medicine promptly he would have forgotten the taste of it by this time. Ever since W. F. Herrin unlimbered the Samson’s weapon which he carries in his head and declared himself in favor of Dan Burns for Senator he has been hearing from the people. From one end of the State to the other he and his scheme have been denounced by men of every shade of political belief, and with a few—a contemptible few— exceptions the. newspapers of the State have emptied the vials of their wrath upon his head. Here are a few pungent expressions of opinion on the subject from recent exchanges: s S A CAUSE FOR BITTERNESS. e United States Senator fight is en ng the attention - papers in the State. There is much bmgfessg shown towa.rdof!:}zl g;;d':s:csy of Dan Burns, and not without cause. It will be an impossibility, by any means, to foist such a man into such Gazette, ch an important office.—Contra Costa WILL FORFEIT ESTEEM. The Californian, whatever his station in public or private life, who shall glake an effort toward the election of the racing sharp and delinquent ex- ecretary of State, Dan Burns, will forever forfeit the esteem, confidence and respect of his fellow citizens.—Los Angeles Times. HERRIN'S OVERDONE SMILE. The railroad seems to be strictly in politics. The intervention of Mr. Her- rin _In the Senatorial struggle and the subsequent discovery that he was re- celving all comers with the same old smile_indicates that he is doing many kinds of politics, devious and otherwise.—Eureka Journal. Sy SMALL SARDINE HERRIN. errin, the pitiful little corporation attorney, is in very mean business ;vdhen he drags through the political mire the name of as good a woman as 8. Jane L. Stanford. The woman who sacrifices her own property in order to maintain such an institution as the college at Palo Alto is beyond the reach of such contemptible detractors. Ichthyotomists who examine that Her- ;i&]:ll be apt to pronounce him the smallest sardine in the box.—Los Angeles i, WHY ESTEE WAS DEFEATED. e Marin Journal joins the leading papers of the State in sitting down hard on Mr. Herrin's nominee for Senator. It says: “We can conceive of no possible contingency that would Justify the Legislature in seriously con- sidering the name of Dan M. Burns for United States Senator.” And it re- ltemts a truth often spoken by indignant Republicans when it further says that “that very worthy statesman and veteran Republican, M. M. Estee, was sacrificed in 1894, simply because it became known that Burns pulled the wires that gave him the nomination for Governor.”—Napa Register. 0 A COOKED HERRIN. s a safe wager that W. F. Herrin will lose his position as chief counsel for the Southern Pacific Rallway Company before twelve months have gone. He has made the worst diplomatic mistake possible. Before he played his famous Senatorial gold-brick game on Mr. Spreckels and Mr. de Young, only one San Francisco paper was an avowed enemy of his company, and now he has all three of the morntg dailies. This hostility means the loss of many times even Mr. Herrin's large salary, and will not be endured with equa- nimity by Mr. Huntington. The only happy man in the Yellow Knockery is Mr. Mills, who found himself deposed when Mr. Herrin came into power, but who ncm" is likely to be reinstated as chief of the bureau of politics and ll(eratur&_ “Millsy” has been sidetracked for Herrin and even made to do the latter's bidding In his editorial columns of the Post and Record-Union, while before the advent of the attorney he was supreme and took a hand in making Senators and Governors himself. “Millsy” s not much of a fighter, but he can do a heap of waiting for the other fellow to die or make a mistake such as Herrin did, of wiggling out of the frying-pan into the live coals of The Call and the Chronicle’s roasts.—Los Angeles Herald. MERELY A POLITICAL BOSS. The question as to who will be the next United States Senator from Cali- fornia is agitating the minds of the different aspirants for that office, and the time will soon arrive when the people will decide at least whom they do not want. Boss Burns has been mentioned as a candidate, but it does not seem possible that there is a member of the coming Legislature who would care to see this State disgraced by such a representative in the upper house of Con- gress. It is not to be believed that any Republican cares to damn his party by selecting a man for Senator who possesses no other qualifications save those of a political boss, and this fact will probably prevent the selection of Mr. Burns.—Madera Mercury. MAYBE DAN HAS A CONTRACT. EageRat==g=3=3c3-3-3-F-F-2-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-3-3-F-3-F-3-F-3-2-F-F-F-3-3-] X 3 DAN BURNS FOR SENATOR? If Captain Wildes of the Boston did not flinch when he saw some of the pictures of himself, he is a braver man even than his exploits at Manila would have led one to believe. Uncle Sam’s rights in Samoa seem to have been overlooked by the other powers, but the old man has Burns. number of politicians Angeles Western Graphic. HIS ELECTION elected by large majorities. feReg=gegegegegagel The San Francisco Examiner appears to be favorable to the election of Dan Burns to the United States Senate, which gives us another chance to witness birds of a feather flocking together.—Los Angeles Times. ON HERRIN'S WHITE PASSES. Colonel Dan Burns wants to ride into the United States Senate on one of “Herrin’s white passes.”—Los Angeles Express. £ MUST WEAR TAGS. Our esteemed Republican contemporaries of San Francisco continue to pour hot shot into the yellow knockery, where the lair of William F. Herrin is located, and incidentally they rake an occasional strip of tough old hide from the carcass of that pestiferous boss and thimble-rigging politician, Dan An extraordinary feature of the present situation is the fact that a in San Francisco who were presumed to be reputable citizens, are apparently in the Burns camp. This exhibition on their part is as surprising as it is painful, for no man can support D. M. Burns for the high office of United States Senator and continue to retain the confidence and re- spect of his fellow-citizens. And as for the man in the Legislature who shall vote for that fellow Burns at the forthcoming session Well, he might just as well decorate himself with a tag showing the price he got for his vote, for certainly no man would be found simple and to do such a thing unless he got paid for it.—Los Angeles Times. IT TURNS THE STOMACH. This “mentioning” of Dan Burns as the possible successor of ‘White is enough to turn the stomach of a dead Republican, the painful nausea it is now causing the respectable men who cent of the party. Burns is offensive enough as a delegation boss without parading him in front of decent people as worthy of the Senatorial toga.—Los Dan Burns was repudiated by the Republican party four years ago, wh M. M. Estee was defeated for Governor and the balance of the {loket e Burns represents the corrupt boss element of politics a Towing in G4t Franslaco Which'Ie aLublutars: contron. o e, & amall fol tpulator of conventions, and at the last State convention had 28 of the 100 votes from San Francisco in his vest pocket. to California to elect Boss Burns as United States Senator.—Red Bluff News. of the Legislature! silly enough Senator » ot to mention comprise 99 per A DISGRACE. He is a shrewd man- It would be a lasting disgrace AROUND THE . CORRIDORS B. F. Bush of Roslyn is at the Palace. W. S. Span of Los Angeles is at the Occidental. C. Lang of Cleveland, Ohio, is staying at the Lick. Dr. H. A. McChesney of Kansas City is at the Palace. J. W. Browning of Grand Island is a guest at the Grand. Attorney Paul C. Morf of Stockton is staying at the Grand. Attorney Fred Sutton from Sonora is registered at the Lick. Mrs. Anderson of Los Angeles is stay- ing at the Occidental. Edward T. Hopkins Obigpo is at the Grand. Attorney A. J. Lewelling of St. Helena is a guest at the Lick. Mayor Edmund M. Burke of Santa Bar- bara is a guest at the Russ. Ex-Mayor Samuel N. Rucker of San Jose is a guest at the Palace. Otto E. Never, proprietor of the hotel at Paso Robles, is at the Palace. Martin C. Beem, a banker from Fort Jones, is a guest at the Grand. Ex-State Senator Fred Cox of Sacra- mento is staying at the Grand. Lewis Emery Jr. of Bradford, Penn, a prominent mineowner, is at the Grand. E. F. Dixon, a prominet grain raiser from Merced, is registered at the Lick. W. H. Perry, a prominent lumber mer- chant of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. G. W. Smith, a merchant from Alta- mont, Oregon, is a guest at the Grand. Thomas Hill, the renowned painter of the Yosemite, with his daughter, is at the Palace. F. H. Beaudreau, from Modesto, a well- known mining man, is a guest at the Palace. Thomas Couch of Montana, a well- known mining engineer, is registered at the Palace. T. Herbert Wymonde of England, who is making a tour of the world, is staying at the Palace. T. L. Savage, a prominent business man from Northport, Oregon, is registered at the Occidental. -~ & F. O. Johnson, proprietor of the Hotel ‘Westminster at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Occidental. Samuel Hutchinson, general passenger agent of the Union Pacific at Omaha, is registered at the Palace. John T. Arundel of London, who is the president of the Pacific Island Company, is a guest'at the Occidental. | Charles F. Nash of San Diego, who is well known in the Government Revenue Service, is a guest at the California. . C. T. Meredith, Superintendent of the of San Luis 3 State Board of Public Instruction, who lives at Sacramento, Lick. J. L. Tlloway of New York » a well- known tobacco importer, is at the Pals:ze. M Cotton, wife of Captain C. 8, Cot- ton, 8. N., of the former cruiser St. Louis, who distinguished himself in the blockade of Havana, is at the California. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. is a guest at the NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Frank D and Charles H. Moore of San ang(:i: are at the Imperial. James §. Wethered and wife and Mrs. McMahon of San Fran- cisco are at the Holland. THE REVIVAL OF “A PARLOR MATCH” Hoyt's ploneer farce-com: A ce-comedy, “A Par- lor Mmch._ opened at the Columbia T::- ater last night twenty-four hours behind schedule time. Railway delays Wwere re- sponsible for the Quite a ‘large ‘Rudiones Pan Ent,opening, course there are no Ev: 2 lay the piece now, nd” theie s rom the cast does no less and their absenég ure of the tramp, fairly humorous as the boo! 5ongs are mostly of recent acceptably sung, a quartet :'}ll:‘;cegsi (liomg especially rls, most e with the presen?r St well and lookin their Individunl chyema acHOTUS, 1 wit] characteristic nature. CONGRESS NAMED THE PLACE. The New Naval Dryd rydock Must Be Located at Mare Island. For several weeks there have been many rumors regarding the location of © new naval drydock for which Con- gess provided at the last session. It has e:l asserted that owing to the shallow Water at Mare Island the Government ‘would not locate it at the navy yard, but ‘vlveclnu}_:ih select some site in the immediate by ighborhood of San Francisco, where e Is ample water at all times to admit shl‘ e free docking of the largest war- ps. This assertion has set the real gatate men on edge, and many sites have been Proposed. While Goat Island has reen mentioned it has not met with much él:or‘ because it is already owned by the - vernment, and sites on the Alameda, - arin and Contra Costa shores of the hay have ‘been vigorouuly boomed as the est for the new dock. Burt none of these places will get it. The Washington cor- Tespondent of The Call asked Congress- man Hilborn yesterday about the matter, and Mr. Hilborn replied that the new dock must of necessity be located, at Mare Isl- and navy yard and nowhere else, for Congress expressly designated that place as its location. If Californians want it located any- where else they will have to get Congress to amend the act providing for its con- struction. —_——————— WAS GLADSTONE'S PROTEGE. Funeral of Rev. Frank Percival Smedley of Stanford University. The passing of the Rev. Frank Percival Smedley, Unitarian minister and theo- logical graduate of Stanford University, whose funeral was held Monday morn- ing at the Mission Masonic Temple, is fraught with pathetic interest to his many friends. Born in England$his early days were spent near the village of Hawarden, where he became a chorister in the church attended by William Ewart Gladstone. A boy of many mental and physical attrac- tions, the promise of which was amply fulfilied in later vears, his Strong per- sonality brought him to the notice of the great statesman, who became his friend and patron, Many happy days were spent by young Smedléy at Hawarden Castle, where he grew to know Mr. Gladstone intimately. Destined for the Church of England, the time came when irreconcil- able doubts entered his mind, and he be- came a Unitarian, much against the wishes of his family and friends. His health becoming impaired, he left Eng- land four years ago for California, and took a_theological course at Stanford, where he found a friend in Professor Griggs. After his graduation he was or- dained a year ago last May at the con- ference in Portland. Placed in charge of 2 church in Santa Maria, his health failed and he returned to San Francisco. He went to a charge in Visalia, but was un- able to carry on the work. He then re- solved to go to England by a sailing ves- sel, and ten days ago engaged his passage on'a ship at Port Costa. The captain on seeing him recognized the sad condition of the young clergyman’s health and re- fused to take him as a passenger. In utter despair he returned to his lodging- house on Shotwell street and resigned himself to the inevitable, losing, a few hours later, all consciousness-of the sights and sounds around him, and within a week passed away. At the conclusion of the funeral serv- ices, at which_the Rev. Dr. Stebbins and the Rev. Dr. Wells, pastors of the First and Second Unitarian churches respec- tively, officiated, the body was removed to the I. O. O. F. Cemetery for cremation. The ashes will probably be sent to Eng- land. ———— A Six-Day Walking Match. The great six-day bicycle race at- tracted much attention in New York, but San Francisco will have as great an at- traction in the much neglected but ever interesting walking match. The manage- ment of the Charity Bazaar at Mechanics Pavilion will open a great six-day walk- ing contest on to-morrow afternoon. No entries have as yet been secured, as it was only late Monday night that it was de- cided to open the race, but it is probable that the contestants will all be letter car- riers. A serfes of competitive drills be- tween companies of the Eighth Regiment will also form an interesting feature of the bazaar in the near future. —_— ee—— Was Killed by a Live Wire. Augusta O. Froid, on behalf of herself and minor son, Charles T. Froid, filed suit vesterday against the Edison Light and Power Company and the Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph Company to recover $50,000 damages alleged to have been su tained through the death of Charles Froid, husband of the plaintiff, who was killed' by a live wire while working on a !:?lle at Eddy and Taylor streets on April 22 last. —_———— Time to send your Eastern friends Town- send's California glace fruits, 50c 1b, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 627 Market st.* ———— Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—_——— Your Name in Gold Letters. Your name stamped in gold letters free of charge on pocket-books, bill-books, let- ter and card cases, valises, lap tablets, traveling_sets, music rolls ' and chate- laines.. Largest stock and lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. * —_———— Stockholders of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Ry. Co. 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