The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898 7 ETHE VALUE OF THE PHILIPPINES. ! N December 2 this news telegram was sent from Vancouver, B. C.: “Advices from New 1898 THURSDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ess All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, M PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. Addr anager. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) ts | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE' WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFIKCE. ..One year, by mall, $1.50 ........908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister streat, open untll 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untl! 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | 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 untll 9:20 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. i 4 AMUSEMENTS r Match.” Bob." ‘Tncle m of Money." illa man, vaudeville and the zoo. Mason and Eddy streets, specialties. ing. “harity Bazaar. ck—Races to-day. g Park—Coursing Satufday and Sunday. ‘oming in December. AUCTION SALES, 12 sen & Co. onday, December 19, &t By 1 . Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery st. THE WAR STAMP TAX CASES, F United States Circuit Judge Morrow desires to ren- der the public a service in connection with the war revenue stamp cases, which were submitted to him e will not let them get tangled up with n of the Attorney General to the local As in all cases where s have been made to force the expre th l Tuesda pplic s for a writ of mandate. s cor A= he pro- | pay their war taxes by mandamus, 1g of the Attorney General involves jurisdic- 1s entirely foreign to the main issue. | s have actually been dismissed | ng the merits of the litigation. | y General has already been turned down preme Court, and his application for Attorn by the State 1 te to the Superior Court, having been trans- ferred to Judge Morrow's tribunal, cannot in the na- ture of things give rise to anything but a debate over Federal courts can issue man- e performance of duties enjoined | ¢t whether or not the damu by State laws. to compel t While this is going on the public is pay! the war tax and the express c panies are | paying attorneys’ fees We do not positively assert that the people are be- ing robbed in this ready so decided, ted States, istants, and the Com- oner of Inter have with "hat the people now want Judge Morrow to do is to tell them frankly whether or not he thinks all al- the matter, but five courts have 1d the Attorney General of o of | 1l Revenue, agreed these gentlemen have taken a correct view of the law. 1¢ people | h in his legal learning, in—i tegrity and | nd whatever he says upon | the subj irrespective of what the Gircuit Court of Appeals may say, will go far toward satisfying them. \’ In other words, the people look to Judge Morrow to decide tt Johnson cases immediately. Whatever the result, probably an appeal will taken, but Judge Morrow need not consider that. The controver him in the cases referred to, and the litigants are en- titled to the benefit of his opinion. If it shall turn cut that in his judgment the patrons of Wells, Fargo & Co. are required by law to pay this war tax, they | will have the satisfaction of knowing that the subject has received the careful consideration of another con- scientious jurist, entirely free from embarrassing law points and jurisdictional questions. There is another point in with the mingling of the Benham and Johnson cases with the Attorney General's application for mandate which | should be considered. Mr. Fitzgerald retires from | office on January nd hi or, Mr. Ford, may take an altogether different view of the law. He may conclude that mandate is not the remedy and aban- don the case. Judge Morrow should not await the event of any such contingency as this. If the war! Wells, Fargo & Co. to pay this tax, the people of Calfornia are being robbed of up- ward of $10,000 a month, and it is important that a conclusion should be reached as speedily as possible. When a man'’s pocket is being picked he is anxious to | know whether or not the process legal. The fleeced patrons of the express company will sleep bet- ter after Judge Morrow rules, even though he rule against them. e guestion submitted in the Benham and be point has been placed squarely before connection suc revenue law require: is UDGE MAGUIRE I written a very longi- MR. MAGUIRE'S LONG RANGE LETTER tudinal Y who is many J meridians of long , on the subject of the latter’s appearance in the recent campaign. All that Judge Maguire puts in this too, too long | letter is summed up in the statement that it is to jus- | s book on Ireland and the Pope, in which he | calls the Pope “the serpent of the Vatican™ because | he forbade Irish priests to take a part in poli- tics. Maguire contended that the priests should be free to go into politics. But in the same letter he roundly abuses Father Yorke for going into politics, and says, “I have a feeling, and a strong fecling, against clerical interference in politics,” § From all of this tiresome torrent of words we are only able to gather that Judge Maguire believes in 1 interference in politics when it is for his side, but when it is against him it is an outrage. As he has lined up with the Pope in rlcprcc:niug! political interference in politics, let him take to him- | self also the reptilian character he ascribed to Leo XIIT and then quiet himself. letter to cleri The Chronicle publishes an excellent picture of nd labels it “General Brooke.” As it| represents a good-looking man, Brooke has no rea- son for complaint. somebod So many young women jump from ferry-boats as to suggest that the crew keep watch and essay to check the manifest tendency to climb the rail. | South Wales say that the stcamer Culgon has | sailed from Sydney with a cargo of provisions for | Rear Admiral Dewey’s fleet at Manila. con tons of onions, 125 tons of potatoes and 22 tons of | carrots.” This reminds the country not only of the incapacity | of the Philippines to furnish a food supply for our v and garrisons, but that the islands belong to a and distant system and lie nearer to other} productive countries than to us. s supoly of food | for our navy is the first expansion of commerce felt demanded possession of that archi- f ferent since we | pelago, but it does not expand the trade of San Francisco. Its benefits go to Sydney and | to the stock men and farmers of Australia, | while our stock men and farmers pay the taxes which buy the cargo. The New York Tribune, commenting | on it, “The Philippines are 7000 miles a\\'ay,j | far nearer to other great powers or their possessions than to us, and belonging to the commercial and yeographical system of another continent.” Their conquest presents features repugnant to | American sentiment and antagonistic to American | unpaid teachers prosperity. What they produce in sugar, hemp, rice i tobacco enters into direct competition with the anc | production of American farmers, while climate and distance seem to forbid that American farmers shall supply even the army and navy stores nceded to feed the large force by land and sea which must watch and tend the Ii we can force labor in the cane fields of the Phil- ippines as Spain did, those fields can readily crush gar production at home. What that will mean may be estimated by a study of our beet sugar pro- duction in the United States. There are over twenty beet sugar factories in this country, which produce this year 120,000,000 pounds of refined sugar. In 1804 only five of these were in operation, and their production was-only 44,886,000 pounds. The industry has flourished and advanced here faster than in any other country where it has been established. In 1889 its production was only 4.000,000 pounds; the increase since then is 116,000,- 000 pounds, in nine years. It took France twenty years to reach a production of 100,000,000 pounds of beet sugar. We have exceeded it in nine years. This has been done by iree, white, vol- It has added a valuable crop for rotation to American farms. The Republican platform of 1896 said: “We con- demn the Democratic administration for not keeping aith with the sugar produgers of the United States. he Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use, and for which we are sending abroad annually more than $100,000,- 000 to foreign countries.” out s untary labor in the fields and factories. The soil of the United States in 1806 was conti- | nental soil. The labor to produce thercon all the sugar consumed by our people was American white labor, paid at white rates. That party pledge is not kept by going forth on the altruistic warpath and coming home loaded with spoils in the shape of tropical islands, which can produce every pound of sugar we use, which can do this with | the involuntary labor of the tropics, paid on a scale that would starve voluntary white labor at home. Well may the American farmer and laborer ask what stake they have in imperialism when it obsoletes the use of their land and destroys the wages of their labor, without even the compensating advantage of | furnishing mutton and potatoes to our imperial mili- tory establishment, required to hold our new posses- sions in subjection. Perhaps no part of the country is hit harder by this policy The peculiarities of our cli- mate limit annual crops for rotation. soil adapted to the sugar beet that is not fitted other annual crops until beet culture has subdued its refractory elements. The beet came to us as a reve- lation and blessing. Wherever sugar factories have been planted community life has taken on a fresh im- pulse, lands have acquired a new value, commerce than California. for has extended its operations and its profits, and the | If all this be canceled those responsible for its destruction will have a day of settlement with the people. W Republics of the City of Mexico to the effect that thirty-three barrels of California wine consigned to a dealer in that city have been seized re- cently by the Government officials and condemned on the ground that the wine contained an admixture of which the Mexican authorities regard as dangerous to health. The story is given by the Two Republics with con- siderable detail and need not be repeated here. It suffices to say that the dealer in whose hands the wine commonwealth has gained. OUR WINE IN MEXICO. E publish this morning a story from the Two | was seized makes no complaint of unfairness on the part of the officials, but, on the contrary, declares that an analysis made at his own instigation after the | seizure confirms the report of the officials and proves that they were right in condemning the wine. It is to be noted that the Two Republics adds that the dealer who suffers in this case is not “the first victim in Mexico of the contemptible business prac- ticed by California shippers in doctoring young wines with salicylic acid.” It gives the name of another wine importing house that had a similar experience about seven months ago, though not to so great an extent as in the recent case. This is a severe charge to be made against our wine shippers, and it cannot be too promptly investigated. The assertion that some of our dealers make a “prac- tice” of doctoring young wines with salicylic coming from a journal of such circulation as the Two Republics, will seriously injure our trade unless it is refuted, or the dishonest dealers so thoroughly ex- posed that they can no longer injure the general wine trade of the State. The importance of the issue can hardly be over- rated. Our wine industry is an expanding one, and there is urgent need for an expanding market. Mex- ico and the other Spanish republics to the south of us offer good opportunities for such a market, as | their populations are large consumers of wine. To sacrifice that market for pure wine for the sake of letting some dishonest dealers make a profit out of doctored wines would be a commercial blunder of the first magnitude. The issue is another phase of the old subject of pure food laws. California is so large a producer of the class of food articles known as luxuries, such as wine, fruit preserves and olive oil, that she is seriously, in- jured by every sort of food adulteration, and; unfor- tunately, their name is legion. A multitude of oils, preserves, jellies, jams and wine, adulterated with every mixture that cunning can devise ahd greed make use of, are sent abroad bearing California labels, Against these our producers of pure foods and wines have to contend, and the contest is a hard one. However difficult it may be to deal with the prob- , lem as’a whole, it seems clear that in the special case | ishment to mingle with indji, We have much | acid, | reported by the Two Republics something might be done. The article gives the names of the dealer in the City of Mexico and the shipper from California. The opportunity for an investigation is therefore open. The State Board of Trade, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, and the two associations The cargo | representing the wine industry and trade of the State, ists of 3000 carcasses of mutton, 250 of lambs, 81 | should see if they cannot devise some s stem of pre- venting such wrongs as that complained of and pro- | tect the credit of our wines in the Mexican market. BEYOND THE REACH OF LAW. VERY day intensifies the belief that in the School Board are men who are rogues, whose E proper place would be the penitentiary, and fitting garb the stripes of felons. The wantonness | and brazen impudence of their sinning cause aston- gnation, for they go about unmolested, and in their faces is seen no blush of shame. They act as those having no fear of conse- quences. Perhaps this latter condition of mind is nothing | strange. When a set of men elected to high office de- liberately and systematically begin robbing the com- raunity which had trusted them; when the result of | their villainy is made palpable through depleted funds, , schools suffering for supplies; when | there are authentic tales of bribery and plain evidence 1 of corruption in other directions, it would appear at | first glance that the people would be given an oppor- | tunity at least of securing the poor redress of seeing | punishment meted out. } There is no sign that the recreant Directors will be made to suffer nor to disgorge their loot. The Grand Jury, a body organized for the discouragement of vice, tackled the godless outfit, questioned, probed and dropped the matter. Now we are gravely informed that an indictment under the one-twelfth act would not stand. Even so, are there no laws against theft? Is not bribery a crime? Is conspiracy to rob no cffense to be dealt with? The public may accept as a | sorry fact the condition that this rotten board is to escape punishment, but it will decline to accept it with \'an approving smile, or to believe that a larcenous | School Director is more entitled to immunity than is the footpad, the burglar or the pickpocket, either one | of whom, as a member of the present board, would be in a congenial atmosphere, cheek by jow! with those of his own kind, S IN THE PHILIPPINES. NOSTALGIA ITH signing of articles of peace there is no W doubt the lingering glamour of war departed. | The boys who sailed from this port last | June shouting their enthusiasm are homesick now. They sigh for the cool, green hills of California, the breezes sweeping in from the sea, the banks of fog billowing in through the Golden Gate. Nobody can blame them. They are in an unlovely land, where the climate is laden with malady, the food | not adapted to the needs of people of a temperate | growth, the work hard and onerous, devoid of glory, remuneration or hope. They feel that they have done | their full duty. One of the soldiers, an ardent and | patriotic American, among the first to enlist, and who, with the other brave boys, faced Spanish fire and did not flinch, writes to a friend on the staff of this paper: | “Get my discharge and transportation HOME. | Army life in the piping times of peace is several dis- | tinct and well-defined kinds, sorts and conditions of hell.” y Without doubt this represents the general fecling, | and, as it does so, there cannot be haste too great in sending regulars to the relief of the volunteers. For the most part the regulars are in some measure sea- soned. They are commanded by experienced officers, and have acquired the knack of making the best of every situation. Moreover, few of them have gone into the service under the impulse of sentiment. To them the army is a business and a means of liveli- hood. They would go without repining wherever or- dered, and stay without regret, while their peril from disease would be minimum. When men are thor- oughly homesick the ailment becomes physical. They are unfitted for resisting actual disease, and they lose ambition. Perhaps a little brush with Aguinaldo would cheer the boys up, but in the absence of a definite prospect of this, the most cheering message possible would be one calling them back where friends and royal wel- come wait their coming. LESSON OF THE NEW YORK FIRE. S a result of the great fire in New York, in /E\ which were involved two tall buildings—those | of the Home Life Insurance Company and of the Postal Telegraph Company—there has been an extensive discussion in the East as to the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the modern sky- scraper in case of fire. The test to which the tall structures were submitted in New York was an extraordinary one. The fire started in a five-story building which was full of in- flammable material. The wind was blowing a tre- mendous gale, equal to a speed of sixty miles an hour, and the flames from the burning building were car- ried directly, with all the fierceness of a blast furnace, against the walls of the Home Life. It appears the windows of the Home Life were not provided with iron shutters, and the flames were driven through them to the interior woodwork. Yet the building stood, the walls were not affected, and the iron work was apparently not injured sufficiently to require any considerable rebuilding. The Postal Telegraph build- ing escaped with very little damage. The day after the fire the Chief of the Fire Depart- ment was quoted as having stated that no building should be higher than 150 feet, as it is impossible to protect tall structures, bit on the following day, after ment of the city stated that if it had not been for the block as far south as St. Paul's Church. The discussion that has followed shows that the weight of authority agrees with the statement of the Chief of the Building Department. Indeed the con- clusion seems to be that the Home Life was not an entirely up-to-date structure, and that, had it been so, it would have stopped the flames at once. The tall building seems, in fact, to be a protector to all the property around it. It prevents the spread of flames and localizes any fire that breaks out adjoining it. The consensus of Eastern authorities on the subject is that a tall building, modern in every respect, is vir- tually fireproof, and, as the Philadelphia Inquirer says, “to destroy one of them, judging-by the New York fire, would be next to impossible.” r————— One of the Botkin witnesses from Delaware has | been frightened by the loud tones of Attorney Knight, ' and not unnaturaily. But in California that voice has } lost its power to intimidate and subdue, _— | There is not so much evidence that the Chicago Aldermen experienced a moral reform as that the idea of devoting their unhallowed persons to the decora- tion of lampposts was not pleasing fornia wine consigned to a dealer in that city have bee wine inspectors on the ground that the wine contained stance regarded by the Mexican authorities as dange: As the story was published in the Two Republics been published also in most, if not all, the Mexican joi without saying that the incident will be used by wi countries to discredit California wine in the Mexican Ject by the State Board of Trade and the two associ: the wine producers and wine dealers of California. Thirty-three barrels of California wine consigned to well known and popular young commission merchant and | seized by the wine gaugers employed by the Cit, g{ound that the wine was found to contain salicy! exican authority to be dangerous to health. And that i Navarro, for his customers are returning him all the sa Navarro's customers have indeed already purchased from Navarro seized. They are therefore, one of vast importance to the State, and particularly so persons engaged in the wine industry, whether as producers or dealers. The great interests at stake justify a thorough investigation of the sub- v Health Department ilc acid, a substance declared by which the recklessness of the Californians who shipped the wine have don A me kind of wine he has sold them before, in order to avoid seizure of the same on and imprisonment for having adulterated wine in their stock of These returns amount to from one to ten barrels in each fallen under the law by having stock all looking of course to him for re- A GREAT INDUSTRY MENACED The Two Republics, a newspaper published in the English language in the City of Mexico, and having an extensive circulation, issue of December 6 a story to the effect that thirty-three barrels in fits of Cali- n seized by the official salieylic acid, a sub- rous to health. it is safe to say it has urnals, and it goes ne dealers of other market. The issue is, to all conta’ ations that represent We invite their atten- tion to the story, which as published in the Two Republics is as follows: Federico Navarro, the mporter, have just been on the s not all the mischief e Mr. their premises and fine merchandise. case. A few of Mr. | a full examination, the Chief of the Building Depart- | two tall buildings the fire would have swept the whole | dress. The measure taken by the autho the natural result of the recklessness of class it as a higher grade. lics and freely admitted that the authol right in the premises, as the analysis ma: have been brought to Mexico. Angeles, Cal., f ing convinced that with the displa; be built up for the California product. profit from the venture when it seems the best of faith conceived the dlabolic of pu: to this city In carload lots. The shippel wrong he upon the California wine business but serious consequences. Mexico. It does not only provide for the ated articles but glso fmposes heavy mo unlucky merchant who offers the stuff fo whether or not the respective merchant that Mr. Woollacott is not personally re for the great wrong committed and the the frefght and duties on the shipment, a totul loss. Upward of cause the people who awe t hands. Others who do not owe are retur me to make good thelr losses. The val about $3500. practiced by Carlos Hirschberg, h had a similar experience about seven mo: as the selzure extended to only a few bar; to stop a carload that was on its way. from a sample which had been analyzed doctored instead of pure wines will make the present case. habit of adding salicylic acld to very young wine to age it Mr. Navarro was seen last evening by a representativi tion fully concurred with that of the health officers, and the wine ping us a doctored article instead of the pure article as we agreed to pay a higher price than is paid for an has caused'is almost irretrievable, as he has not only also exposes myself and others to very The law regarding adul he can make a satisfactory explanation of the fraud which h: committed, but there is no doubt as to his responsibility from 2500 of outstanding accoun hem are returning to me all the stock left on their firschberg got off with the payment of W S e hought from him had been selzed, by showing his own absolute innocence and that the shipper alone was to blame. It is very much to be hoped not alone for the sake of Mr. Navarro but also fn the Interest of American trade with Mexico that Mr. Woollacott or whoever else has been guilty of defrauding Mr. Navarro and his California wine shippers will adopt some sort of system to t(finers and their trade against the infamous fraud that has but entirely just, and only pers, who are in the Pn order to be able to rities is stern, the California shi e of the Two Repub- thing but what was by his own Instiga- should never rities had done no de since the selzure “I associated myself,” he stated, “‘with a couple of young business men in Los or the importation of wines from that locality into Mexico, feel- ver))" good market could We were just beginning to reap some the exporter from whom we bought in al idea to increase his profits by ship- to which we were entitled, California wine brought ?’s Mr. Woollacott, and the cast discredit sh and energy a r in this case terated articles is very strict in d destruction of the adulter- imprisonment upon the r sale, not taking into consideration was aware of the adulteration. I trust sponsible for the adulteration and that as evidently been every standpoint costly damage done. I had just settled mounting to $2120, which is, of course, a ts cannot be collected now, be- selzure an ney flnes and ning their stocks also and are looking to ue of the wine confiscated amounts to % course I cannot now estimate the money damage this whole busi- ness has caused, but it is very considerable.” Mr. Navarro is not the first victim in_ Mexico of the contemptible business California_shippers in doctor!ng young wines with salicylic acid. ead of one of the oldest wine importing houses in the city, gh not on so large a scale, nths ago, thou . and he was able rels, a sample shipment, In that case the wine had been bought and found to be absolutely pure. r ines for himself and several custom- customers by shipping all restitution in his power, and that the rotect their cus- een practiced in The seizure has extended only to clarets, the Zinfandels, Reislings, Muscatels and Angelicas imported by Mr. Navarro being free from any admixture. | AROUND THE CORRIDORS Father Kane of Sonora is at the Grand. | Dr. D. F. Fox of Sacramento is at the | Palace. William Ballard of Vallejo is at the Oc- cidental, . Sheriff W. D. Keyser of Hopland is at the Russ. C. Thomas, U. S. Occidental. Judge John F. Davis of Jackson is at the Palace. ‘W. E. Duncan Jr. of Oroville, a miner, is at the Lick. J. B. Overton of Virginia City is a guest at the Russ. Attorney L. F. Hatfield of Sacramento is at the Lick. Danjel Patton, a surveyor from Napa, is at the Grand. Dr. D. Smith of the asylum at Napa is at the California. Banker S. E. Biddle of Hanford is regis- tered at the Lick. Dr. L. B. Ryan of Galesburg, IIL, is at the Occidental. J. H. McCarthy of San Diego is a guest at the California. State Senator B. F. Langford of Stock- ton is at the Lick. | J. O. Carlisle, a miner from Stent, is a | guest at the Lick. James W. Minturn of Minturn is regis- tered at the Palace. Assessor L. A. Spitzer of San Jose is a guest at the Grand. George E. Goodman Jr. of Napa is reg- istered at the Palace. Rev. John C. Christle of New South ‘Wales is at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce V. Crandall of Chi- cago are at the California. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is a guest at the Palace. X Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Veuve of San Jose are guests at the California. W. H. Cleary, owner of the Sheep Ranch mine, is a guest at the Lick. ‘W. H. Moss of Chicago and F. D. Hel- mer of New York are at the Palace. C. R. Smith and D. Farrell, two mer- chants from Seattle, are at the Palace. Charles W. Thomas and J. J. Stephens of Woodland are registered at the Grand. McKee Rankin and Nance O'Neill, who have returned from Honolulu, are at the Grand. John Morris of York, and Miss Bernard of Surrey County, England, are guests at the Occidental. i John H. Millzner of Tucson, who is the agent in Arizona of the Giant Powder Company, is at the Grand. E. Burleigh of London, who is interested | in the exportation of phosphates from this State, is at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Humphries will| leave Friday night for Chicago, where they will meet their daughter, Miss Pearl Ola Humphries. John M. Trunslow, general agent of the passenger department of the Santa Fe, who has been in Chicago on business, will return to the city on Saturday. George E, Ames and family are at the Palace. Mr. Ames is well known here, where he was for a number of years con- ected with the Union Iron Works. At | present he is interested in the Anaconda mine. Major Guy L. Edle, surgeon in the vol- unteer army, and captain and assistant surgeon in the regular army, whose en- gagement to Miss Kip of this city has been announced, arrived from the East | Jast night and is registered at the Occi- dental. N., is a guest at the { —_———— In the Divorce Courts. Bertha C. Ward has been granted a di- vorce from William T. Ward on the ground of extreme cruelty. Mrs. Ward was granted the custody of a minor child, together with alimony in the sum of $§20 a menth. Dorthula B. Cox has sued H. Cox for divorce, alleging desertion as a | cause of action. Annie L. Lorénz asks for | a divorce from John F. Lorenz on the | ground of cruelty. Suits for divorce, on | the ground of failure to provide have | been filed by Annie Murghy against Nich- olas Murphy and lda Parker against George arker. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Henry A. Whit- ley of San Francisco is at the Netherland. A. N. Goudy of Los Angeles is at the Cosmopolitan. - ———— In addition to the many reformat on land, Great Britain has three reto:rrr:;! tory ships, where hundreds youths are sent every year o5 Merward, ! | day. Louis C. Schrode: EXCHANGE GIFTS WITH THEIR SCHOOLMATES DENMAN SCHOOL PUPILS’ CLOS- ING EXERCISES. Public School Children Prepare to Celebrate With Song and Reci- tation the Joyous Christ- mastide. The children of the public schools are busily preparing “the exhibition” for the proper celebration of the joyous Christ- mastide. The Christmas exercises are always of a high order of merit, and the spirit of the merry .saint is usually over it all. This year a feature of the entertainment in many schools will be the Christmas tree on which the pupils will hang gifts for schoolmates and teachers. The Denman School started the ball of the Christmas exhibition by giving a de- lightful entertainment, in which the pu- pils of Miss McDonald's class played the principal rolls. A huge Christmas tree adorned the classroom end was gayly hung with gaudy trinkets, as well as the dainty offerings of classmates made to one another and to thelr teachers. The exercises began at 1 p. m. and started with an informal banquet, in which ice- cream and tempting delicate cake were “the most important features. An informal entertainment followed, and the little ones entertained their as- sembled friends with an impromptu pro- gramme of music, song and recitation. —_——— GAS WILL BE CHEAPER. First Test of the New Opposition Company Made Successfully. The first test of the Equitable Gaslight Company, the new corporation that bas been founded for the purpose of compet- ing with the San Francisco Gaslight and Electric Company, was made yesterday afternoon at the headquarters of the plant at the foot of Hyde streét, on the site of the old Selby Smelting Works. The exhibition of the power of the new com- pany and the many advantages to be de- rived to patrons of it was complete in every detail, and was made before the prominent business men of the tommu- nity and many other invited guests. By an Improveds process the new company can supply its subscribers with illumin- ating gas at a uniform price of $1 a thou- sand.cubic feet, which is 50 per cent less than that now paid to the San Francisco Gas and Electric. Company. In addition to this reduction in price the gas sup- plied is far superior to that now used by the public, as it is thoroughly purified by improved machinery before it is al- lowed to enter the mains traversing the various sections of the city. * In the process of manufacture gas is used almost exclusively. It is burned in the furnaces and afterward extracts it- selAf, as it w‘f{&.utrom ;h%cum. & an ex on of the quality of gas that will be supplied Koq the zugllcui‘: the near future at a rate much below | that now paid, a number of the various lamps and burners supplied and used by the San Francisco Gaslight Company were placed for inspection before the vis- itors. The light as shown is far supe- rior to that scen around the city both in brightness and steadiness. The im- proved burners made specialiy +a produce a brighter and fuller light now supplied to stores, etc., by the San Francisco Com- F:&{Q:’er‘e‘vfilio :gsmd with perfect satis- 5 p ere the patrons o z: company pay an cxo S, s use of gas through tk company makes a r o!lé\lmost 50 per ce aid. lese burners the new eduction in their use nt on the price now Although the com: v established its mpesanf-‘flr:‘l?:rn downtown extremity of Mon nue nor introduced any the system to the streats the intention of stockholde immediately to control th. the construction of the n. Although the company fs infancy as a competing p munity, it numbers, it is. ident Ackerson, over 4300 The work of supplying along the course of Mont Will begin immediately, ot as yet than the tgomery ave- ramifications of adjoining, it is s to commence e cntire city by ecessary mains. practically in its ower in the com- claimed by Pres- subscribers, the subscrfbers gomery avenue —————— TWO ESTATES IN PROBATE. Wills of John Schroder and Michael o Schussler Filed. e will of John Schroder, who dfed on the 5th inst., was filed for probate y:steor- T, a son of the de- ceased, is bequeathed a lot of land on Valencia street, near Twenty-fourth, valued af about 32000. Anna M. Casement, wife of Frank Casement, is bequeathed an adjoining lot valued at $2000. The resi- due of decedent’s 310,000 estate is ordered Zl;rtged ::2‘::;: emd share alike, among C.Tgchréi\li‘er. and John F. and Louis € will of the late Michael Schussler the well-known capitalist, was also flled for probate. D left one-half of the community pro; to_disposition Dy testament under the . Bertha Schussler, law, to his widow, rbitant price for the | Miss Amy Schussler, in trust, to ST Gatel: a Sieter, Who ars; $2000 to Marie Gatel, a sister, ¥ess|des in Vienna; $400 each to his four daughters, and $1000 to Dorie Loewy, a sister. NOTES OF PLAYS AND CONCERTS $1000 to be paid when Daniel Sully continues to present “Uncle Bob” to large audiences at the California. Commencing Sunday night Mr. Sully' will appear in “'O'Brien, the Contractor.” “A Parlor Match” burns briskly at the Columbia, where it is booked for a fort- night. The Orpheum has a tremendous attrac- tion . in " Golden, ~ the monologist, Who seems to have set the whole town talk- ing about his gags and anecdotes. The next symphony concert takes place in the Orpheum this afternoon at 3:15. Beethoven's ‘‘Pastorale” symphony and Schumann's “Genoveva’ overture are of the excellent programme that Mr. Scheel has prepared. ‘Alabama” is making out a good re- vival week at the Alcazar. “Humbug,” a Roland Reed farce comedy, is the piece for Monday night. Only a few nights more of ‘“The Mas- cot” "at the Tivoli, as Monday night brings the long-expected opening of the big holiday spectacle, *The Yellow Dwart.” PR “The Temptation of Money” will be continued all week at Morosco's, giving v Monda to an elaborate revival of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Harry Martell's negro production, “The South ‘Before the War,' is still the at- traction at the Comedy. A road company in Hoyt's ““A Bunch of K "' opens the new week. —_———— Appreciate Good Service. At the last meeling of the Chamber of Commerce two resolutions were passed showing that the members of the cham- ber appreclate the heroic efforts of those who are in the revenue service. By one the Secretary of the Treasury and the Pacific Coast ' representatives in Wash- ington are requested to have,the Govern- ment render suitable acknowledgment and practical reward to Lieutenant D. H. Jar- vis arnd his officers and men for their he- roic efforts in taking provisions to and rescuing the starving whalers imprisoned in the ice at Point Barrow. The otner resolution urges the same officials 1o nave Congress pass a bill providing suitable pensions for those 4n the revenue cutter service upon retirement from active ser- vice. The suggestioh is that they ope placed under the same laws as govern tne pensioning of the retired aged officers of the navy. —_—— 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. * —_—— Stockholders of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Ry. Co. Stockholders of the San Francisco and S8an Joaquin Valley Railway Company who deposited their trustee’s certificates with Union Trust Company of San Fran- cisco before December 6, 1898, can receive the par value of their stock upon present- ing their receipts at the office or Union Trust Company, corner Montgomery, | Post and Market streets. on_and after | Thursday, December 15, 1863. 1. W. Hell- | man Jr., Cashier. . e THIS CUSTOM NEEDS MUDIFICATION It is astonishing to what length a man's love for his dog will carry him. A New Yorker recently killed a neighbor for kicking his cur. It does seem as if the old chivalric customs should be modified, It isn’t quite right to offset a 30-cent ter- rier with a $2000 man.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY IS BEYOND question the greatest of all modern remedi>s. It will cure a cough or cold immediately or money back. At no Percentage Pharmacy. ——— No Christmas Table should be without 2 bot« tle of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the fin- est appetizer, imported from South America. ———————————————————————————— STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY F SAN FRANCISCO, IN THE STATE OF California, on the dist day of December, A. D. 1897, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the' State of California, pursuant to the pro- visions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, cohdensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stocl in cash ... ASSETS. Real estate owned by company $379,200 00 Loans on bonds and mortgages 463,454 85 Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned by company 1,913,480 00 Amcunt of loans secured by piedge of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral. 160,689 34 Cash in company’s office 4 Cash in banks.. Interest due and and mortgages. Premiums in due 'S Bills receivable, not matured for fire and marine risks.. Due from other companies for rein- surance on losses already pald Warrants Fire premium note: Total assets.... LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unan Losses In process of adjusi in suspense ... Losses resisted, including expen: Gross premiunis on fire risk ning one year or less, $1,020, relnsurance 50 per cent Gross premiums on fire ning more than one y 647 18; relnsurance pro rata Gross premiums on marine and in- land navigation risks, reinsurance 268 12 10 per cent... : 33,780 83 ross premiums 5 risks, reinsuranc 51,444 88 All otlier demands T pany .. Total labilities...... INCOME. $1,451,251 3¢ N ally received for fire BT b $1,438,305 7o Net cash actuaily re e “premiums.... 8,445 62 eceived for interes! & mortgases ..o 20,165 eive interes R Ve loans and from . 111,009 4T ail other sou 1 Recelved for rent L 2510750 Total income. 1$1,912,129 66 unt paid for fire losses Aount paid for marine I stockholders. ... ed for commission or . 232,150 58 aid for salaries, fees and other eharges for officers, clerks, etc..... 209,712 05 Paid for State, national and locai 41,204 48 taxes . All_other tures ... Total expenditures Losses incurred during the year 596 02§24 Risks and Premiums, Net amount of risks writ- ten during the vear.. Net amount of risks ex- pired during the year.. Net amount In force De-! cember 31, 1807 | "rfl,fll.ssfl.fl, 5 159,219,278 1,943,093 76 556.640| 2,812,172 55 Marine | Risks. |Premiums. 65,081,020, $514,678 62 Risks and Premiums. l Net amount of risks writ-| ten during the vea Net amount of risks ex- | pired during the year.. 62,635,102, 453.146 06 Net amount in force De- } cember 31, 1897 6,221,70| 136,670 80 WM. J. DUTTON, Vice President. BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to_before me this 15th of RER. January, . M. Deputy Insurance Commissioner.