The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1898. .DECEMBER 16, 1808 FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... _.One year, by matl, $1.50 <tene....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE........... .....Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'cloek. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1606 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMU Columbla—*'A Parlor Matc! California — ““Uncle Eob." Alcazar 2 le. ith Before the War.” The Chutes—Gorrilla man, vaudeville and the zoo. Mason and Eddy streets, speciaities. Races to-day. Park—Coursing Saturday and Sunday. AUCTION SALES, | country and the countries with which we are in com- | regions are. HE scizure of a large quantity of California THE VALUE OF COMMERCIAL HONOR. I adulterated wine in Mexico is a very serious matter. The wine interest of this State has tens of millions of dollars invested in it, and its prosperity requires a wide market outside our own borders. The shipper of the adulterated product from Los Angeles should be held to a strict account for his offense. 3 Navarro, the dealer in the City of Mexico, whose goods were seized, says of the affair that he asso- ciated with a couple of young business men in Los Angeles in the importation to Mexico of wines from that locality. This implies a partnership, with the Los Angeles members thereof engaged in shipping to their partner in Mexico for the joint account and profit of the firm. If this be so, there should be an in- quiry to ascertain whether this commercial partner- ship is responsible for the sophistication of the wine in which it dealt, or whether it was made the victim of the vintner or blender. More than any other State in the Union, California requires strict observance of commercial honor on the part of those who deal in her characteristic products. There is a profitable market for every pound of our dried and canned fruits and for every pint of our wines and brandies, provided they are sent to the consumer in strictly first-class and wholesome condition. Our fruit products are largely luxuries, and in this mercial touch there are enough consumers who want them, and in good times and bad are able to pay a first-class price for a first-class article, to take all that we can send. In regard to our horticultural products, there need seldom be a time of depression if our pro- ducers and dealers will bear this fact in mind. The California vintage is old enough to be thoroughly un- derstood. There is no lack of experience in fermenta- tions, in their peculiarities produced by local causes; nor is experience lacking as to the localities in the State fitted for the growing of special classes of wine. As a wine country the State is spotted, just as all wine The same quality of wine cannot be By G. H. U > , December 13, at 1 o'clock, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery st. | —_— e I teachers, SCHOOL BOARD BOODLING. HE suggestion that the coming Legislature ought to pass a law providing that State Normal | schools, in addition to granting diplomas to | hall present each graduate with $400 with grown everywhere from the same grape. Nor can all kinds of wine, red and white, sweet and dry, clarets, ports, Reislings and Sauternes, be grown in the same vineyard, under common conditions. One thing that cast suspicion upon our whole wine pro- duction was the attempt to do this It is now known that for first-class dry, red wines of the Bordeaux type, which we call clarets, a name | unknown in France, the cooler and moister climates, which to b ent is one that under ex- isting conditions requires some attention. Certainly if berths in the School Department are to be sold in the future as they have been in the past tute as this will be necessary to place an even footi It is apparent that | y the Normal schools who is | an advantage at present over | an appoin ssed of $400 ha one not so equipped. But will e 1g conditions continue indefinitely? | Board of Education now in charge of school | s in this city has sold positions, loaded down | the payroll of ti ent, wasted the public money acts and bartered away lhe: property the I It has been guilty of all | sorts of ¢ s in addition to trafficking in teachers’ | certificates. But its career will end on January 2 next. Is it possible that the people of San Francisco | will nd a repetition of this history? | | We are opposed to the passage of a law such as has been suggested because we hope the people of this | city will never again suffer the affliction of a corrupt and debased Board of Education. During a period of e years there has been but one gang of boodlers at all comparable with those now in charge of the School Department. They comprised what was as the “tough old board.” The new charter shes elective School Directors, and Boards of c hich will be created aiter that instrument goes into effect will be appointed by the Mayor. If | the Mayor ever such debased | wretches as comprise the present Board of Educa- tion the people can take him out and hang him. As things are the people can only hold themselves re- | sponsible. They elected the School Board boodlers, and all they can do is to hang them or hang them- Ives On the whole it is better to live in hope than to despair. The Normal schools are graduating too many teachers, and if each one were provided with $400 with which to purchase a position from a bood- ling School Board, we should soon be eaten up with pedagogues—for we presume that every time that amount was offered it would be accepted and a posi- | tion created While such a statute might equalize the situation of Normal School graduates, it would in the end pro- duce financial anarchy for the taxpayers. We would, however, regard with some favor a statute which would make an appropriation for tar and feathers with which to treat every miserable wretch who boodles with the school funds. / \ President stated while reviewing the troops in that city, "I ordered a brigade sent to Atlanta, and thought it was here.” ion w places in power LOST IN THE SHUFFLE. REPORT from Atlanta is to the effect that the When a general loses so much as a regiment he is apt to obtain knowledge of the fact, and here is the commander-in-chief of the army losing a brigade and not being aware of the loss un- til he went to the spot where he supposed the brigade to be, and found that the brigade was not on the | spot. Somebody had sent it away. In civil life there prevails the idea that a brigade is so large that to lose it is a matter of difficulty. | Perhaps if the President were to put detectives on the track of his missing brigade he could corral it. At least if anybody happen to observe it cavorting among the cotton-fields of the South, a notification should be sent to the President. Possibly the brigade has wandered so far that it has not heard about the war being over, and it may do something rash. We suggest that the Pmesident cause to be inserted in the papers of Atlanta an advertisement something like this: “Lost, strayed or stolen—ODne brigade. When last seen was wearing blue uniforms, carrying weapons and giwn to martial music. Any informa- tion leading to the discovery of the same will be thankfully received by William McKinley.” o s s e The latest man to commit murder and attempt suicide hereabouts seems to have been embarrassed by the fact that to blow out the quality of brains with which he was equipped is not a particularly dangerous operation. Many people who do not favor the retention of the Philippines on principle are worrying as to a safe method of letting go, and probably Uncle Sam, in contemplation of the problem, is acquiring new wrinkles. | ity, and should be marked for every man’s detesta- W | which such an organization can be of service to the near the coast and around the bay, must be sought, and not the arid and hot localities in the interior val- leys and Southern California. The latter will pro- | ducc ports, sherries and the alcoholic wines, but not claret. When an attempt is made to grow a wine in a region not suited to it, its defects are overcome by | some form of sophi tion, of adulteration. The Viticultural Commission did a great work in locating the various wines in the field suited to their production, thereby removing the temptation to over- come the loss of a mislocation by adulteration. While | that commission was in existence it checked adultera- | tion and spread abroad a fund of knowledge and a spirit of commercial honor in the wine business. It is not many years since salicylic acid was re- garded as an innocuous antiseptic agent in canned fruits, and no doubt it was for a time largely used in such fruits. It is known noWw, however, that, taken in food or drink, it produces diabetes and various dis- orders of the liver and kidneys. Instead of being a harmless antiseptic it is a dangerous poison. Its use as an adulterant of wine or cider is to arrest fer- mentation. The natural fermentations of dry wines will continue for three years. They are the means of | constant purification and preparation of the wine for | use by freeing it of organic matter. When they are | arrested by this adulterant they go to the consumer charged with its poison, but carrying also the danger- ous organic matter which should be precipitated by fermentation. One cannot conceive of a viler dose than such wine. | The man who prepares and sends it to the consumer is not only an enemy of the commerce of his State and a destroyer of every vine in its vineyards, but he is an assassin, aiming a deadly blow at human life and killing people by the most sinister and dreadful | form in which disease can assail man. There is on trial in this city a woman charged | with killing two people in a distant State by sending | to them arsenic through the mails in candy. If she be guilty, she is less guilty than the men who are killing their kind in distant communities and coun- tries by sending to them a worse and slower poison in these adulterated wines thropgh the channels of | commerce. The victims of arsenical poisoning had a | few hours of agony and entered upon peace. The vic- | tims of salicylic wine enter upon months and some- times years of agony, enduring the misery of chronic nephritis, finally to die in the convulsions of uremic poisoning. The authors of this commercial dishonoy - and adulteration are guilty of a greater variety of crimes | than the arsenical poisoner. If she be guilty, her mo- | | tive was not sordid gain, but arose in human weak- | ness and passion uncurbed. But the wine adulterator kills for gain, to add to his profits. While he is murdering scores of con- | sumers to increase his wealth, he is impoverishing scores of producers by casting the virulent shadow of commercial dishonor upon the production which is their means of living. | Along his track stalk the gaunt specters of disease { and poverty, his sin falls upon the innocent, and his victims fill the madhouse, the poorhouse and the | charnel-house. He is a conspirator against the health and happiness, the food and shelter, of human- { tion and be made to feel the penalties of the out- raged law. THE MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. ITH the organization of the League of Cali- fornia Municipalities a movement has been started which, if wisely directed and pushed forward with proper energy, will result in great bene- fit to the State. There are undoubtedly many ways in general good, and particularly so to smaller municipalities. The programme of work proposed by the organiza- tion is a comprehensive one, but in no respect does it go beyond the rightiul limits of the energies of such an association. As set forth in the constitution the | purposes of the league are to promote a systematic | collection of information relating to municipal af- fairs; to foster the exchange of suggestions between municipalities on matters of interest; to prepare and, so far as possible, influence legislation necessary to proger municipal administration and growth, and to generally interest the public in and advocate all ideas tending to bring the municipalities of California abreast of the best municipalities of the country. Conventions of the representatives of municipal that of the Frank J. Capitan forgot to affix the useful post- script, “Burn this letter.” o~ governments are common in the East. There exists a great national association there under whose direc- tion such conventions are held, and their annual meetings are matters of considerable note owing to the importance of the subjects discussed. These con- ventions, however, are too far away to be generally attended by delegates from California cities and towns. A local league is therefore a necessity of the situation, and promises to prove as effective here as the larger gatherings representing the great cities beyond the Rockies. It is significant that the first mover in the work of organizing the California league is the Mayor of one of the smallest of our municipalities, Mr. D. O. Druffel of Santa Clara. It is in the smaller commu- nities that the need of co-operation for municipal improvement is most strongly felt, and the movement coming from that source is more likely to be strongly backed up and supported by the cities and towns of the interior than if it had been originated in San Francisco. B once more strikingly illustrated his happy faculty of saying the right thing at the right time and in the right way. With a simple appeal to a sentiment sacred among Southerners, and one with which the North can and does sympathize, he made manifest the restored unity of the people of both sections better than could have been done in any other way by the utmost elaboration of studied phrases. After speaking of the loyalty of the South dis- played during the war with Spain and the cordial recognition of that loyalty by the people of the North, the President turned from the living to the dead and spoke of the valor of the Confederate sol- dier, claiming the memory of the courage of the men who followed Lee and Johnson as a precious pos- session of the history of the whole country. Then, while his Southern audience listened with profound emotion, he said: “Every soldier’s grave made during the unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were made, we differed widely about the future of the Government, those differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms— and the time has now come in the evolution of sen- timent and feeling under the providences of God when, in the spirit of fraternity, we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate sol- diers.” It did not need the reports from Atlanta to tell us that these words were greeted with an outburst of loud and prolonged cheering. No sentiment is more universal among men, nor more profoundly felt by heroic peoples, than that of reverence for their dead who died on the field of battle, ard when the President of the redeemed Union, a representative of the victors in the great Civil War, spoke these noble words of the Southern dead, it goes without saying that the great heart of the South responded with rapturous acclamations. It has been the good fortune of President McKin- ley to be a peacemaker among his countrymen. He has allayed the antagonisms of politics that at one time threatened to array labor against capital, the debtor class against the creditor; he has removed McKINLEY AT ATLANTA. Y his speech at Atlanta President McKinley has | the bitterer irritations of political strife, has restored prosperity to all forms of industry and by his readi- ness to accept Southern loyalty and to honor South- ern valor and military skill during the recent war he has now established the mutual confidence of North and South and reawakened a patriotism as clear and ardent as that which animated the people of all sec- tions in the old days when they fought together for the republic in 1776 and in 1812. The occasion of the President’s visit to Atlanta was to attend a jubilee given in that city in celebration of the victories of our arms during the war with Spain. By his speech he has made it the occasion of a great national rejoicing. The Northern man was in a Southern city, but they were not alien to one another. They had a common sentiment which bound them in the strongest cords of harmony, and that 'sentiment was a mutual love and reverence for the heroic dead who illustrated American valor and fidelity to prin- ciple during the war that ireed the slave and kept the Union whole. Wcumtc statistics on the subject, the Boston journal asserts that good reasons exist for be- lieving that the westward travel of tourists from the stern States during the winter has now become about equal to that which goes eastward to Europe every summer. In other words, domestic travel among the scenes of our own land has become as fashionable as foreign travel. It was not always so. At a time comparatively re- cent the Eastern man of means and culture felt that he must go to Europe, but had no desire whatever to see what he called “the wild and woolly West.” Our rich people went abroad to build up and support European resorts, and our own romantic localities were left unvisited and almost unknown. The change WESTWARD TRAVEL. HILE disclaiming the possession of any ac- that has come is beneficial all round and promises to | it the Journal | | physician. Mrs. C. Day becomes the past presi’ be permanent. say “With the exception of those who find unique at- tractions in the social or artistic companies of Lon- don and Paris and Rome, Americans spend the win- ter in their own country. This is better both for the United States and for the people themselves. It has Commenting upon resulted, on this hand, in the growth of luxurious | the | South. The balm of the climate of Florida and South- | winter communities in the far West and in ern California has reached across the sea. On the other hand, the result has been a rising interest in the almost infinite resources of the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Keeping in mind the vast riches yet undeveloped, the steady improvement in means transportation and the ceaseless increase of popula- tion, we can see no end to this.” If our Boston contemporary is right in its esti- mate of the change in travel, both the East and the West are to be congratulated. If the West gains by having a large influx of Eastern tourists, the East also gains by acquiring a better knowledge of the re- sources of our country. When these advantages are fully understood the wise American will probably be content to remain in his own land and quit being a lounger in Europe. Why a Kings County Judge should have gone to the trouble to sentence a burglar to the penitentiary for thirty days perhaps the Judge knows. About all | :i:‘;'l the execution of the sentence will amount to will be i Califor; a pleasant excursion and a free haircut. AR, Members of the School Board have once more been accused of bribery, but they do not seem much wor- ried. There is nothing like being used to a thing. S R Evidently Mr. Bryan exploded before the Exam- | The will of Earnest A. Hoffmann, who iner’s justly celebrated National Policy had been brought to his attention. R Alger seems to think that a soldier can stand al most anything but a trip through San Francisco. | £ 1 . \ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, .1898 THE GREAT MASTIDE. CHRISTMAS STORIES. CHRISTMAS MUSIC. CHRISTMAS SONGS. PAPER FOR CHRIST- HOLIDAY EDITION « THH CALL. Stories By cocooese ANTHONY HOFE, BRET HARTE, OCTAVE THANET, ARTHUR QUILLER COUCH-"'Q,” ROBERT D Story of Christ Words by Ina D. Coolbrith. By J. J. Tissot, the Famous Artist : CHRISTMAS IN BETH- LEHEM. CHRISTMAS PICTURES. FINE HALF-TONES. .ooo THE FUTURE 0 CHRISTMAS SONG. Mrs. Frank Leslie Writes About Her Recent Trip Through Spain. KIPLING AS A SCHOOLBOY. . BY REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS. UNCAN MILNE tscesesweeee AND OTHERS. in Half Tones. Music by Oscar Welil. By Prominent Divines : CHRISTMAS SERMONS EAST AND WEST. one of Classmates. F OUR STATE. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, GENERAL O. O. HOWARD, U. S. A, DR. LYMAN ABBOTT, GENERAL M. DEPEW DISCUSS THE DES T. J. MORGAN AND CHAUNCEY TINY OF THE NEW AMERICA. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS. i By Prominent San Francisco Housewives, GOOD DINNERS FOR CHRISTMAS. AROUND THE | CORRIDORS E. Travis of Nevada is at the Pal- w. ace. M. J. Connell of Butte is a guest at the Palace. D. H. Coles and family are at the Oc- cidental. N. T. Brown of Red Bluff i{s at the California. V. D. Black of Salinas is registered at the Palace. | Mrs. H. C. Cook of Belvedere is s(uylngl at the Palace. Colonel James Jackson, U. S. the Occidental. J. A. Brent, owner of the Ivanhoe mine, | is at the Grand. Emmet Seawall of Santa Rosa is a| guest at the Grand. | Alexander Murray of Liverpool is a guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rosenstock returned from New York last night and are at the | Palace. Attorneys Charles Maze of Modesto and | A. L. Shinn and W. A. Gett of Sacra- mento are staying at the Lick. J A, is at] TRUSTEES REPCRT TO GOVERNOR BUDD CONDITION AND OUTLOOK OF WHITTIER STATE SCHOOL. Institution Is Said to Be in Good Form—Appropriation Needed for the Next Two Fiscal xears. The biannual report of the Board of Trustees and superintendent of the Whit- tier State School has been submitted to | Governor Budd by Trustee Mrs. Adina Mitchell, president of the board, and Trustee William R. Rowland. According to the document, the school has advanced in its aims and purposes and the cost of maintaining the institution has decreased. The changes made in the personnel of the officers and the adoption of new methods have proved successful. The following recommendations have been made for the betterment of the in- stitution and for legislative action re- specting reformation of delinquents: The | addition of manual and physical training | on and | departments; the immediate ere equipment of the series of trades build- ings; a distinctive department for the small boys and their officers; two dormi- The best Xmas present: Townsend's Cal- | ifornia Glace Frults, 50c, in fire etched | boxes or Japanese baskets, 627 Market st., | Palace Hotel building. . —_ [ Spectal information supplied dally to l(nmery street. Telephone Main 1042 | B e o | The sailor is lighted on his way round land’s rocKy coast, some of the lights being so powerful that they are visible | twenty miles out to sea. business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- . | the world by 335 lighthouses, of which number fifty-six are scattered round Eng- —_———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” | Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with | perfect success. It soothes the child, softens | the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Zc a bottle. —_——— HOTEL DEL CORONADO--Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay $250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. STATEMENT | Colonel John C. Kirkpatrick, manager | tory barracks for the larger boys; a gym= of the Palace Hotel, who has been on a | nasium; the conversion of ’lhe lprlcsent busines N ¢ | Company B cottage into a hospital; an bugs 88 Visit to New York, returned last | Company B cottage Into a hospital: an to supply an independent water system; Dr. M. Gardner, chief surgeon of the | 1’changd 15 the law overnmg the Jength Southern Pacific Company, and select 5 5 5 - | —OF THE— —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS of | E. E. Donovan, | storm, byt conditions_are not favorable {of time for detention of girls; the pro- party of friends left last evening in a pri | vate car for Los Angeles, Yuma, El Paso and other southern points. | el el e | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—A. J. Morgen- stern of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt | House. Miss Kate M. Applegate of Oak- land is at the Riggs House. | THEIR CHOICE | FOR NEXT TERM The following named have been chosen by the societies to which they belong as the officers who will serve during the en- suing term: Sequola Parlor, Native son‘l\"ll)‘f! the Golden West—H. F. am T, Good- . Ps. arles B, Torre Lew M. Bannan, Dr. F. H. Cran Fred Oldenberg, James F. Lyons and rien, trustees: Dr. E. F. Donnelly, on; W. L. Goodwin, . A. White and H. heper, directors of the board of relief; L. M. Lyon and L. C. Pistolesi, direc- 3.8 Wara Sengstacken, P. Scheper and_Josepl D. Barton, S .58, win, H. C OB 1 Bannan, J. F. tors of the library reading rooms. becomes the past president. Golden State Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West—Miss A. Ackman, P.; Miss Schade, Miss A. Thiel and Miss T. Ducke: V. Ps.; Miss Johanna Meyer, K. S. (re-elected Miss R. Day, F. S. (re-elected); Miss D. Men- | carini, M.; Miss M. Tietjen, Miss F. von Sta- den and Miss M. Maguire, trustees; Miss L. Wedel, organist: Mrs. E. S. Merritt, M. D, | dent. Caiifornia Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows—A. G. Clark,N. G.; V. L. ‘lodd, V. G. Thomas Laherty, S. The installation ‘will on _the second Monday in January. Crockett Lodge, F. and A. M.—G. C. Groez- | inger, W, M.: J. G. North, S. D.: H. F. Chase, J.W.; H. Knust, T.; H. F. Fortreide, S. Occidental Lodge, ¥. and ‘A. M.—E. F. er, W. M.; P. V. Gordon, 8 homas, J. W.; C. L. derson, S. Court Independence, Foresters of America— . C. R.; John Kortick, S. C. R. James F. Grady, T Henry Gleeson, 8. W 2 _P_Mogan, S. B i’ Dr. F. X. Emerson, P. “harles ¥. Kapp. trustee! Haskell, T.; W. G. An- George Marshal, J. B, R. J. O'Rellly, O.; 1. Goldman becomes junior past chief ranger. Americ; 8. Conrt Acme, of Sievers, C. R Foreste T 3. a—A. . C. J. Cronin, R. Tony Garcla, J : 8 ennelson, J. B.! James Maginnis, trustee, long term; P. Collischon, P. | ——————— MORE RAIN COMING. Indications Are That the Fall Will Continus To-Night. Although the skies have cleared and the rain is apparently over, Weather Forecaster Hammon stfll has hopes that there will be more before the week has passed. Signs are in such a condition that nothing can be told more than twenty- oua;:o%rstghfnd.‘yet me buriea.u s quite confident that rain will again fall some time to-night. R beeln o e area of high pressure is sti Idaho Falls, but the barometer Eltsnst?fi steadily falling there. An area of low pressure is central in the British posses- north of North Dakota. Another low area is central in Southern it nltn.. ’lzlhls !dntter has gno;ed to the southeastward and so_caused the rain throughout the State. el The weather has cleared behind | | the to its’continuing so. It is rain will again occur in fornia by to-night. —_———— E. A. Hoffmann’s Will. robable that orthern Cali- died on November 30, leaving an estat exceeding $10,000 in_value, was filed fo: &robata {:nerduy. The testator bequeaths each Fritz and Heinrich Ho?fmann P:rnthené ::(}achfl;fl&: Hogma.nn. a_sis B sidue of the estate i to Hermann Diedrich Hoff: s e loffmann, Who Tesides in this city. e vision of an intermediate reformatory for the State. | The following appropriations are desired for the fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years: For maintenance, $200,000; buildings, $94, 250; equipments, $20,000; independent water | supply, $25,000; fo pay claims for plans and advertising for same, $447 76; total, $343,607 76, —_————— WITHDREW FROM THE BAZAAB? A. day, as m The Pavilion Charity Fair Said to Be | Tottering. HIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY F SAN FRANCISCO, IN THE STATE OF California, on the 3ist day of December, 7, and for the year ending on tha ade to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the pro- visions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political ode, condensed as per blank furnished by the According to all accounts the Charfty | COmmissloner. Bazaar at the Mechanics’ Pavilion is in | Amount of capital stock, patd up financial shoalwater. [LET 5 SRS R AR 4 aen oo ens .. $1,000,000 00 At a meeting of the officers of the ASSETS. several charity socleties held on Wed- nesday evening it was practically decided to withdraw their organizations, but the final decision was left until yes- terday noon, when the word to quit was passed along the line of the following or- | ganizatio Children’s Day_Home, Eu- reka Boys' Home, Children’s Home-find- | ing Society, Francesca Relief Society, | Florence Crittenden Home, San Fran- Union Trust Company Buys 8500 Shares for the Santa Fe. The Union Trust Company of this city vesterday began paying for ali shares of the San Franciseo and San Joaquin Val- ley Raflroad stock which had been de- posited with the company prior to De- cember 6. Over 8§00 shares were hought yesterday for the Santa Fe road at the agreed price of $100 a share. This made $850,000 that was paid out yesterday by the Tnion Trust Company. This amount remreSents over one-third of the entire stock of the Valley road. Any stock that is offered to the Union Trust Company within the next sixty | days will be recefved for collection. The | majority of those yesterday who recefved | the money for their stock represented the | paid for salaries, fees “and other smaller stockholders of the road. ————— ’85 Dinner and Reunion. There was a large attendance at the annual dinner and reunion of the class of '85, University of California, held at an | | uptown rotisserie Wednesday evening. | Losses incurred during the The members sat down at 7 o'clock and | it was almost midnight before the most | pleasant affair came to a close. John G. Sutton officiated very happily as toastmaster and speeches, both formal and informal, interspersed with music, made the time pass right merrily. Let- ters and telegrams of regret from absent members were read and many pleasant memories of college days recalled. thoughtful’ and forcible address on “The University” was delivered by Elliot Mc- Allister. ‘Among the other speakers were: Harry East Miller of Oakland, George Edwards of Berkeley, John G. Sutton of acoma, H. E. C. Feusier of Sunol Glen, saward Meek of North Temescal, Mr. Brewer of San Mateo and Charl F. O’Callaghan of San Francisco. —_——— Bargains fn children’s hooks, games and dolls on second floar at Sanborn & Vall's. Open evenings. i Cash in company’ Cash in banks.. bonds owned by company. Amount of loans secured b; of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral office. Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loans... s Interest due and accrued on bond: cisco Lying-in Hospital and Foundling | p20d, morteages. oo lae Soclety, Sisters ‘of Mercy and Old La- | BiiG reteivable nor matares. oo 30688 7 es’ Home. for fire and m 3¢ Secretary Wadham of the Eureka £0- | Due from oiher finereks. oo 56945 clety states that the executive board | _surance on losses already paid 3,850 79 was _dissatisfied with the manner in | Warrants ... 3075 45 g-hlchd "2_9 ‘b:l:zami v:;x‘a‘s being con- | Fire premium 10,888 54 ucted. Captain _ J. . de St. Hu- bert was the first manager, and he| Total asset SL TR failed to meet the bills as they became LIABILITIES. due. He turned the bazaar over to’ Mr. | Losses adjusted and unpaid. .. 34569 Barley, who placed T. P. Robinson and | Losses in process of adjustment o { Samuel Loverich in as managers. The | In suspense ... 3,778 01 latter have undertaken to convert the ba- | Losses recisted, including expe L. zaar hsmxa.ttnl]se gnsmuunm so Wadham | 97oes g;gm;\e';“:ng“h,“;:(‘;m,fl says, by introducing a walking match or | 3 =T Something of the kind: The same author. | Greiisurance 50 per cuit. et ity states that the labor is not paid and | Orgey Sremiums on fire ri bills are coming in at an alarming rate. | 647 18; reinsurance pro rat 637,268 13 His soclety has not been able to get even | Gross premiums on marine and in- on the outlay necessary for representa- land navigation risks, reinsurance tion. 100 DOI CONE.....corvronsrensisesnniisse 33,780 83 —_————— Gr;)s; Beeihe on meche time 1444 88 risks, reinsurance 50 r cent....... , VALLEY ROAD STOCK. All otlier demands against the com- " pany $1,481,251 15 received for fire tually e $1,435,305 79 Net cash premiums . Net cash actua rine premium 308,448 62 Recelved for mortgages 29,168 34 Received for interest and divid on bonds, stocks, lcans and from all other sources ST Recelved for rents. - $1,912,129 66 Net amount paid for fire losses..... Net amount paid for marine losses. Diwidends to stockholders... s Pald or allowed for commission or brokerage . $693,531 73 229,742 58 232,150 58 209,712 05 41,294 43 174,121 19 charges {or officers, clerks, etc Paid for State. es national and local Total expenditures. year . $713,596 02 §245,873 96 Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks. Premiums. Net amount of risks writ-| ten during the vear....| $167,331,860.32,050,068 39 Net amount of risks e: pired during the ye‘[l)‘; 159,219,278 1,943,003 76 lw‘ssc.ml 2,312,172 55 Net amount in force cember 31, 1897 Marine | Risks and Premiums, Risks. iPrem!uml. Net amount of risks writ- ten during the vear. us.aax,mol $514,678 62 Net amount of risks | pired during the vear..| 62,585,102 483,145 06 Net amount in force De- I cember 31, 1897... 6,227,774| 136,670 59 WM. J. DUTTON, Vice President. BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to_before me this 15th day of January, 3 . RHORER, Deputy Insurance loner,