The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1898, Page 6

JOHN D. SPRECKEL! S, Proprieto r. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFKCE. PUBLICATION OFFICE .One year, by matl, $1.50 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ..Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. g¢¢s House BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'cloek. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 lock. 6i5 Lafkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 41 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market eet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I8 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e AMUSEMENTa Columbfa~'"A Parlor Mat h of Keys." Vaudeville and the Zon. streets, Specialties. > Recital, Tuesday even- AUCTION SALES e—This day, Dec 21, at 327 Sixth street, Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 327 Sixth street, oad Carts, Horses, etc. DUNNING AS MORAL CENSOR. ~ ELDOM have the senses been shocked by the exhibition of such foulness as is embodied in the man Dunning, now in where he threatens the thief and the assassin with the danger jail, amination. He seems to be the essence of of cont ty. a being without conscience, recking with the stench of the abandoned—a man who betrayed his trust, who turned from his faithful wife to con- sort with a lewd and lecherous creature beyond the reach who, pretending to reform, in- sulted this wife by continuing to write messages of love to the unclean outcast who had supplanted her. says that the morals of San Francisco are rely it is not because they are low people him with loathing and horror; it is not of this distressing failure to reach the Dun- ing standard that San Francisco views his presence much as it would the presence of a leper, shydders to know that he is here, and will breathe easier when he has gone. Dunning, presuming to lecture San of sha n Francisco, would pollute a cesspool. San Francisco is not perfect. There is wickedness here, as in all great cities. There are persons who who neglect their homes, who by innate de- pravi e led into forbidden paths. But a search of the slums, a raid upon the resorts of the criminal would not bring to light another man so vile as this &, chair, which for him as degraded a position as that of the prisoner at the . dares to criticize the morals of the city from iich his own indecen ve him Tlv. n on trial for a less crime than that of which e was unjustly acquitted is not a good one. The man has gone. He disgraced the State enough by once showing the ine! ncy of the police and the courts. Brought back, he would doubtless repeat the humiliation. Concession has been made to the Tennessee soldier that he had a right to kill a citizen. His lawyer sob- bingly made clear this point. The Judge agreed, apd Dur who from the witnes: is TOO LATE FOR REFORM. HE proposition to bring Rosser back and put the jury stamped the decision official and final. If Rosser had a right to kill Hildebrand, he surely had | a right to take a harmless shot at the lad Walsh. Bringing Rosser back would entail a it expense, and it would look like an attempt of the lax authori- ties to acquire anew the respect that they deliberately cast aw ing the s There are better methods of accomplish- ne end. There are more criminals than Rosser, and in the majority of cases their defenses are as flimsy as that which took him from the shadow of imprisonment. Local jails are fairly bulging with murderers. Probably five out of six of these deserve to be hanged. Doubtless five out of six expect not only not tc be hanged but to go absolutely free. The proper method of the authorities will be to prove to these that assassins and thugs cannot rise superior to the law. Let the police do their duty. They will find the sensation novel and pleasing. Let the Chief be gal- vanized out of his senile trance. Let the District At- torney perform more serious functions than the draw- ing of an unearned salary. Finally, let maudlin and tearful enthusiasts, loving a man-killer, be deprived of influence, and dullards, dotards and incompetents be barred from the jury-box. f\ being two counts against her, pleaded naively that on each occasion of transgression she had heen drunk. and she will be sent to a place where intoxicants are inaccessible to children and the oppeortunities for burglary few. Yet youthful depravity ought to be shielded from the consequences of error as certainly as depravity more mature. This child stole a few trinkets and articles of no particular use to her. Rosser killed an innocent man, a stranger, one who could never by any possibility have wronged him. His only excuse was that he was drunk on a bad quality of liquor. The jury let him go, and slobbered sympathy as he departed. However, a girl burglar, making the plea of in- toxication, constitutes a novel and disheartening spectacte. A child of fourteen, properly safeguarded, would hardly know that drunkenness existed., She certainly would not know it through having felt with- in her its promptings to evil. It is well there exists for such unfortunates places of refuge, for™ aiter a season of kindly guidance the child may emerge inta YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY. GIRL of fourteen arraigned for burglary, there the world with some idea as to right and wrong. Her | case is a sad but, let it be hoped, nof a hopeless one. Congressman Bailey has taken early to the war- path, and, while he may get a scalp or two, many a tomahawk is being whetted for his own, iing Kan The plea was not regarded as sufficient | DROUGHT AND DISTRESS. ALIFORNIA has never suffered as much from C perturbation in the seasons, the fluctuation of f famine and plenty, chargeable to climatic con- | ditions, as other States. | For many years in her early settlement, ensuing upon the border troubles, Kansas was a famine- smitten State. A succession of droughts, and of sea- sons in which growing crops were cut_down by that poison southwest wind which is the analogue of our hot norther, compelled her people to appeal to the surrounding States for charity. A Kansas relief committee was a standing organization in nearly | every town in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, throughout those years. When the seasons again became normal their crops were reaped and eaten by grasshoppers, that swarmed down from the Rocky Mountains and fell upon the land, as great a urden as they were to old Egypt. The term “bleed- s,” which had taken its place among the party cries of 1856, was changed to “starving Kan- E But the insect plague passed away, and Kansas bas since added her enormous production of corn, wheat, beef, pork and fruit to the surplus out of which the farmers of the United States have been able to feed the world. The aiflicting drought” of the past season has brought about suffering in some limited localities in s California. They are where crops and the stock | ranges depend upon a normal rainfall, principally in | the valleys and the foothills of the Coast Range. A heavy rainfall in late September or early October, by | bringing on the range forage, would have averted | most of this suffering. The early rains were lacking, | however, and their lagk, added to the short moisture of the preceding rainy season, exhausted the stored resources of the people. The sufferers do not number more than 2000—per- | haps not more than 1500. They are valuable citizens. Every man who takes his family and settles on land, | to make it productive and add to the State’s re- | sources, ble citizen. In supplying their | wants let it be understood that those who do it are I not giving in charity in that humiliating sense in 1\-.- term sometimes applies. The State, ;\hrnugh its various organizations and boards of trade, | spends more money every in advertising je=coe immigrants than will be needed to relieve these good people who are with us and will stay and | laber for the commonwealth. What will be required | to keep them in comfort where they are, if spent on ation, would not secure a like number of new | citizens. It is, therefore, wise selfishness and good | business to furnish these folks with an abundant and | substantial ration, and to keep life in their remaining { animals, until nature’s bounty, responding to their la- 1in makes them independent. ! President Dohrmann of the Merchants’ Association | has the matter in hand, and it will be well to make that organization the recipient and distributor of the relief required. One organization is sufficient. It can better make transportation arrangements than many can, and there will be less waste in distribution than if many were concerned in it. All that the people want is to be helped that they may soon help themselves. | It is said in some quarters that their settlement in | the destitute districts was unwise, inasmuch as stock- | ranching and dairying therein must depend upon the }spom;meous forage and not on artificial production. { While this may be to a degree true, it is less their fault than appears on the surface. The Government has not been wise in handling its stock range domain. It would have been better to lease this in large tracts for grazing purposes solely. Its natural forage plants would thereby have been | saved from extermination by over stocking, and if | experience demonstrated the fitness of any part of it | for agriculture this could have Heen finally separated and held subject to the wants of the homestead settler. Instead of this policy, these lands throughout the West have been treated as agricultural, their acquisi- tion has been confined to the acreage of agricultural holdings, and the grazing interests have sustained themselves by resort to artifice that would have been unnecessary under a better system. As the Government has held these lands subject to | patent to small holders, the people must not be blamed for assuming too much from that fact. The first duty is their immediate relief, and then they will adjust themselves to the conditions disclosed by their experience. is a valua hich the year to S { bor, a | | AN EDDY IN THE MONEY M@ERKET. A CURIOUS condition of affairs prevails in the money markets of the Eastern States and of Europe. Something like an - eddy has been | formed in the channels of finance, and considerable sums of money have been whirled around and di- verted to a course directly opposite to that in which | they would naturally flow. A late report of the Treasury Department in re- viewing the effects ‘of the favorable balance of trade between this country and Europe says: “A year ago it was estimated that the United States had a balance ! of $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 in Europe, and it is sup- posed that the amount has been increased. This money is leit in the Old World because it can earn a higher rate than in the United States. In Germany | it commands as much as 5 per cent, while call loans | are b‘cing made in New York as low as 1% per cent and time loans at 3 per cent. The great banks of Europe have been forced to advance their discount rates to prevent such a flow of gold to America as would embarrass foreign money centers.” It is further to be noted that so much money has that there has been a simultaneous movement in New | York and New England to reduce rates of interest | paid on bank deposits. There has been a marked de- mand for bonds of all kinds, bankers and capitalists complain of the difficulty of placing good loans, and the opinion is freely expressed that the United States liave reached a point where they can become the banking nation of the world, able to furnish money for the development of Russia or Asia or Central Adrica, or any other land that may need it. Chis condition is unnatural. It can hardly be more than an eddy in the current that turns money from New York to Germany instead of to the Western and the Southern States. There are far better. opportu- nities for investment in the United States than any- where else at the present time, and if the New York capitalists were as enterprising as they are rich, they would seek them out, and by building up their own country get better rates of interest than they can ever get in Europe. California alone can abserb a large amount of the | idle capital of the East and profitably employ it. Within her domain are a thousand opportunities for investment. She has rich mines still undeveloped, forests uncleared and lands untilled. More than that. She has an abundance of raw material that could be profitably worked up by the construction of factories in her cities. The State ships fresh fruit and imports | preserves, it ships leather and imports shoes, it sends forth wool and imports cloth. The whole of the West and the South is in a con- dition similar to that of California. Every State and Terrisory in that wide domain lying west of the Mis- | been accumulated in the money centers of the East | souri River and south of Omaha offers opportunities for the investment of capital. This being so, it would be well for the New Yorkers to bring their money from Europe and set it to work at home. It may gratify their vanity to assume to be the money- lenders for the world, but there would be more busi- ness sense in upbuilding their own country. THE STATE PRINTING MUDDLE. HE State Board of Examiners, the Governor Tand the members of the coming Legislature, in their preparations for opening the State Printing ‘Office, are conironted, we may remark, by a condi- | tion, not a theory. In connection with the condition one thing may be stated with reasonable certainty: The legislators who become responsible for delaying the session in order that political vengeance may be wreaked upon somebody will be held to a strict ac- countability by the people. It is true that Governor Budd, a Democrat, vetoed the State Printing Office appropriation, but that is | politicians for the purpose of damaging the Demo- cratic party. Governor Budd is about to retire from office, and for his acts history will hold him respon- sible. What the State authorities and Legislature ! should do is to guarantee State Printer Johnston a de- ificiency appropriation and authorize him to imme- | diately open his office and prepare for busines: | this is not done two or three valuable weeks of the 1coming session may be wasted. Governor Budd and Mr. Johnston have composed their differences and are now prepared to co-operate. It will not do for Republican Senators and Assem- blymen to disturb this entente cordiale for the pur- pose of making a little worthless political capital. Business is business, and a State’s business is en- titled to as much consideration at the hands of the men clected to conduct it as the business of an indi- vidual. Among other important measures whose safety will | be endangered by the refusal of certain Republican | appropriation is the new charter of this city. That in- strument will demand the services of a great many | printers in its publication, and if it is not prepared and presented promptly it may fall in the crush of | legislation and fail of ratification. This would be a | disaster which would greatly damage the Republican | party of San Francisco—an organization that will :be held accountable for the safe passage of the in- istrumcnt through the Legislature. | Besides this there is a great deal of legislation | which ought to be enacted, and if the Legislature | does not get to work promptly much of it will fail | and the remainder be crudely enacted. The Senatorial | contest is not the only interesting feature of the | coming session. The members can get together any time and elect a Senator, but it requires industry and | thought to enact laws. What the “leaders” should | do all around is to sink their differences and co- operate in promptly opening the State Printing Office. If these men are not willing to do so, State Printer Johnston should open his office regardless { of them. A majority of the Legislature will sustain | him. ‘ WASHINGTON @AND HER FESTIVAL. i S a rule the city of Washington gives to Con- :fl gress her undivided attention. Her people have little in the way of business or pleasure to distract their minds from the doings of the Senate | and the House of Representatives, and, accordingly, ! not much else is talked of. : At the present time, however, Washington is com- | paratively indifferent to Congress, and thinks of the statesmen only when she wishes an appropriation. | The thoughts and the talk of her people are directed | almost wholly to the proposed celebration of the cen- tennial of the foundation of the city. This festival is | tc take place in 1900, and preparations for it are ac- :ti\'ely under way. | One of the means by which the Washingtonians | are arousing their enthusiasm on the subject to an | even greater fervor is by delving into the annals of ‘lhe past and bringing to light the predictions con- | cerning the city that were made by the fathers of the | Republic. With the large, divine words of the | golden-mouthed orators of old, they cheer them- | selves, and, looking around upon their city, they iexult in the fulfillment of those lofty ideals. Some of these old-time words are of interest to the whole country. When Congress assembled for the 1800, President Adams sent a message full of cheer- fulness, in which he said: “May this territory be the residence of virtue and happiness! In this city may | that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magnanimity, | that constancy and seli-government, which adorned the great character whose name it bears, be forever held in veneration! Here and throughout our coun- try may simple manners, pure morals and true re- | ligion flourish forever!” Washington in her centennial celebration wishes to show the world how nearly she has lived in accord- ance with this prayer of the patriot Adams. It is, perhaps, for that reason she has for a time turned her attention away from Congress, and perhaps after the appropriation has been received she will put Congress |in the background altogether. | Under any circumstances thé people of the whole | country will enjoy the Washington festival. We have ihad celebrations of New York wealth, of Chicago enterprise, of Omaha push, and now let us close the century with the celebration of a city tRat exults in | being “the residence of virtue and happiness.” Legal technicality shines out in all its beauty in | the case of J. F. Turner. After an exhaustive trial ;lhis man was found guilty of perjury and sentenced Ito ten years. The public mind was not disturbed | by the thought that a wrong had been done him, either, | However, Turner got a reversal on the ground that |'the indictment had failed to state that the perjury was willful. Of course, this is different. When perjury is accidental, or committed by a man in a hypnotic trance or while he is sleep-walking, he is not to be blamed. g ———— § The local columns recite the arrest and imprison- ment of a2 man and woman for having failed to keep up payments on some goods they had bought on the installment plan. If the circumstances are as re- lated an outrage has been committed, and an action for false imprisonment would lie. The criminal courts have more than they can do in attending to their own business. Gl Perhaps some of the frightiul stories told of the torture of Spanish prisoners in the Philippines are exaggerated, but it must be remembered that they are not sent by Creelman, and are worth investigating. e Opposition to a proposed Senatorial junket to Cuba comes, of course, from gentlemen who do not expect to be on the committee, but it is valid opposition, nevertheless. 3 4 R e Colonel Bryan has accomplished at least part of his purpose. He will retain the military title to the end of his days. now past history, and it need not be used by the | 1f | leaders to support State Printer Johnston's deficiency | first time in the newly founded city, November 17, | 1SCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1898 It is not surprising that Naval Con- structor Hobson shofild have signified his desire to the Navy Department to be transferred to the line, for more honor and emoluments await him in that branch | of his service than in his present corps. If the original proposition regarding his place in the line corps is adhered to Mr. Hobson, who now has the relative rank of lieutenant and as such takes prece- dence immediately after Lieutenant Roger Welles of the line; will be advanced to the rank of lieutenant commander and placed at the foot of that grade. It is equal to a jump of 250 numbers or twenty years’ service and, no doubt, there will be some opposition made to this ad- vancement, chiefly upon the ground that such a jump is unprecedented in the ser- vice. Lieutenant Cushing, who blew up the Albemarle, was advanced only fifty- | six numbers and made a lieutenant com- mander, and while Hobson’s advancement of 250 numbers is unprecedented the act for which he is to be rewarded was also unprecedented and would probably have made the gallant Cushing turn green with envy, Naval Constructor Hobson now receives a salary of $3200 a year, which after five Years is Increased to $3400, thence advanc: ing by five-year stages until after 20 years’ service as a naval constructor he will re- ceive $4200 a year. At the end of twenty years he would, if still in the construe- tors’ corps, peruaps have reached the relative rank of commander, but the high- est position he could attain in his present grade would be that of Chief Constructor with the relative rank of commodore and a yearly salary of $5000. As, however, there are twelve ahead of him as con- structor, his chances of closing the thirty- four years yet remaining before he retires without reaching a higher relative rank than that of commander {s more likely than his becoming Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs. line corps as his future place of useful- ness in the navy he does so with a clear | understanding of the not far-off ultimate result. His pay as a lieutenant command- on shore duty, but in less than six years ‘When, therefore, Mr. Hobson selécts the | er will only be $2800 at sea and §2400 while | RESULT OF HOBSON’S CHOICE. The Young Naval Hero May Become Admiral at the Age of 40, | rear admirals and commodores will he is likely to reach the grade of com- mander, with a salary of $3600. In two years more, or about 1805, he will be a captain, receiving $4300 annually, and be- fore the year 1909 he will be a commodore. Mr. Hobson's place in the line is likely to be next after Lieutenant Commander George L. Dyer, the latest promotion to | that grade, and between Lieutenant Com- mander Hobson and the ranking rear ad- miral there will be 218 officers. The re- | tirements, however, of these officers will be so rapid that beforq 1910 no less than 199 will have reached the age of 62, and will therefore be retired, and it is quite likely that voluntary retirements and cas- ualties will bring the vacancies up to nearly 219. In this event Hobson will be second on the navy list, and if the grades of admiral and vice admiral are re-estab- lished and continued, the present Lieuten- ant Commander Rittenhouse will be ad- miral and Hobson vice admiral. Barring accidents the roster will be as follow: | Admiral, H. O. Rittenhouse, age, 59, sal- ary $13,000. Vice admiral, R. P. ary Tieutenant Lucien Young will be the youngest commodore—only 56—but all "l;: gray beards, none less than &7, <’_Lnd the first on the captains list will be 57 years of age. By 1913 Hobson wiil have become admiral of the navy and remain there, if his life is spared, for twenty: years, Or| until 1933, when he may retire for age if | he chooses. | It is not to be wondered at that Hob- son should choose to enter the line again | with such a prospect. Arthur B. Hoff, who heads- the list of ensigns, graduated | with Hobson; his signal number would be 546, counting the numbers in each grade ahead of him, and he will be 325 numbers behind Admiral Hobson, and will only have reached the middle of the list of lieutenants or at the best head | the list of that grade. The presence of an | admiral for twenty years obstructing the | flow of promotion is, of course, & hardship | to ambitious officrs, but then his case is| a very unusual one and he merits all that Congress or the country can offer him as a reward for his heroism. Hobson, age 39, sal- ARGUMENTS THAT WON From the Eureka Standard. The campaign is over and the interest in the result of the recent election has died out, yet the history of the struggle for supremacy in this State will be in- teresting to the people for some time to come. The great daily papers of | San Francisco—The Call, Chronicle, | Post and Bulletin—did much to educate | the people and show the voters the true | inwardness of the situation. Maguire, though personally a clean man, was | the embodiment of the worst political | principles that ever cursed a State, and | his defeat was a blessing to the com- monwealth, The paper which did the most to | bring the salient points in Maguire’s | political career to public view was The Call. That paper was edited during the campaign by a masterful writer, or corps of political writers. The publica- tion of Maguire's withdrawal from the Democratic party and the analysis of his political career constituted the most powerful arguments used against him | during the campaign. The country press of the State has more influence in deciding an election than the great city dailies; but the | country press in this campaign took its cue from The Call, to a larger extent than most people realize. The argu- ments which caused at least 35,000 old- line Democrats in this State to voie against Maguire were 'mostly repro- duced from The Call’s editorials, though | each of the other dailies mentioned did | good and efficient work, not by any means the least effective editorial work being done by the Post. The paper which in the recent cam- paign did most to lead the press and people to the conclusions which result- ed in a great Republican victory, in the opinion of the Standard, is the San Francisco Call. IN DEFENSE OF REV. HENDERSON To the San Francisco Call: In looking over the contents of your worthy paper of fhe 14th inst. I was astonished to see a remark made by some one regarding the character of the Rev. J. E. Henderson. I feel it my duty to pen a few lines in vindlcation of that gentleman's charac- | ter. The Rev. J. E. Henderson was sent by the conference to take charge of the work at Angels Camp, and during his Stay on this work 1 was with him fre- quently. I can say that during the time that I have been a member of the church | in different countries (which is over fifty years) 1 have never met with a more Christian_gentleman than Mr. Henderson. Mr. Henderson lives in the hearts of the people in this little town to whom he preached. 1 am conscious that our people would vindicate the character of Mr. Henderson | at the risk of their own lives. His name | is the household word in our town. I am prepared to vindicate Mr. Henderson in every way that my assistance might be required. There is not a person in this community but would put his signature to this statement. Now, Mr. Editor, would you be so kind as to insert this simple statement in your paper? In so do- ing you will confer a favor on your sub- scribers, who wish to speak in vindica- tion of the character of a good man and one that is beloved by us all. Hop- ing that you will comply with the re- quest of the citizens of this place I am yours most respectfully, JOHN MOYLE, ‘Vallecito, Calaveras Co., Dec. 17, 1898. NEW OFFICERS FOR NEXT TERM The following named are the choice of the societies to which they belong as of- ficers who are to serve for the ensuing term: Court Aurora, Foresters of America—George . R.; H. Herman, 8. C. R.; J. Heal- ; J. J. Fulton, F. 8.; J. Whittaker, R. S.0H. McKay, S W. A Leln, J. W.; J. Koh- ler, §. B.; J. B. Davis, J. B.; A. Nusbaum, physician. i Myrtle Lodge, A. O. U. W.—A. J. Doyle, M. W.: E. G, Van Tassell, F.; W. H. Maters, 0. A. Loane, G.; J. W. White, I. W.; R. Youns, O. W.; W H Mathers, trustee (re-elected) George_Plummer becomes past master of the lodge; W T. Thomson, F.; W. E. Bouton, R., snr!{, ul | Bouton, recelver, hold over until next y. Yerba Buena Lodge, A. O. U. W.—J. B. Clif- tord, M. W.; F. W, Bain, F.; W. E. Bain, O.; Fred B. Wood, R.; C. H. Ki Fin.; L. Law- rance, receiver; C. ea, George Hanta, S Poias 0. F.—Mark N argent . . F.—Marl euman, M. D., N. G.; George B. Hanna, V. G.; rge W, Dixon, 813 Alex Hay, T.; H. D. Neinhaus, trustee. “Argonaut Council of the Royal Arcanum—W. 3. Nixon, regent; Ben Sterconthal, vice regent; 3. S. Abrahameon, orator; M. S. de Roco, sec- E. J. Ensign, T.; Frederick Head, col- ector; T. L. Hall, chaplain; I Levy, ide; Wulllam 3. Harrington, warden; J. Sivey a: sentry; ‘Whitney, William 'F. Martin and George W. Dixon, trustees. Installation, Jan- uary 9, by Deputy Supreme Regent J. B, Whitney. : i Cruelty to Children. ‘Warrants were sworn out in Judge Mogan's court vesterday for the arrest of John Coffey and his wife Mary on charges of cruelty to children. Monday night the parents were holding a drunken orgy in their home, 310 Utah street, and .| they finished up by driving their two boys, one 10 and the other 7 years of age, out of the house. Neighbors took eharge of the children until Policeman Edner ar- rived and he sent them to the City o, Tasrs B W Pl i 2 to the mliu asylum ul{tm"" AROUND THE CORRIDORS H. G. Smith of Crockett is at the Lick. C. D. Calley of Pittsburg is at the Pfl.l-‘ ace. | Scott E. Ennis of Sacramento is at the Lick. J. M. Fulton of Reno is at the Occi- | dental. Ex-Judge S. F. Geil of Salinas is at the Occidental. George D. Moore, U. S. A., is a guest at the Palace. R. W. Skinner of Marysville is a guest at the Grand. | G. H. Appel of Los Angeles s a guest | at the California. George Lingo of Birds Landing is a | guest at the Grand. | Dr. R. W. Hill of Los Angeles is a| guest at the Grand. W. H. Young, a merchant of Napa, is | a guest at the Russ. F. F. Carnduff, editor of the Biggs | Argus, is at the Russ. Attorney James F. Peck of Merced is registered at the Lick. G. G. Peters and S. W. Bates of Boston are guests at the Palace. James W. Morrissey of New York is registered at the Palace. J. J. Driscoll of New York, who is well known here, is at the Palace. Benjamin Latz, an insurance man of Portland, is at the. California. Mr. and Mrs. James Raynolds from Canton, O., are at the Palace. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton and J. J. Hebbron of Salinas are at the Grand. | Miss C. E. Usher of Stockton, the well known portrait artist, is at tne Palace. G. A. Bluhm, the well-known book- maker, with his family is at the Occi- dental. George P. Simpson, the well known lumber merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Occidental. Colonel E. A. Forbes of Vancouver, for- merly the District Attorney of Marys- ville, is at the Grand. N George Lightbound, Miss M. Light- bound and Miss Davidson, all of Toronto, are staying at the Palace. James W. Morrissey of New York, the business manager of Rosenthal, the cele- brated pianist, is at the Occidental. Pilar Morin, the well-known actress, and her manager, Clement Bainbridge, of New York, arrived last night and are at the Grand. A. M. Bergerin of Chicago, the well- known exporter of California wines, and the son-in-law of Banker Wickersham of | Petaluma, is at the Palac | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—S. B. Hilliard and wife of San Francisco are at the Gilsey; M. Cohen of Los Angeles is at the Broad- way Central; P. C. Hale and Mrs. O. A. | Hale of San Franeisco, and Mrs. O, A. and Miss C. Hale, of San Jose, are at the | Majestic; George A. Stuart of Sacramento | is at the Vendome. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE TERELO—L. R. E., Bandon, Or. More than a hundred different methods have been tested for the purpose of pre- venting the ravages of the teredo upon submerged timber. The principal meth- ods now in use are creosoting, Kyaniz- g:g. copper sheating and asphalt sheat- THE LORD RAGLAN-J. T. M., Berke- ley, Cal. The British ship Lord Raglan, reached San Francisco the last time, Jan. uary 2, 180. She came from New Castle in sixty-four days. laden with coal. She said from San Francisco for Queenstown October 24, 1890, and has never been heard from since. WOODEN SEWER PIPE-W. B, Crockett, Cal. This department has ex- amined the patent records for twenty years from the present one and is unable | to discover any record of a San Francis- can having been granted a patent for a wooden sewer pipe. There may be such the “Batent Offce.at Washington: B ¢ e at Wa for information. o R e THE PACIFIC BANK-S., City. The amount of money returned to depositors in dividends by the Pacific Bank amounts to 40 per cent of their deposits, that is up to the present time. 'lgle bank has, however, paid about 8 per cent of its in- debtedness. The New York banks held collaterals for money advanced and real- ized on the same, and in that way a part of the indebtedne: fauldgsas’ ss of the bank was HOMESTEAD-E, V. 8., Lidell, Napa County, Cal. An individual who has homesteaded 160 acres of land is per- gl‘tybeg utr':: ht:‘!:a up a urx'hbaf‘ clfim. o(!!' he as mucl ro the railroad will Ny g sell him or he de- sire to &umhue. The latter land is not under the jurisdiction of the United States Land Office. There have been no pre-emption cl si) March 3, MLD D alms since Marcl A COLLECTION OF SONGS AND POEMS—O, H. W., Oakland, Cal. You have the right to publish a collection of A n-on;s. ete., u.‘\{m 11::1- various 00! ewinazers and magasines pro- viding the nfi%‘l’u so published are not cop: &hted by the E‘Qn-m. of the boo newspapers 4 m: nes from whlcgl they are taken. If t.:!eopynm run out you are at liberty to repub- | @ has lish the articles. sho wi 5 "l: :very fi?e dué credit lven t e lication an aftlele is taken: | that”the woman who had vy [oX LY IOXOYOIOJOROROYOJOJOICIORO) NEVER KISSED NOR SAID G00D-BY Gretchen Lyons Goes to Her Hubby. NO ONE TO SEE HER OFF PAINFUL REMINISCENCES OF A CLUB GATHERING. Actor Hastings Resents the Atten- tions Comedian Edwin Stevens Showered Upon the Depart- ing Leading Lady. v ischarged Pretty Gretchen Lyons, the d lnm‘.!mt;ylady of the Alcazar, left on Mon- day evening’s overland, her intention being to rejoin her husband, I::Jc'lus Hen- de n, who is playing “leads” in & Mil- waukee stock compal Gretchen's going W ful one. There was no one to see her o‘fl. Ernest Hastings, leading man of the company Miss Lyons formerly graced, whe in a moment of sincere and violent admiration sent in his resignation when the actress was requested to leave, neither sent the departing one flowers to brighten the long, dismal journey nor was he on hand to press her lips, c“lasp her hand and wish her a dramatic “bon voyage.” This smoldering of the burning flames of the tender passion—this wrapping in icy bandages of an inflammable cardiac— had its cause and being in a Bohemian gathering, held in the rooms of the Press Club a week ago last Saturday night. Miss Lyons and Hastings were among the many the journalists delighted to honor. Miss Lyons had a good time. Hastings did not. 2 Comedian Edwin Stevens of the Tivoll officiated as toastmaster and in the midst of his arduous duties decided that Gretchen Lyons was the most charming girl in the room. After arriving at this dangerous conclusion Stevens devoted the rest 6f the evening to Miss Lyons and the champagne. Thirteen and a half cases of wine were consumed by the club mam- bers and their friends and the Tivoil favcrite with the leading lady as Lis part- ner was in at the finish. Hastings tasted neither wine nor puneh but stood round in corners with giaring eyes while he devoured the northeast corner of his rosy upper lip. ‘After the Press Club incident Gretchen and Ernest only saluted each other when necessity compelled. The leading man diligently studied his lines and the ex-leading lady packed her trunks. The frosty covering of the Hastings heart, ac- cording to the management, has wonder- fully steadied the actor's head. For the first time in many months Hastings was letter perfect on Monday night and went gayly through his role in spite of the fact won his affec- tions and then trampled them under foot was speeding to Milwaukee and hubby. s a cold and pain- Bret Harte has one of his old-time | Christmas stories in next Sunday’s Call. Read it. —e——— ——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsends.® —e—————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clippifig Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont~ gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * e Sanborn, Vail & Co. have an immense line of small glass vases, white statuary, gold mounted pitchers and vases, Bohe- mian_glassware, Stockton art pottery, ete. 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