The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents c week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL.. One year, by mall. $1.5C OAKLAND OFFICE.... .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Riggs Houeo €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Ropresentative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2201 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission streat, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. ——— AMUSEMENTS Columbia—''A Parlor Match." ! California—"'0'Brien, the Contractor.” [ Alcazar—'"Humbug." Tivoli—"‘The Yellow Dwarf.” Morosco's—""Uncle Tom's Cabin.’ Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy—"A Bunch of Keys." The Chutes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympia — Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Speciaities, Ingleside Race Track—Races To-day. Glen Park—Mission Zoo, Sunday. Metropolitan Hall—-Rosenttial Piano Recital, Tuesday even- ing, January 3. ¥ LEES IN @ TRANCE. HIEF L is supposed to have charge of the | C police, and the police look out for the protec- tion of the city as well as in some measure regu- late its morals. ~ Therefore his position is one of im- portance, and his manner of filling it a matter of pub- | lic concern. Perhaps if once jarred out of his senile lethargy the Chief would himself be grateful to have | had the error of his way made plain; after whigh he would fall asleep again. Gambling of certain sorts is forbidden in San Fran- cisco. Faro, roulette and craps are under the ban. There is a theory, and possibly it sweetens the dreams | of the hoary Chief, that none of the interdicted games | runs here. If he were to be askeu about it he would | sputter an indignant denial. Yet that the games do | run every man about town knows—that is, unless he happens to be on the police force, in which case | there might not be justification in suspecting him of | knowing anything. Had the Chief ferreted out and stopped these il- legal games, to have commended him would have been a pleasure. Alas! that pleasure has been with- held. In the interests of good order The Call has itself been obliged to do police work, and this morn- ing makes the result known. The Chief is welcome to the information. He is even welcome to act upon it and swell -anew with pride at having hunted out the gamblers’ lair and scattered the chips afar. To find ,Just where the rooms are located he needs but turn t6 the Jocal columns. . But we will essay the informa- tion that if he go in full uniform, his sword clanking martially and his drum corps sounding a gladsome note at his heels, the players will have flown. We do not expect the thanks of the Chief. The facts which will help him in his business are freely tendered. Here is an opportunity for him to polish a | faded halo to a pleasing luster. We entertain a be- Tref that the old man is incompetent, that he is as un- able to direct intelligently the movements of a police | force as he is unfit to lead a celestial choi-. If he ever knew, he has forgotten. Away back in the dimness of long-gone years, before the weight of decades had atighted upon him, he may have known a thing or tyo. He doesn’t now. He has lost his grip. San Francisco is too big for him. So in pity this tip is offered, and we wish him joy of it. e California does not often feel in any spot of her vast expanse a touch of drought, and even then the misfortune is not to be utilized as an advcnising‘ scheme. That trick of the Examiner has been tritd toe often. Its bogus charity ever-makes capital of the misfortunes of others. The game is old and stale, and, in slangy but expressive parlance, people “are onto it.” More and more évident becomes the fact that a serious mistake was made when the walls of the Baldwin were not, while still warm, leveled to the ground. The prospect now is that the possibly most prominent corner in the city is to be disfigured by an architectural scarecrow. ‘When a man arises to state that people who are suf- fering from drought are themselves to blame, he argues that he lacks both a keen intelligence and a warm heart. Possibly he means to intimate that the people neglected to pray for rain. Ao e The New York man who called the Kaiser a mut- ton-head must go to jail for it. His indiscretion was in holding his peace until a visitor in Germany. If he was anxious to have his views known there he ought’to have cabled them. One point against the prevalent bill board is that it is unsightly, another that it is dangerous, and a third that’it is useless. The points in its favor have not been mentioned from the simple circumstance that none exi Opponents of Dreyfus threaten to raise a row if the movement in his behalf do not cease. His friends will raise a row in the opposite event. The certainty about the matter is that France is to have a row. St. Louis ‘ministers claim that people are kept away from church there by the fear of footpads. If thig is'true St. Louis seems to need police more than preachers. S B Lieutenant Esola is to be commended for raiding some of the thieves’ dens along upper Kearny street. They have long been a howling disgrace to that lo- cality. We violate no confidence in saying that a policeman who would commit robbery ought to be stripped of oné uniform and given another of different style. +«Continued slaughter of Christians -in Turkey sug- gests that the invading missionaries travel in regi- ments, with scouts in advance. Perh'ap's the Cubans;mégco_mpetent to govern them- selves, but they are strangely. slow about giving some indication of it. l;een half drunk, the admission raising more delicate HONOR AND PROFIT. HE commission, houses, Board of Trade and Tmanul‘acturers and producers have taken up the question of adulterated and badly prepared wines and fruits in the spirit suggested by The Call. Commercial honor, strictly observed, is more neces- sary to the prosperity of California than to any other | State in the Union. The great crops of the’ Middle West, the South and East, are of such a nature that their adulteration is not feasible. They offer no pre- mium to greed in their sophistication. Corn and{ wheat, cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco are hardly capable of harmiul manipulation. But with our vine- | yard and orchard products the case is different. ' The i fruits to be infested with noxious insects saves the, cost of cleansing them, but he sends fruit to be con- ; demned in the market after it has left his hands, and to injure the State's entire crop for many seasons to__f come. | Our spreading market for dried fruits in, Germany | is suddenly closed by official authority, upon the dis- covery that it carries scale. Of course we answer that the processes to which the fruit is subjected to fit it | for market destroy the scale. But that answer, if | true, is not enough. Commerce requires something | more. We must be able to show by testimony so | conclusive and authority so respectable that they can- | not be doubted that no fruit infested by scale in its | green state is dried for export. We must teach the ‘ orchardist that he cannot sell his fruit, green or | dry, unless it is clean of parasites. We must make | him understand that a crop with scale is a crop lost. | out of which he can get no return, and he will then | understand that his profit depends on the care of his orchard. At the same time the careful planter, who | does keep his trees clean, will get the proper premium : on his commercial honor by supplying the market | irom which unclean fruit is excluded. i It is well to treat this issue from the standpoint of reason. Germany may be retaliating for our pro- hibitory duty on her bounty-paid beet sugar, but we | cannot fasten that charge upon her as long as we fur- ; nish her a pretext for excluding our fruit on account of scale: If we are able to invite the German Consul’s attention to the fact that law or rigid custom forbids | the drying of fruit that comes from the orchard with scale, we eliminate from the contention every ele- | ment, except commercial retaliation, with which the | two national Governments must deal. Until we do this we handicap our own Government in any at- | tempt to right the matter. There has long been a | suspicion that the exclusion of our pork from Ger- many was retaliation, or intended as covert and extra- | tariff protection. But when our Government at- | tempted to deal with it on that basis we were con- | fronted by carefully compiled extracts from news- papers in the pork-raising States giving sensational | accounts of the prevalence of hog cholera.. It is true | that these were greatly exaggerated, but our plea to | that effect was not listened to. Finally the hog-| raising States have gone at work systematically to | stamp out the epizooty, and it is rapidly disappearing. | California must act with intelligence and on the lines | of commercial honor. Commercial confidence is a plant of slow growth in old markets. The more de- | cisive we are the more rapidly will it grow. | Our first-class orchard products can be all mar- | keted, green, dry or canned, at a profit, if we begin | and continue right. Only first-class fruit should be | marketed in either state. As for green fruit there is | much that by reason of small size or outward blemish | is not marketable as first class, nor should it be canned or dried. Still there is the temptation to get something out of it, reinforced by the fact that its | pulp and juices are as good as any. The orchardists of Southern Europe utilize such | fruit by distilling it. There are several valuable com- | mercial liqueurs made from such defective prunes, pears, cherries and peaches, and a mash-tub and still are part of the equipment of many fruit farms. Such | fruit may also be made into jams and marmalades that are perfectly wholesome and commercially valuable. We have not yet reached the point of these econo- mies, and so we try to crowd all such fruit into a mar- ket where it lowers the price of all fruit and harms the reputation of our orchards. The strict law and rigid custom to which we have referred will hasten the day when such fruit will be excluded from the | green fruit market and will not be accepted to can or dry. This will compel resort to its use in such forms as return a profit on it without spoiling the market of its betters. We hope to see this matter taken in hand at the meetings of our horticulturists, to the end that light upon it may be spread among the planters. Two years ago an enterprising fig-grower, finding his crop useless on his hands, turned it into a mash- trb and distilled fig brandy. Now that liquor is a valuable commercial product, especially as a culinary, brandy. The privilege of distilling it would bring relief to every fig-raiser in the State. But it happens that our internal revenue laws make no provision for fig brandy, and this enterprising grower, after trying vainly to pay internal revenue tax on his liquor, was compelled to submit to its seizure by the Government because it was not mentioned in the law. The law should be amended so as to class the fig as a berry and permit its distillation. | In regard to the adulteration of our wines and sending them into carefully inspected markets or any market, there must be speedy, drastic and efficient ac- tion. Great hopes were invested in the commercial organization of our wine interest. It promised to study markets, promote consumption of our wines, and, if possible, capture for them the control of the American market. The discovery of Wetmore, by which their heady | quality could be eliminated by damp storage, which withdrew from them the excess of alcohol, through the natural operation of chemical affinity, was a mat- ter the value of which cannot be overestimated. When it was applied their use began to spread where be- fore they had been excluded in favor of the light French and German wines. Only patience and commercial honor were required to create a use and make a market that would take all our sound vintage at a profit to the grower. No occurrence of the year, not excepting the drought, is to be more lamented than the revelation of adultera- tion of these wines. If it result in positive legislation that will outlaw the sophisticated product and punish its manipulator, the benefit to every wine vineyard | will be great. Let it be understood that the shipment of fermented raisins, scaly fruit and adulterated wines must stop, and a brighter day will soon come for the California @ STUDY IN INEBRIATION. lN the case of a policeman now on trial for rob- with having been under the influence of liquor at the time he observed the transaction. He was natur- sation of having been drunk, particularly if it is based on the truth. producers. bery one of the important witnesses was charged ally indignant. Apparently a man dislikes the accu- The witness finally. admitted that perhaps.he had slothful orchardist who permits his trees and.. their | as fractionally intoxicated ? By what method shall | the numerator and denominator of the fraction be de- termined? Queries were put with a view to solving the matter. Finally the witness acknowledged that, although | only half drunk, with the remaining half of his facul- | ties as keen as ever, he had had twenty drinks. Thus ;society's interest in the policeman is crowded out by | the interest of science in the witness. To swallow twenty drinks and be in a condition to swallow twenty more before reaching the stage of paralysis argues in the first placé the possession of a' mighty thirst, an | abnormal capacity, a vast power of resistance, and, if there is joy in a solitary drink, an endless source of pleasure. ” A05E of % If twenty drinks only carry one to. . the midway stage ‘there are not drinks enough in,a distillery to carry him to the end, for before a second twenty could take hold the effect of the original twenty would have begiin to wane. Therefore, the man thus qualified could be a tank, always. partly drunk, never entirely so, and go through the world his sorrow continually drowned, and not a thing but snakes to fear. A COMMENDABLE MOVEMENT. HE Richmond District Improvement Clubs are | I to be congratulated upon their success in finally inducing the Board of Supervisors to fix a date after which burials in the cemeteries around Lone Mountain will be illegal. For several years efforts in this direction have been unavailing. The influence of the people who own burial plats, combined with that of the corporations engaged in - operating new grounds, has been ample to prevent action toward prohibiting further interments or wholesale removal. It may be that this influence is still potent. The reso- lution passed by the Supervisors, it should be noted, has merely gone to print. There is no doubt, however, that the position main- tained by the residents of Richmond concerning these cemeteries is correct. They are a blight upon the development of a most beautiful portion of the city, they must eventually be removed, and the time for preparing for femoval can never be more pro- itious than at present. The resolution passed to print by the Supervisors fixes 1902 as the extreme limit during which burials will be permitted in the cemeteries referred to. This will give the lot-owners three years in which to prepare for the end, and after that an agitation for wholesale removal may appro- priately be undertaken. While communities, as well as governments, ought to respect the regard people feel for the dead, it must be recognized by all that burying-grounds when lo- cated in the midst of cities are a nuisance and should be abated. Not only are they a menace to health, but their presence kills real estate improvements, ob- structs Streets and destroys the value of property. The region called Richmond, located, as it is, behind two cemeteries, is not half so valuable for home- building purposes as it would be were Lone Mountain razed and the dead reposing upon its slopes removed to other places. We say, therefore, that the Richmond District Im- provement Clubs are to be congratulated upon having | at last induced the Supervisors to name the day on which burials shall cease in these cemeteries. After January 1, 1902, it will be in order for them to begin agitating for the removal of the bodies. The property now populated by the silent dead will by that time have become so valuable for residence purposes that its owners may perceive a profit in joining in the movement. If such prove to be the event no trouble will be experienced in abolishing the cemeteries. In the face of a financial operation such as has been sug- gested the ghosts of the eternal mountain will gather up their winding-sheets and walk without & shadow | cf protest. It is to be hoped the Board of Supervisors will take final action on the resolution. A VICTORY FOR RAISIN - GROWERS. LETTER to Senator Perkins from Special /C\ Commissioner Kasson, who is intrusted with the arrangement of reciprocity treaties under the Dingley tariff, gives assurance that the claim of the Greek Government for a free admission to our markets of the Zante currants will be refused and the interests of our raisin-growers protected. In the course of his letter the Commissioner, after reviewing the claim of the Greeks and pointing out that the President in his message had not recom- mended that Zante currants be put on the free list, but stated only that the subject was under considera- tion, went on to say: “I beg also to acknowledge the aid to such consid- eration afforded by your constituents, in the - facts presented by them, and in the samples furnished in support of their claim that the same currant as im- ported is already largely grown in California for the supply of our own market. This being established, the ground of the Greek claim for free admission must disappear. In view of these facts I hope you raay find it convenient to remove the apprehension and allay the fears of interested parties among your constituents. The result of the investigation seems likely to establish their claims on stronger grounds than ever before.” It is gratifying to learn from this letter that the Government at Washington seems to have acquired at last an accurate knowledge of the nature of the Zante currant and its relations to the raisin industry of California. That information having been attained, it is fair to assume the Zante issue is now settled for | the rest of this generation, and that our raisin-growers will be no further disturbed by the claims of the Greeks and the New York importers that Zantes should be entitled to admission to our markets free of duty. The Call took a warm interest in the question, and for the enlightenment of Washington officials’ pub- lished an elaborate exposition of the issue, giving a full account of the Zante currant, explaining its bo- tanical character and its uses in commerce and as an article of food. For its service to the raisin industry in this way a vote of thanks was given to The Call by the growers, and we have, therefore, more than or- dinary gratification in congratulating them and the State ‘at large upon the victory which has been at- tained. Hall Caine is a gracious little gentleman. He was called everything from blackguard to fool while in this country, and yet he is back in England saying pleasant things about us. An inveterate .smoker of tobacco has just come to a sudden end at the age of 100. The fact is merely stated here s0 as to be available for use as an argu- ment by, those who desire. While Hobson is criticizing the Navy Department he ought to remember that Chaplain McIntyre lost a good job for doing the same thing. " Possibly Chief Lees does not know that faro can- not, ‘legally be played in this city. Colnon. seems to be an example of de.bthbtd—re-_ uestions. When, for instance, may one be regarded | pentance. BETTER MEN IN PRISON. The Disgust and Anger Aroused- by the An- nouncement of Burns’ Candidacy Be- coming Daily More Intense. The following opinions on the can- didacy of Dan Burns are well worth reading. Seldom has rebuke so closely followed a display of brazen impu- dence; seldom has the Republican press of California set the seal of its contempt upon such a damnable scheme. Not yet is that press pre- pared to see a crown of infamy set upon the party it upholds, for Burns’ election means disgrace at hand and inevitable disaster in the future. BETTER MEN WEAR STRIPES. Dan Burns wants to be United States Senator. Better representatives can be found at San Quentin or Folsom.— I s Quent o) ‘olsom.—Bodie DAN HAS A RIVAL. Now that Mr. James J. Corbett's use- fulness as a prize-fighter is over, we re- spectfully nominate him for United States enator from California. We trust that he wil not_take this as an affront.—San Francisco Outpost. DEMOCRATS FOR BURNS. The people who imagine that a terrible effort will be made to make Dan Burns Senator are not watching the trend of political events. It is stated that there are Democratic legislators who will vote for Burns. If the necessity arises we hope to see the Republicans and Demo- crats who favor decency and oppose boss corruption in politics unite on an upright Democrat for Senator, T&e eople will re- volt at Burns.—Red Blui entinel. TRAPPED AT E‘TERY TURN. Something will have to be done to call off the Chronicle and Call or W. F. Her- rin and Dan Burns will have to give up all other occupations except to “sit in or- der and do nothing,” as is the custom in some schools back in New England. These worthies are getting trapped af every turn. It is alleged in both the Chronicle and Call that, at Burns’ request, Herrin furnished one Turner and_wife tickets from San Francisco to New York to oblige Mr. Assemblyman Merrill of San | Francisco, who has agreed to meet Mr. | Burns' _views as to voting for United States Senator. This will make another sensation, and that, too, when things were just getting quieted down.—Tulare Register. A SNEAKING CANDIDATE. If Burns is a candidate, his campaign is a sneaking one. Instead of coming out into the open and making the fight like a decent man, he is attempting to gain by stealth an advantage which he could not hope to gain by honest, open method. The charge is freely made, and it has not been authoritatively denied, that State patron- age is being used to promote his interest either as a candidate or asa V\'nrwlck.‘ The truth of this matter should be known | to the public, and the sooner it is made known the better. Even those friends of Burns who make the claim that he is not a candidate for Senator agree on one point. They mod- estly admit that he does “‘want to name | the next Senator!” The monumental| effrontery of this proposjtion need not be dwelt upon. It is so obvious, so conspicu- ous, that comment is superfluous. Are the members of the California Leg- islature prepared to abdicate their rights and to neglect their duty in this matter in order to give Dan Burns an opportunity to ‘“name the Senator?” We shall see. The Senatorial fight will be on earnest soon after the Legislature assem bled at Sacramento. The people of Ca fornia will look to their Legislature to st lect for that high position of honor ana trust a man who is in every sense worthy of the office, and who is well %‘\laflfled to discharge its arduous duties. he people will hold the Legislature to a strict ac- countability in this matter. Thef' will watch the progress of the contest with the keenest of interest, and will be quick to perceive the sglightest inclination on the part of any of our legislators to betray the cause of the people mto the hands of the people’s enemies. Public opinfon demands the selection, not of Dan Burns, nor of any other politi- cal trickster, but of a broad-minded, lib- | eral and able man, who will serve his | State with credit in the national Legisl ture instead of disfi:aclng it. Our legis- lators must meet this public demand or be prepared to take the consequences.— Los Angeles Times. A NEWS THIEF TRAPPED. The following article taken from a recent issue of the New York Herald shows how a thrifty metropolitan jour- nalist uses his neighbor’s goods to the detriment of the neighbor and the ag- grandizement of himself. ' The enter- prising newspaper man offered to sell The Call news, which was to be stolen from the Herald, being blissfully ig- norant at the time that The Call had eutered into a co-partnership with the Herald for the purchase of news and was entitled to whatever appeared in the columns of its contemporary. He was trying to sell stolen property to its owner. ‘We reprint elsewhere the amazing circu- lar in which a “night editor” in this city offers to pounce upon the morning papers as soon as they issue from the press and supply their copyrighted news *‘at space rates for matter actually used” to any out-of-town Faper that wants to hire him. He boasts that he can get earlier copies of these papers with few exceptions,” and ‘can Herald beats (copyrighted or not) written completely and_on the wire for you by 4 o’clock a. m., New York time. For unblushing effrontery in the way of pilfering copyrighted news this seems to cap the climax. The Herald had occasion recently to expose a San Francisco paper for thus pirating its cnpyrlfhted specials, and brought suit against it for piracy. But here is a person who proposes to make a general traffic of it for any paper willing to be a party to it. As s _well known, the Herald's special dispatches, obtained at great expense, are duly copyrighted, and hence cannot be re- printed with impunity except by those papers that have secured and pay for that gr ivilege. We have no objection to their eing copied, with due credit given, by morning papers of the day following that of their appearance in the Herald, but their unlicensed publication in Western papers on the same morning, which is rendered possible by difference of time and plifering of early coptes, is simply news thievery, in violation of the copy- right law, and a wrong, not only to the Herald, but also to those of our out-of- town contemporaries that pay for the privilege of using the dispatches. In jus- tice to them as well as to itself the Herald does not propose to permit i As we have -said, these special dis- patches are duly copyrighted, and their unlicensed appropriation is news piracy, for which the law affords means' of re- dress. It is the common regret of all rep- utable journals obtaining valuable special news that the remedies of the existing law are not more drastic or effective. ‘What is needed is severe penalties for this specles of piracy, and ngress should lose no time in amendlnfi the copyright statute so as to gro\'lde them. Owing to the difference in time it has long been a practice among impecunious and unscrupulous newspapers in the West to steal special news stories and features from New York journals. Special copy- re- right laws have been enacted by Congress to stop this dishonest practice. To the honor of the more enterprising and sin- cere papers in the West it must be stated that with them it is an Invariable rule to glve credit for this stolen matter, which, in a_slight measure, is some satisfaction for being robbed of valuable property without so much as saying By your leave.” 3 Perhaps the most unblushing proposi- tion yet made of the nature referred to is contained in the letter which the Herald prints herewith. It was written to the editor of the San Francisco. Call, a con- spicuous and enterprising newspaper that pays for the privilege of using the Her- ald’s speclal news features and has no use for a “dark lantern” service, such as the writer of the letter proposes. Following is the circular which the enterprising night editor of the Press sent to The Call. “To the Editor of The Call, San Fran- cisco—Dear Sir: I am night editor of the New York Press, and, having made a suc- cess of my news_correspondence for cer- tain- Eastern, Western and Southern newspapers, desire to extend it, and have three propositions to make. ‘1. If you'want a -news correspandent in this city to watch your interests, day and night, and query you on all news not cov- ered by the Associated Press report, I will serve you in that capacity, charging only | your own customary space rate for matter actually used. | { “2. If you want to have a newspaper correspondent who will not put you to the expense of paying telegraph tolls on que- ries, but whom you can always depend on to answer promptly any order you may send him from time to time for a news or special story, to be paid for at your own special rates for matter actually used, I will serve you in that capacity. “3. If you want a successful solicitor of advertisements in this great center, work- ing at your usual commission, I will se; you to a limited degree in that capscit: That is, I will go at any time after any particular advertiser you will indicate to me as likely to use your paper. “With regard to my news facilities I have this to say: I have early access to | the proofs of the New York Press, and | can use them freely in connection with ail news not covered by the Associated Press, | The Press gets all the news from special | correspondents all over the world, and gets it early—except when it is occasion- | ally beaten. | “To offset this occasional ' beat, T am able to get earller copies of the Herald, World, Journal and Sun than any person | else, with few exceptions, and can have | the Herald beat (copyrighted or not) re- written completely and on the wire for | you by 4 o’clock a. m. (New York time), | and any World, Journal, Sun or German | newspaper beat an hour earlier. | “If 1 can be of service to you in any of | these three cal)ucllies, please write' me | )v?:ttwmi:i r;e.rtfilulnr kind of work you nt, an Wi arant Y your money('ér‘wordtg}x s L Gl gned) “A. D. HOWARD, iRl oNight Editor New York Press. | ‘New York City, Nov. 11, 1868.” S R R S R T e T | AROUND THE CORRIDORS C. L. Adams of Visalla is at the Lick. L. B, Eaton of Pasadena js at the Pal- ace. Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare is at the Grand. E. W. Dunn of San Jose is registered at the Lick. ‘W. 8. Hoyt and wife are at the Cali- fornia. James H. Gill of New York is register- ed at the Palace. Dr. A. R, Moist of Dayton, Ohio, is a guest at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. A. Gartenlauch of Fresno are at the Occidental. T. E. Gibbon, a merchant of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Joseph D. Biddle, a prominent rancher of Hanford, is at the Grand. There is a story XX X224 : going the rounds ¢ THE10U ® which is told at & ® the expense of a @ AND ® well known mem- T @ ber of the Bohe- : 1TSS RESURLS: ¢ mian Club. It is H5OH®®66® o6& e worth repeating if for no other reason than to lllustrate the fact that circumstantial evidence is the hardest kind to overcome, especially if the person suspected or accused be in- nocent. This member has a great fond- ness for the national game commonly played with five cards. The persuasions of his wife, however, induced him to give up the game with the solemn promise that he would never play again. Some time ago he was watching a game in which a friend of his was participating. His friend had been up against it all the even- ing; also against a number of brandy and sodas, and his mental faculties worked not with their accustomed clearness. As the club man sat watching the draws his friend went broke, borrowed twenty-five from him and proceeded to make out an I O U, which he handed over, and the club man put it in his pocket without reading it. The next morning he over- slept himself and when he awoke his bet- ter half stood beside the bed holding in her hand the fatal plece of paper. She had been thr‘onuxh her husband’s pockets for logse ch ge, 1T thought yo\lr Jpromised me never to lay poker T dld, again and I have kept my promise.” 0 “Is this what you call keeping a prom- ise?”” and Mrs. B. handed her hug!ba.:dT:e piece of paper. “‘Confound it,” said the clubman in ex- plaining the matter to some friends a few days later, “what do you think he had done? Instead of making that I O U out properly he had made it so that T owed him twenty-five, and now all my protesta- tions of innocence to my wife are useless, She declares that she is not as green as I think she is when I try to explain the truth to her, but, worst of all, 1 have to be home before midnight, and that little loan has cost me a new dress for Christ. | mas in the bargain.” M. R. Plaistead of Fresno, Daily Enterprise and Demoe: California. Dr. H. P. Carlton has gone t ::m co;n'gnt(un of the National %;t;«f&d on of Dental Technics, n SR CS, to be held in H. E. Finney, who is interest i ed stove business in Kansas City, is ;;ot:e the guests at the Palace. % J. Bayha and G. Huser of Kol many, are at the Palace en :o\’:éeeer- China. They are German tourists com bining business with Pleasure. 3 T. H. Goodman, general passe of r:.lhfi Sguthern Pacific Cox:npanx;'ge;:(i;nt panled by his family, sailng v fo;" a few weeks’ sojourn in Hnrzoeli‘leurday r. and Mrs. Stirling Postle; ; Palace yesterday for Hongkong? lAu:m(r’xl: ber of their friends were at the pler to wish them bon voyage. The young couple Will return here in March for a short while before going t: Tutats noie & to New York, their | —————— OPPOSED TO ANNEXATION. CALPELLA, Cal., Dec. 20, 1898, Editor Call—When Admiral Dewey received finstructions to sail from Hongkong and destroy the Spanish fleet, did he also have instructions from the Government to destroy the fort at Cavite or land his forces? You are, no doubt, aware of the re- port of what Mr. Day said upon con- clusion of negotiations for the Philip- pines: “That this was the best we can do under the circumstances. That we lost our right to throw up the islands When he failed to weigh anchor and e The rted a e Tepo: talks of Hale Maine, Balley of Texas and Vest :; editor of the Tat, is at the Missourl against annexing the Philip- pines. Also I see The Call is along that line. I would rather see the Government lose what it has cost her for those par- ticular islands than to annex. and much less make sale of them. The lat- hensible. ter looks reprehe: 5 %I GURLEY. Calpella. Cal. ———————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STATE TAX—E. B. M., Angels Camp, . The State tax of California in 189? sz]s 4943ecern5; in 1895, 68.5; in 1896, 42.9; in 1897, 51; in lSS?, AJS.S:A’ AN OFFlCER'é WIDOW—Mrs. B., City. The widow of an officer does nothregelvg ter pension because her husban g.’egrf: actlgn in the field than she would if he died in the natural course of events. HALF-DIME—R. , .Gardiner, Or. A silver 5-cent piece of 1836 is wor!h4_ac- cording to the dealers’ prices, from 25 to 6 cents, according to perfectness of con- dition. There is no demand for such coins. REPORTS—C. E. U.. Smiths Flat, Cal. The reports of the officers who were in command in_the war between the United States and Spain will appear in_the anj nual report of the Secretary of War an that of the Secretary of the Navy. To obtain such reports, communicate with the Secretaries named, Washington, D. MAIL MATTER—Summersville, Cal. 1t the time of departure of the mail coach 18 4 o'clock in the morning the rulefis that mail dropped in the Postoffice during the night should go by the mail on the fol- lowing morning. FORGETFULNESS—H. M., Cty. There are a. number of books published under the title of ‘“Alds to Memory,” which are | sald to be of value to those who are for- getful. Such can be obtained through any first class book seller. VESSELS FOR MANILA—G. W., City, The following, from the records of the Merchants' Exchange, shows the names of the vessels and the dates on which they safled for Mantla via Honoltlu from San Francisco since October. 15, 1898: Oc- tober 19, Valencia; October 27, Indiana October 30, Zealanwa; November 3. Penns sylvania; November 6, City of Puebla; Novembér '8, Newport] Novefber 15, St aul. EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON—E. H. L., City. Benjamin Harrison, ex-Presi- dent of the United States, left Indlanap- olis for San Francisco February- 26, 1854, en route to Palo Alto. He arrived in San Francisco March 3 following. On the 5th of April of the same vear he was at a banquet tendered to him, Robert T. Lin- coln, Whitelaw Reid and General Scho- field by the University Club of San Fran- cisco. 3 BIG SHIPS—C. R., Clinton Park, Cal. The dimensions of the Great Eastern were: Length, 680; breadth, 83 feet; height of hull, 50 feet; 11,000 horse power. .The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is 649 feet long, 66 ,feet beam and 43 feet depth: horse- ower, 30,000. The Oceanic, the vessel now ujlding and which will be the :longest ehip ever built, will be 705 feet long, within a trifle of 83 feet beam, 50 feet dept: vith horse rower, 45,000, a draught of 25 feet THE O’'CONNELL STATUE-—J. B. K, City. This correspondent writes to give the information that there is a monument to Daniel O’Connell in Glassnevin Ceme- tery and one in Sackville. O'Connell died in Genoa, May 6, 1847. His heart was taken to Rome, where it was embalmed and buried in the Church of St. Agatha, while his remains were conveved to Ireland August 5, 1847, and buried in Glassnevin Cemetery. In 1869 a round tower was erected to his memory. It is 165 feet In height. The body was removed to & crypt in the base of the tower. FERTILIZING LAND—H. F. B., Free- ,stone, Cal. The cost of fertilizing land depends upon the conditions, and on the nature of the fertilizer. The cost in Cali- fornia ranges when commercial fertilizer is used from $8 to $15 an acre. The ques- tion, “How do commercial fertilizers compare with barnyard fertilizers?’ is a question that would require a great deal more space to answer than this de 1- ment has at Its command to devote: to one question. Much depends in the mat- ter of comparison on the condition of the barnyard fertilizer. As a general rule the latter is by far the best. CAMILLA URSO—S., City. Mrs. Ca- milla Urso, the violinist, made her first appearance in concert in San Francisco at Platt’s Hall November 23, 1869. On De- cember 12 of the same year she proposed to get up a grand concert in aid of the Mercantile Library. Her offer being ac- cepted, the first of a series of concerts to that end was given in Mechanics' Pavilion on the 224 of February, 1870, with an or-» chestra of 1200 voices and 200 instruments. There were 10.000 in the audience the first night. The last of these concerts was given on the 26th of that month, and the festival netted $19.412. ———— CALIFORN1ANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Mrs. Maurice Schmidt of San Francisco is at the Sa- voy; Adolph Son and family of San Francisco are at the Netherlands; J.. Yokl of Los Angeles is at the Vendome. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Hugh Craig, president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, delivered a lecture this afternoon before a goodly sized audi- ence at Columbian University on the Nie- aragua canal, beginning with its incep- tion and following it through its many vicissitudes to the present time. Dr. J. F. D. Murphy of San Francisco is at the Raleigh Hotel. Senator Perkins, through ex-Congressman Burnett of Massachu- setts, representing the Boston Merchants’ Association, received a flattering invita- tlon to address that body at its annual dinner on January 3 next. If public busi- ness will permit Senator Perkins will ac- cept. —_———— Townsend's, 627, Palace. Closed Sundys.® —————— Popcorn, 3 quarts 10c. Townsend's. . R 1 and 2 canes in box, 10c box. Townsend's.® —_———————————— 11b chewing candy in box, 25c. Townsend.* —_——————— Our famous broken candy, 3 Ibs in hand- some Japanese basket, 50c. Toynsend’s. * The best Xinas present: Tt;wngend's Cal- ifornia Glace Fruits, 50c, in fire etched boxes or Japanese baskets. 627 Market st., Palace Hotel building. . Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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