The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO . CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1899. TUESDAY. .JANUARY 10, 1899 JOHN D. SP‘RECKELS, Propretor. Address Ail Communi to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ications PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 16 pages ..One year, by mall, $I CAKLAND OFFICE. ....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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o%lock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open_until 9 o'clock. AMUSE ENTS Cabin Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. on and Eddy streets, Speclalties. eplechase AUCTION SAL By Frank W at 209 Grant ave., Butter 5 January 10, at 11 a. etc. rniture, Carpet EXTRAORDINARY CONTUMACY. CCORDING to Chief Lees, the Judges of !hcf Police Court are now standing in the way of | /:\ the suppression of the pool-room evil. On Saturday last he attempted to procure warrants for | al pool-sellers south of Market | et and was met by those officials with a flat re- them. This completely blocked his pon he sat down and wrote the iation, inclosing a copy of a report Spillane, setting forth in detail the e refusal and the fact that his officers | could not do their duty under the circumstances. No explanation has been made of the action of the | Folice Judges in the premises. It is unofficially stated that t have disagreed as to what particular the pool-room cases, and that there- ave concluded, in the absence of an agree- v warrants at all. No defense ttempted. They simply exer- and which of seve: fusal to issue whe As tions, to issue Judges is cise arbitrary power, which they possess, they are at liberty to exercise in the absence of a gtreater power to compel them to do their duty. g the extraordinary situation as ever yet beset San Francisco. The law is. being violated by a large number of pool-sellers. That is recognized even by the Police Judges them- But because they cannot agree on who shall try the cases—in other words, who shall incur the 1 odium of prosecuting'a certain class of in- fluential criminals—the Police Judges calmly refuse | to set the machinery of the law in motion and bring the pool-sellers to the bar of justice. It would seem as though it were about time for | somebody to take the Police Judges in hand. Those | officials have no discretion in the issuance of war- | rants, provided an offense is sworn to. If Captain Spillane and his officers are willing to swear that a crimie- has been committed there is no power au- thorized to ref the issuance of a warrant. After thie' pool-sellers are arrested the Police Judges may make political combinations with them and release them, but for that they will be responsible to the pub- lic. They have no authority whatever to refuse to issue warrants and in doing so they are amenable to impeachment | The Police Court has fallen rather deeply into poli- tics. of late and its powers are being exercised ille- gitimately all around; but this is the most flagrant ex- hibition we have seen of its weakness and contempt for the law. If the four gentlemen who preside over its affairsknow what is good for them they will cease “doing” machine politics and take hold of the cause of jusfice in a different spirit. If they do not do so there is bound shortly to be a thorough cleaning out of their department of the government. Tassumc the national leadership does not seem to be fully appreciated. After all he had done for Bryan the Colonel doffs his straps and declares that . the principles of the amateur leader are all wrong. Hearst is an imperialist from away back. He wants the American flag stuck up everywhere there is a distant isle affording room for a pole, the flag nailed 19 the pole and the nail clinched. Bryan would have the -people of this country stay at home and attend ‘t0. business. The resulting crash is terrible to observe. Once more-the immovable body and the irresistible force séem to be up against each other. Bryan’s expressions of view come to the people as a surprise. For weeks before the declaration of war with Spain Bryanites were telling how different things would have been with Bryan in the White House. He’®would not have temporized, not he. He would have issued an ultimatum commanding Spain to get | off her high horse, and in case of refusal have knocked | Ker off and placed a martial heel on her neck. His | eyve would have flashed fire, and his voice would have been a thunder note of battle. .- 'The war is over. Bryan is not only opposed to lolding the Philippines, but to holding anything else which may be regarded as the fruit of victory. His reasoning is clear. Had he reasoned so well concern- ing the financial question he would never have been known as the talking apostle of free silver. Of course the position he assumes is not to be considered Dem- ocratic, for arrayed in similar attitude are many of the strongest men of the Republican party. They are sincere. Possibly he also is sincere, but more likely his object is to embarrass the administration, which, :in any case, has a difficult and delicate problem to solve, the solution being destined, whatever its na- ture, to excite hostility. But,’ coming back to the original proposition, Bryan is certainly ungrateful. . Here he has gone and done something without so much as having consulted | Hearst: He has put that gentleman under the em- | barrassing necessity of having to switch, or lambaste the silver man, to sing whose praises as the only good and great has long been to him a duty and a icy. most selves. HEARST'S NATIONAL POLICY. HE generosity which impelled Mr. Hearst to ' ’mission disappeared. | his abuse far better than that of Jefferson can stand | HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON. N his Jackson day speech, at Omaha, ex-Governor IAltgcld took occasion toaccuse Alexander Hamilton of a long series of post-mortem crimes. Among these he put the alleged offenses of Quay in Penn- sylvania and the partisan charges upon Senator Hanna in Ohio, concerning his election by the Legis- lature. Altgeld announced, in efiect, the somewhat novel theory, that a man’s honesty in public and pri- vate life is determined solely by his party affiliation. According to this, if a man believes in anything I down by Hamilton he is a rogue, while profes- sion of the principles of Jefferson makes him an honest man! As Altgeld’s political principles are neither Hamiltonian nor Jeffersonian, he is not to be classed with either. But taking him for what he claims to be and applying his theory to incidents in the history of American politics, some interesting conclusions appear. This is not the first time an Ohio Legislature has appealed to the United States against the title of a Senator. It was done in the case of the late Henry B. Payne, and was supported by affidavits of members confessing that they sold their votes for Payne and were paid by an agent of the Standard Oil Company, who found it convenient to isolate himself in exile in the fens of the Rio de la Plata in the far Argentine, and we believe he has not yet turned up to grace the politics of his native land. According to Altgeld this was a crime committed by Jefferson and due to a profession of his principles. | While Altgeld was Governor of Illinois the Jeffer- sonian State Treasurer died. Under the law Altgeld took charge of -the office, the vaults and money. Upon a subsequent examination it was found that the Treasurer died a defaulter in nearly a quarter of a million dollars, and it was charged and never denied that a considerable part of this deficit had been loaned ‘by the Treasurer to Altgeld and was represented by the Governor’s notes in the vault at the time he took charge of the dead man's office. These notes did not subsequently appear in the official assets. Governor Altgeld compelled the Regents of the State University of Illinois to elect Spaulding treas- urer of that institution, and to turn over to him the endowment of the university. Spaulding started a bank, which failed and it was then it was discovered that he had hypothecated those university stocks, bonds and mortgages and the university endowment was lost. Governor Altgeld was concerned with Dreyfus in organizing another bank and made Dreyfus treasurer of the Chicago Drainage Commission, which is en- sewage of the city into the Illinois River. That bank failed and over half a million of the funds of the com- Now, if the party principles of men are to be blamed for the shortcomings of the individual, all of these sinister manipulations must be charged to | Thomas Jefferson, the apostle of the principles pro- | fessed by Altgeld and his Illinois gang. A glance at the history of his administration demonstrates that the memory of Hamilton can stand stocks, bonds and mortgages which represented the | gaged in upsetting the Chicago River to drain the | DAN BURNS’ PLAN. HE Canadian Annex of the Examiner, pub- T lished as an evening paper in San Francisco, quotes Daq Burns as having said: “There are two’ kinds of Senators. One is the Patrick Henry, the Daniel Webster kind, the old-fashioned kind, whose oratory was a telling weapon when great ques- tions were settled by debates and on the floor of the house.” But great.questions are no.longer settled that way. They are decided in committee rooms. The modern, successful Senator is an energetic, push- ing, strong worker. That is what I could be. That is where my ability lies.” These words are worthy of Colonel Mazuma. Dan Burns is entitled to the credit, to adopt the placarded eulogy of “The Man from Mexico.” “of smashing all records” in his definition of the class of politicians of which he is an exemplar and of his own peculiar qualifications to represent the State of California in the Senate of the United States. We commend this proclamation to the Legislature. It will greatly simplify their labors. In choosing a Senator, to aid in establishing the future historical relations between the Senate and the Federal Government, they need not look beyond the level of an inferior type of municipal boss. Brains, learning, experience, force of expression, intensity of conviction, radical in- tegrity, the inclination and the power to challenge public scrutiny of official action can be eliminated from their demands in the choice of Senator White's successor. All they need to find is a secretive and tireless worker in the committees, that are to super- sede the Senate in the solution of “‘great questions.” and, presto! that has been done for them by Dan Burns. As Galileo once observed, “the world moves.” Within the last few months we have been frequently irformed that Washington is a back number, with a plain inference that the shrieking editorials of the Examiner are to be read when the “Farewell Ad- dress” is forgotten, and that, a century hence, when the flag shall have been permanently nailed to the tree of Despotism, the shriveled features of the “Father of his Country” will be replaced by the mod- ernized face and head of Mr. Hearst. The Thomas | Jefferson who mainly wrote the Declaration of In- “depchence has given place to an Asiatic counterfeit | whose praises are sung by the Examiner and by Pro- | fessor Davidson. Madison, Monroe and Jackson are | mere relics of ancient and forgotten history. Gen- eral Merritt, on behalf of his countrymen, has out- grown the constitution, which has ceased to be a legitimate topic for discussion. Julian Hawthorne has cut the apron strings that connected the Fathers of the Republic with the American people.- Men like Senator Hoar of Massachusetts are ridiculed as “old | grannies.” And now Dan Burns, the immaculate | graduate from the lower depths of politics, tells us t that he is the legitimate successor of Daniel Webster, because he is a condensed product of this age, full of “push and energy” and a “strong worker,” who only needs the privacy of the committee room to be a success! | | FOOD PRODUCTS AND STATE LABELS his praise. Upon the main issue, that of money, put forward by | Altgeld, Bryan and the other orators at the only | Jackson day banquets held this year, Hamilton and | Jefferson never differed. They were in exact agree- | ment, and the Bryan school is opposed to both. i Somewhat distorted views are common now touch- \‘ ng the views and the personal relations of Hamilton | and Jefferson. The fact is that Jefferson was made | President by Hamilton. In the election of 1800 the electoral vote was a tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The election of President therefore went into the House to be decided by the unit vote of States. Burr was an expert politician, with all gifts and graces which belong to that class of men, and with no | scruples. The result was long in doubt, but on the thirty-sixth ballot was decided for Jefferson by Dela- ware voting blank. That State was represented by Bayard, a Hamiltonian, an ancestor of the late Thomas F. Bayard. This was done on the advice of | Hamilton, who regarded Jefferson as a patriot and a safe man. | This act cost Hamilton his life, for it was the real cause of Burr's challenge and of the tragedy at Weehawken. So, after all, the apostle of Democracy owed to Hamilton the opportunity to officially exploit his theories of government, and found thereupon the party that is now supposed to be led by Altgeld and Bryan. There is, however, room for belief that if Jefferson should return and desire to do a turu in American politics, he would not recognize that crowd as his political follower: HOW GREAT BRITAIN DOES S 1T INCE so many vociferous imperialists have been loudly clamoring for the adoption by this coun- writer for the Boston Globe has taken the trouble to make investigations into the ways and means by which the British have made their expansion policy so popular among politicians of all parties. As a re- sult of his studies he has published some information concerning colonial salaries in the British empire which is interesting. From these it appears that the Governor of Jamaica, which in importance fairly corresponds to Porto Rico, gets $30,000 a year. The Governor of Ceylon, no colonial possessions similar to the Philippines, but the Governor of such a comparatively small pos- session in the Orient as the Strait Settlements gets 000; so that under British control the Governor of the Philippines would receive certainly not less than $50,- 000 as a yearly salary. large staff. A considerable number of officials in India are paid from $30,000 to $60,000 a year, and in the smaller colonies subordinate officers are paid in proportion. Beneath these higher dignitaries there is a host of lesser officials, many of whom receive an amount of pay that is enough to justify colonial ex- pansion in the eyes of every place hunter in the kingdom. While the publication of this list is calculated to make the American taxpayer hesitate about adopting the colonial system on the British plan, it will be an incentive to renewed exertions on the part of the politicians. With the bare possibility of such spoils in prospect the gangs of both parties will feel a thrill within reach. Nor will it be surprising if a great many of them persuade themselves that the thrill is one of patriotism. The British, it is said, have adopted the practice of paying large salaries to colonial officers because ex- perience taught them the folly of undertaking such governments with cheap men. try the cheap process. It is our way. There will be spoils, however, in the colonies. The average Amer- ican job chaser who gets a place in the Philippines will find some way of making it as remunerative as the traffic will bear | | try of the British system of colonial expansion, | about equal to Cuba, gets $40,000. The British have | $17,000 a year and the Governor of India gets $125,- | Moreover each of these colonial dignitaries has a | impelling them to favor the annexation of everything | We, of course, will | EW YORK dairymen have renewed their efforts N to obtain from Congress the enactment of a law providing that no form of food product shall be falsely branded as to the State in which it is pro- duced. The object is to put an end to frauds, now extensively practiced, and if enacted the proposed measure would be an important addition to our pure food legislation. The reason the New York dairymen have taken the lead in the matter is that they have a specific griev- ance of long standing which has aroused their in- dignation. There is a large demand in Europe, par- ticularly in Great Britain, for good cheese. New York dairymen found their exports to that market handicapped by the large amount of filled cheese that was sent from this country, and they therefore ob- tained from the State a law providing for the inspec- tion of cheese, with the result that the New York | brand of cheese soon obtained a good standing in the foreign market. When that was accomplished, however, the makers of adulterated cheese in other States began to put the New York brand on their output; with the result that the brand is no longer a guarantee of a good article and the New Yorkers are | again losing their trade. | A practice of that kind ought to be stopped in the | interests of common honesty, and even if we had no grievances of our own, our delegation in Congress should aid the New Yorkers in obtaining the enact- ment of the desired law. It happens, however, that California suffers certainly as much and probably more than New York from such practices. A large variety of fruit products are made of inferior stuff in the East and marked with California labels in order ! to get the benefit of the popular favor with which lCalifurnia fruit is regarded. | Our fruit growers and dealers have expended a | great deal of time, labor, skill and money in develop- ingtour fruit industry to its present high standard. If, therefore, the California brand has a high prestige in the Eastern market it is because our growers and dealers earned it, and they are entitled to reap the full benefit of their work in building up the repu- fation of their products. Of late, however, the un- | scrupulous dealers of the East have been putting the ‘name of California upon almost any kind of stuff to | the manifest injury of our trade. We have therefore a common interest with the | New York dairymen in the proposed legislation. The law is fair for all parties. It would give to those States that enforce pure food laws the full benefit of their action, and would leave other States, where no such laws are enforced, to learn by experience the folly of permitting adulterated articles to be sent out (to the general market. It is to be hoped Congress | will find time to deal with the subject at this session. \: Certainly the reform should be urged with resolution by honest food producers throughout the Union. ———e e While the telephone company is not good at keep- |ing the secrets of its patrons, it has a few of its own | which it is keeping very well. For instance, it is not saying a word concerning the hired men it has cir- culating among the legislators at Sacramento. Rev. Mr. Brush of Alameda naturally desired to get where the sinners were thickest, so he went into the midst of the Burns gang. While he did not reform any of them, they all know that he has been there. It may be said fairly that all the talk setting forth | the longing of the Czar for peace, while once a fairly | good joke has become a chestnut. It is not “peace on earth” he is after; merely the earth. B After the rush and necessary confusion of organiza- tion, the fact that the telephone company would be morally improved by judicious legislative restrictions will stand out as clearly as ever. Ereo S Aguinaldo’s representatives in this country seem to be equipped with worthless credentials, but cheek sufficient to carry them almost anywhere. e Both political parties are claiming Dewey, and he does not seem to be willing to plead guilty to either ‘charge. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. Editor The Call: The retail mer treatment at the hands of our newsp. This hasn’t been given us. The Examiner, in scare headlines, This statement is untrue. in some cases for similar purposes.” some cases for similar purposes.” do so. law does not allow. authorizes that punishment for larce its existence is just about as logical. ‘We ask only what is right and by the small tradesmen all over the for no sane c the law prepared for us is examined c wrong no one. On the other hand, i of the State protection from dishones bill. We feel sure, however, that it w RETAIL GROCERS uary 7, that the retail butchers and the retail grocers of California propose the establishment of imprisonment for debt. And what is more, the paper admitted its un- truth in the paragraphs following the headlines. the Examiner reporters declared that the law as framed for us by the at- torney of our collection bureau, Mr. Albert Armstrong, did not permit the im- prisonment of a man because he could not pay his bills. self, after saying “it is proposed in California to revive the system of im- prisomment for debt,” added the truthful statement that “they propose the extension of the power of punishment for contempt of court, which is used This last statement gives the exact facts of the case. tension of the power of punishment for contempt of court, which is used in his would not enable a Judge to send a man to jail because he could not pay his bills. Therefore it would not effect imprisonment for debt. The Examiner’s only argument in its contention that this bill would re- sult in the imprisonment of poor men for debt is that dishonest Judges might take this action, although the This is the most preposterous of reasoning. A good law must not be passed because a dishonest Judge might make it an excuse to do something that the Dishonest Judges might send honest men to jail for theft because the law for the abolishing of the law punishing thievery. law is bad because dishonest Judges might send poor men to jail because of air. flict with the personal rights of citizens it would not be supported as it is The wickedness of imprisonment for debt is self-evident. hysterical shrieks in denunciation of this wickednesss is a waste of energy, izen of our republic would even want ‘We can understand how a paper pandering to the worst passions of un- thinking people can hope to make capital by misstatements concerning the The passage of the amendments we propose will be of enormous value to every retail merchant in California. Yours truly, BUTCHERS' BOAR SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9, 1899, chants of California are entitled to fair apers. , declared in its issue of Saturday, Jan- Attorneys interviewed by The Examiner. it- ‘We ask “an ex- law would not duthorize them to nists. Yet this would be no argument The argument that our If our bill should in any way con- tate and we would not desire it. To indulge in uch a law passed. If arefully it will be found that it will t does secure for the retail merchant t debtors. ill not pay them in the end. ' ASSOCIATION, Incorporated, JOSEPH A. STULZ, President. D OF TRADE, Incorporated, SAM C. HAMMOND, President. MORE MEN ARE PLACED BY THE SUPERVISORS Many Minor Positions Are Filled. A MOMENTARY DEADLOCK EXTENSION OF PARK PANHAN- DLE TO BE PRESSED. The Annual Request to Spring Valley Water Works for a Detailed Statement of Its Affairs Is Made. The Supervisors met yesterday and transacted a large volume of routine busi- ness in an expeditious manner. The lobby was thronged with job-chasers and their following. The moment the appointments were made they at once left the meeting- place. The names of many of the men who will serve the city under the present ad- ministration in various capacities were previously announced exclusively in The Call. The appointments, which were agreed upon at a caucus of the Supervis- ors held in the latter part of last week, were confirmed by the board at the meet- ing yesterday as follows: Attendant and messenger Justice Courts, James McGee; Fish and Game ‘Warden, James Fallon; caretaker of in- sane patients, Miss Lucy Brown; care- taker of drinking fountains, T. B. Crai day watchman City Hall, Charles Maye engineer City Hall, James Symons; car- penter City Hall, Peter Lynch; assistant carpenter_City Hall, S. Baker; conductor elevator No. 2,” City Hall, C. McLain; fireman heating room, City Hall, Edward Keegan (Keegan was employed at the re- quest of the Fireman's Union); gardener Alta Square, Lawrence Ric gardener Columbia Square, William Welch; gar- dener Garfleld Square, John Kelly; gar- dener Hamilton Square, A v gardener Portsmouth Squar. net; gardener Union Square, H. Mayer: gardener Washington Square, Mike Welch; gardener City Hall grounds, J. C. Jones; gardener South Park, Thomas Kerr; gardener Lafayette Square, Arthur Nagle; gardener City Hall grounds. ‘Wil- liam Miskell; engineer and bridge-keepe Fourth bridge, Garry Welcl br(dEo-kse er, Fourth street bridge, B. E. Lauterbach; assistant bridge-keeper, Fourth street bridge, Matthew Shut bridge-keeper, Seventh sireet bridge, — Weber; keeper Sixth street dumps, J. J. Hanlon; keeser Street Department cor- poration yard, John Crimmins; police pa- trol drivers—C. Heppler, Andrew Traut- vetter, James Barry, Dave Sullivan, George Madden, John Daly, Henry Beas- ley incent Barbreto, Philip Ray, Louts H%tz, Henry Peterson and Henry Ja- cobs. For a time there seemed a deadlock in the board over the positions to be filled. 1t seems at the first meeting two janito: were appointed where only one was pre vided for. One had to be dropped and the name . Hynes was selected. It should have been J. C. Bauer, and when the necessary correction was made the deadlock was speedily broken. 2 The annual attempt to force officials of the Spring Valley Water Works to file a detailed statement of the corporation’s affairs as required by the constitution was made. Supervisor Deasy introduced a resolution, which was adopted, notifying the company that it was required to fur- end of the current month. The resolution went into details as to the information required. This is done annually, but never results in the required information being furnished. The recommendation that the city ac- quire_twelve city blocks extending from Van Ness avenue to Baker street, to be made a part of the gurk panhandle, was brought before the board by Supervisor Holland, and his recommendations were adopted. They were in effect that t necessary land for such purpose be a quired by the city and county. The blocks required are Western addition blocks 72, 141, 210, 220, 287, 298, 3 , 437, 445, 516, 525. Further that the board hereby pledges itself to provide the necessary revenue in the manner provided by ex- isting laws for the acquisition of this land and that the City and County Attorney is requested to inform the bdard at its next meeting the best method of proceeding to accomplish the object intended. The Mayor asked the Supervisors to rescind the contract entered into with Devlin & Devlin of Sacramento and Rogers, Paterson & Slack when they agreed to ascertain what money, if any, is still due the city and county of San Francisco from the State under certain unnamed laws and to sue and recover the same. The Mayor pronounced it an im- position and asked the board to act ac- cordingly. According to his figures the county would receive $800,000, while the lawyers would pocket $700,000 as their fee, grossly absurd compensation for such services. Supervisor Perrault presented a resolution asking that the contract with the attorneys be rescinded. The matter was referred to the Finance Committee and will be considered at its meeting Friday at 11 o’clock. J. B. Reinstein, chairman of the com. mittee having in hand the preliminary arrangements for an exposition in this city two years hence, addressed the board briefly. 'He told of the scope of the expo- sition and its financlal requirements. It was finally determined that a speclal meeting of the board be held in its own lrooms to-morrow night at 7:30 o'clock, ” nish a comprehensive report before the | when the its phases. | The Finance Committee recommended | that, as there appears to be a large num- | ber of demands in excess of the so-called one-twelfth act, they be laid over until the close of the fiscal year. At that time | the same will be paid out of the surplus fund, which the committee will, by an economical administration of municipal affairs, endeavor to provide for the pay- | ment of all liabilities against the city during the fiscal year. The committee will, in the public ‘interest, consider and pass upon all meritorious claims present- ed, and will, when the appropriation and funds permit, approve and recommend the allowance of the same if they were con- tracted for or ordered by their predeces- sors and are properly chargeable to the first six months of this fiscal year. A petition was presented by F. H. Bush- | nell_ and oth asking that City Hall square be paved with bitumen and fl-| luminated properly to show off the bep‘“‘i ties of the group of statuary provided by James Lick. | The Mayor's veto of the request for | permission to build a showcase at 753 | Market street out from the building was sustained. His veto of the bid of G, W. Fuller & Co. for furnishing the Hall of Justice was referred to the Building Com- mittee. The application of the National Athletic Club for a boxing permit for this month was not presented. It had previously been approved by the Health and Police Com- mittee. PARTNER FOR UNCLE SAM matter will be discussed in all WANTED, PARTNERS—Uncle Sam has become wearied by close confine- ment and wishes to “expand” and will | form a union with any and all coun- | tries desiring such an alliance who have the following qualifications: First—They must be in the tropiecs, where our army of occupation will be- come decimated, which, of course, of it- self is bad; but it will afford occupa- tion for pension agents and put much money in circulation. Second—They must be mostly brown | or black people. This will seem queer, but the white race is getting too smart and a mixture of the dusky races will tone them down. Third—They must be mostly naked. | It would be a great financial stroke to furnish_them with, say about ten mil- lion, suits of clothes. Fourth—They must be lazy, fight with their fists or with corn knives, and be tinctured with leprosy and with some other diseases. We must have an out- let for our ambitious politicians who are advertising for jobs. (Watterson is the last.) We have seen what admira ble work bacteria did with tlie native Hawalians, reducing them from 300,000, | when Captain Cook first called on them, to 40,000 at the present time. | Thus 260,000 were made happy by the wonderful influence of civilization. When we get them clothed we would have the Coroner and the undertaker | ready to make their last sad offering. ‘We might need Cuba then for our Mo- | lokai. In fact, we might use all “our | islands,” with their interesting fauga, for the exclusive habitation of a;e Messrs. Bacillus Lepra. Fifth—There must be not over 15 per cent of white people. Not that we love | the white people less, but the black | more. Then the white would want of- | fice and would be troublesome. One per cent would suit better. In fact, the Philippines about suit us. Sixth—They must be far away. It would then require many great ships, which we could float around the world | and let our Oriental cousins look at us | (like the big boy who grows his first | whiskers). It would put much money in circulation to build the ships, and we | would easily “damn the surplus” that we | are going to have when our admirable | tax system gets in good working order. | Then, too, “distance lends enchantment | to the view our people over the wire and divert | their attention from home matters. It is not well for them to congest their brains too much on home affairs, for everything is running smoothly here and this is a free country; free and easy. A. E. BRIGGS. Roseville, Cal.,, December 27, 1898. AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. A. Gray of Visalia is at the Lick. Edwin Mayo, the actor, is at the Palace. William Arthur of Boston is at the Palace. Dr. E. S. O’'Brien of Merced is a guest at the Lick. Dr. Benepe and wife of Sebastopol are at the Grand. G. W. Towle, a lumber dealer of Towles, is at the Grand. Henry J. Vance of New York Is regis- tered at the Russ. 8. C. Arnold of Pasadena arrived at the | Palace yesterday. John A. McIntyre, a miner from Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. E. F. Reichman, a merchant of Fort Jones, s a guest at the Grand. ] A. J. Smith and wife of Reno are at the Palace. Mr. Smith is a prominent banker. Banker T. J. Fleld and wife of Mon- terey are among the guests at the Palace. Abbott Kinney of Los angeles, who is president of the Yosemite Park Commis- fon, is at the Occidental. s ——————————— LCAI;II‘OB,NIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Fred O. Stanton, recently of the Palace Hotel, San Fran- cisco, where he had been for the last twelve years, has returned to this city. He is at the Normandie. | | will be twenty-five more T | Wednesday night by P: and we could entertain | | ! measure and draw TC MEMORIALIZE CONGRESS | FOR THE COLONIAL FAIR MECHANICS' INSTITUTE ASKS AID OF COMMERCIAL BODIES. Government Appropriation Will Be Requested—Exhibit to Be Given to State Board of Trade. The following communication, intended to invoke the assistance of commercial organizations in the proposed Colonial Fair to be held at the Mechanics’ Pa- vilion in September, will be sent thrgulgh mercantile circles By the Mechanics’ In- stitute. The proposition is one of such magnitude that President Denicke of the Institute is of the opinion that it cannot be brought to a successful result without the co-operation of the mercantile ele- ment in the community. If the move- ment be made a general one there will be no difficulty in inducing Congress to ap- Propriate the required amount for the Proper collection and exhibition of the re- sources of our newly acquired colonies in the Philippines and West Indies. he letter reads as follows: I beg to call your attention to T ssed copy of letter from Professor George Davidson indorsing the proposition of the Mecianics' Institute to hold a colonial fair in this ¢ 1 scarcely need dwell on the im- portance of a commercial museum being os- shed in city, o the one in hiished n this city, similar ¢ The Mech " Institute proposes that its pening September 2 next, shall 11l embrace exhibits coming fair, be a colonial of the product Philippine Is) ; of Hawall, the Siberia, Bastern Asia and Central Americc; the intention being to awaken the interest of our capitalists and merchants to, the commercial possibilities of those coun- It is our fntention to memorialize Congress to appropriate $30,000 for the purpose of col- lecting exh h on their arrival in this city wi talled in the Mechanics® and at the c d over to t or to a commer- be organized. ne, formerly v_at Manila, ssioned by the De- partment ) collect information and statistics as to the etc., of the Philippines, and with th. stance of such men as he, and the U various places, an ex which would be of t interest to the pub- lic generally as well as to the merchants and capitalists of this city in showing where trade relations can be fostered To that end we request y to join_with us in memoriali make this appropriation, and t ence to have the various d ington give all the assista: way of Instructing Consuls specially for that purpose where will not involve any lability on your organization or the other o that we are requesting to assist, and it is the intention, if deemed advisable, to raquest the participation of the organizations indcrsing this matter in the management of the fair. The soon- er such exhibits are received in this city the better it will be for our trade, and we wish to be understood as not being in any way in opposition to the proposed falr of 1901, to be held in this city, but rather with the inten- tion of assisting the same and using this fair as an Introduction to the larger fair, in the same way that the fair held by the Mechanics’ Institute in January, 1893, was introductory to the California exhibit at the World's Falr at Chicago. Trusting that you will use your influence to have your organization in!nr;P"nur proposed morial, I am, yours respectfu e FRNST A. DENICKE, President Mechanics’ Institate. —_— ee——— WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Golden Gate Camp of the Woodmen of the World is still increasing. At the meet- ing Monday, January 2. P. W. Gates, Jacob Kollmeyer, John P. Harrington, John H. Downing, T. H. Manchester, John Mayer, William E. Faulth, J. W. McKinnon, A. M. Schillinger, A. E. Grampuer, P. L. Brone and L. G. Greiner were admitted by initiation. At the next meeting there . eady for initia- The camp is rapidly ad 3 and mark in membership. ing there were present a number of visitors from various camps, who addressed the convention. Richmond Camp has arranged for a grand entertainment and dance to be given in the Richmond District, at Fourth avenue and Clement street, on the night the 20th inst. 2 O e head camp of the Pacific jurisdic- tion has issued a very instructive eircular in relation to the equalization funa which has just gone Into effect. It is a very interesting and lucid explanation of the plan, which every woodman should care- tully consider. The officers of R;i;i“-nmx Camp will be nstalled_on the 18th inst. e ‘omcers of ‘San Francisco Camp were installed with impressive cerel S last-Wednesday night by Dr. M. B. Estes, consul _commander of Tamalpais Camp, assisted by John S. Patterson of Golden Gate Camp, who acted as escort. At the close of the ceremony the past consul commander was invited to the stump. Where Consul Commander Bell of Golden Gate Camp, on behalf of the sitting camp, presented him with a beautiful badge of the order in appreciation of his services during the time he was in office. _After addresses by several of the neighbors present there was a social hour. —ee—— FRIENDS OF THE FOREST. The officers of Lincoln Lodge were in- stalled on Monday, January 2, by Supreme President Mrs. Mary E. McLane, assisted by Past Supreme President Mrs. A. Boehm. Those of Mizpah Lodge were installed last st Supreme Presi- uld be procured organization Congress_to use your influ- ng men it ible. This dent Mrs. Boehm, a Wentzell. There were present a number of visitors from Pioneer and America log’fsi'ppr Lodge last week _initiated seven strangers. Its officers will be in- Stalled next Tuesday. and on the last Tuesday in the-month the lodge will hold an open meeting. —_—e——— ORDER OF AMERICUS. 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