The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899. FEBRUARY 3, 189 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. o A e~ e~ PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Sireet Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Sirgle Coples. § cents Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month AY CALL, one year . LY CALL, one year. All_postmasters are authorized 1o receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.... .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ; . ......Marquette Building C. CEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICE&—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. i941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2391 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll & o'clock. 1505 Polk strect, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streects. open until 9 o'clock. £MUSEMENTS I's Eye.” h Lert Home."” day night. ady of Lions.” s streets, Speclalties. Comedy — * o Ce eplechase. cert to-morrow afternoon. Piano Recital Monday evening, Feb- , Oakland — Shakespearean Recital A. Auditoriu ‘ebruary 7. d Race Track— THE GASLIGHT BANKS. HE bill introduced into the State Senate by snator Feeney of San Francisco, which invali- tes all contracts for the deposit of money as 1 condition precedent for setting up gas meters, should commend itself to the legislative discretion. The measure not only makes such contracts void, [ but requires corporations exacting deposits to re- turn them on demand, and a failure to comply im- mediately with a demand renders the corporation liable to a judgment of $100 and costs when suit is hat commenced We do not for s v of the State except San Francisco, but here it is buse which has long been recognized by the peo- ple. re is no authority of law for requiring these deposits. The gas corporations merely take advan- tage of the helplessness of their patrons to force the know that the practice of exacting de- ing up gas meters prevails in any other security from them. Any person may secure a gas meter as the law now exists by serving notice in writing upon the co which he desires to supply his house. But this is not generally known to patrons of the gas corporations. Their rights, therefore, should be fixed Every gas company which demands a de- s a condition precedent to setting up a meter thrown open to a liquidated damage -suit. Experience is the only way in which the unfair practice can be abolished. The gas companies of this city hold constantly .000 belonging to their patrons as de- law. by posit should shown that thi: $40,000 or posits. They not only obtain the use of this money, but they absorb the interest of it altogether. There is no stronger reason why .a gas company should obtain security for its able wares in this way than that a groc man, saloon-keeper, water r on or a I ny other person dealing in merchant- products should do so. The butchers and grocers of San Francisco are now at Sacramento urging the enactment of a law which will enable them to collect their bills. They desire the passage of a statute which will authorize them to threaten their creditors Yet everybody is opposing their The gas cor- porations, however, are allowed to obtain perfect se- curity for their bills by demanding a deposit in ad- vance. Senator Feeney’s measure, which from its provi- sions appears to have been framed with the single design of putting a stop to this practice, should com- mend itself to the Legislature. The members can do nothing more calculated to elevate them in the es- teem of the people of San Francisco than the enact- ment of this bill. Certainly it is reasonable and just and is demanded by the facts of the situation. 2ble 1 with imprisonment. proposition with ridicule and abuse. OVERSTEPPING THE BOUNDS. TH()UGHTFL'L men are not prone to deny to women all reasonable rights, but when repre- sentatives of the gentler sex overstep the bounds the necessity for wooing them back is apparent and not to be shirked. Let it be done kindly, and rather by reasoning than resort to the police. There is an unwritten law which grants to women the privilege of using a hatpin as a weapon of offense and defense. Are her feelings outraged, she can pluck from her headgear this ready implement and jab it where it wili do the most good. She has fre- quently done so, even at the risk that for the nonce her hat will not remain straight, and nobody ever heard of her being punished for it. The hatpin in the hands of indignant beauty is suggestive, correc- tive; a pointed rebuke. While not seeking to curtail the remedial hatpin in its work of protecting virtue and chasing vice howling into the distance, there are circumstances under which it may not be properly employed. We have in mind the case wherein a lady, roused to wrath against a male person, sought him with intent to puncture- his hide, but before applying the cure for wickedness filled the eyes of the subject with red pepper. Now this was distinctly unfair. Even erring man should have a show to run away or to dodge, but a man whose optics are ablaze with a useful yet possibly displeasing condiment is at a disadvantage. He has no chance to run. He has been imposed upon. If he were to try to escape he might slump into a coal- hole or skurry kerplunk from the dock. Is it too much to ask that lovely woman satisfy her yearning with a hatpin alone and leave the pepper at home to be employed in the field of cookery? If she persist in her reckless course the first thing she knows those Sacramento legislators will abolish the hatpin and decree that its place be taken by a ribbon or a string. And then where will she get off at? P — There always seems to be something to say about Jockey Sloan. Just now it happens to be that he has won a fortune in Wall street, and in a few days it will he a denial of the story. CONVERSION OF THE CHRONICLE. HE CALL may truthfully claim to have been among the earliest and the foremost opponents of colonization or annexation in Asia. At Washington such arguments as have been attempted to excuse the acquisition of the Philippines under th treaty of Paris have rested either upon a plea of tem- porary expediency, which is the entering wedge of the imperialists, or upon imperial colonization itself. No member of Congress, so far as we are informed, has favored territorial organization for the Philip- pines, with its necessary concomitants of Chinese and Malay citizenship, polygamy, Mohammedanism | and irredeemable ignorance and barbarism. But in this State, contrary to the views of Con- | gressional expansionists, as we have before observed, | the Examiner and the Chronicle advocated annexa- | tion, pure and simple. In the case of the Examiner, assuming to represent its exclusive “national policy,” which has been universally repudiated, the case is probably hopeless. That paper, after an interval of silence, and apparently without point or reason, has resumed its monopoly of flag-nailing. The Chron- icle, however, has always rested its attitude upon the ground of the extension of trade and commerce, with special reference to this State. The claim of The Call has been, and is, that without entering into Euro-. pean or Asiatic complications, and adhering rigidly to our constitutional system, the Union, and particu- larly the Pacific States, would be the prime factor in that Western movement that, in the twentieth cen- tury, promises to transfer the scepter of commercial and financial activity from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific. Since the lower house of Congress has passed the bill increasing the army to one hundred thousand men by a majority of forty-three votes, and as it has become plain that the territorial incorporation of the Philippines is impossible, it seems that the Chronicle must now be considered as withdrawn from the ranks of the expansionists. On January 30, under the heading of “No Armies for the Tropics,” it said | that “‘unless the American people could hold the Philippine group without an army they do not wang to hold it at all,” and in another article in the same issue this declaration was impressively repeated: “As for the Philippines, if they are going to call for a | lzrge army, we do not want them, and, what is more, we will not take them.” It is gratifying to all true lovers of our country to cbserve that not only at Washington but in many | centers of intelligence the advocates of the policy of expansion, convertible into imperialism, are gradu- ally finding their way back to the American concep- tion of republican government. This meets the | | necessities of patriotism without regard to party. But it is also evident that the effort of Mr. Bryan to de- feat the Republican party in 1900 by patenting the imperialistic issue for the Democratic organiza- tion is appreciated and understood. The overwhelm- ing Republican successes of 1898 could be easily overcome by the identification of the party with treason to the constitution, or even by the adoption of a policy in relation to foreign posgcssions that would tend toward revolutionary change or modifi—; cation of our political system. As the Chronicle of | January 31 justly observes: “If anything now in | sight could stop the progress of Republicanism it | would be an attempt to make the cost of taking care | of new territories exceed their value as trade pre- | serves. If the Government creates a $90,000,000 army | to take care of islands, the trade of which is worth a considerably smaller sum, disgust at the pol- icy must react against the President and his party | to admit the corruption of Legislatures. | in intellect is not a result of mere mischance. | of public discussion. in 1900. * * * The sentiment for a Greater America is one that rests upon the basis of a larger | trade and more profit for the people, and not upon | a Gallic desire for empire and glory.” This indorsement of the consistent attitude of The Call, though placed upon purely economical grounds, is acceptable as an evidence of reviving sanity. The surrender of the attempt to enforce American civil zation upon a population characterized by a Spanish Commissioner as possessing the aptitude of the mon- key tribe for liberty and for independence is not in- consistent with that loftier sentiment which for more than a century has devolved upon the American na- tion, through its natural and constitutional advance- ment, the higher function of a trustee for the human | race. We are pleased at the outlook, and quite con- tented to leave the Examiner, in its gloomy isolation, to the congenial task of driving nails through the American flag and into the forehead of its former leader. PUNISH THE GUILTY MEN. AGAN’S vituperative reply to General Miles has E been met with a prompt court-martial and a speedy condemnation, so that episode is sat- isfactorily closed. The greater issue of the con- troversy, however, remains unsettled. There has been as yet no move to bring to justice the men who furnished the army with the supplies whose foulness brought on the heated discussion between the general of the army and the War Department. If General Miles’ statement concerning the nature of the beef supplied to the army needed any further | confirmation than was given in his official report, it | has been abundantly forthcoming. Officers of all | grades have contributed their testimony to support | the charge, and even privates who served with the | volunteers have come forward to expose and | denounce the wrong. In a recent letter to the Philadelphia Record George D. Wescott, a member of Battery C, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, during the war, says: “As to | the canned beef which came under my personal ob- | servation: 1. It was rotten. 2. When a can was | opened the first hole made by the knife emitted such ar odor of carrion that it would turn the stomach of a vulture, 3. It was coarse and stringy, as if all the substance had been withdrawn, and just the hard and tough tissues remained. 4. There was not a can that I saw (and I made it my business to open a goodi many cans with which our command was supplied) which did not contain a green colored liquid—some- thing horrible to smell—and large pieces of cold grease floating about in it.” After narrating how the pangs of hunger forced a considerable number of men to eat some of the less offensive portions of the meat, Wescott goes on to say: “I firmly believe that the canned and so-called ‘embalmed’ beef was the cause of the sickness which prevailed among the battery while in Porto Rico and aiter its return home. In regard to the so-called fresh beef, there has been enough said about that to convince the most prejudiced that it was not fit for a human being to eat. My duties called me to the port of Ponce every day, and I saw the beef that came off the transport Manitoba. To describe its looks adequately is impossible. It was dark in color; it was covered with a thick growth of mold and hair, and when the cheesecloth with which it was covered was removed great pieces of the meat would adhere to it. The beef without a doubt was in a terrible state of decomposition.” This testimony, coming from a private soldier and based upon his personal knowledge of the subject, is in exact accord with the reports made to the com- | manding general by the officers whose duty it was to inspect the beef. In an interview published in The Call on Wednesday General Miles said: “In addi- tion to the report of the regimental commanders, I have a great mass of evidence consisting of commu- nications and affidavits from officers, soldiers and civilians. Every part of the country has contributed to the mass of correspondence which I have received in reference to the beef served to our soldiers, and the evidence is all corroborative of what I have said.” With this mass of testimony made public it has be- come the irfiperative duty of the Government to take steps for a vigorous prosecution of the army con- tractors and the officials of the commissary depart- ment who permitted them to perpetrate such frauds upon the soldiers at the front. The offense of Eagan in denouncing the general of the army as a malicious liar was gross to the extent of downright blackguard- ism, but it was not the main point at issue. From the evidence now before the country it appears that our troops were literally. poisoned by scoundrels who had contracts to furnish them with supplies, and it is the duty of the President to follow the precept of Grant and “let no guilty man escape.” THE ELECTION OF SENATORS. EVER before in our history has the demand for a change in the method of electing United States Senators been so universal or so em= phatic as at this juncture. The scandals of the con- tests going on in all parts of the Union, from Dela- ware and Pennsylvania to Montana and Nevada, have aroused public sentiment throughout the country, and newspapers representing all shades of popular opinion unite in urging the desired reform. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: “These deadlocks are productive of corruption and scandal. They create opportunities for use of im- proper influences which would not otherwise exist.” The Chicago Times-Herald says: “We cannot mis- trust the honesty of the whole people as we are forced It is im- possible to carry a popular election by such open and notorious bribery as is making the Senatorial fights in Montana, Delaware and California a stench in the nostrils of the republic.” The Philadelphia Record says: danger that Legislatures may be improperly con- trolled. The irruption in late years in the United States Senate of so many men fat in purse and lean There is a sinister and forbidding reason behind it. - The St. Louis Republic says: *As the position of United States Senator shall become prized for its dignity by men of wealth, or by conscienceless politicians for the chances of trafficking in Tegislation, the evil is bound to spread.” The Washington Star says: “In an election of Senators by the people the advantage would be in bringing everybody out into the open, in having all claims to distinction brought under the white light Dark horses would be barred, and the danger of dark lantern proceedings would be minimized.” The St. Paul Pioneer-Press says: “Legislative elections of United States Senators are a prolific source of legislative corruption. They have done more to create factional animosities in the ma- jority party than all other causes combined.” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: “The legisla- tive plan of election has become practically unwork- “There is always | able and should give way to election by the people before it inflicts more serious damage upon fit and orderly procedure.” Such are a few of the representative expressions of public sentiment on the issue. It is clear the time has come for making an earnest effort to bring about | the desired reform. The evil has become too great to | be any longer tolerated, and steps should be taken at once to provide the remedy. MARRIAGE BUREAU FRAUD. HILE it is impossible to summon up an acute sympathy for the victim of a marriage bureau, still the fraud is so mean and so adroitly | worked, catching its victims among people whose worse fault is ignorance of the world, that to send the perpetrators to the penitentiary would be only mild justice. A handsome woman can do much toward befool- ing a man unused to the society of women of any class. If she set out to run a confidence game she will do it artistically. She has no shame nor con- science. She can tell and act a lie without qualm or blush. When she professes to love a man who has answered her advertisement, leans her virgin cheek upon his shoulder, modestly suggests the propriety of his buying a ring to seal the sacred compact, she simply has him. In nine cases out of ten he does not want to get away, and in the other he sel- dom succeeds until he has been worked for his last dollar. He buys a gold brick and does not even get the brick. At the last he is kicked out and a trap set for new joys. If he make moan over his ex- perience he is rewarded with ridicule, and this is the reason the nefarious business is so safe. To prosecute a rogue in petticoats, when to do so is a confession to having been played as a dupe, reguires courage. It is a good thing for the community that an effort is at last being made to rid it of some of the matrimonial parasites. The back county bachelor might as well take warning. The rich and beautiful ‘widow who ad- vertises for a husband is nothing but a cheeky and avaricious liar. If she were what she professes to be she would have offers of marriage so fast she would have to keep a secretary. Rich and beautiful widows do not go begging. They never proclaim themselves in print as bargains. They are recognized as such, and the supply never equals the demand. b e After an Oakland burglar had in open court con- fessed his guilt a jury acquitted him. Occasionally a fool gets on a jury, but for a dozen of them to be there is rare. The burglar has a grievance now. He has been officially branded as a liar. San Jose business men at Sacramento touting for Burns are wasting their time. All they can do for ‘the Burns gang now is to swell the chorus as the gnné tries to whistle cheerily in a graveyard. The walls of the Baldwin constitute an unsightly and dangerous nuisance, and should weeks ago have been level with the pavement. ‘Will Morehouse grant the offending newspaper man two minutes for prayer? Even a mob will do this much for a horse thief. An .sttempt to degrade Miles would be a confession of guilt on the part of Alger, and therefore is un- likely. \ By.the way, while an angry statesman is shooting at a journalist, what is the latter supposed to be doing? Throughout all the confusion of the Dreyfus case the fact that Esterhazy is a scoundrel shines with clearness, PARENT ROAD WILL COME T0 THE RESCUE Suggestions of a New Bond Issue. THE CENTRAL PACIFIC DEBT IMPORT OF S. P. OFFICIALS TRIP EAST. The Resignation of W. H. Mills From the Directorate of the Central Pacific and Its Signifi- cance. A cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the ‘“yellow building” at present, and there is hardly an employe of the South- ern Pacific Company in authority who does not expect some great change in the present status of affairs. All the big Interests of the Southern Pacific are now represented in person in New York City. Mrs. Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, H. E. Huntington, George Crocker and a representative of the Searles are gathered there to consum- mate what is likely to proge the biggest railroad bond issue in the history of the West. All manner and varieties of con- jectures have been put forth as to the probable reasons of the Eastern journey of all the parties in interest. That the Central Pacific affairs are the sole point in issue is negatived by the trip of J. C. Stubbs, third vice president of the Southern Pacific Company. The sudden rise of Central Pacific and Southern Pacific stock as well in a man- ner hints at the changes contemplated. Those in authority who are cognizant of the inner workings of the Central Pacific admit that the jump in stocks is due to the contemplatéd payment of the Gov- ernment debt. It was rumored about yesterday that the debt to the United States Govern- ment would be paid by the issuance of a blanket mortgage over the entire South- ern Pacific system. This would explain the sudden rise in Central Pacific as well as Southern Pacific Railroad stock. A new issue of bonds would then be fioated, which would cover the vast and extensive property embraced by the Southern Pa- cific Company and not the comparatively small mileage of the Central Pacific. The Southern Pacific Company at pres- ent possesses roads that aggregate 6772 miles, 1807 of which are comprised in the Atlantic system and the remainder in the Pacific system. The value of this prop- erty is so great that a new issue of bonds could be floated on_ the loan to pay oft the Government debt at a much lower rate of interest. Instead of a blanket mortgage being made on the Central Pa- cific it would then cover the entire South- ern Pacific system, of which the Central Pacific is but an integral part. As the Central Pacific has leased its roads and equipment to the Southern Pa- cific Company this new venture in bond and mortgage manipulation would be the death of the old-time contention of the Southern Pacific that the Central Pacific Railroad was a thing apart. The Southern Pacific officials are still insistent in_the denial that Mrs. Stanford has gone East to dispose of her Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Rallroad stock. When the four magnates, Hunt- ington, Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins, controlled the road a contract was in force making It impossible for any one to dispose of his intérests in the company without the consent of the remaining three, and it is believed that this agree- ment still holds in spirit, if not in letter, among_the representatives of the Stan- ford, Crocker and Huntington interests. But owing to the recent appreciation in value Mrs. Stanford may deem it to her best interests to sell her stock in the Central Pacific, which hasquadrupled, and that of the Southern Pacific, which has also taken a big jump. A fact which may be of significance is the resignaticn of W. H. Mills from the directorate of the Central Pacific Com- pany, Four weeks ago Mr. Mills resigned as director and a successor was appoint- ed, the reason for which has been studi- ously cloaked by the compag. It is said that the resignation of W. H. Mills was for the furtherance of some signal scheme of the company, the conclusipn of which grlll be acted in New York within a few ays. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. C. A. Thompson of Cloverdale is at the Lick. Simon Bray of Nevada is a guest at the Lick. Mrs. Freeman of Chicago is registered at the Palace. A. M. Parks of Cleveland, Ohio, is stay- ing at the Palace. 1. E. Howard and wife of Cincinnati are guests at the Lick. Dr. O. C. Wilburn of Song Beach is a guest at the Palace. H. M. La Rue of Sacramento is regis- tered at the Occidental. 3 E. S. W. and John N. Wood of Stockton are staying at the Grand. A. H. Hart, a prominent silk manufac- turer of New York, is at the Grand. Mrs. J. 8. Reid of Ukiah, the well known authoress, is a guest at the Grand. J. F. Webb and wife, J. F. Webb Jr. and Mfss Dora Webb of Placerville are at the Palace. Jay W. Adams, traveling passenger agent of the Nickel Plate, goes to Port- land to-night. Edward Pollitz of the Stock and Bond Exchange of this city, returned yesterday from Honolulu on the Coptic. L. B. Van Winkle, secretary of the Grand Jury, left last night for Los An- geles to attend the Horse Show. Foster Milliken of New York and Mrs. S. Milliken of Plainfield, N. J., arrived at the Palace yesterday from Honolulu. A, M. Stevens, a railroad man from ‘Vacaville, accompanied by his wife, reg- istered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Hardin, Miss Hardin and H. Upton of Santa Rosa were among the arrivals at the Palace yester- day\ ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 2—8. Rosenthal ot San Francisco is at the Vendome. Miss Frida Galuck of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue. Captain L. Rawlings of San Francisco is at the Netherlands. ——————— RUSSIAN JOURNALIST HERE. Mr. Syromiatnikoff, Correspondent of the Novoe Vremya, Arrives on the Coptic From Manila. Among the passengers who arrived yes- terday on the Coptic and registered at the Palace is Mr, Syromiatnikoff, a Rus- slan journalist. He is the representative of the Novoe Vremya, one of the best known and largest papers in the Rus- glan empire. During the recent war Mr. Syromiatnikoff was the special corre- spondent for his paper at l: la. He Is now on wag to Russia. He intends to visit a2 number of the large cities of %h.l:hooumry before sailing from New 0 ——— The Ferry Collision. Local United States Inspectors Bolles and Bulger took the testimony yesterday of Johnston Elliott, a passenger on the Oakland. Mr. Johnston said that he first saw the launch abreast of the steamer ‘about a hundred yards away. She was - o never abaft or astern of the steamer at any time prior to the collision. He sald, also, that one of the passengers, John Gordon, a grocer of this city, accused Captain Douglass, the mate, of having run down the launch without warning. IDougll:;u replied that he did not see the aunch. —————————— CORPORAL HEALY RETURNS. The Well Known Journalist and Cor- respondent of The Cail Home From Manila. Corporal Fred A. Healy returned vester- day on the Coptic from Manila, whither he went last spring when the First Cali- fornia sailed across the sea to uphold the glory and honor of the flag. Mr. Healy answered his country's call for men, giv- ing up a lucrative position to accept the dangers and duties of a soldier. That he has won distinction in the profession of arms is attested by his well-deserved pro- motion, for he left a private and has re- turned a corporal. hile in Manila Mr. Healy represegted The Call, and it was from his brightrand concise letters that the public were given theé opportunity of knowing how it fared with the men in the ranks. -Mr. Healy saw active service at the front, being under fire in the memor- able fight in which the First California distinguished itseif. Mr. Healy has for a long time been identified with the press of San Francisco, and has the rerulatlon of being one of the best deseriptive pen- men of the Pacific Coast. He received a warm welcome from his many friends on his arrival here, and_especially from his fellow journalists, who were more than happy_to have him with them again as one of the boys. Now that the war {s over Mr. Healy proposes to put aside the blue garb of the soldier for that of the civilian and to resume his newspaper work in this city. PACIFIC EXPOSITION ° COMMITTEE WILL MEET TO HEAR REPORT ON PERMA- NENT ORGANIZATION. Will Elect a Director General and Assume Entire and Active Charge of the Project. The committes of two hundred hav- ing the preliminary plans of the Pa- cific Ocean Exposition in charge will meet in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The object of the meeting will be to recelve the report of the committee on permanent orgarization. It is the inten- tion of the executive committee to as- sume entire and active eharge of the af- fairs of the proposed exposition and it will move forward rapidly in the matter. The committee on permanent organiza- tion has had several meetings prepara- tory to submitting a plan of organization that will govern the great exposition to be held in this city in 1901. The committee organized by Qlc(‘ling George A. Newhall chairman, with J. B. Reinstejn, Mayor James D. Phelan, Henry J. Cfrocker and C. E. Grunsky, members of the commit- tee, R. P. Doolan, secretary. The plan of organization of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago and of the rans-Mlessldle Expo- sition at Omaha were considered. he committee will recommend that a director general, who shall be the active manager of the exposition, be elected by the execu- tive committee, and the officers of the exposition shall be: President, first vice president, second vice president, tary, treasurer and gnditor. The committee : also recommend that an executive committee, consisting of the above named officers and chairmen of the various standing committees be secre- formed. They will also recommend the following standing committees: First, finance; second. rounds and buildings; third, legislation; fourth, Eubuc!ty and promotion; fifth, State ex- ibits: sixth, transportation; seventh, concessions and privileges; eighth, na- tional exhibits; ninth, foreign exhibits. ‘The committee will recommend that the executive committee shall have the power to add to the committees already- named, and prescribe their duties, and that the presi gent appoint the members of all com- mittees. FAIL TO REALIZE THEIR WRONGDOING JOSEPH GRACE AND WILLIE | PYNE SURRENDER. The Only Reason They Give for De- stroying the Stock of M. Marsh & Co. Is Their Dismissal. Joseph Grace and Willie Pyne, the boys who maliciously destroyed about $2500 worth of stock in the hat and cap fac- tory of M. Marsh & Co., 411 Market street, appeared at the City Hall yesterday morning and asked to see Detectives Gib- son and Wren, ds they believed the de- tectives were looking for them. Gibson was present and took them to the prison, where they were booked on the charge of burglary. The peculiarity about the boys is that they do not seem to realize the fact that they have done anything wrong. When questioned as to why they cut up and de- stroyed so much property Grace's surly answer was, “Well, Marsh should not have discharged us and that was the only reason he would give. Grace is a bad boy and Willie Pyne seems to be a tool in his hands. He is. the junior of the two by one year, but he has the appear- ance of being older. Grace wrote the notes to his shopmates. They admitted going to the factory about half-past 7 o'clock Monday night. They at once started to destroy the stock and finished about 10 o’clock. “Then they lay down among the debris and slept tiil 6 o'cleck in the morning. They took the early boat to go to San Rafael and walked from there to Novato, about twelve miles. They procured food at Dan Ryan's farm and slept in his barn all night. Wednesday morning they did not like the country and decided to return to the eity. That afternoon they went to the Orpheum and slept in a lodging-house on Powell street that night. Learning from the newspapers that they were wanted by the detectives they decid- ed to give themselves up. When they started out Tuesday morning Grace had $3 and *Pyne $1 2. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. REPUTATION—Advice, Oakland, Cal. If you desire to know the past reputa- tion of a young man “born and raised in the East”” you should communicate with some one who kmew him where he for- merly lived. DATING LETTERS—Letter Writer and Calls, Virginia City, Nev. In sending a letter to a person it is proper to write the place from which it is sent and the date at the head. All works on letter writing agree on that point. LETTERS FOR MANILA—Steamers, Oakland, Cal. Letters intended for Ma- nila, Philippine Islands, are sent by the first steamer bound there. Letters are sent by the steamers of the Pacific Mail and by the Canadlan Pacific Railway Company’s Royal Mail steamship line, that is also known as the Empress line, and runs between Victoria, C., and Hongkong. LETTERS FOR THE ORIENT—Advice, Oakland, Cal. Letters for Manila, Phil- ippine Islands, mailed in Oakland Decem- ber 30 or 31, 1898, left San Francisco for Hongkong on the 7th of January followin, and_from Hongkong would be forwu‘des to Manila by a line of steamers lying :fi;:le;n Ntll'::eh ;}vaom lplacbeu. Such fetters i a about the 10th of A FIVE-DOLLAR PIECE-X. Y. z Orange, Cal. A five-dollar piece colned hi 1830 commands a premium of from $3 to $5 and sells for from $20 to $30. That is dealers will give only the premium '?,“': fled, but if a person wishes to purchase one the price given is that demanded. five-dollar pl:s:l ‘sgl‘ne: tht: 1840 does m‘& Ao e etum, ul heuelllngpflog PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT — Ajax, City. To be an accountant the individual must ::.Tlonclant in figures and must be thor- ly conversant in the methq bookkeeping so that he may be :gl.e gg pass upon the correctness of books and accounts. it S e RSB I 22 e ::c{ any prescribed examination for ip NAVAL HERDES RETURN FROM PHILIPPINES Dewey’s Officers Ar- rive on Coptic. CAPTAIN WOOD AMONG THEM LIEUTENANT CALKINS OF THE OLYMPIA HOME FOR A REST. They Consider the Situation at Man- ila and Iloilo One of Delicacy, but Anticipate No Seri~ ous Trouble. Among the cabin passengers who ar- rived on. the Coptic yesterday were & number of volunteer and regular naval officers who, for some reason oOr an- other, are returning to the United States. A number of these gentlemen went down to Manila on the Monadnock and Monte- rey and consequently arrived too late to see any of the fun, but there are five of them who did see the fun and were right in the midst of it. They are Captain E. P. Wood, who com- manded the Petrel on that historical 1st of May. The Petrel will be remembered as the smallest vessel of the fleet. Not- withstanding her diminutive size she steamed right in between the batteries on the Cavite shore and two of the Spanish vessels. She engaged and whipped them all single-handed and then burned every- thing that was still left afloat. She thus won for herself undying fame as the hardest fighting ship of a gallant squad- ron. Lieutenant C. G. Calkins was Ad- miral Dewey's navigator and from the bridge of the flagship directed the course that led the fleet past the batteries at Corregidor and up the bay to Manila and victory. Lieutenant Calkins is a brother of F. N. Calkins of the Bank of California.” He is a resident of Berkeley, where he expects to be aliowed to remain for three or four months before again being ordered to report for active service. Lieutenant S. M. Strite is the officer who directed that famous shell from the Boston's eight-inch gun which, exploding, hurled eighty Spaniards into eternity. Ensign J. S Doddridge commanded the secondary battel on the Olym- ja and owned a wardrobe which was disarranged on the lst of May by a s inch shell entering his stateroom and ploding in the.bosom of a dress shirt. Al this has been published before, the curious fact that the for plosion blew a suit of pink lace pajamas through a steel bulkhead without injuring either the pajamas or the bulkhead. H. Hilton, chief carpenter of the Olympia, is arother man who played his art with Dewey and watched the Spar- sh ships go down. All tnese gentlemen express themselves highly pleased at be- ing once more in Amer 3 Fney consider the situation at Manila 1 t and lloilo one of great delic: , but say that they anticipate no rious trouble with - the Filipinos, as they think that with a little careful managément all dif- ferences may be adjusted without resort to arms. Others who arrived on the Coptic are Lieutenant Fred Dohrmann of the First California_Regiment, who has been re- turned _home on sick leave; O. avis, a newspaper man, Who went to Manila in the interests of the New York Sun, and whose work has given him a place in the foremost rank of war correspondents; BY. = J Runkwitz, a German naval surgeon, who has been in the Orient in at- tendance on Prince Henry of Prussia and who is on his way home to Germany; Hunting_ Wilson, secretary of the lega- tion at Tokio, who is on leave of absence. Lieutenant Commander C. P. Perkins, who was_until recently in command of the Monadnock, and Lieutenant J. F. Mc- Millan, who was assistant captain of the port at Manila, and who is on his way home. Mrs. McMijllan accompanies her husband. Mrs. Sewall, wife of Minister Sewall, is among those who arrived on the Coptic’ from Honolulu. Among the other naval officers who re- turned are: . 8. Barger, A. D. Brown, G. Bloss, B. ._Lombard, McLean, F. D. Read, F. L. Strong, F. A. Wilner and W. L. Walk HER LIFE CRUSHED OUT. Son and Hushana of Elizabeth A Finlay Are Awarded Damages. The case of William C. Finlay (by his guardian) and“Edward C. Finlay against the San Francisco Breweries Limited, to recover damages in the sum ot $30,000 for the deatly of Elizavetn A. Finlay, mother of the first named and wife of the second named plaintiff, who was run over by one of defendant’s wagons at Bush and Lar- kin streets on August 19 last, was heard by Judge Hunt yesterday. A jury was waived and two witnesses were put on the stand to testify as to the death of Mrs.- Finlay. The defensé put on no witnesses and Judge Hunt gave judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for the sum of $5a00. Christina Schand was appointed guar- dian of the estate of William C. Finlay until he shall have attatned his majority, The man who drove’/ the wagon that crushed out_the life of Mrs. Finlay was A. Hierer. He was tried recently before Judge Cook on_a charge of manslaugh- ter. The jury disagreed and the defend- ant will be tried again. Hamlet and Othello. Samuel E. Wells of New York, the noted fmpersonator and delineator of the char- acters of Shakespeare, will*give two re- citals under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association.. *Hamlet" will be given on Friday evening and on next Tuesday evening readings from “Othello” will be given. ————— Broke His Wrist. Gustave Vehr, Assistant Weigher at the Appraisers’ building, broke his right wrist last Wednesday night, while weighing coal at the old sugar refinery dock at the Potrero. —_——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.® —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monts gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * Hisband's Calcined Magnesia—Four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label.® —_—— Child Study Club. Dr. Adelaide Brown will speak on “Mod- ern Methods in the Artificial Feeding of Infants,” at to-morrow’s meeting of the Child Study Club in the Occidental Hotel. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It goothes the child, softens u:etnn::h-; gm Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates wels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether Grising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugsists in every part of the wold. Be sure and ask for Mrs. ‘Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. HOTEL DEL’ CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $0 by Steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. ——— ACKER'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS ARE #0ld on & positive guarantee, Cures heartburn, o S T mediate reller, At Owi Drag Co. - ——————— Loock out for 6 4th st., nr. grocery store. Best eyeglasses, specs, 160 to 40c. Open 9 to & * or any ves fm-