The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1899, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Lorkin street, open until 9:3G o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market strest, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second @na Kentucky stre open untll 9 o'clack. AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—*La Tosca.” California — Sousa’s Concerts, Friday, March 1. Tivoli--La Belle Helene." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Alcazar—""A Man With a Past.” Comedy — *‘As You Like It. Grand Opera House—Ellis Opera Company, Monday even- ing, March 13. Alhambra—*‘Dewey, the Hero of Manila."” Chutes and Zoo—Pianka, the *“Lady of Lions.” Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback—This day, at 10:30 s. m., and 2:30 p. m., Turkish Rugs, at 123 Geary street. A HOPELESS CASE. that a number of the so-called HE report ‘co officials elected in this city at the last nty i which under t! charter m question whether they have been chosen e county government act or under the new be decided by the Supreme Court brings up a political subject of considerable interest. Of 1 these officials were elected with the under- that they would serve one year, but, not that fact, it is not difficult to sympa- em in their effort to hold on for four \ office is a precious thing, and to give u.‘ course a nding heart-rending. pain should not induce anybody to opeless a lawsuit as the one the local | n have under consideration. There essed the power to fix the terms ers and employes. In 1896 the ong other things that it shall be competent in all 2t which and the terms for which the sev- 1 county officers shall be elected or appointed, for heir compensation and for the number of deputies t each shall have, and for the compensation pay- e to each of such deputies.” As if to dispense with all doubt as to the applica- tion of this provision, the same amendment speaks in terms of city and county governments which shall have been “merged and consolidated into one muni- | cipal government.” The only question remaining in connection with the terms of officials under the new charter is whether the instrument went into effect in | time to cover the election of last year, in other words, whether the “county” officials elected in 1808 were chosen under it or under the State law. But this can- not, it seems to us, enter into the controversy. The grant of power quoted above in any event would authorize the charter-makers to shorten the terms of municipal officials, and it could not make any differ- ence to such officials when the new instruments went into effect. Under the circumstances it would appear that the less time our local government expends in endeavor- ing to hold on the better. The Supreme Court can- not avoid deciding against the so-called “county” officials. What these gentlemen should do is to make a good record and get ready for the fall campaign. BRUTES ON THE BICYCLE. UNDAY a lady riding in the park was run down S by a scorcher. The fellow was absolutely with- out excuse. He was coasting along the path with his feet over the handle-bars, a position from which he could not possibly recover quickly to meet the emergency !ikc]y to arise. Anybody but a fool would have realized this, and a fool has no business on a wheel. The regulations of the park do not permit coasting. A person guilty of such an offense against common sense is subject to arrest, and he ought to be subject to_incarceration in an asylum for lunatics. Neverthe- less, the person guilty of subjecting the injured lady | to the peril of death was coasting merrily down Strawberry Hill, and that his foolhardiness did not re- sult in murder is no credit to himself. Had he killed the woman he would have gone on, as he did go, anxious to escape the result of his criminal careless- ness. It is to be hoped that the coward will yet be caught and made to pay some sort of penalty for-his brutal stupidity. . ' Thousands of San Francisco people ride the wheel. They are entitled to protection. Most of them choose te ride in the park, because there there is a path for them, smooth track, and comparatively level grades. But if a2 woman-killing nincompoop is not subject to restraint it appears that they are not sufficiently pro- tected. If every dolt whose brain swells the calf of his legs is at liberty to maim or slay others who may desire to ride, the bicycle path loses a measure of its charm. We suggest that two park policemen be de- tailed to mount bicycles instead of steeds and patrol the path given to the use of bicyclists. When they observe an idiot coasting, to the peril of everybody else, it will be their duty to gather him in and put him where he will be incapable of harm. e ——— “The American Boy” does not in our judgment constitute a suitable name for a warship. There are several ships in prospect, and there is not yet a Cali- fornia. Sl If Dreyfus would consent to die, and thereby live up to current rumor, France could afford to extend him a vote of thanks. 1.50 | Room 188, World Bullding | election contemplate inaugurating litigation by | 1it failed to disclose until aiter the election. people adopted a constitutional amendment declaring | ed under section 8 of article XI of the | to provide for the manner in which, the | THE CAUCUS TRICK. | WENTY-SEVEN legislative supporters of TDauicl M. Burns, who have misrepresented their constituencies and lowered themselves and the | State by their determination to force his election, even though it should wreck the Republican party, have declared their intention to continue the dead- lock at Sacramento unless their kind -of a caucus is | held. These gentlemen were ‘elected from Assembly and Senatorial districts, not one of which tolerates was a | their choice, and every vote they have cast breach of their representative obligations. structed Senator Perkins to vote for the treaty’ of Paris, and against his personal convictions he obeyed | the instruction. But they have arrogantly and con- | tumaciously- asserted the right to disregard the voices of the communities from which they came, to tear instructions to pieces and to gratify their pri- | vate inclinations, in whatever manner controlled, in direct oppasition to public sentiment. | The word “caucus” is generally used as a desig- of political gatherings to discuss | measures. It is now proposed to twist its sig- rification into a method of securing a unanimous | and secret indorsement of an incompetent and dis- graced candidate for Senatorial honors in such a man- ner that the responsibility shall fall upon an en- tire party, and not on individual legislators. It is | well that Republicans throughout the State, who are among its most enterprising, intelligent and hon- ored citizens, shouli be formally apprised of the | treatment to which it is designed to subject them at | the bidding of the railroad. But they are too inde- | pendent and too cecent, and they have too much | pride in the history and the achievements of the poli- nation ;xical organization to which they are attached, by the | | tie of principle and not of pelf, to submit to a de- { liberate act of treachery that could not be consum- mated in the face of day nor without secret mani- pulation of the most dishonorable nature. No man fit | to be a Senator of the United States could endure the situation over which Dan Burns fiendishly gloats. | With no antecedents to recommend him, called for by | no substantial portion of his party, and indeed, out- | side of the Legislature, almost unanimously- repu- diated because he has the railroad push and the aminer behind him, he has braved popular denuncia- tion and threatened in terms to deprive the State of one representative in the upper house of. Congri and thus to insure the defeat of the party, unless th prolonged intrigue on his behali is succes ful. His barefaced assumption is that he can turn his mino into a majority if new recruits can only be saved from personal identification. Our respect for the Legislature forbic cipate anything less than the ignominious failure of | this last and most abominable effort to debase the Republican party and to place it in the attitude of oro- claiming its own shame by accepting the railroad falsehoods during the last canvass and the candidacy | These | twenty-seven Senators and Assemblymen, in their manifesto, which amounts almost to threats and to | menaces within the definitions of the Civil Code, ap- peal to representative institutions as supplying the logical reason for the conspiracy they label as a de- | mand for a caucus. This stuff is unworthy of a de- bate in a corner grocery. When they advocate Burns whom do they represent? Do they represent the citizens who elected them? Do they represent their own families or their neighbors’? Do they repre- sent the intelligence, the educated citizenship, the manhood, the honor of the State? If they do, the evidences of these facts, not a scintilla of which has so far been offered to the public eye or the public | ear, without a caucus, can be d nfected and produced. | Do they represent the railroad? If they do, and that | they do is indisputable, they would not dare to avow | that unspeakable dishonesty as a vindication of the | representative idea or of their fidelity to Republican iprinciples or to Republican policy. It takes sixty | votes, as the Legislature is now constituted, if all the Emcmbers are present, to elect a Senator. If through | a majority of a cancus, a minority of both houses, ixhiny»zhrcc votes, should be added to the twenty- | | | | us to anti- seven, and by this palpable fraud, against the will of the Republican party and the people as a whole, Dan | Burns should be chosen, whom would the sixty repre- : sent, and at what point would the representative prin- | ciple come in? If a majority of a Legislature, which is the immediate constituency of a Federal Senator, can disregard their pledges and their constitutional | votes, and, by a secret, unofficial meeting convert that | minority into a majority, it is too plain for argument | that the principle of representation is trodden into the | dirt and the fundamental theory of American institu- | tions contemptuously violated. No chop logic or | brazen declamation can overturn this proposition. | There is not a sentence in the manifesto that is true | or even plausible. Its bold assertions could not de- ceive a child. It falsely parades ignorance, stupidity and venality as the leaven that raises Republicans | to distinction. It is the mere edict of the railroad, 1 its last resort when other means have failed to justify | its rampant inebriety by driving its incompetent and l characterless agent like a wedge into the body of the Senate and by pushing the beaten Democracy far into | the road toward victory. This spectacular exhibition, fortunately for the country, has never before been equaled. Why not | elect Crimmins or Kelly or even Buckley? Any of them would be as acceptable as Dan Burns to the | citizens of California, who would prefer, however, and | have often demanded, the prompt selection of a Re- " pubiican, a statesman and a gentleman. @ RAID ON THE TREASURY. HE bill before the Legislature to establish day Tschools for deaf mutes has no excuse for being, except to give somebody or several somebodies a job at the expense of the taxpayer. It proposes to have the people pay at the rate of $150 per annum per capita for the instruction in the public 'schools of deaf mutes between the ages of 5 and 21 years, and adds also the feeble-minded juveniles of imperfect speech. These two classes are to be brought into the day schools, to associate with other pupils, and be taught by the person who is able to round up five of them and take the $150 apiece which the State is to pay. The scheme is insufferable. The State has near Berkeley an old and perfectly equipped institution for deaf mutes. They are there taught by the most ad- vanced methods, so that they can enter any walk or calling that is open to the non-defective classes. Sev- eral have gone from that institution into the State University, so perfectly trained in lip reading that they were under no di€advantage in the class and lecture- rcoms and laboratory, and graduated just the same as if they were physically normal. To that institution in the future as in the past these juvenile deaf mutes should go to be systematically trained in lip reading and articulation, in which instruction it has long ranked foremost in the world. The utter disregard of the interests of the defective shown by the day school bill is appalling. Again, normal children should not be brought during their infancy in contact with the defective, and especially They in- | party | | these declarations concerning the responsibility for not with the feeble-minded. The plan to introduce the latter into association and daily contact: with young children in the day schools is more idiotic than any of the proposed beneficiaries of the law. Wise people have long known that it is not well to have a nervous, sickly, deformed or physically de- fective teacher for young children, because, through the influence of suggestion, great harm is wrought upon the nervous systems of the pupils. This. being so, how much greater harm must come of mixing the feeble-minded, the sad victims of prenatal blight, with normal children! For the feeble-minded there is an institution at Glen Ellen, where the highest scientific care is de- voted to their development, and they should be sent | there at, as early an age as possible, for if defective | brain cells are to be repaired the process must begin early. The bill is a heartless job, devised to advance | was | | nor some one’s selfish interests under a pretense of phil- anthropic regard for the unfortunate. The amount of money it will take out of the treasury cannot be fcretold. No oversight is provided for the opera- tions under it, and it is as open to frauds as was the coyote scalp bounty law. If the Legislature com- | mit the folly of passing it, the Governor will find an cpportunity for his veto to serve at ence the unfor- tunate and defend the taxpayers P THE CLOSING OF THE G@AP. Y the publication of Mr. Huntington's recent | B letter to Edward Ivison of Santa Barbara | concerning the delay in closing the gap in the | | railroad between Elwood and Surf The Call has suc- | ceeded in drawing to it the attention of Mrs. Stanford and Mr. George Crocker, thereby bringing about an understanding among the dignitaries of the Southern | Pacific and what promises to be a speedy undertaking of the work. Neither Mrs. Stanford Mr. Crocker pleased with the insinuation conveyed in the state- ment of the Huntington letter: “We have succeeded | ‘ir. getting Mrs. SZ_am'ord and George Crocker to | agree to go on and close the gap.” ch denies any | | responsibility for the delay. Mr. Crocker states that | both Mrs. Stanford and himseli, so far from opposing | railroad construction, have in the past personally | | obligated themselves for large sums of money for such | i\\'ork. and Mrs. Stanford, in an interview with the | | New York correspondent of The Call, said: “Kindly | say that I am not an obstructionist. On the con- | trary, I am in entire sympathy with the railroad in all that it proposes to do for the future development of [ | [ | Califoraia.” | When these statements were repeated to Mr. Hun- | gton that gentleman suavely replied: “There has | been a disagreement over this matter. We made the | promise years ago to close the gap, and certainly | should have redeemed that promise before now. While | I have always favored the building of this bit of road | | | | The statement thus made was qualified by Mr. Hun- tington in closing the interview by the remark, “We | have not disagreed over the closing of the gap. | There has been only a difference of business judg- ment.” | Had the discussion brought out nothing more than i past delay, the subject would be of little importance, notwithstanding its interest. It would have been no more than a contribution to the history of the inner | councils of the Southern Pacific, and added nothing | to the public knowledge of the intention of the com- pany with respect to the time of beginning the work | on the long desired improvement. Fortunately it did not end there. In his letter to | Mr. Ivison Mr. Huntington stated the railroad would | probably have the gap closed within a year after the construction was fairly started, but he did not even | hint at the time when the work would begin. In his | | interview with our correspondent in New York he | | was more definite, and much more encouraging. He | is quoted as having said: “Recently Mrs. Stanford, Mr. Crocker, Mr. Hubbard and myself met and con- sidered the advisability of closing the fifty-five mile gap between the two towns. Mrs. Stanford and Mr. | Crocker gave their consent, and I at once ordered the | | construction to proceed. I have given instructions to push things vigorously, and I am hopeful the work will be completed within a year.” In some respects this is the most important item of news that has been given to Californians since the year opened. It is of the highest value to all the coast counties between San Francisco and Los An- geles, and indirectly to the State at large. The amount of road to be laid is small, but the effect will be great, for it will open a through line for the coast to the | south of us and thus prepare the way for the de-‘; velopment of one of the most favored sections of the State. Mr. Huntington has at last spoken words that are truly encouraging, and now let us hope he will live up to them. | WHO SUPPORTS BURNS? O two classes—drones and parasites, who feed on the State, and producers, who support it and‘ add to its wealth, its power and its character. Dan | Burns is the candidate of the first class, who sustain | their laziness and their viciousness indirectly through | the railroad. A few tests, that each legislator can Guickly apply, will prove this assertion. Has any | horticultural or agricultural community suggested | the election of Dan Burns? Have any miners or man- ufacturers, individually or collectively, mentioned him as their choice? Have any merchants or mercantile bodies, bankers, capitalists or property-owners rallied | to his support? Have the schools, the universities, the churches, any of the moral or intellectual forces of the community, manifested their preference for him? If all these questions are answered, as they necessarily | must be, in the negative, what excuse is there for hi’s | candidacy, and, still more, for his election? Sports, gamblers, lobbyists, unclean politicians of the lower type, the immoral and degrading pests of our civilization, all impressed with the railroad brand, are his impudent and blatant mercenaries. Which combination do the members of the Legislature recognize as the public or as composing the Repub- lican party, or as having the interests of the State at heart? By which do they propose to be governed? Their answer to these pertinent inquiries is loudly demanded and will be received before the session closes. JR population is divided comprehensively into Either Packer Armour has been grievously lied about or he owes this country immeasurable repara- tion, even to the erection of the tombstones marking the resting-places of those who have gone hence through eating canned germs of tuberculosis. Stories that the Czar is a helpless invalid are now said to be untrue. Nobody believed them anyhow, and the correspondent is not entitled to more than half space rates on his denial. The evening bidders for railroad patronage dre scaling their bids very low down. Both are for others have thought it best to defer construction.” -g | which was described b, Burns. WOULD BUILD MODERN HOME FOR INVALIDS To Replace County Hospital. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE MARKET-STREET COMPANY TO AVOID “DEATH’S CURVE.” Has Apparently Abandoned the Pro- posed Plan of Running Electric Cars Down Geary Street and Into Kearny. The Supervisors are anxlous to replace the ramshackle oui'dings that do duty as a City and County Hospital oy a splendid mode :» out on ‘the Almshouse: ract. 1 s end a resolution was pre- sented at the meeting of the Board yoster- day by Chairman Attridge of the Hospital Committee, It pledges the board to pro- vide in the tax leyy of the next fiscal year for the sum of $400,000 for erecting and equipping such a building. Supervisor Deasy spoke feelingly of the present accommodations the city’s sick, saying one would not willingly send a dog there, much less a friend or a rela- tive. There being a question as to the right of the board to provide for a hos- pital, the matter was referred to the Hos- pital Committee for further investigation before definite action be taken. The Market-street Raliway tor public opinion in the matter of running its electric cars down Gea street and thence into Kearny. They applied yester day for a franchise over certain dow town streets that would ma ing link between streets over which they already hold a franchise without using the dangerous curve at Geary and Kearny streets. The new route is: Commencing at the Intersection of Geary street and Grant avenue, thence along Grant avenue northerly to Bush street and along Bush street to its rsection with o it also asks for a franchise commencing intersection of Taylor and Geary streets, thence northerly street to its intersection with Post. An extended di on ensued over the proposition to have all city printing done in offices using the label Allied Printing Trades Council finally prevailed. Thos Kalben, Black, Phelps board was addressed b resident of the Typo; Harrison d it. In a opinion long and y preparec signed by the Printing Committee, it was held that it was illegal to bind them to any printing offices, as contracts must be let to the lowest bidders. The City and County Attorney was di rected to commence suit to protect and cure the city's interest in the property at the foot of Fillmore street wharf and for a distance 200 feet each side of the wharf, the City Attorn 1574 as city propery of the Fair estate r Black P The_ Assessor was directed to asse franchise and all other property San Francisco and San Mateo Railway Company in t fiscal year 1869-1900 in accordance with the recent opinion of the City and County At-| to | torney. The Mayor was requested make such representations to the Board of Epualization and to take such action as may preclude it from making any ass ment of the franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails and rolling stock of the said streef railway. 1t was decided that when an el held to provide for public improvements at the public expense by the issuance of bonds that the estimate of $200,000, made by the Federation of Mission Improve- ment Clubs, is hereby adopted as the ex- pense of construeting the main sewer peti- tioned for, and shall be submitted, with ®other matters which will be recommended for such action as the electors deem proper, The License Collector was directed to issue to J. H. Belser, James Tobin, H. Crummey and Edward Felton streetwork solicitors’ licgnses. The City Engineer directed to make the necessary surveys to determine the best practicable route for the extension of Sunnyside avenue to Dewey boulevard or Corbett avenue. The engin was also directed in making the surveys for_the | repaving of Market street, between Polk | street and Van Ness avenue, to conform to the curbs already laid. ‘A resolution was passed requiring all wagons_used for the purpose of deliver- ing naphtha, kerosene or any other prod- uct of petroleum, to have a tray so con- structed and attached to said wagon that the contents will not leak or drip upon bituminous pavements. All persons delivering any of these articles shall use tight tanks. cans or other vessels for the conveyance of the same. Two petitions were presented asking that the city printing be awarded onl- to union offices. It was referred to the P-inting Committee. W. Clayton, secretary of the San Fran- cisco,and San Mateo~ Electric Railway Company, notified the board that the com- pany will commence work to-morrow opening the street on Dolores to Chenery and along Chenery to Thirtieth to Fair- mount street for the purpose of putting in switches and some double track. A. E. Gould, P. H. Norton and W. F. Hanrahan applied for licenses to soiicit street work. Supervisor Holland arose to a question of personal privilege. He read an ex- tended reply to criticisms in the papers of work which he, as chairman of the Bullding Committee, would do. He read from Mayor Phelan's last messafi showed that his Honor was the call attention to the necessities of the hall. Mr. Holland promises that there will be no extravagance during the term of the present boar DESTRUCTIVE SEA LIONS. rst to Thousands of Salmon Slaughtered in the Upper Bay. Deputy Fish Commissioner John Davis has just returned from a trip up the river and reports that the spring run of salmon has begun. It is true that these fish have been ascending the rivers in small numbers during the winter, but the big run seems now to have started in. Around Martinez the fishermen are complaining joudly of the depredations of the sea lions in the waters of the upper bay. These creatures follow the salmon in great num- Dbers and_in one day a good-sized, vigor- ous sea lion will destroy enough fish to keep a canning factory running for half that time. Aside from the destruction of the fish, the fishermen have another rea- son for complaint. Many of the salmon get into the nets and there they fall easy victims to the sea lions. In the rush of these animals the nets are literally torn to pieces and the cost of repairing, aside from the loss of fish, is no small feature in the profit and 1oss account of the fishermen. s the sea lionsgrun as far as Sacramento and to Bouldin Island in the San Joaquin, the net men are all provided with rifies and shoot whenever they see their aquatic enemies sho;v their heads above the surface of the water. ‘Wells-Fargo Still Dodging. The suit brought in the Superior Court by ex-Attorney General Fitzgerald against Wells, Fargo & Co. to compel the corporation to pay the war revenue tax on packages forwarded by it was transferred - yesterday from the Superior Court to the United States Circuit Court. Poolroom men are talking of making a “book” on the proposition that the case will not be decided before the war taxes are abolished. Suit for Legal Services. The case of James L. Crittenden and Sydney M. Van Wyck against the execu- tors of the will of the late Herman Liebes was .opened by Judge Seawell yesterday. Company | | officials have apparently given heed to| along Taylor | This forms part | of the | his city and-county for the | ction is | > and | | | | | Sansome. | | | City, 1s at the Occidental. | bi The plaintiffs, who are well-known atto! neys, seek to recover $1000 for their labor In drawing up the last will of the de- ceased, A trust was created in the will, and the executors set up the defense that the trust is invalid, hence the attorneys are not entitled to a fee for their services. DICK SLOSS 1S ENGAGED Young Millionaire will Wed ‘a Boston Belle. voungest son of Mr. and Mrs. | is soon to become a benedick. The glad news of his engagement to Miss | Hecht of Boston was conveyed by tele- graph to his relatives in this city yester- day. 3 The betrothal of the young couple is the happy culmination of a romance that dates back to Mr. Sloss’ college days. Mr. Sloss met Miss Hecht while he was | pursuing his studles at Harvard—an ac- guaintance that was renewed during the lady's visit last summer to her relatives in hig city. Miss Hecht is a recognized belle in Boston and enjoys the well merited reputation of being one of the brightest | and wittlest women in a clty famous for the intellect of the “better half” of hu- manity. Mr. Sloss has long been recognized as one of the most eligible beaux of the city. He Is a_member of the law firm of Chick- | ering, Thomas & Gregory and brother of Leon and Louis Sloss of the Alaska Com- meretal Compan Hecht 1s a cousin of Mrs. Marcus and Mr: Willlam Gerstle and M. H. Hecht. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is regis- tered at the Palace. M. H. Walker, a capitalist of Salt Lake R. E. Jack, the San Luis Obispo banker, is registered at the Palace. C. F. Masterson, a mining man of San Andreas, is located at the Russ. William H. Llewellyn, a prominent New Yorker, is staying at the California. Willlam Wehner, a rancher of Ever- green, is a late arrival at the California. A. A. de Ligue, District Attorney of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. Albert Bettens, proprietor of Byron Hot | Springs, will bé at the Palace for a few | days. C. D. Snedeker, an attorney of Perth Amboy, N. J., is at the Palace, accom- | panied by his wife. | Thomas Barry, a miming man of Butte, Mont., and W. D. Keyser, a Hopland cat- tleman, are at the Russ. P. Charlebols, a Ventura merchant, and Joseph Clegg, a business man of Auburn, are two of the arrivals at the Lick. Thomas O. Toland of Ventura and Alex. | Brown of Milton, members of the State | Board of Equalization, are at the Lick. Peter Musto, a Stockton merchant, | and Brad Barna, a mining expert of Lon- don, are making the Grand their head- quart I. Alexander, a capitalist of Milwau- | registered at the California with | e and two children. Mrs. J. W. REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF THE REV. DR, GIBSON- Holds His Church Up to Criticism. CREATED MARKED SURPRISE CATHOLIC CHURCH COMPARISON. USES THE ¥OR The Well Known Divine Advocates an Open Door Policy for Prot- estant Institutions and Less Grumbling. Rev. J. George Gibson of Emmanuel Baptist Church created a mild sensation vesterday at the weekly meeting of Bap- tist ministers by his criticisms on the manner in which Protestant churches are operated, erected and located, as com- pared with Catholic institutions. He di- vided his usually interesting paper in six subdivisions, and each contalned sensa- tional ideas. The title of his paper, “Les- sons From the Catholics,” was sufficlent to arouse the interest of all present, and its contents startled and amused his brother ministers. In part he sald: Roman Catholies know how to buiid churches. They do not put up shells or barns. It you see a fiimsy Catholic church you may make_up your mind it is a mission, to be re- placed In a few vears by a splendid building. Anything may be good enough in aich to make a beginning, but it is always regarded as a beginning. _if they put up a frame or patch up an old dwelling it s not regarded as a finished church. Some day they intend to move out. and amid weeping for ihe old and Joy for the new, praise God in a splendid tem- DPle that will stand to man and weather for years. I am not raising the question whers they get the money—all I say is they show good sense in building houses that stand for years in_their strength and majesty. There s a glory in them we do not find in the buildings that belong to other denomina- tions. On the outside they are majestic and in- side they inepire silence and devotion. The speaker then went on to show that the Catholics know where to build, and in support of his assertions cited many in- stances where good judgment was shown in erecting- sacred edifices, *‘for show in some cases and for work in others.” Other churches may grumible about their lo- cations, but not the Catholics. They select tha location they want, or wait until they can ge it. They don’t pick a wrong location and then grumble. ‘If the circumstances change around their church they change thelr church to an- swer the circumstances. ' They keep open every day, vet the, cost does not frighten the people away ‘The poor don't Cameron accompanies them. M. Martin, a Sebastopol merchant, | C. W. Kellogg of Lakeport and H. Mc- y, a crack pigeon shot of Syracuse, | N. Y., are guests at the Grand. Gojuro Nagasaki, New York agent for the Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, has | arrived at the Occidental with his wife | and child. He is on his way to Japan to | report to the home office. | F. C. Berry and wife, H. F. Berry and | _‘Berry, three brothers, who have min- | ing claims in the Klondike region which, | they say, will net them over $400,000 this vear, will leave shortly to attend to their interests and will go by way of the tr;u.iL Willlam A. Bissell, assistant traffic man- ager of the Santa Fe, yesterday establish- ed his headquarters in the offices of the | Valley road at 321 Market street. His | staff will consist of William Alberger, l chief clerk, and Hugh Curran, private sec- retary. T. Kurashige, chief engineer of the Tokio Water Works, arrived from the East yesterday afternoon and is now at | the Palace. He will be joined to-day by | 1. Zushi, engineer general of the Japan- | ese Government Railway, and M. Matsu- moto. chief of the Railway Department of | Japan. _————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOBK_§ N. and E. H. Winchester of San Francisco | are at the Fifth Avenue. —_——— MUST HAVE CERTIFICATES. | | Chinese Students and Merchants Not | * to Be Landed Without Papers. United States Circuit Judge Morrow, on | behalf of the United States Circuit Court | of Appeals, handed down a decision yes- | terday reversing the decision of the Ore- gon court in the case of the Government dgainst Chu Chi and Chu How. The Chus are Chinese hoys, 13 and 15| vears old, respectively. They were al- | lowed a landing on the ground that they | were students, notwithstanding the fact that they did not have a certificate to | that effect, as required by the statutes. | The United States District Court in Ore- | gon decided that as the boys had proved | that they were students they were en- | titled to land by reason of that fact| alone and that the certificate was not | necessary. Judge Morrow’s decision vesterday was to the effect that the certificate is re- quired by the statute and that being with- | out the certificate they had been landed | fllegally. The fact that they were stu- dents in fact did not establish their status | under the law. They wiil be deported. —_— e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | THE PARIS EXPOSITION.—A. A. B, | Alameda, Cal. The price of admission to the Paris Exposition of 1900 has not.yet been announced. GERALDINE.—C. H. W., Veterans’ Home, Cal. Geraldine is now a brood- mare at the Napa stock farm, owned by A. B. Spreckels. She still holds the rec- ord for four furlongs of 46 seconds. THAT TWENTY MILLIONS—Subscrib- ers, City. The twenty milions which the United_States Government is to pay to Spain in connection with the treaty has been incorporated in the appropriation INDIAN NAMES—A. 8., City. There is no one book that gives the names of all the States and cities of the Ameérican Union that are of Indian origin and the definition of each. Such can be obtained only by a long research through the his- tory of each State ana Territory. RED CROSS NURSES—Subscriber, Spenceville, Cal. There is no prescribed uniform for nurses of the Red Cross So- ciety. They usually wear in cool climates a dark dress, white cap, white cuffs and | white apron, with the distinguishing red cross brassard on the arm. In warm cli- mates a light calico is substituted for the dark material. A STOCK COMPANY-D. A., City. This department has not been able to find a law which says that a man who owns shares in a stock company may not at any time dispose of his shares and re- tire from the company. If, however, the company asked about in ‘the letter of in- ggivre:;ril:dabparttr:leerlshlp concer(n it must be aw governin, - ships and the co ua.nis Sodarce | then pointed W YORK, March 6.—Thomas Hayes | £ | ing the fines | gomery street. Telephone Main —_——————— steal the candles to light up their rooms, nor does the dude pluck flowers from the altar to put them In his button hole. Dr. Gibson then drew a fanciful picturs of the light streaming through the stained glass windows of a Catholic church and the activity within in contradistinction to the inactivity in the Protestant churches. There is always a sign of life, some token of enthusiasm that something is going on. The Protestant church is always closed. The dust gathers on the doorsteps where boys and girls Blay their games. The piace seems deserted. Xhe silent pile of lumber suggests death, idle- ness—or the people, like Baal, are away on a Journey. In advocating a wide-open door policy for his church, the speaker gave a short description of the Catholic church, its methods and the manner in which its members drop in at all times to pras. He then took a fling at his colleagues by criticizing their wont to live miles away from- their pastorate. ‘“‘Catholics always know where to find their priests,” he said. ~A priest can live in a house without a bay window and within the sound of ham- mers and the smell of restaurants. Some men thrive best when they are miles away from what is known as home cook- ing. 'i"he doctor then took up the subject of assistants, and told how the Catholics conducted their church and the number of priests to carry on its services, and out how a minister of the Protestant faith had to attend to all his duties, and if he take an assistant and pay him out of his own pocket his con- regation would call him lazy. He cited is own case by saving that he had his assistant lead in prayer one evening, and members of his church remarked his ap- parent sloth, whereas he had attended and participated in nearly ten meetings before evening service. ‘A short discussion followed the conclu- sion of the paper. TUncle Sam Is Boss. Germaine Pouchan and Louis Schlatter, proprietors of the St. Germaine Restau- rant, appeared for sentence in the United States District Court yesterday morning, having been convicted by a jury of having served wine in unstamped bottles and in Tefilled bottles bearing the old stamp. Judge de Haven sentenced the de: end- ants to pay a fine of $100 each. The de- findants declared their intention of pay- and will not take an appeal. —_—e—————— A. C. Whitcomb’s Estate. The ninth annual account of the trus- tees of the estate of the late A. C. 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