The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1899, Page 6

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY MARCH 18, 189 ELS, Proprietor. ...Market a Maln 1865, .217 to 221 Stevenson Street | es, B centd. ’ Widing Postage: f CALL (lncinding CALL (Including Sun CALK tipcluding Sénday Ca CALL—Ry_ §ingle Month, | i CALI, Orne mple copies will,be fofwarded when requ OAKLAND OFFICE .. = NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Buiiding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. : CHICAGO OFFICE... Marquétte Building | ¢.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertiging Represcntative. | ©08 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—82T Montgomery street, corner Clay, | cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. 357 Hayes street, open until | &% oclock. 681 McAllister - street, open untll 19:30 | o'ciock. 616 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. ical Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clack.. 2618 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, openi until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets. open untH 9-o'cloc AMUSEMENTS. *Barbet of Seville,” this afternoon: 7 afternoon Corner Mason and Ell Purk—The Steepledhase. ! | | | | | AUCTION SALES. Loud Gear: ‘bag! street Co.—Thursday, March 23, at 12 m,, Real | s roet | "QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. | for State and Federal co-operation | i by both Federal | ise of quarantine ates is of doubt- of the Board of Health of | v the Legislature 3 Board of Health. This will | cure the present evil of splitting up control and re- | ity and scattering them . making all sanitary supervision business that in time of need it The yellow co and our South Aatlan- | whole question long before | mong the cities and fever | ess. States, on the Guli tic seaboard, have th as a burning issue. | Joseph Y. Porter, M. D., State Health Officer of Florida, in a communication to the Committee on | Commerce-of the United States Senate last year, said: | “It can be said with truthful positiveness that some | of the methods introduced by the Marine Hospital | S or by the authofity of the Supervising Sur- | veyvor General of that service, were injudicious and, liowever henestly intended, had much if not | greater effect in creating panic and commercial dis- | . States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama as ter mn t and Texas during the last autumn as did the failure | to maintain proper regulations by the various Szurc‘ Eoards of Health of those States, a failure which, it is | e to those Boards of Health to say, was due | several -State mmted‘ i | but just to ‘the defectiveness of their subject: <X =¥ % Any one who will care- problem of prevention of contagious introduction and suppression of cases as the and before an epidemic of the same ensues, can- fail to be impressed with these facts—first, that it | te duty to provide adequate legislation for the | sccond, experienced and conservative men | 11d administer the statutes, through and by a cal® Boards of “It is eminently | rence of = the n 1897, said: cize with severity the apathy and dere- wn by the State of California in not having | itine read at a con Health in this ¢ per Lo liction sh d prov facilities for the exerc of quarantine, and particu larly in the matters of disinfection and fumigation.” ! These de ations should be sufficient to demon- strate the need of the presence of the State in co- @ the Federal Government, deral guarantine officer was placed here, {following the opening of the quarantine station by the ederal Government on Angel Island, an iniected p had to lie in the stream, her well passengers «cooped up with the sick, her mails and cargo held on board, until the quarantine period was passed. | “1f she were a Pacific liner she lost her sailing day, her | owners lost the use of her and shippers and passen- gers were turtailed in the conveniences of travel and operation w Before a | commerce. This had gone on for years because there was no quarantine station where her passengers could be landed, the sick and w separated, mails fumigated go and ship disinfected and the vessel made iy for prompt docking in time for her outsailing It will be seen, then, that in its operation here i local jurisdiction was inefficiently equipped that it was a restraint upon trade and a bar to commerce, while affording less protection than it should to the public health. As there is now a quarantine station provided by so the United States, let the State do its duty, put itself in line for co-operation and increase its owa -safety | by concentrating local authority in one place. It must not be forgotten that if our courts should hold utter] inst the Federal presence in quaran- tine u atters, and Federal jurisdiction should entirely recede, aiter ail ‘effective: quarantine, without embar- rassing trade, could only be had by using the Federal station on Angel Island. This fact is sufficient to in- dicate the absolute necessity for Federal and State co- tion. oper: There is something unspeakably sad in the death of Princess Kaiulani. Born into an atmosghere of hope zed. bred to the idea that a throne ted her, her brief life. albeit pleasant at times, was = tragedy. She was called while in the prime of youth and beauty, and her people will long remember her. | never to be rea ai a It is to be hoped the desire of Governor Roosevelt that the execution of a woman, about to take place in New York; shall be decently conducted and fairly re- ported will be respected. But New York is the home of yeliow journalism. —— The attempt of the Armours to bribe one of the chief witnesses against them will not tend to pro- « «mote belicf in the purity of the outfit. . T l | cause his property could be attached without.even the |'prive the press of its pr | assigned we are of the opinion that the new legislative | its prificipal port modern and complete | e National Republican Committee as the instrumental- 'ECLIPSE OF THE ANTI-CARTOON BILL. UDAS ISCARIOT was apostate, Danton was a fiend, Howard legislator who supports Dan Burns, If thirty, days had clapsed, and a new: 'section, which the’ Legislature * has- - declared an stitutional law, the proprictor of The Call, by permit- ea¢h, not to be | three sums of one thousand dolia imposed as fines for criminal misdemeanors, but to be collected by civil actions in the name of any person who happened to want fifteen hundred dollars, the | procecds of which would be equally divided between | the plaintiff and the State. Even the owner of the Examiner, under similar conditions, could not escape | these penalties through a residence in New York, be- | formality of obtaining jurisdiction over his person. We refer to the section aé drafted and introduced by Senator Morehouse and pressed by himseli and by Grove L. Johnson, aided by legislators of simi- larly unique reputation, in ordér té gratify their.pert sonal malignity. Tt had been supposed that the pos- | le depth of legislative asininity had been reached-by | the anti-cartéon "bill. But this last enactment, n6 | matter how amended, is-moré ridiculous, To say that | Judas Tscariot was “an apostate” or thaf Danton was ‘a fiend," within-the text of the new scctiofi, “tends to blacken the memory, of one who'is dead,” and’to call Howard E. Wright “a disgraced- legislator’sis | ‘to impeach the honesty, i ity, virtue or réputa-, tion” “of one who is - Each’ of these statet ments, whether true of false, whethers published for the public good or to ‘subserve private ends, unless signed. “'by the true, name of the writer,” under the new enactment -entails a penalty of one thousand dol- writer, but by the “owner, The new section is in the st lars to be paid, not by the prictor or publisher.” enal Code, but the money is to be collected not hrough the crimir I actions. | a evidently designed not merely to de- e, but to Dbenefit the I needy, for, as to each penalty incurred, the right of | action is vested in the first person who becomes a | \intiff and brings the suit. His compensation is | cne-hali of the judgment, which would liberally re- | ward both him and his attorn: serve that as to each “article, s the “owner, proprietor or publisher” has to deter- tement or editorial,” | It is proper to ob- | | mine guage of the act, and, therefore. whether it has to be signed or can represent merely the and the | ding of the “newspaper or other printed publica- | jor himself whether it comes within the Jan-| | name tion This clumsy imitation of French law is a rich illus- tration of the great legal combination that produced 1 it could stand the newspaper remedy would be | 1t. the em of skilled bullies, bravos and as sins. Unfortur however, for the bloodthirsty | tely th ts, stitution provides that “ev 3 write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, I)cm;.mK responsible for the abuse of that right,” and speci- | fically states that “NO LAW SHALL BE P: TO RESTRAIN OR ABRIDGE THE LIB OF SPEECH OR OF THE PRESS Persons | in the category of Grove L. Johnson, Senator More- | house and Howard E. Wright have both criminal and | unless it appears that “the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with | good maotives and for justifiable ends.” g p As, under our American system, the liberty of thc| press, subject to the double mode of redress for wan- | ton libels, to which we have adverted. embraces the publication of unsigned articles-and statements, it is | not within legislative competency to prescribe the| manner in which the publication is to be made. It is‘l equally unconstitutional without consideration to | transfer a right of action from the State to a man who promot of 1st” scheme to protect dishonest | rticle 1. section 9, of the State con- | | ry citizen may freely speak public ser civil remedies, can outstrip his competitors in a race to a courthouse. For these and for many other reasons that might be Leneficiaries must depend upon some other means of filling their depleted pockets, and that the writers of newspaper articles may still hope to escape the venge- ance of exposed corruptionists THE PRESIDENT VINDICATED. aminer is as unprincipled as any | It prefers false | N politics the newspaper in the United States. conjectures to any semblance of fact. Its treach- ies to the party it nominally espouses have been in- numerable. Its attacks upon the Republican party ! are destitute of any trace of honor. It has professed | to be a rampant opponent of the railroad. From the | beginning of the Senatorial contest at Sacramento to ‘ the present moment, as he who runs can read, it has | zcted in harmony with. the railroad conspiracy to de- stroy Republican ascendency in this State, and in the most underhanded and sneaking manner has done all | in its power to advance the interests of Dan Burns. { On Wednesday last it opened its battery of false- hood against President McKinley by charging that, with Senator Hanna as his engineer and using the ity, he had commenced an intrigue for his own re- | clection. This statement the Examiner must have | known to be a lie. Even though Mr.. McKinley were | a Republican Machiavelli, his intelligence would save | him from a premature scheme to control the National | Republican Convention of 1900, the disclosure of which would concentrate against him all the aspiring | statesmen in the Republican party and would also ex- | cite popular animosity. But there has been nothing in the life of Mr. McKinley, before or since his elec- tion to the Presidency, to indicate that he would use his official position to secure re-election or that he has any personal desire to succeed himself, Pcculiur‘ combinations of circumstances, especially resplendent | scrvices to the country, have compelled several of our | Fresidents to serve for two consecutive terms, but apart from partisan inventions there is no ‘instance, so far as we are apprised, of such political degrada- tion as constitutes the only pretension of Dan Burns to a Federal Senatorship having received Presidential sanction. Washington reluctantly sacrificed the rest and peace he had so hardly ¢arned, and which might have prolonged his invaluable life, to the universal demand of his country. In every subsequent instance of a second term immediately following the first the ! nomination and election responded to an irresistible pressure. President Lincoln, after having led the great struggle for the maintenance of the Union, cculd not have avoided re-election, and he became a martyr to duty in a double sense. President Grant was carried into a second term by an invincible pres- tige. President Cleveland destroyed his chance for re-election as his own successor by a firm adherence to political opinions, which commanded the respect while invdking the successful opposition of the Re- publican party, and it was only through a temporary reaction that he succeeded in *defeating Benjamin Harrison and, for a second term, became President of the United States. We repeat that in American history there is no precedent for the foul libel that the Examiner has Wright is a disgraced | | . | movement for the re-election of Mr. McKinley may part of the Penal Code, were an approved and a con- | ting the publication of this article without.a signature, | | would have subjected himself to the forfeiture of | ! subserving the treachery of the railroad by promoting | - | cratic pre: { ing knives | Demogcrats of the South not to be misled by the action in Michigan. cratic party does not appear effective. basely published agairist the gentleman who has been’ so signally honored by the nation,'and under whose | administration the heasts of the people in every sec- tion of the republic have ratified the outcome of the | Civil War. It is not impossible—it is indeed highly | probable—that when the proper time comes a strong originate within the mass of Republican citizens, but not at his suggestion, and still less through the . at- tempted manipulation of any part of the machinery of the Republican party. During the remainder of the legislative session the Examiner had better adhere to its programme .of, the clection of Dan Burns and depriving the Repub- | lican nominee for the Presidency, whomsoever he may be, of the vote of California in- 1900. THE HAPPY DEMOCRATIC FAMILY. OLONEL WILLIAM J. BRYAN, in response | %0 an invitation from the Hon. Perry Belmont | requesting him to attend a Democratic | banquet in New York, replied: “‘Remembering that you openly repudiated the Democratic platform in the | last campaign, I desire to know before answering the | : invitation whether you have since the election pub- | licly announced your conversion to the principles set forth in that platform.” To that inquiry, in which there was seemingly much more sarcasm than courtesy, Mr. Belmont retorted: “The invitation extended to you was on behali of the Democratic Club. Individual opinions have not been | considered in issuing the invitations to celebrate the birthday of Thomas Jefferson.” In that cxchange of repartee the victory goes to the effete Easterner and not to the exuberant man of the Platte Valley. Nevertheless, Bryan was right. Whether the declarations of the national platform are to be regarded as principles, as Mr. Bryan calls them, or individual opinions, as Mr. Belmont prefers term them, the fact remains they are matters of some | importance. A Democratic banquet designed as a party festival must necessarily furnish its guests with something in the way of a feast of reason and a flow of soul, and Mr. Bryan had a right to ask what sort of doctrine he was expected to swallow on the occa- sion. 4 In fact, these “individual opinions,” as Mr. Belmont calls them, have become burning issues even in this off year, when politics is expected to be smoldering instead of blazing. Recently the Democrats of Michi- E gan held a State convention in the classic city of | Kalamazoo and made the free silver plank of the | Chicago platform the test of eligibility. No man was | permitted to sit in the convention who did not ac- | cept it. His individual opinion had to square with the platiorm or he was counted out. * When the news of that proceeding reached New York there was wrath in the metropolis. The Demo. s of the city did not treat the issue as one of On | to individual opinion which could be overlooked. the contrary, they started up as at-'the sound of a and, getting out their hatchets and the scalp. proceeded to lay about among the Mich ganders like so many rivals of Bombastes Furioso. The New York Times, for example, warned the war cr; Its argument was that Democracy in | Michigan, being in a hopeless minority, may “de- | clare for polygamy, free rum, free theft, and enroll the | cheating of creditors among the cardinal virtues,” for it has nothing to lose, but in the South Democracy | has great interests at stake and must be careful. | Warming to,_the subject, the Times said: “The Demoocrats.of Michigan enjay ‘all the'Jarge irtespon- sibility of the idiot, impotent and at ease in his asy- Tum, who sets at defiance the laws of decency and re- viles with obscene gibberings his unheeding keepers. The: Democrats of the South are in no such free po- sition.” | When such language as that is being shouted about | the New York Democracy on the slightest provo- cation, it is not to be wondered that Mr. Bryan de- sired to know what sort of stuff he would be expected at least knows enough to keep out of a slaughter- AUSALITO’S Trustees may be ordinarily a ferred upon the poundkeeper, the herder of the er-| closet where the family skeleton may be concealed. the premises may harbor a dog. to swallow at the Jefferson banquet. He may not be house. bright and brainy lot, but they surely are sub- rafit’canine, power to enter any private premises and The lordly poundman does not need any legal paper. We have not the honor of acquaintance with the- b so good at repartee as the clever Mr. Belmont, but he MY LORD, THE POUNDMAN. S ject to lapses into silliness. - They have con- search from basement to garret, not omisting the His entire authority is to consist of a suspicion that o | matters, as if the money was | fllegally there would have to be | Hall. TEACHERS MY WAKE TERMS WITH MERCHANTS Affairs Rapidly Near- ing a Crisis. | | IMPORTANT MEETING MONDAY | AUDITOR WELLS COMES IN FOR UNJUST CRITICISM. | | Has Always Taken the Side of the Teachers, Although They Think | He Favors the Merchant i Creditors. The teachers and the merchants may reconcile their differences any day, E-nd‘ thus make possible the payment of suchl debts of the School Department as there may be funds on hand to meet. The ! teachers are said to be tired of the war | they have waged in the courts, where | every decision handed down has been against them. It was shown that they were not preferred creditors, and also | that the one-twelfth act applied to the funds of the department preventing the payment of the salaries of one month out of the funds of another. A meeting will be held on Monday, at which time it is expected an agreement may be reached which will prove a happy ‘way out of the difficulties which have be- set them since last December. Attorney Louis de F. Bartlett, who has | en identified with the struggle of the | teachers to secure the money due them, called on Auditor Wells yesterday. He wished that official to send letter to the teachers defining his stand in the con- troversy over the money. This Mr. Wells declined to do, saying he had no apology to offer nor defense to make. “1 was told,” sald Mr. Wells last night, “that an impression prevailed among th teachers that I was antagonistic to them and. favored the merchants. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have not for one moment fought the teachers, but have done all in my power to help their cause. When 1 was authorized to sign the warrants 1 called together my assistants on a Sunday and we worked all day. I also sent for Secretary Simp- son of the Board of Education and he worked all night to have the warrants ready for ihe teachers on Monday morn- ing at 7 o’clock. The teachers were paid that morning. “I know that some of the teachers say, 1f Bill Broderick was Auditor we would get our money.’ This would not help paid out an_ac- | and even now attor- neys are claiming that Mr. Broderick may vet be held personally responsible for money paid on demands audited by him.” Persons in the City Hall who are famil- jar with the workings of the Auditor’ office affirm that Mr. Wells’ first thought throughout this controversy over school funds has been for the teachers. counting some da KNIGHTS AND LADIES ; HOLD TWO SESSIONS LRI ) ION OF DELEGATES TO ELECT ; SUPREME BODIES. | Both Orders Exemplify the Blmn..l-! istic Work in Their Respective | Halls—Pleasure Follows | Work. 5 The Knights and the Ladies of the Mac- cabees met yesterday, the former in B'ne | Brith Hall and the latter in Golden Gate | At the morning session of the Knights | the representatives were called to order | by State Commander S. W. Hall. He | read a letter from Mayor Phelan, who | | had promised to deliver an address of | welcome. The Mayor wrote that an un-| expected call to Sacramento on official | business had disarranged his plans, and expressed his regrets that he was unable | to be present. | The state commander read his report | showing the work of the order during the | past two years. From this it appeared | that the order, organized in 1878, had in 1581 a membership of about 700, and that on the first of last January it had a mem- bership of 377,7%6. The order was estab- lished in California in 1889 with a very | small membership, which has since | grown to 4252. Since organized the order | has paid in round numbers $2,200,000 in | benefits to widows and orphans and a | large amount in disability claims. Dur- | ing the past two years the death rate ln‘ the order has been but six in a thousand. | California now has 32 tents, and outside | of the great camp states it was beaten | | in increase in membership by only one | to-morrow Sausalito brand of purp-pursuer, but if he is any | osa?;eéflldlnnesma. which passed it by | like the variety which has at times - devastated this | In the afternoon the State commander, city, there would be nothing for householders to do but-abide at home with a shotgun in easy reach. i Of course a law so wildly unconstitutional will never | stand a test, and unless the dog gentleman is a fool : “he will not be party to any effort to have it tested. | He would by invading private property run grave risk of being kicked out, and the consciousness of de- serving-every kick would add to the pang of bruises. No.American citizen with sense enough to go_ in out of the rain, and a place to go, will permit ‘a prowling interloper, even though backed by an ab- surd band of Trustees, to nose about his buildings or to enter them without warfant or invitation. Those Trustees, as soon as they experience a lucid interval, should get together and rescind this bit of freak legislation. ] 27t Sy A burglar recently caught in the act of pillaging a house in this city had in his pocket at the time a| beautiful letter from his mother counseling him to be honest, and appealing to him with all the ardor of a mother’s love not to disgrace the family name. The | picture of the man, as well as his conduct, shows him to be a degenerate. He needs a term in the peniten- tiary, and for the sake of this mother it ought to be for life. 2 Possibly the election of Senator Clark of Mon- tana was due to corrupt methods. However, the charge coming from the Daly faction of the Demo- |. This faction embraces the people who put up $30,000, pretending that it came from Clark, and who had to-forfeit the sum. It does not seem that they are in a position to be casting stones. Datliel O'Shea has pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, which ‘is very kind of him. Plainly enough he is guilty of worse, but the difficulty and cxpense of proving it have evidently appealed to the better nature of O’Shea. He cannot be hanged, and there would be no utility in imprisoning him for longer than the term of his natuzal life. . When they have a street fight in Hot Springs it is a good one, and while it crowds the morgue a trifle, nobody is left to bother the courts. | sion: his i R, | Maccabees there was ‘to be chosen should be from the north or .alternate. A tug has been chartered for the purpose in accordance with the new rule, ap- : W, 8. 5 C. J. Walter of Los Angeles, Lt.; R. M. Brown of Oakland, R. K.; H. L. Tickner | of San Francisco, F. K.; J. M. Sheaffel of Los Angeles, C.; Dr. Courture of Au- burn, P.; D. G. Clayton of Riverside, S. N. Hammond of San Jose, M. at A.; D. Barkley of Redondo, first’ M. of G.; F. L. Mitchell of Santa’ Ana, second M. M. F. Ball of Santa Cruz, sentinel; | ' Smith of San Diego, picket. | Then followed the election of the repre- sentatlves to the Supreme Tent. H. L.! Tickner nominated S. W. Hall, present | State. commander, and C. J.' Walters | nominated W. E. Chamberlain of Los An- geleg, and as there were no other nomina tions' the nominees were elected. H. L. Tickner and C. J. Walters were elected as alternates. The rest of the afternoon was taken up | in the discussion of matters under the head of good of the order, and a recess was taken until evening, at which time there was the exemplification of ‘the | ritualistic work of the order by a team | from San Francisco Tent in its full and | beautiful regalia, which cost The | work was done in a manner that won the | admiration of the representatives. The work was followed by a banquet, at which much good feeling prevailed and a number of addresses were delivered. At the assembly of the Ladies of the little but pre- paratory work during the morning ses- sion, which was called to order by Mrs. | Fudocia Moffatt, the State commander. In the afternoon the following officers were elected for the current term: Lady Walker of Los Angeles, P. L. C.; Lady Moffatt of San Francisco, L. C.; Lady | Martin of Los Angeles, L. Lt. Salmond of San Francisco, L. R. K. Lady Avdelotte of Oakland, L. F. K. Lady Lacy of Pasadena, L. Chap.; Lady Durfey of Santa Ana, L. Serg Lady Edwards of Oakland, L. M. at ; Lady McCarville of Dunsmuir, L. St.; Lady | Barnstable of Loomis, 'Placer County, L. P.; Lady Wastier of San Francisco, organist. en came the election of representa- tive to the Supreme Hive, and there was a strong contest as to whether the one the south of the State, and after a long discussion Lady Walker of Los Angeles defeated Lady Moffatt of San Francisco. Lady Aydelotte of Oakland was chosen In the evening there was an exemplifica- tion of the ritualistic work by a team from San Francisco Hive, assisted by members of Oakland and Carita hives. Then followed a collation, at which there were only ladies present. This morning there will be a school of methods in the parlors of the Lick House. This afternoon the Knights and Ladies will accept the invitation of Captain Terry of the Towa to visit the battle-ship. | aspect, and visitors are thereby impressed | day | duce her to go back to the little ones wl | arrived from Iloilo, Philippine of conveying the visitors and their friends to the ship at 1:30 o’clock. ———————————— PROTECTING FOOD FISH. Another Lot of Striped Bass Seized by State Officers. The persistency with which some of the up-river fishermen violate the law for the protection of striped bass causes the State Fish Commissioners and their deputies not a little annoyante. These fish were brought from the East at no small ex- pense to the State and planted .in the riv- ers. They were recognized as the best of game and food fish, frequently reaching as much as fifty pounds in weight. In order that they may become of fair size a law was passed prohibiting the taking of these bass under three pounds in weight. Nevertheless the net fishermen in the Tiv- ers persist in killing everything that they can get into their nets, and hundreds of pgunds of the prohibited fish are taken. he only way to put a check upon this unlawful work is to arrest the offenders on every occasion and confiscate all fish under three pounds. It seems to be much easier to arrest the offenders than to secure their conviction, the Judges of the Police Courts being ap- parently afraid of the “push” that seeks o save the lawbreakers from being pun- ished. The deputies, however, have their own way when they can find any of the small fish, for confiscation means the loss of so much money. One of the last ralds was made yesterday by Deputy J. H. Da- vis, who seized 150 pounds of undersized striged bass sent to the Américan Union Fish Company by G. Gurcovich of So- brante. The entire lot was underweight. Arrests will follow. he fishermen's loss will be some one’s gain, for the fish will be given to some charitable Institution for food.which is sure to be a rare treat. as no finer fish can be found on the Pacific Coast. —_—————— A DIRTY PLACE. That’s What the Special Agents Term the San Francisco Custom House. Special Treasury Agents Smith and Linck have expressed the opinion that . San Francisco Custom-house is the dirtiest they have ever seen. Owing to the thick layer of dirt on the windows the interfor wears a gloomy and silurian with the idea that the San Francisco C tom-house is what it looks to be—a rather slouchy affair. This is, however, a mis- conception, and the fault for it lies with | Janitor Lewis, who is directly responsible | for the dirty condition of the place. Chief Clerk Jerome remarked yester- “It is largely our own affair whether e clean or not.” But his greed with him, for the rea- hearers disa son that Mr. Jerome is not paying out of his' own pocket the salary of the janitor and of the four janitorial assistants. On the contrary, these salaries, as well as that of Chief Clerk Jerome, are paid out of the pockets of the dear people, and the dear people expect clean windows at least once a month for their money. It is believed that the special agents will have something to say in their forth- coming report concerning the employment by the Government of cleaners who do not clean. The visit of the agents has been productive of much good, for they have succeeded In infusing a semblance of life into that decaying and cobwebbed ruin, the old Custom-house. —_— e —— Sailor Deserters. The Attorney General of the United States has decided that all shipping arti- cles of vessels from ports in the United States to foreign poms, either coasting or deep sea, shall contain the scale of provisions for the crew, except vessels | engaged In fishing and whaling or yachts. Congress has amended the law punishing deserters in the merchant marine by ex- tending the penalty to deserters in the coastwise trade. ~ Hereafter deserters from coasting vessels will be punished by forfeiture of clothing and of whatever wages may be owing to the deserter at: the time of his offense. | In the foreign trade. in addition to the forfeitures the offender could be sen- tenced to three months’ imprisonment in the discretion of the court. The amended | law geduces the maximum imprisonment to one month. ——————————— Deserted Her Babies. Herman Wieks, a hard working em- ploye in the Risdon Iron Works, has been obitged “to- call upon (Ne ofMicers of the PRureka Society for the Protection of Chil- dren to adjust his family affairs. Accord- ing to his story his wife Lottie, a re- markably pretty woman, has left her | home.and four little ones, aged 9, 7, 6 and | 4 years, in order that she might lead a life | of freedom in the gay world outsfde. The | Jast time she was at home, at 2501, Ar- kansas street, was on December 2. The officers have done all in their power to i{lx- o It need her care, but without succe: is now decided that Wiek’s aunt, Mrs. S. Strehl, will apply for letters of guardian- ship for the four children. Three are in an orphans’ home in San Mateo County, and Mrs. Strehl will care for the young- est. —ee——— Mechanics’ Institute Committees. President Ernest A. Denicke of the Mechanics’ Institute has appointed the following standing committees of the board of trustees for the ensuing year: Finance—Presson, Heald, Culver. Library, rooms and building—McLaren, Plum, Fraser. Books and donations—Healy, Kendrick, Brunt. Lectures and classes—Wilson, Tickner, Neal. Printing and advertising—Neal, Wilson, nt. Pavilion—Plum. Wallls, Fraser. Employes— Tickner, Wilson, Presson. Machinery—Wallls, Culver, Kendrick. _Art—Heald, . Me- Laren. Exhibits—Culver. Wallis, Presson. Tickets and admissions—Brunt, Heald, Tick- ner. Music and__decorations—Kendrick, Me- Laren, Neal. Management—Fraser, Plum, Healy, Folsom-stregt ~lot—Wallls, iendrick, Neal. ————————— Calvarian Society Services. At the Calvarian Society’s éxerecises which will be held as usual at 3 o'clock afternoon at St. Mary's Ca- thedral, the Rev. P. E. Mulligan will de- Jiver a discourse on ‘‘Human Desolation.” Text: “My God, my God. why hast thou forsaken me?” (St. Matthew, xxvii:46.) AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Jules Alexander, a Susanville merchant, is located at the Grand. J. H. Glide, a Sacramento merchant, staying at the Grand. ‘Warren Richardson, a Truckee lumber merchant, is at the Russ, Dr. K. Futterer of Carlsruhe, Germany, is registered at the Palace. J. Defabre, a lieutenant in the Russian navy, is a guest at the Occidental. Lieutenant Hilarofsky of the Russian imperial navy is a guest at the Grand. Rev. A. A. Willlamson, a Baltimore clergyman, is registered at the Grand with his wife. Dr. Douglass T. Forrest, an Episcopa- jan clergyman from Virginia, is at the Occidental with his wife. Thomas L. Bell, propretor of the Hotel Rowardennan in the Santa Cruz Moun- tains, is one of the guests at the Grand. Captain W. A. Nevills, who has been se- riously il of lung affliction, is con- valescent and was seen on the streets yes- terday. B. J. S. Cahill, architect, of this city, is |levy for schools in the Mi THE "$1" LIMIT ~ CONFRONTS THE SUPERVISORS Finance Committee Must Meet It. DEMANDS FOR IMPRQVEMENTS ASK .MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION TO PASS UPON THEM. Over Four Million Dollars Would Be Required to Improve the Out- lying Districts as Re- quested. Chairman Perrault and his associates on the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors have been grappling for weeks with questions of improvements, which if granted would raise the rate of taxation far above the dollar limit, to which the Supervisors are pledged. ~The members of the Merchants’ Association were particularly active during the last campaign in having the pledge regarding the dollar limit inserted in the platform of each party. In view of this the Su- pervisors have determined to refer the multitude of requests for improvements to the association for the opinion of its members as to the disposition to be made e tr(;l?:v%;ng report_will be presented to the board on Monday and it is ex: pected the matter will be at once referred to the Merchants’ Association: Recognizing the pu llc-spirited character of the Merchants' Asfoclation and its efforts %o accomplish munfcipal improvements by object , lessons_at the expense of the mem- bers and business men connected there- with have resulted in improvements being made, which were effected solely by thelr persistent and disinterested efforts, and while your honorable board are the sole Judges of what should or should not be done, it is well to have the opinion and ss men. The improve- for jm- provements at the public expense, from their ©xtent and cost, unless all are meritorious, may frustrate and prevent many laudable objects from being accomplished. It I8 therefore reasonable and your committes belfeve it to be proper to submit to said association the various projects submitted by the improvement clubs for t consid- eration and opinion of what action should be taken on the respective propositions pre- sented, believing that the interests of this community having characterized the action of this assoclation it is well to consult with Fepresentatives of our business interests in these matters. Your committee therefore recommends that the clerk be directed to forward to said assoclation a list of the improvements Tequired in the petitions received from the mprovement clubs of this city and county, to ascertain, under the pledge exacted as to the limit of taxation, what provision should be made If the wants are indis- pensable to meet the expense, and whether the funds therefor should be ralsed by the issuance of bonds or in the tax levy with- out reference to the so-called dollar limit. Representatives of the Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs were present at the meeting yesterday to ask that pro- Vision ,be made in the forthcoming tax sion_ district. Their petition was referred, with others, fo the Merchants' Assoclation. The dele- gates took affront at a suggestion that the clubs they represent were not as pow- erful ‘as the Merchants’ Association, and that they should organize the working- men of the city and thus have a strong voice in matters 'Rerl_ainlng to the. gov- = 4 ernment of - ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MAXIMUM' TEMPERATURE—J. E. M., Jamestown, Cal. The maximum tem- perature in June, 1898, was 93; July, 104, and August, 110. In Stockton it was in June, 98; July, 104, and August, 105. IDEAL CROP CONDITIONS—E. W. L, City. To assure a full crop of wheat and fruit in California would necessitate about 11 inches of rain_after January 1, ) | | | distributed as follows: February, 2 inches; March, April 2 inches. January, 5 inches 2 inches, and RATES OF FARE—G. N. W., Grass Valley, Cal. The rates of fare first and second class from New York to Liverpool vary acording to the line by which the party desires to take passage. First class varies from $100 to $300, and second cias: from $12, $50 to $55. There. is also a dif- ference in the rates in summer and in winter. MURDER AND GRAND J‘:RY_—Sub- scriber, French Camp, Cal. An individual accused of the commission of the crime of murder may be tried in a Superior Court in the State of California in iae county in which the crime was com- mitted, upon an information presented by the District Attorney, or upon an in- dictment presented ba' the Grand Jury of the county. A Grand Jury in the State of California is not a salaried body. ETIQUETTE—S., City. The word eti- quette, which means simply a label or ticket, recefved its present figurative sig- nification from the fact that an old Scotch gardener, who lald out the grounds at Versailles for Louis XIV, being much a;l- noved by courtiers walking over his newly ma}de grl:lunds. at length had labels placed to indicate where they might pass. At first no heed was paid to the labels, but a hint from high quarters that in future the walks of the courtiers must be within the etiquettes was promptly attended to, and to‘\(eep within the etiquettes became the correct thing. The meaning of the phrase was afterward widened, and ie now universally understood. Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™b at Townsend's. ———————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery streef. Telephone Maln 1042. * —_———————— Tt has been stated that the danger to trees from lightning depends not only on their height, but also on their conduc- tibility. resuiting from more or less rich- messof sap.______________. 1f you lack appetite try half a wine glass of Angostura Bitters half hour before meals. Made by J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. L ee——— Luxuriant hair with its youthful color as- sured by using PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. 1aINUEKCORNS, the best cure tor corns, 13 354 The smallest flower known to' the bot- anist is saiu to be that of thedyens( plant. It is microscopic in size, and is said to be only one-hundredth part of a milli- meter in diameter. returned yesterday, by way of the West Indies and Panama, from an extended trip to Europe. Rev. T. W. Houston, a missionary in the Orient, arrived from Nanking, China, yes- terday with his wife and six children and engaged apartments at the Occidental. K. Takeda, engineer of the lighthouse | bureau of the Japanese Government, has come to this country to study t -~ light- house service and its methods of manip- ulation. Paymaster Edward Bellows, U. S. N., Islands, l};::tel‘gayi and is registered at the Califor- . e is accompanied by his assi. W. J. Corwin. i iz St. A. D. Balcombe, who founded the Omaha Republican thirty-five vears ago, is at the Grand with his wife on a pleas- ure trip around the world. Mr. Balcombe has retired from the newspaper with a competence. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 17.—J. Dannen- g::!n; of v%mMFrmcllen is at the Hounu:. rles W. Moore of S8an Fra the Bartholdi, | gyt 4 RovaL | -Bakin@owder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. menacers to of the present day. ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., NEW YORK.