The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. MARCH 25, 189 ECKELS, Proprietor. ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. i"LBulCA'llO.\ OFFICE .lAarket cnd Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1888 EDITORIAL RCOMS 2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street T n 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 156 CENTS PER WEEK. e Copies, 5 cents Including Postage: unday Call), one year. DAILY CAL! DAILY CALL ling Sunday Call), 6 month: 8.00 | DAILY CALL unday Call), 8 month 159 DAILY CA. Month @5c 1.60 ALL One CALL. One Year...... postmasters are authorized to recetve eubscriptions. coples will bs forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ....808 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ‘Room 188, World Buildiag DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE ‘Wellington Hotsl C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Reprosentative. EUNDAY BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'ciock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©30 o'clock. 62! 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THE NEED OF VIGILANCE. islature stood its ground well against ns, and the majority had its way in protect- »utation of the party and the State. vers were all together and the eye of on them the light of publicity was a in the strength of their purpose. 1e outgivings since the adjourn- h indicate the purpose of Burns to continue persuasion, using the better oppor- ¢ on in which it may be carried on. on, made necessary by’ ency, may be used to effect his Ve hope that the constituents of | trict will see this danger | | in every d opposing their wishes, preferences and duty to the urgency of this man’s am- members party, in every district, are men » command the attention and respect Such men should make themselves felt 1 be w and instant in the matter. A | I in the State have fallen into indirect lamen- over Burns' defeat by an outcry over the failure urging Burns upon pub- | sion that leaving the t means the defeat of the party there follows the implication Burns means party Success. tors. no man who writes such | Where in the history of | 1 instance in which | ng election as the result of | nt rather than fill it | yrthy man? There is no such ty has always gained strength g to its best ideals. It ill be so alw; y those principles and prac- | rend it to the best element in the | ) the streets and highways and place wh ect and make diligent inquiry for Republicz vote the Democratic ticket because Burns was beaten, and also for those who | vote the Republican ticket had he are made compare d see the enormous preponderance of men ght Republican battles when a victory won ichauched to such purposes as the election of Burns to the Scnate. Califor majority, a decided and . permanent partisan preference, either way. Elections JYere are determined by a large and increasing inde- pendent vote, w is the balance of power. In 1896 and 1808 this independent vote was cast for the Republ represented in its personnel and policy med to these voters the best for the public good. Let any one go among these inde- “pendent voters, who number tens of thousands, and d to further aid the Republican pa Jurns was beaten, and also those who fecl their confidence well placed in the party that refused to elect him. These independents -will be found practically unanimous in their approval of his defeat. Tt is noteworthy that the influence of the Examiner is being used by Burns to control Republican senti- ment. That paper was in his camp throughout the struggle at Sacramento. The only way in which it «can further aid him is by brag and bluster, to the effect that failure to elect a Senator gives the State to the Democracy next r. This is being used upon .unthinking Republicans, and is the principal capital of the few Republican papers which covertly support Burns. We ask these Republicans and these papers if they really think the Examiner believes the election ‘of Burns would make the State safely Republican next year? Of course it believes no such thing. It knows that the Legislature did the wisest thing in its power to do, and therciore it seeks by indirection to have this wise thing undone. Let Republicans be vigilant, let them support the action and the purpose of the majority of their legis- lators, and thereby hold their party together and com- mand the further confidence of the independent vote of the State. ured that Go, upon s who wi When the tallies been elected. them a2 would refuse to fi has not a gre: h hol w ta'ly the number he finds indisp: I rty becaus Since Sampson has the approval of the President, it *is possible the aspersions of critics who have no more influence than a yellow journalist out of a job can be endured. Unfortunately there is no way of determining just * what proportion of the soldiers who died of disease acquired their fatal malady from rotten beef. Quay of Pennsylvania will divert the influence he used with the Legislature and see what effect it will have upon a jury. — A profane opinion is growing that this thing of praying Qr rain can be overdone. Eall MARCH 23, 1899 | | officers are together it is not only proper but essen- | tion, expressive of all upon which The Call and other | r ys when and | 420 A WORD TO MR. HUNTINGTON. R. C. P. HUNTINGTON is about to pay his | annual t to this State, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his presence may aid in a last- | ing settlement of the difficulties between the railroad | and the public, much embittered by the late deadlock |in the legislative joint convention. When the Repub-| | lican State Convention of last year was held and dur- | ing the canvass that followed it was believed by con- servative men that no such opportunity had occurred in many years for the obliteration of old animosities and the restoration of amicable relations with the rail- road corporations. Congress had ended the con- | troversy over the debt due to the Government from | the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and there waa% no other practical issue open to interfere with the | intelligent ,co-operation of the railroad and the peo- | ple that the interests of this coast and of the nation | demanded, and especially in view of the approaching | transfer of the scepter of commerce from the Atlantic | to the Pacific. In 1896 the Chicago platform had in- troduced a species of demagogism that the solid citizens of the country successfully resented. In 1808, | with platforms that attacked the most vital principles in our American institutions, the fusion candidutcsi and their organs concentrated upon loud and unmean- ing clamor against the railroad. The opportunity thus furnished was promptly seized. The local railroad authorities distinctly announced their complete and final withdrawal from politics. ~The announcement | did not mean that any class of citizens should be im- peded in their political action, but it did mean and was accepted as meaning that the railroad had ceased | its efforts to dominate municipal and State govern- ment, and, for its own protection, would rely upon its conceded equality before the law. It was on these lines that the Republican victory in California was achieved. But, without any reasonable | cause and with an actual proclamation of treachery, the candidacy of Dan Burns was inaugurated and the most disgraceful struggle that has ever been witnessed in America prolonged until it ended in the loss of a Federal Senator to the State, but in the triumph of the Republican party. Why the railroad wanted Dan Burns unless to dis- play its absolute authority and to disrupt the Repub- lican organization it is difficult to conceive. While Mr. Huntington and its other chief owners and its tial that they examine the situation and define their future intentions. Our people and the solid press of the State have never indorsed fanatical and personal attacks upon railroad proprietors and upon railroad interests. They have scarcely been amused by the coarse brutalities and insulting caricatures through which the Examiner has simulated an independence it did not actually possess and curried favor among the lower strata of population. Mr. Huntington, it L must be admitted, is one of the ablest men in the identified with practical business for almost There is no inclination to disparage him nt intelligence and s country sixty years. personally 2among men who.repr weighty public opinion. There is no sentiment any- where able to control an election that is in favor of cinching the railroad or depriving it of one jot or tittle of its rights or of confiscating its property to the amount of a dollar or of inflicting any injury upon its owners, its officers or its employes. There is, however, a stern determination that will absolutely prevail, as it has already prevailed in the Senatorial contest, that the railroad shall be con- tented with fair treatment and with equality before the law, and that it shall not substitute itself for the gov- | ernment and dictate official selection and executive, | legislative and judicial action. It is this determina- independent papers, with the community behind them, have insisted, that, upon reflection and upon a wise | calculation of chances, the gentlemen who control the | railroad may deem it wise to respect. The pledge of | non-intervention in the last campaign ought to have | been unnecessary, but it was demanded and it was 1de, in a form and with a solemnity that bound the | oad. The pledge was undoubtedly broken and a conflict initiated that has hurt the State, while the in- jury was reduced to the minimum through the integ- v of the majority of Republican legislators. Where the individual responsibility for this treachery is to be fastened we do not attempt to determine. It must rest somewhere. It now attaches to the railroad itself, through its political managers. Whether it has the indorsement of Mr. Huntington and of other pro- prictors of railroad interests it is for them to settle, and the sooner the better. There are a few facts that cannot be disputed. The Republican party will not be run by the railroad. It will reject the bad in- fluences that clustered about Dan Burns. It will in- sist upon entering the important campaign of 1900 | without manacles on its hands or fetters on its| ankles. It w represent the State and the nation with all the responsibility and dignity that such a representation implies, and its leaders will be the actnal products of the times and not the indecent pro- trusions from corrupt and low politics. These railroad gentlemen should remember a few his- torical facts and should also realize present conditions. They owe much to the nation, but more to the State. Let them look back to 1861 and examine the account between themselves and the public. Their tremen- dous accumulations, of which only the anarchists or the unphilosophical socialists would deprive them, have been principally derived from the sweat and the toil of the masses. Half a million dollars probably represented the combined resources of the original corporators of the Central Pacific. The nation, the State, municipalities, contributed to the original suc- cess of the enterprise. The people have been contrib- uting ever since. Consider what the Central Pacific, outside of some land grants of comparative insignifi- cance. has produced. It has built all the tributary railroads that perfect the State system. It has con- structed and equipped the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Railroad. It has produced the Stan- ford University, with all its endowments, the edifices on Nob Hill, the works at Newport News. It has paid for coal mines, for hotels, for enterprises asso- ciated with the railroad business that could not be enumerated.. It has built up enormous private for- tunes existing in real and personal property, not only | in California, but in other parts of the republic. These gentlemen of the railroad owe to the State at least decent treatment. They owe much to the Re- publican party—far too much to justify them in per- mitting their influence, their power and their wealth to be used for its local disintegration under Demo- cratic manipulation. The founders of their railroad interests were all Republicans to a man. It was un- der Republican administrations that their land grants were secured and their credit guaranteed. For many years their chief legal advisers, such men as Edward B. Crocker, Silas W. Sanderson and Creed Haymond, were Republicans, and under their administrations the law department and the political department re- mained distinct. It has only been recently that the functions of law and of politics have been united in a Democrat, who was the first to announce and the last to surrender the candidacy of Daniel M. Buras. The story of the past year is the fruit of this unnatural conjunction of discordant elements, one of which is QR impure excrescence upon railroad mqnagement,'kbave,miraculously escaped. and it will be recited hereaiter as a phenomenal at- tempt to disrupt a party and to degrade a common- wealth. We invite the railroad gentlemen to avail them- sclves of the coming opportunity, with Mr. Hunting- ton in their midst, to bring their united intelligence to bear vpon the political situation and to determine whether it is worth their while to resume or continue the lzpsed controversy of the closed legislative ses- <ion. The Call, speaking for itself and as it believes for the Republicans of the State, will aim to extend to them all legitimate protection and to maintain with thein proper and honorable relations that tend to pro- mote industry, commerce, trade, manufacture, the vital and extending forces of American enterprise and of American civilization, but it will also stand for the Republican party, its principles and its pledges, in the spirit as well as in the letter, and it will resent and antagonize to the last extremity every attempt to reverse its history, to pollute its ma- chinery, to prostitute its objects, to lower its influence and to disgrace its name. The time has come when railroad corporations must attend to railroad business and leave government, in all its departments, to the exclusive control of intelligent, educated, honest and patriotic citizens. SIDE ISSUES OF THE BEEF SCANDAL. ISCLOSURES made concerning the nature of D the meat supplied to the army have been more distressing to Chicago than to any other city in the nation. heart over the outrage done to the soldiers as do any other class of people, but they feel also hurt in their pocketbooks, and consequently while the country at large is moved by a straight-out indignation, Chicago is the victim of what is known as conflicting emo- tions. She would like to hang the corrupt contract- ors and then take the officials who have exposed the wrong and club them to death. In default of having anything to say defensive of the unpardonable iniquity of canning rotten beef Chicago takes up the minor issue of false labeling, and while admitting that it is not Christian or Wash- ingtonian to print a lie on a label and sell boiled soup- meat under the name of canned roast beef, she as- serts that she is not the only offender on the market. There are others. According to the Chicago men not only do traders in the country generally give a good name to bad stuff, but even in Boston and Philadelphia, the two centers of self-asserted righteousness, there are im- portant industries carried on under titles as bogus as those which half the so-called foreign noblemen bear when they swagger across the summer resorts where the daughters of American millionaires spend their holidays and the paternal coin. 2 The Philadelphians, it is said, do a thrifty trade in buying up plums in the Middle West, where they are cheap, and after carting them to the city of brotherly love pack them in neat boxes and label them Califor- nia prunes. The Boston trick is neater. They catch small fry herring, in the early days of their artless lives, before they are half grown, and, after putting them into attfactive cans, sell them to epicures under the very appetizing name of brook trout. Such practices as these do not in any way offset the atrocious crime of the Chicago beef-packers, whose output was not only falsely labeled, but has been shown to be in many instances positively dan- gerous to health. Nevertheless, all false labeling is reprehensible and the cases cited are worth noting. They furnish new illustrations of the need of a law requiring all articles to be correctly labeled as to the nature of their contents and the place of production. 1t is an insult to the mountain trout to bestow ' ‘s aristocratic name upon callow offspring of the com- mon seas, while to call an acid Nebraska plum by the honored name of so luscious a food as the California prune is something like blasphemy. Each is a down- right imposition upon the appetite and the credu- lity, the purse and the stomach of the great body of the American people. Bad as they are, however, they are not the worst of such offenses, and it is high time for the enactment of legislation to prevent them. IN THE CONCRETE. HONESTY N impulsive gentleman once said that all men A were liars, but upon reflection he took it back. He was of such prominence that his views be- came of record. Many others have declared in an unofficial way that every man has his price, but these also have erred, without the grace to acknowledge it. Recently a sum of money amounting almost to $10,000 was picked up in the streets of this city. To the man who found it this represented a fortune. To the man who had lost it the losing had been sudden reduction to penury. The finder could easily have re- tained it, and if a person of ordinary discretion have kept the fact concealed. However, he did nothing of the kind. As soon as he saw an advertisement an- nouncing the ownership he sought out the owner and restored the property, refusing even to accept a re- ward. Of course he did nothing but his duty, yet to de- cline a reasonable reward will be reckoned an over- nicety of sentiment. It would not have been pay for being honest, for no man with an impulse to be hon- est would expect this. It would have been more in the nature of a commission. With full power to ruin another for selfish motives, and yet refraining from doing so, the finder could have viewed the transaction as somewhat analogous to that between a broker and his principal. Circumstances had constituted him cus- todian of funds, and for handling them to the best ad- vantage of the principal he was surely entitled to recompense, putting the affair on a business basis. People who save abandoned ships do not do so on a charity plan, yet the courts do not hesitate to up- hold claims which to the Qyman seem grossly ex- orbitant. However, it is refreshing to observe a demonstra- tion that there are men as honest in practice as in theory. Such a man is Mr. Thomas, and as to the taking of a reward, that is his personal concern. e —— st Despite the fact that one Gilligan was observed to cut the throat of another man, who thereupon died, a Coroner’s jury has brought in a verdict of death from a “wound inflicted by a person unknown.” The in- telligent jurors should have secured an introduction to Gilligan. The Colma officer who deliberately killed an inno- cent boy says now that he is sorry. The prospects that he will be far sorrier before circumstance stifles his power of expressing emotion are also cheering. Editor Reid says that China is waking up from a sleep of a thousand years, and it might be added that if China is possessed of keen perception she will be sorry not to have remained dreaming. e Alger wants it distinctly understood that he is re- sponsible for the conduct of the War Department, but whether this feeling antedates the era of embalmed bovine has not been announced. Another Ingleside victim has had a view of the in- terior of a jail, an experience the baiters of the trap The Chicago citizens feel as hurt at | SERVICES OF HOLY WEEK IN THE CHURCHES Fine Programmes Are Arranged. MUSIC WILL BE A FEATURE ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN WILL BLESS THE PALMS. | 8t. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Ignatius Prepare Attractive Offerings—The Ceremonies at Trinity Church ‘Will Be Impressive. Next week being Holy week, elaborate services will be conducted in the various churches. On Palm Sunday Archbishop Riordan will bless the palms at St. Mary's Ca- thedral at 11 o'clock and also in the even- ing at 8. The usual services will be con- ducted on Wednesday night, but on Holy Thursday, at 9 in the morning, there will be a solemn pontifical mass, during which the holy oils, which are used dur- ing the ensuing year for the administra- tion of baptism and other sacraments, will be consecrated. The mass will be fol- Jowed by a procession. In the evening 8 o'clock there will be services, the lead- ing feature of which will be a sermon appropriate to the day. The solemn functions of Good Friday begin at 9 o’clock. They will consist of the chanting of the history of the Passion as given in the gospel of St. John, the unveillng and veneration of the cross, and a procession. In the evening the ser- vices will consist of “The Way of the Cross,”” with a special sermon on the clos- ing days of the life of Christ. It is oth- erwise known as the sermon on the Pas- sion. gln Holy Sat\_;rday the will begin at 7 a. m. of the gl;‘lesslng of the new fire, paschal candle and the baptismal font. At 9 o’clock the solemn mass of the resurrec- tion will be said. On Easter day the usual Sunday ser- vices will be held at 6, 7, 8§ and 9:30 a. m. At 11 o'clock there will be a solemn pon- tifical mass, after which the Archbishop will give & papal benediction. Special music has been arranged for the occasion. At St. Ignatius palms will be blessed and distributed before the last mass to- Morrow morning. A procession will fol- low. During the mass the Passion will be read from the pulpit in English and will take the place of the usual sermon. T the evening at vespers Rev. Father | Woods will deliver the sermon in prepara- | tion for the consecration of the twentieth century to the Lord. The usual devotion- al exercises will follow after the sermon during benediction of the blessed sacra- ment. A delegation from the different | sodalities will be present at the services. Divisions D, E and F will represent the Ladies' Sodality. The latter will wear the regalia of their order. On_ Wednesday there will be no office of the Tenebrae, but confessions will be heard during the afternoon and evenmg“ in preparation for Holy Thursday. On the latter day a solemn high mass will be- gin at 8 o'clock in the morning. The blessed sacrament will be carried in pro- cession during the mass to the repository, where it will remain until Friday morn- ing. In the_evening a sermon will be reached at 7:30 on the institution of the gless(»d sacrament by Rev. Father Calzia. Before the sermon some music will be rendered by the regular choir, augmented by the Ladies’ Sodality choir. On Good Friday thé mass of the pre- sanctified will begin at 8 a. m. After the adoration of the holy cross the blessed sacrament will be carried in procession back from the repository to the main altar. The faithful will be admitted to the kissing of the cross immediately after mass. At 12 m. the devotion of the three hours of agony will begin. Seven ser- mons on the seven words spoken by Christ on the cross will be delivered by Rev. Father V. Chiappa, S. J. Between each sermon special music written for the occasion will be rendered. In the evening at 7:30 the exercises of the way solemn functions They will consist a few | other | ok , with address by Rev. Dr. of the cross will be performed, and_im- | sion of the Lord’ will be delivered b Rev. J. R. Gleason, S. J., and the bene- | be_given. On Holy Saturday the ceremonies will saints will be chanted and the mass of | the resurrection will be given. The latter ng confessions. On Easter day a special | rogramme of sacred music will be ren- | be a feature. The foregoing exerclses, barring n Cetholic churches. At Trinity Episcopal Church every day, be a celebration of the holy communion at 11 o'clock. On Monday the penitential by Rev. Henry E. Co Tuesday even- ing, prayer at ¢ Rev. Dr. E. J. Lion; Mayndy Thursday, holy communion, with' address by Rev. Dr. 11 o'clock, three hours' service with medi- tation from 12 to 3 p. m. In the evening mon the choir will sing Stalner’s “‘Cruci- fixion.” Saturday—Easter evening, holy Easter day there will be a celebration at 7:30 of the holy communion after con- At 10 o’clock in the chapel—Morning rayer. Sermon and holy communion at Easter Sunday school festival v b val service will mediately after the sermon on “The Pas- Qiction’ with & relic of the true eross will begin at 7 o'clock. The litanies of the art of tha day will be devoted to hear- | ered, As In former years the music will | minor changes, will be conducted with the exception of Friday, there will office will be held at 4:3), with an address Spalding Wedresday, litany and address Cooke; Good Friday, morning prayer at there will be a service. In place of a ser- baptism, with address at 4:3 p. m. On firmation of the class. 1 o'clock. In the evening at § o'clock the UNCENSORED EDITORIALS. The law against the publishing of portraits in California newspapers ex- cepts office holders and criminals. This does not leave a great number of men to whom the measure is applicable. The ladies and the men out of prison or out of office have a right of action against the newspapers that publish their pictures.—Santa Rosa Republican. SR ALL ON A LEVEL. The anti-cartoon law places convicts, county and State officials on the same plane.—Redwood City Democrat. g HAVE PERMANENT JOBS. The statesmen who voted for Dan Burns can now return to private life serenely confident that they have per- manent jobs.—Los Angeles Times. i i THAT'S DEAD EASY. Sign our articles? Why, of course! That's dead easy. Any damphool can sign an article. Gage signed the bill.— Oroville Mercury. SR PUNY MINDED RASCALS. The Morehouse bill is a law by the Governor’s signature. Hereafter news- paper men will have to sign their ar- ticles or be subject to all kinds of at- tacks from puny minded rascals who imagine they have g grievance. Par- ticularly will the cduntry press suffer in this respect.—Grass Valley Union. SLOGGING EDITOR NEEDED. Anticipating the Morehouse law re- quiring every libelous article in news- papers to bear the signature of the writer, there is said to be quite a | with George C. _sgoramble among the San Francisca pas pers to epgage John L. Sullivan as a staff men?l)gef ‘All John will have to do is to sign articles and attend Coro- ner’s inquests.—Stockton Record. S SAVED FROM RUIN. While all Republicans will undeniably regret the failure of the Legislature to elect a Senator, yet for one the e}::;x:;d of these repr - :l]:'l;‘:!m;:sr;‘tx\fs?:got‘; select either Burns or Grant, who would be obnoxious to the people and whose success could not mean else than the ruination of the party.—Orange County Herald. - WE ARE BETTER OFF. is not a success Colonel Dan M. Burns e hen forecasting as a political prophet Wi aak for himself. He was not elected United States Senator, and the majority of the le of this State are better satisfied ith Ge Perkins as the only Senator from California than they Wwould be with Dan Burns as his as- | sociate Senator at Washington.—Pa- Jjaronian. WAS WELL DONE. We believe the great majority of our people will say that the Republican opponents of Burns did well in prevent- ing an opportunity for that individual or his tools to buy impecunious legisla- tors. The experience of Barnes with Steinman shows to what depths of in- famy they might have been capable of plunging the party had that oppor- funity been freely siven. It would geem that it was not alone the man Burns they had to contend against, but an unscrupulous corporation, bent on attaining its own ends and benefit, re- gardless of the interests of the State or nation.—Placer County Leader. G g REPUBLICAN VOTERS SAVED. Hence, we say that the outcome of the last fiasco, if we may call it such, is not an entire defeat. The fact that there has been no election is enough to prove that with all the glaring attempts at buying men, as disclosed in the Green investigation, and the subse- quent action of the Burns push to pro- cure the withdrawal of Barnes, the peo- ple, yes, even the Republican voters of the State of Califcrnia, are saved, by the result as announced, from the humiliation of having any man of a character they do not approve to rep- resent them in the highest body of legislation in this Union. Thus the re- sult, while it is humiliating to those who honestly fought for a new Senator to help sustain the present administra- tion, is not wholly a defeat, for there are some things that are won when lost. Hanford Sentinel. BOODLE The failure of the Legislature to elect a successor to Senator White will serve to crystallize sentiment in this State in favor of election by the popular vote. It is likely that before long the pres- sure upon Congress to submit a con- stitutional amendment will prove irre- sistible. There will be less opposition to it in the East than in the West, for the reason that in most of the older commonwealths the selection of an un- 1S DOOMED. popular man to the Senate is a diffi- | cult task. Legislatures in those States scarcely ever dare to run contrary to prevailing public sentiment. Members do so at the peril of their political fu- ture. Men who are really fully equipped for the duties of Senator will as a rule suffer little from the submission of their cause to the electors. Those who are unfitted for the post, and who depend upon their purses for recognition, will continue to oppose any change in the present methods, but it is by no means certaln that boodle will always prevail. The Santa Barbara. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | C. A. Carothers of Louisville is at the Grand. W. Scott of Fresno is registered at the Grand. Guy B. Barham of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Fred E. Johnson of San Jose at the Lick. J. M. Wilmans, 2 miner of Newman, is at the Lick. H. C. Watts of Philadelphia is a guest at the Palace. William C. Gregg of Honolulu is staying at the Occidental. Attorney H. M. Shreve of Tulare is a guest at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hess of Cincinnati are at the Occidental. Captain O. F. Bolles of Menlo Park is registered at the Lick. Postmaster Thomas Fox of Sacramento is a guest at the Lick. G. W. Johnston, a stock raiser of Pleas- anton, is at the Grand. Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is registered at the Palace. Mrs. M. E. Egleston of Schenectady, N. Y., is at the California. President William R. Harper of Chicago University is at the Palace. Everett Hayden and Frank E. Ridgly, TU. 8. N., are at the Palace. Captain A. L. Latnroo Jr. of Honolulu is staying at the Occidental. Mrs, W. A. McKay of Hawail is among the guests at the Occidental. W. W. Douglass of Sacramento is among the guests at the Grand. Henry G. Turner, a grain buyver from Modesto, is a guest at the Palace. Attorney C. A. Stonesifer and wife of Modesto are registered at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Anderson of Sui- sun City are staying at the Grand. W. J. Harris, a prominent miner from Spokane, is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Mandgl of Chicago have taken apartments at the Palace. Ira A. Robie, a prominent business man of Sacramento, is staying at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bodman are at the Palace. Mr. Bodman is a prominent New York merchant. B. C. Howard of Yokohama, the agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. C. W. Francis of New York and Miss H. A. Adams of Philadelphia are among the guests at the Occidental. F. M. Carnegie, a son of the multi-mil- lionaire, is at the Palace. Young Carne- gle is merely here on a pleasure trip. Willlam M. Griffith and wife have taken apartments at the Palace. They are resi- dents of Utica, N. Y., and are here on pleasure. Boris Oznedrok and Serge Grunek, two civil engineers from Russia, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. They are en route to Europe. United States Navy Paymaster G. H. Griffing, who for the past two years has been stationed here with headquarters in the Phelan building, has been ordered to Cavite and will depart per steamer China to-day. His wife will g0 East and remain until Mr. Griffing is placed on the retired list, which will be in two years. Mr. and Mrs. Griffing have made many substantial friends, who regret their departure. —_————— | is a guest | Broker Thomas Ill. W. Ford Thomas, the well-known cus- toms broker, is lying seriously ill at his residence on Baker street in this city. He submitted several months ago to nx; operation on the mastoid bone and recov- ered and went about his duties as usual, gxperiencing no ill effects from the opera’ Last Sunday he was take a fever and since then hasn bz::na;lg;h with the exception of a few hours. X change for the better was noted yester- g:; and it is hoped that in spite of his vzm.&d ag&é’ years—he will pull sm——— W, J. FIFIEL DBJECTS TO WATER RATES Board Only Pretended to Fix Them. |SUCH IS HIS ALLEGATION FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS NECESSARY. The Petitioner Says That the Corpor- ation Is Only Entitled to Inter- est on About $10,000,000 Investment. W. J. Fifield, through his attorney, Benjamin Morgan, will endeavor to com- pel the Board of Supervisors to make further investigation into the affairs of the Spring Valley Water Works andagain fix the water rates:. Yesterday afternoon Fifield, “on his own behalf and that ot the water-rate payers of the city and county,” applied for a writ of mandate directed against the Board of Supervisors to compel them to investigate and deter- mine the actual value of the plant of the Spring Valey Water Works, to be used in supplylng the inhabitants of this city with water for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1899, and ending June 30, 1900. It is averred by the petitioner that in pur- suance of the constitution the Board of Supervisors “pretended” to fix the water rates. “January 9, 1899 reads the petition, “the board met and passed a resolution calling on the Spring Valley Water Works fo furnish a statement as required by Jaw. Then the board adjourned. Febru- ary 8 the board met, received the resolu- tion and then adjourned. February 10 the board met and adjqurned. February 16 the board met and heard the state- ments of Herman Schussler, chief en- gineer of the corporation, and_ then ad- journed. February 23 the board met and eard the testimony of G. F. Allardt and then adjourned, and on February 27 the board met and adopted the rate for the coming fiscal year. the petition continues, On February 23, the m‘éflinz of the board Benja organ appeared and informed the Doard as to the mode of procedure which should be adhered to in fixing ths | and these only, it | the board investigated the corporatio and then fixed the water rate without due knowledge of the financial condition | and outlay on which the corporation was | entitled to interest. The petitioner further avers that the corporation’s statement that the actual Value of its plant to be used in supply- ing the residents of this city during the | coming fiscal year is $25,000,000 is falss This statement contains vast properti | including the Calaveras reseryolr, Sears- | Ville reservoir, water sheds of Pescadero and San Gregorio creeks and Cryvstal | Springs dam, which will not be used in | supplying the residents of this city, Mr. Fifield contends. The actual plant to be used, he says, is mot worth more than $10,000,000, on which a profit of $500,000 A vear would be ample. 'or these reasons Je asks that the board be compelled to further investigate the matter and act accordingly. Lgogn tge) filing of the petition Presiding eld issued an _alternate Judge Dainger \‘fltg returnable before Judge Hunt Fri- day, April 14, at 10 o’cloc ANSWEBS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EMPLOTMENT AGENCIES 4. O. S, No. 487, relative me L 2 stili in the hands of ployment agencies, is the Governor. NATIONAL HOLIDAYS—F. S., City. There are no national holidays in the United States. The Fourth of July is not even a national holiday. COQUELIN - HADING—The last time that Coquelin and Hading appeared in San Francisco it was at the Grand Opera House under the management of Al Hay- man. P PRECIPITATION—F. 8., City. The amount of precipitation in San Francisco between 1 a. m. Tuesday, March 7, and Thursday, March 9, 1889, 12 p. m., was two hundredths of an inch. PROTESTANTS—W. C., City. For an- swer to question in the form asked by you in relation to Protestants and Catholics, see answer to another correspondent g;b' lished in this department March 8, 1899. FOR THE NAVY—P. A. B, City. Ap- plications for enlistments in the United States navy in this vicinity must be made at Mare Island. A minor will not be ac- cepted in the navy without the consent of parents or guardian. BOOKS—A. 8., City. The San Francis- co Call does not “handle any dictionaries or other books,” not being in the book selling business. ou can obtain the in- formation in relation to dictionaries by inquiry at any first-class bookseller. ———————— Cal. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib at Townsend's.* —_————— Special information suppiied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 104 * Not Satisfied. At the gate of the Hampshire farm- house stood Sam Rodgers, holding a pony, while its owner paid her visit within. The monotonous task had lasted two hours ere the visitor came out, and, gathering her reins, drove away, lea\-lng am gaz- ing at his_open palm. “Well” he said aloud as he looked after the carriage, “T'd ha’ lent ye a ha’p'ny to ha’ maade it tuppence!”—The Academy. It you suffer from looseness of bowels Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters will cure you. Be sure you get Dr. Slegert’s. _———————— TrEcharm of beauty is beautirul nair. 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