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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1899. = SATURDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. T B PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., &. F. Telephone Matn 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...217 to 231 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1§74, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), ope year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call DAILY CALL cincluding Sunday Call), 3 mont DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL One Year. EKLY CALL, One Year. 1! postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.........Welllngton Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.......................Marquette Baflding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open until $:30 o‘:locl(.} i94] Missicn street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until ® o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. 3olden Not Mated.” i Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon er Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. sing to-da; Recitals, Y. Wednesday afternoon, Amusements every 2 at April 11, THE NEW PRIMARY LAW. | e of the politicians with the ry law has not resulted in cmiref An took place at week at which delegates were nventions of the principal po- contest in the Demio- | ently the Democrats | election in choosing | rats voted with | can factions cannot be ascer- ‘ g paper is authority for the state- alent in the vicinity of the | convention was | he Republican y Democrats. | 1 says he is very much pleased with | new statute, and in a communica- | he congratulates He admits that it | ce versa, but he thinks in time le—on the ground, we presume, e becomes thoroughly under- 1 parties will have all they can do to take | care of their own bu tratton primary law it Non-Partisan party of this 1 idea of testing its validity | This would seem to in- | on-Partisans do not regard it as | to their interests. On the other hand, they ction W rd ballot law and pronounce upon its con- y. It is said that these attorneys will re- | he statute and that the Non-Partisans inaugurate a contest designed to from the statute-books. , we gather from Senator Stratton’s the action of the Non-Partisans | cess of the new primary law at Stock- cohorts of reform are well satisfied with | Mr. Stratton declares that one grati- is law has been the introduction of a voters to primary politics who have port against will in obliterate it On t tion. fying e large number of heretofore remained at home. This we concede is a gratifying ii it shall be followed up by a repetition of the experience of Stockton in other the grand test of this primary legislation | ce in San Francisco. Here the science people succeed in electing nominat- representing theig own wishes in this tton may indeed congratulate him- rk self upon his w SOMEWHAT ERRONEOUS. UR e O come emed contemporary, the New fter stating incredible story om California to the effect that a named Spreckels proposes to invest $10,000,000 the establishment of an electric plant that will fu h to the people of San Francisco light, heat and power at a fair margin of profit above the cost,” goes on to say: “If Mr. Sprcekels does anything of the kind he assail the fundamental principle on which our ificent system of public franchises is Mr. Spreckels could not more directly antagonize the vested rights of franchise-grabbing if he should propose to pay taxes on his franchise prop- erty.” Our New York contemporary is slightly in error. It is not thoroughly posted on California affairs. Mr. Spreckels is not posing as a philanthropist, but is a business man who works for the advancement of the State and the welfare of the people by business methods. Moreover, in this case he is not interfering with franchises. It does not require a franchise to start a lighting company in San Francisco. The law provides a free way for competition, and that is where the metropolis of the Pacific is better off than the big by the Atlantic, s ven—— York “an philanthrc e The controversy between Hunlington and Herrin over the Senatorial fight is not so one-sided as it ap- pears on the surface. It is true Huntington is doing all the talking, but Herrin’s unwonted silence speaks louder than words. The park extension proposition will give us a good subject to talk about during the spring fever days, and will prove a pleasant pastime, provided we keep cool. Whether the cost of lighting in this city is voted up or voted'down, the people have one consolation— competition is coming. e THE RAINFALL IN CALIFORNIA. E directed the attention of our contemporaries \/\/in Oregon and Washington a short time ago to the fact that their expressions of sorrow over the drought in California were uncalled for, and | that their frequent assertions of the failure of our | orchard and farm crops were unjustified. Since then | they have perceived the truth of our words and now the reputation of California is no longer suffering | from overdone protestations of sympathy from that | source. A new set of sympathetic friends has arisen for us, Lowever, in the Southern States, and the people along | the Gulf coast are condoling with us and consoling | themselves with the statement that the drought in California is worse than the blizzards that swept over | them during the past winter, killing the orange| groves all through the South and spoiling the Mardi; Gras celebration at New Orleans. | In an editorial published March 26 the New Or- | leans Times-Democrat, after asserting that lamenta- | tions are going up in this State from stock-raisers, grain-growers and orchardists, and that the drought has been especially oppressive and destructive be- | cause the previous year was also dry, says: | “The experience of the last two seasons gives rise to the belief that California is- becoming an arid | State, like Western Nebraska and Kansas. When | the tide of emigration carried thousands of people into those States they found a fertile soil and a cli mate that while dry had a sufficient rainfall to allow | the cultivation of crops. But it grew more arid from year to year, drought succeeded drought and crop | after crop failed, until the situation became unendur- | able. It looks as if California were going through | much the same experience.” | We give the date of this editorial for the purpose of directing attention to the fact that it was pub- lished thirteen days after the bountiful rains of March had put an end to the drought and assured good crops throughout the State. It thus appears that while any temporary evil in California is widely commented upon, the brighter side of our conditions and prospects is unnoted. The circulation of these stories of drought and dis- | aster are of some importance since they are likely to affect the judgments of home-seekers and of capital- ists who are looking for investments. The discredit they cast upon the State affects us in many ways, and as it is not at all likely that our Eastern contem- poraries desire to injure California, we have a right; to expect them to correct the injurious reports when | | the falseness of them is pointed out. | The Central Pacific Railroad Company has recently published an elaborate chart showing the monthly | rainfall of San Francisco for fifty years. It shows | that during that long period the fluctuations in rain- | fall have been remarkably slight. In the whole | course of the fifty years there have been but two | seasons of drought, and these were forty-eight years | apart, the first being in 1850-31 and the second in 1897-08. The regularity of the rainfall for long periods of | time is shown by the fact that if the forty-eight years | from 1849-30 to 1806-97 are divided into four periods of twelve years each we get the following results: From 1849 to 1861 there fell 269.31 inches of rain;j from 1861 to 1873 the fall was 301.83; from 1873 to 1885 there was a fall of 282.31; from 1885 to 1897 the fall amounted to 287.14 inches. The last group, it will | be noted, has 18 inches more rain than the first group. : This chart prepared for San Francisco effectually | disposes of the Eastern theory that California is | | about to become an arid State, so far at least as the | region north of Tehachapi is concerned. An equally good showing can be made of course for the average | rainfall in the south, and we suggest to our contem- poraries in that section that they urge the preparation | of such a chart by a Board of Trade or some other | organization able to undertake the publication on al comprehensive scale. It is time to put an end to these stories about Cali- 1 fornia, and the best way to do so is to publish the | facts and submit them to our Eastern contemporaries | who have been misled into circulating the injurious | reports. SOCIAL AMERICANISM. NE of the published descriptions of a recent | O marriage in New York pales the gorgcous; memories of Mrs. Grundy. For American | readers it puts the event as most notable “because it | brought a union of two great fortunes; because thousands of dollars were lavished upon its prepara- | tion and fulfillment; because it gives the child of a once humble California miner marriage connection | with the house of Marlborough of old England; be- cause the guests who offered their congratulations possessed countless millions of wealth.” American imperialists, who coarsely imitate im- perial realities, may enjoy this unspeakably vulgar | picture which by genuine Americans will be resented as an insult conceived in ignorance and brought forth in stupidity. Our restricted commercial rela- tions with foreign princes, some of them genuine and some of them not even brevetted, have not so far re- | sulted in their exclusion from our soil by a prohibi- tory tariff and, fortunately or unfortunately, under our constitution, are beyond the control of a duty on exports. They have not yet been regarded, however, as furnishing a typical occupation for American so- ciaty. Our best families are still proud to trace their origin to early colonists or to revolutionary heroes or to their prototypes abroad, and have evinced no anxiety to connect themselves, by blood or by matri- mony, with the hungry and covetous aristocrats whose ancestors endowed them with stolen and van- ishing fortunes. : It is probable‘also that we have retained sufficient republican severity not to gauge our respect for mar- riage by the Pactolian streams it unites, by the lavish expenditures it sometimes excuses or palliates, or by the golden tinge of the congratulations. The dis- contented millionaires, who are disgusted with monotonous equality and who disguise their nation- ality in the suburbs of imperialism, are still few and far between. They were probably absent from the matrimonial festivities that some reporter desecrated in our quotation. But, though far from numerous, they are nevertheless a developing class, and by their blatant conspicuousness and pretensions they cheapen | their country before the world. They are akin to the expansionists, who would prefer to reign in Asia rather than to hold their equal rank among American sovereigns on this continent. The infelicities of toadyism and pretentiousness are hard to endure, because they veil or distort the sur- face of American civilization. There is a rhythmic harmony and a pure beauty in the unique social con- ceptions that our institutions and our condi- tions naturally produce which should enlist the pride and stimulate the honor of every man and of every woman whose patriotism is true and strong. Here factitious rank, the gewgaws of artificial distinction, are constitutionally for- bidden. But here also inherent rights and equality before the law do not compel promiscuous associa—l Ltion. Society, with the family as its unit, divides and | plighted faith and none for the freedom and classifies itself, and in the exercise of free choice, in- fluenced by individual taste and by the suggestions of circumstance, without clash or jar, men and women blend into assimilated groups. This is society, not made by law nor regulated by artificial assump- tions, but fashioned in natural molds, protected by educated intelligence. In the United States, with its eighty millions, there are social circles that preserve American origin- ality and concurrently fit into modern cosmopolitan- ism. These are the noiseless representatives of our enduring civilization—the homes of unaffected réfinement, where sacred thoughts and sacred feelings dwell in a congenial air, where artistic simplicity is secluded from the ¢complex vulgarities, where knowl- | edge is peacefully absorbed and digested, where truth, virtue and modesty combine their exquisite propor- tions, where chastity and tenderness are shielded from coarse publicity and unconscious of ostentatious rivalry and of sensational ambition. This is the so- ciety of which Washington Irving wrote, and which is far from extinct, though amid the roar and whirl of this clashing and noisy peroration of the century rarely observed. The interviewers and reporters are useful concomitants of the times, but there is a deep still pervading life within our social fabric that re- sembles the silent forces of creation and of preserva- tion, and that yet nourishes our hereditary and ad- vancing Americanism. GOMEZ AND CUBA. l'l' is well to watch the development of the Cuban issue. We hold the island now under military government, which goes on with the usual friction which forever attends upon the exercise of arbitrary power. The problem of the future from the Cuban side impinges entirely upon General Maximo Gomez. He is a San Domingan negro, a man of military spirit | | and training, of high intelligence and the genius of leadership. He succeeded to command upon the death of Maceo, who was also a negro, and for the last eighteen months his name has been more promi- | nently before the world than that of any other Cuban leader. That he is an adroit politician as well as a brave and skillful commander is just now demon- strated. His feint of a return to his wife and his plantation in San Domingo, followed by the dissolu- tion of the Cuban military assembly, and his apparent recall to authority by the popular voice, are events which he has controlled in spite of domestic opposi- tion among Cubans, and undoubtedly in the face of opposition and discouragement offered by the mili- tary authorities and financial influences of the United States. He stands for Cuban independence in good faith to the people of the island, and professes a belief in the | good faith of the United States. Therefore he treats our military occupation as temporary and continues his agitation for independence and self-government. | I{ we stand in good faith upon the pledge made in our declaration of war against Spain the policy of Gomez is also our policy. But there are indications that influences in this country are at work which have no regard for our self- government of the Cubans. Hence the statement, published yesterday, that the political programme of Gomez “mearis the keeping up of agitation and dis- turbance in the minds of the people and the weaken- ing of American authority by producing the impres- sion that everything done by the Americans is tem- porary and may sooner or later be overturned.” Pray what other impression is possible as to our presence in the island, if we abide by our solemn declaration? The programme of Gomez should be regarded as complimentary to the United States, in- asmuch as it is the simple statement that we told the truth and will keep faith. But, it is added to the above: “American observers consider any such agitation as extremely harmful to industrial revival and the restoration of Cuban credit. Some who are high in authority and who have ex- ceptional opportunities of knowing the character and ideas of Gomez think the United States will have trouble with him yet. His attitude has always been consistent regarding Cuban independence and he is still working for the same end.” If any American will explain why we should not be working with him to that end, instead of threatening him with trouble if he persist, the country will be glad to know why. The “American observers” who think the consistent programme of Gomez is harmful to the industrial re- vival of the island certainly do not stand for the honor of their own Government. They say to the Cubans: “We came here on the declaration of our Congress that you were and ought to be free and independent, and that we would withdraw on your organization of a stable government. But all agitation for the for- mation of such a government weakens our authority here. We want industrial revival of your country for our benefit, so please, Messrs. Cubans, go at work for us on the plantations and raise for us sugar and to- bacco, very cheaply, and don’t have anything to do with politics.” That is what it amounts to, and it remains to be seen whether Cuban independence lost all of its friends in this country when it ran counter tc American desire for commercial profit. A year ago the Cuban flag and the Stars and Stripes were together in every window, and we all learned to say “Cuba libre” Is it possible that all this was merely to get Cuba to exchange King Log for King Stork? It was only a little while ago that the Nicaraguans were reported to be eager for the annexation of their country to the United States, and now it appears we have to send the Detroit to their seaports to make them behave themselves. Such an extraordinary revolution of sentiment in so short a time is a record- breaker even for Central America. Murderer Moore, late of Nevada City, has suc- ceeded so far in eluding the manhunters, but all hope has not been abandoned. The facile correspondents have begun hurling adjectives at him. They are shelling the brush in Nevada County with sesquipe- dalian qualifiers, any one of which is calculated to bring down the game. What can Mayor Phelan do to rehabilitate him- seli with the Maguire men? He promised to be at the Poodle Dog banquet, but, instead, was a pas- senger on the “owl” for San Diego. He will hardly learn enough wisdom from that bird to fit the round peg of explanation into the square hole of fact made by his absence. The proposed exchange of the Philippines for the British West Indies is good for us, but it is deubtful if the British will agree to swap a set of well do- mesticated tax-paying colonists for a set of Filipinos thiey would have to hunt in the brush. There is a scientific belief that the earth is flatten- ing at the poles. Ex-Governor Altgeld is willing to swear that it was noticed"by him last Tuesday in Chicago. It is doubtless the opinion of Mr. Herrin that Mr. Huntington talks too much, - IRRIGATION AND FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS Appointed in Spite of the Vetoes. * SIX “THANK YOU” OFFICIALS WATER AND FOREST SOCIETY GOES AHEAD. Will Voluntarily Follow Laws Ve-| toed by the Governor an. Makes Prof. Davidson Commis- sioner of Irrigation. California has a Commissioner of Irri- gation and a Forestry Commission even if Governor Gage did pocket the bills passed by the last Legislature creating these important offices. The laws thus enacted and killed were passed at the initiation and recommenda- tion of the California Water and Forest Society, lately organized to deal with the | vast problem of the State's water re- sources and their conservation. Now the Water and Forest Society has gone ahead in the direction of carrying out the laws practically as if they had been approved and has appointed the officers contem- plated. The Commissioner of Irrigation is Pro- fessor George Davidson and the Forestry Commission is composed of Professor E. ‘W. Hilgard of the University of Califor- nia, Professor Dudley of Stanford Uni- versity, Abbott Kinney of Los Angel Warren Olney Sr. of San Francisco an George Towle of Placer County. The officers named are simply officers of a voluntary soclety, but it is the idea that they shall in a large measure fulfill the functions of such State officers. This action was taken at a meéting of the executive committee in the office of Sec- retary E. H. Benjamin day before yes- terday. The president; United States Sur- veyor General J. M. Gleaves; Secretary Benjamin, E. A. Denicke, John P. Irish, Elliott McAllister, Frank Soule, Julian Sonntag, Craigie Sharp, Edward F. Adams and others were present. It was the con- sensus of opinion that the society should g0 ahead with the work contemplated in thé beginning and strengthen itself with meémbers and money. 3 In effect the defeated legislation pro- vided for the appointment of the officials named, to serve without pay; that the Commissioner of Irrigation = should co operate with the United States Geolo cal Survey in preparing surveys mates, etc., for sites for storage res voirs for impounding waters for mining, agricultural and industrial us that re- ports be made on the f bility, etc., of such reservolrs and irrigating systems, and that the Forestr. devise means of protecting the forests of the State from destruction by fire or wan- | ton depredations, and recommend means for preserving the forests and of storing | and distributing the flood waters of the State. Such Commisisoners could do little more in two years than acquire informatlon in a field ‘that requires a vast amount of | investigation and formulate recommenda- tions for further progress. This the Cali fornia Water and Forest Society propos to do. Professor Davidson will give to the work what time he can spare from his work as professor of commerce at the university, and others will devote much study to the problems. “The society recognizes the fact that the question of the control of the waters of the State is the great one,” said Pro- fessor Davidgon yesterday. “How far is the State and how far is the Government in control and to what extent does the common law doctrine of riparian rights interfere with the best disposition of the waters of the streams and lakes? T sup- pose that I will be expected to co-operate in finding what can be done toward con- trolling at least the flood waters. Infor- mation will be complled, investigations made and the possibilities canvassed. The first thing the society needs is money. One thing will be early discovered. If we have a good year it will be hard to stir up in. terest. in irrigation and allied subjec Last year people were suddenly interes ed in the water resources of the State| and the importance of the water prob- lem. In 1§73 the people went wild for ir- rigation. The next year there was plenty rain and irrigation was forgotten. That has always been the way with them.” It is expected that a great deal of in- formation will be compiled in a report which will be laid before the next Legis- lature with well considered proposals for legislation. BACHELORS’' COTILLON. Closing Party of the Season at the Maple Room of the Palace. The closing party of the Bachelors’ Co- tillon Club took place last evening at the Maple room, Palace Hotel. It was a very brilliant affair. The elaborate Gecora- tions, together with the many beautiful gowns and delightful music, made a pleasing effect. The cotillon consisted of two new and original figures, designed by Al Dodge, the leader of the club. They were led by Wallace Alexander and Miss Adelaide McColgan and Dr. E. W. Westphal ang Miss Bessie Roden. The following named ladies took part in the cotillon: Miss Maud Cluff, Miss Rose Roth, Miss May Suich, Miss Bessie Ro- den, Miss Stella Fortmann, Misses Lottie and Florence Musto, Miss Louise Hepp- ner, Miss Elizabeth Day, Miss E. Prosek, Miss Estelle Davis, Miss Adelaide Mc- Colgan, Miss Hoelscher, Miss Doily Fritz, Mrs. Marshal Hale, Mrs. William Hoel. scher, Mrs. William Willis, Scott, Mrs. George . Graham, Miss Ethel Becht, Mrs. Willlam Cluff, Mrs. Edward G. Carrera, Miss Grace Shain, Miss Jean Carter, Miss Fanny Field; M; Dr, Dohrmann, Miss Tessie Swif! George Habenicht, Miss Cora Kalsey, Mrs. Frank Platt, Miss Lillian Schroeder, Miss Dwyer, Miss Winifred McLaughlin, Miss. M. Plagemann, Miss Mabel Cluff, Miss Mabel Phillips, Miss Coleman, Misses Blanche and Grace Macpherson, Miss Gertrude Benjamin, Miss E. Bass, Miss Boston, Miss Elsfe Gorham, Miss Belle Lipg. Miss Grace Critcher and Mrs. L. M. Dodge. The gentlemen who took part in the cotillon were: Al Dodge, George A. Rigg. r. E. ‘Westphal, Dr. A. T. Derb Wallace Alexander, Clarence Musto, Ja- son Gould, Henry L. Dflé', W. B. Mec] fessel, Dr. Robert O'Connell, W. K. Owens, D. A. McColgan, Thomas Ros: Victor 'Hoelscher,- H. P. Umbsen, shal Hale, Willlam Hoelscher, ‘W. Spear, George D. Graham, 8. W, Clisby, William Cluff, Ed G. Carrera, J seph M. Kelly, Victor E. Mathews, A: thur Castelazo, Dr. Willlam H. Doh; mann, Charles- Hildebrecht, George H: benicht, A. S. Cunningham, John M Donald, Frank A. Vail, P. M. Stateler, J. J. Dwyer, Wiliam J. I Fred Knight, Henry Pla%emann. W. L. Meusdorffer, Geraid _O'Brien, = WiNiam__ Thompson Randal Phillips, Gilbert G. Wigle, Dr. A. Clay; Louis Steiger, Dr. W. Likens, J. Bass, H. A. Whitney. R. H. Turner, ‘William Marshall, Dr. E. Halstead, Dr. Crandal of the United States ship Iowa, Captain Carmany of the United States ship lowa, Clarence H. Weid, Walter Cline, Oscar Gantner, Fred Gantner, Frank H. Kerrigan, 'Archie Reid and Thomas Dunn. —_———— PRESENTS FROM HONOLULU. Sheriff Martin Handsomely Remem- bered by J. P. Chadwick Now With the Volunteers in Hawaii. Sheriff Martin yesterday received from Honolulu a present which he values very highly. It is from his friend, J. P. Chad- wick of this eity, who is now sergeant of Company L; Second United States Volun- teer Engineer Corps, now stationed at Cnmp‘ cKl?l:a)', tnenr I—llcmoluluA The resent consists of a neatly des = ;':zr knife, fashion ¥ i 56 Kl Commission should | Miss India | ed from a 40-penny wir: fe is_highly. pousiecd and 18 | deal is from right to left, appropriately inscribed. Accompanying the knife is a gold-mounted watch charm fashioned from a peculiar nut gfown in the Hawaiian Islands. The charm bears an appropriate inscription. —_———————— ITS SPRING EXHIBITION. Pictures by Local Artists Adorn the Century Club’s Walls. The spring art exhibition of the Century Club is now open. The walls of the lower rooms are hung with the best and latest productions from local brushes, and the | rooms were thronged yesterday ‘with af crowd that bids fair to repeat itself to-| day. Admission is by card only, but cards are not hard to obtain if applied for in the Proper manner. | There are ninety-eight oils, forty-nine water colors, a number of miniatures and | two pieces of work by Le Jeune, the sculptor. In the works in oil are repre- | ‘sented nearly every artist of note in the | city. Mrs. Alice Chittenden has a few | flower studies and the portrait of a child in red. XKeith has several landscapes. A | memory of the late Joe Strong is there | in an excellent portrait of William Greer | | Harrison. J. W. Clawson has a porlraiz;" Cadenasso, Welch, Latimer, Butler, Yel- | |land, Robinson and Judson have land- | | scapes; Joullin has his *“Fire Maker,” | | painted "in Mexico recently; Stanton has | a marine and a few figure and color | studies; Mrs. Fitch, Miss Woodward, Mrs. | Gamble, Miss Bremer, Mrs. Edwar Capwell, Mrs. Gelwicks, Miss Withre { Mrs. O'Sullivan, Mrs. Richardson, Miss | Callahan, Mrs. Menton, Miss Maher, Mrs. | { Lee, Miss Harmon Miss Hinkson, Miss | Meussdorffer, Mrs. Hudson, Miss McChes- neyv, Miss Hunter, Miss Heynemann, Miss | Froelich, Miss Downing, Mrs. Beecher, Miss Hyde, Miss Clement, Miss Rixford, Miss Barber, Miss Ross and Mrs. Acker- | man are all represented. Miss Clement has a pastel of her mother that has ex- | cited considerable remark. Joseph Greenebaum, Rogers, Currier, Hagerup, | | Strauss, Breuer, Rose,” Harry Fonda and | | Stetson all have some of their work on the walls, L. Maynard Dickson has three of | his characteristic Indian studies and Ras- | hen exhibits the head of an old man. Among the water colors John Gamble | has two pretty little pieces, ‘““‘April” and | *“‘March. Methfessel has a brilliant bit o color in ‘“New Year’s Day in Chinatown. Miss Cross and Miss Zimdars have flower | pieces; Mrs. Roundy a still life; Mrs. Moore, Latimer, Miss Vesaria, Yard, Mrs. Loose! Miss Froelich, Mrs. Gihon, Mrs. Menton, Mrs. Smitten, Yelland, Miss Har- | mon and Miss Cashin have landscapes, Miss Lou Wall has a study of an old | woman that is much_admired; Jorgensen has several pieces; Miss_ Callahan, Mrs, Thompson, Mrs. Whelan, Mrs. Stow, Han. | sen, Clawson and Miss Letcher also have | | representation. Miss Prather, Oscar Ku- | | nath, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Roundy and Miss Edgerly have miniatures. The exhibition will remain open to-day | { and to-night.. There are several Slclurts in éhe collection that have already been | | sold. i ————————— | MINERS WANT MORE ROOM. | Prospects of the Paris Exposition | | Worry the Association. At a recent meeting of the executive | committee of the Californta Miners' As- | sociation the members found themselves | auite at sea concerning a California min- | ing exhibit at the Paris Exposition. | | It is understood that $25,000 of the $130,000 | ppropriated -for a California exhibit | | shall be devoted to mining, but the min- | | ers find that sum is too small and the | | space to be allowed for the exhibit prom- | ises to be lamentably inadequate. During the meeting J. F. Halloran, pro- | | prietor of the Mining and Scienific Press, | urged that something ‘decisivé be done | | and that the best possible advertisement | | of California’s mineral resources be made. Mr. Halloran said that only 000 squary | feet was allowed for the entire mineral | | exhibit of the nited States and that on | | that basis California’s space for its min- | ing display would be about 8x35 feet. | Many thought that unless an adequate | display could be made it would be better | not.t0 make any at all. | As’definite information was not at hand and as the Governor has not named the C issioners, no definite action was | | taken. Much ‘interest was displayed in | | the coming meeting here next fall of the Institute of American Mining Engineers, and President Neff was directed to ap- | point an_executive committee to take | charge of arrangements and a reception | committee. The committees will be named soon. 5 AROUND THE CORRIDORS John Colden, a mining man of Anaheim, is at the Russ. Ex-Superior Judge T. W. Healy of Car- son City, Nev., is registered at the Russ. lysses S. Grant Jr. came up from San | Diego yesterday and registered at the | Palace. | A, Thorne, an extensive leather manu- | facturer of Melbourne, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. | Dr. J. G. Marvin of Blue Lakes, R. B. | | Butler, a Fresno fruit-grower, and Joseph | | are regis- | { { | | Biddel, a Hanford banker, tered at the Grand. Jeffry Dennis, a prominent business | man of Sydney, Australia, arrived at the | California yesterday on his way to Lon- don for a protracted visit. 0. J. Woodward, a Fresno banker, who is about to take a European trip, and E. O. Miller, a capitalist of Visalia, are | among the arrivals at the Lick. | Dr. W. J. Miller, a prominent veterinary | surgeon of Sydney, is registered at the | California. He has come to the Unltvd‘ States to study the modern improvements in his particular profession. ! Harry Gorham, the mining superinten- | dent, who has been seriougly ill at the Grand, was removed to the hospital in an | ambulance yvesterday afternoon. The doc- | tors find it necessary to perform an oper- ‘% atlon on Mr. Gorham in order to save his | life. R. N. Cameron, who is interested in the | shipping business in New York; H. L. Kirkman, representative of a carriage manufactory of Watertown, N. Y., and A. S. Boyd and wife, of London, England, ar- rived from the colonies on the Mariposa | vesterday on their way home, and are guests at the Occidental. — e | | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, April 7.—Herman Frankey of San Francisco is at the Hoffman House; H. B. Montague and wife, of San Francisco, are at the Manhattan, ———— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EASTER SUNDAY, 184—K. M., City. | Easter Sunday, 1844, fell on the 97th of | March, A HALF OF FIFTY-EIGHT—A. M., City. There is no premium on a half | dollar of 1858. Such can b | 75 cents from dealers, - Purchased for FIVE DOLLAR PIECES.—L. M., City. There is no premium offered on $ pieces coined after 184 A fifty-cent piece of 1875 has no extra val AN ENGLISH BOOK—Reader, City. The English publicafion, *“The Heirs at Law and Next of Kin,” may be procured through any first-class bookseller. SOUSA—H. H.,, City. John Phillip Sousa, the band leader and composer, was born in Washington, D. C., in 1854 His father was a Spaniard and his moth- er German. THE PARIS EXPOSITION—A. O. 8., City. The date fixed for the opening of the Paris Exposition of 1900 is April 15 of that year. The 5th of November fol- }:wigg has been fixed upon as the clos- g day. MARTIN O'NEIL'S CRIME-J. N, City. Martin O'Neil, now in the peniten- tlary of California for homicide, killed a woman in the Grizzly Bear saloon at 11 East street, San Francisco, on the 28th of July, 1893 THE DEAL—Subscriber, Ukiah, Cal. In your letter of inquiry you do not name any particular game of cards, and for that redson it is l‘mYO!sible to determine what kind of a deal you want to know about. In whist, euchre and poker, the HOWLS MAY B EXPECTED FROM STOCKTONIANS Favor to Be Shown Port Costa. IN GRAIN RATES CHANGES WILL TEND TO SIDETRACK THE SLOUGH CITY. Proposition Is Now Under Consider- ation by tne Members of the State Railroad Com-~ mission. ‘When the Railroad Commission com- pletes the reduced grain rate schedule on which it is now at work, it will show rates to Port Costa from points in the San Joaguin Valley that will cause a howl to go ap from the people of Stock- ton. These figures will show a difference of 30 cents in favor of Stockton, instead of 50, as 1s now the case. The result of such a reduction in favor of Port Costa will greatly tend to send wheat for stor- age and shipment to that port instead f to Stockton. It is known that the proposed reduc- tion to Port Costa is inspired by the men interested in the warehouses at Port Costa, their sole object being to secure more business by thus depriving Stock- ton of considerable of what now goes there. - It is expected that before the new schedule is ready for submission, the liti- gation between the Southern Pacific Com- pany and the Railroad Commission will have been compromised, and the way cleared for any reductions that the South- ern Pacific may consent to. This matter of a differential rate be. tween Stockton and Port Costa has been the subject of contention for some years, and the Southern Pacific has always here- tofore claimed that no change could be made in it without direct loss to the com- pany. When inquiry was made at the of- fices of . the frieght department of the railroad as to waat action would likely be taken in regard to_the proposed re- duction of the rate to Port Costa, it was stated that no good reason was known ction. The opin- ion was further expressed that the move- ment_was evidently due to the efforts of the Port Costa people, who hoped to profit by its success. It was claimed that the difference in the rates to Port Costa and Stockton respectively should really be greater than 50 cents a ton, but that the rate to Port Costa had to be kept to that differential, because the cost of transportation by water from Stockton to Port Costa was only 5) cents a ton. Another reduction that will be asked for will be in the rate on grain from Livermore to San Francisco. This is now $180 a ton. A reduction to $150 will be asked. GERMS THAT ESCAPE. Surveyor Spear Will Hold the Fed- eral Quarantine Officer Respon- sible for Negligence. For some time past Customs Inspectors have been complaining to Customs Sur- veyor Spear that incoming steamers have een allowed by the Federal Quarantine Officer to pass outside the boundaries of the quarantine district before the Quar- antine Officer_has fuliilled his duty and given a clean bill of health. Owing fo_the apparent neglect of duty on the part of the medical arm of thé Federal service nspectors compiain that their duties. In order to effect a reform of the abuse resterday addressed a ntine Officer to cne effect that when a ] passes the quar- antine district, which is west of a line drawn from the end of Powell street wharf to the middle of Alcatraz Island, the Customs Inspectors will assume that the vessel has been inspected and given free pratique and will forthwith board her and perform their duty in spite of smallpox, yellow fever or other germs. e Dt Elsie Williams’ Case. An order was made by Judge Cook ves. terday, admitting Elsie Williams, under conviction! for having extorted money from Captain W. E. Nevills, to ball, the amount being fiXed at $17.50. Drs. Eeth- ers and Lustig testified that they had ex- amined Mrs. Williams and found her health to be v poor, the condition be- ing superindu by confinement. Mrs. Williams is at present anxiously await- ing the efforts of her counsel to find bondsmen. B — Judgment Against Hart. Superior Judge Hunt terday gave judgment in favor of A. Baldwin and a%flinst W. H. H. Hart for the sum of $12,456 and interest from June 8, 188. The judgment is on two promissory notes— one for 33500, executed June 9, i898; the other for $2600, executed January 24, 1596, including interest up to the day prior to the falling due of the big note, on which day demand for their payment was made. —_———— Peanut taffy best in world. Townsend’s.® ——— Treat your friends to Townsend's Cal. 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