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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1899, THURSDAY. ..APRIL 20, I JOHN B. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third Sts., S. Fe Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Stree} Telephone Main 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, 5 cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. PAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL cincluding Sunday Call), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. . 65c SUNDAY CALL One Year. . 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year... 5 . 1.00 All 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.........Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . venen -Marquette Building 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock, 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock, 25K Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang cky streets. open untll 9 o'clocks AMUSEMENTS. ter—Vaudeville every afternoon A Ellis streets, Specialties. Pictures. Market street, near Elghth—Bat- a Co., lan Maclaren, day afternoonm, The popular resort. Amusements every bay at 10:30 a. m. 0 p. day, at 2 and § p. m., at 39 £0048. can be supposed he United But e press of the Gover d nothing e situation survey of action as would embody the of the American people. The im- to be determined is whether our gmented to a number sufficient to This d aspect, one bearing on the ppines to actual occupation. has twWo! a policy of conquest on our awn internal con- other, without considering the con- olving policy or expediency. first point the revolutionary change in our t the projects would been discussed by The Call and by our and jurists until the issue has pene- is and reached the hearts of the people. ng for American citizens to witness the arism and the reproduction on their scenes that preceded the imperialism It is a strange and mournful expe- to hear from the lips of an American t one-half of the Tagals should be killed 1at the other half may be civilized. phase of the issue need not be further the present time. The remaining question It extremely doubtful ial occupation of the Philippines can 1 by an army of a hundred thousand The statistics and information as to the Phil- The interiors of several of s have never been surveyed. There ve tribes, especially in Mindanao, six hundred r thereabouts southeast of Luzon, that have The number of the ot been definitely ascertained, but the from twelve to fourteen hundred. It is t thirty different languages are spoken 1e Tagals, who are thoroughly table, had an alphabet and a rude own before the archipelago was imperialistic pediency. is ry meager. their independence. s these, coupled with the experiences 1e past few months, bring home to the country the magnitude of the task which the reduction of the ines to an American province would entail. erations of good faith and of integrity cannot 1. The United States occupies the foremost position among modern nations. It commenced the war with Spain by issuing sentimental declarations that the hypocritical assumption of exigencies providentially developed cannot erase. Its greatness is due to its constitutional and historical past, the farthest remove from conquest and imperialism of which the human mind can conceive. It bears “the white man’s burden” for its own citizens, for the throbbing and expectant masses of Caucasian human- ity everywhere. It stands upon its record, unre- proached, triumphant, and filled with the glory of a sacred trust. It is quite possible, without a trace of fear or hesi- tation, but in the exercise of what may be termed national manhood and national consistency, for the Government to place the Philippines in an indepen- dent situation, conformable to our own Declaration of Independence, to exact as its sole condition for ite adherence to principle and to honor the return of its necessary expenditures, including the twenty millions to be paid to Spain, and to establish, for its own security and to safeguard a native administration, a temporary protectorate. The whole matter is in the hands of President Mec- Kinley and his Cabinet, influenced, as they properly may be, by the evidences of public sentiment, trre- spective of party, that will certainly reach them. We entertain a reasonable confidence that the crisis will be temperately considered and a conclusion reached that will preserve the integrity of our political insti- tutions and command the respect of the American people and of all civilized nations. B e — It is said that Governor Gage, in the serious task of assigning State patronage, is carefully separating the sheep from the goats in the Republican fold. His Ex- cellency certainly ought to be an authority on the sheep. It has been fully two. weeks since Embassador Choate ‘was at a public banquet in London, and it will be noted that during that time nothing has been said to diminish his reputation as a diplomatist 4 | make itself whole? | GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS. HE Examiner, in editorial explanation of its Tplan for putting all the business of the country in the hands of the Government, says: “The plan proposed is that the Government shall stematically set aside every year a certain surplus revenue from taxation to be applied to the purchase of productive properties, and that all the profits from | the possessions so acquired shall be reinvested in | similar properties. * * * The feature of this plan | that will especially commend it to a sober, hard- headed people like the Americans is its absolute | freedom from risk. * * * The Government would | start out of debt, stay out of debt and become richer | and more important every year.” Sober-minded and hard-headed people will be apt | to inquire why the business of the country, which now | consists in the ownership and operation by individuals | of productive property, real and personal, will be- come free from risk when the same productive prop- erties are owned and operated by the Government. | At present there is a large percentage of failures in the operation of these same productive properties by individuals and corporations. It is estimated that the losses by risk in such properties ensuing upon the panic of 1893 amounted to ten billions of dollars. Those losses fell, directly or indirectly, upon indi- | viduals. Does the Examiner mean that if such loss fall. upon the Government it will avoid the conse- | quences of business risk by increasing taxation to In no other way can Govern- | ment recoup itself. It will make no difference to the people how this increased taxation may be levied, whether by increasing the cost of using the facilities and utilities belonging to the Governmert or by put- ting in motion the ordinary machinery for taxation. Jefferson did not believe in the Government. em- barking in business. He thought the Government should be confined to the exercise of police powers and the control of means of defense, leaving business to the people. What is meant by the phrase, “The Government would become richer and more impor- | tant every year?” In" what way would that serve the interests of the | people? What effect upon popular freedom and the rights of man would follow an increase in the wealth and importance of the Government? The phrase means a Government, through its ownership of all business and productive property, becoming stronger and more independent Qf the people every year. When have strong Governments, in that sense, been associated with a strong people? Under our system it is intended that the people shall take care of the Government, not that the Government shall take care of the people. Heretofore the people have had the privilege of saying, through their representatives, how much tax they will pay for the support of the Government. For twenty-one years, ending June 30, 1808, the tax so paid for the support of the Federal Government had averaged five dollars per capita per annum. During all that period the total average contribution of each citizen to the Government was $105. In place of that taxation the Examiner would substitute all that a citizen pays out for use of the telegraph, telephone, street cars, steam and water transportation of freight and passengers, for fire, food and clothing, and all of the necessaries of life, for these are furnished by the “productive properties” which the Government is to own and operate with “freedom from risk.” The expenditures of the citizen constitute the flow, the circulation, of money. The citizen in business de- votes the profits of his business to the purchase of what he needs, as the laborer devotes his wages. But the Government is an impersonality. When it sells a ton of coal to a dairyman it will not go to the corner store and invest the proceeds or the profits | in butter, for it needs no bread. The officers of the Government will eat, drink and wear, but they do that now. The only use to be made by the Government of its profits,saccording to the Examiner, is “reinvest- ment in productive propertie: properties which form the necessaries of life. Private expenditures, even in luxuries of equipment, for objects of art and the pleasures of dress and diet, restore money to i | reach of the individual again. extravagance of the private individual in a large sense and a large measure benefits the masses of the people. But public extravagance on the part of the Govern- | ment reduces revenues, which have to be replaced by | resorting to increase in some form of taxation which the people must endure. The owner of a private for- tune may fill a picture-gallery, adorn his person or increase the state and circumstance of his existence without adding a penny to another’s cost of living. | But any similar indulgence by the Government must | come by reducing the comforts of the people through | an increase in their cost. The Examiner quotes the Government ownership | and operation of German railways as an example in | proof of the feasibility of its plan. If the German i railways were run at the rates and paid the wages of | American railways they would pay no profit at all. It is plain, therefore, that the Governthent profit in operating German railroads taken from two sources, the wages of labor and excessive charges on | freight and travel. | There is no ground for doubting that our Govern- | | | is | ment would get any profit at all out of its operation | | of the business of the country in precisely the same | way. It would require the “importance” hoped for | and the consequent strength and centralization of | power to enable it to transfer its losses to the people, to its hired men and customers. | There is another point of view from which the | proposition is to be considered, and that is the effect upon the people of withdrawing the incentive to in- dividual accumulation. |CLEAR THE GROUND IN ADVANCE. [ THE Supervisors have consulted the best interests of all concerned in postponing the special elec- tion at which it was proposed to submit the question of issuing bonds for extending the pan- handle of Golden Gate Park to Van Ness avenue and for building additional schoolhouses, providing an adequate sewer system and reconstructing the cepted streets. The panhandle project is one which is bound to elicit a great deal of discussion, since it is the only one among those proposed to be submitted concerning which there is any difference of opinion. No one | doubts that the necessity of an adequate sewer sys- tem, reconstructed accepted streets and new school- | houses is the most imperative of any that confronts the municipal authorities. Moreover, there is no | question of the power of the Supervisors to make an | appropriation for schoolhouses, sewers and streets. The law as it stands gives them ample authority to inaugurate any work they may consider advisable in these lines of improvement. But regarding the panhandle a verw serious ques- tion exists with reference to the city’s power, and be- fore an election is ordered the Supervisors should take uains to thoroughly understand- it. The act of 1887, under which it is proposed to submit the question of “uuing bonds to the people, authorizes merely the in- ac- ’ not in the consumable | proper channels, where it is in | In this way even the | | curring of municipal indebtedness. It contains no grant of power by which cities may inaugurate public improvements. The law for extending the panhandle, therefore, must exist somewhere before bonds for the enterprise can be issued. This is a proposition so plain that it ought not to need illustration. In the celebrated Shag Rock case the Supreme Court held that the city and county of San Fran- cisco possesses no authority to acquire land for any purpose not delegated to it by the consolidation act. In that case an attempt was made to purchase Shag Rock as a site for a pesthouse. We have not seen in connection with the panhandle extension in the daily papers any reference to a statute which authorizes the condemnation of this land for the purposes specified. Some of the property-owners interested have raised the question of jurisdiction, and since the failure to thoroughly understand it before voting on bonds is liable not only to jeopardize the success of the scheme at the polls but to invalidate the bonds afterward, the matter is of sufficient im- portance to merit thorough consideration. If the people should vote bonds and it should be discov- ered afterward that the Supervisors had no authority to acquire property for the panhandle extension, we should be in a very pretty municipal mess. The postponement of the election until the latter part of July will give ample time in which to consider this question. If a satisfactory conclusion is not then reached a further postponement should be had. e e —————— /:\ increase ¢he rate of rental of ferry depot privileges to the various railway companies making use of the building is a good step in the right direction. If now the Commissioners will attend with equal firmness to the task of reducing expenditures FERRY DEPOT CHARGES. CTION taken by the Harbor Commissioners to | and putting an end to waste in that direction the ferry finances may ere long be in a satisfactory con- cition. It is worth noting that in discussing the proposed increase of charges upon the Southern Pacific Rail- road, and in protesting against it, Mr. Kruttschnitt, general manager of the road, is reported to have said: “We do not come before you in a spirit of -aptious criticism, but merely to protest, as the com- pany has always done, against what we consider un- fair discrimination,” and to have added, “We would not care if we could add 10 per cent to the cost of commutation tickets and make the public pay the increased rental that way, but we cannot do that.” That statement is about as explicit as Mr. Hunting- ton’s recent assertion that his company would make the people of California pay the Central Pacific debt. So long as the railroad can make the public bear all the burden of taxes, rents, debts and other charges it is well satisfied and makes no protest, but when it cannot shift the burden then ‘it talks of unfair dis- crimination and fights with fury. The price charged for the use of the ferry depot to the railroads is none too high. In fact, the low rates charged by former Commissioners constituted a pub- lic scandal, as was pointed out by The Call and by the Merchants’ Association Review. What has been ccr is therefore one step toward righting a grave wrong, and, fortunately, it appears the result is not gcing to be injurious to the public, as the railroads cannot shift the burden. The next step in the path of reform must be taken in the direction of economical administration. It will profit nothing to increase the revenues of the ferry depot if the expenditures are increased, or even if continued at the old wasteful rate. The commission has started well on a good work, and the people will now look for an earnest prosecution of it. C adverse criticism in the East that any word of commendation coming from that source has not only the merit of truth but the charm of novelty. There is, therefore, no little gratification to be felt in the report Captain F. A. Kendall, president of the Board of Education of Cleveland, Ohio, has just made upon our public school system. PRAISE FOR OUR SCHOOLS. ALIFORNTA, her institutions and her people, Having made a careful study of our schools during | a recent tour of the States on this coast, Captain Kendall, in the course of an interview at Chicago upon the result of his observations, is reported to have said: “California schools are the best in the country. The State makes a more liberal appropriation than anywhere else, and the idea of education fs up to date, industrial, manual and commercial. Boards of Edu- cation throughout the -Great West are composed of intelligent and progressive men. There is no poli in it. Cultured ladies of different localities also make schools their particular charge. In the city of Los Angeles, a town of not over 100,000 inhabitants, there were last year 25,000 visitors to the schools.” It would be easy to pick flaws in that statement. Some of the assertions are not strictly accurate. While politics in a certain sense of the word- has been excluded from the schools, inasmuch as school teachers are seldom if ever selected for partisan con- siderations, yet the jobbery and the corruption that attend the practice of politics have been found in school administration as well as elsewhere in county and municipal affairs. Nevertheless, the fact remains that our schools on the whole have been efficiently & , maintained up to as high a standard as can be found anywhere in the Union. The excellence of our schools is due mainly to the strength of public opinion in demanding a high standard of character in the teachers. Jobbery, cor- ruption and frauds, amounting almost to open steal- ing, have too oiten been tolerated, but the appoint- ment of incompetent or unworthy teachers is an offense that has never been condoned in any part of the State. The result is we have one of the best school systems in the world so far as the teaching is concerned, but one of the most wasteful and extrava- gant in its maintenance. When popular sentiment demands as high a stan- dard of efficiency and honesty in the School Board as it does in the teacher’s chair we shall have a school system that will truly merit the praise of being the best in the country. We are paying high for the ser- vice we obtain, and if we received the full value of revenues so willingly paid the result would be the admiration of the Union. The report that upward of 100 tons of liquors of all kinds destined for the Klondike have been held at Skaguay by American officials because of the ar- bitrary action of Canadian authorities shows that a bad state of feeling exists between the representatives of the two Governments. There is no friendship among men when they cease to pass the liquor along. The dispatches announce that Emperor William of Germany has been imposed upon by a confidence operator. Investigation may show that the impostor hails from Samoa, where Mataafa is busily engaged in trying to induce his German Majesty ta accept a gold brick. are so often subjected to misrepresentation and | ANKIOUS TO HEAR FROM GAGE AND DAN Expectant Linger in the Palace Court. PROTESTS AGAINST DELAY TIME TO REWARD THOSE WHO ‘WON THE VICTORY. Surmise That Certain Names on the Governor’s Slate Have Been Recently Erased and New Ones Added. Applicants for official favor walted in the Palace court all day long yesterday for some word of good cheer from Sacra- mento. It came to their knowledge Mon- day morning that the Governor and D. M, Burns were in Sacramento discussing the subject of patronage distribution; hence they were anxious to hear the result of the deliberation. In the Palace group were candidates for Dabor Commissioner, Code Commissioner, Registrar of Voters, Adjutant General and Highway Commis- sioner, besides many other candidates for subordinate positions under the Board of Health. The politicians who are supposed to be in the confidence of the Governor ex- pressed the opinion last night that the expected appointments would not be de- layed much longer. In fact, they cannot understand why there should be any fur- ther delay. They remark that the Sena- torial contest is over for the time being, that the Legislature has adjourned, that the Governor has had his vacation and much-needed rest, and therefore it is time something was doing to help out the men who marched and shouted for Gage and Neft away back last fall. They dwell on the fact that Democrats who were booming Maguire and blasting Gage are | still drawing stipends every month from the public treasury, while the Republicans who won the fight are waiting change and wondering why the Governor | does not act. Before the Governor left Los Angeles he had made up his mind concerning the Code Commissioners and the Paris Expo- sition Commission. It is surmised that his prolonged conference with Burns im- med‘iulcl}' on his arrival at the Capitol had referénce to some suggested change in the slate. In regard to the adjutant generalship, the ‘“organization,” or, in other words, certain members of the ex- ecutive committee of the Republican State Central Committee, will not again inter- fere. One recommendation in this respect was made, and therefore another one could hardly be expected from the ma- chine. The clever politiclans doubt the propriety of making any recommenda- tions to the Governor regarding this of- fice, and very likely no more will be made unless the Governor should see fit to in- vite suggestion and recommendation. The Paris Commission is a different kind of a trust. The people of the State are deeply concerned in the selection of the Commissioners. It would be a happy event in the State if a commission wholly independent of any rallway corporation | could be' chosen, but it is said if the Southern Pacific should get one member the Santa Fe ought to have one, and the people surely should get the third. Ben C. Truman, formerly of the literary department of the Southern Pacific, had some exposition experience in the hortl- cultural department of the World's Fair at Chicago. He was appointed shortly after he was crowded out of the Southern | Pacific. He did some very good work for ! the company in describing the beauties of Monterey as a summer and winter resort, and found time apart from his engage- ments with the corporation to write a book on dueling and contribute war ll‘e!:l'llnlscel"u:es to the New York Times. No one in the building at Third and Townsend etreets found fauit with Ben's literary style, and when Mills was brought down from Sacramento to succeed him surprise was expressed. It is said that Truman and Mills are slated for the Paris Commission. ‘Warden Hale of San Quentin was in town yesterday. He says the notion entertained v many people that he desires to con- tinue his service as Warden is anything but correct, as he is anxious that his suc- cessor shall be chosen at once so that he can retire. He is fully conscious that his failing health demands his retirement. | Mr. Hale's successor will be chosen at | the meeting of the directors of the prison | next Saturday, There is no doubt that | M]:r. Aguirre of Los Angeles will get the place. The reason for the recent postponement | of the meeting of the Board of Regents of | the State University has transpired. The | Governor expressed a desire for the post- ponement in order that he might be able | to attend the session. When the subject | of selecting a president of the university | is called up there will probably be a full | attendance of regents, and the Governor | no doubt will preside. Lieutenant Gover- nor Neff, 0 was in the city day before vesterday, remarked that he intended to be present at the session. On this ocea- sion Stephen M. White will probably re- ceive the greetings of his brother regents. CHAPLAIN WILL TURN BENEDICT Chaplain Brown of the lowa to Wed Miss Eaton, an East- ern Belle. Chaplain Frederick C. Brown of the bat- tle-ship Towa will shortly wed Miss Emily Eaton of Middleborough, Mass, Chaplain Brown left on Monday evening for Pasadena, there to meet his betrothed, who has come all the way from her far Eastern home to become the chaplain’s bride. The happy event is the culmination of a romance that had its beginning several vears ago in the quiet little village of Mid- dleborough, a suburb of Boston. Mr. Brown was stationed there as pastor of the Unitarian church. He made his home with the Eatons, who were in his congre- gation. Between him and Miss Emily grew up a warm attachment, and when he left the church @ year ago to enter the navy their troth had been plighted. Chaplain Brown served during the war in the North Atlantic squadron, and in May was assigned to the Iowa, coming here with the vessel a few months ago. He has still two years to serve, and will go with the vessel to Manila or wherever she may be ordered. The approaching event has been kept a rofound secret. The chaplain secured cave of absence last Sunday for one week, but did not say where he was going. He took the train for Los Angeles on Mon- day night, and it has been learned that Miss Eaton was expected in Pasadena to visit relatives there. They will arrive in San Francisco on Friday, and the wed- ding will take place either on Friday or Saturday evening. Rev. Dr. Horatio Stebbins will officiate and will be assisted by Rev. Stopford W. Brooke, who is an intimate friend of Chaplain Brown. After the wedding the young couple will remain here until the Towa goes away, when the wife will return to New York. where Chaplain Brown’s parents reside. ———— Epworth League ‘Alliance. This evening the .annual meeting of the Epworth League Alliance will be held in the Centenary M. E. Church South, on Bush street, near Gough. The officers for the ensuing term will be elected, ana business of interest to Epworth workers will be trunsacteg. Briefm:p!g:‘g and speches will be delivered by the fol- lowing members on the following sub- jects: “Spiritual,” Miss H. M. Merriam; “‘Mercy and Help,” Miss Myrtle Hodson: 4 “Literary,” Luther Elkins, and *‘Social,”’ Sk for a| | City. On the 21st of April, 1888, the Span- | Reginald Harris. At the conclusion of each paper a two-minute discussion will be inaugurated. A report of the proceed- ings at the Santa Cruz convention will be given by members. The meeting will con- clude with an_address by Dr. E. P. Den- nett, ex-president of the California Con- ference League, on “The Aims and Use of an Epworth League Alliance,” and will represent the ‘‘mass-meeting” work for the International Eyworth League convention, which may be held in this city in 1901 AROUND THE CORRIDORS.. Dr. and Mrs. David Cohn have returned from their Eastern trip. F. M. West, a banker of Stockton, is at the Grand with his wife. W. A. Perry, ine owner of Red- ding, is staying atthe Russ. Major R. Baxter of Rochester is at the California, accompanied by his wife. Rev. John Watson (Ian Maclaren) is registered at the Palace with his wife. Thomas B. Kay, owner of the woolen mills at Salem, Or., is a guest at the Lick. James G. McNeil, owner of the electric light plant at Santa Cruz, Is making a brief visit to this city and is registered | at the Palace. Mrs. Silas W. Terry, wife of the Captain Terry of the Iowa, arrived here from Washington, D. C., yesterday and regis- tered at the Palace with her daughter. C. H. Rlege, a Fresno stationer, and C. M. Hartley, a fruit grower of Vacaville, are late arrivals at the Grand. Mr. Hart- ley was recently married and is making his honeymoon trip to this city. Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip Smith and Miss Anita Gonzalez, who have been spending the winter at the Palace, will leave to- day for New York City, en route to Paris, where they expect to remain for the next year. J. H. Pettee, a business man of Pa- loma; H. Wittenberg, who operates a cracker factory in Portland, Or.; W. W. Turney, an attorney of Campbell, and R. J. Billiou, a San Jose merchant, are among the arrivals at the Grand. A number of officers and privates of the Marine Corps arrived here from the East yesterday morning and registered at the Occldental. They will go to Manila on the transport Warren to reinforce Ad- miral Dewey’s marines. Among them are Major William F. Spicer, Major Charles L. McCauley, Lieutenant G. C. Rice, W. | J. Limerick, C. 8. Hill, R. M. Gibson and G. C. Thorpe. Ensign J. H. Roy, U. S. N., is making the Palace his headquarters. He was re. cently detached from the Scindia and ordered to the Nero to replace F. Ridge- ly, who has been given a three months’ | leave of absence. The service duty, which will consist of run-| ning lines of sounding from Honolulu to | Guam, Marquesas Islands, Manila and Ja- | pan. On account of the increase of trade | with the Orient the Government desires | to establish a course free from reefs and shoals, and soundings will be taken at | every ten miles. The expedition will be‘ away probably for two years. | ————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ ROCKEFELLER AND OIL—V., Marshfield, Or. feller has a residence in the city of New York. The investigations into the affairs of the Standard Oil Company have not | yet been brought to a conclusion. | : | DECLARATION OF WAR-S. R.. | STANDARD | B. Ish Government sent United States Min- ister» Woodford his passports, thus be- | ginning the war; on the 24th, Spain form- ally declared that war existed with the United States and on the 25th the United States Congress declared that war was | geg;m on the 2ist of Apri’ by the act of | pain. FROST AND WATER—A Subscriber, City. Whether fruit trees and vegetables | should be watered at night to protect them from expected frost depends entire- Iy upon conditlons. In some instances water, by creating a molsture would be | beneficlal, while In others it would bhe | detrimenfal. No general answer to the question can be furnished. CADET IN THE MILITARY ACAD- EMY—F. M., Ci The question as to how to gain admission as a cadet in the Military = Academy has been answered so often that the readers must by this | time be tired of seeing the answer. Ad- | dress a communication to the Congress- man from the district in which you live and he will furnish you a circular of in- formation. | SYMBOLS—Enq., City. Ivy, holly and box are symbols pf the resurrection; dates | and cedars, of Yhe faithful; corn ears, df the holy communion; grapes, of “This is my blood”; lily, of purity; olive, of peace; orange blossom, of virginity; palm, of victory; rose, of incorruption; vine, of “Christ, our life”; and yew, of death. Laurel, oak, olive, myrtle, rosemary, cypress and amarinth are funeral plants, OLD NEWPAPERS—A. B, City. This | department is always willing to oblige, | but questions must be it a definite shape | to admit of an answer. Such a question | as the following cannot be answered: “A. | B. would like to know if there is any value on old newspapers from ninety to | one hundred years old; what is = the value?” If A. B. had described the papers, name, place of publication and date, an | answer could have been given. THE JAPAN CURRENT-Subscriber, Vallejo, Cal. For information in addi- tion to what has already been published in connection with Professor Hammon's theory concerning the Japan current and | the precipitation of rain you will have to communicate with that gentleman, whose | address is ‘‘Philadelphia Gas Company, | Pittsburg, Pa.” As to the Japan current | you can find some information in the en- cyclopedias, but literature on that sub- | ject is not very extensive, | POULTRY JOURNALS—A. A. L., Lil- lis, Cal. There are many journals in the United States devoted to poultry and'| poultry raising. Among the number may | be named: Fanciers’ Monthly, San Jose, | Cal.; American Poultry Journal, Chicago, Reliable Poultry Journal, Quincy, i} American Farmer, ‘Tive Stock and Pouliry Raiser, Indianapoils, Inds Foa Poultry, Bosion, Mass.; Poultry Heralg. St. Paul, Minn.' American Poultry Advo: cate, Syracuse, No Y. and I | Poultryman, Tiffin, Ohic. g s SAN FRANCISCO—Subseriber, City. The following from the Consolidation At of April 19, 1836, answers fully the question as to the limits of San Francisco: | The corporation or body politic and cor- porate now existing and known as the city of San Francisco shall remain and continue to be a body corporate and poli- tic, in name and in fact, by the name of | the City and County of gan Francisco. | The boundaries of the City and County | of San Francisco: Beginning at the south- west corner, being the northwest corner | of San Mateo, in Pacific Ocean, on the | extension of northern line of "'i.()wnshipl Three south of Mount Diablo base; thence northerly along the Pacific coast to its point of intersection with westerly exten- sion of low water line on northern side of the entrance to San Francisco Bay, being southwest corner of Marin and northwest corner of San Francisco; thence easterly through Point Bonita and Point Caballo to the most southeastern point of Angel Island, all on line of Marin, as established by section 3957; thence northerly along the eastern line of Marin to the northwest point of Golden Rock, also known as Red Rock, being a common corner of Marin, Contra Costa and San Francisco; thence due southeast four and one-half miles, more or less, to a point distant three stat- ute miles from the natural high water mark on the eastern shore of San Francis- co Bay, being a common corner of Contra Costa, Alameda and San Francisco; thence southeasterly in a direct line to a point three miles from said eastern shore, and on the line first named (considered as extending across said bay), and thence west along said first named line to the place of beginning. The islands known as the Farallones shall be attached to and be a part of said city and county. By the act of March 30, 1874, this de- scription was amended to make the west- ern boundary of Alameda County pass 500 yards westerly of the western extremise of the Central Pacific wharf as it was then, providing it did not tase recua Buena Island outside of San Francisco. l . Nero is on special | ¢ John D. Rocke- | § | would be swollen | warrant, but when | day for the arrest of Jacob Knapp AUDITOR WELLS 1S WILLING T0 PASS THE BUCK Again November and December Salaries. WANTS FREEDOM IN OFFICE ASKS JUDGE SEAWELL TO MODI- Z FY AN ORDER. The Case Will Come Up Next Friday, at Which Time the Application ‘Will Be Heard in Open Court. Judge Seawell yesterday continued the case of Oscar Moses against the Board of Education et al. until next Friday. On that day John H. Dickinson, attorney for defendant, Auditor Asa R. Wells, will move the court to modify an order here- tofore made so that Auditor Wells shall be permitted to audit the demands of the teachers for the months of November and December, deducting from each of them any moneys due the city from any holder of any demand by reason of any moneys illegally paid such holder, and requesting that warrants for the remainder be per- | mitted to be audited and delivered to the | proper parties. The motion will be made on the ground that the order was improvidently made and that the duties of the Auditor are in- terfered with in an unwarranted manner. It is necessary order be modified and that confusion and loss shall not result ing moneys of the city and county. up this motion for modificat of the order an affidavit made by Audi Wells, setting forth a grievous tale, filed with the clerk. This affidavit ex- blains the entire situation as viewed by Wells, but there are other views, and some difficulty is expected when the mo- tion comes up for hearing. This affidavit reads: nditor of the city and county of San o and have been during all the times herefnafter mentioned. 1 am also the defendant in the action now pending in the Superior Court heretofore an order in said action contal the following age was made and served upon me, and sald order is still in full fore and effect “It ie hereby ordered court the said til the further order be and he is here- trained and enjolned from issuring any ts on d of defendant teachers for the months of 1 December, 1895, nothing herefn as an injunc- tion against thy he_ said demands e :niands which ma e teach- with the other of San Francisco, and I kn which I can use the demand order as an offset for an am permitted to act upon selves. In the month of February last, believing that W of N0 way mentioned in the se, unless I nds them- | the matters involved in the lifigation In this action would be determined at I did all that I could to release the is for the month of January, then await that they were paid, and the dema and March have also been move of any am adv 3 involved in the action should not be di of, certainly so far as this afflant anc office is concerned. Doubtless some confusion has been brought abeut by the order of the court, but it is obvious that the order was ne sary, as has been explained before. J how much a modification of the origina order would assist toward reaching a final cision in the case is not clear. That a allow v t 1 ation would | to drag himself from the tangle there can but it looks that the to the Treasurer” in on. and the record in the legal scrambie following to prevent payment of even the deducted warran ‘he merchants ob- ject to the money being paid at all, gven after “moneys fllegally paid out” have been deducted, so It is doubtful that Wells' ef- be no question, buck would pass u event of a modifi | fort to thus extricate himself will avail | him much, it bein the general opinfon that he must walit the trend of events and | final adjudication of the preplexing con- dition. Stole the Mercury. M. H. Grovers, a junk-deaier at 10421 Howard street, wa& arrested in Judge Graham's court vesterday on the instruc- tions of the Judge. A mechanic’s level olen from Fred Lehre three weeks ago s recovered from Grovers on a search it was produced in court vesterday Lehre showed that the metal had been unscrewed from t..e level and the mercury had gone, making the level practically worthless. The Judge promptly ordered Lehre to swear to a warrant for Grovers' arrest for petty lar- ceny. e T Lost His Furniture. Hugo Friebel, 1209 Polk street, obtained a warrant in Judge Conlan’s court yester- on the charge of felony embezzlement. On April 8 Knapp got $140 worth of turniture from him and disposed of it by auction. Knapp cannot now be found. —_——e—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—ee—————— Special jnformation supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510- Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ e e At a London Board School. 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