The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1899, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CAL FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1899. FRIDAY 899 HN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JO Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .....Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL RCOMS ....217 to 221 Stevenson Streed Tel e Main 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, & cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), one year DAILY CALL (including Sunday Cail), 6 month .86.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 month: . 150 DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month.. 650 BUNDAY CALL One Year. . 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. g . 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. DAKLAND OFFICE... v......908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Buildiag DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON. (D. C.) OFFICE. ........Welllngton Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Corrcspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE...... “iiiieioo...Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Reproscatative. BRANCH OFFICES—5ZT Montgamery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Huyes street, open unti 9:30 o'clock. 68! McAllister street, open upttl 9 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clocky 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 289! Marked street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9§ o’'cleck. 14 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventy street, open until 9 p’clock. 1505 Polk street, open until NW. corner Twenty-second angd untll 9 o'clock 9:30 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. e Sercnad C: A Hot Old Tim Grand Opera House—'‘Erminie. 5 House—Sauer Recltals this Afternoon A Bad Lot ne Little Trooper.” and Free Theater—Vaudeville every aftermoon Olympta—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Metropolitan le—Moving Plctures. Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- te of Manila Bay Sherman-Clay Hall-Tan Maclaren, this afternoon. El Campo—The popular bay resort. Amusements every Sunday _———— " AUCTION SALES. y & Co.—This day, at 1 and 8 p. m., at 33 By C. P. Tro Geary st., Chinese and Japanese goods. dge & Co.—Tuesday, April 25 at 12 at 638 Market street. OUR CROP REPORTS. ROP reports carefully collected by The Call irom all sections of the State and published on to justify the| t sanguine expectations of a prosperous year. All | varieties of crops are reported to be in a flourishing It is only here and | is | c Vednesday are of a character county. condition in almost eve: falling off from a normal yield appears the rains of March came in ample | save hay, grain, fruit, grapes, sugar beets and | sther staple crops. The outlook is at this time a ising one for all rural industries. Something of 1t prosperity which the State has not en- 1ce the free trade panic of 1803 set in is likely to be o We have the prospect of good prices as well as of good crops, for the remarkable | ndustrial activity in the East has put the people of that section into a condition of prosperity | I m to be lit s this season. val of beral consumers of Cali- ill enable t tion of these reports The Call has been | nish the business world with anything like | publicatian was, therefore, one of the | t important news items of the day and of great to the commercial commun It afforded a season m | faculties in the effort to become the owner of prop- | founded originally in the self-denial, economy and | own betterment, there are some who lack the char- | down to the plane of energy of these failures. they cannot compete with the energetic, cannot make a | | aay's march with the strong, cannot equal in thrift GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS. ERSONS who are familiar with the various p theories upon which have been predicated changes in the social state, alleged to l{e dF- sirable, will recognize a jumble of those theories in the Examiner plan for Government ownership by Government thrift. Collectivism, nationalizing of property, Gronlund’s co-operative commonwealth, and all of the schemes for a social state reduced to the level of the least energetic members of that state, are reflected or refracted in this plan. Civilization has come about through the desire of man to own property as his individual possession. It was this desire in the plain people that finally over- came the feudal system, with its brilliant panorama of knights and ladies, its pomp and circumstance, its al- luring pageantry. This desire destroyed feudal tenure, struck the iron collar from men’s necks, made them the owners of their own persons, and intro- duced the wage system as the necessary privilege of. freemen, who, owning their own capacity to labor, must have the right to take pay for its use. This en- franchisement of man and his rise out of the feudal system was the leaven which has finally worked out the destruction of chattel slavery as applied generally to the black race. Individuality, the exultation of man in owning himself, and the exaltation of his erty, real and personal, to enjoy life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, moved the nations to brand the slave trade as piracy and slavery as a denial of the rights of man. In modern nations, starting at the strongest and most important Governments, as we approach those that govern less and interfere in the business and personal matters of the people to the minimum we find man rising in the scale with the widening of his opportunities. As he governs himself more, and be- comes every year richer and more important, and is governed externally less, his opportunity to rise and advance by the power of personal character is ex- hibited in a general gain in the scale of living, the enrichment of life, the conversion of the rare luxuries of one generation into the common comforts of the next. The best and broadest opportunities of man have been afforded in this republic, under its wise and well tried constitution, and the social state that has been founded on the civil state which that constitution creates. The great individual fortunes of which the Ex- aminer complains are merely the result of the oppor- tunities furnished to man in this republic. During the last thirty years peasant immigrants have come to us from Europe in the steerage and by immigrant train, and, applying their individual qualities and per- istence to the better opportunities they find here, have found themselves, before middle age is reached, able to revisit their European birthplace, traveling in a Pullman and the first cabin of an ocean steamer. It is not a matter of surprise that a country which has given to so many the experience of this advance in fortune and rise in condition should present the spectacle of numerous immense fortunes, every one thrift of a man whose qualities were inspired to high action by the invitation of opportunity. Nor is it surprising that in the midst of these opportunities, of which the vast majority have taken advantage to their v to do so. These are the failures, the disinherited of fortune, in whose name the social state is impeached. The mincl:‘ proposes such change in the civil and social state as shall bring both As acter and qual and accumulation the enterprising, sober and indus- trious, all incitement and inducement to individual tion for a hopeful outlook for all lines of | We are evidently going to have an active | year all round. The abounding prosperity | hich we have had so many reports from the East | out upon this coast and California will hnvc{ re fou share of its blessings THE COUNTRY—NOT PARTY. 0 aims to create the impress! and the str dulent cont HE Chronicle does not serve the country or the Republican party by its frequent disserta- balmed beef. It constantly ion that the comments of ng among the people tors originated in and have | tions in favor of e e pres inst fra becen fostered by the Democrats of the country and | that they d to injure rests of farmers and stock-raisers. | This position is untenable to the extent ef “its | influence, injurious to the tion and to the Republican party. General Miles, who first used the expression t has itself become embalmed, merely performed an of ¢ in a manner that has ar- As the testimony before the ion has accumulated it has been ed by Republican te is not partisan, but necessarily tes the deepest interest among pa- 1 occupations and of all grades of rested put investigating commi scrutinized and discu: leading no worse crime than for a ring of d by public officials, to line their own g our soldiers and our sailors on ing the unnecessary perils of There could be se to the horrors of war. It is not nticipate the findings of the commis- e approved or condemned as they hen promulgated and compared with the cvidence. But the Chronicle misconceives the na- ture of the charges that are now sub judice. Tt is not claimed that unwholesome canned or refrigerated beef is exported to the markets of the world, but that ht refuse, which ought to have been condemned, and would not have been offered in private trade, was considered good enough for the men who were fight- ing our battles. There is certainly evidence tending to show that much of the beef was not spoiled in its transmission or after its arrival in Cuba, but before it started. There was one explosion of canned beef at Washington that left an indelible impression upon the public mind. There is no danger that one of the “chief indus- tries” of the country will be crushed, but there is a prospect that deep-seated corruption may be exposed and punished. Questions of common honesty, ques- tions touching the sensitiveness of the people in re- spect to their army and their navy, cannot be appro- priated by any political organization. The adminis- tration does not occupy and canpot be forced to occupy the position of indorsing the frauds of con- tractors if they have been satisfactorily proved. The Chronicle may easily discover a better method of at- testing its fidelity to Republican principles and to American honor. The people of the United States appear to be in that position where everybody wants to shake hands with them. The Berlin Post now expresses the hope that a German-American alliance is not among the _improbabilities, energy, strength, industry, sobriety and thrift must be taken away and substituted by Government owner- ship of all productive property and enterprises and the transaction of all business by the Government! It is admitted that this plan will make the indi- vidual ownership of property impossible, and so will eradicate the energy, foresight and other qualities in man which have beem actuated by the desire of such The vast majority of active men in the country who haye thrived by individual energy and character will be reduced to the level of the minority who have failed to thrive through the lack of char- acter and energy. The new civil and social state will be founded upon the moral, industrial and physical diseases and disorders and failures of the present state, and no prophecy is needed to foretell the result. Man having risen in the struggle for existence against the resistance of nature and environment, if relievedsof the necessity of such struggle by being cosseted in the arms of a wealthy and important Gov- ernment, will lose what he has gained by exertion, and with the loss of opportunity will lose all those high capacities-which it invited into exercise. Life is a great advantage. It is through life that we enjoy all of the physical world around us. The beauties of the morning and the evening, the glories of high noon and the soothing mysteries of the night, are ours because we are alive. But to many these exquisite pleasures that we‘enjoy because we are alive are not available by reason of illness, or the period of their enjoyment is shortened by death. Shall it be said, therefore, that none shall enjoy the opportuni- ties of the physical world to any greater degree than those who are ill, and that the period of their en- joyment by all shall be shortened to the length of the ! briefest lives? Such a policy would be the precise analogue of the proposition to take away all material opportunity from every individual because some have used it to gather much and others have failed to gather any. SPEAKER REED'S RETIREMENT. Q from Congress have been current for a long time, and, while they have been generally dis- credited, they now come from what seems an authori tative source. Mr. Reed himself has not spoken di- rectly upon the subject, no letter from him resigning his seat has been made public, but the activity of the canvass for the succession to the Speakership gives reason for believing that his friends are assured of his determination. There has been much speculation as to the motives which have prompted Mr. Reed to retire from a posi- tion of so much power and importance, and which he has filled with such distinguished success. It is asserted by some that, being a comparatively poor man, Mr. Reed desires to engage in lucrative business 50 as to provide himself with a competence for his old age. Others assert the views of the Speaker are so antagonistic to those of the administration on many important issues that a conflict would be unavoidable if he retained the Speakership, and that he prefers to resign rather than to divide his party. ‘Whatever may be the motive, it is certain the re- tirement of Mr. Reed is an event of great' moment to cur politics. He is in many respects the strongest individual in American political life to-day, and his ownership. EPORTS of Speaker Reed’s intention to retire | influence upon Congress has been for years of so potent a character th;t he has to a large extent dic- tated the course of legislation. It is to him we owe the policy which has transformed the House of Rep- resentatives from a turbulent debating society to a legislative body, performing its work with accuracy and dispatch. To him also is due the defeat of many a wild, ill-considered meastre, the adoption of which might have seriously compromised the welfare of the country. Since neither the President nor the Speaker has ever given sanction to the reports of antagonism be- tween them, that phase of the situation need not be discussed. It is certain, however, that Mr. Reed has been all along in opposition to the jingoes and im- perialists of Congress, and was a conservative force of great value. Some time ago, in a noted article pub- lished in one of the popular magazines, Mr. Reed said with reference to the craze for annexing islands, “Empire can wait,” and on that principle he has con- sistently acted. The annexationists have been attack- ing him for some time past with more or less vin- dictiveness, and have undoubtedly formed a faction opposed to his re-election to the Speakership. It is not likely, however, that he would resign to avoid their antagonism, for he has little cause to fear them, and, moreover, he is the kind of man who never gets out of the way of an enemy. If the reports prove true, and Mr. Reed retires from politics, the course of the coming session of Congress will be watched with a good deal of anxiety. Many issues are to be dealt with on which Republicans are by no means united. It will require a masterful hand to wisely direct the House of Representatives next winter, and there will be much regret if Tom Reed is not there to undertake it. THE LATE SAMUEL G. HILBORN. HE death of Samuel G. Hilborn is deeply re- Tgretted not only in California, where he was best known and appreciated, but throughout the Union. He had acquired a national reputation by his conspicuous service as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives during the jate war with Spain. He had endeared himself to all citizens who were familiar with his record by his industry, by his intelligence and by his unswerving rectitude. As a man, as a citizen, as a leading member of fra- ternal orders, and through the manner of his perform- ance of public duties, he had earned general com- mendation and respect. There was nothing sensa- tional in his career, for he had no itching for mere notoriety, but identified himself with substantial ques- tions and with solid work. The State of Maine was his birthplace, and after he had graduated at Tuits College he acted as a school- teacher and at the same time qualified himself for the practice of law. His experience as an educator led him to realize the importance to good citizenship of sound American training and to devote special atten- tion to the common schools of his country. When he settled in Vallejo, in 1861, and began active pro- fessional life, he soon became known as a safe ad- viser who, though not possessing any special gifts of oratory, carefully prepared his cases and attended to the interests of his clients. His relations with the public began a few years after he reached Vallejo, when he became a municipal trustee and a member of the Board of Education. His rise was gradual but steady—he never retrograded, but constantly pro- gressed. His success as a county Supervisor caused his election to the State Senate, where he distin- guished himself by his mastery of the intricate de- tails of railroad freights and fares and by his abso- lute fidelity to his trust. He labored hard as a mem- ber of the convention that framed the constitution of 1879, and conservatively resisted all its sandlot fea- tures and opposed its adoption at the polls. In 1883 he was appointed United States Attorney for this dis- trict and served his term with honor to himself and with advantage to the Government. His first election tc Congress was to fill a vacancy in 1892, but he was unseated. He was afterward twice elected and repre- sented his district during the exciting contest against the railroad funding bill, which he was largely instru- mental in defeating, and in the excessive labor caused | by the late war, which probably contributed to the | disease to which he has now succumbed. Mr. Hilborn had a commanding presence, and he was a fine example of genuine Americanism, un- alloyed by any treacheries to the great ideas incor- porated in our Government. He was true to himself, true to his family, true to his country, and he passed away at a ripe age honored and admired and leaving an influence for good that cannot fail beneficially to affect the rising generation. Arkansas proposes to provide herself with a new and splendid Capitol, and has decided to erect it on the site now occupied by the penitentiary, which will be torn down to make way for it, and thus we see how things go from bad to worse—where once thieves were kept in confinement they are now to be turned loose upon the State treasury and paid for robbing it. General Shafter says that the only way in which we can persuade the Filipinos that we are a nation of well-meaning, God-fearing, man-loving people is by killing half the native population of the Philippines. And General Shafter knows that we have just given Spain a sound thrashing for trying to do the same thing. Police Commissioner Gunst wants to leave the State for six months. Strange as it may seem, some of the Supervisors were adverse to granting the Com- missioner’s request. If the worthy members of the board could only discover some means to prevent the Commissioner getting back again they might justify their official existence. A e After all the jesting and the jibing about the Bryanite Jeffersonians, a dollar dinner is not so cheap a feast after all. It may provide but a scant repast in New York, but in San Francisco a man can get all he can eat and nearly all he can drink for that money. The next time the Philippine Commission has a proclamation which it wishes to make known to the people it should advertise it in the newspapers. This thing of sending soldiers out on a bill-posting expe- dition is too costly, and never yields good results. I C. P. Huntington graciously announces that in two or three years the Southern Pacific Company may be building railroads in the Philippines. There are some evils from which even the Filipinos should be spared. The Southern Pacific is one of them. Huntington says that when he makes a move he knows what he is after. Californians are wondering when the old gentleman will make his next move. He seems to have seized everything worth taking in the State. The people of Oakland are trying to make the Southern Pacific Company keep faith. This taking SEWERS IN THE MISSION WERE TALKED ABOUT Subject Taken Up by Street Committee. WILL MEET AGAIN TO-DAY TWO CONSULTING ENGINEERS ' TO BE APPOINTED. One Will Probably Be Rudolph Her- ring, Who Planned the Sewer Systems of Many Large Eastern Cities. The Street Committee of the Board of Bupervisors met yesterday afternoon and devoted much of their time to the dis- cussion of the Misslon sewer project. Mayor Phelan and John C. Quinn and A. S. Baldwin, representing the Mer- chants’ Assoclation, were present to con- sult with the members of the committee. Several plans involving the appointment and compensation of a sewer commission were discussed, but the Supervisors failed to arrive at any definite conclusion. Messrs. Manson, Grunsky and Tilton, who have been suggested to serve as a commission, were not present, but the City Surveyor was represented by Mr. Mosey. The members of the Street Committee held an informal meeting Wednesday night and virtually agreed to appoint two consulting engineers to assist the commis- sion in its work. Rudolph Herring, the famous engineer, under whose supervis- ion the sewer systems of Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia were put in, will probably be employed as one of the consulting engineers. The gentleman is at Eresent in_ Honolulu, but he will be back here before any work on the pro- gosed project is under way. Colonel Men- ell will in all probability be aiso selected to act as one of the consulting engineers. The matter of compensation to be allot- ted the commission for the performance of its work was gone into and aftér a discussion lasting an hour or more the committee Was no nearer an agreement than before the subject was first broached. Messrs. Grunsky and Manson have already informed the Street Com- mittee that they would furnish the city with a complete plan for a new system and an estimate of its cost within five months for the sum of $16,000. That amount includes the cost of surveying the ground, fleld work, other expenses and the compensation of the two commis- sioners. As the committee and the Mayor and, in fact, everybody who has thus far evinced an interest in the project, feel that it is necessary in order to ex- pedite the labors of the commission to agpolm two consulting engineers to assist the commission it will be necessary, of course, to set aslde an additional sum ;}o compensate the engineers for their la- Qors. Not knowlng\what portion of the §16,000 requested by Measrs. Grunsky and Man- son is for compensation, the committea was unable to settle the question, and the Mayor suggested that another meeting ba held this afternoon at 4 o’clock at his of- fice in the City Hall to uetermine upon a sum to be set aside for the performance of the work. Clerk Russell and Supervisor Aigelting- er then pointed out the fact that the committee would have to devise ways and means to raise funds to carrv on the work and there was at present no money in tha treasury for that purpose. Supervisor Hol- land suggested that a certain portion of the mune{l be set aside immediately to be used by the commission in field work and other necessary labors, and that the re- mainder be provided for in the tax levy for the next fiscal year. This knotiy problem provoked an ‘interesting_ discus- sfon_on ‘the condition of the diiferent funds. A. S. Baldwin suggested tha* enough money to start the commission on its labors could be taken from tna urgent necessity fund, and the Mayor informned him that the fund was depleted every month be’ the many demands that are constantly made upon it. Cyril Willlams, expert of the Finan-e Committee, was ordered to be present at the meeting to be held this afternoon armed with a statement of the condition of different available funds. The committee received a letter from Joseph Howell, In which that gentleman generously offered to nerform as appraiser of the panhandle extension gratis. As Mr. Howell's salary had al- ready been fixed at $500, his communica- tion caused surprise. A communication was recelved from the ‘Willlams Company requesting permission to lay a wood block pavement similar to the_one in front of the Phelan hu]]dlnfi on Front street, between Washington an Jackson. Communications were received from Henry T. Scott, vice-president of the Union Works, and from the Mayor, Su- erintendent of Streets and the Board of ublic Works of the city of Stockton highly recommending the pavement. The committee decided to recommend to the board that specifications for the work be drawn_at once. At the suggestion of Supervisor Aigel- tinger and the recommendation of Bar- ney Doughertv. the committee’s expert, it was decided to pave the crossings of Bush street from one end of the thor- oughfare to the other and charge the Lill to the Sutter-street Railroad Company. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Mrs. G. S. Holmes of Salt Lake City is registered at the Occidental. Charles ‘Belding and wife of Stockton are among the arrivals at the Lick. Dr. G. W. Dwinelle of Montague, Sis- kiyou County, is located at the Grand. E. F. Mullaney, a cattle raiser of Win- nemucca, Nev., is a guest at the Russ. H. E. Barber, a Stockton capltalist, is registered at the Grand with his wife. Dr. J. 8. Stott of Gervais, Or.,, is at the Grand accompanied by his wife and child. L. Gerlach, an extensive land-owner of Stockton, and his wife are guests at the Grand. J. McPherson, a prominent resident of Howell, Mich, is at the California with his wife. E. S. Babcock, proprietor of the Coro- nado Beach Hotel, will be at the Palace for a few days. Former State Benator A. F. Jones, a well-known attorney of Oroville, s stay- ing at the Palace. — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COUNTY NEWSPAPERS—W., Philo, Cal. Free county newspapers cannot be forwarded from one postoffice to another in the same county without postage. The rate of postage is one cent for each four ounces. A STEAMSHIP CAPTAIN-J. H. N, Napa, Cal. The first requisite of an indi- vidual who wishes to become a captain of a steamer is a thorough knowledge of navigation. He must be a thorough sea. man and he has a great deal to study. He cannot ‘‘learn to be a captain by sim- ply working on a steamer.” ADOPTION IN BOSTON—L. A. W., Al- ameda,, Cal. For information about an adoption in the city of Boston, Mass., many years ago, address a communica- tion to the Court of Probate and Insol- vency In that eity, glvlng all particulars, 8o that there may be no difficulty in trac- ing up the records if there is such. JACK DEMPSEY—H. W., Waupun, ‘Wis. The true name of Jack Dempsey, otherwise “The Nonparell,” the pugilist, was Bradley. His_ father is living in up of the white man’s burden is becoming a serious affair. The people of Oakland ought to tackle some- thing easy.’ Eastern Oregon. He was born in the County Kildare, Ireland, in .1862, Decem- ber 15. He came to this country when T‘me young, but the date of his arrival ; 9;- department has not been able to as- A is duties | LAWMAKERS AND STATE OFFICERS TAKE AN OUTING Excursion on the Tug Gov. Markham. THEFT OF A HORSE AND BUGGY TAKEN FROM IN FRONT OF MER-~ CHANTS’' EXCHANGE. Lawsuit Probable Over the Loss of the R. W. Bartlett’s Rudder. Man Hurt on the Pacific Mail Dock, A large party of Congressmen, United Btates and State officials and their friends ‘went on an excursion around the bay on the State tug Governor Markham yester- day. The affair was in honor of Con- gressman Clark of New Hampshire, and among the guests were Senator Perkins, Congressman Julius Kahn, Special Agents of the Treasury Linck and Smith, Col- lector of the Port Jackson, Surveyor of the Port Spear, Deputy Surveyor Chaun- cey Milton St. John, Harbor Commission- ers Kilburn, Harney and Herold. It was the intention to have gone out on the revenue cutter Golden Gate, but as that vessel is laid up for an overhauling the Harbor Commissioners kindly placed the Governor Markham at the disposal of the party. After visiting a few points of import- ance in the northern portion of the bay, the Markham was headed back for Fol- som street, and there the party got a splendid view of the departure of the transports Warren and Scandia. From there the Markham went to the Union Iron Works and Hunters Point and then | back to her do¢k. The excursionists had a most enjoyable time, as the day was a perfect one for an outing on the water. R. D. Chandler, the well-known mine owner and coal merchant, was mourning the loss of a trotter in the 2:30 class, a brand new set of harness and buggy and a lap robe and whip vesterday morning, | but later in the day his grief was som what assuaged by the return of the hor: and buggy. The other articles are still | missing. The entire outfit was in service for the first time. When the ship Louls Walsh, | with a cargo of coal from the Sound for Mr. Chandler, was sighted Captain Jessen and E. Pollexfen, one of Mr. Chandler’s clerks, got into the buggy and drove to the Merchants’ Exchange to find out| about what time the vessel would get in. They were not in the building five min- utes, but when they got out on the side- walk again the horse and buggy were | gone, The matter was at once reported to | the Harbor police, and they ascertained that a horse and buggy similar to the | missing ones had started for Oakland on the creek steamer. The horse was driven | by a young man, and with him was a young lady. The Oakland police were notified and the young man was interro- | gated on the other side. He was able to | rove conclusively that the horse and uggy were his, s0 that clew vanished. About an hour after the creek route episode one of Mr. Chandler'’s custome: on the corner of Washington and Stoc | ton streets telephoned that a blind alley | near his place was barricaded with a bug- | gy bearing Mr. Chandler’'s name and that | | inside the barricade was a horse. It was the stolen rig, but the harness, Iap robe and whip were gone, and Detectlve Ellis is now on the trail of them and the | thieves. The steamer Rio de Janeiro sailed for the Orient yesterday. She had quite a number of passengers and every available inch of space, including some of the staterooms, was crowded with freight. The ship Glory of the Seas will finish coaling the United States steamer Nero to-day, after which she will go alongside the auxiliary cruiser Badger and fill her bunkers. The Nero will sall Saturday for Honolulu, from which point she will begin taking soundings for a cable between here | | and Hawail. The Badger will leave Mon- day with the United States, German and British commissioners for Samoa. Bernard McGonagle got his back hurt and his scalp torn on the Mail dock yes terday _afternoon. A runaway tea knocked McGonagle senseless. He wa treated at the Harbor Receiving Hospital, after which he was sent to his home in the Valencia Hotel on Valencia street. E. 8. Gutierrez, late of the Mail Com- pany’s Newport, has been appointed as- sistant engineer in fhe lighthouse service and appointed to lightship 70, stationed on San Francisco bar. There is going to be a lawsuit over the loss of the schooner R. W. Bartlett's rudder. As told exclusively in The Call the vessel was towed to sea by the Sea Queen, but _before the schooner was cast | out it was discovered that her rudder was | gone. The Sea Queen then towed her | back to port and the tugboat company demands the price of an extra tow. The owners of the Bartlett assert that it was the tug’s tow rope that pulled the rudder out of the vessel, and so the chances are the matter will be adjusted In court. COMPLAINT OF A SAILOR To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: My son, John Collins, has been in the United States navy for three years and seven months. He enlisted at this port, which is his home, from which he sailed. He was on the Philadelphia, and from her was transferred to the Balti- more, and was on that vessel, which so distinguished herself during the bat- tle of Manila. He is still with Dewey though his term of enlistment expired seven months ago. The latter time was put in for the “good of the ser- vice,” as they call it. Now he can come home and he wants to very much. He writes me from on_ board the United States steamship Buffalo, Ma- nila, March 7, and says, among other things: “We were informed to-day if we wanted to go East to New York and waive all transportation we could g0 on this one (the Buffalo), but if we wait three or four months longer we can go home on the Solace. So I have decided to go on this orie and pay my way home overland to San Franclsco. It will be about sixty days before I reach home from this date. This ship is_a madhouse.” Now, Mr. Editor, a criminal, when released from the penitentiary, is given a good suit of clothes and transporta- tion back to the place from which he was convicted. I ask if it is proper to land my boy and others so far from home and compel them to pay the rail- road ecompany their hard-earned money to get to see their fathers, mothers, sis- ters, wives or brothers after their long and faithful service to their country. My son is a fireman and stood to the furnaces in the battle when the ther- mometer ran up to 170 degrees. One greater than I has said that such men are as great heroes as the man on the bridge. Yours truly, JAMES W. COLLINS. San Francisco, April 20, 1899. e Card From Marshall P. Wilder. To the Editor of The Call-Sir: May T, through your paper, thank the good peo- ple of this city, the press and the Or- pheum management for their extrerfie kindness to -me during my short stay here. Coming among you with fear as to how you would be {7 eased with my work, I leave with regret, having been treat. 80 kindly. Always merrily_yours. MARSHALL P, WILDER San Francisco, April 20, 189, . the gum: PHONOGRAPH MEN'S LESSON IN MORALITY The Call’s Crusade for Decency. ENDS IN COMPLETE SUCCESS JUDGE GRAHAM VIEWS THE IN- DECENT PICTURES. He Convicts Kollman and Levy and Orders Them to Appear for Sentence This Morn- ing. The crusade of The Call against the ex- hibition of indecent pictures in phono- graph parlors has been brought to a suc- cessful issue, all the proprietors of par- lors having been convicted and warned that a repetition of the offense would be severely punished. In acting Police Judge Barry's court John Collins was the first one to be con= victed and fined; then followed Peter Bacigalupi, and yesterday M. Kollman, 848 Market street, the last of the trio ar- rested by Policemen Tyrrell and Esola on instructions from Captain Spillane, was similarly dealt with. When the case of Kollman was called his attorney, J. E. Bien, said that as far as he was concerned the case was sub=- mitted. He would like to add that the defendant was going out of the business. The Judge said that in his opinion the pictures exhibited were suggestively im- moral, and he would impose a fine of $10, as in the other tweo cases, but if the of- fense were repeated the maximum pen- alty would be imposed. The cases of Kollman and M. S. Levy, 415 Kearny street, who were arrested on the complaint of Frank J. Kane of the Pacific Coast Society for the Suppression of Vice under order 2825 of the Board of Supervisors, were called in Judge Gra- ham’s court yesterday afternoon. A machine with an electric attachment had been fitted up in a room in_the base- ment of the City Hall and the Judge had | an opportunity of examining the pictures seized In the parlors of Levy. Levy was present and persisted in protesting that the pictures wére works of art, and if he had thought otherwise he would not have exhibited them. The Judge, after he had peeped at the pictures, remarked that they were grossly immoral, and it was a shame that children’s minds should be polluted by being allowed the privilege of seeing them for a nickel. ‘When the Judge opened court Attorney Bien, for the defendants, submitted the case on the pictures themseives, and the Judge remarked that in his opinion they were grossly iImmoral and suggestive. He had seen them, and they were not fit to be displayed anywhere. ¥te was unalter- ably opposed to anything of the kind, and he would convict the defendants. the clerk_of the court was not present he would_reserve sentence until this morn- ing. He ordered that the objectionable pictures be destroyed. Prosecuting Attorney Wentworth con- curred with the Judge in his opinion of the character of the pictures, and had no hestitation in saying that they were grossly fmmoral. The minimum penalty under the ordi- nance under which the arrests were made is $30 and the maximum § 1t is prob- able that the Judge will impose the min- imum penalty on the condition that the defendants promise not to offend again. ANNUAL BREAKFAST. Daughters of the Revolution Meet in Social Reunion. Sequoia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, gave {ts annual breakfast in the banquet hall of the Occi- dental Hotel Wednesday. About ninety la- dies, including a number of invited guests of the chapter, gathered at the table and a _most enjoyable reunion was the result. The affair was strictly infermal. Mrs. Henry Wetherby, regent of the chapter, explalning that this departure wasdeemed advisable in View of present and past dif- ficulties. 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