The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1899, Page 6

HOME MISSIONS. T the session of the International Sunday School Congress in Atlanta Dr. Vance of | Nashville, in delivering the address of wel- = come, spoke with much feeling of the recent lynch- ing in Georgia. His remarks were evidently cut in the telegraphic report, but enough remains to show a condition of very deep feeling on the part of this Southern preacher. It is of interest that at the,meeting of the Maryland Presbytery, in Baltimore, on the 13th inst., Rev. Dr. | Joseph A. Vance, pastor of the leading Presbyterian | church in that city, delivered a pointed address on the subject of the duty of the church to the Southern negro. The occasion for it was the report of the com- | mittee on “colored evangelization,” which stated that the negro problem was the most serious that faced | the Southern people and the most important of any | for the consideration of Americans. There are seven millions of negroes in the field covered by the South- ern Presbyterian church, and the report said that to the question whether that church had done its duty by these people it had, with shame, to answer “No.” Continuing, the report said this is a critical period in the history of church work among the negroes, and vnless help was given to the African Presbyterian church it would surely perish. If this happened the church before God and man would stand in the posi- tion of having thrust the pitiable weakling out of the | fold to die of neglect, and the world would charge them with having done so from race prejudice. Then the church would stand in the ridiculous light of sup- porting a costly mission in darkest Africa, striving at a supreme sacrifice to conquer the negro there, | while turning him from their own doors here. Speaking to this report, Dr. Vance said that the church is confronted with a serious condition in re- | spect to the salvation of the negro, and that it is a | foolish thing to shut the eyes to the fact that the Southern people are lukewarm in regard to his wel- fare. He said young negroes are growing up natural thieves and criminals simply because they are not reached by any spiritual influence by Christian peo- ple. The young negro cannot be taken care of in the | memories of the past, and there is less religious work | among them now than when they were slaves. The report of the committee was adopted. We think that the elevation and control of the | | negro has not been sufficiently considered on the side | of his natural religious instincts. A JbHN 7D‘ SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Tsdea e S PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third ‘Sts., S. F. 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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 26T Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 613 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. $291 Markeb streat. corner Sixteanth, open untli 9 o'clock. 2513 Iission street, open untll 9 o'clock. (06 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1605 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky streets. open untii 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. Mr. Wright.” Tiiaeir “‘El Capitan.” wift.” Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon lis streets, Market street, Magon and Spectaltie: na Co., rcollegiate Concert, Saturday Night, impo—The popular bay resort. Amusements every mpers' Excursion Mountains, Sunday, To Santa Cruz Sutro_Bat Srand opening Sunday, April 20, AUCTION SALES. The negro Metho- dist church has worked on that line with a measure of success. The Catholic missionaries among the blacks have done the same, and if more negroes were | educated for the priesthood the results would be‘ more significant. The Methodists have won their | way by ordaining a colored hierarchy and striving to | he people of this city and to | increase the number of educated negro preachers. | t idea of the artistic picture the Among the negro Bishops of the Methodist c‘nurch" 1 | are many highly educated and able men. Their conference met three years ago in New Or- | leans and was welcomed in a very thoughtiul speech E TH PANHANDLE. am in The Call of Wednes- ey to t corre: The view westward of with trees and terr ing in k will be one the finest in the direction the a ed ed by the Mayor of that city. He spoke in a vein of | of 3 profound philosophy of the need of the educating in- om opposite i entered, and in some of which, it may be added, ex- exercised. And no authority distinctly conferred upon one department of the government can be as- sumed by a co-ordinate department without usurpa- tion. But, in the third place, by analogy to other con- stitutional expedients devised to secure the uninter- rupted and harmonious operation of our political system, when there is a vacancy in a Federal Sena- torship while the Legislature is in “recess”—that is, when the legislative will cannot be immediately ex- pressed—the Governor is permitted temporarily to appoint, and his limited authority is completely spent when the Legislature reconvenes. The better opinion seems to be that, within the meaning of the constitution, no “vacancy” can happen until after an election and the commencement of a Senatorial term, and therefore that, even in a State where legislative sessions are biennial, if a term should end during the off year the Governor could not appoint. The power of temporary appointment is manifestly conferred simply to meet such vacancies as result from death or resignation during an existing term. But, as to Pennsylvania and California, there is no room for argument because, when the terms of Senators Quay and White expired, the Legislatures of the two States were in session, and under that con- dition the constitution not only does not direct but clearly prohibits the exercise of the appointing power. The precedents in the Federal Senate correspond fully with these views, and there is no reason to be- lieve, even if there were not already a working ma- jority of Republican Senators, that in order to secure a partisan advantage and in palpable violation of the constitution, that able and patriotic council would re- verse decisions into which no political consideration Senator Quay participated. THE GEARY STREET FRANCHISE. EFORE acting upon the petition of the Market B Street Railway Company for permission to use electricity upon its proposed “corkscrew” line the Board ofaSupervisors should thoroughly consider two or three conspicuous facts. The franchise of the Geary Street Railway Company expires in 1902. The Market street combine, which has succeeded to the | rights of this corporation, has made two attempts to | secure a regrant of this privilege several years prior to its expiration. This action indicates that the company is exceedingly anxious for a renewal of its privileges upon the street and is not willing that they should be arbitrated by the new charter, which goes into effect in January next, nor by a Board of Supervisors chosen when the issue is before the people. In other words, the Market Street Railway Com- pany is seeking a franchise on Geary street in an ir- regular and furtive manner. It is possible that the grant to the proposed “corkscrew” line, which is de- igned to cover Geary street from Taylor to Grant avenue, would not complicate matters, but before the Supervisors pass any such privilege they should thor- oughly examine into the legal effect of their action. No objection will be urged to the construction of smoke and the dull features fluence of the church among the blacks, and hailed | the conference as representative of a work of the | panhandle, the highest benefit to both races. Van Ness avenue to the Baker- out two and a third sed by wealthy men whose in th the extended The conerence responde Bishops and furnished ar of | a model of oratory | 1dy of the effect 1 in a speech by one w the negro which teresting s of | speed of their | joining educati m to the tropical imagination of the | te for pedestrians and for | black race. The Bishop said that the two races were | fan largest class of - our in joint occupancy of the Southern States, and there | p ulge in expensive luxuries, | were abundant proofs that their fate is joined and to air and a glimpse of the | each was necessary to the other. He said: “I am a| be 1e hard and wearing life Christian because I believe that God is no respecter of ¢ operate as a tonic and re- | of persons. White and black are alike to him. Did i ise, that God cares only for one race Iso prove a wees, T would ce and my gre much to him and would bow the head and bend i the . the Half | the knee to the devil, for I know that he is no re- ) a h. The | specter of per White and black are welcomed ( he lebrated throv ut the in his servi i there is no ‘Jim Crow car’ on the > lined with trees, about road to hell.” s an account of put the ¢ think of r se stronger, or of the| no 1 without particular refer- igior er evard. There is, however, | capacity of v to control the conduct and upon our local project that morals of all manner of men 15 ¢ the eda, con- ious bodies owe to the country a duty in ecting “lara, was a fine illus- this race problem in the South. Granting tr pa and Mexican superstition of the negro, let him be controlled s both and | by its direction into a channel in which it may be the Lisecte was one ¢ st delightful | means of moral restraint. With education going | . s on the cor and in hand with this process, the superstition will | tr s deep shade and receive the be eliminated by enlightenment, just as it has been beauty was like the trar gradually w out of the white race by cultiva- | bustling ed metropolis to the stillness and the ' tion of the intellect 5 | peace « rimeval fo No visit to California! A calm review of the situation certainly demon- | v c e i suburban invitation had been | strates that no good is accomplished by savage lynch- ing of brutal negroes, beyond the removal of the in- | under the plea of necessity, but | dividual victi and no good is accomplished ecither in exagger e to the utili n spirit, by the expletive denunciation of the lynchers. The € 1 by a succession of protest- people of the country must come together upon a " ble »and now the milk or! definite plan and a permanent policy. They must g the clectric cars have usurped ' pay less attention to the elevation of dista 1t people | our own ‘door | jting to be ess which lor ized the | and n 1q ¢ to the problems those who.grovel at our feet w to 1 entrancing dre bestowing special attention and THE APPOINTMENT OF SENATORS. | ous sums upon such improvements We eady alluded rlin, Vienna, n and "l"l”' Governor of Pennsyivania has gone through Londo s the other s well 1ewe: ies of our i i e HEN e Gl DL O the form of appointing Matt Quay to the office on ddle astern States, within ba i F S 1 i i g >‘m . within b oi Federal Senator, after he had failed of an ¢ e u led progress in the app clection by the Legislature of that State. This fact, | s (;. de ‘i“n‘mh 1008 | 4 zether with the opportunity for a similar effort in | nse t )r-l lungs, the heart and California, has drawn public attention to the extent | ropolis, and promote physical | ;o4 ¢4 the limitations upon gubernatorial power in | relation to such appointments. | In Pennsylvania the term of Matt Quay and in | estments bring enormous returns, not Ty g 3 . ¢ California the term of Stephen M. White expired | ¢ completion of the panhandle enterprise will be e : St P ¢ March 4, 1800. Each incumbent had then served for | the projection of the glowing of the E11a 4 A % i ; : ; 2 4 six vears and had filled, therciore, the 1stitutional | Golden Gate Park into the cer of the peninsula, % 5 & T ; = % measure. In each instance when > term expired anc in proportion to the cost will produce larger | the Legislature in joint convention was balloting day | | by day for a Senator to serve for the six ensuing profits than Federal bonds or railroad stocks. tar’ with the danles | Jeats In each ance il\(:rc was a Alc.ullncls which = brain of Oliver Hazzard Perry Belmont: In remained unbroken \vl} the Legislature :|dmjlruc(], he an olive braneh from the Boy Oratar of the The express and plain I.(‘uflu"\m' of lll(" Federal Platie to the Boss Tammany he seems to have | constitution lt'n\'(-f no room fo doubt 11\((.( in 7\1(I\ a| bec der the impression that tl ger would de- | €3¢ 10 power of .‘p;mm‘lmt'n‘\ exists, Ih:u} instru- | velop vegeta instincts and swallow the bribe, | Ment in terms covers I_mm election “"'vl appointment. Mr. Belmont evidently had never heard of the lady | 1t Provides explicitly that each Federal Senator shall that went ont for alk ‘with the feliné and came | D¢ chosen by the Legislature of his State. Without | | the action of this independent department of the | ! State government a Senatorial term cannot begin,| ! But the constitution further declares that when, “by | back riding inside. In San Pedro and Los Angeles yester ple ceiebrated a victory over C. P. the peo- Huntington. Ir zht C. P. Huntington cele: victory over the people. So it goes. But all the State is young and C. P. Huntington is resignation or otherw a vaca ney occurs “during | the recess of the Legislature,” it may be filled by | exccutive “temporary appointment until the mnext meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such | vacancy.” In the first place, there is no rule that a State must | be represented at Washington by two Senators. Theoretically it may choose never to elect, and there wcisco last | Council of Los Angeles has adopted an | ordinance making it compulsory upon all guests at ! This will be done to assist the City liotels to register. | enioys the privilege of forcing traffic from that thor- | providing for economy and efficiency in the manage- | 3 | ment of the ferry depot. | are superfluous. | of a similar nature. an electric line on Sixth, Taylor, Grant avenue, Bush, Sansome and other streets to the Barbary Coast, ex- cept there appears in it an effort to gobble a valuable privilege by indirection! A suspicious circumstancci is found in the fact that the Market street company | has declined to construct its electric line on any other street than Geary street. It was suggested that the road proposed be built upon Taylor street to Post and down to Grant avenue. This proposition was re- | -cted by the engineers of the corporation for ap- parently no reason whatever. Tt is, therefore, barely possible that the construction department of the com- | bine has rececived orders from the law department to | run down Geary street as a preliminary to getting a foothold upon the thoroughfare, which will exclude competition in the future sale of a franchise. The safest of all plans would be the absolute re- fusal of the Supervisors to permit the “corkscrew” line to run on Geary street. That would settle all questions with reference to the future. The people of Geary street are entitled to an electric railroad in place of the present ramshackle cable line, but they will never get it so long as the Market street company oughfare to its adjacent electric system. It is to the‘ interest of all parties that when the Geary street fran- chise expires it be sold to a corporation which will construct a modern electric road upon the street. ermemner e e s [ 2 nest intention on the part of officials to carry FERRY DEPOT ECONOMIES. out reforms and economies. The crusade of The Call, carried on in so many different directions, has almost everywhere had effect. The new Board of Education has begun what promises to be a regime of genuine economy, racetrack gambling has been suppressed, the police have the offensive | phonograph parlors and gambling rooms downtown, and now the Harbor Commissioners have set about | ARELY if ever before in the history of the city have so many evidences been given of an ear raided Everybody, in short, seems to be animated by the spirit of reform except the Police Commissioners. The work undertaken by the Harbor Commission is by no means an agreeable task. It is much pleas- anter to add new men to the payroll of the State, even | when they are not needed, than to dismiss those who | The Board of Education had to face | a storm of protest when it set about the task of econo- | mizing in the administration of the schools, and the | Harbor Commission will have to confront something | It is, therefore, the duty of all citizens and all newspapers that have been preaching and demanding economy to stand now by the officials who are doing what they can to accomplish it. | The Call is the only paper in the city that has| openly commended the Board of Education for the resolute way in which it has gone along weeding ont useless employes and establishing the School Depart- ment on a strictly business basis. Our contemporaries are ever vociferous in clamoring for economy in the abstract, but when a chance comes to practice cconomy they turn the other way. A good many citi- zens of a like nature. Tt is for that reason offi- cials find it so difficult to carry out reforms. The very people who demanded them will oppose them when put into practice. By the exposure of the waste of public money in the construction of the ferry depot, and in its mainte- nance since, The Call directed public attention to the gross corruption that existed there. A legislative committee in an official report virtually confirmed | all the charges made by The Call. The Merchants’ Association took up the issue and aided in rousing public sentiment on the subject. Afterward some of our cogtemporaries joined in the agitation. It now appears the new commission proposes to practice economy. The promise is a good one, and if it be are is no process known to the law by which an election fully and honestly carried out the commission will can be made compulsory. In the second place, the | deserve well of the city and the State, and should bz whole power of choice is committed to the Legisla- | given the open approval of all sincere friends of fure, which is the immediate constituency of a Federal | economy in office and administrative reform. Senator. It is upon tiis ground that, since the foun- police Will Governor Gage be forced to rcmovci Los Angeles from his visiting list? William Jennings Bryan seeks to buy the supportl of the Tammany tiger with the second place on the dation of the Government, the right of legislative in- 1 of t ¢ Gage did not go out of his way to say offensive struction in matters pertaining to the State has been national Democratic ticket. An exchange of gold - things of Senator Perkjns. His usual way is offensive. bricks is certainly no robbery. I LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. REV. JAMES WOODWORTH ON FLAX CULTURE. Fditor Call: T am very much gratified to see the use you make( u‘fnw:; columns In encouraging and fostering the agricultural and manufactur gm a5 well a3 the other industries of the State. I am especlally pleased just now = your interest in the growth of flax, and I read with great satisfaction youfr trhe cent editorfal upon the subjeet, in which you express such sensible views o e matter. I think there is no doubt that much of the land in California 18 wre adapted to the growth of this valuable plant and that with oroper facllities g" gathering and utilizing it after it has matured its_cultivation might be mate highly profitable over wide areas of the State. Your implied doubt as g “whether flax can be permitted to ripen its seed and at the same time affor a fiber in condition for use” I think can easily be set at rest. I have before me on my table as I write a bundle of the fiber grown in this State in as perfect con- dition as could be desired or imagined, taken from stalks that were allowed to completely mature and from which the seed was threshed fully ripe and ready for the oil mill, and I am assured by those well informed on the subject that no trouble whatever in this regard need be apprehended. The great difficulty In the matter arises from the lack of proper facilities for gathering and saving the crop after it has matured. By the process now in use much of the seed is lost and the fiber is so broken that It is almost useless except for fuel, for which in some portions of Washington and daho it is actual- 1y used. Various devices have been contrived to overcome these difficulties, but none of them that have so far been brought to a public test have met the re- quirements in a satisfactory manner. I, however, have a neighbor, a practical man—a mechanic, a machinist—who for nearly twenty years has been at work upon a machine for tnreshing flax, which he has at last perfected, which he has tried upon a small scale, and which to that extent has proved entirely _salis- factory, according to the recorded verdict of those well competent to judge, whose testimony {s upon record and can readily be procured. His claims for it. which seem to be well substantiated, are that it will save 25 per cent of the seed which is lost by the present mode of threshing and will protect the fiber from in- Jjury, rendering it valuable for manufacture in any form desired. He has the machine in working order on his own premises, where it can be seen and its movements studied, and he is ready to go with it into the fleld whenever the sea- son for it opens, with full confldence of its success, but, as be says himself, he has made and kept himself so poor in working to perfect it that he finds him- self unable to move it and put it Into operation where it can be rendered available for practical use. I wish he might be alded to do so, for if successful, which there {s every reason to believe that it would be, it would increase the value of the flax crop by a very large per cent and so give an impulse to its cultivation that would add greatly to the resources and industrial wealth of the State. Or, if anything better can be produced, let that have the preference. Only let us avail ourselves of such advantages as are presented to us and not let our opportunities pass while we bemoan the evil of overpopulation and the lack of employment, which render so many unable to earn a livelihood. The inventor of the machine referred to has made the culture and manu- facture of flax a careful study for many years and has a collection of literature upon both branches of the subject that it would be Instructive and profitable for any one interested in it to peruse. My interest in this matter has been aroused by a correspondence I have re- cently had with certain persons in the flax-growing districts of Idaho and Eastern Washington, but being an old Californian and an advocate of encourag- ing home industries and believing that the nearer home we can get in our efforts the better for us and those, our neighbors, to whom we are under the greatest obligations, I write as I do and I hope that with your strong and vigorous pen to reinforce my utterances they will prove at least a factor in the process of stimulating some of our public-spirited business men to prompt and vigorous action in the case. JAMES WOODWORTH. 125 Lexington avenue, San Francisco, April 26. THE TRUST HAS COME TO STAY. Editor The Call: In an editorial on “Government in Business’” which recently appeared in your journal there is a statement of current thought which should challenge the attention of all who take an interest in the general welfare—too many do not—and it reads thus: *“The best and broadest opportunities of man have been afforded in this republic, under its wise and 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 Examiner complains are merely the result of the opportunities furnished man in this republi So runs current thought, the thought of nine men out of ten of practical business intelligence, and they will agree with The Call and defend its position. But what will the tenth man say? He will not question the statement made by The Call as relating to the opportunities of the past; but he will ask, What of the present? Are like opportunities available for = every one capable of ‘‘self- denial, economy and thrift?” And what of the future? JThe Call will concede, as any one will, that changes have occurred in recent years which greatly limit “the best and brbadest epportunities of man” to rise in this republic from poverty to affluence. A chief factor in producing these changes which now seriously limit a man’'s opportunities is the trust, in competition with which the individual is powerless and helpless. And the trust has come to stay, for no law can be made to dissolve or regulate a trust which will not also dis- solve or regulate any corporation or company. or even a partnership. The trust has come in the natural order of business evolution, and unfriendly legislation or loud denunciation will not even hinder its onward march to victory over compe- tition and individualistic enterprise, except such minor affairs as cannot he so combined as to produce large revenues. Clearly, then, we must reckon with the trust, and just what that means very few people yet begin to realize. I can pause but to name a single example. Let us take a household article famillar to all. It is not long since baking powders were much advertised in every daily and weckly newspaper, and pushing sales- men urged sales of their rival brands with untiring persistence. All that is now changed. No advertising and no salesmen are needed by the baking powder tr You pay your money and take your choice. But what has become of those salesmen, with their families? With rare exception they are in the ranks of the unemployed. Like resuits attend each new aggregation of capital and business abllity known as a trust, and although no power in the Legislature or in the courts can dissolve a trust or prevent its growth, I can yet say that I welcome the trust, for I regard it as the best teacher of economics the world has known. But what shall we do with the increasing number of men who are underg the terrors of enforced idleness? Ordinary prudence would suggest that pro- vision be made for them; that employment be found for them, since no one de- sires to see them degraded by poverty and by degrees driven to deeds of violence and turned into outlaws. Shall we keep them in subjection by a standing army? Is that a good way for society to protect itself from men with hungry families grown desperate? It is idle to hope that these men will get along somehow and remain good citizens. ‘Why not get them together in co-operative colonies where they can produce by their own labor enough to provide for themselves and their families ‘and properly rear their children? Would this not be less expensive, more in harmony with clvilization, more humane, more satisfuctory any way, than to increase the police force and the standing army? Can it not be done in a business way and be made a civilizing influence at the same time? 618 Harrison street, April 21, 1899, JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. “|F THIS BE TREASON.” Editor San Francisco Call: T hardly know how to express the warm admi- ration 1 feel for the rare courage shown in your paper in dealing with the Philippines question. A characterless paper Is like a characterless person—with out real or lasting influence. What 1 detest in the domination of Spain I detest still more in the attempi- ed domination of the United States, and the deep dislike I feel for the former power is now concentrated on its successor in infamy. Because I am an Ameri- can of the kind that finds his chiefest glory in the daring Revolution of 177 every pulse of my being is in full and active sympathy with the Filipinos, who are only doing that (but against more terrible odds) which we most magnify our forefathers for having done. 3 Mr. Editor, the Government which dares to flout in its dealings with weak peoples the moral standard which it imposes upon and demands from its indi- vidual citizens is sapping the very foundations of its own existence. Further, the citizen who suffers without protest the Government of which he is a part to wantonly invade the person or goods of weak peoples is preparing a rod that will inevitably find his own ignoble back. For every good and noble reason that justifies and glories the independent ex- istence of this nation to-day—for the sake of that liberty which alone makes life worth the living, that liberty which can never be guaranteed to the nation or people who deny it to other nations or people, black, white, brown or yellow— 1 protest with all my being against the cruel, inhuman butchery being waged to-day in the Philippines by this republic against a brave and helpless people, And finally, Mr. Editor, if it is treason to wish success to the weak arm of the oppressed against the strong and brutal arm of the oppressor, if it is treason to hope that speedy and signal failure may be the lot of those who, contrar to the holiest traditions of their own country, seek to impose a distasteful yoke upon an unwilling people, then I am a traitor on both these counts and glory in the title. b I only write to add my humble protest to those so mobly and ably voiced in the editorials of The Cail, which have excited much favorable comment and discussion among the people, and I only trust that the thousands with whom the name and fame of Washington is something more than a sentimental adorn- ment for patriotic anniversaries will realize and feel as 1 do the responsibility they owe themselves, the nation and the world in the present attempt to deny that to others which is the proudest possession of the American—liberty. Huff House, Napa, Cal. HENRY J. WEEKS. COMMENDABLE OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM. To the Editor of The Call: It is a hopeful indication that even one of the big dallies of California opposes imperialism. The Call deserves commendation for its able and logical opposition to a government policy regarding foreign terri- v which threatens to submerge the principles of our forefathers and the plain sachings of the Federal constitution beneath the billows of popular reckless- ness. Until recently It looked as if the whole country had gone daft on the question of appropriating as part of our national possessions every island and group of islands, far and near, which can possibly be scooped in by the dragnet of imperialism. But recently there have appeared many indications of a reac- tlon—a change in public sentiment that furnishes ground for hope that our country may yet be saved from the fatal plunge. Before trying to civilize and assimilate a large portion of the savage races in distant countries, would it not be well for us to first attain a higher degree of civilization ourselves? Let us at least wait till we have settled the question, the Indian question, the labor auestion and a few other dome problems which are ever and anon causing trouble in various forms and threat- ening the overthrow of our free institutions. This suggestion may not seem ex- actly patriotic, but my notion is that the best and truest patriotism is that which will make our own country permanently prosperous, peaceful and happy. Again I desire to commend The Call for its opposition to a foreign policy which, if persisted in, will inevitably lead to national ruin. San Francisco, April 25, 1899. RALPH HOYT. FAVORS BOYCOTTING OF ASIATIC LABOR ‘Editor San Francisco Call: As an American I object to all white men and women employing Chinese and Japanese laborers in any shape or form and leaving out white men and women who earn their daily bread. We will take for instance the orchard men. Whites purchase all of the fruits. I think it would be a good idea to boycott all fruits where Chinese and Japanese are em- ployed in orchards, also every place where they are employed. . Lindsey, Tulare County, Cal ~ dOHN HILDERBRAND. - G5 2 SR EPOERILIRO® | | | | {at the Palace. AROUND THE " CORRI!DORS Judge W. M. Boardman of Susanvilia is at the Russ. 5 Mrs. Grace M. Bell of 8t. Louls is a Y guest at the California. L. A. Osborne, a capitalist of Pittse burg, 1s registered at the Palace. R. W. Skinner, a large fruit packer of Marysville, is a guest at the Grand. F. S. Wensinger, a dairyman of Free- stone, is at the Occidental with his wife, Danfel Cramer of Susanville has en. gaged apartments at the Russ for himself and family. 8. Mitchell, cashier of the Farme Mechanics’ Bank of Visalia, is a lat rival at the California. W. H. H. Green, a machinery manu- facturer of Seattle, is registered at Lick in company with his wife. J. W. Henderson, a banker of Eurcka, and T. E. Johnson, a mine owner of & Jose, are among the guests at the Lick William C. Scott, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, is here on a pleasure trip with his wife, and registered at the Cali- fornia. J. A. Cisco and John A. Church, two merchants of New York, are registered Mr. Cisco is accompanied and ar by his wife. R. Callahan and James J. Conway, min- ing men of Randsburg, are making the Russ their headquarters during a brief stay In this city. General Evan Miles arrived in this city from Washington, D. C., during the early part of this week. ne and Mrs. Miles are staving at the Wellesley, 1433 California street. » V. A. Clement, the mining engineer who is negotiating for the purchase of the famous Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg for Captain de Lamar, left yesterday for | Denver to confer with the intending pur- chaser. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 27.—A. C. Green of San Francisco is at the Imperial. Andre Youaff of San Francisco is at the Nor- mandie. 5 — re————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SAN MATEO ELECTRIC—R. R., CH?’. The president of the n Mateo electria line of cars is A. B. Spreckels. PEGGING IN CRIB—G. H. C., City. In the game of crib when a player mgkes thirty-one with the last card he is al- lowed two pegs. MARIE CORELLI-E. E. Merrill, Or. Marie Corelli is the pen name of Marion Mackay, daughter of Charles Mack: She was born in England in 1864 department has not been able to ascer- tain to what chu she belongs. BLACK AND GIANT POWDER-T. W., Manka, Solano County. In blasting | rock under certain conditions both black | powder and giant powder are used. | black powder is used for springing the | well; in fact, it may | quin rivers and | chance to The rock prior to inserting the charge of glant powder. S PREMIUM COI S., San Jose, Cal Premium is offered on United States cent pieces of the following date: 1804, 1815, 1823, 1824, 1827, and 1853. A. b ast given date it is only for those which ave neither arrows’ nor rays n ffered for half-dimes of 1794, 1 , 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1303, an: 17 TROUT AND BLACK BASS—M. J. R., Portland, Or. Trout and black bass that have been planted in the es of the Spring Valley Water Company get along be said, in the lan- street, they ‘‘get along report that the blac! is without founda- are thinning out ramento and San Joa- loughs. of th the carp in the DOUBL PEDRO—A. S. Lyonsville, Cal. This correspondent asks: A and C are partners against B and D at double pedro. A’s partner C has but two trumps and A has two. Is C compelled to draw four ca or can he retain his two trumps and hand, thus giv ck ny four of the rest of his g his partner a better trumps from the remainder An expert to whom this of the de | question was submitted says: “If A and C and partners against B and D, C must discard all cards that are not trumps. No | played.” | gomery street. | that child cry so, Bridget? | ing all the time. | T kin kape him | complete service. one is allowed to hold a card that is not a trump if an honest game is to be s Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_——— Spectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- 4 Telephone Main 1042. b Rock Island Route Excursions. Leave Franc ) every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island railways. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago nd Boston. 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