The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1899, Page 6

G THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL UNDAY, MAY 7, 1899. B —— MAY 7, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicat PUBLICATION OFFIC > W. S. LEAKE, Manager Market and Third Sts,, S. F 558, 217 to 221 Stevenson Street 1574, 908 Broadway “Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFi:lCE .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. OAKLAND OFFICE . NEW YORK OFFICE AMUSEMENTS. Columbia [ um—Vaudertile. azar—'‘Captain Swift.! Tivoll—=The Geisha. and Free Theater—Vaudeville every aiternoon Muson and Eilis streets, Spectaities. a Co., Market street, near Bighth—Bat- rk Baseball to-day. 1g Park—Coursing to-day. Park—Mission Zoo. g Races, etc. ular bay resort. Amusements every Katherine A. Tingley, to- \ Dan Burns pushed himself forward as a ge, and the scarcely The Call stated ckley with a It is evident now ¥ kley has re- has been more or ng his farm, but he the whole tto he talks no doubt due to his be discredited the Republi SUCCESS 1S POS: If Bi le s ye by Y A victory tone to victory in the thing will be done. Such is evi- 1 by the boss who ome 2 ley » avoid justice, and 5k his remorse 1nities of 1 past. e denied that the r »pear. political people a magnetic thy with the aims and therefore eas wins It ure the Demo- of Rainey iner and a good organizer. isiasm of the nd the Buck- ayed from long be pro Democra ation, but it is one which 1 party no fear. The defeat dom of the party from nd corrupt corpora- e people was never stronger The Democratic > Buckley as the “old boleon after his return from the city has a he will meet a THE SPOLIATION OF CHINA. XG the announcement of an agree- Br w to claiming a cession Chinese Government bey to leave Canton last pinos t on the climax of ay in the spoliation nd civilization, France fol- of territory for the os- ining peace and enlighten- es: Russia next ered the game and ie p the plea of strategic antage of attack ionaries to plunder as a an’ fe upon champion of s demanded a share i int . and fow comes Spain clamorin. me of international jus- tice Thus the If further indignities are to fal must come from Asia or sinia may 2tk for a Chi- of humanity, and the ize upon territory in the in- but Europe can do no Greece may be stirred by the to join the nations in the work of Orient compensation for the territory lost in th. vith the Turks. Almost every nation in Europe has now asserted its right to life, liberty and the pursuit of China, nese domini in e Ahlkound of Swat more, u example of Sp spoliation and to seek in th, ch has shown itself eager to forestall the others, and each has been willing to purchase immunity for itsel by granting the right of others to plundér. The agree- ment between Great Britain and Russia is hardly more than an understanding of that nature. ' Such concilia- tion sible for the present. however, there will be no more Chi then the figh United States at t ments with the Orient which will force them to take part in the general wa” is of course pc e for the United States Senate and/{ Brannan to N “{and down Gex ain and Russia as to the | the plundering of, 4 MONOPOLY EXTENSION. N ‘anticipation of thc.opemti\'c effect of the new charter the Market Street Railway Comipany has i ® Attempted a clean-up of franchises and remnants of |. ——= | franchises that suggests the insatiable appetite of some i cxpiring Boards of Supervisors. The pretext s adopted is plausible, and its proposed’ methods | as | | the northeastern part of San Francisco—that is, so | much of the city as lies east of Kearny street and | south of California street—should be increased and Thi: has been used by the Market pany in order, with the apparent {improved. Street Rai | good will of property-owners, to secure a monopoly "k;r its service and to prevent all possible competition within the limits mentioned. And this is only part of a larger scheme to acquire and keep a secure and | exclusive grip upon the entire peninsula. This company owns what there is_left of several of those it is operatifig. Some anchises are in a condition to be owever, be- tion for that purpose takes place, to nd by the acquisition of two new fran- certain exclusive privileges which | it attempts legally to distinguish from franchises, to | perfect the network in which it expects to immesh all the passenger traffic that connects with North- eastern San F co " The plan, which is well on the way to consummation, | has not yet been explained. But, as revealed by | the documents to which we have had access, although ’comph:mcd. it may be ‘rendered intelligible. | On 'March 6, 1809, the company petitioned the | Board of Supervisors for a new franchise for a “con- HOW pProposes chises, and of necting line of street railroads” with its Geary-street track at nt avenue and its line on Sansome street, between Bush and Jackson streets. The route’ pro- posed was along Grant avenue to Bush street and down Bush street to Sansome street. The petition ed by the indorsement of the North Cen- Association. It was accompanied 1 ch, in order to harmonize pre-existing franchises, fixed its one years, or years more than <. and provided for an undesig- nated percentage of receipts to be paid to the muni- pality 1 at t ew charter of five years, that the work of nenced within one year ears, .and that the mo- be electricit ed should tive power to be ¢ y. cables Upon this appli- de on April 24, 1890, e act of March 13, tive proposals for Monday, 1 to This resolt ee on Streets. from the Market Street filed with the board which a franchise on Taylor street, Post »plied for a new franchise or connect- and Post streets. thi th or any other o ed by law. orable repe was 1 under row. wlt way Company wa recited the existence ¢ between Market and Geary streets, and of the street betwe ing li ion took the e other, and a reso- with the accompanying so calls for competitive proposals, Monday. May 13, and 1 Street Commiittee. Unc course as been referred to the 0 the circumstances there can be no actual competi- tion, e suggestion is merely perfunctory. The third part of the scheme is an order granting on to the company to operate by electricity now holds the franchises, ‘partly ked and worl ering the fol bandoned, and cov- Sixth street, from rket street to lor strect to Geary street This resting al point of the new But the description is It begins anew and includes Market street to Jackson Taylor street; irant avenue. point in the mentioned. anchise alrea by no means ex Montgomery street, street; separ. ns with Sansome street, through Was! ackson stree and San- some street, between Jackson and Market streets Here another rest le, and the description is re- sumed at the inte n of Fourth and Market streets, whence it is continued along Post street. to Leavenworth street: thence on Leavenworth street | and across McAllister street to C Hall avenue, | and thence by of Grove street, Polk street and | Tenth street to its | which is also, as has been seen, the point of com- { mencement. This the doubtiul theory that the employed on | street railw franchise, but, under the act of 1897, a new privilege that, although conflicting, can be tacked on. This | question has been referred to the City and County | Attorney, whq is expected, in the language of Lord | Nelson, “to do his duty. ; The fourth and completing part of the plan is an | order, somewhat similar to the last, which permits | the use of electricity on a portion of the same route, ;vxl(‘nll(‘rl on Geary street to Kearny street instead of Grant avenue, where the description for an instant | halts.- Tt commences again on Montgomery street, ound by Jack- al termination at Brannan street, order is based on d he motive power to is not an integral t of the original fcllowing the same lines as before, son and Washington streets to the intersection of | Tn this | order it is provided that the application of electricity shall be perfected within six months. It is in the hands of the Street Committee. All these parts constitute one stupendous whole, which not only the Market Street Railway Company with the most extensive and connected rights, but, as already shown, absolutely excludes the chance of suc control of senger facilities in a large and impor- tant business part of San Francisco to the existing The single block franchise on Taylor street, between Geary and Post, the use of Geary street, the existing franchise on which will expire in Y002, and the new line on Grant avenue and Bush street, are a series of moves on the municipal chess- | board which, if not counteracted, will result in check- mate to the city and county and to some of the most rvicable provisions of the new charter. ansomq and Market streets, where it ‘e rests monopoly. “pervisors to exercise great industry and discernment tin dealing with the complicated questions which the | has prematurely | | Market Street Railway Company | forced upon its consideration. On the one hand there iz no desire in any quarter through mere prejudice to | interpose unnecessary obstacles to an improvement which is surely required in order to restore to an im- portant and neglected quarter of this metropolis its cqual share of prosperity. “But at the same time it is | also essential, even though some delay should be in- | volved, to thwart the monopol facts above stated clearly demonstrate; | D Because the republics of South America do not In the end, | maintain .Ministers to represent them at the court of | i ) ; 12 to divide, and St. Petersburg they received no invitation to the | g will begin. ‘Well will it be with the | great peace conference at The Hague, The laws of | who do not call on the family get no invitation to the iball. 3 There is no doubt that street railway facilities in | This appli- | sful competition and gives the sole | s ' by legitimate operations within-our undeveloped ter- Tt is the plain and sacred duty of the Board of Su- | ng project which the | IN THEIR OWN HANDS. ROM every point of view the failure of the prosecution to convict the proprictor of the | Palace saloon of the offense of conducting a per- | centage poker game at his place of business is to be’ | regretted. | It is weil known that gambling resorts of the kind complained of in the case constitute one of the most offensive evils of the city, and it would have | been gratifying to have found the law poweriul | enough to punish any and all who maintain them. | Despite the failure of the prosecution in the case, however, the public is not without a remedy suffi- cient to prevent the continuance of such gambling. | The Police Commissioners have the matter in the | own hands. It is within their power to refuse licenses | to saloons where poker playing is openly carried on, | whether the games be of the kind known as “per- centage games” or those irom which the house takes | a “rake-off” for drinks. By an impartial denial of | licenses to all ‘stich gambling places, "and by fre- | quently repeated raids on those suspected of permit- | ting poker playing or other forms of gambling, the evil can be materially diminished, if not altogether | suppressed. 7 | It may be noted, furthermore, that by a similar | policy it will be possible for the Commissioners to rid the city of the nickel-in-the-slot machines, which are |among the most tempting gambling devices ever in- | vented. The slot machine respects a swindle as well as a gamble, for the chances given for is in many winning are by no means so large as the unwary in- ! vestors of nickels suppose. On most of the machines the cards are so arranged that big winnings cannot I)c“ | made, and the patrons of the device are not only en- ticed to gamble but are duped in the process. Thus while it is to be regretted that our law is so vague that even a notorious open gambling room can- not be suppressed nor its proprietor punished, there is no reason why the police authorities should aban- don the fight for public morality and honesty. The openness with which poker playing has been carried on along our principal thoroughfare has been some- thing more than a disgrace. It has been an ever present menace to society. continual temptations to all classes of men. Even professional beggars have been found among their patrons. Young men in positions of trust have been exposed by them to the temptations which lead to There is no telling how many homes have been blighted by their curse. The duty of the Police Commissioners plain. Let them see to if that police raids are kept up on all ces known or suspected to be conducting gambling games, and where sufficient evidence is found of the offense let them refuse licenses to the proprietors. The law of n Francisco is not so inadequate as the mblers think. The Police Commiss ime in their own hands is ioners have the OUR VOLUNTEERS INSULTED. l—‘ from served that 3 almost wholly composed of American citizens, edu- the Philippines, The Call, drawing an analogy the history of the Roman republic, ob- , especially the volunteers, was our arn cated in our common schools, who would not desire | permanently in any Asiatic possessions we | to ren might acquire, and that, if we determinad to retain or territory, they would inevitably 1ve to be replaced by mercenaries. It was not expected, however, that a year after: our great victory in Manila Bay our volusteers wotld be characterized by civil or military officers as if tliey Asiatic colonies were already included in the category of mercenaries. | Yet apparently such is the fact. The goad taste of the distribution of pointed additions to Congressional literature against imperialism by Edward Atkinson may be f: lation through the mails on the avowed ground that they tended to insubordination among the citizen soldiers of this republic is a gross and unwar- rantable imputation, which is of a piece with the es- tablishment of a press censorship at Manila. Citizens of the United ¢ whether at home or abroad, whether in civil or. military and naval occupations, zenship with them and are qualified to hold their own individual opinions on questions of law or policy and simultaneously to stand by their cotintry and by their flag. They need no such exclu- sion from domestic and foreign information as might excite ates, carry their cit be indispensable to maintain the loyalty of paid mer- ! cenaries, reduced to the condition of subjects . Ii Edward Atkinson has broken a law of the United States he has incurred the penalty attached to the act. Upaon t ground, but not to prevent discontent or mutiny in our military force in the Philippines. the | It action of the Postal Department may be justified. has been frequently stated, without apparent contr: diction, that an overwhelming majority of our volun- teers are opposed to the permanent retention of the Philippines, in which exercise of their constitutional rights they have not so far antagonized any official | vtterance of the Government. Their personal views bave not dampened their military ardor or their pa- triotic Americanism, or caused the slightest break in our victorious progress . A tremendous effort to drag this country into an ley and his Cabinet. nor among the industrious and intelligent producers who compose nineteen-twen- tieths of our population, nor even, except to a limited extent, among the laborious representatives of solid enterprise and of accumulated capital, but in the cla of speculative monopolists, who enjoy their ease at home and are searching for new fields for their un- American methods abroad. These men are not only willing but anxious that their wealth be increased, not ritory on, this continent, but through the sweat and toil and bloody sacrifices of our young citizens in foreign parts, who are expected to open the door to cheap labor and to supply unlimited opportunities for unpatriotic opulence. It has not yet been settled that our institutions are to be abandoned, nor has the power of the law or the political authority of the people yet been successfully | disputed. ——— { The Czar’s peace commi that it is taking no chance the effect that it will contain no representatives from Sotith American republics.© The reason assigned is | that none of them are accredited to 55 Peterflmrg, bur the true one seems to be the fear that the well- known revolutionary tendencies of the overlooked na- | tions might overturn the preconceived plans of the | universal peacemakers. sion has notified the world ! Secretary of War Alger. crossed the Chicago River v‘yest'erday without a clothespin on his nose. His sense ! of smell, has become dulled from the passage of so ruch poor army beef under his olfactory organ. The claim of a New Jersey man that he has a snake t time if they have no entangle- | diplomacy seem much like the rule of socicty—people | that plays the piano will be taken as confirmation of the suspicions of the public that there is such a thing ~as delirium tremens in plame-playlng. These places have been | ONG ago, anticipating the present sithation in | fairly questioned, but to suppress their circu- | imperial policy is apparent, not in President McKin- | Recent dispatches are to | HPAOK P ORG K According to Matthew Arnold, the | duty of a critic is to dillgently zezi out the best things that have been said or done in the world and earnestly strive to make them known to others. | Few writers, however, are willing to | accept the responsibility of such a duty |as that. It is pleasanter to sit idly by the highway of life in the shade of a self-indulgence and wait until some one comes along blowing a little bubble of | endeavor; and then arise languidly and jab a pen into it to see it burst. Criticism of that kind imposes no dil- | {igence of search, for in this great van- | ity fair the bubble blowers are num-r- {ous and, let the critic rest where he | will, t game comes to him. Fre- | quently, indeed, it comes in such shape | that to let it pass unjabbed would seem like sheer good nature, and any exhibi- | tion of that quality on the part of a | critic would be as justly subjected to | reprimand as candor in the speech of a naval officer. | | Ocecasionally, however, there comes | down the ways of the world something | | 200d; and when it comes unasked, un- | sought, as freely as the bubbles, he would be indeed a villain writer and fit |for treasons, stratagems and spoils, | who would turn away from it without | a word of glad recognition of its merit. | After all, there is as much real service | done to the world in setting forth de- | lightful things as in making a ‘“clean | sweep” of those that are not delight- | ful. Tt may be conceded that a cook whose labor consists in dishing up | dainty things is not a moral reformer; but after all, such person is as useful | to humanity as another who makes it his business to handle the garbage. o Among the books coming to the of- | fice during the past week is one so | ‘small that were it not for the binding it would be called a pamphlet; so full | of poetic suggestion that were it not | for the form of the expression it would be called poetry. It bears the title, “Sugar Pine Murmurings.” It comes | | from the gold veined, pine elad moun- talns of Amador, and exhales from | every page the spirit of the land. It is the work of a brother and of a sister— | Mrs. Elizabeth Sargent Wilson and J. L. Sargent. | Within a space of little more than a hundred duodecimo pages it contains | nine stories—if stories they may be called, for after all they are little more | than sketches. Their charm is in what they suggest rather than in what they | | tell, and therefore they are rightl named, for out of each story, simple as | it is, there comes something like that which affects one who listens to the sounds that never cease in a forest of pines—sounds half mournful, half wild, which seem to have in them something of sympathy with the human, and yet which continually torment with reit- erated ~intimations of uninteliigible mystery. . Small as the volume is, and sketchy as the storfes are, the range of its themes is wide. Pathos and humor, | tragedy and comedy, satire and sym- pathy are in it. Each story presents a i character drawn as if it were copied | from flesh and blood. One can hardiy | | doubt that these people did live in the mountains and among the mines of | | Amador, and that we have in this lit- tle volume a series of genuine pictures of Californian life. 3 From the quiet pathos of the story {of the German miner who worked on | patiently for years and attained for- | tune only when it was too late, to the ifl:-ru: tragedy of the American miner | ! who in the wild justice of revenge en- | tombed his wife and her paramour in | | the depths of an abandoned tunnel; | from the sad love story of the Indian | | maiden Majel, to the broad comedy of | the tribulations brought upon genial John White 1 his aggressive goats, there is surely a wide sweep; but the | skill of the authors has never once | | failed them—every one of the varied chords has been rightly touched. | . 2 + e | There is much virtue in an “if.” | “Sugar Pine Murmurings” wouid have | been a valuable and in all likelihood a | ;pprmanr‘nl contribution to the litera- ture of California, if—. In this case | the “if”’ means many things. Its virtue | is pushed almost to the limit. In the | main, however, it signifies, “If the | writers had serjously tried to make it | s0.” The book appears more. like a souvenir of tales told in the loiterings | | of leisure hours among the pines than | liké an earnest and resolute effort to | accomplish something in the nature of | enduring literature. The stories reveal | enough to show the writers have in a high degree the faculty of depicting | |the manners and the hearts of the va- rious types of men and women who | make up the community of a mining | district in our mountains, but they also reveal a preference for listening to the | murmurings of the pines on the hills | rather than digging for the gold be- | | neath the surface. Nevertheless the | | promise is great despite the smallness | i“‘ the quantity of the performance. The pan they have exhibited to the | public shows color of rich ore, and since | that much has been obtained at ease among the pines, the yield will certain- ly be notable when the authors set about digging in earnest. g iy The pangs, the pains and the passions | of poetry are with us always, and the passions are of many kinds. The flurry | over “The Man With the Hoe" has not | yet subsided, and now a new agitation | comes to us from the East,’ caused by an impressionist poem breathed into | lyric life by Senator Thurston. The point of contention is curious. It is not | denied that the poem has merit, nor is it disputed that a Senator may with decorum write poetry. It is well known a considerable number of Senators have wooed the muses while sérving their country, and two of their praductions— “My Life Is Like the Summer Rose," by Wilde of Georfia, and the sonnet, “Opportunity,” by Ingalls of Kansas— rank among the minor classics of the language. The contention of the de- nunciators of Thurston is that while hig verse is good of the sort, it is not of the Senatorial sort: that while a Sena- | tor may write poetry and stlll hold of- fice, he should not write the kind that Thurston has written. The contro- versy, it will be seen, is as complex in its florid array as the prevalling spring bonnet, and has as many frills as a young woman ‘with all her style on, RS For anything llke an understanding of the agitation the story must be told as a whole, Benator Thurston is a wid- ower and is of the age which brings a man to maturity in the practiee of poli- Itics in Nebraska. It will ba rvemem- ORONOHOXOLOROROKOHOEOROEOROROHOHOHOHOHORS EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. Oxé ROROHBROROHOROEBLOED RO LOROUDHDAORDEOROX DL ORI XIHOROHOLD | the |a certain form of nolitical jobbery. $BEOEOROROROHSHD i H D% B bered he moved the nation about a year ago by a speech on the Cuban question, in the course of which he re- ferred to the loss of his wife, and swelled the flood of his eloquence with a torrent of tears. A short time ago at a banquet in Philadeiphia he in- formed the gu-sts that on the day be- | fore a young lady of the city had pre- | sented him with a white rose, and that the sweet gift so sweetly given from | so sweet a donor had inspired him to this rapture: 1 said to the rose: “Oh, rose! Sweet rose! Will you lie on my heart to-night, Will vou nestle there, with your per!ume‘ rare, And your petals pure and white’ 20 1 said to the rose: “Oh, rose! Sweet rose! Will you thrill my every sigh, Tho' your life exhale in the morning pale, And you wither and fade and die?” I said to the rose: “‘Oh, rose! Sweet rose! Will you throb with my every breath; Will you give me the bliss of a passionate kiss, Albeit the end is death?” The white roge lifted her stately head And answered me fair and true: “l am happy and blest to lie on your breast For the woman who gave me to you S asty The Boston Journal, while not deny- ing that the poem appears to be an impulsive flow of song, asserts that it | carries too much internal evidence of being an imitation of Tennyson to be | accepted by the critics of New Eng- | land as a genuine wood note wild of the Nebraska prairies; and it intimates | that the verse is probably a composi- | tion rather than an inspiration. The | Washington Post, gvhich as a rule| treats Senators with deference, seems | to have had its gravity wholly upset | by the poem, and mocks at the affair from beginning to end. It spares not | the lady, though she be a Philadel- | phian, but refers to her as “a Jesslca, | Mariana, Marguerite or Leonora”; gibes at the rose and avers it,"sparkled | with the dew of a Quaker hydrant,” | while it describes the effusion itself as “a little thing, a mere jet of genius, but a pang of inspiration which will bring out the gooseflesh upon every feeling skin.” 5 siataigae I have gone over the record of the agitation merely as a subject of Sun-| y statesmen and | nterest to o poets, —three very respectable clagses of population. I have no e m to make of either side of the contro- ¢, no judgment to pronounce. The ng beauty and popularity of “My Life Is Like the Summer Rose” proves ladies that Richard Henry Wilde had within | him the glow of a true poesy: and the | unquestioned excellence of the sonnet, Opportunity” attests that Ingalls pos- sesses in'a high deeree both poetic con- ception and the facuity of verse. But the white rose Iyric of Thurston proves | aply there are some Senatorial formances on which every citizen has a right to form an unm- prompted opinion for himself. s ve e Since the sugeesti~ of last Sunday that when the “panhandie” is extended to form a grand driveway to the park from Van Ness avenue, some more son- orous and proper name should be given to it, I have noticed in the Philadel- phia papers that “panhandling” is a term used in Pennsylvania to signify per- word to the wise, SHE The statement made some time ago | that a fitting mansion for Governor ! Gage could be provided by furnishing a convenient gimlet hole with a roof over it was intended to be satirical, bur the Governor appears to have taken it | in earnest. At any rate, in his flittings up and down the State he manages to | conduct his official life and political | consultations in such secrecy and ob~ seurity as to-incline to the belief that he not only lives, moves and has his being in a gimlet hole, or possibly a | key hole, but has acquired the habit ot | pulling the hole in with him. e In these days of social reform, when so much attention ‘= given to the ele- vation of the masses, a good many peo- ple are likely to be interested in a reso- lution just adopted by the municipal authorities of Mons, Belgium, which provides that for every child born in that city the treasurer shall deposit in the City Savings Bank on the day of the registration of the birth the sum of one franc to start the infant with a bank account, and'so encourage him or her to be saving thereafter. The original deposit returns to the city when the child becomes of age, but the interest accruing upon it is the prop- erty of the youngster. People in this country who think the plan a good one need not wait for municipal action, as almost any American family can start each of itg children with a dollar in a savings bank without straining in the least.. The resolution is interesting mainly as an illustration of the extent | to which the Belgians have carried the doctrine that a municipality is respon- sible for the well being of its people. ‘When the practice of municipal help is extended a little further a Belgian com. | munity will have something of the soll- darity of a family, and the city officials | may claim the paternal right of trouncs ing small boys who spend their pen. nies instead of putting them in the sav- | ings bank. Paternalism has its defects | as well as its benefits, and few Amert- | can communities would like to intrust it to municipal authority. R e The action of Edward Atkinson in sending anti-jingo pamphlets to the officers of the army and navy at Ma- niia, and the counter action of the Gov- ernment in excluding them from the | malls, constitute one of the most dis- cussible episodes of the war. The tone of the discussion, with full propriety, may be grave or gay, lively or severe, according to the inclination of the speaker; for the principle involved is great while the issue is small, and one | may direct his argument to the big end | or thé little end of the controversy at his option. The right of the Government to ex- clude from the malil any document de- signed to corrupt or cause dissension in the army ls unquestionable, but tae exercise of that authority in such a trumpery little war as that in the Phil- | ippines la vidiculous, While Atkinson was silly in his performance, the Gov- ernmen( was equally silly in suppress ing him with a pompous display of nu. tocratic power, In the early days ot Califernia a man was killed near Yuba Dam. and when his friends sent word % xS American | e to have the remafns brought to that city they received the reply: “There is | pary a remain left. A mule kickeq [ hin” Of Eaward Atkinson there arc | no remnains. It was a mule that kickeq | him. | ¥ 000000000000 050200, JUST LIKE GAGE. When Governor Gage got the news that smalipox in virulent form had appeared in Yuma he lost no time {n taking the necessary steps & for the protection of the people of the State. After night as it wa he went to the home of Dr. M thews, head of the State Board of Health, and called him from his bed to consult with him in regard to precautionary measures. The people who have known him longe: will say, “Just like Gage!”"—San Rosa Republican. When the Legislature of the State passed a measure designed to grant the women of California the right to vote for School Trustees and thereby have a voice in the selec- tion of teachers who were to in- struct their children, Gage vetoed the measure. Again, when the Leg- islature passed a bill legalizing prize-fighting in California, ther_eby inviting to our State a most objec- tionable class of people, Gage signed the bill. Those who have known Gage the longest will at once exclaim, “Just like Gage.”— Sonoma Democrat. Just so. And when Governor Gage signed the infamous cartoon and signature bills, and when he said he would appoint Burns Senator to succeed White, and when he em- braced the occasion of the celebra- tion of the commencement of work on the San Pedro harbor to de- liberately insult Senator Perkins, on an occasion when both were invited guests, those who are learning something about our 2x4 Governor all exclaimed, “Just like Gage!”— # Redding Democrat. 906009000000 006060000 AROUND THE CORRIDORS Charles Edward Pope and wife of Chi- cago are at the Palace. J. J. Hebbron, a Salinas rancher, and E. A. Steuart, a Los Angeles merchant, are registered at the Grand. Dr. Weldon of San Pedro is staying POPPPOPPPPIPVPIPP OO O @ a O O R R R R RCRORORE & ® & L4 9999099 PP0PPPD PVPVPPPIPPPIIPP VOO P DD E | the Grand. ¥. A. Shepard, a hotel proprietor of Stockton, is located at the Lick. Dr. J. Fred Holmes of New York is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. W. H. L. Chalfant, a cattle raiser of Bishop, Inyo County, is a late arrival at the Russ. Mrs. Louise Maitland and her daughter came up from San Jose yesterday for a brief stay, and engaged guarters at the | California. Mrs. E. S. Hudson of Marysville is reg- | istered at the California wih her son. Paymaster W. B. Wilcox, U. S. A, arrived from Manila on the Peking yes- terday and registered at the Palace. Thomas Cotter, City Attorney for Auck- land, N. Z., registered at the Occidental vesterday with his family. They will make an extended tour of the world. S. Sason, chief naval constructor in the Japanese navy, arrived at the erday with his staff engineer, T. Dotte. They will study naval affairs | in the United States and Europe and | make a thorpugh inspection of ship- building. They are accompanied by Dr. “F. ‘Swko, Secretary of Agricuiture in the Commercial Department of the Japanese | Government, who comes to investigate | agricultural conditions in this country. |~ R. H. Countiss, chairman of the Trans- |"continental Freight Bureau, which is to “e moved to this city from Chicago, ar- rived in this city last night and registered at the St. Nicholas. It is said that the bureau has been changed at the behest of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe com- panies and will continue on its old lines ‘of receiving and adjusting all complaints in regard to rate cutting and of issuing | all new tariffs which may be agreed upon Dby the transcontinental lines. Mr. Coun- tiss will locate here permanently. Frank S. Upton, assistant to.the presi- dent of the Toronto, Hamilton and But- falo Railroad, arrived from Rochester last evening and registered at the California. Accompanying him are W. F. Balkan, manager of the Rochester Union and Ad- vertiser, and wife; A. Stevens and wife and Dr. R. A. Adams and son. Dr. Adams has large interests in the southern part of the State. The parties will visit the various points of interest before returning home. < | imperial | Palace v ———————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 6.—George W. Bow- man, wife and daughter of San Jose are at the Manhattan. Robert Forsythe ot | San Francisco is at the Holland. Louis J. Haas and Herman Klabe of San Fran- cisco are at the Hoffman. Mrs. Gail Bor- den of Los Angeles is at the Fifth Avenue, John Rantoul of San Francisco and R. M. Smith of Los Angeles were passengers on the Lucania for Liverpool to-day. —_———————— ANSWEKS TO CORRESPSNDENTS. CANADA-—M. VG,. San Mateo, Cal. The Dominion of Canada does not pay any taxes to Great Britain SULLIVAN'S SNUB-—S., City. The question asked as to how John L. Sulli- van once snubbed the Prince of Wales was submitted to the ex (rugmst. he being the only one who could give a correct answer; but he declined to answer. LAWS—A. O. ., City. A bill passed by the Legislature and signed by the Gov- ernor becomes a law according to the pro- visions of it. Some have a e a law from and after its ap- B e g others that they shall becom: N hfter to many days after passage. CONTRACT—A. B., City. A person should never sign a contract without be- ing thoroughly acquainted with its cc tents. If he does he cannot claim excuse for his own negligence. In the particular case cited in the letter of inquiry much Would depend on all the circumstances of the case and whether there was fraudu- lent intent on the part of the indlvidual who induced the other party to sign the contract. o, NAMES OF CORRESPONDENTS—L. M., City. “Is it necessary to sign correct name and give correct address with a letter of inquiry sent to Answers to Cor- respondents?”’ asks this correspondent. Yes. it should be. This department never ublishes the name of the person asking or information. It often happens that a letter of inquiry is too indefinite to an- swer, and it is necessary to writé to the correspondent; but_if neither mame nor address be given sich letter is consigned to the waste bgsket. The desire to be in- formed is a laudable one, and no one who asks a question ought to be afraid or ashamed to aflix name and address to a letter of inquiry. = e Cal. glace fruit 50c per ib at Townsend’s.* ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men hy tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- | gomery street, Telepnone Main 1042, * —_———————— In the Divorce Court. Mrs. Vincente Flores was granted a di- vorce yvesterday from her husband. Al- | ejandro Flores, on the ground of infidel- {ity. Nannie L. Dinmore has sued her hus- | band, Walter .R. Dinmore, for a divorce on statutory grounds. —_—— Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noo=an, 1017-1028 Missioms 4 » - A A