The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1899, Page 6

4t HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY., MAY 19, 1899, FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address Al PUBLICATION OFFICE . .Market and Third Sts., S. F, Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..217 to 22! Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, 5 cents. . LEAKE, Manager, Communications to W. S. Terme by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 month 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 month: DAILY L.L—By Single Moxf SUNDAY CALL One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authori Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building C. GEO. KROGNESS. Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE.........Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*‘On_and Ofr. Grand Opera House — cana.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Alcazar—"His Japanese Wite.”" Tivoli—"“Orpheus aad Eurydice." Chutes Zoo end Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- tle of Manila Bay. Sutro Baths—Swimming Races, etc. Excursion to San Jose—Sunday, May 2L Pinafore” and ‘“Cavalleria Rusti- AUCTION SALES. By Sullivan & Doyle—This day, at 11 a. m." at 220 Valencla Horses. Py Baldwin & Howell—Thursday, May 25, at 12 o'clock, Real te, at 10 Montgomery street. et Es SYSTEMATIC STREET REPAIRING. HAT appears to be a good solution of the problem of street repairing is contributed to Wt‘nc current number of the Merchants’ Asso- ciation Review by L. M. King, superintendent of the association. The proposal is that the city be divided o districts for street repair work, and that the work Mr. King i in each district be carried on continuously. uppose that instead of the present uuccrtainj rethod of repairing streets, the city were divided into ts, each containing, say, one mile of basalt le pavement, and that to each district 2 man who would be made r8sponsible strict in repair and keeping it in re- Each man would work continually respective district. He would first go over the t gradually repairing the worst holes and after- n his attention to the minor holes and de- ns and replacing badly worn or uneven blocks. trict in repair would at first take some ably six months or a year in some parts of , but, once in repair, it would be comparatively to keep it in that condition, provided he was con- t work there. A small supply of sand, gravel paving blocks would have to be kept at ce in each district.” vantages to be expected from such a system that street repair work would be carried on upon bble or basalt * paved streets simultaneously; would be given to complaints made at once; the yearly amount for street repairs could be more culated for the tax levy, and the street i be a permanent body of workmen uire skill and efficiency in the or ¢ ere assigned 3 putting his di €z rce woul tion me: the careful attention of the horities. It is full time some adequate 7 eet repairing was adopted and put into operation. UNSATISFIED BOSTON. LTHOUGH the present tariff was drawn up by committee presided over by a New England man, Mr. Dingley, and was revised by a Sen- ee presided over by another New Eng- lander, Senator Aldrich, and was designed to give New England interests at least as much protection as was accorded to those of any other section of the Union, Boston is not satisfied. There comes from her people a demand for a repeal of the duty on hides. It is not free-traders who have started the demand, but the New England Shoe and Leather Association, and the Boston Journal declares “New England pro- tectionists will pretty solidly sympathize with them.” It is said a determined effort will be made at the coming session of Congress to bring about a repeal of the du The argument of the opponents of the duty is that hides are a by product and that a duty upon them is not necessary for the protection of the cattle industry. It was on that ground the fight was made against the hide duty when first proposed, and the new movement merely revives the old troversy. From a New England standpoint the repeal is of course much to be desired. Comparatively few hides are produced in that section and a great many shoes are manufactured there. In fact, the output of boots and shoes is so large that an enormous and increasing export trade is carried on in the business. Thus the manufacturers wish cheap raw materials, and from their point of view there is nothing to justify the hide duty. It is one of the cases where the local interest of one section is opposed to the local interest of another. It is not likely, however, that Congress will give much heed to the demand for the repeal of the duty. It was not placed upon the tariff until after full and fair consideration of the interests of all parts of the Union. American raw material is as much entitled to protection as American manufactured goods. No better argument can be given for protecting the shoe industry of Boston than for protecting the cattle in- dustry of the West. That view of the subject was taken by the Congress that enacted the tariff, and it is fairly certain that if an attempt is made to ma- terially change any of the schedules there will arise a demand for wholesale revision, and a general tariff debate will be precipitated. : The Journal itself concedes that while the tariff in- jures New England industry in one point, that injury is outbalanced a hundred times by benefits which the tariffi bestowed. Such being the case, it is to be hoped the shoe and leather men will not be encour- aged in trying to bring about a change in it. This country will not/ be in a mood for further tariff tinkering for many a year to com ate cor con- A Green City physician has discovered the elixir of eternal life in a goat. It always was a matter of common belief that a goat could project his perfume into the future for a generation at Jeast Ad MONUMENT FOR DEWEY. AYOR PHELAN has given a pr.ompt and favorable response to the suggestion of The /\/\ Call that he appoint a committee to take charge of the work of raising money for the purpose of erecting in this city a monument to Admiral Dewey. The committee, to be appointed to-day, will soon organize and set about its task, and there can be | little doubt that it will find the public cordially re- ‘spunsi\'e to the enterprise. By reason of the duties which his office is likely to impose upon him in the future, the home of the Ad- miral will of necessity be in the East at the national capital. His most notable monument, however, should be on this coast, for his victory was a Pacific Ocean event, and its most notable effects will be vis- |ible in the expanding commerce and growing su- |'premacy of the United States on that ocean to whose | waters San Francisco is the nation's'chief gateway. | While there will be liberal contributions made in California to the Eastern movement undertaken to iprm'idc a mansion for the Admiral, such donations | will be so small a part of the sum raised they will not | fairly represent Western gratitude and admiration for | the hero. In fact, they will be lost sight of in the Elarger giving of the East, and California and her sis- | ter States of the coast will get comparatively little | credit for what is given in that way. A monument (‘in this city, however, would be unmistakably a West- | ern manifestation of honor to the hero, and would therefore reflect full credit upon those by whose energy, patriotism, and liberality it was raised. It is hardly necessary to point out to the people of San Francisco and of California the debt of gratitude they owe to Dewey for the promptness with which he destroyed the Spanish fleet, crushing the naval power | of Spain in the Pacific and thus removing at once all | fear of assault upon our commerce and all menace to | our coast cities. Rarely has any community in time of war been more promptly or more signally freed | from all possibility of danger by a single great mili- | tary achievement than was this city by the glorious eriumph of Manila Bay. | It is certain that had a movement been started last jMay to provide a monument for Dewey the money | would have been subscribed within a week. Such was 1(hc ardor and the enthusiasm of the people at the time. That excitement is gone, but the deeper senti- ments of honor and gratitude remain. To these the | monument committee will appeal. They will ask the people no more than to join in a movement toward erection in this city of a memorial which will be a per- petual reminder of the feelings of patriotism and loy- v \which animate this generation, and to such an appeal there can be but one response on the part of the liberal and the loyal. e ngn\\’ ng views of agricultural as well as mining possibilities, the outer world may well be AGRICULTURE IN ALASKA. skeptical concerning them. Even the Alaskans them- selves doubt them, and the newspapers which are now representing the Territory are far from being in ac- cord on the subject. A late issue of the Alaska Dispatch of Juneau, for example, contains an account of a speech recently de- HILE the Alaskan boom has presented some livered before the Alaska Geographical Society by | tetmination of this autocracy in Cuba. No steps are | the | being taken to permit the people there to meet and | Bishop P. T. Rowe, from which it appears Bishop takes quite a sanguine view of the subject. He is quoted as having said that along the Yukon, in | every attempt on their part to do so is already treated | the region around Nulato, cranberries are found in abundance, also blue berries, salmon berries and red | ment to realize the expectation of independence which | currants. Potatoes, turnips, lettuce, beets and peas are grown. The Bishop ate green peas at Nulato. He mentioned these things as showing the possible resources in the land of the midnight sun. Grass at the mission grows from four to six feet high, and at Fort Selkirk he saw potatoes growing, but they have to be protected from the frosts. The winters are not much longer than in Northern Michigan, but the moss varies from six to eight inches in depth and it keeps the frost in the ground. | The same paper reports Professor C. C. Georgesen, who has had charge of the governmental investiga- tions into the agricultural possibilities of Alaska, as saying: “My efforts were successful, even beyond ex- pectations. I succeeded in growing a long line of early vegetables to a perfection not often excelled in | the States, and, in addition, in maturing oats, barley | and flax, all of first-class quality, although none of these things were seeded until the latter part of May. Grass and clover of various kinds grew prodigiously from seed, and proved beyond doubt the adaptation of the soil and climate for the growth of forage for cattle. Oats attained a height of over five feet and matured a quality seldom equaled.” The same is true of barley. Fiber flax grew more than a yard tall and matured seed fully.” Such statements as those in the Dispatch are likely to encourage people who wish a free farm in the land of the aurora borealis, but the Alaska Miner, pub- lished in the same city, gives a strong warning to all who think of entering upon the venture. Comment- ing upon an advertisement in a paper in St. Louis offering inducements to persons to purchase Govern- ment land in Alaska, the Miner says it is nothing | short of an attempt to defraud the public, and adds: “How often are we to say that this is not a country of farms, that its resources are of a mining and not of an agricultural nature? The Government has an agent now at Sitka who is experimenting with a yoke of oxen. He is attempting to prove that a crop of some kind or other can be raised. There are indi- vidual spots in Alaska where cereals can be raised, and Kodiak Island is pretty well covered with grass, but does this constitute a farming district? If it is a fact that crop failures are unknown it is because there have never been any crops to fail.” The conclusion of the whole matter is: Alaska is a pretty good place to stay out of unless you have money enough to burn to keep you warm while there and some left to come home on after having had enough of the experience. A “NEW IRELAND” PROGRAMME. CCORDING to a special correspondent of the London Chronicle, the effect of the seli- government acquired by the counties of Ire- land under the new act will be the inauguration of a “New Ireland” movement which will be directed toward industrial development as much as toward political home rule. His claim is that while the county governments cannot themselves directly ac— | complish what is desired, they nevertheless furnish | organized official bodies to lead the people in the | struggle for the desired improvements. The programme as outlined is a most extensive one. The correspondent points out that by reason of the fact that farmers in other countries have been ma- | terially aided by their Governments in improving their | methods of agriculture, while the Irish farmers have had no such aid, the rural industries of Ireland have { been well nigh destroyed. The result is’ the British market imports from foreign lands much that ought to be obtained from Ireland. In a review of the situation the writer says: “It only wants the teaching and the start. Three million acres might be replanted with forests, such as once covered the whole island. In twenty-five years they would yield an enormous profit, like the Landes in France. At least one and a half miflion acres of the six million waste land might be reclaimed for agri- culture. Fisheries could be developed; the Celtic Cornishmen and Bretons are among the best fishers of the world. Home arts and industries are particu- larly suited for Celtic taste and skill in handicraft. Ireland’s immense water power might be utilized as in Switzerland. As it is, the crops and stock alone are valued at £112,000,000. To say that this might easily be doubled with encouragement and instruction is a low estimate.” Most of the work comprehended in the programme was recommended some years ago by a committee appointed by Parliament to examine and report upon Irish conditions. This commission, known as ‘“the | recess committee,” gathered a large amount of in- formation from all classes of the Irish people and strongly urged governmental action along the lines indicated. Nothing, however, was done. Now that the county government act has placed local admin- istration under the control of the Irish people, a fight for the reforms is likely to be taken up in earnest. The Chronicle’s correspondent says: ‘‘Probably one of the first aims of the new councils or their dele- gates will be to establish a central body of agricul- tural direction, intelligence and instruction such as the recess committee advised. I do not see how it would be possible for the English Government to re- fuse assistance. Irish members are continually voted down, but if the local bodies are to have no voice in the larger Irish questions, let us drop the farce of representation .altogether. We have ground Ireland between contradictory systems—a garrison without guidance, and representation without redress. Let us, —— THE CUBAN SITUATION. at last.” HE opinion of many army officers that trouhle Tis ahead in Cuba seems to be backed by events in the island. The recognition by Congress of the freedom and independence of Cuba, in the declaration of against Spain, was accepted in good faith by the Cu- ban leaders, and they no doubt expect us to abide by lit. So far there is no indication that our Government |intends. to do any such thing. The whole island is under rigid military government, and the American Captain General is appointing all the civil officers, even to the members of the judiciary. The habits of the people, even to their costume, are dictated from our military headquarters, and the stores and business places are opened and closed by order of the com- mander. It was contended by Foraker, Money, Mor- gan, Mason, Lewis, Dolliver and other members of an organized Cuban government in operation and capable of discharging international obligations. If such a government existed, it has been superseded by | a military establishment exported to the island from this country. That establishment has ordgred the dis- | arming of the Cuban people, and they are to be de- prived of the means of resistance, of defense and offense. Nothing is given out by the administration as to the | discuss the preliminaries of self-government. Indeed, 535 “seditious,” and it is probable that a general move- | we encouraged a year ago would be treated as rebel- | lion against the United States, and the hopes of the | Cubans for liberty would join those of the Filipinos in the limbo of lures and lights held out to attract confidence and betray it. The prospect is that our military occupation will continue indefinitely. The longer it exists the less fit will the people be found for self-government. Mili- who are its victims. them to abject helplessness. military dictation or take the consequences. They must submit to While | in whose name it is put upon them. If any man had charged, a year ago, that to-day this republic would be exercising military autocracy over nearly twenty niillions of men in the Philippines, Ladrones West Indies, and that a protest of the victims would be made powerless by disarming them, he would have been hotly denounced as a slanderer of his country. But we are doing it, and the fashion grows to call the victims our “subjects,” and yell “treason” at all Americans who flinch at the spectacle. The imperialist plan is undoubtedly to organize a pretended government in Cuba, by and by, in which | the patriots and the people have no representation, and use it only to go through the forms of annexa- tion. The success of a like scheme in Hawaii has in- spired the enemies of the rights of man everywhere, and it is pitiful that they are strong enough to bring jin sight such a miserable outcome of all our altruistic professions toward Cuba. But it is regarded as of more importance that the sugar mills shall grind cane than that the aspirations of a people for liberty shall be promoted. The to- bacco crop is greater than this country’s sense of honor, which should impel every man to keep faith with Cuba and the world. We have to go back nearly eight centuries to find a case in history that equals this. When a revolutionary minority in Ireland accepted | the assistance of Henry of England they soon found | themselves and their enemies the slaves of the com- | mon oppressor, who had come to them as an unself- ich friend and became at once an unfeeling tyrant. | That was the beginning of centuries of misrule in Ire- land under which the people groan to this day. Men who believe that the weak have rights which the strong should respect will have reason to hope that the examples of Ireland and Cuba will have no future imitators. C. P. Huntington, in criticizing an open letter of condemnation by Senator John J. Boyce, says he is mot inclined to hold the State legislator responsible even for his own utterances. Nobody would expect Collis to do so after the secret of the Blackstock re- port was exposed. There is a very serious doubt that Huntington knows that he has replied to Boyce. Oom Paul may derive some credit from the dis- covery of another British plot to overthrow his re- public, and may receive a vote of thanks from his people, but it is safe to say he will not get another letter from the Kaiser. William has had several sec- ond thoughts since the first one. \ Ex-Governor Boutwell of Massachusetts says he will bring back the volunteer American armies from the Philippines by a vote of the people. The ex- Governor had better hasten the vote or the climate of our new possessions will register a claim of death. The‘ people of Santa Barbara have been .saved. Uncle Collis says he has no fault to find with them. at all events, be honest in the system we have granted | war | the House and Senate, only a year ago, that there was | tary rule is the most offensive form of government | and the most disastrous to the manhood of a people | Disarming the Cubans reduces | such rule is bad for them, it is worse for the people | and | SCIENTISTS T0°BE GUESTS OF THE STAT — Business Men to En- tertain Them. =L el WILL COLLECT A LARGE SUM pE | | | INTERESTING MEETING AT THE i CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. el Delegates to the Convention of the | Association of American Agri- cultural Colleges and Exe periment Stations. e On July 5, 6 and 7 the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations will meet in annual convention in this city. A preliminary meeting was held yester- | day for the purpose of arranging for | the reception of the learned scientists | on their arrival and with a view to| making them the guests of the State. | i A meeting of representatives from the | various commercial organizations cf this | city was held in tue rooms of the Cham- ber of Commerce yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the proper means of raising money for the entertain- | ment of the members of the Association | of American Agricultural - Colleges and | Experiment Stations, who will hold their | annual convention here in July. There | were present Charles Nelson, president of | the Chamber of Commerce; 8. Prentis | Smith of the Bank of California, Profes- | sor M. E. Jaffa of the University of Cali- | fornia, Local Weather Forecaster Alex-| ander McAdie, E. A. Denicke of the Me- | chanics’ Institute, Edward Goodwin, | manager of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- | ducers’ Association, and Julian Sonntag. A number of others who had been in- | vited to meet were unable to attend. P. N. Lilienthal of the Anglo-Californian | Bank, one of the absentees, sent his re- grets, but promised to aid the movement, as he was in full sympathy with it. After waiting a half hour in the hope that Mayor Phelan would put in an ap- pearance Captain Nelson called the meet- ing to order. He stated the object of the conference and called attention to the inestimable value to be derived hy the State from the visit of the organization, which is composed of the scientific men of the country, who are engaged in in- vestigating all matters pertaining to agriculture. An informal discussion then took place on the amount of money to defray the ex- penses of a ten days’' jaunt through the State of the delegates to the convention. During the talk it was said that the | Southern Pacific Railroad had offered to | furnish a train and locomotive for on dollar a mile. Although that price w. extremely low, it was thought the bil corporation might be prevailed on to re- duce its price to even a less amounrt. It was also stated that Mr. Foster of the North Pacific Coast Railroad would give the scientists free transportation over his road. An effort will be immediately mads to collect $3000 to defray railroad and other expenses. It is thought that the | residents of the towns through which the distinguished visitors pass will fituingly entertain them. | The meeting adjourned until Tuesday next at 3 o'clock, when it is hoped thc will be a larger attendance. ecreta; Scott of the Chamber of Commerce was instructed to invite land owners and cap- | ftalists throughout the State to be pres- ent, and as they are vitally interested it | is believed they will do so. | The purpose of the committee is to have | the scientists ride tarough the State after | | their_convention adjourns, so that they | can better learn of its agricultural ad- | | vantages. Following are the officers of the asso- | ciation: President, Henry P. Armsby, Ph. D., direc- | tor of Experiment Station and'dean of College | of Agriculture, State College, Pa. | Vice presidents, Joseph E. Stubbs, D. D., LL. D., president of School of Agric M. ture, State University, Reno, Nev.; Charles S | Murkland, M. A., Ph. D., president College of | | Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Durham, | H.; Jonathan L. Snyder, M. A., Ph. D., pres- | | ident Agricultural College, Agricultural - | lege, Mich.; P. E. Mell, M. E., Ph. D., direc- | | tor ‘of Agricuitural Experiment Station, Au- | | burn, Ala.; F. Paul Anderson, B. M. pro- | fessor mechanical engineering, Lexington, Ky Secretary and treasurer, Edward B. Voor- hees, M. A director Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. Executive Committee, " Henry H. Goodell, 1L, D., chairman, president Massachusetts Ag- ricultural Coliege, director Agricultural Experi- ment_Station, Amherst, Mass.; H. C. White, Ph. D., president State College of Agricuiture and Mechanic Arts, Athens, Ga.; Alexis Cope, secretary Ohio State University, Columbus, O.; Jobn H. Washburn, Ph. D., president Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, R. I; Willlam M. Liggett, dean College of Agriculture, University of Min. nesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Bibliographer, A. C. True, Ph. D., Office of Experiment Stations, United Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. director | States A Nihilist who went to Siberia to | rescue his father from prison writes | up his thrilling experience and pub- ! lishes thc photographs he took, in | next Sunday’s Call. | —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LARGEST SHIP-D. W. E., Grofton. | The largest shlr afloat is the Potosi. Her gross tonnage is 40: ON A TRANSPORT-E. 8., City. To gbtain a position as cabin boy on one of the transports bound for Manila apply to the captain of the vessel. A man does not have to join the army in order to se- cure a position on a transport. FLOWER VENDORS—J. F. J., City. If | you are of the opinion that the flower | vendors you mention are a nuisance you can make complaint to the authorities | and have the nuisance abated if the au- | thorities deem the vendors such a nuis- ance as you claim they are. A CALL—Z. Y. X., City. The fact that Mrs. B. gives a reception and Mrs. C, | who has been invited, attends does not re- | lleve Mrs. C. of the obligation of a call | she owes Mrs. B, and which should have | been made previous to the reception. The | attendance at the reception does not take place of the call. ON A TRAINING SHIP—Subscriber, City. As you do not say who your boy is or give his age or, in fact, say any- | thing about him, this department cannot tell you “if my boy can be put on a train- ing ship.” You had better make vour ap- Yllcatlon to the commanding officer of the ndependence at Mare Island. REPRESENTATIVES—A. O. S., City. The representatives in the Congress of the United States number 365, divided as follows: One hundred and eighty-three Republicans, 163 Democrats. 7 Populists and 2 silverites. The population of the United States was estimated on the Ist of last January at 77,803.231, which gives a representative to every 215,521 persons. "ETIQUETTE—S. S., Cal. After the mar- riage of a couple by a minister, the min- ister will congratulate the newly made couple and each can thank him. The mat- ter of the payment of his fee should be left for the best man to attend to. It fs customary for the bride to make a pres- ent, within the limit of her means, to her bridesmaid or bridesmaids, in token of ap- preciation of the service rendered during the marriage ceremony. ———— Special excursion to Ukiah and return Sunday, May 21. Four hours in Ukiah. Only é o R A‘h | Animals should take a hand to prevent | a meeting of the board of directors of the | amount of cruelty involved in the hounds‘ | local lodge, left last evening for | the “Diamond Field Jack” case. COURSING ME SCORE ANOTHER 500D POINT e Humane Society Will Not Make Trouble. e CRUELTY WAS DISCUSSED ——= | PRAISE FOR THE WAY HOUNDS KILL THE BUNNIES. sl gUats Two Congressmen, a Mayor, & Lady Lawyer and a Prince Become Members of the Or= ganization. e The subject of whether or not the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to coursing in the parks in and near this city was liberally discussed yesterday at organization. While no decision was act- ually taken the prevailing opinion seemed to be In favor of the advocates of cours- ing. The question was brought up by the receipt of a communication from the| coursing clubs of the lower counties ask- | ing that the board rescind its reso- | lution of two years ago which authorized | Secretary Holbrook to stop anything bor- { dering upon cruelty in the coursing parks. | WAR VETERANS' EXERCISES ON MEMORIAL DAY Sty The Programme of the Grand Army. — RITES AT SOLDIERS’ GRAVES o SCHOOL CHILDREN TO BE A PARADE FEATURE. . The Members of the Woman’s Relief Corps to Assist—Ceremony at the Odd Fellows’ and Pre- sidio Cemeteries. — The general committee that has charge of the preparations by the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic for the ob- servance of Memorial day on the 30th inst. has completed the programme for the day. The posts that are to participate are: Lincoln Post, George Robinson, comman- der; James A. Garfield Post, General E. 8. Salomon, commander;” Liberty Post, James McDonald, commander; Colonel Cass Post, A. B. Donnelly, commander, and General George G. Meade Post, W..C. Howe, acting commander. There will be in the parade the colored troops now stationed at the Presidio; Some of the coursing men had learned that the matter was to be discussed and | Willlam Halpin and H. A. Deckelman ap- ; peared to represent *he sport. i The latter made a pointed plea in the cause which he represented. He called | attention to the methods employed in vlhe; big rabbit drives in_the San Joaquin Val- ley and said that the cruelty of the men on these occasions is manifest to all. The well-conducted coursing park eliminates | all of the cruel features. The hounds are | trained to kill their game instantly and, | what is more, this same training gives them_experience for killing the hares on | the plains in a more humane manner than the human hunters who participate in the | big drives. According to his estimpate | about 5000 hares are killed in each—park every year. In_all parts of this State | these animals are regarded as pests, the | same as in Australia. The question of the effect of the sport | upon the people was discussed, some ar- | guing that it tends to make the young fa- | miliar with brutal scenes and less sensi- | | tive to the suffering of animals. Dr. Clin-| ton sald that his objection to the sport | was the gambling feature, which leads | many a person from . the paths of hon-| esty. Colonel Jackson stated that if the | manner of killing hares is cruel he would | not favor coursing, but from all that he can learn the fleeing animals are killed | the instant they are “struck” by the| hounds. He regards the hare as a pest and that it shouid be exterminated. While | he does not favor the gambling feature | still he said that he cannot forget that every hare killed, wherever it may be, is one less pest in the State. Officer Hooper, who attends all of the coursing | matches, said that the killing of the hares | by the hounds is not cruel, death result- | ing quickly when the hare 'is caught. Di- rector Hyde also is anything but a friend | of the rabbit, and he called attention to | the fact that the soclety’'s mission is not | to. make a crusade against the vice of | gambling, but to prevent animals from being abused. This seemed to be the view | of the board and the decision was to keep its hands off all features not provided for in its declared principles. However, the | whole board will visit the parks at some convenient time and determine as to the | killing the hares. 5 | It was a matter of much gratification | to the members of the board to elect a | number of applicants of eminence in the political, business and _ social world. Among them is Mayor Phelan, who be- came a life member, Con-ressman J. G. Maguire, Congressman Julius Kahn, Mrs. Clara Foltz and Prince W. Poniatowski, all of whom have taken the obligation to | do everything in their power to protect | dumb animals. The monthly report of Secretary C. B. Holbrook was as follows: Number of cases reported, 130: investigated, 188} srosecuted, 16; animals taken from work, animals involved, 33; animals relieved, ck and disabled animals killed, 25. The following were elected members: Mayor James D. Phelan (life member). Hon. J. G. Maguire, Hon. Julius Kahn, Prince = Poniatowskl, Clara Foltz, George R. Morgan, O. H. Steven- son, P. Gordan, Julius §. Gudeau, Mrs. A Leavitt, Herman G. Stindf, Mrs. Amy Waters Deane, Mrs. Kate Waters, Miss M. E. McGraw. The district officers appointed were M. E. Hol- brook and William Kroen AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. H. F. Buchanan of Chicago is a guest at the Palace. Fred A. Thayer, an attorney of Chicago, s registered at the Palace. C. C. Clark, a San Andreas mine owner, | is a late arrival at the Lick. | J. P. Woodbury and W. T. Smith, two | mining men of Carson City, Nev., are at the Palace. J. D. Stubbs, third vice president of the | Southern Pacifie, left last night for New | York, where he will meet the Misses | Stubbs, who are to return from Europe | in about ten days. Mr. Stubbs expects | to be away for three weeks. Edwin Hay, past grand exalted ruler of the Elks, who has been in this city for | several weeks on a fraternal visit to the | New | Orleans. He goes there to confer with | the directors of the Mardi Gras car- nival and obtain information for use in the peace celebration to be held in Wash- | ington, D. C., next June. Mr. Hay is at | the head of the commission appointed to make arrangements for the affair, which | will be carried out on an elaborate scale. | W. E. Borah, one of the leading attor- | neys of Boise City, Idaho, is a guest at the Lick. Mr. Borah is the attorney for | the State in the case of “Jack" Davis versus Sheriff Burke, popularly known as Davis was sentenced to be hanged for the Kili- | ling of two men in Cassiar County, but two of his friends afterward swore that they had done the killing, The case is on appeal before the Circuit Court and in- volves the holding of the prisoner on the | “information law,” instead of by indict-| ment. Mr..Borah, who has had charge | of the prosecution from the beginning of | the trial, is confident that Davis will ulti- mately hang, and claims that the two men who confessed to the murder, out of which a sensational story was recently published, have perjured themselves. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 18.—C. F. Webber of San Francisco is at the Normandie. A. C. Johns and wife, W. Lionel Roberts, Bart- lett Doe, Mrs. Lorenz B. Doe, William J. Dutton of San Francisco are at the Fifth Avenue. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 18—G. W. Dixon of San Francisco is at the Arlington. William C. Bergamon of San Fruncisco is at Willard" —_————— XKerr Will Do Brooks’ Work. Federal Quarantine Officer 8. D. Brooks notified Naval Officer Irish yesterday that J. W. Kerr, assistant surgeon at the United States Marine Hospital, had been | transportation, A. | hotel; longer stay, $250 per dar. possibly the Signal Corps of the Second Brigade, Captain Leslie E. Hew manding; the San Francisco divis the Naval Militia, which will turn out as three ctions of artillery with Hotch- kiss guns and one section as infantry. There will also be the Santa Cruz divi- sion of the Naval Militia. A feature of the parade this' year will be the turn- out of school children from every school in the city, who will be under the care of Marshals Miehling and Stahl, and who will form on_New Montgomery street in front of the Palace Hotel. The general committee that has the ob- i §e has for its chairman W. or secretary Frank_Elliot Meyers and for treasurer J. C. Bolles. The chairman of the sub- committees are: FParade, General E. 8. Salomon: programme, Charles Edelman; B. Donnelly; decora- tion, W. H. Wharff; finance, James Mc- Donald, and printing, T. C. Masteller. The grand marshal is John A. White- side, and president of the day Charles Edelman. After the parade there will be the ex- ercises at the Grand Army plat in Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, where the following programme will be carried out: Music by the band; introductory remarks by Charles Edelman, president of the day; invo- cation, Charles E. Locke; hymn, by a choir; Gettysburg address by Comrade Harris; memorial ode by the pupils of the public schools; original poem, W. W. Stone; musical selections; oration, ex-Representative James G. Maguire; ' dirge, by the band; strewing the graves of departed comrades;’ parting salute y the firing party of Lincoln Post; ‘‘Ameri- a,” by the school children, the audience join- : benediction; taps. The ladies who are members of the sev- eral Relief Corps will be in the basement of B'ne B'rith Hall on the 29th and the morning of the 30th to receive contribu- tions of flowers and ‘arrange them in bunches and also make wreaths of ever- greens. “They will have charge of the ags. In this work they will be assisted by the members of the Ladies the Grand Army. The Park Commissioners have promised to donate a quantity of cut flowers and contributions have been of- fered from a number of persons who have large gardens. George H. Thomas Post will not join in the general celebration of the day, but ill, as in the past, hold memorial ser- vices at the Presidio Cemetery. Remembered His Friends. The will of Charles Vaillant, who died on the 15th inst., was filed for probate vesterday. Decedent’s estate consists of money in bank and a half interest in a Powell street saloon, value unknown. The testator cuts his sister, Amelie Molitor, aft with a $10 bequest and gives each of her children the nominal sum of $L. Joseph Cuzard, a friend, is devised the interest - the saloon and the residue goes to the testator’s partner, Jules Secchi. ————— Admitted ta Practice. TUnited States Attorney Coombs was ad- mitted yesterday as a practitioner in the United States Circuit Court. e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* — e Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 104 * —————— Burr Was Hurt. John C. Burr filed suit against the Mar- ket-street Railway Company to recover $5000 damages for personal injuries. Plain- ff alleges that on November 8 last he was assaulted- by an employe on one of defendant’s cars and struck on the head with an iron bar; hence the suit. —————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It scothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- | ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mra slow's Soothing Syrup, 2¢ a bottle. —_—e———— HOTEL DEL COROXADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' bosrd. at Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. e e———— In the Divorce Court. Henry Bentley has spod Honora Bent- ley for a divorce, alleging desertion as a cause of complaint. 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