The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1899, Page 6

THE SA THURSDAY 7JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address Al S PD“BLICATIO:\ OFFICE .....Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Communications to W. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: | DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), ¢ month: ... 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 montha........ 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Mouth 450 BUNDAY CALL One Year. . 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. . 1.00 Al postmasters are authorl bscriptions. | Bample 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. .. .es .Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—627 Montgomery street, corner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 38T Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister stre open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o’'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Markat street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS, I Baron.* ““The Moth and th Grand Opera House—''The Gy, « raudeville. Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | | n and Ellis streets—Specialties. Market street, near Eighth—Bat- yrner Mas Panorama Co., orte Recital This Evening. Toboggan Grounds, Dolores and Twenty-Fifth streets, | To-morrow. Clay Hall-Kneisel Quartet Concerts, Friday even Sherman ing, May 26. AUCTION SALES. Baldwin & Howell—This 't mery street ridge & Co.—Friday, May 26, at 10:30 o'clock, 0 Ness avenue. By y at 12 o'clock, Real Estate, THE PANHANDLE EXTENSION. HE extension of the panhandle to Market Tqrcc( seems to be practically assured. At first there was a latent fear, expressed in some quar- ters, that it would simply furnish a lengthened drive- s at the expense of the com- way for opulent citi munity. But it is now clearly understood that, of all classes of our people, they will derive the least bene- fit from the improvement. The chief arguments in i r, which are generally comprehended, are that autify a large and interesting section of our territory, principally occupied by residences; that it be necting link be en the mass of our tion and one of the finest resorts in the world, a co at it will so diffuse the knowledge of our artis- as to raise San Francisco on this con- me commanding position that Paris urope. to the occupies in F There is hardly a person of any nationality, sex or i city who has not visited Golden Gate yet there are very few who have an ade- epuion of its extent or of how greatly and y it has been developed within twenty- six or twenty-seven years. The site alone, which em- braces 1004 acres, stretching for four miles from the rance to the ocean beach, is worth a couple of millions of dollars. The diver- d cultivation of two-thirds of this area, now com- natural bleakness, with the conservatories, the | aviary, the museum, the playhouse for children and | r ornamental structures too numerous to men- , represent a much greater value. It may soon be within our power to give a closely approximated es- | timate of the total amount of this beneficent and | profitable investment. But it is tolerably safe to as- | sume that the sum total will not be less than from six to eight millions. The public has had a full| equivalent for every dollar that has been employed to create this magnificent landscape on the verge of | the continent and by the side of the almost bound- | less stretch of the Pacific. The larger gifts that have been made for the bene- fit of the park by wealthy men, who have perceived its sanitary, its intellectual and its moral influence upon | the city and upon the State, have been repeatedly de- | scribed in the press. But it is not generally known that in each year a constant stream of lesser but use- ful and ornamental donations is poured into the avail- able resources of the Commissioners. In the | Memorial Museum alone, which during its brief ex- istence has been visited by a million and a half of people, a few months ago there were 41,585 separate symmetric: Baker- street e recovered from its embellishments such as articles, all of them attractive and many of them costly and magnificent. In the last report of the Park Commissioners five pages of print are filled with the list of presentations in twelve months, and three pages with our own contributions of plants and | flowers to various institutions in the State. In the year that ended July 1, 1897, the disbursements for the park, every item of which is accounted for, aggre- gated $249,660 53. The extension of the panhandle is absolutely es- sential to a perfect connection between the park and | the crowded thoroughifares of this metropolis. Its cost will be a bagatelle compared with the imme- diate benefits that it will secure, not merely those | which cannot be computed in dollars, but in addi- | tions to property values. It was roughly guessed, when The Call first advocated this plan for the gen- eral welfare, that the property to be condemned, as- sessed at $1,600,000, would involve a public charge of three millions and a halfi. The prospect is that the more detailed work now in progress will show a considerable reduction in these figures. The imme- diate and visible profit will more than balance the ex- penditure Aguinaldo seems to have as many capitals as all the | Unjged Statés, and surrenders them one after another | with as much indifference as some of our State capi- als are surrendered to Colonel Mazuma. The Market Street Railway Company seems to have come to the conclusion that all of its troubles are in a bottle and can be pulled out only by something in the nature of a corkscrew franchise. Victoria undoubtedly merits congratulation on her birthday, but at the same time it is hardly to her ciedit that she has lived eighty years without ever trying to do justice to Ireland. e S ISQQJ | warning the people of what would The Kaiser’s declaration of a hope that the Peace Conference will reach conclusion: that “will satisfy the Czar” sounds well, but it doesn't promise much. MORE COOLIES FOR HAWAIL HE latest news from Hawaii is in further con- Tirmalion of The Call's contention. We quoted President Dole and other island authorities, be- fore annexation, to prove that they expected permis- sion to continue coolie contract labor there, and to go on unrestrained in that respect. This was hotly denied by annexationists, and our home labor and its employers were quieted by the assurance that our labor laws would be extended tp the islands and that labor there and here would be put upon a perfect equality gs to wage scale, contracts, hours and all other things. The commission which went out to measure Hawaii and cut and fit for it a garment of government, after continuing the existing govern- nent in power until Congress should act, returned home and did nothing to get action by Congress, so that the islands have experienced no change in their il affairs, except that their public debt of several millions has been paid out of the pockets of Ameri- can taxpayers, and the expenses of their government are borne by the citizens of this country. The im- portation of coolie contract labor has gone on until coolies are more than half the population. At a recent meeting of the Dole Cabinet the peti- tion of four sugar planters for coolie labor, which had been refused, was reconsidered and granted, and they were permitted to import 5311 “for the next period.” Action upon these petitions brought out the reason for their rejection when first presented. The In- spector of Immigrants had reported that these plant- ers had ill treated their coolies, and they were for- bidden any more until they promised to treat them | better. This is worthy of approval. The tens of thousands of coolies in the islands who labor under the com- pulsion of a penal contract should have some protec- tion against abuse. This admission that abuses exist and that there is personal, bodily, ill treatment of these unfortunate and servile people marks in a startling way the wide gulf between the Hawaiian labor system and ours. Yet the two countries are under the same flag and the same Government, which is supposed to be one of absolute equality throughout its jurisdiction. The people of Hawaii are to .be congratulated. Their public expenses are paid by us. Their leading products are now perguanently on our free list, and they enjoy the use of the cheapest labor in the world. It true that there rises beyond this sump- tuous picture of high prosperity for the few secured by the use of servile labor a background that may be viewed with apprehension by those who permit them- selves to look into the future. The American peo- ple control Congress, and when they discover that they resemble the coolies in having no share in the gilded scene, they may awake to the importance and the possibilities of their own constitution and insist that under it congditions shall be equal for all terri- tory that is under the flag. Then the alluring vision that now charms the beholder in Hawaii will pass away, and it will be again demonstrated that labor in the tropics must be involuntary, compulsory, ser- vile, if there is to be any labor there at all. This awakening will be promoted by another con- dition which no human ingenuity avoid. If coolie contract labor be unchecked in our tropical territory, the condition of white labor at home will gradually decline to the coolie level. The Republican doctrine of protection has taught this lesson to the American people, until it is a per- manent part of the political faith of this country. If that doctrine is sound when applied to cheap and servile labor under other flags, it is equally sound when applied to the same labor under our flag. It is surprising that the annexation press is so silent on this subject. When The Call was predicting just is can what has come to pass in Hawaii the annexation or- gans were presenting the sugar plantations of Hawaii as a white man’s paradise, never more to be polluted by the footprint of a coolie. They attacked us for happen. Now that it has happened they are silent. But the people are not blind. They are observers of current events, and one day they will call for an accounting. TAMMANY AND MR. BRYAN, INCE the day the Chicago convention of 1896 S nominated Bryan for the Presidency New York Democracy has been disturbed, dissatisfied and restless. If from the proverb, “A contented mind is a continual feast,” we may infer that a discontented mind is continual hunger, then the Democrats of New York are sufficiently famished and ravenous to devour anything in sight, even to the extent of prac- ticing cannibalism upon one another. About the only relief they find in their discontent is to turn their restless activity to ceaseless efforts to displace Bryan from the leadership of the Democratic party and establish in the position a man who will restore them to their former dominant authority in national Democracy. To that end they have sought candidate after candidate, beginning with Gorman of Maryland, ranging far and wide and now returning to him again. A short time ago Amos J. Cummings presented anew to the people of New York the claims of Gor- man upon the Democratic party and argued again that he is the most available and most skillful leader the party could choose to direct it in the campaign of 1900. Mr. Cummings has 'so long been a member of the inner councils of New York Democracy that it cannot be doubted his utterances represent the pre- vailing sentiment of the controlling element of Demo- cratic circles in that State. It may therefore be ac- cepted as an evidence that something like a campaign of education is to be made on Gorman’s behalf and that from this time on it will be under his standard the fight against Bryan will be made. In th¢ meantime the Nebraska man is not in the least alarmed. Since his tumultuous reception at the famous dollar dinner he has been more sanguine than ever of his renomination, and has even persuaded himself that New York Democrats will send delegates to support him at the national convention. In fact, he is reported to have said recently, “There are ten silver Democrats in New York to every one in Nebraska.” The silver leader is not without reason for the hope that is in him. While the more eminent men of his party are opposed to him, the rank and file ap- pear to be steadfastly with him. Whenever a Demo- cratic convention meets there are sure to be more cheers for Bryan than for any other Democrat, iving or dead. It will be remembered that when one of the speakers at the dollar dinner declared Jefferson to be the greatest Democrat that ever lived he was checked with hisses and shouts of “Bryan! Bryan!” That seems to be the temper of the rank and file of the party almost everywhere. A striking illustration of the survival of the Bryan craze in the ranks of the Democratic party was given ir the platform recently adopted by a Democratic convention in Maine which had assembled to nomi- nate a Congressman to succeed the late Nelson Dingley. Of course they knew they had no chance of electing their man, but they gave a wild warwhoop just the same, indorsed the Chicago platform and de- '| Such displays constitute something more than a pub- FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY. MAY 25. 1899 clared it contains “principles which were triumphed over by ‘McKinleyism,” which has given the country brutal political bossism, relentless and grasping trust- ism, blatant Eaganism, criminal Algerism and rotten beefism—in a word, unadulterated, unreasoning and detestable modern Republicanism and bold and un- American imperialism.” That is the style of talk which arouses Democracy ir: this day and generation. Tammany is of course a strong organization, and Gorman is a leader of many resources, but it is not likely that both combined can baffle the rank and file of the party, bent upon re- peating the folly of 1896 and determined to be Bryan- ites first, last and all the time. VICTORIA’S EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. FTER a reign which for length of time and for fl good fortune has been unparalleled in the an- nals of history, Victoria, Queen of reat Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, has come to her eightieth year and has seen her birthday cele- brated with exultant rejoicing at home and observed with honor throughout the civilized world. Her life when summed up and compared with the general lives of men and women seems to approach very near the acme of human felicity. She was dow- ered in her cradle with almost every conceivable good gift. The blood within her little veins was wholesome and full of vitality. She had the highest fortune, so far as wealth, rank and dominion go, which the earth affords. Nature endowed her with a serene temper and clear common sense. She grew up to possess sufficient beauty to be pleasing, but not enough to tempt her into vanity or coquetry. She married her first love, and their wedded lives were happy. She had many children and saw nearly all of them reach maturity in health and vigor. She was surrounded by wise counselors and her empire flourished and her people prospered to an extent sur- passing that ever dreamed of at the time she as- cended the throne. h Her personality “has been a potent factor in strengthening and advancing both the prosperity of her people and the splendor of her kingdom. \Vhile{ she was not in any sense a great woman, she has been at every important point in her career 2 wise and a good one. British loyalty and the flattery of courts have of course concealed as far as possible such faults as she has and such errors of mind or heart as she may have committed in her career, but allowing all that can be justly claimed on that score, the fact re- mains that the Queen has been perhaps the most ex- cellent woman that ever sat upon a throne. She has been singularly happy also in her family. She has had trials and tragedies and disgraces close to her, and among those whom she loved, but con- sidering the temptations to which royalty is exposed these have been comparatively few, not more, per- haps, than have afflicted private families whose mem- bership is anything like so extensive as her own. She has fiity-six descendants. Five of her grandchildren | wear crowns, and among them the greatest crowns of Europe. It is difficult to imagine a more fortunate career, unless we should eliminate from the imagined one all human defects and all the risks that attend mortals in this mutable world. Love and power and wealth, | length of years, prosperity, peace, honor, children and their descendants to the third generation—all these have been hers, and all were around her when | in good health and with an undisturbed - heart she celebrated her cightieth birthday. It is certainly a notable life which Victoria is now rounding out into | a serene old age, and it is not strange that her people scattered all over the globe rise up and call her blessed. COUNTY EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR. address issued by the State Board of Agri- fl culture to the Supervisors of the various counties urging them to provide as far as pos- sible for a comprehensive county exhibit at the State Fair gives encouragement to the hope that the fair will be made what it was designed to be—a compre- hensive exposition of the resources, industries and productions of all California. The desirability of a thorough exposition of the products of the State every year is not to be denied. lic holiday. They afford a stimulus to industry by ex- citing emulation among men of all departments of in- dustry, while at the same time furnishing illustrations of what can be accomplished in any particular line of endeavor and providing instruction as to the means of attaining it. The taxpayers provide a con- siderable sum of money for the maintenance of the fair, and since they pay for it, a county which neglects to take advantage of it is guilty of something like folly. The State Board of Agriculture has made every ar- rangement to give ample space for the desired ex- hibits. The address says: “A separate ‘ portion of the exhibition pavilion will be set apart for these county exhibits, which will be set up by the society without expense, and a proper and qualified atten- dant will be put in charge who will present and ex- plain in detail to travelers and the general public. If the county, or any Board of Trade, Immigration So- ciety or Chamber of Commerce organized within it desire to supply any literature or printed matter for distribution in connection with this display, it will be distributed by the person in charge. If the county or any county organization should desire to employ a special attendant for its exhibit no objection will be made.” The nature and the extent of each county exhibit is of course left to the county itself to determine, and so varied are the natural resources and the industries of the different counties that if all enter the exposi- tion the display as a whole will be one of extraor- dinary interest and value. The State Fair is always'| largely attended, but if a general county display were to be made on a scale of sufficient magnitude to worthily represent all California, it would be largely increased and the resulting benefit to each competing county greatly augmented. The issue is before the Supervisors and the people of each county. The Board of Agriculture is pre- pared and ready to do its share. If now a proper re- sponse be made from the counties, the State Fair this. year will give us a grand rehearsal of what California will show at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and greatly aid the making of that exhibit. o T — A vicious convict at San Quentin has been or- dered into solitary confinement for the remainder of his term—a period of thirty-six years. If his own company is as disagreeable to himself as it has been dangerous to his fellows, he has been sentenced to death. ‘ If the peace jubilee in Washington on Tuesday were designed to exult in the peace with Spain it was dilatory, if for peace in the Philippines it was pre- mature, but it appears to have been a goad show all, the same. As a general proposition no kind of straw repays thie work of thorough threshing, but the straw bond business is an exception to the rule. GEARY STREET FRANCHISE OF GREAT VAL —— Three Millions Will Be Lost to the City. ol PROPOSED STEAL EXPOSED . COMPETING LINE TO THE FER- RIES BLOCKED. e Under the New Charter the Geary- Street Cars Could Be Run to the Foot of Market Street. e The wholesale steal contemplated by the Market-street Rallway Company in the matter of franchises will no doubt secure the indorsement of the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors at its meet- ing this afternoon. The members of the committee put themselves on record at the meeting of the board on Monday and there is no reason to suppose that they will change their minds, even in the face of the storm of indignation that has been aroused in the community since the mag- nitude of the scheme became apparent. In an interview published in these col- umns yesterday Mayor Phelan set forth many of the reasons why the street rail- way corporation is attempting, at this time, to secure control of the various franchises asked for, particularly the franchise for the Geary-street road. In connection with this last named line there is still another reason why the acquist- tion of a franchise at this time would be of incalculable value to the Market-street y Company, and a consequent loss . _Under the present law—the rovisions” of which would control the ranchise were it granted—the owner or owners of one line of street railway are permitted to run cars over the line of railway operated by an opposition com- pany for a distance of five blocks. Und the provisions of the new charter thi privilege is extended so as to allow the cars of one company to be run over the line owned and operated by another com- yany for a distance of ten blocks. ranchise for the Geary-street road were disposed of under the terms of the new charter, as it should be, the person se- curing the franchise would be permitted to run the cars of the Geary-street line to the ferry depot over the lines of the Market-street Railway Company on Mar- ket street. This privileze would enhance the value of the franchise more than 50 per cent and would result in a proportion- ate benefit to the city from the increased price that could be obtained from the sale of the franchise as well as the re- sultant increase in the gross receipts of the road, a percentage of which would be }vuld to the city each year as provided by aw. It is estimated that if the franchise is granted at this time its value will be de- creased for the above reason alone about $1,500,000, ' If to this sum is added the mon- tary advantage that would be derived by ie Market-street Railway Company be- cause of the conditions enumerated by Mayor Phelan in his interview the amount | foots up to the stupendous sum of over ,000,000. The corporation can afford to pay well to secure such an advantage, and the question of how much it proposes to pay for the necessary number of votes in the Board of Supervisors is a matter of much speculation about the City Hall. Yesterday City and County Attorne: Lane rendered an opinion as to the proper action of the Board of Supervisors in the matter of the application of the Market- street Rallway Company for permigsion to use electricity as a motive power on the Post-street road and on the proposed so-called corkscrew road. He finds that the company's franc.ise for the Post-| street road gives it the privilege of using electricity as a motive power. He also holds that the corporation has the right to use electricity on the proposed cross town line. Permission to use electricity must, however, be first granted by the Board of Supervisors. of granting this permission the opinion is indefinite. Mr. Lane holds that if the erection of poles and the stringing of wires is held by the board to be a privi- lege, then the right to erect poles and string wires must be held open for coni- | petitive bids, as provided by law. If the board holds that the right is not a privi- lege, then the Market-street Railway Company may be allowed to go ahead with the work of erecting poles to do is granted by the hoard, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CABINET—N. N., City. Governor Roosevelt of New York never held an of- fice In the Cabinet of the President of the United States. ELECTRICITY ON A GRADE-F. X, L., Tiburon, Cal. There is no electric road that ascends a grade of 45 per cent. The highest grade ascended by an electric | motor, unaided by other appliance, is | about 17 per cent. STAMPS FOR FIVE DOLLARS— Stamp Collector. The United States Gov- ernment is offering sets of twelve unused newspaper and perfodical stamps to col- lectors. Such stamps, Lowever, cannot be used in the payment nf postage. The col- lection is sold only in sets for $5 and is made up of one stamp of each of the fol- lowing denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 2 and 50 cents and 2, 5, 10, 20, 5 and 100 dollars. RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS—Subscri ber, Cal. The next examination for pos tions in the railway mall service will be held in San Francisco October 6. AH)H- cation blanks c#n pe obtained by writing to the Civil Service Commission, Wash- ington, D. C. You may find consolation in the fact that in 1896 there were in that branch 5013 who underwent examination, 3048 passed and 613 were appointed. The figures in 1897 were 6431, 4710, 218; in 1898, 4799, 3828, 698. If you should take the ex- amination and should pass vou can judge from these flguires what the chances of appointment are. A POSTAL ORDER—G. A, F., Eureka, Cal. If a postal money order was sent to a minor and that minor, not being able to write, was accompanied by his lawfully appointed guardian, that guardian on pro- ducing letters of guardianship to the Post- master would be authorized to sign for his ward. The Postmaster, who stated that “By strict process of law I cannot pay the money because the papers must be | signed by the person to whom the order is addressed,” evidently does not know as much as he ought to. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-W. C. M,, Sonora, Cal. The language generally spoken at Manila is the Spanish; on tne Philippines the language is that of the Malays. There are as many dialects of that language as there are tribes of peo- ple. There are many of the neighborin tribes that are unable to converse wit each other by reason of the variation of dialect. The fare from San Francisco to Manila is, first-class, $220. Every steamer that leaves San Francisco for Hongkong will carry passengers to that point and from there they have to 50 on another line to the capital of the Philippines. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING—Sub- seriber, Livermore, Cal. There is not a separate “flegartment" of electrical engi- neering at the University of California, but there is a course of instruction in elec: trical engineering, this course being a part of the curriculum of the college of mechanics. The requirements for admis- sion to the college of mechanics are Eng- lish, (elementary) algebra, geometry, United States Government, physics, chem. istry and either Latin or Greek or a mod- ern language or advanced language. Those who wish to take the course of electrical engineering .must have the requirements enumerated. On application, James Sut- ton, recorder for the faculties at the uni- versity, will furnish a circular of infor- mation as to admission, organization of course, etc. % If the | As to the matter | and | stringing wires as soon as permission so | THEY DIED FOR THEIR FLAG AND THEIR COUNTRY —_— ‘. Remains of Eighteen Soldiers Arrive. Ll ONLY ONE KILLED IN BATTLE e DISEASE AND SUICIDE CARRIED OFF THE OTHERS. Boaagr Typhoid and Typhus Fever Was Re- sponsible for Nearly All the Dead Brought Back on the Sheridan. e The transport Sheridan was taken to the Hunter's Point drydock yesterday. She will be cleaned and overhauled and then brought back to the Government wharf at Folsom street to load for Manila. Before she was moved yesterday the remains of the soldiers who died in the | Philippines and were sent up on the trans- | port were landed. They were: Colonel Stotsenberg of the First Ne- braska. He died of a gunshot wound. ;‘Iids remains will be sent to New Albany, nd. Edgar J. Johnson, Company D, Second Oregon; died July 28 of typhoid fever, William C. O’Leary, Company I, First Montana; died September 5 of spinal meningitis. Sergeant William J. Evans, Company C, fever. | Harry G. Watson, Company C, Thir- | teenth Minnesota; died August 28 of ty- phoid fever. Rufus Holbrook, Company C, Second Oregon; died August 10 of typhoid fever. William Fields, Hospital Corps, U. S. A.; died September 3 of typhus fever. His | remains_will be sent to Centaur, Mo. { (John Flynt, Company C, Thirteenth | Minnesota; died on board the transport Sheridan. John Black, Company B, First Ne- braska; died September 5 of typhus fever. Joseph W. Whitman, Company M, First South Dakota; died August 26 of con- sumption. Walter Berdine, Twenty-third Infantry, U. 8. A.; dled July 31 of typhoid fever. Leslie B. Paden, Company E, Thirteenth Minnesota; died of typhus fever August 6. Leroy S. Minnick, Company C, First Wyoming; died August 15 of typhoid fever. Edwin C. Young, Company A, Second Oregon; died August 1 of typhus fever. Thomas H. Sargent, Hospital Corps; died AugustKu. His remains are con- signed to te E. Leary, Clementina street, San Francisco. Danfel Nickells, Company H, First Cali- fornia; died July 2 of paralysis, George H. Perkins, Company B, Firs California; died August 7 of pneumonia. | “Francls Deckalman, Hospital Corps | died August 20 from morphine poisonin; | His remains are consigned to Halstead & | Co.. the undertakers, | “The remains of Colonel Stotsenberg will | be given a military escort as far as the | ferries. All the other bodies will be | shipped to_their former homes, or to wherever the relatives wish them sent, | as speedily as possible. It will be noted | that of the eighteen men whose remains | are now brought back for burial only one died from a gunshot wound. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | Sam N. Rucker of San Jose is tered at the Palace. Hervey Lindley arrived yesterday from Klamathon, Northern California. He is a guest at the Palace. Assemblyman A. S. Crowder of San Di- ego is stopping at the Occidental. L. W. Fulkerth, ex-District Attorney of | Stanislaus County, arrived yesterday | from Modesto. He is at the Lick. —————— regis- | | | NEW YORK, Ma T. Z. Blakeman, A. Kern, J. A. Faull and D. Guttmann of San Francisco are at the Hoffman. The following San Franciscans were pas- sengers on the St. Louis for Southamp- ton to-day: A. C. Cronin, wife and daughter; Frank M. Ballard, Eugene Heulett, R. L. Toplitz and wife, Malcolm Stewart, Edward Pickworth, Miss L. Pickworth, Mrs. Mortensén, S. R. Lys- saght, W. E. Lester and wife. B —— WASHINGTON, May 2{.—H. Westervelt of Los Angeles is at the National Hotel. Solomon Hyberger of San Francisco is at Willard's. ——— Baby on the Doorstep. the stoop of the San Francisco Foundling Asylum on Golden Gate avenue last Mon- day night. It was blue with cold and ap- parently at the brink of death. Dr. Vir. ginia Smiley treated the case, but the in. fant died shortly after 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. The city undertaker was noti. fied and he informed the Coroner's office last night. The 1dentity of the unnatural parents who abandoned their offspring is unknown, but an effort will be made to locate them. 4 First Nebraska; died July 24 of typhoid | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOEK.‘ CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘ A female child was found in a box on | BE SAVED HER WATER FRONT T0. SN FRANCISCI Cadai Passing of Ex-State Senator Gardner. A PIONEER AND POLITICIAN HE DEFEATED A SENATE BILL TO ROB THE STATE. e the When It Came to the Final T Ring Offered Him $40,000 for His Vote and He Refused. . The funeral of Hon. James H. Gardner, ex-State Senator, '4%r and the oldest Custom-house broker in California, took place at San Rafael yesterday. Mr. Gard- ner died of old age at Sausalito last Sun- day night and a host of his city friends went over to the funeral yesterday. The remains were placed in a vault at San Rafael temporarily and later will be sent | to his old home in South Carolina. The pall-bearers were: F. A. Berlin, C. N. Stoutenborough, Colonel Thomas H. Craig, M. R. Dundas, William H. Thorn- ley, L. M. Kellogg, Captain J. Mclntyre and T. W. Jackson. James H. Gardner was born in South Carolina in 1510 and came to California early in 1849. He went to the mines, where he made more friends than money. He was elected a number of times to the State Senate later on and was one of the bitterest opponents of the bill introduced | to sell San Francisco’s water front. In fact, had it not been for the stand taken by Mr. Gardner all the wharves from | Meiggs wharf to the Mail dock would noW | be private property. 5 Toward the end of the fight, when pri- vate individuals were pulling every string | to_gain their end, Senator Gardner was | taken into a private room at Sacramento |and a certified check for $40,000 offered him for his vote. The bribe was refused { and the fight went on with the result that | the State still owns the water front. | " After he got tired of mining and_poli- | tics Mr. Gardner held a number of im- portant positions in the Custom-house and | only retired from Uncle Sam’s service to | go ‘into business for himself. He estab- | lished what is now the house of Gardner & Thornley, the first to do a purely Cus- | tom-house brokerage business on the Pa- | cific Coast. About ten years ago Mr. | Gardner retired from active business, but | up to a few years ago used to make daily | visits to his office. Then his age began to tell on him and he was rarely seen out- side his home at Sausalito. Toward the end he suffered considerably, but at the last he was free from pain and passed | away without a struggle. TOOK “ROUGH ON RATS.” Thomas K:'.ner Had Been Drinking Hewvily and Became Despondent to the Point of Suicide. Thomas Kane, a laboring man, 52 | old, committed suicide yesterday morning by taking “Rough on Rats” at his resi- | dence, corner of Twenty-first avenue and | K street. He had been out of employ- ment and drinking fon some time. Latel, | he had become very despondent, and it is believed that he was insane at the time | he took the poison. The deceased left a widow and three | children in poor circumstances. An in- quest will be held this afternoon at 1 | o’clock. —_— e Ocean View Republicans. | An enthusiastic meeting of the Ocean View Republican Club was held Wednes- day evening, President H. E. Griffith pre- siding. The club has been in existence | over two years and is preparing to take an active part in the coming primaries. Speeches were made by President H. E. Grifith, A. F. Roberts, E. H. Casserly, F. L. Griffith and others. ————————————— Cal. glace fruit50c per 1b at Townsend's.* s e el b e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042, ¢ PR —— The Mission Lyceum. | On the last evening of May there will be an entertainment and dance in Ex- | celsior Hall in_ the Mission district under the auspices of the Mission Lyceum. \ | A Work of Art. The new book, ‘‘Wonderland,” just issued by the Northern Pacific Ry. Cc is the prettiest | publication issued by any railway company this vear. It is full of beautiful half-tone illustra- tions, and contains besides a well-written de- seription of a trip taken over this finely equip- | ped line, including a trip through the wonder- | ful Yellowstone Park. Send 6c inestamps and | it will be mailed to you. T. ateler, Gen. | Ast., 638 Market st.. San Francisco. ——————— | Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, { A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests | the feet and makes walking easy. Cures Corns {and Bunions, Swollen, Callous and Sweating | feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, %e. | Ask to-day. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. | Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. —_——— | No well-regulated household should be with- jout Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons' Angostura | Bitters, unequaled as an appetizer. DIRECTORY Of RESPONSIBLE MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS AND JOBBERS. CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS MAILED ON APPLICATION. PLEASE MENTION “THE CALL.” BELTING. Manufacturer of Belting and ce Lea L P‘ nEfiEN' La: er. 105.107 Mis. sion St., cor. Spe: elephone Main 562. BO LER MAKERS, EUREKA BOILER WORKS, ‘W. J. BRADY, Proprietor. Special Attentfon Paid to Repairs and Ship Work. Office and Works—113-115 MISSION ST. Telephone Main 5045. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. | THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPANY, 342 10 350 Geary Street. Above Powell, Periodicals, Books and Stationery. COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. C. WILSON & CO., w00 BATTERY STREET. Telephone Main 1564. COPPERSMITH. JOSEPH FOX, Supt. ~ H. BLYTH, Mgr. C. W. Smith, Ship Plumbing, Steamboat nd Ship Work a_Specialty, 16 and 18 Washington St. Telephone, Main 5641 DRUGGISTS. WHOLESALE'. nEnI“GTo" & c Secondand Steven.- s Son Sts. Tel. Main 4 'FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & CO,, ZpP"fl il HARDWARE. ALACE Hardware Co., Importers and Deal- P raraware, o Srarket; tel. Main 8 A IRON FOUNDERS. Western Foundry, Morton & Hedley. Props. 234 Fremont St. Castings of Every Ds. seription Made to Order. Tel. Black 1503, LIQUORS. GUDOLD WHISEEY, gallo 0. P. 8. PONY, do. $2.5¢ L. CAHEN & SON, 418 Sacramento Imperial Metalllc NO BETTER ON EARTH fmicie) Metaive Comanche Ochre Co., 203 Front; tel. Jessie 1996, PAPER DEALERS. WILLAMETTE 252 30 anes Reaer, PRINTING. THE HICKS-JUDD CO. STATIONER AND PRINTER. " PARTRIDGE 2.2 fornia st. WAREHOUSEMEN, THE HASLETT WAREHOUSE CcO., Forwarding Agents and public Weighers. Ge; eral Storage. Free and Grain Warehouses. Ge; gral office, 210 Californja st. Tel. Main 1914, WATCHES, ETC. T. LUNDY, e ters for fine Jewel 154 Wedaing Rings. 338 st WHITE ASH STEAM COAL, Mined by the BLACKGDL-\MOND LOAL MINING CO. at i1y 8, $1.50 ; case, $6.00 ease $10.00 8t., 8.F. Printers, Book- * binders. 23 First st. REEN RIVER COLLIERIE s the Best Coal in the Market. Office and Yards—50 Maln S