The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1899, w@all 4‘899 FLS onpnetov. S LEAKE, Manuper ~—t and Third Sts., S. F n 2868, 7 to 921 Stevenson Street atn 1874 15 CENTS PER WEEK. PUBLICATION CUFF EDITORIAL ROOM 1ding Portage: Call), one year. £6.00 ). 6 mont 3.00 Call), 3 month: 150 el 650 1.50 1.00 rx ure authorized to recelve rubscriptions. pies will be forwarded when requested. ..908 Broadway Room 188, World Building, C GEG. KROGNESS. Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D, C.) OFFICE Weltington Hotel | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . Marquette Buoilding €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertl-!ng Represcntative. NEW YORK OFFICE BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 930 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untli 9 e'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until $ o'clock. i06 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—"The Moth Oranl he Flame.' P ss Nicotine."” Opera hutes T every after- noon and Itfes. i ar Eighth—Bat y Evening. June 5. AUCTION SALES. and 8 p. m., Chinese vcléck, Horses, at | at 12 o'clock, . une 6, At 628 Ma THE NEXT SPEAKER. e of a Speaker to succeed Mr. Reed is i very _HA[ importance to the country tial in determining the future of Sherman i Henderson of Towa blican strength in the House consists of s from the Repu es from the South, sixty-six vot one hundred and four from t We necessary to the caucus, ninety-three. ndidates, the West two, the adoption of the constitution thirty-seven er of the d place in the Gov- ed the th development, use and prescription it important respects become the first It has been oc ed by Pennsylvanians four s © i once, New Je twice, Massa- chusetts North Carolina once, Kentuc SI% s, New Y twice, Virginia four times, Ten- i three times, Ohio once, Georgia | \ Carolina oncé, Maine twice. The office | i, therefore, fifteen times by the s¢ es by the South and five times the , as the center of population and of party | power ed to the West, it is natural that that section shonld look to possession of the Speakership. he West has only two candidates, it is natural | The two Western e of them should succeed. 1tes are men of note. es to the House from the Dubuque Di is vet a young man, born in 1840, He| had hardy re on a farm; at 21 enlisted as a private in the Union army, was advanced to a second lieutenancy, had a.leg shot off in battle and was dis- May. 1863. In June, 1864, he re-entered as colonel of the Forty-sixth Jowa and | it till the close of the war. The interregnum of was devoted to the study of the law, and at the close of the war he hegan the practice of that profes- rd rose speedily to eminence among the senior | able bar. He succeeded William | House upon that gentleman’s pro- and has been regularly. sion s a very 1 the ate, debater 1 in the catch-as-catch- and in the hard work of the com- has long held first place can of the floor bl aind hi hig manner He is the peer of any on the list of candidates An(l ..1 chair as a parlia W who has occupied th entarian. of already the delegations of Towa, Wisconsin, \linnesota, Ohio, and fourteen from Tlinois, a ma- i Michigan, the Dakotas and Wyoming, and | a in Nebraska and Kansas \\. stern competitor, Mr. Hopkins of the | strict, nois, was born in 1846, and has t times elected to the House. He is a law- man of decided strength on the floor and ttee work. He has not seemed, however, elf members in fitne: 1 hi upon s the equal of for the Speakership, and as Hen- Henderso derson has with that latter nt the whole We: well s probable ern vote as several from the ) to nd gland of view it is desirable that the s themselves victorious The strength of the par its cres- fluence, its growth since the defeat of 1892, has the West. Outside the-State of Ohio there and factions in the tern contest ty been ir cakening feuds n States, Repr an leadership there has fought down the + of Populism and clinched Républican su- premacy |w1m.nvr-wl!_\' in the politics of a vast and I\ is to lu I\upwl that the California delegation will consider the situation and give their as- as one man in transferring the power of the ship the long step westward that lies between Maine and the Mississippi Valley. gainsaid that E rising ti be tern interests have profited 1 the Speakership. Reed and Randall were all able, and their abil- < made powerful in the Speakership by Eastern and that influence was wise in its day and for it had its reward. It is surely time to begin to even up for the West, and as California is the Western keystone, the furthest reach toward the setting sun, our delegation may be able to do some- ignificant for Western interests.in perhaps con- (rollmg the clection of a Western Speaker. cannot of long possession nce, neration, and is | | Payne of New | nd perhaps Dalzell of Pennsylvania, | House. | Mr. Henderson has been | Te- | His presence | less than a score of votes enough | y | great | rTHE RAILROflD @ND THE SANDLOT. |to the public. HE Evening ‘ ] w and personalities. In neither article, one 10; them a quotation, is there anything to provoke u|"-c||-~|«'m but in both there are some passages that | vite reminiscence. | The Sandlot is a favorite allusion of this turgid ‘*eprcxenmti\e of the railroad monopoly, when it re- ‘h-r: to the resistance of the decent press to railroad \rorrupnon and to railroad exactions. Evidently it | possesses a poor memory or its sources of informa- | | tion are defective. The sandlot is vividly recollected in San Francisco. Its temporary home was part of -the natural frontage of the new City Hall facing on | Market street, that was stupidly sold and must speed- |ily be repurchased. Its chief production was fleas. | “I: was long occupied by a turbulent crowd, many of { them honestly misled, but also embracing the most vicious and the laziest clements. of our population. s These ors called themselves workingmen, but their only industrial distinction was the enormous. ca T ; and teughness of their lungs. Their m'nmu‘ | ment was trinitarian and embraced. a tallow-faced | English chartist, a Missourian who had ungracefully ‘n-nred from his native State, and last, but not least, a | hard-faced demagogue from the western coast of one | of the finest islands in the sea, whose mob government ag This usurped extension of its legiti- mate functions it has deliberately adopted, with the Railroad Placard is at it again. ‘<1me indurated disregard for law as it manifested in On Friday last it had much to say about mob \"‘e exactions it thrust before the people through its special agents in the Board of Supervisors. Near Chicago, in the State of Illinois, the Pullman Palace Car Company, for the exclusive accommoda- tion of its own employes, built a town of two thou- sand houses. Within a few months, under quo war- ranto proceedings, the Supreme Court of that State has withdrawn the legal foundation from that private | municipality, because, notwithstanding the plausible | reasons assigned by the company for its assertion of the right to house, feed, clothe and amuse its ser- vants at their own expense, the authority for the claim did not exist in its charter. The opinion of the ‘court. published in volume 175 of the Illinois Reports, | pages 127-165, is solid in every line, and emphati- cally declares that the Pullman Company could not incidentally monopolize receipts and profits that be- | longed to the people. ccased about the time that John Hayes pushed him | from the stage of Platt’s Hall into the orchestra space beneath. The occasion was a forcible attempt to take possession of a public meeting, and when, to borrow an apt simile of the day, the ungrammauca.l; []uder of the pmlctanans landed “like a bullfrog in | a Spring Valley reservoir,” the collapse of the sand- lot was assured. But while it lasted it was mischievous. It produced much noise, many parades and considerable violence. | 1t reveled in coarseness, in profanity, and in denun- | ciation of law and order. It greatly reduced the value of property, because for a while reputable citizens felt | that they were in danger of homicide and arson. Its | favorite designation of a taxpayer was that he was a | th It caused destructive fires in various parts of | the municipality. It ceaselessly threatened extensive | conflagrations. Tt abused merchants and capitalists ;h} name. It advocated lynch law as the birthright of | non-producers. At one period it compelled the or- | ganization of the “Pick Handle Brigade” at Horticul- mml Hall as an aid to the authorities in extinguish- | ing torches and suppressing the fury of assassins. | The sandlot enforced the adage that ‘extremes Its raids upon property were marked by one conspicuous exception, Chinese laundries were burned and Chinese maltreated. The solid business of the community was endangered. 'Residences were filled with trembling women and guarded by indignant husbands and fathers. But after a few preliminary demonstra Nob Hill and railroad tracks, cars, engines and offices were untouched. In fact, it became apparent before and when the sandlot closed its boisterous existence that between it and the railroad monopoly there was a reciprocity of protec- tion. The subsequent careers of the most aggressive sandlotters demonstrated the friendly relations that had been predicted long before they were revealed. The analogy between the objects of the railroad and g. The difference consisted in methods and in results. * Like the marauding barons of the Middle Ages, the railroad marched upon the people and appropriated their substance. Its descents and its collections, were noiseless and un- zccompanied by banners, by artillery and by clanking |armor. It preferred the gentler processes oi bossing politics and buying Supervisors and Legislatures, and meet.” ions was safe, the sandlot was stril however, of silencing by fraud, skill of mercenaries The Both equally aspired to overrule the law and both equally despised the restraints | order and of j ‘ach aimed at the accumulation arned increments. But the railroad believed in while the sandlotters howled for dis- ndlot merely substituted force for management. of tice. of un concentration, tribution. | mon purpose, it was difficult to determine which was the worse in principle, while it became easy' to award | lot failure. | The infelicity of allusions to the sandlot in rail- ]rmd organs is apparent. | gest are too odorous. Most of the sandlotters are ! dead or scattered, and many of them, temporarily de- | | ceived, have reformed and are now sturdy workers in ‘lnc ranks of genuine industry. The survivors of the | ‘unrmcq however, are still obstreperous and blatant | in those legislative and municipal lobbies which toil | for Mr. Huntington when Dan Burns runs for Sen- | ntony on the subject, direct from the-islands. course of a review of the labor situation the Honolulu | | ator or half of a city is to be grabbed. | the railroad personalities, |its balances of hostil | Still the monopoly ps v and subserviency, remain. the palm to railroad success and the cypress to sand- | A little of this drastic treatment extended to the State and municipal despotism of Mr. Huntington would probably induce him to concentrate his atten- tion upon the preservation of what he has and to re- lieve our citizens from the need of constant watchful- ness over such public rights and propcrty as have not been already appropriated. THE STANFORD ENDOWMENT. RS. STANFORD'S gift to the university founded in memory of her son is undoubtedly can history. the most munificent act of liberality in Ameri- recently made by the will of the late Baroness de It has no equal in any land except that | Hirsch, and in- history will be even more notable npetition and clamor by strategy and | 1lly operated through a trained army | Of the two institutions, united by a com- | TESTIMONY FROM THE A | The comparisons they sug- |+ The personalities of the sandlot have ceased, but | Independent of May 17 says: with its ledger accounts and | of the kindest and most conservative employers of la- than that, for the Hirsch millions are to be scattered far and wide and will have no great name anywhere, while those of Mrs. Stanford will be centered in an institution destined to become one of the most re- nowned seats of learning on earth. It is well known that for some time past the growth | and development of Stanford University have been seriously retarded by lack of means to provide for them. The vast fortune now placed at the disposal of the president and trustees will enable them to enter at once upon every important work the university re- quires. New buildings are in process of construction, new equipments can be obtained, the faculty enlarged and the whole institution animated to an increased activity in all its departments. So marked will be the change produced in the af- fairs of the university by the gift that something like a new departure in its history will be dated from this ume: We are now to have the satisfaction of watch- ing the development of a “Greater Stanford,” and from what has been accomiplished in the past ample assurances are given that the results of the future will be notable for successes in many ways. The munificent gift is the more interesting because it coincides in point of time with the movement now ander way to build up a “Greater University of Cali- fornia.” The magnificent plans outlined by the Re- gents of the State University, and so generously sup- ported by Mrs. Hearst, hardly surpass those actually undertaken and now well advanced at Stanford. We are, therefore, in the near future, td have in California the two most beautiful ‘and most stately university seats in America, if not in the world. Nor will their eminence be dependent upon their architecture and equipments only. It cannot be doubted that they will attract the most gifted teachers in all «departments of learning, and from them will radiate an. intellectual light even more luminous than' that which in times past has proceeded from Harvard and Yale and made New England the center of American culture. Mrs. Stanford has followed the example of her husband and bestowed her gift during her lifetime, igstead of waiting to leave it by will after her death. In doing so she has acted not only wisely but with a true liberality of soul. The people of California owe her much, and the debt will increase from generation to generation. ISLANDS. MONG the mpcn.nhsts and the annexationists it is a favorite boast that by making Hawaii and the Philippines a part of our territory we shall open up new ficlds for white labor and provide American workingmen with “opportunities to make homes for themselves in the islands of the ocean and erect there commonwealths as noted for liberty, law and prosperity as are those that make up the Union. The Call has repeatedly exposed the folly and in some instances the criminal falseness of these state- ments. We have now to add to our argument testi- In the “Mr. Damon is one bor, and yet we are told that a number of his re- ursues its ancient methods, and | cently imparted Italian laborers tried to ‘clear out’ still it deludes itsel with faith in its capacity for uni- | | the Australia yesterday, and that Mr. Damon Imd to | versal dominance. than it was in the days of the sandlot has ceased to be an overgrown village and enjoy the metropolitan strength. There are capitalists here allied to American industry |and who can infuse vigor into competition. At the | East there are Vanderbilts as well Huntingtons. The young giant of Western Americanism is inhaling | the strong air of the Pacific and swelling his power- | | ful muscles as he confronts the shrunken figure of | diseased monopoly. It would be safer for Mr. Hun- :lmgmu to restrain the yellow platitudes of his literary | bureau and to pay strict attention to his solar plexus. | self-consciousness of as OPPORTUNITIES FOR LAW OFFICERS. LL other appropriations of illegal authority, | fl by direct and indirect usurpation, have been dwarfed by the intricate - records of the Huntington monopoly. And the history of the Market Street Railway Company is another | pregnant example of the same illegal and in- jurious assumption and extension of chartered rights. T monopoly, which consolidated eleven street railway companies, which has since acquired other properties and which has just fraudulently sought to steal what there was left of our local streets and easements, filed its certificate .of incorporation | October 13, 1893. Its watering of stock and its issue | of bonds are not pertinent to this discussion. But, | by the enumeration of powers in its certificate, it was limited to the acquisition and operation of street | railways in San Francisco and in the county of San | Mateo. /s, and with utter disregard of legal disabilities, it has usurped privileges to which it had no more claim than to the running of steam- ship lines to the Philippines. One illustration will serve our purpose: Its ad- vertising business alone, over its entire network of railway- lines, is so extensive that it must net - an enormous yearly profit. Without even the pretense of legality, it competes not merely with the press but with every other recognized mode of attracting busi- ness. Its cars are advertising booths, requiring the services of a' special agency, and it carries bands on some of our-principal streets as musical solicitations In various w; | But the world has grm\n Jarger | use the existing laws San Francisco | nd the police to stop the men who are under contract to him.” | In another note on the same,subject, and dealing always with specific instances and not with abstract propasitions, the Independent says: “We daily see a | large number of Galicians in the chain gang working |at the quarries and on the roads. They are white | men; they are the class that our philanthropist of the mffirin] organ wants to make the sinew and hone of | these islands as ‘small (d——d small) farmers,’ and yet ‘thc\ prefer to remain under the tender care of Mr. 'Dnle s jailer to retugning to slavery on a plantation.” Returning to the subject on the following day, the Independent declares the Government is doing all in its power to force planters to inveigle white laborers to the islands, and it then goes on to say: ‘“The day is gone by when that could be done, because the slav- ery on Hawaii's plantations is known all over the civilized world. L'Orange years ago induced a num- ber of Norwegian laborérs to come here by telling them that gold was lying around the roads—and he had to flee the country while the Norwegian Govern- ment sent a special commissioner to Honolulu. The poor Galicians who are parading our streets m pnson | garb came here under equally false pretenses.” That is the record of white labor in Hawaii as it stands now. Italian workingmen who were induced | to go to the islands are seeking to escape from the employ of ene of the kindest of Hawaiian employers, while others are working as prisoners in criminal garb i on the streets. Whether that of white workingmen or | Chinese coolie, the labor is hardly better than that of | seridom, but still, as the Independent puts it, the cry | goes on: ' “Send for more laborers! If we can't get ;]apancsc get Italians, and if we can't get Americans let us have Spaniards—anything will do as long as more plantations are promoted.” e e The dispatches announce that General Merriam may now do as he pleases, as the courts of Idaho have refused to recognize writs of habeas corpus. The autocratic soldier seems to have been enjoying the privilege of doing as he liked ever since he placed a censorship on the press. i —_—— A Herrin and his hirelings*can put those rejected franchises in their pipes and smoke them. o*o*o*o*uee*o*oio*o*o*o*o*o*o*fio*o*q*o*o*om*o* #OxOx X0 2 L4 s 3 £ EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. *OXOAROXOXON 0*0*0*0*0*o—n*o*o*o*0*@*0*0*ow*e*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*&mmo*o According to one of the laborious cor- respondents to whose toil the people of this country are indebted for their knowledge of European affairs, the Czar of Russia is not satisfied with either his empire, his epoch, his work or himself. He is reported to have re- cently saild that civilized man has woven around him in his civilization so many customs, conventionalities, pro- prieties, etiquettes and artificial re- strictions of all kinds that he no longer has freedom either for good work or Jjoyous pleasure; that all he undertakes i{s sure to end in failure and that no life worth living is possible for serf or sovereign. About the time that report concern- ing the Czar was filling space in the papers there came a story of a Denver man who, having been told by his physicians that one lung is gone and his days of life are few, turned all his property into cash, Jeft his beloved wife and hastened to Chicago to have a good time before he dled. When found by the pursuing wife he was in a glorious state of hilarity, with dancing girls around him, singing gay songs over the remnants of whn.t had been a delectable feast. The two stories taken together form a good basis for a merry philosophy. The first teaches that if one submit to the bondage of society he can have no fullness of life, even though he wear a crown and be an autocrat; while the second shows that even a one-lunged, dying man may find his short life a continual round of varied joys if he break away from duty, as a butterfly breaks from a chrysalis, and emanci- pate himself t) do what he will, when he will and how he will to satisfy his thirst and gratify his soul. Al WA e Count Leo Tolstol has told us there are three religions in the world and only three; there never were any more, there never can be any less; and every intelligent being is compelled by the very law of his intelligence to believe one of the three. The dogma is based upon the self-evident truth that every intelligent being is conscious of the ex- istence of itself and of something which is not itself, and necessarily forms some judgment concerning the relation which the one bears to the other. The self is the soul, and that which is not self is the universe, and there are but three conceivable relations between them. It may be assumed that the soul is supreme and has a right to use the universe for its pleasure or its profit; or that the established order of the uni- verse is supreme and the soul must con- form to its laws; or that there is a power above both the soul and the uni- verse, to which the soul must surrender itself and which it must obey though such obedience imply not only the sac- rifice of the desires of the heart, but the breaking of all laws of existing in- stitutions. The Czar believes his soul to be sub- ordinate to the established order of things; he will bear life as a weary burden rather than be false to his duty to his crown, his station and his state. The Denver man believes the world to be a garden wherein his sovereign soul has right to every fruit and flower it can gather. Tolstoi believes that both are sinners, for he would sacrifice em- pires and pleasnures, duties and drinks, to divinity with an equal willingness. There is no need for any one to fret this Sunday morning in trying to de- termine which is right. Let us re- member the saying of the prayer book: “We are all miserable sinners,” and put away any stggestion of the devil that while each is a sinner the Denver man is having the best time. e T Mrs. Stanford’s decree that the num- ber of wo.nen students at University shall never exceed 500 at any time is one of the most curious re- strictions that has been placed in these days upon the aspiring ambitions of our girls. There is danger it appears that Stanford might become something like a woman’'s college, with girls enough to form a woman'’s rights con- vention every day, but not men enough to organize a football team once a year. The right of Mrs. Stanford to regulate her family monu.aent in any way that suits her taste is not to be questioned. Those who have swag may swagger as they please. The public interest in the question lies in the new proof thus given of the force with which women are pushing their way into the more intellectual walke of life. They are not crow?ing men out, for the paths of learning are oper. to all and are broad enough for all but they are flocking in while the men are staying out. Just why that should be objected to is not so clear to the cutside world as it is to those within the charmed university circle. That he institution would lose prestige if it lost its football team is, Stanford | of course, very well understood in sporting circles, but why should it lose its team? Why not fill the faculty with football men? Theé thing is feasible. The first effect of the restriction will be to make every girl in California more eager to go to Stanford than ever before. of New York will be as nothing to the amount of “‘queen” that will be swung by the Five Hundred of Palo Alto. As there will be a Hmit on the number of campus belles and promenade chums The style of the Four Hundred- Roses really smell like skunks; | Women are fools and men are drunks.” And then he shriveled up and died. Hell laughed, but all the angels cried. There was a maid just like a flower, Who sang glad songs each passing hour. “Oh, what a glorious world is this, ‘Where all is love, and love is bliss; Not one soul but’s really true; All do the best they know to do!” Then hell to heaven quickly sprang, And devils and angels together sang. S e e The audacities of those verses are many. In the first place even the poet who described a woman as “a rag and a bone and a hank of hair” would hardly venture to use such words as 4‘ “drunks” and in- serious verse, and the as “the angels cried,” is bad enough to make the an- gels weep: but the crowning audz of the whole, and that which gives it the glow of something like an in tion of true genius, is the decla the rivalry among the unlimited males | that the song of a girl who had just will be keener than ever, and the last state of that co-educating monument | to railroad opportunities will be wors than the first, . The story of N[nrk Twain's interview with the Emperor of Austria, as given in the cable dispatches, may be ac- curate enough, but it bears the ear- marks of a Mark Twain joke. The story goes that Mark prepared in choice German a pretty speech to make to his Majesty, but when ushered into the royal presence became so much em- barrassed he forgot what he was going to say, fluttered in the tongue of him and stood flabbergasted and dumb. It is to be remembered the story is founded upon a report given by Mark and not by ‘the Emperor. Hence the ample justification for all the incredul- ity the public ‘may cheose to indulge. Mr. Twaip is the man who told us long ago that truth is the most valuable pos. session we have, and therefore we ought to economige it. It is a maxim he has practiced more diligently than | discovered that love is bliss caused all hell to rise and join heaven in a grand ong and dance of jubil Truly there is much verses. Danton has told us merit in the ‘audacity, | audacity and always audacity” is the essential element of elogquence in ora- tory: and why is it not equally so in verse? One thing is certain: If the anonymous writer of that rough and ready rhapsody have many more such happy audacities to fling in the face of critics and sing into the hearts of lov- ers, California will awake some fine da to the knowledge that she has anoth poet. $ } . Men who think that women pay no attention to practical politics and can never accurately size up dignitaries are sometimes overtaken by a surprise party of small dimensions, but very in- tense in its suddenness. Two such men | were talking the other day-about Gov- he has preached it, and it is prebable | he has never given away a truth in the | whole course of his humorous career. If Mark fluttered in the presence of the Emperor it is safe to say he did so for the purpose of concealing the New | Haven accent of his German speech and was playing it low on his Majesty— running a bluff on a King as it were— but the chances are nothing of the kind occurred. When we get to the end of the episode we shall probably find Mark has been playing the press and the public and has worked a thrifty scheme to get an advance advertisement for a forthcoming magazine article. The gentle joker is a creature who always bears watching, for there is never any telling when his joke is on you. FES P For many days we had with us a con- vention of Baptist ministers, exulting in the consciousness of an overruling Providence, preaching eloquently the tenets of a sublime faith and filling the city with prayer and holy song for the edification of all. From height | height the convention mounted until at | last it reached a climax and culmin- ated.. The next day we had a north- east storm, and two murders; and thereafter, perhaps by coincidence merely, the teachers of trust in Provi- dence who had come to us from a dis- tance took their gripsacks and shook the dust of the city from their feet. P I The latest novelty in applied science | Rutherford and Miss is a new trick in Parisian dueling. M. | | an earthquake, a suicide | immediately | | after three weeks in New York. Catulle Mendes and M. Georges Vanar | agreed to firht with rapiers about something which is not interesting in- asmuch as the name of the woman ha | said one; ernor Gage. “What think you of him?” is he broad gauge or narrow gauge? “Decidedly narrow gauge,” answered the other. Then a woman spoke up, and her voice was as musical as the trilling of a lnnet. “He is neither a broad gauge nor a narrow gauge,” she warbled; “he is.a slit in a cable track.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS F. A. Hihn, the Santa Cruz millionaire, is at the Lick. Emory Winship, U. 8. N at the Palace. James F. Peck, a prominent attorney of Merced, is at the Lick. George W. Stimson and wife, of Pasa- dena, are stopping at the California. , is registered W. D. McIntosh and wife, of Toronto, were among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Cleveland Moffett, a well known ané popular magazine writer, is spending a few weeks in this city. Governor and Mrs. Henry T. Gage and Arthur Gage arrived yesterday from Sac- | ramento and are at the Palace to | W. J. Berry, who owns a number of valuable oil wells at Selma, arrived yes- terday and is a guest at the Lic e W. R. Spaulding of the Tru Lum- ber Company, arrived yesterday frcm Truckee and registered at the Lick. Bart F. Bretherton, who has been at the Palace for the past two weeks, will leave for the East this evening. George Crocker, second vice president of the Southern Pacific, returned yvesterday He Crocker and Mi W. Rutherford of New York. The party is at the Palace. Miss Benjamin of New York is stopping at the Occidental, waiting passage on one f the transports bound for Manila. Miss accompanied by Mrs. ;lhnjflmin is going down to the front as not even been hinted in the reports that | come to us. They further agreed that while willing to risk the rage and the skill of one another, they were not will- ing to risk microbes. Accordingly it was stipulated that the weapons were to be thoroughly subjected to antisep. tic treatment before the fight hegan, and that whenever one of them touched | the ground the combat was to be im- mediately suspended until the blade | had been passed through the flame of an alcohol lamp so as to destroy any stray germs of tetanus that might ad- here to the steel. It is not worth while to consider what Cyrano de Bergerac or d'Artignan would have thought of such duelling | regulations as that. The point of in- | terest is that the French are more | careful of health in their dueling than | 85 cents, ac we are in our dining. There are more dangers in Anierican canned goods than in Parisian challenges, and they have better cause to smile at us than we to laugh at them. . . . At the risk of bringing down upon my head the manuscript verses of all the singers of the commonwealth, I sub- | mit a bit of rhymed unreason which | for sheer audacity is equal to anything | ever done in English since the a: of Blake. It came to me without a title, and T will give it none, but it is surely entitled to a reading: There was a man all warped and gnarled, Who nosed about and growled and snarled: “The world's all made of sin,” he said, “We'll go to hell when we are dead; THANKS FROM A NAVAL OFFICER. @O IEPEIEHOIOIEIOEOIIIO SO0 000000 gQ T Naded s Luat PURVNS %fdu@m%mw.so ok, 4 6\["7&& ‘Mdt)m"‘ nw’mg PUO Tl U LR : : K‘W"‘h‘ M“Mm(/_ {Mw 2 i M’xm g : : R | which periodical she acted { respondent during the camp | During her stay | | | l | list of the member: a representative of Leslie’s Weekly, for special cor- ign in Cub: with Shafter's army around Santiago she was the heroine of a number of romar adventures hairbreadth escap and wa: woman to enter Santiago after the render of Toral and his Spanish troops. e CA.LIFORNIANb IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Juno K—Hr)mer S. King of San Francisco is at the Manhattan; H. Holman and family of San Francisco are at the ..artholdi; Sam N. Rucker of San Jose is at the Hoffman; John H. Black of Pasadena is at the Imperial. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A QUART! quarter of a dollar of 1838 sells at prices varying from 50 cents to ording to condition. CABINET—M, T., Galt, Cal. The of McKinley’'s Cabinet was published in this department May 18 THE THE ADDR itha | communication i 'he Pro- prietor of the San ¥r: ali, Call Editorial Room it will reach him. NOT APPOINTED — Reader. City. | Archbishop Riordaii v not appointed a commissioner to reprs United States at the Czar's d 1ent con- vention. THE NEXT CENTURY—A. and B, City. THe next century will begin at the moment the mir B clock p the hous 2 night, December In other words, the new centu ences with the year 1901 E MESSENGER SERVIC Benicla, Cal. Persons desiring to 3 for the position of messenger at | the na Mare Island under should request appli cretary of the board ation from the se Lo employment at that point. PLAYING CASINO—Reader, City. Un- i understanding betwe less there is an the players before shall go out as soon p(!'l)l'iglh(xl the rule e game that playec as they make e that that piay | coun p 'Fr?\?nl des, big ¢ asino, little casino, ace. If re S no_prior ar- fangement in the game cited the players t until the d < over and to wi bad 10 e who. had_cara entitled to K hent first, and having more than the Fequisite number of points, won the same. — e Cal. glace fruit50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® e Special information supplied daily t6 business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen gomery street. Telepnone M —_—e—— The Wheels Grind Slowly. Charles Mattheas, a cigar dealer on Market street, was arrested April 19 for battery upon Philip Gundlach, the we known wine merchant on City H square. The case was heard next day W.fore Justice of the Peace Barry, who was then sitting as Police Judge, and on Friday he rendered hi decision, sentenc- ing Mattheas to p: fine. — e A Work of Art. The new book, ‘‘Wonderland,” just fssued by the Northern Pacific Raflway Company, is ths prettiest publication issued by any raflway company this year. It is full of beautiful haif- tone illustrations, and contains besides a well- written description of @ trip taken -over this finely equipped line, including a tour through the wonderful Yeilowstone Park. Send 6¢ in stamps and it Wil be mailed to you. T. K. Stateler, Gen, Agt., 638 Market st., San Fran cisco. e The Rio Grande Western Bs.flway Take pleasure in announcing the inauguration June 1, 1899, of a complete dining-car service between Ogden and .Denver on all transconti- nental trains. Service a la carte. General ofe fice, 14 Montgomery st.