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THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 6 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. { Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | Address A PUBLICATION OFFICE ....Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Ma!n 1§68, EDITORIAL ROOMS.........2IT to 921 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. S 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | CARRIY gle Copies, & cents. Terms Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Lall), one vear. DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday Call), 6 mont DELIVERED BY $6.00 3.00 ting Sunday Call), 3 mont 1.50 650 | X 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to recetve subscriptions. | Sample OAKLAND OFFICE....... copies will be forwarded when requested. | .908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building C. GEO. KROGNESS. Advertising Representative. | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotol | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. [ CHICAGO OFFICE ....Marquotte Ballding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Reprosontative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin stre open untl! 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission strest, open until 10 o'clock. 229! Mflm street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 e'clock. Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. IS05 Poik street, opea until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clocl AMUSEMENTS. | ambia—A New Comedy Opera House—'"'The Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘T Pag- ‘ fornia—‘‘Faust Chutes Zbo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every after- | noon and evening. | er Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties | . Market street, near Eighth—Bat | | ioyal to the Government of the United States can ! ministration in its military operations anywhere. The | some not so known, held up the hands and cheered | ation, for that, according to our code of morals, would THE. CALL AND EXPANSION. [ E print to-day a letter from a valued reader{ chiding The Call for its position on imperial- ism. The rebuke of a friend is kind, and we desire to de- velop his view of the issue which’ he joins with us. He says: “I cannot conceive how any one who is antagonize the administration in its efforts to put dewn insurrection and those who are waging war against the old flag that floats over the Philippine Islands.” We have not antagonized nor obstructed the ad- Call has in many ways, some known publicly and the hearts of the soldiers and sailors who fight afar off and obey orders, as is a soldier’s duty. As for the policy of permanent imperialism, we indorse the only official utterance of President Mc- Kinley on that subject. In his message to Congress one year ago he said: “I speak not of forcible annex- be criminal aggression.” That is an utterance that no circumstances can change. We did not take the Philippines by arbitration of the sword. When the Paris Commission met to ar- range the treaty of peace with Spain all of the Philip- pines except a few localities on Manila Bay were oc- cupied by the natives, who had wrested them from Spain before our flag went there, and under the law of nations and by arbitration of the sword they were the sovereigns of the land as well as the owners in fee simple of the territory. We paid Spain fwenty millions to relinquish her sovereignty. There is every evidence that when this was done it was with the intention on the part of | President McKinley and his administration to treat the Filipinos as our allies, protect them into full na- Kinley's Home Market Club speech which repudiates his message on “criminal aggression” and the pledges of his personal organ as to Cuba and the Philippines? FRANCE AND AMERICA. N The Call of April 3 and May 12 the decision of l the question of revision in the Dreyfus case by the Court of Cassation and the grounds that rendered it inevitable were correctly anticipated. It is satis- factoryto observe the rehabilitation of French justice, under’ the pressure of full investigation, urged not merely by the French people, but from every quarter of the globe. It is, however, unnecessary at this time further to discuss the probabilities of the future in reference to this remarkable persecution of an appar- ently mmnocent mar, who for more than four years has suffered manyr‘}om through the corruption of the general staff of the army of France. But in the history and present aspect of the Drey- fus case there is a lesson for the United States. The demonstration of the royalists and their confederates against President Loubet, in which unfortunately the American wife of a French Count participated, was a significant evidence of the anomalous condition of a republic in which church and state are not separated and where orders of nobility yet survive. It may have commanded the sympathy of American impe- rialists, but it will receive the stern condemnation of American citizens who have not “outgrown” their constitution and reverted to the decaying types of European government. The central interest in the drama, however, is that the mass of the French citizens still possesses a con- science, which, after it has been once roused, is irre- sistible in its influence, and that the absolute necessity of equality before the law and of the honest adminis- tration of justice is comprehended within the Latin republic, as it ought to be and as it will be in our own country. If the sentence against Dreyfus had not been annulled militarism would have celebrated a triumph, but the people would have prepared for rev- olution. The corruptions in the management of the Panama | EXPANSION AND THE CALL. To the Editor of The Call: As ofe of the old subscribers of The Call, T feel it my duty to protest against its stand on the expansion question, and am of the opinion if you would consult those who are taking your paper a large majority would take issue with you. I cannot conceive how any one who is loval to the Government of the United States can antagonize the administration in its efforts to put 'down insurrection and those who are waging war against the old flag that floats over the Philippine Islands, a territory as much in the possession of the United States as Alaska. If I understand the spirit of the people who believe in holding those fslands, as well as all possessions ceded by Spain to the United States, it is not to seek new fields for expansion but hold what we have ac- quired by the arbitration of the sword and the joint decision of both Govern- ments in the settlement of the question. _ As President. McKinley has well said -in his noble remarks at the THome Market Club, Boston, in February last, “the Philippires, like Cuba and Porto Rico, were intrusted to our hands by the war, and to that great trust, under the providence of God and in the name of human progress and civilization, we are committed. It is a trust from which we will not flinch. The American people will hold up the hands of their servants at home to whom they commit its execution, while Dewey and Otis and the brave-men whom they command will have the support of the country in upholding our flag where it now floats, the symbol and assurance of liberty and justice.” Respectfully, San Jose, June 1, 1899. WILLIAM ROSS. WIU. IMPHUVE AROUND THE DRYDOCK AT HUNTERS POINT e To Be Lengthened 160 Feet Shortly. S. M. Stuart, U. the Occldental. Major B. Webb of London was among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Harry G. de Greayer of Birmingham, Eng., is a guest at the Occidental. 8. A., is registered at of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace, | Rev. Mr. Dewhurst of Voluntown, Conn., arrived In this city vesterday and |1s a guest at the Occidental. E. C. Voorhels, ex-State owner of the vin mine in Amador County, arrived yesterday from _Sutter Creek and is stopping at the Palace. George Dean, superintendent of the Ar- row mine In Tuolumne County, arrived Senator and | first woman’s club founded in America, is | spending a few weeks in this city. She is | accompanied by Mi; Mildred Peel, the | sculptress. Mrs. Severance will leave on IT WILL BE MADE TO ACCOMMO- DATE THE LARGEST VESSELS. CORRIDORS John G. Gaftey, ex-Collector of the Port | has proven an oral examination, followed a day or so later by a written one, in conjunction with a recorded daily per- centage of application and attainment, to | be the fairest, strongest and altogether the best test of a pupil’s ability to pro- cced in up-grade work, and at the same time affords a reliable reference for the | mental ability and activity sought for by | commercial ‘men, business corporations | and other clerical lines in seeking assist- | ants; seldom any other recommendation | being required by employers than an ex- | amination of school records. The absence of this in your schools. a plan mo: atisfactorily pursued in the higher s of graded schools in the United States, is one of the surprises met by the interested and skilled visitor- - while examining San Francisco's chool system. : riable and hearty co-operation of and pupil with the Superintendent rd in this ruling will most assur- able results, and this ad- vice is from actual knowledge. | "In becoming a system its additional {1abor is minimized, and in its beneficial result o teacher may grudge its cost of effort. sional “catch question” enlivens pupil’'s sense of humor and opens to -ptional and not-to-be-despised possi- QEB\«:‘ILLE LOCKWOOD. 5 City, June 2, —_— e — USURPATION OF POWER. The Call: T am glad that some of the teachers and parents are speaking out against the folly and in justice of school examinations. That system never had the support of good thinkers and is now entirely behind the times. Scholars should be promoted whenever their teachers | think them fit, and in many cases | even when they have not done even pass- | ably well in a study it is better for them | to g0 on to something else. believe | parents hav he authority to order their children advanced and also to order any study dropped. But assuredly when par- | ents and teacher agree, no Board of Ed- | ucation or other power ought to interfere, |and I do not believe have any légal pow- ler to do so. I hope to see a fight made s 4 2 | Ly parents to_curb the selfish pretentions | yesterday and s a guest at the GrandN /¥ 870650 Bducation and others. They D Mr. Dean’s mine is one of the most prom- | g, it se fishly to increase their power and PLANS NOW BE|NG PHEPARE ising properties in his county. It is owned | importance. It is a common practice for | and operated by San Francisco capitalists. | Boards of Education to spend many days i 3 | 2r=: Caroline Seymoureverance, found- | (3£ £ Pet 489), SRELE 58 X' her davs | | er of the Woman's Club of Boston, the | fOF SXamMAaTon o\ PIb s 2o er the pu- | pils’ answers. All of which is without any authority of law and is a plain swin- | dle on the public Treasury, as a reading | of section 1771, School Law, will show. That section defines the powers of County ) | Saturday next for her home in Los Ange- | | les, where Miss Peel will be her guest for | some months to come. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mills will leave ' canal project were a long time before they reached | the surface in France, but when they were clearly‘ discerned and understood prompt and severe retribu- | 5 Boards of Education, but neither there nor any where is any power given them to usurp the functions of teachers and parents in the matter of pupils’ examina- | tionality and after arranging recoupment of our costs | to withdraw and leave them, with our friendship and AUCTION SALES. The California Drydock Company Will g ! ;Buf “'aml]r_lg tojthe ‘]"Of:‘d to let ‘:‘[e‘“ A ths tion followed. The occasional convictions of munic- | Spare No Expense inOrder to Make | san Franciaco to-night in thelr spectal |tone. Respecttully, W- S, FROSSER, iy FEaston, Eldridge & Co.—This Day, 2 o'clock, | ha self-gov X S * s car en route for Portland, Or. ey take % g ate, at 6 ¢ stroet ppy realization of the hope of seli-government and | ;5,1 poodiers in New York were of small import com- the Dock the Most Perfect as their guest Miss Margory Gibbons,| Auburn, Cal, May 30, 18% at 638 Marke rolla. F X ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHIEF LEES—E. T., City. I W. Lees was appointed Chief of Police of San Francisco April 7, 1897. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION-—S., City. The Teachers’ National Association will be held in the city of Los Angeles on | the 1ith, 12th and 13th of next July. | & Co—Thursday, June 2, at 10 a. m. on This Coast. Mission and Fremont streets, Planing Mill Machinery. daughter of Dr. Henry Gibbons. The party will be jolned in Portland by the | Misses Mills, who have been visiting in | that city, and will spend some time among the mountains and forests of .he north- | ern part of the State, taking in Castle | | Crags before returning. —_——— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. - | independence, for which they had fought Spain for a | century. We have published so much testimony to show that this was the intended attitude of our Gov- | ernment that to repeat it would be tedious. Begin- ning with the President’s declaration in his message of last 'year, the. evidence accumulates. When the treaty of Paris was pending before the Senate the | pared with the overwhelming wave of French indigna- tion that sent many of their most conspicuous states- men to destruction. Public opinion in France, unin- | formed and fomented by racial and religious preju | dices, long fhiled to discern the cruel and despotic | | combination from which Dreyfus suffered. But truth | [AES 9t & great expense, Sueh 15 the and justice were not to be permanently asphyxiated, | and at present engineers are at work upo: | and when the infamous record was gradually opened | the necessary plans. It cannot be said | S hal OUR BRO@AD-GAUGE GOVERNOR. T is the fashion of the press to refer to our present Governor a narrow gauge: Some misappre- | ion is liable to result from this inference. In But the road on The drydock of the California Drydock Company at Hunters Point is to be en- en respect to his intellect it is correct. NEW YORK.J = | d 131 £ ] ] . | P deae : A | L : : St e il e 3| 2 <, June 5.—Samuel Shean and | o - which 1 vels is strictly the broad gauge “that | President's personal organ said that Senator Hoar |4, pypjic scrutiny the virtue and the strength even of | Fue ':",‘:"exp;,:;g'(h:t":hzedz"c',?";i’;Fbe | Henry Pitner and wife of San Francisco| FREE COUNTY PAPERS—W., Philo, and those who stood with him were agitated by a | | are at the Vendome. G. Minette of San|Cal. The Postoffice Department at Wash- an imperfect democracy never rested until revision | completed—that is, the addition to it— by next summer. The work may begin BT LR : | within the next two months, but it is Imperialistic tendencies in this republic of late have | more than probable that it will be delayed | been too prevalent. They will be restrained in due | until the winter. It will take at least six | o AT s B . | months to accomplish the work that will time. The most dangerous evils against which W e e s g o | have to contend are irregularities in the administra- ; pany to enlarge the dock was brought | tion of the law and saturated political corruption, of | @bout by the fact that vessels are now leadeth to destruction.” The Governor bothers himself very little about the | groundless apprehension; that it was not among State Capitol, but seeks and finds variety on the tracks | the purposes of the administration to hold permanent- Southern Pacific Company. Just now he is on | jy ejther Cuba or the Philippines. The same identical to Yosemite, and when he enters that valley, | yqyrance was given to Senators at the White House. f solid rock, and observes the exquisite . = Lo e Tocs SE A 1 The testimony of a dozen army and navy officers, 1 ity of the Bridal Veil, the tumultuous ington, D. C., rules that free county pub- lications are entitled to forwarding within the county of publication free of post- ag : | WATER TROUGH—A. C. R., Arbuckle, | cal. A watering trough for the use aof horses should be washed every morning, a stiff broom being used for the purpose. In that way water will always be fresh after being run into the trough. | Francisco is at the Martin. ———— Scott of San Francisco is at the Shore- ham; D. E. Collins of Oakland is at the | Frank A. Travisky of San Fraa- at Willard's; Surgeon-General is et a a brigadi al, all of w! W : : ; | being built upon this coast whose dimen- | nce of the larger falls and the silent |MONE ‘_h”_'\‘[ 2 ,?"g,ad‘;" ge)“”\ =i “:"m X e]re { which the Huntington monopoly has furnished s | signs will be such that the present dock | Sternberg and wife left for California fo- e e ST Oltheisant ta i | present in Manila, 1s that the Americans began the AT e : = = .. | night. ! . W., City. For informa- cur of the sentinel mountains that appropriately | many irritating examples. The American people are | at Hunters Point will not be able to ac. . tion as to copyright address a communi- | oTT: v Tivi 5 inctity. | commodate them. not mercurial. They live under republican institu. At Drokent ths duck is @it Tg Bt | tions that are not unnaturally connected with an | the top, and it is proposed to extend this | hereditary aristocracy and under which complete re- | length 160 feet, which will make the dock \ - B 5 s 640 feet long. To do this the company will ligious liberty prevails. They are the product of the ' have to cut away a solid wall of rock. 1ge country, he may perhaps be en- | fight and the Filipinos did not. All this we have pub- After the fight personal organ, in a double- | cation to the Librarian of Congress, who will send you a circular of information, or go to the Free Public Library and see the copyright law on page 54 of the World Almanac for the current 4 e vpify a broad bled for once to comprehend his own littleness. And | lished, with the names of the witnesses. he top of Clouds’ Rest he should look down | began the President’s THE SOUTHERN LYNCHINGS. Starr King A. M. E. Zion Church, 805 Stockton street, | pendicularly for 7000 fect to the smiling landscape | jeaded editorial, said: “We want no more repetitions o i San Francisco, June 4, 189, | cath he may succeed in realizing the sensations | o¢ hic latest battle of Manila, The people of the | contributions of the best elements of the Caucasian g‘eh;lkfieflzg :soeflx(hi:(;]glflgj\?:tn?h‘ce:;;i; ‘}}Jl‘{‘ Editor of the San Francisco Call: As I| SIEBE'S CANDIDACY — Subseriber, ; ¥ 2 3 S the reason tnat the extension to be added | Nave noted with great pleasure, shared in | City. In 18% John D. Siebe, candidate for 2 corrupt politician who foolishly imagines that 1 reach the elysium of ambition by a fatal drop. hind him the other twin of his heay- to work the legislative lead for the ip during his absence. But he car- abundant food for reflection. Among an go over the long sequence. of his ine whether in any given in- 1 the smooth record of his obe- , and for a moment even pre- ed to legiance to the people. He not discover examples enough of forgetiulness i his thralldom to induce more than a temporary dis- rer gust The C on Sunday last furnished him with some for thought. It had previously notified the at as Ulysses S. Grant was at least tempor- out of the way, if the railroad executive could cr enough votes to elect Daniel M. Burns he would promptly relieve himself of the personal re- y of an appointment and discover some pretext for an extra session, so as to invest his Sen- atorial choice with the additional dignity of having g reased the burdens of taxpayers. This con- prediction the Governor resented, and in ccuracy said: “I only need to cite the nouncements of the executive appoint- ts that paper has made from time to time.” The Governor's statement being absolutely false, the inference was that he rather intended to convey pression that, if possible, he would fulfill our t qualifed prediction. In order that the public ght observe his recklessness, as evidenced by a st remarkable series of fulfilled announcements, in its issue of Sunday The Call gave a detailed account ncipal successes in this department of proph der specific dates and with literal quotations i that in some mysterious way it had sub- anticipated nearly every executive appoint- that has been made this year. The list was ble and included his private -secretary, the executive secretary, the stenographer, the secretary of the State Board of Examiners, thrce members of the - proof of its i incorrect > he in Ur provec mic United States have neither the bloodthirstiness nor the land hunger that will tolerate a war of conquest, whose battlefields are shambles and whose v are butcheries. ple will not tolerate the slaughter of Filipinos in a We do | not wish to replace the yoke of Spain with one bear- label of the United tories The conscience of the American peo- war of conquest. We do not seek their land. ing the more merciful and just States. Let the President announce tifat we have no intention to annex Asiatic territory and that the pledge of Congress as to Cuban independence will be the ipledge of the American nation to the Philip- pines.” | If our reader, friend and critic can find any opinion we have uttered in antagonism to the President’s of- ficial utterance and to these several expressions of his personal organ and to the assurances given Senators at the White House prior to the ratification of the treaty of Paris we will be glad to have him do so. Let us turn his attention now to the expressions | of the imperial party which has been manufacturing | a polity and pretending that it is the President’s. General Merritt, in a specch at the New Lng]and;} dinner in New York last January, said: “What if ex- | pansion is unconstitutional? This republic has out- grown the constitution, and that instrument is no longer-worth discussing.” Does our critic approve of that? Whitelaw Reid, at a speech to the Marquette Club | in Chicago on Lincoln’s birthday, said: “It is time to teach the American people the absurdity of the state- ment in the Declaration of Independence that govern- ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” : 5 Rev. P. S. Henson of Chicago, in a sermon in favor | of imperialism and expansion a month ago, said: “As | for the Declaration of Independence and its state- | _ment that governments derive their just powers from | possibly extreme, and they have passively submitted | | | At present the dock at Hunters Point | is just larga enough to accommodate such race. methodical and careful in business. .Their confidence in their civilization and in their Government has been to an administrative routine that has largely fallen under unwholesome influences. | But no population in the world is so capable, when | the necessity for action is forced home, ofssweeping every form of interference with the harmony, with the | integrity and with the efficiency of their political sys- tem out of sight. The embalmed beef investigation | may have been a solemn farce. The oppressions of | our railroad monopolies may have been weakly toler- { ated. Our local plunderers may have speculated upon | the continuance of civic apathy. But the indications on both sides of the American republic point to an upheaval of the masses, invested with the dignity and with the power of citizenship, and unless such dan- gerous cabals against our rights, our liberties and our property as are typified by Mr. Huntington take speedy warning the educational example of France will be an insignificant circumstance in comparison with the hard experience to which they will be sub- iected. Diplomacy may be a good thing, but San Fran- cisco Police Court tactics can beat it every time. An international complication threatened to grow out of the encounter a few days ago in an East street saloon between United States soldiers and a party of Japan- ese sailors from the training-ship Hiyei. was brought to the attention of Judge Mogan, who settled it out of hand and mayhap prevented a pro- longed war by deciding that the Japs, who interfered where they were not wanted, got what they deserved. S i It has long been notorious in this State that “bad | debt” brokers were using the lower courts as ad- juncts to their bureaus. Justice of the Peace A. C. Par- ker of Stockton has taken a step which, if followed by other Justices throughout the State, will do much to remedy the evil. collector hereaiter can have no more privileges than joard of Health, the Warden of San Quentin, the the consent of the governed, the devil never invented the ordinary citizen, and that when he brings a suit gistrar of Voters, the Highway Commissioners, arious other officers and two Code Commissioners, whose appointment, for the moment deferred, will complete the present list. As The Call is under the gubernatorial ban its in- formation, apparently marvelous in_its verity, must have been derived from some other source. The heavenly twin, now momentarily wrenched from his alter ego, s undoubtedly perplexed and may even have reg d his premature contradiction of a fact that no one could know so thoroughly as himself. But if he will remember that the railroad and Burns are one he can easily deduce the conclusion that, exceptin such a rare instance as the selection of W. W. Foote for one of the Paris Commissioners, it was only ry to discover whom the railroad and Burns wanted for each position, and if there were two or three with whom they had coquetted which of them was preferred, and the basis for calculation was prac- tically complete. The Governor has provided for his own Los An- geles fo who were probably acceptable to the powers he serves. He has taken care of the friends of Dan Burns, including legislative voters for that un- able irant for Senatorial honors. He is giving te its first avowed railroad administration. He s not our first executive to deceive or betray the people.. and especially the voters who elected him, or to violate his pledges, but the first whose treachery n and confessed. In the Yosemite Val- ley he will have 4 fine chance to analyze his own re- vealed character by the study of the mingled ob- stinacy and stupidity of the mule, an animal useful in its place but unfitted for the higher civilization of ed- ucated quadrupeds op |a mare damnable lie with which to deceive the world.” Abraham Lincoln said: “The doctrine of self-gov- ernment is right, absolutely and eternally right. When | a white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs an- other man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism. What I do say is that no man is good enovgh to govern another man without that other’s consent. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government; that, and that only, is self-government. Repeal the Declaration of Independence, repeal all past history, still you cannot repeal human nature. Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence and the practices and policy which harmonize with it. Let every American remember that to violate the Declara- tion of Independence is to trample on the blood of his fathers and to tear the charter of his own and his | children’s liberty.” . | Does our friend and critic agree with the imperial expansionists that the Declaration of Independence is “a damnable lie,” an “absurdity,” or does he agree with Lincoln? Does he think President McKinley believes the rcpublic has outgrown the constitution and that in- strument is no longer worth discussing, and that the Declaration of Independence is an absurdity and a damnable lie, and if so, does he agree with the Presi- dent in that belief? If he think that the Prg;ident so believes, what does he think is the-duty of a citizen “who is loyal to the Government of the United States”? Finally, does he find anything in President Mec- he must put down the price. The fruit-growers of the State are evidently taking C. P. Huntington at his word when he declared that he was never inspired by any desire to do anything solely for the public welfare. The fruit-growers have" determined to look after themselves, and are pro- gressing well in the efforts to make their welfare a { matter of serious concern to the railroad magnate. The Czar's peace conference, designed to bring the blessings of good will to all the nations, is making progtess. It has with due solemnity agreed that when armies are engaged in the pastime of killing each other no explosive bullets may be used. The Czar shudders at the name of a bomb. The French have been accused of being a mercurial people, and, consequently, inconsistent. History proves juldt to the contrary. It shows that when they are glad, they riot; when they are sad, they riot; and when they go mad, they keep on rioting. » Captain John M. Neall has been sentenced by court-martial to be dismissed from the army. Another evil victory has been won by Ingleside. Fitzsimmons is certain of victory and Jeffries is confident of winning. Nearly everybody else enter- tains a mild hope that they will both be whipped. The “Man With the Hoe” seems to have jumped his job. From all accounts at any rate he is working overtime on the lecture platiorim. The latest is a leather trust. Nobady- can say that it is a soleless corporation. . £ 4 . They are aggressive, rapid and at the same time | | find | Preparations to Entertain the Distin- by all the people of my race whose opin- | lons have been expressed in my presence, | the brave and patriotic stand you have | taken In regard to the unfortvnate lyr ings which have, from time to time, oc- curred in various parts of the South, it seems proper that I should express my sincere and earnest thanks to you, know- | ing that I but faintly state what all my The improvements that the California | PeOPIe feel In this matter. I am sure that Drydock Company propose, to make mean | &1l worthy eolored people have been very @ great deal to this port in the way of | hopeful that they would be accorded the helping business.. Vessels that formerly | same treatment that people of the white had to go elsewhere for drydockage will | race receive, and that where there are | it at Hunters Point. | violations of the laws, as there must be | while poor humanity is groping its way | toward the light and a wiser understand- | ing of what is their duty toward their fel- low man, and best for themselves, the |laws would be permitted to have their | course and the barparians of mob pro- ceedings would be frowned upon by all will be begun at the extreme limit and worked toward the present dock only a small wall of rock will h: cut away When thé extension is reacy to be added. vessels as the transports Sheridan and Grant. When the extension has been eom- leted it will be large enough for the ongest vessels that come to this port. AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS. guished Professors From the East. The matter | He has decided that the “bad debt” | The committee having in charge the en- tertainment of the delegates to the con- vention of members of the Associated | Colleges of Agriculture met yesterday in | the Chamber of Commerce to Teport prog- ress. There were present Captain Charles Nelson, E: Scott, A. Sbarboro, Professor M. E. Jaffa, C. F. Adams, H. H. Taylor, J. A. Filcher, Prentess Smith and others. Mr. Smith, who is an active member of banks of this city have subscribed $1300 Board of Trade and the Millbrae Dairy have added sufficient to make the amount | $1800 of the $3000 required. It was con- cluded that the amount would be easy to secure, as there are plenty of public | spirited land owners who desire to dem- onstrate to the learned visitors that there is no end of possibilities for. the future of the State. X Professor Jaffa and Mr. Scott stated that Lloyd Tevis of Haggin & Tevis and J. F. English desire the visitors to go to the part of the State in which their re- spective lands are located. The former have agreed to proyide entertainment at | Bakersfield, and thé latter will entertain at Bouldin Island. Professor Jaffa said the | scientists will take a couple of days in | studying the country along the Sacra- mento and San Joaguin rivers with a view of learning more of the reclamation prob- lem, and irrigation as well. The latter l‘\ljesfl(ln will be gone int§ thoroughly in | the southern part of the State. It is be- lieved that a visit will be paid to_the reat sugar beet cénters. Professor Jaffa s of the opinion that among the impor- tant visitors will be Secretary of Agri- culture Wilson. it The report was made by A. Sbarboro that the Swiss-Italian colony would en- tertain the guests at Asti. The members | of the convention will go to this place as | soon as the convention adjourns, making | at the same time the trip over the Cali- | fornia and Northwest Railroad as guests of Manager Foster. —————— WHEAT STATIONS. Official Willson Established Seven in San Joaquin Valley. Local Forecast Official Willson returned yesterday from the San Joaquin Valley, where for the past two weeks he has been employed in establishing wheat stations | along the line of the Valley road. Seven stations were equipped with thermometers and rain gauges, namel Elmwood, Mer- ced, La Grande, Lankersham, Hanford, Reedley and Visalia. Mr. Willson in- Bakersfield, Dewey and Angione, but the | shelters had not been prepared, so he left | the work to competent men and the three | places will be in operation In a few days. cannot be overestimated, and the Weather Bureau is deeply grateful to the Valley road, which has taken the matter in hand. Reports will now be received daily re- arding the prevailing«-weather conditions n the various wheat sections during the month of June and part of July, and the knowledge will be found invaluable in many quarters. The local weather office is in reckipt of a climatological record of Visalia which has been kept by Dan Scowan, a volun- tary observer, since 1888, The record gives complete data about the daily atmo- spheric conditions in that section and in- cludes the noting of earthquakes, sand .and electric storms, besides the minimum | and. maximum temperatures and the rain- | fall for every day during the past eleven | years. The rainfall is always light in Visalia, and varies from §.61 inches in 1893 to 14.19 inches in 1888, The highest aver- age temperature has been comparatively uniform at about 7 degrees and the low- est 48 degrees. \ v the finance committee, stated that the | toward the fund, and Mayor Phelan, the | tended to similarly equip stations at | | The importance of these wheat stations | good citizens. It is "undeniable ~ that very many of my people lose calm reason when they hear of such horrid crimes as those which lately darkened the’ skies in Georgia, and they feel excused for being | unduly severe upon the crazy men who took the lead in that sad transaction; and it is a fact that nothing so quickly brings them back to a proper way of reasoning as reading such noble sentiments as you | have expressed when referring to the | hasty actions of the cowardly mob. | It is not my purpose to keép the angry | feelings alive, but it seems well that you | should know how grateful we all feel to vou for expressing what the best citizens of the country, North and South, i regard to these unfortunate occurrences. am sure that-each recurring lynching | has a tendéncy to weaken the bonds of law and order in the community where it takes place, and that these spread to oth- er communities, creating prejudice, if not | batred. But if all the influential jour- nals speak the sentiments of the better class of their readers, as vou have. it | cannot be long until exact justice will be assured to ail. Again thanking you, I| am sincerely yours, | T. BROWN, Pastor. | — e A PLEA FOR EXAMINATIONS. Editor Call: Dear Sir—The public agi- tation over Superintendent Webster's | plan for written examination of pupils | passing grades as indorsed by the School Beard strikes one as emanating from in- capacitated weaknéss when advanced by | teachers. Experience, reason and common sense! Assessor of San Franciscg, was the nom- | inee of the Republican part in 1894 he was the nominee of the on-Partisan party, and he was supported by the Re- publican party; in 1593 he was the nom- inee of the Republican party and was supported by the Non-Partisan party. BLOCK NUMBERS—J. C., Citv. In San Francisco one hundred numbers, or as many thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted to each block bounded by the. principal _streets, numbers .one ndred, two hundred and three hundred being respectively the numbers for com- mencing the block distant one, two and three streets from the starting point on the right hand side, and numbers one hundred and one, two hundred and one and three hundred and one in similar manner for the opposite side of the street. For instance, the block from the start- ing point would be numbered from one to ninety-nine, if that many numbers be the second block would com- vith one hundred, the third with two hundred and the fourth with three hundred and so on. So if a person resides at No. 322 he is residing in the three hun- dred block, but in the fourth blo¢k from the point of starting. ——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's.® —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042, ¢ —_————— Remember this: In pictures and frames we offer the greatest variety, the newest styles, the prettiest designs and the low- est prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street. - 25 i Witness Against Welburn. It is understood that ex-Internal Rew- enue Commissioner Scott, who is on a visit to this eity, will be a witness in the trial of Osca, M. Welburn. Mr. ott was Internal Revenue Commissioner when Mr. ‘Welburn was splurging in the tenderloin. —_———— The Rio Grande Western Railway 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 of- fice, 14 Montgomery st —_————— Travelers should know that Dr. Slegert’s An- gostus Bitters neutralizes impurities in water and corrects stomach troubles. DIRECTORY Ot RESPONSIBLE MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS AND JO BBERS. . CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS MAILED ON APPLICATION. PLEASE MENTION “THE CALL.” BELTIVA, N. Manufacturer of Beltin, a L. I DEGEN, [ e “foeyor i sion St., cor. Spear. Telephons Main 562. BO LER MAKERS. EUREKA BOILER WORKS, W. J. BRADY, Proprietor. Special Attention Paid to Repairs and Ship ‘Work. Office and Works—113-115 MISSION ST. Telephone Main 5045. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPAXT, 342 10 350 Geary Street. Above Powe!!, Periodicals, Books and Stationery. COAL. COKE AND PIG IRON. J. C. WILSON & CO., ® ©00 BATTERY STREET. Telephone Main 1884, COPPERSMITH. JOSEPH FOX, Supt. H. BLYTH, Msr C. W. Smith, Ship Plumbing, Steamboat end Ship Work a_ € peciaity, 16 and 18 Washington St. - Telephone, Main 5641 DRUGGISTS WHOLESALE . REDI“BTG“ & cfl Secondand Steven. * son Sts. Tel. Main4 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. HARDWARE ALACE Hardware Co.. Importers an - ers in hardware, 603 Mzrkzx; tel. ngnm:r's; IRON FOUNDERS, Western Foundry, Morton & Hedt-y. Pro 234 Fremont St. Castings of Eve: D:‘ scription Made to Order. Tal. Black 1508, Imperiai Metailio NO BETTER N EARTH !mpcriay Mo Comanche Ochre Co., 205 Front; tel. Jessie 1998, PAPER DEALERS. wu_LAMEn’E PULP AND PAPER C0,. 722 Montgomery Stres:. PRINTINJ. E. C HUGHES 1hE HICKS-JUDD CD.. STAT ONE» AND PRITER. fornia st. WAREHOUSEMEN. THE HASLETT WAREHOUSE co., Forwarding Agents and public Weighers. Gen- eral Storage. Free and Grain \Varehouses. Gen- eral office, 210 California st, Tel. Main 1914. W2TCHES, ETC. T. LUNDY. Hgadauarters for fine Jeweiry * 18-k, Wedding Rings. 4 3d WiiiTe AH STEAM COAL, Mined by the Bu\cxoDuMol\'b VAL MINING CO. at ita PRINTER, " 611 Sansome street. Printers, Book- binders, 23 First st. and st. JAS. BOYES & C0., S5 s eheriy REEN RIVER CO] Js the Best Coal in the Market. Office and Yards—4i0 Main Street