The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY JULY "11, 1899 —— ] JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicat ons. L W. S. _Market and Third Sts., S. F- Telephone Main 1868 I DITORIAL ROOMS..........21T to 22 Stevenson Street | Telephone Maln 1874 LEAKE, Manager. FUBLICATION OFFICE > BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. ingle Copfes, B cents. Including Postage: Sinday Call), one vear. Sunday Call), 6 mo: DELIV] DAIL DAILY CALL (in DAILY CALL tin DAILY CALL—By sU CALL DAY % 1.00 orized to receve subscriptions. rwarded when requested. pies will be f, OAKLAND OFFICE . 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, nager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. W YORK REPRESENTATIVE: S JR ..29 Tribune Building | ANDS. Great ) CHICAGO N House; P. e Aud EWS ST N orthern Hotel Hotel. EW YORK WS STANDS. va r Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Equare; | Murray ¥ WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ....Wellington Hotel | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. —527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, 387 Hayes street, open until llister street, open until 9:30 | street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. reet, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I18 on street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh cpen until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- | d Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | ERANCH OFFICE en until 9:30 o'clock Specia near Eighi . Market street, wimming Races, etc. ~Cake Walkers, Saturday, AUCTION SALES. THE BUBONIC BCARD OF HEALTH. tempt to create a scare by the bubonic ) ITH the report of the bortive ippearance of the Board of Health ap- and to serve the pur-| d the Southern Pacific Com- gave tblic an illustra- h it relies for ed of a lack of energy nor as it in office whe: cess. nce to serve its f. It did not It made one out of what in r an opport was virtuall; the wufactured op- | g a panic with the au- cruples and are reck! ces to others so I rderation in e iting of b ortunity, but set about star 1 who have no ned for then o serves Dan Burr ¥ yresentative on the Board of Health, ser- Barbat, n and as r tother wi rother s ab iceable to t “bacteriologi d the bodies of two Japan- trying to swim ashore from red he found evidence that h the bubonic plague—the most he pestilential Orient. Thus it t the plague had reached San v to profit by the d wit he board got re: expected to follow. ges were to be gained from the panic. ble service was to Pacific Mail Steamship C e. If the publi g line of st ce to the city, Huntington would have on the | something like the monopoly he abuses on| That far the service was rendered to the rail- mpany could be per- nships brought rvice was to Dan Burns himseli. Had s bacteriologist succeeded in causing , it could with more pretension ask ge appropriation, ostensibly tion and protection of the health of the city, but really to make places for the idle and| worthless members of the Burns push. Thus the board would have increased its prestige in the city nd augmented the strength of the Burns ring. The attempt to create a scare was abortive, but it none the less succeeded in doing the city considerable | In the East the character of the Board of Health is not understood, nor are its purposes com- | prehended. Therefore the story of the bubonic plague , in this city has been widely published there and ex-| : tourist who might have come to | San Francisco has been turned away by this false| rumor started for the purpose of making business for the Pacific Mail and doing politics for Dan Burns. Thus the first effect of the operations of the board hasi been to injure the whole community to an extent | which it is not possible at this time to estimate. | From the way the board has begun it is easy to foresee how it will continue. The welfare of the com- | munity is to count as nothing. The main object is to devise a means of forcing the Supervisors to increase the appropriations for the board. Fortunately, the | first move was so gross a blunder that the people can | readily perceive the nature of the trap that was pre-| pared. Hereaiter the public will be wary. It will take | something more than a report from the bacteriologist | Barbat to start a scare or induce the Supervisors to | intrust more public money for the pay of the Burns push. its true worth. The second s i the board arn ral a a ger from the S pervisors a | the purifi 1e | harm. | | | Oom Paul is said to be fencing diplomatically with Pritish statesmen to gain time until the rainy season sets in and military operations in the Transvaal will be | doubly dangerous for British troops. Oom Paul must be reading the reports of General Otis from the Phil- ippines. Mrs. Yda Addis Storke of Santa Barbara must think that Attorney Jackson has four or five lives. Prussic acid, chloroform and two pistols certainly ought to silence an ordinary lawyer forever. Senator Gorman's friends claim that his health is poor. It is not half so poor as his chances for the D | fitted to the British need of some one to keep | tions are adapted to them. | the temperate zone, | their consent. 1 MR. BARRETT, DIPLOMAT. | URING Mr. Cleveland’s last term everybody was surprised by his discovery of Mr. John | Barrett, and his appointment of that person | as Minister to Siam. Mr. Barrett's experience in| diplomacy consisted of inexperience in journalism, | which honorable profession he had failed to adorn as | | a reporter for a paper in Oregon. He moved on the land of the white elephant, and longed for great things. Our British brethren have been for years | carefully cultivating the spirit of imperialism in all erican Consuls and Ministers in Asia. Colonel Denby was carefully coached in that line by the Brit- | ich Minister in Peking. He had not been there long until he sent up a loud and bitter complaint about the quarters furnished him to live in. The British Min-| er had a compound all to himseli, and servants in livery and raiment that tied honors with the yellow jacket and peacock feather of old Li' Hung Chang Colonel Denby stayed in Peking twelve years and saw the British Minister lord it over the Celestials until| he longed to represent an empire and take up the white man’s burden kicking some poor devil smaller than himseli. The same influences were around Diplomat Barrett at Bangkok. The English of newspaper there received him with a flourish of head- lines and immediately acquired an American circula- tion, for he sent marked copies to everybody in the country of whom he had ever heard. The Bangkok Times and Barrett were like organ and organist. He ettled an American’s claim against Chulalongkorn for killing an elephant and burning a woodpile. The | Times hailed it as a diplomatic triumph that would have roused the envy of Hastings and Clive and that had made all Asia tremble with fear while not thrilled with admiration. To Mr. Barrett the Philippine war was an opportunity. Having been taught by his Brit- ish tutors in Siam that the people of Asia are not to be treated as human beings, he was a tool filed and the English imperial policy in countenance. He has re- | turned to his own, his native land, like Denby, to in- ctruct the mere American taxpayer, who only fur- shes the money and merely sends his sons to be Iled or rot alive under a vertical sun, in his duty to violate the constitution in order that Barretts and | Denbys may have whole compounds and liveries and in Asia up to the British standard. He ng his voice in the do diplomacy has been, and probably still is, rais Eastern States in favor of imperialism and in convey | ance of gross misinformation about the Philippines. { His repres atation of the beauties of a tropical cli- ts adaptation to our race is the result either Races ate and eat ignorance or unbridled mendacity. are found planted by nature where the physical condi- Our race was placed in the tropical races were planted in the torrid zone. When Mr. Barrett can point to any estimable number of temperate zone peo- ple born in the third generation in the tropics, he may m: and a | But it is when he discusses the politics of imperial- | sm that Barrett shines with all the brilliancy of a He declares that we must keep the em from Spain, and mud nimbus. Philippines because we bought tt Sg must hold them, no matter what may be the objection In discussing altes es he sa “We cannat honorably sell the Philippines, for we will be ba vay 8. es, unless they them- ves favor said sale That illuminates the Barrett intellect. We may make war on Spain because she governed people against We bought the Philippines without consent of the natives, and are making devastating war on them to establish our government over them without their consent. Yet, cries Barrett, “it will be dishonorable to sell them without their consent.” Is ynorable to sell than to buy people with- out their consent? Mr. Barrett has at last furnished an imperial standard of honor. It is honorable to buy an unwilling people, to make destructive war upon them and to answer their cry for mercy with the de- mand for unconditional surrender, to call them rebels because they resist being sold to us, but it would be dishonorable to sell them to another buyer unless they of the people. ering it more di are willing! Long may Barrett’s diplomatic tongue wag as an imperialist tocsin! THE MAYOR AND THE PLEDGE. \/IG()R()L'S and persistent efforts are now being / made to induce the Supervisors to increase the appropriation set apart for the Fire Department in the estimates for the coming year recently reported by the Finance Committee. Protests against any re- duction in the effective force of the department come from all quarters, and it is not to be denied that in many respects the arguments of the protesters are well founded. If, however, the estimate for the Fire Department be increased there must be a correspond- ing deduction made from the appropriation of some other branch of the municipal administration, or the dollar limit pledge must be broken. To obtain counsel and advice as to the best means of providing adequately within the dollar limit for the needs of all departments of the city government, the Supervisors have referred the estimates to the Mer- chants’ Association for consideration. The judgment of that association will undoubtedly be valuable. The members of it are men who have long taken an active interest in municipal affairs and are strenuous sup- sorters of progress with economy. They desire to see an efficient administration of the city, a liberal policy of improvements in streets, sewers, parks and other public works, and they also desire the maintenance of that dollar limit pledge to which most of them are bound by their public declarations as clearly as are the Supervisors by their campaign promises. The Merchants’ Association, however, is, after all, an unofficial body. It has not been charged by the responsibilities of office to make a thorough and com- prehensive study of the relation of municipal finances to the work of administration. The counsel it will give will doubtless be excellent, but it cannot be final. The Supervisors, after receiving the report from the association, should hold it for the consideration of the Mayor. That officer, as chief executive of the city, is charged with the duty of investigating all such mat- | ters, and his advice ought by all means to be sought and obtained by the Supervisors before they fix the cstimates and the appropriations for the year. The expediency of consultation with the Mayor is exceptionally strong in this case by reason of the fact | that Mr. Phelan is not only Mayor of the city, but is | and has been ever since he entered office the most | conspicuous advocate in public life of the dollar limit. He has repeatedly asserted that a revenue de- rived from a tax rate of $1 on the $100 on the basis of an assessed valuation of taxable property of $330,000.- { 000, would be amply sufficient for all the needs of the municipality. He has insisted that it would provide | not only for the maintenance in unimpaired vigor of all departments of the government, but for such im-| provements as the progress of the city demands. | It was because of public confidence in these asser- | tions made by Mr. Phelan after two years in office | that he was re-elected Mayor in an election in which | Presidential nomination, 'S | ever sailed. his party suffered overwhelming defeat. To him, lscleccAguinaldo. therefore, does a considerable body of the people look ! for counsel in the problem now confronting the mu- nicipality. The Supervisors should obtain his aid in shaping the estimates. He should not be deprived of any of the glory of a successful solving of the com- plication, nor should he be permitted to shirk any of the responsibility should evil result from reductions in | | the appropriations asked for by the heads of depart- ments. As for the Supervisors themselves, their duty is clear. They were elected upon a pledge to limit the tax rate to one dollar on the hundred. Let them keep that pledge in letter and in spirit, and the public will have no right to condemn them. THE COMING YACHT RACE. JOINS TH | PORTS concerning the trials made by the Co- lieving the coming yacht race will be the best Both the challengers and the defenders | scem well satisfied with their boats, and apparently have good reason for their satisfaction. The Columbia not only made a successful run in her trial trip, but since then has been matched with the Defender, that held the cup against the Valkyrie, and has shown herseli to be a fleeter and a better yacht in every respect than that famous and victorious crait. | The last contest between the two was in some re-| spects unfortunate, inasmuch as both yachts sailed the wreng course, but the error did not in any way pre- vent a fair test of the comparative merits of the two. The race was sailed over a twenty-six mile course, and in covering that distance the Columbia outsailed the Defender by three minutes and thirteen seconds. Granting the Defender a time allowance of two min- | utes, the Columbia will still have the victory by more than a minute. From the results of the trial experts draw the conclusion that since the Columbia wins over a twenty-six mile course by that much time in her present condition, she can, when properly tuned up by next September, beat \the Defender over a thirty mile course by as much as five minutes, which | is all that is required of her. While the Columbia is thus satisfying to the expec- tations of Americans, the Shamrock has given hardly less satisfaction to British yachtsmen. She has not vet been tested in a race against a fleet yacht of the first class, but her trial trip has been remarkably suc-| cessiul. One of the experts who watched her is re- ported to have said: “We have a flyer. We have a yacht much better than anything before known here. Ii the Americans beat us they will have to work hard for it. They are not going to have a run away triumph.” From all reports it appears the Shamrock, much more than the Columbia, is a novelty in the way of yacht construction. In this contest the Americans servatives and the Irish challenger is the radical innovator. It is said there is scarcely a bit of wood about her. Her entire hull is of thin metal.| The mainmast is of hollow steel and all the rigging is | of wire. No expense has been spared in fitting her. | Her sails are not made of common canvas, but of cloth woven from the finest sea island cotton, and represent the best work of men who claim to be the foremost sailmakers in the world. For all that she has been constructed in a British shipyard, the Shamrock will be essentially an Irish yacht, as her owner designed her to be. Her crew| is Irish, and in the recent trial trip their work elicited no little praise by reason of its swiftness, its efficiency and the clock-like regularity with which every portion | of it was performed. | All that yacht builders can do to make the great‘ are the co race a satisfactory contest between the two foremost | racing and sporting people in the world has been done. i The rest remains for the yachtsmen and their crews. | The irritation caused by the Dunraven outbreak over | ¢ the last race has passed away from both sides, and the public can look forward to a contest of friendly rivalry in skill and seamanship. | DOMESTIC SERVICE IN BOSTON. i ~ROM a time so remote that the memory of man | [ runneth not to the contrary there has been a sound of lamentation in the United States over the problems of domestic service, and the burden of the wailing has been that American girls, through a false pride, object to such service and refuse to per- form it. Now, however, there comes from the East| a story of a nature so contrary to the old one it has all the interest of a genuine surprise party. In a recent number of the Independent Mrs. Eliza- | beth Stuart Phelps Ward, who lives in the vicinity of Boston, asserts that in “the present chaotic condi- tion of American society many a woman in domestic service may be as well born and as well educated as her employer. Hundreds of women are ready to en- ter kitchens and serve in dining-rooms who would not have considered such a step possible fifteen years ago.” In proof of her assertion Mrs. Ward cites her own experience and says: “Some time since I advertised for a woman to do the housework of my family and received eighty applications, of which not more than two or three were from professional servants. Dress- makers, clerks, saleswomen, widows, nurses, stenog- raphers, respectable American women by the score, were ready to ask admission to a home where they | would be well treated, and perform its roughest du- ties. The widow of a physician, a well-bred lady, her- | self accustomed in her past life to her own servants, applied to a suburban household for permission to | carry on its domestic work. The same day brought a " similar request from a teacher educated in three of our leading institutions—one a college.” ! This story is proof of much more than of the point | it was cited to prove. It is an evidence not only of the breaking down of former prejudice against domes- | tic service, but also of the increasing severity of theY struggle for existence in the older States. When ani educated teacher, a graduate of three of the leading | institutions of New England, and manifestly indus- | trious and willing to work, has to seek and almost | | beg for employment as a servant, it is evident condi tions have changed since the days when even the| poorest Americgn girl scorned to be a servant and would hardly consent to be a “help.” ‘ Mrs. Ward’s statement is a surprise indeed, and the surprise is not a pleasant one. of the servant girl problem, however, in an important respect. Since college-bred girls have taken service for a living, it is clearly the duty of the em- ploying class to meet them half way and make the living worth having. Jokn J. Valentine, the Wells-Fargo president, may be sorry some day that he did not give a pass to Rev. V. Marshall Law. He may have to sue some other spiritual director some day for a pass on his last journey. Devils Isle seems to have been appropriately named. His Satanic Majesty appears to have sta- tioned a few of his deputies there to make life inter- esting for Dreyfus. Bill Bryan is casting about for a running mate. " If his expansion ideas undergo no change, he may yet | Crar e | been in charge, | registered at the Occidental from Wash- It changes the aspect | to | 4 8rancy. THPTAN E.H PLUMNER GETS A PROMOTION a Lieutenant Colonel. fMade e E THIRTY - FIFTH e lumbia and the Shamrock give reason for be- GENERAL SCHWAN ARRIVES EN | ROUTE TO MANILA. Sipge | Lieutenant Colonel Maus Assumes His Duties as Inspector General of the Department of the Pacific. E SR Captain Edward H. Plummer, senior aid | to Major General Shafter, was agreeably surprised yesterday te recei a telegram from Assistant Adjutant General Carter informing him that he had been commis- sfoned lieutenant colonel of the Thirty fifth Infantry Volunteers. Captdin Plum- mer's promotion {8 well deserved and comes without solicitation on his part, although it is said the appointment was recommended by General Shafter. As Colonel Kobbe of the Third Artillery, who has been appointed to command the Thirty-fifth, is now at Manila, the or- ganization of the regiment will probably | be left entirely with the lfeutenant colonel. | The regiment will be organized at Van- couver barracks and will be recruited en- tirely from the Pacific Coast. Captain Plummer is a native of Mary- | land and is regarded as one of the most | efficient officers of the regular army. He | entered West Point July 1, 1873, as a cadet | from Maryland. On his graduation on June 15, 1877, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Tenth United States Infantry. On November 29, 1894, he was promoted to the first lieutenancy in the same regiment. He was com; oned a captain in the Tenth on April 2, 1898 At/ the outbreak of the war with Spain he was assigned to the Fifth Army Corps under General Shafi During the cam- paign around Santiago he was quarter- master at General Shafter's headquarters. The proficiency with which he performed his duty as _quartemaster attracted the most favorable comment from his superior officers and ultimately obtained for him | the position of senior aid upon the staft of General Shafter. When General Shafter returned from Cuba Captain Plummer ac- companied him, and since that time he has been the general's principal assistant. | Lieutenant Colonel M. P. Maus has ar- rived and assumed his duties as inspector general _of this t, relieving ward Fleld. jor Robert H. been attending to the duties of the position since Major F' iliness. General Schwan, who has been ordered to Manila and expects to sail on the City of Para, is in the city and is being enter~ tained by Major Noble. General Schwan commanded a d ion of General Miles’ army at the inv: on of Porto Rico, and since the war has been acting as assist- ant adjutant general. ptain Joseph B. Bachelor and Captain Te- of the Twenty-fourth Infantr: ported for duty at the Presidio yesterd: Surgeon Majpr Mosely says there is noticeable improvement in the class of cruits being received at the Presidio since the Government made the rule hol all recruiting and medical officers re sible for accepting recruits who have sequently been rejected. The latest batch o be discharged as unsuited for the service are: John Hair, Samuel Hayward, John Ragan, James M. Grant, Francis M. Johnson, Fred Harlan, Charles E. Mc- Keehan, George Oddy, Harry Miller, Charles W. Erickson, John Haslett, Alfred | A. Isen, Charles Hudson, Edward R. Con- ley, John W. Gibson, Albert P. King and | Frank D. Devendorff. Orders have been issued directing Cap- tain George A. Detchmendy of the Twen- r-second Infantry to close the recruiting | at ramento, of which he has office Governor Geer and staff of Oregon, who are en route to this city to welcome the Webfoot volunteers from Manila, will ar- rive this morning. AROUND THE CORRIDORS of Mo- Garrison Turner, an attorney desto, is registered at the Grand. Surveyor General M. J. Wright of Saec- L] ramento is a guest at the Grand. | Dr. F. R. Arndt of San Diego is one of | resterday’s arrivals at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oxnard have re- | turned to the city. They are at the Pal- ace. H. S. Greenleaf, M. D., a physician of the army, is at the Palace en route to Manila. W. J. Shattuck, a large fruit grower of Hanford, is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. Dr. T. H. Hall of the Napa State Hos- pital for the Insane is a guest at the Cali- fornia. Captain D. J. Hart of the signal corps is ington, D. C. Alden Anderson, a wealthy fruit grower and Speaker of the Assembly, is a guest at the Grand. W. M. Sims, one of the leading lawyers of Sacramento, is at the Palace on a short visit to the city. T. W. H. Shanahan, a well-known poli- | tician of Anderson, is among last night's | arrivals at the urand. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harkinson of An- | but by the ealoons supported by the | erville, Cal. There is no premium on what | Grand Rapids, 'Mich., weekl BOARD OF HEALTH WANTS MORE CASH WILL APPEAL TO. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. tion the cases were continued till Frida Young is a notorious pickpocket and Ma- guire s branching out in that direction. ———————— DISCUSSED TEMPERANCE. Rev. John A. B. Wilson Sharply Crit- icizes Supporters of Saloons. | J | i | { th the Federal Authorities In discussion on ‘“Temperance” by ! i | the members of the Methodist Episcopal | Row With Hr s | Ministers’ Union yesterday morning Rev. | Still Goes Merrily | F. D. Bovard of Santa Rosa gnd Re On. | John A. B. Wilson of this city delivered Eald | forcible arguments on the subject. The | former criticized the,attempt of Henry J. | Crocker to form a wine trust, which, he | contended, would injure the cause of tem- | perance in his section. Dr. Wilson criti- | cized the administration and condemned | the canteen system. In part he sald: | I nave no controversy with my brethren on We all believe in | Leon Dennery, secretary of the Board of Health, will make common cause with the Fire Department to-night and appear before the Finance Commiitee of the Board of Supervisors to urge upon that body the necessity of an expansion of the tax apportionment for the expenses of the the question of temperance. all believe 19 | 1o j¢h Department. - i’.’&é."”{%’&‘;”fif‘n?r‘.,‘,?‘ B the o ot | When the old Board of Supervisors fixed the amount that the Board of Health was vas not known that so ma nehmen were to be u and all the figuring of able has_failed to 1sequently Mr. Burns vill have h T take the position cal question as well ¢ must have a great ¥ can applying these princ that it is a great p as a moral one. and political party In back of it, and no p | take it up because issues make paril | parties make issues. g The great issue of tariff has div whaole country into two hostile cam ! and yet the Qifference between has decided that th to put up the diff that the varlous parties would not pay t political debts m. of the nation for two mon: T i 2 and fifty million dollars goes over e . 5 3 ar for the debax e to some r warm l‘urrP,‘pu{\dbr.n e ar | between the muni ipal nd the Federal s il 3 | Health offi Dr. Kinyoun of the M ory and & national invest )t | rine Hosp service last week at Y AN R arecamps in which 5000 of our sol- | dressed a letter to the board in whi he died horrible deat! Severaly criticized the findings of D hav dier boys investigation as to the ruin, bauchery and the final slaughter of the 1 men through the drink question. And no se of the two dead Jap- ypon Maru. Dr. Barbat red and mada Barbat in the c anese from the declared that he had dis in politics dares to sag one word in crit AHCCUsETUE & » true germ of of the infamens traffic, from the President of | HC“Greaq Dubonic plague from Jmli'-a the reason that the liquor men cast the! mkenl fmln\; the glands of the two Japan. in *‘blocks’” for the men who favor th 3 )r. Kinyo ea ation and administration and criticized t e n requi Barbat arrived nel The diplomacy of the administra that Protestant missfonari Manila for their work, b salqons to be opened in th: debauchery of our soldier boy ing to their country’s call. go o patriotic fervor, and who will come ba: ruined, not by the bullets of the F t 16 ddressed 2 communica- ich Dr. Barbat's meth- conclusions up- terday the board ion to him, in were defended and his held. After coplous quof £ on the true plague germ, the le s follows: You state that it was a well-known fact to this board that there was a weli- equipped laboratory at the Federal Quar- antine St We have been unable to discover an ation from you to not tations from treatises r reads tration for their destruction. Rev. Franklin Rhoda read a paper he- fore the Presbyterian Ministers’ entitled “Are We Limiting the Hol of Israel?” It proved a learned dis r T s antine A general discussion followed the reading | that Ll {-’—T.fi Sty of the paper, in which Rev. Messrs. Bur- | Officer has mewver ~Et bR, Tite it to nett, Landon, Herriott. courteous t0 L tiea of Angel Isiand. Fraser and Hunter participated With regard to the to de Rev. G. B. Hatch addressed the Congre- gational ministers on John G. Whittier. Tt was an interesting talk on the great poet’s life and works. B e Given away with each cash want adver- tisement ordered in next Sunday’s Call, a magnificent portrait of Admiral Dewey, erm, we beg fully competent £ this kind which exact nature of & inform you that we are to undertake any work o come before us. ywing from past ¢ report coming from lfully distorted and the facts withheld m the Surveyor General of the Marine ital service, we instructed our b: experience that this board was 4 A g teriologist to send you a slide of printed in ten cofors, size 14x21 inches, ,,kr)’,_v“fmpn nulhbfilr‘,(i(', sy\ni i whethe: able to dis- foaey 'M—.,'mm"’g' I nguish them. hed letter in- es that you are as liable to err as and we feel that we eriolog] led in taking the to properly prot ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. stand we did -t the city of in order an Francisco from any pidemic of bubonic plagu _— ee——— SUICIDE BY GAS. | Aged Charles Davis, Drunk and De- spondent, Ended His Days. Charles Davis, day clerk at the Model PAINT—G. P., City. Such paint as you desire can be procured from any dealer in paints. PRATT'S ORATION—F., City. Leon- idas E. Pratt delivered the Fourth of July oration in San Frarcisco in 1874, THE ALTA CALIFORNIA—F., City. The files of the Alta California were se- cured for the Free Public Library in this S o e city, and are there now. _ e o tie ‘f" mSum_iay ‘h:.- JEEN V. = ) frxiating himself with illuminating D O e e e had been drinking to excess dur- Cal. By the birth of a child recently to Princess Heinrich Reuss, Queen Victoria became a great-great-grandmother. SAN FRANCISCO TO HONOLULU—A. C. R, City. The distance from San Fran- cisco to Honolulu is laid down in the track chart as 2100 miles. The ships of the P: cific Mail line which stop at the named port on the way to China make the distance 2085 miles, “A GOLD QUARTER'—D. E. K., Plac- | % the past week and was very despond- found in the disinfecting d locked the door on him- off the tip of the gas allow the fluid to es- ent. The body wa. | room. Davis I 1f and had take i fixture, C?llp the he dead man wa and 67 years old. a native of England Cal.glace fruit 50c per lbat Townsend's.® —_—e—e————— Specfal information supplied daily business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. is known as a “gold quarter.” The United States never coined gold quarters. Such are tokens that were manufactured by ! jewelers in the early days of California. There are a great many in San Francisco, where they are offered at 25 cents each. TO PORT ORCHARD—S. J., San Jose, — ee——— Divorce Suits Filed. Mary McKibben has sued her husband, | James McKibben, for a divorce, alleging Cal. The Mary F, Perley leaves Seattle | cruelty as a cause of action. Suits for daily, except Sunday, at 9:30 a. m. and 4 | divorce on the ground of de p. m; Sunday at 7 p. m., for Port Orch- | been filed by Burt Petrone ag ard. 'The A.”R. Robinson leaves Seattle | Petrone, Charles H. Douglass _agal daily for the same point at a Sarah Douglass and Louis Wainberg . m, There is no steamer between Tacoma and against Anna Wainberg. Port Orchard. = —_————————— On July 13 and 14 the Santa Fe route will sell HOLLANDISH PAPERS—G. V. C.,| : & City. The following ie a list of the olz | fikers ° dedianail 100 S, %o dlog ™ot andish papers published in the United : s = Sun ~ States: be H(-]dsnwere‘d' at Orange ( | the Epworth League. Get full ;::::_um- at iy, 4 Iowa, monthly; Een Stem des Vol the Santa Fe cffice 28 Market —_——e—————— Angostura Bitters, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. lera, at De Pere, Wis. Siegert for his private use, has become famous same place, monthly. as the best appetizing tonlc. _——— 09000 50 60 06 6....00—0.0.—. wet, at Holland, Mich. tioch have taken a residence for the sum- mer at 834 Grove street. H, P. Goodman, son of the well-known banker of Napa, is one of those-who yes- terday registered at the Palace. A. J. Richardson, one of Auburn's most prominent citizens, is at the California ! on & short pleasure trip to the city. Captain J. M. Sigworth, U. S. A., and E. C. Mitchell, U. S. N., are two Unit=d States officers who are staying at the Occidental. E. C. Deutcher, a wealthy mining man | of ‘Virginia City, is a guest at the Palace, | as are also Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Mix of New York. J. W. Barbour, P. McRae and D. R. Cameron are three well-known fruit growers of Hanford who are registered at the Lick. Nineteen of the teachers who were on he special that was wrecked at Newman returned to the city last evening and went to the Grand. Mrs. W. S. Leake, Miss Georgie Spieker, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spieker and Miss Bir- die Dray of Sacramento left yesterday for Alaska on a pleasure trip. e } CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, of Los Angeles is at the Shoreham. W. Belvin of San Francisco Ralelgh. | July 10.—H. C. Turner w. ——————— Ex-Collector Welburn’s Bonds. Judge J. H. Beatty of the United States District Court of Idaho called the calen- dar in the United States Circuit Court in this city this morning, Judge Morrow | having gone on a vacation. | The suits brought by the Government against ex-Collector Oscar M. Welburn's bondsmen to recover $42,000, alleged to have been embezzled by Cashier Norton, were set for trial for July 31 Tomem o ena Suspected Pickpockets. “Kid" Young, Frank Maguire, George Reed and Ben Zimmerman, who were ar- rested Sunday while working the crowds on the Tiburon boats by Detectives Ellis and Shaw, appeared in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday to answer a charge of va- At the request of the prosecu- | i is at the { | | | | | | | | | THE MAN OF THE HOUR. A MAGNIFICENT PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL DEW IN-TENICOLORS (Size 14x21 inches) WILL BE GIVEN AWAY BY THE CALL 1 To every one Inserting and paying for a WANT ADVERTISEMENT in ? b NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL i? TH]S PORTRAIT Is in no sense a cheap chromo, but an example of the highest style of illuminated printing in the famous French style of color-plate work. ~An ornament to any library or drawing- room. BEARS THE AUTOGRAPH OF ADMIRAL DEWEY. Cannot be had else- ® where in San Francisco than at the Business Office of THE CALL, where sample copies may be seen. lI-O—H—o—o—o—H—H—o 1 © 090 0-0-0-0-0-0 000006006 VOe000e:o006%006e02006 0 6 0 - |