The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WE DA ¥, JULY 132, 1899 JULY 12, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . B e o Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. USSP SUSS ST E U A A A PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephoge Main 1574 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postagt DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one ye: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year... All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. vieeee....908 Broadway 65c 1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forclgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. > NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR ......29 Tribune Building ANDS. CHICAGO NEWS ST. i Great Northern Hotel; Sherman House; P. O. Fremont House; Auditorfum ws Co. Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldorf-Astor Hotel; Brentano, 31 Union Bquare; Murray Hill Hotel. . WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 930 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister sfreet, open until o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Lord and Lady Algy. The Last Word,” to morrow night. raudeville. **Shamus O’ Brien.” *“Camille.” Tivolt Alcazar Grand Opera House—*‘Carmen.” Chutes, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Olympla—Corner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- tle of Manila B: Sutro Baths— Nation vimming Races, etc. Celebration—Friday, July 14, at the —Cake Walkers, Saturday, July 15. Pavi THE DOLLAR LIMIT. HE CALL has repeatedly invited the public at- tention to the fact that, in the municipal cam- paign of 1808, each political organization and didate for a municipal office was pledged T every ca to a rate of taxation for this fiscal year that should not exceed one dollar in the hundred on an assumed valuation of three hundred and fifty millions. This pledge, simple, intelligible, incapable of evasion, was empl ly the special capital of the fusion candi- date for Mayor and of the organ that supported him. Every political idea that was incorporated into the fusion platiorm was stamped into dust by the heels of the voters. The one thing that lifted Mayor Phe- lan out of the crash and the ruin that befell his party was his economigal pledge, backed, as he expressed it, by his official ekperience for two years. There can be nothing simpler than a He either keeps it or he breaks it. This ly the view of Mayor Phelan when he delivered his second inaugural before the present Board of Super- ow what is the meaning of the concerted d from a dozen quarters, to force a vio- man’s word. visors effort, lation of this pledge? the board, fully sustained by the Republican press, re: have refused even to consider any proposal to recede from the obligation, either in the letter or in the spirit But the Democratic members show an in- clination to fall down. And Mayor Phelan, the Jupi- ter Tona of the dollar limit, is off on his vacation, and, however much he may be entitled to rest, at a most critical moment palpably evades a situa- tion which, beyond all other-public officials, he has assisted to create. He has been invited, over and over a to reconcile his promises of public im- | provements with his economical declarations, and to make practical suggestions so as to avoid the emas- culation of any department of the municipal service. But at the precise instant when he is wanted, just when he could prove the reality of his position by re- | the generalities of a canvass to a business ducing level, he is absent. The situation, especially on the fusion or Demo- cratic side, is unique. The Democratic Assessor be- lieves that under the new charter a rate of eighty- five cents on the one hundred dollars or thereabouts cught to produce all the money that the municipa]it” needs to raise by taxation. The Republican Auditor, Mr. Wells, thought that, in view of the frauds con-| stantly perpetrated in the purchase of supplies, it | might be impossible to obserye the doilar limit and | meet the exigencies of the various departments for the present fiscal year. The real question seems to be one of equalization, not only as respects the tax- payers, but in the division of the taxes. No citizen is desirous to see the Fire Department, which has| done such excellent work in the past and upon which | the community so largely depends, reduced to a pov- erty that would impair its efficiency. But, on the other hand, no citizen who has studied the facts con- siders that this is necessary. Let business methods be employed, let the purchase of supplies be regulated by ordinary rules and not used as a mode of rendering public money without a. just equivalent, and, as Mr. Wells has logically proved, the appro- priations of past years can be largely reduced. The fact is, and the community is impressed with | the belief, that this municipality can be easily run| within the dollar limit upon the valuation of three | hundred and fifty millions. There is no actual nced; for all the fuss and disturbance that a simple proposal | to be commonly honest has engendered. - The Super- | visors themselves, with the aid of other municipal | officers, can scale down and apportion the appropria- | tions so that the last half of this year and the first half of next year will signalize a new departure that involves neither more nor less than decent treatment of the people by the officers they have elected. But the fusion organ and thé fusion Supervisors | ought to stand up to the rack. And, in some way,I even at the expense-of a slight curtailment of his cation, the benefit of Mayor Phelan's ‘experience | should be obtained and he should be afforded a full opportunity to fulfill his ante-election promises and to | prove that he has not done his political talking | through his hat. sur- Leon Dennery, true to the instincts developed un- der the wing of Dan Burns, has carried the habits of | the hoodlum into the offices of the Board of Health. He tried a few of them yesterday on a caller. Now he is having his face mended. @all 86.00 9:30 | corner Twenty- | was evident- | The Republican members of | B THE TRUTH ABOUT CUBA. E have recently referred to the attitude of the | W United States toward Cuba and to the opera- ‘ tions of the Cuban-American League, with | headquarters in New York. Much light is thrown on | this subject by an article in the current number of the North American Review. The writer withholds his name and signs himself, “One of the Army of chu- pation in Cuba.” He is evidently an army officer of high intelligence and one who clearly comprehends a soldier’s duty to involve the upholding of his country’s honor, in bat- tle, in pledge-keeping, and in administration. ! He says: “There can be no doubt that the pacifi- cation of the island is now accomplished. City for city the towns of Cuba are more peaceful and or- derly than those of the United States. There never was a more docile, quiet people. All the reports of brigandage are zealously forwarded to the United States, and half of them are lies. The Cubans can and will give themselves as good a government .as have the petty republics of Central and South | America. They are impatient to undertake the con- | trol of their own affairs. The irritation of the Cubans against Americans and American military rule is daily increasing, and will inevitably presently find vent in a revolt. To conclude, we are in a false position in Cuba, a position which in its outcome may result in wounding our national pride. We have the choice of two alternativ Shall we drift, or shall we decide? To decide; to carry out our promise at once; to take our troops out of Cuba, leaving the people to gov- ern themselves until smgl time as they may prefer | annexation—that seems to be our proper course. To | drift means a struggle with a tremendous problem | under disheartening conditions, frying to help this | people in the face of daily increasing opposition, in- gratitude, irritation, suspicion. It means the postpone- ment of the settlement of problems connected with the material prosperity of the island. It means a | failure to fulfill a solemn pledge. Judging from what | we know of the ease with which revolutions are got- | ten up in Spanish-American countries, to drift may eventually mean a revolt. And no matter how large or how small a revolt against us in Cuba might be (it | often happens that the smallest bands are the most difiicult to deal with), no glory would be ours in quelling it, whether we lost in the struggle tens, or thousands, or, like the Spaniards, tens of thousands, of men. And it will be time then for the enemies of our republic to laugh, for the’ Spanish will seem to have made food their claim that the war of 1898 was one of pure aggression, inspired by the lust of territory. | It is certain that the question of Ctba overshadows in question confronting | | [ | | | gravity any other now | country.” Coming from an officer who feels that the least | glorious of wars is that in which for greed the strong | crush the weak, these words of warning should be | heard and quickly heeded. | Within a month The Call has presented a similar view of the same situation. The Cuban-American League is using a bottomless fund of money in blunt- | ing the American- conscience, and, this soldier by lies, seeking to make justification for viola- | { as sa tion of the promises of Congress. One of the highest evidences of the capacity and | esire of a people for self-government is their revolt | against military rule. That ours in Cuba is as dis- tasteful as that of Spain, to an unwilling people, is | | proved by every sign visible on the island. This | | Sember of bus army of becupation scca it and fecis| re- it, and sees that the most distasteful duty of | publican soldier is the holding of a protesting people | lsin subjection until their friendship is turned to en-| | mity. | It is evidently the plan of the American pledge- | breakers, who seek to tarnish their country’s honor | in order to fill their pockets with spo: to drift until a revolt +hall give excuse for establishing a pseudo | electorate, which will support annexation, while the | majority of the people are pinned down by American | bayonets and denied a voice in the disposition of their | | country, their persons and their property. | | " It is time that those who have the power only to | carry out the orders of Congress and not to disobey | them should make a plain declaration to our own peo- g ple and to the Cubans. We are already openly \'iola(vv ing the spirit of the Congressional declaration in | Porto Rico and the Philippines. Are we to add to this the immeasurable dishonor of violating its letter | and spirit in Cuba? | ghteen months ago great meetings were being | held in our cities, from Boston to San Francisco, in | favor of free and self-governing Cuba. Money was contributed to free a people whom we are now hold- ing in the slavery of military rule. Would it not be well to read again the speeches that were. then being made and the fervid resolutions then being passed, and reassemble those patriotic gatherings to renew the pledge we took for the independence and. self- government of Cuba? ¥ THE RISASTER AT NEWMAN. Y the disastrous train wreck at Newman we are brought once more to consider how far careless persons are to be held responsible for the con- sequences of their carelessness. No one planned the collision by which two people lost their lives and thirteen were injured. It was an accident. There remains, however, the question whether the accident was unavoidable, or whether some one is to blame for it. Pursuing its usual policy, the railroad will of course exert all its powers to prevent the public from learn- ing the truth of the circurhstances under which the accident occurred. The press will of course gather evidence as best it can. It has already gathered much, and doubtless will make known all the essen- tial facts of the-calamity, but that will not be enough. There should be a legal investigation, by which there should be brought*out under oath testimony showing exactly how the disaster occurred and who is respon- sible for it. Two features of the accident show negligence car- ried to the extent of recklessness. First, the special train’ was made up with the tourist sleeper next to the tender of the locomotive, not a single baggage or other car being interposed between them to break the shock upon the sleeper in case of just such a col- lision as that which occurred. Second, the freiglit train stood unflagged on the main track, with the locomotive at the water tank, and the station signal showed white, which means “clear track.” Somebody is responsible for the reckless way in which the train was made up, and somebody is to blame for the dis- play of a clear track signal when the track was not clear. When questioned by a representative of The Call | as to the condition of the signal lights, the station- master said: “The station signals were out correct, and if there is any blame it lies with those in charge of the trains. My report will be made to my su- periors and to no one else.”” He declined to even state whether or not the red light should have been displayed with a freight train on the main track and a through special due at any moment. _It is not to be doubted that other officers and em- 1 ployes of the road will do as the station-master has this | done. They have standing orders to that effect. Re- ports will be sent to the railroad managers. The in- vestigation by those officials will be a secret one; the public will be kept in ignorance as far as the railroad can do it. It is not unlikely they will try to get the | disaster disposed of as an “unavoidable accident,” for | which no one is to blame, and for which the railway management cannot be held responsible. It is against public policy to permit serious dis- asters to be set aside in such a summary way. No one can have any desire to condemn any of the sub- ordinate employes of the road, who have the misfor- tune to be involved in the calamity, but who are in no way responsible for it. For the purpose, there- fore, of ridding innocent persons of unjust suspicion, | the law should use its powers in disclosing the truth and compelling the railroad officials to reveal what they know of it. A comprehensive and penetrating examination ought to be a part of the Coroner’s in- quest. The cause of a calamity so dreadful should not remain the secret of a railroad bureau. o ——————— : THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. Y the force and the universality of the protests B made against the policy of voting a blanket ticket at the primary elections the members of the Republican County Committee have been duly informed of the extent of their blunder in devising such a policy. It is not too late for them to correct the error. When the petition for the blanket ticket comes up for consideration by the Election Commis- sioners the committee can withdraw the petition and leave it for the Commissioners to arrange for the elections in accordance with law. - If such a course be adopted the committee will go far toward setting itself right before the public, and it is but reasonable to presume it will do so. Noth- ing can be gained in politics by defying public opinion. There is no profit to a party in alienating the confidence of the rank and file on the very eve of a campaign. At the time the blanket ticket scheme was devised the members of the committee may not have been aware of the opposition to it within the party ranks. They are now, however, fully aware of it, and not to withdraw it would be to persist in a blunder even when known to be such. In addition to the popular antagonism to the scheme there is the further consideration that in the opinion of many able lawyers a blanket ticket would be invalid. That issue will be raised before the Elec- | tion Commissioners if an attempt be made to uphold | the petition. There is no need for raising it. The whole matter can be cleared by a withdrawal of the ill-devised petition and a request that the Commis- sioners provide for the election by Assembly districts. When once the blanket ticket scheme has been dis- posed of, the interest of the public will center in the choice of Assembly district candidates for the county convention. The very fact that the election of dele- gates is to be made by districts will tend to bring t about the election of truly representative men. It will not be so easy to procure the choice of unfit men or machine politicians by district voting as it would | have been under the blanket system. That is one of | the chief reasons why the better element of the party as demanded election by districts, and it now re- | mains for that element to profit by the advantage. Every municipal election involves some issue of notable importance to the community, but this one has many such issues. Upon the officers who are to be elected will devolve the duty of organizing the government under the new charter and inaugurating the new system of administration. It ®‘cannot be doubted that it will be to the best interest of San Francisco if that duty be intrusted to the Republican party, nor is it to be disputed that the independent voters will gladly support the Republican candidates f they are truly representative of genuine Repub- licanism. They will not support the ticket if it be made up of men who represent only the domination of the railroad and the cunning of Burns. A clean ticket means a clean victory, but any other kind means foul defeat. Let us have delegates to the convention chosen by Assembly districts, worthy rep- resentatives of Republicanism, and a strong and trustworthy ticket. Then the contest at the polls need not be feared. In this issue the Republican party can afford to defy the railroad and the bosses, but it cannot afford to offend the people. CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. ALIFORNIA hardly needs make any elaborate C preparations to welcome the Oregon volunteers when they arrive on their return from the Phil- ippines. - The spontaneous enthusiasm of the people for the heroes of the war with Spain, their pride in the manhood of the Pacific Coast, and their general delight in hospitality, are in themselves sufficient to assure to the returning Oregonians, if the Govern- ment permit them to land here, a welcome that will be notable in the annals of the city—one that the vol- unteers will talk of in their northern homes for years to come. 5 Hardly less intense, and none the less cordial, than the welcome which awaits the volunteers is that which is extended to the Governor of Oregon and his mili- tary staff, who.have come to this city to receive the heroes on their arrival. As Governor Geer has made his visit informally, there will be of ¢ourse, in ac- cordance with his wish, no public demonstration in hi§ honor. From the National Guard of the State and from the State and civic officials, as vell as from private citizens, however, he will receive abundant courtesies and hospitalities to attest the honor with which California regards Oregon, and to prove the thoroughness with which we sympathize with the mission that brings him here. 3 Pacific Coast men, no matter from what State they hail, can never feel other than at home in this city. As the metropolis of this large section of the world, San Francisco draws to herself enterprising men from all the surrounding States, and they bring with them the patriotisms of the localities from which they come. Thus there is a strong . Oregon sentiment in San Francisco, and Governor Geer and his gallant staff can feel the influence of it in the welcome accorded them. The record made by the Oregon “volunteers during the war has added much to the prestige of the Pacific Coast, and California, as the empire State of the coast, can have nothing but welcome and hos- pitality for the volunteers themselves and for their honored Governor. r—————— Dispatches going the rounds of the anti-Alger press teem with innuendo. A recent one, announcing the al- leged determination of the President to rid himself at any cost of the Secretary ‘of War, is headed, “He Will Take the Bull by the Horns.” Why will some people not refrain from casting up that old beef scandal? The boy that didn’t know it was loaded should be made to pay the penalty of idiocy, if not that of crime. ‘With the fear of that punishment he might point the gun at himself first. £ —_— T]:Ae Kelly and Crimmins blankety-blank ticket is, like charity, designed to cover a multitude of sins. All the fashion magazines agree that divorce suits are still the mode in South Dakota. 5 GENUIN HE real thing In a sea serpent was It is known as a green moray, and this part of the country. T the devil's terror. They stand in great Curator L. B, Spencer of the aquari surrounded by a crowd until closing time. row jaws, with small eyes set well dow: there is no escape. a broad dor: “We had great difficulty,” ster pot. to the steamer by snapping off the end of to prevent its escape. but I am not o sure of that. have had him a little fonge liant and varied as those af the birds of the! Scotch porgle, with his plaid skin; and the *“surgeon,” who carries a sharp Spencer. W and about twenty-four inches in circumference. teeth are like needles and slant backward, Of the other specimens received many were rare. E SEA SERPENT . IN'NEW YORK AQUARIUM As the Sea Serpent Looks in the Tanks of the Aquarium. : Sketched From Life. added yestefday to the collection of fish and reptiles at the aquarium in Battery Park, says the New York World. - is the first of its kind ever exhibited ‘in In the West Indies, where it makes its home among the coral reefs at the bottom of the ocean, it is known to the natives as awe of these creatures, which are as ugly as they are powerful and which are believed by many to be superhuman. um received the sea serpent yesterday with nearly 100 other varieties of fish sent from the West Indies on the steamer Orinoco. It was placed in one of the exhibition tanks in the afternoon and was The serpent is about seven feet long It has a sharp snout and nar- n toward the point of the snout. TIts so that once it has its prey in its mouth The great strength of the beast and its quickness and speed in the water lie In al fin extending the entire length of,its back. family and lives mostly on smaller fish and crustaceans. positions suggested the typical witch’s head. aid Curator Spencer, “in securing a green moray because the natives of the West Indies stand in such terror of them. As it was, we only got this one by offering a bonus for its capture. was caught, but I presume it was in a trap built on the same principle as a lob- 1t showed the wonderful strength of its jaws while being transferred It belongs to the eel The head in.certain I am not sure how it a plank that was placed over the tank Thé natives claim the bite of the fish is deadly poison, ‘We shall know more about the creature after we Their colors were as bril- the tropics. ‘Some were extremely odd— the cowfish, with square, horned head, knife of horn in a groove in his side, which he shoots out viciously when angered. “It is the finest shipment of specimens we have ever received,” said Professor 4 @ g ® L4 @ & 55 & mer sea hotel | | in a brand new iron cage, would be a breathing spell supplemental page. supplemental staff, Or the joy it takes in other people hug, on the wireless telegraph the deadly kissing bug. It 1L He starts it off with Pharaoh, mention: Pharaoh’s daughter, too; in the Nile: playing peek-a-boo L4 L4 @ & @ L g & ® @ R4 4 @ @ L4 @ (4 @ L4 L. L4 @ @ & @ L4 @ L4 L @ & L4 @ @ k4 & L4 & ® @ @ PS the tearful crocodile. He dwells at length upon the plagues tha @ swept that anclent land; @ Lulls your senses with the deftness o & a Wilkie Collins thug, @ locusts, out of hand, @ Z deadly kissing bug. i B.C. @ 0060@0‘@@0@0@0@6@0@0 THE BAD LUCK Capyrighted, 1899, by Kate Elise Boyns. Yesterday we were favored by the East- ern dispatches with news of Captain Wat- kins' explanation of his great misfortune in the loss of his command, and two offi- cers of the Federal Government have aired their views as to his desert for the accident. . It seems to me I have a right to be heard in Captain Watkins' defense. It seems to me that I have a right to ask the removal of the incompetent individuals who punished him—not because they pun- ished himsbut instances of gross incapa- rbmty should call for an iron hand. This article is written by ene who knows a few more inchesof that particular part of theEnglish coast than the ignorant British admiral who declared that “an in- dividual who could not navigate any ship from Cherbourg around the Lizard was incapable of navigating anything an; 4 where.” On occasion I have been unable PPPOPPOPRPPPOPOPOPOOPPPOIVOOOCOOOOCOSO THE DEADLY KISSING BUG. Now, that the horrid serpent of the sum- Has been captured and stowed safely You would think that for a season there For the reader of the gorgeous Sunday But you know not the resources of the breaking 1idols Else you'd know it touched the button To supplant the captive monster with So like is he to other bugs, in hue and They only know that, 'way down East, An Ishmael of the insect world, The man upon the Sunday supp. is wiser He looks upon their sclence as a liter- He takes him down his Bible and, before He has Tells you how she fdund young Moses Shows you that precocious infant busy ‘With the bulls among the rushes and And while you're in a coma, proves the ‘Were the pestilential forebears of the IL. puzzles entomologists to classify the cuss, shape and size; he's kicking up a fuss— sans family or ties. far than they; ary drug; you know it—say! written up the deadly kissing bug. story ‘of the s t 14 POV EVOOVVV OO VPVPPVIVCEPPPVVVVPOVOVODVVOVOOVOOOVOOOOSPOD O PPOPPO0OOOOOPOOOICOS OF THE P @ ARIS to navigate a ship from Cherbourg to the Lizard with certainty, and to Squire Thornton Stratford Lecky, the distin- guished author of *“Wrinkles in Practical Navigation”—a work which is supplied to far more ships than “‘Sea Power”—I am content to leave my right to insult a non- sea-going admiral and to speak one word in behalf of a badly treated man. By an @merican Seaman. Of all the navigable channels in the world the English is the most treacher- ous. That is why a couple of grand steam- ers lie on rocks near where I spent some of my earlier years. The English Chan- nel is a funnel. When it has been blowing hard from the north, from the south, from the east or from the west for days the currents in it can no more ve depended on than the top that a boy spins can be depended on to land anywhere in par- ticular. Let me {llustrate: A few years ago (possibly fifteen) I was In command of a steamship bound “up the channel.” Off Ushant a course was set for Start Point, a distance of, roughly, 125 miles. At sunset the position was determined by both stellar observation and a soundln_g (that Godsend to the marther the Sir William Thomson’s sounder being at my disposal). The chief officer of the ship— quite as well, indeed better, locally ac- quainted than myself—rejoiced at the an- ticipation of a good run to Dartmouth (for coal). In the early morning hours it clouded over, but fog was not in evi- dence, ‘and so I did not “bother the bridge.” When the Start light had failed to make its appearance when due I wor- ried a little and when the watch was re- lieved at 4 a. m. binoculars were begin- ning to get polished every thirty seconds. I decided to take a sounding and as was my habit—not a bad one, my marine friends—I hied me to the chart room to find ‘out exactly what water we’ should 4 be in. Scarcely had my rulers got on the chart when I heard—almost concur- rently—*Hard-a-starboard” dnd *Land ahead.” It took about a second to get on the bridge, and when the ship had completed her semicircle the engines were, of course, stopped. A sounding was being taken by the chief officer and I am open to confess until he brought tie “bottom” to me I knew not whether I was near Alderney or on the English coast. (It may be explained that red sand is always found to some extent on the southern side of this viclous channel and never on the northern.) Wheres was 1? Absolutely inside Start Point and al- most on top of Bolt's Tail! My experlence in crossing the channel— it has been greater than that of any tem admirals or seven inspectors of vessels is—that once inside “the race Falmouth when it has been blowing (and it is not necessary that the gale has been on the day immediately preceding) is that it is *“good-by’ unless you use the lead. If Captain Watkins did not use the lead he certainly is to be blamed, but why judgment should be passed on him by men who aver that the “tide” must have struck the Paris on her port bow (her port stern and a -trifie of the cur- rent having gone below for a rest pre- sumably)—when they show their ignor- ance of localities by not knowing that the Lizard lights in line lead absolutely clear of the Manacles (they are about 230 feet above high water and cannot be seen many a time and oft from where the Paris lies), I think it right to ask why are not competent naval officers appoint- ed to posts which they could and would creditably fill? Tt is fair to state that it was high water at Brest, the standard port for that part of the channel, at 0:32 and 6:46 a. m. on the morning the Paris sttuck. Whether she struck at 1:15 or 7:15 (accounts differ) matters not, but in any case it appears to have been at nearly high water. It may be that not quite a sufficient allow- ance was made for the inset,- but the al- most certainties are that one of the rushes of water into that corner of the channel (where I have nearly lost my life a sgore of times) is responsible for Captain Wat- kins' accident, and not carelessness or bad judgment. To conclude: These “inspectors of steam vessels” assert that his report is “meager in detail.”” I wonder how he made a con- nected one at all. This man, whom I have met but once and yet highly respect, is an excellent seaman. He is to-day at an utter loss to explain how he got his ship where she unfortunately is; but I am willing to gamble my reputation as a marine critic—and that I value slightly— that the milk In the cocoanut is in this article. NEW PRESIDENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY BERKELEY, Cal., July 10, 1563, Editor The Call-Dear Sir: As cn alumnus of the University of California and a reader of The Call I wish to thank you for the right stand you have taken on the question of securing an able pres- ident for the university. T hope that you will continue to assist the members of the Board of Regents, who are endeavoring to invest the presi- dency with adequate powers, and that you will lose no opportunity to impress on the recalcitrant members that by their actions they are forcing the people of ths State, whether justly or unjustly, to re- gard them as reserving the power of ap- bointing for the benefit of their friends and followers. It js but reasonable to suppose that a president whose whole time is.spent in overseeing the work of the faculty will be better acquainted with the qualifications of individuals on that staff than will be & Board of Regents whose time and_ at- tention are absorbed in matters of their own business. ; Moreover, as his whole reputation de- pends on the effectiveness of the corps Which he directs, he may safely be trusted with the best interests of the unive 2 Yours respectfully, = CALIFORN i GRS e o Given away with each cash want adver- tisement ordered in next Sunday's Call, a magnificent portrait of Admiral Dewey, printed in ten colors, size 14x21 inches, ready for framing. —_—— BURGLARS AT OCEAN BEACH. They Use a Wagon to Carry Away the Articles Stolen. Two enterprising burglars went ont . Monday night to the Ocean Beach with a wagon and visited & number of the houses in the locality. Mrs. Freda Krueger heard them trying to force open a window and she notified her father. He got out of bed and after dressing himself went out in search of the burglars. They did not wait for_his coming, but broke into the house of Mrs. Maggie Stu- vel, 123 Forty-ninth avenue, and carried off 'a large quantity of provisions, cloth- ing and trinkets. The burglary was re- ported to the police yesterday. —_————————— Jack Trainor’s Legs. Jack Trainor is unfortunate with his legs. Recently he broke his right leg and it is still weak. Yesterday afternoon he ‘was going up in the elevator in the rear of the Golden Gate stables at Golden Gate avenue ‘with some friends. Not knowing that the ele- vator stopped of its own accord, when it reached the top floor they all jumped out, and Trainor alighted so hard on his left leg that it was fractured. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital. —_— ee———— Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ibat Townsend's.® —_—e———————— Trunks, valises, traveling rolls, purses. 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