The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1899, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SAT JRDAY, JULY 15, 1899 JULY 13, 1809 .')HVN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ol D R ati PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third Sts., S\ F Telephone Matin 1868. 217 to 291 Stevenson Street ne Main 1574 EDITORIAL ROOMS.. & el DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEE. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: OALL (including Sunday Call), one year... CALL (Including Sunday Call), € months. uding Sunday Call), 3 months -By Single Month .L One Year. SUNDAY WEEKLY CALL One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subsoriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. CAL +ies-...908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS Manager Forcign Advertising, Marqu! stte Building, FORCING CIVILIZATION. HE address delivered to the teachers at Los T.‘\ngclcs by Dr. W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, was a very intercslt— | ing and eloquent and artful presentation of certain views so fundamentally wrong, that it is a pity so much excellence in composition and delivery was | wasted in an effort to make wrong seem right. | Throughout it was a persistent suggestion that we | can .do with our “subject and peoples just | what the Czar has done with Poland and is doing | with Finland and the Kaiser is doing with Alsace and | Lorraine. Mr. Harris said that in view of the fact that | other nations are dividing up.the world, the people think it our duty to show what we can do in that line. | | He thought the United States can uplift whole na- tions, and that we should not build a Chinese wall | around our liberties, but should force our tion, the civilization of the printed page, upon such | colonies as come to us, and it is absurd to say that | we will tyrannize over those incapable of self-govern- | ment. | It is difficult to keep one's patience in reading such | races civiliza- Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : C. C. CARLTON.. Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | PERRY LUKENS JR... ..29 Tribune Building | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. { Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ..Wellington Hotsl d. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untli 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | c'clock. 615 Larklin street, open until 9:30 o'slock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, cpen untll 9 o'clock. street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh i | AMUSEMENTS. | Opera House—*Carmen.” Z00 and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | corner Mason and Fllis streets—Specialties. anorama Co., Market street, near Bighth—Bat- | nila Bay. Swimming Races, etc. g Park—Cou: "ing to-day. Park—Daseball To-day. Pavilion—Cake Walkers to-night. —Grand performance to-morrow. 1 AUCTION SALES. | n—Friday, July 21, at 11 o'clock, thorough- | Fourteenth street. THE COMING AUTOMOBILE. ITH the starting of The Call-Herald automo- bile on its trip across the continent there be- em of overland travel destined to de- proportions. No intelligent limits of speed, of new vehicle may yet ain before some better system of locomotion is de- ed by increasing ingenuity to_supersede it. At the present time it is a disputed point whether power for propelling the vehicles can be best ap- lied by gasoline, by electricity or by compressed its defects and its advantages. For journeyings gasoline is preferred, and d for the automobile now speeding across the cor t to The Call office. Recent ‘experiments in France, however, show that on good roads stor- ve batteries are capable of propelling the vehicles for 1siderable distances at high rates of speed with- being recharged. A journey was made by such a short time ago from Paris to Rouen, a distance xty-five miles, within a little over seven hours. What may yet be accomplished by compressed air is hard to foretell. So wonderful are its possibilities jat not a few sanguine experimenters maintain it will be eventually the sole motive power in use by civilized nations where anything more is needed than | a windmill or a water-wheel. At present, however, the force of compressed air has not been extensively applied, although notable successes have been at- tained with it in many directions in an experimental way and for street railways in some Eastern cities. It is to electric storage batteries, therefore, we must look for the development of the use of automobiles in the immediate future, at least in districts where electricity can be readily obtained. It is announced that the Standard Electric Com- pany is considering plans for supplying electricity for use by automobiles along both sides of San Fran- cisco Bay as far south as San Jose. The electricity is to be generated by power from the Blue Lakes, in the Sierras, and frequent stations will be provided in the route around the bay at which the storage bat- | teries can be recharged. - The plan appears feasible, and if carried out will doubtless prove profitable. With the coming of the automobile many issues that have long complicated local transportation problems will vanish of themselves. The good roads men will not have to enter upon a campaign of edu- cation on the advantages of wide tires, for the new vehicle will necessarily have a wide tire, and will en- force the construction of better roads. We shall also avoid the e arising from slippery pavements and the difficulties which horses have in maintaining a foothold upon them. The automobile will not slip nor fall. So the new era in transportation comes with the coming of the automobile across the continent from the Herald office. Even as it progresses on its long way new progress is being made by inventors and mechanics in perfecting it. When it arrives here and is exhibited at the Mechanics’ Institute it will repre- sent the best mechanism and the most wonderful ac- complishment of automobiles up to date, but it will not hold the record long. In the new machine the history of the locomotive is to be repeated, and for years to come it will be improvéd continuously, yntil in the end it becomes something more wonderful than is dreamed of at this time. s s e W will venture to convenience the fix the When Steward Cohen of the Receiving Hospital attempted to make profit from the body of a dying man he probably remembered the story of the ghoul who stole the coppers from a dead.man’s eyes. The Board of Health ought to change its emblem from the red cross to a skull and crossbones. The ledding brewer who, under the strange in- | fluence - of temporary insanity, believes that he has been killed, might, when he recovers, make a valuable contribution to current literature by telling how it feels to be dead. A New Yorker bled to death the other day after a dentist had extracted his tooth. In this city it is not uncommon for people to drop dead when the tooth expert presents his bill, utterances from a professor and doctor of laws; sup- posed, by the position he holds, to be the leader of | his guild in the Union. There is but one line of cleavage which civilization follows, and that is the line of physical necessity. That necessity exists in the temperate zone, where | it has been the mother of invention, and by inven- | tion civilization progresses. The ci lization of the | temperate’ zone cannot be domesticated in the torrid | zone. That civilization, which has so multiplied by | art the means of existence where life is a struggle | against the resistance of nature, as to make possible the enormous modern increase in the temperate zone nations, if transferred with all its inventions to the | tropics would be nearly as destructive of life as it is here promotive of it. All of the things permanent in civilization, in gov- ernment, in institutions, are due to the energy of | man and not to the bounty of nature. As we ap- proach the equator the energy of man declines, and | nature complements its lack by her spontaneous bounty which supports existenge with but little | effort. | To talk about forcing the civilization of one zons | upon the other, is the equivalent of forcing the bear to eat straw like the ox, and the ox to eat meat like the bear. The tropics have their civilization, suited to the environment, and er ages of effort no other has been forced upon them, unless so mongrelized as to lose its distinctive features. All knowledge, all learning, all artificial application | of invention and discovery, is for one purpose and | no other. That purpose is enlargement of the provi- | sions and betterment of the conditions upon which human life depends. These conditions respond pri- marily to hunger, thirst and nakedness. Food, | drink and shelter must be had and the supply must | be instant and constant. All human devices are| planted in these primal necessities and their blooming | into art and science has never been and will never be, | except their root is planted in these first necessities of | existence. Enough has been said to show that civilization is a natural evolution: that its form and measure ar determined by environment which fixes the neces- | sities they must supply; that where th i arising in the resistance of nature may be overcome | by human energy civilization is the highest; where | natural resistance is insurmountable, as beyond the Arctic Circle, civilization is the lowest; and where | nature offers the least resistance, as in the tropics, its | form is determined by environment and differs as | widely from that of the temperate zone as do the | races of the two zones. After all that Huxley, Darwin, Draper, Andrew D. | ‘White, Herbert Spencer and others have written iti seems strange that all these things have to be said | over again to the National Commissioner of Educa- tion. It would seem that he might have given his views of the possibility of pushing education in (hel tropics, without unnecessarily mixing education with the institutions which mark our civilization. Educa- | tion, general and common, exists under institutions | widely different from ours. If writing and reading its | language and having knowledge of fundamental | mathematics determine the literacy of a people, the | Chinese are our superiors, but we have no doubt that | Dr. Harris would object if they should, therefore, | claim the right to force their civilization upon us. As Dr. Harris strayed still further from his proper datum line, he plunged into worse errors. He scouted the idea that our rule of subjects, whom we decide to be incapable of self-government, will be tyrannical. He should know that no yoke can be laid by one man upon another without that other’s consent, so softly as not to gall. That fact has made the history of the world. It was the dynamic force that has exploded and scattered all empires from Babylon to Spain. It | is the terror of England, whose day will come, as doom has come to all her predecessors in that path, and will come to all who follow her therein, DENUDING THE MOUNTAINS. elaborate paper by Marsden Manson on the fl extent to which our mountains are being stripped of forests, published in the Sierra Club Bulletin for June, constitutes a valuable addi- tion to the literature of that important subject. The problem involved in the protection of forests is one we must soon grapple in earnest, for in California, more, perhaps, than in any other State in the Union, does the preservation of the forests mean a preserva- tion of the State itself as a habitable territory. The subject is one with which the people are now fairly familiar. It has been discussed time and again in The Call, as well as in other publications, and the facts are known to all who take a sufficient interest in the future welfare of the State to pay attention to such matters. The salient point of Mr. Marsden’s paper is | the showing made of the injury done to agricultural lands by the denudation of the neighboring moun- tain ranges of their forests, and the argument upon it is both clear and forcible. The Old World furnishes warnings to the New of the desolation which results from the denudation of | the mountains. In Asia Minor and in Southern | Europe vast regions which were once fertile and sup- | ported prosperous populations, even with the primi- | tive system of agriculture practiced in ancient times and in the middle ages, are now so barren that even | scientific agriculture cannot render them available for human habitation. ~Vast sums of money and great | labor have been expended in reforesting some of the | mountain slopes in Europe, but the work is slow, and | it will take centuries of time to replace the soil washed | away after the forests had been destroyed. | The work of devastation is being carried on in our | mountains with a rapidity and on a scale far in ex- | cess of anything known in Europe. Our mechanical | ingenuity has provided us with means of stripping | forests from the mountains with something like magic, and, in addition to what is done in that way, { a sweeping destruction is carried on every year by | forest fires. It is, therefore, with a tremendous speed R | have repeatedly decided against them, they have been lwe are bringing the rich territory of California into | will stick. something like the condition that now prevails at the foot of the Pyrennees. The need of providing some remedy for the evil is so imperative that the attention of the public cannot be too often called to it. The Sierra Club has done well, therefore, in publishing the paper with photo- graphs showing’ the condition of the denuded dis- tricts, and it is to be hoped it will have a wide cir- | culation, a careful reading and an attentive considera- tion from thoughtful Californians. INTERNAL REVENUE REVISION. EPORTS from our special correspondent at Washington are to the effect that it is prob- able the Internal Revenue Bureau will recom- mend to Congress the enactment of a considerable number of changes in the war revenue law. The prime object of the recommendations is an increase of revenue, but in some cases changes are needed to clear up disputed points of the law and make its bur- dens more equitable. Among the propositions for increasing the revenue | now under discussion by the officials are a tax on telephones, and a tax upon telegraph and express companies doing a money exchange business. The changes suggested for the sake of greater clearnes and for equalizing the burdens of taxation are many, and include a modification of the provisions of the law with respect to mutual insurance companies and a thorough revision of the list of articles taxed under schedule B, as it is said the section defining what ar- ticles are taxed in that list has been a source of much trouble and embarrassment to the officials. Whether the Internal Revenue Bureau make the reported recommendations or not, it is fairly certain Congress will undertake a revision of the law. The act was drawn up and passed to meet the emergency of the sudden outbreak of war, and has all the defects of hasty legislation. The people bore it willingly, because the nation needed the revenue, and patriotism prompted a loyal support to any act which provided it. From the beginning, however, it was felt that the taxes provided by it are unequally im- posed, and, moreover, the language is in many places so vague as to lead to grave doubts as to its meaning | and intent. One of the more serious evils resulting from it is that under its terms telegraph and express companies | have found legal quibbles on which to base a claim L that their business is not taxed, but that the public is | taxed for patronizing them. Under these pretenses | the companies have been practicing extortion ever since the act went into effect, and, while the courts able to defy the courts, mock at the law and sneer at every protest of the public against the wrong. The course of the Wells-Fargo Company in this city illustrates the extent to which defects in the law permit tax-shirking to be practiced. The president of the company, J. J. Valentine, a man who poses as a pious church-goer as well as an unctuous patriot, set about devising a means of defrauding the Gov- ernment as soon as the act was drawn up, and he had the impudence to ask The Call to share in the profits of the fraud. His proposition was that The Call should send its papers in packages to the express company covered with one cover, and then his company would receipt for the whole wagon-load as one package. Evidence has been disclosed that similar fraudulent proposals were made to other large shippers, and in some cases big shippers were not required by the company to pay the tax at all. Such instances of extortion practiced upon the pub- lic and of fraud, designed at least, upon the Govern- ment prove the need of a revision of the law. When amended it should provide a penalty upon tax- shirking corporations, and also a penalty upon the corporation officials. who devise tricks and frauds for robbing the public and cheating the Gogernment. er—cacccm [ quets, Jefferson feasts and Independence day celebrations in the very stronghold of Tammany, the chiefs who are seeking his scalp never abandon his trail. Their persistence inclines to the belief they have a stratagem in their minds by which they yet hope to defeat him when the time comes for the big | fight in the convention, and the belief is strengthened i by the beginning of a sudden agitation in New York | for doing away with the old two-thirds rule in Demo- cratic national conventions. It is recognized by the astute chiefs of Tammany | that if the rule were set aside at the convention itself there might result a serious disaffection in the party. Accordingly it is recommended that the subject be discussed and brought up for action at the State con- ventions, by which delegates are to be elected to the national gathering. If a majority of the delegates can be pledged by their constitiients to adopt a rule | providing for a Presidential nomination by a majority i vote, there would then be no ground for an effective protest, as the action would clearly represent the will of Democracy throughout the Union. The two-thirds rule has prevailed in Democratic | councils for so long a time that a very extensive and | very persuasive campaign of education will be re- quired to induce veteran Democrats to abandon it. It was adopted long before the war for the purpose | of preventing the nomination of a sectional candi- date, for in those days there were many sectional is- sues in politics. It has been continued ever since, partly by reason of the force of precedent, and panly' because it is still regarded as a means of keeping sectionalism out of Democratic conventions. The issue itself is one of more concern to Demo- cratic politicians than to the country at large. The point of public interest in the discussion lies in the fact that it should have been raised at all at this time. Has Tammany a candidate in sight for whom it can count something like a majority, but for whom it cannot hope for a two-thirds vote? If there be such a candidate available against Bryan the sooner Tammany makes the fact known the better it will be for the campaign of education for the abrogation of the two-thirds rule. As the case is presented now, the discussion seems hardly more than an academic debate upon an abstract issue of party management, and few people will pay much at- tention to it. Let it once be made known, however, that it signifies an organized effort‘ to obtain the Presidential nomination for some particular candi- date, and the campaign of education will go forward with all the vim and vigor of a dogfight. [ ——— B e e i S Coe o g ANOTHER TAMMANY MOVE. 3 OR all that Bryan wins out at Jackson ban- The Czar of Russia has announced officially that somewhere in his intellectual make-up there is an clement of humiliation hitherto unsuspected. He says that he bows without a murmur to the decree of Providence. S I The national Populists insist that their identity shall be preserved in the next Presidential campaign. Somebody ought to suggest to them to go somewhere and find themselves. Glue manufacturers have fallen into line and are organizing a trust. They feel sure that their efforts ~ | the business. NEWS OF THE REALTY WORLD. — Dullness in the realty market continues, but the prospects for a good fall busi- ness are considered excellent. Quite a number of comparatively small sales are reported and a few of larger proportions are on the tapis and are expected to be brought to a successful consummation within the coming week. By far_ the greatest boon the real es- tate market has received in some time is the reduction of its rate of interest by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society from 6% per cent to 6 per cent, which will make the net rate to borrowers about 4.20 per cent. Other savings banks will be forced to reduce their loans to at least 6 per cent in order to get their share of Brokers claim that the re- sult of this reduction will be almost im- mediately seen in a revival of activity in the real estate market. Among the sales recorded during the past week are the following: William D. Newhouse has sold to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company the prop- erty on the south line of Page street, 106:3 feet east of Scott street, lot 25x137:6 feet, for $1400. Edgar J. Brown has sold to General J. F. | the sale or rental of patent-protected devices, SuCh 3 | ot BEnatlin ar Jomeon o o SOUtheast corner of Franklin and Jackson streets. The lot has a | frontage of 47 feet 8% inches and a depth of 124% feet. The price pald for the property is understood to be $30,000. M. J. McBride has conveyed to the Hibernia | Savings and Loan Society the property on the west line of Collinewood street, 7 feet south of Eighteenth street, lot 49:4x125 feet, for Michael Mooney has sold to John D. Spreck- els the middlo 50-vara lot on the south side of Broadway, Dbetween Octavia Laguna streets, for $18,000. Martin M. Murphy has conveved to the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society the prop- erty on the northeast corner of Geary and Lyon streets, lot 112:6x137:6 feet, for $75. Thomas B. Bishop has bought of Frank T. Meagher the property on the west line of Mis- sion street, 160:9l4 feet south of Twenty-third street, lot 100x250 feet. Rev. Denls O. Crowley has sold to' Herbert E. Law the property on the south side of Turk Street, 208 feet west of Jones street, lot 46x 137:6 feet, for $18,000. The proverty on the northwest line of Jessie street, 225 feet northeast of First street, lot 25 x75, has been sold by Lizzie Hancock to Frank Pauson for $4000. A lot on the south line of Joost avenue, 875 feet east of Arcadia street, 25x100 feet, has been sold by Willilam H. Miller and others to the Householders'® Building and Loan Assocla- tion for $1900. M. A. Gunst has purchased of the estate of and the late Elizabeth P. McRurer the property on the southeast corner of Fowell and OFarrell streets for ,000. e size of e o feet. . The eale, although just recorded, was closed geveral weeks ago. The estate of Joseph M. Wood has sold to Alonzo Mason the property on the morth line of Vallejo street, 110:6 feet east of Steiner, lot 27x137:6 feet, for $2700. S Easton, Eldridge & Co. have sold the follow- ime et o SGast side (Nos. 2989 to iz Mission street, 65 feet morth of Twenty-sixt s " lot G3xl15 feet, with two stores and flat above: 36500 South side (No. 115) Golden venue, 192:6 feet eas e ixi3i:6 feet, with two flats of five and Lo e Seubject o approval 3 §1700—subject . E e M itrest. 5. feet morth of Thirteenth street; two vacant lots, each Z'oxfifl' Ieet’,. }Old for $2500 aplsce. Southeast corner (No. 3245) Bart- fett and Twenty-first streets; lot 33x30 feet, with modern residence of 9 rooms, $6700. West Side (No. 29) of Diamond street, 168:2 feet south of Seventh street; lot 24:10x135 feet, with 2- ctory house of 6 rooms; §2450, subject to ap- proval. There is falr activity in building circles, fourteen contracts for new structures of an aggregate value of $77,228 having been file for record during the past week. - The largest individual amount was $31,1%%, representing nine contracts let by Eugene B. Murphy with Shepard Bros.. California Marbie Company, Daniel Powers. Pacific Rolling Mills, Western Expanded Metal Company, San Fran- cisco Cornice Works, W. L. Holman and Mar, fin Fennell Jr., for a 5-story brick and steel bullding on the northwest corner of California and Kearny streets. The next largest was that of the Bohemian Club, with George R. East side of ."for fire escapes, lathing, plastering, p&ln{mx and other work in cunnecuonl;:lnl: al- i = d tmprovements to the buil e ay that b on the east line of Grant H %ef Sutter street, at a ayenue e 'S 3. Ryland cuxilmled with le for the erection of a 3-story fram Q{xu%ms‘mfm the southwest corner of Polk and McAllister streets, to cost $6420. Annie Knox contracted with James A. McCullough to erect & 3-story, basement and attic building on the outh side of Guerrero street, 178 feet north of Twentleth street, to cost $5850. Sidney L. and Annie C. Strickland contracted with A- W. Pat; tiant & Co. to erect a 3-story building on the southeast corner of Waller street and De Lo: avenue, for o L H. P. Sonntag of the firm of Bovee, Toy & Sonntag is spending a few weeks at Bartlett Springs, accompanied by his and_daughter. Wi Ang e with Baldwin & Howell, leaves for a trip to Shasta Springs this evening. 3 Goorge Hinkel is having plans prepared for four modern residences to be erected on the east line of Hyde street, fifty-five feet south of Washington. MARCHAND’S SWORD. One of the Most Magnificent Ever Made in France. B+t OO e ebeOeoe@ + D S A =Y @*O+ O +O 0+ eQ The sword of honor just presented to | Major Marchand by his enthusiastic com- patriots is an exquisite bit of workman- ship. The hilt is of gold and silver gilt, orna- mented with enamel and precious stone it represents Isis, emblem of the Nile, crowned with a %fl!den sun, adorned with @ necklace and bracelets in enamel, and holding in her left hand the key of the Nile. Two crocodiles united by a scarab composed of a precious stone form the bow of the sword hilt, while the cross- bars consist of two lotus flowers with their leaves. “CARMEN.” AN OLD FAVORITE. AT THE GRAND. We get on firm and familiar footing when the overture of ‘“Carmen” strikes up; and where is there a more welcome famillar? We have so often heard the opera beautifully done, and many a time done to a cruel death. We like it best when not sung in English. The nudity of an understood language subtracts too much from the imagination. Sung so, it | seems wilted of its crispness and to have had an overgrown reputation. Neverthe- less, the performance at the Grand Opera- house is one of conspicuous merit, well staged, well sung and well applauded. To say that it is sparkling, bubbling, fres, fresh, Spanish, would be to beslaver with uncritical praise. The ensemble work is | excellent, but the abandon is not there. They stand on tables in simulation of the devil-may-care, but they do it because the stage manager has put them there. Obedience is reflected in every turn of the heel. Miss Hattie Belle Ladd does not look Carmen. Her make-up suggests the masquerade rather than the real charac- ter and recalls the Celtic rather than the Spanish. Unless we except Olga Nether- sole there are no path-breakers in the role. The old traditional business is safer to follow. But Miss Ladd is not wicked enough and does not run successfully through the phases of barbaric impetuos- ity and_delicaté treacherous coquetry. She bundles the commonplace and grace- | ful in her-acting untii we wish she would cast tradition to_the winds; be herself | and originate. We have, however, the compensation of her voicé. Her melodi- ous rendering of the dainty numbers we expected and were not disappointed. She has a rich, mellow, companionable voice, and sings with such a comfortable sense of surety and lack of effort. Mr. Persse sings the lover well. He has tremendous crescendo possibilities In his voice, but he has an unfinished way of reaching their height. Miss Mason sang as she always does— simply, easily and effectively. The role does not tax the dramatic powers, and hence she makes a rather easy success. No toreador ever sang without being en- cored. Ap&llu!e follows from very tradi- tion, but Mr. Goff deserves the demand. One hears him again with satisfaction. The last act is by far the best. It is presto and does not tarry, and the curtain rlngu down on a fine picture of passion and pain. After all, dramatic instinct knows best what to do with the Carmens of the world. We should hate to contem- plate the old age of such. CHARLOTTE THOMPSON, AROUND THE CORRIDORS H. 8. Greeley of Windsor is registered at the Palace. R. G. Barton is registered at the Cali- fornia from Fresno. Jesse Poundstone of Grimes is at the Grand with his wife. . B. Blacksburg, a prominent merchant of Humboldt, is at the Russ. Dr. 8. A. Duese, a leading physician of Benicla, Is at the Occidental. Dr. W. F. McAllister of the Veterans’ Home 1s a guest at the Grand. Hugh F. Kemper, a merchant of Needles, is a guest at the Grand. D. C. Demerast, a mine owner of An- gels Camp, is a guest at the Lick. A. C. McDonald, a wealthy contractor of Stockton, is a late arrival at the Lick. Eugene S. Ives, a well-known and influ- ential politician of Yuma, is at the Palace. A. Brown, of the State Board of Equal- ization, is one of last ‘night's arrivals at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gorgas have come down from Mare Island and are at the Occidental. Congressman Marion de Vries is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived last evening. H. J. Small, the Southern Pacific’s mas- ter mechanic at Sacramento, is a guest at the Grand. Lieutenant C. M. Perkins, of the flag- ship Philadelphia, is at the Occidental with his wife. W. J. Barrett and John R. Paul, two well-known residents of Los Angeles, are registered at the Grand. James H. Kincaid, a capitalist of Vir- ginia City, is one of those who arrived at the Palace yesterday. John C. Dornin, a leading Insurance man of Tacoma, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. Nat N. Brown, one of the best-known fruit men of Los angeles County, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Ed C. Denigan, the junior member of T. J. Denigan, Son & Co., wool merchants, is on an extended trip in the Northwest. £ Webster street; | and cottage of three | He has contracted for nearly all the Humboldt County output. Seventy-five members of the Brooklyn Eagle excursion arrived in the city yes- terday and registered at the Palace. Hon. Sydney French and A. G. Bernard, two young English gentlemen of soclal prominence, are registered at the Palace from London. | 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. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | THE CALL—Knob, Cal. The Morning ‘Call was started in San Francisco in De- | cember, 1856, and is now the oldest morn- ing newspaper. The Chronicle comes next in age as a morning paper, and then the Examiner. LINE OF MARCH—Subscriber, City. The line of march on the Fourth of July, 1898, in San Franeisco was from the foot of Market stre(, along Market to Mont- v, along Montgomery avenue, Kear- rket, Van Ness avenue to Washing- street and countermarch on sS. HOME MISSIONARY WORK—J. N. D., | carson, Nev. A young man who wishes | to do home missionary work should place himself in communication with the home mission of the church to which he pe- longs and he will be advised what he should do. As the writer does not state what denomination he belongs to, it is impossible to specifically direct him where to apply. SEALING-WAX LANGUAGE—X Y Z, City. The following is the “language of sealing-wax’’: White means a proposal; black, a message of death; violet, sym- pathy or condolence; chocolate, invitation | to dinner; vermilion, business; ruby sug- gests a bleeding heart (used on envelopes containing love-letters); green signifies hope; brown is indicative of melancholy; blue, constancy; yellow, jealousy. School- girls, in writing_to one another, should use pink, and ladies of mature age should | use gray to seal letters of friendship. PAPER HANGING—G. W. M., City. Before hanging paper on a plastered wall the wall should be covered with glue sizing, which is made by breaking up glue into small pieces and placing it in a vessel | over night with just enough water to cover it. It is allowed to soak during the night and it is then ready, or soft enough to melt readily with modérate heat. Wa- ter is added to reduce it to the desired consistency. It is then applied to the wall, which must first have been brushed down to remove dust and freed from any grease spots. The same may be used to prepare plastered walls for an application of ofl paint. —_—e———————— Cal.glace fruit 50c per lbat Townsend’s.® —————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Ailen’s), 510 Mont~ gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ — e Monthly Service at St. Dominic’s. The usual monthly service at St. Dom- inic’s Church will take place to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. An excellent mu- sical programme has been arranged by Rhys Thomas, and a short sermon will ba preached by Rev. P. Newell, O. P. —_— e Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned appetizer and invigorator, is used over the world. Beware of imitations. —_— ee———— | NEGLECT of the hair brings baldness. Use PARKER'S HATR BALSAM and save your hair. HINDEECOENS, the best cure for corns, 13 cis. 12---MAGAZINE Romantic Stery BROW The Story of How the Queen THE PEACE The Door The First and In the Fourth of MAURICE How the F And IN N 12---MAGAZINE California Girl Who Was Married 13 Times in 3 Years. ADVENTURES OF GUNNER Every Youth Wants to Read ceives Americans. As Told by an Oakland Girl. THE HAGUE. By EDWARD MARSHALL, the Famous War Correspondent. A Whole Page of Half-Tones. SUNDAY CALL, JULY 16, 1899. Latest Yachts to Contest for the America Cup. SNAP SHOTS AT THE CHI- NESE Largest Kangaroo in America Is in San Francisco. Read About Him, GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH And Teils Why. 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