The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1899, Page 6

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AUCTION SALES. & Co.—Monday, July 1 X , at 11 o'clock, thorough- BRITISH POSTOFFICE SAVINGS. s of the operation of pos Great Britain brought out b; the subject due to the recent stone of the great edifice in | effect which the opportunity thrift among all classes of ct, the most notable result United Kingdom, and the evi- | the Post- address at the statements by he Duke of Nerfolk, in his e growth of the institution has been - end of the first ten years there | ors, with a balance of £19,000,- | At the end of twenty years the | doubled, and now, after thirty-seven years, | - nearly 8,000,000 depositors, with a balance The number of offices at which de of | given e ceremony, At were 000 to their cred figures 1 there of £123,000,000. pos | be made or withdrawn was upward w ts coul 12,000. As an illustration of the strong hold which the institution had gained upon the population, the Duke said, one out of every five persons in the rdom is now a depositor. It had been cal- | United K 1 at about four-fifths of the depositors be- » the working Such a tremendous increase of business done by the | postal bank would seem to imply a loss of business | e bankers, or to trustee savings banks. | There has, however, been little or no such loss. The London Mail, in commenting on the subject, sa = of postoffice business appears to repre measure at Jeast, a real development of his increa sent, in larg | hebits "of thrift among the people, and not a mere | transfer of accounts from one agency of deposit to | another. Some of the older trustee savings banks | have been closed, it is true, but those which survive | they ever were, and the total sum | | are sounder tha deposited in trifstee banks exceeds by several millions the amount which they held when the postoffice sys- | tem was established in 1861.” A further eviflence that the postal banks do not | seriously cripple or interfere with pgivate banks is found in the fact that in Scotland, where there are iven for popular thrift, there is but | the postal bank out of every four- large | | | one depositor i teen persons i Wales, wh vate banks the facilities for saving through pri- e less than in Scotland, there is one de- positor for every five inhabitants. nsidered from every point of view, the postal savings banks appear to fill an actual need of a peo- ple. Where there is an opportunity to save, habits of | thri vhere no such opportunities il always be waste and wanr. | iired to bring about the es- iere. and yet in no coun- | be are they more needed. We have | territory where there are no savings d where noue are likely to be founded | v p ep In such districts the temptations | 1o the wage-earner to spend his wages are many, but | the opportunities for savi The adminis- | tion which establishes postal banks will confer an | immensc benefit upon millions of people. | B e The heart of Huntington has been made glad. W. S. Taylor, who, as Attorney General of Kentucky, | did so much to protect the franchises of the Southern | Pacific Company. has been nominated for Governor f the Blue Grass State by the Republicans. will grow: 1g are few. A local henpecked husband who was battered by his spouse induced a policeman to take him home and intercede for him with ‘the pugnacious wife. He must have enjoyed himself aiter the officer left. The two young rascals of Alameda who tortured a child out -of his senses “just for fun” ought to be given an opportunity for a free play of their instinct of humor behind the bars of a jail. , The Presidio private who wrote letters of undying love to three girls and then killed himself seems to have been as unsettled in his heart as he was in his aead. 1 3 3 { should be comprehensive: | dent — | it belongs. :THE FARMERS AND THE TARIF#. ~ rccrrlixxg the collision at Newman it appears as clear as day the disaster cannot be passed over as an unavcidable accident for which no one is to blame. The exact amount of responsibility of any one of the employes of the road involved in the af- fair cannot be fixed until the testimony of all of them is obtained. Thus far they have kept silent un- der orders from the railroad managers, and will con- tinue to do so unless the law forces them to speak | out. It is for the Coroner of Stanislaus County to | compel them to do so. That is his duty in the New- man wreck. | should be thorough and 1t It should be confined to no narrow limits, nor should it be partial or incom- plete. The public canrot afford to ignore the causes of grave disasters of this kind, nor permit them to remain the secrets of a railroad bureau. In a careful review of the subject yesterday The Call pointed out the line of questioning the Coroner should pursue in order to bring out'all the facts of | the case. There are certain features of the disaster | which incline to the belief that the managers of the road are not wholly blameless, that their responsi- hility may be not less than that of the conductors, engineers, brakemen and the station-master at New- | man. These features of the affair should. be ex- ploited as fully as any other. They should not be set aside for either fear or favor of the railroad mag- rates. Among the facts which ought to be brought out are these: Did the crews of the trains have ample time for sleep and rest before they were called out to take charge of the trains, or were they overworked and exhausted? Why was the special train run past Lathrop, over to Tra thence to Fresno via Men- dota, when time and mileage can be saved on a road going direct from Lathrop to Fresno, and on a line The investigation | over which a train seldom runs at night? These questions are not irrelevant to the adci- If the trainmen were fagged and exhausted is cl from overwork it | been cut down to an inadequate force, and for that the managers of the road are certainly responsible. The course taken by the special is still more impor- | tant to the issue. If the special had run from Lathrop to Fresno it would have had a clear track from all ains in either direction from before the time it left acramento until 5:30 a. m. On the Tracy-Men- | dota line it was due to meet between 1 o'clock . at | o’clock at Fresno one regular freight.! tr Tracy and 3 two regular passenger and several extras, besides two | regular freights to overtake and pass. These and all other questions involved in the dis- ter are for the Coroner to investigate. A great dis- | aster has occurred, by which two people have been | killed and thirteen injured. The railroad officials will of course try to pass it off as unavoidable. The public looks to the Coroner to fix the blame where That is his duty. INATOR MORGAN has long been one of the most fervent of the advocates of the free coin- age of silver. He was one of the fiercest of the i Cleveland and one of the most potent of the o foes 1old the sound money policy of the Now the old warhorse He has rather than uph Cleveland administration has had enough of cavorting like a wild colt. | become serious again and longs for the harmony of discipline in the party ranks. The plan of the Senator is ingenious. He desires to eliminate silver from the Presidential campaign, but to leave it as ancissue in the Congressional dis- tricts. - He proposes that the party nominate for the Presidency a man who shall be non-committal on the silver question, but who shall pledge himself to have no policy to carry out against the will of the people. As the Senator himseli has expressed it, he would nominate a man who would say to his party some- thing like this: “When my party is able in Congress to pass a free coinage bill I will not veto it, but will per- mit it to-become a lJaw. Whatever my own opinions may be, I believe the combined wisdom of the men of my own party in Congress is better than mine. It might be possible that I should not personally think that a free coinage law was the proper thing to enact, but if your representatives in Congress believe other- in your judgment, such a law will be for the wise, i by vou will stand.” The defection of Morgan from the Bryan camp is| not surprising. He has simply joined the other emi- | nent leaders of his party. The Call has repeatedly pointed out that the leading newspapers in the South- | ern; States have been more or less open for some time past in denouncing the folly of Bryanism. Morgan adds his voice to theirs in ‘expressing Southern sen- | timent. The South has no silver mines to boom. Her statesmen sce that in following the silver leaders | the South has been placed in a false light before the | country, and fs now almost shorn of influence in Con- | gress. Her politicians perceive that Bryanism is a | sinking ship and they are ready to abandon it. | In the meantime it is to be noted that the hold of | Bryan upon the masses of the Democratie party in strength. That much was demonstrated by the out- | every “portion of the Union is against him, but with | the radicals and the unreflecting masses he remains ! as unquestionable a leader as ever. { It appears from the present outlook as if the Demo- 1 cratic convention of 1000 would be even more stormv than that of 1896. The combination against Brya;fl next year will include almost every leader of the party who has a'national reputation. He may succeed once more in sweeping the delegates away from the do- main of common sense by the power of his oratory, but, if so, the revolt that follows will be far greater than that which organized the Palmer and Buckner movement. It will mean the total separation of the | conservative element from the Democratic party, lesving the name and the machinery in the hands of | the Repulists, whom Democracy once fondly.thought it would swallow as the tiger does the lamb. ASTERN manufacturers, flushed with the abundant prosperity attending their export trade, have in many instances come to the con- clusion that a protective tariff is no longer necessary to their welfare. Their opinion, strangely enough, seems to be shared to some extent by the Postmaster General. At any rate, that official has been quoted as saying in a recent interview on the issues of the day that a protective tariff is no Jonger so important as it.was in times past. As given by the New York Press, his exact words are these: “Protection has established the complete ar the railway service has| Protection remains a vital | sessions of the United States Dr. v that, it may fairly be said that it has substantially es- tablished our industrial supremacy. This truth has | been demonstrated within the past two years, as we are now beating the products of the Old World on their own grounds. With this development of our home industries to the point where they completely | possess the home market and are able also to reach | abroad, the protective issue has not the same vital force it had during the period of struggle and devel- | opment.” 5 It is gratifying to note that our New York con- temporary emphatically repudiates the doc'trine thus set forth and points out that to the farmers of the country protection is an issue even more important | now than ever. As the Press says: “To the farmer whose tobacco fields have just recovered from the ravages of Sumatran competition, and who sees them threatened by Porto Rican, Cuban and Philippine Dingley law has rescued from the rain of Mediter- ranean oranges in ballast and now sees the whole | sugar grower, to whom has been held forth the ‘daz- zling prospect of a new $100,000,000 crop and now has this prospect dimmed by the advocacy of Cuban annexation by the President’s own Commissioner to Cuba—-to all these the question «of the maintenance | never knew before.” - | The experience of the country during the disas- | trous days of the Wilson tariff showed the farmers | that their welfare was inseparably connected with that | | of the miners and the manufacturers. When the milis closed the home market of the farmer was diminished | | so seriously that the price of all forms of his product | fell, and he suffered as much from the depression as | | any other class of the community. The manufac- | turers of the East will have a similar costly lesson if, | in pursuit of the export trade, they. should break | down the protection given to American farm | products. Should the prosperity of the agriculturists | be diminished, and their consuming power lessened, the home market for American manufactures would | be at once so weakened that no export trade now in | sight could make up for the loss. jssue. = The Pennsyl- vania manufacturers, following the lead of Carnegie, may be inclined to regard it as of no further value, but the common sense of the people of the country | | at large is not likely to make such a mistake. They | will never be willing to sacrifice our fruit, tobacco, —e— —————a THE WOMAN’'S CONGRESS. \/\/tional Congress of Women in London, the | press of England has given no little spake to a record sugar, wire and wool interests either to free trade or to imperialism. HILE comparatively little attention has been given in cables from Europe to the Interna- of the proceedings. The assembly has been a no- table one in every respect, for it has been aftended by delegates from every quarter of the globe and rep- | resenting every civilized race. One of the notable features of the Congress has : MORGAN'’S TVIEW OF bEMOCRACY‘ been the strict decorum enforced at all the meetings. | The correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says: “The proce.dings everywhere were businesslike and serious. Indeed, the feminine influence in the ar- rangements seemed to_show itself in an enthusiasm | for discipline which developed into a kind of in- | Senatorial clique which split the Democratic party | genuous officiousness. Innumerable ‘stewards’ took control, and strictly forbade any one to enter or leave a room during a speech. There was a certain pleas- urable reminiscence of early childhood in being or- dered about peremptorily by young ladies of the age of an average pupil teacher in a national school, but it proved to be a novel and serious impediment to journalistic duties to be rigorously forbidtlen to pass from one section to another.” The congress has held its meetings in sections for the discussion of many topics, but the section meet- ings are not permitted to pass resolutions. That is | a right reserved to the congress as a whole. It was noted on the first day, while all the ten section meet- ings were well attended, the “political section,” where the suffrage question was discussed, drew the smallest crowd, although, as it turned out, the debates there were the liveliest of the day. The industrial section, in which woman’s work and wages were discussed, proved to be most attractive to | by far the larger number of delegates. The papers and the discussions that followed showed a good deal of antagonism and competition between the sexes in the struggle for employment. It tas asserted b. [ best interests of the country, such a law when enacted | Some of the speakers that much of the so-called phil- anthropic legislation ostensibly devised to prevent the overworking of Women in factories was really caused by the jealousy of men ready to put restric- tions upon the compstition of women in the labor market. Some of the statements made on the subject by delegates from different countries are intcrestiné. Frau Cauer said women in Germany work from ten to fifteen hours a day in factories and receive much lower wages than men for the same work. Zeneide Ivanoff reported that in Russia women work for $3 a month, and often in the most unhealthy surround- ings. Mme. Belilon of France declared that men in all classes and in all civilized nations are striving to keep remunerative' work away from women. The only delegate who thought women have too much population, while in England and | the North, at any rate, continues undiminished in | WOTk as it is was Mrs. Annie Hicks of the United States, who maintained that mothers should not be | burst of enthusiasm upon the utterance of his name Permitted to work for a certain time after the birth [ at the Fourth of July celebration at Tammany Hall. ©f @ child, and that there should be a maternity fund | The conservative sense of the leaders of his party in | provided by the state. The significant fact of the Congress is that-more attention was paid by the delegates to economic than to political questions. Woman’s suffrage js less interesting now than woman’s work. Much the same tone marks the assemblies of men in these days. We have reached a stage of new development in economic conditions, and the problems it presents are the main themes of discussion wherever intelli- gent people meet to consider . the general welfare, whether they be men or women. In discussing an educational policy for the new pos- W. T. Harris, | United States Commissioner of Education, suggests | a new definition of altruism. Under the new theory | the brotherhood of man is to be established with bullets and bayonets. If dead Filipinos could talk they might say something that Dr. Harris might not care to hear. ‘When the freedom of the city was about to be con- ferred by Aberdeen, Scotiand, upon Andrew Carnegie, the authorities decorated the public buildings with United States flags, and the adornment was doubtless meant in kindness, but inasmuch as Carnegie does not represent the United States, it looks to an outsider as 4f the ceremony of honor had been just a little bit overdone. P N e The New York preacher who lost his job because the devil tempted him to steal oats is probably con- vinced now that the man who said that his Satanic Majesty takes care of his own was seriously misin- formed. industrial independence of this country. More than | competition; to the Southern fruit-raiser, whom the | | West Indies swim with the ken' of rivalry; to the beet | | of a protective tariff holds now anxieties which it | e s HOHOAP AP X Bulwer Lytton in one of his best known novels undertook to depict “va- | rieties of English, life.” He mad2 a | good story and presented characters illustrating no inconsiderable number | of the types of men and women that | g0 to make up the complex public of England. Each had his peculiarities, | and nearly every one of them turned a | crank of some kind as diligently as if he thought the turning were necessary | to make the world go round. England is but part of an island and | the varfeties of life there are few and | simple when contrasted with those of the United States. ‘What novelist would venture upon depicting varieties of American life? It takes a news- paper to do that, and even then the story has to be continued from day to | day for years to keep pace with the development of the subject. As for our cranks—their name is legion. We have almost more cranks than people, for iwhlle many of us are not cranks, there is a great host each of whom is: sev- eral kinds of a crank, and the aggrg- gate therefore is probably a little bit 1 ahead of that of the ponulation. S Small in numbers and generally di- minutive in size but conspicuous by | calculation crank—the fellow who fig- | ures out how many pounds of potatoes | a 'man consumes in seventy years, how fmuch horsepower is exerted by a school | girl in chewing gum from the time she | enters the high school until she grad- | uates, and other abstruse problems of that kind, bringing to light enough use- less knowjedge to stall a freight train. | One of the species has been moved to calculation of late by a doubt whether George Washington ean continue to hold the highest place in the edteem of Americans since Jeffries knocked out Fitzsimmons. He meets the issue with | the impartiality of a true mathemati- cian. He says Jeffries is 6 feet 1 inch in height, Washington was 6 feet 2 inches; Jeffries in fighting condition weighs 204 pounds, Washington with- out an ounce of superfluous flesh on him during his frontier life weighed 230; Jeffries measures 43% inches around the chest and Washington an inch more; Jeffries has a better ring record than Washington, but the record of the latter credits him with having jumped 23 feet, thrown a stone across thé Potomac wopposite Mount Vernon and lifted a horse. Upon that data the computer calcu- lates that if Washington were now alive and in his prime, he would stiil be the greatest of Americans, and with a Ilit- tle preliminary training in the art of | pugilism and ring tactics he could put | Jeffries to sleep in two rounds. PR G A notable crank in every American community is the man who,means busi- ness, whose motto is “Get there EIi,” and whose ambition is to get there first. The. crank of this type whirls the wheels of trade everywhere, not only “from Siskiyou to San Diego, from the Sierras to the sea,” but from where the sullen surges of the Atlantic thunder upon, the rocky coasts of bleak New England to where the gentle ripples of the Pacific bring the balms and odors of tropic isles to the golden sands of sunny California; from where the mocking-bird sings to the moon in the glow of Floridian nights to where ths polar bear roams among Alaskan ice- | bergs by the illumination of auroral | lights flashing their splendors around the boreal pole. 3 Here is how he got a move on him- self and on all his tribe in the quiet city of Penn in one instance last week. The conductor of a railway train was thrown from the top of a car and se- riously injurged. The accounts given of the accident in the papers next day ex- | tensively advertised it; and that very day, according to the reports of thor- oughly reliable journals, he received twenty-two proposals from various un- dertakers who wanted the job of bury- ing him, the rates running from $35 to $360. Florists from all over the coun- try sent their rates for gates ajar, broken columns, pillows and vacant | chairs. One gardener called in person, and th2 conductor, meeting him at the door, succeeded in getting 50 per cent discount off market prices before he made himself known as the man sup- posed to be dead. . For a specimen of the thrifty citizen— the crank who impresses upon you that & penny saved is a penny earned, who computes the amount you spend for cigars and figures out that if you had never smoked you would in a hundred vears from now be a prominent citizen —one naturally turns to Boston, and at this juncture does not turn in vain. During the construction of the fa- mous subway in Boston an old burial ground was disturbed, and it was found necessary to remqve the remains of a large number of persons interred there. Of course such a movement of ances- tral bones caused much agitation in the stagnant pools of Boston aristocrasy. One eminent person of culture was in- duced to grant a right of way through his family vauit only upon condition the city would provide him with an. other constructed according to his ldeas for the reception of the mortal remains of his ancestors. The city agreed and the work was done; the subway completed and the new tomb constructed. When all was ready; the thrifty respecter of the bones of his departed pedigree builders was taken over to inspect the new reposi- tory. “Now,” sald the official who had charge of the work of removing the bodies, “you can set a day and the ve. mains can be brought gver and depos- ited here.” “What!” exclaimed the old gentleman, “have that nice new tomb littered up with those old bones? Never! Close up the old tomb and let ‘em be!” Thus did he obtain, without cost, a new family tomb, and pro‘ve himself so well fitted Yor it that all Boston will be glad to see him oc- cupy it. e Chicago furnishes the time with a good specimen of the “get there” citi- zen in the person of the man who, hav- ing read the recent report that the great wall of China is to be torn down, at once packed his grip and started to Peking to put in a bid for the con- tract. There is another type of Ameri- can developing in _ Chicago, however, which is even more interesting in its way than the type that means busi- ness; that is the self-made man who, baving made himself without culture, proceeds to patronize literary societies for the purpose of obtaining it by in- fection. The ‘“cultured Chicagoan,” as he is EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. o-ofimmiuowmommmmmuu his activity and his versatility is the | : SRS ADHS K * *920 proudly termed by his admiring fellow citizens, is more honored in that com- munity just now than a pork-packer or even a philanthropist who endows a church out of the proceeds of the sale of embalmed beef. Under his in- fluence the drawing-room conversation and even the club talk of Chicago has | become refined like pure I ¢ a membeg: of the upper set wouldn’t talk of sausages at a soiree for a car- load of sausages. In this aspiration for self-culture there is always an audible. expression of delight from the Chicagoan when- ever he gets a new bit of veneering over some part of his mental furniture | B. where the natural grain of ignorance [ .. o has been hitherto exposed in the raw. Hence incidents. Not long ago a distinguished visitor went to Chicago and by request deliv- ered a lecture on Omar Khayyam be- fore a' very self-selected literary soO- clety. The president. of the club sat on the platform and fairly glowed with rapture all the evening. From the brightness of he face of him a casual stranger in the audience might have supposed he had guessed right on wheat. When the lecture was OVer. however, he explained the cause of his joy. “We are greatly indebted to the speaker,” sald he to his fellow self- cultured, “for we never -before knew the difference between Omar Khayy.m and Hunyadi Janos.” % re The letter-writing crank Is ubiqui- tous and he is as gayly variegated as a cockatoo. New York has a fine speci- men of him—perhaps the finest of the summer. He has béen' arrested for sending love-letters to Miss Helen Gould, his capture being dué to the fact that, not content with sending many through the mails, he called at the house and delivered some of them in person. ‘When. called upon by an inquisitive law to explain his conduct he said he . had read of Miss, Gould’s néble and | generous actions and thought she mer- ited the love as well as the admiration of every patriotic-American; therefore, believing -that all people who deserve commendation ought to receive it, he had written to express his as best he could and as often as he could. He had tak¥n some letters to the house himself instead of sending them through the malls simply because he had not enough money to buy two cent postage stamps. He pleaded that his love is disinterested and pure, and in proof cited the fact that in none of his letters had he ever asked Miss Gould | to marry him or to give him a dime. The argument had a very different effect from that intended by the defen- dant. The Judge before whom he was tried, after giving all the facts due consideration, came to the conclusion in his New York judicial mind that a man who would make love to an heiress without expecting money muyst crazy, so ne sent the letter-writer to an asylum, and thus deprived the un- appreciative Miss Gould of the only disinterested lover she ever had'in her life, or is ever likely to have. s There are people who delight in th mysterious, who gather up instances of, premonitions and presentiments of coming death, and make out of them strange proofs of yet stranger philo- sophies, and these also are entitled to a place in the list of the varieties of our life. A very good story of their kind has been made public in some of the remin- iscences of .Congressman Bland, which followed his death a few weeks ago. Despite their differences in politics and their many battles on the floor of the House over questions of tariff or finance, Bland was a great friend of the late Nelson Dingley. 'The two men were very much together for years dur- ing their service in Congress, and the warmth of their attachment for one another was frequently noted. When Dingley dted Bland was very much affected, and it is recalled thati he said to a friend: “I feel all right | myself just now, and am about as well as ever, but somehow I am convine=d 1 shall not survive Dingley a yean” The incident is the more interesting because that is the only time on rec- ord when Bland's convictions were confirmed by results. R Some cranks are forever trying to set the courts to grinding out redress for all mankind and cures for every- thing that irritates. The extension given of late by the courts to the scope | of writs of injunction has greatly en- couraged this type, and there are very few things that haven’t been enjoined in some part of the Union in the last few years. A Texas man heads the list of this type so far by applying to the court to enjoin his wife from receiving the com- pany of a certain good-looking neigh- bor. If the injunction stick, the busi- | ness of courts will largely increase and | lawyers will have a chance to get rich though honest. If a wife may by in- junction be restrained from receiving visits, why may she not be enjoined | from bargain sales, or from keeping lapdogs? « e e - Finally, let us give heed to the Amer- ican poet—the singer of the day, who harps not upon worn-out themes of love or duty or beauty or booty, but | of current events, the latest sensa- tions; and who' rolls his rapturous rhapsodies round the records of our new inventions and our freshest feel- ings. Here is how a Boston bard | twangs his lyre in the Journal of that'| city and sings of “Horseless Things’ Across the pond in gay Paree They have the horseless coupe, But what those Frenchmen need the miost Is just the horseless soup. The horseless cab, the horseless bus, Is Gotham’s fondest hope. But what old Gotham needs the most Is just the horseless soap. Chicago wants the horseless hack, But then the boarder thinks That what Chicago needs the most Is horseless sausage links. CALIFORNIA AND ORINDA. Native Sons and Daughters Pledge Their Officers to Perform Duties. Last Thursday night Native Sons and Native Daughters installed officers. Cali- fornia Parlor No. 1, the pioneer parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, had its officers installed by J. W. Lewis of Stanfeyd Parlor, ‘district deputy grand president, assisted by Fred H. Jung as grand marshal and ene Gauthier Jr. t‘h?e d secretary, in the Shasta Hall of ative Sons’ building. Th for .members of the order onelye:v:’:t:t: eaf lard, and | be | 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1899 % I XOXSXOXOXOX PR OXSXO | vious to the installing n'xre;: :fi;;rl:v ég | THE CORONER’S DUTY IN THE NEW- initiatory degree. ;‘;: to comrg'l the parlor for the current term of six months are: ident, John O'Gara; president, Rom- b P een: Vice presidents, Louis Lacaze, W D, Hobro Jf. and John F. Linchan; recording o es J. Jamison; financ cre- secretary . I imlon; treasurer, Henry F. Per- tary, nau; marshal, . Rowlands; trustee, F P "Sherman; inside sentinel, T. E. Morrissey A. F. Holberg. and outside sentinel, h - he ceremony, which was conduct- edAlfr'fE; :nanner that reflected great credit on the installing officer, those present omre entertained by decidedly interesting Addresses by Myron Wolf, Charles A. Reynolds, M. Davis, J. P. Dockery, D. A, Curtin, Fred H. Jung, James O'Gara and President Jansen, who at the termination of his remarks presented to BE. C. Laws, the retiring past president, a fine jewei of the order. A collation was served. < Orinda Parlor of the Native Daughters, which has in it many of the handsomest and brightest members of the order, had Mrs. Minnie F. Dobbins, district dépity grand president, and her corps of acting Brand officers, including Miss Nellie Clark £ grand marshal and Sarah Osterman as past grand president, install the following hamed as its officers for the current term: Miss’ e Mayer, past president; Miss rene Bl M eient: Mae McRae, first vice president: Anna G ruber, second vice presi- dent; Hattie Burke, third vice president; Lena recording_secretary: Emma Fol 1 ®Hildur Anderson, treasu Etsie Boyd, 'inside s outside sentinel; Aggie ccretary Nellie Evers, marshal; tinel; Dorothy Harloe, Boyd, Hannah Ahlers and Jessie Rusac, trus- tees. The officers were congratulated upon ful manner in :’h(clh ‘:hey erre -ted into office, and a8 a token of ap- mr‘z"(";ntlon of the work of Deputy Mrs. obbins the parlor presented her an im- mense bunch of beautiful pinks. AROUND THE" CORRIDORS pr. H. L. Nichol of Sacramento is at the Grand. Alfred W. Otis of Bos’un is a guest at the Palace. H. Lindsay, a frult grower of Fresno, i8 at the Lick. R. C. Kellyday, U. 8. N., Is a guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Muckle of New York are at the California. Dr. McAdary, an army officer, is stay- ing at the California. - . S. Thaxter of the yacht Bl Primero is at the Grand with his wife. “Tod C. Woodworth, a wealthy mining man of Jamestown, is registered at the Grand. - Lieutenant W. W. Bush of the navy ts among those who yesterday arrived at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. R. Gflman Brown have come over from San Rafael and are at the Palace. Frank H. Buck, a wealthy fruit grower of Vacaville, is at the Palace with his wifo and family. Dr. F. L. O'Nelll, one of the leading physicians of Columbfa, S. C., Is staying at the Grand. 46— ge 'The-other even- ing agpoker party the suceess! . HE was in progress in one of the TOOK THE rooms of a cer- HINT. tain downtown hotel. Five plev< Yo———————G+4 ers were engaged, among whom was | a gentleman with one eye, whose methods | are not abgve eriticism, and an_elderly | Texas catt!® man, whose honesty Is as straight as the shooting that made him famous in the early days when grave- vards, like mushrooms, were wont to spring up over night. The one- d individual was winning pretty heavily, ahd though his reputation was well known no one had discovered | anything that made remonstrance neces- sary until just as he was about to deal - the Southwesterner, who had hardly spo- ken during the whole time he had been sitting at the table, reached back and drawing a gun that looked like a cannon said; “Gentlemen, I have heen watching the way things have been progressing for the ast few deals and I don't like it. There is some crooked work going on. Now, T ain’t saying nothing to no one and I ain’t ° making no personal allusions, but I'm a { plain man and ‘what I says T means. This | business has got to stop. There is some one cheating. I mention no names, but if he does it again I'll shoot his other eve out as sure as the Lord made little ap- | ples. To prevent trouble I hope he will | take this delicate hint.” - | He did and quit the game. A. J. Binney, a wealthy merchant of Marysville, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and family. Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, U. S. N., has come down from Mare Island and is registered at the Occidental. George B. Warren, assistant manager of the Palace Hotel, has returned after a va- cation of two weeks spent in the Yosem- ite. L. R. Vance, the Vallejo contractor, is a guest at the Occidental, where he is stay- ing while on a short business trip to the city. i Mrs. F. A. Rockhcld of Chicago arrived vesterday and is visitiig her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McLeod, at 511 Guerrefo street. Among vesterday's arrivals at the Occl+ dental were Mr. and Mrs. H. Lux of San Jose and J. Hillo and A. Rich of Lex- ington, Ky. At the California there arrived last even- ing ninety-five of the members of the teachers’ excursion. Most of the party have their homes in the State of New York. O. L. Fairchild, Postmaster of Gains- ville, Tex., is a guest at the Grand. Mr. Fairchild, previous to his connection with the Postal Department, was one of the- best known railroad men in the State of Texas. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 15.—Joe Selby of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. L. C. More- house and wife of San_Leandro are at the Bartholdi. William H. Magee of San Francisco i{s at the Gilsey. A. Borel of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. C. Lewis of Los Angeles is at the Hoffman. | CALTFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 15.—General Har- rison G. Otis of Los Angeles is at the Shoreham; Willlam-Levison of San Fran- cisco is at the Wellington; Mr, and Nrs. A. M. Lewis of San Francisbo are visiting relatives in Washington and will remain until August, when they sail for Europe, e ————— “ACTIVE SERVICE” = In next Sunday’s Call there will begin Stephen Crane’s latest and most thrilling serial story. This novelette has been secured exclu- sively for the readers of The Sun- day Call, and it is anticipated that its appearance will be a matter of more than passing interest, for “Ac- tive Service” is one of Mr. Crane’s | strongest stories. It is a love ro- mance dealing with typical men and women of to-day. —————— Arrested for Grand Larceny. J. T. Platt, a clerk residing at 1401 Stein- i er street, was arrested last night at the Pavilion and charged with grand larceny by Officer Prowfe. Platt attended the - cakewalk, and Mrs. Prowfe, wife of the arresting officer, feit a hand in her pocket and accused Platt of trying to pick it. She called her husband, and Platt began to threaten the officer with official decapi- tation, and the latter imm under arrest, ciately poced Cal.glace fruit 30 per Ibat Townsend's.® —— Speclal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clippirg Burea: ’ - : P! E Tere u (m!)l:.l’)‘. 510 Hoet‘ )