The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIS€CO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1899 Call, AUGUST 5, 1899 e = PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL RCOMS 21T to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone n 1874, . 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postager DATLY CALL (including Sunday Call), one yeas DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL £ §6.00 8.00 1.50 o 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year. . All postmasters are authorized to recefve subscriptions. Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.... .908 Broadway | C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Greal Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. Northern Hotel; NEW YORX NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, &1 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......... ‘Wellington Hotel d. L. 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California—'"Madame Sars Gene.” Columbia— Y famlet.” Grand Opera House—'‘Boccacclo.” Chutes, Zoo and Free Theater—V. and_even Olympia, corner Mason and Ellis streets— Interstate Panorama Co., Market street, on wimming Races, eto. —Baseball to-da: erback—This day, at 2:30 o'clock, Turkish street. & Co.—Thursday, 13 California street. & By _Von Rhei August 10, at 12 o'clock, Real Estate, at§ THE DOLLAR LIMIT. direct or indirect, there is but one course 07 | 1is pompous brigadier, the Fi l ] PON all issues involved in the tax levy, whether the Supervisors to take. They have pledged clves to the people to confine municipal e: the penditures within a revenue derived from a tax 1evy | him, and as Los Angeles has to endure that the pun- not exceeding $1 upon the $100 of an assessment of | j<hment inflicted by No other | places is just the course can be taken that will be either expedient or | right to inquire why $250,000,000. That pledge must be kept. honest. The pledge was not carelessly nor inconsiderately | when. the waters of the Rubicon rose to the fetlocks given. Mayor Phelan had insistently maintained that | of his snorting charger. He says The Call is “gener- | government could be efficiently supported on 1 ally offensive,” which is more than he was as a soldier. the city revenues derived from taxation within the dollar limit. A considerable body of citizens were convinced | when it comes to offens by his arguments and it was in response to the popu- | get to windward of him. lar demand that both parties at the last municip:fl‘ election pledged their cafldidates to fix the tax levy | within that limit. The people rejected the Democratic | at Trieste to Isaac Rusk, a jacky on the Olympia, candidates and elected an overwhelming majority of | who died on the voyage home from Manila, the Aus- | — | quent cesspools of the English language to The Call | and its proprietor. | men of small caliber of thinking that a name changes _.Market and Third Sts., S. F | that to which it is applied. | other varieties, he thought that calling a thunder | shower creek “the Rubicon” made him a Caesar wh»eu | his horse waded it. In his mind’s eye he saw rise 1.00 | But the resemblance between him and Caesar was no Herald Squaro | ,.,,] uncivil part in civil life and demands that all | B --29 Tribuno Bullding e, which does as little harm as a thrust from his | ! will be destroyed here by conquesting the Philippines? SOME PERSONALITIES. RIGADIER GENERAL HARRISON-GRAY OTIS of Los Angeles falls to calling names ;’md applies several epithets derived from the infre- General Otis makes the mistake that is usual with He has practiced this upon himself, When he was gallivanting in the Phil- ippines, dressed in white clothes and a red sash and around him all the pomp and circumstance that fol- lowed the great Julius when he turned his back on ce and led his legions upon Rome. his own provin closer than that between a tailless tabby cat and a royal Bengal tiger. His Rubicon dispatch was all that was heard of him as a soldier, and he soon followed it across the seas to put off his shining war harness and point to ele- gant locations on his ample anatomy for scars that he failed to get in battle. He has settled down to his men shall agree with him, or take a squirt from his sword. He has discovered that the owner of The Call has “sugar interests” that will be destroyed by our perma- nent occupancy of the Philippines. He refers thereby to the manufacture of beet sugar in California, and the | size of his head is measured exactly by his rejoicing that its destruction will injure The Call's owner. In that he is mistaken, except that to destroy the beet- sugar industry by taking the Philippines will greatly | harm thousands- of farmers and incidentally hurt everybody in the State, including this tin scrap Caesar | himself. His jocund admission that this great and growing interest is to be destroyed by the Philippine policy is | a substantial addition to the reasons why California | should carefully consider that policy before indorsing | The Call has only tried to promote this examina- | tion by its readers and the people whom it reaches and 1} | itfluences. Perhaps the tin scrap Caesar of Los Angeles will submit a statement of the compensating advantages | to the farmers of California which will follow the de- | quest of the Philippines. What will the thousands ol'i‘ workingmen, thrown out of employment, find to do | mills grind no more? To what equally profitable variation in their crops will farmers devote their lands? What equally profitable means of distributing | the wages of labor among the merchants will be found | to take the place of what our Rubicon forder boasts | We can be amused by the perk and swagger of this | strutting imperialist. He begs to assure us that “the punishment of the Filipinos will continue as long as | ve is in open rebellion.” the punishment were of the kind administered by | pinos would be a good His mere pres- ve thing about | a nat risk in any life insurance company. ence in Luzon was the only offens v him upon the people of the two ne. His Yfellow citizens have a | they are thus put on a level with | skulkers who sniggered in their trenches the du He was then generally harmless and inoffensive. But | ness as a man, it is best to Commenting on the funeral honors paid recently | be known only to the judges. purpose and character cannot exist in the South with- out an organization of the party of equal virility in the North.” S Mr. Eckels is not the only Northern Democrat who has turned to the South for aid in the struggle against Bryanism, but up to this time no such aid has been forthcoming. Some oi the more influential pa- pers in the Southern States have indeed .denounced Bryanism, and a considerable number of influential men have supported them, but the mass of Southern Democrats appear to be as devoted to Bryan as ev From the present outlook it is not at all likely any one will be able to prevent his renomination in 1900. By its foolish and often corrupt alliances with Popu- lism, Democracy has been infected with socialism and the virus must run its course to the end. According to press dispatches, Champion Jim Jef- fries and Banker Isidore Wormser had numerous heart-to-heart talks on the qualities that win success during their voyage from New York to Southampton. The dispatches are probably incorrect. Poker, nct hearts, was the game. THE COURT-MARTIAL AT RENNES. Y all odds the most extraordinary feature of the Dreyfus case is the convolution of mystery within mystery that surrounds it. There have been mistakes of justice before. There is not a land on earth where some innocent man has not been un- | justly convicted of crime either by the machinations of enemies, the mistakes of juries or the mischan® of circumstantial evidence. In the case of Dreyfus, how- | ever, we have had all sorts of attendant sensations involving the central wrong. There have been false witness, forgeries, suicides, and even suggestions of murder done in military prisons. This characteristic of the case continues to mark | with mystery the approaching court-martial at | Rennes. The case submitted to that court by the Court of Cassation is a very simple one, being limited to the question of the authenticity of the famous bor- derau and the delivery to a foreign power of the docu- | ments therein specified. If the court-martial confine itself to those issues the proceedings need not be | complex nor long. Evidence submitted to the Court of Cassation convinced that august body ofsJudges | that Dreyfus did not write the one and therefore could | rot have delivered the documents. The court-martial has, therefore, an opportunity to close the matter hth—Bat- | gryction of the sugar-beet industry, out of the con- | Promptly, 8o justice to Dreyfus and husn the scandal. For some mysterious reason, however, it seems probable the court-martial will not take the easy way = when the beet fields are not planted and the sugar | out provided for it by the Court of Cassation. Re- ports from Paris imply the military judges will push | the investigations to the limit and reopea the whole case. If this were done in an open trial, the course would be commendable, but it appears likely the court | will be secret and the results of the examinations will | Is it any wonder that | | under such circumstances the case should continue to be not only a Rarisian sensation, but a matter of pro- found interest to the whole civilized world? General Mercier is quoted as having said recenfly:; “Certainly Dreyfus will be convicted again. he is guilty or I am; and I shall prove him to be a| traitor.” From that statement, it is argued, Mercier | will claim to have confidential information of the guilt | of Dreyfus and will demand a secret investigation. | It is even said he will involve the Germad Govern- ment in the affair, and thus force the court-martial to | secrecy for the purpose of avoiding an international | controversy. Such are reported to be the tactics of the military ring, and the delay in holding the court at Rennes goes far to confirm the report. It is to be noted, however, there is a strong ele- ment in France that is desirous of settling the issue by the simplest and promptest method. The Paris Herald says: “If the Court of Cassation, as it was entitled to do by statute, had returned a verdict of annulation sans renvoi, the Dreyfus affair would by this time have been simply a matter of ‘ancient history,’” and, in ]il:e'; Republicans to the Board of Supervisors. The public | trian press agrees that no one in the Austrian navy | manner, if the Rennes court-martial, avoiding danger- | confidence thus shown in Republican fidelity must | under the rank of a commander would have been | given such a send-off. The Austrian press seems to not be betrayed. The Finance Committee of the Supervisors has re- ported an estimate of appropriations for the year which will be within the limit. That estimate has been | { revised by the Merchants’ Association and by Mayor| THE COLLAPSE OF: DEMOCRACY. Phelan. The various estimates differ widely in many respects, but all are within the limit. Out of the sug- | gestions thus submitted the Supervisors must make the best choice possible for the general good. It is| not demanded that either of them shall be adopted as reported, but it is demanded that the point on which they all agree, the dollar limit, shall be observed. | The Board of Supervisors which preceded the pres- ent one was dominated by a strong Democratic ma- jority. That majority was faithless to every pledge and to every expectation of the people. As a conse- | quence the voters turned to the Republicans at the } the business and independent elements of the country. next election. The warning is therefore plain. If| the Republicans who now control the Board of Su- pervisors break faith with the people and prove false to solemn pledges the party will suffer. If they stand | true and faithful Republicanism will once more have { proven its right to popular confidence. The issue is not to be evaded. The people demanded a dollar limit upon taxation, the Mayor recommended it, the Merchants’ Association indorsed it, the candi- dates for office were pledged to it. It must now be given a full and fair trial. If a revenue so raised be sufficient for all needs, it is time the people should know it. If it be insufficient, it will be well to have that fact made known. Whatever the result may be the Supervisors will stand blameless if they keep their pledge, and will have the honor due to those who are faithful to their promises to the people. David Davis, 92 years old, and Mrs. Lucy Bennett, aged 86, were married recently at Santa Barbara after a courtship of seven years. Considering the fact that Davis made a reputation in his youth us “the Boy Orator of Virginia,” he should have no difficulty in getting the last word in the bosom of his new family, Congressman Clark of Missouri seems to think that God will have a vote at the next Presidential elec- tion. Nothing but the intervention of the Almighty, says the confident Congressman, can prevent the elec- tion of Bryan. Although with Buckley on one side and Rainey on the other the independent Democrat appears to be between the devil and the deep sea, there’s ample room for him on the highway if he join the Republi- can procession. When Georgia takes stock this year the ly’nching crop will probably show bigger returns than that of any other industry, but there will be no profit in it. After all the Shamrock should have been compelled to beat the Meteor and get a record before she had 2 right to challenge an American champion. From the exuberance of the reception given to Alger on his return home it appears that even his | things. | a national one, and the making of it almost wholly al forget that Dewey has a way of his own of doing AMES H. ECKELS, Comptroller of the Cur- (,J rency during the second Cleveland administra- tion, has recently reviewed the effects of the leadership of the free silver men upon the Democratic party, and set forth the results in a manner sufficiently terse and impressive to be of general interest. He sums up in this way: “First—The party given over to socialism in prin- ciples, leadership and following, with the consequent result of loss in both leadership and following of ail “Second—The falling away of the organization as local one bent only on obtaining local standing and local offices. “Third—The elimination of it as a force in the North and the lessening of its importance in the South. “Fourth—The repudiation by it of all Democratic principles, history and teaching concerning the money qGuestion, the tariff, the country’s courts and the pub- lic service. “Fifth—The publicly making it the ‘lying-in’ asylum of every element of discontent in the country, and the making possible for political bastardy to claim Dem- ocratic parentage. “Sixth—The depriving the country of the beneficent effects of a strong, intellectual, conservative opposi- tion party at a time when grave questions of public polity, far reaching in their effects, are being dealt with by the party in power, without the restraining influence that would follow if the Democratic party stood for something more than mere agitation and opposition.” No thoughtful and truthful student of American politics will dispute the essential accuracy of that summary. Under the leadership of Bryan, Democ- racy has achieved a complete political revolution within itself, changing from a conservative party to one of the most extreme radicalism. Should it come into power and undertake to carry out the wild theo- ries of its present leaders, it would produce a revolu- tion in the country. A Bryan administration would be not four years of constitutional government, but a socialistic experiment through four years of disas- ter, discord and turbulence. So far as Northern Democracy is concerned, Mr. Eckels sees no hope. The party in that section of the country is hopelessly discredited and its abler leaders have been forced into retirement. To the conserva- tism of Southern mien, however, he turns with expec- tation. “It is within the power,” he says, “of the Democrats of the South to prevent a further abomina- tion of the party. If far no other reason than self- preservation they ought to step in and put an end to the reign of the socialist and Populist in the party councils, for the continuation of it means finally their friends were @lad to have him out of office. own elimination, for a Democratic party of influence, ous ambitions, confines its investigations within the limits prescribed by the Court of Cassation, the ap- peasement, which seems to recede the more the matter is investigated, may shortly become an accomplished fact. There can be no doubt that the Waldeck-Rous- seau Ministry desires nothing so much as ‘appease- ment and reconciliation,’” and if, in carrying out its own views, it emancipates the country from the tyr- anny of a certain press it will have deserved well of the nation and the republic.” T —c—— General Mercier, France’s former Minister of War, says: “Either Dreyfus is guilty or I am.” The world at large will have no difficulty in picking the male- factor. 5 A COMMERCIAL MUSEUM. "3 ROM the movement undertaken by the Mer- [ chants’ Association to establish in this citya Com- mercial Museum along the lines of that which has proven so successful in Philadelphia much good is | to be expected. The association has accomplished so much in the past there can be little doubt of its ability to achieve the new undertaking if it find anything like a sufficient responsiveness from the general public. The value of such museums has been tested by the experiment in Philadelphia, and the results have-been gratifying to the promoters. It must be borne in mind, however, that such a venture cannot be widely uvseful if undertaken on a small scale. To build up her museum Philadelphia has sent agents to every country in the world to gather up articles illustrating the industrial needs of various peoples. Thus a manu- facturer can go to the museum in Philadelphia and learn what kind of machinery, implements, clothing, luxuries or other articles are in demand in any notable commercial center of the globe. t A similar museum in San Francisco should include in its scope at least an exhibit of the commercial needs of all countries fronting upon the Pacific Ocean. Tt should show what species of articles and what varieties of them are in demand along the Pacific coast of America, throughout the islands of Australasia and among the swarming populations of the Orient. Energetic agents will have to be kept at work and considerable sums of money will be required to main- tain the exhibits up to date, but the amount will he more than repaid by the profits resulting to manu- | facturers, to merchants and to the community gen- crally. \ It is stated the museum suggested for this city will be aided by the co-operation of that in Philadelphia. It is quite probable the aid thus given will increase with the increasing expansion and activity of the two, for they will be in no sense rivals. Each can accom- plish much more by working together than by work- ing separately, and with a greater economy. Thus the prospect not only of present help but of the continued- co-operation of the great institution in Philadelphia is well assured, and that fact, taken together with the confidence so justly reposed in the enterprises of the Merchants’ Association, ought to sufficiently encour- age the public as to render the establishment of the museum a matter of but a comparatively short time. . | word of truth in this statement. Either | § . IRAGGED OYF AT &AST =—— —_——- = Editor of The Call: The San Fx'anclscoi Chronicle for July 27, 1899, contains an | editorial entitled ‘“Generals and Corre- | spondents” which contains more mistakes | and mischievous faisehoods per square | inch than can often be found in any, respectablle newspaper. It begins with saying that the Ameri-| can people are being misled by war cor-| respondents who want to ake reputa- tions. Here are two misstatements of alleged facts. The people are not misled. The American people are not easily mis- led—never are, as a whole, long at a| time—and speedily sift the facts from a | mass of falsehoods. Next, the correspondents alluded to are not troubled about their reputations. These were established in nearly every instance before they were sent to Ma- nila, and the men were selected because of their well earned reputations. Next, “censorship has been established and maintained * * * ever since war, correspondence was invented. During the Civil War General Sherman threatened to hang Whitelaw Reid, correspondent of the New York Tribune, and turned Murat Halstead out of camp in the most sum- mary manne’ Whitelaw Reid was never in the army as a correspondent of the New Yorl Tribune under any commander. At the battle of Shiloh he s the correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette over the Sig- nature of ‘‘Agate,” and got into such dis- favor for telling the truth about certain regiments and regimental commanders (and these chiefly from his own State) that he never cared to return to that de- partment. The Gazette sent him to Washington ¢ His last army corre- spondence was, I think, from the field of Gettysburg. He always took very high rank as a truthful correspondent. The Chronicle dare not deny this. Again: ‘““He (Sherman) turned Murat Halstead out of camp in the most sum- mary manne There {s not a single al- stead was editor and proprietor of the Cincinnati Commercial, confined closely at home, was never a war correspondent for any paper in the Civil War. He may have visited army lines once or twice | and sent home some editorial notes, prior to the fall of 1862, but he was never at Grant’s or Sherman’s headquarters after that date to my certain knowledge. He was actively intriguing for Grant's re- moval from command down to and in- cluding the siege of Vicksburg. This I rove if any one denies it. gain: ‘‘General Grant also made an mple of another famous correspond- ent. In each case where the presence of a mewspaper writer was tolerated his le}l\(‘&'s and telegrams were rigidly super- vised.” Here are two or three falsehoods in a single sentence. General Grant never sent but one correspondent from his command. This one was a brother-in- law to Wilbur F. Storey, the great editor of the Chicago Times, who had been re- jeatedly warned as to sending contra- and news of war. General Grant never assumed, or sought to exarcise, the slightest’ censorship over letters or tele- rams from the army from Cairo to Appomattox and Raleigh. He took the only defensible ground for an army com- mander in the very outset. He pro- claimed scores of times that he had | neither time nor inclination to exercise any censorship. He notified all corre- spondents who approached him on that subject that they had his full permis- RESPONDENTS. sion to write whatever they gleased from the army about accomplished facts, pro- vided they told the truth, but must not ndulge in prophecies or conjectures con- cerning future movements or campaigns. Men of sense, he considered, would not do this. If the newspapers sent men to the army so lacking in sense as to be guilty of this offense they must incur the punishment of having thelr corre- spondents refused ;ermxssiun to remain within his command. Grant also took the ground that any newspaper which the War Department al- lowed to be published should have the privilege of circulating in_his armies if any desired to read them. He carried this to the extent of revoking General Hur- purt's order suppressing the Chicago Times in the military district of Mem- phis pending the siege of Vicksburg, of which I have abundant proof. General Sherman was especially un- friendly _to__correspondents. He had Thomas W. Knox court-martialed in front of Vicksburg. Knox was acquitted. e would have punished De Bienville Ran- dolph Keim (a Herald correspondent) severely, no doubt,’ during_the ~Adanta campaign had not General McPherscn or staff given him notice in time to escape. What the army commanders of Conti- nental Europe may or may not alloy cuts no figure in the armies of. the United States. The conditions are too dissimilar. In addition to the foregoing misstate- ments and falsehoods there is an under- lying opposition shown by the Chronicle editorial to a general diffusion of infor- mation among the people. It savors strongly of the expression attibuted 1o Vanderbilt, “The people be d—d. . In time of war the press by a law of its existence becomes a powerful assistant. Should the press oppose a war the enemy would consider it an evidence of national weakness. Should it favor a war i1t would be thought an evidence of strength. Should it be mismanaged the Government and people would suffer. It is the duty of the press to support the Government in carrying on all just wars by publishing true and favorable accounts of all completed operations and by with- holding any news by which the enemy might profit. By the law of reciprocity a corresponding duty devolves upon: those in authority to keep the press informed upon all that affects the public weal and to aid it in its work. ¥ When a war occurs in a republic it may be set down as a postulate that the people are entitled to and_ will obtain full ac- counts from the field. The true interests of Government and people will be best promoted by complete and truthful ac- counts therefrom. Tt is an admitted fact that the efliciency of an army depends more upon its intel- ligence than its ysical develo; The press is a great educational f Among soldiers. Our soldiers are news- paper readers. An army_ of American citizens would be damaged more in its morale by withholding daily newspapers filled with army news than being placed on half rations in the fac2 of a victorious enemy. - be considered a certainty that our citizen soldiers will soon rebel against any constituted authority which shuts from them sources of public information. The highest interest of any administr: tion of any republican ~Government namely self-preservation, must therefor always embrace the widest diffusion of news and information affecting its wel- fare. In prolonged wars the existence of any Government comes to depend upon the lovalty of troops and people to the national cause. S. CADWALLADER. August 3, 1869 COR o harness which he expects w record. The antélope has never b racing machine, but those fomiliai controlled by careful training as derful bursts of speed. his strange racers would better the world’ six seconds. 5 ‘ It has been found in training this palir course. t i brought to mind the whip and rein when speed, cover a mile. This is due to the fact that they are and more nimble. The sight of a pair of antelopes with tentlon. The residents of Babylon, L. I ‘been kept secret.—Philadelphia Times. ANTELOf’ES TRAINED TO BEAT TROTTING RECORDS. W YORK sportsman is al present training a pair of antelopes in trotting considerably lower the world’'s best trotting The owner of the first team of racing antelopes is Donald Burns, who is fa- mous as an animal trainer of wide experience. his trained antelopes on a track near his home at Babylon, L. I., and expects to have them in condition to take part in regular track racing events some time this fall. When Mr. Burns was seen last week he expressed himself as confident that ness or wildness gives them an iramense amount of life or spirit on the race- The average antelope, if its training be commenced early enough, can pe life after that is about the same as ihat of a horse. expression goes, the body falling several inches when they move at their best While their long, thin legs move with great regularity and evenness. Their stride is somewhat different from that of a trotting horse, the step be- ing slightly longer, but it is sufficiently like to allow them to enter a regular trotting race. Another peculiarity of antelopes is that they can only travel at their best pace for comparatively short distances. they cannot sustain one of their spurts of speed for more than a half to three- quarters of a mile, and it is only by careful training that they can be made to muscles are too slight to withstand any long exertion. Their speediness is due - to the fact that they weigh from three to five hundred pounds less than a horse, while their legs, with comparatively the same reach of stride, are lighter trotting peacefully about the country has naturally attracted a great deal of at- of conveyance is merely the freak of some rich man, and the fact that they are actually training to beat a world’s record With much promise of success has efore been considered seriously as a r with them helieve that they can be well as a horse, and are capable of won- Mr. Burns is at present running 's trotting record of 2:08 by from tour to of aritelopes that their peculiar nervous- about two yvears old, and their racing They run very low, as the In their natural wild state naturally very short-winded, and thelir h their slender bodies and long horns have decided that this curious means PEYTXXERR DRSS S S S S 2 d 000000000000000000‘ The Other Side of the Story. Sacramento Record-Union. And now- it turns out, after all the hys- terical raving of the chief of yellows, that the Oregon Regiment had blankets and overcoats and woolen clothing in plenty, and that the lot was turned in_at San Francisco by the quartermaster. The men turned In these necessary articles or failed to draw them in order to receive credit for them and draw down the cash instead. They were therefore alone to blame for being without the essential clothing. The Government did not neglect them or deprive them of a single right. In the meanwhile these shrewd Oregon- jans have borrowed overeoats and blank- ets from the State of California, and will draw down coin for their own. There are usually two sides to every story. The Coming Automobile. Healdsburg Tribune. The automobile is coming to the front and Is apparently coming to stay. The cable conveys the information that two autos beat an express train last week in a run of 226 miles between Paris and St. Mole, covering the distance in less than eight_hours. The Call's auto now mak- ing the trip across the continent, while not breaking any records for speed, is nevertheless getting over the ground and will probably reach San Francisco before the century ends, if the repair shops are not at too great a distance apart. _—————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE SANTA FE—Subscriber, City. The in{na Fe has no repair shop at Phoenix, riz. RELATIONSHIP—If John Jones mar- ries Sam Smith's daughter, and Sam * PRESS COMMENTS o Smith marries John Jones’ daughter, and in course of time each has a son, the re- lation between those two sons will, by following down the line of relationship, ecome nephew and uncle to each other. Take a day off, trace the relationship and you will find the result as stated. THE LAST ADMITTED—A. 8., City. Eh? last tw%vslafie! admitted into the Inion were Wyoming, July 11, 1890, Utah, January 4, 189. Theyx:e are no:x}g the Unlon thirteén original States, thirty- two admitted, making in all forty-five, and six Territories. Arizona is a Terri’ ory. COIN QUESTIONS—E. H., Vallejo; R. A. L., Los Olivos; M. C., City. An Ameri- can half cent of 1804 does not command a premium: a half dollar of 1855 with O under the eagle was issued out of the New Orleans mint, but it does not com- mand a premium. Five dollar gold pieces coined after 1834 are not premiym coins. RUST FROM STEEL—T. T., City. The following is given as a mode of removing rust from steel, and as.bicycle spokes are of steel it ought to apply: Rust may be removed by immersing the article in kero- sene oil for a few days. The rust will be- come so much loosened that it may be easily rubbed off. When it is deep seyated emery paper should be used, but if the rust is of long standing the article must be refinished. DENTISTRY—M. R., Oakland, Cal. The requirements for admission to the College of Dentlistry of the University of Califor- nia are that the candidate must be over 18 years of age, must present to the faculty satisfactory evidence of a good - moral character and must be examined as to his previous education and fitness to appre- ciate the technical study of dentistry. The exercises are chiefly in writing and em- brace the tollowing subjects: rithmetic, geography, English grammar and compo- sition, United States history, natural phil- osophy, elementary chemistry and Latin. The course of study is three years. HER PROPERTY—A Subscriber, Val- ngostura lelo, Cal. Property acquired by a widow | The genuine before her second marriage is her indi- vidual property, and upon her second mar- riage does not become community pro erty. Theugh by virtue of her marriase she has taken another name she can dis- ose of the property that she acquired gefore her second marriage in any way that she desires. =1 MARKET STRE TRACKS—Reader, Clarksburg, Cal. There are but two sets of rails at this time on Market street be- tween the east line of Fourth and the west line of Third street; there were up to a few months ago four se of rails, but two of these were taken up. Two were used by the cable system and two by the old-style horse cars, but the horse car tracks have been removed. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Frank W. Smith, a lawyer of Redding, is a late arrival at the Lick. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is a guest at the Palace. L. D. Jacks, a leading citizen of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. Clews T. Loore of New York are registered at the Palace. D. R. Oliver, a mining man of Stent, is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. L. A. Spitzer, County Assessor of Santa Clara County, is a guest at the Grand. H. H. Harlow, a big mine owner of Gold Gulch, is a recent arrival at the Grand. J. G. Scott, a trustee of the Lick estate, is at the California from his home in Agnews. W. E. Hammond, one of business men of Portland, the Palace. ‘William Thomas, an extensive land owner of Chico, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Bradner ... Lee, State Library Trustee, is registered at the Palace from his home in Los Angeles. J. W. Basham, a wealthy mining man of Dawson, is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. Humphrey B. Kendrick, one of the most prominent of the business men of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Kim B. Surh, a merchant of Chemulpo, Korea, arrived at the Occidental last evening on his way home from the East. H. M. Yerington, a well-known railroad man and wealthy mine owner of Nevada, is registered at the Palace from his homne in Virginia City. Dr. E. S. O'Brien, one of the leading physicians of Merced, and T. C. Freeman, a prominent attorney of the same place, are registered at the Lick. Dr. W. H. La Barre, a member of the Legislature from Weaverville, is one of those who arrived in the city yesterday and registered at the Grand. E. L. Blanchard of the City Council of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand, where he will remain during the short time he purposes staying in this city. Charles Lathrop, director of, the South- ern Pacific Company, has left the city in his private car for an extended vacation tour through the different points of in- terest in Oregon and Washington. He is accompanied by his wife and family. Harrington Emmerson, a promin business man of New York, will shortly arrive here from Seattle. IAr. Emmerson, who is a business partner of W. C. Whit- ney and August Belmont, comes to the coast to interest the people of California in electric launches and automobiles. Lieutenant Colonel Kitson of the Brit- ish army and Lteutenant Colonel Lee of the Royal Artillery are both registered at the Palace. Mrs. Kitson accompanies her husband. Colonel Lee was the E lish military attache with our army dur- ing the late war with Spain and accom- panied the Rough Riders through all of their most desperate fights. Governor Gage arrived from Los Ange- les yesterday morning and registered at the Palace. He will remain here until this evening, when he will leave for Sac- ramento to receive the report of the State Commission on Lunacy on the condition of affairs at Agnews Asylum and will in- cidentally look into the whole matter of the recent scandals at the different State institutions. Gilbert F. Pinchot, chief forester of the Department of Agriculture, is a guest at the Occidental, where he arrived yester- day morning. The object of his visit here is to make a personal examination of all in this State that pertains to his depart- ment in order that he may submit to nis superiors in the department an exhaust- ive report on the forests and water supply of California. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, head of the Bio- logical Survey of the United States, and Professor W. H. Dall of the United States Geological Survey arrived at the Occi- dental yesterday with Dr. Pinchot. They have all just returned from an extended trip through Alaska and the northwest, which was taken for purposes of research and information connected with their dif- ferent departments. L —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 4—R. E. L. Stegall and wife of San Francisco are at the Sturtevant. Charles C. Mclver and Ste- phen MclIver of San Francisco are at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Nighten- gall and Miss Haines of Oakland are at the Bartholdi. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. John- son of Los Angeles are at the Fifth Ave- nue. F. F. Rogers of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. Mr. Pruett Was Not Rescued. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: The statement in The Call of Sunday, July 30, to the effect that T was washed off Black Point, near Twin Lakes, by a tidal wave and the subsequent daring rescue by two men, s positively a false record of the bluest hue. It was probably based on the fact that a you man was scratched on mussel shells while bathing in the surf near the place mentioned. J. RALPH PRI Santa Cruz, Aug. 3. BB the leading is a guest at Peanut taffy, best in world. Townsend's.* —————— Cream mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend's* ST S 73 Fourth—Best eyeglasses, 1ic to 40c. Sundays, 741 Market st., stationery store.* —————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50¢ Ib in artistic_fire-etched boxes or Japanese baskets. 627 Market st., Palace hotel bidg. Special Information suppled daily (o business houses and public men by (he Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, & S eSS e Parker Merrill’s Estate. The inventory and appraisement of the egu!redoxythe_r late Pnr‘lier Merrill was filed yesterday. The appraisers find %o be worth $14,30% Lo entaty —_— e President McKinley and his Wife Will travel over the Northern Pacific Railway when they visit the famous Yellowstone Pari They Intend viewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of bofling water to the height of the Call building. It's a :ul)ly:dorll;: sight. Send 6¢ in stamps for book elling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Ast., 638 Market st., . F. e —————— There are many imitations of Dr. Slegert's Bitters—most of them dangerous. 1s a household remedy. A