The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1899, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1899 o JUDGE HILTON’ ‘ lk WITH STEWART MILLIONS | a candidate for the Preside: AUGUST 29, 1809 Proprietor. | i Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION U;FICP ...Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1368. EDITORIAL ROOMS...... ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, § cents. Terme by Mall, Incl DAILY CALL ( PDAILY CALL ( DAILY CALL ( i DAILY CALL—By Si Call), 3 mo; ngle Month INDAY CALL KLY CALL All postmaste; ed to recelv. subscriptions. Bample coptes will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... evesncans! 908 Broadway | KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. €. GEORGE NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: | €. €. CARLTON --Herald Square | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | PERRY LUKENS JR............ .29 Tribune Building | CHICAGO S STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. 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Slad aturday ber 4 to 16. at 2:30 | ——————E e THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK. 3 obtained by The Call and | I ! rembers of Con- | given for the first time r A which will b important | the lead- Y curr For some time past it has-been pretty well under- - the number of aspirants for the Henderson of Iowa would be The poll made by The Call 1 has Henderson’ his competitors have virtu le prospect is he will be | in his own party. The eed as to whom they tions of The many 1ave more or les en- | the f 1ere. p will be given to DeArmond 1 of Bailey ional disputes there | Nevertheless, the indi- | not be led One of the n v disclosures made by the i ¥s he sentiment among | Republican members grappling with the | at once. From the ns in earnest ar rned the Re in support of the cur- | v the Republican caucus. gold reported be by currency | Th standard | k circula- to ablish the measure expect unequiv and to increase natio tion, wh bre ndl 1 of green- | backs. De the South and West will ad- | vocate free he withd ional | bank circula retention of the greenb: ) | tem and the of the tax on State bank-notes. i trusts the interviews are naturally | other questions. That issue The introduction | the world of indus- ! On the subje gue than on the not clearly defined. yet is new and il foree i try and tr conditions an de disturbance of business inevitably engendered antagonisms. | st »f it is as unreasonable as that which | generation against the intro- | the: > is a good deal of clamor agair was raised i ormer ction of machinery tor Depew has expressed the conviction that i 1 car 1 both parties will declare that ne 1 de the national platform and | to suppress them. Such s not far from the truth. ation while ¢ Intelligent men of all parties recognize that some re- strictions miust be placed upon trusts to prevent | es, but until the nature of these abuses is more | ood, and 1 e unde some definite policy in regard | the annot be made one | of party politics — The people of well fitted for Havana are evidently becoming | tizenship in our glorious republic, for | the bakers, the masons and the hackmen are on a| strike and other wo ined to follow | | their e> so easy as adapti one’s self to the ways of liberty. The Postoffice Department h ften been indebted | to the West for useful hints. Here is another: Just outside of Kansas City, the other day, two fast mail trains going at full speed smashed into each other. The mail was distributed in a jiffy throughout the sur- rounding country. The natives of Manila must be very hard to please, for it is stated that when the American commander in the city gave the seli-styled “amigos” a chance to show their iriendliness by digging trenches and clean- ing streets under military supervision, they didn’t like it. Y % The future historian will write that the biggest things brought about by the Spanish war were the reception of the California boys on their return home and the exposition of San Francisco as an illuminated | journalism and a good deal of politics. | dressed to men too busy to listen. | politician in choosing minor officers. | stronger to-day he is. | They town, BRYAN WEAKENING. ] s el HATEVER strength e Demodrhid ! bartl \\ ever had came to it because of its conserva-| tism. In a republic there must be government | by parties, and the Democracy for many years sue- | ceeded in holding the Government by ultra conserva- | tism. It was the analogue in American politics of the English Tories, whose modern title of “Conserva- tives” has been adopted as exactly descriptive of their | party position. In 1806 the New Democracy changed all this and | became the representative of all forms of radicalism. | Its platform attacked at two or three points our con- stitutional tem of government and threatene:d ominou every safeguard of property rights. Mr. | Bryan was himself a man without property or gainful nd a little The hard vast numbers of men, had | vocation. He had practiced at a little law a times had disemployed taken the profits out-of the business of another vast | contingent that had business investments, nd had sown the country with discontent which was easily | blown into flames by any leader sufficiently reckless | and restless. So many millions were pinched in their | wages, their incomes, their means of support, their | fuel, food and shelter, that no sorcery was required to rouse them to a revolutionary pitch against all whose | prudence or good fortune had prepared them for the crisis and put them above the hard orders of neces- sity which it brought. They were ready to elect to the Presidency a man who professed a fellow feeling and exploited the same needs which they felt. Any | hose prudence had prepared him to outlast the was not suited to the times as a candidate of In all the prosperous years pre- ceding the panic Mr. Bryan had neglected any pru- dent provision. The squalor in his affairs was not | itigated by any share in the good things of good | times which had to be won by industry and applica- | tion. In his profession, the law, things come by hard labor, none by luck. Therefore, nothing came to him. He now confronts a changed situation. Our indus- tries are all in action. Crops are good. Trade is brisk. There are but few idle who are able and will- ing to work. As an idler and a man with no vocation Mr. Bryan stands practically alone among the public men of His old appeals to discontent are ad: 1 The panic has passec a bad dream, and the country is opposed to bringing on another by any radical political experi ment. Bryan has to install himself in leadership of a partisan anti-imperial issue, but his di ion of that subject is so shallow and puerile that it makes no appea fathom all of its depths. again to the line of appeal that he used in 1806. | The people may be careless in their choice of public ff They may turn a willing or | itations of the professional | But when it | comes to electing a President they don’t want a man without a calling. They have always chosen a dif- | ferent class of men. Planters and farmers, profes- | sional men, who can earn a living without politics, man w panic a the country. & i attempted u to the profound men who | So he returns again and | ninor matters. a careless ear to the sol | or men who have mightily achieved for the country | and won its gratitude by great deeds and sacrifices | are the beneficiaries of the ballot when a President is | to be elected. If Mr. Bryan had.settled down after 1806 in the practice of his profession and had been successful, | had become known as a lawyer of respectable stand- ing and had made his living by the hard work which in that requires, he would be | success profession But he did not do this. He has made his bed and | board in politics ever since, and has lived on the | sometimes generous bounty of his supporters. True, he may have made more in this way than he could have made by work, but after all it is a species of charity that does not dignify 1 nor put him in the great mass of his countrymen who live by work. These considerations appeal to the keenly practical ave him with no whole-hearted support, except by spoils hunters like Croker or like Altgeld. These two classes control the party organization and will exer- cise to the most radical limit the power to exclude all conservatism from the convention. Mr. Bryan will be nominated and will be again beaten, because his impassioned appeal will be made to a country in men in his party and 1 revolutionists and reds discontent and restlessness which were rife in 18g6. The feeling in the South is such that at this moment | it is probable that a majority of the Southern States | will rebuke radicalism by throwing their electo-al votes away from him, while at the same time they choose Democratic State Governments for the pro- | tection of their local position. rrrssm————— ‘There is one recourse open to General Mercier without leaving France. He can join Guerin and | practice revolution in the seclusion of a home circle | by alternately defying the police and imploring per- | mission to receive donations of bread and a leg of mutton. Thn\‘c recently been published. One relates to the necessities of the military situation and its | requirements. That situation arises in the practically | unanimous devotion of the people to the cause repre- sented by Aguinaldo. It is announced that in order to bring the people to their senses a strict coast and inland blockade has been found necessary to cut off food supplies and starve into submission the non- military supporters of the Aguinaldo Government. Spain always found this policy necessary in dealing with her disobedient subjects in the Philippines and in Cuba. Weyler applied it with a strictness and | severity which decimated the population, but even | then did not succeed. The resources of Spain and | her power to make such a policy successful did not | equal ours, and there is no doubt that we can, not | only continue to prevail as we have in the field opera- tions against those people, but that we can strike them far more fatally and effectively by starvation. are a dense population. They are apparently united and will fight as long as they can feed. They have a deadly climate as their ally. When we use starvation as ours, we have the odds by reason of our superior strength and inexhaustible military re-* sources. The island of Cuba has only a million and a half of people and it was estimated that Weyler | had disabled more than half of them by star\'ationi and had by that means destroyed the lives of a quarter of a million. That we can do better than this in the | Philippines is the well-settled ‘opinion of our military | authorities, as shown by the dispatches referred to. | The other report is on a subject collateral to the | foregoing. It is to the effect that members of the Peace Commission held elections for Mayor in sev- eral cities on Luzon. Under their authority the peo- | ple of San Pedro Macate, Baliuag, Imus and some | other cities elected Mayors, who took charge of the | municipal governments and their revenues. In every case it was found that the voters had chosen active | —— LATE PHILIPPINE REPORTS. WO extended reports of the Philippine situation | tion against him and yet they proved to be as thor- G | providing for all the needs of ci sympathizers with Aguinaldo, who at once proceeded to use their power and revenues in his interest. To dtop’ fliis they all had to be arrested by our military -authorities and put in jail in Manila. It is said their trial for treason will follow and we suppose they will be shot, as an admonition to their successors. These events show the deep seated support of Aguinaldo by those people. The cities named arewithinour lines, where no threats nor terrorism by Aguinaldo couid reach them. They were sure of our military protec- oughly subject to his influence and in sympathy with his purposes as if they were: within his lines and | reachable by his vengeance. The devastation of their fields and the effective application of the policy, of rigid starvation seems to be all that is left to our military authorities to reach their case. The last dispatch commenting on this says that these occurrences have ended all ideas of leniency among the Americans. Their patience has evapor- ated as Weyler's did, and they are fully prepared to put in force the only plan that he ever found effective. The dense population renders this easier than it looks. The food resources of tropical countries are not good. The work in Philippine fields is mostly done by | Chinese, and the exclusion order of General Otis, forbidding Chinese to come, is a severe blow in line with the new policy of reducing the population by starvation and using hunger to humble the spirit of the survivors. On the sentimental side of it, the argument is prop- erly made that starvation as a part of our military tactics cannot increase our unpopularity among the people. They are practically unanimous against us now, and their sentiments cannot be changed by anything we do or leave undone. When men of the high scholastic standing held by the members of our Peace Commission conduct elections among them and they persist in electing the candidates who agree with the native aspirations, it is plain that they e insusceptible to any high appreciation of the pur- pose for which they are permitted to vote at all. The committee of one hundred job chasers is hav- ing such a good time in the Democratic convention, it has almost forgotten that the chasing of the jobs will have to be done before the public and that the job is a long way ahead and running like a deer. THE STATE FAIR, OOD reports come from Sacramento to the effect that the prospects of the State Fair are exceptionally bright and promising. In the | spacious pavilion every inch of the floor space has | | been taken by exhibitors with the understanding that their booths must possess artistic merit and that in their displays nothing commonplace will be allowed. | It is particularly gratifying to note that entries already made show that the exhibits of California products in all departments of the pavilion display | will be large, varied and of a high class. Such ex- hibits will be sure to attract the particular attention of all visitors, whether they be Californians or persons from other States. The chief object of the fair is to afford an opportunity for annual exhibits of the pro- gress of the industrial development of the State in all branches, and as a consequence the dominant thought in the mind of an intelligent student of the exhibit will be to sec how far that development has gone, and what it has accomplished in the way of | zation. There is no reason why the State Fair should not attain on the Pacific Coast such eminence in the way | of an annual exposition as to attract and hold the attention of people in all parts of the country. It should be an exhibit at which men can see each year what has been accomplished in their lines of indus- try, what improvements have been made in imple- and what results achieved by ments and machinery | new methods of work whether it be agricultural, me- chanical or artistic. The Directors of the State Agricultural Society have this year made earnest efforts to awaken an interest in the Fair among all classes of citizens and in all localities. They have offered strong induce- ! ments for county exhibits and for the display of the products of cities. The result of their efforts will be but partially disclosed this year, for the impetus given now will go over to the succeeding year and tend to make the exhibits of 1900 even better than those of this season. The outlook, therefore, is promising not orly for the present but for the future, and all Cali- can Con- | which prosperity and contentment have replaced the | fornians may well be gratified with the prospect. If the French had been wise in the management of attractive sensations they would have kept the Drey- fus trial for the exposition year and held it in the biggest hall in Paris. |SUPREMACY IN THE TRANSVAAL. NE by one the minor points in the controversy O between the Boers and the British have been climinated and the crisis is now reached on the single issue of which of the two Governments has paramount authority over the Transvaal. According to late reports President Kruger and the Boer Council are willing to concede everything the British Commissioner has demanded, but couple the concession with the condition that it be recog- nized as a concession only and that Great Britain abrogate all her claims of suzerainty over the repub- lic. On the other hand, the Salisbury Government is more persistent in asserting suzerainty than in de- manding redress for the alleged wrongs done to the Outlanders, -and the issue is thus brought to a point that undoubtedly portends war. In a speech delivered at Birmingham on Saturday, Mr. Chamberlain declared the situation to be threat- ening and condemned President Kruger for pro- crastinating and for making offers accompanied by conditions which he knows will not be accepted. The speaker went on to say the action of the Boers com- pel the British to strengthen their force in South Africa and make ready for wir. He added: “If this delay continues much longer, we shall not hold .ourselves limited by what we have already cffered, but having taken this matter in hand we wili not let go until we have secured conditions which, once for all, will establish us as the paramount power in South Africa and secure for us our objects there— equal rights and privileges promised by President Kruger when the Transvaal's independence was granted. It appears we are about to witness another scene of that long drama in which the weak peoples are crushed to make room for aggressive ambitions of the strong. The little nations are being swallowed up by the “benevolent assimilation” of the big nations with imperial missions to civilize the world and estab- lish liberty through the power of the heavier guns and the larger battalions. The Boers, however, are going to be a tough morsel for even so voracious a lion as that of Her Britannic Majesty to swallow. Kruger’s procrastination has not been a waste of time. He has been arming his brave Boers for a final struggle for the independence of their country, and it may be that through his indomitable courage the Transvaal may stand in Africa like Switzerland in Europe—the home |. of unconquered and unconquerable freemen. | Stewart’s business was gradua How He Rose From a One of the Greatest Powers in New THE LATE JUDGE HILTON, UDGE HENRY HILTON, who died last Thursday in New York, became consplcuous through his connection with the estate of Alexander Stewart, the dry goods millionaire. The first dozen years of Hilton's life have always been hidden in mystery. His parentage, the exact place of his birth and even the date of his birth are un- known. He would never tell of them. But from the best information obtain- able the ex-Judge was born in New York city about seventy-five years ago, it is sald his father was a carter. The first thing definitely known is that he be- came a clerk in the law office of Camp- bell & Cleveland in Grand street, when he was about 15 years old. An indefatigable worker, he became managing clerk qf the firm and was such when Alexander Turnly Stewart, the man who had come penniless from Ireland and a client of the firm, was about as a very successful buslne}ss mn?. y out- growing his store at Broad v and Chambers street, and he was planning to build a great white marble structure that would be the greatest store in the coun- try. !}-Ie frequently consulted the law firm on his plans. The lawyers turned them over in a grent measure to the managing clerk and soon Stewart began consulting direct with the subordinate. The big structure which Stewart erected was in great part the result of young Hilton's advice, few years later lfmv.on resigned every- thing else to become private counsel and confldential secretary of the great mer- chant prince. He soon became acquainted with every detall of the vast business. He counseled Stewart to move uptown. The © ¥ b v T W T R e e e el Vel T P T O Bl W P X @ and | being talked | S RISE Lawyer’s Clerk to Be| York. | eminent ilton ed all the $100,000 in fi {Il'ne offices, and when the Tweed broke up the project fell through. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THE JUDGE. A. T. Stewart had a l:lncfire :t(}l‘r:i:::;ioen for General Gr: and_when ve- ment was smrtefll}‘o‘ brifg Rim forwatd as ncy no one was merchant mil- e for the up Ting more active in it than the Monaire. This was another chanc r Judge to strut and swell and _‘“run ihings.” There were conferences and con- sultations with leading statesmen and politicians, merchants and capitalists, lawyers and bankers. There were dinners and reccp'ilons, p\fl)lg: ;gsen:; rivate ones in counting- g correspondence with lub _parlors, A e and’ powerful men all _over the Union. The great object in view was to differences of opinion and a strong party X: flsrL?:p:’y" he victory of Appomattox. rst the ?Dfe:rllgcmuy thought of putting him in nomination. It was argued that he never had voted the Republican ticket in_ his life; that he w: n old Democrat. With- in the highest councils of the Republican party there was a Strong opposition to a s the conqueror of the rebellion. : * No man contributed more than Stewart in turning the tide in favor of Grant in harmonize all weld together his city. H ave a great dinner party :0 Gonzr:xl r;g\nt at the Fifth-avenus Palace, at which were the foremost men of the city. It was the first time lhav; mal'l..\' of them had met the first Suldie!_‘ of the republic. The guests of Mr. Stewart on that occasion were dazzled by a golden dinner service such as few men under the rank of royalty ever possessed. About that dinner service there will be some- thing to ¢ later on. Then followed a great mass-meeting in favor of Grant at the Cooper Union. Stewart had been the | mainspring of the affair, and he was so e would be chosen to pre- n advance his confi- if he would confident that h side that he asked 1 dential cashier, Mr. Hopkins > act as one of the secretd , which l})}#) newspapers of the time show that he did. In'all this Grant business Hilton was the mere messenger and clerk of Stewart. ‘And here we have another {llustration of the extraordinary fatality that has at- tended everything that the once powerful merchant possessed. Since Hilton's mar- | velous absorption of the Stewart millions to him and not to his great benefactor has been given the sole credit for having been_instrumental in elevating Grant to the Presidency. Only a few days ago this sentence occurred in a complimentary newspaper sketch of the Judge: 1868 he worked hard for the election | of. {}en?ral Grant to the Presidency. ervant of never Yes, but it was as the paid Stewart, Hilton in all “‘worked’’ for anybody unl rewarded for his services. ton at this time that he should have be of the slightest consequence in the tion of a Republican candidate to the magistracy of the republi: HIS OWN RATING. In the first place, he was known as of the intimate associates of Tw Peter B. Sweeney and *‘Dick” his life was the result. He invested the $3,000,000 income of Stewart. He was a figure in all the great merchant’s projects. In the fifties he married. Then he became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1863 he became Park Commissioner under Tweed. ‘When the T d ring was at its height | of its prosperity the splendid project of | the Viaduct Rapid Transit ro: was | launched. Hilton was exceedingly close | to Tweed and Sweeney and the other| leaders. Stewart was a great property | owner and a ygreat merchant, and his | approval and ¥ opcration were of prime | | importance. As long as the ‘‘Merchant | Prince” lived he fought every scheme | looking to the building of a street car | line on Broadway, and defeated project | after project looking to that end. e was | the largest individual property owner on | the great street and belleved that the | parallel iron rails would depreciate real estate values on it. Ninety per cent of | the other owners had supreme confidence in his judgment, and_their consent to the | car line could never be obtained. At this | time Stewart’s name was a tower of strength to any enterprise. To Hilton | was assigned the task of interesting him | | in the viaduct line. Tweed and Sweeney saw untold millions in its construction after the fashion of the new Courthouse. | A dazzling picture of the great advan- tages the road would bring to the city | | was held up to_the eyes of Mr. Stewart. | Hilton eloquently dwelt on the vast rev- | enues it would yield to its stockholders, | who would be held in everlasting honor for their splendid enterprise. Mr. Stew- | art_was captivated by the project and | ledged himself to take something like 100,000 worth of the stock. Other emi- nent merchants, bankers and capitalists romised their suppotrt.. A meeting was ?wld, directors were elected and Hen Hilton was chosen peesident.of the board. | big store at Broadway and Ninth street | | | g | another issue paper. now procure | s .*-hhlhllhhnhh-i.h!hhh‘.--i. THE CALL’S SOUVENIR EDITION PRAISED BY THE PRESS A MARVELOUS ISSUE. Nevada City The San Francisco Call supplement issued vesterday morning in celebrati of the First California Regiment's return from the Philippines was one of tfin most compléte and elaborate publications of the kind that has o achieved by any newspaper in the world. the letterpress tells in graphic manner the ‘history of the regiment's tribulations and triumphs. The first of the eight pages is devoted to a plowing her way through the Golden Gate, that an oil painting. The other illustrations that adorn every page are equally ape propriate and spirited. The most notable of these is a full-page illustration o nians charging to the rescue of the Pennsylvanians when were attacked by the Spaniards during a terrific storm on 1898—the first battle of the Philippine war. James F. Smith, together with that of Colo officers of the regiment, looks from the fourt fifth page is a figure of Californi tures of all the gallant men wha Philippine climate. Pasadena Star. The Call's picture of th® returning Sherman is to the long string of that who love ships sRould get EXTRA EDITION W OF... | ecAlfir SOUVENIR —_— Owing to the great demand for the Souvenir Edition, it be- came necessary to run off Agents, newsdealers and the public in general can of these papers by placing i their orders at Call Business Office. 4 mourning her heroic dead, surrounded by pic- fell victims to the foemen's bullets or the d’enr;llcy . I magnificent and adds another paper's triumphs in the line of marine views. Boys his picture and save it. Pasadena News. The San Francisco,Call rather outdid itseif in the editi te‘;:“;:nd soldiers. m‘. {llustrations were works of art and ?tl: :;f"fi:;fqlx l:h:orl:; = of this great any number z Transcript. ever yet bee it is not only richly illustrated, put picture of thé transport Sherman stands out with the vividness of f the heroic Califor- t:x)?se fnélant soldiers e night of July 31, The grim face of Brigadier General | mel Victor Duboce and all the other | h page of the supplement, and on the | i 1 000. But in some wa and the rest of the plundering gang. made him a Park Commissioner. He w one of the men upon whom they could de pend in all their schemes and projects He was unknown in the world of trade The only standing he had was that which came from his position as the private counsel of A. T. Stewart. He was a mem- ber of a law firm, but his standing at t bar was never rated very high, except himself. It is ludicro to speak of Hil- ton's services to General Grant in bring- ing him forward as a Presidential candl date. It was Stewart who helped Gra and it was Hilton who did the routines drudgery, which w ¢ paid for in Stewart’s golden checks, Hilton's salary at this time must have been about $20,000 a year, and later on it went up to $30,000. The tremendous effort Stewart made in behalf of General Grant—an effort Grant thoroughly understood, and when he be- came President showed that he appreci- ated—was perhaps the most unselfish act in Stewart's lifa, ~With all Stewart’'s faults and fallings—his avarice, his un- ympathetic nature, with a heart as cold s the marble of the great downtown store, hard as the iron of the uptown one, ere the name of Hilton is now so brazenly flaunted, and as barren of affec- tion as the Hempstead Plains, where his bones are supposed to lie beneath cathe- dral arches—he was a man of the very loftiest conceptions. The maker out of a_slender capital of millions and millions of money, gathered ahd garnered at first by the slowest and most painful of com- mercial processes, screwing here and pinching there, he had, nevertheless, the genius to do and to dare great things. The Grant episode is one of them. And when Grant, as President, gave conclusive evi- dence of the esteem in which he held Stewart by sending his name to the Sen- ate as his Secretary of the Treasury, the most astonished and the most gratified man in_all the country was Stewart him- self. His confirmation was assured until some +delver in old and long-forgotten statutes found that the act of Congress organizing the Treasury Department stip- ulated that a man who imported goods for lgamn(;lnd bal;lel;fi“'{\s Ideharred from hold- ng the great office. It was a bitter bl to A, T. Stewart. Tow A GREAT SACRIFICE. There was one way and one way only out of the difficulty that had arisen. | Stewart should give up the business with which his name had been identified for more than forty years and become a re- tired merchant. It was a tremendous sac- rifice to make. The annual profits of the great stores, retall and wholesale, ran into the millions—somewhere from two to four or ten millions of that gold of which Stewart, in his all-devouring avaricious- ness, could never get enough. Was it un- der the advice of Hilton that he consented to the sacrifice and surrender of ft all? | No_one now can tell except Hilton him- self, and it is very certain that the secret will never be disclosed by hinr The “Judge” was playing for great stakes at that time. Whichever way ha turned there were millions in full view— millions on which.subsequent events show he had got his eyes, eyves more avaricious than even those of Stewart himself. Twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars a year was paid about this time to “advise” is master, and what was the advice? That this ambitious old man, 67 vears of age, should as&iin the interest of his m lions to him and accept the petty sal of 38000 a vear as a Cabinet officer with, in the future, Robeson and Belknap and ‘Williams as his associates. It was a mag- nificent play for millions on the part of Hilton. The date was 1869. in the early March days of that year. If fortune had not played Henry Hilton fa then he would have been in the saddle of the Stewart millions at a date seven vears anterior to that on which he vaulted into their control, after the old man's eves had been closed forever on Cabinet of- fices, on_coin and on cotton, on_ hotels and on hosiery, on earth and all that earth contained. ‘When Stewart died he left Hilton $1.000,- 3 v that has never been explained nearly all of the Stewart mil- lions came into Hilton's possession. He became the owner of the store Broad- way and Ninth street. He changed the firm to that of Hilton, Hughes & Der ning. But the money making power had vanished with Stewart and Hilton's plans never prospered. The business failed | finally in 1896 After Mrs. Stewart's death .umerous efforts were made by relatives to deprive Hilton of the Stewart millions. All failed. Judge Hilton had much trouble in the last few years with some of his sons, who were inclined to be wi DESCRIBING THE GOVERNOR in Hi§ Glory. From the Bulletin, August 2. The staff was brilliant and ornamental. General Seamans and Colonel Chadbourne being the closest in the chief executive's confidence were in conversation with him, The Governor was entirely unknown. He seemed a strange figure among that but- terfly lot of men, arrangements in black and gold and feathers. The Governor's sack coat and stained gray trousers made him most conspicuous. He was there and he intended to be seen. —_———————— Cal.glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_———————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * e s s Charged With Felonious Assault. G. Mauri, the Japanese who was arrest- ed Sunday night for throwing down Annie Maloney, a domestic employed by William ‘A. Wilson, 1114 Pine street, as she entered the garden, was yesterday booked at the City Prison on the charge of felonious assault. e Very Low Rates East. On August 29 and 30, the popular Sants Fe route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re turn at the very low rate of 33835 Oocca- sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call at 628 Market st. for full particulars. —_— e ———— Physiclans will tell you Dr. Siegert's Angos- tura Bitters is the best of all tonics and stomach regulators. Druggists sell it.