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THE SAN FRANOCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1899 THE SITUATION IN FRANCE. HE world never loses interest in a mystery, or Ta semi-mystery, and about a national prisonet condemned to solitary confinement in a frown- ing fortress or on a far island there is always mys- tery. The Man in the Iron Mask, the Prisoner of Chillon, Napoleon on St. Helena, and even the suc- cessor to the Great Moguls, and Arabi Pasha isolated on islands in the Indian Ocean, excite and will con- tinue to stimulate the imaginations of men and to inspire prose and poetic literature. The worldwide interest in the case of Dreyfus has its metaphysical origin in the secrecy of his first trial, the tragedy of his military humiliation and the pitiful incidents of the execution of his sentence by solitary | confinement and non-intercourse with the world on | Devils Island. If he had been guillotined on his first | conviction the world would have forgotten him. But the press of many nations kept the solita 899 JOHN D. 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Without going into the occult it may be CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. e; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; uditorium Hotel Sherman Hc sont House; NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE -....Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. AMUSEMENTS. | engage themselves with one thought it comes finally to be concreted in some form of action, and to this influence must be attributed the revision, the recall of Dreyfus, the retrial at Rennes and such universal at- tention to every detail as to make it the leading news feature in the press of the world. The wish of mil- { lions was transformed into their expectation. 'acqui(tal andvindication of the prisoner were expected. There was no effort made to establish in the minds . | of men the difference between a court-martial and a + | eivil court, and so, everywhere, men are disappointed by the absence at Rennes of the application of the fixed rules of evidence under either the civil law and Code Napoleon, operative in France, or the common law of England. It is true also that the court-martial at Rennes ad- mitted a class of evidence that would be inadmissible under the articles of war of gland and the United | States. These incidents, taken in connection with the | confessed forgéry of incriminating documents used on the first trial, the dramatic suicide of Colonel Henry, the attempt to assassinate Labori and the violent effu- ion of the hatreds of race and religion, have com- | bired to intensify the feeling of the world for the | priscner and against his judges. Some things, however, must not be forgotten. ernment of Loubet has not been unfriendly France has been so long in pursuit of glory is singularly Orpheum—Vaudeville, Tivoli—*Othello.” “The Wages of Opera-house—*Fatinitza . Z0o and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and and Ellis streets—Specialties. g Races, etc. Pavilion—Mecbanics' Fair and Philippine Ex- "\ F all public men in this country Bryan is the O 1 entitled to a hearing against imperialism. When the Spanish war was being urged and | President and neatly all others were absorbed anxious, wishing that honor and humane duty be consulted in its avoidance or precipitation, | d his party in Congress to the ad- | G. s that would bring war, “because | Dreyfus. After the war was on |on the military road that the the The an advi d be good politics.” army it wo ind after it had been brought to such a speedy, satis- | seated in the fancy of the people. In the cafes and ctory and successful end, Mr. Bryan's principal | the crowds on the boulevards the name of Bonaparte picce on this coast, Hon. J. Ham. Lewis of | conjures more powerfully than any other, because it 1gton, lamented tl political benefit had | is identified with military glory transcending that of Alexander or Caesar. France would to-niorrow rush to the standard of his peer ing, “We digged a into it ourselves.” Br; as a commander and a 1 approached | e i € this question upon the low conception | | don’z | of her civil government Therefore, Loubet must move in the shadow of this sentiment in France. The worldwide impulse, which we have attempted to describe, must be made mind- ful o Its motive is to benefit in some way the solitary prisoner of Devils Island. Let those whom that impulse domi- | nates consider wisely their purpose. It should be to | make easy of execution every friendly and humane in- tention of the President of France. Passionate de- nunciation, and above all the proposition to boycott the Paris Exposition of 1900, only make it harder to do justice to Dreyfus. It is highly probable that ould Loubet attempt it to the limit of his authority a revolution would result which would involve Drey- fus and his friends and republican institutions in a Such a result in France would not benefit man- in this conn- gue and cents. I want to declare that this na- a mess of own cause and of its own wish. may be.” m: But there n coin and potta ze, and ar because it we “be ation of merely par- Money, in the sense of profits brought | buy food and shelter, and we | e is something to eat. Battle and | may have such excuse, | at is to be said for d harder life of wounds, all for endency, the That It king forward on the . expressing | would survive in their In that time of sident was seeking to avert the rably avoiding will common carnage. further the ends of justice nor in any w kind. We know by certain experience | try that a suspicion of foreign interference in our rs is far more likely to confirm even our steady- going people in the wrong than to turn them to the This is much more the case with the French people. The court at Rennes did for France what no nation can afford to have done for it. It forfeited the respect of the world. But the world must not inflict further injury by exhibiting the same order of un- | thinking passion which it has tened to condemn. Rather should the attitude of the nations now, toward France, be expressive of confidence in her national conscience and in her capacity to do justice to the weakest and most forlorn, and to bravely cor- rect mistakes and right wrongs. In fine, the world owes to France a duty which erithet and invective do not express. The nations should go to Paris in 1900 in the spirit of good neigh- ‘I)ors to one needful of instruction by example, that is more common than the amendment of | her people may see that the wreaking of race hatreds The best Republican | and religious animosities is not the path to a high place in history or the respect of the generations to e profits of office? n th crisis of 1808 line so far projectes were 1bts whet | right. ces of a war by hon was with those who were holding ard! 1d too incompetent to carry it to vi up to popular contempt as too ¢ When the second crisis came in the ratification of of P the tre iris, and Republican Senators had de- ain ap- | n writing and speech urged | 1 of the treaty witho His n Senators of his party secured enough votes to ratify the purchase of the Philip- and amendment. treaties, even treaties of peace sentim the country was against the purchase of the Philippines and in favor of amendment Mr. | come. Especially does this republic owe this form B urged the purchase of the Philippines and | of duty to her younger sister in the family of the free. | opposed the reasonable and proper policy of amend- ¢ prisoner, | desiccating on a torrid island under a vertical sun, | doubtfully convicted and over-punished man more truthfully declared that when the minds of millions | The | w0 | conqueror, eyes shut to the consequences in the form | ment. Yet, in his speech he said: “I know we can whip the nation than ours and she had almost finished the had only been at it 300 years. And then she got twenty millions of dollars for an option on the fight wh pinos, because Spain was a much smaller and sh, she.went out.” “The De orf of Independence | said says that governments derive their just powers from the consent e governed. If that doctrine is true then thi ion cannot acquire title by purchasing domination from an alien monarch whose rebellious jects we ourselves armed to fight against that monarch.” But when he advocated the purchase of the Phil- | for twenty millions, last winter, and induced | is supporters in the Senate to support it, he knew at the Paris treaty ceded to us Spain’s sovereignty there for the price paid. He knew that we had armed ippines I Delegates to the Democratic municipal convention are trying to discover for what earthly purpose they | have been elected. Their best friends wouldn’t trifle so far with the fatts as to call them ornaments, and their utility has not yet been discerned. Every time Sammy Braunhart opens his yawp he puts his foot in it. And that’s no joke, when you come to consider that Sammy has a No. 6 head and a 4-11-44 foot. THE STATE FAIR ROM the patronage thus far given to the State Fair the conclusion may be drawn that the re- sults on the whole will amply repay the directors for their work in making it generally attractive and will encourage them and their successors to further for the people to do. whenever called upon to pay the stamp tax—let them bring suits and multiply actions against the shirkers; gress at the coming session revise the law, clear it of all ambiguities and impose a heavier penalty upon the | shirkers. too far. be respected and the decrees of the courts obeyed. tain to be many and important. Almost every obser- vant man who visits it will find some exhibit in his | line of industry which will stimulate him to stronger efforts and at the same time inform him of better methods of management and operation. In every | respect, therefore, the success of the fair is gratifying, - and it is to be hoped the patronage will continue to | increase in extent and liberality, | General Otis has been playing the game of war with | Aguinaldo for a long time without any decisive re- | sult. Now that the American has decided to appoint “Fighting Joe” Wheeler to an important cavalry com- | mand it is probable that he will 50on have a horse on | the enemy. | —_— | The exact dimensions of the Shamrock have at last | been made known. It is an even bet that there is not {an American able to talk who won't say that she will look smaller after the race, NCE more the question in dispute between the : THE TAX-SHIRKERS AGAIN. O people and the tax-shirking express company over the meaning of the war revenue law has been heard in the courts, once more a decision has | been given in favor of the people, and once more the corporation has shown its contempt of the court and its disrespect of law by continuing to practice the old extortion with all the old-time bravado. | The case just heard and decided by Judge Troutt | is notable because the express company presented a new argument in defense of its extortion. The cor- poration lawyers contended that as the law did not | specifically state whether the company or the consignor should bear the burden of the revenue law | as relates to the affixing of stamps to bills of lading or other manifests, the matter should be left to the par- ‘ties in interest, and the matter of affixing the stamp, and its attendant expense, left to agreement reached by argument or barter between the shipper and the carrier. Had that contention been sustained by the court the tax-shirkers would have attained a complete vic- tory, for, as the express companies by their combi- | nations with one another have a monopoly of the ex- | press traffic of the country, it would have been easy for them to compel the shipper to pay the tax. The shipper, in fact, would have had no alternative. If he declined to pay the tax, the company would either re- fuse to accept his shipment or would have charged him so high a price as would have made the shipment unprofitable. Fortunately, the contention could not be sustained tin law. In the course of his decision Judge Troutt said: “By schedule ‘A’ of the act it is declared that it shall be the duty of the express company to issue to the person from whom any goods are accepted for transportation a bill of lading or other imemorandum of receipt, and that there shall be duly attached to the same a stamp of the value of one cent; failure to issue such memorandum shall subject the company to a penalty of $50. This court has not changed its opinion as expressed in writing in the aforesaid Costley case, but assuming, as defendant claims, that the aforesaid act of Congress does not declare whether the express company or the con- signor shall provide the aforesaid stamp, still I am satisfied that under sections 2169 and 2173 of our Civil Code the defendant, as a common carrier, is obliged to accept and transport goods under the circum- stances as they here appear. As the defendant upon acceptance of the goods would be obliged under both our statute and the aforesaid act to issue a memoran- dum of receipt, it follows that to avoid the commis- sion of a crime it would be obliged to attach the stamp to the memorandum, even at its own cost, if the consignor refused to pay for it.” * In all other cases arising under this clause of the revenue law the express companies have managed to .obtain delay by appeals taken to the United States courts. It is believed that in the present case, how- ever, the appeal will go to the State Supreme Court, and that further delay will be impossible. Of course every day of delay is of advantage to the express com- | panies, as it enables them to continue that much longer the practice of tax-shirking and extortion. There is one feature of the issue that is deserving public attention. When a question was raised con- cerning the validity of the income tax the great cor- porations of the country were eager to get a prompt decision so as to be relieved at once from paying the tax. They got it. The courts made way for the test case. of a well-arranged programme through a disciplined party convention. Within a few months it passed through all the routine of law, reached the United States Supreme Court and was promptly decided. Very different has been the conduct of the United States courts in dealing with the present issue. No speed has been made in getting a decision on this case. On the contrary, there has been delay after de- lay in every United States court, whether the ques- tion came up in California, in New York, in Illinois or any other State. From this very delay the people will draw the sure conclusion that the corporations know they have not a good case. They know the | decision must be against them. They fight for delay, and the courts grant it. In the issue as now made up there are two things First, let them make protest tax- and, second, let them demand that Con- The extortionate corporations have gone It is now time to show them that law must Kentucky authorities are greatly concerned over a desperate renewal of factional and family feuds in the State. philosophic view that an elimination of certain ele- ments of the population might be considered a dis- The officers might not unwisely take the and that any | It went from one to another with the rapidity | | | the Filipinos; he knew all that he knows now. If the treaty conveyed no title, why did he advocate it? If | he is so devoted and awake now to the Declaration of Independence, why was he so oblivious to it eight | the receipts for the first week at the park amounted onths ago? Taking him at his word that we | to $5184 23, as against $3227 50 for 1898. The receipts paid the money for an option on a fight and got no | at the pavilion for the first week of the present fair valid title, why did he, an aspirant for the Presidency | were $3672 73, as against $1813 85 in 1898. The entire and an assumed popular leader, advocate the paying 1 receipts at the park for the two weeks in 1808 of that high price for an option on a war and for an | amounted to $0187 and the pavilion to $5408 8s. lid title? | Much of the increased attendance is of course due It is this record deliberately made by Mr. Bryan |to the general improvement in the conditions of the that causes his rejection by the anti to | people. We are having a season of abundant pros- whom he stood in opposition Jast winter. Had he | perity, and ali classes of workers have been more or then come to ‘the assistance of Senators Hoar and |less benefited by it. efforts in the future. The gate receipts show a handsome increase over those of the previous year. mperialists Philippine purchase on the very ground he now occu- | years past. Nevertheless, the fact remains that if the pies, there would have been no purchase of the isl- | directors had not provided superior attractions at the ands, no conquest in action now, and no occasion for ' fair the holidays would have been spent at other his acute change of front on that issue. Nothing that | places. Justice therefore demands that due credit for he has done more exposes his rattle-headed incon- | the large increase in the receipts be given to those sistency, his Jack of principle, his truffle-hunting in- | who have done so much to awaken popular interest stinct for expediency, than his Janus-faced course on | in the fair and to make it a comprehensive exposition this issue, whi¢h he now seeks to use for his selfish | of the industries of the State. benefit and to gain the object of his raw ambition. The indirect benefits flowing from the fair are cer- According to the reports : L They are better able to take a Wellington and other Republicans who opposed the | holiday and make a trip to the fair than for some | tinct advantage to the State. | it out. Let the factions fight S m e T O. H. Sakurai and H. Matsui, two Japanese jour- nalists, are visiting this country to study our jour- nalistic methods. During their absence from Japan | it would be well for that country to prepare for the | worst. Sakurai and Matsui may fall into the hands of ithc “yellow boys.” : The misguided enthusiasts who are seeking con- | stantly to inveigle the United States into unwarranted | interference in the domestic affairs of other nations | must think that America has been appointed by the Almighty to be a monitor of nations. Berlin has an epidemic of typhoid fever. Paris has | an epidemic of paresis, which claims for its victims only the high officials of that nation, which ig fast de- | veloping into a “has been.” Of the two evils it would seem that Paris has the greater. In a trial run off Sandy Hook the cup challenger | Shamrock broke her gaff. It will be strange if, be- | fore the race with the Columbia is over, she does not break her owner. LARGEST CRAB IN THE WORLD. receive any great amount of attention. A short time ago W. A. Roebling, an defray the expenses of having the crab The shell of the crab containing the ers are armed with teeth that resemble of the tremendously long fangs or legs gemble greatly bamboo fishing poles. to eight inches in circumference. Tt is sald that there are only five of next largest is in Germany. That one is HE largest crab in the world s now on exhibition Museum, New Brunswick, N. J. It is known as a Japanese spider crab and measures eleven feet from tip to tip. The crab was presented to the college by the late Robert H. Pruyn, who was United States Consul to Japan. its discovery, but not until some time afterward did this peculiar thing begin to acczpted and the giant shellfish turned over to the care of Mr. Roebling. Eleven-Foot Crab Compared With a Man. at Rutgers College Its value was appreciated upon alumnus of Rutgers College, offered to mounted. The offer was immediately body measures 12x14 inches. The pinch- human molars and the jaws at the ends are six inches long. The ten legs re- They are five feet long and vary from three this species of crab in existence. The six feet from tip to tip. All of these filve crabs were secured in Japan or viecinity. The crab is being daily viewed by people from all parts of the country. FRAUD CHARGED T0 CAPITALIST MARTIN CARTER Accused of Withhold- ing Properties. e Martin Carter, as executor of the wil of his deceased brother, Thomas Carter, the millionaire carbuilder of Newark, has | been deposed by Judge Troutt and he now rests under the stigma of being the per- petrator of a fraud against the estate of the deceased. For the time being at least he has lost his office as executor of his dead brother’s will, and unless on the 22d inst. he can bring proof that he is wrong- fully accused letters testamentary held by him will be revoked and the manage- | ment of decedent’s estate will pass into i other hands. Yesterday morning Attorneys Stone & Stone and Thomas D. Riordan appeared before Judge Troutt and asked that the | powers of Martin Carter, as executor of | | decendent’s will, be suspended and that | a speclal administrator be appointed. In | | support of the motion an affidavit was | filed by Willlam G. Black, making specific charges of fraud against the executor. | After a brief hearing Judge Troutt granted the motion, suspended the pow- ers of the executor and appointed O. C. Colton 1l administrator, fixing his bonds at $25,000. In his afiidavit Black alleges that on January 5, 1 Martin Carter, cutor of the will of the late Thomas Carter, re- | turned an inventory and appraisement of | what purported to be all the property be- | longing to said estate, wherein the prop- erty of the estate was appraised at $1,- | 646 This inventory, he alleges, is not | a true iInventory of all of the estate of | the deceased which has come to the knowledge and in the possession of the | executor. In the order made by Judge Troutt sus- pending the executor he says: It appearing from the afidavit of Willlam G. Black that the inventory and appraisement was not a true inventory of all the property | that has come into the hands of the executor and it appearing therefrom that Martin Carter has ~concealed properties belonging to the | estate of the deceased. And it further appearing therefrom that sald | Martin Carter has in his possession and knowl- edge bonds, contracts and writings which con- tain certain evidences of and tend to disclose the right, title and interest and claim of ue- | cedent to certain property which Martin Carter | falled and neglected to include in the inven- | tory filed herein: | And it appearing that decedent and Martin | Carter were at the time of his death partners, doing business under the name of Carter Bros., | | and that sald inventory contains no mention | of decedent’s interest in sald partnership: And it appearing from said affidavit that decedent just prior to his death was seized | ssed of valuable real estate in the ¢ Alameda, Santa Clara, Kern and v and county of San Francisco, and that | Martin Carter is claiming title thereto, adversely to said estate under deeds from sald decedent dated a few days prior to his death, which said deeds were not delivéred to said Martin Carter, and which said real estate was | mot delivered to said Martin Carter included | | In said inventory, nor was any part thereof. Now, therefors, by reason of the above charges, the court having reason to hFl\P\'é‘ that said Martin Carter has committed a fraud upon decedent’s estate and has neglected to | perform his duty as executor in failing to_re- | turn in the inventory property known by him | to_belong to the estate of the deceased, | Tt is hereby ordered that the powers of said Martin Carter as executor of the will of the late Thomas Carter are hereby suspended until the further investigation by this court and until the further order of this court. It is further ordered that notice of such | suspension be given to said Martin Carter by | service upon him of a copy of this order and that he be cited to appear before this court on the 224 day of September, 1589, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m.. then and there to appear and show cause why the letters testamentary Reretofore issued t0 him should mot be revoked. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. JUDGE CAMPBELL—W. O., City. The | late Judge Campbell, Police Judge of San Francisco, died on the 16th of May, I8, THE SAN RAFAEL-W. J. R. City. The speed of the San Rafael is given as sixteen knots per ]mu WIRELESS TELEGRAPH-R. L. E,, City. As yet no book on the Marconi wireless telegraphing has been published, but a great many articles thereon have appeared in the current magazines and periodicals, which can be seen at the Free Public Library. A full account of The Call's achievement in that line appeared in The Call of September 3. A STOCKHOLDER—S. 8., Wrights, Cal. This department has not been able to find any California case which affects the right of a stockholder in a suspended bank to sell all of his property while the affairs of the bank are in liquidation. = As a stockholder is liable for the debts of the concern, such a sale would undoubtedly be looked upon as fraudulent, for the pur- pose of evading liability. The position of a purchaser under the circumstances would depend if he was an innocent pur- chaser or whether he knew of the fraud practiced by the seller. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER-R. B., East Oakiand, Cal. The “Star Spangled Banner”” was written during the | bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British during the war of 1812, by Francis Scott Key, a lawyer of Frederick, Md., who had gone on board of the British flagship to solicit the re-| lease of a friend, who had been carried on board a prisoner. The British, as they were on the point of attacking Fort Mc- Henry, detained Key, and he as well as | his friend and another American were transferred to another vessel lying near. They watched the fight and it was during | the bombardment that Key was insplr051 and wrote the words of the hymn. BOERS AND ENGLISH—S. B., City. The trouble between the Poers and the English is of long standing. Twice the Boers moved on account of British en- | croachments. First the Orange Free State was founded to avoid the British and the Transvaal republic. Since the dis- covery of gold in the Transvaal there has been an influx of English-speaking and thinking miners, which reducgs the Boers to a minority, but these outsiders or Uijt- landers, as they are called, cannot vote, nor can they become citizens until after fourteen years' residence. The British want to obtain the rlfht to vote in the Transvaal without giving up thelr British citizenship, and it is chiefly over the sub- lfec! of double citizenship which the Brit- sh desire that there is t isi deaice; rouble in the | consequence there are many | complete some of their jobs until GOLDEN SHOWER DESCENDS UPC) LUCKY WORKERS Ship Carpenters Pile Up Eagles. I Ship carpenters and joiners in this city are having a season of high-earning ca- pacity that is reminiscent of the golden Those who are in a position say that there are no ship car- penters out of work in the city to-day. Not only is that the fact, but it is also true that there i{s a demand for more. But this will not draw in workmen from the outside for the reason that the ex- traordinary demand, which has created the present unprecedented condition, un- preeedented at least in recent years, is only temporary. The large fleet of Uni- ted States transports to be fitted out has made the situation. There are eighteen transports, on all of which more or less carpenter work and Joining must be done in haste, for the reason that the entire fleet must sail within a period of eighteen days. The fleet is composed of the following named vessel; Belglan King, Aztec, Relief, Grant, Centennial, Tacoma, George W. der, Sikh, Sherman, City of Rio Janeiro, heriGan, Glenogle,’ Valencia, Charles Nelson, Zealandia, Hancock, Lennon and Victorfa. Ten of these vessels must pe fitted entirely for transports and on the others there is more or less work to do. When a vessel is taken on as a trans. port she has to be refitted, and this was the condition of ten of the foregoing list that have been chartered for the Philip- pine transportation service. There are between 200 and 400 carpenters and join- ers at work on the transports. Probably there are none who are not working over- time. The reason is plain. For every hour of overtime the worker gets $1. The regular price for a day’s work of eight hours is $4. The carpenter who works sixteen hours a day gets $12. No one is discouraged in making time. The longer he will work the better he suits all con- cernad, for the greatest speed is needed to push the work to completion. As a carpenters who are earning from $50 to $60 per week. Some experts have earned as high as $100. Contractor Whalen says that he has paid expert (’arEenterR recently as high as $100 per week. This sort of news has spread among the joiners of the city. Builders complain that many of thelr best men have been taken away from them to work on the United States trans- ports, and they will have to wait ;‘o the rush is over. In the golden days of Cali- fornia it was not unusual for a skilled man with tools to make $100 per week, but that has probably not been the case at any other period in the history of the State. “I have taken on all the ship carpenters and joiners that I could get,” said Con- tractor Whalen yesterday “All the ship carpenters in the city who are not working on the | transports are employed upon the regular steamship lines’ vessels.” One result of this activity upon the transports is evident upon East street, which is now about the busiest thorough- fare in the city with the exception of Market street. The carpenters are look- ing forward to a continued season of prosperity, as there are repairs to be made on all the transports when they re- turn from the Philippines. Conductor Stawpert Killed. John S. Stawpert, the streetcar con- ductor who was injured last Tuesday night by falling from a Sacramento-street car, died at] H’;{e Snu'th(;!rn P:Iclflr(]:"gospg?!l at 2:30 o'clock yesterday mor g skull was fractured. An inquest will be held. —_——————— JUSTIOCES’ OLERKS SAFE. Decision in the Fee Bill Case Will Not Affect Their Places. Chief Clerk Ed Willlams of the Jus- tice Court denies the published state- ment that the clerical force in his office will be reduced on account of the recent docision of the Supreme Court cutting down the fees which it has been cus- tomary to charge in civil suits, “The cutting down of fees,’ said Mr. Willlams yesterday, ‘‘does not lessen the work of the office. The clerks' salaries are not paid out of the fees collected, but from the appropriation by the Super- visors, The fees that have been cut off by the decision are those for writs of at- tachment and aflidavits, for which 25 cents each is charged, and which amount s than $200 a month, ‘0““:’!9 {ln\'e in the past interpreted the fee bill for the beneflt of the ci !a' If the fees had not been collected and the de- olsion had been different I would have been held responsible. No clerk will be dismissed and only the revenue will be diminished.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS Rev. C. 8. Linsley of Sonora is at the Ocecldental. Dr. Edward G. Parker, U. 8. N., is stay- ing at the Occidental. . Dr. B. R. Wend, U. 8. N., is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. Jesse D. Carr, the Salinas capitallist, s a guest at the Occidental. A. D, Cults, one of the big merchants of Marysville, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Marion DeVries among the arrivals at the Palace. 8. C. Cornell, one of the leading attor- neys of Merced, is registered at the Lick. Dr. H. L. Pace, one of the leading phy- siclans of Tulare, is a guest at the Palace. 'W. H. Tibbals, a capitalist of Tulare, is at the Russ, accompanied by his family. L. W. Burris, the Santa Rosa banker, {s one of the recent arrivals at the Califor- nia. Robert G. Barton, manager of the Fres- no Opera House, {8 a guest at the Call- fornia. Dr. C. L. McGowan has come down from Sacramento and has taken rooms at the Grand. John R. Philips of Jackson is in the city on a short vacation. He is staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Norris of San Jose are at the Grand, where they ar- rived last evening. E. 8 Churchill, a wealthy capitalist of Napa, Ie at the Palace on a short pleas- ure trip to the city. John T. Cameron, a wealthy mining man «f Nevada, is registered at the Lick for a short stay in the city. A. C. Pratt, a well-known resident of San Bernardino, is among the arrivals of yesterday at the Occidental. Alex McCone, one of the big politicians of Nevada, s registered at the Occidental from his home in Virginia City. O. R. Runyon, a wealthy rancher of Courtland, is staying at the Lick, while on a visit of pleasure to the city. Lieutenant W. D. Brotherton of the United States steamship Marblehead is one of the naval arrivals at the Occiden- tal. H. Wittenberg, one of the best-known and most prominent business men of Portland, Or., is at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday morning. Among the distinguished strangers who arrived in the cit; W. Pentland, City Treasurer of Prescott, Arizona. Mr. Pentland s on pleasure bent and, no doubt, will find it as soon as he is taken in hand by the Elks, of which order he is the exalter grand ruler. Manager J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific:Company has returned to the city from Bartlett Springs, where he has been spending a month's vacation. He resumed the duties of his office yesterday and ex- pressed himself as having been much im- proved by his outing and in fine fettle for another year’s work. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—F. H. Harton and wife of Los Angeles are at the Grand, and James M. Geoghe of San Francisco is at the Imperial. V. G. Hush of San Fran- cisco is at the Empire. are Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's e Special information’ supplied daiy to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, + ——————— Harmony Chapter. To-night Harmony Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will give an entertain- ment and dance in Golden Gate Hall, on Sutter street. The chapter’s social com- mittee has prepared a fine programme of entertainment, which will commence at 8§ o'clock and continue for an hour and a half, when it will be ““on with the dance.” e s Angostura Bitters is indorsed by leading physicians for purity and wholesomeness. Get the genuine—Dr. Slegert's. wSUNDAY’S CALL SEPT. 17. Looks Will the Chinese Control Politics in San Francisco? Read what politicians say about it What the Interior of the World’s Biggest Beet-Sugar Refinery WHAT TWO CALIFORNIA WOMEN HAVE DONE FOR EDUCATION. The Ten Prize Babies of the Mechanics’ Institute Baby Show. HOW NEW YORK WILL WELCOME DEWEY. SAN FRANCISCO BELLES OF LONG AGO. Greatest collection of oldtime photographs ever printed in a San Francisco daily. A WOMAN'S THRILLING ADVENTURE IN THE YOSEMITE. Most Exciting Chapters from Stephen Crane’s Story, “Active Service.” THE FUNNIEST BEAR STORY OF THE YEAR, <. ALL — BIG FEATURE STORIES IN NEXT 5 SUNDAY’S CALL.