The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1899, Page 6

EPTEMBER 19, 1899 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL TUESDAY. everal tim. You wouldn’t be ECKELS, Proprietor. NSNSSULSURETEE JOHN D. SPR hddress Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS .....2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 3D BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, § cents by Mall, Including Postage: DELIVER ATLY CALL unday Call), one .§6.00 CALL v Call), 6 months. 3.00 ALL Call), 3 months 1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : €. C. CARLTON..... . NEW YORK R PERRY LUKENS JR. RESENTATIVE : .29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. P. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; rium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square) | Hotel WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE......... J. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open unti! o'clock. 639 McAlilster street, open until 9: c'clock. €15 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. €4l Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 22C* Market ctrect, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twemty= second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'¢clock, AMUSEMENTS, le. hneon.” Drum Major's Daughter.” vaudeville every afternoon and rner Mas n and ming Races, echunics’ Cllis streets—Speclalties. ete. Fair and Phillppine Ex- Folsom streets, Saturday, Septem- JUSTICE RODDEN'S METHODS. Marin County has been offense of : RODDEN of 1 exposed in the do ; hearing or trial k L. Perk acing the records of STIC b 1 advs 1t ag; 15, a d of de he proof o destroying ¢ for the judgment c nce was e Justice before a word 1 the nents of ne of pers e against the rcement of the record was a fu it to escape the consequences yng done by the Justice is aggra- 1wces under which it was com- 16 Wr which he on charge made up his ce was made against Perkins alone. sworn out by one M. John D. Spreckels L. Perkins, the Against Mr. g of spite, and it appears he t1 the other defendant the de- San Sprec cast a hearing before con- ich the Justice recorded his “It appearing to me that the of the ition mentioned has been within dep there sufficient cause to be- red Frank L. Perkins guilty that he be held to answer to the same is cords of his court and in his ow it appear that even before the trial, Rod- ide up his mind to decide Perkins guilty e submission of evidence, Justice m for trial. An offense of that nature is s gross as a petty mind can devise and a cow- It is significant at once of creat re perpetrate e, his revengeful instincts and that he is not worthy of social recog- his ma It e holds, b his mea ot only unfit for dice ce | the of t i nition in any decent community. Mr. Perkins this mali must be borne in mind that It is possible, of course, t as been victim of the spite c ous fool in ¢ on ertheless r persons against whom Rodden has a prejudice ; nd compelled e his court 3 to such judgment as his malice prompted A rd to evidence, nalicious mind finds nd not a few of the for enn use y on every T dents within his district who have excited his spite may have been made to suffer as much of wrong as he has hz The ¢ facts of themselves are suffi d the courage to inflict The nt to arouse public in- In the Justice Courts are tried the causes and the suits of the common people. The great mass of small law cases and criminal charges of all kinds are heard before such magistrates. A considerable sons who are summoned before Jus- tice Courts are neither rich nor influential, and are se is one that calls for little comment. dignation number of per therefore dependent for justice upon the integrity of It is therefore imperative that the magistrates of such courts be honest men, and the the court itself. IE Just menace to the property and the liberty of every citi- distr ct that such a spiteful fool as Rodden presides as a ce of the Peace in Marin County constitutes zen in h Governor Gage would not declare a holiday to do honor to the return of the California Volunteers. Governor Roosevelt of New York has declared two holidays in honor of the home-coming of Dewey. It all depends upon the caliber of the Governor, and everybody knows that Roosevelt is a big gun. Lieutenant Peary, according to the latest reports, has lost his toes through freezing in the far north. One would hardly suspect the lieutenant of so bad a case of “cold feet.” g 0 There is no truth in the statement made by a morn- ing contemporary that the Republicans of San Fran- re grooming a dark horse for Mayor. LR After the Trust Conference at Chicago comes the Anti-Trust Conference at St. Louis, but it won’t be an improvement. cisco Bryan did not wish his speech at Chicago to be construed as a reply to Cockran, and it is safe to say it will not be. .........Herald Square | e thoug! i : <3 oh i arts and sciences, which engage the thought and toil phrases can have some effect, as nothing frightens proprietor | Rafael | THE STATE FAIR. mento is Californian. T resources and energies should be a succe | | : 5 | cent years in that line. | conduct of such an exhibition criticism of their error i The directory of the State ciety had been for years a rather cl¢ element. which seemed to have secured for itseli perpetual suce | the vast and progressive changes and advances made f the fair was intended in the interests in whose beh to be held. Too much weight was put upon the im- portance of that great industry, pool- | selling and bookmaking, and only the mistaken di- | rectory was to blame if agriculture, horticulture, min | ing, lumbering, manufacturing, the vintage and the productive of so m: 1y of our people, felt that they were reduced to a secondary place. It was this feeling that gener- ated the hostility which threatened entire withdrawal ate Fair. of the State’s patronage of the S This year's experience has changed all’this. The | ities which appeared newer energies and fresh perso Prior to midsummer The Call kept before the peo- | ple reasons why the annual exposition of the State’s | tneir wheel. For the rest he contented himself v : : ; s, and pre- | rynning up and down the gamut of “solemn warnings' jicted that it would excel any previous effort of re- | an4 “viewing with alarm.” The situation affected him When men err in their plans and policies in the | ;¢ i\\’nn]s, high-sounding terms and phrases. | | | edy. which warns of a danger without suggestion of a rem- ! As Cockran had declared that among the means | HE great success of the State Fair at Sacra-| ¢ redy ing the power of a trust tariff protection iifying to every public-spirited | should be withdrawn from it, Bryan, in order to an- | tagonize him, disputed this, and his supporters will be pained to have such a big spoke knocked out of badly, and there ran through his speech an undertone nviction that Bryan himself is the remedy for all He is evidently of opinion that he is a c pubiic evils. s proper without having in it any rancorous personal | pij ¢hat will cure the national liver of its torpidity, and gricultural S0- | 3 nerve and bone liniment which will set right the corporation, | When he 1 sprains and bruises of the national body. speaks he thinks, but his thought “Take me. sion. Perhaps rather too much of its e and | 4 the arnica and the Pond's extract; the liver pad attention were given to the continual intrigue re- 1,44 porous plaster; the cholagogue and emulsion; no quired to maintain such succession, and too little 10 | ;ther required.” His quackery, like all quackery, depends on words, Cockran measuréd him perfectly when he said: “I am free to confess that when you have called an aggregation of capital a combination, ‘a hydra-headed monster, an octopus,” you cast no light that can illumine my pathway. I can understand how the use of these people so much as incomprehensible names. Let a nroise be made now that we don’t understand and we will all be looking out of the windows. Men can be put to intellectual flight by the terrifying noises of sound.” That is the correct estimate of Mr. Bryan as a tocsin, a drumhead, a gourd full of peas, making a noise that [in the directory have proved to be abreast of the times, | i iy oxpressive of thought. His idea of politics is 'in touch with the vital interests of the State as to be able to make the occasion not only a revelation of what has been done by the people, but a distinct and valuable inspiration to their further yrt and greater progress. The from its active and mpa- thetic president to its kee secretary, into touch with every | has been the g 1ccess which we were able advance out of abundant faith in the board, intelligent came ifyin | to predict in effect of a changed and bettered policy. The track took its proper place, as the means of stimulating interest in one form of the State’s ma- to the climatic effect | favorable to t terialities, as necessary show | from Diomed : Rysdyk’s Hambletonian as a load ind harness are to test the traction power of the Percherons, N ys and other draft In o feature of the ex- bition that illuminated instead of obscuring all other and was so conducted as to add to the amuse- of the without | from its many other pleasures and amusements yrman her wor horses | feature | ment and pleasure time detracting swine and all do- a fact that is more sheep he show of neat cattle | mestic an s was convin general in the economies of California than in any other State. In the Eastern States what came to be known as “native breeds” had to be slowly bred out to make room for stock that had been intelligently bred for ages toward a definite utility. The shaggy and scraggy native tle, dwarfed in carcass and deficient in quality through shifting for themselves | for many generations, yielded slowly to the beef s careiully developed for the fats, Hol- carefully i breeds and to the Jers: | crea as producers of butter and the steins and Dutch-Frisians, selected for | their conversion of forage into casein, for use in the ctory. In like manner the native hog, with {’his snout elongated in his struggle for existence, be- | cheese fa cause in each succeeding generation he had to root | deeper or die, retired the Suffolk, | Chester-White, Poland-China and other strains care- | fully bred to get the most pork on the shor before sullenly est leg. nd whose snouts were shortened by removing the As with cattle and necessity for inc nt rooting. swine it was with sheep, chickens and all animals that flock or herd upon the farm. In California, new land and free from a past as it the mselves with improved breeds, was, from almest the Beginning of agriculture ranchers equipped t and soithascometo | | finds but few scrubs or curs sthat from horses to dogs one The State Fair this year impressed this fact upon strangers and all visitors. Our people know the economy and profit of keeping the best, and secure it. The; | planting orchards of choke pears and choke cherries would as soon think of g their pens and pastures with common cat- as stocki | tle and razor-spined hogs. { The directors deserve credit and praise for making the fair a demonstration of all this, and the Citizens’ Committee, through which Sacramento so usefully co-operated, mz with the action, inasmuch as for the first time in many y view its labors satis rs the fair has passed without giving pretext for | the criticisms degenerating into libel, which have here- tofore been rife in the State. It is manifest that mak- | ing the fair a success, interesting in it every producer and public-spirited citizen within our borders, ha only eliminated offensive features, but has given the nd people something useful to think of and so yea not | press | has diverted attention away from finding faults and flaws. P The report that the Dreyfus indignation meeting called to assemble at Hyde Park, in at- tracted only the usual idlers of the city recalls the statement made by the London Chief of Police some ars ago that no matter what kind of meeting w London, ways the same crowd that assembled. of noise that passes for the voice of an indignant peo- sons who shout just because they have nothing else te do, and applaud at a mass-meeting as other folks BRYAN AND COCKRAN. | lT has not gilded any of the plumes in Mr. Bryan’s Trust Conference trast to men who are in the habit of preceding speech His refusal to debate with Hon. Bourke Cockran was an exhibition of over caution incompatible with through a persistently repeated challenge to Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle to enter into joint debate manifesting himself seems to have cooled to such an extent that after his meeting with Cockran was an- ple is after all only the clamor of irresponsible per- applaud at a theater. helmet that he suffered himself to take part in the upon any subject with thought on that subject. his attitude of infallibility. He first became notorious with him. His fervid fondness for that means of nounced he flinched and retreated. An attentive read- next day, reveals the cause of the Nebraska man's abstention from combat. Cockran’s speech is a mas- terly statement of the trust issue, its cause and its remedy. The remedy requires no doubtful interpreta- tion of constitutional power, but is ample and amply within the powers now derived from the fundamental law. His exposition of the need of a statute of pub- licity and the means of legal restraint puts a clear hori- zon to the whole question. Mr. Bryan's speech remarketed the platitudes of his San Francisco speech, especially his arrant and inex- cusable misquotation from Lincoln, and, instead of a clear horizon, put around the whole issue a circular fogbank in which his voice droned like a foghorn, at Chicago and be put in con- | ing of Cockran’s speech and of Bryan's, delivered | interest, and the result he development of the horses descended | Wellington Hotel | equal to the original purpose of the exhibition, and so | copied from the Chinese idea of war. Instead of in- venting defensive arms and paying attention to tac- tics, the Chinese military establishment encourages the invention of gongs, tomtoms and other racket- producing instruments which can make such a jargon of sound as to terrify the enemy with a noise which it never heard before and therefore is afraid of. But Mr. Bryan is not a new invention. He emitted sound and propagated fury in 1806, and has been at it ever since. His noises are all registered and known and excite no more terror than the vesper braying of the useful jack or the matin gurgle of a Shang- hai rooster. The story that General Otis sentenced a soldier to a year's confinement in Bilibid prison solely because the soldier wrote a letter to the general without ob- taining a permit from his regimental officers is in- teresting as a campaign tale, but is not likely to be U\IL' General Otis is not popular and may not be a great commander, but there is no reason for believ- | ing he has turned into a senseless tyrant. it is a fair inference that the law RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. OMETHING other than accident must be the railway catas- trophes following one another with such rapid controlling cause of so many succession as have taken place on the Southern Pac system within this State since the notable one at New- man last July, in which two tourists on their way to the educational convention at Los Angeles were killed and eight other persons injured. 1f each case be considered alone doubtless a good showing can be made to prove it to have been caused { by unavoidable accident or by some carelessness of subordinate employes of the road, but when the whole series is taken into consideration and the fact is noted that since July there have been ten accidents on the Southern Pacific system, it will certainly ap- pear to intelligent men there must be something wrong with the management of the roads. call “accidents and when they occur with great frequency on a par- * are as subject to law as other events, ticular system of railways and in a particular locality which determines them is one for which the management is largely re- sponsible. In cases of this kind that are to come before the courts in the trial of suits for damages The Call has | inflame the popular mind or to excite prejudice against the company. Still it is evident that something should be done to enforce upon the South- no desire to ern Pacific Compar in this State and a safer manner of operating them. Whether it be the economy enforced by the president | and board of directors, or whether it be the incom- | petency of the general manager, it is clear that acci- | keenest | z = | upon the bodies of the victims of the Famoso, wreck | dents are too numerous and follow one another toc rapidly. The verdict of the Coroner’s jury at the inquest is that they came to their death by a collision of trains “due to the negligence of the employes of the South- BE That presents the subject as far as the Coroner’s inquiry could go, and perhaps in that case it may be as far as the most searching inquiry could have gone, but in many instances the wrecks due ap- parently to negligence of employes may have been the result of overwork or of the employment of inefficient men on account of economy. The punishment of sub- ordinate employes will have no effect in determining n Pacific.” | the company to improve its management and exer- | cise a truer economy hereafter. What is needed is | some means of making the managers of the roads 2 called in the parks or squares of London it was al- | A whole lot | to make railway cidents less frequent. An English army officer is in this country for the purpose of securing a thousand mules for use in South Africa. This wandering so far from the seat of expected trouble is a tacit admission by the Brit- ish that all the harsh things they have been saying about the mulishness of the Boers are untrue. ‘Whenever the war cloud hangs most darkly over South Africa old man Kruger writes an evasive re- ply to the British, and before they can make out what he means the clouds roll by and the negotiations begin again. There is some talk that the next Democratic Na- tional Convention may meet at Milwaukee. In such an event “Bryan and Beer” would be an appropriate slogan for the ensuing campaign. e The demand for Chickasaw brides is sure to fall off. _A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Oklahoma raising the price of marriage licenses from $50 to $1000. Next month the first class battleship Kentucky will be launched. Just imagine the shudder that will run along the spine of the Blue Grass State when she takes to water. The town of Dyea is to be ptit on scows and moved across Lynn Canal to « Skaguay. Here is an op- portunity for a good, vigorous cyclone to be of some use. The Crown Prince of Japan is to build a temblor- proof castle. He will think it a castle in the air if one of our good, healthy Kansas cyclones ever locates it. Paris is to lose another historic palace, but this time demolition will be the work of rightful owners and not the fury of the mob. et What we | v a better supervision of its roads | | | | | Spreckels su | Supervisors will be_called | | feel their ‘responsibility and take the steps required | because the San Erancisco press has lied | Senator, [RRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS WILL BEGIN IN CALIFORNIA The Government Has Appointed Professor Harry H. Hirst of \ the University of California on the Important Work. Mr. Edward F. Adam knowledge the receipt of s, Wrights, —Dear Sir: I have the honor to ac- our letter of August 30, inclosing a petition signed by ens of California, asking that Mr. Elwood Mead be detailed by the de- partment to conduct a series of irrigation investigations in California. The importance and d bility of such an investigation are readily granted, and it is the desire of the department to cond such investigation s your pe- titioners desire, and to do this promptly and efficiently. It does not, however, seem feasible to detail Mr. Mead to work continuously in California in immediate charge of this investigation, as his duti s expert in charge of all the irri- gation - investigations of the department require that most of his time shall be given to the general supervision of this large enterprise. Mr. Mead, has however, given considerable time to the consideration of the needs of irrigat agriculture in California and to determining who are proper agents for con- ducting useful investigations in each § On his recommendation, Professor Harry H. Hirst of the University of Cali- fornia has been selected to have immediate charge of this investigation, and pro- vision has been made for the employment of assistants far as may be necessary to secure the prompt completion of the work. Professor Hirst will be given leave of absence by the University of California, so as to devote his time and energies fully to our work. The plans and instructions for this work will be drawn by Mr. Mead and he will give the enterprise close supervision by siting California from time to time and corresponding with our agents there. 1 trust that this arrangement will be satisfactory to your petitioners and to the people of California and that you will re the signers of this petition that both the Secretary of Agriculture and myself, as well as Mr. Mead, highly appreciate the interest which they have manifested in the irrigation investiga- tions of the department and that we earnestly desire to accomplish results in our work in California which will be of much use to the vast agricultural in- terests of that great Stdte. Very respectfully vours A. C. TRUE, Director. United States Department of Agricultu Office of Experiment Stations, Wash- ington, D. C., Sept. 8, 1899, ‘un!c s the sender prepald the war tax 2669039000000 00669 0 ! which the Government designed that the | company should pay. E PRESS COMMENTS E, sy e pey: e o public would bring action on POPOPIPOIOLCIOOQPOOIOIOS each for § and costs, corporation would soon find it more ex The Situation Exaggerated. pensive to shirk its payment of the war St i tax than to pay it. A Castisein e nACX. ¢ of the San| Sacramento merchants who have threat- ened suit find that their goods are carried £ aminer gives a highly eX-| without collection of the one cent on each ited account of fish dying in the | package, the company, of course, affixing s River near that place, which is | the stamp. tributed to the water used at the | r factory flowing into the | correspondent in question | the factory closed down and says a special meeting of the Board ) take ac The alleged facts { the offspring of a livi he sit LATEST STORIES of the ' FUNNY MAN. ation is greatly ex- | stream. The matt T upon the for the m imagination. aggerated. Besid it would be better | s that cvery fish in the river should dle| Appreciated. from the factory to Mc Landing than | Watts—Did you see that story about an that the big mill should be shut down. All | arrowhead being brought up from a Dersons Hyving along the river have wells | depth of more than 1500 feet under for domestic use. ground? = 3| Potts—Yes, Strikes me the fellow that ; shot at deep into the earth must Don’t Pay the Tax. have been a pretty good man in his zette. Judge Troutt | t that Well Contra Costa Ga In San Francisco Tuesd gave a decksion to the effc Fargo & Co. and not the shipper w obliged to put the one-cent revenue stamp on the shipping receipt. This is | cornell Widow the second decision that ha been ren- There is 2 - dered against the company, and it seems | qooi{¥€ S 4 “L‘)Ofil;e“ bl‘; v:,\ollsghzt\rfié v;{llo TR e Ty yalentine. | does not always use them correctly. The Everyihing that affects the coffers of the | OLher day a nelghbor complained of inces- gigantic corporation that he represent ;g!};igd“ynrlgsh;;‘é{ack,whereupon the user should be getting his eves open. In the . = future the people of this town and count T would consult Dr. Pellets for pains should refuse to pay the cent. They have Dbeen robbed long enough e e e SOME OF BURNS’' VOTES. Red Bluff Sentinel. The Woodland Mail seems to think that | D. M. Burns should be elected Senator time.—Indianapolis Journal. | Jack—That shows how a girl can be dis- as | tant without being cold. | “Tom—What does? “That picture of a Philippine belle.”— gist that I know of.”—Pittsburg Chronicle. In the biography of Dr. Hawtrey, a fa- mous English schoolmaster, there is a de- scription of his unkempt appearance, with a comment which has been greatly quoted. It is said that he was scolding for being late at morning lessons some | boy, who replied that he had no time to about him. The residents of this State But I can dress in time,” said the doc- have been acquainted with him and his |t record for the past twenty years. TIt| Fx?}:‘;ngfepfled the boy, “but I wash,"— should be sufficient to defeat him that the | reat majority of the people don’t want | im. If there should be an election held | and the question should be Burns or no | “olonel Dan would not get over 100 votes in Tehama County, and all'the balance would be “no Senator. countir to-gay. s ¥ neata Yk Sl S" TR | sent-mindedly to the wi “Dir War Tax on Wells, Fargo & Co. |a jinky water, pease.’ ?,‘Ebraslgghcng&&? Sacramento Bee. ard and Times. Wells, Fargo & Co. has lost at San | Francisco another suit brought against | the company for damages because it re- | fused to transmit a package by express “Charlie Youngpop's b 1o Charlie Youngpop's baby Is beginning “Has Charlie been boring stories about it?”" “No, but I sat near him at the lunch you with Grimes (to Spencer, who ha the hest stories)—Ha ha! Do you troa Spencer, I always did like that story. 4 Spencer—I thought you must have Billy (the mascot of the regiment, as poster)—Thank heaven! home again from them blamed Spanish trenches. he finishes the first of a three-sheet ‘where 1‘1:‘1 sure of havin’ a good square meal always in sight. o The company so far and if the | case from the judgment on | which there can be no appeal, the wealthy in the back. He's the finest backteriolo- | heard it 3 likely to tumble to the joke the first time you heard it, you know.—Boston Tran- script. itk “Will. one in the class,” asked the teacher of rhetoric, “give a better form to the sentence. ‘John can ride the mule if he wants to? " “John can ride the mule if the mule wants him to,” said the boy with the bad eye.—Chicago Tribune. ARQUND THE CORRIDORS E. 0. Kraft, a banker of Red Bluff, is at the Lick. Al Griffin, the Fresno real estate man, is a guest at the Grand. A. W. Fox, a mining man of Grants Pass, Or., is registered at the Grand. J. S. Feron of Shanghal arrived Sun- day on the Coptic and went to the Palace. W. M. Graham, a prominent mining en- gineer of Hartford, Conn., is at the Pal- ace, Joseph McClay, a wealthy mining man of Calaveras County, is a guest at the Russ. Frank R. Jones, U. S. A., arrived from nila on the Coptic yesterday and regis- M. tered at the Palace. H. C. Perry and wife of Honolulu are guests at the Occidental. They arrived Sunday on the Coptic. Hon. John Barrett, ex-Minister to Siam, is expected to arrive at the Palace this morning from the north. S. D. Wagnes, a well-known business man of Marshville, Or., is registered at the Lick, where he arrived yesterday. Dr. D. E. Roberts, one of the leading physicians of Calaveras County, is at the Grand on a little pleasure trip to this city. Among those who arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Russ was J A. Morehead, a well-known mining man of Uokcotta, Wash. Lewis Einstein and family are regis- tered at the Lick. Mr. Einstein is a prominent banker and one of the wealth- iest residents of Fresno. Mrs. S. L. Bee of this city returned yesterday from the Orient, where she been making a tour of pleasure. She aying at the Palace, and has her son Everett with her. Vice President Payson and Chief Engi- neer Storey of the Valley road left v terday for a trip of inspection over their line as far as Bakersfield. They will be gone until the end of the week. W. H. Keith, the popular barytone, left on the Queen to make an extended trip through Canada, the East and BEurope. | He was accompanied by his mother, and | expected to be gone some time. W. K. Miller of Troy, Kans., is among the recent arrivals at the Occldental. He accompanied by his family and will remain to witness the arrival from his State. superintendent of the ip Company at Pan- | ama, vesterday’s arrivals at the He is on a trip to the city which combines business and pleas- u nd is accompanied by his mother. Chief Justice Judd of Honolulu was a passenger on the Coptic, which arrived in port on Sunday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Judd, and as soon as the vessel docked they went to the Hotel Richelieu, where rooms had beeen reserved for | them. Their son and Charles A. Hart- | well, son of Judge Hartwell of Honolulu, | registered at the Occidental. | 0. McCormick, general passenger | traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, left last Saturday night for ha | is probably of the volunteers R. D. Bucknam, Pacific Mail Steams | | | | | Denv He went to attend a preliminary | meeting of the Western Passenger | pciation, wh has for its object th angement of a meeting to be held later in Chicago, where the north- ern lines will be invited to send repre- sentatives, in the hope that the rate dif- ferences may now be adjusted. _———————— } CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—F. E. Keat- ing, Myron McHenry and wife and F. M. Lee and wife of San Francisco afe at the Wellingten. W. P. Reddington of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. J. T. | Wymen of Oakland is at the St. James. ——————————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | THE DURRANT (';\SF—'Y. R. S., Oak- | 1and, Cal. The testimony glven upon the trial of W. H. T. Durrant for murder has not been published in book form for gen- eral circulation. CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS—A. R., City. A woman can take an examination under the civil service rules for any posi- tion which she is not physically disquali- fied from filling. Application for exami- nition blanks should be made at the de- partment the | SQUARE FEET=W. C. H., City. To | muitiply two feet by two feet will not | give as a result four square feet any more than multiplying two beans by two beans | would give four square beans. If two square feet are multiplied by two square feet the result will be four square feet, PRIVATE RESIDENCES-B. H. L, City. The stone of which the Flood man- ion on Nob Hill was built is the Connect- jecut brownstone, and that of which the | Claus Spreckels building on Van Ness | avenue is constructed is the Arizona red- stone. You can ascertain the cost of pri- | vate residences by consulting the contract book in the City and County Recorder's | office. The building on the northwest cor- | ner of Washington and Laguna streets 1. Crocker. | was built for Mary STREET GRADES—M. D., City. The grade of a street in the city of San Fran- cisco cannot be changed by a railroad company at will, but when a railroad company lays down a track it must do so according to the official grade. In | a number of instances the streets have not been up to the official grade and when a railroad company built a track on the | true grade there was some difference with | the track space and the rest of the street. | A change of grade can be had only by | act of the Board of Supervisors or the etition of a majority of those having { frontage on the street where a change is sought. SR SOLDIERS’ HOME—H. E. P. and E. P., City. The Soldiers’ Home at Santa Mon- ica consists of a number of buildings erected at various times and by different contractors. Construction was commenced | during the fiscal year June 30, 188§, and was continued from time to time as neces- sity arose for greater capacity, owing to increased mt‘ml\ershi(\. he following is a list of the principal contractors on the several buildings: David Per; San Fran- clsco, barracks A, B, C D; Robert Beyrie, Los Angeles barracks E; Mec- Nally & Faulkenhan, Los Angeles, bar- racks F; Jona & Jay, Los Angeles, bar- racks G: Child, Hatton & Field, Los An- geles, barracks H; Robert Beyrle, Los An- geles, dining-hall, hospital in administra- tion building, hospital in north wing, head- quarters building and laundry; McNally & Faulkenhan, Los Angeles, hospitat south wing; B. D. Kronnick, Los Angeles, main kitchen; Child, Hatton & Field, Los Angeles, bakery John Hannon, Los An- eles, 'governor's present Tesidence; itenel & Wilson, Los Angeles, surgeon’s residence; Ford & Co., Palms, farmer's Tesidence and stable : 'Sinclair’ & Beer, Son Diego, chief engineer’s cottage, guard house and hay barn; De Ware & Chis- holm, Los Angeles, power house; C. A. Conant Co., Ward memorial hall. Mathis & Haupt of Los Angeles have re- cently entered into a contract with the home for the erection of a chapel. — eee— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's, * —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen'u‘), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_—— ‘War Tax on Stocks. Internal Revenue Collector Lynch re- ceived yesterday from the Internal Reve- nue Commissioner a decision to the effect that the stamps representing the war tax accruing to the original issue of stock shall be affixed to the stock certificates and not to the stubs of the stock books. ——— No well-regulated household should be with- out Dr. J. G. B. Slegert & Sons’ Angostura Bitters, unequaled as an appetizer.