The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1899, Page 6

" JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieier. Acdress Al C FLBLICATION UFF municatons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. All postn S Bample coples wiil QAKLAND OFFKCE... 902 Broadway C. GEOR Manager Forciga Ad S8, arquctte Dailding, NEW YCRK CORRESPUNDENT : €. C. CARLTON.. Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS Ji.. 29 Tribunc Baoilding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Eherman House: P. Nes o.; Great Fremont House; t NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldort-Ast.ria Hotel; A. Brentanc, & Unmiom Bquare; Murray Hil Hotel. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE . Welllngton Hotsl 4. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. Northera Hotel) EBRANCH OFFICES- open until 9:30 $:30 639 Mc. c'c Lorkin st ntgomery street, corner Clay k. 300 Hayes street, open u llister street, opzn until 9:23 9o $41 Missien street, open unt corner Sixteenth, open untli 9 o'ciack. 1a street, open unt ock. 106 Eleventh street. open until 9 o'clock. NW. eorner Twem second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. Fair and Ph pine Ex- to-day. AUCTION SALES. Market street, i genuine Repub sod, d in_their efforts convention was made up ed orted t in the one by of and pre! dependent tting there ticket, tt control them in invite a simi- citize nated. The pres seople 2 pro What t f the board ed upon cen done by the R attests that in the party ient strength e. The record of the ntee of the future and no cor- ials in o dsnowasa g publ ise to do they be kept 1 would not have supported an ur d such been nominated by the Republicans, 1 2 ticket as has been presented, headed it ic by a citizen of the eminence and public the Horace Davis, it gives the mos resolute support. For such a ticket every citizen ing enough of civic patriotism to desire the ad- ministration of the city to be in the best hands. can safely vote. Hon, The Republican convention has done well and at the polls the people will indorse its action. Another i tack has been made upon the Alaskan mining town of Nome. Its enemies are cir- culating the report that at a recent town election not even one person was killed. A mining town that holds an election without bloodshed is a failure, —_— A Cuban newspaper, tired of the intervention of the United States in Cuba, remarks threateningly that clean machetes cut keenly. Ii the Cubans tried to prove it they might discover the interesting fact that American bullets don’t bounce. Another case of the danger of being too truly good has just come to light in Auburn. The Esoteric So- ciety, which was organfzed to bring out all that is best in the human heart and soul, has gone to pieces in a general row. that what Republican | will do and that every | worthy | A FILIPINO PLEG. AL WILDMAN of Hong- | Venezuela what she really sought to protect; the con- ‘ 3 uls Pratt of | trol of the Orinoco. The ‘incident caused a great | and with | outbreak of friendship and gratitude to the United | which | States, from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magel- 1‘ 1al re- 1aldo had not Spain had four John ¢ by the board a 808. for 1a gov- Fili | England surréndered a point which would have beea | regarded as worth to us the price of a long and ex- ! hausting. war. | Since then there is a singular and sinister change in ¢ position of all the parties to that great diplomatic incident. We have surrendered the position it gave to i vs in the Western Hemisphere and are feared and | | hated by Central and South America because we have | | begun a war for humanity and have turned it into a | | bloody butchery for conquest. Fear of absorption has changed the heart of the Central and South Amer- ican countries, and we have exchanged their friend- | hip for that of England. | The arbitration itself, projected before we changed | our national policy, serves as a reminder of what was | | so recently and of what might have been as a perma- | | nent policy. | e e the Co for procla- . which now ask- ing to Barret Unrited States with him ! A distinguished member of the International Geo- | | granhical Congress, | which has been in session in | Berlin, believes that each nation should submit to an | international committee all puzzling problems in rei- | nce to the handling of natives. This proposal | seems to offer a splendid opportunity for Uncle Sam | to get somebody to suggest how to make Aguinaldo | behave himself. United States d te f u s of adj = and we go on The facts of y of the Consuls when it passed under control of { A SONG OF WILLOW TIT-WILLOW | ] ent management it has been the custom miner to follow every noted event of | ¢ popular interest with a prolonged crow over the v' | excelience o news service. The habit has by this | time become so strong that it even tried yesterday to | " | crow over its bulletins of the yacht race. It is to be noted, however, that it did not crow as of old. It did not mount its rooster on the first page | and sound forth its crow in big black letters of circus ze and menagerie pretensions. On the contrary, the | t was a weak, piping little thing in almost in- | urred nonpariel type, hidden away under t the foot of a column in one of the most ored of its pages. Indeed, it did not eff i one who feels boastful, but of cone who tries to appear “still in the ring,” and it nded less like 2 crow than a song of “Willow it tit-willow.” | There are good reasons for the sickly feeling of the | ow. Never has there been such a triumph newsgatheri in the history of the world E as has been accomplished by The Call through the | Marconi system of wireless telegraphy. In compari- son with w was attained by that service the work | of the d Press, of which the Examiner makes its boast, was simply worthless. The Call had the Associated Press dispatches equally with the other | morning papers, but did not use them. . As a matter | can | congress. pe. ow, We nts people of fact they were not news. They were not only ua- reliable, but were out of date. der the facts as made public by the bulletins. | | ting for their | ’ fusal and accepted the arbitration which has resulted ' i sivming sie mos o o cum ant i swins| |[TALIANS RESENT THE EXAMINER'S 1899 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5 everything you see about everything ma; le}x;ndsmxaaqxzf- | irm the theory that man is the masters piece of creation, all there is of the most INSULT TO leENTOR MARCON! ‘ n ous is due in great part to the ver- P fu: Swrea the compass to the avie Gioia; physical sclences the invention of the “olta and Galvani the dis- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 6, 1899. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Dear Si ‘While, in the name of the Italians of this city, coast and Western States, we beg to thank you 80 very much for the splendid response to the gratuitous insult that the Ex- aminer has thrown to our fellow countryman, Guglielmo Marconi, we peg to ask you to kindly publish the enclosed article, which will appear in our L'Italia of to-morrow morning. Your courtesy would greatly oblige all the Italians of the city and Call- fornia, who are all unanimous in the condemnation of the Examiner’s vul- garity and approve your defense of the great inventor. Very truly yours, G. ALMAGIA, Editor L'Ttalia. of Marcont. | yourselv - owes to Columbus the blessed land! and all in American citizen: is to Amerigo V S t achievements ie. The great- tending to re- - germs and the eands of our fellow-countrymen, protest ' | ugainst such a vulgar offense and u-g to remind the Examiner that lo iusuilt I The Examiner of yesterday has found occasion to throw an abominable insult to some one, and this time the object of s of Italy the nec great works. for an American, is the same as (o in its wrath and detestation is Guglielmo | [y S0 < T0CH M s the oo Marconi, iliustrious son of Italy, the ' 'That God blessed land, selected by the | w are < s 2 he twen- | Almighty as the cradle of human 3 £ ety f,’;i“‘g;,,fj;’;“* S ety | A BERY Sniitied to the love and grati: 1ieed a very poor and melanch indulged w of the enter- tude of all humanity. Romans were first to descend upon the 1 whence come those kind edit- . publishers and contributors to the To satisfy a most wretched professional rivalry, this paper attempts to ridicule the name of the great inventor by “twist- cheer it up in eat in news-gei ing” g ni."” 3 1 d 1o e first | » name of the mill ing” Marconi into “*Macaroni sxaminer and there planted for the firs > mill %f) make the slur more complete, the the foundation of their ancestors’ civili- | ~ glor! qug‘ e Examiner should have added, by the way, zation. Lo e ~3 the title of “Dago”—that gentle epithe And when Rome had to vield € “h{‘v o rr‘\'_‘»] hr;rl: so common among the denizens of slums barbarians of the north, strong me of Mz ¥, thou- ber only, Rome still stood forem dominated the world of arts and s Remember, you offenders and in and vile taverns. ‘We, as Italians first, and secondly as representatives and Interpreters of thou-| emi Mayor Phelan Tells Why It Will Greatly Benefit the Reading Public by Furnishing the Best Literature and Means of In- struction. mugarb ®ffice City ano COUNTY or SamFRANCISCG JAMES D.PRELAN, MAYOR' san Faantsco cal,OCEL3, 1859 To the Editor of the Call: I heartily approve your plan for an educaticnal series by which those who are unable to procure books will have the advantage of the best literature. : The modern newspaper has to some extent discouraged, by its voluminous presentation of the news of the day, the reading of good literature. Some people are in the habit of reading the newspaper and nothing else. By introducing good literaiure into your columns you will sup- ply the public with the best mental pabulum without any cost and thus perform a great educational service. Yours truly, aminer put forth a patch: “1t a.'m—Co- 1bia leads. Wind twelve knots an hour.” Then anotk “1:06 p. m.—Wind freshening to five miles an hour.” A e later it bulletined: Boats are on t d.”" After a time it put forth the announcemen | —Columbia leads by one length only.” Af- | | terward t 3:13 p. m.—The two racers are ahoutl six miles from the finish. Shanirock seems to have | gained a little.” It is uscless to quote more. The bulletins show | niner knew nothing whatever about the It did not even have the record of the wind On the other hand, The Call received its dis | patches from a steamer out at sea following the yachts | | as they drifted. Every incident of the contest was at once flashed through the air, and so instantly reported ross the continent that the news was bulletined in | ont of The Call office within three minutes after | incident had taken place at sea miles away from | land. After such work as wireless telegraphy 'has done in this case it is foolish to boast any further of the news- gathering facilities or triumphs. of the old = system. | The Associated Pfess must adopt the new method. Boasting will do no good. It takes money and | energy to keep up with the science, and papers that | are afraid to spend the one or lack the other will| drop out of the race and be counted as back numbers. | 1 R mind to make an extensive tour through the | country in response to the numerous invitations that have been given him. It is assured he will visit Chi- cago, and General Anderson of that city is authority { for the statement that the Admiral contemplates a | | Western trip. Moreover, Senator Proctor is quoted | | as having said he believes the trip may be extended | is ood technicaily as a compromise in which | as far as the Pacific Coast. | the South’ American republic ought to be glad. She | On that shéwing it will be well for San Francisco ‘ is probably shaking hands with herself because she | to at once extend to the Admiral an invitation similar is still on the map. f to that given by other large cities of the Union. Ity will be remembered that when it was known that he | was to return home he was earnestly requested lo1 ccme to this port and proceed to Washington over- land. That programme the Admiral was unable to | carry out, but it is fairly certain that when he enters | upon the tour which is to give him an opportunity to see the full extent of the republic he will be inclined e TR to come to this coast before turning back. According to the reports the tour of the Admiral . 2 will begin early in November and wiil continue for Y the 3“""“} of the arbitrators at Paris England | some weeks. Our invitation, it will be seen, should gets a territory one-third the size of California | be forwarded promptly so as to be in his hands when | and Venezuela gets control the * Orinoco | fie makes his programme for the trip. It is not a ma'l THE VENEZUELAN AWARD. River. l'h_crc seems to be_ general concurrence in the | ter which requires much time for consideration, as it award, and the fact that it was unanimous; the two is certain the people will be prompt to provide what- | recording the e to the sword ler: | i | which et Tt s as honorable American peo- oded butchery of a s our bel Ii our p ppines and that of | the best and most Chris- Saxon race is capable, the fundamentals of ne man believ 1 would perr not begun for to be i to a bloody | 4 to their native soil. either L with man beli coln or Blaine government estab- | nes. As such a ne- rably end the war, save lives and 1 his gr na- morse for the awful crime of slaughtering | a people while they beg for peace and mercy, it is | time to demand t} ping them out be reviewed i Professor Schurman has Genounced it as unt nd the Presi- dent of the United States has characterized the ac quisition of territory by gression.” t the policy of w! and AN INV]TATION TO: DEWEY: { | | EPORTS from Washington are to the effect | that Admiral Dewey has about made up his | h means as “criminal ag- Let us go no further while those people ing for mercy. Let us get in line with Lin- coln and B nd not depart ine I | i The Venezuela boundary dispute is ended. Vene- zuela gets 100 miles of marsh land and England re- ceives nearly 60,000 square miles- of forest land, This ral Several of the fiends who robbed the terror-stricken passengers of the ship Scotsman as the vessel was going down have received English justice for their{ terrible crime. They have been prisonment for one month. expensive game after all. scntenced to im- Piracy is not such an of American members of the court concurring, makes | Yet for “‘mother country” we must crush {AROUND THE 1 | chant of Keswick, Shasta County, is mak- | ing a zhort stay in this city. | Dr. E. H. Mattner, the well known sur- geon, leaves this morning for a ten days’ hunting trip in Mendocino County. E. P. Dunn, proprietor of the Arling- ton at Santa Barbara, is at the Palace BOER TO BRITON. A Reply to Rudyard Kip- | lina’s Latest Poem. Crush the “sullen” people, such the law of fate; on a short business trip to this city. God be with the victors—magnify the A. B. C. Dowdell and John Thormann, State. two wealthy wine men of S& Helena, o 1f appeals for mercy through the oceans | staying at the Grand, where they arriv ring | vesterday. Send a mighty army—annihilate the King. | Charles S. Foge, one of the leading | torneys of Tacoma, and N. P. Ashton, What care we for justice—what care We| influential lawyer and politician of for “breed?” | same place, are at the Palace awai Swell our mighty empire—let them call it | the arrival of the Washington troops. greed. The condition of James Percival, the|2B Should the world oppose us, English millionaire, who was poisoned by pray and sing, | eating striped bass, has so improved that | § God of battles o’er us—death be to the | he is now out of all danger and rest: King. | easily in his apartments at the Palace. - s, though he | 2 | GEORGE B. McCLELLAN—M. Tnoush ho tracked the forets, (MAEL S | CATIRORNTANE LN) NEW:: YORK. | City - General'’ Goorsa’ B i e e = | after executing his famous Breathed the air of freedom with each| NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Paul Oesting of | i exs lhegmmnsuh a0 wind that blew, | San Francisco is at = £ ; the Netherland; | relicved of command: he was reappointed Though a people with him, all on' earth | yames E. Tucker of San Francisco is at | September 7,1862, after P dxgg:le}s;‘ they bring. | | the Vendome; E. F. Nover of San Fran- and commanded _in cisco is at the Cosmopolitan. On November T R e — again removed f while we | ne Antieta: that m the this Kirg. command and : sent to New York on waiting orders. -He His the reign of treason, ours the march| THE CALL'S ENTERPRISE. |igndered e of might; — | army to en: ve the nomi- Theirs to live by suff'rance, ours to rule The Wasp. | nation for President by the Democratic by right; The Call administered a sweeping defeat | convention at Chicago, which he obtained Matters little what the cause, right or wrong they bring; British lust dwelis uppermost—“Suffer nmi this King."” to the Examiner this week in the matter | (WO days later. of illustrating the progress of the inter-| CITRUS FRUIT—Subscriber, Los An- nago?:é \s';lcar;;rroz\c(;(e be]ltw_eonathe Cglun;biai geles, Cal. Citrus fruit is grown in the | paper in the world to make use of Mar- (D20 In his annuai report to t | coni’s marvelous invention for the report. | Board of irade last March says: “It is ing of news. The enterprising spirit of | 150 gratifymge to note that of 1898 ship- “The Call has resulted in a series of jour- | ments nges 589 c s wen: ficm nalistic triumphs fully appreciated by the | Northern California. Since we comrenced reading public. The Examiner last Tues- | [0 Ship oranges from the north day was almost completely ignored while | S 4 carloads; 139, S1; 256, The Call's bulletin boards were the center | & year, 58. Considering that the { first oranges to ripen come from the north of unusual attention. . - H R and go into home consumption, this is an encouraging showing.” The shipment of ' ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. All they have of freedom, all they use or Know, This their fathers bought for them io-g and long ago; | Theirs the mountain, wood and stream— | every living thing— ] Theirs the right of liberty, of kindred of King. -d - oy citrus truit from Northern California d “Cruel In the shadow, crafty in the sun,” | ing 1885, in tons of 20K pounds. w: Say to Briton, “Hold, enough, ere thy| JOHN L. SULLIVAN—G. B., City. John | Fran ©Oakland, race bé run | L. Sullivan, the ex-champlon, was born in | Stockton 1: Sac n “All the right they promise, all the Wrong; Boston October 15, 1858 Ao ol i o thern Californ they bring.” Greed is stamped upon the brow and their gold is King. POULTRY JOURNALS—H., El Verano, | Cal. There are not “five or six journals | | in California devoted specially to pouitry | raising.” CONDUCTOR—P., City. position as conductor on any of the lines | vain boasts: | or divisions of the Southern Pacific line | % £ 2 ‘s | an application should be directed to the Shield with lslllag?rn(ectlon thete Afrlc's | B A e ks s e oct Grant their arms the victory and their| CALIFORNIA AND CON. VIRGINIA— a go_County, 5287.7. B 1oads, 17,469.8. BALLOT IN A LODGE—Lodge Member, City. When a ballot is taken by the mem- bers by balls or cubx that ballot is se- cret, except to the presiding officer and to the second officer in the lodge. After the ballot nas been closed the officer who has charge of the ballot-boxX presents it God of nations, hear a prayer; back those hosts; Save a people from misrule; quicken not | banish To secure a| | h jor L eca homes their King. g W. D. H., City. The top noteh prices for | 2teil® S e o e fesmiand i . Lo A. B. McNEIL, California mining stock was on January | see the vallot. The officer to whom it is an Jose, al. 7, 1875, when it opened at .73 and closed at 3760 a share; January 9, Con Virginia opened at $655 and closed at $720. | ALL THE VESSELS—Harrison street, City. The Navy Department at Washing- ton, D. C., is the only department that | can furnish a list of all the vessels that took part in the Spanish-American war. | b: This department has not such a list. PUBLICATIONS—Fila, Bradiey, Mon- terey County. For information 3 to tae publications asked about and subserip- resented examines the ballot, closes the ox and the officer in charge of the box presents it to the presiding ciice- steps back. The presiding officer ask: second officer, “How stands the ballot and the answer is either “Clear” “Cloudy. or the former being used- when there are no black bails or cubes and the latter when there is one or more black CORRIDORS | Fred Dodd, the Fresno hotel man, is a guest-at the Lick. P. A. Buell, a wealthy lumber dealer of Stockton, is at the Grand. T. C. Law, a prominent attorney of Mer- ts. 't is then the duty of the pre- | siding officer to confirm the declaration | and to “‘destroy” the ballot by reroving the balls or cubes from the compar‘ment in which tuey were deposited by .e mem- bers and return them to the compartment t is a winning ticket and deserves to | the settlement satisfactory to both hemispheres, { A question that has threatened the peace of: the world for ncarly a century has disappeared in an 2micable solution by this award. It reached an acute stage in 1803, when the United States asked England to arbitrate it and she refused. This refusal was in- stangly met by Mr. Cleveland's remarkable message which defined the Monroe doctrine and practically wrote it into international law. That message said | plainly to England that the United States would not | permit aggression in this hemisphere by any European power, in a matter betwcen it and an American power, . in which arbitration had been asked refused Venezuela being weak, but being within the Monroe | hemisphere, must not be touched. The President | stood upon the right of the United States to ask ar- { bitration between Engiand and a South American | power, and to treat refusal by England as an un-| friendly act. He practically warned England that any | attempt of hers to change the status quo would be an | act of war against the United States. Within four weeks England yielded, recalled her re- | { not act without delay and send the invitation imme- | ever money may be required to make his welcoms worthy of his visit. There is, therefore, no reason why the city authorities, together with the Chamber | of Commerce and other representative bodies, should diately. - There are ample grounds for supposing the Ad- miral has a genuine desire to visit this part of the Union. It was on the Pacific Ocean he won the great victory that has made him the hero of his country- men of this generation and secured for him an im- mortality of fame, and it is but natural he should de- sire to visit the chief city of that vast section of this | country that looks out upon that ocean. Whether he can come or not, however, it will be well to give him the invitation. Let us show him that much evi- dence of our admiration for his service, and if he come to us we will give him a welcome that will be | memorable. | It goes without saying that, with all the people of the nation waiting to shake hands with Dewey, the obliging Admiral would be glad to shake the people. | ced, is a guest at the Lick. Charles G. Griffith, a Spokane mining | expert, is a guest at the Palace. L. F. Moulton, one of the largest land owners of Colusa, is at the Lick. H. J. Pfluger, an extensive raisin grower of Fresno, is registered at the Grand. Henry Brown, ex-Sheriff of Napa Coun- ty, is at the Grand on a flying trip to this city. ' 8. F. Gell, an attorney 6f Salinas, s | among the recent arrivals at the Oc- cidental. Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Bradley have come down from Mare Island and are registereq at the Palace. F. H. Hopkins, a well-known broker of Portland. Or., is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife. United States Attorney Coombs left yes- terday for a two-day vacation, which he | will spend in Napa. | A. Wideman, a wealthy and popular merchant of Gonzales, is registered for a short stay at the Russ. Colonel John T. Harrington, connected with the Home for Feeble Minded at Colusa, is at the Lick. J. E. Hoyle, an enterprising young mer- i tion you should direct your communica- tion with self-addressed, stamped ¢ .- velope for reply, to a first-clasc news- dealer. COINAGE IN 184—K. H., San Jose, Cal. In the year 184 there was coined 'n the United States mints gold and silver in denominations as follows: Double eagles, $21,465,640; eagles, $5,500; half-eagles, $51- 500; quarter-eagles, $23.155; $3 pieces. $16,470 and $1 pieces, 36730 Silver— 170; half-dollars, $153.9%: ¢ ua&‘e]?sr.s' § : 492 50; dimes, $1%,037 -dimes, $4518 50; 8-cent pleces, $11 10. [ WORLD'S FAIRS—E. C. S., Berkeley, Cal. There is no “understanding between nationfii(lu;t every ten years there shall be a world’s fair, the place in which i be held being dscldevd upon at the p‘re‘:e:fi lni fair by vote.” 3 n act of Congress provided for ‘“‘the celebration of the four hundredth anni- Yersary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an in- | ternational exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures and the produ mine and sea in the city State of Illinois.” It o) ned May and closed October 30 of the same yle‘ag'.sm' BRANCH POSTOFFICES—Subscriber, City. The branch postoffices in San Fran. cisco are located as follows: A, Polk and Sacramento streets; B, 1610 Market: C. cts of the soil, of Chicago, in the from which they were taken by the me- - bers while voting. The rule is the same 4n n‘ltll'classms;s of ‘fem"’gt so;le!ies and no presiding officer should authorize anoth to “destroy” the ballot. - —_—— Townsend's famous broken candy,2 Ibs 25¢¢ ——e—— - Cream mixed candies. %c Ib. 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