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

ut HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECI Address All Communications to W, S. L KELS, Proprietor. | EAKE, Manager. FUBLICATION CFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868, L DITORIAL EOOMS. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874, 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. . | Single Coples, | cents. | Terms by Mafl, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one yea: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 mont DAILY CALL (irciuding Sunday Call), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month . SUNDAY CALL 5 WEEKLY CALL One 1.00 | All portmast recelv. subscriptions. Sample cops OUAKLAND OFFiCE.... 908 Broadway KROGNESS, Mannger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chicago. ENT: NEW YORK CORRESPOND 5 . ........Herald Square : C. C. CARLTON..... 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Maxwell, executive chair- the National Irrigation Congress, in ngly antagonizes his own statement ci convention to be held in this city He says: “The State e been started with the idea lerstanding of it at all. “The so called, is not intended to an- g but drought, nor to promote any- he provision of water to increase the fer- the State. So far, indeed, the comes from the opposite direction. ted in the national movement have g and have not avoided the in- of the language in doing it. In- . pyromaniac nature of some of their utteg- creased the need of water, for it would the conflagration of accusations d product ¢ nter niz to pour o dled. need of any of this. California has no | aking it hard for anybody to get the to appropriate the money | tional system of irrigation. The old appropriation are just as dear to us all as well and the Missoula Congress. But this illions of dollars’ worth of property water poured upon its mountains every year, not the Federal Government, but by the laws of evapo- precipitation, both dependent, we may ob- The annual waste of these millions in that property, brought about by the law | which akes water run downhill, obso- | use of nearly twenty millions of acres of | ch is infertile without irrigation. If that land | y five dollars per acre if irrigated, | its non-use is a loss of one hundred millions | per vear to the State's production. That | means the support of many more homes and families | than we have now. If we were talking about anything but water we v that by permitting the waste of its prop- | erty in water California is burning its candle at both | ends. Let it go that we are not merely wasting at | the bung, or the spigot, but have knocked both heads | out of our barrel. It is unfortunate that to any mind% in this State the proposition to get together and dis cuss the conservation of this property for its proper | vse should appear as the small scheme of selfish | plotters, or, as Mr. Maxwell puts it, as “a wild and | chimerical project, with possibilities of corruption, | jobbery and public plunder which are simply appall- ing.” There is nothing in it to justify any such view. The State of California, on the whole, has been as well governed and as uprightly as that larger sov- ereignty, the United States, and as free from corrup- nd public plunder. Mr. Maxwell simply submits the argument that we are too dis- | ble, dishonest and untrustworthy to do this | thing for ourselves, therefore we must wait, like the b et In for the “Great Father” at Washing- ton to do it for 1 If h There is no of Government serve, upon temperature of gravity would s: tion, jobbery hon n to turn it into a penal colony, a Botany Bay, to which the criminals of the Union should be exiled to grow up in congenial company. The National Irrigationists are earnest people. Wa But they have one foih They pub- lish all who differ in the means to the same ends as dichonest and unworthy. (i respect them. Dr. J. C. Crane, the newly elected medical superin- tendent of the Agnews Insane Asylum, has filed an emphatic objection to the political methods of the | Governor as practiced upon the unfortunate beinge confined in the asylum. Before Dr. Crane is much Jonger in political life he will discover that the po- Jitical wisdom of Gage is hidden under the hat of an Burns and will be exercised in whatsoever direction will do the Mexican the most good. It is generally agreed that the new Alaskan modus vivendi between the United States and Great Britain will prevent collisions. The Southern Pacific mightdo 1 goodgstroke of business by purchasing a couple and letting ‘nature take its course. | is estimate of’California is true he should not | ask the Federal Government to irrigate the State, but | 1 WOE TO THE 'CONQUERED. HE absolutely personal nature of Mr. Phelan’s campaign has been abundantlx evi- denced. His Committee of One Hundred controlled the convention that nomi- nated him. It shut out the aspirations of other men, honorably entertained. It took at his dictation Dr. Dodge, and by the same command it nominated for other offices Dr. Dodge’s deputies. It was a close corporation affair, and developed the corporate evil of | perpetual succession. The charter contemplates a bi-partisan organization of the various executive bodies of the city, the Fire and Police Commissions and the Public School Board. This feature of the charter was a poiwerful influence in securing its majority at the polls. It should be administered in the spirit of that feature in all respects to which it applies. But Mr. Phelan announces that he will not so administer it. In every speech he makeshe callsall Republicans who support Mr. Davis “enemies of the charter.” He declares | and their support of Mr. Davis to be “treason.” them to be “traitors” As if this were not enough, in harsh characterization of his political opponents and their purposes, while among them are thousands as honorable, with as great a stake in this city, and as deserv- ing as any in the ranks of his pe rsonal following; g. the Mayor has gone to the length of a specific declaration of his purpose in forming the bi-partisan commissions. In an address on Friday night to the Monticello Club, a non-partisan organization, Mr. Phelan said: “The charter provides that as many Republicans as Democrats must be appointed to the public commissions, but I want to say right here that if any Republican expects to be represented on those commissions he must come from the ranks of those who meet us on an equality. No traitor to the charter, no Republican who has dared to force national affairs into our local campaign, will be given consideration.” So, under Mr. Phelan, that feature of the charter is to be violated. The with the personal partisans and supporters of commissions are to be uni-partisan, filled Mr. Phelan. As he impeaches all Republi- can supporters of Mr. Davis of treason to the charter, because they adhere to the whole body of principles of their party and declare its full counsels, they ‘force national affairs into our local campaign,” and he will outlaw them in the executive government of the [ g city! He already cries “Woe to t the ranks of his supporters, and the Upham, Sheldon Kello 1244 1e conquered!” He will select the commissions from people he calls “traitors” will get no consideration. | Men like John S. Hittell, the historian of California, Louis Sloss, Irving M. Scott, Isaac S o, and the long list of intelligent, respectable, public-spirited Re- publican business men, are to be denied representation in the government of the city. That is not the purpose and spirit o look upon it as an abuse of his pow men who had supported him. He will look his oath to do his duty can be fulfilled, to go outside the ranks of his personal into the midst of those who opposed him in constituting the bi-partisan commissions. Any | oath perjury and stain his lips with false swearing. other course would make his officia Jut such considerations make no appeal to the conscience of Mr. Phelan. not propose bi-partisan executives as the charter demands. Ife announces that instead | of executing the charter in that Tespect he intends to install a Phelan oligarchy in offic the charter. When Horace Davis is elected he would er, a civic crime, to fill these commissions only with in which supporters upon it as his duty, the only wa He does * ° * ® 3 * : * * © General Sir Redvers Buller, now some- where on the deep blue sea on his way to South Africa to take command of the British forces and act with a free hand agalnst the Boers, has been termed “a brute” In sundry reports given of his character when his sudden attalnment of fame made him interesting to the Ameri- can publlc. There are other reports, how- ever, that do him more honor and are more to the credit of those who circulate them. He won the Victoria Cross by risking his life to save that of a trooper under his command who had been wound- ed by the Zulus and had fallen from his horse. and rode back in the face of the pursuing foe, picked up the wounded Briton and carried him to safety. The Victoria Cross bears the simple inscription, “For Valo Perhaps Buller won it by “brute courage,” but it will be conceded at least he i not a common brute. g ‘Westminster Gazette it appears Buller came of an old and wealthy Devonshire family, and had he chosen might have lived the life of a country gentleman hunting foxes and playing golf “all the same Blingum.” He chose, however, to do other things. ‘“Eagles do not catch fiies” is the motto of his family, and he He served in South i the has lived up to it. working hard in tra blacks to be soldiers Instead of stay at home to train puppies to hunt tridges. This regiment was recruited from the wild, adventurous spirits with which Cape Colony abounded. Many of them, it is sald, had been no better than lawiess brigands, but Buller so infused Into them his own intrepidity and discipline the line, and thelr prowess during the Zulu war was unrivaled. 51 Te T g Until Buller's character is revealed in the red, fierce light of war for all to read, we must perforce rely upon the testimony of others in forming an opinion concern- | ing it, and perhaps as good an account hof him as can be obtained just now is | that given years ago by Archibald Forbes |in describing his career during the Zulu campaign. Forbes sald: “ere was a man with some six thou- sand a year, a beautiful house in falr | Devon waiting for his occupation; a seat | ‘m Parliament all but secured: and yet ‘fur the patriotic love of leading that strange medley of reckless adventurers s living squalidly in the South | African veldt, sleeping in the open for | three nights out of the six with a single and at the very moment of its vital institution to violate the charter and turn it into a|blanket thrown over his body; his hands personal political machine. drop out of the Phelan procession. The Phelanesque organization in the declared purpose as to the public commissions. It is a Phelan oligarchy. All Democrats1 outside of it have been treated as “traitors” to Phelan. to present gentlemen in conventions as candidates for nomination to office. In the convention only those who were rounded up and branded with the Phelan given consideration. It was a personal affair entirely. It is natural, therefore, that hc;ll should carry the same system into organization of the government under the charter. His| success in his own party has emboldened him to declare such to be his purpose. Yet he calls other men “traitors” to the charter! It is enough to make his Grand OIld Man Britton pick up his grand old grip and| Democratic party is exactly in line with his They have been denied the right last mark were s Hi proclamation of outlawry sets a price upon the heads of all Republicans who do not sup- port him. The friends of the charter now act with notice and knowledge. THE INDORSEMENT OF WHEELER. ! ROMPTLY and spontaneously the merchants, the manufacturers, the business men of the | coast generally, have rallied to the support of | William R. Wheeler, the Pacific Coast candidate for the position of Interstate Commerce Commissioner. The indorsements have come from individuals, from i rious kinds, and from Cali- The sneak | tactics of the Southern Pacific Company to defeat trade organizations of vz fornia, Oregon and Washington alike. the desire for a Commissioner from the coast having been exposed by The Call, the people have taken vigorous measures to baffle them. The outlook for success is now promising. For once at any rate the Pacific Coast States are united. Mr. Wheeler was agreed upon for the office by the delegates representing Washington, Oregon and California at their conference in this city because they recognized in him the man who is best fitted to fill the position and perform its duties. The mem- bers of the conference knew their constituents wish a business man recommended for the place and acted in accordance with the wish. There was no intention on their part to antagonize the Southern Pacific. They seek from the Interstate Commission .noth- ing that would inflict wrong on that or any other corporation. They were engaged in con- sidering all the interests of the coast and sought only to promote the general good. The opposition made by the Southern Pacific in putting up a candidate of its own was due solely to that spirit of domination which appears to animate Huntington in everything and which prompts him to actions which show a de- termination to rule or to ruin the State. Just as the railroad resolved that if it could not elect to the United States Senate a representative of the road rather than of the State there should be no Senator, so now it has determined to have from this coast a railroad lawyer on the Interstate Commerce Commission or prevent the choice of any man at all from this coast. Such is the antagonism that has been against Wheeler. From no other source has there been manifested any opposition to him at all. The issue, therefore, is between the coast and the Southern Pacific. It is the choice of the representative of the business men of three States or the representative of a Kentucky corporation doing business in California solely for the purpose of im- posing upon its industries as heavy a burden as the traffic will bear. The Senators and the Representatives in Congress from the coast are expected in this issue to side with the people and stand firmly for the candidate they have put forward. Assurances have been given from all sides that business men are as a unit for Wheeler. He has been indorsed by associations which never | before have recommended any candidate for political | office. The support given him is as cordial in Los Angeles as in San Francisco, and in Oregon and Washington as in California. It is, as was said by the Portland Oregonian last Wednesday when Mr. Wheeler's selection by the conference was announced: “The people of the coast do not want a politician, they want a business man who has not only a knowl- edge of the details and principles of traffic, but is also familiar with the necessities of the coast. Their choice has fallen upon such a man, and the unani- mous indorsement of so representative a body of men as the executive committee of the Pacific Coast any raised Jobbers’ and Manufacturers’ Association is certainly entitled to consideration.” GERMAN ARMY EXPERIMENTS. R military uses of carrier pigeons, trained dogs, bi- cycles, balloons and automobiles. In the operations 90,000 men were employed and the field of the maneuvers extended over a wide range of country, so that every means of communication between distant posts was tested and its value calculated for use in case of actual war. The campaign was conducted in a country that was to a large extent mountainous, and there were heavy rains during nearly the whole period, and yet, despite the uneven nature and wet condition of the roads a farge number of bicycles were used for car- rying dispatches and proved to be of great service. It is said that during the whole week of the maneuvers dispatches were carried at night from the field of battle to the headquarters at Karlsruhe by re- lays of ten men, a distance of about sixty to eighty miles. If bicyclists are suddenly attacked on the road by cavalry and have not time to take up a position of shelter they dismount, lay their machines flat on the road, retreat ten paces, and receive the cavalry with quick fire. Tt is a curious fact that horses have a most decided objection to charge a bicycle spread out on the mad. The use of the automobile is said to have been brilliant success. Those tried were very small, with two seats, for officer and driver. They carried dis- patches or elderly staff officers quickly from one po- sition to another, and sometimes attained and kept up a speed of forty miles an hour. There were several accidents, mostly at night, from reckless driving. Further experiments, it is said, are going to be made in this direction, especially with regard to motor- cars as luggage-wagons. Dogs were used to carry ammunition to the front and dispatchesto the rear, and are said to have proven very useful auxiliaries to the army. Those used were thoroughly trained and were as alert to do their mili- tary work as a sporting dog is to do the workexpected of him in the hunting field. Extensive use was made of pigeons, but nothing of novelty was noted in their service. The operations of the balloons were hin- dered to a great extent by the rainy weather and very little if any improvement was noted over the bal- loons of former years. It is stated that wherever the Emperor stood a signal balloon with a flag attached was sent up in order to enable the orderlies with dis- patches to find him at once. Every time his Majesty decided upon ending the maneuvers for the day a large round ball was sent up to the signal balloon. Another novelty was the introduction of an oxygen light for signaling purposes. The experiments with all of these equipments show how eager the Germans are to make use of everything that can be of any service whatever in war. Whether it be man, dog, bird, machine or just plain gas, the Kaiser will bend it to his military service if he can. When Germany engages in a war everything German will be involved in it T — It is noted that in Tom Reed's application for ad- mission to the bar in New York he declares an in- tention to become a permanent resident of that State, EPORTS of the results of the German army maneuvers for the year contain much interest- 50 Maine will know him no more except as a summer‘i boarder or a tourist or something of that kind. It is said that the press censorship at Manila is to be made more rigid. General Otis ought to finish his gigantic job of suppressing the news by cutting the cable. ing information concerning the adaptation to | so disfigured by cattle sores, the curse of the veldt, that I never saw them not ban- daged up. With his Intrepid heroism he 1d saved the lives of so many of his men | that, In talking to them, it almost seemed that he had saved all their lives. A strange, stern, strong-tempered man, whose pride it seemed to be to repress all his own emotion and to smother its dis- | play in others, he would order a man per- emptorily back to his duty who came into | his tent to ask him to read a letter in which a mother thanked him for saving | the life of her son.” me for the opportunity of suprem | command at a crisis in the history of his | country to come to him. He is 60 years | of age. It is sald he has seen more active service than any officer in Europe, and his frlends assert he has genius. Such is the “brute” who will lead the Briton agalnst the Boer, and it looks as if Oom Paul had his match. . ‘There have been many descriptions of Dewey as an admiral, as a_hero, as a modest gentleman, as a Presidential prob- ability and as an ornament for parades, but I have seen but one effort to describe | bim as any ordina’ fellow would be de- scribed by a casual acquaintance; and that is sufficiently excellent to be worth quoting. A Philadelphia man told the Philadelphia Record thus: = 1 saw Dewey. I conversed with him. He had his hand on my shoulder—on this one, the left—here, just over the shoulder blade. T observed him well. His gray morning coat and waistcoat were not ex cellent. They did not balance, and waistline was not well marked. They cost no more than $30, I am sure. His patent leather boots were pointed, actually point- ed. I shuddered when my eye fell on them, and mentally put their price at $5. His collar was good in shape, but was laundered with a gloss and by machinery. All collars shotild be laundered by hand and have no glcss, of course. His tie S made—he had not tied it himself! You can buy such ties anywhere for half a dollar—only, of course, you wouldn't.” That impartial account of the hero's delphia society leader, is all that was needed to lift Dewey's pepularity to the highest pinnacle. It Is now clear we can say of him with strict veracity: “He's a dandy, but he's no dude.” Siieite There is one more Dewey story to be told. It is one that has something of a mystery in it, and may ralse a stormy controversy between Vermont and Con- necticut, The correspondent of the Hart- ford Courant, in giving an account of Dewey’s reception at Montpelier, Inti- mates that the hero is not a Vermonter. He says: “We Connecticut people consent to temporarily consider Montpelier as Ad- miral Dewey's birthplace. We have heard on what we decide to be good authority that he was born in Connecticut, but it seems ungraclous at such a time as this to make too much of a matter of detail now that all Vermont has turned out to welcome him.” And agaln, in describing the appearance of the admiral, the writer says: A few of us think he shows unde- niable traces of the distinction of his Con- necticut birth.” That is the story as it stands. Vermont so far has not deigned to notice the insin- uations, treating them in fact as {f they were no better than Connecticut nutmegs. It is, however, to be hoped the challenge will be taken up and the issue decided: not that it makes any difference to the nation whether Dewey were born in this or that locality of the republic, but be- cause it will add much to the enligshten- ment of all to learn what are the undeni- able marks of the “distinction of Connect- icut birth.” S To the discussions concerning the prob- lems and the policies of American uni- versities there have been recently made Buller saw the man fall, turned | From an account given of his life in the | He also raised a troop of light | Lorse, of which he took the command. that | they were as tractable as any regiment of | Bullgr, like Dewey, had to walt a long | the | dress, given with the calmness of a Phila-] O"W*OM”Q*MW"*Q!”Q*Q“m.k‘”*‘mo EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. £OXOEOXOXOXDROROXOXPLDNIKANPIDXOXOXOAPXBXOXDXOXOROXOXS20 i KOHO RO ¥ three important contributions. Each comes from a man who has assumed the presidency of a great university, and each therefore is something more than a mere academic discourse. It is a manifesto of | a plan of campaign to be entered upon | at a seat of learning and gives promise of action as well as words of counsel. The three men are: President Wheeler of the Unlversity of California, who is entitled to precedence partly because he is one of us and partly because he made the best installation address of the three; President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale and President William Herbert Perry Faunce of Brown. There was an agree- ment among them that American univer- sities have broken from the traditions of the past, have cntered upon a field of work whose limits are not yet defined and are grappling with problems not fully | understood. Pres'dent Faunce said: “The modern university must be catholic in its attitude to all realms of knowledge and must recognize all honest intellectual endeavor.” President Hadley said: “The Yale of the future must count for even more than the Yale of the past In the work of the city, State and natlon. It must come Into closer touch with our political life and be a larger part of that life.” President Wheeler outlined a pol- | fey of action at Berkeley which, if car- ried out, will touch and adorn every ac tivity of our people from planting pine trees on the hills of Amador to selling prunes to the people of the Philippines and between those extremes will include the improvement of poetry and art in San Francisco. | Truly the university is about to become a universallty—an encyclopedia of all that | is—and perhaps some day may include journalism. oiietit, The installation address of President Wheeler has been so recently published and reviewed in The Call that further | notice of its excellences are not needed. | Some of the things said at Yale and at | Brown, however, have not been widely | published here and therefore are worth noting. President Hadley said he does not wish Yale to become a university for | rich men’s sons or a university where the student body is divided into two classes—the one rich and the other poor. Furthermore, he declared himself of the | opinfon there is a tendency toward over- | doing the beneficiary fund business in our | colleges, and that what the college stu- | dents really need is not gratuitous aid, but more and better opportunities to earn the wherewithal to meet their college ex- penses: that all scholarship aid beyond the tultion fees, whether for undergrad- uates or for graduates, should be di tinetly in the nature of a prize for really distinguished work or a payment for ser- vices rendered. In other words, remun- eration, rather than pauperization, should be the principle underlying such aid. Such a statement on the part of the new president throws a strong side light on some of the problems they are strug- gling with at Yale. Too many rich men's sons on one side and too many gratui- tous students on the other are giving to | Yale a social atmosphere that is more | Furopean than American. The same evil is doubtless experienced at Harvard, and | he time may come when the young New | Englander who wishes to go to a uni- versity where he can enjoy a true democ- racy of companionship will have to seek it somewhere In the West. siivhE. The problems at Brown are different from those at Yale, but they are just as | hard to solve. It wili be remembered by those who take an interest in university | affairs that at the time of the controversy | over the attempt to force the resignation | | of President Andrews it was stated that | Rockefeller had declared he would have given Brown University $100,000 had it not | been that the doctrines of finance and of | political economy expounded by Andrews were unpleasing to him. As Andrews eventually left the university, it has been frequently asserted that the president chosen to take his place would be satis- factory to the man of many millions who | has a fancy for having universities run according to his notion. It was !her?fnre“ omething of a surprise to a good many people that in his inaugural address | President Faunce said that any college that should recefve any gift whatsoever on condition of making the donor's per- sonal private views the standard of in- struction would be guilty of an inconceiv- able degradation, both of ftself and of the cause of education which it misrepre- sents. So now Rockefeller will not give that $100,000 to Brown. The University of Chi- | cago will have no rival in his affections and President Harper will have the ex- clusive privilege of teaching Rockefeller- ology and applying it to the whole domain of human learning. Siieroiy There is one point of Faunce's address which may not have been inspired like a Delphic oracle, but is certainly just about as Incomprehensible as one. He had stated that a modern university must rec: ognize *“all honest intellectual endeavor, and it would appear therefore that it ought to recognize woman's endeavor, for from a university point of view a woman can be both honest and intellectual; but none the less President Faunce went on to say: “In New England to introduce women into what has been for a century a men's college, with no change in cus- | toms and atmosphere; to allow them to think that the adoption of masculine tra- | dition is essential to emancipation, this is to inflict a cruel wrong on young woman- hood.” ‘What s meant by Introducing a young woman to a men’'s college without a change of atmosphere is not clear, nor fs it clear how such introduction would lead them to the adoption of men's traditions and Inflict a wrong on them. It might be well for Brown to get an atmosphere less laden with tobacco smoke, eliminate tra- ditions that would wrong a woman and give the girls a chance. Even Rockefel- ler's Harperversity dos that. . . As the trustees of the public library of Oakland excluded from its shelves the other day a book of conceded lterary | merit because it was not fitted for circu- lation in Oakland, they may be interested in this little bit of a dialogue at a library, reported in the London Academy: “Lady—Then you have nothing at all of Thomas Love Peacock’'s? ‘“‘Assistant—Nothing, madam. You see, this is only a circulating library, and Mr: Peacock’s works are purely literary CAPTUR On one of the early ferry boats from several hundred soldiers who had arriv San Francisco, who habitually get theil rant. When the troops c&meyofi b X to their daily rs were the regular pa ience W%milltary u this thing.” And he did, amf tg til the boat landed on this side. This is an outrage, a violation of the insulting and offensive ished by the civil law. If it is repeated taught that the ferry s not under martial law, and an u tyrant in uniform has ro more serfs. ed at the mole th boat is also used by hundreds of mechanics and early businers ertOre: armed guard at the restaurant, cloosael;‘; ;:ed oéi;e‘er i g thelr ds Ly toil went for the![r Dbreakfasts they admiss at wa v £ the ‘miltary officer and explained that thess ominelay: figggr trons of the boat and desired oce DY replied: e civillans were practically held as assumption of power, for which that officer should be WHEN THE SOLDIERS ED THE OAKLAND BOAT Editor Call: The forwarding of troops necessarily causes inconv travelers by rail and also interferos with frefght trafiie, s it avoldabie, are borne with patience by the public. But when military officers viciously and without reason and iliegal exercise of authority, increase the inconveniene treat civilians as if they had no rights it Is time to pmtest. S0 he rubs e These things, being un- in the unnecessary Oakland on Friday morning there were y busin B ess men en route t coffee or breakfast at the boat re!tau‘: command of them placed an and when the mechanics ’going were challenged by the military Her captain went other civilian pas- SS to its conven- £0 to hell; 'm running prisoners un- hese mechanics and “Aw, vou law, an excess of military authority, an Predict that whoever does it will b pstart officer and petty I rights there than the civilians whom &e treats as MUTER. . MISCELLANEOUS. ATTOSIEN'S HOLD THE FORT Parlor and Chamber Suits znd Side- boards Come First, Beautiful Carpets Second. Extension Tables, about 200 of them— | some that cost ten for $6.50—will be | apt to have a strong following this week. Better and cheaper ones, but | the smaller price tables will be better | patronized. he 200 have to go! PATTOSIEN'S are now about far enough advanced with the new building to stampede Chamber Suits and Side- boards. They may not be related so- cially, but they come together nicely sometimes—if not always. So do Ex- tension Tables that spread out. PATTOSIEN’S anxiety, however, centered on their magnificent line of | Parlor Suits and Rockers. The whole half ‘second floor of the big two-acre | store is given up to them, and still they | have not enough room to show them all. | But what do you care about what you | have to see? It is what you can see and get possession of at small cost which most concerns you. The rest you will get from day to day while this great sale lasts. Every day from now until the improvements are completed and the two-acre store is turned into a three-acre store will be a bargain day at PATTOSIEN'S. The same bargains in San Jose. Brass and Enameled Beds seem to have taken housekeepers off their feet. Even at the door of winter they are in great demand. PATTOSIEN'S put a carload of those beds at your disposal on MONDAY at absolutely two-third price, and they should do all the brass bed business that is to be done on MONDAY. Beautiful Rugs have their call. But they are merely appetizers for the un- matchable stock of -beautiful Axmin- sters, Velvets, Moquettes, Body Brus- sels, Ingrains and the beautiful Lino- Teums and Oilcloths four yards wide. Where ignorance isn't bliss— PATTOSIEN’'S GREAT STORE, Sixteenth and Mission. AROUND THE CORRIDORS of T. R. Brewer, an oil speculator Selma, is a guest at the Lick. Charles MclIver, the Mission San Jose capitalist, Is at the California. J. M. Canty, a wealthy fruit man of Grayson, is a guest at the Lick. J. S. Ewing, a prominent fruit grower of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. W. McNell, a merchant of New Zealand, is at the Occidental on his way back home from the East. Richard T. Fisher, a prominent resi- dent of Washington, D. C., is a guest at the Occldental. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Scott, two prominent octety people of Ukiah, are registered for a short stay at the Grand. G. Knudson and L. Lindbee, two travel- ers from Norway, are among the arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. Willlam Hinson, a wealthy merchant of Sydney, and J. H. Hayes, an English busi- ness man of prominence, are both at the Palace. W. W. Middlescough, a well-known Stockton attorney, has come down fo the city for a short visit. He is registered at the Lick. S. W. Wible, a Bakersfleld banker, and B. Qurelle are both at the Lick, where they returned yesterday from a recent trip to Alaska. Among those who arrived on the over- land last evening and went to the Palace was Count R. Duval, a young French aristocrat, who is traveling for pleasure. Charles M. Buchanan and J. J. Veeming, two prominent residents of Kansas, are registe®d at the Palace, where they ar- rived yesterday for the purpose of visit- ing the boys who fought under Funsto'. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—J. A. Hollls and wife of San Francisco are at the Wellington; D. W. Prendagast of San Francisco is at the Willard. P s RAILROAD AFFILIATION BARS GENERAL CHIPMAN Modesto Herald. The Call vigorously combats a proposi- tion looking to the appointment of Gen- eral Chipman of Red Bluff as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, arguing that he is too closely allied with the Southern Pacific Company to be placed in a position to pass upon inter- state railroad rates and regulations. And - The Call is right. Chipman in every other respect is eminently—even pre-eminently— qualified for the position, but his known affiliation with the Southern Pacific Com- pany would destroy his usefulness, no matter how honest his motives. And the honesty of Chipman's motives would be questioned, be it noted, by men who have known him to accept railroad - ‘‘'sugges- tions’ in Poll(lcs to promote railroad ends. But while a known ally of the Southern Pacific Company should by no means be made a member of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, it by no means follows that a known enemy of our great railroad corporation should be named for the place. The appointee should in this re- spect be as free from prejudice as from favor, and a man who could neither be influenced by railroad pressure nor by “popular clamor” incited by metropolitan papers for selfish and spiteful purposes. —_————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ‘WOOD ALCOHOL—Invalid, City. Wood alcohol, while it may be helpful in the case of a sprained foot, is not to be recommended as a wash for the face after shaving. POSTAGE STAMP LANGUAGE—Y. Z., City. An illustrated article explanatory of the postage stamp language so called appeared in the magazine portion of the Sunday Call, October 22, 1899, TEACHERS' AGENCY — Subscriber, Fresno, Cal. This department is not aware of the existénce of a ‘teachers’ agency for supplying schools with teach- ers or teachers with situations.” DID NOT INTERFERE—T. M., Marys- ville, Cal. During the Spanish-American war Great Britain did not by any overt act do anything to prevent other Euro- ean nations from interfering with the nited States In that war. MAIL FOR MANILA—J. C. D., Chester, Pa. Mail intended for Manila may be placed in the Postoffice at any time. It leaves by every steamer that sails from San Francisco for Hongkong. It is carried to that point and then transferred by another line of steamers to Manila. Transports, which leave at irregular dates, also carry mail. —_————— Travelers, see Townsend's display of California glace fruits, 50c I, in fire- etched boxes. 627 Market, Palace Hotel.® R g Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men by t.e Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon.- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢