The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1899, Page 6

| v THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER:6, 1899. .DECEMBER 6, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communications to W. Proprietor. S. LEAKE, Manager | R Sets grgp ApArcanyl | PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone M 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS +++217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, | Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY C© L One Year, . WEEKLY CALL One Year All postmasters are n subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when reguested OAKLAND OFFICE NESS, ixing. Marquette Build- fengo. Manager Foreign Ad ing, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT ©. O. CARLTON......0cc0vvvnaess.Hernl Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | PERRY LUKENS JR.. +..28 Tribune Building | | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Wald Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Murray Hill Hotel. ery street, cor- | clock. 300 Hayes 639 McAllister ‘clock. 615 Larkin clock. 1941 Mission tl 10 o'clock. 2261 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open til 9 o'clock. 1006 Valenéia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until § o'alock. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Orpheum—in aid of the Charity Fund of the Aseoclated Theatrical Managers, Thursday afterncon, December M. Columbia andoah.” Swiifornia—"An Enemy to the King." Tivoli—'“Tar and Tartar” Saturday evening. Grand Opera House—“His Majesty.” Aloszar—"Mother Earth.” Alhambra—*"Mr. P of Paris” Chutes, Zoo and ~Vaudeviile every afternoon and evening Olympla, corner Mason and Ellls streets—Speciaities. | Oentral Park —Stetplechase and Coney Island. Patorama Battle of Manila Bay, Market Eghth Western Tur{ Association, San Mateo County—Races. AUCTION SALES. street, near e | Rugs, at 117 Sutter street By an & Doyle—This day, at 11 o'clock, at 327 Sixth street, Hors | By Easton, Eidridge & Co. December 12, at 12 o'clock, Real Pstate, at 635 Mark: | st ol =T | provement the for 1550 for tion more |, effectively has been introduced new arganization is in itself an im- past conditions and gives promise iits for the public gopd. | followed the organiza- | popular sentiment and improvement was abundantly | kers of the evening dealt in de- | in tail with every issue is to be voted upon at the < upon each point had the sym pa ence with them. It is to be noted, n the gathering was a thoroughly repre- | be justly considered to have | rent of the whole progressive ele- } imunity force of the silurian opposition to the new | ected mainly against the proposals | proving the park system, it | rs should deal more particu- | it | arguments for were and strongly presented and were fully appre- | the 2 sembly. The proposed new school | and hospitals are of course ded, 't more requisite than the park exten ey serve for the bene of a larger people Ise given by this expect the campaign of education The us improvement clubs | ested their value to the districts which | They have accomplished many notable successes in the special lines of work they have un- | k now that they are banded together for meeting to the ar education on the subject | on de = this greater rk there can be no doubt their efforts will result in victory. The whole work, however, | must not be left to the association Every citizen is concerned in the measures proposed, and each in pro- portion to his energies and opportunities should aid | in the campaign. It is to be.borne in mind that a or of the improvements will bhe two-thirds vote in necessary to carry t 1.- Let all progressive citizens therefore join in the work and help to make success { certain ——— School Director Kemp prefers evidently to be Jooked upon as a city chump who let a golden oppor- tunity go by through sheer ignorance rather than as a country gentleman who saw double cagles like sunbeams pass by him with not sense enough to catch a few. ——— The Monroe doctrine seems to be carried out in the Philippines at the ratio of sixteen to one, judging | from yesterday morning’s dispatches; which state that Lieutenant Munro captured the garrison of eight hundred men at Bayombong with a force of fiity. \ Secretary Root, in his annual report, suggests the establishment of a war college that will raise the National Guard to greater efficiency., He has prob- 2bly not met our Adjutant General Seamans or he would tremble at the prospect in California, The friends of Colonel Chadbourne know now why Governor Gage refused to let the doughty colonel keep his gold brick even as a memento. His Ex- cellency has regilded the brick and has handed it to Frank Ryan of Sacramento. The death is reported in New Jersey of James I. Blair, who is said to have been worth $40,000000. In his lifetime he never visited a theater or attended a ball game. Who would be a millionaire at such sacrifice? The entire absence of reliable news from the Trans. vaal is alarming the English. They confess they are | Bave neither the virtue of directness nor economy. | kibitors, from | Cuba are in some rightful lis for the future to determine | . : PR farther on referred to as ‘@ur island possessions. i people of those islands; | to apparently conclude the policy &f this Government | | righteousness of the war of conquest is asserted, and | | the President refrains from making any recommenda- | it shall reserve or abdicate its function of fixing the is not to be deemed in any way to authorize or give be had to the courts of the United States. THE MESSAGE. HE great length of the President’s message makes its reviey in one article impossible. The matters in it of first interest relate to the issues that have arisen in the Spanish war, and to the proposed financial legislation by Congress. The President takes the view, which The Call has con- stantly urged, that now is the time for such legisla- tion. He says the present situation is the most fit- ting time to make adequate provision to insure the continuance of the gold standard, that public confi- dence may be promoted in the ability and purpose of the Government to meet all of its obligations in the meney recognized by the civilized world as the best. He admits that while, “happily, we are not at present compelled to resort to loans to sugply gold, it has been done in the past and may have t&' be done in the future, and it behooves us, therefore, to pro- vide the best-means to meet the emergency when it arises, and the best means are those which are the most certain and economi Those now authorized He then recommends the measures proposed for financial reform, which have been so recently dis- cussed in detail in these columns. Incident to his dis- cussion of finance occurs a recommendation for ex- tension pi the protective policy of the Government to the restoration of American shipping. .The reasons for such policy have accumulated during the past yéar, in which a less percentage of our commerce was carried in American bottoms than ever before. His first reference to the change produced by the Spanish war contains what may be an inadvertence, or something intended to be.interpreted by what fol- lows further on. In discussing our representation at the Paris Exposition the message says: “I am in- formed by our Commissioner General that we shall have in the American sections at Paris over 7000 ex- every State in our country—a num- ber ten times as great as at Vienna in 1873, six times as great as at Paris in 1878, and four times as many as at Paris in 1839. This statement does not include exhibits from either Cuba, Porto Rico or Hawaii, for which arrangements have been- made.” The inclusion of Cuba with the other annexed pos- sessions, if it stand unexy not tend to ate the rising resentment of the masses in that island. The next reference to Cuba is to the effect that the withdrawal of Spain from that island left it held by the United States in trust for the inhabitants, with such government provided by the pending the execution of the pledge to leave the gov- crnment and control of the island to its people, which ained, will pledge “must be sacredly kept.” The President then refers to the ties which bind Cuba to us as of singular | | intimacy and strength, and says that “whether those | ties shall be organic or conventional the destinies of form and manner irre- vocably linked with our own, but how and how far the ripeness of After saying that we must see to it that free Cuba is a reality and not a name. other qualifi- mn events.” cations follow to the effect that free Cuba must not be a “hasty experiment,” a “loosely framed common- wealth to face the vicissitudes which too often attend states whose natural wealth and abundant resources are offset by the incongruities of their political organ- ion Nowhere does the message use the terms self-government or independence for Cuba, which are “the sacred pledge” of this Government, though | there is a vague mention of a representative conven- tion to' establish 2 general system of independent government for the island, after a:long list of other things have been accomplished. While this part of the message is tentative, vague and negative, a careful analysis discloses the weight of the Presidential indorsement thrown in the scale for the retention of the island by the United States. The conditions precedent to a representative con- vention are such as imply the adoption of the Fabian policy, of waiting until the Cuban aspiration for that independence which Congress declared was already and of right ought to be theirs shall have been extinguished in discouragement and delay. The added recommendation that the products of Cuba shall have free access to our markets, to the extent to which products of other West Indian islands are admitted free by reciprocity, is in line with such analysis, and will cause certain forebodings among our agricultural and horticultural producers. The message puts our military force in the Philip- pines at 2051 officers and 63,483 men; in Cuba : 334 officers and 10,706 men; in Porto Rico at 87 cers and 2855 men; in Hawaii 12 officers and 453 men, a total army of 80,071 required in what are In reference to the Philippines an overlooked fact is recalled by the message. It says that the treaty of Paris provided “that the civil rights and political | status of the native inhabitants of the territory so ceded to the United States should be determined by | the Congress of the United States.” It will be seen that under this provision Congress is competent to give qualified and progressive independence to the | but the President proceeds ir a long statement of events in the islands: the | tion to Congress, and seems to indicate clearly that civil rights and political status of the natives, and leave that in his hands. The celebrated agreement with the Sultan of Sulu is handled gingerly. The message admits that the Sultan acknowledges the sovereignty of the United States, is paid a salary of | $760 a month, and that the treaty provides that any slave in the Sulus shall have the right to purchase ‘his freedom “by paying his master the usual market | value” The President says: “I have ratified this agreement, subject to the action of Congress, and with the reservation, which I have directed shall be conveyed to the Sultan of Jolo, that this agreement consent to the existence of slavery in the Suln ar- chipelago.” As it does not abolish slavery, but per- mits its existence, it is difficult to see that this reser- vation amounts to anything. With some voluptuous references to the great wealth of the islands and our beneficent presence there the subject is dismissed, in no more satisfac- tory form than it was before. Congress is urged to do something for Hawaii, if only to erect there a Federal judicial district, through which access may Those who expected any recommendation of the extension of our constitutional system and its guar- antees, the projection of republican government to what are frequently called “our new Ppossessions,” will be disappointed. O(Mturcs of the message, with an important bearing on domestic matters, will await further reference. —— If the remainder of the Boers are all like General Joubert it is easy to see the finish of the British in South Affrica. No less than four times in as many completely in the dark. How could they help being | weeks the commander in chief of the burghers ‘has otherwise—in Africa? been reported dead againg executive, | been strikingly demonstrated in a | covered that in a dismantled dwelling the Boers ‘;‘OUR INTERESTS AT WASHINGTON® | /™ ALIFORNIA'S interests at Washington will be C guarded by a delegation which on the whole | is one of the strongest we have ever had at the national capital. We have not yet learned the value of electing the same Representatives term after term so as to have men of experience as well as of natural ability in the House, but we have improved upon the past, and in this Congress will have several members who have long been in the service and have acquired | the friendship and the favor of delegates from other | States upon whom they can rely for assistance in | promoting California measures. | In interviews published in The Call yesterday the Representatives from the State presented briefly some of the measures of local interest they hope to be able to carry successfully, Mr. Loud will endeavor to bring about the removal of Blossom and Anita rocks, which are the only serious impediment to | navigation in San Francisco harbor, and to procure sufficient appropriations: for the early completion of the long-desired Federal building in this city; Mr. Kahn will give a large part of his energies to the | various questions of commerce which will arise dur-, i ing the session and will be among the most zealous | in supporting a bill for the rehabilitation of our mer- | chant marine; Mr. Barham purposes to make a fight | for immediate action on the Nicaragua canal bill, and to that end will move to abolish the new commission | that has been appointed to reinvestigate the subject, | it being his opinion as well as that of other earnest | acvocates of the canal that we have had commissions | enough and it is now time to act; Mr. Waters' ef- | forts will be directed toward hastening the completion | of the work at San Pedro harbor, and he will also | support the movement to provide a Federal system | of irrigation for our arid lands; Mr. de Vries will | carry on the fight of the mining men for the passage }oi what is known as the “California mineral lands | bill"” and will also favor legislation for the protec- [tion of forests; Mr. Needham will seek to obtain appropriations needed to complete the jetty at San | Diego harbor and also a quarantine station—he is also largely interested in Indian education and in the irrigation of arid lands and will give much attention | to those subjects; Mr. Metcalf will be among the | most active in upholding local interests during the | session, and among other measures of importance to | the State will endeavor to obtain extensive appropria- tions for improvements at Mare Island. It will be seen from these statements that our Con- | gressmen have not gone to Washington neglectful of | the interests of the State. Each has some measure of | local advantage to urge upon the House so far as it |is possible to do so. There are reasons for believing that the work of the delegation so far as these strictly Californian interests are at issue will be harmonious. | No party questions are involved in them, and for their attainment the entire delegation should work together. | @ PROSPECTIVE IMPROVEMENT. GENERAL fecling of gratification followed the | fl announcement of the sale of the entire Baldwin | Hotel site to a capitalist who can be reasonably | expected to erect thereon a building that will be an | ornament to the city and worthy of the conspicuous | position the site occupies on our main thoroughfare. Real estate transfers of such nature as this are al- ways more or less matters of public concern. When | the Baldwin Hotel burned down there was left in the | aspect of the city a gap that made the face of the | town look as if it had a tooth knocked out. The v‘fragmen(s of the oM structure which were permitted | to remain so long after the fire were eyesores and }to some extent a menace. Then followed the prob- | ability that the site would be given over for years to cheap and comparatively worthless structures, and | that one of the finest corners in the city would be | sacrificed to petty trade and made something like a | disgrace to the municipality. All such fears are now hdppily over. In the pos- ! session of Mr. Flood the property will soon be put }to right use. What manner of structure he will erect | is of course for him to determine. The public is | satisfied in the assurance that it will be a building | which will add to the architectural magnificence of the city. The transfer of the property comes at a Etime when a spirit of improvement and enterprise is ic\-crywhere felt, and there are good reasons for | hoping the new owner will endeavor to raise upon it a structure that will stand as typical of the movement which marks the new era in our municipal develop- ment. Representative Corliss of Michigan is about to re- new his effort to induce Congress to provide for the construction of a cable from San Francisco to Manila by way of Honolulu and Guam. He has a bill ‘already prepared and will introduce it at once. Now, if he will only attach one of those justly cele- brated Corliss engines to the measure he may be able to rush it through. ' —_— In view of the Sunday remarks of Rev. C. R. Brown of Oakland denying the fall of man and de- priving Moses of the credit of the authorghip of the Pentateuch, it is in order to move to change the title of his church from the First Congregational to the Second Unitarian. —_— The ephemeral worth of fame and friendship has recent raid of the tish soldiers dis- had Boers. A party of pursuing Bri used a picture of Gladstone for 2 door mat. ey R ey The critical part of the war in fhe Philippines seems to have degenerated into - discussion between opposing generals over a telegraph wire. It is prob- able that the Filipinos consider that disiance lends en- chantment to the talk. 5. A football player named Pulvermascher had his face stepped on recently in a New Jersey game and was seriously hurt. A man owning a name like that ought to be reasonably safe from danger in any kind of a mix-up. —_— Apparently the taste for Thanksgiving dinners has invaded the animal kingdom. A Marin = County panther tried last Thursday afternoon to make a holi- day meal of a Camp Taylor woodchopper. —_— The next festal day for California will be that which opens at San Jose the celebration of the or- ganization of the State government, and it promises to be a lively introduction for Christmas. Murderer Suisser says he expects to drop through the gallows into the infernal regions. He seems to ‘have a better conception of what he deserves-than his former conduct would indicate. The silver Republicans have decided to iiold 2 na- tional convention of 2000 delegates. They probably want to see how the whole party will look in one hall. Captured natives serenaded the American troops a few days ago in Manila. The tune was probably a - | Filipino version of “Take Your Clothes and Go ” MAKING READY FOR SANTA FE FREIGHT CARS How They Will Reach the City. —_— The busy life of the water front will recelve another marked boom when the Santa Fe freight traffic directly reaches San Francisco early next year. There will be a big transformation in the ap- pearance of the front in the neighborhood of Main-street wharf, where the Santa Fo freight terminus has been located, and | the life of a big freight depot will be | strung daily by scores of trucks along | south-of-Market streets, The Santa Fe authorities and the Har- bor Commissioners are driving the work of getting the wharves and docks as- signed to the company ready for use, and for several days the work of clearing the depot block bounded by Bryant, Spear, Main and Harrison streets of buildings, grading for tracks and getting the freight depot building into shape has gone rapidly on. The Santa Fe freight cars are not to be brought from the bay terminus at Point Richmond to the city on big ferry-boats ltke the Thoroughfare and Transit of the sauthom Pacific system. Instead, “car oats,” or big barges with cartracks laid on them and hauled by strong tugboats will be used. Such car floats are used elsewhere, but will be new out here. Two floats and one tugboat will be ready for work when the line is ready. The floats Wwill be long and narrow, with a length of 240 feet. Each will have three tracks, the outer ones with a cépacity of six cars and the center one of five. The work of remodeling the wharf and building the slip for the floats is well along. The tugboat will shove a float into a slip, where an apron 100 feet long will connect with the front end of the float and over which a yard engine will pass the cars. Two tracks will Jead from glm ;l.‘p across Bryant street to the depot c o On this block the old rookeries and water-front grog shops have all disap- eared. The only building left standing s a big two-story brick warehouse 137 by | 275 feet in size on the corner of Harrison and Spear streets, and out of this the freight depot building is now being made, Big doors are being broken Into the sides, where trucks will recelve and deliver | freight. Four tracks will run the length of the ground floor, with a narrow plat- | form along the center and a broad one alon%each side. It 'has been supposed along the front that the whole block would be roofed, but | for the present no buidings will be erected and the rest of the space in the block, which is 275 by 560 feet in size, will be largely filled with sidetracks along which team tracks will run and from which | much unloading and loading of cars will be done, There will also be a derrick track, where heavy goods may be handled with a derrick. This 1s the extent and style of the San- ta Fe freight terminal now. The company also owns a fragment of the water ront | block on the corner of Harrison and Spear streets, but it will not be utilized until oc- casion requires. The Harbor Commis- sioners do not expect that the company will ever utilize the China Basin conces- slon. This one block looks small for a transcontinental freight terminus when compared with the Southern Pacific yardd, but whatever the Santa Fe people expect to do iIn the future about more room when it is needed they are keeping to them- selves. The Santa Fe people now want to make Main street whart their ocean steamship terminal as well. They have asked the Harbor Commission to roof the entire wharf, which is 560 feet in length, and to give them Its exclusive use. The matter 1s still under consideration, but will prob- ably be done. The company wants to run tracks from its depot grounds along the length of this wharf, which would ba brlnflng ship and car together in an ex- ceptionally convenlent way. This shows that the Santa Fe expects to do a large trans-Pacific business with its steamers from this port. Tf it gets the Main street wharf its carloads of cotton can be| quickly placed at a steamer's side and its =hiploads of tea and silk loaded directly into ears, hich will be crossing the bay afier a P minutes’ switoning. ‘When the Santa Fe starts its freight business in the city according to these plans two long wharves and one dock and half of another, which ‘are now daily crowded with vessels, will be subtracted from the water front facilities, already inadequate to the general demand for room. SCOTT WORE A FALSE MUSTACHE THAT NIGHT PASSED COUNTERFEIT HALVES ON CONDUCTORS. Had Not Toiled, Neither Had He Spun, for the Past Two Years, and Has a Bad Brother. Frank Scott, accused of passing coun- terfelt half-dollars upon conductors of the Sutter street cars, was held yesterday afternoon by United States Court Com- missioner Heacock to answer before tne Federal Grand Jury. Scott was positively identified by three car conductors as the man who passed the counterfeit half-dollars upon them on the night of November 18. They identified him by his light clothes, a scar on his face and a gold ring with a red setting that he wore. The only variation was the fact that the prisoner was clean-shaved when arrested, while he wore a light mus- tache on the night of the 18th. His barber and a man who keeps a cigar stand on the corner of Kearny and Pine streets testifled yesterday that Scott had been clean-shaved for five months. Judge Heacock was of the impression that ’he prisoner wore a false mustache on the night in question. The fact tnat Scott had not worked for two years past and had no visible means of support and the further fact that his brother, Charies Scott, has been held to answer for pass. lr:_lg a gilded cent plece as a ten-dollar coin g ded weight to the false mustache the- Y. —_—— BOAT-OWNERS PROTEST. Pumping Coal Tar in the Bay Injures Their Boats. A protest was yesterday sent to the Board of Supervisors by a rumber of boatowners having large interests in the North End, against the action of the Equitable Gas Company pumping coal tar into the bay at the foot of Montgomery avenue. The protest states that the ad- hesive qualities of the coal tar causes it to smear and spoil the appearance of boats whose owners have for mercantile urposes and otherwise been keeping their Poats near the works of the company. Also that it has rulned the business of persons who have been maintaining surf swimming baths and Pravenlu others from enhylu’ swimming in the vicinity. The rotest is signed among others by Dr. V, . Buckley, A. Bunner, commanding the Golden Gate, and Hartiey and J. McFar- land, commander of the United States steamer George M. Sternberg. —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_———— Special information supplied dally to business houses :nd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen':l). 510 Lont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, Holiday Goods. Our entire display of holiday goods now ready for inspection. Frames, stationery, leather goods, toilet articles and artists' mterl:l‘lb lon fl:'ntnoor. nyx es, statuary an oyuwdboohon-emdflocr.m X m’. m'l'.:kd clellul'nld novgua vox} floor. e elevator. Banl & Co., 741 Market street. i Officer- Elected. Golden Gate Council of” the Order of the Chosen Friends has elected the following named as its officers for the ensuing term: F. A .!uluiflmdbr:ll-&nmm counellor; recording secretary (re- elected); Mrs. C, Cator, treasurer (re-elected); | sfon. o s r use the following form: H bums, | " Gage, Governor of Callfornig sy Mrs. J. B. Houghton, prelate; Mrs. C. Can- trell, marshal; Mrs. B. Shea, warden; H. Hech- lll'\lm‘dru;'rd Hmml‘. Do'nllnf. sentry (re- elected) ; . re, organist. The following named have been elected offi- cers of Apollo e N Independs No. 123 of the ndent Order of Odd Fellows for the ensuing term: W. A. Limbaugh, noble grand: H. H. Zobel, vice grand; W, F. Norcross, secretary (re- elected] V., Cox, treasurer; Dr. H. By A Curtls, 'W. C. Johnson and John E. Aitkins, trustees. Dr. D. A. Hodghead is the retiring noble grand. MRS. JANE STANFCRD BACK FROM THE EAST CONFIRMS THE REPORTS OF THE BIG STOCK SALE. Pacific Improvement Deal May Not Be Consummated for a Year Yet. A Hitch in the Price. Mrs. Jane Stanford returned to the city yesterday morning, after an extended ab- sence in Europe and the East. She re- turns in excellent "health, having been pruch benefited by the change of scene and climate that she has experienced during her trip. The sale of her interests‘in the Southern Pacific Company is now an old story, but there may be a new one soon about her holdings in the Pacific Improvement Com- pany, concerning the sale of which Mrs. Stanfora yesterday admitted there had been some talk, though nothing definite has yet been arranged Charles Lathrop and Russell H. Wilson, Mrs. Stanford’s directors In the Southern Pacific (:ompaq‘y. have both sent in their resignations. hat of Mr. Lathrop has already been accepted and Mr. Wilson's will also be in the very near future. Mrs. Stanford sald yesterday that It may be a year before she and the Crockers sell out their interests in the Pacific Improvement Company. They are willing to sell now, but the point on which the negolllllum hitch is the price to be received, and it may be some time before both parties to the deal succeed in arriving at a figure satisfactory to all concerned. Though Mrs. Stanford would say noth- ing concerning the price that she and the Crockers demand for thelr holdings In the Pacific Improvement Company, it is enr&-)@ | erally reported that the figure is 35, aplece, or a total of $12, little more than C. cencluded to g .000, which is a P. Huntington has yet THE ADVANCE OF POLYGAMY. (The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but pre- sents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest.) To the Editor of The Call: Your re- porter missed some of the spirit and letter of the remarks made by Rev. Ben- Jamin Fay Mills on the case of Brigham Roberts. Mr. Mills said that in its day polygamy was a great moral advance upon the pro- miscuous assoclation which must have preceded it, but that monogamy was a still greater moral advance on polygamy, since it placed the sanctity of the home upon a still higher foundation. hose who have read Lecky’s chapter on monogamy in his “History of Morals' will at once appreciate the full force of the preacher’s reference to_the subject. JOHN P. IRISH. San Francisco, Dec. 5, 159, AROUND THE CORRIDORS State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. is a guest at the Palace. John MclIntire, the Sacramento mine owner, is at the Grand. C. Dobblestean, a wealthy mining man of Hillbrook, s a guest at the Palace. B. C. Alexander, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. Judge O. W. Miner, has come up from his home in Modesto and is staying at the Lick. H. D. Taft, a capitalist of Portland, Or., is at the Occldental, accompanied by his wife and family. Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Hall are at the Lick, where they arfived yesterday from thef) home in San Jose. y ‘W. A. Gordon, one of the leading busi- ness men of Portland, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. Dr. W. A. Richard, a well-known medi- cal man of Victoria, B. C., is registered at the Occidental with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Graham E. Babcock of the Cqronado Hotel are at the Occidental while on a short pleasure trip to this city. Rev. Robert J. Burdette, accompanied by his wife, has come up from his home in Pasadena and s registered at the Palace. A. C. Aubrey, a capitalist of New Zea- land, is a guest at the Occidental. He ar- rived in the city yesterday on the Aus- tralia. A. W. Maltby, a well-known rancher of | Concord, Is at the Grand, accompanied by | his family. They will pass the winter in the city. Charles 8. Winsor and M. Lamont, two well-known residents of Vancouver, B. C., ! are registered at the Occidental, where | they arrived last evening. | James P. McCarthy left yesterday on a business trip to Los Angeles. He goes to | look after extensive interests in ofl lands | in which he is very much concerned. | W. W. Armstrong, one of the best- known planters of the Hawalian Islands, | is at the Occidental. He arrived yester- | day on the Australia from Honolulu. A. M. Dewey, a relative of the famous admiral, is registered at the Grand. He is emploved In the United States Labor | Bureau and comes on official business from Washington, D. C. B. F. Dillingham, the Honolulu capital- ist, planter and rallroad man, is a guest at the Occldental, where he arrived yes- terday. He comes to the city on a busi- ness trip and will soon return to his island | home. | Registered at the California i Dr. F. J. Thornburg, who has come to take the place left vacant in the Marine Hospital | service by the absence of Dr. Matherson. Dr. Matherson has gone to Southamp. ton, England, to join the party of spec- falists who have been selected by the President to proceed to the Orient and study plagues with the view of preventing thelr entrance into the United States. The party consists of eleven medical men chosen from the entire country with par- ticular regard to their fitness for the mis- —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—W. J. Curtis and wife of San Francisco are at the Riggs House; W. C. Chapin of Sacra- mento is at Willard's; J. C. Hart and wife of San Francisco are at the St. James. —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CRIMEAN WAR-—S. T., City. The Brit- igh forces at the Crimea under command of Lord Raglan numbered 26,000 men. A STAMP—P. D. C., Linden, Cal. The selling price of a green three-cent stamp Wwith the had to the left in an oval Is from 3 cents to §1, according to its condition. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS—Subscriber, City. This department never advises per- sons as to at Is best to engage in b; way of investment, and b of is e Y reason 'i::t ;ul:hnnnot “llv'“ ygn ,‘: to what n_the way of merchandise to trad in the South Sea Islands. TO ADDRESS OFFICIALS-G. E. B., Martinez, Cal. To address a letter to President of the United States use :g. following form: Hon. Willlam McKin] President of the United States—Sir: 31: one may use the still simpler form: To the President—Sir: address the Gov. n. Henry SOLDERS—A Subscriber, Oecidental, Cal, Solder for gold is made of twelve parts of pure gold, two parts of pure sy ver and two parts of cop) Sllver solder is e of five parts of pure silver (not stiver coin), sIX parts of brass and two parts of zine. ne silver solder ig T, | SHIELDS MUST COME T0 TRIAL THIS MORNING Both Sides Ready to Proceed. The trial of Chaplain Shields will com- mence this morning at the Presidio. The case 13 exciting considerable interest and the outcome is a matter of serious doubt. It was at one time expected that the case would never come before the court- | martial, hut that before the triai was | really commenced the accused chaplain would be ordered before a retiring board, | @ board of surgeons-authorized to inquire into his physical fitne to hold his pust- { tion, and that he would be retired on ac- count of disability; but the case has gone too far for such a proceeding and the chaplain must come to trial. The prosecution does not expect to take long, but the defendant is under the im- pression that it will take at least two weeks. The defense, according to expecta- tions, will include a variety of issues It | will be conterided that Shields was in such | @ nervous state that his system required | stimulants and they had been ordered by his physician. There is no doubt the man is close to a nervous wreck and upon his condition will rest the strength of. this contentlon. It will also be maintained that the accused is being persecuted by his civilian brethren of the cloth because his opinions are too liberal. As an army chaplain it is hard for any man to keep to the strict lines of any creed, for the men he deals with' are of all denomina- | tions and many of no denomination at all. | To teach the broad principles of Chris- tianity is about all he can do outside of caring for men who need such care as a chaplain can give. Tge Forty-ninth will get away to-day— that Is, if the schedule be not changed again. This will clepr the Presidlo of volunteers and the fents will probabl come down to await further use by trar slent troops. Besides the four compani composing the third battalion of the ¥o ty-ninth *he Sherman will take away 1 recruits and a number of officers hereto fore attached to the casuals, who have | been ordered to join their r»Pmnnrs the Philippines. They have been men tioned from time to time as their orders have been issued. Two fights enlivened the outskirts of the Presidio .\lundui; night. One was a Jegro soldier who wished to enter a poker game in which only white soldiers were losing | their money. He was not allowed that privilege and he drew a gun to fight for it. He was thrown out of the saloon. The other was between two soldiers and a cobblestone. Private Ramsay of the hospital corps was returning ‘o his quar- | ters after having called upon his “best girl” and be encountered an enemy and perhaps a rival. The rival wanted him to drink or to fight, and as Ramsay would not drink the rival hit him on the head with a paving-stone and lost him- self In the excitement that followed. Kamn- say had his arm in a sling and was oth- erwise disabled, so he could not defend himself. He was knocked out for several minutes and when he came to taken to the general hospital, where he is now recuperating. Acting Asgistant Surgeon Frederick H. | Morhart has been assigned to duty on the transport Suerman. First Lieutéenant Frank E. Lyman and a squad of men of the signal corps have been ordered to proceed to Manila on the | Sherman. First Lieutenant Elmer A. Deane, as- sistant surgeon, and acting Assistant Surgeon Vernon Earthman have been re. leved from duty with the casuals and have been ordered to report for duty the general hospital. There were four funerals at the Pre- | sidio yesterday, all held under the escort of Battery O of the Third Artillery. The dead men were Walter H. Guthrei, Com- any A of the Twelfth Infantr; f{. ihrrlnsmn. Company H of t wen- ty-second Infantry; Joseph Quinn, Jom- any L of the Twenty-first Infantry, ind Buar Dou{heny, Company G of the Thir- teenth Infantry. All were buried in the Natlonal Cemetery. | e} | «“Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” | Has been used for fitty years by millions of | mothers for their children while Teething with | perfect success. It soothes the child, softens | the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu- | 1ates the Bowels and is the best remedy for | Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or | other causes. For by druggists in every [ part of th ure and for Mrs., | ‘Winslow's Scothing Syrup, %c a bottle. ——— ; Tourist Excursions. Personally conducted tourist excursions, via Santa Fe Route, with latesi vestibuled, gas lit, | upholstered sleeping cars, through from Cali- fornia to Boston every Wednesday, St Paul | every Sunday and Friday, to St. Louls every | Sunday. and to Chic and intermediate | points every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday: Call at ticket office, 28 Market street for fuil particulars. —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantags of the round-trip tickets. Now only $® by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. ————— The California Limited On the Santa Fe Route. Connecting tratn leaves at § p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. One day to see Los Angeles and beautiful Pasadena if destred. All meals served in Harvey's dining cars. Fioest equipped train snd best track of any line to the E: Get full particulars and handsome foider at ticket office, 628 M; ot t. —_—————— The Welburn Case. The jury in the Welburn case was fm- paneled yesterday forenoon in the United States- District Court and the taking of testimony was begun at.2 p. m. Intermal Revenue Collector John C. nch, Cashier Thomas Burns of the L’nke«{ States sub- treasury »nd Mrs. H. E. Driscoll were the only witnasses. The trial will be resunieq this morning, ADVERTISEMENTS. The Future of Children A child’s life g gl g such as Rickets, which is ¢ fred b made by mel in a clea 24 ting ."'.'rl le nine- pure " parts of brass and rt of copper, adding small v'_flmoo?bg:q as flux, = l