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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1899. The THURSDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFIC Telephone Market and Third, S, F. Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Main 1874, Deltvered b rriers, Per Week. « Copie Terms by Mail, Including Postage: CALL (Including Sunday), one year.. Y CALL (inclading Sunday), 6 months CALL (Inclading Sunday), ¥ month CALL—By Single Month.... SUADAY CALL One Ye WEEKLY CALL One Year......oooeveee All postmasters are authorized to rece abseriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when reguested OAKLAND v...008 Brosdway WICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS, ger Foreign Advertising. Marquette Build- ing, Chieago. PONDENT: ..Hernld Sguare AEW YORK CORR C. CARLTON.. codhie < SENTATIVE: % Tribune Bullding NEW YORK HE PR PERRY LUKENS JR.. . CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: X Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: 2 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel. ABOUT TRUSTS. HE President’s prolonged reference to trusts in T his message betrays a condition of stirring anxiety on hi¢ part in regard to that iss\lF, which is assuming such proportions in our domestic He considers the existing law, and joins sserting the necessity for co- ederal and State statutes on the politice. Mr. Cleveland in operation betwee subject. The common law, unaided by any statute, covers all methods in commerce that are in restraint of trade. But it is believed that there are features in the work- g of some trusts that are not obnoxious to that non law. If such there be, their n must be by statute. If they are not they are otherwise irre- While the President suggests that the ex- F ure of the co! nable. sion created by the last Congress will throw some light on the subject, he makes no spec recommen- ders of Cc point at which the operation of trusts is per- ly felt by the country is not touched be a large number of factories em- ress most sever There m: ployed in the same line of production scattered over the country. These combine under a common board of trustees and issue stock to represent their value, usual The trustees close half two-thirds of the plants and confine production to The result is that the labor employed y in excess of it the remainder. | in the obsoleted plants, labor skilled in that form of URANCH OFFICES—427 Montgomery street, cor- | 200 Hayes er Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. street, open until 9:30 o'clock. street, open until 9: reet, open until 9. reet, open uni reet, corner Sixteenth, open 1006 reet, open unt \ 106 street, open until ® o'c 3 AW, Twenty-second nnd Kentucky sireet until § o'clock. corner AMUSEMENTS. ssoclated A " Vaudtville every afternoon &n Ei wse and O Mauila Bay, ts streets—Spectalties. ney lsland Mar rama Battle near re Assoclation, €an Mateo O: AUCTION SALES. Horses, at corner Van THE IRRIGATION INQUIRY. of the Society for rest Preservatio: Cali- already secured the active co- ing the pon which fu- Mead, Chief of the Irrigation Bureau Department, has issued instruc- nd observers in this State gents z amount of water in the stream d—The duty of water in the different irriga- tion basins Third—The claims upon the water collected by car Fourth—The nature of water right titles. Fifth—Adjudicated claims upon the water. Sixth—The lands now irrigated and susceptible of tion. 1 ig: Sen The possible increase of water for use by rage in each system b The extent to which the irrigable area can be increased by better methods of distribution and use To this list we would add a ninth inquiry into the relation of the value of the products of ‘irrigation to the cost of the water used. This will develop the element « If irrigation will raise more than climate. one field crop, or have a peculiar value contributed by climate when used on orchards and vineyards in California, that value will run back to the cost of se- curing the water. We desire in this respect to dif- ferentiate California from the high plateaus, where, by reason of a less clement climate and a short sea- son, irrigation will not pay as well as here. Mr. Mead designates eight streams in this State for | investigation. These are Yuba, Kings, Salinas, Los Angeles, Kern, Santa Ana and Sweetwater rivers and Hemet creck. Within the area served by these streams the report will cover the whole subject of present use of the water, the rights thereto, and whether these rights run to the land or are personal. The reports of these agents will also carry indepen- dent suggestions of needed changes in the present laws, riparian or otherwise, in the methods of appro- priation, distribution and use. So it will be seen that | { | { D production, is cast out of employment. The economics thereby effected may be an important profit to the Rivalry and competition are abolished. Ad- ng of the article produced and the pushing of its sales by traveling drummers are made unneces- and t f foremen and administration is large saving that goes in divi- k. This process may not be rise in price to the consumer. ften be a cheapening to the con- But the workmen of the dead plants, many perhaps owning their homes, are thrown into idle- ness trust. companied by any deed there may . The traveling salesmen are discharged the money that was distributed to the community as wages and sala ies goes into dividends to the stoc holders. Frequently, too, the plants have furnished a local market i If the article be glu- cose or high wines, oatmeal or other cereal foods, it will be found that local agriculture near the plants has adjusted itself to supply the raw material. The ob- ing of the plants injures the producer of the raw it removes a market once the cost of marketing his crop ant. While this loss to agriculture is no gain to the trust and adds thing to its dividends, keenly felt by for raw te enjoyed, and increas: to a point of consumption more di it is the farmer. These are the p comns ts at which the trust inflicts a v harm without any visible compensation. A careful alysis of the local opinion, as expressed 1 press uni ation has silenced oatmeal and cereal food mills, cose factories, high wines distilleries, linseed oil by the loi n cor es where trust com- demonstrates that the system that cause the They are the elements lustrial conditions. In is prosperéus, with a vast and rapidly increasing commerce, but the prevalence h no doubt have wonder- has distributed manufactures, are the clements in friction and compla of portent in the existing s and similar these most e aggregate the country of these combinations, wt ully economized production, profits to fewer people. To sMow the difficulty of dealing with such a sub- | ject it is necessary only to refer to the conditions | upon which the increase largely attributed shows that that increase has not been attended by a in prices. Throwing the metals, which have risen all the equally, so that our metal production advantage respect of prices, increased of exports has been at lower prices than were obtained on a less volume. This means that we have outtraded the world by underselling the world. In searching for the reason that has enabled us to do this there can be no doubt that it is mainly found in the economy of production due to the trust organi- zation of scores of our leading industries. So we have on the one hand gratifying increase in our ex- port trade, and on the other a painful obsoleting of labor at home. Reconcilement of the two conditions requires a long period of readjustment, resembling that which had to follow the general introduction of labor-aiding machinery. No more difficult question has engaged the atten- tion of modern civilization than this, and Congress will prove itself the wisest Parliament that ever met if it adjust it satisfactorily e o n our foreign trade may be An inspection of the statistics rise out world enjoys over no in our vastly volume The Parisian theatrical censor has prohibited the production of “Charlotte Corday” until after the con- clusion of the present state trials. Had he been al- “The Turtle” might never have come to America. A WAR OF ARTILLERY. ESPITE the scantiness of the reports concern- ing the nature of the battles in South Africa enough has been disclosed to show that up to a composite of these reports will cover the whole | this time it has been mainly a war of artillery. It is question of legislation as to water, including the de- posit of authority somewhere to stand between the water owner and its user in fixing the price at which i be used y the reports will cover the all-important of the steps needed to conserve the flood rs which now run to waste, to include State or question waters and determine who is entitled to them. This is the first attempt to rescue the whole subject from the chaos and black night in which it has been involved from the beginning. When the inquiry is finished and the report made the organization which issued from the convention of November 14 will havs the data upon which to proceed. Meantime its par- ticipation, financial and otherwise, in the investigation will be necessary and will not be lacking. One of its first duties will be semi-political, inasmuch as, in our judgment. it should induce the two political parties in the next State convention to withdraw their oppo- sition to State action in water storage in order that as free hand may be left to the State as to the Federal Government. In the late convention the attitude of the two par- ties on that subject was felt to be an unnecessary re- striction and limitation. The State can do nothing, anyway, without going to the people for authority, and surely neither party should object to this if it be finally decided that the State may usefully do some- thing to save the waste of the water which it owns, ————— The Rev. C. R. Brown is trying to make people be- lieve that the fall of man is nothing more than a myth, He will have to prove conclusively that there were no banana-peels in Eden before he succeeds with con- servative men. e | | l l true that in the first conflicts both sides displayed an | eagerness to come to close quarters, but lately a more prudent policy has been pursued and the battles have been at long range. There come after each conflict reparts of terrible slaughter, but when the dead are counted they are not found to be numerous. Even at | at the battle of Modder River, where the fighting nationai control, and define the rights to such stored | raged for ten hours and thousands were engaged on each side, the number of killed was hardly equal to that of a sharp skirmish in former wars. The artillery service of the Boers has been some- thing of a surprise to the British. It was expected the Transvaal forces would be formidable with the rifle, for they were known to be equipped with weapons of the finest pattern and to have in their armies some of the best marksmen in the world, but it was not known they were so well supplied with heavy guns and are so capable of making effective use of them. It will be remembered that when the attack upon Ladysmith began General White was surprised by the siege guns which the Boers brought against him. He made one or two efforts to capture the guns by vigorous sorties, but failed after losing a consider- | able portion of his force. In the nick of time for him there came to his relief a naval brigade with several heavy guns from a British warship. With these he has managed to hold his own and has not found it necessary to attempt any more of those attacks on the Boer lines which cost him the Dublin Fusiliers and the Gloucester Regiment in the early days of the siege. It is said by some authorities that the contest is practically a test of the comparative merits of British and French guns, as the artillery of the Boers mainly of French manufacture. Scmething is also ions now being made by the Industrial Com- | tion for legislation, but shifts the matter to the | all | and | the | said to be due to the difference in the quality of the ammunition used. A Brifish military expert is { quoted as having stated: “The difference between the shell fire of the English and that of the Boers is not due to the demerits of the melinite used by our an- | tagonists or to the virtues of the lyddite used by the English. Between lyddite and melinite there is no very marked difference. The feature in our artillery service which has done more to establish the pre- ‘| dominance of the British guns is the military time fuse in the shell. The construcfion of this fuse is a secret. It is accurate and can be relied on to explode the shell in the manner and at the time required. The fuse of the Boers is a failure, and it is said that not one shell in a dozen explodes in the manner intended. It is nicknamed in the army the ‘refuse.’” Whatever may be the comparative merits of the arms and ammunition of the opposing sides the sig- nificant fact is that war has reached the point where ry has become the dominant arm of the service. The famous Boer riflemen have thus far cut but a small figure in the fight. When once the British have silenced the big guns of the Boers the riflemen | do not remain long to defend the position assailed, but fall back to another. | —— e By authority of the United States Supreme Court |that facile but longhabused expression, a “pipe | dream,” has been clothed with the respectability of good English. The combination of pipe manufac- | turers has been placed under the ban as a trust. SOMETHING OF AN INCUBUS. ENATOR MORGAN has been a stanch silver S #muan for many years, and was a strenuous up- holder of the Chicago platform, yet he has found it necessary to remind his constituents that | Democracy is bigger than Bryan, and that even silver men may have to choose between being Democrats and being Bryanites. The Senator's statement is in line with a sentiment that is growing in the South, a sentiment that forebodes a strong Southern opposi- tion to the renomination of the Nebraska man next year. While a considerable part of the antagonism of the South to Bryan is due to the Democratic imperialists of that section, still there is much of it that has a better foundation. The Richmond Times, fof ex- ample, said recently: “We cannot believe just yet that the solid South as a whole intends to much | longer permit itseli to be chained to free silverism and Populism. With all the evidences of prosperity that surround us, how can we longer cling to this dead body? Is it not time that we were severing the partisan chains that bind us to it? Men of the South, prosperity is upon us; it is all around us. We have only to reach out our hands and pluck its fruit; the game is on and we cannot afford not to be in it Shall we longer suffer ourselves to be chained to a dead body that would hold us to despair and poverty? For humanity’s sake break the chain and let's reap the benefits before us.” | In the meantime the silver leaders insist that | Democracy shall accept Bryan and the silver plank lart or lose all the votes which they and the Populists | | can swing. At the conference in Chicago it was de- cided to arrange, if possible, for a so-called Silver ; Republican convention and a Populist convention to | meet at the same time and place with the Democratic National Convention, so as to more readily effect a fusion. Such a programme means, of course, an im- mense Bryanite mob to howl around the Democratic convention and to stampede it if the conservative | delegates should show enough strength to seriously | endanger Bryan's chances of a nomination. While this preparation for pulling and hauling is being made by Southern imperialists and Northern | silver men Bryan himself has mapped out a pro- gramme of activity for the winter which promises to {add much to the gayeties of the season. He has de- | termined to stump New England from one end to 1»(hc other and to organize Democratic clubs of the | silver stripe all over that section. The New Englanders as a rule are not averse to anything which promises to act as a counter irritant | to the blizzards of their winters, or to warm up the | atmosphere, but still they are not cheerful over the 1 They do not like to see a man waste his | outlook. ! time, even if he be one whose time is worth little, and the more thrifty among them have been advising | the orator to turn his energies to a more promising | field. They remind him that even if he should con- vert a hundred voters at every speech and make a | speech every night he would not cut down the Re- | publican majorities of that section even if he worked | until far into the.spring. It would take 500 nights | at that rate to get rid of the Republican majority in ‘Ma«achuielt% alone, and before that many nights have passed the Presidential election will have come and gone and been forgotten. Taking the whole situation into view, about all Lthnt can be said is that Bryan is an incubus and is | likely to remain so. He has just about brains enough | to keep his hold on the neck of Democracy, and | ways as vigilant such atrocities as “Mlle. Fifi” and { Democracy has not brains enough to throw him off. His New England campaign will keep him in the eyes of the public until the time comes to elect delegates to the national convention, and for the rest he trusts to the manipulation of the silver leaders and the natural capacity of Democrats for blundering. A wealthy Parisian has offered a prize of 100,000 | francs to be awarded triennially for the most re- imarkablc discovery in the fields of medicine or sur- | sery. The operation by which Adjutant General Sea- | mans hides his massive brain in a six and fi\'e-eightils | hat ought to pull down the money. LT L | Professor Ross of Stanford, recently comparing | English and Americans, said that we had less respect { for conventions than our cousins across the sea. Professor Ross evidently has never seen Chicago reaching out for the big political gatherings in Presidential years. ot e s e Captain Whipple of the Berkeley football team is assured by the members of the faculty that they feel great pain in the necessity of punishing him. He probably feels like the youngster whose irate father insisted that he was more hurt by the whip than his youthful offspring. —_ ; that his liberality has brought n upon him the persecution of narrow minds. The accused gentleman has neglected to indicate what particular kind of liberality he means. Tt The Bocr§ who are bombarding Ladysmith have !)c.zgcd medicines, it is said, from the besieged Brit- ish. The soldiers might in justice ask for a few bul- | lets in exchange for the courtesy. —_— A syndicate of capitalists ‘has got together at New York in an effort to regulate the production of pies. Their combination will probably be known as the great crust trust. Chaplain Shields s: dow —_ % Parisians must be suffering from a fleeting spasm of sense. They have vehemently protested against a prize fight between Corbett and Jeffries in their midst. | | | ed | ported for duty, saying he had be: | signed to that post. ©+0404040+ 04040+ 0404040404040+ 040+ 040+ 04 0+ C+0+ 040+ 0+ 0+ 040404 040+ 0+ 040+ 048 + . : NEWS OF CAMP. AND TRANSPORT. ; * 0+0 4040404 040404 O+0 404040 +0 4040404 040404 O+0 40 404040 4040 +0 40 4 0404040 +0+0¢ 0 SHIELDS WALKED ~ AND TALKED AS IF INTOXICATED Evidence of Alcatraz Officers. The case against Chaplain David H. Shields, the accused chaplain of Alcatraz Island, was opened before a court-martial yesterday morning. The trial lasted all day and before adjournment Major Groes- beck, judge advocate, announced that the prosecution would take up a good part of another day. One of the lines of defense was suggest- €d in a request from Lieutenant Eltinge, counsel for the accused, when asked for permission to send to Fort Wingate, where the accused was formerly stationed, { for depositions as to his previous good character, and also to send to Washing- ton to secure coples of the recommenda- tions upon which the President appolnted him to the service about two years ago. The court considered the request and then directed Lieutenant Eltinge to make out his interrogatories with the assistance of the judge advocate and the court would then consider them further.. The reason the request was not granted at once is that there eral officers on the cc . the previous ised may not b of 1ssue, and when the intgrrogatories all made cut it may be th: tion will admit all the def prove by them. . o The trial vpened with the reading of the charges and vifications against the chaplain. charged that he absent- himself from his post without ' from November 20 to November 22 and that he returned from this unduly pro- longed leave in an intoxicated condition. Captain George P. Bartlett, Third Artil- lery, commander of the post at Alcatraz, the first witness called. He testifica that on November 20 last Chaplain Shields came over to the island and 1t n He dined with tne captain and then asked permission to re. turn to the city for some of his effect: He asked, too, If it would make any dif- fe » If he did not return on the next boat and Captain Bartlett said it would not, expesting, as he explained afterward in his testimony, that If the chaplain missed the next boat he would come on the succeeding one. He also testified he had no authority to grant leave for e than twenty-four hours to any one eXpel chaplain to Know , although he admitted that there had been no definite time set for the re of the chaplain and that perhaps thech lain did not know that he had to retarn within the twenty-four hours. All this was brought out in the cross-examina- tion. The next time Captain Bartlett saw the accused was on the Clay-street wharf. They were both about to go on board the Sea Queen, which was then doing part of the duty of the quartermaster’s steamer MceDowell. Bartlett noticed nothing strange about the chaplain at the time, and he went on board the boat, but on the { way over he noticed the clergyman on the upper deck of the tug. railing on the deck, and he saw the chap- lain walking unsteadily and in apparent danger of falling over the side. When the Sea Queen came up to the wharf at Alcatraz Captain Bartlett or- dered Lieutenant Spalding to help the chaplain to his quarters. He also ordered Dr. Williams, the post surgeon, to attend Shields. tain Bartlett belleved Shields was drunk. Dr. Williams was the next witness called. He said he went to attend the chaplain In his room, and found him lying | on the bed, fully dressed and in a_co tion that strongly suggested that he had been drinking heavily. He took off the man’s blouse and his shoes and made him as comfortable as he could. The next day the chaplain came to him and he pre- scribed some cough medicine for him. The chaplain suggested that he be given some x;llm;,)hml. and the doctor prescribed some or him. Lieutenant Oliver L. Spalding, Third Ar- tillery, on duty at Al z, was the next witness called. He was the officer who helped the chaplain from the wharf to his quarters. Lieutenant Spalding testified that the chaplain seemed very unsteady and very weak, and several times as he helped him up the long flight of steps to the quarters he had to stop and let the man rest. The physical and nervous weakness the chaplain showed Lieutenant Spalding believed to be very much like what would follow excessive drinking. On cross-examination he admitted that he knew no more about the effects of exces- sive drinking than any one not an expert, but he thought the chaplain had been drinking ht‘:n’ll{‘. and he had seen no rea- gon to change his opinion since then, al- though facts which might account for the chaplain’s weakness had been brought to his attention. Continuing, Lieutenant Spalding said that when they reached the chaplain's room the chaplain threw himself upon the bed, just as he was, and he was soon in a heavy slumber. ILieutenant Spalding also testified that the chaplain seemeg unable to converse intelligently. It was also brought out by the prosecu- tlon that when the Sea Queen came to the wharf nearly the whole garrison was looking down from the porch of the cita- del on to the wharf, and while he would not say that the men had seen the chap- lain, still they could have done so and probably did.” This was to support the charge that the (‘hawnln had been drunk in_the presence of the enlisted men. The prosecution will continue to-day and ‘will probably finish this afternoon. PANHANDLE EXTENSION (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.) Editor The Call-Dear Sir: How can you recommend the panhandle extension after having published in your paper of last Saturday the list of grades at each cross street; algo the fact that at Steiner street there will be a cut of 100 feet? Such a cut will ruin property as badly as the Second street cut did. If you take a view from the top of your beautiful building of Second street at the_ bridge you wjll realize what chaos is. I am in favor of improvements, and there are many sections of this city which need it more than does the panhandle section. Most strangers reach this city at the ferry, and they carry away with them the memory of that dilapidated section, with the ‘*‘gore lots” jutting out into East street like a used-up saw. And even after seeing the beautles of our parks, City Hall, ‘etc., they cannot forget the view which they first had of our city. Some years ago some one proposed to straighten the western side of East street and bulld a hrldge for pedestrians to the second story of the ferry building. Market street is our finest business street, and why not improve that section around the ler? and then continue the street from eventeenth and Castro streets through to the ocean? That will be the finest driveway In the world (and I have seen many of them), for on the highest point the bay car be seen from one side and the Pacific Ocean from the other. The grades over the hills will not be greater than over Oak street. This extension of Market street would join Dewey boulevard. A boulevard can be opened from this extension of Market me to_connect it with Buéna Vista and Golden Gate parks. ‘The Champs Elysees begins at the Place de la Concours and the view ends with the “Arch of Triumph.” The view from the front of the ferry building would pass between rows of beautiful business btuild- Ings, ending in the Twin Peaks, thus af- fording a: combined view of nature's buildings as well as of those of man. - There are other improvements which could be made. One would be the clear- aut of Wa and Javing out wide streets, as was done in Paris. Yours V. C. G. MINIFIE. ABSURD STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA QUEEN REFUSES TO LET IT BE U VEILED. { ‘There Is one part of England with | which Queen Victoria and all other mem- bers of royalty are disgusted. That place | is Guerns:y, where the inhabitants are under the ban of extreme disfavor: so much 8o, in fact, that a statue of tie Queen which has been lwnnh.i unveilin for months promises never to be expose: to view owing to the Queen's refusal of | permission. | The statue of her Majesty, velled In | waterproof and bound with wires, stands on its pedestal, an object of ridicule, derisfon and amazement to all passing | strangers. For months this statue nas been an object of ludicrous hideousness. | No royalty will go to unveil it. ‘A tour- | Ist was recently overheard explaining to | his little Loy that her .\Xn)our was so | ashamed of her Guernsey people in con- sequence cf the militia mutiny and ‘he refusal of the money for a new State House that she declined to let them see | her face, even In effigy.—Chicago News. ———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | THE TRANSVAAL-S. T., City. area of the Transvaal miles. The | is 121854 square | ADMIRAL-N,, Clty. An admiral in the United States navy Is not retired for age, | as are other officers. His office is for life. SHARKEY AND JEFFRIES—-C. R.,| City. Tom Sharkey was born in Ireland | in 1871 and Jim Jeffries was born i in 1875 n Ohio | 5. WHO WROTE IT?—Can any of the! readers of this department inform a cor- respondent who wrote a sketch called “The Parson of Jackman's Gulch"? THE SHERIDAN—H. E. V., City. The transport Sheridan left Manila for San Francisco November 9, via Nagasaki, which port she left November 17. Trans- ports make the run from Manila to San ‘rancisco in about thirty days. ADOPTION—F. J. M., City. Persons who are responsible and can give assur- ance that a child will be well brought up, educated and properly taken care of can obtain such for adoption by application at orphan_asylums and at other places where homeless children are placed; also at the foundlings’ home. | NOT OF THE PREMIUM KIND-J. N. | R., Salinas, and P. D, C., Linden, Cal. No | premium is offered for any of the follow- ing coins: Five-dollar pleces of 1842 | and 1872; half-dollars of 159, and half- | dollars of 1575. No premium is offered for a copper model of a half sovereign of 1865; | pfennig of 1855: United States cent of 1857 or one of 1588. THE CENSUS—S., Sacramento, Cal. W. | R. Merriam of Minnesota has been ap- pointed Census Director for the Twelfth | Census of the United States; F. H. Worles | of lllinols is the assistant. The Presi- | dent will have to name 200 Census Supcr- visors, who will have to be confirmed by | the Senate. None of these have yet been | named. It will require about 40,00 enum- | erators to complete the work of collect- | ing the desired {nformation. | —_— | Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ——— Thanksgiving extra mince ple. %5 Larkin st.* —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses :nd public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ Leather Goods. Mexican carved leather, grained leather, seal and alligator pocketbooks, cases, bill books, card cases, chatelaine bags and vallses. All lettered without charge. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market.* cigar A SAN FRANCISCO GIRL WHO WILL LIVE AT THE PALACE OF THE MIKADO. HOW TWO BUDDHIST PRIESTS WOULD CONVERT SAN FRANCISCO. WHAT OUR RICHEST GIRLS WOULD DO IF THEY HAD TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING. CURIOUS ANIMALS ARMY. i l 1 NORMAL SCHOOL WOMEN. GENEVIEVE GREEN TELLS OF HER VISIT I ! TO THE FORTY . FORNIA. THE WOMAN GOLD-HUNTER OF CALL FICTION, DOMESTIC SCIENCE, FASHIONS. ALL BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. | OUR GREAT CHRISTMAS NUMBER NEXT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7. BIITING SCENE AT THE SHLIK OF THE SHERMA Woman Refuses to Leave Her Lover. The transport Glenogle arrived yestere day morning from and the transport Shere man sailed for Manila yesterday after= noon. The former b ght no passengers and made the run via Nagasaki In twen< ty-seven days. As soon as she has been inspected and the damages assessed she will be released and will then go into the trade with the Orlent, running between Portland and Hongkong. On November 29 Captain R. D. Jones died and the trans- port came in with her flag at half-mast, When the vessel left Nagasaki the cap< tain had a severe cold. It developed Inta pneumonia, and in spite of all the doctord could do for him he dled. The body was embalmed and brought to San Francisco. Captain Jones was 55 years of age and a native of Liverpool, England. There was quite a number of the Cathe olic clergy down to see the Sherman away. mong the passengers were his Grace Archbishop Chapelle, his privato secretary, the Rev. Father Stenmars, and his physiclan, Dr. W. S. Makenson. The Rev. Father McKinnon also accompanied the Archbishop. and fully 500 people were down to bid the reverend gentleman good- There were several changes in the deck department before the Sherman got away. At the last moment Chief Officer Roberts received a telegram from New York stating that his wife was danger- ously ill. He at once asked permission ta 80 home, and it was granted. Second Off- cer Walton was then made chief officen and the third mate was promoted. Then the fourth officer quit, and the vessel was delayed nearly an hour getting a man to take his place. It was feared that Chief Engineer Kingsland would be unable to gn out on the vessel owing to {liness, but e would not stay at home and the Sher- man's engine-room is still in his charge. There was one very bitter parting be< fore the Sherman left the whart. P e;:": she. saw their heroes go up or_the last time, but Ma- imply refused to ba parted from her and it took a corporal’s guard to get the young lad’s arms from around her lover’ u{\‘eck. Joe Burns was a hospital steward at the Presidio and he is bound for Manila to join the Hospital Corps there. He wooed and won Mamie Hart during his idle moments and promised to wed her before the Sherman safled. Joa failed to keep his promise and Mamie hied herseif to the transport wharf. She caught her faithless lover as he was going up the gangway and refused to be parted from him again. Joe made all kinds of promises and swore everlasting fidell on all he held sacred, but his sweetheart refused to be comforted. “I won't leave you, Joe. I won't leavo you,"” she cried again and again, and what could poor Joe do but grin i 131 one time it looked as it Jc his boat, the gangway was about to be auled In and Mamie held on with a most nacious clutch. Finally corporul’s guard went to his a and Joes was marched aboard the t Mamie walkad up the wha though_her heart wou The Harbor Commis a lengthy session yesterday for repairing ferry sif to P. g‘. Dundon for §2 the next lowest bidder being Darby Laydon-—$2578. contract for getting Main street whart ready for the Santa Fe was 'et to Darny Laydon for $2108. the next lowest biider being James McMahon—$2362. Ed J. Skully, bartender in the #earices saloon on California and Market strecis, met with a painful accident yesterdny He was pinning up one of nis sieeves and while getting the sleeve ready held the pin in his mouth. While doing so he at- tempted to speak to a customer and swal- lowed the pin. It stuck crosswise !n his throat and for a few minutes it looke as if he would choke to death. He was hurried to the Harbor Hospltal, where I Morrison removed the pin after consider- able trouble. Ed is now suffering from nhhadly lacerated throat, but is able to he about. Three disabled vessels put back to yesterday. The st e ch eft here December 5, broke her chaft off Fish Rock and came back for repairs. The schooner Reliance, which left here November 17, carried away her center- board November 25 off Point Arena and put back for repairs. The gasoline schooner Monterey disabled her machin- ery and <he also put back for repairs. e C. F. Sargent, from Comox, and the Levi G. Burgess, from Tacoma, wers the only two of the coasting fleet to get in, The Sargent was caught In a gale De- cember 2 and carried away the crossjacs yard and lost a number of salls. of colored belles were there and tears when the the gangplank mio held quite he contruct No. 7 was awarded > ort OF THE ENGLISH GIRLS AS OARS- IMMORTALS.