The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1899, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1899. The B el .DECEMBER 13, 189 | WEDNESDAY JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager FUBLICATION OFFICE., .. W et and Third, 8. ¥. Telephone Main 1568, EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... ..217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Maln 1874, Deltvered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Ce: Terms by M DAILY CALL (includ .00 1LY CALL (including Sunday), 6 mon . 3.00 DAILY CAY 1.50 DAILY CAL a%e | AN CA .. 1.50 WEEKLY CA dososs RAD All postmasters sre muthorized to receive bacriptiol fample coples will be forwarded when requested vitees.D0S Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEOR KROGNESS, Menager Foreign Advertising. Marquette Build- THOSE TRADE TREATIES. ODDL\' enough Nr. Kasson, American Com- missioner of Reciprocity, is a man of free trade sympathies. He is also an Eastern man, with ! but little knowledge and apparently less sympathy in relation to the great industries of this State, which he | so gayly sacrifices in order to secure trade advan- tages for Eastern manufactures and products. His French and Jamaican reciprocity treaties sacrifice the interests of California exclusively. Of course reci- procity means a give and take. The give is de- | manded of California horticulture and the take is en- tirely for the profit of Eastern industries. The French treaty admits the Standard Oil Company into France. This is accomplished by a reduction of duty on olive oil of 10 per cent; vegetables prepared and preserved, 10 per cent; plants, seeds, etc., 20 per cent; preserved fruit, 10 per cent; prunes, 10 per cent; nuts, 20 per cent; liquors, 10 per cent. Sparkling wines share a like reduction. The Jamaica treaty cuts deeply into the protection of our orange crop. Mr. Kasson professes to have made the discovery that the Ja- maica orange comes into market in the early winter more lights on the streets. It is a gross absurdity for a city of this size to rely on moonlight for street illumination, and the absurdity is heightened by the fact that in this particular city the number of clear | mioonlight nights that occur in a year could be covnted on the fingers of one hand. It is high time | that the old way of trusting to the moon for illumina- tion should cease and a new order of things begin. | For that reason there will be a good deal of objec- | tion to the Mayor’s statement that the lighting of the past two months has been apparently satisfactory. —— THE BOND ISSUE caMP@IGN. A GRATIFYING feature of the campaign now going on in the interest of municipal improve- ment and progress is the earnest andactive | part which has been taken in it by members of im- | provement clubs and similar organizations in all parts | of the city. Rarely has any movement in the history | of San Francisco brought into co-operation so many | representative men. | number of business men been so energetic and so Rarely has any considerable ND MORE FULL LONG VACATIONS A New Rule at the University. e LAW SCHOOL IN REBELLION —s Governor Gage Not Wanted on the Hearst Commission—University Powerless in Grip of a ‘Water Combine. EERTE L - No professor of the Btate University NEW ADVERTISEMENT. THE PAY GNEN ON |WELSBACH COMPANY PATENTS FULLY SUSTAINED In the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. RESTRAINING ORDERS ISSUED AND ALL INFRINGERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in its opinion of December 7, ‘unsparing of time and private interests in any public | undertaking. The whole course of the campaign is, |in fact, one which the intelligent citizen can watch | with satisfaction, for it abounds with evidences of a | newly awakened spirit of civic patriotism animating | nearly all classes of the people. Will after next year be absent for a whole vear or more on full pay. This was de- | clded by the regents at yesterday's | meeting on the recommendation of Presi- dent Wheeler. The new rule, contsined In a resolution introduced by Regent Foote, provides professors and assistant professors shall only be given leave on ing, Chicago. 1899, finally and fully sustains the Welsbach Company's patent; dealers and users and manufacturers are cautioned against infringement of the Wels- bach patents. Judge Lacombe, in the United States Circuit Court, handed down the following opinfon Saturday, December 9, 1899, on motion to re- strain complainant from sending circulars to the customers of the American Incandescent Lamp Company: ‘“Lacombe, Circuit Judge. Irrespective en- and therefore is not in competition with the California XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: | orange. If he sought information on that subject he €. C. CARLTON. -Herald Square would discover. that the oranges of California are XEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE:s seeking a market at every season in which any foreign PERRY LUKENS JR. 29 Tribune Building | orange appears. The range of orange climate in this CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unton Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel J. ¥. ENGLISH, Corresponde: BRANCH OFFICES—3527 Montgomery street, cor- ner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes b o'clock. 639 McAllister o'clock. 615 Larkin ‘elock. 1041 Mission 2261 Market rner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. encia street, open until 9 o'clock. eet, open until § o'clock. Twenty-second and Kentucky n until 9 o'clock. . the Charity Fund of the Assoclated ., Thureday afternoon, December 14 Mouth Card.” Chimes of Normandy.” trels. Vaudeville every afterncon and = streets—Specialties. | clive industry is also gravely threatened. | State covers the season of every citrus fruit region in ‘lhc world. The Porterville, Placer County and Oroville oranges are early in the market and are followed suc- cessively by our other citrus belts. The early orange zone here is of growing importance. Every year adds to the acreage of orchards north of Tehachapi. The thermal belt of the foothills, from Tulare County north to Tehama, has been proved safe from frost and in every way suited to this profitable industry. The Call has heretofore shown that oranges grown on the lands of the county poorhouse in Butte County contribute largely to the support of that institution and promise soon to lift its burden entirely from the taxpavers. In that county are some of the largest and finest commercial orange orchards in the State. The Jamaica treaty puts all of this in peril. The It may be stated as a fact that the only pure olive oil found in commerce in this_country is of California origin. | Millions of olive trees are growing in this State, anted as a result of the demonstration of the profit of olives made by Mr. Ellwood Cooper at Santa Bar- bara. The olive grows here thriftily from one end of the State to the other. The orchards, from those of Mr. Frank Ki ional City to Judge Gray's at Oroville, are producing oil and ripe olive pickles in constantly increasing volume. The counties nball at ) Even if the bond issues should be defeated by rea- son of a lack of the necessary two-thirds vote in their favor the community will profit much by a canvass of the kind that is now going on. The in- terest in great municipal questions which has been | excited in the popular mind by the various proposals |now submitted to discussion is bound to have a | lasting effect upon local politics. The business men 1,.md the workingmen of the city will hereafter take a | keener interest in municipal affairs. City elections | will be something more than a struggle between rival bosses and their henchmen, and the intelligence of the community will give a more earnest study to lecal problems and more zealous support to every well directed movement to remedy existing abuses or improve good things to better. There are reasons, however, which justify sanguine hepes that the benefits of the active canvass now be- | ing made by so many gentlemen of light and lead- ing in the community will not be derived by indirec- tion only. The prospects are that every proposition ircluded in the two elections will be carried, and that San Francisco will start forth in the new era with 2 great bound forward along the path of progress. The | only issue upon which much of a fight has been made is that of park extension, and that is one which ap- | peals 50 strongly to so many classes of people and | the other. two-thirds pay, the balance being used to Pay a substitute. This rule will not ap- Ply to professors who have been seven years the university until they have had the privilege enjoyed in the past of one year’s leave on full pay. The refusal of the Hastings Law Col- lege trustees to move to the Afliated Colleges was discussed, cided that it would never go so far out. President Wheeler said the law school would never be a success until it be lo cated at Berkeley. He deprecated having the school so far away from the parent institution and said one is necessary to He also asked that the medi- cal school and its exact relation to the university be made the subject of an In- vestigation, as he had plans for its future and thought it might be transferred, at least partially, to the Affliated Colleges. Special committees were appointed for both the law and medical school matters. The Alumni Association sent a commu- nication stating that many of the classes would like to create funds for special purposes {f the regents would take charge of them and give the movement their official sanction. The matter was re- ferred to President Wheeler to send a let- ter to the alumni and to put the matter in some definite shape before the regents at a future meeting. The president said that there is a great field for the gener- osity of alumni classes in_the library. Librarian Rowell, who has been in office twenty-five years, was given a year's leave of absence on full pay and Refer- ence Librarian Jones was allowed six and Regent | | Barnes sald that the law college had de- tirely of the preliminary objection that affirmative relfef of this sort will nbt be granted to defendant, a question not now passed upon, there seems no good grounds for criticism of complainant’s eircular. It states that Judge Townsend enjoined the ‘manufacture and sale’ of infringing mantles, and he did grant such an injunction. And this court has enjoined the sale of mantles which the person enjoined did not himself manufacture, when his past conduct in the matter of Infringement created a special equity in fa- vor of the complaintant against him. It is true that the circular goes fur- ther and threatens suit against persons who sell mantles but who never have been at all concerned in manufacturing or causing them to be manu- factured. “In other words, it threatens suit upon the patent as If it were a patent for a product. But the complainant Insists that the threat is made in good faith; that it intends to bring suits against sellers of the infringing mantles upon the theory that the patent is really one for a product. In view of the peculiar language of the claim, this court i{s not now prepared to hold that such contention would be wholly without merit, or that the complainant could not succeed against a mere seller. seller of a purchased mantle himself Moreover, it is contended that the promotes the taking of the final step in the process, and such contention has not yet been passed upon adversely to complainant. “These are questions which should suits rather than here. be left to be determined in one of such “If complainant intends to prosecute one or more sellers, and there is nothing before the court to induce a disbelief In its assertion that it does €0 intend, it would seem to be its proper course to warn dealers to desist from selling.” December 9, 1399.—Restraining orders have been recent¥ fssued in the United States Circuit Courts against the United Incandescent Light Com- und San Francisco Bay boast many such fine olive farms as that of Busby, in Contra Costa, while the Robertson and other orchards in Placer and the foothill counties are of assured reputation. Just why thi eresting and profitable industry should be sac- | assuré} such wide benefits for all time to come it is | hasdly likely the opposition to it can show much | strength at the polls. San Francisco needs every one of the improve- | ments proposed in the issues of the two elections pany, St. Louis Incandescent Mantle Company, Eckerle Electrical Company, H. Kupfer and the Newby Incandescent Mantle Company. All infringers will be prosecuted, whether manufacturers, dealers or users. To the public: months on half pay, the president saying that all the library’ force worked harder than it is reasonable to expect. The maintenance of continuous sessions throughout the summer vacation for the benefit of school teachers was hlihl‘f' in- dorsed by the president, whe asked the 10:30 o'clock, Avold lability of infringement. ber 14, at 7:45 y of all ng of an extra credit to himseli, has made upon which ill issue a ative lead- nd remove their light from un- hidde resent. There nd holding an ister secrecy. r the election Bumns have of falsehood and detrac- n the purpose of wise urse, ov ans of Colonel Senator chosen who will so » command the respect of the to the public as defiant of public ers of party harmony 1 ( d to the strength of the great ma party, who do not wish te make 1900 a campaign of excuse, apology and de- fense The great fault of the Burns campaign has been ods. Let these cease and let things e open, and a solution of the party es instant and oy t the ives be taken out of the sleeves m and let arms be stacked for a truce people are frankly advised of what is going on and wi . It is the obvious policy of the Democrats to carry the Senatorial issue into the next campaign. The | hurt leave a va most ay in which this can be done is to 1t scat shadowed by an unpopular and improper cand on the Republican side. The ful way will be to project it as a moral tics, by filling the seat but leaving it still 1 the sense of the incumbent being lack- v a Senator of the United all that goes to qua es. The road out of and the hither end of it should be lighted by perfecs and frank pubheity The Call repeats that it has no candidate, and no favors to 3 i the Senator who will be elected. This paper will support a andidate whose election will not be a disgrace to the State and a damage to the 3 We desire, with a whole heart, that the Republican party shall jority in Califor- nia, and we have no unspoken interests or uttered desires thaf stand in ¢ rny hesitated to criticize him, nor have we withheld ap- proval where it was deserved. It is now in his power to say to the legislative leaders, “Tear up your secret compacts, burn the record of your intrignes, and come into daylight and publicity.” ——— General Gatacre has found a philosophic tion for his crushing defeat by the Boers and has ded to the military history a sentence which Ei lishmen would rather mot see live. He says wanted to see just how strong the enemy was, ng- he Cablegrams contain the information that ever since of Modder River every man in Methuen's d to be content with hali the daily ration. y this fact will probably be recorded under the head of Modder-ration. . Students of the Hastings College of Law object tn 2 daily tariff of ten cents to and from the college tuildings. What a difference there will be after they get their first probate case. 4 e When General Buller said he would eat his Christ- mas dinner in Pretoria he very wisely refrained from saying what particular Chyistmas he meant. re of any honest | e course of those organs simply | Ii these difficulties is plain, | pposition to that declaration. | As far as Governor Gage is concerned we have not | explana- | 1 ed ri the Eastern manipulators of these reciprocity treaties have not chosen to explain. duties on plants and seeds is other evil blow at California. This State is pe- culiarly the climatic field for the origin of improved ts. Burbank of 1 Rosa, the great hybridizer, has seemed to hold the whip hand of nature in the transaction of her r business, and the plants he produces are as n entitled to protection as the literary works of an author are to copyright. The production of field and garden seeds is a flour- ishing industry of Santa Clara County. Nearly every large seed house in the United States has sought that county as its most important source of supply, and of them maintain there large seed plantations of theirr own. While raisins are not directly touched by name, as “preserved fruits,” preserved by desiccation, they are exposed to a harmful wrangle over interpretatior ssification and cl directly attacked, and our almonds and walnuts are given away to get a good bargain and profits for the East As far as California is concerned it may be stated with emphasis that this treaty destroys every penny of value there is in protection to this State. Ouar manufacturers get but little anyway from the system, and it has been supported here solely in the interest of our vast investment of $100,000,000 in horticul- ture. To increase the gloom of our position the Presi- dent’s message recommends that the terms of the Jamaica treaty be extended to Porto Rico and Cuba. Threatened by coolie labor in Hawaii and the Phil- ippines, which implies the destruction of our beet | sugar industry, California begins to feel the snub | that afflicts a stepdaughter in the family of States. | One feature in the situation is novel. Senator Per- kins in a Washington interview.is quoted as saying: “The reciprocity treaties must be accepted or rejected by the Senate as a whole, and cannot be amended.” If this is the constitutional situation the peril is grave. Heretofore it has been held that every treaty | negotiated by the executive and submitted to the Senate may be returned with amendments by that body, which become the subject of further negotia- tion between the contracting parties. Just why these | most important commercidl treaties become an ex- | ception to this rule is not explained. We trust that | the Senator is mistaken and that our interests may be served by amendments proposed in the Senate. A MISTAKE OF THE MAYOR. ‘/V\A\'OR PHELAN has a right to be well pleased with the result of the negotiations with the Gas Company by which he makes |a saving to the city which he estimates at $6803 a year. That sum is well worth consideration, and to save it without diminishing the lighting of the city is a good stroke of business. When, however, in his communication on the subject to the Supervisors, | the Mayor said: “This compromise, as it will appear, ' within the appropriation and gives the city the same illumination it has been enjoying for the past two months, which is apparently satisfactory,” he fell jitto an error. The illumination of the past two | months has not been satisfactory, nor even “appar- ently satisfactory.” Under the compromise, as under the former ar- rar.gement, San Francisco is to be lighted for 305 nights in the year. The illumination even upon those { nights will not be thorough, and for the remaining ! sixty nights there is to be no illumination at all ex- cept such as may come to us from the stars and from the moon. Those heavenly bodies have doubtless no | other duty to perform than that of lighting the mid- | nights of San Francisco and would supply the illumi- | pation were it not that fogs in summer and clouds in | winter interfere. As it is there are sixty nights in | the year, an average of five nights a month, when | the streets are turned over to darkness and Egyptian | gloom. | Such a condition of affairs is not “apparently satis- | factory” to any except those who delight in darkness. 1Thcre will be no fault found with the Mayor for sav- ling nearly $7000 to the public treasury, but the people would have preferred an arrangement providing for | ment. | corner of Van Ness avenue and Market street, and | thus render it far more accessible than at present. | Fortunately. hich have been called. The park extension is as recessary as the sewers and the hospitals. It is a measure of public health as well as of civic adorn- It will virtually bring the park down to the all the arguments for improvement are being presented strongly and clearly, again and again. The opponents of progress may be stubborn, but the zeal and the energy of the advocates of im- piovement will overcome their antagonism and ac- complish victory for the city. THE TROUBLES OF GREAT BRITAIN. HAT advantage the British Government de- N rives from the censorship’ which supervises, checks and almost suppresses reports from the | seat of war in South Africa is not clear to the pub- Prunes, the pride of our State, are | lic, but it is evident the officials deem it to be con- | siderable, for they maintain it in the face of a strong opposition and a growing desire and anxiety on the part of the British people for complete news. In spite of the censors enough has been made known | to show that the situation is by no means encourag- | ing to the hopes of those sanguine imperialists who | expected Buller to begin an immediate march on Pretoria as soon as his corps was disembarked. It is now two months since the war began, and up to this time every battle has been fought on British | soil. The first rush of the Boers has been checked, | but it has not been beaten back, and their troops | continue to hold the ground gained in Natal and Cape Colony. Moreover, it is now evident the dii- | ficulties which confront Buller are political as well as military. There is danger that the Dutch element in the British provinces may rise to assist their kins- men of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, | and that danger is more serious than any which is | threatened by the Boer armies now in the field. It is mainly for the purpose of preventing such a rising that Buller has had to stretch his army across the whole frontier and move forward by widely scattered columns instead of by one. To add to the perplexities of the Government other dangers threaten the empire. For the purpose of preventing French enterprises in the valley of the Nile the British recently arranged a treaty with Italy which among other things included an alliance against Abyssinia. It now appears that Menelek re- gards the arrangement as in some measure threaten- ing to himself, and a recent dispatch from Cairo an- nounces that he is clogely watching the progress of events in South Africa, and is strongly inclined to attack the British forces in the regions around Abys- sinia. Another portent of evil is seen in the danger of famine which hangs over a large district of India. It is fairly certain that considerable sums of money will have to be expended there in relief work, and, more- over, the discontents which invariably occur among a people in times of distress may lead to outbreaks which will require a strong force to subdue. Thus the British may have wars in Northern Africa and in- surrections in India to meet if they do not promptly gain such victories as will discourage the antagon- isms that are felt against them. Under these circumstances it is perhaps for political rather than military reasons the cenSorship is made so rigid in the supervision of reports from South Africa. The Government may deem it better to keep the British public in suspense than to give out infor- mation of disaster or weakness that would incline the Dutch of the Cape, the Abyssinians and the discon- tented tribes of India to believe the time has come for them to strike. Latest rumors in circulation in London are to the effect that the War Office is withholding news that would indicate that the survivors of the Stormberg fight owe their safety more to their legs than their valor. Is it possible that Aguinaldo has swum over to Sovth Africa to lead the way for them? ¥ s The National Democracy has appointed a press agent for the coming Presidential campaign. It would scem to a disinterested observer that the Democracy will have greater need for a press censor after the Democratic spell-binders get to work, g regents to take the matter in hand with thoroughness. The matter was referred to the president, and he will formulate a plan to submit to €he board. Money was appropriated to install the gift of the Alaska Fur Company In the quarters provided by the Harbor Com- missioners in the ferry building, and it will be placed on exhibition at once. The contract for supplying water for the university brought on a debate that was afterward carried into an executive session. Regent Denicke moved the adop- tion of the report recommending that the present contract with the Alameda Water Company be renewed for three years. Re- gent Reinstein sald that under the con- tract the university paid a set price for a0, gallons a d“{{ and additional for every gallon used. He sald that two years ago 15,000 gallons was the daily average and he believed It is very little more now, yet should there be any day when over $0.000 gallons should be used there was a bill presented for it. Regent Denicke said the contract Is the best that can be ob- tained. The water company is about to combine with the Contra Costa Company, and he had been given a suggestion that after the combination the terms might be ss agreeable than those now offered. “Well, it Is very plain that we are up against it,” said Regent Reinstein, “and we shall have to take our medicine.” The committee was instructed to try to have a clause inserted giving the regents the privilege of breaking the contract at the end of one or two years should they de- cide to establish an Independent supply. The report of the special committee that a suitable house should be erected for the president at a com of $25,000 was accepted Benard and report later on plans and specifications. Professor Lang was given w vear's leave of absence on full pay, Forty days' additional time was allowed the contractors of the Wilmerding School. Resolutions of respect to the late Regent J. West Martin were passed, and Mrs, Hearst was thanked for her generosity and work on behalf of the university. Regent Denicke moved that Governor Gage be added to the commission having in charge the Hearst architectural mat- ter, but Regent Reinstein ralsed many objections and the motion was with- drawn. > State Superintendent of Instruction Kirk, who .presided., appointed Regents Budd, Barnes and Reinstein on the Law College committee and Regents Rodgers, Pardee and Reinstein on the Medical College committee. AROUND THE CORRIDORS R. D. Stevens, ex-postmaster of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. E. 8. Valentine, the Fresno insurance man, is a guest at the Lick. J. B: de Jarmatt, a capitalist of Colusa, is registered at the Grand. Frank H. Buck, the millionaire fruit- man, is a guest at the Palace. E. T. Duboise, a wealthy mine owner of Stockton, is at the Palace. H. de Laguna, a leading attorney of Stockton, is a guest at the Grand. A. G. Keagle, County Recorder, Stockton is registered at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. Vogleman of Vallejo are among the recent arrivals at the Grand. State Senator H. V. Morehouse s regis- tered at the Lick from his home In San Jose., A. Sullivan, a wealthy merchant: of Il Paso, Tex,, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. Ex-State Senator L. A. Whitehurst has come up from his home in Gilroy and is staying at the Lick. « Alden Anderson of Suisun, Speaker of the Assembly, has come down to the city and Is at the Grand. I. N. Peyton, banker, mining man and capitalist, of Spokane is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. United States Marshal H. Z. Osborne of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived last night.~ M. Yamaguchi, a Japanese merchant of considerable prominence in his own coun- try, is est at the Palace. W. A. Pavlow, a traveler from S8t Petersburg, Russia, is among those who have lately arrived at the Palace. Major and Mrs. A. W. Jones, two promi- nent socizty people of Victoria, B. C., are among Lhe arrivals of yesteraay at the Palace. \ G. W.' Trimble, a banker, and G. E. Frisble, a mining man, are both registered at the Palace from their homes in Lead- ville, Colo. Fred Eaton” Mayor of Los Angeles, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. He has come to the city to attend the coming convention, Dr. R. L. Wilson, one of the best-known medical men of Austin, Tex., is at the Occldental while on a short pleasure trip through this State. Parls Commissioner E. W. Runyon is staying at the Occldental, where he will remain until his departure for the East and Europe, which will take place within the next few days, of | consideration was postponed Take nothing but the genuine—always in sealed boxes bearing our registered trade mark “Wels- bach.” WELSBACH LIGHT COM PANY. STREET CAR MEN DBJECT TO THE PROPOSED RATES Committee Listens to Secretary Clayton. Passage of the Proposed Ordinances ‘Would Mean a Virtual Confisca- tion of Property or Reduced ‘Wages to Employes. At Secretary Clayton of the San Francisco | and San Mateo Rallway was the only rall- and the committee will consult with M, | | dictary Committee of the Board of Super- way official who appeared before the Ju- visors yesterday afternoon to argue against the recommendation for passage of the two ordinances providing for the sale of car tickets to school children at eight for 25 cents and to workmen at seven for 2 cents during certain hours of the day. Mr. Clayton made a forceful plea in behalf of his comgnny :falnxl m: nces, and at his reques proposed ordinan i A3ogess Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, when rep- resentatives of other street car lines will be given a chance to be heard. - “The passage of these ordinances,” said Mr. Clayton, “means a virtual confisca- tion of ‘the property of the San Mateo road. It will entail a loss of one-third in our gross receipts and will work a hard- ship from which we will not be able to re- cover. If our receipts are cut down we could not pay operating expenses. Even now we are paying no dividends, and we are certainly entitied to a reasonable re- turn on our investment, and the reduction in fares will prevent this. The passage of these ordinances will compel us to re- | duce wages to motormen and conductors. We pay lout now 80 per cent of our gross ecelpts In wages.” = Mr.pk‘ln)'(on quoted an opinion of for- mer City Attorney Creswell at the time when ex-Supervisor Clinton presented res- olutions making street car fares 2l cents. | The opinion holds that the Supervisors | have no power to limit the act of January 1, 1878, whlch{pm\'ldel for the regulation | of street car fares by the State, and had no power either expressed or implied to pass or enforce the proposed ordinances. Chairman Byington replied to the argu- ments of Mr. Clllgnn and stated that un- der the act of the Supervisors were empowered “to license and regulate hack- ney coaches and other public passenger vehicles and to fix the rates to be charged | for the transportation of persons, ete. | He referred to Los Angeles, Toronto and | other cities which bad put into effect the reduced fares. 1In the case of Toronto, Mr. Clayton said that the street car com- anies there couid stand for a reduction In fares because coal was §1 75 a ton and wages are 162-3 cents and 15 cents an hour, while here they are 22 cents. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 12—H. Carolan of | California is at the Fifth Avenue; Morris Jacoby of Los Angeles is at the Marlbor- ough; 8. S. Porter and D. H. Payne of | San Francisco are at the Vendome; Mrs. Holsman and Miss A. Reed of San Fran- clsco are at the Normandfe; Mr. and Mrs. M. de Labruss, Ferdinando Avedano, Gaudenzio Salassa and Louis Parisot of | 8San Francisco are at the Martin; A. S. Bles of San Francisco is at the Everett; Henry T. Oxnard of San Francisco is at the Waldorf. — e — ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DIME OF 184—G. T., City. If you have a dime of 189 with the mint mark | “8" upon it you can obtain ¥ for it from any dealer in old coins; but If you have | one without such mint mark and of lhat‘ date it is worth just ten cents. | MARCONT'S SYSTEM—Subscriber, City. If you will go to the perfodical room of | the San Francisco Free Library you will find in the June number of the McClure Magazine an exhaustive article on Mar- conl's wireless tclegrlrh. which glves an interesting account of his first attempts | In the great work he has accomplished. | ol | THE BEST PAPER—R. M. B., Golden Gate, Cal. This department does not ad- vertise the merits of any firm, business | or article, so cannot answer the question | as to which is the best Eastern weekly on the icular subject you write } at ticket office, 625 Market :‘b;mm w:l:n advise y%\; to s: to A’book re, purchase a copy and judge for yourself. Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's. ——— th:eclnl hlnfomllun supplied dally to usiness houses :nd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monte gomery street. Telephone Main 1M2. D Useful Christmas Presents. Beautifully flluminated boxes filied with good Writing Paper, tied with silk rib- bons, make useful and handsome Christ- e by Sanborn, e ————————— The Blind Will Sing. The blind puplls of the Institution for the Deaf and the Blind will give their an- afternoon, he assembly The nual sacred_concert on Sunday December 17, at 3 o'clock, in t hall of the institution at Berkeley management of the institution has iny all friends of the puplls and a large audi- ence is expected. ————— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect euccess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colfe, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best rémedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from testhing or cther causes. For sale by drukgists in every part of the world. Bé sure and ask for Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, e & bottle. Tourist Excursions. rsonally conducted tourist excursions, vig Santa Fe Route. with latest 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 Chicago and intermediate points every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, Call at ticket office, (28 Market street for fug] particulars. —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage 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 Franetsco, ———— The California Limited On the Santa ' Fe Route. Connecting traln leaves at 5 p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, One day to ses Los Angeles and beautiful Pasadena If desired. All meals served fn Harvey's dining cars. Finest equipped train ond best track of any line to the East. Get full particulars and handsome folder —————— First Registration Closed. Registration for the bond election of De- cember 27 closed last night, with the fol- lowing result: New registrations, 5, s‘;l;—}lnlz*!, 678; registrations to November 7, dys are allowed for registration for b election of December 2%, p otal registration, 1,779. Two more ADVERTISEMENTS. The Best Food for Infants Nature planned that infants should have only milk for at least the first year of life. But thin milk, skimmed milk, will not nourish. It's the milk that z is rich in cream, or fat, that | does the work. This is be- cause fat is positively neces- sary for the growing body. Scoi’s Emulsion contairs the best fat, in the form of Cod-Liver Qil, for all delicate children. They thrive greatly under its use.