The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1899, Page 7

THE EBAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1899 The FRIDAY. KELS. Proprietor. JOH Address All Communica ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFF Tele hone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. Telephone n 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mai DAILY CA DAILY CA LY CA (ncluding Su . (Including Sui 1LY CALL—By Single Month. SUADAY CALL One Year WEEKLY CAL) All postmas wsubscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE tess0.008 Rroadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forclgn Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ... .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERXY LUKENS JR.. ..29 Tribune Building 1CAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: . 0. News Co.i Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Aunditorium Hotel, NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Bren o, 31 Union Sguare; Murray WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF 3. F. Wellington Hotel ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, cor- ner CL 10 o'clock. 300 Hayes 0 o'clock. 639 MeAllister 0 o'clock. 615 Larkin 10 o'clock. 1941 Mission 10 o'clock. 2261 Market until 9 until 9 antil pen Valenein street, Ele corn open unt open unt 106 AW streets, 9 o'clock. econd and Kentucky o'clock. e e————————————————————— A.I.Um‘l‘& s Mouth.” & Duchess.” Chimes of Normandy.” trels. eater—Vaudeville every afternoon and 7d Ellis streets—Speclalties. ase and Coney Island. Manfla Bay, Market street, near ur? Assoctation, San Mateo County—Races. s day, at 11 o'clock, Books, at 31 turday, December 16, at 11 o'clock, IMPROVING OAKLAND. \KLAND seems about to embark upon cer- t lic enterprises to make the best use arvelous natural advantages of her y for a large amount is always a se- er, and due care should be taken that it is the put good and that any element of speculation be eliminated. In the Oakland gs should be wisely considered. The 1 issue should make ample provision for ons there are such that a test beauty, variety and benefit may at has aptly been called her Oakland marsh land, long ble of transiormation into a beauti- and shrubbery that will at once a:- cye of every incoming traveler. Its influente rd growth of the city will be most anything else that the public can here is no other city on the coast that has for an “equally beautiful park and nd exhibited to the eyes of all travelers Then in Lake Merritt Oak- ater park of singular beauty. If a wide boulevard and connected with d Park by a well ornamented street i make a park system matchless in every beauty and facility which parks can supply. If a foothill park be added, so located as to make a complete chain, connected by ample driveways, we do not hesitate to say that Oakland may rest in the conviction tt he overmatches all cities on the con- tinent in her park facilities as an inducement to the best class of residents. No city can afford to neglect improvement of all its opportunities to attract residents. Commercial facilities are of value, certainly, but men of commerce are in trade for the profits which will procure the domestic comforts which make life pleasant. By the on of such a system of parks Oakland will sce her population doubled in the next ten Around us in the valleys and above us in the mountains are thousands of men delving hard for for- tunes. When they are acquired their winners dream of 2 home in some pleasant place where the families they toil for may have every advantage of health, schools and society. Having the means to live where these motives lead them, they are free seekers, and, when they find, are valuable members of the com- munity. With what she may now provide Oakland will easily become the favorite residence city of the coast, and with such increase in her population as will come she may not long remain behind any other in the volume of her commerce. We know of no other di- rection in which she can make a public effort of equal advantage to her and to the State. Fortunately its accomplishment and the success which wilt follow ars entirely in her awn control. No rival can bar her nor hinder the effort, and none can take away the sure results which will follow. West Oakla the the two wo years. Municipal officials in all parts of California receive much more abuse than praise, and yet the personnel and the proceedings of the Municipal League con- vention in this city show that we have really a set of municipal officials of whon? any State might be proud. It is but fair play that telephone nickel-in-the-slot machines should be taxed for the benefit of the pub- lic since they impose a very heavy tax upon the pub- lic for the benefit of the company. et By the time the people devise a means of breaking up criminal trusts there won't be any trusts of any kind, for all of them will have'reorganized in new combinations under new names. ....DECEMBER 15, 1899 2...Market and Third, 8. F. 17 to 221 Stevenson St. . { of the Spanish war Federal taxation had varied from THE COST OF WAR. ANY “estimates have been made of the economic losses of war. Nearly all the great national debts have been created by war.* So large have many of these debts become that the pay- ment of the principal has been abandoned and only the interest is taken care of in the annual badget. The debt of England is almost entirely a war debt, and every campaign adds to it. Her present aggression against the South African republics has cost $50,000,- 000, which is added to her burdens as a permanent | charge upon her people, and it may easily cost many | times that sum before she enjoys peace with honor in the Dark Continent. All the other European na- tions are groaning under war debts and the annual charge of armaments, which yearly increase in their ‘wcighl and cost. The United, States is the only country that has un- | dertaken to pay off a war debt. The cost of our Civil l\’&'ar left nearly two billions of debt upon us. This had steadily declined until it fell below the billion line and its extinction seemed to be in sight.. But {now the national debt has turned and has risen above that line, and how far it may go in the wrong direc- tion no one can foresee. An examination of this country’s balance-sheet will enlighten the taxpayer upon the cost of war. The | total income of the United States treasury for the | fiscal year ending June 30, 1809, was $610,982,004 35. | The total outgo for the same period was $700,003,- | 564 02, leaving a deficit of $89,111,550 67, which of | course must be made up by taxation. 5 “ When the expenditures are dissected the war cost year in this city, from which point it can take a birdseye view of .Boston and treat that neglected place with the consideration which has hitherto been | accorded to San Francisco. Nor will the benefits be confined wholly to the At- lantic coast towns. Congress itseli will benefit by the change of air and of view. Hardly anything could give our public officials more gratification in | their work or more encourage them in their lzbors for the public than for the whole governmental body, from the President to the clerks of committees, to come out here and behold the stately Federal | building and other vast public works the Govern- | ment has undertaken here. Mr. Reeder of Kansas is a Sunflower statesman with a head on him, and it is to be hoped his proposed amendment will not be lost in 2 pigeon-hole. 3 TELEPHONE SLOT MACHINES. AYOR PHELAN in addressing the conven- /\/\ tion of the League of Californian Municipali- ties referred to the tax problems which will confront San Francisco under the new charter and advocated an increase of the taxes upon licenses. In the course of his remarks he is reported to have said: “We have 10,000 nickel-in-the-slot telephone machines in this city which, if properly taxed, would yield the city a revenue of from $50,000 to $60,000 annually.” The Mayor's estimate was given in round numbers and underrates the revenue that might be derived in the way suggested. - At a recent consideration of the subject by the License Committee of the Board of Supervisors the testimony given showed there are comes into startling prominence. Of the whole ex- | penditure $403,075,212 81 went for war, including the | | pension payment. This left only $207,018,351. 81 to be | expended for the ordinary, proper purposes of civil government. The total outstanding national debt is $1,087,004,427 92, the highest point reached since | 1882, For twenty-one years prior to the beginning ‘54 50 to $5 50 per head of population. The taxation | per capita in 1808 was $4 56, and the expenditure | | $5 96 per capita. For the fiscal year ending June 30, | would go far toward making up the deficit in license about 11,000 nickel-in-the-slot telephones operated in San Francisco. If there were levied upon these an adequate tax the income to the municipality taxes which will otherwise follow from the adoption of the new charter. The present Board of Supervisors has already taken steps toward the imposition of the desired tax. A resolution to that effect was introduced some tims ago. That resolution, as was pointed out by The Call | 1809, the taxation was $6 54 and the expenditure | i$7 05 per capita. | Under the Hayes administration the per capita ex- | penditure was from $4 98 to $5 46; under Arthur it | | was $4 63 to $4 94; under Cleveland's first term it | was $4 22 to $4 88; under Harrison it was $5 07 ‘o I $5 73; under Cleveland’s second term it began at | ‘155 37, fell to $4 93 and closed at $5 or. The average ‘under those five Presidential terms was $4 97. This | | has risen now, due to war expenditures solely; to $7 95 {in the last fiscal year, with a prospect of going still higher before our military troubles are over. In view of its cost every effort to hinder the out- break of war should deserve the sympathy of tax- payers in every country. The expense comes finally | out of the substance of the people and is not offset, | |as a rule, by any compensating benefit. |THE MUNICIPALITIES CONVENTION. fSECRET:\RY MASON'S report of the work accomplished by the League of Californian ‘ Municipalities during the past year affords |ample grounds for supporting. high expectations of | even better work in the year to come. The attend- | ance upon the league convention has been excep- tionally good. The gathering is not only large, but is thoroughly representative of the progressive muni- | cipalities of the State, and the tone of the proceedings | | shows an earnest desire to bring about-among the | | cities of the State that cordial co-operation which is essential to the best results. Every step in municipal progress under our sys- | tem of government has to be preceded by a campaign | of education for the purpose of convincing the peo- ple of the benefits to be derived from it. Not until a majority of the voters in any instance, and very { frequently not until two-thirds of them, have been brought to understand the value of improvements | | can anything of an extensive nature be undertaken. | That fact renders the educational work of municipal politics an important feature in our government, and gives a high value to whatever aids it. The work of the League of Municipalities is distinctly beneficial |in that way. The present convention, for example, | even if it do no more, will at least have the effect of | directing public attention to municipal problems and | | thus prepare the way for a better understanding of | them when they arise in any issue of local develop- | ment. As was well said by Mayor Snow of Oakland in | | speaking of the future work of the league: “Less knowledge of municipal affairs than we as officers possess would make pessimists of us all. Public | opinion is so slow to be won, misunderstanding of the real intent of municipal legislation is so common, it is of the greatest importance that the citizen be informed of the successful efforts of other cities be- fore he gives up in despair for his own.” That work of instruction the league is carrying out with marked success. There can be no doubt that improvement in one city tends to encourage officials elsewhsre to | emulate the example, and when the co-operation of | a strong body of official support ig given such efforts | have a much better chance of success than would | otherwise attend them. That support is assured :thmuzh the league, and every municipality in Cali- | fornia has reason to give thanks ¢o the enterprising {and public-spirited officials who have promoted it { and are making it more and more widely useful. ——— | | | | | | ANY resolutions providing for amendments A NEW IDEA FROM KANSAS. | M to the constitution will be submitted at this session of Congress, but there is only one ‘thus far announced which has sufficient charm to make it thrilling to San Francisco. That happy thought in the way of an amendment originated in { the mind of Reeder of Kansas. It provides that Con- | gress shall meet alternitely in the East and in the ;Wen—-that during one year the seat of government | shall be cast of the Mississippi and during the next | year it shall be somewhere in the West. | Of course if the Government is to come far enough West to balance Washington City it must come to San Francisco. It could not stop half way without | doing injustice to the amendment and to the country. | The matter could be arranged so as not to conflict | with State affairs, and we could thus have the Legis- | lature in session one winter and Congress in session next winter, and everything would be harmonious and serene. It has been repeatedly asserted by the press of Bos- | *on, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore that Con- | gress neglects the Atlantic seaboard and gives nearly all of its attention and appropriations to the West. It is argued that this is due to the fact that Congressmen, being familiar with the Fastern States, have become | indifferent to them, while the imaginations of the statesmen are excited by thoughts of the unfamiliar, boundless West, and they vote any amount of to improve Western rivers and adorn Weste: with public buildings. That being so, it will be of great advantage to the Atlantic coast to have Congress meet every other’ money ™ cities | lays to make his report in time for the board to act, r yesterday, has been delayed upon one pretext or another until this time. It is now in the hands of City Attorney Lane, to whom it was referred for a report upon its validity. Mr. Lane cannot be ignor- ant of the fact that the telephone company is seek- ing delay, nor of the further fact that the delay has reached 2 point where it has become dangerous. The term of the present board will soon expire, and from every point of view it is desirable that his re- port be filed in time for the Supervisors to take final action at their meeting on Monday. In addition to imposing the license tax the resolu- tions as introduced contained the further excellent provision that the telephone employes should make the switch desired before requiring the patron of the line to drop the nickel in the slot. Under the present system of doing business the company plays the “gouge game” upon the public, for frequently after the nickel has been dropped in the slot and is beyond recovery, the patron is told the line is engaged, the party is not in, to come back another time, or given some other impertinence in exchange for his money. If he persist in demanding his rights the “buzzer” is turned upon him and he has no recourse. The resolutions now before the board are then doubly commendable by reason of the fact that they provide for protecting the patron as well as for im- posing a license tax upon the company. If these reso- lutions be returned in time their passage can be relied upon, for the present Board of Supervisors has proven itself faithful to the interests of the people and has made a high record for efficiency in office. Upon Mr. Lane, therefore, rests the responsibility of the sit- uation. Secretary Eaton, to whom the company has entrusted the management of its fight, will lay his conduits and provide free wires to back yards in vain. Such at any rate is the outlook, and if Mr. Lane de- the people will know whom to blame. T POPULAR INTEREST AROUSED. OR many years students of American politics have been agreed that much of the evil of muni- cipal administration and the comparative lack of progress in the way of improvement have been due to a neglect of local affairs by business men and tax- payers generally. That San Francisco has suffered from that defect of citizenship in the past is not to be disputed, but fortunately the outlook at present gives promise of better things. The earnestness with which citizens of all classes have entered upon the work of the campaign for the proposed bond issuzs shows’ that popular interest in these important local measures has been aroused, and there are now sound reasons for the sanguine hope that at each election the necessary two-thirds vote will be cast on the side of progress and improvement. The objections urged against the plan of park ex- tension have been met fairly and thoroughly refuted. It has been made clear to the taxpayers that the amount of money required for the improvements will be small in comparison with the benefits sure to be derived from the completed work; that the entire sum raised for the extension will be expended for home labor and home material and will therefore re- turn at once to the channels of local trade; that the additional park area to be provided will serve the poor even more than the rich, and benefit pedestrians |as much as those who have command of horses and carriages; and that the amount of grading to be done will not injure the surrounding property nor entail an unreasonable expenditure of money. 1 Since the campaign of education on thé subject be- gan there has been shown continuously a gratifying evidence of popular support in every district of the city. The various improvement clubs organized for local work have cordially combined for co-operation in promoting the new movement that is to benefit the whole city, and along with them has come to the’ aid of the movement all that great body of progres- sive citizens who have noted the good work of the improvement clubs in the past and are willing to sustain them in the enterprises of the future, There will never come to San Francisco an oppor- tunity more favorable to improvement than that which we now enjoy. It is fairly certain that never in future years would the city be able to purchase the land required for the park extension so cheaply as at present, and it is therefore a matter of wise economy to make the investment now. Moreover, the city has had a year of prosperity and looks forward to another year of even greater business activity. It will be easy for the taxpayers to bear the taxes required to meet the interest on the bonds and grovide the sinking fund, and the burden will be made the lighter by reason of the fact that the increased work caused by the improvements will provide wages for laboring men and help to spread the blessing of prosperity into the homes of all. San Francisco is to be “a continuing city,” to use President Jordan’s phrase, and will advance steadily forward in every branch of municipal development. Such, at any rate, is the promise of the new era made evident by the popular interest now taken in the pending questions of public improvement. 3 » EPwTF PAYHE 9 - IN ALL WARS, IN ALL COUNTRIES, THIS IS “THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN." g AROUND THE | CORRIDORS | Dr. E. R. Stitt, Palace. | F. D. Cobb, a merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Lick. Lieutenant Gates Stirling, U. 8. N., is a guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. 8. K. Dougherty of Santa tosa are at the Occidental. Lester Walker, an influential attorney of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. | Dr. George B. Lawrason, U. §. A., fs | making a short stay at the Palace, Willlam Beckman, the Sacramento banker, is registered at the Grand. Dr. B. R. Wood, U. 8. N., is one of the | arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. | J. M. Bee, a mining capitalist of Kings- ton, Ariz., is among the recent arrivals at | the Grand. | Charles L. Morrill, a wealthy oll specu- | lator of Coalinga, 1s among the late ar- rivals at the Lick. T. 8. R. Prentiss, a leading business man of Clerkland, Or., is among those | who arrived yesterday at the Occldental. | Railroad Commissioner E. W. B. Ed- son has come down from his home in Gazelle and s staying at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. John §. Cravens, two so- | clety people of Pasadena, are at the Pal- | ace while on a short pleasure trip to this [ city. | H. M. Yerington, a well-known capital- | Ist of Carson, Nev., is at the Palace, where | he arrived yesterday accompanied by his wife. Samuel M. Shortridge has returned to | the city, having visited Los Angeles, San | Diego and other places in Southern Cali- fornia. A. B. Reither and Frank E. Curtls, two hotel men of Maine, who are out to the | coast on a visit of pleasure, are staying at the Place. Miss Ida Stevenson of Bloomington, Ill., niece of ex-Vice President Adlal E. Stevenson, is visiting this city and 1s a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W, S. Leake at the Palace Hotel. Hermann Schberfenbaum and Adolph de Arts, two German business men, are at the “California. They have lately re- turnéd from the Orfent on one of the steamers of the new Kosmos line. George Greenwood, E. H. Pelxotto and Joseph Kahn have just returned from the southern part of the State, where they have been for some time past looking after their business Interests. George 1. Gordan, a Nevada capitallst, who is interested in nearly every class of industry in his State, 1s at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday on a visit to this city which combines business and pleasure, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan, who went to New York to meet Miss Mollle Phelan on her return ‘from Europe, returned home last evening. In the party besides those mentioned were Miss Maul and Mr. Duval of New York, a nephew of Mrs. Phelan and cousin of the Mayor. Acting under the Instructions of Dr. Bazet, the family physiclan, Miss Phelan and Mrs. Sullivan did_not see their mother last evening, but postponed the meeting until this morning. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. M4.—John D. Spreckels of San Francisco and J. B. Alexander of Los Angeles are at the Shoreham; Winfleld Scott of San Fran- cisco, secretary of the Vitlculturist Asso- ciation, is In Washington; J. McMullen of | the Atlantie, Pacific and Gulf Construe- tion Company of San Francisco 1s at the Arlington. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A QUARTER OF 186E. X., City. The selling price of a quarter of 1806 is from & cents to §L. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN—J. L., Grass Valley, Cal. Joseph Chamberlain, the | Colonial Secretary, was born in London, July, 1836. NO PREMIUM—J. C., City. By a typo- graphical error in a newspaper that was not. corrected it was made to appear that a dollar of 184 commanded 4 premium of $1000. As there were milllons of dollars coined that year there Is no scarcity of them. It is the dollar of 1804 that com- mands a high premium. ONCE’' MORE THE CENTURY—G. P. W., City. 1f when you realize the fact that it takes one hundred years to com- plete a century you. can satisfy yourself or any one else that 189 years complete nineteen centuries or nineteen hundred years this department will be pleased to U. B. N, Is at the ek ke kK Aok !\ublluh your explanation that the year 599 closes the nineteenth centu: and with 1900 commences the twentieth cen- tury, but until f““ can prove that with- ssibility of doubt this depart- out the ment will rest content to as: that the next century commences with the first day of the year 1901. NAMES FOR A BOY—B. H., Ukiah, Cal. The following, are christian names commencing with H for a boy: Hannibal, meaning grace of Baal; Harrold, cham- lon or general of an army; Heman, faith- 'ul; Hector, stout defender; Henry, the head or chief of a house; Herbert, lory of the l.rm?': Hercules, lordly fame; Her- man, warrior; Hezeklah, strength M Lord; Hilary, er} merry: , prais Hiram, most noble; Homer, pledge, secreey; Horace and Horatlon, meaning uncertain, but sald to be worth to “behold; Hosea, salvation; Howell, sound, whole; Hubert, b','fm in spirit; Hugh and Hugo, mind, spirit, soul; Hum- phrey, protector of home. STRAWBERRY—N. H. F., Loomis, Cal. How and where the strawberry derived its name no one knows, but it is generally believed that the plant derives its name from the resemblance of its runners to :t‘:"“ l&onrt from the wudorlnlmzabu of e pl , strawberry meant berry. There are a number of books on the culture of strawberries, which can tal % first class book be cult to tell which best, as the rules laid be or one section of the country and not adapted to another. The latest works are probably those which give the most information. PIGEONS—R. M. B., Golden Gate, Cal. To ralse pigeons for profit they should be well fed and also given lberty. To.con- o down in one book fine them in an avi alwa tho best. For the profitable Fosai ok pigeons it Is necessary to have a prop- | to have the stage fever very bad. | ent, erly constructed dovecote divided into cells, a cell for each palr, each cell 18 inches broad by 12 from back to front and the door toward one side so that the nest may not be seen from without. Thare must be a slip of wood in front of each cell for the birds to sit and coo on. The dovecota must be lrequemls' cleaned, | otherwise it may probably be deserted by its occupants. It ought to be painted | white, that color being very attractive to | pigeons and lessening the difficulty of re- taining them when a new dovecote is es- | tablished. Pigeons begin to breed at the age of nine months and breed every month, except in cold weather. Any | first-class bookseller can procure for you | books on pigeons. STAGE FEVER— 0., City. You seem It you have, as you write, “strong dramatic tal- but only a common school educa- tion,” would suggest that you devote a rtion of your time to the study of the English language. Then do as did a great many actors who became prominent— Frank Mayo, for instance. Go behind the scenes, assist the property man, carefully watch the actors and actresses who are learned in their art, become conversant with all the little tricks of the profes- slon, take small parts, such as that of lackey and repeat the lines, My lord, the carriage walits,” but do it well, and in the course of time you will have an opportuni- ty to assume more difficult roles, and if you have that dramatic talent you belleve vou have it will make itself manifest. hen you may some day shine as a great star. You must not think that because you can recite a sollloquy from Shake- Speare you are a _natural-born actor, Learn first to be a basket boy, supe and assistant property man and If you are destined to be an actor it will not be many }-unrs before managers will discover that act.” .*****t****ti*tit**t: Copies of The Call's great Christmas Edition, wrapped and ready for mailing, can be obtained at all news deal- ers’, or at The Call business office. Please place your or- der at once, as the supply will be limited. * QXXX NN AR NN FRATERNAL ELECTIONS Olympus Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Mark A. Devine, past president; Willlam Abbott Jr., president; Jo- seph C. Herold, Frank Slattery and Jullus Epp- stein, vice presidents; R. A. Cranston, mar- shal; J. T. Cosgrove, recording secretary; An- drew Mocker, financial secretary; Jullus Fran- kel, trustee. National Parlor, N. S. G. W., has elected: D. F. Nunan, president; Frank Silvey, Charles Huffschmidt and R. L. Radke, vice presidents; W. O. Dixon, marshal; W. B. Larkins, finan- clal secretary; W. V. Doug*ty, recording secre- tary; P. G. du Py, treasurer; F. P. Wehe and Frederick Kruger, trustees; Dr. Nathan Rogers, surgeon. Mission Parlor, N. §. G. W., has elected: Del B. Bowley, president; F. A. Tibbets, E. A. Gi- | Maas, vice presidents; rowski and H. L. A. Henry Koch, marshal; George Long Jr. re- cording secretary; H. L. Herman, financial | Mills, trustee, and Dr. | J._A. Black, surgeon. | Darin, secretary; Frank H. arlor ‘of the Native Daughters of | olden West has elected the following | named for the ensuing term as its officers: M. Minnle Kallock, past president; J ton, president; Emma Ralph, roll and Lela Ziegler, vice pres Hammersmith, recording secretary; An ley, fAnancial’ secretary; Kathryn McGough, | marshal; Myrtle Lieg, organist; Margaret Ring, | inside sentinel; Elizabeth Clark, outside senti- | : Emma I Marks, Lilllan’ Hamilton and | Fanny Edwards, trustées; Dr. L. M. F. Wan- zer, surgeon. Parior, N. D. G. W., has elected the following named for t ensuing term: Mollie F. Long, past president; Lueia Neubarth, president; Emma Banning, Mary Lannigan and Anna Betowskl, vice presidents; Alice Ticoulet, marshal; Mrs. 'H. M. Greene, recording secre- tary; Mamle Wells, financial secretary; Mrs. Eva Sheejine, treasurer; Mrs. M. Mo: side sentinel; May Brady,-outside sentinel; Til- Miss M. » Wilton and Miss Eilla Annie Simpson, organist; Mariana Bertols, Frances Spray and Florence Ward, surgeons. California Rebekah Lodge has elected for the ensuing term: Mrs. Margaret Reed, noble grand; Mrs. Minnie Homler, vice grand; Bella Shule, recording secretary; Mrs. Mary A. Haw- ley, financial secretary (re-elected for the nine- teenth year); Annie M, Lewis, treasurer. Templar Rebekah Lodge has_elected: Dale Warford, noble grand; Tessle Hopkins, vice grand; Winneford wle, secretary; Della Spinney, treasurer. Oriental Rebekah Lodge has elected: Mrs. noble grand; Mrs. Allle Par- nd: “Amy E. W dneoln, ~ treasurer. * * * * * * * * x| x * * * ° | | the ile Brauer, Knox, trustees; Mrs. Margaret Derby, ker, Emily vice C. e liss A, Bradiey, vice ; en, recording secretary; Mrs. Gibbs, financial secretary: Mrs. M. Thompson, {reasurer. Loyal Rebekah Lodge has elected: Miss Mar- gery Jennings, noble grand; Emily Brauer, vice grand: Ella R. Bourne, treasurer; Fannie J. | Danlels, recording secretary. Palo Alto Circle, Companions of the Forest- ers of America, has elected the following as its officers for the ensuing term: Isabel Py son, chief companion; Sadle Mund, vice chief; Rose Kaspar, recording secretary; M, Rapheld, financial secretary; Mrs. M. Jacobs, treasu Leah Esberg, right guide; Dora Ehrlich, guide; Leon’ Pinkson, inside guard; Psuline Aaron, outside guard; Haddee Baum, organ- ist; Emil Kahn, trustée. g Live rcle, Compantons of the Forest has elected: Mrs. M. J. Epeliman, chief companion; Alice Hartwick, subs-chief: Mre. E. J. N. Steinweg, recording secretary: N. financial secretary; Agnes | o . treasurer; Miss H. right Kate Campbell, left guide; Mrs, F. M. Saus outside A. P. Wood- | ward, '# n. oo Loyal Circle, Companions of the Forest (An- clent Order) elected: Mrs. Annie Croal, chief companion: Annle Page, sub-chfef; M. E. Balley, treasurer; Florence Morrow, financial secretary; Annle Senna, recording secretary; Mary Large, right guide: Belle Bur: ton, left guide; Mary Van Horn, inside guard; Mary Wilkins, outside guard; ces Brod- erick, organist. Harmony Ladge of the Fraternal Brotherhood has clected the following officers for the en- nm? term: H. P. Platt, president; Mrs. C, J. Bweeney, past president; R. S Harclay, Vvice president; George Norton, secretary: Mrs. Ada_Norton, 'treasurer; Mrs. Louise Forbes, chaplain; John = Cronin, sergeant; Charles Busby, master at arms: Michael Dever. inner door Keeper: Drs. Charles T. Abbott and E. R. Mercer, medical examiners. No. 169 has elected the follow- rer; left Gannon, uide; argo, inside guard; Mrs. guard; Mrs. Igo, organist; Dr. Junior woodward:; G. D. Hart, senior beadle; J. B. Ryan, junior beadle; D.' B, Carmichael, l;u‘nem Dr. A. K. Happersberger, court phy- siclan. The follow| named will serve next term ae the officers o incon P of the Golden West: r F. Mertes, presi- dent; George W. Kort ries Clancy and A. J. Rocca, vice preside; L. K. Hagenkamp, secretary (re-elected); W. E. Foley, fnancial secretry (re-elected); James iannan, marshal; George McLaughlin,’ trustes; Dr. Ragan and Dr. W. W. W, El he Golden West, has elected: president ; J. C. Martin, view John G. Joly, recording secretary; rank A. Sqith, Snancial secretary; R. Horber, treasurer; George L. Subr, marshal; Prederick L. Seibel. trustee. The officers who will serve California Parlor No. 1 for the next term are: resident; William D. Hobro Jr., an and W. C. Rowlands, vice James J. Jamgison, recording secratary elected): B. F. Hanlon, financial secretary: C. Myron Woiff, marshal; Dr. BenjaminF. Clarke, Dr. John M.’ Heinimann, Dr. Howard Herring- ton, Dr. D. D, Lustig, Dr. Thomas Conrad and Dr.’ L. H. Hoftman, surgeons; Frank P. Sher- man, trustee; William H. Staniels, collector; Robert H. Morse, organist. Lincoln Reliet Corps No. 8, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, has elected the following officers for the year 1900: Dot 8. Mor- timer, president; Josephine Robinson, semior vico Dresident; Mary E. Muleahy, junior vies resident; Mary Furgeson, treasurer; Carrie obinson, chaplain; Mary Parolini, conductor: Jennle . Houghton, guard The foliowing named are the officers of Court Junior Pride of Pacific No. 4, F. of A., for the ensuing term: I. Levy, junior past chief ran- ger; J. Kallman, chiet ranger; A. S. Samuels, subchief ranger: I. . treasurer; 1. O. Kas- ser, financial secretary; Hall Frahm, recording secretary; 8. Goldstein, senior archer; E. Ghi- selll, senor beadle: A. Michaels, junior beadle: Dr. ‘A. Nusbaum, court physictan. Magnolia Lodge, 1. O. 0. F., has slected J. Erickson, noble grand; J. F. Jones, vice 3 Samuel Polack, secretary (re-elected): Stern. financial secretary (re-slected): R. Mater, treasurer (re-elected); Niels Iverson. trustee (re-elected). Keystone Lodge, Knights of Honor, has eleet- d the following as the officers for the ensuing term: J. J. Maher, dictator; E. F. Minnehan, vice dictator; J. Foley, assistant dictator; Fred- erick Ralsch, reporter (re-elected, twenty-fifth term): F. A. Jennings, treasurer; E. F. Joy, chaplain; Joseph Martin, gulde; H. Wilbye, sentinel; T. F. Martin, guardian; E. J. Foley and J. M. Cohn, trustees financial reporter (re-glected, elght ——— Christmas novelties at Townsend's. —_———— Fine plum pudding at Townsend’s. * —_—— Time to send your Eastern friends Townsend's California Glace Fruits: 50c I in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market; Palace.® —_—— Special information suppliéd daily to business houses and publid men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 5§10 Mont- gomery street. 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Get full pargiculars and handsome folder at ticket office, 628 Market street. —_————— Defaulting Racetrack Tout. A warrant was secured from Judge Gra- ham yesterday for the arrest of Al Wil- son, a racetrack tout, on the charge of felony embezzlement. The complamning witness is John K. Cleary, a private de- tective, and he alleges that on December 2 Alfred Schr gave Wilson $200 to bet on a race. Wilson won $50 and absconded with the $200 and the winnings. He has been traced to Los Angeles. ADVERTISEMENTS. WhentheBlood is pale, then your lips and cheeks are pale, your nerves weak, and your whole body greatlydebilitated. Thedoc- torssay “You have anzmia.” There’s just one thing you need—something to make the blood rich and red. B will certainly do this. It will make the most happy changes for you, and soon Misston Lodge ing named as its officers for the approaching term: les A. Day, worshipful master; Charies F. Libby, senior warden; Willlam C. Ordway, junlor warden; George D. 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