The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1899, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1899 TUESDAY ..DECEM BER 19, 180 JHN D, SPRECKE PUBLICATION « Te EDITORIAL ROOVS Teley Delivered by Carriers, Single Co Terms by Mail DALY « Tadis DAILY « udin DALY « ding Sunday), DAILY ¢ SUNDAY WEERLY Al Single Month. . One Year. 3 CALL Ome Year.... postmasters arc anthort subscriptions. CAL Sample coples will be #o n requested OAKLASD OFFICE....c0c00ctcaes N Hroadway C. GEORGE BMROGNITSS, Manager Forelgn Advertisine, Margueite Boild- ing, Chicag NEW YORK (ORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. b oo ...Hernld Squnare NEW YORK RE ISENTATIVE: PERRY LIKENS JR 20 Tribune Boilding WS STANDS . 0. News Co. Fremont House: Audi Great North- um Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria H A. Brentane, 31 Union Sguare; Murray Hill otel WASHINGTON (D. . ENG « OFFICE..Wellington Hotel SH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—I ner Clay, open antil sireet, open untii 8 G439 MeAllister sireet, open until rek. 5 Larkin sirect, open until » ‘elock. 1941 Mission reet, open until 10 e'clock Al street, corner Sixteenth, open w 1096 Vale open antil open until AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vander o mbia—*"The M Pack edermaus.” er—Vaudeville every afternoon and Maron and E plech ™ Ry Wm. G. Layng Xk, Thoroug be of material ben m The ge of the telephone ions yesterday w tory for t nst a powerful corpor Nor was n every respect j equit pose a tax of $1 per qu. achines operated in the ci the desired switch chall be can be re ich line befo wl ns the resolution is excel- e the License Co tee of the Board of it was Supervisors round numbers about 11,000 n state: there t slot tel hines in operation in this city. By the ta il obtain i these ma ally. such machines ought to ndsome addition to municipal rev- 1just burden upon the com 1POSes No ur upon the public, and is thereiore the best i axation which can be devised. on the compa: ke the nd r an abuse an dem from him provides = ling and of serious evil. 1 pany has required the ir nickel bef om he remed, the past the ending patron to deposit him with the party with in g wish, conve not equ t and is informed that r that ve the ser: ntly s been is er ome pther reason exists why he could not wice he had paid for. San Francisco needs the revenue which will be pro wided by impe g0 making up the deficit in license taxes estimated to fol he operatior: the tax far toward of the new charter e people of ed the protection given by the pro- the switch to made before the nickel is exacted. Heretofore the public has had no protection whatever from any fraud practiced by taking money in that way without giving a return for it Thus in a dc good and the true needs of the community It would not be right to pass over this matter with out giving due credit to the Supervisors who have in the closing weeks of their term done this justice to the public. The majority of the board 1 faithful to their pledges made in the campaign wl they were candidates for o be ve | They have accom plished much good for the city, and the adoption of this resolution is but one of the many good acts of legislation which mark their term of service The people may well congratulate them the work of this board, and in doing so should not to give credit where it is due v e In an Arizona theater the other day one of the actors was shot and wounded by another who had loaded his gun by mistake with bullets instead of blanks realism in an Arizona theater, but it was reasonable ce Ives 1 il to suppose that the audience would do the shooting The fine art of newspaper hysteria and journalistic insanity seems to have been cultivated to the limit al yellow sheet. For the ¢ of its patrons at least the proprietor ought t6 change the brand ne smoked in the establishment. on the lc w Business has been running pretty smoothly in Con- gress thus (a; but there will be snags enough before the session is over When you are selecting your Christmas gi forget to pick out Californian articles for your East- «rn friends. s do not Moreover, it is one the corporation cannot | le respect the resolution subserves the | One might expect that sort of melodramatic | THE FINANCIAL DEBATE. 1 OTHING more discouraging to any one look- ing for a statement of principles can be sug- gested than the Democratic debate of the finan- cial measures in the House. xcepting the bolt irom that side oi the House of nott g came ng of the least respect or consideration. t is deser ithout repre tatives of the party to discuss a principle, ent or whether at disbelieve their own professions, the result They taunted, nagged and threw epithet and invective style that belongs only to the base order of stump speaking. What a fall was there from Carlisle, Randall, Morrison, Mills, Cox, Kerr, the who recovered for it ce and respect of the people, 10 and other party One looks i1 through all the swollen stream of drivel, turbid with ilt temper, for a single sentence that is in jine with the g and interests of the country All men know that an intelligent and pa- ical opposition, s a nec ssity to the proper But for the g of our system of goverr first time ry there is no such opposition, and theref is no oppost The | De party at present, under t ined im pu Chicago platiorm and led by a jangle of bel can render the country only one service, and d die During the Civil War it Then Sey 10w s to disba . Thurman and Pendleton, no matter mis order of ts which that was in dying er and with t ken they to a « cial debate tired them ey tried to get a form of 1 th statement in an ed this by a bill they were der No wonder that a smail returning to a former type nciple, in sheer disgust proposes to support the bill, and that others expect to express their decp gue with the party leadership by snubbing the roll- call 50 as to increase the majority for the measure. Out of this situation issues an admonition to all This country builds on its economi ts economic disease. It is to be rule room nly one we to appeal to de for success only *o ilamity, it is an obstruct d Hogg wil cet of Bryan a 1 prob an President and then slow and the vy die It may be truly said that ition of incapacity the country r interest in what it may do or leave eve realiza its recent e 10 furthe in the present session of Congress. It can It can even do no harm. g that it can even do no harm it is vent and discredited. Mr. B ced %o leadership on the damage done by five dry years in Nebraska. He represented the lea e in the Egyptian’s dream, but he wa splace f , for he has been bawling mnd the outside of the pasture, trying to g« le that have fed on the plenty that fc ow he is hoping for another drought, and is the f pestilence and famine. ( f after another 1 bone herd that followed him h ferfoot, stopped until they the plenty th x fat and kick when r he will roar c orders them to follow 1 gran ies y to men who jingle hi in their and will very properly act as ndertaker to a party for which he prescribed as physician R e — The glee with which French, German and Austrian spapers welcome British reverses in South Africa is something more than a mild indication oi why the Czar’s peace conference was a frost. | | = — COMMERCIAL MUSEUMS. NE of the significant features of the dispatches O from Europe summing up the events of the v was the report given of the satis- awction felt in Germany over the assurance that the Government would aid in establishing a great com Berlin with branches other | important cities. It was stated in the dispatches that of the leading merchants of the empire comfi- assert that the establishment of the museum k mercial museum in in y ly with its branches will be the nost important stej toward prométing German commerce that has been | taken for several years The high opinion which the Germans have of the |v derived from a study of the results a museum at Philadelphia. Tt an evidence of the commercial alertness and activity of the enterprise of the Germans in recent years that they note every step of progress taken by other countries and are prompt to profit by the example. What the co-operation of private citizens achieved in Philadelphia the Imperial | Government will promote in Berlin and, moreover, will endeavor to surpass. 1f there were any doubts of the utility and the bene- | fits of the Philadelphia museum they would be dis pelled by this action in emulation on the part of the most enterprising and progressive people of Conti- | Europe. We to advance the movement begun by the Merchants’ Association to establish a commercial museum here. When the suggestion for such a museum was first | made The Call warmly supported it, and all ad- | ditional information on the subject since that time | has increased the confidence that the movement is at | this time one of the most important that engages the ve, therefore, another stimulus | attention of our progressive merchants and manu- | | facturers. preparing such a museum we shall receive no little assistance irom the managers of the Philadelphia muscum. That institution sent agents to every com- mercial people on the globe and collected such a | has | of exhibits of merchantable articles | never hefore been gathered in the history oi world | variety the duplicate, and these, it is said, the Philadelphia mu- | seum will contribute to assist in the promotion of a | museum here. Moreover, the Philadelphia museum | will co-operate with one on this coast in the exchange | of information, and thus the patrons of the San | Francisco museum will have the benefit to a large | extent of the great institution which has already be- | come world famous. It is to be hoped this issue will be taken up with vigor and made one of the principal features of the he leaders in last week’s discussion! | When a party . e of commercial museums has undoubtedly been | ttained by the | It has been repeatedly stated that if we set about | Among them are a good many exhibits in | It use of the T enterprise of civic patriotism during the year. merits support from all business men bec: excellent business reason that it wi I pay. A Denver miner out of luc svicide, and by way of preparing for it set about dig- ging a grave for himseif. About three feet down he struck a d of ore so rich that he got $20,000 for the claim. Whether the story be true or false it is likely to have a good efiect, as it will encourage other intending suicides to dig their own graves and thus save that expense to the publi B e — CUBAN CONDITIONS. i HE holid y recess of Congress is approaching nd as yet no measures have been proposed in cither House looking to a solution of the Cuban ! problem. We hold the island under military government, and the talk goes on about the dangers of independence. The latest discovery, irom military sources, is that the race hatred between the bla d their on side, and the pure Spanish element on the other, forebodes the creation is granted. The - still congeners, one of another Hayti if independenc determined to commit | Spaniards are spoken of as the leading people, whose | ulted and whose interests cident to this discovery is the t that the colored inhabitants wishes alone are to be ve.. In the require our c of disclosure were the leaders of the revolution against Spain and | the men who fought for independence in the swamps and mountains. re the people of Cuba who were said in our declaration of war against Spain to be of right independent, and This being true, they whose behalf we demanded that Spain withdraw her sovereigr We said nothing about the “leading people” who are now consulted. In the of the public mind which pre- ceded the French revolution of 1793 the intere: were uppermost in the minds of sta “leading peoy the Government. One of them, noble noted for his rapacity and cruelty, having died, his probable destiny in the next world was under discussion in his own set. It was intimated that divine justice had | probably condemned him, when a noble lady said, “I lit necessary for our Government to imitate The race hatreds in Cuba are now just w inst Spain we declared war lers of the revolution, iiration of Congress and s persistence from their like or them our citizens were violating the d ity laws by filibustering arms and ammunition t plead surprise at this late day. Ameri can officers penetrated to the insurgent cam and brought back reports. In magazine articles the whole The colored ra was put before us ce was 1. and we i the t of fighti d had fairly won the i penden and We cannot now successfully or, the Assyrian, who 1ah and Tsrael as an ally play the went into t 1t oas 1 American people 1 sendence, and thereaiter they want tariff Cuban labor. They do not ask fo I the r comm ercial intercourse which d of preserving unharmed the wages. We have prospered 1ba, and we propose not to any experiments. 2 nt government there be- v are the habitual experience We had them, and they nitude than they ever did in losophical historian has ever said a repet y in the bleeding of recog standard American free trade with imperil that prosperity by without ippose that an independ ll free governments reached a great Rome. But no that they proved ou m; Another discovery re races in Central and South America, and among the Italians, French. Spaniards and Portuguese in Eu rope, are exactly the same characteristics that were observed among the Romans in their best and The mightiest d. Latins have races in contact with the re have usually accented them: In turn it may be said that the infirmities of the Anglo-Saxons are only the reflection of the racial characteristics of their an- cestors, and the members of that race have no war- rant in morals to hold a coroner’s inquest over other races or to probate their estates. It is time to have and to disembarrass our pective burden that will come it ssume the right to administer upon the Latin estate in Cuba, done with such nonsense revenues from a pre we B It is feared now that the British bull may have to gainst the tiger before he has finished with the At any rate. Mic 1 Davitt, at a recent pro Dublin, threatened him with the Prince of Monaco, the man that runs the bank at Monte Carlo. Boer Boer mecting at —_— In a recent speech a German statesman asked dramatically if the world had any more cast-off isl- ands that Germany might buy. Somebody ought to keep him in good humor until Uncle Sam gets the Philippines in a position to put them on the market. | - | The announcement is made that Professors Hussey |and Aitken at Mount Hamilton have observed | through the Lick telescope during the past year no less than eighty-eight double stars. Can it be that | they have been scanning the theatrical firmameng? A mild-mannered hushand of this city named Grub- bing is suing his wife for divorce on the ground of | | cruelty. He might have known that his name was so suspiciously like drubbing that even a woman would suspect that she had an advantage. | A writer for the New York Press asserts that the I$1nl|d:1r(l Oil Company carries in the banks of that | city a cash balance in gold varying from $40,000,000 to | $60.000,000, and if so its trust in the banks must be | about as big as its trust in oil. Rabbi Nieto of the Temple Sherith Israel, in a re- | cent sermon asks the questions, “What need is there | for hell?” “Why should we have i It may be as well to state that the rabbi does not expect an imme- diate answer to either. | | | It is reported in the East that the railroad managers | are trying to form a combination for a general ad- vance in freight rates, which is another proof that prosperity has its troubles as well as hard times. —— The irreverent may see in the announcement from Kentucky that Judge Gale is to go to Congress as successor to Mr. Settle a madern application of tha <ld proverb, Aiter a calm the storm. A London newspaper wants to know how many Boer bullets it takes to kill a British soldier. General Buller ought to be an excellent authority on that sub- ject. in | tell you God will think twice before he damns a man | The staying quality | incapacity for self-government. | ently made is that the Cubans | ted by the weakness of a dying race, the We de that there are any symptoms of the Lati ces. The infirmities that dot the sixty s of congeners of the Latin | taken on those peculiarities and | - | specifications contained in the cc | nishing th B e B e S e e B B e e O SR S S o o S o L e e I e — D S S S S A S A S, o [PRE TORIA. I pilt] RACE TRACK, : === ' ! T eEeb eIt eI e teieieh e oo e b R e e B SR o 2 THE TROUBLES OF A LANDLORD. FURNITURE 15 NOT OF HOME MANUFACTURE Trades Council Makes a Protest. HALL OF JUSTICE CONTRACT MEASURES REFERRED TO BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Byington’s Effort to Take Up Turn- table Order Fails—Wooden Poles on Howard Street Must Come Down. D The Board of Supervisors received a communication at yesterday's meeting from the Bullding Trades Council, In which it is claimed that the contractors were not living up to the specifications in providing furniture of home manufac- ture for the Hall of Justice building. The communication, which was signed by W. M. Page, secretary of the Coun- cil, was read and referred to the Public Buildings Committee, and is as follows. ructed by the inform you that th Trades Coun- ation of the act for fur- ot Desk meeting 1l to e viol Hall of Justice F Company was brought up at the last held December 14, 1599. As we understand all work and furniture in | said Hall must be of home manufacture, and as this has Dot been complied with, we deem @ dgreat and severe injustice has been done mechanics of San Franclsco, and pray that your honorable board investigate the matter. We claim th id furnjture could have been manufactured here equally as well and cheap. h practices do not improve the bullding p or enriching of the municipality and must of necessity retard the growth and prosperity of_the city. Therefore, gentlemen, we pray that you will give this matter the consideration it deserves, and, if agreeable, the Council will only be too happy to appear before your body at any time for the purpose of alding you in any in- vestigation you may chose to undertake. Supervisor Byington felt encouraged at the almost unanimous vote to pass the telephone ordinances that he thought it a good opportunity to ask that the order forbldding turntables where they abut on the sidewal taken o o the hands of the Street Committee, where slumbering it has been for several months. “The turntable,” said Mr. Byington, “is just as big a crime and abuse as the telephone, and I mov up by the board immediately.” Chairman Aigeltinger explained that the Street Committee was walting for an opinfon from the Cit ttorney, which would be ready next Thursday. The 1 to be satisfied with the ex- Byington's motion was board seem planation, it The Superintendent of Streets was au- thorized to remove all wooden poles now being erected by the Market-street Ral way Company on Howard and Twenty- fourth streets. The Mayor stated that the company privilege and that the franchise called for ornamental iron poles. Phelps said that he knew that the company could not get iron poles from the East for six months to come. The wooden poles, however, will have to come down. The schedule submitted by the Finance Committee transferring the sum of $ 469 24 to the general fund was lald over for one week. Of this amount $47916 T4 is to come from moneys gfild as taxes on bonds under protest, and $2552 from overpayment of personal property tax fund of 18%. The apportionment of the money was published In Sunday’'s Call, and th lnllowins aries of sPanhandle Commissioners, $4000; Fish and Game Warden, salary three months, $300; expenses, $75; Gas Inspect- or's expenses, The Monarch Athletic Club was granted | a license to give a boxing exhibition on January 2 on payment of $100 license. The foliowing resolution was introduced by Supervisor Collins and passed to print: Resolved, That an anpual license of $1000, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A healthful stim- ulantthatimparts strength, and by aiding digestion and quickening cil the circulation, purifies the blooa and builds up the system without “Rest.” or “ Change"— Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey All druggists and grocers. Avoid subst has a proprietary dany bortle, 11 your dealer cannat sapply Jou be seat, prepaid, on receipt of $1.00. & b Valuable book of information and testimonials sent on application. DUFFY MALT WHISKEY CO.,Rochester,N.’ itutes, they are that it be taken | had not been granted the | items were added: Sal- | pavable in advance, be and is hereby fixed and | mposed by the Board of Supervisors for the year 1900, the same to be pald by all domestic incorporated athletic clubs In this city an: county under whose auspices hoxing exhini tions may be conducted. Sald license fee tc be pald to the License Collector and by h' turned over to the City Treasurer. On rec | of $1006 the Clerk of the board shall lssue & annual license to the club paying the same The resolution authorizing the City and County Attorney to compromise for $i0 the claim of R. C. de Boom for land taken | In constructing a culvert at Mission and Canal streets was referred to the ‘neom- | ing Board of Public Works. A resolution was presented directing the Street Committee to contract with G rett Welch and Thomas Sheehan to fur- nish all fuel. s and labor necessary to operate urth-street bridge for two years. On motion of Supervicor Deasy’the resolution was also referred to the Board of Public Works Harry Beasley s paid $27 for services as police patrol dri from November 1 to 9. he having received no notice of his discharge until the latter Supervisor Algeltinger yr - lution allowing $11 65 each to the janitors who were dismissed October 5. The mones is for work done the first five days of the month. The measure s referred to the | Building Committee. The contracts were agaln postponed, and the Gas Inspector was directed to as- the compromise rates are ac- as company. to certain if ceptable to the +hr bdard adjourned, Tuesday afternoon meet next CHRISTMAS CALL | IS IN DEMAND‘ Editor The Call_Dear Sir: The San | Francisco Riding Club will give a Christ- | mas ride on the 27th Inst. for the benefit | of the Armitage Orphanage for F | We have been trying to get up a suitable poster, but have been at a loss to know what to use. The back cover of your Christmas edition, which s one of un- | | usual beauty and appropriateness, solves | the problem, and would suit gur purpose perfectly. | " If you will be kind enough to print us a | number of coples to be used for this pur- pose we will be exceedingly grateful. Re- | spectfully, ELEANOR C. HOOPER. AROUND THE | CORRIDORS | D. K. Minor, a leading business man of Arcata, is at the Grand. B. F. Shepard, a land owner and capl- talist of Fresno, is at the Grand. Marion Biggs Jr., an Oroville capitalist and politician, is registered at the Grand. C. R. Downs, a well-known mining man | of Sutter Creek, Is a guest at the Occl- dental. Captain A. A. Polhamu magnate of San Diego, irand. | Charles Maze Jr., one of the prominent | business men of Modesto, is a guest at the Lick. J. F. Clapp, a mining expert of Chicago, | |18 among the recent arrivals at the Grand, | | where he arrived yesterday. John Thomann, a wealthy vineyardist | and wine man of St. Helena, is registered | for a short stay at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. William Tevis and Waiter James have come down from Bakerstleld and are staying at the Palace. | A. Brown of the State Board of Equai- | ization has come down from his home in Milton and Is staying at the Lick | D. W. Wickersham, a wealthy mine | owner of Arizona, is registered at Lick while on a business trip to this city. Dr. Oskar Nechod, a German scientlst, | 1s one of the arrivals of vesterday at the | Palace. He registers from the Father- | land. | J. A. Chanslor and C. A. Canfield, two | prominent and lucky Investors in the ofl lands of the south, are at the Palace, where they arrived yesterday from Los | Angeles. H. F. Huestis ia among those who reg- istered at the Occidental yesterday. Mr. | Huestis is on his way to Manila from fus | home in Chicago. He goes to the capital | of Luzon to superintend the erection of a | | cold storage plant for the United Stares Government. the steamboat i S & guest at the ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.--J. B. Alexander of Los Angeles is at the Fifth Avenue. C. B. Barnes, A. W. Hinds, W. A. Ral- bourn, Dr. J. H. Macready and wife, Dr. Kate J. Howard, of San Francisco, and Mrs, L. H. Harrls of Los Angeles are at the Grand. Dr. R. A. McLean, Miss Dean. Miss Ethel W. Dean, of San Fran- clsco, are at the Netherlands. Samuel Tyack of Ban Francisco is the Gilsey. —_— Calendars for 1900. “California Violet: “‘Golden Popples" and “California Wild Flowers” are the most popular calendars for 130: price fe each. Catalogues and price list of all kinds _of calgndars qunlsh_fd on applica- 0., 7 tion. Sanborn, Vail & 41 Market. * —————— LIQUOR WAS THE THEME. Mrs. Edholm and Rev. Mr. Rowell Spoke Before the Prohibition Executive Committee. A meeting of the San Francisco central executive committes of the Prohibition League was held last evening at the headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on McAllister street. | Two speakers addressed those present. | Mrs. Charlton Edholm and Rev. Mr Rowell. The first named made a plea for the work of rescuing young girls, and al- ' | the Informat | street, Olsen grocery that nds m eged there is by f young th, and ? the quor traffic f vour a system girls are e lald the the door 1 cause of the lig of brothers in th the Hqu le 101 that » churches dead t han t ctlon such h President Nich Announcement w Thurman, who {s prople, would be he ture. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MARRIAGES AT SEA-M . M Cal. THIS correspondent asks f a couple were | by the corres t th her much as if as him on shore were contract question as to that contract reccgnized, be va lid. INVENTIONS—A., San Jose, Cal n you desire about ps that purchase new Inventions fr ir tors, you address vy If first first-class patent agent, as this ment cannot advertise the busine. gne. If you have an invent form a net lock to hold depart- ats firmly place on fishplates of railroads etter communicate with some cers of the railroads, tained a patent in W th »1 after you have ob- srder to protect your self, for the companies ars always ready to take hold of any new invent! th will improve the condition of the ro This department has not been able to learn that any company has offered a premium for such a device. Fine plum pudding at Townsend's, * ————e— Mocha, Camelia. Pistache for sairee 315 Lakin —_————— Your name stamped in gold letters free of charge on all leather goods bought from Sanborn, Vail & (o . —_———— Time t6 send your Townsend's Californ} in fire-etched boxes walting help. Thousands of p. ruf hand to Special Information supplied business houses and public me Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), gomery street. Telephone Main —_————— Ordered to Vacate. Wil remove in nuary to 735 Market and move back to 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding in February. Townsend Glace Fruit and s il l Palace Hotel bldg.* No new year's table is complete without a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the South American tonic of exquisite flavor. DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Prico Lists Mallg on Applieation. BOOKS AND STATIONERY, THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPANY, 342 to 30 i.reet. Above Powell. ! mmmcu—m- AND STATIONERY. COAL. COKF AND PIG IRON, 3.C WILSON & 0., -, =%, 22t Street. *phone _ FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS BOYES & CO., upoiog, B iny. FURS. 4 Kesry s, upetairs . atest styles, ‘omest prices, remadaiing J. N. LOFSTAD, IRIN FOUNDERS. Ny CUNDRY. Pt Qd Plack 1 22 Montgomery st PRINTING. E- C NUGHES, . simr=™, . STATIONER AND PRINTER, DA STEAM COML "% 28 RIVER TES, is the Coal 1 market. oun.-nm-flum-m-.“.