The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN WEDNESDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICF «Market and Third, S. F. S68. EDITORIAL ROOMS, .. ...217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Main 1874, Terms by Mall, Including Postager CALL (including ¥), one year..8$6.00 ¥), 6 months.. 3.00 DAILY (ncluding Sunday), 3 montbs.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Mont 630 SUADAY CAL e Yen 1.50 WEEKLY CAlL 1.00 All postm +sse0.008 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Forelgn Advertising, Marguette Bufld- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON ++es.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.... <29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGE WS STANDS: Eherm House 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A, Brenta , 31 Umton fquare; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. ) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. 7 Montgomery street, cor- 500 Hayes U39 McAllister . open unt ) o'clock. 615 Larkin open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission pen until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o’clock. Valencin street, open until ® o'clock. leventh street corner Twenty BRANCH OFFICES—! | Coon in Dixie” Troubadours.” Fledermaus.” | beater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | n and Flils streets—Specialties. and Coney Island. Bay, Market street, | | Races. o'clock, Grooeries and | venue. eming, December 21, at 7:45 72 Howard street. that the ical to California, will gton reciprocity onholes. With all formation we regard ly unlikely, and, if likely, to The Governments with ¢ been negotiated will hardly s courteous, and California only one sort of sleep for the f w after they have been put of pose ve to § ne home industries preferences | these reciprocity ‘ { | e French reciprocity rket for the Standard | the horticulture of | France nothing, for oil producer. There- wers are asked to pay out | vy to the Standard Oil Com- If the | proposed extension to urpose of finding a mar- | s, the bounty is taken ornia and the | to enter France. ice of the interests of many to | The argument for it is that ! commerce of the country. nced under the impulse. But good the bounty should be a nd should be voted directly out pportunity to ventilate the whole a dangerous modification of ites free trade so closely that ble to see the difference. If it is wise iffi fence in one place to increase ue against the greater increase that follow entire removal of the tariff I'he interests of California horticulture are seriously stake, but we warn the country that a great prin- is at stake also. If the Republican party can throw protection into the air again, by pro- iat it is so wrong that reciprocity must miti- gate it, an issue is furnished, ready-made, to any po- Jitical antagonist who has the wit to take it up that find Republicans disarmed and in disorder. We hope that our California representatives will refuse to be satisfied with the pigeonholing of a pestilent proposition, but will challenge it into the n and fight it on its conspicuous and indefensible demerits. Our rural industries are greatly damaged by the intermittent chill and fever they get on this subject. It is the malaria of all our business calcu- lations. We want to know whether all we have is to be continually imperiled every time our backs are turned. If protection is of value we want our share. 1f free trade is preferable we demand that every in- dustry try it and that the experiment be not at our sole expense. rd te e — If the revelations of the Probate Court in this city continue in reference to the estates of deceased mil- lionaires probate lawyers will be looking for a new job or find some way of making a combination with the Assessor. Three collisions, six victims maimed and bruised and scores frightened is a reasonably good record for one day's service of the local street railroads. It is about time that some of them employed a red cross | such amount as is r | such safeguards as the House bill | endless chain is put in motion; greenbacks flow into | fore the alleged demonetizing of silver. | the panics of 1837 and 1837, which, in proportion to | | admission that he | exception. A SPECULATORS' P@ANIC. EVERAL months ago there was a mad rush to S buy the many trust stocks that were listed in Wall street. Politicians were furiously denouncing the trusts, while the speculative spirit of the people was tempt- ing them into existence by eagerly taking their stocks. At that time The Call treated the muitiplica- tion of trusts as a result of speculation rather than as a permanent change in the industrial methods of the country. Admitting that the survival of some out of the many trusts so suddenly created would follow, still that would mean the permanence of such as had genuine commercial utility. In that discussion of the subject we said also that the general rush for trust stocks, being speculative, was one of the conditions which implied a money panic and a shrinkage of speculative values which would affect those which were non-speculative. This forecast was justified when the market had to be relieved by the offer of the treasury to redeem $25,000,000 in Government bonds, and again by the failures and panic of Monday in New York. There is no denying that the spirit of speculative gambling in this country has been cultivated by the practice of applying to the Federal treasury for help. Those who gamble for a living are more reckless when they feel that the treasury can be depended upon to sustain gambling values and to ease_the pains of liquidation 'by pouring out money in emergencies. This feeling was the basis of Black Friday, and has been in every speculative panic experienced since the fiscal policy of the country underwent the change of 1862, Financiers have seen clearly that this process has always entangled the public and private credit of the country. To some the reasons for Federal relief have seemed good, because actual values and speculative values are not discriminated between when a panic comes on. Gambling has been ambushed behind le- gitimate business, which it can carry down with it, and the Government has rallied to save legitimate business from destruction. It is worth noting that the financial legislation which passed the House on Monday is the begin- | ning of the extrication of the public credit from its | partnership with the private credit of the country. | When speculation can no longer resort to the | treasury for protection there will be less of it. When the treasury can protect itself against depletion of its gold reserve that reserve may be less in volume, and J ased will enter into circulation | to serve the financial needs of the count Without provides every speculative panic proceeds to tap the treasury; the | | the treasury and gold flows out; and the greenbacks, | immediately reissued, immediately return, demanding more gold, until to save the public credit bonds have | |to be sold to get more gold to supply the endless | | drain. This amazing scheme is ended by the new | When gold is paid out for greenbacks they stand canceled to all uses except reissue for gold | again. The speculator's permission to eat his cake and keep it is ended. All men who know the de- law. sirability of divorcing public from private credit will | hail the reform. When this bill is the law panics may still come. No financial system, no standard of value, has ever prevented them, and none ever will. Until the lottery of speculation is on such a basis that the holder ot every ticket gets a prize larger than the ticket cost these panics will occur, and that means they will al- ways occur. But hereafter the holders of blanks can- rot demand that the Government cash them. The proponents of unsound money are already in the field citing Monday’'s liquidation as an effect of the House bill. But these same prophets ceaselessly | jackdaw about the crime of 1873, and paint in rosy | tints the conditions that were upon the country be- They forget | the volume of business then existing to be affected | by them, were as destructive as the two panics that | have occurred since 1873. It may as well be made known that the sound | 3 | | money sentiment of the country proposes to go for- | 1 to the omplishment of its purpose though every speculative trust stock on Wall street goes to | the barber-shops for shaving-paper and though the | politicians who shriek against trusts stand on the | corners crying out against sound money measures as | the cause of the downfall of the trusts which they ; | have just denounced. D United States Senator Quay is authority for the is willing to be denounced as everything his enemies choose to call him, with one He still retains self-respect enough to | deny with vehemence that he is an associate of Dan Burns. G rush of holiday business or pleasure to distract his B e S, OUR MUNICIPAL ISSUES. RATIFYING indeed are the evidences of irvolved in them, and if the vote requisite to assure progress and improvement be cast on election day we can look forward to beginning a new year of mu- nicipal development unparalleled in our annals, There have been many objections urged against the various improvements proposed, but they have not been of a kind to affect the opinions of men who are desirous of making a larger, a better, a healthier and a more beautiful San Francisco. They have ap- pealed mainly to those who do not distinguish be- tween economy and parsimony, or perceive that a community which does not advance must retrograde. To the progressive clements of our population the | objections have amounted to no more than the usual | silurian protest against progress of any kind. To the objections first made that the improvements would cost too much ample refutation was given by claborate calculations showing that the cost would be comparatively slight and would not materially in- crease the burdens of taxation. To the second ob- jection that the grade of the extension of the pan- handle would require cuts so deep as to destroy the value of property answer was made by expert demon- stration that an easy roadway can be provided with- out entailing either a deep cut or a heavy expense. So it has been with all other objections. They have been refuted one after another by facts and figures of undoubted accuracy. It would be indeed a sad blow to the city if the opportunity for improvement now so promising were lost either through the objections of unprogressive people or through the indifference of the business attachment. ———— Once more we remind you it will be the proper thing this season to patronize home industries in pur- chasing Christmas gifts. The Produce Exchange Trust Company of New York has failed for eight million dollars. It could not produce. men and taxpayers generally. Other large cities are expending, or have expended, vast sums of money in providing parks for their people. If San Francisco do not provide an adequate park system now she will have to do so later on at an increased cost. Every year of delay will add to the amount of expenditure, Prompt action in this respect is economy. It is to be remembered that these improvements | rates. popular interest in the approaching bond elec- | tions. No good citizen should permit the | mind from these issues. The welfare of the city is | made by the public will prompt to other improve- ments through the gifts of liberal millionaires. As was well said by D. V. Kelly in a communication to the Merchants’ Association Review: “Vote for the park bonds also because all such expenditures educate and encourage civic pride. Can any man say that Sharon would have donated a playground, Crocker built a conservatory, Huntington a Stow lake, Spreckels a majestic music-stand and Sweeney an observatory, if our citizens had not provided a Golden Gate Park that suggested these public-spirited ? Would we have a museum if we had no park?” Such questions carry their answers with them. In fact, every well-founded consideration of the matter tends to the conclusion that the purposed park im- provement should be provided. It is as necessary 1s the schools, the hospital or the sewers. Let every voter of true citizenship bear the issue in mind and work for the cause of progress and improvement. The Call would suggest to the members of the Uni- versity of California football team that in preparation for their meeting with the Carlisle Indians they shave their heads. Their presence on the gridiron with the chrysanthemum mops of hair now in fashion will be nothing less than a flying in the face of Providence and an invitation to the red men to take their scalps. B — TELEPHONE COMPANIES AND THE PUBL.IC. Y the passage of the resolutions imposing a | B license tax upon nickel-in-the-slot machines, and providing that the desired switch shall be made for the patron before the nickel can be demanded from him, the Supervisors undoubt- edly surprised the telephone magnates. They have so | long defied the public they had reached the conclu- | sion that nothing would ever be attempted to limit their extortions. They thought they could get the resolutions postponed and put off until the present Board of Supervisors went out of office. They sup- posed that by free wires to back yards or other such means it would be possible to control a majority of ithe Supervisors and have the resolutions either shelved or defeated. Hence the passage of the resolu- tions was a surprise that pains them in their tenderest sensibilities. It is not improbable they will have another sur- prise when the Legislature meets. It is well known | that through the clever manipulations of the astuts Mr. Pillsbury, attorney for the corporation, there was sneaked into the new charter a provision which debars the Board of Supervisors from regulating telephone Feeling secure in the advantage obtained by | that trick, the telephone managers have forgotten the existence of the State Legislature, or have overlooked the fact that it has power to regulate rates. When next the Legislature meets its attention will be di- rected to the extortions of the company, and it is then that another surprise will agitate the nerves of the telephone managers, accustomed as they are to jar- ring of the “buzzers” they employ for the torment of the public. There is ample justification for a governmental re- | duction of the telephone charges now imposed upon the public. It is true that before the Supervisors, and generally when talking where the public can hear, Secretary Eaton asserts the poverty of the telephone | corporations and complains that the wages of girls | are so high and the cost of wire so excessive there | The Call, however, has | are no profits in the business. information-that this seli-same Secretary Eaton not long ago urged friends to purchase stock in the tele- phone company, and in the course of his urging stated that to his knowledge the earnings of the two companies average $250,000 a month, and that 40 per | cent of the sum is clear profit. When Secretary Eaton talks of the small income of the telephone company he is talking buncombe, but when he talked to the friend whom he wished to have invest in telephone stock he was talking business. These and other facts equally pertinent to the issue can be shown to the satisfaction of the Legislature, and in the end it will be found that while the com- pany has profited much by the adroit service of Mr. Pillsbury in fixing the charter it has not completely escaped from the supervision of law. ——— A local preacher has arrived at the conclusion that | man, considered from every point of view that may be suggested by his necessities, has no need for hell. | That preacher must have been studying the signs of the times or reading the reports of the war in South Africa. S to be interesting and probably valuable has been made public by a suit recently brought before the United States Circuit Court sitting in Boston for the purpose of recovering $3710 for an alleged breach of contract relative to the employment | by one of the theaters in that city of eight girls technically described as “mascots.” The plaintiffs in the case are members of a firm in London whose business is that of supplying chorus | girls to any theater that wishes them. In an account | given of the case by a special correspondent of the New York Times it is stated the company collects girls and trains them for the stage. They are taught dancing and singing, and as soon as they are con- | sidered competent to perform the duties required of | them the company secures engagements for them, in- dividually or in groups, in theaters all over the world. | Hundreds of theaters are said to be thus supplied. The girls are in a state of virtual servitude, subject to | the will of their masters, and compelled to go wher- ever they send them. When employment is obtained for them a large percentage of their salaries goes to the masters, and is paid directly to them by the per- | son who contracts for the girls’ services. The ar- | rangement is one sanctioned and protected by law, and care is taken to accept only such pupils as are either by themselves or their guardians competent to make contracts for the sale of their services. Now that is as nice a trade as ever was, and it is not easy to understand why there has not been a trust or at least a stock company organized to handle it. It would be a pleasing variation in the stock exchange list to have quotations of chorus girls from fair to middling in assorted lots. Such stocks would be al- ways lively and moving, with an upward tendency generally, but of course a great slump when the frost is on the stage and the angels cease to sing. To the uninitiated the trade will appear very much like a traffic in coolies, or at least as an importation of contract labor, but then the uninitiated must not trust to appearances where chorus girls are con- cerned. They come to us by contract, it is true, but they come as artists to elevate and refine us, and not as ‘laborers to work us. All the same the suit of* the London firm was dismissed from the United | States court on the ground of a lack of jurisdiction, and there seems to be no appeal to a Police Court, so the chances of the plaintifis getting their money, pro- vided any be due them, is slight. All of which goes to show it is not always safe to trust even to mascots when dealing with Boston people. THE CHORUhsi GIRL MARKET. OME information of a nature sufficiently novel | ISDAY, telephone | DECEMBER 20, 1899. VICTORIA'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT. i i g | : N A e e Mall. This is what the Queen’s “little personal present’” to her soldfers looks Iike. Designs of boxes to contain the cakes of chocolate for Tommy at the front were submitted to her Majesty, and finally the one shown above was selected. Itis a very handsome tin, with rounded edges and corne bears on the lid an embossed medallion {n gold of the Queen, with “South Africa— 1900 to the right and the monogram of V. R. L to the left, has previously pointed out, 90,000 of these boxes are to be sent to the soldlers in South Africa, and each box will contaln half a pound of fine chocolate.—London Enameled in red, the box As the Dally Mail “BOBS." [General Roberts, who has fust been ordered tg Africa to take the chief com- mand of”the British forces against the Boers, 1s sald to be the idol of the fight- | ing soldlers of the empire. Their pet pname for him s “Bobs.’ He won his reputation in India and Rudyard Kipling ‘hu set forth in the following character- | istic verses what the soldiery there think of their plucky little leader, for General | Roberts {s one of the smallest men in the Our Bobs. If 1t bucks or kicks or rears, ‘E can sit for twenty yea; With a smile round both Can't yer, Bobs? Then ‘ere’s to Bobs Bahadur, Little Bobs, Bobs, Bob: *E's our pukka Kandahader— Fightin' Bobs, Bobs, Bobs! s the dood of Aggy Chel, ‘E's the man that done us well, An’'_we'll follow 'im to ‘ell, Won't we, Bobs? It a limber's slipped a trace, *Ook on Bobs. It & marker's lost ‘is place, Dr by Bobs. coat, at, not play the goat o’ you Under Bobs. ‘E’e little down on drink, Chaplain Bobs; But it keeps us outer Clink— Don’t it, Bobs? Bo we will ‘not complain, Tho' 'e’s water on the brain, If ‘e leads us stralght again— Blue-light Bobs. It you stood ‘im on ‘is ‘ead, Father Bobs, You could spill a quart o’ lead Outer Bobs. ‘E’s been at it thirty years, An’ amassin’ souveneers In the way o' slugs an’ spears— Aln’t yer, Bobs? s little, but ‘e's wise; a terror for his size, e does not advertise— Do yer, Bobs? An’ Now they've made a bloomin’ lord Outer Bobs, falr reward— Where '1s "elmet used to set; But_we know you won't forget— Will yer, Bobs? Then ‘ere’'s to Bobs Bahadur, Little Bobs, Bobs, Bobs! Pocket-Wellin'ton an’ ‘arder— Fightin' Bobs, Bobs, Bobsl This ain’t no bloomin’ ode, But you've ‘elped the soldler's load An’ for benefits bestowed, Bless yer, Bobs! |AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. J. D. Young of Stockton is at the Lick. Dr. A. H. Sweeney of Fresno is at the Grand. T. S. C. Lowe of Pasadena is at the California. W. 8. Duncan, a Detroit merchant, is at the Palace. W. C. Cork, a merchant of Portland, 's at the Palace. Judge N, K. Harris of Fresno is stop- ping at the Lick. Benjamin Latz, a merchant of Portland, is at the California. Colonel D. B. Fairbanks, the Petaluma | banker, 1s at the Lick. Benator Thomas Flint Jr. and wife are stopping at the Palace. J. A. Ames, a mining man of Milwaukee, 1s stopping at the Grand. Colonel C. C. Royce, a frult grower of Chico, 1s at the California. H. Matsul and H. Mizata, merchants of Toklo, are at the Occidental en route to Japan. 8. I Allord, a capitalist and large land owner of Humboldt County, is at the Grand. C. G, Lundblade of the firm of Roscoe & Lundblade, leading merchants of Eu- reka, is in town. Captain G. E. French, who has seen ser- vice in the Philippines, arrived yesterday and Is at the Palace, Captain W. B. Homer, Major William W. McCamman, H. A. Armstrong, C. H. Noble and A. A Augur, U. B. A, are guests at the Occidental. G. M, Whitney, the well-known Hono- lulu planter, arrived in this city yester- day and is at the Occldental with his wife and children. Colonel V. D, Middleton, at one time chief medical Inspector of the Pacific Coast Department, arrived in the city yes- terday/and is staying et the Occidental. Major Roudlez, quartermaster of the United States volunteers, arrived in this city Monday evening. He will leave for Manila within a few weeks to superintend Frederick Myrick, a well-known and popular retall dealer In liquors and hotel man of Placerville, is in this city, and ex- pects to locate In business here In the near future, the construction of a mammcth refriger- ator, which will hold 5000 head of cattle, 100 tons of bacon, 100 tons of vegetables, 100 tons of butter and eggs, 7500 sheep and 600 gallons of distilled water. Max H. Fiscker, representing the Staats-Zeitung, has arrived from New York City and i{s among the guests at the Grand. Mr. Fischer expects to remain some time In this city and before his re- turn East will tour the State. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—W. J. Bevan of San Francisco Is at the Hoffman. N. B. Balley of El Dorado, Cal., Is at the Im- perial. G. A. White and Miss Cora White of Sacramento are at the Gilsey. Dr. M. W. Franklin of San Franecisco is at the Minot. ——— PhA KA KK KKRAKKA KKK Kk kXK@ 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 is limited. R s TS ¥ @ Kk ok ok kok ko ko ko ok * * * * * : * * * * * k] “HELLO, OOM PAUL!" They say you're slow and old, Oom Paul! You're uncivilized, we're told, Oom Paul! Your whiskers are a sight, And your features are a fright, But when it comes to fight— You're All Right! Oom Paul! Your clothes they sald were greasy, Oom Paui! And to lick you would be easy, Oom Paull But we hear them boasting less Now that they're in sore distress— A!“n:l they in a pretty mess? ° Guess Yes! Oom Paul! Now, you do wear baggy pants, Oom Paul! You'd be awkward In a dance, Oom Paui! But vou've made a gallant stand To defend your native land— 8o we're proud to shake your hand, You've Got Banat Oom Paull We understood at first, Oom Paul! Before the shells had burst, Oom Paull That ere this your flag would drop And your “Insurrection” sto Bl‘}l Wwe've not yet seen you flop— ou" Top! Oom Paul!l Seems their empire {s in danger Oom Paul! Since their dog got In your man, r Oom Eul! Well, the brute has had its day, And for your success we pray, Kick the cur from out your way, You're K! Oom Paull LOUIS GOLDSTONE. —_——— EAGLE, ALASKA, RISES TO SPEAK EAGLE, Alaska, Oct. 31, 159, Editor of The Call-Dear Bir: The Chamber of Commerce of Eagle cordlally invites you to be present at a meeting | and dinner to be held December 20, 1899, at 6 o'clock p. m. The object of the chamber is, in gen- eral, the development of the mining, com- mercial, municipal and agricultural terests of this section of Alaska. The subjects to be considered at the special meeting are as follows: 1. A survey of the mining laws applica- ble to Alaska, includin titles, assess- ments and proof of work done in repre- !en!(’;l_g claims. 3. e relation of the several mining districts to E: as a depot of supplies. 3. What effect the prices of supplies | have upon the development of the mining | and oth 6. W interests. 4. What means can be devised to induce 4 more thorough prospecting of this sec- tion, 5. The feasibility of summer and winter trafls from FEagle to Jack Wade Creek er parts of this district. hat advantage, if any, is there in thawing machines. Able speakers will be selected to discuss the foregoing subjects. An early answer, if possible signifying your acceptance, desired. Sincerely yours, J. F. HOBBES, President Eagle Chamber of Commerce. EMILE QUARRE, Secretary. CHRISTMAS EDITION POSTAGE Postage on this issue of The Call is as follows: Domestic, 4c; for- eign, 8c. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. City. There is a naval station at Wash- ington, D. C. Captain Alexander H. Mc- Cormick Is the commandant of the yard and station. It was established in 1504 and covers twenty-seven acres of ground fronting on the Anacostia River, at the foot of Eighth street, a mile southeast from the Capitol. The yard is no longer used for the construction of vessels, but 1s an important depot for the manufacture of ordnance store: THE NEW CHARTER-J. O'C., City. Under the new charter all subordinate employes in each department of the city Government except chief clerks and cash- lers of heads of departments will owe thelr positiol . to the direct or indirect influence of the Mayor, as he has the a pointing of the Civ’fl Service Commllllog: ers, who in turn will have the appolrit- ment of the employes. He will appoint the School Board, which will appoint the teachers; the Fire Commissioners, who will appoint the members of the Fire De- artment, and the appointment of the olice Commissioners, who will appoint the members of the Police Department. MUST . BE A CITIZEN—Citizenship, City. An individual who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States cannot secure a position in the city government of San Francisco under the new charter, for that instrument says: “All deputies, clerks, assistants and other employes of the city and county of San Franclsco must be citizens of the United States, and must, dnrlnf their respective terms of office or employment, actually reside in the d? and county, and must have so resided for one year next preced- lnfi thelr léwolnlmem," ‘ALnere are no po- sitions, Federal or municipal, that can be filled under civil service rules by one who 18 not a citizen of the United States. INTERNATIONAL BILLIARDS—A. M. 8., Windsor, Cal. The International bil- llard match between Frank C. Ives of Chicago and John Roberts of London was played at Humphrey’s Hall, Knights- bridge, London, May 29 to Jun 1893, It was a compromise game of English bil- llards, 600 points in six nights, English table. English govern, except as to openings, which it w. sheuld measure inches across the opening at the fll.lllwo the 'I‘k“t'.ln:'!l:?d ho bEl? ation Pockets; 2%-inc s, ins m of 21-18, English regulation. Pus and spot strokes barred. Jawing of ball r anchored balls tted. Score: ves, 6000; Roberts, 3521; best run by lves, 289; by Roberts, #45. Ives got the balls wed, at the mouth of one of the pockets and his long run e mo- notonous. - VSR A KNOT-—State Range, Bullard’s Bar, Yuba County, Cal. A knot, in navigation, s an appliance for measurement of the rate at which a vessel is moving. Thus uod.lknoln&r-mu.mfln. The log S SRR Y 6 by 12 lard rules to size of pocket in- | the ."‘lr:’ld lgn" eographical mile n Bour—that Is The log be- ing cast overboard, note is carefully taken of how mnnr knots run out in hal minute, and it follows that the vess foing through the water at the same nur er of feoxrlphlcnl miles per hour. . proportion of a geographical to a statuie mile being nearly that of seven to six, o vessel making twelve knots an hour |s traveling at the rate of fourteen statuts miles In that perfod of time. —_———— PRAISE FOR THE CHRISTMAS CALL LYITALIA Our esteemed contemporary The C has Issued its Christmas edition, whi simply a masterplece of modern jou ism, a wonderful specimen of the pri | art, either for abundance and va: of reading matter or and especlally for the splendor of its numerous illustrat! | which are far more than could be expe ed from a daily paper. Among the beautiful illustrations we note wiih gratification and pride reproductions of masterpleces of the m celebrated Itallan painters, such Madonnas of Rafaello celll and Basso Ferra: edition of fifty-two pages 6 cents, and it is Indeed an excel appropriate souvenir which our could send to their folks In Ita We e glenura in complime Call not only for the magnificen: mas edition but also for the con prosress it is making every day el he extensive telegraphic service, w. equal to that of America's for s'r, the New York H id, or for ance and varfety of all kinds of Inte: ing news and current toplcs of to the reading pubiic that The be acknowledged as runk1|17 a n the very first dally newspapers —_—— States. SPLENDID EDITION OF THE CALL Oakland Tribune. The San Francisco Call has made won ful strides In recent years In the illus trative art; so much so, indeed, that it Iy without a superior In this particular line in the country. Evidence of this fact was adduced In the magnificent Christma number of fifty-two pages which was Is sued Sunday last. More perfect plctures and portraits could not have been desire and certainly have never been exceiled newspaper work In the country. What s true of the pictures in black and w also true of the illuminated pages, were numerous and filled with matter ap propriate to the season. As to the lcrfpuv' matter, it may be sald that was selected with the most discriminat care and was of so varied and interes & character that It must have been with n\'ldll‘ by the thousands of p into whose hands the paper came. ———————— Fine plum pudding at Townsend's. —_—e— Note 81 Fourth st, 6c barber and grocer, best eyeglasses, specs, lic to 4lo. * —_—————— Time to send your Eastern friends Townsend's California Glace Frults; i ) in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market; Palace * No walting at Townsend plenty of cked all realy to hand out. 627 Market street. 2 ——— Your name stamped in gold letters free of charge on all leather goods bought from Sanborn, Vall & Co. 5 - —— Special information supplied dally (o business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 {lu gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ——— rdered to Vacate. Wil remove In January to 735 Market street, Olsen grocery, and move back to 633 Market strest, Palace Hotel bullding, u in February. Townsend Glace Frult and Candy Factory, 627 Palace Hotel bidg. * ————————— Damages for a Collision. Alfred Johnson and H. G. Gulltxon filed a libel yesterday In the United States Dis. trict Court against the river steamer | Pride of the River to recover 3% damages | alleged to have been Inflicted upon the scow schooner Rival in a collision on tha Sacramento River on October 25 of this | year. | —_—— | “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” | Has been used for fifty years by militons of | mothers for their children while Teething with | perfect success. It soothes the child, softens | the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for | Diarrhoeas, whether aristng from teething or | other causes. For sale by druggists in every | part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, e a bottle. —_——————— Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Expertenced excursion conductors accompany these e sions to look after the welfare of passen: To Chicago and Kansag City every Sun: Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Mont and Toronto every Wednesday every Sunday. To St. Paul Friday. Ticket office, 628 Market street. —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantags of the round-trip tickets. Now only %0 by steamship, Including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_————— The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Routs, Connecting train leaves § p. m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 628 Market st. —_———— Annual Police Parade. Chief Lees issued an order yesterday afternoon that the annual parade of the “finest”” would be held Friday morning next, starting at 10 o’clock. As this will be the last parade under the auspices of the present Commissioners, and probably the present chief, unusual preparations ve been made to make it as Imposing as possible. ADVERTISEMENTS. Scrofula and Consumption ula often con- vcgyn. Anemia, running ear, scaly eruptions, digestion, and ement and breaking down of the glands of the St of v st inent of toms—are forerunners of con- sumption. These conditio can be arrested, consumption prevented and health re- stored by the early use of Scott’s Emulsion Your doctor will tell you so. Atall druggists ; soc. and $1.00. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. of im) i