The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1900. cOCCeCOC00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 :BUSINESS AFFAIRS OF CITY, STATE AND COAST CoCcoCcoOC00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 10 PAY CLAIMS MERCHANTS D TEACHER Result of Important Conference. LONG LITIGATION WILL CEASE >-— AUDITOR WELLS AND SCHOOL BOARD TAKE ACTION. PN s were taken yesterday at am im- conference in the Auditor’s office an end to the expensive litigation ch the teachers and merehants have ngeged for the past year over the &s to whose demands shall take ence. As a consequence the claims 16 merchants, aggregating nearly and about 50 per cent of the unpaid rs' salaries for the month of No- 15%, will be paid out of the apportionment of the moneys re- collected as collateral inheritance tly xes. re were present at the conference vells, Chairman Mark, Directors Denman of the Board of Ed- Creswell and Olney, at- e teachers, and General ditor's attorney. he outset of the meet- the suit of .the mer- tor Wells enjoining demands was was the opinion f that the injurction ility be dissolved. In w decided to pay the » merchants involved in the ving $52,000 out of the funds ch the Auditor will pay out ward satisfying the teachers’ vember, 1888, amounting allow the teachers of eir claims. As fast are turned over by the ty from inheritance tax B+ 900D 0PI et 0PI D000 +D00+0e0 000000040400 0+040+9+0 S S S S e o e 2 > >ed i Qoo esdebodbededeieie Alex. Gibson Starts for New B e S e e S O O R R R O e Sy s ] . York With a Valuable Cargo. collections the Auditor will apply the moneys so received to the payment of the remainder of the salaries for November and also those for December, amounting to $90.000. In this way the existing dif- ferences between teachers and merchants will be amicably settled and they will re- ceive their just dues. The $8000 paid to the merchants will, it is understood, be added to the $27,000 now Benefit to to Daniel Edward Hall was well tem,” in which Wil held in trust by the l'mn!n T\"usldlffln‘l— specialties, Mr. H pary under an agreement entered into | po B o Petween the merchants and teachers when | berformance with dramatic selections. | prize cakewalkers, the show. the litigation was first commenced, and be apportioned under the terms of that greement. Every Night, Including Sunday. MATINEE SATURDAY. LOUIS JAMES, KATHRYN KIDDER, CHARLES B. HANFORD Ande m People in the Magnificent Success, THE WINTER’S TALE. Beg. MONDAY, 2d Week of the JAMES KIDDER-BENFORD COMBINATION. THE SECHOOL FOR SCANDAL" 2 THE WINTER'S r The ¥ Yet G LEY COMPANY Ané Now Comes the FUNNIEST OF THENM ALL. IN PARADISE." Ge ren Commencing SUNDAY Veek, Excepting Matinee BPECIAL—Farew ME 1 Cone:rt of the Peerless Diva, MMA NEVADA, 1GH T at o G RAND_WQPEI{Z‘A;!'IOUSE. MORROW. " THE NEW COMIC NIGHTS. mous Composition, CASAR OF IRUN. HAILED WITH ENTHUSIASM BY CROWD- ED HOUS k—"THE QUEEN : 25e, B50e, T5c¢ 10c and i5c. in orchestra Saturday Branch ticket office Em- (THE PEOPLE'S POPULAR PLAY HOUSE) PHONE SOUTH 770. TO-NIGHT-SATURDAY MATINEE, EATURDAY NIGHT LAST PERFORMANCE. THE RAYS’ Howling Success, A HOT OLD TIME! NE& OF LAST NIGHT ARE STILL OY. " Matinee, 15c, NEXT SUNDAY AFTE 'OP!\', THE EVER POPULAR AT - GAY — CONEY — ISLAND. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. HALL 2 SUT STREET. 3-SONG RECITALS—3 the Tilustrious Soprano, MLLE. ANTOINETTE TREBELLI NG NEXT. Y EATURDAY MATIN PRICES, $1 50 and $1 SEATS NOW ON SALE AT SHERMAN, LAY & CO.’S MUSIC STORE. WESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION. TANFORAN PARK. MEETING, Jan. 1-%, 1500, Inclusive. fh-class runuing races every week day, r shive, beginning at 1:3) p. m. ter racetrack of America. Pa- p directly from the railroad cars into et grand stand, glass-enclosed, where riably housed in bad weather they can an unobstructed view of the races. 5 sl comf Traine leave Third and Townsend streets at 4 and 11:20 . m., and 12:15, 12: p. m., returning immediately 'after Rear cars for No smoking. Valen- San 400 St 4°46 . m. 24 their escorts. nutes later. way statiops. Arrive at ». m. Leave San Bruno at Ssn Franciseo to Tanforan and re- , including admiesion to track, 2. W, J. MARTIN. . Eecretary and Manager, S LACE HAND- | AMUSEMENTS. Big Balls of | A HUGE BILL! | EVERY ACT A HOWLING SUCCESS. ARTHUR NELSTONE and MINNIE ABBEY. P 5 | HANSON and NELSO Pili-Poison Taken MLLE. EMMY and Her Marvelous Foxterriers. the Pills | HODGES and LAUNCHMERE, siv tE P, ocynth—the | —and after the patie gamboge, TIVOLI OPERA - HOUSE. “HOOT MOY,”” SOLD OUT NIGHTLY !! turned the liver insi | life-long aches. Force is folly, if for you well being. necessary to stir up general inte Cand Of Frank Daniel¥ Comic Opera, ‘THE 1DOL’S EYE. Curtain rises at 8 sharp. EVERY EVENING. EVERY EVENING. | SATURDAY MATINEE. | Avold the Crowd. Secure Seats Early!l | POPULAR PRICES.. ..2% and 5 CENTS TELEPHONE, BUSH §. ALCAZAR_THEATER. MATINEE TO-MORROW and SUNDAY. | LAST THREE NIGHTS Of Oscar Wilde's Beautiful Play, tive way. C rets are up taste good, never gr! effective. | price. Send for boo This is let. genuine magic let and bew ADVERTISEMENTS. | 'CANNON BALL PIL | ih 1 as Medicine. Thousands Are Suffering From Mercurial | cartridge of calomel, aloe: croton larger the builet the better dose, thrown the bowels into spasms and for a few days—frequently forever. al cleaning up, take C: y Cathartie, and produce nat- | W action in a nice, gentle, quiet, posi- Buy and try Cascarets to-day. find that it's what they do, not what we | say they’ll do, that proves their merit. | left All druggists—ioc, 25 Address the Sterling Remedy Co., Chi- ago; Montreal, Can., or New York. at the tablet before you bu tions and substitutes. Dan Hanlon. | The testimonial benefit given last night | Hanlon by his many | friends was a big success. filled. consisted of a sketch, “The Silent Sys- | | ¢ liam Ogilvie and May | WI N DJAM M ER Sulivan appeared, and there were many | Golden Gate | The performance | anlon concluded the | a_recital of several Kelly and Stone, the were the feature of IN' COLLISION Apache Damages the l ! LS| Dawn. l Y Poison Given PILOT BOAT'S CLOSE CALL | | HAWAITIAN BARK HIMALAYA DAMAGED IN A STORM. in Youth—Days of | e | A couple of collistons occurred yestor- Fenpge | s | day morning on the bay, but in neither t in th 5 | ; T;};Af\{;l C%O;:_n:;v mfl mzflcyr‘;’;:;' | Do you want health? | was there much damage done. The Sac- ELINORE SISTERS, FRANK LATONA | Then keep your bowels clean and your | ramento River steamer Apache backed | "CHAS. A. GARDNER, JOHN AND NELLIE | liVer lively! down on the sloop Dawn while making a e i R | It has al L»“.“ui:"f("nfi?fi"aff‘gfsgggm a: |landing at Mission-street wharf. The [t ety e huicsag W Sracn chatrs | the way o r 24 fahangets e K’;:J'news:u:'fgd er up, Seninet the plies Matinces Wednesday, Saturdey and Sunday. | «plack draughi,’ or, still worse, an expio; | Ahe little sloop was badly strained by the squeeze and began to leak so fast that the captain and crew got ashore in a hurry, thinking she was going to sink. The cargo was got out of her as quickly as possible, however, the steamer men lending a hand. The Dawn will be 1e- paired by the Southern Pacific, owners of of all | the Apache. oil, blue mas ent had swallowed the de out, he was settled . . e The most dangerous “medicine’” - 2 ANOTHER SUPERB TRIUMPH!! was - the mercarial — pill-poison which | _The other collision was between _the ENORMOUS £UCCESS lodged in the blood and joints, producing | Steamer South Portland and the pilot boat Lady Mine. The boat was chafed a vou have any regara | little and had her rigging damaged, but a When it becomes | few dollars will pay for the necessary re- liver and have a | pairs. The South Portland arrived from s- | Departure Bay with a cargo of coal, and t hove to off Meiggs wharf awaiting the Custom-house officer. She got across the tide, and before Captain Hall could get her straightened ug' again she ranged alongside the Lady Mine, By skilitul handling the South Portland was got You'll | away with a minimum of damage. The Hawalian bark Himalaya, which tember 3 for Melbourne, here Se, Australia, had a very rough trip across. our to date, antiseptic, ip nor gripe, mild but | ¢, 50c, or by mafl for klet and free sample. Heavy weather accompanied by a nasty cross sea was encountered. One of the seas that broke aboard carried away half the CASCARET tap- | the deck Every tablet of the only | Water load of lumber, two of the tanks and the bulwarke, did other damage. The Himalaya rried from here 573575 feet of lumber and a small general cargo, all of which Cascar tters “'C C Look are of frauds, imita The ship Alexander Gibson salled yes- erday for New York with a very valu- | “LADY WINDERMERE'S -15e, 25¢, 35¢, KOe PRICES .. | NEXT WEEK— “LORD CHUMLEY.” CONCERTS AND RESORTS. MECHANICS’ PAVILION T0-MORROW (SATURDAY) EVENING, January 2, 1900, “Commis Yoyageurs” MASQUERADE BALL. best first Get a Fine Tailor-Made Suit.... My suits are equal to the them at a special reduced price for a limited time. good opportunity at & moderate price. Sack suits now. Frock Sults able cargo. In all she has 5200 tons of general merchandise aboard. Nearly all f it is California products, all of which are in great demand in the Eastern mar- | ket. There is a large consignment | wine among the Gibson’s cargo, some of | which is the finest vintage that has ever | left the port. Captain Holmes, who takes | the Gibson around the Horn, is the oldest | and best posted shipmaster afloat. He ex- | pects to make a good run to the Horn, and if he has his usual luck in rounding | the cape hopes to make New York in about 110 days. There are no ships to carry goods to | Honolulu and the merchants and shippers are in a quandary. Nearly the entire fleet of sugar boats is detained at the islands walting for sugar and In conse- quence there is nothing to carry the thou- ands of tons of freight now_ awaiting hipment. Yesterday the E. B. Sutton, which arrived here from Philadelphia on the 7th inst., was put on the berth and will take a full cargo to Honolulu. Should the quarantine be raised by the time she reaches the islands and is discharged, she will load sugar for Philadelphia. The Mall Company's steamer Newport sailed for Panama and way ports yester- day with a very large cargo. The com- pany has started a rate war and succeed- ed in getting some freight away from the Kosmos Company’s steamer Volum- nia, which is due here next Wednesday from Hamburg, via South and Central American ports. This fact does not worry the Kosmos people, however, as their iv\as valued at $31,312. | | . and A to get a H i am mak\ngl -class sult or overcoat § H & CHUTES AND Z00. Iy imameen | masor miTE. MAJOR MITE | The Smalle: on Earth. | ELLA BURT Coasting the Chutes, AND A GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW. SPECIAL TO-MORROW (Saturday) Night, The Best Rounds of the SHARKEY-JEFFRIES FIGHT, Secretly Taken by Edison at the Coney Island Ringside. Phone for Seats—Park 23. > Palace and Grand Hotels For nearly a quarter of a century the leading hotels on the Pacific Coast. imorovements and con- veniences they continue to be the head- o At all 8ruggists, 280, 4 medical advice free. 4 quarters for tourists and travelers vis- iting Ean Francisco. 4+ JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK, + Manager. P R R steamer will bé packed with every ounce ‘c-r merchandise she can carry leaving here. H. F. McMullin, formerly chief engineer of the Rio de Janeiro. went out as chief engineer of the Newport, vice H. W. Dixon, ‘who will remain ashore for a few trips. Lauterries’ shipyard at Sausalito Is no more. The owners of the property have refused to renew the lease, so the old place is being torn down and removed plecemeal. Lauterries was known to every yachtsman on the bay and they are all wondering where the old man will relocate himself. As predicted, the old bark Ferris 8. Thompson has been libeled not_only by the Western Unlon Telegraph Company, 1 wil guarantee that my Kidney Cure ‘will cure 90 per. cent. of all forms of kidney complaint and In many instances the most serious forms of Bright's disease. It the disease lIs com- plicated send a four- ounce vial of urine. ‘We will analyze It | but also by Gray & Mitchell, charterers and advise you free | of the steamer lomer. The Thompson what to do. Went to Puget Sound under a ‘“lump oN. | sum” charter to bring down a quantity of telegraph poles. Finding he would have to make three trips in order to handle the consignment, Captain Murk re- fused to have anYlhlnfi to do with the fob and went to Port Biakeley, where he loaded lumber for San Francisco. On his way into port he got in the “Potato Paich,” whera he lost the vessel's anchor and chain. The Homer came along and & vial. Guide to Health 1505 Arch st., Phila. v ; M FAVORITE “85,9?!“,2 2 disease pests RESCRIPTION rFOR WEAK WOMEN. W. T. HESS, Reside San Francisco. v DR JORDAN’S o Largest Anstomical Museum in the Weakneros oo any cotrataed Specalist co the Coast. Est. 3. OR. JORDAN--PRIVATE DISEASES Write for Book. PHILOSOPRY ef MARRIAGE, MAILED FREE. Valuable book for men) > | . ORDAN & CO, 1051 Market St., 8. F. towed the Thompson out of her dangerous position and into port. The Western Union had to charter another vessel to go after the telegraph poles and it has libeled the bark for the difference in the charter money and damages. Gray & Mitchell libel the bark for salvage. e Opposed to the Railroad. At a meeting of the Sunnyside Im- provement Club last night Gustav Schnee offered a resolution reminding the Mayor F ANATOMY T ST. bet. G:haTi, B.F.Cal, tively cured by the oldest yeare. Coasultation free and strictly private. and Supervisors of the pledge given b; Tre T p:‘u::l'l,u: n:& letter. A them previous to their election to the ef- fect that, if elected, they would use their influence to have the ‘steam railroad line which runs through the Mission discon- tined. The resolution was adopted. COKE! COKE! e DA i A OFFICE, 813 ,0150.? ST, RUPTURE ORIGINAL GUATEMALA LOTTERY. Piles and all Rectal diseases or no | ghe following are the numbers of the principal Do inms. oiGaIqR f19I | \rizes drawn on the 1th day of January, 1900, FIELD & POR Lottery: No. 74364, TER- | of the Guatemala FIELD, 838 Market st., | $4000; No. $1500; No. 46837, §750; No. 23181, San Franclsco, l §200. » " the Interstate Commerce Commission was FAVOR PRESENT DIFFERENTIALS Action Taken by Hard- ware Dealers. AL PR CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION P T OFFICERS ELECTED FOR TEHE ENSUING YEAR. N Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICO, Jan. 18.—The second annual meeting of the Pacific Retall Hardware Association helds its final session here to-day. The meetings were held in the | commodious Knights of Pythias Hall and were attended by practically the entire membership numbering something over sixty of the leading hardware dealers of Northern California. The work accom- plished by the assoclation during the past year was reviewed in executlve session during the first day and such details at- tended to as the year’s experience had shown expedient. An election of officers for the ensuing year was held and the fol- lowing named gentlemen were unani- mously chosen to direct the affairs of the association: President, John C. White of White, Cooley & Cutts, Marysville; vice presi- dent, Oscar C. Schulze of Eppinger & Co., Dixon; secretary, Robert W. Boyd of Hampton Hardware Company, Mar: ville; treasurer, W. M. Earll of Hubbard | & Earll, Chico. These, with George A.| Legg of Legg & Shaw, Nevada City, and | G. A. Guttman of Hockheimer & Co., Germantown, constitute the executive committee. To-day’s session was devoted to a con- ference with the manufacturers and job- bers of San Francisco, Sacramento and Marysville, and many matters of mutual | interest were introduced and thoroughly Giscussed and considered. Various re- quests were made of the manufacturers and jobbers' with reference to receiving prompt information as to changes in price and other matters of detail, the reason- ableness and justice of which were im- mediately recognized and cheerfully ac- quiesced in. By request of the retall assoclation the | matter of the suit now pending before | then brought up for consideration and fully discussed. Much satisfaction was expressed by the members of the associ- ation at the opportunity afforded them of hearing the merits of this case ex- lained from the standpoint of the coast obbers and manufacturers, and many material questions were asked and dis-| cussion indulged in by the members, gen- erally developing the fact that they had evidently given much thought to the question of the advisability of reducing the existing differentials between carload and less than carload shipments, which is the principal contention between the job- bers of the coast and those of St Louis and Chicago. The following reso- lution was unanimously adopted: ‘Whereas, We recognize that the interests of the producing, manufacturing and commercial communities, both wholesale and retail, of the Pacific Coast are so indissolubly bound to- gether and dependent upon one another that Any condition which works a hardship upon | one of these interests must necessarily, either directly or indirectly, bring hardship upon the others; therefore, be'it i Resoived, That we, the Pacific Retall Hard- | ware Association, in convention assembled, do hereby express our satisfaction with the pres- ent existing _transcontinental rallway tarift rinciples and conditions into this State and Sesire to place on record our satisfaction with | the differentials and schedules that have been | in effect since June, 1585, and that this asso- clation will do its best to uphold these d ferentlals and trust the efforts of the manu- facturers and wholesale merchants of the coast will be successful in maintaining them. The meeting was attended by a large number of the manufacturers and jobbers of San Francisco and Sacramento. A banquet was given at the Park Hotel | in the evening by the Chico members of the retail association, attended by the entire membership of that organization, the jobbers and manufacturers and some of the representative citizens of Chico. The utmost food feeling prevailed and the guests left unanimous {n their praise ot the hospitality tendered by the people of Chico. JORNSCI FRUT CMNERIES DEAL MATERRLIING One Plant Bought as a Starter. STREET IS FULL OF RUMORS NEW CAN-MAKING PLANT m'z: BE A FACIOR. Rumors about the local fruit canners and the cannery Interest in general took | on new life yesterday. The negotiations of Frank S. Johnson in the East would seem to have borne some fruit. It is a fact that Mr, Johnson has bought a can- | nery since his return to this city. This he admitted yesterday, but refused to say | which cannery it was that had come un- der his management. ! \“I have four brands of fruit under my | control,” he said, “but I do not think it best to say what they are. Neither will | I say which cannery I have, for the mat- ter is confidential for the time being. I know that there is a great curiosity about | the matter on the street, but those who are curfous will have to wait for a little.” | That there is curiosity on the street is true. One story was that the Code-Port- l wood ‘cannery was the one in question, but this was denied absolutely at the affice | of that concern. Mr. Johnson was re- | ported to have made an offer for the prop- | erty; also an_offer for the plamt of the | Pacific Fruit Packing Company, which is on Stockton street. At the offices of the | Combined canneries no information was | obtained. All along California street ‘the | jdea was entertained that a deal of con- | Siderable size was in progress, but all the canners denied that they knew anything about it. On top of the other rumors came the seemingly well authenticated story that Fastern capitalists had sent forward an agent to see what could be done to estab- lish a can manufacturing plant here. This created even more interest than the stories about the deal in canneries. One reason was that the present can manufac- turing plants in this vicinity are supposed to be giving an advantage to the score of canning companies commonly known as “the combine.” Another can manufac- turing plant would indicate still further a | struggle in the local field and also a be- lief that the fleld was rich. Theré is no doubt that the can plant is talked of and under consideration and may scon be a reality. Two or three canners, hearing of the talk about a new can manufactory, said, “That is just what we want.” .'i‘ho difficulty in picking out the can- nery which has been bought by Mr. John- son was made considerable b: that are not combined. In the array ‘are the California Canneries Company, lim- ited, which is now engaged in an eniarge- | ment of its plant and an extension of its business; the Code-Portwood cannery, the Golden Gate of San Jose, Flickinger’s of San Jose, the Overland, Corvell and Pa- cific of this city, Pyle’s of San Jose, Hunt Brothers of Haywards, Miller & Hoskiss at Healdsburg, the Los Gatos Canning Com| and the canneries at Anaheim and wucr in Southern California, and | also a small cannery at Emeryville. i jan Eng | lawyers are glad to borrow his argument. Webster did not save the Union, but he | | testified that tailings had DANIEL WEBSTER—BY DR. HART OF HARVARD Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. GREAT AMERICAN STATESMEN. Contributors to this course: Professor Alb Master, Professor Charles H. Smith, Dr. Frederic W Laug XIV. DANIEL WEBSTER. “No man can be as great as he looks, was the comment made upon Webster by shman who met him for the first fin and others. time. The vas a prophecy as well as a ch ation, for great as was Daniel he did not fill up the me own capacitie: B Hampshire, throughout had the advantage of men of power. Like Salmon P. and Thaddeus Stevens, who also were brought up In the New England hill country, he found an intellectual stimulus in the country folk and in the littie col- lege which heattended. Fromchildhood up people loved him, admired him and fa- vored him; he easily got into one of the best law offices in Boston and had the friendship and professional rivalry of the great Jeremiah Mason of New Hamp- shire. with the most intellectual and highly trained men of his epoch, and throughout most of his life he combined laborious public duties with a lucrative private practice of the law. | The first period of Webster's public service brought out at once his skill as a parliamentarian and his ability as a pleader. From 1813 to 1817 he was a member of the House of Representatives at Washington and distinguished himself by his unyielding opposition to Madison’s administration and to the war of 1812; he was one of the Federalists who refused to vote men or money for what they be- lieved to be an unjust war. In 1518, when only 36 years old, he made his most fa- mous argument before the Supreme Court —that on the celebrated Dartmouth Col- lege case. The principle which he argued and which the court sustained was that a State could not revoke the charter of a corporation, if once granted without re- striction; and he thus had a great part in establishing a most important pillar of our present system of constitutional law. Webster re-entered Congress in 1523, and during the remaining thirty years of his life he was never out of the public serv- ice for more than a few months; and he came forward as the greatest orator in a period of eloquence and as the cham- pion of the principle of nationality. Ma- jestic In presence, with a countenance in the backwoods of New his life Webster associating with Chase | Thenceforth he associated freely | s | spi | the danger to the Union from the bold and commanding, a voice which vi-| brated like the peals of diminishing thun- der, perfectly self-possessed, his words springing together with power and sweet- ness, no wonder that thousands crowded together to hear him speak. Web- ster began his career as an orator in a| time when the tradition of the eloquence of the revolution was still strong, when many living men had been swept off their feet by a torrent of Patrick Henry's dis- connected rhetoric; yet Webster was al- ways a natural and conversational speaker, never depending for his effects upon a climax of striking words thrown | g,. together into an impassioned appeal; dis- trusting effects of voice and gesture, but irresistible in the appeal of his tremen- dous nature to lesser minds. He was an orator of the modern school, which re- quires easy, persuasive, almost conversa- tional manter, but he reinforced his ease with & power and intensity which carried all before it. The greatest test of Webster's genfus as | an orator was his parliamentary duel with | Hayne of South Carolina, in iS%0. Every little resolution as to the public lands there arose the most interesting constit tional debate in American history, an his speech with his famous simile: 2 mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude and ascertain how far the elements have driven hi from his true course.” In reality, Hay: was only a sort of stalking horse; the man | should grind | | schoolboy knows how upon an innocent | support was hi | s how Webster, in January, 1530, prefaced | other hand, he coul “When | sibly affected by wh | | whom Webster was attacking sat as pre- | siding officer_of the Senate; it was John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the Unit States. The speech was in reality a reply to Calhoun's doctrine of nullification, which that wily statesman had a few months before set forth in what called the ‘“‘South Carolina exposition. ‘What Webster sought was an opportu- to meet ard to refute the doctri that the Union and the exercise of tfonal powers were subject to tne will of individual States. only man to see that the Union w: was i fterward called an unicn of imperishable States’; his servi was, by the power of his splendid ora- tory, his clear-cut thousht, his high p: triotism, to express the national feeling which was conscious of itself, yet unable to_give a reason for its being. Ve are ected by such statements much as was the gentleman who went (o hear ‘“Hamlet” for the first time, and thought it was “too full of quotations.” Webster's doctrine is the everyday do. trine now, but in 1830 it was denied by Calhoun and by a large school of South- tn and even Northern statesmen; and B s what e Webster put It into a form where school | children can learn it by heart and yet where the most renowned constitutional ght the irresistible argument for uni which has heen repeated until it i cepted by ali parties and by all sections. Three years later Calhoun was free to express his own mind, and he entered the lists against the Massachusetts Senator in defense of the same doctrine of nulli fication, and again Webster pointed ou with all the force of his marvelous logie the abyss into which nullification would plunge the country. “Sir. those who e pouse the doctrine of nuliification reject as it seems to me, the first great principle of all republican legislation—that is, that the majority must govern.” Shortly after these two debates parties where reconstituted, and Webster, by his natural preference, found himself a mem- tau ber of the Whig organization, to which | he adhered, with some intervals of inde- | dependency, throughout his life. Tn 1840 Harrison was elected the first Whig “indestructible | ‘Webster was not the | | | accustomed to receive t Bushnell Hart, Professor John Bach Me- Speirs, Professor Andrew C. Me- President, and his cholee for Secretary o State fell x ebst a ural addre t out the old- s a bad come to be ntroversy t ) take had al instinet to di wvery; he prot against the opening up of the Missouri Territory to slavery in 1519; he had anathematized the New who still found a profit in the trade; he had early declared, “I regard ic slavery e of the greatest evils, both mo political;” he op- osed the anne >t Texas, and de- recated the Mexican war. On the other hand, he never had any sympathy with the abolitionists, or even with ardent and persistent anti-slavery men like John Quincy Adams, and when the question came to a head in the campaign of 188 he faltered, and a few months later made his best-known, though not his best. ch. There are but two days in American his- tory which tell their own story without explanation—the Fourth of July and the h of March—and the latter of these two ys marks Webster's deliberate and final ch upon slavery. Senator Chase wrote to his friend Sumner on that very day: “Va! Va! Masachusetts has spoken, and such a speech! Nothing proposed— in V all thunder once more?” some reason in the violent feeling of the anti-slavery people toward Webster, for they had hoped that, with- out adopting oir principle of eternal ¥ upon slavery, he might take the ground that the time had come at last t limit the hated institutio boundaries of the th It was not enough for him “I would not take p to reaffirm an ordinance of aw of God.” pertinentl ers do than to reaffirm the or God?' Many_extreme abolitionists in- sisted that Webster was bidding for Southern votes in the convention of 185 vhe charge is uni ary. Webst sincerely loved the U and nowhe: in his writings is there more noble apostrophe to the Union, a more stren- uous arraignment of secession, than in this very The real difficulty which affec life was a lack ¢ moral issue, a lack ol whole character _and ¢ comprehension of the nderstanding of ntin- uance of slavery. He was not one of those who lay awake nights in Indignation at the arrogance of the slave power, or the national humiliation of slavery. The tor- rent of denunciation he met with the story of the old farmer who refused to clear the paths because “he did not mean to clear oft the snow until »pped snowing. Webster could not u and that the snow of criticism would never ing until it had become a glacler which to powder the apparently Indestructible rock of sl Webster was, with a power, a man extrem: influence; throughout his susceptible to life he had been individual om time to time aid of the rich New Eng- there is a story of a visited by one sers for a fund ster's debts. He $1000, and when_In minded of his pledge of hand for $1000, an. The collector not pay Danlel Webs to pay off Daniel generously subscril due time he was re he turned in a not signed by the gr ted that $1000 in clear cash. r occupied the e publie m: sition of ~ the sub ountrymen, and it table_ own comfort and peace of mind should m to him of large importance; on the not help being insen- at he kndew l‘: be the opposition of his warm friends, the “Cot- l«?r‘\' Whigs” of New England. They de- sired a compromise and thought the con- cession that slavery might go into new territory a small affair in comparison with harmony between the sections. Webster reflected the views of these honest and patriotic but mistaken men; had he been is at this time a sun shining b own, light instead of a cold, refl e_moon how much more splendid would be Eis reputation! He persuaded himself that it power to save the Union by in- Jucing his friends to vote for the compro- Se, and having reached that conclusion he was doubtless pleased to see that sav- ing the Union was a good road to the Presidency. His attitude was not so much wrong as feeble; where was the Web- ster who had confronted the whole might of nullification oratory? Where was the Wabster who had bearded the great An- drew Jackson? Where was the Webster who had defled his own party and asked them as the most sevious gquestion of their live: Where am I to g0?” Where was the Webster who had combated the annexation of Texas? Had he possessed the convictio: hn Quincy Adams, £ or even the shrewd farsight of William $i. Seward, he would have piaced him- self at the head of the opposition to the ext nsion of slav he would have be- gun the work Abraham Lincoln was to take up, and he would have gone down to osterity as a hero who dared anything or his principles. Fet nothing can take away from Web- ster the palm of a greatness all bi T for he was advocate, statesman, matist and orator all in one. He 'wanted to be President, surely a worthy ambi he rendered an Inestimable se country in his steadfast adve tionality. His fault was that I became obscured. Had he posses firmness of hington_or the devot to principle of Abraham Lincoln he might have stood next to them in the Valhalla of American statesmen. And if we must rank him lower than Jefferson, lower than Hamilton, lower than Marshall, yet his spirit might say himself, as Dants sald when he found himself amid the gal- axy of ancient poets, “And I was sixth in all that might of mind.” Harvard University. FRANCHISE FOR COAST ROAD. Street Committee Considers the Ap- plication—Objections to Rock Crusher. The Supervisors’ Street Committee met yesterday morning and was addressed bj Attorney T. D. Riordan regarding the franchise asked for by the Bay and Coast Railroad Company for an entrance in this city. Mr. Rlordan stated the fran- chise sought by the company was identi- cal with one granted some years ago to another concern, but no tracks had ever been constructed and the former fran- chise had lapsed. He also contended that the matter is not governed by any pro- vision of the charter, but is under the State law. Further consideration was postponed for one week, or until the City Attorney files an opinion as to the powers of the Supervisors to grant the franchise. A number of Mission property owners appeared before the committee In behalf n? a protest of the Federation of Mis- sion ‘;mprovement Clubs against the maintenance of a rock crusher by Gray | Bros. in the vicinity of Clipper, Douglass and Twenty-fourth street: M. Rooney gathered on his premises to the depth of five feet, and that his tenants had been obliged to move by reason of the nuisance. Messrs. Plum- mer, Matthews, Hyman, Lille, Connors and Mrs. Booth also spoke of the rock crusher as a nuisance. Mr. Gray, owner of the machine, said that if the plant were condemned it would throw several thousand men_out of em- ployment.. As long as Mr. Rooniey was on the ?ayroll he made no objection. The matter is now in the courts and the bonds are sufficient to cover any damages. The last board had visited the quarry and were satisfled with its workings. The committee concluded to visit the quarry next Saturday at 2 p. m. It was decided to have Trocadero Guich filled in_with_ the residue of sand from the grading of Nineteenth avenue by the City Street Improvement Company, as this method will reduce the cost of the proposed improvement. ———————— A. P, Black has taken law offices in the Mills buflding, seventh floor, rooms 16-23. * ——————————— TARIFF ON MIXED GOODS. Decision by the General Appraisers of Interest to Merchants. The United States General Appraisers have notified Port Collector Jackson that where dutiable goods are indiscriminately mixed with goods free of duty a collector of customs has the right, In the first in- stance, to assume that the mingling of the goods was intentional and with de- sign to evade the customs revenue laws. No duty rests upon him to separate the goods according-to their dutiable charac- ter, and he is justified in treating the en- tire importation as prima facle dutiable. ‘When the eonfusion of the goods is accl- dental, and not fraudulent in fact, the burden rests upon -the importer to prove that such is the case, and as to wkat portions of the goods the classification of the collector is incorrect, which proof may be made before the Board of General Appraisers when the question has been propérly brought before them by protest. —_——————— Ki India, claims & falls tufi'u‘im‘l.scm Ir ot_ih’-