The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1900. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Acdress Al Communications to W. . LEAKE, Wanager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Teiep e Maln UDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. All postmasters are a rized to receive subseriptions. tample copies will be forwarded when requested CAKLAND OFFICE €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising. Marguette Build- Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON....... «..Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.: Great North- erm Heotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. . NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brestano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel J. ¥. ENGLISH, Correspondent. 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AUCTION SALES. reet Thursday, January d Race Track E 3 MILITARY RULE IN @ALASKA. %, st 11 o'clock, gton concerning the new military department in Alaska given rise to a good deal of dis- tary and in political circ The be placed under ot command sed to the grade he may have rank suitable is to be r i when the plan has been carried be placed under complete military me respects the report is not unexpected. considerable military force in Alaska, is vast, the population contains a ber of Jawless adventurers and the hardly adequate to deal with the time the conduct of military ai- s been excellent All reports matter from what source the ve been highly commendatory of the which Major Ray, who is now in com- ulfilled his difficult and arduous duties. He has maintained order in the district, borne all the burden of organizing the command during the rush of gold-seekers and the crowds that have followed them, and merits the promotion which will doubtiess come with the erection of the Territory into a military de- partment The main interest in the subject, however, is due to the belief that military government is to be established in Alaska by way of making a precedent for sim governments in Porto Rico and the Philippines. The Baltimore American, which is usually well informed of what goes on in Washington, asserts that to be the case. If it shorid prove true we will have a very important issue to face. It is well known the people of Alaska, as a rule, desire the division of the hugs Territory into two parts and the establishment of a Territorial form of government in each, as has been done heretofore in the organization of new common- wealths. The proposed military regime will therefore be in opposition to the wish of the people 25 well as a radical innovation in our system of government. It is certain Alaskan affairs will occupy consider- able attention from Congress during the present ses- sion and the full meaning of the new movement in its military administration will soon be made clear. The report that it is designed as a precedent for future colonial governments may be no more than guess- work, but the imperialists have been busy for some time in endeavoring to devise 2 form of permanent administration for the islands they propose to annex and it is not improbable they have determined to try the experiment of military rule in Alaska by way of a test. situation. Up to f district | them concerning rep mand, I The man who is frank enough to confess that he became so exclusively the “property” of a woman that her name became his is very likely to become the property of somebody else when the demand is made. Men who have been the property of women are not usnally clothed with the authority of a Chief of Police. — . Oom Pzul’s grandson-in-law has been captured, to | the great glee of the British. Ii the capture of the old man is as remote as his relationship to the Brit- ish prize we may expect a very considerable delay in the game The Duke of Marlborough has finally unbended and will not take his army of servants with him o South Africa. He has probably reflected that the ac- commodations at the Pretoria racetrack are-aiready overtaxed —— The New York agitation to raise money for the Doers has advanced no further than the subscription | of enovgh money to hire a hall. The Boers, unjor- tunately, will be unable to enjoy the talk. It may be an undignified position for one of her guality, but the fact remains that Ladysmith has her ear to the ground listening for sounds of the ap- proach of the relieving force. Things have been in such a filthy condition in Chinatown for so long a time it is not surprising that the merchants handle them with tongs o] . you are independent 808 Broadway | AN APPEAL TO THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS. PON you, Police Commissioners of San Francisco, devolves the extremely im- portant duty of selecting a fitting Chief of the Police Department of our city. You are men of intelligence, character and standing, and it may be assumed that you are fully alive to the gravity of your positions. In this matter, either the full responsibility of selection is yours, or you have con- sented to act as mere puppets at the dictation of the power which appointed you. If | the latter is the fact, then you have sacrificed your independence, done violence to your | oaths and outraged your fellow citizens, who have the right to demand that in making your choice you exercise for them your independent and unbiased judgments. In thisy event words of remonstrance and reason would be utterly wasted. But, knowing lic office to serve the without the solemn purpose of executing it conscientiously and well. -our attention to certain The Call invites So believing, your standing in the community, The Call prefers to believe that in fact and upright in intent, and that you would not occupy pub- ends of any man, nor undertake the performance of a public trust considerations touching |the proposed appointment of F. L. Esola as Chief of Police of the city and county of San Francisco. The Call asks you to consider its suggestions in the same dispassionate spirit in which they are offered, and begs you to remember that in this matter you are | charged with grave judicial powers, and are to a great extent the arbiters of the future destiny of our city. It will limit its statements to proved or admitted facts, and ask you to make your determination upon them, and upon them alone. First, then, who is F. L. Esola? He is a lieutenant of the police force, whom it :is proposed to raise to the head of the department. | Why? Is it because he and his capabilities are well known and approved? No. The Call ventures o say that not one of you gentlemen ever knew of his existence be- fore your appointments to the Police Commission were under consideration. citizens. Has any reason been shown why he should be pitchforked into place over the terly unknown to the vast majority of our perience. heads of abler and more experienced men? efficient lieutenant. Has he been more than this? He is ut- He is young in years and expe- Let us concede that he has been a fairly Or has he ever, anywhere, under any circumstances, shown the capabilities which would justify you in placing him in a position of such vast power for good or evil> We will not even ask you to consider the pitiful spectacle which he made as a witness before you, but we will ask: What are the admitted facts in his public career? First—He was dismi insuberdination. manager of the odorous Wyatt Earp. In the light of this last fact we begin to approach the core of the matter. the appointment of Esola A. M. Lawrence has set his heart. Ixaminer’s absentee proprietor in things Californian is A. M. Lawrence, then, wants Esola for Chief of Police. The for the tepid interest of the I scarcely worth noticing. Two at least: sed from his position as a guard at San Quentin prison for Does this show a qualification. for discipline and command? Second—He has been acting as the personal body-guard of A. M. - xaminer, herein occupying the exalted position left vacant by the mal- Lawrence, Upon We say A. M. Lawrence, Call has openly charged Mayor Phelan with haying been a party to an ante-election con- tract with Lawrence having this end in view. It has declared its willingness to prove this when called upon, and has invited Mr. Phelan to punish it for libel, if libel it be. He has shuffled, evaded and taken refuge in cowardly subterfuge, but the fact stands out, the more clearly disclosed by his conduct, that the gift of the Police Department of San Francisco to A. M. Lawrence is to be Mr. Phelan's payment for the Examiner’s Do yvou for a moment doubt the truth of this? / port. sup- sk yourselves why the Examiner devotes page after page to the espousal of Esola’s cause. Is it, think you, a disinterested support? you. Consider but for a moment the testimony of Mr. Ask vourselves why Mr. MeEnerney, the regularly retained attorney for the Ex- Lawrence given before amimer, appears as Esola’s counsel. Think you that Mr. Esola can afford to employ and pay such talent to advocate his cause? What, then, does it all mean? Just this: That Esola, an obscure and unproved man, is to be made Chief of Police of San Francisco by the influence of the Examiner, manipulated by A. M. Lawrence. Can you face these facts and blink the conclusion that the scheme is hot afoot to make the Police Department of San Francisco the tool/ and instrument of a designing man, “by merit raised to the bad eminence” of manager ! of the Examiner? ! Can you for a moment doubt but that Esola, owing his official existence to that man, will in all things do his behest? means? nesses are scattered, the evidence lost. convicted—the tremendous pressure of the police is brought to bear, intimidation, cion and falsification are freely employed, until the harassed victim is worn out Nor are these pictures fanciful. ignorant of the venal part which the Examiner played in the prosecution struggle against overwhelming odds. And have you stopped to consider If a guilty man is to be acquitted, More horrible still: what that at a hint the police force is supine, the wit- Is an innocent man to be coer- in the You cannot be of Richard Heath for the murder of McWhirter, and, if by chance you are, ask the first citizen you meet upon the street and he will tell you the black and infamous tale. Nor is this all. In turning the Police Department over to a newspaper—and such a newspaper—you make it an engine of oppression to the private citizen. You Frenchify our police system, not for the Government, but for a private individual, and the pigeonholes of . the Examiner will be stuffed with secret dossiers such as cursed France in the Dreyfus case, and these will be used as the interest of A. M. Lawrence may dictate. which will be made of them? Finally: department, and Can you doubt the use Is it not apparent to you, as it is to the community at large, that an un- known man like Ecola under these circumstances will destroy all excite only fear and distrust? confidence in your Is it not your plain duty to ap- point a man of independence, integrity and tried capability, who will owe his place to no newspaper, politician or schemer, but to you, the appointing power alone? Bear in mind that The Call advocates the claims of no particular man, but it speaks for the reputable citizens of San Francisco, and, so speaking, urges with all sol- emnity that you justify your reputations by naming for this all-important office a man whose selection will restore the con.fidence of the people, sadly shattered by the happen- ings of the last few :days. Surely in all San Francisco such a man may be found, and surely hie is not to be found in the person of F. L. Esola. CONGRESS @ND THE CANAL. RATIFYING indeed is the report from Wash- G ington that a poll of Congress shows a strong majority in each House in favor of taking im- mediate action upon the Nicaraguan canal bill with- out waiting for the Walker Commission to make fur- ther investigations of the various routes. Our dis- ' patches state that in the Senate there are sixty-two in | favor of acting at once, twenty-three who were non- ! committal, er not canvassed, and only one who de- clared for a waiting policy. In the House there are | 254 for action. twenty-nine for delay and sixty-seven | non-committal or not canvassed. Thus there is dis- ;rlosed in each House an overwhelming majority ! favor of the bill, and it would appear that at last we ' are about to see the great enterprise undertaken. The situation is far brighter than was expected | The appointment of the Walker Commission to in- | vestigate not only the Nicaragua but the Panama | route, taken in comnection with the extraor- | dinary activity of the Panama people jin mak- ing a campaign of education in favor of that I route, gave ample reason for fearing that noth- Iinx would be done at this session. In fact, when Hepburn in the House and Morgan in the Senate announced that they would make strenuous efforts to | bring about the enactment of the canal bill at once, it was believed they were but leaders of a forlorn hope, and that the utmost they could do would be to force Con?grcssmen to go on record either for delay or against it, and thus enable voters to see who were the true friends of the measure. The Hepburn bill provides for a canal to be con- structed by the Government and controlled by the Government. It appropriates money for the work and clothes the administration with ample power to go forward as soon as the necessary diplomatic ar- rangements can be effectéd. Of course there will not be clear sailing even aiter the bill is enacted, for much negotiation will be needed to procure from Costa Rica and Nicaragua the required rights of way for the canal and points of vantage for its defense. Still the passage of the act will be a long step toward the ful- fillment of the project, and for that reason the whoie country will be gratified when it has been accom- plished. It seems cruel to*chide Dan Burns for seeking to control the Police Department. He certainly ought to know from which direction he may expect the greatést menace to his interesting operations. T_he new Duke of Westminster, now in South Africa, is undoubtedly a brave man. He is going to Lendon to get married. L SAN FRANCISCO'S POLICE DEAL IS THE WORST SCANDAL IN HER HISTORY Scathing Comments Made by the Interior Press on the Conspirators Who Would Sell the Department. Cordelia %X Ray. Mayor Pheian of San Francisco seems to be “up #kalnst it?" The Call of last Tuesday devoted a full page in exposing him to having bargained to feil the Police Department to the criminal elements of that city. If the statements made by The Call are untrue Mayor Phelan has an excellent chance to bring suit for libel. If he does not do 50 he is gullty and stands disgraced, which should result in the forfeiture of his high office. * A Stockton Independent. The Esola Incident is a fine opportunity for such Democratlc organs as have been “‘off”” to square themselves with Mr. Phelan and the Examiner. No doubt longer exists that Phelan is the Democratic warhorse of the State and that the Examiner is his monitor. Mr. Phelan has run up against an exposure of his method of trading off the Police Department to Lawrence. It is a body blow for one who is posing as a political purist. He needs loyal support and valiant de- fenders. It is the first opening for the faction in the Democratic varty that has been slurring him to atone for past misdeeds, and consequently the Democratic press of the State Is crawling up behind leader Phelan. Isola will be selected as Chief because he was slated and it will be made a party question, a test of Democratie fidelity. Sy St. Helena Sentinel. A flerce war Is golng on in San Francisco over the appointment of Chief of Police. The Call Tuesday made some very serious charges against the Mayor, which will cause some bitter feellngs in the metropolis. The charges if not true should be refuted in the courts, as recent laws passed by the Legislature give a person llllckt{ by a newspaper all the advantage that could be desired. We are sorry that such a sthte of affairs should exist in San Francisco, where the peo- ple have recently adopted a new charter by which it was thought that corrupt methods would be impossible. The Call's charges if true would indicate that the political methods of San Francisco have not been improved upon. ® L e e Santa Barbara Press. San Francisco is beginning her career under the new charter, from which so much was expected, nn}'lhhfi but auspiciously. In that city of political infamy the most disgraceful scandal in her history is now tearing the metropolis asun- der and exposing a wretched and disgusting condition of municipal affairs. The leading candidate for Chief of Police is openly accused of incompetency and dis- honorable discharge from a pesition of trust formerly held at the San Quentin prison. Mayor Phelan is publicly branded a felon, In vioiating the statutes and selllngothe position of Chief of Police to the Examiner for political support. The Call boldly makes the charge, and invites the Mayor to bflng suit for Hbel. Whether or not one-half of the charges are true, it is evident that the thorough housecleaning in progress in San Francisco’s City Hall is needed; though it may be inconventent and uncemfortable for all concerned. CREAT Sonoma Index-Tribune. Mayor Phelan of San Francisco has evidently had his head turned since as- suming office under the new charter. At a recent banquet, in which he was the central figure, he defied and reviled the press and said he would lead and the newspapers could follow. The metropolitan newspapers, if we except the Exam- iner, are up in arms against him, and not without good cause, and we pre- dict that it will not be long before it joins forces with The Call, Bulletin and Chronicle in taking some of the conceit out of his Highness. Mayor Phelan will discover when it is too late that he has “got his foot in it” In antagonizing the press of the metropolis, and before the newlpng‘en get through with him he will realize to his sorrow that he has made the biggest mistake of his life in reviling the press, which has made him what he is to-day. SLer e San Diego Union. The San Francisco Call has made and reiterated the charge that Mayor Phe- lan of that city entered into 2 corrupt contract prior to the last election with the purpose of securing support for his candidacy, and that under the law he is gullty of a felony. If this accusation be true the Mayor should serve a term in prison; if it be untrue, Mr. Phelan ceriainly owes it to himself and to the city whose executive he is to vindicate his character. Moreover, If he be falsely ac- cused the very nature of 'the case gives him as adequate a remedy as he could desire. If innocent, he has an ample opportunity to cbtain the most complete vindication, ard incidentally to pun! his accuser. It is simply a question of fact, and should Mr. Phelan seek to vindicate himself by a libe! suit—as The Call has repeatedly challenged him to do—tne burden would be upon the paper to prove its charges, not upon Mr. Phelan to show his innocenee. But Mr. Phelan firmly declines the tes He has issued a partial denial, drag- ging in various extraneous matters, but he refuses to meet his accuser in court and place upon him the alternative of convicting the Mayor of felony or beirg mulcted in damages. It may be said that men are not bound to sue for libel to defend their reputations. As a general propesition this is true. But when a man occupyinz so high an official position as the Mayor of the city of San Francisco is @aily accused of felony, decent regardi for the people and for the good name of the city certainly demands that he take every possible step to vindicate himse! Mr. Phelan has long posed as a political purist—a man whom the office sough:, the friend and champion of the plain people. He may be all that still. But unless he eclears himself of these charges the average citizen will be very apt to regard him as a thoroughly corrupt politician who has been finally unmasked. to hereafter hold my peace. Very re- THE CIVIL SERVICE epectfully, ~ GEORGE D. SQUIRES. CONTROVERSY San Francisco, January 22, 190. Geo. D. Squfr‘e?“fl?ply to H. N. A DEFENSE OF ENGLAND. Clement. S The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. The Call does not hold Itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them tor whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor of The Call: I beg to apologize for reviving the discussion concerning “©ivil service reform which raged in your columns two months ago. While it is| quite true that the subject is an impor- tant one—the new charter provisions be- ing an attempt to permanently reform our politics by withdrawing the public patronage of the city from the control of the practical politiclans—I am conyinced that no good can come from discussing its legal phases in the public press nor by presenting its authors with an oppor- Editor of The Call: Viewing the Eng- lish position in Scuth Africa from the light the twaddle of “an American Ameri- can” such sentences as, “England enacts this reprehensible that words are inadequate to express the horror and detestation felt by onlookers, and all for the sake of blind and insatiable greed which rounds, permeates and envelops laud like a loathsome malady,” one would | imagine that the name of England stood tunity to do some ground and lofty tum- | for everything that is unholy and cor- bling explanatory of the lamentable spec- | rupt, whereas, as every fair-minded man and woman knows, it is and has (save the mark!) sheds upon it in | wicked tragedy, a crime so appalling, so | the | tacle they have made of it. But being a civil service reformer who neither seeks an office nor a legal fee, T am naturally resentful that our first at-| tempt to introduce the merit system into California should result in bringing the whole thing into contempt. Therefore I| have charged Mr. Clement, the avowed | author of the civil service provisions of | the new charter, with inexcusable negli- | gence, and have endeavored to illustrate | to him the inevitable results of his care- lessness. Instead of meeting me with the humility which becometh a public servant who has got his constituents into & bad scrape, he accuses me of being a friend of the ‘‘push,” and positively declines to “educate’” me in the operation of char- ter civil service reform. 1 am always anxious to learn, but I fear that I can ob- tain little education from one who re- gards abuse and insinuation as argument, | or who, according to his own averments, | has framed the charter civil service provisions on the theory that they will not be resisted by the political machines heir adherents. ar;&iy! communication of Saturday was in- tended to modestly call your atteation to tne fact that up lo dateé this attempt at eivil service reform has resulted just as 1 predicted it would. Mr. Clement sald the “push” would not get in. I told him they would get in. They are in. T said the rule prescribing tenure during good behavior would have to be abandoned. Mr. Clement now says he never intended to establish any such absurd rule. Let us see about that. Speaking of the Supreme Court decisions regarding om- ofa) tenure, to which I have directed his attention, he asks: “Do you suj or an instant inat the author of the civil service law was ignorant of those decls- ions of our Bu‘)reme Court ?" That s exactly what I suppose, and the best proof of it is the fact that mo pro- viston is made for continuing em- ployes appointed under the merit system after the expiration of the term of four years prescribed by section 16, article XX, of the constitution. How easy it would have been to have neutralized this section By requiring the reappointment of offi- cers who had served falthfully for four 5. “v‘vrhen Mr. Clement says that the force and value of civil service reform does not depend upon life tenure, or tenure dur- ing good behavior, he takes a position that will be antagonized by every intelli- 't person who has studled the subject. ?te the practical politicians are to be al- lowed to struggle for the places every four years instead of every two, of what avall will merit examinations be? So far as the new charter system gaes. what is to prevent the “push” combining at an election and securing the selection of a Mayor who will appoint a commission which, through its rules, will let out every faithful and competent employe and let them in? In other wc:ds, how is the local civil service going to be kept out of politics by the new crarter? The case of Kennedy vs. the Board of Education, quoted by Mr. Clement, only school teachers. majority of the Supreme Court in that case decided that a who teaches school does not hold an *“‘office” within the meaning of the constitution, but two Justices sented in opinfons in which this doctrine was vigorously attacked. Indeed, Jus- tice Fox, one of the dissentients, says the jdea that any person in California can have a life estate in any public employ- ment is “contrary to the entire spirit and intent of the constitution and all the legislation of the State.” With all due rg:pecl to Mr. Clement T am of opinifon that he never heard of section 16, e XX, of the constitu- n articls jon and the court decislons giving it ke a t until I called his attenti t e he heard of them it is in. ve framed 8o that the “push” may drive a coach and four e ente Having that a portion my prediction as. to the o7 the b -ary-un lmda;. the is true, the remainder will prove . trae. - thees + seems to be nothing for me to do except ever been the synonym for liberty, civii- | zation and progress wherever her bright | flag waves. It has been her mission through the ages to spread the light of | Christianity and tolérance, and God help | the world should indeed Engiand fall! The idea of Great Britain, as a nation, | deliberately and in cold blood making war upon “innocent, puny republics,” com- posed of “farmers and shepherds,” actu- ated only by motives of avarice and | greed, is so absurd as to be beneath con- ‘ tempt. | Further, these same “innocent, puny re- | publics” are supposed to “honesily pos-| sess that which the greed of the giant covets.” If by an endeavor to annihilate | and enslave the aborigines and seize their | lands the Boer has fulfilled the ideas of honesty held by “an American Ameri- | can.” it is regrettable. These selfsame “innocent farmers shepherds” have attempted to do noth- ing toward vindicating their actions in this respect by helping onward the tri- umphart march of civilization; therefore the law of “‘the survival of the fittest” obtains, and they must make room for those who will. It is evident that.Great Britain was far from anticipating actual warfare with the so-called South African “republic,” as witnessed by her utter lack of pre- paredne: whereas, on the other hand, it is aleo very evident that the “innocent farmers and shepherds” have been slowly but surely making tremendous prepara- tions for years to prevent by armed force | the spread of tolerance and enlighten- | ment. In other words, they have been preparing to drive the British from their colonies, aided and abetted by Russians, | French, Germans and other individuals | whase sympathies seem to lean toward ignorance and intolerance. As for a certain man (whose name sug- | gests “‘the other side”) in comparing Eng- land to Spain he has either a sneaking vearnipg for sensationalism in his com- &oslunn or else decided asinine tendencies. ever were two natlons more diametrical. ly opposite in their aims, In their meth- ods, in their motives. What has Spain | done for the world other than foster blso(rs' and sugers(l(ion? What has Eng- | land done? sverything that tends nfo‘ spread the light of liberty and reason, and, please God, so she will continue to £ do till the erlxd of time, pedagogues to the | con . t Is her destiny, and that of English-speaking peo fss the world over. Why, England is but doing | to-day in South Africa for her own what the United States did in Cu\?;o e anAn!l;en Tace. a ain, the idea advanced by the with the liquid name that the érlnsh Ti‘nx: pire is to fall because her “best and brav- est” go forth to vindicate her honor at this particular time is ridiculous on the tace of it. Have they not gone forth through the centuries? Have they not fallen by thousands on the plains of In- dia, the deserts of Egypt, amid the hor- rors of the Crimea? And daie any one say that England has retrograded one Jot. or tiitle because of this generous out- pouring of the blood of her sons? ‘Whether this present war be ri, wrong. E:rflh:d £an but blindiy pal OW: orking out the the English-speaking race. sng“x‘,'.n.’ .‘}f ways done it well. AN ENGLISH GIRL. —_— San Francisco, Jan. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. or or CADET-0. W. W. T. B. A, Prlncewn.l Cal. The Govel;nor of a State has not the er to appoint a cads Phitea States military or naval smgerns A my':h&gw:r;- 1o enterelther_must ‘esen| of e district in which he lives COP8Tess A FIRE RECORD—Market Street, Ci There was a fire in the St. :nm..."“,,..}}i: on the site of the Parrott bullding on e R AT 1580, at 10:35 ot Dl ber, o'clock at the nterior was totally destroyed " PC" A FENCE—A. C., City. If the fence that you complain of is “a nuisance ana a disgrace” you have your remedy citizen to make complaint to the 'r:)q: authorjties and have the nuisance abated if it is proved such. SHERIFF OF SANTA CLAR.. J. iff of Santa Cla time that James C. | the several murders in that county, May xn, . | ADJUSTER—Brownie, City. A woman | who seeks a position as adjuster in the United States Branch Mint must take an examination in arithmetic, comprising addition of whole numbers and decimals and the subtraction, multiplication and numbers as used in sim- division of whole ple problems, and of nited States money; letter writing. penmanship and copying from plain copy. Application hould be made at the Mint for an ap- plication_blank. A common school edu- catfon, If the applics | quired’ examination there | 1= no rule t i applicant shall be a hig 0ol graduate. The ex- aminations us takes place in early | spring. CAR FARE— sons meet in a s is no rule that requires t pay for the other. It Is common cour- tesy for one f nd or ac aintance to ¢ far to or pay for the other, and it often D., City. If two per- reet car by chance thers one should happens that the two offer the fare at the same time, In such a case neither should try to force the fare on the con- ductor, and thereby act the attention of the other passengers, but e: should allow the conductor to take the fare from whichever it is handlest for him to take it from. If two persons so meet in a car and one is a lady friend or acquaintance, it would not be improper for the gen- tleman to offer to pay the lady's fare, and it would be extremely rude if she re- fused to allow him to do so. [ e e e e e e et S e . ] A DALLY EINT FROM mmz [ S ook o ok 2 ok e ok 2o ot e ot o B R S R S S S TS 0—#0+M+—0 R R e e s S 2 | @ete006es06t0ee@ HATS FOR TRAVELING. | ©Of the hats represented the boating hat is trimmed with drab taffetas; the other | is of soft velvet, trimmed with & tuft of ; black feathers. | 'FOR A VISITOR } FROM KENTUCKY [Mrs. C. Wm. McAfee Gives a Tea In Honor of Mrs. Hunter. I Mrs. C. Willlam McAfee gave a delight- {ful tea on Saturday at her home, 2921 California street, complimentary to Mrs. Hunter of Kentucky, who is here on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Lioyd Tevis. Only thirty ladies were asked to meet the Southern visitor, but although the guests were limited in number, elaborate preparations were made for the affair. La France roses and violets made very pretty decorations, and they were used with a lavish hand. The hours for the ted were from 2 till 6. Among those invited to meet Mrs. Hunter were: Mrs. Creswell, Mrs. Monroe Salisbury, Mrs. Dr. Middleton, Mrs. Harrington, Miss Throckmorton, Miss Garber, Mrs. A. M. Parrott, Mrs. Smedberg, Mrs. Loughborough, = Mrs. Holt, Miss Carrie Gwin and Mrs. Evaa J. Coleman. AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. L. Woodrow of San Jose is a guest at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Sanford of Salinas are at the Occidental. ‘W. H. Hatton, the Modesto attorney, is registered at the Lick. T. 8. R. Prentess, a Denver capitalist, is registered at the Occidental. Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Wiison of San Ma- teo are staying at the Occidental. George F. Buck, a leading lawyer of Stockton, is a guest at the Lick. H. W. Walker, one of the leading mer- chants of Willows, is a guest at the Grand. C. Moreing, & wealthy cattleman of | Stockton, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. E. Randolph, superintendent of tha Southern Pacific at Tucson, Aris., is at the Palace. Frank H. Buck, the Vacaville fruit grower, is among the recent arrjyals at the Palace. Rev. H. Chetwood is at the Occidental, where he arrived yesterday from his home in Pacific Grove. Dr. W. C. Grove, a prominent medical man of Modesto, is at the California, ac- companied by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Johnson have come over from their home in San Rafael and are staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Spencer, well known soclety people of Portland, Or., are among the recent arrivals at the Palace. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—A. Bergen of San Francisco is at the Shoreham; H. Z. | and Seldon Osborne of Los Angeles, whe | have been in Washington, and Colonel | John P. Irish will return home to-morrow. s gy Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* i Special information suppiied dally to * business houses anc public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 —— e Yesterday’'s Insolvent. | Milton Gale filed a petition in insolv- | ency yesterday in the United States Dis- trict Court. He resides in San Francisco and owes $42960. He has no assets. s aahom Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist | sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conduetors accompany these excur- sions to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Hoston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts every Suncay. To St. Paul every Sunday | Friday. Ticket office. 63 Market street. g ————————— Ladies are greatly benefited by the use of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. —————— | The Fastest Train Across the Con- | tinent. The California Limited. Santa Rout: Connecting train feaves & » -“n—a.;' Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest | equipped train and best track of any line to | the East. Ticket office. 823 Market street.