The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1900. AN INF Call NUARY 30, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. hodress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market a ~ EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep DAILY CALL (imek DAILY CALL—By St SUADAY CALL Ome Yemr.. WEEKLY CALL Ome Year All postmasters are anthorized subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested to receive OAKLAND OFFICE. €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Forelgn Advertising. Marquette Butld- ing, Chicago. | ve...908 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.......c00s020s...Herald Sqguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR......20 Tribune Bullding CHBICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ers Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEW AN Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brenta: Square; Murray Hill Hotel 31 Umion WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellinzton Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery. corner of o'clock. 300 Hayes. 639 McAllister, open until Clay, opem until 9:30 open until 9:30 o’'clock. until $:30 o'clock. 615 Lurkin. ope 930 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open oclock. 2261 Market, corner Sixtee: ‘elock. 1096 Valen 106 Eleventh, open Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | ner Mason and Ellis streets—E pecialties. | Track—Races. AUCTION BSALES. | ve oiten insisted, it is not possible to 3 ent by the mere opera- | al law. depends upon the uprightness | hose chosen to administer it. | nce in the motives of Mayor | pended, from the beginning t pon appeals to prejudice aad govern: the new charter and the State | nullified by him in the | d selfish ambitions. He er of the office he holds, not to up- | it for the public good, but to build machine that would give him im- tum toward further and what he fice. on what we say. The proof is porters and not his opponents. | of Chief of Police for his own admissions and in the by his organ, the Examiner. the characteristic shape of an at- Biggy, in which that gentleman is f pinto blackguardism and is ac- cused of treachery to Phelan in his refusal to sup- port Esola at tells the whole story. It reveals the cat escaping from the bag, and the African con- cealed in the woodpile. Mayor Phelan expects his appointees to the independent commissions provided | by the new ch r to redeem his ante-election prom- | ises given to the Examiner push, and a failure is treated zs treason to the lord Mayor. It would be iolation of official propriety and the purity of elections law if the Mayor had involved himself | in 8 promise to use his official power to make the , | | | 1 | | | tack on jected to T fittest man in the city Chief of Police. His effort to make the unfittest Chief is all this and has added to it the grossest public immorality. It is weli ‘2t in the first administration under the new charter the people get this lesson. Phelan him- self in advocating the charter pursued a course cal- culated to inculcate a feeling of dependence upon the instrument itseli for good government. The people in his methods have been furnished an excellent ex- | ample of what to avoid in future elections and the final | effect upon local government will be good. : e e | Several wise observers of things political have con- | vinced themselves that the Southern Pacific Com- pany intends to reimburse U. S. Grant Jr. for the ex- | penditures that did not make him a United States Senator. Are these astute gentlemen aware that W. | F. Herrin is not the head of the claims department of | the railroad and that Huntington never acquired a habit of spending money from sentiment? murder to the history of local crime. Are the am- bitious, reorganized police aware that the center of | crime is not in Chinatown? Are they aware that | there are resorts in San Francisco that need suppres- | sion perhaps more than highbinder societies? | | Another Market-street dive has contributed another | with their presence in the State Legislature are wink- ing knowingly, it is said, and saying that they have the secret from the inside. They insist that for the period of the extra session at least the middle name | of D. M. Burns is Mazuma or Mud. Some of the men who give prestige to California l | | There certainly ought to be a bond of sympathy between the defeated British in South Africa and the people in San Francisco. Her Majesty’s troops are struggling against a_deadly “kop” and the people of this city are engaged in suppressing an absurd “cop.” From the way public sentiment is tending in Great Pritain a2 good many of the Ministers would prob- ably dust as soon be in Ladysmith as anywhere else when Parliament meets. . The next time the British take Spion Kop they will move it out of range of the Boer guns at once. It isn't safe where it is. | party division for and against foreign states, as in | | hand after he had been nominated at Chicago. | Had he put his case as against any expression in the | world. Perhaps he sees his theory in danger in the | | American people have alw. SEA AND LAND POWER. NE of the extraordinary incidents of the war O against the South African republics is a let- ter writter by Captain A. T. Mahan of the navy, chiding Americans for expressions of sympathy with the Boers. In this epistle Captain Mahan says: | x 2 | “There are very many among us, myself certainly one, | | who feel as strongly in favor of Great Britain as others do of her opponents. Let us all be careful not to provoke one another by immoderate expressions of opinions to which public meetings tend. Those cn one side provoke retaliation on the other side. In the problems of the near future good understand- ing with Great Britain is too important for us to per- mit the impression that we are all against her here, | and we may find ourselves in an unseemly state of the beginning of this century between the French and British parties. I avail myself of this opportunity to that, my judgment, mot only is the cause of Great Britain j but to have failed to uphold it would have been to fail in national honor.” Perhaps Captain Mahan in his certainty of the high authority of his own opinion fails to see that his is the most irritating utterance yet heard in the whole af- | fair. He deprecates division on the subject, at the same time claiming the right to advise the suppres- ! sion of all public expressions adverse to his own | limitless championship of Great Britain! Nothing is | better calculated to cause extreme expressions thaa his ill-advised letter. He declares that it is wrong to be divided in opinion for and against foreign states! say in affairs of foreign states he would have had some standing in reason, which he now entirely lacks. Captain Mahan is the author of a very able work on “Sea Power,” the possession of which he regards as necessary to national life, and primacy in which, | possessed by any nation, makes it the dictator of the success of the South African If Great | Britain fail in her aggression upon them her influ ence wanes, notwithstanding her primacy of the seas. | Like all theories based upon the utility of unthink- | ing force, Captain Mahan's may be examined to its detriment. Its analogue was the senior theory that the ownership of land power in the form of the great- | republics. est armies was a necessary guarantee of pational life. | All of the empires and experiments at empirs. from Babylon to Bonaparte, were based on that theory and they all failed and fell. The professional advo- cates of the righteousness of might now fallback upon the sea, as history has driven themfrom theland. Aside from the academic discussion of this theory, the s sympathized with the effort of any others to establish and sustain repub- | We have gone further than this lican government. | We have even sympathized with those who by brave revolution have sought a change of dynasty in the hope and expectation of bettering themselves in their material condition. Instinctively, then, Amer- icans are for the Boers. In this they stand with Bryce and Goldwin Smith, and the philosophersandthinkers, to whom England is indebted for a fame that will cutlive her conquests and survive her empire. They are stung, therefore, by such chiding as comes from the author of “Sea Power.” Amongst them are those as well gualified as he to judge of the righteousness | of England’s pretensions in South Africa, and they resent, with proper spirit, his judgment of what con- | stitutes the national honor of Great Britain and our | | obligation to uphold it as if we were subjects of the crown. His letter is untimely and unfortunate and republican America is sorry that it was written at all. It will produce a contrary effect to that which he intended. If he think that the public meetings of Americans, expressing sympathy with the Boers, pro- voke those who hold with him to retaliate, he is at liberty to proceed with retaliation. Halls are open for the cost of the rent and meetings to sympathize with Great Britain in the destruction of republics will be treated with all tolerance. S —————— | TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE PROJECTS. LD-TIME wisdom, expressed in the proverb, O “It never rains but it pours,” is fulfilled for us in great enterprises as well as in small things. No sooner was it assured that the American people were resolved to construct the Nicaragua canal than there came forth three companies, with each a route of its own to supply the demand. So also has it happened in the issue ofatrans-Pacific tele- graph cable. Now that it is clear we must have a cable, behold there are two offered to us. The main project, that of laying a cable from some point near San Francisco to Honolulu and from there across the ocean to Asia, has long been under con- sideration and a bill is before Congress to provide for it. A new scheme is now suggested and strongly backed, that of rinning a wire overland to Alaska and thence by way of the Alaskan islands to Asia and so southward to Japan and the Philippines. The promoters of the new enterprise make a good offer. In a recent prospectus they say: “There are two projects to connect North America with Asia by means of cable. The promoters of one cable have selected a long, roundabout, difficult route, in seas deeper than any in which a cable has yet been laid and through uninhabited ocean wastes. As this cable will be very costly to build and maintain and com- mercially unremunerative and inefficient its backers ask an annual subsidy from the United States of $400,- 000. The promoters of the other cable have selected the direct route, with commercial stations of great | importance at short intervals, the sea bottoms being | shallow and favorable and the stretches such that a cable of the highest efficiency is easy to lay, operate and duplicate, and its backers ask no sub- sidy, but offer to the Government great privileges and advantages. The long cable is via Honolulu to Manila. The short cable is via Alaskan islands and Japan to h‘hnilz. The promoters of the short cable offer to build it and in addition to lay a cable from San Francisco to Honolulu for less than half the cost of the long cable via Honolulu to Manila.” The Alaskan project, while new in a certain sense, is a revival of an enterprise that was under considera- tion before the Atlantic cable was laid. It was then proposed to connect the telegraph systems of the United States with those of Europe by a line running from Alaska across Siberia, and a survey was made of nearly the whole route before the triumph of Cyrus Ficld showed that ocean cables could be laid and | operated. 'What was then abandoned has now been revived by reason of the increased need of communi- cation with Asia, as well as with Europe and by the development of Alaska and Siberia. The northern line will doubtless prove so commer- cially profitable that the promoters can construct it without having to ask a subsidy, but that is no suf- ficient reason why the other line should not be con- | Barker and Donnelly should not | free convention to | nation, rather than merely record a decision already | | favor his nomination and the fusion structed also. The land line would be subject to in- terruptions in the severe winters of the north and might be cut in case of wars in which either Great Britain or Russia was engaged, but the ocean cable gwould be virtually secure at all times. Moreover there is never any great harm done by competition in telegraphy and to the public two cables are very FUSION TROUBLES. RECENTLY a grand conventicle was hi!d in Populist leaders met and made a treaty, in- volving a fusion this year on the Presidential ticket is no light upon the ratio, whether 16 Democratic to 1 Populist, but it was decided that the Populist Na- of any other, and it will doubtless nominate Colonel Bryan for President. It is believed that such action which in 1806 objected to taking him second- It is likely to prove cheaper than one. Nebraska, in which Colonel Bryan and certain and a division of the spoils. As to the latter there tional Convention will be held a month in advance will placate the Populist vote, a large section of expected that the Democratic taste has become so | vitiated that it will.take any dose Colonel Bryan will | | choose to administer. | It will be seen that this plan for fusion is familiar. | It was followed in California in 1808. Judge Maguire was nominated for Governor by the Populists first, signed their platform, partook of their communion, found a family strawberry mark on them, and then he was taken secondhand by the Democrats, and then | he was beautifully beaten by the people. Only a politician who believes he is a man of destiny, born | with a caul, and having a horoscope that nothing can knock out, would follow the example of such a plaa that had such a result. ! The incidents of the Nebraska conventicle were characteristic of the spirit Bryan has put into 2 politics that affects his interests. It is the spirit of intense intolerance. His organization does not per- mit the discussion of plans or policies. It adopts them and then excludes all who wish discussion. In the call for the Bryan Populist meeting at Lincoln, is- sued by the Nebraska member of the Populist Na- tional Committee he said: “Those supporting be permitted to take part in the meetings of our committee or in the convention.” | Barker and Donnelly are opposed to the commit- tee concluding the action of the convention in ad- nce of its meeting. They desire the gathering of a | scuss the policy of fusion and of Colonel Bryan’s nomination, upon which the com- mittee has already decided. Therefore because they wish the convention to be a deliberative body, to dis- | cuss principles and policy and decide after exami- | | reached by the committee, they are calmly ruled out by Colenel Bryan's dictation, and only those whu} will be ad-| mitted. It is doubtful if bossism ever went to greater ex- | tremes in American politics. The Populist National ‘} Convention will meet. All opposition will be ex- | ciuded. Colonel Bryan will be nominated and the | country will be called to admire the unanimity of as- cription to his great talents and popularity. And he sits down with the Populist committee and deliber- ately plans his own nomination and indorsement and excludes from the counsels and conventions of the party all who oppose him! It is strange that any man of sufficient sense to find | his own mouth with his food should expect to fool the country by such artifices. It is perfectly well | known that California, New Jersey, New York and | Maryland would send to the Democratic National | Convention, under the regular call, solid gold dele- 1 gations, opposed to the Populist fusion and opposed | to Bryan's nomination. But it is equally well known | that if this were done that convention would give | such delegations a dose of the same medicine Colonel | Bryan has prescribed for objecting Populists. They | would be excluded from the convention, just as the Dakota, Nebraska and Michigan delegations were in 1896, and their seats would be filled, if necessary, by men who were not candidates in the State conven- tions. So it is recognized as useless to try for a hearing, even, in the Democratic convention. Colonel | Bryan will be nominated by the fusion, and self- respecting Democrats and Populists will see to it | that his kind of bossism is killed so dead that it will never have an imitator. | ANOTHER YAWP FOR LIBERTY. hosts of civilization and imperialism sounds unexpectedly a voice demanding justice and liberty and making sarcastic remarks about the white man’s divinely appointed mission to rule his brother and elevate him. The voice comes from Samoa. flBOVE the music and the roar of the marching I!l is that of Malietoa Tanus and he complains of the | Americans, the British and the Germans as if they were a pack of thieves instead of being the most en- lightened, liberal and moral people on earth. Malietoa says the division of the Samoan Islands between Germany and the United States, by the consent of Great Britain, is an outrage, a gross viola- tion of solemn treaties, an offense to the law of na- tions and a crime against humanity. He asserts that the Americans, the British and the Germans came to Samoa, promised fair things and received fair treat- ment. They agreed, he says, to guarantee the inde- pendence of the islands and the rights of the islanders and in return for that guarantee received valuable con- sideration. They have now broken the agreement, dismembered Samoa and divided it as spoils of con- quest among themselves. The old heathen in his rage goes so far as to de- clare that the civilization carried to Samoa by the United States, Germany and Great Britain is not as good as that which existed there before they came. He even asserts that the ancient religion is better than the new and was taught by better men. On that delicate subject he has the impudence to say: “The missionaries who graced our country with their holy or unholy presence introduced the same religious differences and hatreds against each other as per- tained at the hour in civilized states. The mission- aries live in palatial concrete houses, with all the luxuries their countries can afford, and charge us for Bibles and prayer books which, we understand, are sent as free offerings.” By way of further specifications of damage done to Samoa the uproarious complainer declares the mis- sionaries have taken many thousands of dollars from the islanders and have given them nothing but an assurance that “the largest givers would be most ac- ceptable in the sight of God.” Altogether the scream of this deposed barbarian is one of the most unpleasant things that has disturbed the musical march of civilization since the new year began. It is clear that Malietoa Tanus is not much better than Aguinaldo or Oom Paul. With an in- gratitude that is “something awful” he assails the white men who are bearing his burden and trying to educate his intellect. It will do no good to say he is un-American, un-German, un-British or uncivilized, for he is just brutal enough to regard such statements as compliments. The only thing to do is to appoint a censor for his tongue and forbid him to talk loud even if he hire a hall. » TNO! SHALL and in His Condemnation. LOS ANGELES TIMES. Bt The legislative opponents of the election of D. M. Burns as Sena or neea to be vigilant in the utmost degree to avoid being caught in some of the many traps that will surely be set by the wily managers of the Mexican manipulator, One of the dangers which members should especially guard against is that of being cajoled or dragooned into attending a legislative caucus. The caucus is a mere political device; there is no law requiring the holding of a ca'u cus, nor is there any law requiring members to attend ‘a cauulx; when one Is held. But those who do attend a caucus, and act with it, are honor bound to abide by the decision of a majority of that caucus. Liv'ad e It is entirely proper, and entirely within the province of every member oo Legislature to decide for himself whether he will or will not enier § cauets. - “the opponents of Burns should absolutely and positively refuse to enter a caucus, U less they are sure they can control ft. Let them take no chances—take notl r:l_g for granted. It would be unsafe, in the absence of positive assurances l%l: is effect, to go into caucus at all, ‘and by refusing to do so _they may be al to prevent the disgrace of the State through the election of Burns. 168 The joint session is another matter. ‘The anti-Burns men will of course Mo themselves in readiness 10 go into joint session for the election of a Senator and 12 vote for some candidate other than Burns. of the extreme serlousness o8 the situation, all personal differences and all merely Individual ambitions Should be laid aside. A supreme necessity now confronts the opposition tg Burne, Shat necessity imperatively demands that the opposition shall be welded an united on some one candidate who is fit for the great office of Senator, and ‘1 o enjoys the confidence of the Republican party and of the people of Californ ?. To this end the opponents of Burns should hold close copferences as oflel'l as necessary to effect a complete understanding. By canvassing and recanvassin the subject thoroughly among themseives, the anti-Burns men should be ;hle'lo agree, even though it be with difficulty, upon a single candidate to be voted for by all hem in joint session. 2 Theo‘B:uns (orges are united, but they do not vet hold victory within their eager grasp. The anti-Burns forces must, if :’r’.‘eyc:no;xlfm:m' present a solid and unchanging front of opposition to that unworthy 3 1f rt‘ iagcouru lead‘;peu another deadlock, then let it be so! Better an unbreak- able deadlock than the election of so notoricusly unfit a man as Dan Burns to the Senate of the United States. But the extra session need not end in a deadlock. The united RTblic!n op- position to Burns can defeat him; and if it is insufficient to accomplish that es- sential object, let an a ‘p‘ell be made torevery l:l'o.nell member of the Legislature, without regard to_politics or party, for assistance. Now that the Governor has called an extra session, the opponents of Burns have no other alternative lflmrl"; to ngtg.zhe‘mat ';“a;.;t' to the end; and that end can be made victorious if the ccmbatants so ! Let there be no g&eldln? no wa ring, no_compromising with the rallway op- position. The anti-Burns forces are now called upon to confront the suprems Hanger in real earnest, and to overcome it. The people of the entire State look to them to make the strongest fight against Burnsism that has yet been made, and to overcome that iniquity, if it be within their power to do so. And it is. The honor of California, the material interests of the commonweaith and of the coast, and the saving of the State to the Republican party in 130—all these supreme considerations 5Dmand that the opposition to Burns in the Legislature shall stand fast, from first to last, Iike enduring granite. ¥ PASADENA NEWS. Replying to the questions asked us on all sides, “Will Colonel Dan Burns be elected? Don’t you think Gage has things fixed? Would he have called the special session if he hadn't?’ we wish to say that it is our emphatic bellef that Boss Burns hasn't got things fixed and we don't belleve he will ever wear that Senatorial toga. The fates are against him and o are the majority of the Repub- lican members of the Legislature. Last week we consulted with all factions and parties in San Francisco. Yesterday we had conferences with other legislators in L.os Angeles, as well as withleaders there. According to all our information we are convinced that the Burns men are simply repeating their perennial bluff of last winter when they claim that they have the whole works and that Burns will be elected. For our part we are in favor of going boldly in and calling that bluff and electing somebody else. Since the tremendous expense must be In- curred there is an absolute demand that we do the work for which we are called together and that we do it quickly. Without a caucus Burns can hold a dead- Jock till doomsday. With a caucus and a majority against him the matter can be settled quickly. Even if Burns is knocked out in caucus he can retire in that cool, dignified way of his, saying: “That is all I have held out for and let the will of the majority govern.” Governor Gage treated the members of the Legislature mighty shabbily in calling the extra session on so short a notice. But now that we are compelled to be there next ) ay the News favors going in with a Vigor that shall break any possible programme. There are three points to be aimed at: The election of a representative Republican, the defeat of Dan Burns and the finishing of the work without undue expense to the State. We are not one of those who take such a pessimistic view of the situation as to say that because opposition candidates are not thick Burns has us. We think that is an element of strength. A free field will permit the opposition to Burns to unite. Colonel Burne is not nearly so black as he has been painted by a prejudiced, bitter metropolitan press, vet as a political boss he has no more business to be elecied to serve this great State in the United States Senate than he has to rep- Tesent us at St. Peter’s judgment seat. If the Republican party must bear this Wwhite man as a burden it deserves the drubbing it will get at the polls this fall at the hands of the people ho tlnnl. want bossism to triumph. SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE. e o o The situationispractically where it stood when the Legislatureadjourned, except that the rank and file of the Yepublican party has had a chance to i touch with its Legislative representatives. and this has not added to the strength of Candelaria Dan. That he has a large following caused by the influence of po- litical preferment, that the 3 fishes” patriots are still after Stare pa- tronage and spolls is admit ,me of them, careless reputations, hardly have the cot tn plunge the party into in next fall in this State merely to p; heir debt to a rallroad or to get a pos vernment clerkship for a relative. SO ; Sion does not mean Dan Burns, and it behooves the Legislative The extra Irl(‘hrl:s re\f U. S. Grant, and that gentleman himself, as a duty to the State and the party, to stand shoulder to should=r in prev: ing the seating of this political 3 spoils In the upper house of Congres DA Grant is stronger to-day among the better element of the party and with the Legislature than he was before, and tho fight for a Southern “alifornia rep- Tecentstive and a clean man should he carried hopefully to the end, with Grant as the standard bearer. . . SAN DIEGO UNION. « ¢ o Governor Gage might have been still more frank. He might have plainly said the extra session is called for the express purpose of electing Dan- Il M. Burns United States Senator. For that is what the end will be. I this e M ot all fixed and arranged for the members of the Legislature would not a8 Nod fogether. Undoubtedly a canvass has been made and an agreement has o T which the Republicans will co into a caucus on the Senator- :fif; nrrexfl?h;f vk:iu known at the regular session, a caucus will resuit in the elec- llonAgng\lfrrl’:;i\ this Senatorial steal, in which the northern part of the State will secure what rightfully belongs to the south, the extra session will bear watching on general principles. e MERCED EVENING SUN. « s » While California and the Republican party are at present shy one Senator, many leading Republicans of the State have declared that “no Senator T Breferable to Burns for Senator.” So we will have the spectacle of an extra session of the Legislature, convened at great expense to_the taxpayers for the to the Senate a man who is opposed by fully 80 per cent of rp)‘::pfiz%\fx:ufifg‘fi the State. Governor Gage certainly knows this, and the fact ¢illing to thus sacrifice his party for Colonel Burns proves that the fl‘?t'uhfs"m'é'mn'{muu spirit in the State administration. * ¢ I3 BURNS BE SENATOR £ NO Voice of the Interior Press Raised in Protest ORMAL GOLF DANCE Nine Young Ladies Enter- tain at the Presidio Links. Nine young ladies, members of the fan Franciseco Golf Club, gave a delightful dance last evening in their clubrooms at the Presidio. It was an informal a fair and -altogether as jolly and congenial as entertainments of such a nature al- ways are, The dancers, one hundred in numt took possession of the two bright, pre living rooms of the club, which for occasfon were artistically decorated w: ferns and huckleberry room was made to do room, and there a delicious | discussed between the dances. The ladies who had the affair in charge were: Miss Mary Scott, Miss C, Smed- berg, Miss Caro Crockett, Miss 4 gan, Miss Therese M McBean, M C | Gerevieve ice Hoffma: as a supper menu was Although _the given by devotees of the tch game an the rooms of the club did duty for a bal- room, there was nothing suggestive of “Hoot, mon” about the dance. Th wore regulation ball gowns and gen- | tlemen the usual dress soclety demands at | an evening function. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PEDDLING—A. B., City. The selling ‘of books by going from door to door is ! dling and requires a license. You will | have to make application to the Police | Department for a license. IN THE NAVY-C. A 8, Kiag City, Cal. Boys who desire to enter the United | Btates navy as lplgr!mdcel must be- | tween the of 15 and §1 at time of en- | Hstment and must re: in the service until 21 years of age. A LEASE—A. S, Kelseyville, Cal If a man leases a farm the lesses and the les- sor each has a copy of the and as | @ matter of precaution a wp{n erect s entered on the book of leases the office | of the County Recorder. | e e aon S | JOHN MEREDITH READ-S. R M, Fairfleld, Cal. John Meredith m-. | diplomat, at one time a eh.l.l"e @ at Athens, Greece, was born in - hia February 21, 1827, died In rance, December 27, ROYAL HOUSES—A. 8, City. The various royai houses of England have been since the conquest: The Normans date from 1066; the Plantagenets from 1154; House of Lancaster from 1399; House of York from 141, House of Tudor from 1455; House of Stuart from 1803; House of Hanover from 1714, and of this last is Vie- toria, the reigning Queen, a descendant. A CHARNEL PIT-J. K, City. At | Paco, a suburb of Manila, thers is near the cemetery a charnel pit in which the bones of individuals are or were dumped. In the cemetery thers is a large circular arrangement of walls, with niches, in which the dead are placed, and after a time, when only bones remain, they are removed and dumped into the pit to make room for ‘nmew cases.” When friends or relatives cease to gay for niches the bones | are thrown into the pit. | ————————— | Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® P — Special information supplied dally to the 1‘ Guillet's Ice Cream and Cakes. 35 Larkin st.® — ee—— | ont- business houses and public men b, Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —_—ee————— We stamp your name in gold letters free of charge on all pocketbooks and other leather goods purchased at our store. Trunks, Valises and Mexican Carved Leather Work a ‘specialty. San- born, Vall & C 741 Market street. . —_—————————— Insolvent Iron-Roller. Charles H. Taylor, iron roller in the Sacramento railroad shops, filed a peti- sterday in the United His labilities are _—e——— #| Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Expertenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- | sions to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, | Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal | and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louis every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and | Friday. Tickst office. &8 Market street. —_——————— Ladies never have any dyspepsia after & | wineglass of Dr. Biegert's Angosturs | Bitters. )Tho Fastest Train Across the Con- tinent. The Californta Limited. Santa Ps Route. Connecting train leaves § p. m., . | Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest | equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 625 Market street. CROLROTRORORORCROIC O O 8 AROUND THE CORRIDORS | W. H. Boygle, a Seattle capitalist, Is at the Grand. | Drury Melone is registered at the Palace from Oak Knoll. i H. H. Hunter is at the Grand from his | home in San Jose. Naval Officer John P. Irish returned yesterday from a visit East. Charles B. Younger Jr., an attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Grifith of Fresno are staying at the Occidental. { B. B. McGinnis, a prominent attorney of Hanford, is a guest at the Lick. P. W. Perry, a wealthy mining man of Reno, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. Captain A. B. Smith, a wealthy land owner of Mexico, is registered at the Lick. President David Starr Jordan has come up from Stanford and is at the Occi- dental. Dr. del Amo of Los Angeles is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and family. H. C. Nelson, one of the leading busi- ness men of Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Grand. Carl E. Lindsey, a prominent attorney and politician of Santa Cruz, is registered NEW COURSES. SPRING TERM 1900. for a short stay at the Lick. 15, 1900. Allan Cameron of Vancouver and W. R. MacInnes, two prominent Canadian Pa- % cific officials, are registered at the Palace. George W. Meyers, a wealthy salmon canner of Puget Sound, is registered at the Occidental with his wife. They come from their home in Portland, Or. Among the prominent rallroad men who arrived here yesterday and will ar- rive to-day to attend the conference rela- tive to the adjustment of the new time schedule from Ogden to Denver are: John Francis, general passenger agent of the Burlington and Missouri River; W. C. Brown, general manager of the Burlington route; John Sebastian of the Rock Island lines; 8. K. Hooper, general passenger agent of the Denver and Rio Grande; Colonel D. C. Dodge, second vice president and general manager, S. H. Babcock traffic manager and George W. glnt: general passenger agent of the Rio rande Western. — e THE POLICE MUDDLE. Niles Herald. If there is any manhood iIn the San Francisco Police Commissioners it would seem natural that they throw off the yoke and place some man of ability In the Police Department who Is t tainted by charges of any kind. here there is so much smoke it is natural to expect some fire, whether it 1. American Political Parties Conversation o IV. Golden Ages of Literature % V. Photography for Amateurs cisco Call. - h.nt%:-tn # a crim- this Is & confeasion of ?: s a the ttut! THE CALL’S HOME STUDY CIRCLE. SEYMOUR EATON, Director. Beginning Thursday, February II. Twenty Lessons in French III. Pecent Scientific Discoveries VL Biographical Studies for Girls | gparies The lectures and lessons of *he several Amos Noyes Currier, A. M., courses are oublished dafly in the Sam oo ane Francisco Call. Address all correspondence to Manager Home Study Circle, San Fran- 0% 08 108 CBCBCRCEORORCRCROROR g CONTRIBUTORS —T0 THE— SPRING TERM COURSE, 1900. Rev. Bdward Everett Hals, D. D, ‘Boston. Maurics Praeis Egan, LL. D., Catholic University of America, Charles Horswell, Ph. D., Northwestern University. Miss Vida D. Soudder, Wellesley College. Obarlotie Brewster Jordan, Philadelphia. John Leverett Moors, Ph, D., Vassar College. Joseph Villiers Dennay, “ghlu State Cnl'fl-(‘y...‘ Lucius A. Sherman, A. B, Ph.D, University of Nebraska. Flint McClumphs, A. B., Ph. D, University of Minnesota. Jobn Carleton Jones, A. M., Ph. D., University of Missourt, University of Towa, August Hjalmar Bdgren, PA. D, University of Nebraska. Ohatles W. Benton, M. A., Litk, D., University of Minnesota. William J Hopkins, S. B, Drexel Institute, & g 2 o And others whose names appear im eon- Dection with the programmae of studies. RC5 08 O CHOSORORSORCRIROR TRHOLAOCHOAHAOCH