The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1900. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. tdd-e: ommunica ions to W. 3. LEAKE, Mana~er MANAGER'S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 204 JEFICE. .Market_nand Third, 8. F. PUBLICATION « Telephone Pross 201 217 to 221 Stevenson St. ne Press 202, 15 Cents 5 Cents. Postage: EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Per Weelk. thorized to receive criptions. Sample ecopies will be forwarded when requested. v...1118 Broadway KROGNESS, inz, Marguatte Buildin home “'Central 2615. e oreign Advert (Long Distance T Chicago. W YORK CORRESPONDENT: ... Heraid Square STANDS » Co.; Orest Northern Hotel: RK NEWS STANDS: Union Square; on Hotel CRAN _ Correspondent 527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open 9:30 o'clock. 633 €1f Larkin. open until until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, r . velock. 1096 Valencla, open " open I § o'clock. NW eor- Ky antsl 9 o'l open AMUSEMENTS. Guardsmen.” Spectalties, nd Eddy streets ndeville every afterncon e Mignon."” eball AUCTION SALES. 1, at 11 o'clock, Horses, T H was some doubt abroad in the land ¢ elebrating july 4. 1900. The dealers ewor king of compound and t welkin seemed] g spht by the combination of noises I ech which Webster put into t 15 n to the proper, ich the day should be ation was about to 2 ; up riches where moth B rrupt and thieves break through 1 silarious firecracker was in despair. Ve bor die out with all its noise ¢ Bombs, whims, pinwheels and } candles Il the mem- mily were cling ¥ f indifference and neglect I xpectant were languishing uninvited to 1 f ¢ let it low. The young 1 " ng * and the principal of the s Declaration, in every neighbor I were g out of practice. The processional m that which arranges in line Goddess p v e f Liberty and the s, c ttee on boics which s g « s in carriages,” without of e who 2re not chosen, was out of com- oked as though this country had lependence day and black night of indifference lashed Billy Hearst's order to 10 celebrate the Fourth of July ving the subject read up to him i re must be a celebration. In or- d it go off 21l right he orders the people to do their celebrating under the auspices of the Bryan lieves these clubs to be the present cus- day we celebrate and to possess the ecipe for doing it honor. Of course in s cre can be no regularly authorized and prop- erly ce ated celebration at all. In those places it | wi e default day. But clsewhere silly-Billy com- a racker. with the same pomposity seror Norton used in ordering a billion dollar All the fireworks are ordered to nds work, from the Mongoloid cracker to the largest ser- pent. P r. smoky and smokeless, giant and | dw e rst and detonate, according to littie e's ¢ He ust been elected president of the national | organ of Bryan clubs, and has taken charge of the Fourth of July. officially, to save it from falling into desuetude. more or less innocuous. We are sur- prised that he did not order his celebrated “nail the flag to the Philippines and govern them outside the constit editorial read as a dessert after the solid meat of the Declaration. It is rumored that this petite person will soon is- sue a proclamation separating day from night, telling why a dog’s nose is cold, revealing the right sign of the zodiac in which to plant beans, and why meat shrinks in cooking if it is slaughtered in the old of the moon tion” e e The City Attorney has been asked to shed the light of his legal learning upon the Board of Supervisors and tell that worthy body whether or not it is legal to close the cemeteries within the city limits. Some- body in authority ought to ask the’City Attorney if he has any power to keep open public streets—Sulli- van alley, for example. The Board of Supervisors is confident that it will need no more money for the next fiscal year than for the present to provide for the maintenance of prison- ers in the county jails. It is quite possible that the closing of Ingleside has given the City Fatbers con- fidence in the hope that the number of local criminals will decrease. ot Ao S It is reported that many Chinese and Japanese are leaving us without giving us an intimation of their destination. It would be an affair for the greatest cengratulation to San Francisco if a great many more Asiatics would do the same thing. 1 regions where there are no Bryan | ABNORMAL POLITICS. S OLONEL BRYAN'S reliance for a nomination | (-/ is upon the solid South. His only hope of an clection is in the certainty of the Southern | ctoral vote and the expectation to join New York hercto, by the help of Tammany. Now the remarkable feature in this situation is that reither Tammany nor the South believes in anything that Colonel Bryan advocates. Those who have in- vestigated the subject in the last three months have | been startled by the discovery that the South is nearly | | unanimous for expansion, for holding the Philippines | sting around for more to hold in that neigh- | borhood, if we can find it. | A promineut supporter of Bryan, from the South, recently declared in New York that if Bryan were elected the Philippines would not be alienated. He said we would hold them and get all we could out of | i | them, to do so being essential to the prosperity of | the South, and as for the Filipinos they had “no rights | that we are bound to respect.” A careful inquiry, from North Carolina to the Guli, discloses the aston- iching who are under forty years of age favor holding the Another astounding disclosure from the have quit on ! i bl can be borrowed at a lower interest than at any time | lippines. free silv h is that the people : . money is plentiful and fact that 75 per cent of the men in the South | i | are in nce the war. They do not feel that any free silver | to inflate the currency, for | s use is cheap. This leaves is mecessary alre plent the trust issue unbroken in the campaign quivar n, and that is far ed about in an in the North. It ird place, among Colonel Bryan's campaign material, silver and expansion ranking it. Here, then, we have the singular spectacle of the South s combined to nominate for the Presi- | d whose principles they reject and repu- | that if Colonel ength of the Democratic party They do not scruple to say n is elected the s will come from the South, and they do : to drop a profitable cotton market as the es promise 10 be, nor do they propose any | experiment in finance to disturb—and perhaps destroy—conditions vnder which the South is pros- | perous. An election of Colonel Bryan under these circum- es will not mean anything. It will settle nothing. 11 leave the financial question where it is, in such nce toward adjustment as it has made by the ion of this year. It will not mean any change in the Philippine situation. In fine, it will not mean a thing which the promoters of Colonel Bryan now pre- tend will mean Feeling as it does, the South should vote for Mc- | Kinley, but it will not. That section is quite willing that the Republican party shall pull its chestnuts out of the fire, shall open a market to i*s cotton. protect its 0, but it is not willing to The Southern Democracy simply to add to the profits of trade due to Repub- v the profits of power by putting the Re- party in a minority. When Morgan of Ala- bama found his seat in the Senate in peril in the whirl- wind campaign that Governor Johnson was making declared himself an expan- and not in favor of free silver, and in the pri- As it Ala- is throughout the South, and yet Colouel Bryan has galled his mouth denouncing the expansion wickedness of Republicans! In Tennessee the mast popular Democratic candi- date for Senator is making his stump campaign for holding the Philippines. and defies any one to show how they can be constitutionally dropped an amendment to the con- it sugar, rice and tob; reciprocate. is against him he simply beat Johnson two to one. is in i | | He says to let them go will req stitution. He does not seem to have reflected that that will mean a constitutional amendment to author- dissolution of the Union. re ize R Assessor Dodge has asked, as a business proposi tion, that be allowed ar appropriation for extra Probably for the same reason he has very clerks. gracefully withdrawn his request. THE CRISIS IN CHINA. HEN the first reports of the insurrection in ! \J\‘/ China were received in this country Wu Ting- ¥ fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is reported to have made himself merry over them and to have ridiculed the idea that the insurgents could menace the peace of the empire or the lives ~i foreigners residing there. He is quoted as saying | the Chinese name of the so-called Boxers is “Ye Ho Chuan,” and means “righteousnes “harmony”” and | “fists,”” and in a jesting way he added it is probably the intention of the society to cultivate muscle for the promotion of virtue and to_teach harmony by fis- icuffs : | Later reports show that the clever Minister was | | either ignorant of the conditions of his own country { or was talking as a diplomatist when he made such | sport of the insurgent society. The Boxers have | cansed a disturbance so serious that various powers, including the United States, have found it necessary to send warships to the danger points and land ma- | rines and bluejackets for the protection of their citi- zens. It is even said Russia is massing an army for | the invasion of China and that Japan is preparing to assert her claims to Korea by force of arms should | the Russian advance be made. The feature of the situation most interesting to us | is the evident desire on the part of the Chinese and the British to induce the United States to interfere and prevent any partition of the empire in case war ! breaks out. The British are not in a position just | row to act with any cffectiveness against Russian ag- | gression unless they should have strong allies, and | they cannot hope to find them anywhere in Europe. | | Therefore they turn to us with expectation and pos- | sibly with hope. The Chinese, on the other hand, Lave no desire to see an alliance of the United States | with Great Britain, but wish our Government to main- tain the empire as it iz in defense of American trade. The British press in discussing the crisis has strongly urged American intervention. The argu- ment put forth in London is that should Great Brit- | ain and Russia interfere to suppress the insurrection they would almost certainly come into conflict and | thus Bring about a war more dangerous than the in- surrection itself, while, on the other hand, the United States could act with the consent of all. The Daily | Mail goes <o far as to refer to the situation as “Mec- Kinley's opportunity,” and says: “The opportunity jor America has come. Will she let it slip from her hands and lose her vast potentialities of ' trade in Northern China?” A similar view of the case is presented in an article in the current number of the Forum by Ho Yow, Chinese Consul Generzl to this country. Discussing the efforts of various Furopean powers to dismember China in order to obtain exclusive trade privileges over certain provinces, he says: “No unusual per- ceptive powers are required to see that if the United seriously | | | clear | Taylor replied: States secures equal trading rights in all spheres of influence an end will be put to that particular line of European policy in the Far East. That is exactly the object for which all intelligent and patriotic Chinese have striven, but the end has arrived before it was ex- pected.” " It is thus evident that a great strain will be put upon the State Department by the present crisis. Should the antagonism now burning so fiercely between the | Japanese and the Russians find vent in war over any { of the issues the Boxer insurrection is likely to ve rise to, the task of guarding our interests in CSna without taking part in the war will require the high- est statesmanship. It is therefore fortunate that at this time we have an administration in whom the peo- ple can safely trust. We will protect our own trade, but we will not puil chestnuts out of the fire for either Great Britain or Japan. teachers who are local “spieling” for students for their schools were to try to learn the political combination of the School Board | they might meet with better success in their efforts Perhaps if some of our to prevent decapitation, A NEW BROOM AT WORK. “IOLLOWING the exposure made by The Cail of the inefficient manner in which the Chinese exclusion act has been enforced at this port by the customs officials comes the action of the Govern- | ment transferring the duty of examining Chinese and passing upon their right to admission to the country from the Collectors of Customs to the officers of the Bureau of Immigration. Under the new rule the en- | forcement of the restriction act in San Francisco will be in the hands not of Collector Jackson, as here- tofore, but of Hart H. North, Immigration Commissioner. A familiar proverb declares: “A new broom sweeps We have therefore good reason for expecting most if not all of the interferences with the enforce- ment of the law which were so conspicuous in the local | Customs office will be swept away under the new man- agement. The work has been transferred to the | Bureau of Immigration avowedly in the interests of | reform. The manner in which the restriction act was | enforced, or not enforced, by Collectors of Customs was not satisfactory to any part of the country, and the dissatisfaction was fully justified by the facts. It is now to be seen how far the Immigration Commis- sioners will improve vpon the work of their prede- cessors in authority, how far they will be able to eradicate the old abuses of the act and enforce it with firmness and impartiality. The fight which The Call made for a stricter ex- clusion of Chinese immigration has thus borne good fruit. Congress has taken steps to remedy the evils which The Call pointed out. From the Commis- | sioner of Immigration we look for such an enforce- ment of the exclusion law as will prevent that whole- sale admission of Chinese under the pretense of being “native sons,” which has been exposed by the inves- tigations made by The Call. In that expectation the public will share, and there will be a widespread ap- proval of the action taken by Congress in making the transfer of authority. It must not be supposed, however, that all danger will be overcome by the act of vesting the enforce- ment of the exclusion law in the hands of a new set of officials. The temptations to corruption and to neglect of duty remain as great and as potent as ever. There is a large profit to be obtained by bringing Chinese into the country, and the men who have en- | joyed that profit in the past will not willingly sur- render it. It is a foregone conclusion that they will at once set about devising some scheme for evading the law under the new control as under the old. For that reason the public vigilance must not be relaxed. The people must be on guard as heretofore. The Call will do its share in the future as in the past, and will be prompt to expose any failure on the part of the new authorities to maintain the law unimpaired in all its force and scope. The menace of Chinese imr migration will never pass away so long as wages are high ang prosperity prevails in the United States, and here at Yhe Golden Gate the watch must be kept with unrelaxing vigilance and fidelity. — Miracles, it appears, will never cease. It has been officially reported that the Hall of Justice has been completed. T ——— OUR CONSULGBR “SYSTEM.” R. BAYARD TAYLOR was once a candidate /V\ for the position of Consul General at Berlin. Some one else received the appointment. When asked how he accounted for his defeat Mr. “There were three things against me—First, I speak German; second, I know the Ger- man people; third, I'am a gentleman.” This arraignment of our so-called consular “sys- tem” is hardly too severe. It is, unfortunately, even truer to-day perhaps than when Mr. Taylor uttered his memorable epigram. Those who doubt this as- sertion should consult an article by Mr. Harry Gar- field in the June Century, entitled “Our Consular Service.” From this it appears that one of the un- forescen results of the civil service law has been the dumping into the open lot of our unfortunate consular “service” of a load of political heelers who could not be shot over the high fence of that law into the pre- serves of the other governmental departments. The personnel of the “service” instead of improving has been, according to Mr. Garfield, steadily deteriorating. To those familiar with the methods of appointing Consuls there is nothing new or startling in Mr. Garfield’s exposure of the arrogance. ig- norance and imbecility which he found per- vading an important consulate of the United States. This imbecility, ignorance and arro- gance will “e the rule. Competency, knowledge and courtesy will be, as now, the exception so long as our exporters are content to‘allow places in the con- sular “service” to be scrambled for by unscrupulous politicians and their Congressional backers. It is very certain that Congress will never reform the “sys- tem” of its own accord, for we live in an age of pru- dence, as Disraeli said, and the leaders follow the people. “The people” here concerned are, as inti- mated above, the merchants whose interests lie in for- eign trade: from them must come the pressure that shall make our consular service a profession worthy the consideration of men of first-rate ability. As a rule such men will not expatriate themselves for three or four vears with the certainty of being turned out at the end of that time and of being obliged to begin | their lifework all over again. Only a third-rate man will do that, and so long as we put up with third- lrate men we must compete for the world’s trade at a | disadvantage with nations like Germany and England, which have well organized and efficiently administered consular systems. A Consul to-day is largely a commercial and very little a political officer. Take the consular service out of politics and put it where it belongs—on a business basis. 4 The Ccll does not hold itself responsible fof the opimions published in this column. but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. DITOR The Call: Are there 53,338 neglected children in California? It certainly is not indifference of parents that exciudes from the San Francisco public schools at least 5000 between the ages of five and six, vastly more than one-twelfth of all be- tween 5 and 17. They should have the benefits of money drawn for them, and would if willing parents were consulted. The avaricious parent is the exception. The poor feel that an education is all they can give thefr children, and deny them- selves to the point of pity to bestow on the little ones what they themselves sadly lack. The mother will rise before day- break to wash her little girl's only white apron and dry it in the ironing to make her child presentable at school. The con- trast in dress between that of toiling pa- rents and their children is at times pa- thetic in the extreme, the heart of the teacher going out In helpless sympathy 5 (Principal Hancock Grammar School). ourse too many, hence the frequent ef- gur(s to reduce the time to eight years. Without exeeption these efforts have end- od in dismal failure. The new course will abolish the ninth grade; but the past has demonstrated the fol of compressing work. It has been tried and proved that under existing ideas of the essentials and non-essentials the needed relief cannot be found that way, for teacher and pupil alike even now groan under the burden of multiplied subjects. Even when the eighth grade was the highest the course consumed nine years. The time in the re- | celving class was not counted, yet most children rematned in that class one year before entering the first grade. At a recent grade meeting held to deter- mine where to unload one adheu:ze‘sled that a branch In her work ing_easy, the grade below might as well take it, and o silde down all along the line. This elicited marked general disap- proval. Eliminations from the higher to the lower would inevitably cause an in-| creased number of the left-overs: and | thus, by making it harder and harder to| reach the top, causing rents and chil- | dren both to become discouraged, indi: rectly augment the neglected 53,358, and | the problem of the street arab would still | be unsolved. ninth grade work into e of four years would What Is it to the child ives twelve years to study if he di- %z into eight years plus four years instead of nine years plus three years? Nothing; but a deal to him who can give only eight years. Paradox though it may seem, eight-tweifths will prove a larger number than nine-twelfths. Pupils of 13 in a sixth or seventh grade look forward with dread to a graduation at 17 or 18 be o who vide oo Compulsory Sducation in Ohis City By Margaret McKenzie B e i B % vears of age. They realize that they are ietung too. “big’” to be in a grammar Sehool and leave as soon as work presents fiselt. But a graduate of 16 does not yet feel that somewhere he has wasted valu: able time, of which at 17 or 15 there would be no doubt. Our system i n arithmetic hurlr!ez ;2‘131‘1 1. ‘“The greates e S Ok eost mimber” docs mot seem to be our motto. There is no other study as powerful in acquiring all others as reading; yet not a teacher in our depart- ment wi ot confess that she has sacri- ! w :rersally needed l;'nml!:l (13‘21'« ficed this uni demands of the senseless eign_exchange. ing walls,” “digi every boy and girl may know at the expense of acquiring ability to read in an_intelligent way the simplest thing placed before a class. How many apply in daily life what they acquire at this sac- rifice? Not many of the teachers them- s(»l\‘;a make use of much of what they teach. When the children and their parents find that thelr girls are not to engage in plas- tering walis or that the boys are not ail going into the carpet business, is it any wonder that millinery or dressmaking has attractions for the girl or that selling pa- rs on_ the street corners seems more Pororable to the boy than letting his r mother slaye for him while he is try- ng to figure out the cublc yards soms mg»r boy may have to remove some day or other when he is a man? Is it the neglectful parent who is re- sponsible that so many under 17 find that the benefits gained in the schoolroom ars lefss ’;ltlrncllvu than the inducements out of it? San Francisco, June 7, 1900. to the poor father, who labors too often with fruftless results and who finally gives up dosing the unwilling youth of 15 with the distasteful tasks of the school- room and lets him shift for himself, as he ould. but who thereby adds to the so- called 53.358 street arabs. Our cotrse of study and its misinterpre- tation are factors largely concerned in all this. The average parent thinks nine vears spent in completing the grammar RS. MARY CURTIS RICHARD- SON has returned from the East after a year's sojourn in some | of the principal cities, Mrs. Richardson has been busily occupled dur- ing her stay with portrait commissions in Boston, Chicago, New York, Buffalo and Philadelphia, so far has the fame of the Californian portrait painter reached. On the easel in Mrs, Richardson’s studio is | a charming child portrait of Miss Betsu | Wheeler and a striking sketch of Profes- sor Slate of Berkeley, but the artist has not yet resumed work. John Haten of Salt Lake City, now vis- iting San Francisco, has an interesting exhibition in one of the local galleries. The most pretentious but perhaps least worthy or distinctive of the five pictures exhibited is “A Vale in the Rockies,” an incredible, audacfous effect. Truth it may be, but one of those truths that are best iett unpainted. The “Quaking Asps.” a shimmer of slender aspens against a finely | handled background of far hills, is a de- lightful subject, sympathetically treated. It is full of movement and atmosphere and pitched in a light, fine color key. “Lake Unfon,” Seattie, a small Califor- nian sketch, and a “Fruit Piece” of orig- inal composition, complete the exhibition. Mr. Hafen will stay in San Francisco a nian skegches. Miss Clara McChesney has two pastels cn exhibition in the galieries—"The Young Mother” and an “Old Woman and Child.” lends itself admirably to the fine tender- ness with which Miss McChesney has handled her subjects, and the lighting and composition in both’ are especially inter- esting. Eugene Cadanasso has returned from a short stay at Santa Cruz with a number of_sketches industriously gathered Mrs. Beecher's charming little portrait of Miss Church is on exhibition in town. Though not comparabie in technique, fn ose and costuming, the portrait is rem- Kflscenl of Gregory and has also nice tone and warm, rich color. The hands and arms seem’ perhaps slightly out of draw- ing—disproportionately small for the size of ihe figure. Grace Hudson exhibits two new Indian subjects, companion pictures—"“To-Da an old squaw bearing a load of wood, and | “Yesterday,” an Indian malden among the | poppies. Carl Dahlgren exhibits in the same sgal- lery a sunny woodland landscape, with deer in the distance—a pleasant subject and effect. high on the canvas, too little sky and too much foreground. Woes of the Census Enumerator. A thrilling drama of contemporaneous interest, performed continually, morning and afternoon in this and other sections. The Enumerator — Good morning, madam; 1 am the census enumerator. Will— The Lady of the House—No; we don't | want any to-day. The Enumerator—You mistake my er- rand, ma'am. I'm making an enumera- tion of the—please don't shut the door on my foot, ma'am—inhabitants on this street for the census bureau. The Lady—We don't want any bureaus, 1 tell you. ‘he ~ Enumerator—Again you mistake, ma’am. 1 am—what's your husband's name, ma'am? The Lady—That's his business. The Enumerator—No, ma’'am, it's my business. The thgo—'flll name is Twi —Tony B. Twiggs. a warrant for him? He ain’t to_home. The Enumerator—And your name, ma'am? ! The Lady—My name is Nancy Jane Twiggs. The Enumerator—Any children? No! The Lady—Well, I never! - children born The Enumerator—Any since June 12 The Lady—Mercy's sakes! What do you | ask that fool question for? The Enumerator—So that I can . omit them, ma’am. Your husband, I suppose, is_head of the family? The Lady—Not when ma is visiting us. The Enumerator—And what is your re- lationship to your husband? 3 The Lady—There isn't no relationship. I'm his_wife, that's all. "The Enumerator—What color, ma'am? The Lady—Sir! Natural, of course. The Enumerator—Um-um-um. Age at B The Lady—: My age! - The Enumerator—Don’t get exclted, ma'am. All these answers will be held strictly confidential. Age at last birthday, please? 5 The Lady—I can't give ft. The Enumarnlor—wh}r not? The Lady—Because don’t belleve I have reached my last birthday. The Enumerator—Shall we say 28, a'am? The Lady—Tee-hee! T'll own up to 29. The Enumerator—Thank you, ma’am. And how long have you been married? The Lax ‘y mme see. Twenty-two yglcgru, but it seems longer. ‘he’ Enumerator—Um-um-um. In what Year did you immigrate to this country? Tm-um-um. I'm getting ahead too fast. Where were you born? The Lady—I was born on a Misslssippi River flatboat. The Enumerator—Thanks. Do you speak Erglish? At my on By palnfal g to th nd so_on by pain! legrees to the bitter end.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE NINE-LIVED EVIL. The School Journal. Can it be true that there are still some people in positions of authority in matters concerning the schools who have the cour- age to hold on to the antediluvian exam- Imt::n;‘uh: test ?t promotion? What woul t of a prosecuting attor- ney who sl fi"m in sober sag:‘e-l, “Is it onor's pleasure that we the ness on the rack, or shall with the thufihlcfl'l!" et :gn:ntmn;l “’ld no otne- seems surprised rlnl person wearing S roncn oo schtio be-proad oF belne of used to o gsd by a ul!-eonmtedm ho wh’ether the; mni M 'vl!"bout e u:-vhld' or will ever make t see tha of the scl is other mltl '2' S, t old- few weeks and will make some Califor- | The characteristic softness of the medium | Miss Ethel M. Wickes has an | “Irish Country Lane” on exhibition, an interesting litile scene, placed perhaps too | time abomination of term examination | get together and insist that the school | authorities_remove the wholly unneces- sary evil. If a superintendent is so lack- ing in humane regard for the physical and | mental welfare of children as to let a | cruel tradition continue beyond this late day he ought to be brought to task. ———————— | B eoe6s0060oeseoe® FASHION HINT FROM PARIS f | .—0—0—0—0+0+0+0+0—0—M’ | e e e o e e o g | I | (@ e0 4040000000+ Q | PRINTED FOULARD DRESS. The dress represented Is of white ground | foulard with colored patterns; the bolero and bands on the skirt are of different | pattern. The waistband is of white mus- lin, draped, and the pelerine of the same | fouiard as the dress. | | Sy Caprats oot e | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | BRYAN'S RELIGION—B. P., City. Wil- | liam J. Bryan is a member of the Presby- | terfan church. FREE TRADE WITH HAWAII-N. F., City. Free trade between the United | States and the Hawaiian Islands will be | established on the lith of June, 1900. CENSUS—K., Cit The questions that are asked by census takers are not idle ones, and no one should refuse to answer | such. It Is only by obtaining correct answers to questions that has been form- ulated by the census cfficers that reliable data can te obtained. BOTH CHAMPIONS-—-W. M. L., City. John L. Sullivan proclatmed himself champion of the world until James J. Cor- bett sted him and became the cham- | plon. Up to the time Corbett defeated him Suflivan had a cralienge to the whole world to take Fis laurels from him. WRAPPERS—W, H. D, City. The of- fer for the wrappers that are described in your communication was a limited one. Any dealer in the commodity described will give you the address of the San Fran- cisco agents, but it being a private con- cern, this department cannot advertise it. McKINLEY'S FAVORS-B. City. As this department has no means of as- certaining the religion of those to whom President McKinley has shown political or other favors, it is impossible to tell if he showed more favors to those of one religious denomination than he did to those of other denominations. FREE DELIVERY-T. H. B., Grass Valley, Cal. Free mail delivery wiil e‘!!ah?lshed in zll eclities or boroughs hl.?'.;i ing, according to the latest Federal or State census, 10,000 inhabitants or in which | the gross postal receipts were during the | grecedln fiscal year not less than $10.000. | he appiication must be made to the, Post- | master General through the First Assist- ant Postmaster General. The petition must state the name of the postoffice, the population, the gross revenue, condition | of sidewalks, if the names of the streets are posted and if the place is properly lighted. The petition may be presented by the Postmaster, citizens or the munici- pal authorfties. LORD FITZGERALD—Several Inquir- ers, City. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who during the days of 'S8 in Ireland became president of the organization known as | the United Irishmen, was after his connee- tion with that association proceeded egainst. A bill of attainder was passed against his estates, which were confls- cated, but later this was reversed. Upan his death he left his widow, who in later | years married Mr. Pitcairn, the American | Consul at Hamburg, but the marriage was an unhappy one and the couple separated by mutual consent. She then lived in re- tirement at Montauban till 1530, when she | went to Paris, France. Louis Philippe, | the associate of her childhood, refused to see her, and she died poor in 1531 Fuller dDg;talAs ?"Lo ?E(‘l"u"rr\‘l l!!!‘ the “Life and ath of T 'wa tzgerald,” pub- lished in 1575. » FOR A PATENT—E. B.,, Grass Valley, B e o Cal. The fee for a patent is the same, be the article large or small. A person having an article for which. a patent is desired should place the matter in the hands of a rellable patent agent and avoid all mistakes and d-n:er of losing the benefits of a patent. The cost of secaring a patent in addition to agent's fee f: On filing each orizinal appli v et 151 o TEsuing €ach orIRIRG) patemt 04 design cases: For lht‘a‘ynn and six months, $10; for meven years, for fourteen years, $30. On Aling each caveat, $10, On every appli- cation for the refssue of a_patent. $80. On Al ing each disclaimer, $10. For certified coples af patents and other’ pay In manuscript, 1 r hundred 's; for certified coples df patents, 5 cents. For ifledd i eents { print §1: of over three hundred and sand $2; of over one thousand For coples of drawings, the reasonable cost PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. F. Thompson of Boston is at the Grand. E. W. McGinnis, a merchant of Seattle, is at the Lick. Captain Tanera of the German army is at the Palace. C. T. Tulloch, a contractor of Oakdale, is at the Lick. Peter Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. Dr. Samuel Carlfle of Newton, N. J., Is at the Californfa. Dr. A. J. Powell and wife of Haywards are at the Californta. John D. Ludwig. a mining man of Mari- posa, is at the Grand. Paul J. Pitner, a mining man of Chi- cago, is at the California. Samuel H. Westfall, an orange shipper of Redlands, s at the Palace. P. J. Nolan and family of the City of Mexico are at the Occidental. R. J. Langford, Sheriff of Santa Clara | County, is stopping at the Lick. B. Mihalovitch, a distiller and lquor dealer of Cincinnati, accompanied by his wife and daughter, registered at the Pal- ace yesterday. Rev. Sebastian Dabovich has returned from his tour of the Western States and | will officiate Sunday at the Greek-Rus- sian Cathedral. B. Kure, controller of the general sta- tistical bureau of Japan, registered at the Occidental yesterday. He comes to this country to study the methods of cen- sus taking. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, June $.—A. H. Hill of Oak- land is at the Waldorf; Rev. Dr. Voecr- | sanger of San Franeisco is at the Plaia. ALL READY FOR BUNKER HILL DAY CELEBRATION Programme of Exercises on the Green at Glenwood and Prizes for the Lucky Omes. The final arrangements for the celebra- tion of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary were consummated Thursday at a meeting of the varfous assoctations connected with the observance of the day. The literary and musical exercises will take place at Glenwood. First will be the prayer by the chapiain of the day, Rev, T. J. Lacey of Christ Chureh, Alamed opening remarks by Willlam G. Badger, president of the Bunker Hill Association: song, “Star-spangled Banner,” Dby Mrs. Eva Tenney. Judge Edward A. fielther. president of the Vermont Association, will Introduce the orator, Merton C. All the well-known journalist and speaker, and after the oration Alfred Wilkie will sing “The Sword of Bunker Hill.” There will be songs by the Emalada Ladies’ quartet, music by the Second iment band and “America” will be sung by the audlence. After the benediction the audi- ence will be free to enjoy the beauties of the redwood groves, the dancing and the l{ames until the special traing return to the city at 5 m No Fear of the Plague. Philadelphia Inquirer. It may be that the bubonic plague has reached San Francisco. Dr. Shrady. the well known New York physician, seems to think that it has, and yet it is very strange that no one has yet been abie to find any one suffering with the disease. There have been several suspicious deaths and the doctors base their opinion en- tirely upon the results of autopsies. * * Either San Francisco has never had the plague or else it has nothing to fear even with it mt. No white person has died with anything that looks like it. and it has been confined wnolly within the limits of Chinatown. Asiatics are peculiarly plague victims, and yet in the midst of these 20,000 or 30,000 Chinamen, where it would seem to have every svrendh\f. it is practically One thing is certain; it is for any one to get excited over the situ- ation in San Francisco. In a panic, the health officials of the State of Texas have city. That is quarantined against the absurd. This country is not a good fleld for the plague, and if it really has ap- peared among the Chinamen of San Fran- cisco and has been controlled so easily no one need worry over its spread east- ward. Authorized to Administer Oaths. W. J. Coey Jr.. Registry Clerk inuthe Custom-house, has been authorized to ad- minister oaths and sign papers the same as a Deputy Collector. —————— Fine butter log at Townsend’s. ® Delicious alacuma at Townsend's. ® ————e——————— New peanut crisps at Townsend's. . ——————————— Now ready, July styles Standard pa terns. Domestic office, 1021 Market st. * glaced fruits, 50c a baskets. Townsend's Cal. Ib. in fire etched boxes or Jap §20 Market street, Palace Hotel. —_—————————— Special information supplied dally t» b houses and public men the usiness Bureau (Allen's). 510 Most- ey Bireet Teiephone Math 02 o ————— A few nicely framed pictures will change the appearance of any room and the transformation need uct be an expensive one, either. You will he surprised to see how reasonable we are making frames _and artistic, too. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T4l Market street. » The fashion of “snowballs” has taken in t dray he -room. It is purely commercial. 'y of the a leader of “snowballs” is’ entitled she finds three others who will start ball” at her ~London