The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1900, Page 4

CALIFORNIA OSTRICH STORY THAT OUGHT TO JAR YOU Marvelous Tale of a Bird of One Passage Under the Guidance of Expert Che S @all. MONDAY...c.ccpivorssssitbsesssd-JUNE 15, 2000 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. kddress Al Communica‘ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE . .Telepho-g/?vr:u 204 FPUBLICATION OFFICé .Market a Telephone Press 20 Third, S. ¥F. EDITORIAL ROOM ..217 te 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. . 15 Cents Per Week. ...1118 Bromdway GNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. Ucng Distazce Tel . XEW TYORK C C. CARLTON., NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH... .30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont Hcuse: Auditorium Hotel NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentsne, i Union BSquare; Murray Hil Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE............... Wellington Hotel MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. ... Heraid Square ERANCH OFFICES 0 o'clock. 300 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 6% velock. 615 Larkin 119 o clock. treets—Spectalties. ever ights. Open AUCTION SALES. & DovieMondas, n June 11, at 11 o'clock, Horses, weifts and Harrison ts, nesday, June 13, at 11 o'clock, Fire Sixth street. Thursday, June 14, at 11 o'clock, Market street hed, started up under the infiu p reports and rose about 5 cents per | hicago in 2 couple of days. This market re- ponded and the close of the week found wheat a ce of property than it has been for increasing speculation. The minor zed and the feeling was firmer all 1 and feed stufis. The cause of ook east of the Misissippi and condition of the crop in the great is badly needed. In Ohio, chigan the ravages oi the and Hessian ve cut down the acreage 33 per cent and the crop itself over 50 per cent, in some cases destroy- ing it altogether. In addition the outlook in foreign countries is not sufficien tering to counteract the adverse reports from the United States, hence the ad- vance gainst this rise in wheat, however, we have stead- ¢y weakening markets for almost everything else— } , iron and steel, leather, hides, wool, cotton, petroleum, silk, hemp, a2 flat market for boots and ackened demand for manufactured clothing, etc., ¢ through a long list of minor commodities. Manufacturers are giving way before the accumula- tion of stock and backwardness of buyers and more mills are reported shutting down. out any loss shoes All this is going n confidence or any disturbance which is as abundantly supplied , the decreased activity in trade and of mills throughout the country has am of idle money to flow into New York, slowly accumulating and going into hiber- ke a serpent winter. jer these conditions Wall street remains duil. e peaceful aspect of the South African situa- on with States, the latter threatening to reduce the railway earnings during the coming fall. Another bear fac- ngency in money at Berlin 1 seems to produce more effect on essionls, who regard it with a iifferent eye. But it makes the public ist the same and a dull stock market is the re- The decrease in the volume of business last week, wn by the bank clearings of eighty cities, was The decrease at New York was 148 nd at Boston 186 per cent. St. Louis, dis- turbed by 2 serious strike, showed a gain of 1.6 per cent—an incongruity. Pittsburg, the seat of the iron and steel trade, said to be languishing, exhibited a gain of 388 per cent, and San Francisco, afflicted with a farcical “plague,” a gain of 185 per cent. for figures, which never lie. If strikes, weak mar- kets and burlesque “plague” scares each produce in- creased business in three different cities, what 2 boom there would be if any one city had all three conditions at once? . The local features are the rise in wheat, a continued good export movement and sharp cutting in the prices of provisions foliowing the advent of a new compcetitor in the cured meat field. Otherwise the markets are dull and featureless. The crop outlook of the State was never better, taking the list of products | as a whole, and from now on it will be a question of price, not quantity. Los Angeles is suffering from a reign of footpads, and attributes the evil to the domination of the Police Department by the politicians. Our own experience it the same field ought to give Mayor Phelan an op- pertunity to correct the mistake of the southern city. In secking to tax everything of value in the city o the highest notch the Democratic Board of Super- visors seems determined to carry out to the very let- ter that law of their party which declares that gov- ernment is for revenae only. Ii China is to be dismembered by the powers of Europe the Empress will have at least one satisfac tion, fllqnbninvufllylfl'm_nhn - | and cheated. If, on the other hand, the change of 9 o'clock. NW cor- ! So much | THE PASSING OF THE:. BOERS. ISTORY records no more pitiful tragedy than has been enacted in South Africa. Nor does history record a more amazing spectacle than the wild rejoicing in Great Britain that a victory has been gained by that empire over two weak re- publics. The British force outnumbered the Boer army more than twelve to one. Yet London went mad over the victory! If the record of human affairs | has been correctly written such rejoicing over such a | victory is a symptom of national decay. It indicates | the breaking down of that fine spirit which refused to | count anything a victory at arms worth re- | cording that was not won from an equal foe land none worthy of great exultation that was | ot gained over a superior force. When that spirit goes out of a people and victories over freemen, outnumbered and friendless in the world, are ks and freaks of rejoicing, it is a sign i ! hailed with s | that the equal foe may come and conquer those who | vaunt their victory over the weak. There is much that is suggestive in the fate of the two republics. The world has looked on with indif- ference while monarchy, greed and commercialism have besomed them off the map. The monarchies which normally have scores to settle 'with Great Britain reirained from taking her in straits and seek- ing an accounting. They are interested in a reaction ; against republican institutions. They are admonished by the fate of France,which in our American revolu- tion aided a republic against a monarchy, only to find the ferment of freedom extended to her own institu- | tions and in a measure to every nation on the con- | tinent. A monarchy cannot well aid republican in- stitutions abroad and deny them at home, so Europe has waited until England brought down her prey and { there is to be an accounting it must wait until she . Therefore, while avert their faces ile she assassinates liberty. continent left upon which the Africa is the o civilized races can get a foothold and where civil in- stitutions are to be he downfall of the Free State and Tra | notice served upon mankind that no rept I be permitted in Africa. have no altars, liberty no wor- nment no resting place. The pray- are swered. The iree-born Boers farther into the wilderness. can go no is over. In the Dark Continent freedom has made its last stand and reccived the devotion of its last martyr. | Women mourn their dead. The orders of Rob- erts have burned their farmsteads and put weltering where kine grazed and fields ripened in the sun. forgotten while mothers look upon their e to the hated Government ike 2 wolf, from the Cape to England has before this given mankind some rea- son to fear her, but she has not before filed such a laim to the hatred of a world which sometimes likes That world may not be just now in a mood d what has been done on the Vaal and wildly The passion of greed may have to give place to satiety. But when the appetites are jaded the conscience renews its vigor. Even Solomon did not write “All is vanity” until age and decrepitude had made passion vain. But when con- | ct y to celebrated on the Tham science takes the throne and the crimes and offenses, | the meannesses, the murders, done in the name of God’s will, and the robberies committed to advance civilization, are all written off the journal and trans- ferred to each nation’s ledger account, this crime in South Africa will be found to leave England with a larger balance to settle than any other nation. | The seeds of retribution are planted along the path- way of an empire which rejoices when it overcomes | the weak. They spring up in time and the mighty are laid low. Rome got her first fatal blow at the hands of Hermann. Orphaned by her legions in ravaging Germany, the child was carried to Rome as the hunter tzkes home a strange cub whose dam he has slain for defending her young. But the German child never forgot the scenes of his infancy nor forgave | the power that tore him from them. He paid the | score at Teutoburgerwald and in slaughtering the le- ‘ gions of Varus to feed German buzzards balanced ac- counts and gave the mortal blow that led to the death | of the empire. The Boers have been bereaved of their generals by death and the fortunes of war. One is an exile on St. Helena, the great and cowardly empire fearing the imprisoned lion in a place less secure than one with an unbroken horizon of water. Another is dead, gone beyond the spites and fears, the quaking greed | and jackdaw hypocrisy, which join in robbery and | sanctify it with prayer and frofessions for the eleva- tion of man. But perhaps some Boer lad, whose father’s bones | have been stripped by hyenas, and whose childish face had been baptized in his mother's tears, will re- member it all as he goes forward to manhood and | b it. Belgium, Italy. Portugal, | s ruled by a monarch, have pos a. They cannot afford to perpetuate The long trek | language carry with it a change of meaning, then every man who votes for it under the supposition that the old platform has been reaffirmed will be defrauded. Either the silver men or the gold men are to be cheated by the tactics proposed, and yet it is stated Bryan will not be asked to stultify himself or to do anything contrary to the rules of good faith, sincerity and self-respect. Fortunately it is not possible for the schemers to carry out the game of false pretenses they have de- vised. Bryan is too loose of tongue to play the game, and too headstrong to sit silent and permit Hill, Gorman and Jones to play it for him. He de- lights in talking and in all his talking his chief delight | kas been to pose as the champion of silver. No mat- ter how skillfully the Kansas City platiorm might be drawn to catch gudgeons, Bryan would within a week after the hook was baited make such a racket on the stump as would frighten away the last one of them. | The surprising feature of the programme is not its | transparent hypocrisy, or the evident belief of the | schemers that Bryan can stand upon any other plat- | form than that of Bryanism, but the assumption that the country was alarmed in 1896 more by the Chi- | cago platform than by the Chicago nominee. It is not too much to say that to the conservative sentiment and business interests of the people Bryan is fully as objectionable as the platform on which he stands. Such a man clothed with the powers of the Presidency would keep the country in a condition of unrest and | uncertainty and turmoil. A man of sound statesman- | ship, even if nominated on the Chicago platform, would be more acceptable to a majority of the Amer- ican people than Bryan on any platform whatever. Jones and his fellow schemers are therefore going the | wrong way to work to win over the conservatives of | their party. So long as Bryan leads the way none | but wild colts will follow | THE SCHOOL BOARD PROGRAMME, | HOULD the report prove to be true that the | S Board of Education intends to adopt rules re- quiring every principal controlling less than ten classes to teach a class and fixing the minimum | number, 61 pupils in a class at sixty-five, then it is time | for thef parents of school children, for the press and for tife public generally to make protest. Such a scheme cannot be made commendableeeven if given | the respectable name of economy. It is essentially bad and no matter in what guise it may be masked no good can come of it. The Call had occasion some time ago to point out the wrong which is being done to the public by the practice of various boards and commissions of the | city government in holding secret sessions for the dis- | cussion of municipal affairs under their control. A striking evidence of the evil results of that practice is presented in this case. The reported intention of the Board of Education to make the stated changes | in the rules is a rumor merely. The agreement to | make the change is said to have been effected at ex- | ecutive meetings. The public has known nothing of it, has had no chance to discuss it, no opportunity to | protest and yet it is announced_the board will prob- ably carry out the scheme at the meeting to be held to-day. Were the proposed changes unobjectionable in themselves, there would still be just cause for com- plaint on the part of the public in the very fact that they have been devised by the board, not in open discussion but in the secrecy of executive sessions, and are to be sprung upon the people as a surprise. | There is no authority for the Board of Education to | carry on public business in that way. The Police Commission is the only commission or board to which the charter gives the privilege of secrecy. All | other administrative bodies of the municipality are expected to act openly and above board, so that the | press may publish and the people may read what is going on and what plans of administration are being | considered. Had it been generally known that the Board of Education had under consideration any such scheme as the one rumored, there would have been vigorous protests before now. It is not right to require the principal of a school to devote a large part of his time to teaching a class. The rule might as well re- quire each member of the board to teach a class and the president to teach two classes. Neither is it right tc fix the minimum number of pupils in a class at sixty-five. That number is in excess of what a teacher can rightly attend to. All experience in pub- lic and in private schools has demonstrated that a | teacher cannot manage and instruct so large a num- ber of pupils with anything like the efficiency that parents have a right to expect. It is asserted furthermore by competent authorities that the average classrooms in our school buildings are not spacious enough to accommodate so large a number of pupils; that to enforce the rule would be to overcrowd the rooms, producing not only incon- venience but conditions prejudicial to health. Economy in the administration of the public schools is a popular desire; we may even add that it is im- peratively demanded—but the desire and the demand | are for economies that will put an end to waste, ex- | travagance, jobbery and corruption, such as have | been too frequently manifest for many a year past. There is no demand for an economy or a parsimony | that will weaken the teaching force or impair the ef- ficiency of the instruction. The people are perfectly willing to pay all that is needed for the proper teach- ing of the children of the city. They object only to that which is the result of negligence. unfaithfulness or dishonesty—and to star chamber proceedings. A report from Paris says that at the first perform- ance of Sousa’s band in the American section of the Paris Exposition the enthusiasm of the great audience of Americans that gathered to hear it did not break all bounds until the “Cake Walk™ and other ragtime pieces were played. Then the American colony be- came delirious. It danced and whooped and de- manded encores until the band was exhausted. That is bad, but not so bad as was feared. For a long time there was a dread in this country that the American Commissioners and their staff at Paris would array themselves in militia uniforms and open the Ameri- can pavilion with a cake walk. PSR + If politics in Oakland possesses no other merit it certainly has the virtue of variety and excitement. Anything from an indictment by a Grand Jury to a -candidacy for Governor is considered to be good form when the great empire that lives in denying the right | weak seems at the height of power, insolent and de- fiant, he will direct a blow that inflicts a2 mortal wound and the long forgotten dust of the martyrs who fell for the two republics will thrill in its uncoffined quiet s s e BRYAN @AND HIS PLATFORM. f ; ENATOR JONES of Arkansas, chairman of ported to be a convert to David Bennett Hill's plan of campaign—that of nominating Bryan for the sake of pleasing the silver men and the wild colts of Democracy, but drawing the platform to suit the con- Chicago for the purpose of conferring with Bryan | and will urge him “not to abandon the Chicago plat- form, nor any principle contained in it, nor to stul- tify himself, nor to do anything contrary to the rules | sent that the reaffirmation of the Chicago platform be put in language which will not alarm the country and i1l permit the Democratic party to reunite and win.” In that programme there is all the unctuousness of j asked to do nothing contrary to good faith and self- respect, but he is asked to consent to the expression cf his doctrines in language quite different from that in which he has been expressing them for the last four | frankly told, is to prevent the doctrines from alarm- !ing this year those who were alarmed by them in 1806. Are the conservative Democrats, then, such stupid folk that they can be beguiled into supporting it with a Kansas City canvas? X 1f the reaffirmation of the old platform in new ’words do not change the intent of the platform itself, ' then every man who is induced to vote for it by rea- | to live to others and fattens on the substance of the and the great crime will be avenged. the Democratic National Committee, is re- servatives. The Senator, it is said, will go at once to i good faith, sincerity and self-respect; but to con- a professional hypocrite. Bryan, we are told, is to be | years. The object of the change of words, we are | the Chicago platform by the mere process of covering son of the change of words will have been defrauded > Y in one’s political career. A L San Rafael has produced some oddities in the way of offenders against the law, but the man who is ac- cused of having stolen his friend’s house and moved it to a hiding-place is certainly entitled to the dis- tinction of originality. 1f the vociferous Sulzer stcceeds in his ambition to get the Democratic nomination for Vice President, the calamity ticket will be able to make as much noise in the campaign as two pigs under a fence. sl 3 ol -New York Democrats have cut the very ground from under the feet of William Jennings Bryan. They Mnmufllflfijmfllm iy N ostrich, $45,000 worth of missing Jewels and a quartet of thieves fig- ure in a remarkable story from Paris, published in the Chicago In- ter-Ocean. Among the chief attractions of the Cali- fornia exhibit at the French Exposition was to have been an educated ostrich, ralsed and trained on a California ranch. This was the way it was set forth in the offi- cial catalogue. The ostrich was shipped seven weeks ago, and Commissioner Peck has been watching every Incoming steam- er with an ostrich cage and a choice diet of sand rocks. The ostrich has not ar- rived, and the following story throws a brilliant calclum light on its disappear- ance. Several wecks ago an ostrich, purport- ing to be the highly educated bird which had been groomed for the Parls fair, was shipped from San Joaquin County, Cal.,, to New York City. It was en- tered on the frelght list as the prop- erty of a man living in San Joaquin County. Along with the ostrich were two men attend=nts, an o‘d-rA7|°";l:=x;: nd a dashing young woman, o :lere d(-vo(ed'ul; me‘kln‘ of birds, and the older man nna h-na.‘on‘:&“vfiltnu}‘nn?; i.?fi?f;; i‘x’.."’sn‘-l;‘:".ua %o be the daugh- r of the ol man. eAt New York they took l?rlsu‘e. with the ostrich, on one of thob cnchn}:x::lcgl steamers bound for Cherl ou?r.n b ssistants occupls E:Qt;:%o:l side, while he man and his Diamond Thieves. daughter were directly to starboard. The ostrich was kept In the hold and visited | and fed daily with great care by the lwo‘ attendants. The gangplank was pulled in_at noon | on a Wednesday In April at the New York dock, and for the first two days out no incident occurred worth relnuni. On the | morning of the third day some half-dozen passengers reported to the captain that | they had been mysteriously Tobbed of | ge quantities of jeweiry and diamonds. 0 report of this was allowed to reach | the remainder of the passengers or crew | for several days, when the robberie€ were repeated and the stor; became ublic | property on board. The voyage lasted | etight and a half days—nine nights—and in that time over thirty staterooms were entered, trunks opened, jewel caskets emptied and strong boxes looted. In he losers were among the people on the passenger list. e go woman logt over worth of dlamonds and pearls, while a young married couple from New York ~were losers to the extent of over $40% in gems. A clothing dealer in Kansas City who re- sides at the Ccrdova Hotel gave up a Jeweled watch and diamond ornaments valued at approximately Mrs. james H. Davis of Texas mourns the 0ss of some! ng e $5000 worth of prop- erty. Mrs. George F. Washburn of Bos- every c wealthl | bod: without avall. Search of several state- rooms and no less than twenty-fi sengers failed to bring any of the stolen property to light. As soon s the steamer was landed the police of Cherbourg were eniisted and the Paris detective force ro- tified. For days the detectives worked without obtaining a clew. Then attention was called to the fact that Commissioner Peck was waiting in vain for an educated Cali- their fornia ostrich. The police turned notice temporarily from the missin els to the los strich. The dise! ¢ of the lonely suburb were % a s of what had been . ry. ‘There were not many pleces of jeweiry, but enough to set the astute minds of the detectives to work. They have mow found out something which convinces them, so they say, that the four passengers in charge of the as- trich were four of the most expert dia- mond thieves in the United States. Thesa thieves disc that preparations bad been made to ship an ostrich to the Ex- position and either secured pgssession of the real bird which was to have been semt, or anticipated the plans of the California Commfssion, and started with an estrich of thelr own choosing. At any rate. when the attendants went down to the hold every dn{ to feed the ostrich dined 2 ton rnted with a diamond crescent and pe%z necklace valued at $3300. Miss Mae . George of New York lost a tiara valued g Tlhfis Josmon: f0€ up Ta tha: nelgh; borhood of $45, Every effort was made to discover the rpetrator of these wholesale robberies. e closest watch was kept, detectives on board were called Into service, but him on choice gems, which the ol man and the pretty girl, who passed for daughter, had stolen from assengers before ‘{M had ample time to escape o helr Sfems was suspected. e NEWS OF NAVIES. Vickers Sons and Maxim at Barrow em- ploy about 10,000 men in the trades con- | nectea with shipbuilding, engine construc- | tion and gun and armor making. Brazil has five naval arsenals, that at Rio Janeiro being the praicipal. The | others are located at Pernambuco, Bahia, | Ladario and Itaque. The last named is on the upper Uruguay and is used for river flotilla. The Neptune and Inflexible, battleships | in the British navy, are to be overhauled | at an estimated expense of $125,000. The Neptune has never been of any account since her purchase in 1575, and, like the late Belleisle, is only fit for gun practice- to be sunk. The damage to the Japanese battleship Asahi, which ran aground last month near Portsmouth, is quite serious. When docked it was found that the steel plates had buckled under the fore barbette twenty feet on the starboard and forty feet on the port side and that nearly all the frames through this distance were two months to undergo the necessary re- pairs. The new fuel for the British torpedo boats is of two kinds, one being' composed of Welsh coal residuum, the other heingi composites, formed in blocks of twenty- two pounds each. Trials of these fuels | are to be made as follows: Four hours at | full speed, natural draught; twelve hours at twelve knots; twenty-four hours at ten knots, and a harbor trial of seven | hours. The Newski shipbuilding yard at St. Petersburg is in a bad way. Its balance | of last year's account showed a deficit uf‘h 1,113,069 rubles, which, with prior years, | makes a total deficit of 5547,347 rubles. | | The original capital paid up was 7.500,000 | | rubles and obligations to the amount of 3,565,000 rubles have been contracted. The | | yard was established with a view of tak-| ing contracts for the navy, but the work | | has either been insufficient or badly | managed. The Russian Imperial Bank is | the principal stockholder. Chief Constructor Yates of the Ports- mouth dockyard recently delivered a lec- ture in which he prophesied that battie- ships would be obsolete twenty years hence. By that time there would prob- ably be three distinct types of vessels, | one for firing guns, a second to discharge | torpedoes—both of 1 aich types would be heavily armored. The third would be to ram disabled ships and send them to the | | bottom. He argued that these three com- ! binations could not be successtully carried | out in one single ship as it was now at- tempted in the present type of battleship and that if a ship had only one function to perform each man would know exactly what to do in battle. | Torpedo craft of all descriptions have, as a whole, proved more dangerous to their own crews than to their adversaries. Explosions of bollers have occurred with- in the last two months on French. Turk- ish and Russian torpedo boat destrovers, | | involving loss of life. Numerous mishaps | | occur to British craft of this class, no less | than three being disabled in one day last | month, the victims being the Arfel, Avon | and Porcupine, damaged in collision or by propellers being disabled. Torpedo boat No. 85 was severely damaged and nearly sunk while on practice, a_torpedo | fired from another boat striking No. $5. The Brazilian system of court-martials and procedure of naval and military law have some good features. Ordinary court- martials are composed of seven members, | one of whom is a civil magistrate who ! acts as reporter to the court and has a deliberative voice. The High Court of Military Justice is a permanent Council | of Revislon and is composed of fifteen | life members, of whom eight are army of- ficers, four naval officers and three civil magistrates. The advantage of having civillans on the court who are learned in the law is obvious. It is no infrequent occurrence that sentences in our naval servica are set aside by the Secretary of the Navy, who, as a lawyer, finds that the proceedings were either irregular or the punishment did not fit the crime. | The British Admiralty has furnished Parliament with the detafled cost of re- pairs to boilers of certaln new ships in the navy, from which the following data are taken: Repairs to Belleville boflers in British navy: £l 5 3 E : : 170 ‘i‘m "'{:8 7430 | 22,558 1380 | 5020 3,550 | 9,590 19,070 | 52,330 ‘The first four named vessels were put in commission in 1898 and the last two in 1897. The repairs include the period be- tween commission and up to February 24 last. There is some striking difference in the cost of repalrs, indicating that elther a superfor sort of tubes were used in some of the ships or that the boflers were looked after more or less conscien- tlously. The Powerful's bill of repairs must be considered exceedingly small con- sidering the fact that during the period indicated she steamed from England to ‘Hongkong, did some cruising while on the broken. The ship will be detained at least | mixture of anthracite coal and other | U | Stockton. is at the Lick. | Samuel M. Nave, a merchant of St. Jo- | Tribes of This Order Throughout the | | | ?+Ho*-o+o*o+o—o—o». 4 ‘% FASEION HINT FROM PARIS. e, ;?+0+0+0+0+0+m«:; | 41 el @ 1| | * i 6| B¢ t } 54 ¢ i . ! : [t 41 It * B4 . | & L4 It * i + 'S L4 @ | - - IZ3 @ .‘ Y * 5 ks ) ) | @O+ e3 0000 Q | | NEAT CYCLING COSTUME. } The pretty cycling costume represented | is made of small black and white woolen | check. The collar, lapeis and trimming of the bolero are of white cloth. The skirt | is of the type known as “divided.” and | fastens down the front beneath a tab of white cloth, PERSONAL MENTION. | N. E. de Yoe, a furniture dealer of Mo- | desto, is at the Lick. State Senator E. C. Voorhles of Sutter Creek Is at the Palace. | L. M. Cutting, a real estate man of | C. A. Moody, a Los Angeles newspaper man, is a guest at the Lick. | seph, Mo., 1s at the Palace. Judge A. P. Catlin of the Sacramento | Superior Court is at the Lick. John J. Birne, a Santa Fe officlal of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. Rev. Gerald Card and wife of Charles- ton, W. Va., are at the Occidental. J. S. Brady and J. G. Chapman, mer- | chants of Omaha, are at the Palace. | Adjutant General A. W. Barrett came up from Los Angeles yesterday and iIs at | the California. John F. Carrere of Sacramento, secre- | tary of the State Lunacy Commission, is at the California. Rallroad Commissioner E. B. Edson came down from Gazelle yesterday and is staying at the Occidental. | Frank W. Griffin, who is operating gold | mining dredgers in the vieinity of Oro- | ville, is a guest at the California. | Dr. H. A. Mandeville and wife of| Orange, N. J., are guests at the Palace. | In their party are dlso Misses Jennie R. | and Mary M. Morgan, Charles Morgan | and Miss Glass. | John P. Bray of Washington, D. C., re- | cently appointed United States Consul | General to Australia, with headquarters | at Melbourne, Is a guest at the Palace. | He leaves for his new station by the| steamer Mariposa next Wednesday. i — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 10.—Guy C. Earl of | San Francisco is at the Waldorf. E. P. Murdock of San Francisco is at the Im- perial. E. W. Bowring of Los Angeles is at the Empire. RED MEN TO CELEBRATE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL | 1} | | | State Will Go to the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Independent Order of Red Men will | celebrate the battle ot Bunker Hill Sun- day, June 17, by a grand excursion to Sun- | set Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. | Tribes from various parts of the State will take part in the celebration and rep- resentatives will be present from Pacific | Tribe -No. 66, Califorma No. 70, Golden Gate No. 14, Germania No. $3, San_ Fran- cisco No. 246, Vorwaerts No. 255, Schiller | No. 218, Metamora No. 4, Concordia No. 268 and Oakland No. “72. San Jose Lodge will also celebrate the thirty-fifth anniver- sary of Its organization on the same day. Members will gather at Ked Men's Hall, | 510 Bush street, and will march to the | ferry, headed by a band. They will leave | for the pleasure grounds on the %:15 boat. | The exercises of the day include ad- dmuig{i(‘.nnd Chief R. Landmann and | Grand ef Powhattan Jacob Rumetch | and the slnglng of gatrlouc American and German airs by the Red Men's Lieder-! kranz, There will be games and prizes | for young and old and &te special levnlure‘ will be the tug of war between the differ- ent tribes for valuable prizes. Following are the committees: | Al ents—Willlam Geisslich, John Tiede. mann, M. Marschall, Adam Brehm. C. Lei- | decker, C. Feeischer, J. Krumholz, B. Schoen- feld, J. Kiefer and R. Putzman. i Rétreshment ts—T. Schulz, J. Weikert, D. Schaffer, J. Wechle, Z. Maldenhauer, E. Lau. doit, C, yOIA!IK A hal, H. by s . AL R\lnl'.n.‘. Jaeger, J. . Appel, F. Bode, mann. R J. Schmidt 3. Mayer, M. Bechtel and B. Sam- China station and in February last ar- rived on the coast of South Africa. Her steaming record has probably not been than miles. &5 Terrible, on the other hand, i now vou are u will to I 1 > Vieor—On,_thank vou 5| much, dear Mrs. Browne, if w. daughter)—’ , Vera, won' “‘1 .4 ch_a - c.m o g ot a sur- only Tong enough - Punch " ble Hostess—Well, s h, néve! 1 ne.cngfie e may. that be 9‘: for | Military | gomery street. Telephone Main ARMY INTELLIGENCE. First Lieutenant John W. L. Philiips, Eleventh Intantry, has been transferred from Company M te Company B of that regiment, taking the place of First Lieu- tenant Milton M. McGrew, who was trans- ferred to Company M. The leave granted First Lieutenant Ar- thur W. Chase, Second Artillery, has been extended twenty days. Major Frank Greene, U. 8. V. Signal Corps, has been ordered to proceed to Seattle on business comnected with the proposed Government telegraph lime through Alaska. Major William J. White, quartermaster, U. S. V., has been has been relisved from further duty in the Division of Cuba and has been ordered to proceed to Newport News, there to take charge of the repairs being made on the transport Buford. First Lieutenant Adrian S. Fl | Sixth Artillery, has been detailed to in- spect the Central Unfversity of Kentucky, | Richmond, Ky., and the Georgetown Col- lege, Georgetown, Ky. Captain Samuel W. Dunning, Sixteenth Infantry, has been detailed to inspect the Michigan Agricuitural College, near Lan- sing, Mich. Captain Charles D. Clay, Seventeenth Infantry, will inspect the Jesse Mal Ayde- lott College, Tullahoma, Tenn. First Lieutenant Thomas F. Schley, Twenty-third Infantry, will Inspect the following institutions: Ohio State Umi- versity. Columbus, Ohlo; Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohlo; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Denison University, Greenville, Ohio; Miami Uni- versity, Oxford, Ohio, and Marietta Coi- lege, Marietta, Ohio. Captain William H. C. Bowen, Fifth Infantry, will inspect the Northern Illi- nots Normal School, Dixon, IIL; Western Academy, Upper Alton, Il Northwestern Military Academy, H'sl land Park, I De Pauw University, Greencastle, In Vincennes Unlversity, cennes, Ind., and the Purdue Univer- sity, Lafayette, In The leave gr: ed Captain Benjamin Johnson, assistant quartermaster, U. S. V., has been extended one month. The leave granted Captain James D. Nickerson, Seventeenth Infantry, has been extended one month. First Lieutenant Henry E. Wetherill, assistant surgeon, has been ordered to re- port to the headquarters of the Depart- ment of California for duty. First Lieutenant Lambert W. Jordan, First Infantry, has been granted leave of absence for one month. Leave of absence for a month has been granted to Major Samuel L. Woodward, First Cavalry. Major Forrest H. Hathaway, quarter- master, has been ordéred to proceed to Omaha, Neb,; to Whitewood and Fort Meade, South Dakota, for the purchase of artillery horses. First Lieutenant George C. Burnell, U. | 8. V. Signal Corps, has been relleved from further duty at the signal corps post at Fort Myer, Va., and has been ordered to proceed to Seattle, for duty there under the signal officer of the Department of Alaska. Captain George O. Squier, U. 8. V. Sig- nal Corps, has been ordered to inspect the deep-sea cable now under course of con- struction at New York and at Seymour, Conn. Captain Colden L. H. Ruggles, ordnance department, has been ordered to inspect projectiles and rapid-fire guns in course of manufacture at the Bethlehem Steel Works, South Bethlehem, Penn., and at the works of the Carpenter Steel Com- pany, Reading, Penn. . The following changes in the stations and duties of officers of the subsistence department have been ordered: Captain John Little, commissary of subsistence, will report to the Department of the East for temporary duty as chief commis- sary of that department, to relieve Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, assistant commis- sary general of subsistence. Captain Lit- tle will also relieve Colonel Woodruff of his Qutles as purchasing commissary at New York City. Colonel Woodruff, upon being thus relieved, will proceed to San Francisco, reporting upon arrival to the Department of California for temporary duty. Upon the completion of the duty assigned him he will proceed to Mantla, Philippine Islands, and report in person to the commanding general, Division of the Philippines, for duty as chief commis- sary of that division, to relieve Major Ed- ward E. Dravo, commissary of subsist- ence. Major Dravo, upon being thus re- lfeved, will proceed to San Franeiseo and report by telegraph to the adjutant gen- | eral of the army for further instructions. —_———— Athletic at Sixty-Seven. From the Providence Journai. Following the example of ex-President Clevt .and, ex-President Harrison has tak- en up golf. He is a man of 67, but there is no reason why he should not find a profitable exercise in the sport. Unilke some other outdoor pastimes. among them tennis, it dees not require fatiguing exer- tion, though at the same time it permits the fullest y of a E‘“ variety of muscles and gives the ier all the zxur- cise he needs. Many of the older men of the country would find in golf an ideal sport. We are learning nowadays that athletic exercise is for persons of all ages and that as long as a man or a woman is vigorous outdoor pastimes are appropri- ate. The old notion was that lny{‘hlhl of the sort was undignified: that only boys nufht to wear an athletic costume or in- dulge in the heaithy exercise of the body. Happily the last few years have wrought a ¢ ge in this respect. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.* B Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men b‘ the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 ate —_— Plun: and apple selling by hawkers was fllegal in the sixteenth century in Eng- lan The reason was that servants and D A wWere pted to employers’ ip order oy R B et ) | 2