The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1900, Page 6

The Sl ..JUNE 13, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ddress &Il Communications to-W. S, LEAKE, Manager. WANAGER'S OFFICE. -Telephone Pres »UBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third. 8. F. | Telephone Press | EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevensom St.| Telephone Press 202. | Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cemts. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: ¥ CALL (including Sunday), one year.. 5.0 Y CALL (nclu@ing Sunday 6 months 200 ¥ CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 150 LY ALL—By Single Month. - . 85c CALL One Year 1% CALL One Year.. 100 | All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples wil! d when requested. e of address should be .D ADDF in order compliance with their request ++s2.1118 Broadway Mall subscribers in particular to give both to tnsure a pre OAKLAND OFFICE. C GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2615."") i NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON., .. Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH,, 30 Tribune Building | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: | Shermsn House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | O Fremont Hcuse; Auditorium Hotel. W YORK NEWS STANDS: ria Hotel; A. Brentans, 31 Unton Square; veeee... Wellington Hote ., Correspondent . corner of Clay, open ‘clock. &3 open until 110 o'clock. 2261 Market, ock. 10% Valencia, open until 9 o'clock. NW cor- v, open until § o clock. AMUSEMENTS. en nights. June M, at 11 o'clock, - i AUCTION SALES. i { | rd of Education, emerging ns, set about adopting new Amon y employe of this de- to pi n of teachers. r her just e subject the department.” teacher in this dep ion by a physician ation shall be found is or offensive catarrh for the purpose of cur- | g the te: boar 1ers will say to th hysician, i Education has not been How ghen Further- | of the teache: pay their d ated to be at this very time | a scheme for increasing the s and reducing their pay. How any better off in the future than | able to meet all their obliga- i | have adopted this rule | were ready to say what they came for. be misrepresen | the world’s peace. McKINLEY, AND THE ENVOYS] OLONEL BRYAN is an incessant hunter after effect in politics. He turns over everything to & He has taken up the Boer envoys for the votes they may contain and is using them for one of his ex- the Monroe doctrine and common sense. The sym- pathy of the people and of the members of the Gov- crnment at Washington are not withheld from the Boers, but what one may do as an individual and what he do .as President are quite different things. Colonel Bryan has never been anything but an individual and he may honestly think, if he ever thinks at all, that as President he would do just what he does as an individual, but he is mistaken. He has criticized President McKinley because in his inter- view with the Boer envoys he entertained them ir conversation and waited for them to introduce the ob- may ject of their visit. Any tyro in official matters, or in social matters, either, knows that the President can neither ask what official visitors come for, nor an- ticipate their declaration of their errand, nor stand stupidly and say nothing until they announce the purpose of their visit. When the envoys called at the White House the President reccived them gen- y and entertained them in conversation until they Not only official etiguette, but the usages of ordinary considera- tion and politeness were observed. The President his duty, not only in the personal kindliness of his demeanor, but in refusing to raise any false hopes u; ia { as to the powdr of this Government to give official id and comfort to the Boers. Aware that what he i and what he reirained from saying would alike ted and used to his disadvantage, he the envoys and the South African war Had he been unmind- or had he no higher concep- tion of it than its use for his personal advantage, the way was casy for him to give the envoys such assur- refused tc for personal political purposes. ful of his public duty s as wi d have personally strengthened him in mestic politics. But to do this would have required | the implication of a promise that cannot be kept and the raising of hopes in the Boers that could cnly be disappointed. The President abstained. For- getting himself as a candidate for re-election, putting what politicians would call the interest of his party aside, and, indeed, swaking his individual sympathies, he stood, as he ought, the representative of a Go ernment that is the trustee of the Western hem sphere, bound by the Monroe doctrine not to intet- fere in the affairs of European nations. Where it was easy to forget his public obligation as President and further his fortunes as a politician, he did right in seeing nothing but his public duty. While this course was right to his own country, it was also the right course for the Boers. Suppose he had, cither vaguely or directly, encouraged them to look for the interference possibie, an alliance and declaration of war against England, what man of sense believes that the country would permit either or would tolerate support of such action by Congress? Yet when Colonel Bryan says that the envoys 1d have been received as France received Frank- 1 in 1776, he knows, if he know anything, that ranklin was received as representative of an ally nce in a war between that kingdom and Great 1in. He knows also that such a reception of the o | Boer envoys by President McKinley would have vio- lated every great doctrine upon which our institutions are based. It would have ended the Monroe doctrine. It would have amounted to a declaration of war by the President, when the constitution deprives him of he power to plunge the country into war. It would re unbalanced our ewn Government and disturbed But it would have been a splendid stroke of personal politics for the President had he been reckless enough to have indulged in it. It is greatly to his credit and his honor that he put away temptation and refused to injure his country and its institutions and.encourage the Boers to hope, to be disappointed: om the attitude of Colonel Bryan we are to infer that if he become President he will not tet'such a chance slip. Any time that he can make a false play enl 00 sce if it can be turned to account and help serve | | his ambition. > I sl hibixs.‘ He objects to our Gov_crnmcnt denying them | ynmatched and overwhelming celebration.” | an alliance and taking up their cause, regardless of | in foreign affairs for the sake of its effect on domestic politics he will make it. | He must not object to be judged by his own decla- | rations, and this is what they mean. The infirmity of | Colonel Bryan jis that he talks more than it is possible for him to think. Every windmill that is running e of things and has not s very wording it reflects upon es that some of them their debts have refused to do It i s becor B cessary. L reflection upon the teachers H sncalled for it The teachers had is not pumping water. Bryan's vocal organs are d enoug the board before this | Mostly uncoupled from his mental works. He hasa s , and when all the cir. | talented tongue and a fair vocabulary. That part of es of v ents and a threatened | his equipment is all right. But it is like a windmill disconnected from the pump. He divides the voters into two classes; those who know that he conld not carry into official action the fool things he says, and those who honestly believe he will. The latter class support him because they into consideration the | ded as other than a bit hers to submit to examina- subjecting to dismissal all »sis or offensive catarrh, ? A f g 1 e members of the board as “m!eratc him because they think he can’t do any harm, cian skilled in politi- | anyway. Between these two sentiments he expects | such a contribution of votes as will make him Presi- | dent. It is for this 1eason that he imports foreiga issues into domestic politics. In no other matter developed in their careers i the members of the ted with political tu- offensive jobbe: cad opinion that the evils public schools are to be y worse S | there a better illustration of the radical and character- | istic difference between Bryan and the President. McKinley, with every political and partisan interest in the balance, tempted to deceive the Boers by impo sible promises and make at*tMe same time a hit in domestic politics, refrains and acts the President of a republic that emblazons the Monroe doctrine on its is the self-respecting gentleman at the the teaching body as in the Therefore if there is to be uld be glad to have experts nine what sort of microbes are mbers of the board. s exarn " wo shield and same time. of Ohio is very much afrai. e ourselves of the luxury of guished gentleman need have no long as certain statesmen have Congre that we will soon ¢ lobsters. The d fear on th infiu t poir a C . mgress The highwayman who accorded to a San Francie- can the privilege ssing the hat probably thought t the practice is frequent enough in the city to be CHANGES IN BRITISH CHARACTER. HEN the reports of the extraordinary excite- ment in Great Britain over the relief of Lady wsmilh and Mafeking received in this country they were read with no little surprise. - Tt were and that job would be done in thor- | was the unexpected that had happened. The British oughnogs. R . |bave for a long time cultivated a habit of suppressing The St. Lou izen who insisted upon remaining feeling. They have carried the .bhsc air in society bo Abie ikl ion and was shot | 10 such an extent as to make it ridiculous and some- times offensive. They have delighted in showing themselves calm, cool, unmoved and half apathetic vnder all circumstances. It was supposed therefors they would manifest the same stolidity during the war i and consequently when they showed irritation at the | early ill success of their arms and upon the first good | news from the front burst out in a spasm of jubila- tion the astonishment in this country was general. Nor was the astonishment unnatural. So great was the excitement among the people on Mafeking day and so universally was it shared by all classes that some authorities among the British themselves have come to the conclusion that the character of the people has changed. The outburst, according to London papers, was not only unprecedented in Great Britain, but in other lands. The Westminster Gazette in reviewing the demonstration said: “Except by its architectural features, London was in both legs for hi that the police officers literally. ¢y probably did not think | ould take wishes so his When Kruger took with him in his flight from Pre- toria ten million dollars he evidently thought that life the mountains would come high. He ought to be game worth bagging for some of her Majesty’s sol- diers, RS The revelations in the investigation of the New York ice trust indicate that many of the officials of the great city conceived the notion that it was quite the correct thing to be the iceman. For years the school children of San Francisco haye practiced their fire drills and there have been no fires, ‘The burning of the Lafayette School was one instance where the cry of wolf was not in vain. want harm done and think he can do it; the former | > unrecognizable on Saturday. From early morn till after midnight there was a crowding, a bedecking, a gayety, a flag-waving, a processioning, a singing, 2 | shouting, a trumpeting, a cheering that, taken to- gether, stand unparalleled in all probability in the | records of any capital in the world’s history. And | as it was in the capital, so it was in proportion | throughout the kingdom and the empire. Verily, an In the course of the jubilation all forms of extrava- | gance and foily were committed. The Gazette went on to say: . b YA careful observer,writes in the Daily News that irls and young men/danced, embraced and kissed on aturday without any previous acquaintance. Pea- | cock’s feathers were in very large demand and (as our !contemporary points out) they brought good luck | to many a young man on Saturday~ The,manner and | purpose of their use are ezsily told. - With this in- strument the youth would, by way of introduction, gently stroke the maiden’s face, whereupon, if she smiled he would ask, ‘May I have a kiss?’ and if she said ‘No' in a way that meant ‘Yes' he would straight- way give himself the pleasure. Along the Strand, and up the Haymarket and down Piccadilly the | smack of kisses was a sound that ee t;gauntcd. even amid | the hurly-burly of trumpetirg, uting, cheers and laughter.” ' | With such a record as that upon which to base con- | clusions it is not strange that a French writer should | pronounce judgment that “the British soul is in de- | cadence, that it has no longer a right to laugh at | French exaggerations and that it knows not now I _w | to imitate, as once it did, the stoicism of Rome, im- | passible in defeat and in victory.” DONNELLY TO THE POPULISTS. W tics or on the authorship of Hamlet, there ! can be but one opinion concerning the character of the man himself. His courage and his sincerity are hevond question. He has repeatedly shown those qualities in political, in literary and in_scientific con- troversies, and now he has once more exldbited them :hy standing stanchly for the doctrines of Populism | in spite of all the Bryanites have been able to do or | to offer by way of inducing him to abandon them. [ His letter of acceptance of the nomination for Vice | President on the straight Populist ticket is clear, vig- orous and manly. He believes he is right, and so be- lieving does not intend to compromise With wrong for the sake of getting office himself or enabling any one else to do so. Upon the money question Donnelly, like a true Populist, objects not only to the gold standard, but to any metallic standard whatever, and exposes the absurdity of the position of the silver men. Starting with the assumption, “To supply the people with money is the supreme function of government,” he argues “there is no more reason for making our money of metals than there is for engraving our na- tional bonds on plates of gold, or printing our post- |‘agc stamps on tags of silver.” He is faithful to his fundamental principle a, carries it to the logical conclusion by demanding the retirement of all kinds | of metallic money and bank notes and the creation by the Government of an ample supply of money for its people by an issue of greenbacks. Donnelly is too clear-sighted to be deceived by the specious promise that the principles of Populism can be advanced by the election of Bryan. He asks the question: through the Democratic party?” Then he answers: dying in 1856, when it had outlived its fiinction, had lingered superfluous on the stage, and the people of the United States had tried to use it as an instrumen- tality to destroy slavery, could they possibly have succgeded? No; they would have found half of.its membership favorable to slavery and half opposed to it; and instead of reform we should have had con- tinuous internecine warfare. Slavery was destroyed by a party every member of which was opposed to slavery. Plutocracy will never be overthrown by the Democratic party, with its head in Wall street and its tail in the Mississippi Valley. We must have a party dreadfully in earnest and in which there is not a single plutocrat. If ten horses are hitched to the front of a cart, and ten horses, equally strong, are fastened to the tail end, will not the cart stand still?” There is no escaping the logic of that conclusion. Genuine Populism has nothing to hope for from a party whose New York leaders are members of Tam- many Hall and owners of stock in the ice trust, and | whose candidate for the Presidency is in close affilia- tion with Tammany. Donnelly is wrong to the verge of folly in the ends he aims at, but he is perfectly ea- tional and right as to the means of obtaining them. Moreover, he is to be given credit for his sincerity and honesty in remaining true to his convictions, not- withstanding all the blandishments the Bryanites have | brought to bear to coax him to consent to fusion. Members of the local Chinese ring, it is charged, are scheming to destroy the efficiency of the Chinese Bureau under the administration of the Immigration Commissioner. It appears that these brokers in human chattels seem to think that conspiracy is no longer a crime under Federal laws. AR i The Board of Health appears to have overlooked the interesting fact that there is a large colony of un- quarantined Chinese in the detention sheds of the Pa- cific Mail dock. These coolies have come direct from the seat of the plague. Why do they escape the watchfub eyes of the officers? The Jocal Board of Education is certainly entitled to the earnest sympathy and commiseration of the public. For officials who claim to be making every cffort to remove their department from the corrupt- ing influences of politics they are making 4 most sig- nal failure. The southern counties of the State, it is said, wiil not leave the coming Democratic State Convention until they have taken Mayor Phelan’s scalp. If the southern delegates are looking for trophies they should by no means overlook Charley Fay’s lip. It is asserted that cne of the features of the musi- cal entertainments at the Paris Exposition. is the popularity of ragtime music, and perhaps before the show is over there may be a procession of imperial visitors doing the cakewalk, . Chinese morality, as we have learned to know it, gives every reason to believe that when some.indus- trious scoundrel attempted to blackmail the denizens of Chinatown it was a case of diamond cut diamond. Hobson is coming home again, but the girls ar; safe. The gallant hero of the Merrimac is too ill to appear in public and there will be no kissing bees after he lands in America. Dewey swears most positively that he promised Aguinaldo nothing. Tt is safe to say that the Filipino rebel is sure that the admiral kept his promise.. HATEVER views may be taken of the sound- | ness of Ignatius Donnelly’s theories on poli- | “Can we reach the ends we have in view | | “Suppose that the old Whig party, instead of decently | ® SALISBURY:~"|T ALL DEPENDS on THE’ GENERAL ” | % @ T i : § : ; z Lops 3 B R e i WHERE DO WE COME j IN? —Chicago Inter Ocean. [ R R R R e R R R R s e s w opera at the Tivoli a number of “Jewess' will be revived. Anna * - URING the coming season of grand novelties will be produced. Among them Verdi's “Falstaff,” with Sa- lassa in the title role; “Hamlet” and Ha- evy Lichter will sing the soprano roles in | “Falstaff” and ‘““Hamlet.” Edith Mason, late leading soprano of | for the East with her husband, Thomas Persse. The Southwell Opera Company is | now in Honolulu for a season. Hattie | Belle Ladd will sing the leading soprano | roles in place of Edith Mason and Mis | Tillie Salinger will take Miss | parts. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fairweather have ft town for a vacation in San Leandro. Miss Edith Wadsworth is now in Santa Barbara. She has been taking part in a number of concerts down south. |1e covered from her recent dangerous iliness and will Frank Jacobs, the musical son of W. A. Jacobs, will go to Europe about the be- ginning of August to study violin and vocal music. A recent experiment in grand opera at Lexington, Ky., has met with what the Eastern papers designate an success.” It was a performance in Eng- lish of “Carmen’ by an entire company of colored people, the Afro-American Grand Opera Company, under the direc- | tion of Theodore Drury. The audience at Lexington—half white, half colored—ap- plauded to the echo the efforts of. the colored musicians, and it has been se- riously suggested that the company should go on a tour.” The leader, Theo- dore Drury, who played Don Jose, is de- scribed as a handsome, dignified, inteili- gent exponent of his part, and the Car- men, Madame Plato, as reasonably satis- the Southwell Opera Company, has left | Ladd’s | | Mrs. Grace W. Malmgren has almost re- 0 to Duncans Mill for a season. | 4 BRIDE OF AN ARMY OFFICER |Nuptials of Miss Leila Voorhies and Lieuten- 1 ant Guy Scott. | 1SS LEILA VOORHIES and Lieu- | | tenant Guy Scott, Third United | States Artillery, were married | st evening at the residence of | the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. H. | Voorhies, 2111 California street. Bishop | Nicholls performed the ceremony. | The house was artistically arranged | with beautiful flowers, red, the artillery | | color, prevailing in the decorations. Miss | Elizabeth Huntington officiated as maid of | honor and Lieutenant Merriam, U. S. A., | 'was best man. The bride wore an elegant gown of ivory | | white satin and carried a bouquet of ex- uisite white orchids. Miss Huntington attired in witite mull over white silk | and her bouquet was composed of Ameri- | can beauty roses. Lieutenant and Mrs. Scott will leave to- | day for a short stay in Southern Califor- | nia_and on the 1Sth inst. will leave for | “immense | Fort Monroe, where they will make their | country. | home, | B R R e e J ? FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. ¢ e e e B - | { . factory in comparison with the great ones | & of the role. Conductor Paret is also| [ praised, but the chorus comes in for criti- | clsm on a charge of musical rebellion. | The baton beats in vain for them; they go | their own sweet way. One of the most interesting features of | & the American “exhibits” at the Paris Ex- | ¢ osition, says F. S. Livingstone in the Rivtropoiitan, is ihe band of the Carlisie | Indlans, This band of sixty performers, =% under the direction of Mr. Denis Whee- | & lock (of the Oneida tribe), has a large | | classical repertolre—Wagner, Beethoven, | # Schumann, Bach—and their very excellent =& performance of this untom-tommy kind | of music comes as a huge surprise to | those familiar with their cacophonous at- tempts at harmony in their savage con- | dition. One of Mr. Wheelock’s own com- E ;4 ¢ ositions, “From Savagery to Civiliza- ion,” performed at the exposition, has aroused considerable favorable atiention. | Zitkala Sa, a young Indian maiden of | the Sloux tribe, aiso of the Carlisle In- dians, Is one of ‘the most distinguished of | the violin pupils at the Boston Conserva- | tory of Music. NEW ORDINANCE FOR RUILDING ALTERATIONS They Will Be Placed Under Supervis- ion of Board of Public ‘Works. An ordinance will be introduced at the | next meeting of the Board of Supervisors | providing for the issuance of permits for the erection or alteration of buildings, im- | posing fees for inspection thereof and | providing for issuance of certificates of construction. The object is to place the alteration of buildings under the super- vision of the Board of Putbnc Wt;lrks ;lnd er the power from the re Wa'r%i’:‘.’.‘. who hapve hitherto had it in | charge. The bill has been submitted to 1 architects and to the Bullders’ Exchar and meets with their entire G e DD 0 ePD eI e IPOBEIDEIILOiIebeiePebeted | | | R R = S PRETTY CLOTH COSTUME. | The costume represented is of “dragee” color, but can be made in khaki or linen The jacket is edged with cashmere pat- approval. tern silk and the skirt trimmed in the fter permission has been obtained | same style. The front is of cashmere | from the Board of Public Works to erect, | pattern foulard, and a flounce of the same | adad to or enlarge a building the applicant | material is seen between the tunic border | Shall file with the board a comiplete set | at the bottom of the skirt. of plans and specifications of the pro- —_———— | posed building, including the exact site, | the matel;llnl dlbmag?slans fllndb emmst‘eg Four Insolvents. | cost and the probable time to be occupied | Petitions in insolvency we: in building. The ordinance further bro- | United States District 5oun";."3{’."r£y'§i‘ vid for the yment of $10 if the esti- e Tated cost 1§ 315 if more than $009 | follows: John F. Lindstrom, San Fran- | . asssets hd less than $10,000, and for every addi- | CiSco, merchant, liabilities $3131 O1 tional $1000 the further sum of 50 cents for | $. Thomas E._ Daniel, Oakland, expenses of inspection and examination of | dler, Habilities 31661, assets Abraham lans. The Board of Works shall appoint |\ !{)&;fir-‘ San Francisco, commission agent, nspectors to supervise the work and shail | {AbiHbes “im;"- no assets. Amos J. Balley, furnish the owner of such building a cer- | A0 Francisco, speculator, liabilities llg- tificate that it has been constructed in L g o o S o S S e SO 3 Exchani 177 80, no assets. Th of Biiley are Edwang 3 mahal creditors conformity with existing laws for which rd . promis- note, $3644: Joseph Stuart, B a fee of shall be charged. fl&&; Julius P?n s uart, Ln Fran. neisco, , borrowed money, Fra; > rds, $1500, merchan’q’!i.l“.‘d . | ———— | Crediting of Delinquent Taxes. City Attorney Lane advised Treasurer Brooks yesterday that delinquent taxes when paid should they should have been paid, ing amounts received for the fis 1862-93 from redemption of Iunc:lol to State and other so . 1 T , 13362 50; 1896, $60135; 1897, $3S8 41; 1398, $30. Total, $6451 S0. —_——— . Taxation of tea ption of corporations in Paris has A e o bt Horses and Cattle May Enter Here. The, Secretary of the Treasury notified Customs Collector Jackson yesterday that San Francisco :lu hl:en rl;ll::t : quaran- tine port for “animals.” Heretofore there havapbeen but twos ports gnthis coast— San Dicgo and Port Tdwnsend—where horses, and horned cattle could ba received and quarantined. The fact that numbers of horses and mules wil] ded here from the United States army in Manila induced the Treasury De. partment to remove the obstacle 4% San ——— Domestic Postal Rates for Hawaii. The Postmaster nounc General has an ed that domestic 1 rates will prevail | to Brussels £ of many n offices "Vawail after June 14, Fhe parcals peo porated there under the laws of Belgium g'u been dlscontinued accol ly. to avold the Fr Elhe laws of Bduum | landowner filing such map. | of | gomery street. !dom Main 103, ¢ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. H. C. Shannon of Korea is at the Occidental. Dr. H. W. T. Wallarger of Milwaukee is at the Grand. L. A Thurston, former Minister from the Hawailan Islands, Is stopping at the Occidental. Julius Kahn and wife returned from Washington yesterday and registered at the California. H. M. Sewall, ex-Hawallan Minister, ar- rived yesterday on the China and is a guest at the Palace. C. A. Smith-Ryland, an English multi- millionaire, is stopping at the Palace. He has been making a trip around the world. . George Ade, the Chicago journalist who | made a decided hit with his two books, “Artie” and “Fables In Slang,” is at the Palace. He will leave to-morrow. Sir George Goldie, prominent in the Co- lonfal service of Great Britain, arrived yesterday on the China and registered at the Palace. For six years he was the Governor of Nigeria on the west coast of Africa. He organized the government there and developed the resources of the Last year this territory was turned over to Great Britain and took its place among the colonies of that power. LAYS CLAIM TO PART OF SHERMAN AVENUE Southern Pacific’s Right to Maintain a Fence Thereon Is Ques- tioned. The City Attorney has been directed by | the Board of Supervisors to ascertain if the Southern Facific Company has any ownership in Skerman street between Wyoming avenue and the old San Jose road. This action is the result of a peti- tion filed by the property owners in the vicinity against the maintenance of a barbed wire fence on either side of tI company’s tracks, claiming that it is dei rimental to property ®interests, as She | man avenue is and always has been a public_street. The Southern Pacific Company states in a _communieatien to the Board of Pubiic Works that it is the owner of and possession of a strip of land 130 feet w along and upon each side of the pla where the alleged obstruction is mair ed, and has been the owner since Dec ber, 1361. The communication continue: Sherman avenue, if it be a public street, be- came such by the filing of West Map No. May 1, 1863. This map was flled by the grantor of the Scuthern Pacific Company’s predecessor. but it could not operate to establish a over or across lands theretofore conveyed by tr It follows that there s no public_street across the company s right of way at Sherman avenue, and conse quently the fence complained of does nmot con- | stitute an obstruction. WILL NOT PAY POLICE CONTINGENT EXPENSES - Auditor Wells Holds Up Two De- mands for Mysterious Services Not Designated. Auditor Wells yesterday held up two de- mands for $4% each drawn on the contin- gent expense fund of the Police Depart- ment. The Auditor states that he Is not auditing any demands for June until ail bills previously incurred are paid. These particular expenditures were or- dered by Chief Sullivan, but the demands do not sreclr for what purpose they were m 'the total amo\n‘u, e wo, as authorization for § Lu‘l‘l’l‘lfl" exceeding $500 must be tised. It is not known whether the money was spent for the employment of stool igeons to watch suspected patrolmen in hinatown during the rA\larlfllme, as the mysterious services rendered are not des- ignated. Banks Pay Taxes. llector Scott collected about $80.- an.or r's e yeaterday from the tollowing Union Trust Company. $35997; banks: ja Bank, $34,90278; German Sav- f;a‘l:fg‘r:daw Soclety, $23,705 %; French 2 43: San Francisco Savings Bank, $Z8 0 Beott Acting In o cordance with an opinion of the City At- torney that he may remit the penalties, as the amounts due were tendered within the {egal time. but were refused because the banks would not pay taxes on bonds since declared by the Supreme Court to be un- assessable. . Pupils Will Entertain. The pupils of St. Peter's Academy wil give a literary and musical entertainment in St. Peter's Hall on Florida street, be- tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth, to-morrow evening. beginning at S o'clock. SR Cu i g Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsead's,* —_———— 5 the ol business houses and public men u (Allen’s), 510 A