The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, PRSI SS S A UE N e T B A R R B Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. fIANAGER'S OFFICE........ FUBLICATION OFFICE.. a Third, 8. B T EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including P DAILY CALL (ncluding Sundsy), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (ipciuding Sunday), 3 months, DAILY CALL—By Bingle Month. SUNDAY CALL Ope Ye: . WEEKLY CALL One ¥ All postmasters » sathorize! subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. staget change of address should be W AND OLD ADDRESS in order liance with their request. Mell subscribers in or particular to give botk to insure & prompt and o OAKLAND OFFICE. v22.1118 Broadway C GEORGE KROGNESS, Wenager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distanoe Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C C. CARLTON...... . Heraid Squa NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: i STEPHEN B. SMITH.. ..30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Ebermsn House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont Boase; Auditorfum Hotel. YORK NEWS STANDS: A Brentano, 31 Uniom Square: NEW ‘Waldort-Astoria Hotel, Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D, C,) OF ..Wellington Hote. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent, BRANCH OFFICES —527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open urtt] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Haves, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 0 110 u St SIS0 WSS SIS Tkl Bhee u;u:l court should hold that section 20 of article XII of the 1941 Mission, open urtil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, | o . PR e . S & 3 f § oclock. 109 Valencis, open | State constitution is in violation of the constitution of 1, cpen until § o'clock. NW eor- until 8 o' clock. AMUSEMENTS. widow and orpbans of James the G C of \dren Miss Hobbs." A Milk White Flas." ...Telephone Press 204 | THE FRESNO RATE CASE. UDGE BAHRS' decision in| the Fresno rate CJ case is in line with public expectation and is a victory for the law over the Southern Pacific Company. The Judge holds that the Railroad Com- missioners had jurisdiction to hear and determine the complaint of the plaintiff in the case, that the law which prohibits the raising of rates that have been fixed for competitive purposes is not in violation of the Federal constitution, and that if the railroad com- pany deem the rates fixed by themselves for competi- tive purposes to be “unreasonable and confiscatory” the remedy lies in an appeal to the Commissioners. In accordance with that reasoning the court issued a final and perpetual injunction forbidding the company from exacting from the public any higher rates than those fixed at the time the Southern Pacific was com- peting with the San Francisco and San Joaquin Val- ley Railroad. The decision is based upon a provision of section 20 of article XII of the State constitution, which de- clares: “Whenever a railroad corporation shall, for the purpose of competing with any other common carrier, lower its rates for transportation of passen- gers or freight from one point to another, such re- | duced rates shall not be again raised or increased | from such standard without the consent of the gov- be vested the | power to regulate fares and freights.” ernmental authority in which shall | The evidence heard béiore the Commissioners at the | | time the complaint was under investigation was con- clusive that the law had been violated. The Southern Pacific Company had reduced its charges for the pur- | | 1posc of competing with the Valley Road, and later | had undertaken to raise them without obtaining the | consent of the Commissioners. Thus the decision of | Judge Bahrs is in accord with the law and with the | facts, and while an appeal has been taken to the Su- preme Court, it does not appear that the railroad ny ground on which to win unless the | company has ar the United States. % The case is notable because it is the first instance in { many years in which the Railroad Commission has been of any service to the people. In fact, that it has proven serviceable in this case is something of a sur- | prise, and doubtless was as much so to the railroad as | to the public. Should the Supreme Court sustain the | decision of Judge Bahrs the railroad will have to | apply to the commission for leave to restore the | higher rates that prevailed before the monopoly was we shall then see what the service of the commission is really worth. In the meantime it has achieved one victory for the law and the people and deserves credit | for it. THE RESTORATION OF POLAND. of Prussian Poland are on trial in al for high treason, charged r the Trestoration of the king- The very name of that nation has to sound, and to plot for its rian empire and the restora- tion of Polish monarchy and the par- tate were acts used as a text in the les- erty which were taught the people of the ng the last century. In its day this destruc- one of the oldest states of Europe was re- ded as such a crime that the nations guilty of it ventured no defense. Southern Europe owed as much to Poland as to France for checking the inva- of Is The defeat of the Mahometans at the s by Charles Martel was said to have modern wor'd from being entirely Ma- i Abderrahman defeated Mar- y the Koran would now be expounded in versities of Oxford and Cambridge, and our n forefathers would not have been Puritans at e of Tor Be this as it may, it is certain that Mahometanism would have been carried by the Turk far up the Danube had it not been for John Sobieski and his army of Poles, who raised the siege of Vienna and beat back the hordes of Turks which invested it. But the very nations which benefited by Polish valor were the first to forget the debt. While it is not a foundation for pessimism, it is not without interest as bearing upon the change that has come in popular sentiment, that the partition of Poland would excite less aversion now than it did when the crime was committed. The order that reigned in Warsaw, \\"hCR Suvaroff been established in many places since. England is endeavoring to confer it upon the Transvaal and we are working at it in the Philippines. The old lesson, ike others that fed the spirit of patriotism, is fading more and more. The funeral of Poland seems so very ! long ago that the trial of these men for treason be- | cause they dreamed of restoration of that kingdom sounds like trying the invader of the tomb of Aga- memnon for body-snatching. William Jennings Bryan is convinced that he should have in two Vice Presidential nominees two tails to his political kite. He probably thinks that in his proaching campaign flight he will need something very unusual to keep him from getting off the earth. scandals Asylum are following one another in rapid succession. First it was Ukiah, and now it is Agnews. His Excellency the Governor appears to be overlooking an opportunity to make one of those spectacular investigations to which he is so partial. The thirst of some Berkeleyites must be of that ex- travagant variety which will stop at nothing short of satisfaction. The saloon-keepers are trying now to destroy even the courts that the glass which cheers may be filled It begins to look as-if the bloody warfare in South Africa is nearing the beginning of the end. General Roberts and General Botha have descended to the harmless practice of writing one another letters, The ability with which a local Chinese unearthed the robbers of his household suggests that Chief Sul- livan might to advantage make his detective force a little more cosmopolitan than it is. The burglar who made such a spectacular display in a Mission household has evidently missed his voca- tion. He would have earned greater success as a writer of melodrama. The Boxers of China, it is said, drink their own blood mixed with water. It is reasonably certain thar nobody would object if they drank the red fluid undi- luted Another strike is on in Havana. If the Cubans cannot prove their assimilation of American methods it one way they can in another. ic as to scheme the re- | created a solitude and called it peace,” has | THE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM. EPORTS submitted at the meeting of the mem- D bership committee of the Pacific Commercial Museum on Tuesday were to the effect that up to that time 168 firms have signed the rolls as members, and that a sufficient number of promises have been received to assure a membership of 175. Thus but a little more exertion seems required to bring the membership up to the 200 mark, which has been deemed necessary to perfect the organization. The enterprise is one of considerable magnitude, and it is perhaps for that reason some firms in the | city hesitate to take part in it. The very magnitude | is, however, one of the best assurances of the success pf the movement, if it can be once started. Large bodies are difficult to put in motion, but once the | motion has been given they go forward thereafter | largely through the force of their own momentum. It is safe to say that if San Francisco establishes the museum on the scale that has been projected it will soon attract to itself support not only from all parts of the coast, but from other sections of the Union as well. Such was the experience in Philadelphia, and there is no reason to doubt it will be repeated here. | A Pacific museum is needed by the commerce of the country to supplement the great institution that | ° | has proven so beneficial on the Atlantic side of the continent. That much has been asserted by the Phila- delphians themselves: Thus what is undertaken here will be in line with a widespread demand, and its movement will be aided by a well nigh universal im- pulse. The one thing dependent upon San Francisco is to start the ball rolling. The world helps those who help themselves. Let us establish the Pacific museum, and aid to maintain ic will soon be forth- coming. h If we are to have the museum at all, it can hardly be worth while to point out to intelligent merchants | and manufacturers the importance of starting it at once. Events in the Orient are moving forward with startling rapidity. | are forces at work which may bring about a dismem- | berment of the empire, and it is certain that out of | the disturbances will result a Enuch larger opening | for foreign trade with all parts of China. This, there- | fore, is the time when action will be most profitable. It is to be hoped the full membership required for organizing the association and getting to work will be enrolled promptly. Every progressive and enter- prising merchant and manufacturer in the State | | should be among those who will have the honor of | jaunching a movement calculated to be of such vast | benefit to all. @ WARNING FOR THE FOURTH. MONG the preparations for the celebration of fl tie Fourth of July there must be arrange- ments for guarding against fire as far as pos- sible and for .promptly extinguishing it in case it should occur. Such preparations should be made not only by the municipal authorities, but by every ‘householder. San Francisco has had marvelously good luck in es- caping up to this time any such thing as an extensive conflagration, and the same kind fortune may con- | tinue to attend her for years to come, but it is not i safe to count on it. We have never had a big Fourth 1 of July fire such as has destroyed many millions of dollars’ worth of property in other cities, but a very litthe carelessness may cause one here as it has caused them elsewhere. It behooves us, therefore, to be watchfal and to take every precaution against the danger. * Fire constitutes one of the greatest annual wastes | in American cities, as it does in American forests. In the Forum for July William J. Boies of New York states that in 1800 the property destroyed by fire in the United States exceeded the sum of $150,000,000, and figures are given of losses thus far in the current year which justify the estimate that the fire loss for 1900 will be upward of $175,000,000. Every city in the country will contribute to the loss, no matter how careful the people and how vigilant the Fire Depart- ment may be, and it is safe to say a considerable part of each city’s contribution will be made as a result of carelessness on the “Glorious Fourth.” € Owing to the fact that our summers in San Fran- cisco are not dry and parched as in the East, and to - broken by the building of a competitive road, and | 1 | | the slowness with which our principal building timber ignites and consumes, we have less risks to run than other communities, but, nevertheless, we have enough. We have a Fire Department of which we are justly proud, and every member of it can be relied upon to do his duty, but all of these advantages are not enough to assure immunity from danger. In the general jubilation of the national holiday there will be more or less risk of fire.in all parts of the city. Not a single building can be said to be absolutely safe from it. It therefore becomes the duty of the citizens to co- operate with the municipal authorities in guarding against disaster on that day. This is one of the occa- sions where a very little carelessness may result in a heavy loss to the community. THE CHINATOWN PROBLEM. B has been adopted a set of resolutiohs calling for the appointment of an advisory board of one hundred reliable business men to thoroughly in- vestigate Chinatown, to submit plans for the enforce- ment of sanitary regulations within it, and also for the ultimate removal of the Chinese from their pres- ent location. The resolutions are an evidence of the condition of public sentiment caused by the ill-advised attempts of the Board of Health and the Federal quarantine of- / the Public Improvement Central Club thert | ficer to quarantine Chinatown under the pretense of ence there of thé bubonic plague. They afford a striking illustration of the eagerness of the people to rid San Francisca of a district yhich, if not afflicted with pestilence, is none the less a nuisance and a menace to the community. For that rcason they are entitled to the earnest consideration of thoughtful citizens, and will doubtless receive it. : Whether or no it shail become needful to appoint such a committee depends upon the Grand Jury now in session. That body can investigate Chinatown with more authority and therefore more satisfactorily #han a committee of one hundred could do it. Before the | Grand Jury all doors must open; any evidence it de- | sires to obtain by the examination of witnesses must be given under oath, and its report must be made with | official responsibility, The Grand Jury therefore gan de much more than the proposed committee in the way of inspecting the quarter, and it has the further | advantage of being able to file complaints against those who violate the health ordinances, and thus lead to their indictment, instead of having to content it- self with submitting recommendations, as the ecom- mittee would have to do. Tt is therefore to the Grand Jury the public should look primarjly for action. If the jury do its full duty there is every reason to ex- pect the enforcement of the sanitary laws in China- town will speedily follow. Shotild it be otherwise the people will know the reason why. and upon whom the blame should rest. The project of bringing about a removal of the Chi- rese habitations to another quarter of the city is one of great magnitude, but if well considered plans to that end be devised they would undoubtedly be re- ceived with favor by an overwhelming majority of the people. It is probable, however, that if the sanitary regulations of the city be enforced a removal of a considerable proportion of the Chinese population from that district will follow of itself, because many of the buildings are now overcrowded. Moreover, if the quarter has to be cleaned up and kept clean, the own- ers of property there may find it profitable to re- move the foul old buildings and replace them with tenements which will bring better rents. Much of the big profits obtained from the buildings at present is due to the fact that the sanitary laws are not en- forced, and when they are enforced the property- owners may find it necessary to make improvements | in self-defense. / The Public Improvement Cent(al Club is on the right track, but there is no occasion yet to forestall the Grand Jury. Let us see what that body will do in the | way of enforcing the law, and then we shall have a clearer perception of what will have to be done by the people themselve SOME BIDS FOR BRYAN. DROMINENT P;)hihitionists are said to be making arrangements to éffer Bryan a million votes on condition that the Democratic con- vention at Kansas City adopt a platform pledging the party to prohibition. The offer is one of the humors of the campaign. Bryan himself will doubtless be willing to accept it, for he doesn’t drink, but the sight of a Democratic convention debating an anti- whisky platform would be one of the things that would give an air of hilarity even to a graveyard. That, however‘ is not to be the only offer Bryan | is to receive, if all reports be trug, for it is said the In the present Chinese crisis there | anti-imperialists are to make him a proffer #f their support provided his convention hurl damnation at anybody who suggests a continuance of our flag in the Philippines. Here again Bryan will doubtless be willing to accept, for he is ready to hurl the lashing of his tongue at almost anything that exists, but just how he is going to get Morgan and the Southern delegates to consent to such a'plank is not apparent. By way of making room for one or perhaps both of the proposed planks, Jacob Ruppert Jr. of New York, who is now in Kansas City making arrangements for the deélegation from that State, is reported to have declared in favor of dropping the free silver plank. He is quoted as saying: ‘“There are so many issues more important, that I think free silver need not be mentioned at all. The party in the East will not stand for free silver.” Here, then, are all the elements required to make chaos ‘come again and settle down on Kansas City like a thousand of brick. What would it profit Tam- many to have the silver plank excluded and a pro- hibition plank put in its place? How will the South like a suppression of the free coinage proposition in order to make room for a quotation from the Declara- tion of Independence to the effect that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov- erned; that Filipinos and negroes have a l‘i&h! to vote, and that whoever deprives them of such rights iz a villain whom it were base flattery to call a tyrant? The one wise Democrat in the land is Henry Wat- terson, who has given notice that platforms are worth nothing and that he doesn’t care what is put in his. He would accept the prohibition offer as willingly as Bryan, and then take a drink of straight Bourbon 10 the success of the ticket! A Democratico-Populo- Prohibition ticket would make a good toast in any man’s mouth, and Watterson is just the man to whoop it up. Whether there would be a million votes in the country for such a combination is doubtful, but ex- periment is ®worth trying. The Democratic donkey is so heavily loaded already that one more bag.-of sweepings wouldi’t hurt him much, while sight of the animal so burdened would be to the popii- lace as good as a circus. As a matter of fact a coali- tion of Democrats and Prohibitionists is something the country would like to see, and the scenes that would follow as the members of the allicd hosts tried to affiliate would make thé campaign a season of un- | s By 1 1900. JOHANNA FRISC 'DEATH IN FIRE AT TH D¢ O - B T R T e S e T s e o ] / e e e e o ] R R R SR S Y ] 1SS JOHANNA FRISCO, orang- outang, of the Chutes, is dead. She perished in a fire which de- stroyed a part of the building adjoining the “Casino,” on the north side, yesterday. The fire broke out shortly be- fore noon, and when the flames were quenched the great Simian had breathed her last. The building in which Johanna met her death was one used as a lodging by the + ® SIMIAN SKETCH ARTIST SUFFOCATED IN SMOKE OF THE BLAZE SHE HERSELF KINDLED. ! | | L R ARt IR LS SO S S = ] be found for them. All these were burned to a crisp in their wire cage. Johanna Frisco, like all her species, did not take kindly to the cool Pacific breezes. She was on that account Kept in Rabe’s room. To keep up the required temperature a gas stove was kept burn- ing night and day. In some way the go rilla, whose cage was only a short dis- tance from this stove, must have dragged some curtains and bedding into the burn- ing gas jets. The flames, thus started spread rapidly, and if the fire had no% been discovered early a very serious con- have resuited. Ao s Walking in the grounds when a cry from Gatekeeper ITke Willis directed his attention to the building, from which clouds of smoke were pouring out of door A thout & moment's hesitation he dashed into the place, but he had scarcely crossed the threshold when he fell, over- come by smoke. ‘Another keeper named Spellman fol- Jowed Rabe into the building. He man- aged to reach Johanna Frisco, and lift- ing her in his arms he regained the air just as the firemen arrived on the scene and dragged Rabe out. The rescue of the ng-outang came too late. PFoor Jo-| ggmi had b‘een suffocated and no amount | of skill would ever restore life to her. | When Spellman heard that there was no | hope he burst into tears. = “There never was one like her,” he ing, with the exception of Rabe’s room. | e | ers since the famous Joe Storms. O MEETS HER E CHUTES . | . @ sv e | L e L SR ST AN a gloom. Rabe and Spellman, who trained the animal, refuse to be comforted and | grieve for ‘their pet as for some dear riend. Johanna Frisco imported here about a year ago. She was quite young and one of the cleverest Simian perform In the Darwinian Temple an elaborate bedroom was cried. *I taught her wll she knew. Now | was fitted up for her, and here every she's dead.’” { pight her trainers put Her through an ex- But little damage was done_to the bufld- | hibition which made the audience look at one another and think of Darwin’s teach- Chutes employes, A room in it was oc- r the '°°f, gnth he:nmlzl:pfldg!cgl‘a lmzs hShe was in pfl'(;c( health and did 5 . He | fi ad the fla - | not show a_ trac o tion. to anled b B, Rabe: 5, animal KeeDe o | DT BaBe Rt fon it TeCorCrcd | MIch i) "ol predtcesdrs A Tt a cage of valuable Australian finches. The | from his stupor and last night was las’a_ln, early victims. e management will try latter were recent arrivals and had been | attending to his duties as usual. All over | to replace her, but such another will be Blaced there untll accommodations comid | the Chutes ghe death of Johanna has cast ' hard to find. a long time. If the powers are firm and | say PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. R. Lande of Los Angeles is at the Grand. G. Migliavacca, a wine grower of Napa, is at the Grand. J. H. Carr, an attorney of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. Superior Judge W. A. Anderson of Sac- ramento is at the Lick. N. E. de Yoe, a banker and merchant of Modesto, is at the Lick. Todd C. Woodworth, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Grand. A. H. Conklin, an attorney of San Di- ego, and his wife are at the Lick. H. W. Johnson, a well-known attorney of Sacramento, is at the California. C. C. Wright, an attorney of Los An- geles and author of the Wright irriga- tion law, is at the Lick. J. H. Henry of San Jose, one of the del- egates to the Democratic National Con- vention, is at the Palace. Fred M. Jennings, Under Sheriff of San Diego County, arrived in the city yester- day on the steamer Corona. Nat Stewart, Sheriff of Santa Barbara | County, arrived on the steamer Corona yesterday with a prisoner en route to San Quentin, Homer Eaton, New York manager of the Methodist book concern, and H. P. Jennings, its Cincinnati manager, are guests at the Occidental. Frank W. Griffin, a mining engineer of Oroville, who has svme big gold dredging machines in operation in that part of the State, is at the California. Colonel S. M. Mills, former command- ant of the garrison at Honolulu, and his wife are at the California. They expect to return to the islands in the near fu- ture. G. Merling of Berlin, who has been the German Consul General to Siam during | the past three years,-arrived at the Occi- dental yesterday on his way to Germany. Dr. Charles V. Cross of this city has returned from his tour through the web- foot State. During his trip north he an- chored for two weeks at Upper Soda Springs and on the sunny side of Castle Crag. Dr. F. A. Hesler of the navy, recently in charge of the hospital at Boston, is at the Palace. He is a bacteriologist ot note, and during his travels in other lands has made a close study of such diseases as the black plague and leprosy. APTAIN JOHN P. ROBERTS ot Shanghai, who arrived on the steamer Nippon Maru in company with his wife yesterday, has not been out of China in thirty-elght years and has not visited this city since 1853. Prior to making Shanghai his home he was a master mariner apd since that time became famous as a wrecker in Chi- nese waters. He floated the Pacific Mail steamship wrecked off Hongkong in 1874, and during the following year commenced what proved to be the greatest feat in wrecking on record. This latter was the locating of the wreck of the Pacific Mail steamer Japan, which had been burned to the water’'s edge and sunk in the open sea In twenty-one and a half fathoms of water. There was ,000 in treasure on board and Captain Roberts was employed by the underwriters to recover it. It took him from January to the iatter part of September to locate the wreck and three years elapsed before he was successful in securing all the money. “Now I am going back to my old home in New York State,” said Captain Roberts at the Palace yesterday, “‘to get some idea of how the world has progressed since [ left it. I had my first ride in an ecievator at Honolulu the other day and I have not yvet been in an electric car. The tall buildings almost frighten me and I am sure that everybody suspects that I am from the back woods. ) “When I was last in this city, in 1553, I slept one night in a room that had been lathed but not plastered and the wind “$20 more. E went to China In 182 with a big slde-wheel steamer named the Hu Quang, which was intended for river travel. I had a hard time getting her around Good Hope. She was burned a few years later. “We had heard nothing of the Boxer make a bold front I think the trouble will | | soon be over. The Boxer movement is nothing more than a mob movement.l They have no capable leaders and as soon | | as the first line is beaten down the rest of the crowd will scatter like the wind. There can be no doubt that the old Em- press is at the bottom of it all. If they had European officers for their army the Chinese would be hard to overcome, but it will not be much of a task under press | | ent conditions.” | —_—e——— MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. LLE. RELDA, the California soprano, has recently achieved a | distinguished success in “Lakme” | at the Opera Comique, Paris. Miss Relda i1s a pupil of Mme. | Colonne, the wife of Director Colonne of | the famous Colonne concerts, and is cred- | ited in Paris with a rarely beautiful voice. | EALe | Ellen Beach Yaw, well remembered here | as the “altitudinous soprano,” is also lni Paris, studying with Mme. Marchesi. Miss | Yaw has entirely abandoned the fleld of | freak vocalism and under the able tuition | of Marchesl has succeeded in achieving | a full round tone throughout, her voice at the same time retaining almost the whole of her extraordinary compass. In the “Rose of Persia,” written around | Miss Yaw by Sir Arthur Sullivan, and in which she attained a considerable success | last season, London probably saw Miss | Yaw's last appearance on the comic opera stage. She will hereafter devote herseif | to more serious work. A7 e Mrs. Marriner-Campbell has gone south | go for a short vacation. T 3 Miss Hulda ‘Andersen is at Mount Ma- donna, near ¥, the guest of Mrs. | Henry Miller, Miss Andersen will stay | for two mon! in the country. | LRAGE e e i Ferdinand Stark, the popular conductor | of the Louvre orchestra, has resigned his | Tesignatton position, the to take effect in about six e Beatrice Priest-Fine, the CaMiornia so- g(r)nno, has lately fippcnred at the Kalten- rn concerts in New York and received most flattering notice on her excellent that they are a bill of 1878 50 bill of 1979, this ’:loepanmenz cflg k4 nform you as to their value. INFORMATION BUREAU-F. C. H, San Jose, Cal. There is no special infor- mation bureau under the management of the United States Government in Wash ington, C., but in each department of the Government there is a bureau of information. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS—F. C. H., San Jose, Cal. In the division of census of 1590 devoted to religious denom- inations of the United States the follow- ing classes are included: Christian Con- nection, - Christian Church South, Chris- tian Missionary _Assoetation, Christian Scientists and Christian Union. PIGEONS—-D. M., City. There is no law that requires owners of pigeons in San Francisco to keep the same within an inclosure and prevent them from fl) ing out of the inclosure. If your neigh- bors have so many pigeons a8 to be a nuisance, you have your remedy at law to have the nuisance abated. TAXES IN NEW MEXICO-S., Sunoi, Cal. If you desire to know what has be- come of property in New Mexico upon which the owner neglected to pay taxes for ten years, and whether the owne has any right of redemption in case tI property was sold, write to the Asses: of the ‘county in which the property is located. HECTOGRAPH-D. J. L., City. The foilowing Is given as the method used to make hectographs: Soak an ounce of gel- atin over night in enough cold water to cover it well, mkms care that all the gelatin is swelled. Prepare a salt bath by dissolving two ounces of common salt in a pint of water. Heat seven or eight ounces of pure glycerin over the salt- water bath at a temperature of 200 de- ees Fahrenheit. Then pour off from the gelatin all water not absorbed, add tha gelaun to the hot glycerin, continuing the eating for an hour, carefully stirring the mixture occasionally. avoiding as much as possible the formation of _bubbles. Finally add twenty drops of the oil_of cloves to prevent decomposition. The reparation is then ready to be poured nto shallow tins in which it is to be used. After the tins have been filled they must | remain in a level position inga cool placa | for at least five hours before they can be used. ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend's. | —_—— | Special information supplied daily to work. rs. Fine sang the Faust “Jewel | business houses and public men nx‘ the Song. | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- bt g | gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. 1 Ernest Lent, the cellist, and Mrs. Lent are in Washirigton, D. C., and have re- cently been most successful in concert there. $id e The impending departure of the clever Lambardi people from Fischer's concert house recalis the curious carcer of the {ll-fated compgny in California. —The Lambardi om‘:fi ompany arrived in Los Angeles, where they made. their first ap- nrm'lgtmabowt two years ago. They avel truly patriarchal fashion a la caravanserie, bringing with them pots and , kettles and even stoves from far taly to this — supposed«— pan-forsaken country of the West! Incidentally, also, they brought a freignt bil] which, con- structed on the plan of would bear, practically ruined them. As to scenery the company’s effects were of the Elizabethan order as regards sim- g'ljmty, but the chorus and orchestra— th excellent from a musical standpoint —were imported from Italy. Under such unfortunate auspices the Los Angeles sea- son began. There were small audiences and the company was not id and at last separated to try their individual luck in various towns and cities, of the West. Signorinas Pollettini antl Barducel and Signor Badaracco, have been singing at Fl:’chax;'s lcnucert“hnula, :firmume months now, isplaying ast exts Tepertoire. The Iyrio tenor, Russo. whoo Count Almaviva was so remarkable a rformance, has been e or the Savage-Grau E:gm‘(e)dpebr{ gor;\: pany. to, the finest lyric so- Signorina R prano that we have heard in many years, E?.Z"’-T"’rim'?'-“" Seturned with T X, eturn th hi to Ital: - and Avedn:' - 0 _are n&'.; for. L a new Comy ha; ba, It 15 hoped with moen —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CLIFF TO ROCK—Subscriber, City. The from th AT SR G P ot e all the traffic | | e ————— | *NEW LINE OF BUSINESS. First Stranger—What's your business? Second Stranger—Private attendant. First Stranger—To what do you atte; | Second Stranger—To my own busin | Chicago Ne: ADVERTISEMENTS. Shreve & Company Will Close Their Store at 3 P: M. on Saturdays » and other pusiness days i At 5 P. M., June ioth to September Ist inclusive AMarket and Post Streets. N City. If you will look at the vals published fn The Call you = e than ¢hose gt L T W. T. HESS,