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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1900. The s Qall. FRIDAY.... ¢ ...JULY 6, 199 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. T icd-ess Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Press 204 rd, MAN A 'S OFFIC! VUBLICATION vesssss.Telepho Market and Fress 201. EDITORIAL RoOwSs 221 Stevensen St. Telephone P 202. 5 Cents Per Week. 3 7 All postmasters ave muthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample ccples will be forwarded when requested. subscribers In ordering change of address should be r to give both NEW AND OLD ADDREES in order re & prompt and corre mpliance with their request. ..1118 Breadwa) o 1nsu: CAKLAND OFFICE C GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (opg Distance Telephone ‘“‘Central 2613.”) XEW YORK OCORRESPONDENT: C C. CARLTON. ... . Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: . STEPHEN B. SMITH....... ..oceeceennssn. 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremcm House; Avditortum Hotel. 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"ULAR interest in the question of abating sance of Chinatown has not passed away he passing of the Kinyoun , the interest increases with the con- n of the subject, and it is gratifying hin quarantine ¢ unanimity of sentiment is espect to the first step to be taken Different opinions are be done with the foul f the district, but it is now almost ed that so long as the buildings re- » . rs shall be compelled to put them in 8¢ 1 maintain them in accord with the Lea b It rd of Health and of the inances, but they have he board appears toco much en- s just now to try to sup- own that are likely ro e the police authorities are bonic board to give the nder such circumstances it is d Jury has been organized From that body ch will compel the fo and has the public n expect action w reform be taken by the jury should be that nts against every owner of property hose property is found upon inspec- ¥ condition. True bills nders #ill soon set on foot the much needed work of improvement, and accord- ingly it is against them the first efforts of reform should be directed duty the Grand Jury is summoned by the es of the time and the circumstances. Inci- dentally it will be worth while for them to inquire why the bubonic board and the police have not done the work which the law requires, but the main point t these off To t neces is for the Grand Jury to deal directly with the owners | of the offen rily erty. They are the parties who isible for the filthy and unsani- tion of Chinatown: they alone have a sum- right to clean up their premises and compel nts to obey the health ordinances. juries have frequently complained that they have no power to redress evils. are prin Te tary con ary In this case that le. The offenses of China- > 50 gross and so f will be found in i can ¥ ers 2 idence the law. The or i1 be no la ¥ be de justice, of public sentiment e in the way of bring- Thus every circumstance ituation tends to assist the jury in rendering service to the community and at the king an enviable record for efficiency. aned up. Let the Grand Jury it step be taken at once. t be = re are many more women than men in Great . but more men than women in the ccloaies. t has been started in London to get the rls to g0 to Australic or South Africavand grow up with the country. It is even proposed that Parliament vote an appropriation to encourage the going, but up to date the girls have shown very little interest in it, and perhaps a better way would be for Parliament to bring the colonial youths over to Lon- don and let them do the coaxing. P R i The miners of Shasta County say that they will re- sort to desperate measures to prevent the Southern Pacific Company from flooding the county with Japanese. Huntington shouid reflect that Shasta is not Mussel Slough. ’ Paris is again contented. The monotony of peace has given place to a savage attack upon the Govern- ment by the Municipal Council. The cause lof the row is, as usual, immaterial. Kinyoun has escaped this time with nothing more than a bad scare, but he won't do it sgain. LONGITUDE @ND SALVATION. OWN in a populous group of islands in the D South Seas there is a bloody revolution, in | which all Europeans who escape slaughter are fbcing driven into stockades on the coast, where they ,wigwag the ships that pass in the tropic night and | the torrid day for help. All this bloody trouble and | gory grief has been brought about by ignorance of | Devion’s line. On one side of that line it is Sunday | and on the other it is Sunday the next day, and two | Sundays come together, or one day is dropped out land lost. In the islands where-all this turbulence is on tap ‘!]',c early missionaries went, thinking that in sailing around the globe this gain and loss of a day occurred | without variation at the one hundred and eightieth meridian of longitude west of Greenwich. So they converted the heathen na(i\'esfnd taught them that ! God must be worshiped on a certain day for Sunday. The natives were easy converts. They sought salva- tion tumultuously and were glad to have their re- | ligious confined to one day. It was a great advagtage. Their pagan gods had exacted of them some sort of sacrifice several days in the week, | and their pleasures were too often interrupted thereby. But this one Sunday arrangement just suited them.. They could do up all their religious functions then, and go fishing the rest of the week. All this had gone on for a long time, when the mis- sionaries discovered that they had made a mistake. They learned of Devion’s line, wwnich does not con- | form to the one hundred and eightieth meridian but | zigzags through the Pacific, dropping Sunday and king it up again in the most erratic manner. The ay they had been keeping was not Sunday.at all, but a base and secular Saturday or Monday! Immediately they began to induce the natives to ge to the proper day. But they would not have ;xt. They were mad clear through. Their white teachers had made them do up their religion on the wrong day. Therefore, these simple children of na- ture argued, their worship had been wasted. As it was offered on a day that was not God's day, they { had not been heard. Worse than that, they had | snubbed their old gods Tor this mew one. and were at off all around, and had been for years running with their trolley off the wire, as it were. They told the missionaries that as they had lied to them about the day they had lied, no doubt, about the whole business, and had lured them away from their old gods to nothin If they had been up in }mo(lem science they would have likened their condi- | tion to talking in a mock telephone that had no hello | girl at the other end of the wire. | In resentment of their treatment they got into feathers and warpaint and brought out the knotted club and pot in which they used to cook missionary | stew. The results are beiore the Christian nations. No { doubt Bishop Cranston will want to send down a fleét to shoot the right Sunday into them. But we should say that the incident is a warning to future | missionaries to lay less stress-upon set days and forms and ceremonies and teach the spirit of Christianity. duties | cha Had they done this the islanders would not have im- | bibed the highly materialistic idea that Divinity is present only one day, and if not addressed then does not hear at all. “Perhaps thy god sleepeth, or is upon a.journey,” | cried the prophet of the Lord tauntingly to the wor- shipers of Baal when the fire fell not on their sacri- fice. If we are to disturb the pagan peace we should carry to the pagan something better than he had be- fore. B the American Government for the mismanage- ment in the War Department which leit our troops in the early part of the war with Spain ex- posed in unsanitary camps, and furnished with em- balmed beef rations, have now at home a more serious xcite their wrath and tempt them to dip pens in gall. The worst offenses charged against any department of our administration in war are slight in comparison with those brought to light in connection with the treatment of the British wounded in South Africa. It is of course to be admitted at the outset that the reports of neglect and ill treatment of the wounded are largely exaggerated and highly colored. That is inevitable, for when the sympathies of men are aroused by a wrong of that kind the natural result is 2 degree of indignation that prevents a dispassionate statement of the facts. After ample allowance. is made, however, for such exaggerations, there still re- mains enough to justify the charge that the British | Government has been grossly heedless of those who | have been wounded or stricken with disease, and that | neither Roberts nor his chief of staff, Kitchener, has shown a proper consideration for the brave fellows wlo serve under them. | The matter has been brought to the attention of | Parliament and of the country by Ashmead Bartlett | Burdett-Coutts. In a recent letter to the Times he | describes sights of which he ‘was himself an eye- witness. He tells of one instance where he saw “hun- dreds of men lying m the worst stages of typhoid with only one blanket and a thin waterproof sheet between their aching bodies and the hard ground, with no milk and hardly any medicines, without beds, stretchers or mattresses; without a single nurse among them, and with only three doctors to attend 330 patients.” . Even worse is the picture he gives of the sick and thé wounded in the ficld hospital at Bloemfontein. There were 316 p:uicm;: in the hospital and only forty-two stretchers, so that 274 of the sufferers had to lie on the ground. The writer says: “The heat a4 BRITISH WAR SEHNDAL. RITISH critics who were prompt to condemn wrong to their crit of these tents in the midday sun was overpowering, | their odors sickening. Men lay with their faces cov- ered by flies in black clusters, too weak to raise a hand to brush them off, trying in vain to dislodge them by painfully twitching their features. Seven- teen osderlies had come with or been raised for the Bloeffontein field hospital. Ten had been taken frofh it, the number being made up from a bearer 'f(fian but they had other duties to perform than ing flies off patient’s faces. At night there was ro attempt to prevent patients in the delirium stage from getting up and wandering about the camp half- raked invbitter cold. In one tent, where four men slept and others lay with eyes open and staring, a | case of ‘perforation’ was groaning out his life. hud- | dled against his neighbors on the ground. Men had i not only to see but often to fee! others die.” | Tt is strange to learn there were no nurses. Tt will | be remembered with what great display many of the | richest women of the London “smart set” hastened | to South Africa to “nurse the wounded.” The fine dames evidently found it more agreeable to stay at the i Cape and play lawn tennis with staff officers than to g0 to,the front and take part in actual nursing. That, however, is a minor matter. Nobedy took the grand ladies seriously at any time. But that Rob- erts and Kitchener should have tolerated such a defi . £ 305 Rl e L AR ciency in the hospital supplies of the army is an oi- | @ k&dkskoksok dokkkk dk ok koo dkA ok ook ook Ak dokkk MOST UNIQUE PICTURE OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY EVER MAD fense of the worst kind. Were they American gen- erals not all the laurels they may win in battle would save them from public indignation aroused by such treatment of the men who were wounded under their command. THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP TRIAL. ™ ONSIDERING the importance of the experi- (J ment and the wide interest taken in all efforts to achieve aerial navigation, the reports sent from Europe concerning the trial trip of the great vessel constructed by Count Zeppelin have been | strangely vague and unsatisfactory. The plans for the ship were of such a nature that no difficulty was found in obtaining capital to build in accordance with them the largest airship ever undertaken. Public in- terest in the experiment has been keen, and yet when the trial trip was made on July 2 hardly any atten- tion was paid to the result in the dispatches from Europe. From the fact that so little was said about the event it will be assumed the experiment was unsatis- factory. It happens, however, that of the little that was said the chief part consists of an announcement that the trip was satisfactory. A dispatch to the'qu York Sun stated that in the trial the ship made a distance of thirty-five miles, and that Count Zeppelin was fully satisfied with the working of the vessel, but it was added he would not undertake another trip for upward of two months. That sounds very much as [if his satisfaction were of a dubious kind, for it is clear something in the nature of a serious defect must have been discovered, since it will take upward of two months to remedy it. In the absence of any direct information from the persons who made the experiment it is worth while to note the reports of those who watched the trip | from the outside. According to one of these, while | the ship was in the air at a height of 1600 feet Zeppe- lin headed it against the wind and caused it to per- form various evolutions, once describing a huge fig- ure 8, which astonished the spectators below. The force of the wind was then twenty feet a second. At a height of 1260 feet the airship covered five miles and a quarter in seventeen and a half minutes. Other reports are to the effect that the steering apparatus worked well until near the end of the trial, when one of the wires broke, ‘but that notwithstand- ing the accident the navigators succeeded in guiding the huge ship safely to an anchored pontoon, on which it alighted. Furthermore it is stated that a “scientist of European reputation” who watched the experiment says it was eminently successful, and that while the airship is admittedly imperfect, it proves be- | yond a doubt that Zeppelin possesses the key of the mystery, and a new era of aerial locomotion has be- | gun. German military aeronauts *who watched the l‘cxperiment officially are also credited with being satisfied, but none have published their views. Upon reports of that kind it is of course impossi- ble to base a definite judgment. It may be the experiment was as satisfactory as is claimed, and that the concealment of the details is due to the intention of the inventor to make the construction of the vessel | @ military secret of the German empire, but the chances are that nothing really great in the way of aerial transportation was achieved. A flight of thirty- five miles was in itself nothing, and the public will have to wait for another test before it can be certain whether or no the flight was marked by any features which assure the triumph of aerial transportatien on | a large scale. THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. ; EU NE T. CHAMBERLAIN, United States | Commissioner of Navigation, begins an article on the “Shipping Subsidy Bill” in the current | number of the Forum with the statement: “No very rich endowment of the gift of prophecy is required to justify the assertion that the present generation will witness a growth of the American merchant marine almost as rapid as has been its decline during the last third of a century.” The statement is a sanguine ome, and while there are many reasons.for believing it to be true, the fact rcmains that unless the Government give to American shipping advantages equal to those conferred on the | shipping interests of cther great nations by their Gov- einments, it is doubtful whether we shall be able to profit by the opportunities now afforded for a great extension of our merchant marine. That the increase in our foreign trade offers many inducements to an extension of our shipping industry is unquestionable, but it will be impossible for Ameri- can vessels to compete with the subsidized lines of European nations unless Congress grants to our ship- builders and ship-owners some form of assistance. In his message of last December the President said: “Our coast trade, under regulations wisely framed at the beginning of the Government and since, shows results for the past fiscal year unequaled in our rec- ords, or in those of any other power. We shall fail to realize our opportunities, however, if we compla- cently regard only matters at home and blind our- selves to the necessity of securing our share of ths valuable carrying trade of the world.” The issue has been elaborately argued during the last year and is now fairly well understood by the peo- ple. Congress did not pass the shipping bill reported at the Jate session, but there is every reason to expect it will be'passed during the coming winter. The | strength of the popular forces demanding the passage | of that or some other well devised measure to pro- mote our ocean carrying trade is rapidly growing, and will be augmented by the prominence which the | measure will have in the discussions of the campaign. The Republican platform declares: “Our present dependence upon foreign shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign carrying trade is a great loss to the indus- try of this country. It is also a serious danger to our trade, for its sudden withdrawal in the event of a | European war would seriously cripple our expanding | foreign commerce. The national defense and naval efficiency of this country, moreover, supply a com- pelling reason for legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade carrying fleets of the world.” Going before the people with that declaration the Republican party can rightly expect the vote of every man whose patriotism desires to secure for our mer- chant marine its rightful protection at the hands of the Government. A rapid increase in our ocean- going ships is now essential to every industry of the country. We produce more of nearly all sorts of farm products and of many kinds of manufactured goods than we can use, and must, therefore, find a market for them abroad, and the upbuilding of a large mer- chant marine has consequently become a matter of prime importance to all. / Lord Wolseley is mistaken in saying that with her population of 400,000,000 people China has every requisite for overrunning the world. She cannot arm them, nor drill them. nor command them in war; and, moreover, she has not even the first requisite for L o * \ % - I ; : ; § ; * : : A Portrait Drawn in a Single Continuous Line, Beginning in the Center of the Picture, % | | | % E % E E § | ° b E 7 %/fi/ 7 / —From Leslie’s Weekly. @ KR AAAAAARRARARAAAAAARAKAARAARAR KAAAAAR AR AR RAAK Ak A Akh Ahkhhk kAR AA Ahdhkd AAkA Ak khk: OR nearly fifty years past Tientsin, which has so suddenly become the center of world-wide interest, has oc- cupied a prominent position in the pleturesque foreground of historical events in China. Few cities of any coun- try since the middle of the century have had a more remarkable history. Indeed, almost every event of serious interna- tional moment in China since 1853 has oc- curred at or within the radius of a few miles of Tientsin. It will be remembered { that it was here that.the Tal Ping re- bellion reached its flood tide in 1853, when General Seng Ko Linsin first defeated the combined forces of the Wang Princes, and arrested the further movement of the Tai Ping rebels toward Peking. Five years later Lord Elgin, accompanied by the Em- bassador of France, first steamed up the Peiho, after having forced the barriers at the Taku forts at the mouth of thau river, and took possession of the town. The signing of the treaty of Tientsin in 188 by Prince Kung in behalf of China and the foreign plenipotentiaries in behalf of the signatory powers; the de- ceitful trick§, the artful evasions and the diplomatic draft and cunning of the Chi- nese mandarins pending the negotiation of this famous treaty and the subsequent refusal of the Peking Government to ex- change the ratifications at Tientsin; the expedition to Peking of the allied armies under the command of Admiral Sir Grant Hope and the final capitulation of that city in 1860, and the resulting destruction of the Emperor's summer palaces at the Yuen Ming Yuen are events too familiar to_every American to require more than a passing word. It is, however, worth re calling at this time that it was Chinese official treachery in the attack on the Dritish embassy and the eritical situa- tion in which Sir Hope Grant's forces were: placed after their unsuccessful as- sault on the Taku forts that inspired Commodore Tatnall to declare that “blood is thicker than water,” and in disobedi- ence to his orders as'the commander oy a neutral vessel, to rush to the rescue of the imperiled English marines. The dreadful suspense and uncertainty in this country and in Europe respecting the safety of the foreign Ministers in Pe- king recalls most vividly and suggestive- ly &e tragic story of Sir Harry Parkes, Mr, Loch, the unfortunate Count de Lau- ture and his ®ompanions, Le Norman and others, who were ‘‘captured” under a flag of truce just above Tientsin dur- ing the campaign of 1860, carried to Pe- kind in chains and cages, and while held as nominal “hostages” by the Chinese of- ficials, subjected to the most revolting barbarity and cruelty. Humanity has lm-rc!!ulfy been spared the sickening de- tails of the sufferings and death of all of Sir Harry's less fortunate companions m ey dventures and. suffering of ‘Sir Harry Parkes and his companions, as of- ficiaily related by Lord Eigin in his dis- patches to the British Government, and the subsequent narrative of Mr. Loch are matters of famillar history, and 1 allude | to them now for the Y‘urpose only of di- recting attention to the widely differenu ideals of humanity and honor—so clearly brought out—between the Chinese of the higher classes and educated Englishmen and Americans, -and for the purpose also of pointing out the splendid example of constancy and courage which was exhib- ited by these brave Englishmen in their | (3% capti and their high determination to | sugmlt to no acts which might involve the honor of their county or the safety of their countrymen and comrades in eril. DSN6 sarie “Ameridan; - and . ssrtinly’ mo Englishman, can read the story of Sir Harry’'s captivity and of the sufferings !and death of his comrades, without feel- ing thut his ideals of consiancy, courage and honor have been distinctly exalted by the noble example of these heroic Eng- | lishmen. In the ‘hole history of foreign inter- course with China there is no chapter more instructive, none more inte ing and more thrilling for the Americans, :-H-H—H-H—HH-!—!*H—H--I—H—!—PH-X- & The Qrisis in §hina and the Qauses. By Eli T. Sheppard. R. ELI T. SHEPPARD twas for a period of twelve years in the consular service of the Unit- ed States in China, and for five years “international law adviser” to the Empire of Japan. His | residence for seventeen years in the Orient, coupled with his exceptional advantages for obser- |+ vation of the trend of Oriental development, added to unusual qualifications for correct observation + and accurate deduction, qualifies hing.to an exceptional degree to present the conditions and interpret the logical inferences to be derived from the present interesting movements in the Orient. than that of Lord Elgin’s mission and the account of Sir Grant Hope’s campaign. It is one that every American in official authority jn China should know by heart and that no one should be excused for dis- regarding in the present crisis in China. en years after the exchange of ratifica- tions of the treaties of Tientsin the city was the scene of one of the most horribie international tragedies of modern_ times, resulting in ¢he murder of the French Consul, the burning of the Catholic cathe- | aral and the massacre of seventeen Sisters of Charity and cvery French resident in the Catholic orphanage, together with all the Chinese children under their charge. The Tientsin massacre was brm:sht about | by a series of obscene placards, which \Were presumably prepared by the Chinese literati and poste trict of Tientsin and the surrounding vi lages and towns. These placards repre- sented that the “foreign devils.’’ especial- 1y the Catholic priests, were in the habit of collecting foundlings and “kidnaping” Chi- nese children for vile purposes, and for the purpose also of taking out their eyes and secret parts of their bodies, from which a potent drug was to be made by | those who understood the diabolical art. Concurrently with the appearance of these placards, most of which were illustrated and ali of a highly inflammatory and abusive character,” a_serious _epidemic broke out among the Chinese children in the Catholic orphanage. The epidemic was attributed by the ignorant Chinese to some sort of sorcery or evil influence of the priests. The idie and vicious classes of the city became excited. rioting broke out in the city and the French Consul, foreseeing that his countrymen were in great danger. rushed on horseback. ac- companied by his secretary, to the Viee | roy’s yamen and demanded ‘that the riot- ers be suppressed and the authors of the | vile placards be arrested and Exactly what occurred_ at the between the French Consul and Chung How, the Chinese Viceroy, will never be known, as no lorelfn witness of the af- fair survived to tell the tale. It suffices to say that the Consul were both murdered at the Viceroy's yae men, and. it is believed, in the presence of the Viceroy himself. ; The mob had now ‘‘tasted blood.” ana 2s no effective measures were taken by the Viceroy to suppress the riot pandemo- nium broke loose. TUnder any ecircum- stances a murderous mob is an appalling thing to contemplate. but the seething, frenzied mob of cutthroats, pirates an; Chinese braves. naked to ‘their waists, carrying firebrands, long spears and unished. up throughout the dis- | nterview | and his secretary | L & i B o e a0 2 3 g L : knives, that surged through the gates of the city, across the bridge of boats and on through the suburbs in the French con- | cession on that fateful day was a spectacle tor the prince of devils! Nothing but harm could come from a recapitulation at this time of the atrocities attending the massacre which foliowed ot the helpless Sisters of Charity, the unpro- | tected men and women in the settlement and the innecent Chinese cnildren in the Catholic orphanage. Twenty-two French inmates of the dif- ferent establishments, two Russians—a | bride and bridegroom—and a great num- ber of native Cnristians were crueily and most barbarously put to death before the riot was quelled. - Fortunately for the English, American and German residents, a small British gunboat happened to be | within call; otherwise the whole foreign community would have been ruthlessly wiped out. As all the world knows Tientsin is the seat of local government of Pechili, the | metropolitan province of China and the official residence of the Viceroy. Situated as it is, at the extreme north- ern limit of marifime navigation, at the | Juncture of the grand canal with the | Peiho and within eighty miles of o | the city becomes by reason of these nat- ural advantages the chief entrepot and | distributing point of the vast commerc: | both foreign and domestic, of the rich | populous provinces of North China also of a large portion of Manchuria. all the principal capitals, or Fooy, cities of China Tientsin is inclosed by & massive wall of brick and stone, sur- mounted with battlements and completely® surrounded by a wide ditch or moat, very | much after the fashion of the feudal cities | and towns in Europe during the middle es. “%Fhat the Chinese Government is keenly alive to the strategic importance of Tien- tsin is abundantly attested by its lavish expenditures in comstructing the comxrlnx and extensive system of fortifications which command the roaches to Taky and line the banks of the Peiho River for miles above its mouth. | The fortifications at Taku as well as at Tientsin itseif are now in the posses- sion of the treaty powers and whatever the outcome of the Boxer movement may be it is altogether likely that these forti- fications will not be immediately sur- rendered. In the absence of more exact informa- tion than is at present possessed by any of the foreign powers no man can predict the resulting consequences of the present | Boxer rebellion. Indeed, there is serious | dourl’é ‘whether 1;‘ is a re!;el‘;h)n at all. It Wwould not surprise me, judging by Sxperience and knowicdes of the bebime | Governmenty officials, If it finally turn. | out that the Boxers have been permitted | to make the present assault upon foreign- | ers In China with the connivance, official | or unofficial, of the anti-foreign advisers of the Empress Dowager. There is scarcely a doubt that the court at Peking is dominated at present by a | powerful anti-foreign party and it may turn out at last that this Boxer rebellion is nothing more nor less than a craftily directed public movement for the purpose | of conveniently "vrymg it on” with the treaty powers without hazarding the con. sequences of an outright decla=ation of war against them by the Chinese Govern- | ment. | It it should become the settled convic- tion of the Govermments of Europe that | the Empress Dowager or her sers have certainly been ind the Boxer movement it is extremely doubtful whether the present Manchu ity will | survive the conflict which such a state of | af;;lr' is cer;luln to vhe '.tal owever this may . ome Ing is a | rlrem to the most casual obserye: e | Is at last "ur against” the gravest domes- tic and foreign erisis which has confront- | ¢4 her in the whole history of her un- happy intercourse with the nations of the | Western world. Whatever the final ad. ilustment of the present crisis may t is morally certain that no settlement T be possible without a due regard to the future Interests of the great commer- clal powers whose fleets and armies are now hastening to the scene. PERSONAL MENTION. . T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick. State Senator John F. Davis of Jack- son is at the Palace. . % S. G. Bloss, a real estate dealer of At- water, is at the Lick. J. C. Cooper, merchant, and Louis Ein- stein, banker, both of Fresnc, are at the | Lick with their families. Al McCausland, the well-known mining man, is in the city a visit to his daugh- unr‘,', He will leave in a CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 5.—C. H. Evans of San Francisco is at the Albemarle; Mrs. Leland Stanford and party of Palo Alto, and 8. F. Leib of San Jose are at the Manhattan; W. F. Sh: f San Franefs: is at the Piaza. s o ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HEBREW BOOKS—R. V., Glen Ellen, Cal. 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