The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1900, Page 6

CThe +Tabaie Call. ...JULY 12, 1900 THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. o All Communica-ions to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. 'l'ele?l:o-e I’rsll 204 Third, S. F. todress MANAGER'S OFFICE. PUSLICATION OFFICE..Market Telepbone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cemts. Delivered by Carrier single Cople Terms by Mail, Including Postage: CALL @ncluding Sunday), one year CALL (including Sunday), § months CALL (including Sunday), 3 months Single Month DAILY DAILY DATLY EUNDAY CALL WEEKLY CALL All postmasters are & subscrt Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. ul £33 = 2e? receive stbscribers in ondert: ange of address should be par: to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o iusure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. virseees.1118 Broadwsy » OAKLAND OFFICE.... C GEORGE KROGNESS, Wenager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2018.) CORREEPONDENT: NEW YORK Heraid Square C C. CARLTON NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: B SMITH.. ..30 Tribune Buiiding STEPHEN B CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House, P. O. News Co.; Grest Northern Hotel: Fremout House: A orfum Hotel NEW YORK NEWE STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel, A. Breotano, $1 Uniom Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Wellington Hote. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. —527 Montgomery. corper of Clay. 300 Hayes, open untfl 3:30 o'clock ster, open unt!l $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open u sk 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 M, + open until § o'clock. 109 V open 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW cor- nd and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. SPELLBINDERS. enough to go for the Bryan THE NS. to follow THOSE PARIS COMMISSIO (T other see ()2 11_* « Furnishe: rs, to be u function, reign e failed e 1ave permitted comes a blunder by the Fed- € ( B r. Peck. The Pres France f courtesy and ceremony to the United St nd pavilion. F sioner Ge as not on hand to receive | ar e contact with the charwomen, sweer ers glass ers employed in the place. The sec- 14 was there, t not coul not having been introduced s who were in the place keenly sen mbassador to F a hurry nce and e President had withdrawn. ed with abundant means to use and hospitalities mers, he seems to have con- ere before th court So far, like a Com th being praised by his subord t his pay. tates bnilding was a frightful frac- ture laws of taste in architecture, was unsafe for occupancy, and had less charms than the Mechanics’ Pav in this city the morning after a cake walk. The money enough to construct an effective it was not done no one seems to | Americans in Paris know that it was ish for what is and sigh for what might v and of the Populists have a keen sense of of things. Each party is to have its own Vice Presidential nominee, but the Democrat is to re- ceive the combined vote in the electoral college. The contestants evidently -calize that this vote will not be difficuit to count 1t was just as well for Senator Hanna to contra- ct the report of a plot to assassinate the President, if he purposes to refute all the fakes that the low journals of New York put forth during the season, he will have no chance for a holiday this summer. br e it It may be well enough for the Gold Democrats to nominate a ticket this year as they did in 1896 just for the sake of keeping up the record, but when election day comes the only safe plan will be for them to vote straight for McKihley and Roosevelt. i Oazakland has begun the fiscal year free from debt. It might be added also that she can bestow a few gifts in the form of belligerent politicians whom she would not miss and who would give spice to the life of other communities. THE GOLD DE]@OCRATS. OLITICAL interest again begins to center in | p the probable zction of the Gold Democrats, who, in 1896, refused to change the historic at- titude of their party, 2nd smote Bryan from July to November. Their national committee meets on the sth inst. in Indianapotis and will propose some ac- 110 Just wh: be is now not surely known. | { The form enables a guess at what | that party will do. That platiorm s pairfs to an- latform of wpolis p! 1896, It de- wndard, raises an outcry against tagonize the Ir nounces th b A | demands, in effect, greenbacks, | ¢s for the free coinage of silver re the points of differ- vill be seen that Gold he open door into the Bryan hard condition of admitting ago, and are or- ive form the pol- In addition at 16 to 1 ¢ most Democrats are of that the; dered four wrong were sed to adopt others icies which e were raised in rm which were nearly as offensive to the Gold Democrats, and upon which Mr. Bryan e have been referred to by of the Demo- n like nction imposed land; who Court, the bulwark of law t to overthrow the judiciary understar be entrusted with the American conception liberty regulated by by | always been is despotism regulated n of Nebraska says: “The | nviction for 1 as the nominee they will | e words he uttered at ! come back.’ The | s they were Unite or withc Se ates will not sup- | ver.” ; of the Treasury, “Mr. Bryan or ke Cockran an- | former , says: { ether he adheres to here he did in | 1 the objections to Bryan in | at the financial question | one to be sure, but | Gold Democrats lay much standard law wiil | 11 that would sweep Very important sup- | in carrying out the is not 1 party, t has been will be adrift i course tt rom the Bry sea in which so many | the free silver gale was notice that the Demaocratic party self of all the her- t the hor nd labored like the Old »ond to his spur. n the lines of 180f fe it But Bryan r d it ha cleansing and purgative effort t if he is elected the party itself in weeds for garlands, and go in the wild zourse into which he has directed it. Those who see this are not willing to make their | s permanent, and are not ambitious to help a a madman at everything that h of arson to destroy plan for building up. ) Te; ve see now continue to dec burde; pa strikes y that = 3 tions are subject to criticism. see is the g these be tow re what the people | 1 and direction of a party. If | at government may for the | ction by law at ying > people, their pr 3 10or mistakes are ire forgiven. There is something ration that needs to be condoned. their s e always willing to do. They are ed when condonable acts are seized litical opposition for prominence, and | are put forw as the things characteristic of the ‘ whole administrati What they ask is, not is there chaff with the wheat, but is the wheat itself good. d Democrats seem determined to give their strength to the principles of sound money and to believe it unwise to abandon that cause at a time that is as critical as ever before. are under no illusions in the matter, and are They to see with great clearness, that if the hard work | re shall go for naught, and the steps taken shall | be retraced, no one can tell when the lost ground | may be regained They do not regard the question as settled. Eleven Senators change. Two of them are already replaced, free silver men taking their places, in the States of Kentucky and Laquisiana. Both of the retiring Sen- ators, Lindsay and Caffery, were Gold Democrats. The States which vet elect are Colorado, Idaho, Kan- sas, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. Should they follow th2 lead of Kentucky and Louisiana, sound money and the gold standard will have the precarious majority of one in the Senate after March 4, 1901, and might be strangled in its cradle by Colonel Bryan. | It is probable, therefore, that the Gold Democrats | will abide by the principle they sought to establish until its foundations are so fixed that nothing can | disturb them. M filled so large a place in American politics that there was not a lid in the country big enough to cover it. Her poses were visible and her | preaching was audible from one side of the continent to the other. Then there came a period when the republic had a rest. There were blizzards and thun- derstorms as of yore, but Mrs. Lease was quiet. Thus there came upon the people a conviction that she had retired from the arena of disputation and reform, people to be dece upon by the pc They not to be driven any more now than in 1896. MRS. LEASE’S VIEW OF IT. RS. MARY ELLEN LEASE of Kansas once | selves Populists. and who are here to make the pre- | spirit of Populism have gone out, and the boodle | most favorable point of view they cut a poor figure, | irate lady calls “a consecrated spirit.” O | bers of the Legislature which will meet this winter. and betaken herself tc raising chickens or Belgian hares. That belief was erroneous. The lady is still | alive and is kicking. Her reappearance in the forefront of the gathering storm of the campaign is due to a discontent with what happened at Kansas City. Mrs. Lease likes | Bryan, but she likes Populism more, and she has a | suspicion that Bryanism is but the whiskers of Popu- | lism without the spirit. Consequently she has arisen | to give her opinion of the Kansas City convention | and it is an opinion that does her credit. She is re- ported to have said this about the thing: “Not since the palmy days of the great showman, P. T. Barnum, has such a colossal aggregation of po- litical hybrids, trick riders, reform clowns and equine performers held forth in an American city. The great show is really a combination of several smaller shows, all combined under the big Democratic tent that has Jefferson and expansion at the en- trance and Bryan and anti-expansion at the exit. The Populist party is not here, nor is it decently repre- sented by the straggling hangers-on who call them- tense of holding a convention and indorsing the can- didate selected by Democracy because they are paid to do so. The fire and enthusiasm and consecrated refuse of the party have become parasites upon the Democratic growth. The greed for spoils has pene- | tiated their vitals, and their motto is ‘Get office, and get it any way.” They are sorry samples of the reform that will come to this country should they ever have opportunity to put their theories into practice.” It will be seen from that specimen that in her re- tirement Mrs. Lease has nursed her eloquence and kept it warm. Her ginger has not lost its strength; neither in her advancing age has she taken to lollipop or soothing syrup. Moreover, in the lashing of her tongue there is truth. The Populists who have be- trayed the party of Mrs. Lease’s love tp Bryan have done so for a chance of office. Many of them may | even have been paid for it, as she says. Under the and give no evidence of a single spark of what the There is a chance for Mrs. Lease to take the stump | for the Wharton-Donnelly ticket. It is a good ticket | for talking about and stumps are plentiful. The “po- | litical hybrids, trick riders, reform clowns and equine performers” need just such a castigation as she can give, and since there is to be such a multitude of talk | this fall that one haranguer more or less will make no | difference, the people will be glad to have her raise her shrill voice and *“‘show ’em up.” ONCE MORE THE OLD LESSON. NCE more the people of California are receiv- ing costly instruction upon the subject of for- est fires. The fire record of the year has | been exceptionally disastrous in the East, and there | are portentous indications that it may be almost as | bad on the Pacific Coast. We have not yet reached | the period of the usual forest fire season, and already | a vast amount of damage has been done by such con- fiagrations. Two fires on a large scale within the State were reported in the dispatches of yesterday. In the Santa Cruz Mountains a fire was started by a balloon sent | up on the night of the Fourth of July. The balloon dropped into the brush and at once there was started ‘ a blaze which had not been extinguished at the time the report was sent out on July 10. The dispatch said: s “There is no foretelling when the fire will be con- trolled, in fact the general impression is that it will | burn itself out. It has already spread over thousands of acres and as many more are doomed. No definite | estimate of the loss can be made at this time. Stand- ing timber and piles of cordwood have been destroyed | and acres of splendid pasture iand are now black and smoking. Undoubtedly many cattle have perished, | though no direct reports of losses have been made. | Frightened animals fled before the wall of smoke and | fire and are now wandering at large among the hills. It will be days, if not weeks, before the herds are rounded up, and many will be woefully short.” { The second report comes from Angels Camp, Cala- veras County. The fire started there on Saturday night. In describing the fight against the flames the report said: “On Sunday the fire broke away again, and with a roar like a distant cannonade started down the valley at the base of Bear Mountain. Men, wearied with their efforts and all-night vigils, rushed beyond to ‘back fire’ and try to turn the course, but before they | were aware of it a flume shot across Angels Creek | and into the treetops on the opposite side, a distance of 300 or 400 feet. Almost immediately a cloud of the blackest smoke rose into the air and could be plainly seen for miles around. All efforts to check the fire were in vain, and it swept on for four miles to the Stanislaus River, which it reached in two hours. | Every effort is being made to keep it from jumping | across the river, and men are stationed on Bear Mountain to keep a close watch and sound the alarm in the event of the fire starting up again. The ap- | pearance of the country over which the fire burned is one of desolation. Stockmen, who pasture in the | high mountains during the summer months and in the burned section during the winter, will suffer the great- est, as the supply of grass is entirely destroyed. Un- less early rains set in the stock will suffer greatly.” Here we have two widely separated sections of the State swept by fires of such magnitude that in each case thousands of acres have been burned over, and an immense loss entailed, not only of timber and of grass, but of cattle. These two instances have been | cited simply because they are a part of the news of the day. Many other fires of less extent have pre- ceded them, and in the aggregate the losses caused thereby have been sufficient to teach the importance of some system of fire prevention, even had neither of the two conflagrations we have noted taken place. ‘What wisdom will the people of California learn from these disastrous lessons? Year after year fires sweep the forests and the fields of California. Mil- lions of dollars’ worth of valuable timber goes up in smoke and leaves nothing but a worthless ash heap. Nor is that all. Denuding the hills and mountains of their forests deprives them of the power to retain moisture, and as a consequence we have torrential streams in the wet seacon and arid and parched lands in the dry season. Thus one loss brings in its train another loss. Could the total amount of what Cali- fornia has suffered by forest fires in the last twenty years be accurately computed, the result would be startling and by many it would be regarded as in- credible. This fall the people of California are to elect mem- If there is any wisdom learned from the fires it is now timely to apply it. Let every candidate for the Legis. fature be pledged to support a comprehensive system of fire prevention. Delay is costly, far more costly than experiments in forest preservation would be; and, moreover, any well devised experiment of the kind would be beneficial, while delay means a loss that carries with it no compensation whatever. An Eastern man, who wants to contribute a band of Indians for the Native Sons’ celebration, suggests that if he has not a sufficient number of braves we might induce members of the Iroquois Club to join the company. He forgets that our Iroquois are affec- tionately but familiarly known as old squaws. The British Liberals are grinding their teeth over the fact that they have a splendid home programme of reform on which they know they could carry the country if they could only get a hearing, but the racket of so many wars going on doesn’t give them a chance. . i B R R I R I S e o THE OPEN DOOR. QP e o000 st sbebesdebesisie L e e R R e B R e e S B S e o —New York World. I MIDWEEK NOTES OF THE THEATERS HE Columbia Theater is fllled with appreciative crowds nightly to see “A Marriage of Convenience.” Hen- ry Miller takes fullest advantage of the fine opportunity afforded by the role of the Count de Candale. Miss Dale's Marthon is equally good and Miss Anglin as the Comtesse de Candale is Rt Week “The Liars” will be present- ed. Mr. Miller also announces the Bur- fon Holmes lectures, magnificently fllus- trated in colors and with appropriate mo- tion " pictures. The course Sl begin v ectures, one every - Ty atermoon, day evening, will an e fanila,’ A ‘Japan, 5 }X:Jlnd “Grand Canyon 0~ About Farle” Tand. and . ~Hawailan Isiands™ are the subjects chosen. e o The “Dancing Girl’ house continues to dskow- ot M V' an's cturesque u e - :}:fi’;:mlnd hgr quaint Quaker girl are much admired. Next week the new Fraw- Jeys will presant the famous Drury Lane melodrama, ““The Great Ruby. P ol “The Geisha" still crowds the Tivoll era-house and apparently could con- R e Anitely to do so. Wang" will be put on next week with all the comic opera stars in the cast. € % “A Contented Woman,' with the new beauty, Miss Norma Whalley, in the name role, 18 playing to good houses at the Call- fornia. The eight mascots and Mary Mar- ble give enjoyable specialties. Next Sun- day night “At Gay Coney Island” will be given by the all-star cast. The revival of amille”” at the Alca- zar, with Florence Roberts in the title rolé, 1 proving profitable. Next week “Ingomar” will be the bill. . . The Orpheum is doing an excellent busi- ness with this week's good show. Barrere and Jules, Smith and Fuller and Stella Mayhew are among the new names. The four Cohans bid farewell to the Orpheum this week. & e The third act of “Martha™ is giving much pleasure at Fischer’s concert house this week. Baby Dolliver, Deets and Don, Isabelle Underwood and Edlson’s profect- oscope are among the other attractions. Cannon, the man; the taming of Wallace, the lion; amateurs’ night to- night and a Friday night cakewalk Is the blfi at the Chutes and Zoo this week. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. G. W. Dwinell of Montague is at the Palace. Dr. G. D. Pratt of Halfmoon Bay is at the Lick. W. H. McKenzie, & banker of Fresno, is at the Lick. Dr. D. Hood of Battle Mountain, Nev., is at the Grand. Dr, G. 8. Shannon and wife of Tulare are guests at the Lick. Lew E. Auburn, a mining expert of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Dr. Dudley Smith and Mrs. M. F. Smith of Philadelphia are at the Palace. Frank H. Buck, an extensive fruit- grower of Vacavllle, is at the Palace. Dr. F. A. Beeman and wife and A. P. Seeman and wife of Dubuque, Towa, are | at the Lick. - James G. Nicholson, a merchant of Liverpool, is a guest at the Palace. He is accompanted by Frederick Alcock and Albert Whiteside, both of Liverpool. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 11.—8. M. Breenan of San Francisco Is at the Netherland. H. T. Hazard of Los Angeles is at the Astor. George J. Gordon of San Francisco is at the Emplire. TO ESTABLISH GRADES IN OUTLYING DISTRICTS City Engineer’s Office Begins Work | ‘Which Will Permit of Many . Improvements. The City Engineer’s office is now en- gaged in the tmportant work of establish- ing grades in various tracts throughout the outlying sections of the city which will permit of extensive Improvements now in contemplation by property owners. Commissioner Manson of the Board of Public Works said encrdnx that it will require at least 000 to do the work. The sum of $25,000 only is avallable, how- ever, but this will be applied to the work i Seon ‘placed " thefeld by City ac n the 24 Engtn h he. ot fix Engineer Grunsky for the purpose ing grades and also to rmine the lines of numerous streets. e_tracts seleeted nclude the Homestead, West End and glmm districts, a certal rtion of the chmond District, what is known as Miguel City and ' the Bui de Tract. Few les have hitherto 'n_estab- lished in the outskirts of the southerly rtion of the city, which will now be put proper condition for man; improve- ents that are to be . some dis- ts_even the lines of the streets not clearly defined and surveys will ecessary g:fm any n be Trust be surveyed. as there ments marking the The Board of Public Works on the re- port of City Engineer Grunsky has al- ready recommended that grades be fixed on several streets opposite Bernal Heights and the work in other sections that has been put off from year to year will now h°1 vigorously prosecuted by the fleld dep- uttes. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DAY IN MARCH-Subscriber, City. The 29th of March, 1857, fell on a Tuesday. SUPERIOR JUDGES—R., Vallombrosa, Cal. There are twelve Superior Judges in San Francisco. o THE CHINA-J. C., City. The steamer China of the Pacific Mail line is an eigh- teen-knot ship. She has often averaged fourteen knots an_hour on trips from Hongkong to San Francisco. FAMINE IN INDIA—W. J. 8., Oak- land, Cal. The principal cause of famine in India i{s that there was a lack of rain for four years and consequently there was a fallure of the grain crops. MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE—J. M., City. The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art is open, free to the public, on the first Friday of each month. Children, if ac- companied by parent or guardian, are ad- mitted. S ok GOLD AND SILVER—C. B. H., City. The welght of one mililon dollars in United States gold coin is 363.4 pounds aveirdu- ois. One million in United States silver ollars welghs 59,931, pounds avoirdupois, or nearly 28% tons. AUSTRALIAN BALLOT—Subscriber, Franklin Tunnel, S8anta Fe Line. Each State in the Union prescribes the qualifi- cations for voters. Congress doeg not pass any laws on that subject. The Australian ballot system, or a modified form thereof. is fn operation In every State and Terri- tory of the Union except North Carolina and New Mexico. TO EXTERMINATE RATS-E. C. City. It is said that dry chloride of lime scattered all around a house and placed at the holes in and out of which rats pass will drive them away from the house. It is also said that one of the most simple and most effective ways to catch rats is to use a trap made as follows: “Fill a barrel half full of water. Make the Cover half an inch smaller all around than the inside of the top of the barrel. Drive a French or wire nail on each side of the cover exactly opposite each other, so as to act as a pivot and fit to the barrel, so that a light weight will tip the | the cover. Put some bait, firmly affixed to the cover, and then place boxes one on top of the other to almost reach the edge of” the barrel. The rats will ascend tha boxes, and in ing on the barrel cover to reach the bait will tilt it and drop into the water. HARA-KIRI-F. N., Dutch Flat, Cal Hara-kiri 1s a form of suicide performed in Japan by cutting open the abdomen by two crosswise cuts with a short sword or knife. Nearly all Japanese officials carry on thelr persons two swords, one long to fight an enemy with, the other short to | perform hara-kir{ with, if their honor !s | at all damaged. The honor of a man who | commits hara-kirt s saved. Officials have been commanded to kill themselves in this | way when by an act they fall Into dis- | grace, and by so doing their children have | inherited all the father's property and his position. not the case when | the suicide bidden. Persons who | have suffered unendurable affront, which | cannot be otherwise satisfled, sometimes kill themselves in this way and thus sat- isfy their revenge upon their enemy. | —————— s Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's.* —_———— §1 Fourth, front of barber and grocery stores, best eyeglasses, specks, 10c to 40c.* —_———— Spectal information supplied daily business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 gomery st. ‘elephone Main to the ont- . To Lecture on Ireland. | The one hundred and twenty-second of the California Camera Club’s interesting | illustrated lectures will take place morrow evening at 8 o'clock chosen is Ireland, and the le subject lmr»r‘ the Rev. Alfred Kummer, will te! his audience how he kissed the Blarney stone. The lecture will be appropriately illustrated. | $72 40 for St. Paul. St. Paul can be reached in a comfortable way | on the Santa Fe Route. and in order that you | may have an oppertunity to learn this cheaply | we will sell tickets there and back for $72 & | on July 11 and 12. Come to 628 Market street. | Train goes at 3 a. m | Cheap Rate to St. Paul and Return. Cheapest rate of the season; tickets on sale | July 11th and 12th. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt.. | Northern Pacific Ry., 635 Market st., 8. F. | — T ee——— | After a sleepless night, use Dr. Stegert's An- gostura Bitters to tone up your system. All druggists. SEE THE GREAT COMIC AND HALF-TONE SECTION. THE ADVENTURES OF A “HOODOO”’ SAILOR. 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