The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1900, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1900. Che o< Call. | <.rs.. .AUGUST 20, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. | tdc-ess All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. _.A,A ER'S OFFICE. Gl Pllll.lb'"’l‘lfll OFFICE. .Market and Third, 8. ¥, Telephoae Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemsonm St. Telephone Press 203. Deltvered by Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. Simgle Copies. 5 Cemts. Terms by Matl, Including Postages DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), ooe year. - 2 CALL One Year. postmasters are t subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwaided when requested. Mal! subsoribers In oraering change of address should be particslar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS m order | %o insure & prompr and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. cene C GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago. | (loug Distance Telephone “‘Central 218.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. Hersid Sguare .1118 Breadway cc NEW YORK STEPHEN B. 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By Emil Cohn—Monday, August 20, Nursery, at 1157 Mar- ket TRADE POSSIBLY IMPROVING, - ey | RADE throughout the country is running along ] with noteworthy steadiness. Apparently thers | T increase nor <crease in the volume | 1s ne ss. Week after week the bank clearings | he same relative proportion to those of 1g weeks in 1899, and the same may Both have been comparatively ble ever since the turn of the year. The bank showing a weekly loss of about 15 per ares. and the failures, while small and gener- are slightly in excess of 1899. These | we have settled to a normal level 3 s of boom, and are progressing once safe and normal lines is any tendency it is toward a reaction from age in values and volume of business during a This, occurring in a’ Presi- election year, is highly encouraging, and is a year. liment to the sound financial policy of the cy is usually the other way in Thus lead features nued expansion in trade distribu- | Western centers, a better business in 1 the East and renewed confidence, ac- heavier buying, in some lines of iron ay be, as some conservative authorities e touched bottom and are again on ugh no particular activity is expected election. The railroads, however, are increase in earnings, which is a an increased movement of merchandise. it is true, is at a low ebb, but this not an unfavorable indication by any means. The money market continues characterized by ease and nce of funds. the only urgent demand at the ment being in the West, where cash is needed to move the crops. New York reports a larger number outside buyers in the city than for many years at th y goods, groceries, jewelry and hard- ware being the lines most in demand. Judging from these conditions the trade situation is distinctly better than it was sixty days ago. If this improving dency continues we ought to roll up a good fall The the last y ion season— | tials opened the fight. THE ROBBERS OF CHINA LTHOUGH an orthodox follower of Confucius ( \ it was gospel truth that Consul General Ho Yow preached to the ladies of Oakland when he informed them that the present trouble in China is due principally to. two causes—first, the sacrilegious ' action of Christian missionaries, whose proselytizing ir China is an insult to a religion that was old befofe Christianity was dreamed of; second, to the “en- croachments” of foreign nations upon Chinese terri- tory. The Consul General, like all high officials of his race, is a veritable Pink Portulacca of Perfect Polite- ness: that word “‘encroachments” shows also that he | possesses the power of discrimination characterizing | the skilled orator. Invited to lecture before ladies, some of whom had sons engaged at that very moment in pouring Krag-Jorgensen bullets into the Consul | General's countrymen—invited to lecture before such | an audience, it was not only tactful but also necessary that he should refrain from stirring to mutiny the | hearts of his hearers by avoiding that harsh word | which is your only true denomination for the actions of the European powers that precipitated the war. | That word is ROBBERY. The first aggressor of the century was England. i Her opium war of 1840 was one of the most iniquitous | the world has ever witnessed, for the Chinese Gov- ?crnmcm was honestly attempting to prohibit the im- portation of this deadly drug when the English force it on them at the point of the bayonet. The victors | t | 4 | the right to trade at five other ports and a perpetual | icense to poison the Chinese with opium. The Tai | | | ing rebellion gave England (this time allied with France) another pretext to intervene in Chinese af- fairs. This led to the war of 1857-1860, in which Can- | ton and the Peiho forts were captured and the Sum- | mer Palace at Peking looted and destroyed. By tl treaty of Tientsin China was forced to pay a heavy ‘indemnity, to open more ports, to cede more land to the English near Hongkong, and finally—Oh, crowning triumph of bullet and saber!—to repeal all | edicts against Christianity. “I came not to send peace,” said Christ, “but the sword.” That saying has never been explained away by the theologians, but it has been literally fulfilled. After all this violence and bloodshed the wonder is not that any foreigner’s life was unsafe beyond the range of a war vessel’s guns, but that it should have been safe even within that range. But Time the De- stroyer is also Time the Healer. mutual benefits and things went along pretty well for the next twenty years. In 1882 the Frenth, in pur- suance of their new colonial policy, made a grab for Tonkin which the English offset, not at France's ex- pense but at China's by seizing Upper Burmah. In the recent war between China and Japan, the latter undoubtedly had a just cause and won a well- deserved victory. The fruits of this victory Japan should have been allowed to enjoy, but Russia, without a shadow of right for interfering, insisted that Japan should not be allowed to acquire territory on the Asiatic mainiand, compelled the Mikado to accept a money compensation (the payment of which she guar- anteed) and proceeded to run the Trans-Siberian Rail- way through the Chinese province of Manchuria. Such { | | | | | high-handed larceny shocked the moral sense of a nation whose sovereign is, by the grace of God, offi- and Defender of the Christian faith: Lord sbury reached out for more territory in Burmah and com- pelled China to allow free navigation of the Yangtse- kiang River. Then Germany grabbed Kiaochau, which in turn led Russia to appropriate Port Arthur, which in turn compelled England, in selizdefense, you know, to seize Weihaiwei. Italy was about to join in the game and establish a “sphere of influence” in Che- Kiang, when the patience of the Chinese gave out and the Boxerarose in the land. Nothing, to be sure, can excuse the treacherous at- tack upon the foreign legations with which the Celes- But such an attack is just what might have been expectetd under the circumstances. It is a cause for regret but not for surprise to those who have watched the foreign jackals preying upon the still animate body of China. of omission or commission in the Philippines, our hands, thank God, are clean as regards China. And President McKinley is determined they shall remain so. D Kelly to take advantage of the overthrow of the primary law for the purpose of getting control of the Republican primaries in this city by trickery, or by force, there are good reasons for ex- pecting fair dealing in every district. Certainly the County Committee has thus far taken steps to that end and there is no likelihood it will turn aside from that honest purpose between now and election day. It is well known that the foundation of party gov- ernment is the primaries. If corruption prevail there then all that follows becomes tainted with the wrong. The stanchest Republicans of the time, if they per- ceive they have been cheated at the primaries in the Whatever our sins FOR HONEST PRIMARIES, ESPITE the efforts of Herrin, Crimmins and ade, in spite of the forthcoming election. Wheat continues the mule of the commercial pro- Excepting the spurt some time ago, on ac- it of the partial failure of the crop in the North- west, it has been in the dumpsfor several years, its slug- gishness having been particularly marked last year, when everything else was booming. The recent Gov- ernment report, indicating a crop of only 514,000,000 bushels, led the 3Secretary of Agriculture to predict “dollar wheat” before the end of the year, but Chi- cag placed little faith in his judgment, for the market not only did not advance but actually de- clined and has been weak ever since. Operators on the Chicago Board of Trade are persistently predict- ing higher prices and advising people to buy, but the et goes down 2ll the same. Wheat is apparently unto itseli. From time immemorial it has broken everybody who toyed with its seductive charms, and bids fair to do so through the commercal ages to It never does what it is expected to do. The Jocal situation stands about the same. Great hopes have been built on active markets resulting from the Chinese trouble, but the feeble resistance of the Chinese Government during the past ten days has 2 dampening influence on these sanguine anticipations. But whether we have a great Oriental war or not, there will be plenty of business during the coming f2il. The Government is continually buying more or less goods in this market for the troops in the Philip- pines, the Northwest demand keeps up and the Alas- kan trade shows no signs of collapse thus far. The commerce of the post is first rate, and bids fair to Hence we may reasonably expect z appa 2l come. continue so0. prosperous fall. Cut rates on citizenship have aiready been estab- hehed in Hawaii. Judge Estee has reduced the fee on naturalization to $2 50, and the market, it is said, 15 booming. election of delegates to a convention of the party, lose confidence in the convention itself, and accord- ingly are not inclined to give an unquestioning sup- port to candidates nominated by it. Honesty at the primaries is therefore the best policy a party can pur- sue. It is in a particular sense the best policy at this time, for no other can win. : The Republicans of San Francisco will no longer tolerate boss control of their party. They have had experience enough with that kind of political fakers. They know that Herrin, Crimmins and Kelly are not in politics for the maintenance of Republican princi- ples, the good of San Francisco, the interests of Cali- fornia or the welfare of the nation. Those would-be bosses with their gangs of disreputable followers would not hesitate 2 mcment to betray and defeat Re- publican candidates, even after nominating them, if they could see in such betrayal any profit for them- selves or for the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is fresh within the memory of all that they have be- trayed a Republican candidate for Mayor and a Re- publican candidate for Governor. For the purpose of assuring to every voter at the primaries as complete protection as is possible with- out a primary law the County Committee, through its chairman, Alired Bouvier, has appointed a committee of eighteen to arrange for the elections. That com- mittee has adopted resolutions setting forth the im- portance of conducting the primaries upon principles of fair dealing, both as to issues and as to men, and has devised a means of assuring such fairness. The resolutions say: “And to that end and purpose and in accordance with the resolution adopted by the County Commit- tee this committee declares that no fraud, imposition, intimidation or oppression will be tdlerated at the said primary election. and hereby gives notice that wrested from the vanquished the port of Hongkong, | | Commerce brought | cially proclaimed to be Head of the Church of England | or any false or fraudulent impersonation of electors, | or any repeating or ‘stuffing’ or false counting of votes in the interest of any set of candidates, the return of the election of such candidates will not be received or } considered. This declaration is thus made in advance to discourage all possible reprehensible and fraudulent ractice, and to insure a fair and honest primary elec- | tion, as far as it may be within the power of the Re- | publican County Committee.” | Of course the banded bosses are not to be expected | to give up the fight without making further trouble. | Herrin and Crimmins and Kelly are playing for big [s(ak:s. It is not for nothing they are trying to get | such men as Dibble in the Assembly and Wolfe in the | Senate. They wish to have control of the Legislature | when the State is redistricted for the coming decade. | Therefore they will resort to every scheme the wiliest I among them can devise and the most unscrupulous of i the Mint Saloon toughs will consent to carry out. { In the end the fight for honesty can be won only by the earnest efforts of honest Republicans. After a hard fight in the committee honesty has won thus | far, and now if loyal and true Republicans will rally | to the contest there will be a victory over the bosses jand their gangs which will assure another victory | when the final struggle comes on -election day. | THE DANGER OF OVERCO FIDENCE. ATOR MASON, in an interview published S in The Call yesterday, has given Republicans | one more warning of the danger of overconfi- ! dence in this election, and emphasized the duty of every Republican to register and to vote, no matter how sure he may be that his party will not be in need of his particular services. We have seen from the slow way in which Republicans are registering in this city how dangerous the overconfident feeling is and how far it clouds the otherwise bright prospects of Repub- lican victory. “Republicans should remember that this is a great political year and it is particularly one in which there should be no chances taken. They should be sure hat they are registered and they should go to the polls and vote. Mr. Bryan and his party on the same toboggan they rcde upon in the previous campaign. However, there is the possibility of being overconfident. The battle- ground of this campaign is in the States of New York, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. The people of the | United States, in the midst of the prosperity that now blesses the country, do not want a change of adminis- tration; they do not want any 16 to 1 proposition with the certainty that it will bring them disaster in a busi- ness way and paralyze industries generally. There is no excuse for making a change now; but the Demo- crats are thirsty for power and spoils and they will | put up a good fight, unless all signs fail. We of the | East depend upon the Pacific Coast to send us a solid | delegation, and it appears to me that they will deliver the goods. On this cccasion, however, every Repub- | lican should vote, whether his vote is supposed to be | needed or not.” | Similar words of warning come to us from all parts ‘ of the country. In some quarters the danger appears | even greater than here. Thus, for example, the Bos- | ton Herald recently made light of the efforts of Re- | publican leaders to arouse the people to a sense of the danger, and said: people believe that there is, in fact, any serious danger | of McKinley's flclcat. Whatever-scare the party man- agers may proiess to feel, the people will not at pres- ent be much affected by it.” Republican managers do not profess to feel any scare, as our Boston contemporary puts it, but they are aware that even if McKinley be sure of election there is no such assurance of Republican control of | the House of Representatives, nor of carrying Legis- | latures in States where United States Senators are to be elected. In some States the danger is imminent { In California, for example, a comparatively slight fall- ing off of the Republican vote in several Congres. i sional districts would result in the election of Demo- | crats, and that in turn might result in giving the Dem- ocrats a majority in‘the House of Representatives. A short time ago Secretary Hitchcock of the Re- publican National Committee, in discussing the re- ports received from the various States, said: that if we do not look out we shall suffer from over- confidence. That is the danger this year.” Thus from all sides comes the warning, “Conditions | are so prosperous and every one is so contented.” It | is upon that basis the bets are made of which our Boston contemporary spoke. Now such confidence as that forebodes disaster. The Democrats and the Populists are united and the Silver Republicans and the mugwumps of the Liberty Congress are with them. All the factions of discontent are working to- gether with a degree of unanimity they have never chown before. Surely, it is time for Republicans to rouse themselves from the pleasant dream of an easy walkover. California Republicans, at any rate, can afford to take no chances. Each and all of them should at once register and get ready to do a citizen’s full duty in the campaign. ADMISSION DAY FUND. HILE there have been many liberal contribu- W tions to the Admission day fund, the full amount desired by the committee has not yet been subscribed. This week renewed efforts will be made to complete the sum of $50,000 expected from the city. It is to be hoped they will be crowned with speedy success. The date of the celebration is draw- ing near, the work of decoration will begin this week and ample funds to defray all expenses should be in the hands of the committee at once. It is not worth while to go over again the benefits the city will receive irom the celebration. It is now assured that the display will in every respect surpass anything of the kind ever witnessed on the Pacific Coast—that it will be indeed one of the most brilliant festivals ever given in America. Thousands of visitors will throng the city to attend it and the result will be a quickening of activity in all lines of trade. Even more important than the benefits to the city are those which will accrue to the State at large by this glorious demonstration of what has been achieved by California in the fifty years of her history as a State in the Union. The more splendid the celebration the wider will be the publication given to it in the East, and the keener the attention paid to it by the people. It will advertise California’s wealth, resources, enter- prise and patriotic public spirit in a striking way and attract the minds of capitalists and home-seekers alike. Those who have not yet contributed to the fund should do so at once. The sum of $50,000 is not an excessive amount to ask of a city so large and so wealthy as San Francisco for a purpose of such patri- otic pleasure and utility. This week should see the entire amount subscribed. Let every man in propor- when it shall appear by satisfactory proofs that any | tion to his ns share in uufin and willingly false voting shall have occurred at any polling-olace |ioin in defraying the cost of it. 5 Speaking of the political outlook, the Senator said: | That is all that is necessary to put | h. | “When the betting is 5 to 2 in favor of McKinley on the Stock Exchange, it is difficult to make the | “Every one seems pretty well satisfied, so much 30 | - O home, little girl. There is nothing further that I can teach you.” That is what the renowned Mme. Deubillement-Chardon, instructress of miniature painting in Paris, to.l talented Rose Hooper just about three weeks ago. The good little girl packed her trunks and came lome to those who loved her and, would you belfeve it, Mme. Chardon’s unusual bjdding with its re- markable qualifying clause would never have been known here if it had not been for some French admirer who wrote it to a gushing admirer in our own city. She, as was plainly her duty, told the tale. Rose may be as reticent as she chooses now. We know her glorious record. You should have been present when Rose unpacked those Paris trunks. Hats, | gowns, chiffons of all sorts—why, it made | you think that there was nothing else | worth looking at in this world—until you | saw those minfatures. Such deli¢ate work, ; such coloring, such—but you have doubt- lessly by this time scen them and must agree with me in what, on account of my lack of technical art praise terms, I do not say. And whist! There are two miniatures signedl ‘‘Hooper” in tue American build- ing of the Paris Exposition, and, further, two have been accepted by the Royal Academy In London, But in spite of all her successes and ths | dearest, most fetching French accent in all this world, Rose is sad. She has trou- bles of her own. She was not allowed to bring her pet poodle, Gosse, home with her. "It is a sad tale. 'And, like the popu- | lar romances of to-day, mixes history and sentiment. In England, according to statistics and things, they have ulmost stamped out hydrophobia. To keep up the record no | one from foreign shores may carry a dog | into her Majesty's kingdom. Poor, ignor- -ant little Rose had not read the scientific | journals that explain these instructive | things and she bought lier ticket for home | When she found she | into the land of | via an English line. could not carry Go: chalky cliffs her distre poodle and fooling the En | But Rose’s natural honesty | the fear that Go eart, put_that plan cntirely out of the question. So she came away without him and left him in Paris in charge of a friend. That friend will be home in _about three months. She sails on the French line. We will all have a chance around Thanksgiving to admire Rose Hoopers French poodle. coupled with might have a weak . . reminds me of a gos- Mrs. Paulsen, who is | gay capital ‘after an | extended trip to nearly every point of in- | terest on the Continent. Mrs. Paulsen | auite ill in Dresden, but she is en- | ving her usual good health now and has | engaged passage for home early in Sep- | tember. September Is to be the great home-com- { ing month and by the 1Sth day of the sec ond autumn month there wiil be enough ‘rench gowns and bonnets in town to ify us in referring to Kearny street ny. Mr. and Mrs. de ed home in September. gone on to Talking of Pa sipy letter from now again in the B B R T G s s o) Mr. the late arri for one year | de Young. er are among ore leaving for her Eur Crocksr bought a_magni- | sod screen. It is five feet | at the exposition univer. t long and is fashioned Henry Fayot, after havin spent some time in ch and the Tyrol are now in Paris. Mrs. Payot enjoys the reputation of being a most jolly and com- | | panionable traveler. She is an expert bi- | and has her wheel with her on this | Mr. and Mrs. e R | Rapbael Weill is once again en route to sirth. In honor of Mr. | visit to La Belle France ven Lloyd gave him a delightful din- | g at a downtown res- | vere laid for nine and e a few model married men as achelors in the gathering. ourse, was perfect, but stance was not on the 4. It was a bully story told by | Joyd. Lloyd carried his hearers | with him to Poland, to a feast given by 1 | wealthy Hebrew to a few equally rich and THE WORLD'S WARSHIPS Laird at Birmingham launched on July 14 the eighteenth torpedo-boat destroyer | built at that yard for the British Navy. The five 32-knot torpedo-boat destroy- ers to be built for the British Navy have | been named Cobra, Kangaroo, Thorn, Ti- | ger and Vigilant. Thelr cost will average | $286,000. | France appears to have recognized the | value of the turbine motor and a torpedo- | boat of % tons has been launched at| Havre, fitted with this new propulsion. The boat is to steam 24 knots. The old Warrior, the ploneer of Great Britain’s armored fleet, is at last to be| struck off the effective list. Her engines | are to be taken out at once and the ship will be utilized as a torpedo depot ship at Portsmouth. The French armored cruiser Mar- seillaise of 10,014 tons was launched at Brest dockyard = July 14 She has| triple screws, engines of 20,500-horse pow- er, intended to give a speed of 21 knots nd her estimated cost is $4,640,200, includ- "?nx armament. The cost of guns and tor- pedoes is calculated at $599,500. A floating dock for Bermuda is being built at Wallsend, England. The dock will have a lifting capacity of 16,500 tons and is 545 feet in length, 126 feet wide, with an entrance width of 9 feet. There is 52 feet depth of water where the dock is to be located, which will permit ves- sels drawing 33 feet to be docked. The Cape Colony has raised sufficient money toward building a battleship for the navy of Great Britain. At a recent session of the Cape Parliament the name of Good Hope was given to the ship to be built and a request made to the home government that the ship be made equal in importance to any of her class. Two light-draught gunboats have been built by Thorneycroft for the French navy and sent to China for service in the west rivers. The boats—named Ar- gus and Vigilant—are 141 feet in length, 23 feet beam and draw two feet with ev- erything on board. Their speed is 13 knots. The boats made their trials, were taken to pieces and shipped to Hongkong, where they are now being made ready for service. The British cruiser .Arfadne of 11,000 tons consumed eighty tons of coal one day while steaming at the rate of eighteen ! knots. While this consumption is not economical, it is much better than that of the Europa, which would require 350 tons dafly if put to a gait of 22 knots. Her supply of 1900 tons would not suffice for 2800 miles, as the auxiliary engines and other appurtenances would consume about twenty tons daily. The price paid for the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Viper, recently purchased from Elswick by the British Government, was §$322,550. The boat is 300 tons and rated at 85 knots. The torpedo-boat Farragut in the United States is 279 tons and made 30.13 knots. The contract price was $227,- 500. The cost of the Farragut was at the rate of 3805 per ton, while the Viper's cost was $1075 per ton, the Britisher's ex- cess of speed making her comparatively the cheaper boat. The contract cost of the American torpedo-boat destroyers now in course of construction ranges from $713 to $619 per ton, their sizes varying from 408 to 433 tons and speeds from 29 to 8 tons. British 30-knot torpedo-boat destroyers of recent build are from 333 1 | congenial friends. He described the tab that groaned with its wealth of piate and le | crystal and choice viands and the buffet piled high with all the good things that appeal to the appetite of man. Then he came to the speeches. ““The host spoke first,” said Lloyd. “He referred to the wealth, the plenty the good Lord had showered upon him and with humility de- | clared that in the midst of all his abui dance he would remember the poor. ‘Are you with me? he cried. ‘Will you join me in remembering the pcor? And this Pol- ish host grew eloquert,” went on Mr. Lioyd. ‘“‘His guests grew enthusiastic. Their hands were in their pockets and | they were ever ready to say, ‘Yes, let's | send this meal so temptingly spread b fore us to those less fortunate than ‘Are you with me?" said the host. ‘We are,’ said the guests. ‘Then,’ cried the generous Pole, “'join with me in giving three cheers for the poor. ey i On Wednesday Irma ages §731 per ton. Only four religious denominations are | recognized in the British navy—Church of | England, Methodists, Presbyterians and | Roman Catholics. Whichever creed a man professes when he joins the service he has | to stick to for. the rest of his career. If | his creed is some other than one of the four above mentioned he Is put down for ! whichever seems nearest. Only chaplains | of the established church are assigned to ships and whenever it is practicable the members of the other three denomina- tions are landed and marched off to places of worship belonging to their creeds. All | doubtful cases are counted for Church of Englend people, which gives that denomi- nation an undue preponderance on board ship. But in the old days there was even less care taken to assort the ship's com- pany and it was no uncommon occurrence to see a rigid Presbyterian marched off to attend Roman Catholic service. It is the practice in some ships at sea when the Established Church service is pro- gressing the Roman Catholics are drawn up to have read to them the articles of war. The United States Navy has been very fortunate in the selection of water-tube boilers and has escaped thus far the dif- ficulties experienced in other navies—par- ticularly the British—with this modern improvement in steam generation. There are nine different types in use in our navy, seven of which are chiefly in tor- pedo-boats and destroyers. The list com- prises the following types: Almy, Bab- cock & Wilcox, Mosher, Normand, Niclause, Seabury, Thorneycroft, Ward and Yarrow. The second in the list is al- ready in six cruisers and gunboats and will be installed in at least three other large vessels. It will be noted that the Belleville boiler is not included in the list, and it was only through the most vigor- ous argument against its introduction that the late Democratic Secretary of the Navy was persuaded not to foist this boil- er on the Navy. The experiment of try- ing so many boilers of different types is a wise and economical proceeding, for as water-tube boilers have become an abso- lute necessity for ships of war, it only re- mains to select one which practical ex- perience proves to be the best. —— BURLESQUE'S OPPORTUNITY. “The theater owes a great deal to the Shakespearean drama,” said the girl with the dark glasses and the pensive expres. man with sion. n; it iurlesques T “'Yes,” answered the you wide ears; “some of the bes ‘Hamlet’ and ‘| —Washington Stap. T ome® and Juilet) was DIDN'T FILL THE BILL. “Ma says, how much will you charge to wr‘lte a ’bituary on the death of my dad?" Three dollars an inch,” repiied the ed_ll_:zr, gruffly. e messenger departed, ‘while he relul!n‘ed and lfld:b‘n e “‘Ma says dad wuz six-foot two inches, but he wuzn't wuth three dollars!”—At- lanta Constitution. —_— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a pound in fir hed - po 4 ."::'u t‘.'“" or {l-n bas- it S s Special information supplied daily to S-S0 Miss Rose Hooper. 3 L e S e ] Sally Sharp Sossips and %{.'xes HArt and Poodles > @ S R A A e B e S o S Y Louis Kohn are to be married. The groom came from C that _explains why, on Saturd ed to - cure the marriage license, he ville Marx, une his bride to be, show him the way to Cupld Danforth Marx was more than obliging. He not only steered the man from Chicago up to the license office but insisted upon paying for the license. Kohn was profuse in his thanks. “Oh, don't mention it sail Marx in an offhand way. “I pay for the license, you pay for the wine.” They had a quart. It st $5. A marriage license | costs 320 ol What a pity it is that Lily Lawlor can- not overcome her nervousness and let her ds hear her splendid contralto voic But it seems she just can't sing when anybody is listening to her. This awfut it is said, is all that pre- nervousness, vents the fair singer from gaining fame and fortune on the concert stage. SALLY SHARP. * PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Theodore Purkitt of Willows is at the Grand. W. R. Spalding and wife of Visalia are at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. Vogelman of Vallejo ars stopping at the Grand. E. L. Sanford, a hotel man of Corning, is registered at the Lick. R. E. Jack, a banker of San Luis Obispo, is stopping at the Palace. Dr. W. P. Reed and wife of San Blego are stopping at the Grand. W. H. Nichols. a banker of Courtland, is registered at the Grand. James Gallagher, a councilor at law. of Fresno, is a guest at the Grand. E. A. Farnham, a big merchant of the “Hub,” is a guest at the Palace. R. J. Hudson, a well-known attorney of Hanford, is registered at the Grand. G. E. Babcock and wife of the Hotel Coronado are guests at the Palace. S. Middleton, one of New York's big merchants, {s stopping at the Palace. V. W. Hartley, a leading fruit raiser of Vacaville. is registered at the Grand. Virgil Conn, a prominent mining man of Paisley, Or., Is registered at the Palace. George W. Hazzard, one of San Diego’s most prominent citizens, is a guest at the Lick. E. H. Breidenback, a prominent mer- chant of Los Angeles, Is stopping at the Grana. George B. Sperry, the well-known flour man of Stockton, is registered at the Oec- cidental. Captain George F. Ellls, who made a big fortune in the Klondike, is registered at the Lick. E. L. Sargent, general freight agent of the Texas Pacific Railroad at Dallas, Tex- as, Is stopping at the Palace. Enrique Rittscher, proprietor of the leading hotel of Guatemala, is registered at the Lick. He arrived on the Peru yes- terday. J. F. Parks, superintendent of the Ken- nedy Mining and Milling Company, at Jackson, Amador County, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. Mercer, a noted physician of New- ark, N. J., accompanied by his wife, is stopping at the Palace. The gentleman is here on a pleasure trip. ——————— CALIFORNIANS N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Thomas L. Ly- ons of San Francisco is at the Manhat- tan; Dr. C. Ford of San Franecisco is at the Sturtevant. ————— NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Cheap Rates to Chicago and Return. On the 21st and 220 inst., when purchasing tickets to Chicago and return, be careful that they read one way via the Northern Pactfic Raflway. The only line running to the Yel- lowstone Park. Inquire for information of T. K. Stateler, General Agent, 638 Market st., next to Chronicle building. —_—— Chicago and Return $72 50. icaces houees, and, bl men, B 12 | e winn sty Suvs 0o 4, o e e Y | e s Printing and Engraving. Pre S 2 Printing, engrafing, die-sinking, stamp- The Santa Fe will sell ticksts to Chicago St e pane | T . e iy T B Bricear B Vel Con T MATREE | v vou i o e Sl They vl