The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1900. D 75FREC|;:L>. Pr pne;flr -etions to W. S LEAKE, Manager ceesee.Telephone Press 204 At Commur MANAGER'S OFFIC PUBLICATION OFFICE. . . Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Bress 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. .. 217 to 221 Stevenson § Telephone Press 20Z. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weel. Single Copies, 5 Cents ers are aunthorized to receive wubscriptions. will bhe forwarded when requested taress should b =i ADDRESS. in order rrect compliance with their request 1118 Broadway s . CARLTON. PONDENT ...Herald Square VEW ¥ INTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMIT 30 Tribune Bulldines NEW ern Hotel WASHINGTON MORTON BRANCH OFFICES ..1406 G St., N. W. Correspondent. mery, corner « en until § AMUSEMENTS. y's Kids.” Blue Jeans Wife is. Sixteenth and Song Recital, Baths—Open nights k Track—F reat Fair, September 24 to October 6 AUCTION SALES. BUSINESS QUIET @ND FEATURELESS draws nearer © shows The great anthra- up. its quieting influence ects of the strike, but where the coal mines and v one, and both are largely 1 stree the strike is beginning to ffect- trade, nged with a possibility of To the clection and the oo cle crease in bank r- ed 7 per as compa reing four cities showed a loss, that of 27 ding week 1 ng 386 and that of Boston 30.4 per cent of the country stribution of dry goéods, mil is reported brisk and there and Groceries and pro- been firm of late, showing that the shoes s plenty of money to put on its back Cotton has beemr less active, | | | electing a new interests of Ca | THE CONTEST IN THE SEVENTH. A MONG the Congressional districts in this State where the people have the choice of re-electing a Republican who has been tried in office, or of man representing Bryanism, is the Seventh. In that district the Republicans have re- nominated the Hon. James C. Needham, and in mak- ing the contest require no other campaign document than the record of his official service. In all the great party struggles in the House dur the last session Mr: Needham was an able and. stal- art upholder of the policies of the Republican party The administration had no firmer supporter and the Repub faithi the ve to the Califor His energies, howey canism of ia no more ifined to T, were contests over party issues. Being thoroughly quirements of his constituents and the fornia, Mr. Needham achieved a large amount of work_ beneficial to his disirict and to the State Among the measures of importance to his con- stituents and to all Califgrnia which he supported Horts - grant of an appropriation for the enla and whose enactment was largely due to his ge- t of the quarantine station at San Diego; an ap is of ¢ on for the Indian School, whose maintenance isiderable value not only to the Indians, but i R s from it; the people . who derive a considerablz the increase of the appropr irveys from $50,000 to $100,000 on of $125,000 for improving the access to the 1 the Sequoia Natio as | parks; an appropriz of the San Jo: 2 River;a bill to for tion estab sh a Federal Court at Fresno, and the estab- Lishmer distri It will be perc of upward of twenty rural mail routes in his ved from that record that Mr. Need- ham has been unusually successiul for a new mem- ber. No during his first term at Washington an can do much more than show his zeal on behalf of minated by constituents. The House of Represen is tives nen who have been in office for years. T'hese men are bound to one another not only by the ties of long friendship mutual services, a sther where such a but by the obligations of many nce they natur: nd 2 Iy 1 conseque: one 2 is needed. 1 d 1 ance 0 not constitute a clique in the common ac- word, nor have the men; but the amount of money to be appro- antagonism in any one year is limited, and where a conflict the older mem- vote, matter , with the man whom they have kndwn longest and to whom they are indebted for past favors between the claims of one and a new member they bers as a cours In addition to that advantage, the older | members of the House have others even more important. Like all organized bodies having a long | population. t large continues | ivance of a week ago has checked | nd sales of wool for the week were 2,187,000 pounds at the three principal markets, <t 13.490.000 pounds for the same week last s been no decline, however, as holders ure, but no large lines can Iron and steel con- s and weak at of the f at concessions. n at some pe firm, with advance rules an in her in the Northwest started that in consequence there was during the week. Toward prices wever, the weather cleared and a re- Other cereals were generally firm. s little new in the commercial situa- chants, especially those engaged report a good movement in 1 orchard products are mov- ces for canned and dried 1 without cuity. In fact, the quotations for many descrip- owing to depletion of stocks. are rejoicing in large prices for grapes. ers are holding their crops for better Awn and illustrious history, the House of Representatives, despite its Republican character, is governed by a In the rmation of committees a new man has no chance of no matter how briiliant he for leadership in the House hip in a somewhat subor- If he proves to be a man of marked ability he is promoted rapidly, but he never gets pre n until he has been tried. The people of the Eastern and the Southern States understand that fact and return the same men to Con- gress year after year. The consequence is that some of the smaller of these States have a prestige at Wash- gto species of etiquette a 1d precedence of its own. getting a chairmanship, may be. Every aspirant serve an apprent must dinate capacity. altogether out of proportion totheir wealth and California in the past has been neglectful of that political wisdom. We have changed our Con- gressmen so often that hardly any one of them h had a chance to show the full measure of his capacity. e people of the Fifth District some years ago ceased to r rake a change at every Congressional elec- tion and in consequence they have now a Represent tive who holds the important position of chairman of the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads. The people of the Seventh will do well to profit by the example. The re-election 6f Mr. Needham ought to be assured by the vote of every Republican, of eve independent and of every sound-money Democrat in his district. In 1896 Bourke Cockran said: “The Amnerican peo- | ple will never consent to substitute the republic of Washington, of Jefferson, of Jackson for the republic | an Altgeld, a Tillman or a Bryan.” Cockran is talking another w y, but his prophecy { holds good. | 15 attested by the number of men who BRYAN'S QUES: ION. URING his campaign tour in Kansas and Mis- souri Bryan is reported to have asked in al- most every speech this question: “Why should any man who voted with us in 1896 vote against us now That the question can be answered in many ways after support- ing Bryan in 1806 are now against him. men has his own reasons for the change, and the pub- lic is not ignorant of what they arz. Some men voted for Bryan in 1896 because they sincerely believed it would be impossible to restore | prosperity to the industries of the country on the gold basis. The experience ol‘thn past four years has dis- sipated that belief. The gold standard has been firmly This year | Each of thesa | already forced the market up several | of a few weeks ago. Prices for ave receded slightly, owing to in- but beef has not changed for some established and the country has reached its highest degree of prosperity. Though Bryan be not capable of learning from experience, other men are, and such men are not going-to ignore the lesson they have learned. They know that during the McKinley ad- ministration the country has flourished, and they pro- nts about cover the commercial situation the East. It will be seen that there is not | pose this time to vote for the party of prosperity and feature to trade. We must expect quiet times | not the party of calamity. fter the election There were men who voted for Bryan in 1896 be- cause they believed him to be a patriot. Now they report from Galveston is to the effect that | perceive him to be a mere demagogue, resorting to rtion to population the deaths among the every trick and device his cunning can conceive to I the city were much more numerous than | catch votes. They see him unscrupulous in his efforts negroes and it appears that when the |¢o array one class of citizens against another and to t the negroes became scared and had sense | discredit the foreign policy of the republic and weaken to run to a place of safety, but the whites y 1ts prestige abroad. d to show signs of cowardice and so did not | Finally Bryan has lost his reputation for sincerity or safety until it was too late. v ey in anything. He is known to have advocated the e Market Street Company has again been | treaty of Paris, which he now denounces. He is anded by municipal authorities to remove | known to have evaded a direct question concerning ised tracks from the streets what financial policy he would pursue if elected to the Presidency. He is known to be the ally of Boss Croker of Tammany Haill and the ice trust, while at the same time denouncing trusts. It is known that while he denounces imperialism he is at the same time courting the favor of men like Morgan of Alabama and other Southern politicians who are the only out and out imperialists of the country. In short, the answer to flryan’s question is to be found in the fact that since 1896 all the conditions of the country have changed, that, the opinions of many former free ‘coinage men have changed with them, that we have prosperity where we once had adver- sity. and that Bryan himself no longer appears to the public in ghe same guise. There are plenty of reasons, therefore; why men who supported him then shoul{ vote against him now, but very few why any one at This joke has been { on the company so often that it has lost virtue of nowvelt The company will, of give the command no attention. The statement that Kruger left thé Transvaal for th is an evidence that it is impossible for.the American people to construct a joke that will not sooner or later appear in Europe as a serious thing. cven the cour: The woman bootblack of San Diego, who is to wed a2 rick Dawsonite, will be able to add a new weapon to the arms of the fair sex if storms cross the do- mestic horizon, News of an absolutely sensational nature has been received from Samoa. There is not the slightest indi- cation of a revolution on the, islands. all should suppo;t him. The northern and eastern wings of his party declare free coinage to be a dead lissuc, the southern wing of his party declares anti- 1 imperialism to be a humbug, while the magnates of the ice trust and the express trust wink at one an- other and smile when he denounces, trusts. On what ground has he a right to ask for votes? | | ! LAST CHANCE FOR REGISTRATION 1 EGISTRATION closes ‘September 26. Every | citizen who has not been registered since Jan- uary 1 must register now or he will forfeit his right to vote. There will be a rush during the closing days, but L it is better to join the rush than to lose a freeman’s | right to vote. office carly it may be possible to avoid the long wait Moreover by going to the registration that will be required of those who delay. Not since the Civil War have there been political questions | of greater moment submitted to the suffrages of the No citizen should willingly sur- The issues of the campaign are important. | American people. render his right to vote at an election whose result will so materially affect private welfare and national | prosperity. Bear in mind that all registrations prior to January 1, 1600, have been canceled. No man can vote who Registration closes Profit by has not registered this year. Wednesday. Your last chance is at hand. it now or you lose it, and along with 1t one of the highest privileges of your American citizenship. THE FUTURE (F GALVESTON. HETHER Galveston is to be rebuilt or not is \{v a question that has been already settled. deed after the first day of speculation upon the horrer of the ruin wrotight by the harcly been a matter of doubt. storm it has in the process of rebuilding will be improved to an ex- tent that would not have been attained for years had not the hurricane cleared the ground and made way for it. Chief Engineer Hood of the Company is reported to have said when questioned on “The officers of the company in New Southern Pacific the subject: York were not slow in determining the company’s future po! in respect to Galveston. In the face of the big disaster, which accomplished so much damage to.railroad properties, they have decided that Gal- veston shall be all that President C. P. Huntington intended it should be a terminal point the handiing of Atlantic seaboard ireight, and the extensive improvements that had been projected and were under way when the awful disaster came | along will be carried out according to the original plans zs fust as our crippled facilities will permit. The constructicr of the demolished piers will be started { and pushed forward to completion as rapidly as pos- sible.” The officials of other railroads and of steamship companies have made similar statements. All will re- place their warehouses, wharves and other property by structures far stronger and more ample than thosc that were destroyed. It is inevitable that it should be so. Galveston was not built into a great seaport by reason of caprice. but because it possessed natural advantages over any other harbor along that part of the Gulf. The very causes that induced railways and steamship lines to center there in the first place will induce them to re- turn. Such a storm as that which has destroyed the city is not likely to occur again, but if it should it will find a city better prepared to withstand its fury. As soon as the dead are buried, the streets cleared, the homeless provided with shelter, the work of re- building Galveston will begin with all,the vim that characterizes the “American people. In a few years | the memory of the storm will fade away, but the im- petus it has given toward solidity of construction will | remain with the people, and in the end Galveston will derive from the storm a profit that will be of benefit to all future generations of her citizens. D nounced that at a conference held in that city the leaders of the “National” party had decided te withdraw their ticket, Caffery and Howe, from the field and take no further part in the fight of the vear. The decision appears to have been forced partly by the fact that the candidates withdrew and | partly by a lack of money to organize in any State texcept New York. With no candidates and no coin, the contest of the Nationalists would necessarily have been a forlorn one, and it was an act of wisdom | to quit. From one point of view the withdrawal of the | ticket is a loss to the campaign. Caffery was the only | candidate for the Presidency which the South has had nce 1860. The distingunished gentleman from Loui- siana would not have been elected, but then there are several other candidates whose chances are no better, and, since all other sections have representatives ia | the free-for-all strugle for the prize, it is desirable the South should have had one alse. While there may be some sentimental regret that the Southern candidate backed out, there will be no | lasting sorrow. Even without Caffery there are can- didates enough. In addition to the ticket of Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt, supported by Republicans, and that of Bryan and Stevenson, supported by Dem- ocrats, Silver Republicans and Fusion Populists, there are the following: Mid-Road Populist—Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania, Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. Prohibition—John J. Woolley of Illinois, Henry B. i Metealf of Rhode Island. | Social Democrats—Eugene V. Debs of Indiana, Job | Harriman of California. ¥ | | as for ISPATCHES from New York yesterday an- Soclal Labor—Joseph F. Malloney of Massachusetts, Valentine Remmell of Pennsylvania. United Christian—J. F. R. Leonard of Towa, Charles M. Sheldon of Kansas. National Union Reform-—Seth Ellis of Ohfo, Samuel T. Nicholson of Pennsylvania. It will be seen that the list is a good one. Had Caffery and Howe stayed in they would not have | complicated the game, but since they have withdrawn they will not be missed. Enough are left. Chief of Police Sullivan appears to have overlooked one important regulation in his rules of servility for the department. He should have instituted a weekly service of praise for his Honor the Mayor. The incorrigible female thief, who was arrested the other day and who has a record of three terms in San Quentin, must have a sort of personal pride in the resort of Marin County. Sir William Harconrt says that England is now the best hated nation-on earth. It was generally supposed that the adjective “worst” was inadequate to express the situation. In- | It will be rebuilt, and | | 1 | DEBUTANTEO: QUARTET OF PRETTY AND BEWITCHING BUDS BY SALLY SHARP. - = i | 1 | | i ! P MISS HELEN HOPKINS, WHO IS TO BE MARRIED ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, TO AUGUSTUS TAYLOR. IT IS TO BE A NOON WEDDING AND WILL BE CELEBRATED AT THE MAGNIFICENT HOME OF THE BRIDE'S PARENTS AT MENLO PARK. 2 5 HE debutantes! That is what we are all interested in, now that| the season is about to burst and bloom. But oh again. the quality! Oh, the fewness of them! Only the four; the creme de la creme prettiest, avittiest and richest any s 1t has ever brought forth. make tingle with anticipated delight think of their respective coming-out par- ties. Marie Louise Parrott. Marie Christine de G Florence Breckenridge. Lucie King. Isn't that a quartet that would set any | young man a-thinking? | Just at present there is a little draw- | back to Florence Breckenridge's debut. | Her uncle, Joshua T€vis, Is not enjoying | go0d health, and there is a possibility that | on his account Florence may not come | out. Ah! but I hope she will; we all de- voutly hope she will. She is so fetching, bewitching and, mercy me, so witty! And | then the Tevises—well, they know how If); entertain, and they don’t stop with a knowledge of a thing. And I don’t know that the Parrotts are g0 backward, either, when they start to do things. And with the two Maries—De | Guigne and Parrott—things are sure to | be kept humming in the Parrott family. | The prophets are already busy, nnd‘ they are saying Lucie King is to be the | beauty of the season. And I shouid not | wonder but that they are right. She is a | willowy blonde, and looks like—an angel. It is always the debutantes that make | a season. I'm preparing for loads of fun this winter. | | | gne. R ) Tt is really just beautiful the way the | girls are helping each other out in the matter of getting up suitable fruit and | flower costumes for the Carolan stable ball. Just for example: There is Addie Murphy. Edith McBean got a “crush” on the “water lily” costume Addie wore at her own fancy dress ball. Stately Edith thought she would look well as a pond lily, and we all, Addie included, agreed with her, When she approached Addie | on the subject the dear original pond lily acted just like an angel. “0f course I don't mind,” said Addle, “if you want to go as a pond lily. I hal no intention of wearing the same dress twice, and, further, I think K you will look gorgeous as a lily. I'll help you all 1 can.” And she has; and I wager Edith will look stunning. She has the grace that belongs to the lily, and the coloring of the gown is sure to suit her blonde beauty. ¥, & < And oh my, but won't Burlingame | him the order that allowed the car to vear be in an awful state on the night of the | day? Oh, how I want that set! ball. The Carolans have a special traiu that will carry their guests to and from he city. the greater part of them ave decided either to accept the hos tality of Burlingame friends or put for the night at the clubhouse. I'm quit Dear old mahogany, quaint as quaint can be, wit spindle legs and dear carved backs. I con sider the poss of such a set tique furniture worth a roomful of tral portraits. ances- sure that not one girl is going to disobe; Is Lillle Follis really engaged to Frank orders and appear in conventional b 3riffin? That is what ¢ hundred and dress; and further I know that the men one girls have been asking me during th last few days. The newspapers have ar nounced it, her family all have positivel denied it, yet in spite of the fact that the family should know I am inclined to be- lHeve it. On Saturday evening I called Lillie up by 'phone to cffer congratulations. Sh had gene to San Rafael, the maid sald, to stay over till Monday. ““Any message you would like to leave?" asked the obliging girl “Only this,” said 1. “If it is really true, as I hear reported, that she is engaged t Frank Griffin teil her I congratulate her. “It is true,” said the maid. “Not that she has told me anything—but I am in thj e house, you know, and I see what I see.” And somehow or other I am Inclined to take the maid's view of things. T will do gs they have been asked—'‘wear ‘pink’ coats, all of those who have them.” So you can judge for yourself what a bril- liant scene it will be. The special train arrangement for the guests has been recalling the Crocker fete champetre of some years back. Colonei Crocker supplied the special trains for the guests and left instructions for the tramn- men that the car was not to pull out unti he gave orders to that effect. The guests got to the car, wearied out with the joys of the fete, and waited for the train to steam homeward. But the car did not budge. Investigation followed and the re- sult was some of the gentlemen had to tramp to the Crocker place, rouse the coionel (who had forgotten about his in- structions to the train men) and get from ge SUET SE AR With just a forty-elght-hour notice Flor- ence Greenebaum packed her trunks and rushed off on Saturday morning as the special guest of Mrs. McFarland for a six months’ European tour. A week ago Mrs. McFarland decided that London and Par's would not be worth seeing unless Florence were along, but for four days Papa Greenebaum could not be made to take the McFarland view of things. Florence begged and coaxed and entreated, but it all seemed to be of no avail untll Thurs- day at noon. It was at luncheon that papa’s keen, loving eyes suddenly noticed that his daughter’s orbs were ctrcled and her pretty cheek was pale and drawn. “Florence,” said he, “it would make you happy to go abroad, eh? And you could get ready to leave on Saturday?” “I could get ready to leave in five min- utes,” said the dutiful Florence. That afternoon there was a great hur- rying and scurrying in the Greenebaum .. I'm afraid the Riding Ciub is going to smash. There is going to be the miscnfef | to pay about that issuing of surplus stock. I understand that there is to be a meet- ing calied in about ten days, when the opposing factions are going for each other. In the meantime Captain Dilhan, | whom Hhis supporters declare can teach more by sitting up on the platform taan another teacher can by striding the horse, has opened a school out near the park. | Dilhan was the first to start the Riding | Club, and now it is more than likely that those who so strenuously opposed his dis- missal at the Pacific-avenue class will form themselves into a board of directors for the new park school. There is one thing in favor of Dilhan's new class. I is following in the footsteps' of fashionable New York by having its riding school 1a close proximity to the city’s pleasure ground. = The bunch of prettty girls who “stood up” with Claire Hamilton the day she took the name of Martin have gone and had thelr pictures taken in one splendid, daz- zling group. They all “took’ beautifully, but I understand that Addie Murphy is the “cutest’ one of all. While on the subject of the Hamilton bridesmaids it takes me back to the Ham- ilton household, and I want to ask you, Did you notice that old set of horsehair in the Hamiiton dining-room on the wedding apartments at the Richelieu. Mother and sister lent their assistance and by Friday at 3 the trunks were packed. Then came the hardest task of all—the calling up of intimate friends by telephone and the wishing them good-by. “Hardest work I ever did in my life™ said Florence as I kissed her at the train on Saturday morning. She Is to be gone six months, maybe longer, and will visit every place of inter- est on the Continent. THE WORLD’S WARSHIPS Fighting tops are being discarded in the Swedish and Norwegla!‘n navies, It is rumored that the Turkish Govern- | ment has ordered six cruisers from the | shipyards at Kiel. | Japan is said to have ordered three Par- son turbine torpedo boat destroyers at | Newecastle-on-Tyne. The total naval appropriation for Swe- den and Norway amounts to $6,156,805, of | which $3,742,250 is for new ships and their armament. L | The Itallan torpedo schoolship Trinacria is being transformed into a royal yacht to take the place of the Savoya, whicl has been found undesirable on account of its great size. e X The Marconi system of wireless telegra- phy has been adopted in the British navy and twenty-five sets have been purchased The inventor receives a royalty of $500 yearly on each set. The Armstrong ordnance factory at Elswick will have a traveling crane of 135 tons capacity at the armor factory to be established at Openshaw. This will be the largest crane of its kind in existence. The Russian armored cruiser Admiral Nachimoff, built in 1885, has been com- vletely modernized at Kronstadt. The en- | and rendered good service, but have be- gines and bolilers are new, the armor was ripped off and modern steel armor substi- | tuted; the armament is likewise of the latest pattern and the former ship rig has been removed to be replaced with a signal mast. Two third-class cruisers, the Sateliite | and the Rapid, composite bullt in 1552 and 1554, have been removed from the active | list in the British navy. They were of 1420 tons and about twelve knots' speed, come obsolete. Three composite sloops of | 1120 tons and ten knots’ speed, built in 1872 and 1878, have likewise been relegated to | rotten row. Their names are the Gamet, | Pelican and Wild Swan, the two last be- | ing well known on this coast for many years while attached to the Pacific squad- | Ton. | Townsend's California glace fruits 50c a pound in fire-etched boxes or Jap. baskets. 39 Markert, Palace Hotel. . Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Cuppln% Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- | gomery st. Telephone Main 1042 . Meat has been preserved in a frozen state for thirty years and found perfect- 1y eatable at the end of that time. HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Special summer | | steamer Sierra. The trial takes place ' PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. C. B. Wells, who owns large plantation interests in Honolulu, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. Charles Hamilton English of W ington, D. C., returned yesterday Honolulu and is at the California. F. H. Botsford, a manufacturer of Phil- adelphia, returned from a busin to Honolulu yesterday and regist the Grand. Major George Ruhlen, quartermastcr U. 8. A, who has been stationed for two years at Honolulu, arrived at the Califor- nia yesterday. He will exchange piaccs with Major Robinsen, quartermaster, U. 8. A, at Seattle. John D. Spreckels left last night for Philadelphia. to be present at the trial trip of the Oceanic Steamship Company’'s new ash. from ess trp tered at on October 1. The Sierra is one of the new steamers which will piy between San | Francisco and Australia. Mr. Spreckei will remain in Philadelphia a month, | 80, to await the arrival of his family fr Europe. He will also superintend the details incidental to the dispatching of his rates still in effect at this beautiful country | home, where summer and winter are ome. At | 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, rates with special round-trip summer . get | ticket. ' will three new steamers. The Sonoma will start for this coast on October 10, and the Sierra on November 1. The Ventura sail on November 21 for this port.