The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1900. Che e @all. OCTOBER 21, 190 SUNDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A W. S, LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communications MANAGER’S OFFICE. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telepbhone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weel. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL an DAILY CALL DATLY Ca One Year....... : ters are authorized t subseriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. change of address should oe AN S in order r request. subscribers in ordert ve both N rompt and OAKLAND OFFIC Mai1 correct co .1118 Broadway | KROGNESS, ! Marquette Building. Chicago. | Jentral 2615."") Maneger Foreign Advertis (Long NEW YORK COR NDENT €. ©. CARLTON...... ...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | STEPHEN B. SMITH. +....30 Tribune Building [ NEWS STANDS: A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; EWS STANDS: s Cv.; Great Northern Hotel: "FICE....1408 G §t., N. W. CRANE, Correspondent. CHICAGO Fherman Hou Fremont House; WASHINGTON (D. C.) MORTON E. BRANCH OFF until McA zomery, corner of Clay, open pen until 9:30 o'clock. 633 615 Larkin, open until 110 o'clock. 2261 Market, | ock. 109% Valencla, open o'clock. NW. cor- pen until § o’clock g e Grau Opera Compas Mon- | Wednesday, October 8. Benefit Tuesday afternoon, Octo- | Meson snd Eddy Theate Spectalties. every afternoon and ~Vaudevilie JUDGE COFFEY. he deserving candidates for the Su- | “ourt no voter ¢ is city who has any | the 1 interest in its wel- for Judge Coffey. During | 1 service upon the bench the | respect and honor him for the devotion to duty which have No scandal has ever hung No estates have been despoiled | s jurisdiction. Just recently the | been startled by the extra- proceedings in the Piper es- ar after the regular will » or takes al career. courtroom. quarter of a million w er s made under an alleged will roven but not even filed s same document, if genuine, the to have received the sum of $100,- t would have been entitled to pfop- to be th about two millions. Com- There can be but one opifilon n accegy five per | f a legacy to which he believed | y entitled? In this disburseme: 2 million there yas an item of over $50,000 credited as going to a “syndicate.” It has never transpired who composed th yndicate” or for what purpose such a large sum was paid. The inquiry nat- urally arises if there is an organization in this city to | loot estates. Certainly every citizen who has prop- | erty which may pass through probate is interested in | g Judges who will not permit such spoliations. e Coffey has been tried and never found wanting. cessary at nt of a could ever carry on its operations The only opposition to him so far heard f, besides the “push,” w h is naturally against an | honest m , comes from attorneys who have not suc- | ceeded in obtaining all the “traffic would bear” and are sore because their claims have been scaled down by this fearless Judge. Let the people roll up such a y for Ju m ge Coffey that other men of like character may be encouraged to accept judicial posi- tions, and it may go abroad that thé citizens generally | of San Francisco prefer an honest man if they can get a chance to vote for cne. | tion for judi There are men in nomina- tions this year who are mentally and morally unfit for the bench. All sorts of political tricks and jobs, such as “plumping” and false coun:- | ing, will be resorted to by the unprincipled classes ir order that one or two of these men may be slipped in | so that the “syndicates” may have a place to continue | their operations. Let no friend of Judge Coffey relax in vigilance. al po A congress of Spanish-Americans, which will have for its object the perfection of plans to stop Ameri- ean and British aggressions, will soon meet Madrid. It is safe to say that Spain’s recent ex ricnces will not encourage her to suggest the build- ing of new navies. at Members of a former Board of Harbor Commis- sioners, against whom grave charges of corruption hzve been inade, have at least one enduring consola- tion. This is not the first time that the finger of scandal has been pointed at them, and there is, there- fore, no novelty in the performance. A —— | local Justice of the Peace has discovered a new and unique scheme of campaigning. He wants to be re-elected, but insists that he doesn’t have to be. This secems to be a new way of winning against all odds. General Linares, who was Shafter's foe in Cuba, intends to reorganize the Spanish army. And there is not even a suggestion that he intends to eliminats himself in the reorganization. it > o v SO General Hare has not been untrue to his name after 2ll. He has liberated 2 band of American troopers who were suffering the inglorious martyflom - of being Filipino prisoners. et TR A new field has been opened for the Socicty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. A newly organ- ized cooking school has a rule that the children must eat what they cook. | est sy | the defeat of Dibble. | stituency. | choice of Presidential electors, of Republican Con- | tics desire to control the coming Legislature in order | Congressional, Senatorial and Assembly districts of | | in that district of the Citizens' Republican Conven- | tion. These men are for honesty in office, for straight | | vote: | money in behalf of some political movement having | the Attorney’s opinion. | moneys raised for the general fund and not otherwise | that such moneys exist, and it adds that this is “a | signed by the Mayor and becomes the sheet anchor of | that “‘except as otherwise provided in this charter, no FOR ' HONEST POLITICS. OMERS of the Forty-first Assembly District V have in this election to choose whether they shall be represented in the Legislature by Oscar Sutro, a young man of known ability and in- tegrity, nominated not only by the Democrats of the district but by the Citizens’ Republican Convention, or Henry C. Dibble, well known as “a crooked poli- tician,” nominated by Kelly and Crimmins by the aid of such members of the Democratic “push” as could be induced to help them override the Republican pri- maries. It is, in other words, a choice between a rep- resentative of the taxpayers and good citizens of both parties and a candidate of the bosses and the “gangs” of both parties. ‘With the action of the Citizens’ Republican Conven- tion in nominating Mr. Sutro The Call has the fuil- wpathy. That movement tends to the elimina- tion from the Legislature of one of the worst per- sonal influences in our politics and the defeat of boss rule and hoodlum trickery in Republican politics. It is therefore a movement for the good of the Repub- Ircan party and for the good of the State. It is one meriting the support of every loyal Republican in the district. No better service can be rendered to the cause of Republicanism in that Assembly district than | He has never been in any true sense a representative of the party or of the con- He stands first for Dibble and next for the bosses and the corrupt corporations, whose schemes he knows how to render profitable to himself. No intelligent Republican can regard Dibble's de- feat as any loss to the party. It will not affect the | gressmen, or materially change the party control of | the State Legislature. The only cffects sure to result t from it are a repudiation of Kelly and Crimmins, a | reluke to boss domination and trickery in Republican | primaries, the elimination of a corporation tool from | the Legislature, and = distinct victory for honest politics, The Call has made ro fight upon Mr. Dibble other than that of publishing the record he has made for | himself. It has recalled to public attention some of | the old scandals like that of “the wastebasket,” and the allegations of Captain Frank Barrett concerning [ the money he paid, under the advice of his attorney, ’cently published report of the Bank Commissioners. Elwood Bguner of Sacramento, to promote the pas- | sage through the Assembly of a perfectly honest and | thoroughly desirable Lill. These scandals show what | manner of man Mr. Dibble is and reveal what are his | purposes and objects in politics. In opposition to | them ncither Mr. Dibble nor his friends have been | able to show any worthy actions or public spirited in- | | | tent on his part at any point of his long and tortuous ; | political career. | It is well known that the Southern Pacific Company | and the bosses whom it maintains to handle ward poli- | 1 | that the corporation and the bosses may arrange the | the State under the rew census. Should they suc- ceed in doing so they can so gerrymander the city | 2nd the State as to have an immense advantage in all pelitical contests for ten years to come. Henry C. | Dibble will be of great use to the corporations in that work should he be elected to the Assembly. It is for that reason they are back of him. It is for that rea- son the Democratic push was so willing to help Crim- mins and Kelly in their efforts to procure his renomi- nation. Against the schemes and the methods of the cor- | poration and the bosses the loyal Republicans of the district have made an effective protest by bringing zbout the nomination of Mr. Sutro as the candidate politics, and all that means genuine Republicanism. Sc the issue has been joined, and it is now for the | of the district to decide. A vote for Sutro will | be'a vote for a representative of the people. A vote | for Dibble will be a vote for a representative of Kell and Crimmins and a tool of the Southern Pacific cor- | poration. The Duke of Marlborough need not concern him- | larity at home. An English preacher recently de- nouneced W. K. Vanderbilt for giving his daughter $500,000 as 2 thank offering for the safe return of the Duke from South Africa. CHARTER “REFORM” LAW, N'excellent idea of how the charter is inter- | f\ preted by our csteemed friends, the Phelan re- | formers, when it interferes with their political | plans may be gathered from an estimate placed upon | one of its provisions by the Examiner. A few days ago Ci ttorney Lane sent an opinion te, the Supervisors in which he forms them that they possess no power to disburse the anticipated suc- pius of $200,000 prior to the termination of the fiscal year. Animated probably by a desire to expend this for its object the establishment of a new “reform,” the Examiner says it is not sure of the soundness of It is inclined to believe that appropriated are at the disposition of the Supervisors by special appropriation whenever it is established matter for the courts to decide.” This is charter reform law with a vengeance. The charter provides that in June of every year the Super- visors shall, upon estimates furnished by the Auditor, fix appropriations for the ensuing fiscal term in a bill called the “budget.” This measure, after passage, is all subsequent financial operations. Section 6, chapter 1, article III of the charter says money shall be drawn from the treasury unless in con- sequence of appropriations made by the Supervisors and upon warrants duly drawn thereon by the Audi- tor.” And section 7, immediately following, says that “no warrants shall be drawn except upon an unex- hausted SPECIFIC appropriation.” But as if these provisions were not sufficient to ease the itching palms of the “refarmers,” the charter adds, in another sec- tion of the same article: It shall not be lawful for the Supervisors, or for any beard, department, officer or authority having power to incur, authorize or contract liabilitles against the treas- ury, to incur, authorize, allow, contract for, pay or ren- der payable in the present or future, in any one month, any expenditure, demand or d>mands, against any ap- propriation, which, taken with all other expenditures, indebtedness or liability made or Incurred up to the time in such month of making or incurring the same, shall exceed one-twelfth part of the amount of the appropria- tion for the fiscal year. Exactly upon what ground, in the face of this posi- | the year of greatest depression in Chicago's real estate | knew little air or sunshine, and naught but filthy alleys ‘it_\' that enables the wage-earner to own his home, | and worth voting for | San Francisco an engagement that is perhaps without | parallel in the city. , self seriously in reference to the extent of his popu- | tive law, the Examiner bases its belief that the Super- visors can expend money in excess of the “budget” we are unable to comprehend. These provisions of the charter would seem to settle the proposition be- yond the peradventure of a doubt. Of course we recognize the fact that the existence in the treasury of a surplus ofsaoo,aoohnwntemp- tation to the Phelanites, The very idea that it is there and cannot be disbursed for salaries is undoubtedly maddening. But the law prevents any interference with the peace of those twenty-dollar gold pieces un- til the end of the fiscal year. At that time we shall be in the midst of a municipal campaign, and perhaps then can prevent the Phelanites from absorbing the coin in “organization” salaries. —— Tt is extremely likely that the voters of the Forty- first Assembly District will not have the same reluc- tance in expressing their opinion of Henry C. Dibble as has Elwood Bruner, who was paid money with which to purchase Dibble’s only value as an Assem- blyman. O sulting from the adoptiof of Republican poli- cies on the part of the people and the Govern- ment has been the payment of mortgages upon real estate and the establishment of thousands_of indus- trious workingmen in homes of their own free from any incumbrance. Hardly any burden is more oppres- sive to the wage-earner than a debt upon his home, a mortgage that goes on drawing interest whether the worker draw wages or not, and whose obligations must be met whatever else may be evaded; and when these burdens are lifted the people are truly pros- perous. The extent to which mortgages have been paid off in this State over and above the amounts of new mortgages made during the year is shown in the re- PAYING OFF MORTGAGES. VE of the happiest effects of the prosperity re- On August 31, 1898, the savings, commercial and pri- vate banks of California had loas on real estate amounting in value to $111,228330, but on July 31, 1809, the amounts of loans so secured were only $107,- 104,395. Thus within eleven months there was a diminution in the value of such loans to the extent of $4,178,034. National banks do not lend money on land, but when times are bad they frequently come into the pos- session of real estate, which they afterward sell to the people for homes or for business purposes. In this State the report of the Bank Commissioners shows that the national banks had on August 31, 1898, real ectate other than bank premises valued at $838,253, but on July 31, 1899, the value of such real estate was only $700.202, being a decrease to the amount of $39,050 in the space of eleven months, It is not in California only that these good results are to be found. Evidence similar to that furnished by the report of our Bank Commissioners comes from a!l parts of the Union. George L. Warren, president of the Chicago Real Estate Board, recently stated: “From the best information I am able to obtain, and m general observation, I believe that during the past four years more wage-carners have purchased homes for themselves than for years previous.” Another real estate report from the same city says: “The business of selling homes to working people is now just about 100 per cent better than it was in 1807, history. After four years of these good Republican times there are hundreds of buyers of homes by peo- ple who used to lead a hand-to-mouth existence, whose quarters were close and stuffy, whose children to play in. To sell lots in the outlying districts it is now only necessary to build houses on them, ranging from $1000 to $3000 in price. More buyers are pay- ing larger amounts of cash on these houses than ever before.” With such records as these coming from all parts of the country, the people may well be satisfied with the effects of the policies of the administration. Prosper- and which increases the number of such homes all over the Union, is worth having, worth working for As a violator of its own rules and}ood resolutions the Board of Education is playing before the people of The scandal of favoritism shown its ugly head again, has BRYAN TO THE SILVER MEN. T last, after much delay, Bryan has paused ia fl his career of stump speaking long enough to send to the so-called “Silver Lincoln Repub- lican” party his acceptanse of their nomination for the Presidency. His letter was short, but he accom- panied it by a bundle of documents which he begged them to accept as part of his letter. The documents are his Indianapolis speech in reply to the Demo- cratic notification committee, his letter formally ac- cepting the Democratic nomination, his speech ac- cepting the Populist nomination, and finally his ad- dress at St. Louis on the trust question. It is to be hoped the silver men will be satisfied with those docu- ments. Certainly they will find very little to satisfy them in the letter that went with them. These self-styled “Silver Lincoln Republicans” have no political faith save a fanatic devotion to silver. They are men who have been firmly on the side of Republicanism on every issue growing out of the war and the reconstruction period, and wpon all questions of tariff regulation. They are sound protectionists. They have no use for Bryan except as he represents free silver coinage, and yet in accepting their nomi- nation Bryan had nothing to say to them on that sub- ject further than to send them his back number docu- ments with the declaration, “Them’s my sentiments.” Instead of speaking out boldly and exhorting them in the common faith of free coinage, Bryan wrote o the silverites: “In 1896 the money question was the question of paramount importance, but the Repub- lican party, by its disregard of the principles of our republic and by its advocacy of policies repugnant to the doctrines of self-government, has left us no choics but to summon all lovers of the Declaration of In- dependence to the defense of that sacred document and the constitution framed in accordance with it.” It appears from this that Bryan, after having tried the silver issue, the imperial issue, the trust issue and the government by injunction issue, has at last de- cided to make his fight solely on the Declaration of Independence. As no party in the country is attack- ing or is likely to attack that document, his latest move has in it something of the strategy that seeks a safe place before the storm comes. The Declara- tion contains great general principles, upon which all Americans are agreed. In taking his stand upon it Mr. Bryan admits he is running for office solely upon general principles. He is young yet and has a prospect of making several more runs of the same kind. We wish the Silver Lincoln Republicans as mych of joy as they can get out of their candidate, n& may he and they live long to enliven the politi- cal campaigns of the people. British critics are pained to confess that their recent elections were conducted in notoriously bad form. They may console themselves, however, on the reflec- tion that tongue thunder smashes no bones, CONCERNING [[OCAL OPERA AND METROPOLITAN DRAMA RICES for the grand opera season are to be 37 for the best seats. In strict loglc, then, Messrs. Grau and Bouvier should give us perform- ances fourteen .times as good as those now being given at the Tivoli. That is impossible, for in =pite of patent defects the average of singing and acting at the ugly little theater on Eddy street is high; 80 far as the men are concerned, indeed, it is higher than that attained by the men in that company of Mr. Grau’s which vis- ited us two vears ago. Pandolfini was the only real actor in that company, and he was no better than Ferrarf, whom I saw the other night in an excellent interpreta- tian of Figaro, nor than Nicolini, whose Don Basilio was equally good. el The weakness of the Tivoli organization has been chiefly in its sopranos, and now that the erratic Azzalis have been gath- ered into the fold we may hope for better things in that direction. The staging fis tolerable; the chorus, led by that gentle glant Napoleoni, is sufficient if not im- pressive; the orchestra, though too per- sistently loud, might be a great deal worse | without being unendurable, and the price | of the whole entertainment is just one- fourteenth of what Mr. Grau is going to | charge—and will get. Why will he get {t? For several reasons. First, fashion—a topic that has been so well threshed out | that it need not be beaten over asain here. Second, because people of refine- ment, who really love music, are kept away from such a house as the Tivoli by | the atmosphere of tobacco and beer that | makes it impossible for them to enjoy the | excellent gork being done on the stage. | The management has posted a notice re- questing gentlemen not to smoke during the grand opera season, but it has not courage enough to enforce its own re- uest. The night 1 saw “The Barber of eville’” there was smoking in every par of the house. We may be sure Mr. Grau will permit nothing_of this kind. A third reason why Mr. Grau will get fourteen times as much as Mrs. Krelin for a performance not even twice as goo is that he will glve his operas in a thea- ter and not in a barn, beople do reaily know the difference. * * Nothing im- presses a stranger to San Francisco more unfavorably than the hideous appearance and inconvenient arrangement of our two most popular places of amusement—a hid- eousness and an inconvenience at once de- lorable and unnecessary. 1f we had in an Francisco a man of Mr. Keith's cour- age, taste and ability the Tivoll and the Orpheum would disappear in _one month and would be rebullt in five. They would then attract a ciass of people who now never think of entering these buildings except when they have to, and then only with uhudderlng.and.wh:l fear. It is difficult, almost impossible, for a distant public to obtain from the theat- rical criticism of the New York papers a just idea of what is really good, really bud and really indifferent in the metro- politan theatrical world. Many papers are controlled more or less by influences of which the public knows nothing—influ- | ences which often render the praise or | blame which these papers award abso- | lutely worthless. Signed articles are still the exception rather than the rule. This tends to weaken a responsibility already | weak and to lessen the value of judg- ments seldom judicial. Critics there be, | of course, whose veracity and capacity | are above suspicion; such are Norman | Hapgoed of the Bookman and Willlam | Winter of the Tribune. But the former writes only once a month and the latter not even so often. Yet we all want to know what is going on In New York, especially at this sea- son when the new productions are being made. I consider myself fortunate, then, in being permitted to print the following lines from the letter of a California lady of education and discrimination who has | onc BY L. DU PONT SYLE. MAURICE GRAU, THE GREATEST CITY. recently been making the round of the New York theaters. ' Our first attempt was ‘Ben Hur.' The house was crowded even at this late day of the engagement; very enthusiastic, t00; but such poor acting I was surprised to see. The hero meant well and acted so hard that beads of perspiration be- spangled his manly brow. but even this effort couldn’t atone for the shrill voices »f the women and the rantiug of the men. The scene in the galley was truly impressive, chiefly because there was lit- | tle said and the fine scenery had a chance to make an impression. The chariot race was _really funny, though not so funny as the cheering audience, who applauded a wall circling wildly about eight horses working a treadmill. “Next we went to see Drew in ‘Richard Carvel.” The dramatization is poor. No who has not read the book could make out what story the adapter is trying to tell. Drew acted well, of course, but he is no more Richard Carvel than, say, | Mr. Hartman f{s. Richard fights every one in kills almost a dozenggt a stroke. Every one on the stage ki making remarks as to his marvelous strength an no amount of padding can conceal the fact that more than one of his enemies lowers above him. “The finest thing I have seen here is Sothern’s ‘Hamlet,’ and this despite the fact that Mies Harned makes a mature In the London scenc sight and ERA. HIS COMPANY OF ARTISTS IS NOW ON ITS WAY TO THIS size, but | o LIVING MANAGER OF GRAND OP- | and unconvincing Ophella that the rest of the support is poor. have 4 no critiques of Sothern’s perfofmance, bn | to me it seemed a wonderfully fine ar conscientious piece of work. | . “‘The Pride of Jenmico' has a wildly improbable and highly sensational plot, vith a last act rich in banditti, shooting | and a blare of anrxy that covers the herg | | and herotne at C. I was grievously Qsagh pointed in Hackett. Of course a few sea sons of mati dol experience would spo1l ary m: uch more an actor, but such a conceited fellow I have never seen. He plays at the audience all the time: | his two great and continually alternating acts are fighting wildly and embracing the heroine more wildly. Whenever the | avdlence applauds mildly he stops wher- | ever he happens to be and smiles his thanks across the footlights. ‘‘“Mansfield's ‘Henry V' is the most beau- | tifully staged thing I have ever seen. The | fourth act is especially gorgeous; it closes with a splendid tableau—the King seated | on his war horse, surrounded by his army | and his people. * * Mr. Mansfleld does not look the part at all and speaks his lines as if in constant worry lest the next scenic effect will not coms off properly. The people here seem to be with him, no riatter what he does, and applauded gen- | crously; but he would answer no curtain | calls, though once they clapped all | through _the intermission between two | acts (ana no short one at that).” E. D. Tyler of New York City is at the Palace. Dr. C. D. Herron of Pittsburg, Pa., Is at the Grand. 8. C. Mason and wife of Bothwell are at the Occidental. R. W. Bull and bride of Arcata are stopping at the Lick. T. M. Lane, a mining man at Knights Ferry, is at the Lick. Former Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacra- mento is at the Palace. Maude Knowlton, the actress, registered at the California yesterday. Fred W. Swanton, a Santa Cruz busi- ness man is at the Grand. P. F. Wood, the well-known Tulare stock buyer, is at the Grand. A. P. Stewart of the Chicago and Alton Railroad s at the Occidental. Dr. C. H. Whitman and wife of Los An- geles are stopping at the Grand. Frank D, Ryan of Sacramento is town and Is stopping at the Grand. L. A. Spitzer, the Santa Clara County | Assessor, Is registered at the Grand. Charles Garbain is at the Russ, having returned from a successful trip to Nome, Captain T. W, Jenkens and A. L. Mc- in | Ewen of Lardor, Mexico, are at the Russ. W. J. Newman and wife of Mount Athos, Somerset, Va., are at the Palace. District Attorney Benjamin K. Knight of Santa Cruz is registered at the Cali- fornia. John Hays Hammond is back from Monterey and is stopping at the Palace prior to returning to London. Mayor C. A. Storke of Santa Barbara is at the Grand. He came to meet some relatives who are expected from the East. J. Cralg, wife and daughter of High- land Springs are spending a few days at the Grand. Mr. Cralg is proprietor of the sanitarium at Highland Springs. Lieutenant C. R. Berry of the United States Signal Corps has just returned from Manila, having been_ ordered home on account of ill health. He Is stopping at the Occidental and will return East this week. ——— e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—J. C. Comstock Is at the Grand Union. E. Dengel and wife are at the Herald Square. A. P. Dubois is at the Astor House. P. Enkelroth is at the Herald Square. M. W. Rosenshine is at the Hoffman. Professor F. Stark is at the Union Square. T. Filben and wife are at the Everett. E. C. Hughes ani wife are at the Herald Square. A. 8. Johns is at the Navarre. G. T. Page and wife are at the Earlington. H. C. Wybro is at-‘the Navarre. F. Willlams is at tha St. Denis; F. L. Drown is at the Holland. G. C. Dean is at the Broadway Central. not as cold blooded as is generally sup- posed. Their normal temperature is 77 Fahrenheit, only twenty-one degrees low- er than the normal temperature of man. CALIFORNIA’S VOTE—S., City. In 189 the popular vote for McKinley was 146,170 and for Bryan it was 143,373. THE NAME NOT THERE-J. 0. M., Kihu, Maui, H. I. The cartoon reproduced last March in The Call from Black and White, showing John Bull in the act of turning over the leaves of a book on which are the names of a number of gen- erals, does not contain the name of Gen- eral Gatacre. UNITED WE STAND-F. J., Oakland, Cal. “United we stand. divided we fall,” the motto on the seal of the State of Ken- tucky, was taken from ‘‘Liberty Song,” written by John Dickinson in 1768, in which are the following lines: Then join in hand, brave Americans alll By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall! FIRST SCREW STEAMER—Subscriber, City. The first screw steamer to cross the Atlantic was the Great Britain, com- menced in 1839 and floated in 1845. Her measurement was 322 length, 50 breadth and 32 depth, with displacement at load draught og 18 feet, 3618 tons. She started on her first voyage from Liverpool to New and great numbers of them@are seen in a single night. Their brightness is due to the heat engendered by the energy thelr motion. Their speed is enormou 421, kilometers a second, while speed of the earth on its orbit s only 2 kilometers a second. Consequently, when a shower of them approaches the earth In the direction opposite to its course the initial speed is 72 kilometers a second; when they follow on its coursa they gain 16% kilometers a second onm it. Thelr mean rate of approach is between 30 and 40 kilometers a second. The friction engenders a temperature of 3000 degrees, Celsius, subject to which they burst into flame. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1 at Townsend's.* —_—— Special information supplied dally ta ?»'?'el‘:'&p"un*“"”iufi‘-‘u”('fi’n?n'““m"h; 8), - gomery st. lephone Main 1 b ——— New Overland Tourist Car Line. The COLORADO MIDLAND RY. will run & through Pullman tourist car to Chicago, leave ing Los Angeles every Monday at 10:20 p. m., beginning October 29, and every Tuesday at ¢ p. m. from San Francisco via the Rio Grande Western, Colorado Midland and Burlington routes. For further Information address H. C. BUSH, general agent, San Francisco. by —_—— York July 26, 1845, and made the run in nearly fifteen days, her speed being about nine knots an hour. pie SN ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL—S. W. K., City. The old cathedral known as St. Mary’'s, at Dupont and California streets, was commenced in 1854. MUST HAVE CONSENT-P. 8. J., City. In the State of Ohio a minor must have the consent of parent or guardian In or- der to marry. CROWN POINT-C. G., Los Angeles, Cal. The highest ever pald for Crown Polnt was during the great mining ex- citement of 1572, when the price reached $2100 per share. BRESCI THE ASSASSIN—E. F., Sac- ramento, Cal. The reason that Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto, was sent to prison and not executed for his erime is that in Italy there is no death penalty for the crime of murder. RENTING LAND—F. C. W., Zebra, Cal. If a man rents a plece of land to another the one renting the property if he has cattle on the same would have to remove such unless the party renting it gave per- mission for the animals to remain. GOVERNMENT LANDS-S. F., Sebas- topol, Cal. The Government has not of fered to buy back lands and pay $100 per acre for the same. The Government has, however, offered to exchange certain for- est reserve land for other land. HALF DOLLARS Rare Cofns, City. 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