The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1901, Page 6

Che® -e%%fie Call. vess-2222-MARCH 8, 1901 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aédress Al Communications to W, 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE..... FUSLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Ce Single Copies, § Cen Terms by Mail, Including Postage: Per Week. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .$8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months. . 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month: 180 DAILY CALL—By Single Morth. e SUNDAY CALL. One Year. 1.8 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.0 All postmasters are anthorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers in ordering chanme of address should e particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr reqgest. CAKLAND OFFICE. €. GEORGE KROGNESS. ¥azager Yoreign Adverticing, Marguetts Building, Ohiesgs, ...1118 Broadway (Long ance Telephone *‘Central 2619."") 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Around the World in E mbrich Opera Compan e Days.” , March 18. ets—Specialties. every afternoon and , March 12, at 10 o'clock, ANOTHER ACETRACK WRECK. revival of racetrack gam- this city is the ¢ young man from New t Tuesday upon 2 New York post- fall to be due to , and when he flad woman with him, tute and disgraced. n of the evil results of race- tever form such gambling is ave been many parallsl ast to teach us the results of race- ained not for honest races but are obtained from gambling. Yet ns the Supervisors have de- g at Ingleside, and the Mayor, eme as a privilege of “pocket- g ordinance was before the Su- es of the better elements gainst it in the name of d pointed out the many ! from gambling in the “I 2ssume the entire re- not shirk it now or nsible for the introduc- isor Tobin hold himseli t are sure to follow the ling at Ingleside? To what ex- prevent men and womea from track the money they requirs honest life? Can any law heavy®osers from robbing lying the trade of a high- r the sake of getting money to retrieve Can it stay the hand of the desponding when even crime itself holds out no hope to their maddened brains 2nd they set about suicide? The responsi gambling does indeed rest upon the officials grant the gambling pri ct , but that responsib: o It does not repay ance of hiulness prevent the employers, or perhaps robber. wret who leges and thus legalize the is of no use to the com- the stolen money, it does not bring back lost honor, nor save from prison or suicide the victims of the wrong. Somewhere in New York there are officials who are responsible for the ruin of Conlin, but they will not appear in court to help him, neither will they assist he abandoned. Their responsibility does not go that far. We shall see the same play repeated here. Supervisor Tobin was bold in proclaiming his -esponsibility before the Supervisors, but when the results of gambling at Ingleside begin to show them- selves in the prisons and at the Morgue the “respon- sible” Supervisor will dodge the consequences. T e T ST The Buffalo Exposition may be regarded as an as- sured success, for the Government has authorized the issue of a Pan-American postage stamp for the "occa- sion. This century did not see the beginning of the Chi- nese imbroglio, and from the way things are going with the concert of powers it has very dim prospects of seeing the end of it. German statesmen are nothing if not original in expression. Some of them believe that their policy has been a mistake in China. The rest of us believe it to have been wholesale, wanton murder. 30 Tribune Building | ? What is his responsibility | y for the ruin wrought by track | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1901. - CHINA BASIN LE@SE. people of San Francisco and the State upon the passage by the Senate of the China Basin j lease. The thanks of the community are due to the | men who made the successiul fight for the measure K against an opposition which we regret to have to say CONGRATULATIONS are in order among the | was led by Senators from San Francisco. The pas- | sage of the measure in the Senate gives reason for the | belief that it will be promptly passed by the Assem- | bly, and the way will then be open for the work that | is to give San Francisco and California the additional | transportation facilities which have been so long ! needed. There should: never have been any opposition to the.bill at all. The lease was not made in a hurry. I was carefully considered, not only by the Harbor | Commissioners and other State officials, but by the | merchants and business men of the city. Every feature of the lease from first to last was duly ex- | amined and criticized with respect to its validity, its | fairness and its expediency. The result of the pro- | longed discussions of the subject was the adoption of | a measure that is satisfactory to every important in- | terest of the city, the State and the railroad. The bill went before the Legislature with the actual in- dorsement of many of the foremost business men of the community and with the virtual indorsement of all. Such being the facts of the case the opposition made to the measure was peculiar, and Senator Smith of Kern was justified 1n saying: “T am amazed at the attitude of the San Francisco delegation. With every business interest in that great city pleading with us to let this railroad in, every representative of that city in the Senate, with one or two exceptions, is setting his judgment up against the combined voice of the | business and commercial interests of the city.” Mr. | Smith went on to add: “I believe a new day has be=n born in California and that the people appreciate that it is unwise to fight a new railroad, and the best pol- icy is to meet it fairly and do business with it on business principles. You have seen Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis and a score of inland cities grow up. What has done it> The railroads. It is the destiny of the age that wherever steel rails | converge there you have prosperity. You can no | more build a city without railways than you can a | railway without steel.” | | | No intelligent man will question the soundness of those statements. In times past the people of Cali- fornia had good cause to fight the Southern Pacific | Railroad. That corporation not only practiced ex- tortion upon the industries of the State by fixing ex- cessive freight rates upon trade and traffic, but it also sought to dominate the politics of the State, of the counties and of every important city; and in its | ambition did not hesitate to resort to every form of corruption and intimidation which cunning mea could devise and brutal bosses put into practice. The | fight against the Southern Pacific was therefore a fight in self-defense. It was imperative and unavoid- able. There are now good reasons believing the Southern Pacific is going out of politics. The Santa Fe system has never been in politics. We are to have two great transcontinental lines whose energies will for be devoted solely to the task of providing transporta- | tion for the commerce that goes on between this coast and the rest of the continent. It is therefore to our advantage to co-operate with the new movement, to give the roads every opportunity to increase their terminal facilities so that the city and the State can do business to better advantage. The China Basin lease has been drawn up in the interests of the people. It means a benefit to San Francisco and to Califor- nia. It has been passed by the Senate, and the As- sembly should now promptly follow the example set by the upper house. L number of negroes were held in the convict camps in Georgia and worked under the lash who had never been convicted of any crime nor sen- tenced by any court. They had been lured into the | camps and thereafter detained by force. Among them were found women who had entered the camps to visit relatives and were forbidden to de- part. One of these had carried with her a baby boy, that had been kept and had nearly grown to ‘manhood as a | convict. The mother had been repeatedly whipped by the overseer to compel her to render uncompensated | service. The story of wrongs endured by her and other innocent persons held in slavery as criminals caused a passing sensation. There is no evidence that the State took any steps to right the wrongs or pun- | ish the wrongdoers. In a normal state of society, | where men are mindful of human rights, such a | hideous condition of things would have roused the | deepest indignation, and for the honor of the com- monwealth the sternest measures would have been taken. But there is no evidence that anything was done. The sufferers were negroes, and the difference in race and color marked the difference in treat- ment of a matter that would have stirred the State to its depths had they been whites. It was revealed that the system of farming out con. victs to work mines and plantations in the South had led to other abuses scarcelv less heinous. To replen- ich or increase the supply of such labor negroes are arrested and convicted upon the most trifling pretext. What eisewhere, or when committed by whites, are treated as misdemeanors receive the punishment of felonies in the case of negroes, and those unfortu- nate people have no assurance that their detention will cease with the expiration of their sentences, as they are liable to be held indefinitely by force. THere has been recently exposed a worse condition of affairs in South Carolina than in Georgia. The convict camps on the plantations are full of innocent negroes, who | were mever accused of any crime, never had a trial, were never convicted of anything, but are held in vir- tual slavery. They are captives as much as any of their race were on the African slave coast in the paliay days of the slave trade. The exposure of this crime against the rights of humanity came through a planter brutally killing one of these innocent men who tried to escape from bondage. Upon examination of the matter it was dis- covered that the murdered negro was a captive slave and not a convict criminal. Then followed other reve. lations of which the Grand Jury has been compelled 20 take cognizance. 1t is proved that in South Carolina has grown up a system of labor contracts with the negroes and that | these contracts are made assignable. A planter in ona county makes a number of these contracts, and when work is slack he sells the contracts to another, per- haps a considerable distance away, and unless the con- tract negroes go away to their new master they are arrested and charged with breach of contract, which is treated as a feiony. Of course conviction follows, and the unfortunate negroes are sentenced t4 the con- vict camps. - In no other civilized state on carth is the violation THE SOUTH CAROLINA WAY. - AST year the discovery was made that a large W of a civil contract treated as a felony. Nowhere else is a labor contract made assignable and treated as conveyance of the person of the laborer to any maste? who isswilling to buy him. % It is a violation of every constitutional right of free men, and is a stain upoh the State and section where the practice prevails. The existence of such a system is a commentary upon the professions of Sena- tor Tillman, who assumes to teach the North its duty to its laboring population. When the truth is known about the practices in Mississippi and Alabama they will be found as ne- farious as those of South Carolina. It may saon be proper to begin running the underground railroad again to rescue innocent men from this slavery of the convict camps. SENATOR WOLFE’'S BITTERNESS. SUCH good citizens as voted for the election of the notorious “Eddie” Wolie to the State Sen- ate solely because he obtained through the bosses the nominatior of the Republican party have now an opportunity to study the result of their ac- tion. In the debate on the China Basin bill Senator Wolfe showed not only his temper but his character. He revealed the estimate which he puts upon the business men of this city, and in doing so made clear to all the folly of any business man who voted for him against the protests of so many of the ablest Re- publicans in his district. No one thought it worth while to take a verbatim report of Wolfe's speech, but all reports agree that in opposing the China Basin lease he denounced the character of the business men who signed petitions requesting the passage of the measure. When the advocates of the lease pointed out that it is supported by representatives of the commercial and manufacturing interests of the city, and that these en- terprising and sagacious men regard the lease as bene- ficial to the public welfare, Wolfe declared that none of the business organizations of the people really rep- resent the public or have any due regard for the gen- eral gdod. He is quoted as saying: “These organi. zations do not represent the people of San Francisco. They do-not favor anything except what will benefit their own pockets. One or two or three of them get together and decide that they want the Supervisors or the Legislature to do something or other, and then they send in their petitions or dispatch their repre- sentatives to ask for it. ~That is the way they work. Take the Merchants’ Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, Pacific Commercial Museum and all the trest of them, and you will find them looking out for their own interests every time. | The Merchants’ Assaciation has resolved upon every question excepting those affecting the interests of the people.” The various organizations thus attacked by name need no defense from The Call nor any other source. Neither do they need to defend themselves by reply- ing to the attack. Their deeds speak for them, and the work which in one way or another they have accom- plished for the promotion of the great interests of the city and the State and the welfare of all citizens is fairly well known. So well known, at least, that no intelligent man will give any further attention to Wolfe's attack than is necessary to mentally register judgment as to the sort of man Senator Wolfe is. So long as unscrupulous bosses are enabled to dominate primaries by force or to vitiate them by rauds, so long will such men as Welfe manage to get nominations for office; and so long as good citizens believe they must blindly vote the party ticket, no matter who may be the nominee, such men will be | elected. A good primary law will rid the California Legislature of such men gs Wolfe. That is the chief reason why a primary law should be enacted. It is an old sayinz, “The curses of bad men ars better than their blessings.” Wolfe could not have | served“the State betier than by making that attack upon the great commercial and industrial organiza- tions. It shows the cvil results of electing such mef) to office, and thus will be a potent help in ridding State ‘politics not only of Wolfe himself but of all others of his class. EROTIC INSANITY. ITHIN a few months thirty-five women have been brutally butchered by men in this coun- try. In each case the slayer professed to be in love with the slain and killed her because the feeling was not reciprocated. In some cases the girl had made known to her parents that threats had been made against her life and the man had been bound over to keep the pcace. But his bond was no restraint and he killea her. This erotic insanity is the most dangerous form cf homicidal mania. It is treated lightly by the law or not at all. It generally appears in persons of evil temper and uncontrolled passions, who are not de- sirable company for any self-respecting woman. It is becoming too common, and in default of legal pro- tection should be dealt with sternly by the male pro- tectors of women. ‘When these erotics are arrested for making threass their offense is treated all too lightly. Often the mat. ter is regarded as a joke. Any man who forces his disagreeable attentions upon a-woman shorld be isolated and held either in a prison or an asylum. In 99 per cent of such cases the unreciprocated infatuation ends in murder. Women are entitled to the most complete protection against such brutes. If the law will not furnish it there is no other way than to kill the man who wooes a woman by threat of murder. If she have a male protector he should save her life, for she is doomed unless he act If a woman yield to the threats of such a man and marry him to save her life she makes for herself a lifetime of misery, for such men are perverts, degen- erates or psychopaths unfit for the conjugal associa- tion. We do not wish to be misunderstood in these com- ments. We only say that it is the duty of a father to save the life of his daughter, or of a brother to save his sister. If he arrive on the scene when such an erotic beast is executing his threat it is hiz duty t> kill the wretch, and the law holds him blameless. In view of the fact that such threats to kill are inva- riably carried out, why is it not the duty of a father or brother to act in advance of the opportunity which the erotic assassin is ceeking? 5 —————— When McKinley visits San Jose the people will give him a banquet in which prunes will ‘be served in forty different ways and they will then call on him for a certificate that the feast was fit for the gods. For a water investigation the inquiry into the af- fairs of the Contra Costa Company has become an exceptionally dry proceeding. Perhaps the interjec- tion of a little legal fire might be judicious. The sixteen-year-old bée of Washington who is fighting for a divorce seems to possess ail the neces- sary qualifications to be entered in the infant prodigy class in a baby show. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS —_——— PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Strange Fancies Which Governed American Women of a Century Ago in the Adorn- ment of Their Heads. ———— By Alice Morse Earle. "MES IN COLONIAL TIMES,” “HOME LIFE IN COLONIAL HINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA, ETC) —_—— COPYRIGHT, 1901 (AUTHOR OF III.—BONNETS THAT OUR GRANDMOTHERS WORE. send me word immediately if you can let me Tl ed that wigs had 1t is not to be wonder af to be worn, the hair had been so torturedd <o craped, stuffed, pomatumed, powderes and curled, that few women had any haly jeft. Mme. Tallien had thirty wigs o various colors and shapes. This la.snl|on lasted but a few years, varying with heads. P fhe fashions of the town followed the modes of Paris, in the country simple modes prevailed. An_ English 't'raveler. Isabel | Mr. Lambert, wrote thus in 1813 of the dress of New England women: i H halr is tastefully turned up - hind in 'the modern stviesand fastened with a comb. Thelr dress is neat, simple and gen- teel, usually consisting of a printed cotton jacket with long sleeves, a petticoat of the same, with a colored cotfon apron or pincloth without sleeves tied tight and covering the lawer part of the bosomn Peter Parley gives an almost identical description of women's dress at that date. Graceful Fashions Lately Revived. There is no doubt that the fashion for woman's dress of the year 1530 was charming, though overdone. The leg-of- utton sleeve was graceful, but a little o0 larke: the shoulders were prettily dis- We learn from the newspapers of 1501 what headgear was for sale—"straw, vel- lum, cane, willow and chip bonnet maids’ village straw bonnets; women's and dames’ bag, gipsy, Volney, Leghorn, Norway and Oatlands straw bonnets.” These straw bonnets were worn in winter as well as in summer, chiefly in the morn- ing, and were tled on the head with a crimson silk handkerchief. The working in straw has ever been a work of women, as was also its invention. Mrs. Denton of Beeston, Leeds, England, in- vented straw hats in the time of Charles I, and maintained herself and a large family thereby. In a Wwork written by a Pennsylvania Quaker in 1635 he urges that schools be provided where girls may be taught among other arts and mysteries “the | making of straw works, such as hats and baskets.” His useful hint was not car- ried out in any fullness till a century later, when many Americans awoke to the simultaneous consciousness that the costly and intricate straw bonnets made of the beautiful Ttalian braids could be successfully imitated at home. Hand- some Leghorn hats cost $20 to $30. T! v WOMEN’S DRESS IN 1832. — first American inventor who was accord- a patent by the Britlsh Government was a woman, Mrs. Sybilla Masters of Philadelphia, and it was for a method of using straw and palmetto for making hats. The-first patent issued to a woman by the Government of the United States was also for un invention In straw bon- nets. A third woman, a young girl named Betsy Metcalf of Providence, R. L, start- ed the manufacture of straw headgear in this country. The Turban and the Calash. Heavy beaver hats, with rolling brims like men's hats, were worn in full dress, and hats of velvet and satin: but the most_characteristic headgear of the first quarter of the eighteenth century was the turban; it outlasted changes of all sorts in other details of the costume. Nine- | tenths of the women's portraits of that | day, in youth and old age, display a tur- ban. Great scarfs of gauze and net | adorned or formed these strings of beads festooned them. Gold fringe was a favorite decoration. Thae soft white turbans of crape and gauze | were very becoming to young women. | hair dressing. A very odd and characteristic hgadgear | was the calash. It had been invented to | wear with the pompadours and powdered heads of the eighteenth century, but re- mained in favor till 1840. It was shaped like a chaise top, was stiffened with canes o v;halebonel and could be pulled over the face. Wigs and Other Styles for the Hair. ‘We have from letters and diaries of the ! played above a line of fine lace, but the | liné was too horizontal. In evening dress i it made the gown appear to be slipping off the shoulders. The nape of the neck | was left wholly exposed, and the hair was | drawn up to the top of the head and down |in front in/a strained mode. The wide, | full dress skirts were a little too short, for | they displayed the ankles; the lace collar- | ettes and capes were too straight. The i bodice was too plain, and the straight | waist lines were poor. _Still, the whole dress was pretty, and the modes all de- served the revival they have had during the last few years—a revival which fs, after all. rather surprising, for it ex- tends even to the detalls—for instance, er- mine and chinchilla, the furs of 1830, and | osprey feathers and aigrettes, and pointed applique and similar laces. Our modern ?.dop(lon of these modes was not in ex- reme. with down pillows. Our skirts were longer, and we had beautiful and useful | capes, instead of scarfs and shawls, and turbans and vive., forehead, as may portraits. With the smoothly banded or singleted hair it gives to every counten- ance a curiously submissive took. as if the jewel were hung on a slave—it is, I believe, an Oriental fashion. This feron- day “occasional glimpses of the fashions, | Ciire waa: oZten tomboscd Bt fno ond Fiza’ Southgate Browne, a very spirited | 1 {7 3By e il 0T i, Wrolh ot (At Rine Guring | Cocuan chald: sometines aley of Binsk velvet ribbon, of fine vines of artificial flowers. of silken cord, or strings of beads. By 1537 the style of the gown was | slizhtly changed. The bodice became | pointed and the waist smaller: the sleeves also were smaller, and a pelérine was worn tight-drawn over the folded arms. The skirts were lonzer. her visits to Boston and New Yorkyfre- quent and interesting letters to her mother, and she opened the year 1800 thus: Now, mamma, what do you think I am going to ask for?—a wig. Eleanor has a new one just like my hair and only &S 1 must either cut my hair or have one. cannot_dress it y The girlish por- R TIR T Jbought Fleanors | traits of Queen Victoria show hees ana says she me ust : s e e JuMt ke exi| modes. " Bows of ribbon down the dress front and large oval brooches were all the fashion. Muffs, bouauets, fans and para- sols all were smaller, and a general skimpiness of costume prevalled—a fore- runner of the meek and mild type of the Qiately after you receive' this, for I am in| modes which were established and be- hopes to have it for the next assembly. Do !loved in the year 1840. .H—MH—H%%‘%WW%—FW. "ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SANS SOUCI-M. T., City. It was Fred- erick the Great of Prussia who was called “The Philosopher of Sans Soucl.” and paper, besides the assembly 1’ was quite for nobody has long hair. It you will consent to my having one, do send me over a $5 bill, by the post mme- At ashamed of my head, trouble. moth and the candle: “Two moths fell in love with the night fly; and the night fly, to get rid of their importunities, bade them go and fetch fire for her adornment. The blind lovers flew to the first flame to obtain the love-token, and few escaped injury or death.” Such ls the story told by Kempfer in “A B wabs e VIT 1937, ccount of Japan,” vol: WHITNEY—B. M. D.. Petaluma, Cal There is a place in California called Whit- ney. It is in Riverside County. There is also a place called Placer County: ‘Whitneys, located in RAILROAD SYSTEMS-G. H. I, City. The five largest railroad systems of the United States are: The Union Pacific, With its recent purchases; the Chicago fon‘and Quincy th Ponmeioam! e uiney; t nnsylv. tral, and the New York Cex{tn.l?“ D CIVIL SERVICE—Manila, City. You can obtain the rules governing civil ser- vice examinations in this city from the secretary of the commission at the City Hall. If you intend to apply under the Federal Government, you will have to write to the secretary of the Civil Commission at Washington, D. C. SILK—Inquirer, Oakland, Cal. The silk on board of the wrecked steamer Rio de Janeiro was 78 cases and 141 packages. GAS TURNED OFF—Subscriber, City. It was in 1883 that the ity gas was ;z;ln; San Francisco for a lon E Pl’tr!xeh‘lgms were out from March 14 to July 1. BOOKKEEPING—A. ‘H., City. While a knowledge of algebra is of value it Is not 3 essary that a_ bookkee] Oy e eneral clerical work Should be possessed of that knowledge. VON WEBER—F. A. N., City. Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ern!:m vnx: \Eeh;r, lerman er, was rn in Eutin, g‘:rgnny. Dg:mr. 1786, and died it London June, MARKET QUOTATIONS—J. K., Sebas- topol, Cal. The market quotations in the newspapers, where not otherwise s - fied, are the wholesale prices which deal- ers charge for the articles quoted. PETRIFIED CITY—K. M., City. Ish- monte, the petrified city, is in Upper Our leg-of-mutton sleeves were | not stiffened with whalebones nor stuffed | | we had not the sa i me. ungatnly form of | LiC e her affections." One curious and vet graceful ornament | of the fashion of 1520 to 1840 we did not re- | I refer to the feromniere, or band | around the head. from which depended a | jewel or ornament over the middle of the | seen in scores of | PERSONAL MENTION. J. B. Roglrs of Seattle is at the Call- fornia. D. Levy, a merchant of Williams, is at the Grand. K. H. Kimball of Pasadena Is a guest at the California. H. S. Kirk, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the California. Alex R. B. Young of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. R. C. Richmond, a banker of Arcats, is staying at the Grand. State Senator E. L. Webber of Napa is a guest at the Grand. A. C. Bingham, a merchant of Marys- ville, is at the Palace. E. L. Chaddock and wife of Fresno are registered at the Californta. Edward C. Cribb, a merchant of Los An- geles, is staying at the Palace. F. E. Wright, a merchant of Colusa, registered at the Grand yesterday. J. E. Buker, a mining man of New ‘Whatcom, is a guest at the Palace. Charles P. Morgan, a merchant of San Jose, i3 staying for a few days at the Palace. Fred A. Hines, a merchant of Los An- geles, accompanied py his wife, is staying at the Palace. Henry H. Boyce, formerly a journalist of Los Angeles, now living In New York, is staying at the Palace. United States Fish Commissioners E. A. Tulian and A. B. Alexander of Washing- ton, D. C., are registered at the Grand. John de Ryke, who has been employed by the home department of the Japanesa Government for the last twenty-three years as a civil engineer, is staying at the Grand. De Ryke has had charge of the laying of the plans for the harbor of Osaka. The harbor will be completed in about three years and when completed will have cost about $3,000,000. BRSPS i i bt CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, March 7.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. 8. Coleman, at Morton; E. R. Dille, at St. Denis; Miss C. J. Flood, at Holland; Mrs. W. Lewis, at Arlington; Mrs. J. Marsh, at St. Denis; Mrs. Arm- strong, at Victoria; J. E. Lawrence, at Vendome. From Los Angeles—0O. O. Howard, at Victorfa; Mrs. W. C. Hoodard, at Im- perial; C. Monroe, at Holland; J. E. Marl, at Kensington. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGION WASHINGTON, March 7.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: [Ebbitt, George Wilcox and A. F. Judson of Los Angeles; Raleigh, G. A. | Robrick of Y.os Angeles; Shoreham, F. Ol- | der and T. T. Williams of San Francisco. SLIGHT DELAY IN COMPLETING ATLAS —_— A slight delay has become impera- tive in the delivery of The Call’s premium atlas, but what is lost in time will be more than compensated for in the adCed value of the splendii work which will be offered to suh- scribers of this paper. The atlas is not only to be absolutely accurate but will have the latest official statistics obtainable. The Federal Government | bas been slow in compiling and re- vising the census, and The Call atlas, which must have this latest informa- | tion, has necessarily been delayed. The following telegram explains the situation: CHICAGO, March 7, 1901. John D. Spreckels, Proprietor of | The Call, San Francisco: Owing to delay of Government in compiling and revising census it will be im- possible to ship first carload of atlases ordered by you befors March 30th. They will go forward promptly that day by fast freight. GEORGE F. CRAM. —— e | A CHANCE TO SMILE. “How is the table here? Good?" in- quired the new boarder. “Really, 1 don't know,” replied the other. I thought you had been here for some time?"” “So I have; but I've never seen enough on the table to test it thoroughly. How- ever, I never heard it groan.”—Philadel- phia’ Record. “Ah, yes,” sighed the lovelorn youth, “I'm passionately in love with Miss Van Fickel. I wonder if I will ever succeed in “Why not?” replied his cousin Helen. “T know at least a half-dozen other men who have.”—Philadelphia Presd. “This pugilist who is so anxious to meet you—do you consider him in your clase?" The prize-fighter drew himself up to his full height and answered with scorn: “I should say not! Why, he doesn't even know how to use a typewriter.”—Wash- ington Star. 4 - e Choice candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel * o e o~ D ausbas iy Cal. glace fruit e per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—————— Eye glasses, specs, 15c to 4ic; look out 81 4th, front of barber shop and grocery. * — e—————— to the ont- . Special information supplied daily business houses and public men o; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. —_————— Opportunities are often captured by hustlers while lazy men are sitting on the fence waiting for them to come along. ————————— Cheap to Bakersficld. The Santa Fe will sell you a ticket to Bakers- fleld and return at the very low rats of $10. Good to leave San Francisco March Sth. Side rides to the Kern County ofl wells at very low Tates. Secure your sieeping car reservations and make ail arrangements at the company's office, 641 Market street, or at Ferry depot. A nugget found recentl: Orsk, in the weighing 1150 ounces was in the Ural gold mines at vernment of Orenberg. ADVERTISEMENTS. Remember a fifty cent bottle of Scott's Emulsion given in proper quantities will lasta baby fifty days;a child six or seven, thirty days; and achild of ten or twelve, twenty days. It'sa very economical medi- cine. If the child is sickly, without t. It is so called from the number SUCCESSION_Subscriber, Hemet, ca1,| APPetite, it will nourish and of statues seen lh‘e,? and t}mgfiuanulz be men, men, children an -‘l:‘:nb‘:nlmun turned into stone. REAL ESTATE—Subscriber, Hemet; Cal. The husband l;l:hthn H‘ht.n:n Call- to dispose of e communit; 1 LoTata’ without the signature of the wife, but he cannot incumber or sell the home- m.;‘;rmmm the consent in writing of wife. ‘ AND THE CANDLE-M. T, MOTH “igity. The following Is the story of thc ery st. city, v . -~ In California, if a man dies Intestate and leaves a wid a i i il i 5?‘:&’?,:‘.‘; .2'1??..:‘;:;522’? fin: o the lav bridge it over until it can take ul ropert 2 to the chifld; {f there are -33%% its usual food. Eothone” thira and the resr” 'ad¥ | For delicate children with mmmum,m‘.fl,m' 2 < without O e any real disease, it can be used HOTEL DEL CORONADO . . b & Seter of entertainment. Apply & New Momtorns | We'llsend yous itleto try, i you ke, SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street, New York, .