The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY, MAY 10, /1901. Che 0w Call ..MAY 10, 1901 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A Address All Communications ts W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: YATLY CALL including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Gincluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month, 38833 & asters are 1> reecelv subscriptions. Fample coples Wwill be forwarded when requested. Mall wubscrfbers fn crdering change of address should he particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 1o ineure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway €. 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T!oad:d with business beyond the possibility of aking action upon the measures necessary to complete the gold standard law and to begin the reformation of our banking system required by the country. It is to be regretted that any time was lost in matters of such importance to the financial future of the country, but what is gone is gone, and there is nothing to be done now except prepare for action in the next Congress. The Indianapolis executive committee has in- fluenced the preparation of two bills, one the Over- street bill, to provide exchangeability of all forms of currency with gold, which compietes the gold stan- dard measure bill, to introducc banking reform. FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. HE short session of the last Congress was over- and the other known as the Lovering These measures are of the highest importance and vitally concern the fi: ial future of the country. If business men will but reflect that what has been ac- complished already has practically transferred the world’s fi cial center to t country and- has thereby furnished us great protec cial panic, which may come out of a clear sky any they will see the nced of going forward until the em of financial legislation demanded by the Republicans and Gold Democrats in 1896 is finished. This legislation necessarily was among political is- sues then, as all financial and, economic legislation has to be in s country, but now it is beyond the limits of partisanship. The people have indorsed it at two on against a finan- day whole Presidential and thrze Congressional elections, and it is justly considered first among the interests to wh h Congr Omitting for the present a detailed statement of the atures of these bills upon which the next Congress ked to act, it is now sufficient to say that they are in line with the reforms promised in 1896 2nd in every campaign since. The Indianapolis committee, a non-partisan body, has with great constancy and energy planned and pushed this legislation, and indicates now a hope that its work may be finished in the next year. Our Western Congressmen should feel themselves especially charged to support these measures. The West needs 2 sound monetary standard and a more flexible and adaptive banking system. All Western business requires an easier and more economical use of credit, which must come with a banking system that can emit a sound currency when required to meet the demands of trade and credit, and contract it when the demand slackens. 3 The exchanges of commerce ebb and flow with the seasons and rise and fall with the demand, and the medium of exchange should follow the same course and obey the same law. It is a mistake to suppose that our system of banks of issue is nearly perfect. It was framed to meet a1 emergency. The evil of the greenback issue was im- mediately apparent 10 Mr. Lincoln, and to avert it he advised the National banking system, which was fairly adapted to the financial needs of the country forty years ago. But the country has grown, while the banking system remains nearly as it was. Then the business of the country originated near the money centers and had ready access to capital. Now busi- ness is 2 spontaneous growth far away from those centers, and suffers from the congestive tendencies of capital under the operation of the National banking law. attention.. ss must pay will be a Congress will now do its duty if it proceed to adapt the banking system to the vast development of the last forty years. This wiil require eradication of the facility now furnished for the congestion of currency in the money centers, which causes the accumulation there of almost the entire loan fund, or surplus capi- tal. of the country. Jt will be seen that when the country bank can expand its issue in the season of demand, when busi- ness men are using their credit, and then contract it when the demand slackens, congestion in the distant centers will cease, and men everywhere will use their credit and have access to the loan fund upon fairly equal terms. A GOLDEN WELCOME. HE President is no stranger to California. He | Thas visited us before. But now he comes as | President, and because we hail and greet him in that capacity will get a better look at our best foot | than he ever had before. He will traverse the length | of the State, and will find from the snowy summit of Mount San Bernardino to the white helmet that glis- tens on the bald pate of Shasta an unbroken succes- sion of the same facilities, resources, products and cli- (‘ mate. He can pluck the ripe oranges of Redlands and | the orange bloom of the Sacramento Valley. The | fig, date, pomegranate, olive and grape grow in sight | of his path through California from extreme south to extreme north. Nature did not use this State as a gold ring to carry one small diamond setting in one section only. It is jeweled on its entire circumfer- | ence, and what grows south flourishes north also. It | will not escape his observation that the tiller of the | soil here has some crop for market every month in | the year. It is a winterless land, and production is | ceaseless.. Herein California differs from every other part of the continent, and has few competitors on any continent. | The economic significance of this fact will not es- | cape the Presidential party. Where production is in | such variety and is without interruption man has | more things to which to turn his hand, therefore the : opportunities of life are more numerous and more ne | Teliable here than elsewhere. Of course there has to be an East, and a hard. long | | winter and a short, hot summer, and our distinguished tors have to live there and stand it. They will see in the heartiness of our golden weicome a desire of our people to let them know there is something bet- ter than what they are accustomed to. If they could be with us longer we could make it easier for them, but we have a large panorama and a short time to | show it. Therefore we seem to be very busy about it and may perhaps tire them, but we mean well and have only a desire to increase their knowledge. e e | A movement has been started to have Edward | crowned as King of Canada as well as of Great Brit- | 2in and Ireland, and as sucl! coronation would be surely followed by the creation of several Canadian | ! peers and a goodly number of knights, prominent citizens among our neighbors to the north are won- | dering in whose direction the movement is heading. 7 | MORGAN AND THE KAISER. BRIEF dispatch from Europe says that Pier- A pont Morgan has been negotiating for control of the Prussian canals in order to ‘obtain through them a readier access to the German market | for the products of the steel trust. The dispatch is doubtless an exaggeration, being but another of the many rumors concerning the far-reaching ambitions of the great industrial and commercial organizer. There is, however, nothing improbable in the sup- position that Morgan has endeavored to arrange for fayorable terms for transportation along the canals. In fact, it is almost certain he has done so, for such an arrangement is necessary to his bysiness. His appear- ance in that field, however, is interesting in more ways than one, for it puts him on the side of the Kaiser in the fight for an extension and improvement of the Prussian canals, and it will be worth while to note what the effect will be should he make an ener- getic fight for the improvements. For years the Kaiser has sought to procure from the Prussian Landtag money and authority for carry- ing out an elaborate system of canal construction. In the bill, which was presented last January and re- cently rejected, provision was made for completing a system of waterways connecting the Rhine with the Elbe, Berlin with Stettin, the Oder with the Vistula, and opening a way from Silesia to the Oder-Spree can The object of the measure is of course to facilitate commerce, aad it was just for that reason it was rejected. It appears from reports the main oppo- sition of the Agrarians and the Junkers was based | upon the argument that the opening of the new canals would make it easier for foreign goods to be imported | and distributed through the country, and would there- fore be injurious to the agricultural interests, and even the Silesians are sdaid to have fought the bill because | the construction of a canal through their country would permit British coal or American coal to be brought in ‘to the detriment of the Silesian. coal in- | dustry. Two years ago a similar bill was rejected, and since | that time the Kaiser has been employing every means | in his power to overcome the opposition. When the | new bill was introduced the Finance Minister ex- | plained that the finances of Prussia are amply able to bear the cost of the work. It was well understood that the measure was virtually a bill emanating from the Kaiser. Nevertheless it Wwas rejected as firmly this year as it was two years ago. The Kaiser, then, has been defeated in his pet | measure. It now remains to be seen what will be the { result of Morgan’s interest in the scheme. Should he direct his energies to the task he might manage to teach the Prussian Junkers that they will gain rather than lose by improving the commercial facilities of the country. On the other hand, the mere suggestion of his interest in the canals might intensify the oppo- | sition and make it more determined than ever; The matter is not one of any great international impor- tance, but none the less it is bound to occupy the at- tention of men interested in finding a German market for American products. It seems certain that in the end the canals will be constfucted, for the Kaiser and Morgan form a team that is hard to beat, and, more- over, the spirit of progress fights on their side and as- sures an overthrow of the conservative forces and obstinacies that oppose the development of commer- cial facilities. e e Consolidation seems to be reaching the grand cli- macteric, for it is reported that the four grocers who have been competing with one arother at Ida Grove, Towa, have formed a trust, combined their stock under one roof and are running on the monopoly plan. Ida Grove is now waiting to feel the country shake. THE LOCATION OF CAPITALS. Y reason of the destruction of the Capitol at B Harrisburg Pennsylvania finds it necessary to provide for the construction of a new building for her State government. A bill appropriating the sum of $5,000,000 for that purpose is now before the Legislature, where it is being held up pending a set- tlement of the question whether the new Capitol shall be erected at Harrisburg or at Philadelphia. The dis- cussion is interesting because it shows that the policy which has prevailed in the United States of locating the seat of government in a small town rather than in the natural capital is by no means so generally supported as it was at the time when most of the States were organized. Philadelphia is the natural capital of Pennsylvania. | leaving it give it a bad reputation. | the forests of California, and then there will be more | | long ago to make an cfficial examination of the con- | tents of a safe taken from a gambling-house, and in " i It is to that city her people go for trade, finance, | be made oq__t.he: McKmley plan. amusement, education and society. Moreover, it is there that most of the real politics of the State is car- ried on. Why, then, should not the Legislature meet there, the Governor reside there, and the administra- tive departments of the government with the Supreme Court be established there? The location of capitals has been made in this country in almost every instance as a result of a conflict of local patriotisms or prejudices. Even at the establishment of the Union the same unfortunate policy prevailed. In dur time no one would think of locating the national capital in a wilderness on the Potomac; but the statesmen of that time could do | no better, for there was no way by which a majority could be induced to agree upon either New York or Phi!adelphiaf By a compromise of the various issues between North and South, the great States and the little States, and all the other complications of the time, the capital of the Union was set up in the woods, and even to this day it has never become a city in the right sense of the word, since it has neither trade, in- dustry nor financial prestige. As a rule the smaller cities of a State are eager to obtain the rank of capital because the people believe it is of advantage to them, but it is doubtful if the advantage be as great as is supposed. A Legislature which meets only once in two years does not draw to a community a sufficient number of visitors to jus- tify the erection of great hotels, or to make it worth while for merchants to lay in supplies for such casual trade.” The result is that when the Legislature is session the hotels are overcrowded, and then visitors get a disagreeable impression of the place, and on It is doubtiul if there be a single small city occupying the pbsition of a State capital that would not have been better off if the burden had never been imposed upon it. The press of Philadelphia declares the city to be in- different to the question. The location of the State capital there would be an insignificant factor in the business of the metropolis. The "average citizen would hardly know wkhen the Legislature was in ses- sion except by the reports in the newspapers, for there would be no conspicuous increase in the crowds on the street or at the hotels, except those at which politicians would make their headquarters. ~ Public interest, however, would be so much served by hav- ing the State government established in the natural capital that it is quite likely the new Capitol may be erected at that city. The only thing likely to defeat it is the outcropping of a job in connection with the selection of a site. There is already a rumor that somebody in Philadelphia has town lots to sell. The “fire season” has begun unusually early this year, and it will not be long before we hear of it in | brave talk of what ought to be done in the way of forest preservation. NE of the oddest questions of ethics that ever A QUESTION OF ETHICS. O arose from judicial proceedings is reported from New York. Justice Jerome of the Court of Special Sessions in that city had occasion not the course of it he found an I. O. U. for a large amount signed® by an officer of the army. Imme- | diately upon finding ‘the document the Justice tore ! it up, so that it might not be a part of the evidence in the case, and now the question is, Did he do right | or wrong? In his own defense the Justice is reported as say- ing: “Unlawfully and on my own responsibility, I found an L. O. U. of an eminently respectable man, an army officer, now fighting in the Philippines, in the safe of a gambling-house, and I showed it to the attorney for the proprietor. He agreed that I should | destroy it, and I did so. I am, of course, liable to a | civil suit for so doing. If any one wishes to sue me my defense will be that it is a gambling debt. If the suit goes against me I shall pay the amount out of my own pocket. I am financially able to pay it, although my name is not on the personal tax list. I have never met and do not know the officer, and, in fact, had never heard of him until I found the bill.” It will be seen the Justice claims that his action was taken for the purpose of saving “an eminently re- spectable man, an army officer, now fighting in the | Philippines,” from a disclosure that would have se- | riously injured him. The Justice does not intend to | do any wrong to the gambler to whom the note was | given. He declares a willingness to be sued in a civil court, and if judgment be given against him he will pay the note out of his own pocket. His one desire is to shield a stranger from the consequences that would follow a revelation of the fact that he had con- cracted a gambling debt. It is argued upon the other side that even if it be true that it is not always proper and just to publish every document that is discovered in a gambling den, there remains the fact that all such documents are parts of the legal evidence in the case and should not be destroyed by the courts. A Judge should make no distinction of persons. If he can in the exercise of good intention destroy the I. O. U. of an “eminently respectable man,” why might he not from a similar good intention protect everybody? The statement of the Justice that he is financially able to pay the note should judgment against him be obtained is declared by his critics to be a “bit of im- pudence.” It is not a question of ability to pay. It is a duestion of judicial impartiality and official hon- esty. The argument is that before a court all persons should stand on an equal footing, and that no favors should be shown to any one because of his respec- tability, his profession or his military service. The issue may delight those who take an interest in discussing the interrelations of mercy and justice. Some folks will commend the Judge who out of good- ness of heart and sympathy for human frailty is mer- ciful to all who are summoned before him, while others uphold the stern Judge who enforces the law no matter upon whose neck the ax falls. In this par- ticular case the army officer will be fortunate if the action of the Justice does not hurt rather than help him. Some one may yet disclose his name, and then the discussion over the action of the Justice will cause it to have ten times the notoriety it would have had under other circumstances. : e —— The Chicago university professor who was reported to have said he had never kissed a girl in his life has risen up and denied the report; so another attempt to prove that learned men are lacking in common sense has been exploded The Bourbons are said to be afraid of the “New South,” and yet it is a foregone conclusion it can never hurt them half as much as they have hurt the old South. It is announced that the Czar is about to make a | covered by the postoffice. | ace, | which were nearly finished. There were | dens, canals or bridges. | talk as to the city’s name. tour of his empire, but it is needless to say it will not PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FraNcIsco CALL. Quaint Customs Religiously Observed in the Early Social Life of the Capital of the Nation. By Alice Morse Early, AUTHOR OF “THE SABBATH IN COACH AND TAYV. PURITAN NEW ENGLAND,” “STAGE ERN DAYS,” ETC. COPYRIGHT, 1901. XII.—SOCIAL ASPECTS OF In no phase of life in the ‘United States has so great change teken place since the first quarter of the nineteenth century as in what is popularly called *public life,” especially as seen in national politics. On the history of nolitical parties and distinct political changes 1 will not write, rather on what may be tcrmed the social aspects of political life. The Federal city had been planned by Major L’Enfant with great minuteness, and he had seized ample farm lands in Maryiand and Virginia on the banks of the Potomac for the District of Columbia. A national church was planned to go where the patent office now stands, de- voted to monuments of the illustrious dead, funeral orations and patriotic ser- mons. Capitol there were to be cascades and gardens, and public buildings and houses | for the Tegations But L'Enfant quarreled and fell into disrepute and was turned out of office. The city progressed without him, the States subscribed money, prizes were given for designs for the President’s house and the Capitol and—the unfailing resort of the day—lotteries were estab- lished to raise money. Federal lottery No. 1 was to build a ‘“hotel’—a new French word then being adopted instead of the sturdy old English word “tavern,” which is to this day in many of our States the only legal nomenclature for such great but | Between the White House and the | POLITICAL LIFE. ous and unconventional scene. Massac! | setts men were Federalists to an aston- ! ishing degree and hated Jefferson with 111 the hatred possible in a good, narrow, | bigoted people for one whom they be- | lieved an impious rascal. But the town: | people of Cheshire, influenced by its preacher, Elder Leland, were to a man Jeffersonian Democrat; elder was a sort of Baptist-Quaker a ready . a_friend of Jef | and persuasive ferson and a_d | ciples of the Declaration of Independence. The women . of Cheshire were famous | cheesemakers and the elder of the good- wives evolved the notion of a mammoth cheese to be sent to,the new President a congratulatory gift. ‘The cheese Wi made. It was_ said that every cow town furnished curd. It was pr d in a cider mill fof ten days. on a sledge to Hudson by four horses i shipped thence to Washington. ,The :i went with the cheese, ‘“‘preaching all the way.” The cheese was accompanied by an address, “The Greatest Cheese in America for the Greats Man in Amer- |#e A copy of this address was con |1eyed to Mr. Jefferson a day in advance | that he might prepare and write out | reply. Then they went to the execuiive Tt was dragsge { ¢ | mansion, said _thefr speech, gave the cheese and heard the President’s speech, It | was declared to be a “free-will offering,” was ‘but a pepper-corn of their love, and so on with much formality and poin — Lo . | | | The Naticnal Capital in 1820. public houses as the Touraine in Boston and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. For this first lottery 50,000 tickets were sold at $7 eac! the hotel, which was to cost §50,000, was the first prize. The tick- ets sold so siowly that a number of Georgetown citizens, in self-defense, bought them all, the drawing was done and the hotel was put up on the site now Federal lottery No. 2 languished on account of rival lot- teries, especially those to build plers on the Delaware, to afd the city of Paterson and for a library for Harvard College. ‘Washington City in 1800. A chronicler who was in Washington in 1796 declared that he would never have known a city was intended there save for the Capitol and the White House, or pal- as it was called for some years, about 150 scattered houses, but no gar- There was much A doggerel poem in the New York Journal ends: To please every son of a great and free people, Pray let it be christened plain Washingtonople. Even by 1800 Oliver Wolcott found Wash- ington scarcely habitable. He could look over an area nearly as great as the city of New York and see only a few brick kilns and temporary huts. Near the Capi- | tol was the one good tavern of lottery fame. Poor Mrs. Adams came there in November, 1800, for her few months’ stay, and described to her daughter her sur- roundings with the brilllant pen that made her letters an enrichment of our his- tory and literature: 1 arrived here without meeting with any | accident- worth noting, except losing ourselves when we left Baltimore and going eight or nine miles on the Frederick road, by which means we were obliged to go the other elght through the woods, where we wandered two hours without finding a guide or the path. Fortunately a straggling biack came up with us and we engaged him as a guide: but woods are all you see from Baltimore until you reach the city,- which is only so in name. Here and there is'a small cot, without a glass window, interspersed among the forests. In the city there are buildings enough, If they were com- pact and finished, to accommodate Congress and those attached to it. But as they are, and scattered as they are, I see no great comfort in them. The river is in full view of my win- dow and I see the vessels as they pass and re- pass. The house is on a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to at- tend and keep the apartments in proper order and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables—an establishment very well pro- portioned to the President’s salary. The light- ing of the apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chamber is a tax indeed, and the res we are obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another cheerful comfort. To assist us in this great castle bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house. * * * Surrounded by for- ests, can you belleve that wood is not to be had, because people cannot be had to_cart it! A small part, a few cords only, has Bineseler been able to get. Most of that was expended to'dry the walls before we came in, and yes- terday the man told him it was impossible for | him to procure it to be cut and carted. He has had recourse to coals, but we cannot get grates made and set. We have, indeed, come into a new country. In the Days of President Jefferson. Soon Mrs. Adams was gone, and_Mrs. Madison presided for the wifeless Presi- dent, Thomas Jefferson. She bountiful but far from elegant dinners for the guests of the nation. A member of thus describes the dinner: The round of beef of which the soup is made is called “bouilli!’” It had in the dish spices and something of the sweet herb and earlie kind, and a rich gravy. It is very much boiled and is still very good. We had a dish with what appeared ‘to be cabbage much hbolled; then cut in long strings and somewhat mashed; in the middle a large ham, with the cabbage lald around. It looked like our country dishes of bacon and cabbage with the cabbage mashed up after being boiled tfll sodden and turned dark. The dessert goods much as usual, ex- cept ‘two dishes which appeared like apple pie in the form of the half of a muskmelon, the flat side down, top creased deep, the color a dark brown. This dinner of boiled beef and ‘“‘greens” and “apple slump” could scarcely have been one on the days when the steward said: “The day’s provisions often cost as rmiuch as $50.” State dinners were served at 3 o'clock in .the afternocon; at them was supplied ample port and maderia. At a state dinner il the dessert was ice creams, ~preserves, macaroons, fruits, nuts and raisins; when, it having reached candle-light time, the ladies left the table. It gave the English Minister, Jackson, much amusement when at his first state conference with the President a negro servant knocked at the door and brought in a tray amg:{ set with punch and seed cakes. Washington Irving at- tended a dinner at the White House in 1813 and found Mrs. Madison and her sisters, “fine, pretty, buxom Merry Wives of Windsor, but as to Jemmy Madison— ah, poor Jemmy! he is but a withered little Apple John.” Jefferson’s Gigantic Cheese. The first New Year's day of Jefferson in the White House, in 1802, saw a very curi- = of words. Every one supposed the chesse was a gift irom the Cheshire cames, and perhaps it was; but in Mr Jefferson’s financial diary at that date is this entry: “Gave Rev. Mr. Leland, bearer of the cheese of 1235 pounds, $200,” which was the rate of 16 cents a pound, the price current for cheese being 11 cents a pound. By which it would appear that the ele- gant, courtly, witty, distinguished elder camé out somewhat ahead of either the President or the Cheshire dames in this transaction—though we know not what use was made of his dollars. The cheese, somewhat variegated in appearance and quality and diminished in size, was still at the White House parlor a year later. ““0ld Hickory” Gets a Cheese Also. In 1837 a band of Jackson Democrats who thought Jackson ought to have ev- erything Jefferson had sent “Old Hick- ory” a mammoth cheese. After being ex- hibited in various towns and in the vesti- bule of the White House it was cut at an afternoon reception on February 22. The cheese weighed 1400 pounds, but every onc who chose could hack, eat and carry away; and at night but a small piece was left for the President’'s consumption. He had plenty of the cheese, however— too much, in fact—for many a day. for the White House furniture and the Whito House carpets were slippery and redolent of cheese, it is said, ever after during their term of use. Timothy Muleahy, engineer in a Cleveland tannery, had been bald for years. Suddenly a little furze began to an FERSONAL MENTION. e o J. F. Edwards of Los Angeles Is at the | Palace. W. J. Nelson, 2 mining man of Mojave, is a guest at the Grand. E. G. Jones, a merchant of Portland, Or., 1s a guest at the Palace. Frederick Seagls, a mining attorney of Nevada City, is at the Palace. Dr. K. M. Lombard, a prominent den- tist of Point Loma, is at the Palace. J. B. McEwen. an extensive shoe manu- facturer of Boston, is staying at the Pal- ace. The Rev. Robert L. Magfarlane of Car- son City registered at the Occidental yes- terday. J. F. Parks, a mining man of Jackson, | cal, arrived in town yesterday and is making the Palace his headquarters. G. W. Crystal, a vineyardist of Vaca- ville, accompanied by his wife, arrived in the city vesterday and is staying at the Grand. Harry Stevens, A. H. Pugh and N Longworth, three prominent young club men of Cincinnati, arrived in this city yesterday in a private car and arg guests at the Palace. United States Senator James McMillan of Michigan arrived here yesterday in a special car from Del Monte, accompanied by his wife and famjly. Senator McMil- Jan's home is in Detroit and he is presi- dent of the Detroit-Michigan Car Com- pany and the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company. He was chairman of the Michigan State Repub- lican Committee- from 1885 to 13%. The Senator will remain here during the President’s visit and will visit the Yo- semite Valley before returning East. —ee—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 9—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—D. Dorward, at Hoffman; Miss Greyson, at Grand Union; J. H. Mee and Miss Mee, at Hol- Jand: Mrs. L. E. Spear, at Holland; R. Wallace, at St. Denis; F. EmWa.rBe. at ldi. From San Jose—Miss Beur- E:r:n;}?. M. Beurnan and wife, at Manhat- 3 Schener, at Union Square Angeles—J. Q. Dixon, at Ross- ————————— CALIFORNTIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.—The fol- lowing Californians arrived to—dAy' and registered at the Raleigh: Louis O'Neil, J. D. Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie of San Jose; J. Friedlander and wife of San Francisco. At the Arlington: W. D. Clark of San Franeisco. ANSWERS TO QUERIES THAT MAN'S FATHER—A. G. M, City. The expression “That man’s father was my father's son” is so simple of ex- planation that there is hardly any occa- sion “for argument pro and con for a Week without arriving at any satisfactory conclusion.” For instance, if a man points to his own son and says, “That man's father,” he means himself, and when he adds ‘‘was my father’s son” he refers to his own father. WAR TAX—Subscriber, City. The law' on war tax on conveyance is as follows: vance, deed, instrument or writing whereh ‘any’ lands. tenements oF other realty Sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred or otherwise conveyed to or vested in the pur- chaser or purchasers or other person by his or her or their direction, when the considera- tion or value exceeds $100 or does not exceed 3300, 30 cents: and for each additional $500 or fractional part thereof in excess of 300, 50 cents. A BIG ESTATE—W. M., Boston, Mass. On the 1st of December, 1895, there was published in the San Francisco papers a tch from Brockton, Mass., announc~ gz;pathat John Hilton of Campobello, & suburb of that place. would in a short time leave for San Francisco te secure his portion of an estate, valued at $15,000,- 000, left by his uncle, who died but a short time before. This department has not been able to discover that any man died in San Francisco, or in any part of California, leaving an estate valued at the sum named. Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ' —————————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 10¢ to 40c. Look out 81 4th, front of barber amd grocery. *® ——————— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 5ic a pound, in_fire-etched boxes or J'S bas- kets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel building.* ——————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont-~ gomery street. Telephone Main 102 ¢ ———e————— Decorate for McKinley. 30,000 rolls red, white and blue crepe paper. Immense colored bust pictures of McKinley on stretchers. Bunting, fes- tooning, shields and flags for the million, Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ® Bne b e s ‘When things go wrong around a house a man makes them go worse by scolding so loud that he wakes the baby. sprodt on his head and a few weeks later his cranium was covered with a thick but short growth of hair. A doctor investi- gated the matter and learned that he had been working under a revolving belt. His hair had been sprouted by electricity.— Chicago Chronicle. ————— CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Tal, will be the popular summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com- fort, entertainment and health. Its -Ylndll cafe was a wonder, the fishing unexcelled. | President McKinley Sovvenir | THE SUNDAY CALL provided | ! ~--MAY TWELVE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE... Congress who sat at the President’s board | Complete Story of the Me- Kinley Family From McKinley to Mar]ofleanrse, the President’s Favorite Nicce Other Pages of Intenscly In- leresting Stories of the day.