The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1901 Che ~Srbioe - Call. OUR RIVERS AND HARBORS. HE visit to this coast of Chairman Burton and ...JUNE 19, 1901 WEDNESDAY. members of the Rivers and Harbors Committee is for public business and purposes of the high- 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Atdress All Communications to W. 6. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S FFICE. . «.Telephone l":‘:-l 204 e R JUBLICATION 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 Coples. 5 Cents. z Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Suncay), one year. . DAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday), § months. . 2.90 DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 3 months. - 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month.. o WEEKLY CALL, One Year.... - 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive N subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 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BRANCH OFFICES—:2 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open wotil $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until $:20 c'clock. 615 Larkin, cpen until #:20 o'clock. 19¢® Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open untfl 3 o'clock. 109 Valencia. open untfl § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 3 c’clogk. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open uptil ¢ o'clock. omen until 3 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. A Night mt the Circus.” “The Toy Maker.” ©Orpheum—Vaudeville. Colum “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Alcazar—“Countess Valeska.” Grand Opers-House—""Gismonda."" Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Spectalties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | evening Fischer's—Vavdeville. Sutro Bathe—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By G H. Tmbsen & Co.—Monday, June 24, at 12 o'clock, Choice Property, at 14 Montgomery street. S 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWR FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of vesidence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new @ddresses by notifying The Call Business ©fiice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Sesorts and is represented by a local ageat im @il towss en the coast. IN THE HANDS OF THE LAW. Y reason of complaints sworn out against them B as parties to a consp.imcy to obtain money by false pretenses, a number of the men and women who have been engaged in working up so- called charity entertainments in this city have been arrested and are now in the hands of the officers of the law. That is one of the results of the exposure made by The Call of the schemes of the effenders and of their methods of working. It means that not only has any further wrong at the hands of these parties been prevented in this or any other city on the Pacific Coast, but that there is a fair prospect that some at least of the conspirators will be punished. Since the matter is before the courts The Call has no desire to prejudice the case of any one of the ac- | cused. The story of the various schemes has been published with the names of many, if not all, of the persons engaged in them, and facts clearly stated showing the decep! racter of the means resorted to for the g money. It is now for the law ties to gather that information and ur; prese: 1 to the courts. The issue is in fact w the law cers, and to them the public will look al and efficiency in prosecuting every one of the be found to make complaint. By the expos the gang who were so cun- ningly ope rivate gain under the forms of serving public charities The Call has not only saved the commu served the c themselves from a menace which threatened them. Under the schemes of the entertainment promoters the charity that consented to lend its name to their pur- poses obtained only 1 small percentage of the money actually raised. Thus a wrong was done to the charity itself as well as to the person who patronized the en- tertainment under a belief that all money raised was to go to charity, It is safe to say it will be a long time before any such scheme will be again tried in San Francisco. The eyes of the public have been opened. Hereaiter, when a deserving charity asks for support from our people, there will be no fear that it is a scheme worked for private interest. Our homes, hospitals and asy- Jums will stand upon their own merits and will appeal directly to the liberal and benevolent people of the city. The result will be that every dollar intended for charity will go tc charity, and not one of the many noble institutions of the kind in San Francisco will have to content itself with a scant percentage of that which the people are willing to bestow. In this connection credit must be given to the pub- Yic-spirited citizen who has taken the trouble to swear out warrants for the arrest of the schemers. Cashier Smith of the Columbian Banking Company has not suffered more than others from the frauds practiced by the ccnspirators, but he has taken upon himself es against whom a citizen can the task of a prosecution which is to be for the bene- I fit of all. munity. For that he deserves the thanks of the com- Some surprise has been expressed by New York papers that a recent picnic held by the anarchists of that city was one of the most orderly affairs of the kind on record, but they seem to have overlooked the probability that the anarchists arranged the pic- nic expressly to have a change from their every-day life. It is announced that the Parisian police have been instructed to compel cabmen to put some restraint upon their language; but it is safe to say the enforce- ment of the order will set the cabbies to swearing worse than ever ] ....30 Tribune Bullding | om being defrauded, but it has pre- | table associations and institutions || est interest to California. They have already ex: | Southern California, along the midway coast and the | southern part of the bay of San Francisco. They will | now address themselves to those which concern the Jarger commerce that enters by the Golden Gate. The chief of these is Oakland harbor. The plans for that improvement were drawn long ago by the Government engineers, and the work has proceeded | fitfully. The expanding uses of that harbor have long been treading upon.the heels of the work, until now its completion has come to be a matter affecting San Francisco and Oakland alike. Unless a certain and | valuable part of our commerce can find facilities there | it must soon leave the bay altogether and seek else- bwhere the room denied to it on these waters. If the plans for that work were to be made origin- ally now they would perhaps be different from those | made in the beginhing. The pump dredge would | make entirely unnecessary the tidal canal by which San Leandro Bay is to be used as a flushing basin to | increase the tidal prism for the purpose of scouring ‘out the channel. If made now it woulds-be seen that the whole Oakland basin and channel present extra- ordinary facilities for a harbor protected against the | inflow of mud, and that the tidal canal removes such protection and opens the basin to receive the mud | that has shoaled San Leandro Bay. But meantime the sewer system of Alameda has been planned to use the harbor basin and channel as an outlet to deep | water for the drainage of that city, and so the tidal | canal is considered necessary in order to make a sufficient current to carry off the sewage of Alameda. | The people of that town have stubbornly and suc- cessfully defended their position, and the tidal canal |is under contract for completion. Qakland’s inter- | ests and, secondarily, those of San Francisco, are far away from a drainage proposition, and run entirely to the completion of the harbor for commercial pur- | poses. While sewage and the mud carried by the | canal will require more expense in keeping the basin and channel free, the pump dredge can do it. What is needed now is just what Senator Perkins and Congressman Metcalf have agreed shall be done. The channel, from the westerly end of the training walls, is to be widened to 500 feet to Chestnut street, thence 300 feet wide to Fallon street, with a depth of 25 feet the entire distance. Around the basin the channel is to be 300 feet wide and 12 feet deep. This will open a long water front to deep-water ships, but will do no more than the growing commerce requires. Other work is required in the main bay, in the removal of obstructions and the deepening of shoal places in the ship channel. 5 The rivers of the great valley of California require attention. The committee should understand that 75 per cent of all the tonnage of California is affected | by water transpertation. The San Joaquin, Sacra- mento and Feather rivers share the haul with the rail- ways and one is a check upon the other. The rivers are under Federal jurisdiction and require constant and scientific attention. The navigation of the Sac- | ramento from Red Bluff to Suisun Bay and of the San Joaquin to the same waters is of great im- portance to the people and should not be neglected by Congress. If those natural waterways were not there the producers would be longing for canals to carry their traffic. But nature has furnished water- ways, and 2all that man need do is to improve and keep them open. - The water by which Mare Island navy-yard is ap- | proached needs attention. That yard and its facilities | should be made approachable by our heaviest war- ships in order that repairs and construction may go on there. We desire to impress this deeply upon the committee. There is a yard in which the Govern- | ment can most economically do a large part of its own work upon its own ships, and public interests of the first order require that this should be made | possible. The movement of Chicago University to establish | affiliated colleges in Europe is a very good adver- | tising scheme, but for educational purposes it would have been better to establish them in the South, where | colleges are needed. ey s |THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO. | ROM a number of Southern men of prominence | Fand influence in their various localities there | have come earnest protests against the schemes | of the Bourbon politicians to virtually disfranchise the | negroes by the establishment of constitutional qualifi- | cations so cunningly’ drawn as to shut out black men | from the polls while admitting white men of every | grade and degree. Ex-Governor Johnson of Alabama has declared his | opposition to any unfair treatment of the negro, and i proposes a poll tax and educational qualification which | shall apply equally to both races. Ex-Governor Jones | takes a similar position on the question, and in a re- | cent letter said: “It is true that under the qualifica- | tions proposed a good many negroes can vote; but “there will probably be not enough, even if badly dis= | posed, to exercise evil control. The plan seems to | be the only feasible and practical one, if the restric- | tions of the constitution and our pledges are sub- | stantially complied with. Besides, I do not believe vithat it is for the gdbd of either race that the negr8 | race should be shut out from all hope, and that every individual of the race, no mutter what his good char- acter, intelligence and interest in the community, shall ‘\‘be forever debarred from qualifying himself to vote, | in a Government which taxes him, punishes him, reg- :Tu]ates all his concerns, and in case of need would de- | mand of him to give his life in its defense.” The two former Governors do not stand alone in the fight. One of the most prominent Confederate | veterans in the State has recently written a letter to a member of the convention, saying: “The whole scheme is of partisan politics, and in my judgment can be defeated. But this defeat cannot be accom- | plished by Republican opposition. It must be done | by Alabamans acting independently of either party, on the platform of justice and obedience to the su- | preme law of the land. * * * The politicians have | organized this movement. Our opposition is without :leaders\\ip ‘or means to contest. The negroes are ex- | cited, anxious, but fearful to contend. It is a sad | situation. In my last talk with General Gordon he said it would be the wildest folly for us'to attempt to disfranchise the negroes.” It is indeed a sad situation when men, some of whom have held the highest office in the gift of the people of their State, others of whom have served valiantly in war, and all of whom are men of ability and patriotism, admit they are without leadership or means to contest against a scheme fraught with so much injustice to one-h'alf the population and carry- ing a menace to all. That is the evil that has be- fallen the South from the unchecked dominance of a amined the matters with which they have to do in- single party. In the whole commonwealth of Ala- bama there is no organized machinery to defeat the schemes of political bosses. The intelligence and vir- tue of the State seem to be about as powerless in this emergency. as the negroes themselves. It is to be noted, moreover, that some Southern men are of the opinion that to impose an educational qualification upon the negro, while exempting the white man from it, will in the end lead to negro supre- macy, inasmuch it will set a premium upon education among the negroes, while no such premium will ex- ist among the whites. In expounding that view of the question the Atlanta Constitution says: “The nation building up its material resources must eclipse the one content with the achievement of past ages. The same is true as between races and individuals. Ap- plied to the States of the South, while some short- sighted people regard only the political aspect and would legislate for white dominance thrdugh black exclusion, the question must be regarded in its larger light. A partial victory gained, the real contest still remains, for the colored man going to college will be better armed than the white man remaining in ‘the field, notwithstanding the possession of the franchise by the latter. Of what usé\to the white man is the franchise if the negro posse:§s the key to every other avenue of life which education opens up to him? ‘While this white man may become a county Sheriff or a Tax Collector, the educated negro in possession of the secrets of nature and skill can afford to pass him by with somewhat of an air of unconcern.” It will be seen from these statements that while the Bourbons dominate Southern politics at present, their power is by no means secure. There is a growing spirit of revolt against them all along the line, and it may prove in the end that the very steps they are taking to fasten their domination upon the people will lead to their overthrow.. @ e e —— e It is announced that Minister Wu Tifig Fang is to make the Fourth of July address at Philadelphia, and e N \\ \ 4 \“\ \ \‘\\\' CONDITION OF AFFAIRS AFTER A YEAR OF WAR IN SOUTH AFRIC:_A: AR \ Sl \\‘ \ f\ now if New York is not wiiling to be a side show in the celebration she will have to get Somebody to speak for her whose oratory has less of a chestnut color than that of Chauncey Depew. 2 R THE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE (ONDITION OF AFFAIRS AFTER ONE YEAR OF WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE TERRITORY DESIGNATED IN WHITE IS THAT HELD BY THE FORCES OF GREAT BRITAIN IN SEP- TEMBER, 1893, AND IN SEPTEMBER, 1900. e OUR EPWORTH VISITORS. WRITER in The Speaker (Liberal, London) gives a dis- couraging statement as to the territory which the Brit- il really hold in South Africa. *“With Dewet’s inva- cion of Cape Colony,” says this writer, “the policy of wounds and diseasc, 10,000. i LONDON, May 31, 1901.—British officers and men killed, died from wounds and disease, 15,800. Total S the date of the arrival of the delegates to A the Epworth League convention draws nearer the various committees in charge of the local arrangements feel more and more the need of money. The right preparation for so large a convention can- got be made with scant funds, nor can the commit- tees well afford to wait long for the collection of money. Hence it follows there should be liberal con- tributions, and that they should be promptly made. It is estimated that the number of visitors who will attend the convention will be upward of 30,000. The time - when they will arrive is less than a month away. At a meeting of the finance committee on Monday evening it was reported that the contributions up to that time amounted in round numbers to $10,000. In the judgment of the committee the arrangements for the convention cannot be properly carried out for less than $25,000. There remains, thercfore, something like $15,000 to be raised. - The sum is large enough to show the need of liberality, but it is a moderate amount for a work of hospitality undertaken upon a scale sufficient to meet the needs of such a host of | visitors. It is gratifying that arrangements have been made to supply the. visitors with information concerning California as a land for home-seekers as well as a holiday land for conventions and tourists. The Ep- worth League is made up almost wholly of young people of the best classes. The members represent all kinds of business and professional life. They come from the shops, the fields, the offices and the schools of the country; they are well trained mentally and morally; are industrious, earnest and high-minded. Such men with their youth and energy would be most. excellent additions to our citizenship. It is safe to say that among them will be many who have not yet permanently settled in life, and consequently the chances for California to win.many of them to make their homes within her borders are good. In a certain way the assembling of so large a num- ber of persons in the city appeals to our business in- stincts as well as to our hospitality. With the ever- improving transportation facilities between us and the East, San Francisco becomes more and more ac- cessible as a convention city. It will be our own fault if we do not make it the most popular city in the Union for summer gatherings of all kinds. The way to accomplish that is to take gqod care of every con- vention that conies. The question of properly enter- taining the Epworth League is the issue before us just now. Money is needed. San Francisco is rich and liberal. Let the money begpromptly contributed. e ————— FISCAL AND WAGES. UR contemporary, the Chronicle, is convinced O that law_can raise tropical wages to the level of wages in the temperate zone and equalize the conditions of production. There is no instance on record to prove the case. True, the Chronicle professes to have discovered that free trade with Ha- waii has raised plantation wages higher than the wages of agricultural production in California, but we are inclined to think that this discovery is the fruit of zeal rather than the statement of a fact. If a fact, it disproves that which it is intended to establish, since, if Hawaiian wages are higher, there is inequality in- stead of equality as.a result of common fiscal ar- rangements. ol 3 Last fall there was ‘widely published the joint con- clusions of an enterprising Chinese business man and an American in Luzon, that the industrial develop- ment of the Philippines must be wrought by Chinese coolie labor. Both agreed as to the worthlessness of the native labor. They proposed to introduce a large coolie population, which the Chinese gentleman de- clared would, by its labor, make the islands the richest part of the world. They agreed that if dependent on native labor the islands would never be of commer- cial importanée. ' Physical facts are stubborn things. They do not yield to statutes and resist decrees. Every nation that owns tropical possessions has found it necessary to work them for profit by some form of forced or ser- vile labor. We know.of nothing in the nature of things that will ever make our tropical possessions an exception. ! y Governor Allen of Porto Rico has discovered this in that island, where the bar to progress is the tropi- cal inertia of ghe people. The sooner these physical facts are known and admitted by Americans the better. ‘We want no commercial, fiscal nor political incor- poration of the islands and their people with us, and it is the duty of the American people to resist the first step toward that end, which is the free trade proposed. 2 There ‘is still a good deal of talk going on about Edison’s new storage battery, but as there has been as ye! no public test the chances are the inventor has put it in cold storage to await further developments. was that shown in the second map. dispatches: cost of war to date, $350,000,000. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ROMAN NUMERALS—A. C. S., City. | Any arithmetic will give you information {in relation to Roman numerals. The sub- ject is also treated in the encyclopedias. TO HAVE LOVED—Constant Reader, City. *“'Tis better to have loved and lost, | than never to have loved at all,” is from Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” part 27, stan- za 4. AUTHOR WANTED—A constant reader wants to know in what book or poem he can find the following: True worth shall gain‘me, that it may be said Desert, not fancy, once a woman led. | FOURTH CLASS OFFICE—S., San | Pablo, Cal. There is no law that requires a fourth-class Postmaster, because there | are private or lock boxes in his office, to keep open after ordinary business hours. WIDTH OF STREETS—A. W. L., City. The numbered streets of San Francisco from Tenth to Twenty-sixth are 64 feet wide. By width is meant the space be- {ween the inner edge of the sidewalk on each side. MINT AND HALL OF RECORD—P., City. Positions in the United States Branch Mint and in the Hall of Rocord in San Francisco are obtained through civil service examination. 1n _the first under United States rules, and in the second under municipal rules. BANK OF ENGLAND—G. ‘W. H. The Bank of England is chartered by the Gov- ernment of England; but it is not the treasury of the English Government. You can write to the bank for any information you may desire without aflixing an an- judicature stamp to the same. The bank Will send a reply if it is not an infr: tion of rules as to the private business of the {nstitution. Tne proper place to make application for information relative to an estate in England is to write to the pro- bate division of the law courts, London. SATLORS ON SHIP—A. 8, City. On board ship sailors have to perform ordi- | nary ship dutles, watch and watch, but in case of emergency there is no limitation o the time they are to work. If a ship is at anchor, and onja Sunday morning after 9 o'clock a sailor Should be called upon to dp any work which he considers un- necessary, he should do that work and then present a bill against the owners for overtime. The time that sailors shall do sailors’ work Is governed bv deck regula- tions on each ship. On coasting vessels in this State when, sailors handle cargo they do not work more than nine hours. PRESERVATION OF SKINS—W. H., Occidental, Cal. To preserve skins with the fur on the following is given as a method: ‘Mix bran and soft water suffi- cient to cover the skin. Immerse and keep covered for twenty-four hours; then remove, wash, clean and carefully scrape off all flesh. To one gallon of hot water add one pound of alum and one-quarter pound of salt. When dissolved and _cool enough to admit the entrance of the hand in the solution, immerse the skins for twenty-four hours; then dry-and rub the skins, after which immerse for twenty- four hours in oatmeal and hot water and finally rub until entirely dry. ‘This leaves the skin like white leather and fit for im- mediate use.” This department does not Iiow. from practical use the efficacy of this recipe. SUCCESSION—Widow, City. If a man dies in California without leaving a will and leaves personal property and real estate in several counties and States, let- ters of administration should be applied for in the county in which he died. Then o certified copy of such letter should be Sbtained by the appointed administrator to present in other places ‘where property is located in order to obtain the admin- istration of the estate wherever situated. An application for letters would have to ‘be made in every county where the prop- erty is to be found in the name of the de- cedent. In California the property of an intestate is governed by the law of suc- cession. If he leaves a widow and one child the property goes to the widow and child in equal shares, to the exclusion of all others. e POSTMASTER 1IN POLITICS—F. H, Los Angeles, Cal. There is no Federal law or postal regulation that prevents a Postmaster from exercising his rights as an American citizen as to political mat- ters but is he should neglect his business as Postmaster for the purpose of engag- ing in active politics, he would soon hear from the postal authorities. The depart- ment is governed by the circular letter Sent by’ President Clevgland July 14, 1886, to the hzads of departments in the gervice of the gencral government warn- ing them and their subordinates agamst “Vsing their Sficial positions in attempts to control political movements in tneir localities.” That letter contains the fol- lowing sentence: “Office-holders are nef- ther disfranchised nor forbidden the ex- ercise of political privileges, but their rivileges are not enlarged nor is their guty to party increased to pernicious ac- tivity by office-holding.” —_———o—————— SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. cific Coast S. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. ‘concentration along railroad lines’ was begun by the British, with the result that in the fall of 1900 the condition of affairs From this,” he says, “it Is evident that we (the British) hold only the railways and an insignificant stretch of territory on either side. really accomplished anything during the past year?” The cost in life and money is aptly illustrated in these two LONDON, May 31, 1800.—“The war is over.” Total British officers and men killed in action, died from The conquest of ‘war, from a money Have we ©Ver engaged. ing with but little 000,000. In the Crimean AMERICANIZED. I love my trans-Atlantic brother well, I hate his foes Infernally: ‘With conscious pride I feel my bosom swell ‘When he greets me fraternally. Yet might it not, I sometimes ask, befall That his loved presence might begin to pall? His kodak on my privacy intrudes, His beef fills to satiety, His canned goods crowd what late were soli- tudes, His heiresses Soclety. 'Tis his—one drop of sweet in bitter cup— 'Tis his alarum wakes my servants up. His ofl my lamp, his corn my belly fills, He bullds me my machinery, And boards that tell the praises of his pills Adorn my native scenery; While in the Tube—so Yankeefled we are— 1 ride perforce in his triumphal car. He wins our races, teaches us to ride— 'Tis true, I'm very sure it is— Our markets find all stocks are dull beside His versatile securities; And near at hand, I hear, the pericd is ‘When all our ships and shipyards shall be his. He fills my kosmos, and I can but see, As every Tom and Jerry can, Soon I, my kin, race, clime and land may be Essentlally American, And I may own, of comfort quite bereft, That there is nothing really English left. —M. S., in London Chronicle. A 'CHANCE TO SMILE. Thée greatest friend to love is lone- someness. Every woman ought to be at least twice as good to her husband as he will let _her be. The reason why there are so many old bachelcrs i that there is no place like ome. Orly about half the women who have beauty enough to go to the devil have got brains enough to take a man along. No matter how old she is, a woman will always claim that a man never be- gins to be really dangerous till he is past her own age—New York Press. “Some people say,” remarked the talk- ative hnrmr, “that barbers are too fond of conversation.” “Oh! that’s all wrong,” replied the man in the chair. “It's soliloquy they're fond of.”*—Philadelphia Record. ““Newby Nobbs says he's afraid to get married.” Why “He says that girls nowadays all look so smart. ’—Detroit_Free Press. A London physician called upon a lady the other day to offer to vaccinate her child. The lady refused. “May I ask,” said the doctor, “what your objection is?" The lady said she feared the transmission of disease. “But, madam,” said the doctor, “‘we use the purest calf-lymph.”’ “Then, Doctor replied the lady, “that settles it, for we are vegetarians, you know."”—Pittsburg Dispatch. “Clara is so unsophisticated about mu- . “In what speclal way?"” “Oh, at an opera she thinks singers ought to sing so she can understand the words.”'—Chicago Recora-Herald. Harry—What has become of that new watc:n»o{ yours that you bragged so much about? Dick—Oh, that’s gone up the spout; but 1 played a great joke on the pawnbroker. I destroyed the pawnticket; so I sha'nt have to pay interest on the loan.—Boston Transcript. “Hiram, I am considering a proposal of marriage, and. as you have been coming to see me for nearly six vears, I thought it would be no more than right to tell you o f it.” “Why, Bella, I-T have always wanted to ask you myself!” me, Bella?” up.) “Tell me, new, “Yours, Hiram, -Chicago Tribune. Ao _mo Tl cost of war td date, $715,000,000. to her was $:45,000,000. ‘Yes. 'You dear girl!” (Pause. properly filled 1la, whose pro- posal of marriage you were considering.” the Boers has proved to be the most costly point of view, in which Great Britain has In the American War of Independence (I775-1783) Great Britain sexpended $605,000,000. The several wars with France, beginning in 1793 and last- intermission until ended by Waterloo, 1815, cost her directly and in subsidies to Continental allies $4,155,- war, with 97,000 men in the fleld, the cost PERSONAL MENTION. M. Biggs Jr., a banker of Oroville, is at the Grand for a few days. C. W. Eastin, an attorney of San Jose, registered at the Grand yesterday. Paul R. Jarboe came up from Santa Cruz yesterday and registered at the | Palace. » | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Williams Jr. | sail from New York to-day on the Océanic for Europe. Dr. J. J. Miller, a prominent physician of San Jose, is in the city and is staying at the Palace. L. F. Warner, an extensive land-owner of Auburn, is in the city on business and is at the Grand. Congressman James MecLachlan, whose home is at Pasadena, registered yester- day at the Palace. A. B. Rodman, a prominent young busi- ness man of Woodland, arrived in the city yesterday. He registered at the Occi- dental. | George Mitchell, a well known mining man, has returned to this city after an extended tour of Mexico. He is at the Palace. Percy L. Schuman, a prominent attor- ney of Chicago, who is heavily invested in mining properties in California, is at the Palace. R. B. Burns, chief enginer of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los Angeles, is in the city. He has made the Palace his headquarters. Colonel W. Forsyth, one of the most ex- tensive raisin producers of this State, is ! here from Fresno with his family and is at the Ogcidental. H. F. Norcross, general agent of the Hotel Coronado, accompanied by his wife, registered at the Palace yesterday. They were married recently and are spending their honeymoon in this vieinity. ‘Cholco eandies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* ot eui i ~—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_————— Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone 1042 —_——— A woman never sees a new freckle f the looking glass that doesn't wondez why it is that the Lord lets there be so much injustice in the world.—New York Press. — e Are You “Of the 0ld World”? Everything pertaining to the New World may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pan- American Exposition, and the best way to get to Buffalo is by the comfortable traine of the Nickel Plate Road, carrying Nickel Plate Dining Cars, in which are served Amer- ican Club meals from 3c to §1.00 each. Book free, showing pictures of exposition bufldings. Hotel accommodations reserved. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. 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