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The > +Snbse - Call. .JUNE 20, 1901 THURSDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Agdress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE.. ..Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered hy Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copiles, § Centn. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY ' CALL (including Suncay), ene year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month. WEEKLY CALL, One Year... All postmasters are nuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of mddress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. AKLAND OFFICE. S ++.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chieage. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW TYORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON..... .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unfon Square: Murrey Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hote]: Fremont House: Auditorium Hotd. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—S? Montgomery, corner of Clay. open ©ntil 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister. open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o’'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Eixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia. open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. ————————————e AMUSEMENTS. Tivoll—""The Toy Maker.” Crpheum—Vaudeville. Columbta. *Heartsease.” Countess Valeska." -House—*'Gismonds Central—"A Night at the Cires Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and cening. Fischer s—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By G H. Umhsen & Co.—Monday, June 2{, at 12 o'clock, Cholce Property. at 14 Montgomery street. 10 SUBSCRIEERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Canx residea their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will alse be on sale at all Pesorts mnd is represented by & local ageat im | il towss en thie coast. T MUNICIPAL. PATERNALISM. HERE is no evidence that the municipal pater- 1 " ported into this country from more satisfactory to Ameri- There have been nples here of the failure of personal or cor- m. The Pullman Company and other s of labor have housed it comfortably; 1 schools, provided baths and even amuse- to find that these paternal arrangements ice contentment nor happiness in their pe W rope will ersonal paternalism. tablish ments, do not benefi We have endeavored to inquire, in a spirit of in- vestigat into the results of munieipal paternalism in the U States, znd so far none of the advocates of that sy sfactorily answered the ques- tions, tk oper answer to which must determine the We do not decide that it will wait proof that it will be wise. sm, the administration of utili- blic owpership, makes necessary a divi- lity, and that is the final cause of and expense of administration. In every case in which inquiry has been made it has been show e wisdom t ricipal accounts are not kept so cost of service in the case of municipal pa- ternal rnistration of gas, water or railway plants certained. In many cases the proponents and the opponents of municipal paternalism have reform municipal accounting so can be known, but their attempts In Chicago and New York it is impos- sible to find out the cost of municipal paternalism in the water supply. The cost is divided among inter- cst, construction, maintenance and profit and loss ac- counts, and each is so imperfectly’ kept that experts employed by commercial bodies have reported the as- certai of cost to be impossible. It admitted by proponents and opponents of municipal paternalism that if a2 uniform system of ac- counting, furnished and audited by the Government, were adopted by all municipalities and all private corporations it would disclose the administrative abil- ity of each, and that, under equal physical conditions, it would probably demonstrate that municipal waste is greater than corporate profit, because responsibility is more divided in a municipality than in a private corporation. In administering any great American railway there is a concentration of responsibility, and that rule runs throughout all business operations. In the formation of government, for the discharge of its proper poli- tical functions, there is, on the other hand, a division of responsibility. Our scheme of government is based on that principle, and hence we have the three co-ordinate branches dividing responsibility among them It was not intended to be a paternal scheme, and therefore was not made fit for the conduct of busi- ness. 4. No one can plan in advance the changes that must be made to fit such a scheme for paternal administra- tion. We only know that wherever the attempt has been made waste has resulted, causing a loss to the people that is greater than the profit of corporate energy in the same ficld of administration. The his- tory of such experiments by no means justifies the rosy prospectus issued by the advocates of municipal ernalism. It is believed by many thinkers that h paternalism in its cost and tyranny would ex- ceed anything charged now against the so-called cap- italistic system, and that if there is to be a change it shoild not be to the incurably inefficient system of municipal administration with its division. of respon- sibility and inevitable waste. . can be ined in trying to cost ervice ¢ failed. in; BRYA POTE‘OY. T Kinley's emphatic action on the third term proposition has renewed public interest in 1904, and makes important the probable potency of Bryan in the Democratic councils three years hence. To determine the probable value of his influence the Herald has taken interviews with the local lead- ers of his party in all sections of the country. New England is found to be most contented with his dic- tatorship. Everywhere there is apparent the same subjection to his will that made the Kansas City con- vention subservient to him. But this may mean let- ting him down easy, since but few seem willing to accept him again as a candidate. In his own State there appears a rather determined opposition to him, which is ascribed to the influence of J. Sterling Morton and other Gold Democrats. Personally no man exceeds Morton in influence in Nebraska. In that State there seems to be a growing feeling that Mr. Bryan’s two candidacies were really brought about by Republican influence. He was nominated, it is said, because he was the easiest man to beat. Be this as it may, Nebraska seems to have wearied of his extreme position. Pennsylvania- Democrats say that an exponent of conservatism will be neminated next time, and Bryan will have but little influence. In the South the office-holders are practically a unit for Bryan as the party Warwick. He cannot be the candidate, they say, but he will dictate the nomi- nation. Conditions in that section are determined by an internecine strife. The outs in Southern Democracy are against the ins, and are allying themselves with the industrial and commercial conditions with which Senator McLaurin and ex-Senator Caffery are aligned. The political element heretofore and now in power in the South loves extremes. They are suited to the Southern temper. Calhoun and Yancey, Toombs and Jefferson Davis, are still the Southern ideals, though the extreme policies for which they stood have never turned a wheel, made a dollar or produced two bales of cotton where one grew before. The business men | of the South have never been influential in politics. | The men of leisure have always been the leaders there. A change is brewing in that section, but there are | grave doubts whether it will make an impression deep enough to control the Southern delegations. Missouri, if Governor Stone speaks for the State, is Damon to Bryan’s Pythias. Stone has delivered an interview in which he stands hovering that “young | eagle of lofty flight, stricken by the arrows of traitors | and brought down from the empyrean to regain his strength in the company of kindred spirits, that he | may again soar and in thunder tones rebuke treason and point the way of political salvation.” Brother Stone is a warm member, and can supply metaphor |and hyperbole, he-hysterics and political flapdoodle | enough for the next four national conventions. Tillman of South Carolina holds a close second to Stone, while Major Watterson seizes his can opener |and takes the tin off enough of the same sort on the other side to add a piquant variety to what seems to | be the only kind of stuff furnished now from the | several sources of Democratic opinion. | The rank and file, upon whom Mr. Cleveland seems {to rely as the party’s forlorn hope, seem to be too busy or too paralyzed by two defeats under Mr. Bryan to express an opinion. They know they have | been hurt by obeying orders in two campaigns. Their general in command has flung them against in- | vincible artillery. The infantry has cavalry charges, and the cavalry has made infantry charges, |and both have been mowed down. They feel that some one has blundered, but it is doubtful |if they can reason why, with sufficient clearness to put the blame where it belongs. Meantime the Republican statesmen are watching | the Bryanites much as a housewife watches a cat in a fit, wondering what it will do next. made | It is not easy to explain the unsettled condition of | the weather all over the United States this summer, but it is worth noting that the Legislatures of Penn- sylvania and of Massachusetts have not adjourned yet | and in those centers the air is still subject to erratic | disturbances. | F Statistics has been engaged in compiling statis- tics showing the leading movements in the do- mestic trade of the country. A recently published | summary of the work in that regard contains over a hundred tables giving figures of traffic along the At- lantic seaboard, the Great Lakes, the South and the Pacific Coast. Among the interesting features of the | showing made by the tables is that of the widening scope of internal commerce, caused by the conversion of vacant lands into farms in the Northwest and min- eral developments in the Southwest, which sections are enjoying a large influxt of hospitality. The increase of trade in the Mississippi Valley has been mainly in the way of livestock and cereals. The livestock receipts at the five principal markets of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Jo- seph during 1901 show remarkable gains over last year, both as regards April and the four months end- ing with April, the official receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep in the four months just ended showing an in- crease of, 359,417 head, as compared with the corre- sponding four months of 1900. The receipts of spring and winter wheat at the eight markets of Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Duluth, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, | Detroit and Toledo for the harvest year to April 30 were 10,840,722 bushels more than a year ago, a gain of approximately 6 per cent. The commercial movements at the Atlantic sea- board include grain and flour. During April, 1901, Boston received 4,092,802 bushels; New York, 9,655, 919 bushels; Philadelphia, 4,031,507 bushels, and Bal- timore, 6,313,254 bushels, making a total of 24,993,662 bushels for those four principal ports. J In Southern territory the cotton movement is the most important, 9,384,047 bales havx‘ng come into sight by May 1, 1901. Of this amount Texas alone contributed 3,508,400 bales. The growth of New Or- leans as a grain port is seen in the fact that there were exported from that city during the four months end- ing May 1 18,022,363 bushels of grain, as compared with 14,153,127 bushels in the four months of 1g00. An event which the bureau considers of sufficient importance to be noted in its bearing upon the inter- nal commerce of the country during April is the ship- ment of a carload of Valencia oranges from Southern California to Portland, Or., destined for Vladivostok, Siberia. In commenting upon it the report of the Bureau of Statistics says: “This is the first fruit ship- ment of the kind, and illustrates the tendency in this branch of -production to relieve itself from the neces- sity of depending solely on the domestic and Euro- pean markets. The failure of California orange- growers to find a sufficient supply of cars to enable COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS. OR some time past the Treasury Bureau of HE New York Herald says that President Mc- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, ®1901 them to put their f on the Eastern market and the high rates of ocean freight from the Atlantic seaboard to Europe have conspired to force the growers either to work up the product at home or to find new mar- kets in the far East. Another experimental feature in the distribution of the citrus fruit crop of Califor- nia is the shipment eastward by way of coastwise steamers from Redondo to Seattle, thence over the Great Northern Railroad to points as far east as Chi- cago. . Several train loads have been marketed over this route.” There will be a good deal of talk during the sum- mer about the man to succeed McKinley, but it will hardly amount to much. The office will not begin to seek the man for at least a year. B an advisory committee the Republican Pri- mary League has given assurance to the rank and file of the party that its object is not to further the ambitions of particular candidates, or to assist in any factional attempt to control the nominating con- vention, but to promote genuine Republicanism and to assure honest primary elections under the new law of the State. The members of the advisory committee are not unknown. They stand for something in business, in professional life and in politics, They are men of influence and of known integrity. No one doubts the Republicanism of any member of the committee, nor will it be denied that they will uphold the best tra- ditions of the party against the domination of bosses and their tools. < So important is the personality of the committee at this juncture that it will be well for all citizens to read over the list and see what kind of men have been called to the leadership in the movement. Here it is: Louis Sloss, W. H. L. Barnes, I. W. Hellman Jr.,, R. H. Lloyd, Marion Leventritt, John L. Koster, Phil N. Lilienthal, Vanderlynn Stow, Emile Bauer, Al Gerber- ding, Warren Dutton, H. P. Sonntag, George K. Fitch, H. N. Clement, Bert H. Hecht, James McNab,*S. C. Denson, P. C. Rossl, R. H. Warfield, George Lowenberg, Ernest H. Lilienthal, Van R. Paterson, J. Levi Jr., E. W. McGarthy, W. H. Crocker, Wendell Easton, J. B. Stetson, G. H. Umbsen, H. D. Loveland, George W. Kingsbury, Thomas E. Bannerman, J. S. Young, A. C. Rulofson, J. D. Grant, J. D. Siebe, J. K. Wilson, E. J. Baldwin, W. G. Stafford, George B. Wells, Mark Shel- Gon, Charles Bundschu, W. E. Dixey, J. G. Conrad, John R. Hillman, W. F. McNutt, J. E. Doolittle, Edward Pollitz, I. J. Truman, Willam M. Abbott, Robert ‘Weineke, C. C. Burr, Wakefield Baker, J. Eppinger, Max Brooks, George A. Moore, T. W. Collins, C. B. Rode, I'rank J. Symmes. v . As an advisory committee these men will be heard in every important step taken in the work of the league, and the course taken in any instance will be largely determined and guided by their counsel. It is hardly necessary to say that under their guidance the organization will never become a faction or a clique, nor will it ever have any other objects than those of promoting Republicanism and maintaining honest primaries. These things having been assured by the selection of an advisory committee in which Republicans can have well founded confidence, there can be no longer any reason why all genuine Republicans should not join the association or co-operate with it. There has long been a demand for a primary law, and the de- mand has now been complied with. The law is upon the statute-books. It cannot, however, enforce itself, nor can it of its own vigor overthrow boss rule. If the better elements of the Republican party do not ’take an interest in the primaries and attend the elec- tions the bosses will once more control the nominat- ing conventions. As the matter now stands the issue is up to the rank and file of the Republican party. The origin- ators of the league have pledged themselves so to ex- tend and develop it that all who are members of the party and who desire to do so may connect themselves with it. It is in no way exclusive, and is subject to the absolute control of its members: There is here a chance for every Republican to serve his party and the city, and it should not be lost. P — GLASS AND AIR. M the present century is destined to be known as the age of steel and of electricity; that the one will be used more and more for structural pur- poses and the other for motive power. There are, however, not lacking people who dissent from the common opinion. Men of good authority as experts maintain that glass will be more used for structural purposes than steel, and that the power which will drive the engines of the future, whether stationary or locomotive, will be not so much electricity as com- pressed air. It is not to be understood that the believers in glass and air hold a belief that we shall make no use at all of steel and electricity. They admit readily enough that there will be some purposes for which those things will be far better than any other that can be offered, just as there will always be some struc-+ tures for which wood is better than metal or brick, and some forms of traction ‘for which horse power will be better than any engine. Nevertheless they insist that the great mass of material used in the structures of the future will be glass, and the dom- inant motive power will be compressed air. The arguments for compressed air as a competitor against electricity are fairly well known, for they have been frequeritly stated by the manufacturers of en- gines driven by that power. The glass men have of late been making claims equally strong. It is argued that there is an inexhaustible supply of material for making glass and that the manufacture of it is be- coming every year more economical. A noted glass *| manufacturer of France is quoted as saying recently: It is obvious that glass can be shaped, colored and decorated to an extent of which no other.material is capable. Chairs and tables, in the new glass age, will be made of vitrified material, toughe to the strength of teak and mahogany. Cooking utensils, plates and cups and saucers will be made of the same substance. The new glass house will be absolutely clean and prac- tically indestructible. The whole of its surface can be wished from the top story to the basement without a trace of the humidity being left. Dust cannot collect on the polished face, and the spider will find no place on which to hang its cobwebs. We are thus to look forward to an age when there will be an acute rivalry between electricity and com- pressed air, and within another generation the rivalry may be watched by people who live in glass houses where cleanliness can be obtained by simply spraying the rooms from a hose pipe, and where there will be no need of scrubbing cloths or soap. The cities of that time will of course be rich in decorative effects and the walls of buildings will gleam and glow with colors of all kinds. It is a fine future to look for- ward to, for when everybody lives in glass houses no one can throw stones and there will be peace in the world. S —————— FOR HONEST PRIMARIES. Y the character of the men selected to act as OST men of our time are fully persuaded that '_ThevSultan has not yet paid his debt to France, but as he is reported to have ordered two warships to be built in that country it is probably his intention to let France take it out in trade. EMPIRE OF THE SOUTH SEAS UNDER THE RULE OF BRITANNIA R_EID IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS —From Black and White. TELEGRAPHY BY MARCONI'S MARVELOUS SYSTEM Successful Experiments in the Establishment of Communication Between Marconi system. successfully op E direction of M. de Bremaecker, engineer. Professor Branley of the Paris Catholic faculty, while in- vestigating the electrical resistance of metallic filings, discov- ered that this resistance, which is ordinarily very great, dimin- ishes to an enormous extent when the filings are acted upon by the electric oscillations known as the Hertzian waves, after Professor Branley’s dis- covery rendered wireless telegraphy possible, as it furnished the means of receiving electric oscillations at a distance. the aid of Professor Branley’'s discovery Mr. Marconi discov- ered the wireless telegraphy system, says the Monde Illustre. For the purpose of operating the wireless telegraphy 'sys- tem between France and Corsica stations have been established The Antibes station is situated near the Biot Railway. The only apparatus in the open air is the mast and crossplece supporting the vertical wire. supporting {he coherer apparatus consists of three parts re- the name of Hertz, their discoverer. at Calvi and at Antibes. spectively 26, 18 and 17 meters long. Exccllent results have always been obtained during the experiments with wireless telegraphy between Antibes and The distance between the stations is 175 kilometers This is not the greatest distance over which the Marconi wireless telegraphy system has been operated. Com- munications have been effected between the Lizard Head and Calvl. (108.5 miles). XPERIMENTS are being made at Antibes with the ‘Wireless telegraphy has already been ated between France and Corsica. The municipal administration of Antibes has done every- thing possible to further the experiments, which are under the France and Corsica. the Isle of Wight, a The employment services. distance of 285 kilometers (156.70 miles). of wireless telegraphy will render great Its stationary uses include communications between the coast and lightships or lighthguses isolated at sea and communications between islands apd the coast. In the former case wireless telegraphy will serve to extend With The mast and greatly reduce wireless telegraphy from land either for corfsiderably the semaphore service of ports. ing outside the harbors can, by its agency, be kept in constant and certain communication with the port in all weathers and can signal the arrival of passing ships a long time in advance. This has already been done at Bremen, where a lightship fitted with wireless telegraphy apparatus is rendering excellent serv- ice as an advanced semaphore. The Herald’s wireless station, to be placed on the Nan- tucket Lighthouse, will report ocean liners from ten to fifteen hours before they arrive off New York harbor. When wireless telegraphy stations have been established fn all parts of the world ships at sea fitted up with the Mar- coni apparatus will in most cases be able to communicate with the mainland." Lightships float- This will give an impetus to navigation maritime risks. Vessels provided with apparatus will be able to ask for succor themselves or for other vessels in distress which they are unable to relieve. The conclusive and continuous experiments with wireless telegraphy conducted during several Antibes and Calvi justify the hope that France and Corsica will shertly be placed permanently in communication by means of this marvelous system.—Paris Edition of New York Herald. weeks past between ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ROBERT E. LEE—L. M., City. The initial “E.” in the name of Robert E. Lee stands for Edward. TWO DATES—L. M., City. The 24th of May, 1578, fell on a Friday, and the 9th of September, 1§79, fell on a Tuesday. MAPS—A. S.. Upton, Cal. Maps of the several counties of California may be ob- tained through any first-class book sellcr. THE AMERICA’S CUP—G. F. H. and R., City. The America’s cup was won August 22, 1851, by the schooner-yacht America. She was a keel boat. SPORTS—Subscriber, Coalinga, Cal. The newspaper directory does not give any such publication as Sports of Fleld, but glves Sports Afleld, a monthly issued in Chicago. MECHANICAL ARTS—A. 8, City. There is no school of mechanical arts in San Francisco open at night, ‘“where a man of 3, who neglected opportunities earlier in life can learn a trade. SANTA ANA POPULATION—F. W. 8., Campbell, Cal. The census of 1900 shows that the population of Santa Ana, Cal., was 4933; Santa Ana Township, including city, 6680. In 1880 the population of Santa Ana was 3623; Santa Ana Townshlp, in- cluding city, 3623. MAGAZINES—D., City. The Century Magazine is credited in P}owelxl's {*tervspn; er Directory with having a circulation o ?25,000 per month; Munsey's, 610,833; Cos- mopolitan, 350,000; Frank Leslie's Popular Magazine, 183,014, and the Arperican Re- | view of Heviews, 85,000, SALE OF A HORSE—C. R., Angels Camp, Cal. If a man sells a horse for $%0 and a week later buys it back again for $80, he is $10 in by the transaction. If_he subsequently sells the same horse for §100 he is in $20 on the second transactionm, in all $30 on the two sales. PARDON—P. M., City. If a man com- mitted murder in California and was sen- tenced by the -State authorities to be hanged he could not be pardoned by the President of the United States, because the President has only jurisdiction of Federal cases. GUM FOR STAMPS—G. A. P., City. The gum that is used on the back of post- age stamps is dextrine, a preparation of starch obtained from potatoes mixed with the mucilage obtained from squash seeds, sulphuric acid and water. The Govern- ment does not give the proportions used in the making of the gum. CRIBBAGE—W. B., Thermalito, Cal. If in a game of cribbage the play is a play of 5, 3, 4, 2, 5 there is then a run of three for 5, 3, 4, a run of four for 5, 3, 4. 2 and another run of four for 3, 4, 2, 5. It makes ne difference in what order the cards are played so long as there is a sequence. The second 5§ played did not interfere with the sequence from 3 to the last play. TRAINING SHIP—Subscriber, Kern County, Cal. A boy between the ages of 15 and 17 may, with the consent of his parents or guardian, be enlisted to serve in the United States navy until he attains the age of 2. Applications to be made_in California to the commandant of the United States ‘glp Pensacola, United States naval training station, Goat Island, San Francisco. . PRICE OF COMPOSITION—A. 8., City. Compositors receive as compensation as much as they can earn, according to abil- ity and the amount of work they can ob- tain. In job offices the schedule is from to 321 a week. In newspaper offices e price for work on linotype machines 18 $4 per day for day work and $450 per diem for night work. Typesetting by hand in job offices is not less than 45 cents per thousand ems. THE PRESIDENCY—A. 8., City. The constitution declares that to be eligible for the Presidency of the United States the person must be native born. It is held that a child born to American lpnenu in a foreign country is a citizen of the Unit- ed States, but whether one so born would be construed to be ‘‘a native born” has never been passed upon by the Supreme Court, as the question has never arisen. McAULIFFE-JACKSON—N., City. Joe McAuliffe and Peter Jackson fought be- fore the California Athletic Club, San Francisco, December 27, 1888, Twenty- four rounds were fought. McAuliffe was knocked out. THE CALL BUILDING—C. H. E., City. The Call building was illuminated exte- riorly for the first time on the occasion of the Native Sons’ celebration in 1900 with 100 lights. On previous occaslons it was illuminated interiorly from ground floor to dome, the first time being on the 19th of December, 1897. OLD MAN ELOQUENT-E. W. B, City. “Old Man Eloquent,” which has been ap- plied to Gladstone and other speakers, Is from Milton's fifth sonnet, which was ad- dressed to Lady Margaret Ley. It occurs in the following: Till sad the breaking of the Parllament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Kil'd with report that old man eloquent. WALKING TO NEW YORK—C. F. 8., City. The distance from New York to San Francisco is 3250 miles. If a man started afoot from San Francisco and walked it all the way to New York, ex- cept such parts as he would have to ferry across the water, and would have the endurance to average twenty miles a day, it would take him 162l days to make ths trip. There is no recorl of any man hav- ing l;‘walked from San Francisco to New York.” NEW ENGLAND COURANT-F. C. C, City. If the copy of the New Engiand Courant, Ben Frarklin's paper, published in Queen street, Boston, Mass., and bear- ing date ‘‘from Monday, February 4, to Monday, February 11, 1723, is a genuine one, it'is worth whatever may be offered for it as a relic of those times. If it is one of thousands of fac similes of that paper, issued about thirty-five years ago, it has no value. THE LETTERS “O K"—Inquisitive, City. The letters “O K" in the United States signify all right. Thelr use, it is said, originated With Jacob Astor, the millionaire, of New York. He was looked upon in commercial circles as a man of great information and sound judgment and was a general referee as to the sol- vency or standing of other traders. If a note of inquiry as to any particular trad- er's position came and he desired to send answer that the party was all right he was accustomed to write across the face of the letter “O K’ and return it to the writer. It was generally accepted that these letters were intended as an abbre- viation of “all correct,” and in that sense it is commonly used. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 19.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. Beckhoit, at the Cosmopoli- tan; D. Connor, W. Dawson, at the Grand Union; Miss Hallberg, at the Herald Square; J. Hanford, at the Gilsey; C. C. Fratt, at the Murray Hill; Dr. M. E. Si- mon, at the Savoy; E. Zimmerman, at the Vendome; S. W. Gray, at the Hoiland; N. C. Hawks, at the Bartholdi; W. W. ‘Weighet, at the Gilsey; W. E. Amann, at the Broadway Central; D. H. Canfield, at the Grand; F. H. Davis, at the Manhat- tan; C. Diamond and wife,at the Lelve- dere; R. H. Hoitt, at the Imperial; E. L. Reed, at the Albert; J. Rusdiger, at the Belvedere. From Los Angeles—H. Harrington, at the Gilsey: H. Laughlin Jr. and D. Schuy- ler, at the Grand{@nion; H. P. Wendt, at the Gilsey. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, June 19.—The following Californians are visiting here and are reg- istered: At the Ebbitt, John B. Eldridge; at the Raleigh, George F. Neal and H. ‘Wendleg and wife; at the St. James, H. A. Marvin—all of San Francisco. At the Arlington, Mrs. Frank A. Cressy and two children. A CHANCE TO SMILE. ‘Wife—John, I wish you'd have burglar alarms put-in the house. What if burg- lars should break in and steal my seal- skin jacket? . Husband—Nonsense; there’s no danger whatever—er—on second thought, per- haps. it wouldn't be a bad idea. They might steal my new overcoat.—Fun. Mrs. Godfrey—I think it's about time we began to send Willle to Sunday school. Mr. Godfrey—I think so, too; he asked me only yesterday if I believed that fairy itl(;ry of Jonah and the whale.—Brooklyn e. “Ah, Mr. Weareighsum,” sald Miss Gab- beigh, “you make one feel that it is splrl(ng all the year round whenever you call.” Necw, that's nice,” sald Mr. Weareigh- sum, while the rich redness of his blush crept athwart his countenance. es, you do,” continued the young lady ou know that spring always gives us that tired feeling.”—Baltimore American. The tables turned—Mrs. Meek—Bridget, I am greatly grieved because you will not work for me jonger: why are you going? Bridget—Well, yes wint an’ got a hat l¢ike moine, an’, faith, I won't stand it at all, at all.—Ohlo State Journal. ‘‘Mamma, I see by the papers that, when England’s new King goes forth, he is pre- ceded by ‘a fanfare of trumpets,” sald little Robble. “Yes, my son,” replied the mother. “Well, when I wake papa up in the morning with my trumpet. is that a fan- ar ““Well, Robbie, I can’t just mow tell you what your papa does call it, but™t doesn’t | sound anything like that.”—¥onkers Statesman. N Patience—Do you know, when Will went to put the engagement ring on my finger he didn't really know which finger it should go on. Patrice—Well, he must have a very poor memory.—Yonkers Statesman. Ida—I don’t belleve the Van Alberts” dog is a_genuine poodle. May—Why not? Ida—He hasn't had sore eyes since they bought him.—Chicago News. The little daughter of the new neighbor had rung the front door bell twice. Plecse, mum.”yshe said to the mistress of the place, “mamma wants to know very much if you are going to plant garden this sprin, “Why, know for?* ‘“Well, we are going to raise some spring | chickens, but there’s no use of trying to raise chickens if none of the neighbors keeps a garden.”"—Kansas City Star. child, what does she want to James J. Coogan, de facto president of the borough of Manhattan, recently ap- | plied to a Harlem horsedealer to purchase | a trotter. The dealer brought out a hand- some bay horse. “T'll guarantee the animal to go In three minutes easy,” said the dealer. Coogan understood the man to mean that the | horse could go a mile in three minutes and drove the animal up to the Speedway to try him. “I found he was a slow plug and could not trot,” sald the friend of Croker In tell- | h:guthe story. “I drove back to the stakle. ““ ‘Here you,” I sald to the delaer, ‘you told me this horse could go in three min- utes! It took him four by the watch.” ““Well, you must have been in a — of a hurry if you couldn’t wait a minute,” the dealer replied. Coogan did not buy York Sun. e Cholce candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® ot e —— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ————— the horse.—~New Special information supplied daily te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephome Main 1042. _—e—————— A Frenchman has invented a tobacco. pipe which has a whistle in the stem in order to enable the smoker to summon a cab without taking the pipe from his mouth. People of impoverished blood fall an easy prey to the rigors of winter. Restore your vitality by the use of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters.

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