The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Acéress All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. . +..Telephone Press 201 H'BI,IEA;;mCE .Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telepho Press 202. Delivered by Carrfers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cen Terms by Mall, Including DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 month: . 3.00 DAILY CALL ¢including Sunday), 3 months. - 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL One Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year All postmasters are anthorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to imsure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. » ¥anager Yoreign Aévertising, Marquetts Building. Chies. 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Tivoli—*"Barber of Seville.” California—"“Barbara Frietchie.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*‘Lady Huntworth’s Experiment."". Alcazar—*Silver-Mounted Harn > Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. { Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and | evening. Fischer's—Vardeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Baths—Sw State Fair and E: Sutro nminz position, Sacramento—September 2 to 14. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWR FOR THE SUMMER. | Cai! subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail to their new | addresses by notifying The Call Business Office, i This paper will 2lse be on sale at all summer resoris aud is represemted by a local agemt im ~Il towns on the coast. United States Industrial Commission to inves- | l tigate industrial combinations in Europe, has | TRUSTS IN EUROPE. i ROFESSOR J. W. JENCKS, appointed by the | | more. THOSE RECIPROCITY TREATIES. T ought not to be difficult to understand why I California objects to features in the pending reciprocity treaties. The Oakland Enquirer accuses. The Call of again “beating the drum” to summon the State to stand up against ratification, and thinks “it would be wiser to adopt a less antagonistic course and try to accomplish the purpose through such an amendment of the treaties as will prevent our vine- yardists and other producers from being especially hit,” To this it may be truthfully answered that such an amendment is exactly the same as beating the treaty, the purpose of which is to favor Eastern manufac- tures at the expense of Western products of the soil. Reciprocity is a give and take. France for two sea- sons nmow has produced an ipinfense surplus of wine and brandy. California is her only com- petitor. With us the industry is new. It has risen within the last thirty years. Its proper com- mercial organization is very recent. It has had to conquest the American market in the first instance in order to live at all. The tariff has given it that op- portunity, By centrast, France 'had vineyards and made wine long before Caesar’s invasion, and has been at it ever since. It is there an old and highly organized indus- try. The French vintners are past masters at blend- ing, fortifying, plastering and sophisticating, either harmfully or harmlessly, their wines. It is all an ancient art in the hands of habitual experts, who have steadily resented abridgment of their American mar- ket by the competition of California. Our wine business is in its critical stage. Not many years ago its estate was so low that the vine- vards ran the risk of being torn up. By great exer- tion and great loss the industry seems to have passed the point of peril. Just as it is in this condition ap- pears a rcciprocity treaty that in its give and take gives California away that Eastern manufacturers may take French trade. Those manufacturers have been the beneficiaries of protection since 1789. They did duty as “infant industries” in' Henry Clay's time and were mewling anc puking in the country’s arms when California belonged to Spain. To nurse them has cost vast sums. France has nothing that can compete with them. They are infant industries no We defy any one to give a good economic reason why the fruit-growers of California should be sacrificed for them. These treaties were made without consulting this State. But it is evident that the Eastern industries, which get all the profit out of them at our expense, were more than consulted—they planned and dictated them, and have been solidly organized to secure their ratification. Let it be plainly understood that the profit is taken out of us, and that there is not a penny of present or future compensation for us. The treaties may be ratified, but The Call desires that the Senators who do it shall realize that they have been in a fight. If the conditions were reversed, does any one think the Eastern manufacturers would stand by and suck their thumbs while we cut their dividends or invaded their surplus to sectire a better foreign market for the products of our soil? They would not merely beat the drum, for the full band would be out. Our members in Congress need to know that our people feel deeply and. bitterly in this matter. It brings back to them all the pain of the hard years passed, and freshens the sacrifices made to get a chance to live by impressing the home market, which it is now proposed to give away that metals and coal oil may widen their market in France and be sold rvecently submitted to that body a summary of his forthco: irg report, which it is said will form a book | of abous pages. From the summary it appears that trusts have been thriving in Europe for some | I they ¢ comment and criticism | United ing to the fact that they | are generally regarded as being necessary to -meet | modern industrial conditions. | It is ir y that the tendency toward indus- | trial combinations has been most notable in Europe, ssioner says: “It is probable that the has been extended as far as in the United States, and that combinations there, speaking generally, exert a great power over prices, over wages and in other directis G and the coms movement ther: | The plan of such organiza- | tions in Germany is, however, quite different from | that which preva made simply by contracts among independent estab- lishments instead of by forming a single large cor- | poration as is the custom in the United States.” In Austria the tendency is almost as marked as in Germany. Of Great Britain it is said: “There were in earlier days very many local combinations to keep up prices and in some cases the efforts were quite suc- cessful. Within the last three years, however, a very active movement toward the concentration of indus- try into large single corporations, after the form which is common in the United States, has been observed.” In France the tendency toward combinations is less | Pro- fessor Jencks attributes the lagging to two causes. First, he says, France is less devcloped industrially than either Germany, Great Britain or the United States and is a less active competitor in.the world's markets, and second, the French code is very severe against attempts c control of the market. Since the free traders of the United States have tried to take advaniage of public prejudice against trusts by setting up o theory that such combinations | are the result of protection, it deserves special notice that in his investigations in Europe Professor Jencks | found no reason to believe that tariffs have much | effect cither way upon such combinations. He says: “In free-trade England the combination movement seems to have developed considerably further than in protectionist France; but, on the other hand, the movement toward combination has gone 1nuch further in extent in Austria than in England, although in England the form of combination is generally more complete.” Finally the investigator discovered that these com- binations for the conduct of great industries are not opposed in Europe 2s in this country. In Great Britain there has been some complaint in the press, but the Government has done nothing further than to provide by law for 2 greater publicity regarding the promotion and annual business of corporations than here, as in most cases they are | than in any other country under investigation. at monopolis hefore. In France one or two combinations have been brought before the courts charged with endeavoring to create monopolies, but in each case the decision of the judiciary was that there was no cause for action. In no other country is there any special provision against syndicates. .The people have come to the conclusion that they are necessary to enable their industries to compete with foreigners &nd nothing is done to hamper them in their work: D To Lord Kitchener's proclamation that if they do not surrender before September 15 they will be ban- ished for life, the Boers have virtually ~~-lied, “What's banished but set free?” " & i begins cheaper there than at home, the difference being taken out of us. Surely it is an occasion for beating the drum, i and if we don’t beat vhe treaty there will be no drum- head to beat unless it is made out of the skin of a dead industry. Ohio Democracy made a -good spurt for party leadership by ignoring Bryan and his platform, but the Democracy of Pennsylvania has done better by ignoring the whole party. The platform adopted by the recent convention in that State closes with the declaration: “We make this fight/not as a political organization seeking z partisan advantage, but in the interests of Pennsylvanians.” There will be but one more step possible in the way of Democratic reform, and that will be to disband the party and quit. S vention had adopted their platform declaring “allegiance and unfaltering devotion to the national Democratic party and to its leaders, from Jefferson to Bryan, who have borne the party stan- dards in victory and in defeat,” one of the delegates is reported to have said to a Republican: “Before the next Presidential election a number of issues will A SHINY PLATFORM. HORTLY aiter the Virginia Democratic con- ari re wi asily able to get rid of | g rise, we will be easily able to get rid of Bryan, and {Si5aE aesoedingiy. you will see that in 1904 we will have a platiorm just as shiny as yours.” As all is not gold that glitters, it is quite likely the waiting leaders of Democracy may get something of a glittering nature to put into their next platform without either borrowirg or stealing the sterling gold of the Republican party. They are searching for such shiny policies now, and the country has noted their efforts in Ohio, in Virginia and in Pennsyl- vania. Among the seekers for new issues is_Senator Vest. That statesman is reported to have said in a recent interview that notwithstanding the free coinage of silver ‘has been consigned to the political dustheap. Democracy will not return to what he called “the re- actionary policies of Mr. Cleveland.” Neither does he believe it. will continue to follow Bryan. He is quoted as saying: “I have no personal feeling against Mr. Bryan, and I admire him as a man of ability, courage and Ligh character, but I do not think he is a great leader, and do,not think he can lead the party to victory.” He then went on to de- clare that for the platform of the next national con- {test he would favor three declarations—the first for an income tax, the sccond for the suppression of trusts, and the third zgainst the acquisition or reten- tion of any territory not meant to be eventdally in- corporated into the United States.” Such a platform could hardly be called brilliant, but it might pass as a shiny one. Certainly it would have all the glitter that is popularly supposed to at- tend generalities, for the Senator would hardly be able to put any one of his policies into a specific ‘form. How would he frame his income tax so as to make it constitutional? How would he define the trusts that are to be suppressed, or the means to be used in suppressing them? Finally, what specific method would he propose for abandoning Porto Rico and the Philippines or for incorporating them politically into the United States? Of all the shining platforms thus far put forward by the Democratic party this year the most glittering is that of the Democracy of Pennsylvania. That plat- form virtually declares the party out of politics. Tt by saving; “Waivine all Sea { will make business hum for a time, but the descent propositions upon which the people of the nation divide into political parties, we call upon all honest citizens“to unite with us for the redemption of our commonwealth from the political freebooters who now control it.” It closes by saying: “We make this fight not as a political organization seeking a partisan advantage, but in the interest of Pennsyl- vanians, and will welcome closer union with all Political organizations honestly pledged to the same purpose.” A platform that waives all political issues and de- clares for a non-partisan campaign is about as shin- ing a bit of brass as was ever passed upon an unsus- pecting irnocent as a gold brick. Nothing more shiny can be expected even four years from now, when the Presidency is at stake. It is to be noted that Senator Vest has little faith in his own platform or in any other. In the inter- view from which we have quoted he said: “If con- ditions remain as they are to-day the Republicans will elect anybody they choose. If their poli¢y gives us the enormous balance of trade we had last year and opens a market for agricultural and manu- factured products in China and Japan, there will be little chance to change the administration.” That is about the one bit of genuine shining truth in the Senator’s talk. Unless something wholly un- foreseen happen, the next election, like that of 1896 and of 1900, will be another ratification by the peo- ple of the policies and principles of the Republican party. ’ By way of keeping ahead of the Germans the Brit- ish are now projecting a line of steamers swift enough to cross the Atlantic in four and a half days from Bantry Bay to New York. In comparison with the competition in speed of various steamship lines it will be seen that yacht-racing is hardly worth think- ing about. ABOUT THE CANTEEN. RMY officers at the Presidio, including chap- A lains, have made an official report bearing on the canteen issue. The conclusion favors the system as against the outside deadfall. Temperance, econjomy, conduct, morals and discipline seem all to be arrayed against the rumhole substitute for the en- listed man’s post club. Of course, those who dream of the impossible and expect to enforce absolute pro- hibition will oppose any method by which the soldiers can be protected against abuse of themselves, and will be willing to sacrifice all that must fall before their teetotal Utopia comes. But sober-minded folks know that that means a perpetual sacrifice of men and the use of the army as a place in which to rot the morals and the bodies of recruits. As the line officers, chaplains, surgeons and all who are in a position to kncw what they are talking about agree upon the superiority of the canteen over its rival outside the posts, the press of the country may venture to discuss the question fearless of the accusa- tion that it is paid by the “rum power.” If the de- | fenders of the deadfalls wish to take the position that niearly all the regimental, brigade and division officers of the United States army are bribed to lie about the matter, let them do so. | We admit that there is room to respect eertain conscientious people who object to the canteen be- cause they believe it to be official recognition of in- toxicants, however mild. As these frankly state the reason let them have credit. The other class, which | has defamed the President, his Cabinet and the army | officers, and declared the canteen worse than the deadfall, gets no respect and deserves none. itutional convention one is The Alabama co day | adopted a clause giving women the right to vote, but next day they reconsidered the proposition and | struck the clause out, and now Alabama women are of the opinion that men are too fickle for anything. ! OUR VANISHING TIMBER. OR some time past scientific men and students an the general conditions of the country have taken note of the rapidity with which the timber | supply being lessened through our reckless methods of dealing with it. The point has now been reached where business men take note of it. The lumbermen themselves perceive that their methods have destroyed forests which if properly cared for would- have given a large return to their owners and still been as valuable as when the axmen first entered them. John E. Glover of St. Paul, who is said to be one of the largest lumber manufacturers in the country, is reported to have stated recently that the lumbermen are looking to the day when the lumber mills of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota will be idle be- cause of a lack of timber, and are making prepara- In bhis judgment the lumber out- put of those States wiil shrink upward of 60 per cent within five years and within ten years not half a dozen mills will be running. Such being the outlook in that section of the | country, the lumbermen are preparing to move with their axes, their saws and their mills to the Pacific | Coast. When they descend upon us they will bring considerable capital and many workingmen. They of a swarm of locusts upon a harvest field would be hardly more disastrous than will their work be to us in the long run, unless something be done to prevent them from destroying the forests here as they have done in the great pine regions of the Lake States. It is not too much to say that the lumber industry as it has been carried on in this country wastes fully | as much as it converts to use. Had none but mer- chantable timber been cut or burned in the Eastern | pineries there would still be great and valuable for- ests there, for the young timber would have grown up to take the place of that which was cut. It behooves the people of the Pacific Coast States to profit by the lesson that has been taught in Michigan and Minnesota. P — It is evidently the intention of all parties in New York to conduct the municipal campaign this year on the highest kind of moral lines, for even Tam- many is promising reform and is getting clergymen to indorse the -programme. The most extraordinary mosquito story of the sea- son comes from New Jersey, where it is said a woman being irritated by the insects scratched a bite made by one of them until she opened a vein in her leg and bled to death. Takeh R A social philosopher says it is harder work to play golf in the sun than it is to beat a carpet in the shade, but the wise man overlooks the fact that there are no stunning clothes to be worn when you beat a carpet. —_— | more is at the Occidental. | of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. | to iay aside any quantity. Eastern people are sitting round complaining of hot weather and a shortage of peaches, tomatoes and nntatnes. but still they are tan lazv ta coma Weer. » vae {u INVENTS A NOVEL LIFE-SAVING RAFT ED BY N. H. BORGFELDT, A MA ILLUSTRATION SHOWING THE OPERATION OF THE RAFT INVENT- NUFACTURER OF CIGAR MAKING TED OF FLOATS AND ROPE. | -5 i MACHINERY. IT IS CONSTRUC for Havre with a life saving ra ® perfecting to compete for the pri Anthony Pollok of Washington, + gogne on July 4, 1898, The contest was originally connected H. BORGFELDT, a manufacturer of cigar making machinery and a partner in the early inventions of Oscar Hammerstein, is about to sail ft which he has spent thirty years in _ ze of 320000 offered by the estate of who was lost in the wreck of the Bour- with the Paris Exposition, but the exhibits there were not satisfactory, and a new competition has been authorized under the direction of Captain S. Dechaille, director of the salvage service of the Chamber, of Commerce of Havre. T As far back as 1877 the device, in a I United States Navy upon the U. 8. §. T: his is to begin on September 1. ess perfect form, was tested by the allapoosa and was highly recommended by Lieutenant D. G. McRitchie, commander of the vessel, to the Navyv Depart- ment. eral of thefr vessels shortly after that tipe. caused Mr. Borgfeldt to revive his plan. It was vsed by the Oregon Steamship and Navigation Company upon sev- The Pollok competition has now The patent upon the device has expired, and he says he is exploiting it now solely in the interests of humanity. In principle, the raft is entirely different from anything now in use. It is built of floats and bags of rope netting, which can be rolled imo the size of an ordinary ship's boat and slung to suppor requires the cutting of a rope to cause There it is held by a rope ladder as wi Those who fall merely tumble upon the raft, and Instead of tossing like a boat, it merely rises and falls with the persons may scramble abreast. not into the sea action of the heaviest waves. in the same way. When needed, it only t to unroll and float alongside the vessel. ide as the raft, down which fifteen The main purpose of the device is to afford a safe method of loading the boats, which are admitted to be the best shelter for shipwrecked persons. Much of the danger in such disasters as that of the Bourgogne collision has been in the wreck- ing of the boats before they could leave the ship’s sidas an be easily filled from this floating landing stage. empty they By lowering the boats ‘When the beats are filled those who would otherwise be left behind have a chance for their lives on the raft, which can be cast loose by the slipping of a noose. In one test twenty-two men went over the side of a ship to the raft in one minute. The floats are made of airtight t can be filled with water and provisions. in boxes cased . in wood. They are fastcned together by spars, Some of these ropes and neiting. The whole raft weighs about a ton—but little more than a ship's boat. A complete raft will be sent to Havre for the tests. L e 2 T 2 e e e 2 e PERSONAL MENTION. O.'M. Olfver. of Merced fs at the Lick. | Judge A. J. Hull and wife are at the| Lick. | H. A. Jastro, the Bakersfield banker, is at the Grand. J. J. Murray, a mine owner of Keswick, is at the Grand. B. F. Brooks, an oil man of Bakersfleld, | is at the Palace. A. L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, | is a guest at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ellis of Salt Lake City are at the Occidental. Mrs. Dr. William Hammond of Liver- Dr. H. G. Bayliss, a prominent physician G. S. Nixon, a banker and journalist of ‘Winnemucea, v., is at the Palace. J. L. Follet of Sioux City, Ia., is at the California with his wife and family. J. F. West, a prominent business man of San Diego, is a guest ac the Palace. E. B. Waterman, a wealthy oll specula- | tor of Bakersfield, is registered at the | Grand. Mrs. J. S. Harmes and Miss Belle | Harmes have come over from Sausalito | and taken rooms at the California. J. E. Doherty, who is associated with Milllonaire McDonald in mining and other ventures in Dawson, is at the Grand with his bride. At Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The following | Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. Atherton, at the Victoria; | A. Beth, at the Belvedere: J. F. Hallett and S. A. White, at the Herald Square; E. P. Connelly and A. W. Whittlett, at | the Manhattan: M. A. Mever, at the Grand Union; T. P. Spitz and wife, at the | Savoy. From Los Angeles—N. Brown and | Miss M. Brown, at the Cadillac. From Oaklard—S. D. Nesmith, at the Astor. CURING MONEY. It has been stated that Uncle Sam's greenbacks are wearing out fast and a big reserve fund is to be established, to be kept in the treasury vaults until it is | more thorcughly cured than the notes now in virculation. Orders were given the other day for the clerks of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing engaged in print- ing greenbacks to work one hour extra each day, beginning Jul{" 1. One hundred million dollars in greenba@ks are to be accumulated and will be laid aside to get | completely dried out before being issued. | They will be one, two and five dollar notes, | and it is estimated that it will take about three months to print them. Whenever possible. it is the'policy of the Treasury Department not to issue greenbacks until | they have been stored sIX or eight months. By that time they are weil seasoned and are in a condition to withstand consider- | able handling. During the last two years, however, the unprecedented demand for notes, especially those of small denomi- nation, has not permitted the department Most of those printed during that time have been put into circulation within one or two ménths after being received from the big money mill. Any one accustomed to handiing paper money can instantly detect the dif- | ference between green and seasoned bills, A note that has been thoroughly cured is crisp, firm and tough, While a green note is thick, soft and mushy. After the lat- ter has been in circulation it becomes rough like a piece of blotting paper and is soon unfit for currency. It rarely lasts more than a year, while the life of a well- seasoned note is anywhere from two to ten years, Bills issued in the sixties have come into the redemption division in good condition, showing that they were well cured before being sent out. Greenbacks stored for six or eight months after being printed get tough, the paper seems to get thin and some chemicalaction takes place 4hot “mats” the ink | | | A CHANCE TO SMILE. Horticultural Milinery.—Harry, how do | you like my new hat? “I don’t know, Harriet; doesn’t it need a little more fruit on top and a little more shrubbery on the left side?”—Chicago Record-Herald. The honeymoon was over and they were keeping house. At the first breakfast she | 8ot him he sipped at his cup and then gravely turned up his trousers. “Is your coffee right, darling?” she murmured. “Yes, precious, but a little muddy."”—Phil- adelphia Press. Rescuer—Miss Properleigh, give me your hand. Drowning Maiden (preparing to sink for the third time)—Oh, Mr. Manley; this is so sudden! So unexpected! You will have to ask mamma!—Harlem Life. SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective ai April 15; 360 for round trip. including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. IN ANSWER TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS “INTERNATIONALITY"—A. S, City. None of the dictionaries have the word “internationality.” i NO PREMIUM—S. O. Y. P, City. No premium is offered by dealers for half dol- lars of 1806, 1807, 1508, 1827 or 17%. LOTTERY—W. A. L., City. This de- partment does not answer questions re- lating to the results of lottery drawings. A NICKEL—Young Reader, Walnut Creek, Cal. The nickel described in tha letter of inquiry does not command a pre- mium. A BILLION—Subseriber, City. Tn the United States and in France a billlon Is | written in figures as follows. 1,000,000,000. In England it is written 1,000,000,000,000. SAILING VESSEL—F. J. L., City. Tha fastest passage by a sailing vessel from Liverpool to San Francisco was that mado by the Young America, 99 days, in 1872-3. TONNAGE—W. M., City. The tonnage entered and cleared at London in 133 was 16,520,075, at New York in the same year 15,203,756, at Hamburg in 1308 15,020,621 and at Liverpool fn 1899 11,818,000 EXPOSITIONS—Constant Reader, City. If this correspondent will send a self-ad. dressed and stamped envelope the infor- mation asked for about expositions will be sent fo him. INFANT-J. B. C., City. If you will ap- ply to the Associated Charities you will be advised as to all classes of institutions | that take in and care for small infants. Bhis department cannot advertise such places. STEP-RATE PLAN—G. B., Sacramento, Cal. The Royal Arcanum was the first to adopt what in fraternal bemeficial asso- ciations is known as the graded assess- ment; the A. 0. U. W. was the first to adopt the step-rate plan. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY-F. W. 8., Campbell, Cal. The fractional currency, 2% cents, with portrait of Walker, once Secretary of the Treasury, is worth what any one will give for it as a curlosity. Dealers do not offer a premium for such. ASSESSMENTS—G. B., Sacramento, | cal. The Royal Arcanum was the first fraternal assessment assogjation to adopt what is known as the graded assessment plan, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen the first to adopt what is known as the step rate plan. MONUMENT—-E. I, Newman, Cal President MeKinley did not during his visit to San Francisco break ground for any monument. Tt was susgested befors his arrival that he break ground for the monument that is to be erected in l'nlzn,, square to commemorate the battle of Manila. KALLOCH-DE YOUNG—A. 8., Sacra- mento, Cal. I. 8. Kalloch was shot by Charles de Young August 23, 18%. De Young was shot and killed by I. M. Kal- loch, son of 1. 8., April 23, 1830. After the forty-sixth day of the trial Kalloch was acquitted. The jury went out at 3:20 o'clock on the 23d of March, 1531, and re- turned the following day at 4:30 with the verdict. SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE-H. G. S., City. There is no table published show- jng how. much each of the crowned heads | of Europe—some forty in number—receives | per day as income. If you have the time | you might go to the Free Publie Library, | consult the “Statesman’s Year Book,”™ ascertain the amount allowed yearly to each sovereign and then make the proper calculation to arrive at the desired in- formation. That, however, would not | give you the private income of each. | TREMOLO—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal Tremolo is a2 tremulous or fluttering ef- fect in vocal music intended to give a sentimefital or passionate quality to the tone, but often it is carried to a pedantic and offensive extreme. It is not used | more freely in the Western than in the Eastern cities. It is used everywhere in proper measure for the purpose stated, but there are singers all over who think that if a little tremolo is good much of the same must be better, and so they be- ccme offensive. Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— Cal. glace fruit 30c per Ib at Townsend’s.® Special information supplied daily to\ business houses and public men by the / Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1842. * NEXT SUNDAY CALL HOW RICHARD H. COOPER FOUND THE REGALIA OF AGUINALDO. — BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES FOR WHIST PLAYERS. iR | Cisco. GF WASHERWOMAN’S — FIGHTING A NEW BIBLE PLAY FOR SAN FRAN- — HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THl DO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS ? THE PRINCE PER ON NEW LINES. ' TRE ARTISTS’ COLOVY AT M IEIiEY. BOOKS AND FICTION AND SPORTS. THE << THREE’® SYENGALIS WHO HAVE MYSTIFIED THE PUBLIC OF TWO CONTINENTS. THE CAMERA LIE? BAY. THE WESTERN GRASSHOP-