The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIS! 30 CALL. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1901 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1901 # i JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e A SRl Lcéress All Commupicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Fanager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. . Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. ‘Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOM to 221 Stevemson St. Telep! 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copiex. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (nclodfng Sunday’ DAILY CALL (ncluding Sund DAILY CALL (including Sunday DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Yea WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to reccive subscriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarded when requested. $6.00 3.00 1.50 65¢ 1.50 1.00 3 months. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAXLAND OFFICE .1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Kazager Fereign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chicao. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON... «+...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: | Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—: Montgomer¥, corner of Clay, open | until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 8:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkip, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 181 Misfon, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia, open until 8 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until 8 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Alcazar—'"We "Uns of Tennessee.” Columbla—*"On the Quiet Grand Opera-house—*"Die Walkure.” California—"Yon Yonson.” ““The Geisha.” tral—'Siberia." Mechanics' Pavilion—Eagles' Carnival Thanksgiving Eve. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. y Wm. ‘G. Layng—This evening. at § o'clock, Thorough- Brood Mares, at 721 Howard street. ; Rosenberg—This day, at 11 o'clock, Drug Store, at 353 Twelfth t, Oakland. Doyle—To-morrow, at 11 o'clock, Horses and Mares, h street. LINCOLN MONUMENT LEAGUE. Y the Lincoln Monument League there has B been issued a circular letter inviting the recipi- | ents to attend a meeting to be held at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday afternoon. The lefter presents strong reasons why the meeting should. be awell attended, and it is to be hopéd the expectations of the committee will not be disappointed. The object of the league cannot fail to have the sympathy of every American citizen who is capable of appreciating the worth of Lincoin’s serv- ices to the Union, and where there is sympathy thére cught to be also a willingness to help. The league was organized in March, 1897, and has ever since been active. It has formed committees on which many of our most eminent citizens are serving. Its energies and influence have extended beyond the limits of the State and it has been instrumental in establishing the observance of Lincoln day in fifteen States and several Territories. It has distributed more than eleven thousand certificates of membership and in many other ways hzs brought about a fuller recog- nition of the memory of Lincoln than would have prevailed but for the work of the league. In all that accomplishment, however, comparatively little has been gained in the way of contributions toward the erection cf the propesed memorial on the Pacific Coast. and it i¢ to achieve something in that direction that the proposed meeting has been called. It appears that the money thus far raised has been obtained mainly throvgh the sale of certificates at twenty-five cents each, ten-cent subscriptions among school children and citizens generally, and by contri- butions frem the veterans of the military service. The net amount accumulated and available is about $3000, a sum. utterly inadequate for the desired memorial, hich, as the circular says, “ought not to cost less than $100,000 if justice is to be done to the occasion and to the subject.” * > It is to be borne in mind that virtually every dol- lar collected for the fund is available for the purpose. Every fraction of the work of the league has been gratuitously performed. No salaries nor office rent have been paid. The expenses have been strictly lim- ited to the sums required for-the purchase of station- ery, the cost of necessary printing and the rent of ls when needful. Upon that showing and with so patriotic an objeét in view, the league has certainly a right to expect liberal support from the public in the prosecution’ of its work. It is time the enterprise were taken up with zeal and energy. It is true we have also under way at this time a movement for the erection of a memorial to McKinley, but that should not in any way impede the work of the Lincoln Monument League. San Francisco is rich enough to support both movements. The meeting that has been called should be attended by men prepared to give a new impulse to the enterprise and to reawaken the pat- riotic enthusiasm of the people. Let us have a Lin- coln memorial that will be worthy of the city and of the man—one that will rank among the most notable memorial structures of the country. Some time ago certain enterprising men in Chicago established a line of steamers to run direct from Chi- cago to European ports, and there was much talk at the time of the probability that New York would be made a way station; but now the line of steamers has been transferred to the Atlantic coast trade, and neither Chicago nor Europe will ever see them again. The deer season has closed in New York, and in summing ep the casualties of the sport the newspapers: print a list of persons killed or wounded that ‘makes” the recogd of the season look like a report from a seat of wi A Missouri court has decided that a woman who misstates her age in a marriage certificate is not 2 periurer, and any anxiety that may have existed on the subject may now be dismissed with a smiling face. COMMISSIONER EDSON. S . OMMISSIONER EDSON, in your own behalf, as well as in the interests of the people of Califarnia, The Call warns you this morning to consider carefully" the situation in which you stand and to take heed lest you fall. You have been in the past highly esteemed by your friends and acquaintances, by your constitu- ents and by the public generally. The esteem has not been lightly-iounded. It has Leen based upon a confidence in your sterling honesty. - Among those by whom you are known you could buy $100,000- worth of cattle on your promise to pay—your word was as good as your bond. The trustfulness in you has extended to politics as well as to business. Your election as Railroad Commissioner was due to 2 faith that in office yout would have the intelligence to know what was right and the courage to perform your duty. So wide- spread and so deeply founded was the confidence in your official integrity that you have been spoken of as 2 fitting man for Governor of the State. That good repute has been yours, and it will be your own fault if you forfeit it. : You cannot be ignorant of the fact that waver, nor can you be doubtful of the cause. the old-time confidence in you has begun to It is but a short time ago that after hear- ing ample evidence from both sides you voted for a reduction in railroad rates on oil. That action was approved, and it was with surprise the public noted your recent action in voting to invalidate the decision you had given after that hearing. There had been no new evidence introduced into the case to. afford even -a seeming justification of your| So far as the people could see you had given a decision upon testi- | change of mind. mony heard in public; and then for some reason urged in private you had been induced to invalidate your own decision. You cannot deny even to yourself that a change of mind of that kind under such cir- | cumstances is in its very nature suspicious. You cannot be surprised that it has led your constituents and your friends to wonder what were the inducements that led to the change, and what you are to do next. It is not strange that suspicion once aroused should have looked closely to your re- lations with W. F. Herrin. It is known that Herrin’s professional and political fortunes are at stake in the oil rate case. His scheme to get control of the municipal government so that he could still’make himself riecessary to the water company and the gas company was defeated by the people. Herrin does not control a single member of the Board of Supervisors. Of that much of his power he has been shorn, and the astute managers of the water and the gas company are aware of it. They are also aware that the sale of the Market-street Railway weakens Herrin's hold with that corporation. His only means of retaining any of his. former power and usefulness to the water and the gas corporation is to hold fast to, his position as attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad. That position, however, is at this time about as precarious as is his position in the Market-street corpo- ration. Mr. Kruttschnitt, who has long been opposed to Herrin's use of the Southern Pacific Company to serve the local corporations, is now in the East, and is pointing out to the new management the wrong and the injury done to the company by Herrin's tac- the hilt.” argument are on his side. | tics. In the emphatic language of the street, he “is putting the knife into Herrin up to He is making no vague charges. Herrin cannot refute nor evade the charges urged against The facts are on his side, and reason and him, and his only chance to retain his hold with the Southern, Pacific Company is to win this oil rate case and thus demonstrate that sioners. he controls the Board of Railroad Commis- That is Herrin’s plight, and it is through the sacrifice of your reputation and your career, Mr. Edson, that he hopes to win out. You know that he is now bringing to bear upon you all the pressure he can exert to induce you to reverse your former decision and refuse to lower oil rates. He has brought from all parts of the State men who pre~ tend to be friends of yours, to induce you to do this wrong to yourself and the State. He cares nothing for you. work that he may reap the reward., He is fighting for his own hand. You are to do the dirty The evidence which Herrin has introduced at this hearing and by which he promises to furnish you a soft cushion on which to fall is cf the kind kpown as “expert’” tes- timony. Now all the world knows that expert testimony is given by professionals who are employed and paid to give it. If you for Herrin’s sake or for any other cause consent to “fall down™ on that testimony you will find that the softness is not that of a cushion, bur that of mud and mire. We repeat, Mr. Edson, that we give you this warning concerning the situation for vour own sake as well as for that of the people. If you decide as Herrin dictates the oil men joyed. {will lose nothing but money, but you will lose that good repute you have so long en- You will lose it for the sake of a desperate political schemer whose fortunes are now so hazardous that not even your sacrifice can permanently secure them. It is for you to decide whether you will fall with the Herrin or stand with the people. If you have any hesitation in the matter, take a look at the political graveyard in which the Southern Pacific Company has erected tombstones over those Railroad Commis- sioners who did its bidding. Mr. Edson, the eyes of the people are on you. EDUCATI UDGING from the facts stated in the summary J given out of the annual report of Indian Com- missioner William A. Jones the system of edu- cation which the Government has provided for Tn? dians is nearly all wrong and does more harm than good. The criticism of the Cq_mmissioner is mainly directed against the Indian boarding-schools,in which the education is virtually the same as that given to whites. He suggests that it would be better to pro- vide more day schools, giving in them a course of in- struction which would teach the pupils the things needed in Indian life, and particularly how to be self- supporting. The Government is now maintaining 113 boarding- schools, in which. it is educating or trying to edu- cate 16,000 Indians. The schools are excellent. The young Indian who has been brought up in a tepee or a_mud lodge finds himself on arriving at the school transplanted into a comfortable home, where he is, warmly clothed, well fed, provided with clean | beds and cared for by all the resources of civilization. His linen is washed in a steam laundry, his cooking is done for him on a modern stove, he has hot and cold baths, and he can get light or heat by merely pressing a button. For his amusement and enter- tainment there are books, music, dancing, gymna- siums and athletic sports. He is taught grammar, geography, history, drawing, . algebra, astronomy, botany and several other sciences. A careful matron looks after his welfare while he is well and a doctor attends him when he is sick. He is thus fitted' for civilized life, but at the same time he is unfitted for any other kind. ‘When he has finished his-education at the boarding- school and returns to his tribe the young graduate enters a community where all his training is use- less. The white boy after leaving school finds him- self in a society that encourages him to make use of all he has learned. Public sentiment sustains him at the level of the school training. ‘Tt stimulates him to advance and improve vpon his education. The young Indian finds in his tribe none of that encouragement or support. He tries in vain to adapt the white train- ing to the Indian customs, and is compelled either to abandon his race and go back to civi ilization or else to ‘throw the education aside and become like the rest of his people: The tendency of this conflict be- tween ceducation and tribal influence is to render the young Indian sour and discontented, and it is only persons 81 an exceptionally strong character who can withstand the strain. It is estimated that during the last thirty-three years the Government has educated at its boarding- schools upward of 180,000 Indians at a cost of about $250,000,000, but scarcely anything has been accom- plished. A large proportion of the Indian. popula- ON OF INDIANS. tion is still on the Government reservations, receiv- ing food from the Government and showing no signs of ever becoming self-supporting. Commissioner Jones says day schools and home teaching should take the place of the boarding-schools. The young Indian should be taught among the people with whom he is to live, and should be impressed with the importance of labor and thrift. “That there will be many failures and much suffering,” he says, “is in- evitable from the very nature of things, but it is only by sacrifice and suffering that the heights of civili- zation are reached.” It is probable the report will call forth answers from the advocates and beneficiaries of the present system of Indian' education, and until both sides are heard final judgment is not to be pronounced, but none the less all can recognize the sound ‘common sense of the arguments stated by the Commissioner. A different system of education might not do much better, but certainly it could hardly yield less in the way of permanently good results. A contested election case brought in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in 1897, over the office of County Treasurer, has just been wound up by an order of the Judge directing the County Commission- ers to pay all the costs involved in the contest. These amount to nearly $90,000, and the tax-payers of the county are wondering whether there isn’t a better way of settling such contests. The thing is the more irri- tating because the trial proved about an equal num- ber of fraudulent votes on each side and was so Tong that the term of office expired before the case was decided. : —_— According to some of the New York papers the testimonial given by Tammany to Croker after the election was a jardiniere, while others say it was a punch bowl, and it is significant of how little any of them care about the man or the thing that not one makes an effort to explain the contradiction or find out the truth. ‘. One of the neatest jobs Congressional leaders will have to perform this session will be that of getting Congressmen to agree upon a plan for revenue reduc- tion, or upon a policy of leaving things as they are. Just at present each Congressman seems to think that he has ideas of his own on the subject, and the leaders will have to persuade him that he hasn’t. —_— It is said the American missionaries in Bulgaria and in Turkey object to the payment of a ransom of Miss Stone on the ground that should the bandits be permitted to make a rich haul they would be en- |- courag.ed; to kidnap ctl}g% missionaries, and life in the missions would have a new terror: < ' |[SUPERVISORS CONSIDER AFFAIRS T OF PRIME IMPORTANCE TO CITY SN SUPPLY 5 LESSENING Reed Arraigns Spring Valley Water Com- pany Again. Board of Works to Report on Availability of Lobos Creek. Supervisor Reed filed a communication with the Board of Supervisors yesterday to the effect that the water supply in the reservoirs of the Spring Valley Company was diminished one-third during the last vear, and that Point Lobos Creek is a polluted source 6f supp y. The communi- cation was in reply to ‘hLe statement filed by Chief Engineer Scrhussler that the water was not contaminated, and con- tains a general denial to Schussler’s ar- guments. Reed says: “The Spring Valley Water Works is a ‘patchwork’ system. No plan for the ex- tension of its works has been consistently foilowed, but, on the contrary, its works have been enlarged on y under.the stress of necessity, such as it faces now, when,it is driven "to pump -Point Lobos Creck D water and to spend m:llions of dolldrs on Alameda. Creek.” i Reed quotes from a report of Major Owens, U. S. A, to show that the water is polluted. He demonstrates by figurss that there has been a et loss of 2,483,000,~ 000 gallons of water during the year in the Pilarcitos, San Andreas and Crystal Springs reservoirs, and claims that ot that rate they will be empty in 1903. The Board of Healih was requested to furnish the board witk analyses of sam- ples of water from Lobos Creek and from the Golden Gats Park water works system, and to furnish a report of the number of cases of continued fever in the district supplied by l.obos Creek. The Board of Works was requested to report on the availability of the Lobos Creek property as a source of water supply. The resolution authorizing the appoint- ment of a janitor and the furnishing of light to the rooms occupied by the Hast- ings Law_College was indefinitely post- poned. Supervisor Stafford remarked that the board should never have given the law college rooms in the City Hall. Stafford said it was a State institutior :\nd had no business in a municipal buiid- ng. The ordinance declaring Lake street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sev- enth avenues, an open public street was finally passed. The City Attorney wuss requested to ad- vise as to whether the city and county has the power {0 grant a permit to a pri- vate individual to erect a bridge, not of a temporary character, over a public side- walk and street, and if so does the power ]lle with the Board of Works or the Super- visors. @ it e @ PERSONAL MENTION. G. Migliavacea, a vineyardist of Napa, is at the Grand. Otto Ferse, a wealthy coffee planter of Guatemala, is at the Lick. John Ericson, City Engineer of Chicago, is staying at the California. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, is at the Occidental. E. R. Gaylord of Pago Pago arrived here yesterday and is a guest at the Oceci- dental. g 1 Louis T.Wright, superintendent of the Iron Mountain mine in Shasta County, registered at the Palace yesterday. Fred Dodd, proprietor of the Hughes House at Fresno, is in the city on a short business trip and is staying at the Lick. C. M. Ward, a prominent mining man of this State, is down from Grub Gulch and has made his headquarters at the Lick. Judge Short of Fresno and Judge C. N. Terry of Los Angeles are at the Palace. They are here on the Bakersfield oil case. H. 8. Kirk, State Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, is down from Sacramento and has made his headquarters at the California. Thomas Quayle, a wealthy Englishman, ‘who resides in the Isle of Man and who is touring the world, was among the arrivals at the Occidental yesterday. « Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 2%.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. Cohen at the Herald Square; L. J. Davis and Mrs. J. Ballard at the Manhattan; F. McQuaid and C. H. Holbrook at the Hoffman; Miss H. Nelson at the Sturtevant; L. N. Scott at the Navarre; Dr. F. W. Simpson, Mrs. F. W. Simpson and C. Maydwell at the Murray Hill; Mrs. W. D. Smith, Miss An- drews, Mrs. G. Bianding, Mrs. L. F. Blanding, Miss Blanding and C. N. Cham- pion at the Holland; F. H. Hunter at the | Grand; E. B. Wood at the Grand Union. From Los Angeles—W. Carhart at the Imperial; E. W. Potter at the Herald Square. From Oakland—Mr. Hawkins and wife at the Navarre; the Misses Dun at the Manhattan. Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. %.—The following Californians are registered at the hotels: At the Willard—John A. Beckwith and wife of Oakland. At the Raleigh—N. B. Livermore. At the Metropolitan—George H. Bowman. At the National—R. O. Lin- coln. At the Arlington—Mrs. J. B. Bab- cock and D. L. Randolph. At the Ebbitt— E. N. Martin. All ofSan Franclsco. ARWOR L R Ry T Country Against Chinese. Editor The Call: We are in favor of Chinese exclusion. Do all you can to en. force the aét and to prevent them taking the place of white labor. All around here are large fruit orchards. Two_ right around us have been rented to Chinese and two more are negotiating to rent to Chinamen. Why, to think of it, our School Clerk and-Trustee hired a Chinaman to repair and do carpentering work for over two weeks on our district school, while white men of large fami- lies would have been glad to get the work. It is wrong. We as taxpayers are paying taxes to support such a class. Do they pay taxes? No. Do they leave their money around at stores? No. They just ruin our fruit industry, for they neglect the trees and fet all the money they can and they live like plf! around here. The; employ all kinds of people to cut fr\ll{ and no respectable woman or girl to work in their sheds. Down with the Chinese! . SIMSON. Chardon, Cal., Nov. 3. ¥ e ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. » —_———— Choice candits. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* —_—— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's,* —_————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 10c, 40c. Look out for 81 4th st., front barber and grocery.* —_————— Special information supplied duly‘w business houses. and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 = omery street. Teluphone Marn 102 03¢ —_————— If there were no looking-glasses wo tidng- nobt‘;lkyl women wear some of the else ever has? Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best Liver Medicine, VegetableCurefor Liver Ills, MUST SEPARNTE. BOND ELECTIONS City Attorney Says They Cannot Be Held on Same Day. Bills for Improvements and Utilitiss Are to Be Revised. ot FEE City Attorney Lane filed an opinion yes- terday with the Board of Supervisors ad- vising that the ordinances concerning the acquisition of public utilities cannot be submitted at the same election as the question of bonds for public improve- ments. Lane says in his opinion: Neither in my estimation can both of the public utilities questions be submitted to- gether, but it seems from section 7 of Artlcle XII of the charter that each must be sub- mitted at a separate election embracing only one utility. I have heretofore advised you that the question of bonds for the various pubiic improvements contemplated, to wit.: Sewer system, parks, schoolhouses and hospitals might be submitted at the same election, but the question of public utilities has not been heretofore presented. Those proceedings are under a different section of the charter, and that -section requires submission of each at a separate election, Acquisition of Utilities. The ordinances declaring that the pub- lic interest demands the acquisition of the Geary-street road and its extensions, the Tuolumne River water supply, the con- struction of a sewer system, a hospital building, the construction of nineteen schoolhouses, the acquisition of a site for a_new schoel building, additions to six | school buildings now constructed and that lands contained in the block bounded by Seventh, Folsom, Sherman gnd Har- rison streéts; block bounded by Washing- ton, Gough, Sacramento and Laguna streets; blocks bounded by Dolores, | Church, Eighteenth and Twentieth streets be acquired for gaxk and playground pur- poses, and the block bounded by Hayes, Grove, Larkin and Polk streets, which were passed to print at the last meeting, were re-referred to the Committee on Pub- le Utilities and Judiciary, which will meet on Wednesday and Friday afternoons for the purpose of revising the ordinances in accordance with the City Attorney’s opin- ion that they were not legally drafted. The opinion further says: One’of the bills states that the plans re- ferred to therein for furnishing water from the Tuolumne River “‘are the ones to be sub- mitted to the people for their approval’ I assume that there is but one general plan, and that no question of presenting to the voters various alternatives is contemplated. In casc this assumption is not corfect kindly adviss me, as the proposition whether several al native plans may be so presented is one serving of careful consideration and fs not to be passed upon offhand at this time. For thes reasons 1 believe it would be advisable to pro- ceed no further under this bill. Street Railroad System. Bill No. 508 deals with municipal street rail- road systems, It recites tha. “‘the plans and es- timates of th: costs of reconstructing. the Geary-steet railroad and construeting the ex- tentions thereof as planned by the City Eu- gineer, with the exception ~of unessential changes in the route suggested, are hereby se- lected as the ones to be submitted to, the peo- ple for their ‘approval.”” In the report of the City Engineer there are six different ‘“‘pro- jects” separately and distinctly set forth With * separate estimate for each, the estimaics of a different scheme ~varying as much as $700,600. The bill does mot state which of these six 1s the one selected. It it was your inten- tion_not to select one, but to submit all, if possible, to the electors, I make the same Sug- gestion as just made regarding the water works bill, namely, that the matter be submitted to me for full consideration whether such a course is possible. My present inclination is towerd the bellef that such g course not being dis- tinctly. warranted by tHe charter, would be un- safe. If but one plan is # be submitted, it Would be advisable to designate that one in the bill. T would also_suggest that if by the language “the Geary-street Railroad and the extensions thereof as planned by the City Engineer” you mean one of the six entire projects set forth in the report mentioned, it would be advisable to use more comprehensive lanzuage, inas- much as the rallroads planned comurise 15.64 miles of track, while the Geary-street ruad extends some 3 1-3 miles only, the balance be- ing new road, and moreover not properly termed “extensions”” of that road, as it in- cludes a route from the Presidio to the Potrero at right angles to the Geary-street system. For the reasons mentioned I consider this biil in- formal and insufficient. - For New Schoolhouses. In the bill providing for the acquisition of new schoolhouses the estimates provide fdr at least six new lats of land for school purposes, while the bill mentions but ome. And speak- ing generaliy of the proposed new _school- houses and new school lots it seems to me that it would be wise to set out at length in the bill the several schools (known now by fadiliar names) for which It is desired to build new structures, and in the instances of new schools on lots to be purchased the general district n which they are to be located, likewise the Fimmes ot the sthool bulldings o, be added to or_ repaired. e 1t appears from the foregoing that neither of the public utilities measures nor” those con- cerned with improvements generally are in a condition to proceed at the present time. @t e 0 A CHANCE TO SMILE. Traveling men of the poetry trust are now active, and are showing their sam- ples of poetry for the fall trade. They re- port considerable business, with orders for the autumn leaf variety predominat- ing. Enterprising dealers are making some inquiry for winter poetry, particu- larly for adjustable skating songs, which can be used in event of the report of a coming revival of the roller-skating craze being verified.—Boston Transcript. The sentimental bride on the park bench watched the sun set in Lake Mich- igan. And she murmured: “See, darling, how phosphorescent!” land “It's no wonder,” responded the matter- of-fact bridegroom, “when you think how many matches are made here.” Then, as the sun sank to rest, her head sank likewise—on George's shoulder—and ail was still.—Chicago Tribune. A young hopeful of some five sleigh- rides ‘recently acquired a small rabbit. His aunt found him the next day sitting on his knees with the rabbit held before him in both hands, and alternately shak- ing it and exclaiming: “Five times five!” “Six times three!” “Four times seven! Shocked at this seemingly cruel act on the part of the usually gentle nephew she said: “Why, Harry, why on earth are you shaking that rabbit so? Yowll kily 1" ““Well,” responded Master Harry, “Papa said this morning that rabbits multiply rapidly, but I can’t make this one say a thing!”—Pittsburg Press. —_——— Reyes Not a Revolutionist. Editor The Call: In your ye\slerllay‘n is- sue you published a magnificent picture of General Bernardo Reyes, Mexican Min- ister of War and a highly valued member of General Diaz’s Cabinet, but unfortu- nately you present him to the public as a Colombian revolutionary general, 2 ‘We Mexicans appreciate too highly the long and patriotic services of General Reyes, in whose long leaf of military duty there is no b;:t ilfl.'ul ‘who never was a revo- ist in his s R e ne m: wfl{ greatly oblige. Yours r..”’:: 1y, Consat oS c&%m, ] San Francisco, Nov. 3. ou’are right—then sit down Be sure enjoy of PLANNING MORE IMPROVEMENTS Telegraph Hill and St Mary’s Square Re- ceive Attention. Scheme to Repave Accepted Streets at Cost of $1,000,000. ? A new ordinance was presented to the Board of Supervisors ycsterday declarirg that the public interest demands the ac< quisition of lands »nd the making of cer- tain improvements at Telegraph Hill v the purpese of faciiitating approach te the water front from the busines dis- trict. The cost is pla=d at $446,810. Tho ordinance was referred *n the Public Util- ities Committee. Another ordinance wus referred to the same committee declaring necessary the construction of a new poyltechnic high school and the acquis-tion of a site fo- the new Lowell High School, and declar- ing aiso that certain .ands and improve- ments be acquired for St. Mary's square, at Pine and Dupont streets, Another ordinarce declares necassary that the accepted strests and avenues ba repaved and improved, 1t a cost not to exceed $1,000,000. In infroducing the latter bill Reed sald he behieved in bouds fo~ schools, sewers and 90spitals, but these might be jeopardized if too many propo= sitions were submitted to the people. ‘The Board of Works flled communica- tions in relation to <ie appraisement of the properties the city must acquire to carry out the Telegriph Hill improve- ment. The lands requi:~ed are assessed at $123,750, and the hoard regards double this value, or $248,000, as an adequate appraise- ment of their market v=lues. The value of outside land blocks Nos 84, 169, 194, 271, 296, 393 and I is fixed at $268,000. It is planned tc connect the Pre. | sidio and Gelden Gate Park by means of the blocks named. The value of lands within the bounda- ries of Lafayette Park ‘s fixed at $210,000. The Board of Works was authorized to expend $25,000 for the erection of a police station at the corner ot Fourth and Clara streets. @ i @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE SINTRAM-M. C., City. The ship Sintram is due at this port at any time. { THE ONLY WAY-H. T, City. The only way to express eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven in figures is to write 12,111 COGSWELL SCHOOL—C. R., City. For such information as you desire about the Cogswell School call there or address a communication to the school. 1#EAD AND TAIL—W. P. F. Jr., City. In United States coinage the side of the coin that bears the date is called the ob- verse or commonly speaking the head, VOTING POPULATION-T. N., Som- erville, Cal. According to the last cen- sus had the number of males of voting age in Ohio was 1,212,223, in Massachusetts ' 843,465 and in Iowa 635,298, CONTENTS—-E. L., City. Contents i a plural noun. Either “the contents of the car is known” or “the contents of the car are known" is correct, but the latter is the expression commonly used. NEWSPAPERS—M. B. T, City. If you will consult Rowell's Newspaper Di- rectory in the reference rooms of the Free Public Library, you will find there the names of all the newspapers pub- Hshed in the State of Texas and the Ter~ ritory of Arizona. FOOTBALL—S., Fruitvale, Cal. Ths rrincipal reason for the change of the date of the university foetball match from Thanksgiving day to an earlier date is the growing feeling that Thanksgivirg day, being one of prayer and thanks of- fering, it should not be set aside as one on which to engage in sports. LABOR—Subscriber, City. This depart= ment answers questions of general inter- est, but does not undertake to advise peo- ple whether they sho:iid g0 to any par- ticular place to engasge in labor or seek employment of any kind. This depart- ment has no adviee further than that which appeared in thc article which 18 alluded to in the letter of inquiry. ROSEBUSHES—Subscriber, City. The * pruning of different roses depends a good deal on the class to which they belong and the way in which they are trained, etc. Pruning generally is fracticed in spring and autumn. For methods of pruning see “Rosa™ in the Dictionary of Gardening™ at the Free Public Library. JEFFRIES-RUHLIN-O. P. S. F., Dan- ville, Cal. In a case where A bet that Jeffries would knock out Ruhlin in fifteen founds the intent of the parties to the bet must be taken into consideration, and it is evident in the case that A meant that Jeffries would knock out Ruhlin within fifteen rounds. Harry Corbett, the referee, holds that the result of the con- test was equal to a knockout and that the bet goes with the decision of ‘he referee. SALICYLIC ACID—J. M. P., Dunsmuir, Cal. Thorpe in his work on Chemistry says: “Salicylic acid is used in medicine: externally for the antiseptic treatment of wounds, internally as a febrifuge and anti-rheumatic, the sodium salts and some of the ethers being preferred for internal use. Its chief application is for the pres- ervation of food. Its antiseptic action is analagous to that of phenol, over which it has the advantage bf being tasteless, inodorous and non-poisonous.” In Brazil the sale of food praserved with salicylic acid is prohibited. ¥ Cloth, $1.50 Bl;.m, §1.50 8y order anly