The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1902, Page 6

G THIE SBAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY The TURDAY SA .FEBRUARY 22, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propri Address A1l Commenicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Yanager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. . ..Telephone Press 204 tor. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS 221 Stevenson St. Telep 202. Delivered by Carriers, Cents Per Weel' Single Copies, 5 Cen: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunda: DAILY CALL (neluding Sund: DAILY CALL (nclading Sunday DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year..... WEEKLY CALL, One Year re authorized to receive seriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. All postmaste; Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order tc insure & prompt and correct compliance With their request. OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chleago. (Long Distance Telephone ‘‘Central 2619.") -+..1118 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.... .Herald Square YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 20 Tribune Building NEW STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: . ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hots WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, correr of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Heyes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 lencia, open umtil $ o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. An African King. ‘The Orient Exprees. Orpheum—Vaudeville. nd Opera-house— ‘A Temperance Town.” French Mald,” Monday, Febru- ary 24 California—"The Sign of the Cross.”” Tivoli—'"The Ameer.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Metropolitan Hall—Song Recital. Metrop Hall Hofmann Evenink, Tuesday, Febru- *™ sMeiropolitan. Hall—Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Febru- i ielklwd Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By William G. Layng—Thursday, February 27, Horses, at 721 Howard street. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND AC- COUNTS. IVIL government may learn something from ‘ the policy of the great industrial combina- tions, which in some of their aspects terrify e country. As far as their affairs are made public it is seen at once that their profits consist largely oi savings in administration, effected by an exact sys- tem of accounting. All great railway systems se- cure at any cost accounting systems and accountants, to the end that every mill received may be traced to its proper application to the legitimate purposes of the corporation. There is evidence, constantly accumulating, that our i m of government is the most costly known { the lack of exact accounting. Comptroller w York City has publicly stated, as the result of his experience of four years as the account- ing officer of that city, that the introduction of an ex- act system of public accounting would save the city the enormous sum of $25,000,000 annually. The same is affirmed of the situation in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and the other large cities of the country. There is no doubt that San Francisco has nothing to boast in this respect over the other cities of the country. It is in view of these conditions that we advise im- provement in accounting before any further experi- ments are made in municipal ownership and pater- nalism. because Coler c pany had taken over all the coal and iron mines, the coke plants, smelters, converters, rolling mills and machinery of all the companies which compose it, and had thus expanded its administration over an in- finite variety of operations without subjecting them all to 2 common and completely expository system of accounting, does any one believe that it could have run six months successfully? Yet here are municipal corporations, already ad- ministering school, police, fire, street, sewer and other governmental concerns, under a system of ac- counting so defective that in one city $25,000,000 a year is lost, in part of another $500,000, and #n all various sums great or small, and without any amend- ment of accounts or reforms of system it is proposed to expand their administration over light, railroad, water, telephone and power plants, thereby enlarg- ing administration and its resulting waste. We are unable to conceive why the proponents of municipal paternalism as a rule oppose the institution of accounting reform as a condition precedent to em- barking in these new ventures. Some of them say that added responsibility will bring reform. When and where has that been the result? Has it done it in New York, or Philadelphia, in Boston, Chicago, Toledo or Kansas City? No. The new objects of administration have been dumped upon a grossly de- fective system of public business and a method of ac- counting that does not account, and the waste has been multiplied. Let another element be taken into account. The public officers who administer municipalities are nominated in party conventions and elected at the polls. The expert talent required to work a proper accounung system is not in politics. Great indus- 1 corporations do not recruit their auditing divi- sion in that way. It is filled on merit and fitness alone. If every two years those corporations sub- mitted their accountants to political selection, how long would they avoid bankruptcy? Yet the Propo- nents of municipal ownership propose that every vear, or two or four years, the management of pub- Jic service utilities shall be changed by the popular vote and by party methods, and yet. it is expected that by some sorcery or conjuring that management chall be a public benefit, and not a public waste! We cannot regard the prospect as implying anything elee than an enlargement of waste, and therefore in- sist that all such_experiment shall be preceded by a drastic reform of methods in administering the du- ties of municipal government as they exist now. Suppose that the United States Steel Com- | UNCLE TOM's CABIN. - S a “purpose mnovel” Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle A Tom's Cabin” long ago accomplished what- ever it was intended to, effect. There are many intelligent people who were active in the anti- |slavery period that believe its influence on public ‘opinion in that age of agitation is overestimated. Per- secution does more tc advance any cause than any amount of lachrymal literature. The fictitious woes of Uncle Tom, the hectic character of little Eva, the swagger of Legree, had far less to do with the cul- tivation of opposition to slavery than denial of the right of petition, the murder of Lovejoy, the brutal assault hpon Sumner, the denial of the mails to Northern newspapers, Toombs’ hypothetical rollcall of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument, |and characterization of Northern workmen as “mud | sills.” The -spread of abolition in the North will rank in history as an economic movement, mnot thickly veneered with sentiment. It was just such a move- ment as now resists the free admission 6f the products of cheap or forced or. servile labor from Cuba and the Philippines. ~ The great debate in the United | States Senate before secession, before Lincoln's elec- tion, while Buchanan was President and the Repub- lican party was only opposing extension of slavery into -the Territori®s, foreshadowed the convulsion that came a few years later. In the debate the flower of the South in the Sen- ate defended slavery because it enabled the existence of a leisure class, that could devote itself to politics and the science of government. . Certain tasks and personal services were denounced as degrading to a gentleman. It was then that Senator Dodge, a Dem- ocrat, said that listening to the debate he had udwill- ingly reached the conclusion that armed’ strife be- tween the sections could not be averted, that it must | come, because the discussion had revealed such di- verse views of life and honor as indicated an antagon- ism that was incapable of compromise. He called his father, who was also a Senator from another State and sat near him, to witness that he from his vouth up had rendered to others such services as the Southerners denounced as degrading and unworthy of a' gentleman, and that fact, instead of degrading him in the estimation of the hardy Northern people, had raised him in their esteem and inspired his pro- motion in public life. He was followed by Broderick of California, who declared himself sprung from the loins of a race of laborers, and thrilled the Senate by pointing to the capitals of the pillars and pilasters of the chamber carved by the hand of his own father, a working stonemason. The profound feeling indicated by, such incidents was incapable of creation by a lachrymose fiction. It had its radix in the profound nature of things. Witha strange kind of philosophy the people of the South are just now being roused to a high pitch of feeling by the play of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” somewhat bunglingly dramatized from the novel. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith a year ago made a savage attack on the novel, and is followed now by Mr. John Temple Graves, one of the editorial writers of the Atlanta Journal and a lecturer of such repute that he makes a profitable platform season every year in the North. Mr. Graves is pleased with the plan of the Daughters of the Confederacy to suppress “Uncle ‘Tom's Cabin,” both book and play, by legislation! This is rather discouraging. It is the old spirit that soughit to suppress abolition by murdering Lovejoy and mauling Sumner and denying the mails to the New York Tribune. It is Tillmanism. No people has ever emerged into an atmosphere of greatness and progress until it became willing to tolerate ex- aggeration of its follies and even misrepresentation of the extremes of its habit of life, its views of econo- mics, its moral obliquities and its sins. The most revered and respected divines of New England were witch hunters and took an active part in the murder of old women who had moles on their chins and were disliked by their neighbors. No blacker record of superstition and folly exists than they made, though they shared it with vast numbers in this country and Europe. Has any one heard of their descendants attempting to exclude it from history? | Has any “Yankee” proposed to legislate Longfel- low’s “New England Tragedies” out of that section? Because of its revelations of another New England trait, does any committee threaten to lynch the read- ers of Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter”? Does any “Yankee” leave a theater in dudgeon because the play portrays the Yankee capacity for bilking and sharp practice, for mean economy and less than hon- est thrift? Yet Cable is outlawed from his native Louisiana for his Creole tales, and his “Grandissimes” is spurned as an incendiary book. Mr. Graves is afraid that “little tots” will see the play and grow up thinking that their ancestors all used all their slaves the way John L. Sullivan uses Uncle Tom on the stage! A very poor compliment to the coming intelligence of Southern youth. T o —— A Philadelphia culprit stood up in court the other day and pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit suicide, but said in the way of extenuation that he did not intend to kill himself; and now the Philadelphia lawyers are discussing whether the plea was one of guilty or not guilty. T e —— VOTERS IN ALABAMA. HEN the new suffrage laws in Alabama Wwere under consideration it was asserted by those who supported them that when once in operation they would lead to an elimination of the undesirable vote, and thus prepare a way for the division of the remaining voters upon rational party lines, with the consequent development of better politics and greater popular interest in political cam- { paigns. Those assertions are not getting much sup- port from the operation of the law. So far from in- citing the people to take a renewed interest in pub- lic affairs the effect appears to have been to render clections so much in the nature of foregone conclu- sions that a considerable portion of the. white vote itself has become indifferent and neglectful. Among other qualifications designed by the con- stitution makers for the elimination of the negro vote is the payment of -a poll tax amounting to $1 50 as a preliminary to registration. Under the law the time for paying such taxes closes February 1, and the State officials have now made their returns for this vear. The showing has astonished the people. The Montgomery correspondent of the Atlanta Constity- tion says the number of white men who have for- feited the franchise by a neglect to pay the poll tax “exceeds the utmost hopes of those who wished a smaller voting strength, and almost equals the fears of those who did not desire that any white ‘man should get left out under the new' constitution. The tuumber of those who are ligble as being between 21 !nnd 45 years of age is 60 per cent of the whole. | Most of the counties have now been heard from, and | the indifference seems to have been universal. The white counties have been as derelict as the black belt, and perhaps a little more so.” Some of the details of counties are interesting. The correspondent says: “The highest percentages of failure to pay were in Mobile and Baldwin, white counties, while the typical black county of Dallas comes next with over 40. The average elimination of white voters in the whole State is between 30 and 35 per cent of those in the poll tax age. * * * The elimination of the blacks under 45 years of age was almost complete. In Mobile the percentage was about 70, which was the lowest in the State. In no other county was it as low as 8 per cent, and the general average can be put-somewhere between go and 95.” A Upon this showing it seems the poll tax require- ment virtually sweeps the black vote from the State and reduces the white vote to such an extent that the number of voters:in the elections this fall will hardly amount to much more than an oligarchy. It will be seen, furthermore, that there was no need of a “grandfather clause” in the constitution to eliminate the colored vote in a State where so many people both white and black are willing to lose the fran- chise rather than pay a poll tax. Alabama having now attained a voting population “small but select,” it remains to be seen whether she can elect better men to office, enact better laws and enforce them with more firmness. At a recent dinner given by the Germania Club in ! Brooklyn to comniemorate the birth of Tilden there developed a decided movement to nominate for Gov- ernor of New York Edward M. Shephard, who was beaten for Mayor of the city, and probably if beaten for Governor he will be boomed for the Presidency. It seems to be the determination of Brooklyn to get him in office somewhere. OUR RAILWAY PROBLEMS. OSEPH NIMMO ]JR., the well-known statis- J tician and economist, has contributed to the discussion of our railway problems a plea for a full and thorough investigation of the'whole subject by a Congressional committee before any further legislation on the subject is undertaken. He would postpone for the present any increase of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, or any amendment of the acts devised for the regulation of interstate commerce. He would have the whole is- stie set aside until by a careful examination Congress shall have brought to light the exact relations of railways to the business of the country and made clear the way for providing a remedy for such evils as exist., In making this*plea Mr. Nimmo cites the good re- sults which have followed the adoption of the plan by the British Government, Parliament has repeat- edly investigated the relations of railways to public interests and has thus kept posted on the changes which are incessantly taking place both in commerce and in railway transportation. As an illustration of the frequency of these Parliamentary investigations Mr. Nimmo points out that they took place in 1840, 1844, 1846, 1852, 1865, 1872, 1881, 1888 and 1893.. In striking contrast to the British policy stands that of the. United States, for, despite the fact that we have nearly 200,000 miles of railroad while Great Britain and Ireland have but 22,000 miles, there has been but one investigation of the kind in this country since the advent of railroads. Of the work of the British commissions Mr. Nimmo says: “In their various reports all the more important commercial, economic and politica{ condi- tions governing the railroad transportation question in Great Britain have been investigated and reported upon. Theories and notions about railroad manage- ment and regulations have also been reported upon —some of them quite as visionary and absurd as those which now command attention in this country. As a result of these elaborate. Parliamentary inquiries abuses of various sorts have been abated, mistaken ideas in regard to the management and regulation of railroads of Great Britain have been corrected, sen- sible remedial expedients have been adopted, many questions at issue have been amicably settled and public discontent has been allayed.” That is certainly a notable array of good results, and even if allowance be made for possible exaggera- tion they would still constitute a strong argument in favor of the proposed investigation. A great deal has been written about our railway problems from well nigh every conceivable point of view. Statis- ticians, lawyers, railway men, political economists, statesmen, agitators and even novelists have taken part in augmenting the mass of the railway literature of the country. Still there has never been any com- prehensive study of the subject such as is proposed, for the one investigation made by Congress, the Sen- ate .inquiry of 1886, which resulted ifi the interstate commerce act, was directed mainly to certain specific evils which had been complained of, and did not un- dertake to deal with the issue as a whole. Mr. Nimmo says: “What is now needed is an in- quiry relating to the organization of our vast Ameri- can railway system, its relations to the social, com- mercial and industrial interests of the country, the benefits which it has conferred, the evils which have incidentally arisen in the course of its development, and the proper course to be pursued in an attempt to cure those evils.” ¥ It will not be questioned that the proposition is timely, but the countty will hardly agree with Mr. Nimmo that Congress should do nothing to strengthen the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission until the investigation has been made. The issue just now is that of enforcing the interstate commerce law and compelling obedience to United States statutes. Upon a question of that kind there is no room for differences of opinion, and Congress should act upon it at once. ———— It has been generally believed that the American people have about abandoned the observance of the pleasant customs of St. Valentine’s day, but the an- nouncement that the mails of the country increased nearly fourfold during the Valentine week shows that the good old saint is still doing a lively busi- ness. e New York City has discovered that a livery stable that should have paid $120 a year for water rates has been carried on the city's books as a vacant lot for the last ten years, and reflecting men are now ask- ing themselves whether such a thing could have hap- pened had the water works been in private hands in- stead of und1er municipal control. — Professor Triggs of the University of Chicago says Was};ington and Franklin were better “stylists™ in the use of English than Macaulay or Stevenson, andwnow the eagle can scream in the world of let- lters as defiantly as in the domain of politics and Iwar; - but, nevertheless, Triggs lisd. ’ i | malito, Cal. 2 1902, i UNCLE SAM SUGGESTS AN ANSWER TO THE EASTERN QUESTION. | _—_— . & Answers to Queries. POPULATION—C. R, M., San Rafael, Cal. The population of London is 4,537,083; Parls, 2,5%,834, and New York, 3,437,202 THREE DATES—W. R., City. The 2ith of April, 1883, 1834 and 1885 fell on Tues- day, Thursday and Friday, respectively. THE PENSION ROLL—W. B., Ther- The latest report of the United States pension roll is $139,582,231 98. AMERICAN COINS—W. I. M., Auburn, Cal. There is no premium offered for a half dime of 1831, dime of 1833, or halves of 1828 and 1831. "HEIGHTS—C. R. M., San Rafael, City The height of the Call building dome is 327 feet, that of the City Hall dome in San Francisco is 32%5.6 and the height of the Palace Hotel 120 feet. A DIME OF 1849—0. S.. Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles County, Cal. No premium is offered by dealers for .dimes coined later than 1846, consequently a dime of 1849 {s not a premium coin. SPOTTS—Subscriber, City. A. T. Spotts held the office of City and County Re- corder in San Francisco in 1887 and 1888, {'having been chosen at the election of No- ‘vember 2, 1886, receiving 18,331 votes. THE FULLER GIRL—S., Oakland, Cal Up to the 20th of January, the date of your letter of inquiry, there had not been published any account of the finding of the Fuller girl, who disappeared a few days before. INTEREST—C. M., City. The question in your letter of inquiry as to the amount of interest upon a stated amount of money is purely arithmetical, and one of the class that this department does not an- swer. Neither are problems solved in this department. INSURANCE POLICIES—A. S, City. If an insurance company is a reliable one its policies of whatever class are of equal stability. The Insurance Commissioner’s office ought to be able to inform you as to the stability of the different insurance companies doing business in this city. A LEASE—J. B, Petaluma, Cal. As to whether a landowner has anything to say about a_growing crop after he has leased the land to a tenant depends upon the conditions of the lease, and without knowing the conditions it is impossible to answer the question. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION—A. 8. H., Vallejo, Cal. There is no special United States civil service examiner in San Francisco. Such examinations are carried on In the department in which candidates are to be examined. For infor- mation and blanks select your depart- ment and write to it. POSTOFFICE EXAMINATION-J. 8., Eureka, Cal. If you desire to take ex- amination under civil service rule for a position in the San Francisco Postoffice write to the clerk of the Civil Service Board at the postoffice and obtain an ap- plication. After you have filled out the same and filed it, you will be notified as to the time and place for the next exam- ination. LOAN ASSOCIATION—A. B. P., Tracy, Cal. This department does not vouch for the reliability of any business assocla- tion or individuals, nor advise its read- ers whether this or that institution is “a safe and reliable institution in which | to invest money.” There are mercantile agencies that can furnish the standing of any business firm or individual. For that reason the information asked for about a certain loan association cannot be fur- nished. § GOVERNMENT LANDS IN CALIFOR- NIA—H. G., City. To ascertain what Government lands are vacant in California and open to pre-emption you will have to write to each of the following named land offices In this State: At Eureka, Indepen- dence, Los Angeles, Marysville, Sacrams ‘to, San Francisco, Stockton, Susanville and Visalia. On the first of July, 1901, it was reported that the acreage of public vacant land in California subject to entry ‘was: Surveyed, 34,052,59, and unsurveyed, making a total of 42,049,008, Y GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS Publishers apparently are not looking forward to very good times yet awhile. They have some fear of the coronation festivities interfering with the book trade. At any rate, I learn that comparatively few novels are being issued or belng pre- pared for the press. A great many al- ready arranged for are being held over | till the autumn. Now that Lord Dufferin's life is closed many papers refer, among the dead mno- bleman’s many talents, to what he has done for English literature. but Lord Dufferin’s connection with his literary an- cestors were incidental rather than per- sonal. He was the great-grandson on the mother’s side of Richard Brinsley Sheri- dan, to whose career of worldly failure his own presented such an extraordinary contrast, though, sad to say, it closed un- der one cloud of misfortune. Lord Duf- ferin’s mother was a woman of rare charm and many accomplishments. Her song, “The Irish Emigrant,” is sure of a very long life. It was from her undoubtedly he inherited his wit and all-round bril- liancy. Lord Dufferin was accustomed to say that in the last 250 years the Sheri- dans, who once had been a great territo- rial family, had produced twenty-seven authors and more than 200 books. To these he contributed some half-dozen, of which the best known is his “Letters From High Latitude.” An interesting controversy has been aroused by the attempt of the London School Board to find a sultable site for its new school at Hampstead. There has been a lack of certainty as to the houses which actually represent the historic “Long Room,” but the uncertainty has been dispelled by a letter which H. G. Rooth, the ultimatg owner of the prop- erty, has sent to the press. Rooth found among his title deeds, he states, some in which the house is recited as having been converted out of some assembly-rooms, and he has confirmatory evidence in an engraving of the ‘‘Long Room,"” published about the time when Elvina visited it against her will. That, of course, is the chief literary assoclation of the bullding, although it was visited by Pope and Akenside, and at a later day Keats loved' to linger In it. Perhaps the present generation has not read either “Elvina” or the “Diary of Madame d'Arblay,” in which case there should be a good opening for an enter- prising publisher. The elect may know that Miss Amville did not enjoy herselt on her sole visit to the “Long Room,” but though the company was very ill-bred one young gentleman begged the favor of hopping a dance with her. Another flirted ‘with her in that charming fashion which endears Smith to every reader of taste. “My dear ma'am,” sald this would-be sprig of fashion, “you must be a little ‘more patient. I assure you I have no bad deslgns—I have not, upon my word—but really, there’s no resolving upon such a thing as matrimony all at once, what with the loss of one's liberty, and what with the ridicule of one's acquaintance. I asure you, ma’'am, you are the first lady who ever made me even demur upon this subject, for, after all, my dear ma'am, marriage is the devil.” A waggish correspondent suggeésts that perhaps the necessities and decencies might be combined if Tord Reay, the chairman of the School Board, would give an undertaking and preseribe “Elvina” ag a reading book for the new school. George Meredith, the oldest, as without question the most original and of modern English romancers, has this week entered on his. seventy-fifth year. His first appearance in print, in the shape ot a book of poems, was in 1851, when he was 23 years of age. It is rather remarkable that though his most popular romance, “The Ordeal of Richard Feveril,” was published forty-three years ago, it was not until many years afterward that Mer- edith’s genius as a novellst was recog- nized. Meredith has published altogethay | twenty-seven books, his last novel, “The Case of General Ople and Lady Camer,” being issued in 1895. 5 Irish Shames the Hissers. John P. Irish, naval officer:of customs at San Francisco, who has been spending considerable time in Washington this winter attending to Federal matters, is an Towan and a former neighbor of the new Secretary of the Treasury, Governor Shaw. “Iowa has produced many bril- liant orators,” said Willlam L. Culbert- son, president of the First National Bank of Carroll. Jowa, who was present in ‘Washington to welcome Governor Shaw, “and Irish is one of them.” The naval office which Colonel Irish fills is a branch of the Treasury Depart- ment. It is one of a”series of similar offices which was established for the sake of convenience and economy in cer- tain customs districts where the extent of transactions makes it impracticable to forward a daily accounting to the de- partment at Waskington. The power of Mr. Irish as an ofator has been recognized by political leaders and he has been much in demand in big cam- paigns. Prior to Bryan’s first nomination for the Presidency Mr. Irish had engaged in several joint debates with the Ne- braskan, and during both national cam- paigns he was commissioned by the Gold Democratic managers to follow in Bryan's wake. Wherever Bryan spoke there on the following night Irish would address the people. Irish is a man of nimble wit. On one occasfon, while addressing a convention, some delegates opposed to the course which he was urging began to hiss. Instantly his followers shouted rebuke. The voice of Irish, which in power has been likened to Webster’s, rose above the clamor. “Gentlemen,” sajd he, addressing his supporters and waving his hand toward the hissing delegation, “let them higs. i have always been an advocate of abso- lute liberty of expression. Neither in thig convention nor out of it would I apply closure to the means employed to vocal- ize the thoughts of men or the predilec- tions of animals. The snake hisses out of instinctive venom, the goose hisses out of the stupidity of its nature, and all crea- tures, including mian, should have equal rights to express themselves according to m;n: congenital endowment.” en, turning to his disturbers, Irish added: “You may, mucmon.»li that is the ordained method for the ex- pression of your emotions, continue to I;l:s."—?hllldg!phll Saturday Evening St. PERSONAL MENTION. ‘Leopold Stern of San Jose is at the Oc- cidental. W. A. Mackinder of St. Helena is at California. e George C. Catts, Mayor of Stockton, at the Lick. . H. D. C. Richards, a mining man of New York, who has claims at Sutter Creek, is at the Occidental. William D. Wasson will leave in a few days for Portland, where he will become the editor of a new evening paper, the Journal, to be published by A. D. Bowen and ‘W. A. Campbel —_— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—E. H. Adams is at the Everett; L. F. Goodwin is at the Victoria; 97 W Knapp Is at the Herald Square; J. B. M Namara is at the Herald . C. W. Mills and wife are at the Murray Hill: S. J. Rose and wife are at the Morton; H. H. Ryan is at the Morton; N. Silverberg is at the Hotel Savoy; J. Stern and wite are at the Hotel Savoy; W. A. Junken is a: the Holland; W. Kidston is at the Glisey House; E. A. Phelps is at the Holland. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ' . Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— s, ———— Special information supplied daily poXeg t S to the ‘Felephone 3 Rl