The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1902, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl § p. m. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call 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. This paper will aiso be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in ml! towns on the coast. : —— — CONDITION OF TRADE. AST week was quiet in trade everywhere, and L there were few features worthy of especial mention. One, however, deserves notice. This is the strike of the coal miners, which a week ago threatened to inflict serious injury upon business, but which has happily been greatly modified by ad- justments here and there, so that at present it is not such a serious menace and may turn out a trivial matter after all. The railroads and iron trade, which | were especially threatened by the strike, are doing their usual business, and both interests report affairs flourishing. The railroad earnings thus far in May are ahead of those st the’ corresponding time last wyear, while the structural mills report liberal orders, which are running them to their full capacity, most | of them still being unable to promise prompt deliv- cries, and many being engaged for months ahead. This protracted activity in iron and steel is remark- able. It has continued for several years and shows no signs of slackening. As an indication of the con- dition of business throughout the country it is highly gratifying The other staples, however, are visibly quieter than The more favorable weather over the wheat and corn belt and the promise of abundant crops of both grains have taken the snap out of the markets, znd specuiation in both has fallen to 2 low ebb. At Chicago there is hardly anything doing, and while the export movement from the United States is very good, it is going along tamely and in a legitimate way. Provisions, toc, have subsided, and while prices are abnormally high and the raw product in more or less light supply, transactions at the princi- pal centers have materially diminished during the past fortnight. Footwear is much quieter and sell- ers are making concessions here and there, in spite of the fact that hides and leather have ruled firm, with recent advances in the former. San Francisco tanners, however, report -this market for leather weak. The cotton and woolen trades are quiet and featureless. Collections 2re reported good all over the country, and the failures continue small and generally unim- portant, those last weck numbering 192, against 180 for the corresponding week last year. The bank clearings showed a loss from 1901 of 15.5 per cent, the great cities of the country being about bal- anced in the matter of increases and decreases. For the next two or three months, unless something un- toreseen happens, business wiil be more or less unin- teresting, as the summer season is at hand, and there never is much going on at that time of the year. Conditions on this coast, subject as they are to | those in the Eastern and Western portions of the country, show no particular changes. Like Wall street, which has been tame enough of late, the San Francisco market for stocks, bonds and other se- curities has been inactive for several weeks, and, like Chicago, this market for provisions and cereals is without feature and quiet as a rule. Values for every- thing, however, compzratively high as they are, seem to be maintained without difficulty, and the domestic and export trade of this port continues first rate. There are no complaints from any quarter,though the real estate men say that the demand for building sites is not excited as for the past few months. Against | this report, however, the records show a number of heavy transfers during the past few days, with the usual announcements of large buildings going up all over town. It must be remembered that real estate bas been abnormally aceive in this city for months, znd many handsome turns have been made, while the tendency of values continues upward. As far as that is concerned, when a town gets as large as San Francisco it is 2 pretty safe proposition to buy real ~-tate almost anywhere within its limits, as most ~~perty owners have learned to their profit and grat- ~tion dering the past year, I'be crops, upon which the business of San Fran- «co largely depend, continue to look well, and no ol late. {ailures in any product of the soil are expected. Some kinds of fruit will be shorter than anticipated, and the same may be said of hay and grain; but taken as & whole the harvest of the State will be large, i PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. HE revelations of loss and sometimes cor- ruption in the administration of light and water supply by cities, under public ownership, have had a tendency to increase the demand for feform in public accounting, Citizens who do not favor public ownership and administration of public utilities are found in the ranks of those who insist upon a better system of public audit and accounts. As errors and enormous -losses are discovered in the public opera- tion of light and water plants, the presumption is not strained that equal losses occur in administering fhe essential functions of government, such as fire, police, school and street departments. There are two schools amongst the advocates of public ownership and operations of business enter- prises. One school is distinctly socialistic, the other consults its prejudices rather than its philosophy. It shares the feeling that is abroad against corporations, and when shown that, as far as facts are revealed, municipal waste is equal to or greater than corpor- ate profit, no impression is made because this school of men seck revenge upon corporations and they are willing to accomplish it though the method may im- pose upon the public greater burdens than those for which corporations are responsible. The socialistic | school is calmly philosophical, and while it may be as impervious to reason as the other because it re- fuses to consider both sides of the subject, its optimism is more tolerable than the prejudice and pessimism which are the motives of its associate cult. In discussing this subject we have heretofore re- ferred at length to the extensive socialistic experi- ments inaugurated in Boston by Mr. Josiah Quincy during his service as Mayor: The chief of these was a municipal printing office, in which he took great interest and to which he pointed with pride. His successor, Hon. Patrick Collins, has the same social- istic zeal, and with a view of promoting the policy of public ownership ordered a comprehensive report upon the operations of the printing office. The ma- an expert printer and the other an accountant. Their report is a sad disappointment to Mayor Collins and the advocates of public ownership. The loss in five years’ operation of the plant amounts to $40,12883. This is the direct loss and is increasing annually. For the first four years it was $7129 44 per annum. The fifth year it was $9610 84. This was the direct loss, the difference between outgo and income. Added to this there is an indirect loss to the taxpayers in the higher prices paid for the work done. The experts found that on tabulation work the price is twenty-five per cent and on plain work ten per cent higher than in private establishments, and in excess of the charge paid by the city when its printing was done by contract. The amount of this indirect loss is estimable only when the total amount of city printing is known, and this informa- tion is not furnished by the report. The reason why this is a direct loss which increases every year in spite of a higher charge, which would itself be a satisfactory profit in a private establish- ment, is partly explained by the experts. They say: “The present hours of labor at the plant are eight per day, with a Saturday half holiday, or forty-four hours per week, against fifty-four hours per week by the nine-hour day in outside printing establishments, No one would object to this shortening of hours, on the contrary all will applaud it, provided only that the city’s work be properly done in the forty-four hours remaining. In fact, it is reasonable to expect that more work should be done per hour per man on a seven and one-third-hour day than on a nine- hour day, but this has not been the fact at the print- ing plant. The figures prove conclusively that, con- trary to reasonable expectation, less work per hour per man has been accomplished at the printing plant. These results have many causes, some of which are designated in last year’s report—but all of which simmer down finally to two fundamental causes. First, incompetent and sometimes useless employes, who have been forced upon, or at least accepted by, the superintendent; and secondly, that the necessary vim and snap has not been imparted to the supervis- ion of the work. An unnecessary number of em- ployes has been carried in all divisions of the print- ing department. There is a lamentable lack of inter- est manifested in the work. In many cases the dis- position seemed to be to kill time, without reference to the needs of the establishment. Hands were idle for hours at a time. This idleness is attributable to the fact that the force is far in excess of the needs, and were it a private corporation much of the help would be temporarily laid off, or told to look else- where for employment.” The expert printer concludes his report to the Mayor by saying: “The city is entitled to the same returns from its expenditures that the individual ob- tains, and this must be insisted on if the results shall justify the expectations you expressed to me.” In addition to the waste, loss and high charges in the printing department, the charge for ruling and binding was found to be twenty per cent higher than individuals pay, and there was extravagance in the purchase of all stock vsed. The accountant’s conclusion is: “Here is an ex- periment in municipal ownership, a municipal in- dustry endowed with every advantage. Ample capi- tal, generous appropriations, plant in excellent physi- cal condition, regular work of the same general char- acter throughout the year, everything favorable for a successful enterprise, which should do the city’s printing better than by contract, and which should be able to pay as good or better wages, while giving shorter hours to employes.” The failure is declared will save money by abolishing the plant. According to Mr. Quincy and other promoters of exceptionally favorable to its success. That it has failed should induce great care in’ entering upon like PEACE IN SIGHT. DISPATCHES from London report that an Saturday that the negotiations in South Africa are practically settled and that the war is at an negotiations is due to the difficulty of the Boer dele- gates in communicating with their followers, and the to obtain a ratification of their actions, so that when the end comes there will be no reason for further dis- elapse before the actual ratification of the peace treaty, but none the less the war is over and King empire is at peace on his coronation day. There is no reason for doubting the essential accy- tion of them is to be found in many directions. The recent instructions to British agents in this country to be humiliating, and it is shown that the tax payers this public enterprise the conditions in Boston were ventures elsewhere. unnamed member of the Ministry stated on end. It is explained that the delay in closing the desire of the British officials to give them ample time pute. It is therefore probable that some weeks may Edward will have the satisfaction of knowing that his racy of the statements of the dispatch. Confirma- to make no further purchases of horses and mules for terial for this report was gathered by two men, one | South Africa strongly intimated an assurance on the part of the British Government that peace is at hand. A still more striking proof was furnished in the re- port of the incidents connected with the recent capture of 400 Boers. It appears that when attacked the Boers made no attempt to fight, but sought only to escape. Thus there were no casualties on the side of the British. That fact throws a strong light upon the situation. It is evident the patriots of the Trans- vaal recognize that their cause is hopeless, and hav- ing made one of the most glorious struggles for liberty in the history of the world they are now facing defeat bravely and are averse to shed more blood merely for the sake of vengeance. American interest in the situation is now centered in the report that King Edward is willing to grant liberal and generous terms to the conquered heroes. It is said he has urged the Ministers to consent to almost any- terms for the sake of peace. It is to be hoped these reports are true and that the new King will show himself magnanimous as well as powerful. Peace with magnanimity will adorn his coronation better than all the splendor he can throw around it though he ransack his empire for imperial adorn- ments. Even the coldest and least sentimental states- man must see there can be no lasting peace in South Africa unless it come with honor both to Briton and to Boer. About the only objection thus far made to the acceptance of the Kaiser's gift of a statue to Fred- for stately monuments at Washington are now so scarce we can hardly afford to spare one of them to NATIONAL GUIDANCE, BISHOP THOBURN, who has been on a mis- Settlements, has been called as an expert wit- ness before the Philippine committee of the Senate. logical view of our presence and responsibility in those distant isiands. He told the committee that we much bloodshed and human suffering have been caused by our going there, it is all a part of the He admitted that any Filipino who favors Ameri- can rule is in danger of having his throat cut, which to our presence and hate our domination. The views of the Bishop are very interesting, and had examined him along the lines of his intimate knowledge of the divine purpose. The unregenerate moved to inquire why an all-wise Creator brings into existence whole races of people so imperfectly stronger races have to be created to set upon them with fire and sword to kill and wound and starve and who could have made them originally so enlightened that none of this cruel and inhuman punishment If ‘a human father find in his family one defective child, who is mentally and morally weak, stubborn obedient children to smite that one and wound and torture and kill him, to force him to become as they The laws m:&e by man fdrbid it and their swift pun- ishment would follow such an exhibition of cruelty Bishop Thoburn avows his belief in the divine fatherhood, and that is far beyond human fatherhood, of prenatal influence, a human father may be afflicted by a child that is vicious or idiotic. But and endowed with qualities, both moral and physical, that were fitted to them before breath was put into dowed with such power would choose to create man in such form that it would be unnecessary to torture of religion or his submission to any special kind of civil government. That is what Bishop Thoburn the tribes that dwell in the Philippines he would not have so formed their minds and habits as to make it to burn their humble houses, lay waste their fields and bring woe and havoc upon them. He is no and inconceivable human suffering. We do not be- lieve he would be that cruel to any of the lower things are be_ing done by divine compulsion? It is true that we read in Exodus that the heart of the hearts of men be softened in these higher and better days? What great purpose is accomplished undoing? The Bishop admits that under the divine compulsion we must go on killing them, and Gen- capable of defense that it is like killing children, and he winced every time he had to do it. Complaint day. Is it because the view of the divine person and purpose taken by Bishop Thoburn revolts human- ity, and being told there is none other refuse to be- lieve in any? quiry. Men want to know if ¢he plan of creation is so imperfect that all this bloodshed and this killing purpose to correct mistakes that omnipotence ought not to make? his intimate knowledge of the supernatural purpose as to let us know how long we must keep it up, and R — erick the Great is one to the effect that suitable sites etect a memorial to a Kin sionary station for many years in the Straits His opinions seem to be derived entirely from a theo- are there because of divine compulsion, and although providential purpose. reveals the fact that a majority of the people object would be more so if any member of the committee mind is still found, unfortunately, and it will be equipped, morally and mentally, that other and torture them into submission to the will of a Creator would have been necessary. and disobedient, he does not arm his perfect and are. Such thing would revolt the human heart. and inhumanity. Now what is the difference? because it is omnipotent. By the unhappy accident the races of men, according to theology, are created their ribs, or their ribs were made. A human being en- and kill him to secure his belief in'any special form would do himself in the premises. Had he made necessary to create others to go there and kill them, doubt too good a man to be responsible for such vast orders of life. Why then does he say that all these Pharaoh was divinely hardened, but why may not by hardening the hearts of the Filipinos to their own eral MacArthur, a soldier, says that they are so in- goes up that the churches are quite empty o Sun- ity and the people refuse to believe in such a divin- There is nothing irreverent in this spirit of in- of the weak by the strong are part of the divine We hope that Bishop Thoburn will so far reveal what it will cost and what the result will be. Mark Twain’s recent defense of Funston, coming as it did just after the President had commanded Funston to keep his mouth shut, has been rather serious for the general, and it will not be surprising to learn that he has privately expressed an opinion that Mark Twain is an exhausted humorist and in- capable of writing anything more that is worth reading. Two pews in a fashionable church in Washington city were recently sold at auction and one of them brought $2750. No doubt there is a good deal of religion preached in that church, but it doesn’t in- terfere with the worship of mammon. \ The young King of Spain finds himself confronted at the outset by an anarchist conspiracy; but he may console himself with the reflection that he has no i Philippine question to fret over. NEW FIGHTING CRAFT OF ITALY IS AN IMPROVED ARMORED CRUISER ke G x THE NEW ARMORED CRUISER FRANCESCO FERRUCCIO. THIS FIGHTING SHIP IS THE LATEST ADD!T{ON TO THE NAVY OF ITALY, AND IS AN IMPROVED TYPE OF HER CLASS. SHE IS TRIM IN APPEARANCE AND SPEEDY. | A PRSR— ok HE armored cruiser Francisco Ferruccio, recently launched from the dockyard at Venice, is a sister ship to the Guiseppe Garibaldi built by Ansaldo at Sentri Po- nente near Naples, and both are improvements on prior types of which seven have been built during the past ten years. The Francisco is of 7398 tons, 13,600 horsepower and twenty knots speed and carries a battery of one 10-inch, two 8-inch, fourteen G-inch and eighteen smaller guns. eliliv e The British battleship Russell has completed her series of steam trials without a hitch and with highly satisfactory re- sults. The final test of eight hours under full power developed 18,229 horsepower, 19.3 knots speed and a coal consumption of 2.09 pounds per unit of horsepower. The thirty hours’ continu- ous run under four-fiftns power, which is the severest test, gave 13,69 horsepower, 17.95 knots speed and a coal consump- tion of 2.14 pounds. On April 18 a thirty hours’ trial gave the following results, with one-fifth power: 3768 horsepower, 12.1 knots speed, coal consumption 2.4 pounds. The ship was 2% inches deeper in the water than her intended draught, dis- placing about 14,150 tons or an excess of 150 tons over her nor- mal displacement. The Russell is one of seven battleships iden- tical in all particulars and is 405 feet in length, 75 feet 6 inches beam and carries a main battery of four 12-inch and twelve 6- inch guns. The hull and machinery were buflt under contract by Palmer at Jarrow. A first-class boy on the British training ship Agincourt was recently reported to the executive officer for having used ob- scene language and was crdered to recelve twelve strokes with the birch, Enraged at this the boy ran at the officer and struck the latter a severe blow on the ear, after which a court- martial sentenced him to twenty-four strokes with the birch and three months imprisonment. The corporal punishment was carried out on the quarterdeck of Nelson's old flagship, the Victory, where, according to old navy custom, the culprit is stripped to the walist, lashed to a grating and receives his castigation from a ship’s corporal superintended by the mas- ter-at arms. The naval birch is similar to the ordinary besom but is somewhat smaller. Five of Great Britain's armored ships have been transferred from the effective service list to the D division, which includes vessels fitted only for harbor service except In cases of great emergency. The retired ships are the Glatton, built in 1§72; Iron Duke, 1871; Neptune, 1878; Inflexible, 1881, and Swiftsure, 1872, which latter is being converted into a workshop. The total first cost of these ships was 33,213,680 and $3,438,175 has been expended upon them in repairs and maintenance.” The Iron Duke, which has been in active service on foreign stations for a longer perfod than any other armored ship in the British navy, was built at a cost of $1,043,815 and has consumed $1,098,- 4% in repairs. The Inflexible, only twenty years old, cost $2,- 659,230 ‘and $689,060 in repairs, while the Neptune, with no ser- Vice record whatever, cost $2,056,540 to build and $386,105 in re- pairs. It is due to the persistent efforts of the British Navy League to purge the navy list of obsolete vessels that the Ad- miralty has at last stricken off about a score of ships from the effective list and the saving in repairs on worthless craft will probably cover the cost of a modern battleship every two vears. The Navy League has rendered a greater service to the country than the British taxpayer is likely to realize and appreciate. B O That Germany is rapidly coming to the front as a naval power is forcibly indicated by the presence of a fleet in Irish waters. The squadron, under the command of Prince Henry, consists of eight battleships and three cruisers, and is larger than the British Channel squadron or the French Northern equadron. There is a homogenity about the vessels com- prising this fleet which is only equaled in the British navy. The four battleships of -the first division are of the Kaiser class, identical in all respects, size, maneuvring capacity, radius of action, speed and gun power, and all of them are protected by the same weight and distribution of armor. The fleet is practically new, the oldest of the first division being only five years old and the oldest of the others only ten vears. In thas second division there are some other slight differences, the slowest ship being unable to make more than sixteen knots against eighteen knots of the Kaiser. Taken as a whole the German navy building is far more rational and systematic than that of any other naval power, the squadrons of which being as a rule composad of vessels with varying speeds and other qualities and therefore not as effective as a whole as a squadron of ships identical in all particulars, LR Congressman E. G. Foss, chairman of the House Naval Committee, made a curious statement the other day while presenting the report on the naval appropriation. He alluded to the fact that the Texas was designed by an Englishman whom ke met two years ago in Europe while visiting and inspecting foreign shipyards. It is true that the Texas plans were designed by an Englishman whose name was William John, but Mr. Foss falled to explain that the present chief constructor, Francis Tiffany Bowles, then an assistant naval constructor, examined and endorsed the plans prior to their ac- ceptance by the United States Government, and that when his attention was directed to certain defects in the design, which subsequently proved to be serious, Mr. Bowles reiterated his previous endorsement of the design and built a ship which proved to be a failure. Mr. Foss' neglect to locate the re- sponsibility where it belonged was probably due to a reluctance to expose the stubbornness and incompetency of the chief con- structor, but his alleged meeting with Willlam John two years ago is a highly improbable event, for Mr. John died in Madrid, December 19, 189. Three vacancies practically exist in the construction corps of the United States navy. R. P. Hobson is unfit for duty becauss of impaired eyesight; J. T. McDonald is to be retired on ac- count of ill health, and Lawrence Spear has resigned to enter the employ of the Holland Submarine Boat Company. No doubt the monotony of inspection duty at private shipyards, and routine duty at navy is not calculated to keep up the interest of these comparatively young men; nor is the country receiving an adequate return for the money expended upon the education of these naval constructors. There is no naval power having such an array of untried construction talent and there is but slight prospect that any of our naval constructors will have an opportunity to prove their proficiency. Under these circumstances they can hardly be blamed for becoming tired of a service that offers no encouragement to individual efforts and that they should retire or enter into the employ of private yards. L e e e SRR MM R AT e S ) MANY MEASURES NOW PENDING IN THE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 2%.—Under the special order adobted last week the bill to regulate immigration will have the right of way over all. measures except appropriation bills, revenue bills and con- ference reports. Debate on this bill prob- ably will be resumed on Tuesday, Mon- day being set aside for the consideration of measures coming from the Committee on the District of Columbia, but should it appear that the immigration bill can be: disposed of on Monday Chairman Bab- cock of the District of Columbia Com- mitte may yield Monday to the immigra- tion bill, taking the day following the District of Columbia matters. After the immigration bill is acted upon the Com- mitte on Rules will report a special or- der for the consideration of the anti- anarchy bill, or, as it is known, for the protection of the President of the United States and to prevent crimec against the Government. This will be followed by the subsidiary coinage bill. It is anticipated by the leaders of the House that these measures will occupy the entire week, in which event the Pa- cific cable bill will not be reached until the first week in June. It, in turn, will be followed by the frrigation bill, the Committee on Rules having agreed to report special rules for the consideration of these measures in the order named. VOTE WILL BE DELAYED. From present indications the Senate will devote another full week, if not a longer time to considcration of the Phil- ippine bill. The prediction is freely made thgt a vote will not be reached betore the middle of the following week. There | are still a number of set speeches prom- ised on the bill, and some other Senators have not yet indicated whether they will speak or not. Senator Burrows will be heard to-morrow in advocacy of the bill, and among others who are expected to speak during the week are Senators Pat- terson, Pettus, Bailev and Bacon in op- position to the bill, and Senator Spooner in its support. When the set speeches are disposed of there will.be an effort to secure two or three days’' time for consideration of amendments, allowing speeches not exceeding ten or fifteen minutes on each of them. It is not expected that there will be any session on Friday—Memorial day. There may be an effort to keep the Sen- ate in session, but this effort will be antagonized. % The time for taking a vote on the Phil- ippine measure has caused considerable abatement in the preparation of the dis- cussion of the Nicaragua canal bill and the Cuban reciprocity bill, which will be taken up next in succession or jointly. The beet sugar people expect a month's debate on the Nicaragua bill, but this expectation is not In accord with the ad- \vocates of the Nicaragua, bill or its op-| ponents on the Isthmian Canal Commit- tee. .CUBAN LEGISLATION. Both these elements are now claiming a majority, and are saying that the sooner the vote is taken the better they will be satisfied. The beet sugar men, how- ever, are counting confidently on the co- operation that finds itself in the minority in the matter of postponing the vote on the canal bill. In other words, the beet sugar advocates welcome the intreduc- tion of any question that will defer con- sideration of the Cuban bill, since they think that there will be no Cuban legis- lation at all if the taking up of that question can be postponed until after the passage of all the appropriation bills. 1'lie appropriation bills should be passed be- fore the 1st of July in order to supply money for the support of the Govern- ment after that date, and they conse- quently expect that considerable time will be given during June to the appro- priation bills remaining undisposed of. They count confidently on the early adjournment of Congress after the ap- propriation bills are out of the way, and they hope that if, after that time, there is an effort to pass the Cuban bill it will be incumbent on the friends of the bills to maintain a quorum in the Senate, “It would be hardly fair,” said a beet sugar Republican Senator to-day, in dis- cussing the contingency mentioned, “to expect the opponents of the proposed re- duction to assist in prolonging a session in midsummer for the purpose of passing a measure which they do not want to see enacted into law.” There is still a considerable element in ‘| the Senate opposed to tariff reduction, aud it is asserted by the beet sugar men that the forty-five Republicans neces- sary to pass the bill have not yet been secured. It is declared, however, that the prac- tically unanimous vote could be secured for a rebate measure. PERSONAL MENTION. ‘W. Darneal, a merchant of Los Gatos, is at the Lick. T. P. Bisland, a mining expert of Guay- mas, is at the Russ. J. Morris Jones, a rancher of Colusa, is staying at the Grand. Dr. Ralph Hagan of Los Angeles is at the Grand for a brief stay. Alex C. Blair, a business man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Lick. D. B. Hanson, a lumber dealer of Seat- tle, 1s one of the guests at the Grand. A. J. Pllisbury, a newspaper man of Tulare, is a late arrival at the Grand. John Sparks, a mining man of Reno, Nev., is at the Palace, and Colonel C. R, Eager of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. § ——————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’ "Call. WHY WITTMAN URGES A HIGHER TAX ON SALOONS The suggestion made by Chief Wittman and backed up by tae Police Commission- ers that the liquor license tax be in- creased from 384 to $200 per annum so as to secure sufficient revenue to prop- erly equip the police force has caused much discussion among saloon-keepers and the tax-payers gencrally. The Chief has been in communica- tlon with the Chiefs in other ecities throughout the State regarding the li- conse fee paid by soloon-keepers, and has received replies from San Jose, Sac- ramento, Stockton, Los Angeles and Oak- land, which show that the increase sug- gested Is very reasonable. In San Jose the annual fes is $320, pay- able in advance; in Sacramento it is 3300 -or saloons closinrg at micnight and 3340 for those keeping open all night; In Stockton it is $200, but for saloons where women are employed it is $600; in Los Angeles it is 3600, and in Oskland $400, each saloon-keeper being required to give a bond of $1000 to conduct the business in an orderly manner. “That proves,” sald the Chief yester- day, “that the $84 charged here is ab- surdly low, and no better argument could be adduced for an incredse to $200, which is less than in any other city in the State. I can sce no reason why the Board of Supervisors should object to pass an ordinance giving effect to my suggestion, thereby enabling me to give proper police protection to all parts of the ecity. It appears to me the only fea- sible way out of the difficulty. “Under the referendum clause in the chafter the people can vote at the next election on a proposition to make the Ii- cense tax any way from 3200 to $600, and 1 think the saloon men would be in their own Interests by agreeing to pay $200 under an ordinance of the Board of Supervisors.” — Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— Townsend’s California glace frult, 50c a pound, In fire-etched boxes or .lnf' bask- ets. A nice present for Kastern 639 Market st., Palace Hotel lmfldlg;?nq* —_——— The buzzard is satd the P B S o L R R Toade. when food is plentiful, weighing nearly forty pounds. g’ho bird is ne‘.rly‘exlmcl- ¥ —_— P? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston