The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until § c'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl 9 p. m. e ———— 0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER, Oall subscribers contemplating a change of wsesidence during the er months ean have their paper forwarded by mafl to thefr mew sédresses by motifying The Call Business Ofiice, This paper will also be on sale at all summer wesorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coast. = THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE. VER the bright prospects that promised O prosperity for all the rural industries of Cali- fornia there has come a sudden cloud. A plague of grasshoppers threatens a widespread de- struction of fields and orchards. While the habitual -1406 G St., N. W. lent. optimist may see in this visitation nothing more than | @ passing annoyance, it will not do to overlook it. The experience of Kansas and Nebraska in past years stands as a warning too impressive to be ignored., California cannot afford to take chances with a dan- ger of this kind. Every effort should be made check the pest at once. to It is far better to deal with it now than to wait until it becomes more widespread fand more formidable. Sacramento County has set an example which should be followed wherever the grasshoppers have their breeding-places or establish themselves by migration. The Supervisors of the county, having found by investigation that the breeding-grounds of the pest are in pasture lands, they have undertaken to sweep them clean by fire. When the dry grass is burned over the grasshcppers are killed and their eggs destroyed. The remedy is drastic, but”it is effective. No other known remedy is anything like s0 potent for the purpose. The pest is so widely scattered through the State that the action of a single county avails little. As soon as the grasshopper develops wings he flies to whatever places offer him food. Consequently un- less the work of destruction be carried out system- atically and comprehensively the benefits derived from it will be but partial. What is Tequired in an emergency of this kind is a general co-operation of the people in every lccality where the pest appears. If that can be obtained California will be able to vir- tually eradicate the evil this year and will have little fear of its return next summer. The State Board of Horticulture has undertaken the work of investigating the extent of the pest and the location of the breeding-places. Professors and agents of the State University are also in the field prosecuting the work of inquiry. It is fair to as- sume that they will be able to decisively locate the danger points and fix the districts where fire should be applied. When that information has been ob- tained and given out it will be for the people to do the rest. There is no authority under our laws by which the State or any of its officials can grapple directly with the evil or enforce the remedy proposed. It remains for the land-owners and farmers to accomplish that by voluntary ion. The example set in Sacramento County has been followed to some extent clsewhere, and particularly Solano County, but it should be d everywt re. The amount of loss entailed by ning over old pastures will be slight in com- 1 that which would follow if the pest y established in the State. The losses inflicted upon Kansas and Nebraska were large, but they would be as nothing to jhe loss that would fall upon C; , for the orchards, vineyards and fields o tate ave far richer than those which were devastated there. We have, in fact, an immense property at stake and chould be prompt, resolute and energetic g steps to protect it. L copy of the questions pre- cxaminations was somehow ob- irculated among the students, with the every candidate .for a degree ing colors. Now-there are experts nations are farces anyhow and there is alk of getting them abolished and basing a degree upon the work accomplished by the student during the whole term of his studentship. pared for tzined and result that x passed with who say exa ., A recent test of and armor shows that the guns are too poweriul for any protection yet devised, A position on a battieship continues to be attractive, but it is not yet a sure thing, nor can it be zccounted’ a health recort in time of war. It hardly seemed iikely that anything could blight the budding prosperity of any part of California this season, but the grasshoppers are doing it in some sections. ! display of the fact as would have been C ‘THE JUNTA FAILS, HEN the Platt amendment was adopted Wcompclliug Cuba to offer her constitution for our approval and making her submit to a suzerainty heretofore unknown in our national policy, it was distasteful to a majority of Americans, who took pains to study it in the light of our declara- tion of absolute and rightful independence of the island. Tt was still more distasteful to the Cubans themselves, who came near ceasing to make a con- stitution, with a view of opening war upon their new masters, Peaceful counscls prevailed, however, and an em- bassy was sent to Washington to plead fhat the Platt amendment be withdrawn. After long and numer- ous audienices with the Secretary of War the embassy returned to Havana and reported in favor of adopt- ing the amendment. This was done. What followed is explained by recent disclosures. The patriotic as- piration of the people to make Gomez the first President of the republic, for whose frcedom he had fought with great valor, was by some means sup- pressed and he was induced to withdraw, as it ap- pears now, by a large sum of money paid to him by General Wood under authority of the War Depart- ment. Palma, who had not been in Cuba for nearly thirty years and was unknown to the present genera- tion, was elected President, a large majority of the people not voting. The people of Cuba and the people of the United States saw no reason for all this manifestation. We had declared Cuba of right free and independent. We had disavowed any desire to control her action in any respect, and had disclaimed designs upon her ter- ritory. The Platt amendment was entirely inconsis- tent with our professions. Such reasons were given for it-as men can conjure out of nothing, but the real réason appeared when the Cuban junta opened head- quarters in New York, hired attorneys and printers and began an assault upon the farmers of the United States. Then began a prolonged and sustained effort to in- vade and break down our protective system. The as- sault was-made in the name of a diaphanous moral obligation to Cuba. If protection be a principle there is no moral obligation superior to it. It was also urged in the name of charity to Cuban industry. Ii protection be a principle it is not subject to abate- ment or 1ejection because the people of some other country are in distress. Did we heed the discontent in Swansea when protection to our tin manufacture made bread scarce on the tables of the Welsh dip- pers? Did we talk about moral obligations, or char- ity, when a hungry cry went up from the Austrian button-makers after the McKinley bill domesticated that industry here? Not at all, because in those days protection was taught as an economic principle, and not a policy to be juggled with as expediency dic- tated. When the money payment to Gomez was revealed, following close upon the admission of Mr. Thurber, the American ally of the junta, that General Wood had paid him enormous sums out oi the Cuban rev- cnues to influence Congress, the long-drawn plot was made plain. -The War Department announced that we had promised free trade to Cuba, and then it ap- | peared that the embassy which came to Washington to ask withdrawal of the Platt amendment went back to ask its adoption because the Secretary of War had promised them-in return free trade in our mar- kets. Of all this the American people were in ig- norance. The first they knew of it was when the Secretary of War informed them that they had prom- ised free trade to Cuba, and would be guilty of dis- honor if they broke faith! Effrontery a gentle term to apply to such a statement. The President seems to have been dragged into the matter by the Secretary of War and should be glad to be out of it. The War Department can now retire to its Jegitimate function and keep hands off the economic policy of the country. The American beet farmer has defeated it and its generals in uni- form. Its offensive dictation to Congress must cease, for the people are tired of it. Protection is safe for the present and California is proud that her whole delegation in Congress stood by the protective prin- ciple from the first challenge to the victory. The Republican party will deal with the War De- partment, which has succeeded in scandalizing the administration and in furnishing a fine ammunition train to the political enemy. is Mr. Schwab of the steel trust recently contributed $500 to buy fireworks for Pittsburg for the Glorious Fourth, and the Eastern papers are making as much made had Carnegic given half a miilion for a new library; and yet everybody has known for a long time that Schwab has money to burn. BACK TO THE LAND. ONSIDERABLE interest has been awakened in the East by the reports of success achieved during the last two years by a school of practical farming established at Briarcliff Manor, on the Hudson. The results have been so satisfac- tory that it has been determined to enlarge the school and remove it to a farm of 415 acres near Pough- keepsie. Moreover, the trustees appeal to the pub- lic for an endowment of $1,000,000, and it is believed the money will be promptly contributed. 2 The interest in the subject lies in the peculiar na- ture of the school. Agricultural colleges are numer- ous in the East. Each State has at least one, and their successes are well understood. Had the Briar- cliff school foliowed the line of work of the colleges no special interest would have been felt in it, for it would have descrved none. It has attained high re- pute simply from the fact that it aims at teaching practical farming in a new way to young people who intend to make the cultivation of the soil their life work. In a recent report the director of the school said: “Our experience teaches that actual practice in the field is a most needed supplement of classroom studies. Our teachers will accompany the students from the classroom to the soil, where practical demonstration of the best agricultural theories may be made. At Poughkeepsie, to an extent greéater than has been possible at Briarcliff, the students will handle farming machinery and tools, prepare the soil, apply fertilizers, sow the seed, plant orchards, make gardens and greenhouses, propagate flowers, control ,insects, treat the diseases of plants and ani- mals and perform every practical detail necessary to be understood on a big or a little farm.” Californians have a special interest in the reports of the Briarcliff experiment by reason of the fact that there is a movement under way to establish a similar school here. Father Crowley’s plan for providing farm training and education for boys is essentially the same as that which has been proven successful in New York. He does not ask for $1,000,000, yet the school he proposes to undertake will be not inferior to that in New York and will doubtless train as large a number of students. Such schools will check the tendency of young men to crowd into the cities by teaching them to delight in rural work and to con- duct it with the skill and science required to make it profitable. In that way they will be among the most beneficial institutions of the 'commonwealth, and merit liberal support in California as in New York, ? Official reports are said to show that the American people drink hardly more than a gallon of distilled spirits per capita in a year, and as that consumption is far below the European level the conclusion is reached that we are a very temperate people or else we are sadly lacking in vigorous thirst IMMIGRATION AND WAGES. HE enormous increase in foreign immigration Tto this country is exciting the attention of . economists. It is largely from Southern Eu- rope and of people that are hardest to digest and assimilate. The Shattuc immigration bill was treated as a drastic measure for reform of our immi- gration laws, but when compared with the real emer- of the question. Restriction of the indigent, illiter- ate and defective classes does not meet the issue. The wholly mistaken policy of putting foreigners, the countrymen of the classes restricted, in authority to enforce our immigration laws largely nullifies these and all other wholesome proyisions of the law. The recent shakeup in the Immigration Bureau in New York developed the rottenmess of its adminis- tration. The Government might just as logically and safely put the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws in the hands of the Six Companies. Low wages and high cost of living in Southern Europe are expelling the surplus population of those countries, and it is flowing here in a constantly en- Jarging stream. The head tax of $1 50 imposed by the Shattuc bill is no restraint at all. The steamship companies can afford to put up that small sum for the sake of the trade, and, if they do not, the con- tractors in this country who are importing this alien labor will do it. It is no more restraint than 1o cents a head would be. The conditions from which these poor people are flecing are shown by our consular reports. Lyons, France, is a typical Southern European industrial center. It is the seat of thé silk manufacture of Eu- rope, and a larger proportion of its population are skilled laborers than in any other French city. The condition of labor is more favorable than in less busy localities, so that it must be understood to de- cline from that eminence to a lower level. Our con- sular reports show that in Lyons carpenters receive 13% cents an hour; masons, locksmiths, plasterers, painters, plumbers, stonecutters, chimney builders and layers of mosaic pavement 11 to 12 cents an hour: common, unskilled labor 9 cents an hour. In the famous Lyons silk mills the average operator gets 60 cents a day, and very few experts can earn $1 50 a day. A Lyons policeman gets $25 a month. 1 Is it any wonder that Southern Europe is spilling its population upon us? Unless immigration is resisted by more = drastic restrictions than have yet been imposed we may look { forward to a gradual equalization of conditions be- tween this country and the sources of the stream that is flowing upon us. If there be merit in the argu- ment against Chinese immigration it applies * with | equal force, in its economic sense, to all immigra- tion. We are receiving every six months from Southern Europe. more immigrants than came in forty years from China. If that Chinese | addition to our unskilled labor were formid- ! able enough* to justify = drastic easures of | prevention, how much more formidable is the great excess that is pouring in from the low wage coun- | tries of Southern Europe. The universality of labor 1 strikes in this country begins to cause apprehension | as to our continued mastery of the world’s com- merce. When the remote cause of these strikes is | sought, if found in this enormous immigration, still | greater apprehension may be feit, for it implies our decline to the general industrial level of the world. When Prince Henry said the American women arc lovely the saying was given conspicuous publi- cation all over the country by the men who run the { newspapers, and now the Countess Rochambeau has said: "l admire American men, oh, so much! They | are handsomer and -stronger than ours,” perhaps the women’s journals will print the thing in display type. Praise from a Countess should be valued more highly than praise frem a Prince. Despite the appropriation for improved ventilation the House of Representatives finds its chamber as sultry and uncomfortable this year as ever. Recently one of the members went to Mr. Cannon and said: { “Where is all that fresh air we voted money for last year?”” Whereupon Cannon growled back: “I don’t know. I told you fellows you would be derned fools to pay for a thing you couldn’t see, but you would do it.” It is announced that the Democrats in Congress are attempting to make political capital out of the Republican administration of Philippine affairs. It would be extremely difficult to conceive how an or- | gamization so hopelessly bankrupt in principle and policy as the Democratic could make capital out of anything. —_— A movement has been started in Cape Town to present Lord Kitchener with a sword, but perhaps the general would rather have a pruning-hook or 2 ping- pong set. He has had swording enough during the past two years to make a change agreeable. —_ Governor Richardson of Tennessee says the Southern Democrats wish to go into the canipaign for the Presidency in 1904 with Richard Olney for leader and no platform except Olney’s record and a demand for tariff reduction. The dread forces of nature are again to work their vengeance upon humanity and give another terrify- ing illustration of the futility of human wishes, ~A warning has been sounded to prepare once more for famine in India. —_— The New York Times says: “New York is not ‘American, New York is America”;. and by parity of reasoning we may say San Francisco is not heay- enly, San Francisco is heaven, The ¢oal strike in the East is bad, and the sympa- thies of the Pacific Coast are with the Eastern suf- ferers—=hut still it might be worse. Suppose the ice- men had struck? As it is announced that there will be a heavy short- age in the Southern peanut crop this year, we shall | doubtless hear before long of a rise in the price of gency it pretends to meet it merely nibbles the edge | |ed at the head of the editorial ! imported olive oil. PLATT DENIES STATEMENT IN EVENING POST Editor The Call: The Evening Post on Wednesday, June 18th, published a state- ment that the Geary Street Railroad Com- pany was in hard straits to obtain sig- natures to its petition for a new franchise, and was buying land to secure the re- quisite number of signatures. This is absolutely untrue. Neither this company nor any one for it has done any such foolish thing. It is proceeding to obtain signatures to its petition, and has hitherto pald no attention to the many false statements made against it. I asked the Post to publish this denial, but it has refused to publish this or to make any corrections. Yours truly, HORACE G. PLATT, Pres. Geary St.,, P. & O. R. R. Co. City, June 19. —_————— Has Not Helped His Case. Sacramento Bee. The people of the State of California, as a whole, are not very much interested whether Gage shall win his libel suit against J. D. Spreckels and W. S. Leaks, or whether he shall lose. But the peo- ple of the State of California, as a whole, and each and every citizen of this State, in his own entity, have a direct personal interest In this matter in this way: If| Henry T. Gage can hale J. D. Spreckels and W. 8. Leake, citizens of San Fran- cisca, way down to a little seaside resort in Los Angeles County—which thpensl to be the particular home of Governor | Gage's particular chums and friends—any other citizen with plenty of money, such as Gage has, can do the same to any | other eitizen whom he may accuse of | having libeled him. This 1s not the first time this has been done in the State of California, but it has been, in all cases, a vicious precedent. The place to sue the San Francisco Call is where the San Francisco Call is Duh—% lished. If Gage can do these things to| J. D. Spréckels and W. S, Leake, who have plenty of money with which to fight back, he could do the same thing to W 8. Green, of the Colusa Sun, or to some other independent and fearless journalist, who has not. This attempt on the part of Gage to bring men hundreds of miles away from | their home to answer to a libel—if any libel there has been—which was perpe- trated at San Francisco, does not seem very much like seeking a vindication. It looks more as though Gage were deter- mined not so much to vindicate himself as to put his critics to all the expense and trouble possible. If Gage shall be permitted to sue J. D. Spreckels and W. 8. Leake outside of San Francisco, the suit should be com- menced in the city of Sacramento, which, according to the statutes, is the official residence of the Governor. But then the statutes can hardly count in this matter, for Governer. Gage has frequently shown that he is not amenable to them, Another point in this connection. Why | does Governor Gage bring that suit hun- dreds of miles away from the evidence? The Controller's office and the records at San Quentin will furnish the evidencs for both sides. The Governor has not helped his case by getting away from the evidence. ———— His Excellency’s “Smallness.” * Colusa Sun. Occasionally we find some one trying to belittle another by printing his initials | in small type, but it fails of the mark and | is like profanity, an evidence of a lack of | power of expression. Governor Gage has | at last filed his threatened complaint for the arrest of John D. Spreckels and W, S. Leake, and in it he refers to “W. S. Leake, allas Sam Leake.” If anything| were wanting to show the exceeding| smallness of his excellency this would be evidence enough. *“W. S. Leake' is prmt-i col- as manager of The unmms every day Call. His friends familiarly call him| Sam, but this does . not make an| | alias. To have made it complete he| should have ordered his typewriter to write it “w. s. leake, alias sam leake.” Then Sam would have felt small! | 'WISH TO EXHIBIT STATE PRODUCTS IN MANY TENTS S A meeting will be held in this city fo- day or to-morrow for the purpose of get- ting moneyed men interested in a novel proposition, which is no less than the in- stitution of a traveling encampment to advertise the resources of California counties. According to the description of their ambitious plans by M. Leak and ‘W. B. Hayford the general idca is to have a peripatetic county fair on wheels to tour the Eastern country. They have | already had pictures made showing what their traveling show would look like. In one of the pictures a large inclosure s seen to be fenced in, and a large crowd of persons is pouring in through |the gates. In the inclosure are many tents, which are supposed to contain as many county exhibits as there are tents and to be tenanted by a representative from each county, and also a spielsr or lec- turer to tell the crowds what there is in his county that ought to prove attractive to them. The promoters of this unique enterprise say that they have already secured suf- ficlent promise of co-operation to war- rant them in forming a corporation, and this they expect to do some time in the next few days. Mr. Leak has traveled in the East with the exhibition that Santa | Clara County has kept on the road for a long period, and it was while he was so Journeying that he conceived the idea of exhibiting the products of many counties simultaneously in the Eastern country. To move the tents from one place to another the idea of employing automo- biles is entertained. In fact, all the fea- tures represent what might be taken for a regular traveling circus of huge pro- portions by the casual observer. The plan can only take on the formative stage this year. Mr. Leak says that he would rot hope to have the preparatory work completed before January. In 1903, accord- ing to his plans, California might be ready to go on the road, occupying at different times all the country east of the Miggouri River. . A CHANCE TO SMILE. Not at All Envious.—Girl at the ribbon- counter—*“Ever notice what long eye- lashes that girl over there in the cutlery department has?” Girl at the glove-counter—“No wonder they're long. She has been hanging on to her job by them for the last two years."— Chicago Tribune. 3 Skedunk had gone wet. “You call yourselves the ‘Liberal® ticket,” said the applicant for a saloon li- cenze to the President of the new town trustees, “and now, begosh, you want to make me pay a thousand dollars for the privilege of selling whisky in your darned little old town!"—Chicago Tribune. “You are not going to accept that office tendered you by the President?” “No." “May I ask your reason?” . I have no objection to telling you, but you must say nothing about it. Barly TWO DETENTION SHEDS WANTED AT MAIL DOCK Customs Collector Stratton is preparing his report to the Secretary of the Treas- ury on the sanitary condition of the Chi- nese detention shed on the Mail dock. His report will be to the effect that, while the shed is well adapted for the purpose of confining Chinese for a few weeks, he is of the opinion that as a place of de- tention for several months while Chinese are awaiting appeal proceedings, the shed is not what it should be. He will also ask the Secretary to modify the recent ruling. in force for the last thirty days, as to the manner of speeding the parting coolie and bidding him welcome home again on his return from a visit to China. The recently adopted regulation pro- vides that the coolie shall before departing on a visit to his native land file with the Collector an afftdavit showing his inten- tion te depart and to return within a year and the fact that he has debts owing to him in this State to the amount of $1000 or more. This affidavit will be acecepted on its face as true and no investigation will be made until the coolie returns from China at the end of the year. Then his trouble will begin, for the Collector will set ‘about to ascertain the truth of the facts stated In the affidavit. He will send, for instance, to the debtor and will ask him, “Wong Sing says you owe him $1000, is that true?” “No,” may be the bland reply; “I paid him the money before he left. He lies if he says I owe him any- thing.” Thus the debtor gets rid of a creditor and Wong. Sing is refused read- mission into this country. It was the practice formerly to investigate the state- ments made in the affidavits before the coolie left for China. When the state- ments failed of verification a return cer- tificate was denied and the coolie was thus given fair warning that if he left this country he would not be allowed to return. The Collector will recommend a return to the old system. Inspector James R. Dunn, in charge of the Chinese Bureau, has recommended to the department the use of two detention sheds for the keeping of Chinese await- ing a landing, one for short timers and-| the other for those necessarily detained for long periods during appeal proceed- ings. During the unfounded plague scare a year or two ago, Chief Dunn requested Federal Quarantine Officer Dr. Kinyoun to report on the sanitary condition of the deteation shed. The report was that the shed was all that could be desired from a sanitary point of view and that there ~was no danger of any plague or other con- tagious disease originating there. He found that it was well lighted (with sun- shine) and well ventilated. “I do not agree with the unfavorable criticisms that have been made against the shed from the sanitary point of view,” said Mr. Dunn. “It is all that could be desired as a place for the keep- ing of Chinese for a few weeks, but for a longer period they should be placed else- where.” PERSONAL MENTION. 8. L. Mack, an oil man of Bakersfleld, is at the Palace. W. W. Chapin of Sacramento is a guest at the Palace. John Weil, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Grand. D. W. Carmichael, a. Sacramento attor- ney, is at the Grand. D. S. Rosenbaum, a merchant of Stock- ton, is at the Palace. Thomas B. Bond, an attorney of Lake- port, is at the Grand. E. F. Frazier, a lumber dealer of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. J. Provines, a mining man of Grass Val- ley, is among the arrivals at the Lick. George Lang, general agent of _the Union Pacific at Los Angeles, is at ‘the Grand. Frank H. Buck, the well-known fruit grower of Vacaville, is registered at the Palace. R. B. Burns, chief engineer of the Santa Fe, with heaquarters at Los Ange- les, is at the Grand. Lieutenants Trelawney and Herbert Fitzherbert of H. M. S. Grafton, which left San Diego for Esquimalt, B. C., some time ago, are at the Grand, on their way to rejoin their ship. They were left at San Diego to recover from attacks of typhoid fever. R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 19.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. M. Culver, at the Grand Union; G. F. Detrick and Mrs. G. F. Detrick, at the New Amsterdam; S. C. Irving, at the Astor. Miss Isabel Fraser, a special writer for The Call, is visiting in New York. Miss Small of Sacramento is registered at the Netherland. ——————— The young man who leaves two-thirds of a cigar on a dark corner of the door- step when he calls on his best girl will make a frugal husband. ENGAGEMENT OF A BEAUTY IS ANNOUNCED Mrs. Susan Neumann announces the.en- gagement of her daughter, Miss Pauline Neumann, to George Rodiek of Honoluiu Miss Neumann is a noted Californ beauty, but is seen littie in this city, a5 she travels extensively. She is liberally educated and has a chuming personalit She is a clever musician and linguist bride-elect is a daughter of the late ward Neumann of this city and a niece of Paul Neumann, who figured pro nently in Honolulu directing state a during the reign of Queen Liliuokalani. Mr. Rodiek is asso¢iated with the firm of H. Hackfeld & Co., well-known merchants and planters in the islands. o e ie arations are being made for the wfdr;lfng of Miss Mabel H. Whitney ana John Sutherland Ross on Thursday even- ing, June 26. ‘The bride-eleet is the charming daughter of L. Whitney of Berkeley and the wedding will take place at her home. Mr. Ross has been in the passenger department of the Southern P cifie for some time. The couple h: many friends on botl: sl(:es of the bay. . Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macfarlane (nee Dunn) have been giving another delight- ful lawn party at their home in Honelulu. The guests were most hospitably enter- tained. A number of San Franciscans were present. AR rs. Hugh Tevis departed yesterday fc> D:;ver, where she will reside with her parents, the Baxters, until her new home is built. il Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Deming and J. R. Daniels are at the Rowardennan. They made the trip from Santa Cruz in their automobile. Mrs. Bates Spaulding of San Mateo and Mrs. Fred Jacobs, 1715 Pacific avenue, have returned from their trip to the Yo- semite. They were cordially received and extensively entertained during their ab~ sence and are in excellent health. i Dr. Alice M. Goss is spending June and July at Monte Vista. Miss Florence Cow- ley and her sister, Marion, are also at Monte Vista. e Miss Reina and Miss Gussie Belasco, the charming daughters of David Belasco, the playwright, arrived from New York last Tuesday and are staying with their aunt, Mrs. E. Friedlander, who resides at 158 Central avenue. The young ladies in- tend staying here for a few weeks and friends and relatives are arranging to en- tertain them extensively. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ONLY FACE VALUE-M. V. R, City. A 25-cent piece of 1834 is worth only its face value. CORPORATION—Folsom Street, City. If a number of persons start a company for the purpose of furnishing any one with electricity or any other commodity for pay, and the same is incorporated, it is not a private corporation. ABBREVIATION—A Reader, City. The letters I. R. which appear after the name of Wilhelm of Germany are the abbrevia- tions of Imperator (Emperor) and Rex (King). He is Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia. B COPYRIGHT—A. 8., City. If an article originally appears in a newspaper and is not copyrighted any one has a right to use the same, but due credit should be siven to the paper from which it is taken. If it originally appears uncopyrighted and should then appear in another publication that is copyrighted, that would not pro- tect the article. ——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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