The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1902, Page 6

SATURDAY....................AUGUST 16, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Lddress A1l Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. @sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect ‘You With the Department You Wish. FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third. S. F\ EDITORIAL ROOMS Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, & Cents. . Terms by Mail, Including Postages Mall subscribers in orfering chanze of address shouid be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS fn onder o insure & prompt end corfeét compliance with thelr request. PAKLAND OFFICE. jee1115 Broadway ©. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Poreign Atverttsing, Marguefts Building, Ohiesgs.” KEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE! STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT! €. G CARLTON....ccsccasseveee.Herald Sguare Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A Brentano, Talon Squere; Gurrey Hui Hotel. ¢ CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: ¥herman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Notel; @rement House; Audfforfum Hotel MWASHINGTON (D. C.) 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MARTIN, who being sworh acqgrding %o law. declares that he is the Business Manager of the San | Francisco CALL, a dally newspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, and ‘that thefe were printed and distributed during the month of July, 1802, one million nine hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred end forty-five (1,914,545) coples of the said newspaper, which mumber @ivided by thirty-one (the number of days of issue) Eives an average daily circulation of 61,759 copies. W. J. MARTIN, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of Au- wust, 1902, W. T. HESS, Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- cisco, State of California, room 1018, Claus Spreckels,bldg. = JUSTICE AND FAIR PLAY. STRIKING illustration of the hopefulness as A well as the courage and the patience with which the leaders of the negro race are con- fronting their problems in this country is afforded by the Negro Young People’s Christian and Educational Congress, which has just closed its meeting at At- lanta. From first to last the proceedings of the ses- sion were marked by 2 strong tone of optimism, and the resolutions adopted as the expression of the sentiment of the congress show that the leaders of the race by no means regard their present conditions or their future outlook as furnishing any occasion for despair. The keynote of the congress was furmished in the epening address of Bishop Gaines, who presided over the meeting. In the course of his address he said: “I have recently visited England, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, and I give it as my deliberate judgment after careful survey of | those countries that the American negro is con- fronted by far more favorable industrial conditions than the white laborers of those European nations.” .He went on to add: “I believe that the better class of white people in this country are anxious.to see the negro become a wise, intelligent and thrifty citizen, Many of them are helping forward his education by their money and influence. We would be lacking in gratitude to white men both of the North and the South did we not gratefully acknowledge their phil- { anthropic gifts to the cause of negro education.” Nearly every speaker followed along the line marked out by the president and spoke in_harmony | with the note he had given. The resolutions were in accord with the speeches. Among other things | they declare: “Whil= on the one hand we have had | wrongs and grievances many, on the other hand we have had opportunities and privileges innumerable. Whatever of burdens we may still have to endure, of | adjustments which are yet to be made, we throw our- | selves upon the justice and fair play of the American people, North and Sovth, and declare our unreserved conviction that right in the end will prevail. In spite | of theorists and their theories, both before and. after | emancipation, we have shown ourselves able to live | and thrive.” Declarations of that kind coming from a congress | sufficiently large to be thoroughly Tepresentative of the younger negroes of all parts of the Union will carry gratification”to the white race as wellas to the colored. They bear witness to the fact that the problem of the races is solving itself. A better spirit | is growing up among the really earnest elements of both races. It is becoming more and more evident that there is no necessary conflict between them. As the resolutions declare, the negro asks nothing but justice and fair play, and, as Bishop Gaines pointed out, he has them in this country to a greater extent industrially at any rate than the' poorer. class of whites in Europe. The negro must of course raise himself by his own work. He cannot be elevated by legislation. The leaders, following the example. of Booker Washington, are impressing that truth upon the mass of their race, and when the lesson is fully learned the megro problem will have been virtually solved. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1902. 'GAGE'S OFFICIAL DUTIES. GO\’ERNOR GAGE when: arrested on a ,chirge of criminal libel against the pro- prietor of The Call made answer in court that the offense complained of was a public statement “made- in proper discharge of official “duty.” - He further declared that the proceedings against him for criminal libel “were designed to prevent your petitioner from discharging the duties of his sail office and interfere with and tend to impair the ad- ministration of the affairs of the State under the con- trol and supervision cof your petitioner as Governor.” This sudden ‘devotion of the Governor to the du- ties of his office is calculated to jar the public. . It is but a short time ago when for the purpose of rpaking a charge of criminal libel against the proprietor and the manager of The Call he betook himself to remote San Pedro, alleging that he is a private citizen hav- ing his residence in Los Angefes County and not at the State capital. He was then eager to set aside his duties as Governor, neglect the affairs of state and the work that awaited him at Sacramento and put in his time and his energies prosecuting a private suit five hundred-miles away from the -capital.- -He was also willing to put the defendants and the wit- nesses in the case to the necessity of traveling to that distant court.” Evidently it did not matter to him at that time how much the trial of the case at San Pedro might “interfere with and tend to impair the administration of the affairs of the State.” His con- version, therefore, to a state of mind eager to get to Sacramento to attend to his duties is about as miraculous as the conversion of St. Paul, and it seems he must have suddenly seen a great light. It is a notable feature of this conversion that it took place at a time when the Governor was absent from the capital neglecting his official duties and ‘doing politicsiin Los Angeles. One would suppose that, having been converted to a state of official zeal, he would at.once hasten to Sacramento and re- sume his duties’and thus put an end to an absence which interferes with and tends to impair the admin- istration of the affairs of the State. Nothing of the kind, however, has occurred. The Governor is not hastening back to Sacramento. On the contrary, he comes to San "Francisco. Since the Governor comes to San Francisco of his own will it is‘clear he cannot be sincere in the belief that his presence, here will interfere with his admin- istration of public business. He might just as well be ‘here answering before the courts as to be here courting the boodle bosses. When he was in Los ‘Angeles he was not only neglecting to discharge “the dufies of his said office,” but he was the cause of the neglect of duties by others also, for there were with him at that distant point his private secretary and the Warden.and several of the guards of San Quentin prison, Upon the Governor's own showing he should gladly come to San Francisco and answer before the courts. He has himself said in this very petition that the offensive words vitered against the proprietor of The Call “were made in a proper discharge of an official duty.” Now, if it wgre his official duty to make such statements it should also be his official duty to defend them. The public will not overlook the curious plea that a Governor may utter slanderous and injurious words against a citizen and then defend them on the ground that they were done in. performance of official duty. Should such a plea be permitted by the courts our Governors would have a very large freedon? of action in_libeling, -slandering and perhaps even assaulting private citizens, They would have only to plead that the offenses were committed in the performance of public duty. Furthermore, when called to come into court they could set the summons aside on the plea that the suit against them was “designed to prevent the petitioner from discharging the duties of his of- fice and -interfere with and tend to impair the ad- ministration of the affairs of the State.” Had such curious pleas and statements come from any. other man who ever held the office of Governor they would ‘have excited general astonishment, but irf this case the public takes them without surprise. What else can be expected from Gage? ——— So far we have noted in our Eastern exchanges but one instance of a shirt-waist man appearing in a public dining-room, and in that instance the crowd objected and the man who sought coolness in the new garb went out hotter than a hornet. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. HEN the isthmian canal bill was passed by W both houses of Congress and signed by the President it was generally believed that the long controversy was over and the subject closed. That view, however, has not been taken by the men who are interested in advancing either of the rival routes. The Panama men assert, indeed, that the President will speedily obtain a satisfactory settle- ment of the French claims and will then at once ar- range for the beginning of the work, but the Nicar- agua men with seemingly ‘as much positiveness de- clare a conviction that there will never be an agree- ment on the Panama route and that aiter all the Nic- aragua route will be chosen. The most curious ‘feature of the prolonged con- troversy is the continued activity of the promoters of a plan to construct the canal by way of Darien. A recent report from Washington says the syndicate back of the scheme has by no means abandoned hope of carrying it to success, and adds: “Senator Elkins, who from the first was taken with the idea of a canal tunnel, is still firm in the belief that this Government should make a survey of the Darien route before en- tangling itself in the Panama project. He will urge Congress. next session to authorize a survey, and will egdéavor to help the promoters of the Darien scheme to- facilitate their proposition, so as to gain consideration, if possible, before matters have gone so far with the Panama people that the Darien scheme would have to be given up or turned over to private enterprise.” Arother interesting story in this connection is to the effect that the Darien men are so sanguine of the superior merits of that rouite that they will persist in the effort to consttuct a ‘sea level canal there even if the Government should decide in favor of either Panama or Nicaragua. The scheme is to cut a tunnel through the mountains at Darien and thus make an open channel for ships of all kinds. It is said they have made tests of the rock and found that tunneling can be done at a cost small in comparison with that of constructing a canal by either of the other routes, Thus if the Government goes ahead with a canal at Panama or Nicaragua the Darien men will try to organize a syndicate and construct their line as a private enterprise, and it is reported from New York that it is not at all unlikely some headway will be made in the movement. In these days of great financial combinations it 1wonld not be difficult to obtain the money required i ‘Proctor of the Civil for even so large an enterprise as that of constructing an isthmian canal, but still it'is not likely such an en- terprise would be undertaken in opposition to a Gov- ernment canal at Panama. The most sanguine of promoters would wait under such circumstances to see what results followed the completion of the Gov- ernment work. If the canal thus constructed proved to be equal to the needs of commerce there would be no profit in constructing another, but if it were found inadeqtiate there would be a fair chance for the Darien route. It would seem, in fact, that the Darien scheme does not mean a genuine attempt to organize a private enterprise at this time, but is designed mainly to bring about delay in the construction of a canal by any route. The report that an effort will be made to get Congress to provide for a survey of Darien before construction begins at Panama or Nicaragua seems to imply such a scheme. Evidently the opponents of the isthmian waterway are by no means at the end of their resources, and they may be able to produce complications that will entail much more delay than seemed possible when the canal bill was passed. On the day after the Jeffries-Fitzsimmons. fight the Boston Transcript asked: “Does San Francisco feel proud of herself this morning?” It is a strange ques- tion. San Francisco is proud of herself every morn- ing. There is no other city in the world that has such a climate and so many pretty girls. o macor e s OUR PUBLIC MEN. NDER our system of government by parties l I it is the custom of men of one party to attack the representatives of the other, and the at- tacks always attract much more of popular attention than the defense. Hence there arises a widespread conviction that as a rule our public men are of rather a low standard. It is therefore gratifying to find an authqrity who knows them well pronouncing judgment in their favor and giving assurance that we are much better governed than we suppose. One of the duthorities who bear this witness to the excellence of -our public men is Frank Warren Hackett, a prominent lawyer of Washington, who has had at the national capital large opportunities for observation and study of the men who represent us in Congress or who carry on the work of administra- tion. He delivered an address on the subject at Hobart College last June, and it has now been pub- lished in pamphlet form. From a summary of the address given by the New York Sun it appears to be well deserving of publication, for it will go far dur- ing the heat of the coming campaign to remind us that after all our statesmen and our politicians are not so bad as they represent one another from the stump and in the press. Mr. Hackett says he has been for thirty years prac- ticing law at Washington; that he went there with a low opinion of public men, but has since learned to appraise them better and to recognize their real worth. He says: “I found myself mistaken in the views which I had so positively held of the motives and aims of public men taken as'a body. From that day to this I have not ceased to be grateful to this class of men for the purity and the fidelity which have marked their administration of the task laid upon them by the people. The great majority (and of those most influential it is safe, I think, to say all) have been and are hcnest, hard-working, conscien- tious men, alive to a sense of duty, and bent upon doing all in their power to serve their country well.” In support of his view he quotes many eminent men. Rockwood Hoar is quoted as saying that when he entered Congress he had ar idea that most of the members were far from what they should be, but his experience in the House taught him to re- spect them and to think highly of them. John R. Service Commission says: “After an experience of nine years I give it as my cpinion that public men here at Washington in the legislative and executive branches of the Govern- ment, both in the highest and in‘ the subordinate places, are doing their work faithfully and zeal- ously.” Many other gentlemen of long experience at Washington bear similar testimony to the prevailing fidelity and ability of our public men, whether en- gaged in legislative or executive work. Senator Hoar said not long ago: “As many good and whole- some laws are enacted to-day as have been at any other period of our history. * * * I believe the people as a whole ara better, happier and more pros- perous than ever before, and I believe the two houses of Congress represent what is best in the char- acter of the people as much now as they ever did.” In estimating the moral and intellectual standard of our public men as compared with those of past generations or of foreign countries it is to be borne in mind that we hear all the adverse criticisms that can possibly be brought against the men of our own time and country, while We hear little or none of that pronounced against the foreigners or the statesmen who died forty years ago. It is unquestionably true that the general mass of the people have improved, and it may be accepted as a consequent truth that the character of public men has improved also. In the campaign that .is about to open we shall of course hear much in the way of attack and assault in a give and take way on both sides, but it should not be accepted too seriously unless accompanied by indisputable proof of the charges. When the incrim- inating documents are published or 'when other cqually good evidence is submitted to prove the ras- cality of a public man it is time to condemn him. Let us do justice to those who represent us. We have now in the service of the United States as high a class of public men as could be found in the service of any other country or any other time. i e In Morris County, Kansas, a young woman is said to have beaten three of the wealthiest men in the county for the Republican nomination for Treasurer, and the reports say she won by her “grace and beauty.” It seems she captured not only the conven- tion but her rivals as well, for each of them offered to go on her bond. In the end we may hear that some still more enterprising and gallant man will take her and the office, too, as soon as she gets it. — There is a tather peculiar coincidence in the fact that in Nortlt Carolina there are six candidates in the field to succeed Pritchard in the United States Senate, and the same number in South Carolina to succeed McLaurin. If the Governors of those States find it a long time between drinks this fall it will be because the Senatorial candidates are not treating as they should. —_— Kipling is said to be so much annoyed by sight- seers who hang around his house to see him as he comes and goes that he is thinking of removing to a greater distance from London. If he were wise, however, he would move into London, for once in the heart of the big city his next neighbor wouldn't know him nor care to know him. _ 5 | crossing to the northeastward, it is said, | Early Omes Industrial Appliances | NEW OVERLAND RAILWAY MAY BE CONSTRUCTED Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 15. Interest in the projected new steam raii- 1 road into Oakland, the plans for which | have been made public, has been height- | ened by the announcement of the incor- | Poration in San- Francisco of the San Francisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Company. It is strongly asserted in Oak- | land that the San Francisco incorporators | are representatives of the Gould and | Clark railroad syndicate, and that the new road is purely an outlet for another transcontinental line to connect at Stock- ton eventually with the Clark road out of Salt Lake City, now well under way. The local incorporators are Henry F.| Fortmann, president of the Alaska Pack- | ers’ Assoclation; J. Dalzell Brown, vice | president of the California Safe Deposit | and Trust' Company; A. C. Kains, assist- ant. manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce; F. M. West, president of the Stockton Savings and Loan Society; Tirey | L. Ford, Attorney General of this State; Walter J. Bartnett, attorney, and John Treadwell. The last named, with West, is interested | largely in the Tesla coal road, known as the San Francisco and San Joaquin Rail- | road, which is to be the eastern connec- | tion in Alameda County with the new line. Already the company has bought enough property on: Third street from the north arm of the estuary to the Hays tract, its | Wwestern terminus at the foot of Union | streét, to control a right of way through | that portion of the city. i Surveys have been completed through | East Oakland on private lands, which have also been bought. Outside of the | city limits the road is run for some dis- | tance south of the San Leandro road : of Fitchburg. . With the incorporation of the road com- pleted, application for a franchise through | Oakland will shortly be made. Outside of the city the laying out of a route is not | finished, although the general plans are | in hand. The line will run through Cas- | tro Valley, Haywards Pass, and Liver- | more Valley, connecting with the coal road | at Stockton. The project also includes a | ferry to San Francisco and branch lines | to San Leandro, Haywards, Berkeley and San Jose, with a tidewater outlet at Dum- barton Point. Quantities of Furniture Shipped. “Young man, that paper belongs to the United States!” It was thus that our grandmother, who was postmistress at the town of Seventy-six, in Kentucky, addressed us when a boy we started to write on some paper that had been fur- nished as supplies to the postoffice. The‘ words, the tone, were awe-inspiring. | Fifty years ago this was the spirit that | prevailed among Government officials, but we now find ex-officials who have been years out of office unblushingly using the stationery of the office they filled. It has grown from bad to worse until the San Francisco Call now brings shipping recelpts for quantities of furni- ture shipped from San Quentin to the Los Angeles residence of Governor Gage. It shows forged bills from San Francisco houses made to cover women's wear, | which, it avers, was used by the Gov- ernor's family while quartered at San Quentin. There seems to be no doubt of | the fact that the Governor got the things, | but we hear it said that others have | done likewise.—Colusa Sun. { Waiting to Hear From Gage. My Dear Governor: What the exigencles of the situation demand is a plain, straightforward explanation *from you | telling why that furniture was sent from | San Quentin to your ranch, when, how and what you paid for it and how you! reconcile ' its manufacture with the law | that prohibits such manufacture? If your | statement is candid and really explains and affords even a plausible justification | the people will give you, rather than The | Call, the benefit of the doubt. But if you make no- statement or more an| explanation .that does not explain | or content yourself with bluffing the thing out by telling what you will do | with Spreckels and Leake when you.get | them in a court that suits you—well, Gov- | ernor, in that case, the people will believe ! that what The Call published is true and | admits of no adequate defense and your | name will be “Dennis,” my dear Gov- { ernor, as it ought to be. Talk to the peo- ple, Governor. Every paper in California is walting to publish what you have to | say and to do it gratis. Talk now. Please H do. TOPICS. — Tulare Register. —_—— | EVOLUTION OF ARMS H AMONG THE CHINESE Suddenly Adapted to Offensive Use. The prominent part played by China in the world's affairs during the past seven vears has aroused the interest of collect- ors who have brought to this country | many specimens of wares and goods pe- culiar to that part of the Far East. None among these are of greater hl!torlcali value than the weapons which are in use in all provinces of the empire, even in the districts where the imperial armies are equipped with European firearms. One of the best collections was shown in this city not long ago and is now in the possession of the commercial museum at Philadelphia. Single specimens of value, are to be found in the Chinese club rooms | in Chinatown, and in many of the bric- a-brac stores scattered throughout the city. A careful study of the weapon shows that most of them are naught but indus- trial appliances suddenly employed for purposes of offense. One spear is a pitch- fork and another a trident similar to the eel spear employed by our own fishermen. Another ghastly weapon when examined carefully proves to be a scythe blade fastened to the end of a strong pole. The halberds, or hatchets, ax heads, adzes and cleavers wired or tied with thongs to stoue staves. Even the spears and lances show an agricultural or domestic rather than a military origin. These weapons may be viewed as his- torical souvenirs which are preserved as testimonials of the bravery of the Manchu conquercrs.. The Tartars take great pride in their conquest of the middle kingdom. Before they came from the north they were savage in comparison with the civi- lized Chinese. They preserve this fact in their lJaws and customs. The cuff of every officials coat is made in the form of a horse’s hoof to indicate that the Man- churian armies were cavalry, not infan- | try. The official footwear is a cavalry boot, which, though made of satin with kid covered soles, is in cut and general appearance the same as the heavy leather articles worn by their ancestral troopers ' 300 years ago. When they conguered | China they experienced the strongest re- | sistance from the farmers and fishermen, who ' armed themselves with tever | came to hand and attacked the invaders with fierce intrepidity. In honor of these victories they retained | the primitive weapons of their captives | and used them as trg‘;hlea of their bat- | tles. Each Manchu officer employed a lot of Chinese captives and armed them with | their own spears, tridents and axes as the | case might be. The practice has been | kept up ever since. When a mandarin foes calling he has one or more guards | n his retinue who are armed with these | simple contrivances. So far has the idea been pushed that in nearly all the temples there are weapons which belong to the | god cf the temple, and these are usually of the same cultural character as | French Consul and informed the Judge i alone take cognizance of differences which FRENCH CONSUL CLASHES WITH AMERICAN LAW Henry Dallemagne, Consul General__ of France, has raised the point that he T sole jurisdiction in tae’cases of Frefn subjects who commit an offense on board of a French vessel in this port and that therefore the local authorities have no right to interfere by making any arrests. The matter came up again before Judge Mogan yesterday in the case of Plerre Flammane, first officer of the French bark Jean Guillon, charged with ba!te;y upon Auguste Le Pierre, a sallor on the bark, committed on July 24 last. When the case was called last week Flammanc did not appear and A((nmez Cognet, who represented him, informe: the Judge that the French Consul had ad- vised the captain of the vessel not to rec- ognize any order of court and to resiit the arrest of his first officer if such an at- tempt were made. Yesterday Attorney Louis T. Hengstler appeared for the tements of Attorney Cognet :vh:rle ‘:;tlsrt:ly untrue and unauthorized and the Consul never advised the captain to do anything of the kind. Whenever a question of jurisdiction arose the Consul always adopted the proper course by filing a protest to the coul;t‘ ;hlch he would n the present instance. "‘x{lin’ey Heggstler read the protest, in which ‘it was alleged that under article 8 of the Consular Convention between the United States and France, concluded on February 23, 1858, the Consul has exclu- sive charge of the internal order of the merchant vessels of his nation and shall may arise either at sea or in port be- tween the captain, officers and crew, without. exception, particularly in refer- ence to the adjustment of wages and the execution of contracts, and that the local authorities shall not on any pretext in- terfere in these differences, but shail lend forcible aid to the Consul when asked to arrest and imprison all persons compos- ing the crew when he may deem it neces- sary - to confine; that the alleged offense was committed on board the Jean Guillon, a French bark, while lying moored at a dock of this port by a French subject upon another French subject and that the tranquillity of the port was in nowise dis- turbed or endangered by the disturbance; that the alleged battery occurred outside of the jurisdiction of tae State and court and by the terms of the treaty of 1853 the Consul has sole and exclusive juris- diction in the matter. Attorney West, who appeared for Le Pierre, the complaining witness, argued against the position taken by the Consul | and it was agreed that he and Attorney Hengstler should submit briefs by next | Wednesday and the Judge would render his decision the Saturday following. As the vessel was to leave last night the evi- dence on the alleged battery was taken and the Judge said he would render his decision on that charge after he had de- ! cided on the question of jurisdiction. It Flammanc is convicted the fine will be taken out of his bail money. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “It can’t be true that Mont Pelee blew its head off.” & “Why not?’ “‘Because if we agree with Shakespeare, when the head is off the wit is out, and when the wit is out the subject dies. But look at that infernally lvely crater!” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Officer—Is your brother, who was so deaf, any better? Bridget—Sure; he’ll be all right in the morning. “You don't say so?” “Yes; he was arrested yesterday and he gets his hearin’ in the morning.”"—Denver Republican. ““What makes you call your mule Ping Pong?” “It 'minds me of de happy days when I was workin’ foh some o’ dem select gem- men at de club,” answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley. “When I's drivin’ dat mule I has to talk to him jes’ about the same as dem gemmen was talking to de balls when dey was learnin’ to play de game.”"— ‘Washington Star. One, bolder than the rest, asked the em. inent actor, “Do you really need a valet “No,” said the great man, paralyzed by the audacity of the question, “but he is so handy to kick after one has read the criticisms.”—Indianapolis Press. “‘How much money did you lose through that hole in your pocket?” “About a dollar.” “That wasn't enough to kill anybody. You're making as much fuss over it as if it had been a hundred.” “It isn’t the loss of the money I'm kick- in’ about. It's the fact that I could have bad a little fun losin’ it at a slot machine and I didn’t do it.”—Baltimore Sun. SELECT PROPER FLOWERS FOR A BRIDAL BOUQUET So far as the momentous question can be settled by florists the status of what constitutes the best bridal bouquet was | decided in this city yesterday. Three bold men passed on the claims of various de- signs. These were judges who were se- lected by the Pacifie Coast Horticultural Society, to wit.: Sidney Clack of Menls Park, George Walters of Ross and Wil liam Proud of Golden Gate Park. All ot this took place in the ferry bullding, where the Pacific Coast Horticultural So- ciety is holding its first annual show. According to their verdict, as manifest. ed by the award of a first prize to F. Cleis of San Francisco, who fabricated the matrimonial floral adjunet, the proper thing is a bouquet of white lily of the valley blossoms, not too many but very sweet, the blooms nestling cozily In a feathered mass of greenery composed of fronds of-maldenhair ferns and aspara- gus leaves. The whole affair had long stems, and pure white satin ribbon com- pleted the fragrant offering and gave it the smack of conventionality. All day long and during last evening crowds looked at the bridal bouquets on exhibition and passed their own judgment on the merits of the several that were in evidence, Whatever they sald the judg- ment of the brave men who settled the matter on a purely floral and arllsu;, basis and then escaped had to stand, an the society to a man rallied and stood be- hind them. There were added to the floral show vesterday several noteworthy noveltics. One was a lily pond from Golden Gate Park, in which were water lilies, water poppies, and other aquatic flowering plants. Fick & Faber produced’ a new seedling carnation’ that has stems four feet long. Dr. Harry L. Tevis ddded to his collection of cactus dahlias, the like of which for beauty and variety has never before been seen in San Franeisco. The dahlias were imported: from Seotland and came from Dobbie & €o., who are known the world over. Joseph Thompson has the display in charge.. Miss Ka Lichtenberg of this city yesterday sent a collection of single dahlias that are oddly variegated and very beautiful. Golden Gate Park also added to the show a C€alifornia tree poppy and bouganvil- leas. Luther Burbank, the wizard of horticul- ture, was represented in the ecollection of the California Nursery Company by his new Climax plum, which was surrounded by one of the finest assortment of fruits ever seen in California. The Show will continue to-day and this evening. PER3ONAL MENTION. Judge F. P. Tuttle of Auburn is at the Lick. E. P. Foster, a fruit grower of Ventura, is at the Lick. Superior Judge F. G. Ostrander of Fres- no is at the Lick. 7 H. E. Berg, a fruit grower of Marys- ville, is at the Lick. Victor H. Woods, Surveyor of San Luis Obispo County, Is at the Grand. ‘ F. E. Dowd, County Assessor of So< noma, is registered at the Lick. Samiuel Robbins, a coal mine superin- tendent at Nanaimo, B. C., is at the Pal- ace. J. R. Chase, a well-known real estate man of San Jose, is among the arrivals at the Palace. John Wheeler, representative of a wholesale grocery house at Morgan Hill, is at the California. T. W. Heintzelman, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific Company at Sacra- mento, is a guest at the Grand. Harry de Windt, the noted traveler of Siberia, who has been staying at the Pal- ace, left last evening for Chicago. Mrs. Bessie Paxton, the well-known vo- calist, who has been away from the city for eighteen months, has returned for a short. vacation. She is at the California. E. 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