The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIS CO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902. THURSDAY........ .AUGUST 21, 1902 | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, | Address All Communisstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. | PUBLICATION OFFICE .217 to 221 Stevenson St. | EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cen Terms by Mail, Including stage: WEBEKLY CALL, One Year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 month 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 85¢ { SUNDAY CALL, One Year. :xi All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular tc give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure a prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Yoreign Advertising, Marqustte Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618."") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. Tribune Building | NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.... «++.Herald Square NEW YORK NE Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. t MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. S STANDS: 81 Union Square; BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open untl 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eveventh, open until ® o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 8 p. m. SEEKING BOSS KELLY. OVERNOR GAGE has found his political G level. He no longer poses as a Governor submitting the record of his administration to his party and leaving it to the rank and file to de- cide whether he shall be renominated or repudiated. | He is now openly displaying himself as an office- secker of the lowest type, making pretensions to pe- litical decency, but seeking aid in the slums of poli- | tics with all the eagerness of a political bum. He has | paraded himseli as the patron of Mackenzie, the ally | of Burns, and now he shows himself a suppliant in | the camp of Martin Kelly. | The relation of Kelly to Republican politics is well known. He entered the party for about the same reason that a burglar enters a bank. He is in it fo: what he can get out of it for himself or for his gang. e is not going to do politics for the health of Henry T. Gage, and when the Governor talks to him about votes and things” the Governor has to talk “busi- ness.” The people of San Francisco know Kelly and his ways, and the knowledge has been bought by dear cxperience. Sometimes he has supported Republican sominees and sometimes he has knifed them, but no one has ever suspected him of inconsistency. So | well is his character understood that when the bet- ter elements of the people see him working on one side they go over to the other. No man can handle tar without being tarred, and Kelly is the tar baby of San Francisco politics. Whoever touches him is ! defiled, and whoever embraces him has to stay with | kim—there is no getting away. Many times have the people of San Francisco given evidence of the accuracy of their estimate of Kelly's = political activity. Once he sued the Examiner, the | organ of Gage in this fight, for defamation of char- acter, and a jury gave him damages to the extent of one dollar, holding that not even that yellow sheet <could stain him worse than he had already stained himseli. On anothe: occasion one of the foremost citizens of San Francisco when a candidate for Mayor made the mistake of holding a conference with Kelly, d at once public opinion turned against him. The aminer itself caricatured him as a follower of | ly, and despite the high esteem in which he was held in the city, despite a life of conspicuous honor 1 usefulness, the candidate was defeated. The peo- | e would not trust a man who showed even a seem- ing willingness to do politics with Kelly. | Governor Gage is of course well aware of the Tepu- tation of Kelly and of his shameless disregard of po- litical decency as well as of honesty. He knows what i the people think of the boss, and consequently he would not openly solicit Kelly’s support if he could | avoid it. It would have been much more agreeable to keep the matter secret, could he have in- :ved Kelly to consent to it. Kelly, however, has e refused to do kitchen-door politics. He has in- ed on coming in at the front door, on associating with the dignitaries, and on having a high seat. Governor Gage has not been able to get him on the | s'y. He has had to go in person to Kelly's camp, #ddress Kelly’s followers and receive Kelly as an honored visitor to Gage’s own. headquarters. The reason for this open suppliance is plain. The effort of the bosses to carry the Republican primaries | has utterly failed. Even Gage’s organ in this city conceded yesterday that he has not enough votes to assure his renomination. It will be necessary for him to get additional votes from some quarter, and that | cannot be accomplished except by trading, even if it | is to be accomplished in that way. Such being the situation, the Governor is in urgent need of Kelly. It is no time for him to stand on dignity. He must make the campaign on Kelly’s terms. There is no alternative. The Republican party is thus confronted by the sight of 2 Governor of the State seeking a renomi- nation from Republicans, not by the vote of dele- gates honestly elected at Republican primaries, but by allying himself with a notorious boss who has but recently emerged from the slums of politics and whose power is due wholly to influences which every good man abhors. The renomination of such a can- didate is well nigh impossible. It would be equiva- jent to political hara-kiri. Gage is bad enough him- self, but Gage in combination with Kelly would make vellow dog year for Democrac; While a college of journalism might not be profit- able in many ways, it would seem that it might fill a | him. T THE PROOES. HE case of the Governor against the proprietor and the manager of The Call is for personal reprisal for our revelations of San Quentin affairs, exposing illegal acts of which the Governor was a beneficiary. Our case, as stated, begins with proof that prison bills and accounts were forged, substituted and sophisticated. Much property was bought of merchants, was billed to the State by them under its proper items, with amounts properly extended in the bills. These proper bills were either hidden or destroyed, and other bills, with the same extension and aggregate of amounts, but with new items for entirely different kinds of merchandise, were forged in the prison, certified by the Warden and Commissary, au- dited by the Prison Directors and paid by In some cases the true billheads were used as made up by the firms selling the zoods, and were cut so as to leave one or two proper items and the extension of their value, and then below these the bill paper was pieced out by pasting, and the new part was inscribed with items that were not purchased, and their price was extended and an aggregate made corresponding to that of the original bill. ceived the proper amount of the sale imade by him, but its proper articles and items were | replaced by articles and items that he did not sell nor inscribe upon his bill. This was done to hide the purchase with public funds of articles that were not for public but for private use of somebody connected with the prison, or of somebody whom the Warden desired to make the beneficiary of such unlawful and improper with public funds for private use. Now, this foundation of our charges is proved by the oath of merchants from It is established in court, judicially, under the rules of evidence, that forgery of accounts and bills was committed at San Quentin. This crime could have been commited only by the order and direction of some one in authority. It had a motive, and that motive was the desire to conceal the purchase of property with | public funds for private use. It will be remembered that the Governor pretended to | make an investigation of these very matters, and that all this evidence was accessible to It will also be remembered that when he came out from behind the locked door where his pretended investigation was carried on he reported that he found everything all right and the conduct of the prison virgin. whom the purchases were made. Now, considering the matter only as are now established in court, and viewing the Governor’s "action in the light of those| facts, we have this situation: Property was to the prison. In the prison the transaction was concealed by the forgery of new bills and of new items that were never bought at use, and by such forgeries property for private use was paid for by the State, by the peo- ple, by the taxpayers. When exposure of again hide and conceal them the Governor went personally and officially into the breach with his pretended investigation and his report that everything was all right. There- upon to draw the fire upon himself and make the case appear to be one of personal ma- levolence and political persecution he instituted various libel suits, Going no further now, not a step beyond the record and the proofs, judicially verified under the rules of evidence, we ask the sober-minded people of California if it! shows the Governor to be deserving of further favor at their hands? We ask the Re-% publican party if it can afford to go into a campaign and defend this state of facts, | from the original crime of buying property cealment by forgery and the Governor’s attempt to conceal both the unlawful purchases | and the many forgeries in which they were hidden by his report that he found every- | thing all right? What we have said, charged and revealed in other stages of the case will be as completely proved, but we deal now with this first stage of the matter and the Govern- ot’s remarkable action therein. Let it be soberly considered by the people and the party. the State. The merchant therefore re- purchase of property far as revealed by the foregoing facts, which bought for somebody’s private use and billed all, but if bought would have been for public this stage of the facts made it necessary to for private use with public money; its con-| FILIPINO “NIGGERS.” HE American public has become accustomed to hear the Filipinos spoken of as “niggers.” In the height of their military resistance to our authority letters from soldiers were printed in which “hiking” and “sniping” the niggers were referred to in giving accounts of our military operations. The term applied to Asiatics is not unknown among the English rulers of India and colonial pos- sessions 1n the East. To many Englishmen all Hin- doos, from Sudra to Brahmin, are “niggers.” It may not be fortunate that we have adopted and ap- plied the term to the Filipinos. With all that they chdured under Spanish rule, in misgovernment and oppression, they were not humiliated by personal indignities entirely disconnected from their political position or action. The Spanish drew no color line on the educated Filipinos, financiers and business and professional people, and did not practice against them a system of social exclusion. The difference that has appeared with our advent into the islands is emphasized by an article in the Atlantic Monthly, written by Mr. James A. Leroy, who has been two years in Manila connected with the Philippine Com- mission. He says it is the usual thing for Americans there who imbibe a contempt and dislike for the natives to betray in common conversation their estimate of the Filipinos to be based upon the popular notions at home as to the incapacity and shortcomings of the negro. Yet, he says, the Filipino is as distinct from the negro as he is from the European. Mr. Leroy merely confirms common knowledge of the fact that there are large numbers of wealthy and well edu- cated natives and hali-castes, with minds and manners polished in the universities and society of Europe, who hold themselves equal to anybody. Yet speak- ing of such people he reports the wife of an Ameri- can officer as saying, “Why surely you don’t propose to visit these people and invite them to your home just the same as you would white people!” In the same spirit the American teachers sent out there are cautioned against any recognition or mingling with the people of the towns where they locate. il A young lieutenant impressed an educated Filipino gentleman and set him to cleaning out stables, even | refusing to release him when ordered by General Chaffee. Another lieutenant raided the housgs of rich and educated natives in Manila at all hours of the night, and a captain compelled every Filipino to take off his hat to the American flag, as he said “just to teach the niggers a lesson.” American women in Manila protested against admitting Filipino women to the women’s hospital founded by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and against native women using or helping to manage the American library, though it is partly sustained by taxation of the Filipinos. It is plzin from the tone of his article that this member of our civil establishment in the islands re- gards this contemptucus attitude and social ostracism as a greater bar to cur peaceful progress and our success in leading the people forward than the mili- tary events upon which so much stress has been put. The advanced, educated and gentle classes of the people there, 2s everywhere, have a well defined leadership of all the people. When they are treated with contempt, socially excluded and made to feel the severest humiliation, it would seem quite hopeless to convince the less advanced of the excellence of our interitions or to impress them with our profession of regard for equality of rights. ———— Bryan says he will not again be a candidate for the long felt want by supplying a staff of professors to keep tally of South American revolutions and report once a year for the benefit of the profession, Presidency unless he deems it necessary for the wel- fare of the country; and now the question is, Will he be a candidate in 1904 or not? A NEGATIVE RESULT. REAT BRITAIN is enjoying the glow of a reaction from the doubts and despondencies ‘G that weighed upon her people during the | prolonged struggle in South Africa. So great is the feeling of relief from the long strain and the immi- | nent prospect of another year of war and taxes that almost everything that now happens appears to the people to have a big bright side to delight their eyes. Even the colonial conference that ended in failure is no exception; the British take the failure itself as a good thing and are drawing all kinds of clever morals from it. In the first place they note with satisfaction that the collapse of the imperial federation scheme re- lieves them of all fear of having a permanent cus- toms duty on corn fer the purpose of giving the colonies a preferential tariff. It is true they lose the hope that the colonies would assist in the mainte- nance of the armies and the navies of the empire, but | even that does not greatly disturb them. Some of them go so far as to assert that such failure is itself | a good thing. The stetement of Sir Wilirid Laurier that no Canadian statesman would be willing to | bring that country into the “military vortex” is ac- cepted as a good enough policy for the empire as a whole. The argument is made that had the colonies been willing to help bear the burdens of the army and. navy there might have been developed a bump- tious spirit in Parliament that would lead to war, whereas now the one lesson learned from the, war in South Africa will be that of avoiding war in future, One authority, after saying that the results of the conference have been strictly negative, adds: “Nothing is more valuable than a negative result when it rids us of positive nonsense and conduces to more sober and definite thinking. That the immeas- urable exaggeration upon the subject of the colo- nies should be severely abated, that some virile real- ism and candid common sense should be substituted in our intercourse with them and in theirs with us for the spurious paroxysms of mutual admiration which we have lately pretended to indulge—this can- not be of harmful or of other than thoroughly useful and salutary effect.” The soundness of that view of the case is indisput- able. It is just as well for Great Britain and for the colonies tc get rid of the gush of sentiment aroused by the war in South Africa before they undertake making new bonds for themselves. It will do the British no harm to realize the fact that they must bear all the burdens of the empire for a good many years to come, and that, while their colonies are fit subjects for pride, they are not strong enough to venture upon supporting armies and fleets and enter- ing the military vortex. In colonial wars, and in struggles in remote parts of the world, the colonies can and will give assistance, but they could do little or nothing’in case of a war with a great European power, and it is just as well for the British to have at once a clear understanding of the fact. One does not have to be an excessive optimist to perceive the value of such a negative result as that. | | | | i Russian papers are showing a keen interest in the project of a French promoter to connect the Siberian railway with an Alaskan railway and thus provide an. all rail route from Paris to New York. It is to be noted, however, that both the Patisians and the Rus- sians expect Americans to put up the money for the enterprise. During a recent thunderstorm in Massachusetts the lightning struck a church and a jail without touching any other building, and now the amateur theologians of the State are disputing whether it | was caused by Providence or the devil. ! see her behind the footlights no more— | consented to the wedding and will retire | mired by theater-goers from the East to SUPREME LODGE, |TWO THEATERS K. OF P.,INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS The twenty-second convention of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, which closed yesterday afternoon with the installation of officers, was the most suc- cessful session of that body ever held. Every matter of a business nature was disposed of and for the first time in fif- teen years not a single legislative enact- ment awaits the action of the Supreme Lodge. - The last session of the convention was taken up with the final settlement of sev- eral unimportant reports and the routine business of the last meeting. Past Grand Chancellor Charles L. Patton of California was given the Supreme Lodge Rank. The newly elected officers were installed as follows: Tracy R. Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D., su- preme chancelior; Charles E. Shiveley of Rich- mond, Ind., supreme vice chancellor; George E. Church of Fresno, Cal., supreme prelate; R. L. C. White of Nashville, Tenn., supreme keep- er of records and seal; Thomas D. Meares of Wilmington, N. C., supreme master of ex- chequer; L. H. Farnsworth of Salt Lake City, Utah, supreme master-at-arms; Cyrus W. Hall of Charleston, W. Va., supreme inner guard; John W. Thompson of Washington, D. C., su- preme outer guard; C. F. S. Neal of Chicago, 1L, president of the Board of Control of the Endowment Rank, and James R. Carnahan of Indianapolis, Ind., major general of the Uni- form Rank. As soon as the convention adjourned the members gathered around the supreme chancellor’s chair to bid one another farewell and talk of the splendid entertain- ment afforded them by the citizens of San Francisco. Past Supreme Chancellor Feth- ers took advantage of the opportunity to express aghin his thanks for the manner in which the Supreme Lodge had been treated and at the close of his remarks spoke of the wonderful growth of the or- der in the last few vears. At the time of the last annual report there were about 600,000 members in full standing and nearly 500,000 non-afiiliated Knights, making a total of over 1,100,000 members of the order. Most of the representatives to the Su- preme Lodge will remain in San Francisco for the rest of the week. Some of them will take advantage of the excursions to différent points of the State and return here fer a few days before going to their homes. Chlef Wittman received the following letter yesterday from Major General James R. Carnahan and Adjutant George ‘W. Powell of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, which speaks for itself: Before leaving for our homes we desire to express to you and through you to the members of the San Francisco Police Department our appreciation of the many courtesies extended us during our stay. On the day of the parade no interference with the line of march was experlenced, showing your complete control of the crowd, and we have noted with pleasure the ability with which your department has handled the immense gathering of people on the streets at night, all testifying to the wis- dom and ability of your well-organized and disciplined force. We extend our congratula- tions and offer to superiors and patrolmen our very best wishes. MARIAN STONE BECOMES BRIDE OF MILLIONAIRE! REY, Tayy [/ The many friends and admirers of Marian Stone, the actress, until yesterday connected with the Neill company, will that is, if she adheres to her present de- termination. Miss Stone was married yes- terday. The lucky man is A. H. McKay, a millionaire. The wedding took place in Oakland and was kept a secret until last night, when one of Miss Stone’s friends teld of the happy event. Miss Stone and Mr. McKay crossed the | bay on an early boat and immediately went to the home of Rev. J. Vosburgh, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at 974 Sixteenth street. The clergyman was waiting to receive the happy couple and the wedding took place shortly after their arrival. The wedding ceremony was a most sim- ple one. Only a few intimate friends of the couple were present, and there were no decorations of any kind. After the ceremony the wedding party went directly to the Paiace Hotel, where a breakfast was served. Miss Stone’s marriage ‘was not alto- gether unexpected by many of her most intimate friends. Mr. McKay has known her from her childhood days and has | wooed her for many a day. She finally from the stage for good. Marian Stone was widely known and ad- San Francisco. .She is a'tall, stately woman of the blonde type and possessed cf a beautiful form. She is an actress of much ability. Miss Stone has lately been playing lead- ing roles for James Neill and his company at the California Theater. She was an im- mense favorite with all in the theatrical profession as well as with her audiences. She resigned from the company on Tues- day night and this may have led many to believe that her marriage was soon to be solemnized. Mr. McKay is a milllonaire mining man and speculator. He is a native of Ohio, but is widely known all over the West. He travels extensively and is heavily in- terested in the Western Union Oil Com- pany. Mr. and Mrs. McKay will reside temporarily at the Palace Hotel, after which they will make an extended trip through Europe. On their return they will take up their residence permanently in this city, e Miss Lucille Staffler and Norman B. Kooser were married last evening by the Rev. R. C. Foute at Grace Episcopal Church. Owing to a bereavement in the bride’s family, her father, the late George C. Staffler, having died but recently, the wedding was strictly private, only a few of the most intimate friends of the family of the bride and groom being present. In the hope of witnessing the ceremony many iriends of the young couple were at the church at 7:30 o'clock, but the cere- mony had been performed a little before 7, and all were doomed to disappointment. Mrs. Kooser is the daughter of Mrs. Clara Staffler, and her father was one of the best known citizens of Santa Cruz, while the groom, who is a son of H. H. Kooser of San Jose, is an attorney of this city and of the law firm of Morehouse, Kooser & Alexander, Both bride and groom are accomplished, Mrs. Kooser havini graduated h hon- ors from the Washburn School, San Jose, and her husband being a graduate of Stanford. The happy couple will spend their hon- eymoon at Lake Tahoe and will reside in this city. PERSONAL MENTION. +Dr. C. M. Garrison of Sait Lake among the arrivals at the Grand. Colonel E. A. Forbes, an attorney of Moarysville, is registered at the Grand. M. M. McQuitt, a capitalist of Los An- geles. is among the arrivals at the Grana, Major W. A. Gett of Sacramento, a well-known reclamation attorney, is at the Grand. # J. F. Morley, a mining man of Calla- han, Siskiyou County, is in the city for a few days on a business trip. Captain Alex Griggs, owner of a num- ber of steambeats on the Willamette Riv- er, is registered at the Palace. General J. C. L. Harris, a well-known aticrney of Raleigh, N. C., is in the city :flu.ending to some important legal mat- is ARE AWAITING IRON FRAMES he difficulty in securing structural iron isTs. problem which is engaging ::8 earnest thought of at leut“two”thea&h- cal men of San Francisco. “Do¢ Le‘ y is studying intently on the proposition of having building material for the great g-story building that will be placed on the site of the present Tivoli. Al Bouvier has progressed as far as the foundations of a theater on Market and Ninth streets, but the lack of certainty as to when structural iron can be :e:u;ex; is a theme cogitation wit 5 m’;h‘:‘:;bl's nog‘ way, according to what the architects of the city say, to procure the fron and steel skeletons for large build- ings on short time contracts, except by paying nearly double the regular price. There are some Eastern contractors who have one or another description of struc- tural ironmongery on hand, but they are aware of the situation thoroughly and are taking advantage of it for their own benefit. The largely increased de- mand for iron bridge work is given as one of the causes for the shortage. There has been no marked increase in the num- ber of Eastern blast furnaces and the limit to the possible output of the com- bined interests of the East is therefore about fixed. Several large buildings in San Franeis- co are practically tied up by the lack of iron. “Doc” Leahy said yesterday that the actual beginning on the new Tivoll building is delayed because he cannot yet see where he can get iron. The opera- house must be completed by the first of next August. That means that the ma- terial must be on hand by the first of next January. The idea is to construct the proscenium first, before tearing down the present Tivoll auditorium. By that means the opera-house would not be closed many months. “Doc” Leahy has been investigating the possibility of get- ting the iron work from Europe. Architect Curlett will superintend the construction of the Bouvier Theater. At his office yesterday it was sald that some months would probably elapse before the necesary supplies can be obtained. Con- sequently there will also be delay in the construction of the Bouvier house, Work on the Flood office building on the old Baldwin Hotel site has practically come to a standstill by reason of the lack of iron. The St. Francis Hotel at Geary and Powell streets has an iron supply for present needs, but is expected to be de- layed later during the constructive period. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. VOTE FOR GOVERNOR—Subscriber, City. The vote for Governor of the State of California in 1894 was 284,548; in 1808 it was 277,064. LONDON'S POPULATION—J. L. K., Belmont, Cal. The population of London, England, according to the enumeration of 1901, was 4,536,063. SULLIVAN-RYAN—S,, City. It was on the 13th of November, 1886, that John L. | Sullivan knocked out Paddy Ryan three rounds in San Francisco. in TWO LAKES—A. C. G., Lathrop, Cal. The area of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world, is 32,000 square miles: that of Victoria Nyanza, in Central Africa, is 27,000 square miles. CARD PLAYING—W. H., City. It is a breach of etiquette to propose card playing in another person’s house. That is the privilege of the host or hostess, and if they do not suggest the amuse- ment it is absglutely rude for any one else to do so. | CONVERSATION — M. R, City. By reading good books and being a good lis- | tener when in the presence of persons who are good conversationalists you will | in time, if you profit by what you read | and what you hear, become a good con- | versationalist. FIFTY-CENT GREENBACK—Subseri- ber, Oakland, Cal. Dealers offer 3 cents premium for fresh, crisp 50-cent green- backs. Such as have been used do not | command a premium. For such paper | currency dealers ask from $1350 to $2 50, according to the issue. DIVORCE—B., Santa Clara, Cal. A | party who wants to commence an action for divorce in the State of California must have been a resident of the State | one vear, and ‘three months of that time | must have been in the county in which the action is to be brought. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION—Sub- | scriber, Oakland, Cal. As there is no Vice President of the United States at | this time, if President Roosevelt should | die he would be succeeded by the Secre- tary of State, and in case of the death of H that officer he in turn would be succeeded by the Secretary of the Treasury. POKER DICE—C. E. V., Richmond, Cal. In shaking poker dice, one throw, A throws three sixes, B throws three sixes and C throws two deuces, the general rule is that if the throw was for the | drinks C would have to pay for them, if | it was for money C would be out and A and B would have to throw again. WAGES—J. A. T, City. If a certain party owes you wages and he has no cash with which to pay your claim, and has only household goods mortgaged to their full value, your chances of receiving your money are very slim. Possibly your only hcpe would be to obtain a judgment against the party and have it enforced if, in the future, the party becomes finan- cially able to pay his debts. WALKING—A Subscriber, City. Befors this department can give the distance walked between two points it must know the route traveled. The party might have walked from Ocean View to Larkin street by way of the old county road, or cross- ed over Twin Peaks or gone by way of the rcad to Ingleside, then by the ocean beach and then in by the Point Lobos road. Correspondénts who want answers should be clear in their questions. CROSS LODES—Subscriber, Oroville, Cal. The following decision has been ren- dered in the matter of cross lodes: ‘A location laid crosswise of a lode or vein, so that by its greatest length it crosses 1 the same instead of following the course thereof, will secure only so much of the vein as it actually crosses at the surface, and the side lines of the location will be- come the end lines of the same, for the purpose of defending the rights of the owner."” BANJO HEADS—A. C. R, Lathrop, Cal. Banjo heads are made of fine parchment; some are of the skins of very young kids, calves and lambs, while others are of the skins of goats. The skins are first pre- pared the same as In dressing such for leather; that is, they are limed in a lime pit until the hair is easily removed, they are then stretched tightly and equally and the flesh side is dressed as in currying until a perféctly smooth surface is ob- tained. They are then ground by rub- bing over them a flat piece of pumice only with the powdered chalk, lime is sprinkled over them. They are next allowed to dry, still tightly stretched. The drying process is most important and must be carried on slowly in the shade. The process has often to be repeated sev- eral times. When quite dry the chalk and lime is removed by rubbing with a soft lambskin with the wool on. The per. fectness of the parchment depends much upon the skill with which the pumice stone Is usea. ’ BOARD ORDERS PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOLHOUSE The Board of Education adopted a reso- lution yesterday appointing Louis S. Stone consulting achitect in the préparation of plans for the new school buildings to be erected under the speclal tax levy of Tl cents. Director Woodward opposed the ap- pointment of Stone on the ground that the City Architect, in the employ of the Board of Public Works, is competent to draw the plans and it is his duty to do so. He held that the expense of an additional architect is unnecessary and not coun- tenanced by the charter. Roncovieri said that the City Architect had never visited the board, but had always sent one of his clerks to confer with the Directors. Wood- ward further thought it inadvisable to em- ploy an architect whose plans had been once rejected by the board. Director Mark called attention to poor work done on the Hearst School, which had been overlooked by the Board of ‘Works, under whose supervision the work was done. Mark held that this would not have happened had the Board of Educa- tion employed its own architect. Mark said that the board had enough money to erect two or three school buildings with= out using the special tax revenue. The midterm vacation was fixed from September 29 to October 3. SCHOOL FOR SUNNYSIDE. The Board of Works was requested to submit plans and specifications for a new schoolhouse for the Sunnyside district. A lot in block 19 was purchased for 35250 to be used as a site for the school. Denman voted against the purchase of the lot, claiming that it is too far away from the center of population. Residents of Noe Valley and the west of Castro street district appealed to the members of the board to cease quibbling over plans for schoolhouses and keep their promise to provide a school in the district named. They informed the board that the City Architect had stated that he would decline to confer with the School Directors, as they now have plans which he had prepared and they were still dis- satisfied. Special certificates of the high schoo} grade on the subject of mechanical draw- ing were granted to Grant B. Shipley and Leo Morgan, both of whom were ap- pointed to positions in the Humboldt ening School. I:‘YJr. (f‘heney of Cooper Medical College notified the board that the institution would decline to continue the vaccination of indigent school children. The rgeslgnadon of Lillian B. O'Nell was ccepted. ‘Efifive. of absence were granted to S. O'Brien and Agnes Thomas. TRIAL OF TEACHERS. Director Denman gave notice that he would move to strike out the rule relat- ing to the trial of teachers on complaints and charges. This will require the board to try teachers under the State law. The owners of the property on Wash- ington street, west of Mason and adjoin- | ing the Washington School, offered to sell the lot for $10,000. The board purchased a lot adjoining the Fairmount School for $1200. | ri‘rhe petitions of the San Francisco Turn Verein and the German-American League that physical culture be established in the public schools 6n a better basis was taken under advisement. On the recommendation of the principal of the Girls’ High School Willlam Zim- merman and Mrs. L. N. Howard will be the entire day. mn‘a‘floy}el{:men was appointed assistant teacher for the deaf and dumb class at a | salary of $0 per month. The Alliance Francaise was granted per- mission to use the rooms of the Pacific Heights School after the close of the reg- ular daily sessions for the purpese of | giving public instruction in the French language. ng:s gNetne Roth was appointed teacher of history and civil government in the Commercial School. The premises at 232 Sanchez street were rented as an additional classroom for the Everett Grammar School. A CHANCE TO SMILE. The editor of the Daily Bread wheeled arcund in his chair and spoke to the new musical critic. “Mr. Frettus,” he sald, in a rasping veice, “did you do this writeup of last night's concert?” “Yes, sir.” “You speak of the audience ‘drinking in the marvelous strains of the great or- chestra.” How can anybody ‘drink in* music?"” “I suppose it might be done with a Ru- binstein, sir,” stiffly replied the new musi- cal critic.—Chicago Tribune, Improved—Little Patrick’s father has struck it rich in the Kilondike, so he thought he would indulge in a severe at- tack of pneumonia, “just for a change.” The doctor came, and, reading over the nurse’s chart, said: “Patient refused to take medicine? Why did you refuse to take medicine?’ *“Coz,” said Patrick. “That's no reason,” said the doctor. “Why did you do it?" “Coz,” again sald Patrick. “I must have a better reason than that,” returned the doctor. “Well,” said Patrick, “‘becoz, then!"—Boston Her- ald. A City Hall employe tells the story of an office holder who was one of the party that attended the funeral of a Chinaman on a recent Sunday. He took a great deal of interest in the queer services at the grave, and noticed that, among other thirgs, a roasted duck was left there by the departing mourners. Calling one of the “Chinks’” aside he asked: “Why did you leave that duck on the grave? Do you think the dead man will come out and eat it?” ‘“Yeppe,” replied the Boxer sympathiz- er: “alle samee as le white deadee man come out and smellee flowlers.”—Philadel- phia Times. —_———— Gage Is a Defeated Man. The Gage gang is doing the claiming act, and it will doubtless keep it up until the last dog of them is hung, but claiming things cannot change the situation one iota. The fact is patent to any man of common sense that Gage is to-day a de- feated man, so far as the nomination for Governor is concerned, and not all the shouting that can be turned loose on the affrighted air will save him from an in- glorious defeat at the forthcoming State Convention. California is to be congratu- lated, as a whole, on the result of Tues- day’s primaries, and the Republicans of the State particularly, as the nomination of Gage would surely spell defeat in the gubernatorial campaign. The reputable element of the party Is perfectly satisfled with the complexion of the several dele- gations to the convention, for a Governor ‘will be voted for in the forthcoming elec~ tion who is worthy the suffrage and sup- port of God-fearing and law-abiding eiti~ zens of the commonwealth.—Los Angeles Times. —_——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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