The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FERANCISCO SATURDAY ‘CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 190 6 > Fr fic 1 GRADE CROSSINGS. cates. Perhaps, indeed, the State might even sell GOSSIP FROM % a{’e a0 - fiall ‘ 3 the jobs for a good bonus, for the men who would —£% ‘ ‘ E have noted the vast ex_Pc"‘d‘t‘_‘" NOW | pave the right of attesting the weight of the fish and LONDON WORLD ¥ Vi R R =1 beirig made by American railways in physi- | ;o po1q th . o fish stories —— g y 4 thus hold the power of licensing the ...... SEPTEMBER 6, 1902 | cal development. Tangents are replacii€ | ,u1d have a bonanza of the first magnitude. OF LETTE RS = = = | | " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor, £étress £1] Communiestiens to W. . LFAKE, Munager. TELEPEHONE. Ask for THEE CALL.- The Operator Will Connect Yon With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered hy Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. 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This is a feature that marks an important | difference between American and European railways. In this country grade crossings are the rule, while in Europe they are the exception. The casualties on® American roads are appalling in their number. While they are but a small percentage of the total number of passengers carried, their ag- | gregate increases every year. The improved mechan- ism for handling trains, such as automatic couplings and air brakes, for both freight and passenger cars, should, and doubtless has, greatly decreased the casualties among train crews, but still the fatalities on the track remain at a high aggregate. z Almost daily there are accidents on grade cross- ings. These are increasing with the increase in ur- ban and rural electric lines, which cross each other and the tracks of steam roads at grade, With the increase of travel on country roads as the population grows and the use of such roads is greater, the dan- ger of accident rises. There should be a legal regula- tion which compels roads, steam and electric, to co- operate in the expense of under and over grade S————— Venezuela is again in the throes of an upheaval. It is uniortunate for the general reputation of the nations that Venezuela wasn’t located on the island of Martinique. \ WHAT THE BAR WANTS. A‘T the recent session of the American Bar As- sociation the proceedings were devoted ‘more to oratory than to business. That of-course was to have been expected, for it is at once natural and professional. The disproportion, however, was greater than it should have been, for while the ad- dresses were doubtless excellent, they furnished very little in the way of news to the reporters who were on the lookoth to let the world know what the bar is doing, and as a consequence the m‘e_cling of the asso- ciation came Very near passing away without attract- ing attention from anybody cutside‘the)‘zll where it was held. We learn from our exchanges that a resolution was adopted petitioning Congress to erect at Washington a “temple of justice sufficient in ca;{‘acity- to accom- modate all the courts which are now compelled to meet in different places.” As that means a new ar- because nobody can really answer it. book season. utter impossibility. ‘“Wars, general elections, coronations,” the enemies of a brisk book trade. have had them all.” hands of the publishers. What will the autumn season be—good. indifferent or bad, like so many recent autumn seasons? This is the question of the moment in the hook world and, as is the way in such cases, gains in interest However, a certain measure of guid- anca may be got by a glance at the con- ditions which must govern the coming First, there will be, as I} have already mentioned, a very large | number of books, thanks to the holding | back policy which of necessity has been | put into practice because while the war lasted a good time for new books was an said a well-known publisher, “these are We Quite an immense library of new books is therefore in the JURY ACCUSES MEN PROMINENT g IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Sept. 5—Indictments Wde:‘ returned In Judge Chetlain's court (0-C0Y against four men implicated In e sonic Fraternity Temple Assoclation 10 canal over either the Panama or Nicar-| fixing seandal which has ?ken R agua route, has brought forth consider-, time of a spectal Grand \lfly sy Will able comment. | week, and which county officials say hnien Captain James M. Jackson of 1251 Mar- | Tesult in uncarthing a conspleacy ST ket street, who was one of the members | tematically to mulet the cousiy © T~ of an expedition sent out by the National | dred“s of thousands of dollars Government in 1857, speaks interestingly nually. and favorably of the Darien project. He The men against whom true bfllcl b‘;r‘e:: was in command of the Camanche, sta- | returned are: Luke Wheeler, EVCUCK tioned at this port during the Civil War. | with forgery and cqnlpiHCY to e tb\; It was during President Buchanan’s ad- | C@ptain Edwin Williams, mm;fh’"nt.:crlnz ministration that Congress appropriated | Masonic Temple, charged w! iracy $100000 to equip an expedition to verify | @ forged instrument and with €on®p P the Darien survey that Strain had made | James B. Hoey, comspiracy to e fiaad some time before. The expedition was |John J. Holly Jr., conspiracy to made up of sixty-six men. It was under | the county. P the command of Captain T. A. M. Craven, | According to the testimony given. n; and was composed of sclentists, astron- | fore the Grand Jury it is supposed t t DARIEN CANAL FEASIBLE, SAYS CAPT. JACKSON The letter of General Edward W. Ser- rell of New York, published in The Cail 1dst Wednesday, in which he wrote of the advantages of the proposed Darien ‘Whether this much wanted better sea- son is about to be realized or not, this hydrographic post-dated library will certainly come out. omers, geologists and members of corps. the | Wheeler was the leader in the alleged conspiracy. Seme time ago it was discov- ered that an entry of ‘paid” had been record. guished from new editions. rate bought? It is safe to assume, therefore, that the number of books appearing between now and Christmas will be something of a Especlally there will be an in- creased output of new books as distin- ‘Will they be bought and read, or at any “It is useless,” sald this publisher, “to Strain’s expedition had not been very successful, owing to trouble with unfaith- ful native guldes, and many of the men were stricken with tropical diseases. The country is low in the neighborhood of the proposed canal and very unhealthy. It is practically uninhabited, natives of the near-by country only going there at cer- tain seasons to hunt and fish. Captain Jackson says that the survey forged opposite an item of nearly 327,000 on the tax warrrant book of the County Treasurer. Michael G. Walsh gave. tes- timony before the Grand Jury to the ef- fect that the Temple Association wished to {ssue several hundred thousand dol- lars’ worth of new bonds to improve its financial condition, but that because the building had been sold once before for chitectural adornment for the capital it will surely deny that the book trade is in a state of taxes, trust companies would not float the made at that time was commenced at the flux. You just feel about it as you would bonds unless the property was free from NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CABLTON..ccovuvssssssses . Herald 8 NEW YORK NEWS. STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentapo, 81 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. MWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—521 Montgomery, cormef of Clay, open until 9:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open untfl :30 o'clock. 629 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until ©:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 1¢ o'clock. 2261 Maerket, corner Sixteenth, open untl 9 o'clock. 1098 Valencia, open untfl ® o'clock. 106 Eveventh, open until ® o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. = —— crossings. In the case of wagon roads the law should compel such participation between steam and electric roads and the county or road district concerned. Our multiple track roads—and soon every important sys- tem will find at least a double track a necessity—and our easier grades and elimination of curvature will give us an ideal system, with the maximum of safety for trains on the track, but it provides only greater danger at every grade crossing. The recent accident in the grade collision between a fast train on the Southern Pacific and an electric car on the San Mateo, line could not have occurred except for the grade crossing. No human oversight and care can always be trusted to prevent such an accident. Gatemen and signalmen are men only and rot automatons, and, being men, sleep, fatigue, care- lessness and all things which may divert and dis- tract the mind are present to hamper their efficicncy. An under-grade crossing cancels all of these and be approved at Washington, and the rest of the coun- try will not object. Since we must have courts it is but right to provide a fitting place for them, and if the old-fashioned = “courthouses”. will not do, why then a “Temple of Justice” is imperative. Another resolution which was unanimously adopted provides: - “That the committee of Federal courts be instructed to prepare and submit to the association at its next meeting a bill to increase the number of Judges in the United States Circuit Court from three to five, four of whom are to be necessary for a quorum.” So we are not only in need of new temples L of justice, but new Justices to sit in those we have. That resolution also will doubtless have approval in many quarters, for it means new offices, new patron- age, new salaries and new expectations. Next came a resolution that gave the meeting pause and covered its countenance with a pale cast of thought. It was to the effect/that in view of the re- the turmoil which has afflicted it. bored for the coming season. spend.” vigor begotten of vigorous New Zealand. He came to London less months ago from a New Zealand farm, year, dull as it has been. | Man With ‘the Opals.” about the man with an unsteady pulse. There seems to be health and hope at one moment, but weariness and a note of faflure at the next moment. We really need some time to get the trade into reg- ular full working order again after all For that reason no too great hopes are har- People, it is thought, will not be spending too much Jmoney on boks, not having much to Alfred Wilson Barrett, son of the emi- nent actor, has taken up literature with than twelve where he lived for five years, and two novels by him have appeared this last A third, en- titled “The French Master,” {s on the way. He is also collaborating with Aus- tin Fryers on a story to be entitled “The They likewise have in hand a play tentatively entitled Atlantic side, starting at the mouth of the Atrato River, which empties into the Gulf of Darlen. The expedition found that an excellent harbor could be made there at an estimated cost of $100,000. From there the route lay up the Atrato and Truondo rivers for a distance of six- ty-six miles. The rivers are wide and deep, and the cost of putting them in con- dition to carry the business of the canal | would be slight. From the gulf the river takes a sharp bend and.the survey was | made due west. Captain Jackson says | a cut through the low land to the high | range of mountains and extend through liens. It was alleged that bribes were offered to county employes to make the forged entry, and that Luke Wheeler ‘was the go-between. ‘Wheeler at present is missing. Captain Willlams was arrested last Saturday and gave bonds for $5000 for his appearance. The Grand Jury, in connection with the Masonic Temple case, has investigated a number of alleged forged notes put out by Wheeler, purporting to come from influential business firms of this city. Testimony before the investigating Body was to the effect that Wheeler had said the isthmus could be easily made. It he received the notes for “taking care™ would be through soft soil, and could be | of property interests before the State done without much expense. Another cut | Board of HEqualization when that body of five miles through solid rock woulg |Made the tax assessments. bring the canal through the mountain 2 ANSWERS 1O QUERIES. range and within five or six miles of the Pacific Ocean. GOVERNORS—A. 8., City. In 1885 Isaac Jackson says that measurements made in 1857 showed that the tide water of the | p Grav was Governor of Indiana and Russell A. Alger of Michigan Atlantic Ocean is nearly two feet higher than that of the Pacific. It was planned A PERSONAL MATTER. “La Marquise,” which Wilson Barrett | {5 yge the waters of the Truondo River | GAIN ON SALE—C., Fresno, Cal. The AVING but little else to- fight about, the -re- cent Democratic convention closed with a per- H sonal incident. The intention to trot out Hon. James V. Coleman zs a dark horse had been known and placarded ‘for hours before the Examiner junta discussed his sub- stitution for Geary. The junta’s campaign was one of needs no human agency to guard its efficiency. A rule may be made, hard and fast, that every electric car must stop before crossing at grade. But given a foggy morning, when exact location of the crossing is impossible, or drowsiness or forgetfulness on the part of motorman and conductor, and you have again the human equation that no hard angd fast rule can cent press and popular criticism of the slow process of law, the association “declares its. condemnation of all use of legal procedure for the purpose of indefen- sible delay or defeat “Gf the ends of justice, and law in the interest of morality.” That resolution, we are told, “was speedily tabled.” It would be interesting to know just why speed was pledges its influence to secure pronipt enforcement of | may produce when he returns to England. | The fashion of publishing modern plays initlated by Henry Arthur Jones and Pi- nero is now being carried a step further. It is becoming common for dramatists to | issue plays in book form before they are acted. This has been done by Mrs. Crai- gie and George Bernard Shaw, and now Grant Richards announces the publica~ tion of “‘Miss Clo,” Graves’ dramatic ver- sion of Pope's “Rape of the Lock,” as | I iy by a lock or dam, the only one required on the route, to furnish water for western end of the canal. this stream is very slow, about two miles an hour being the speed of the current. The engineers at that time thought that $8,000,000 ought to build the canal. canal would be located about 300 miles south of the proposed Nicaragua water- The great drawback to the Darien The flow of questicn asked is one of simple arithme- tic, which is a class of questions that this department does not answer. YOU AND ME—A. E. B, City. proper to say “Between you and m is not proper to say, “Let you and I, it is proper to say the It is It but “Let you and me.” FIRE REPORTS—A. 8., City. If you will call at the office of the Fire Marshal The make absolutely automatic. Railroad owners and operators have a greater in- i o R e rcute, Jackson says, is the unhealthy cli- o Snyder was substituted and then Geary shown in the tabling. All that it called for is more | & play called “The Lovers’ Battle” a he-| ;¢."o¢ the country. It is almost im- in the City Hall he will show you the fire ; . e i X 2 > d .. | Teports of this city for August 22 and Everything was substituted except the i g i speed in legal procediire, and if the assoiation ob- | [oical comedy in rhyme With Pope and | possible for a white man to keep his| jugus 2, 192 " > g 2 CaE | terest in this subject than any others except passen- | . . 3 LD R Sae o b health there for any length of time. Examiner as the Grand High Executioner and ¢ ject to speed it should have proceeded with legal | Miss Helen Mathers, who celebrated her | swinger of the snickersnee. Mr. Wilkins left Geary's headquarters, with the junta in the middle of a con- versation a »out using the San Diego delegation as a substitute, and went as a dove of peace to McNab to get him to accept Cole- man as a substitute for Geary and Lane. He was act- ing upon the public, published and.placarded propo- sition to bring Coleman into the fightlet over the nomination Mr. McNab was not in a substitution mood, and’ while he was indicating his mood and tense to the bearer of the olive branch Wilkins was ordered back to headg What occurred there, as stated by was not to the discredit of Mr. Wilkins, 1ay have been to others, The Exa determined, however, the con- vention should not adjourn until somebody had been insulted, and so gave up much space to an elaborate essay on Judas Iscariot by one of its representatives. rters. reliable witnesses, whatever it er junta wa The betrayed the confidence of the junta in respect to a matter that had been pub- lic property and of common knowledge for nearly twe four hours is the cause of a much needed T attempt to introduce South Carolina meth- ods into California Democratic politics is the earliess diversion of the campaign. As for us, we exhort the brethr Their solemn march to defeat should not be disturbed by snoot-making at each other. When the mourners in the head carriage fall out and quarrel and fight, what may be expected of the friends in the rear, who attend the obsequies only from a sense of duty 1 to harmony. It is announced that the British Government has is- sued orders that no person not a resident of South Africa shall be permitted to go to that country at present unless possessed of $500 and having a definite notion of what he is to do when he lands. The ob- ject is to prevent a rush of idle men who might be- come 2 charge upon the country or degenerate into pauperism and crime. Moreover, the Government does not intend that South Africa shall be made a place for dumping the good-for-nothings at whom their people would like to get rid of. The arrival at New York of a single shipment of diamonds valued at $800,000 led one of our Eastérn exchanges to dig up some statistics of the trade, and accordingly we learn that a London firmsold during the past summer upward of a dozen diamond orna- ments to Americans at prices exceeding $35,000 each. One Boston dame imported a single jewel valued at $200,000. In 1896 the total importation of diamonds was valued at $5,000,000, but last year ‘the valuation was nearly $23,000,000, and this year is expected ‘to break the record. home The farmers in all the regions round about the fashionable resorts in the East\are kicking against automobiles this summer even more than against taxes, and it scems to be only a matter of time when there will be anti-automobile planks in New England platforms to catch the farmer vote. At a recent meeting of the. American Railway Master Mcchanics’ Association the superintendent of the rolling-stock of the New York Central spoke in praise of a device for obtaining smokeless combus- tion, and held out a promise that the smokeless loco- motive is coming soomn. Jules Verne says: “I do not think there-will be any novels or romances in-book form in fifty or a hundred years from now. They will be supplanted by the newspaper.” It will be remembered that the gifted Frenchman has a great reputation as a hoaxer. The announcement of the organization of a trust to control all the circuses of the country has raised hopes in the hearts of-the old boys that it will com- bine the three-ringed shows into a big one-ring cir- cus as in_old days and make the world happy again. | could well get their salaries out of fees for certifi- | That means a fight to a finish, { gers'who are exposed to the danger. Railroads do not want accidents. They mean destruction of property and liability for the death or injury they cause. It would have an interesting bearing upon the question if the statistics of such accidents could be collected showing the railroad property destroyed and the en- forced liability for personal injuries and {fatalities incurred by the corporations. We have no doubt that the sum of such destruction and liability would show a total equal to z high interest upon the amount of money that would eliminate a majority of the grade crossings in the whole ecountry. The ex- penditure would be a wise economy for the railroads and would inmimensely decrease the danger that grows with the growth of our immense land transportation system. This is’a ‘matter in which the raflroads will get great crecdit for an initiative. Legislation is required to properly divide the cost and make the substitution of under-grade crossings compulsory under certain | conditions. - Not every country road can be so pro- vided for, but the provision can be made by classes | assorted by the statistics of use of the highway. 1In the case of steam and electric roads the change can be made compulsory, whether the line is in a city or in | the country, and the Jaw can make proper divi 9 | the cost. The necessity for this in California is very great.. Along the coast fogs are the ready cause of such ac- | cidents as that at Sunryside, while in the mountains | the deflection of sound and obstruction of a view of | the track by forests znd topography provide a con- stant element of danger. 4 ion of Mrs. Carrie Nation's latest announcement is that she draws inspiration from her name. “I am called Carrie A. Nation,” she says, “and I look upon that as | a providential call to carry this one.” WISCONSIN FISH STORIES, | ISCONSIN has a legislator who has given Wnotice that st the next session of the Legis- lature he will introduce a bill providing that every person who shall hereafter catch a fish in Wisconsin waters that exceeds.one pound in weight shall have said fish weighed and its weight registered }by a State officer appointed for the purpose; failure i to comply ‘with the law is punishable by fine. The author of the bill states that his object is not to in- terfere with fishing, but to put an end to the practice of lying as to the size of the fish caught. ‘While the proposed bill has all the earmarks of freak legislation and promises that.the crop of such legislation this winter is going to be up to the stan- dard of the past, it is not without its redeeming fea- tures. No American likes to lie, and American fish- ermen are more averse to the practice than other classes of citizens. Still lying is in a measure forced upon them by the unreasonable and, in fact, the bar- baric competition among them as to which catches the biggest fish. When two or three fishermen meet together to tell -of their sport the first man always tells of a catch that is within good fly-casting distance of the truth. The next man feels that he must beat the first story, and, despite his high and dear regard for veracity, he feels impelled by uncontrollable im- pulse to d a pound or two to his biggest fish and half a hundredweight or so to his total catch. The third man has no chance to be truthful at all, and | as for those who come later there is no possibility of ‘specch that is not that of exaggeration” and hyper- bole. The Wisconsin law will save Wisconsin fishermen all the wegr and tear that is now needlessly in- flicted upon\heir consciences by unrestrained and un- regulated competition. Let it once be decreed that every man must weigh his fish and get a certificate $rom an officer of the law and there will be an end to lying. Nothing more will be needed than the pro- duction of a certificate from the official weigher. It seems, too, that the system will entail no expense to the State or the taxpayers, The officers of the law | ! | slowness in getting rid of the resolution and not have turned it down in a jiffy. Moreover, it appears to the lay mind as an extremely pertineat resolution. Since the bar asks for more courtrooms and more Judges, it might have at least promised prompter settlement of litigation. The adoption of the rejected resolution would, in fact, have made a good plank in a cam- paign for an increase in the number of Judges. As it stands now the association goes on record as ask- ing everything for the profession and nothing for the public. Perhaps that is what is known as the ethics of the profession, and the public is to look upon it as a proof that the association-is sincere and never resolutes for buncombe. THE FORESTRY MOVEMENT. T the recent convention of the American For- A estry Association at Lansing there was dis- played a notable increase of public interest in the subject as well as an augmented earnestness on the part of those who for years past have been mak- ing a campaign of education to rouse the people to the importance of conserving our remaining wood- lands and replanting trees in districts where the destruction has been already carried to an extent that threat@ns the permanency and steadiness of the springs and streams. During the course of the convention attention was given to the facts that President Roosevelt has opened two additional forest reserves in Montana, and that the Department of Agriculture is to send an expert forester to the Philippines to investigate for- est problems there and devise a means of preserving the woods of the islands. On his way to the islands the agent of the department is expected to make a study of forestry in Russia and learn what that vast empire is doing to protect its existing forests and to establish others where the needs of the soil re- quire them. This national movement toward grappling in ear- nest with the task of preserving forests comes most opportunely to help the similar movement under way in California. In many ways we can profit by what is being done in the East as well as by what has been done in Europe. All information bearing upon the subject will be of value to us when we enter upon the task of devising a comprehensive and scientific system of preserving our woods and conserving our water supply. Still the conditions of California for- estry are peculiar, and we shall have to work out our problems very largely by our own skill and com- mon sense. No land on earth is better adapted for the construction of reservqirs in the mountains and the application of their waters to irrigation on the foothills and in the valleys, and there is none where larger profits will repay the construction of such works. For us, moreover, the prompt solution of the problem is well nigh imperative, for our forests are being wasted with extraordinary rapidity every year. The issue is as yet a non-partisan one, and it is to be hoped it will remain so. Both parties have rec- oinized its importance and are pledged to promote the movement. From political platforms to actual work, however, is a far cry, and it will not do for the people to depend too much on mere party pledges. There is needed an atoused public senthment on the subject, accompanied by an intelligent perception of the real nature of the problem. Fortunately, the first has been already virtually achieved. All over the State men and women of light and leading are promoting the campaign of education on forestry problems, and as the whole Union is moving in the same direction there is reason to hope that before very long we shall see the beginning of what will develop into a com- prehensive and effective system of preserving our woods, conserving our waters and irrigating the soil wherever irrigation is needed. e ——————— General Alger says he is not in the least a seeker after the Michigan Senatorship, but that being in the hands of his friends he will not desert them. . Methuen will publish early Miss Mathers first gained | “Coming Through the Rye,’ ty years ago. retained ‘their popularity so long. next fame forty-ninth birthday on Tuesday last, is | busy writing a long novel, which Messrs. | year. with | nearly thir- Few popular writers have Be- A number of Southern capitalists were | very favorably impressed with the feasi- | Bility of the route when the report was | made, but the War Department opposed the carrying out of the project. Jackson says that the Darien canal weuld do away with the fear of any for- eign complication, as it would be out of AN ENVELOPE-Old Subscriber, City. In placing an address on an envelope either of the following forms is correct: “John Brown, Jr., Esq.,” or “Mr. John Brown, Jr.” While John Brown, Jr.,” is not incerrect, It'is curt and not considered etiquette. ADDRESS ON sides her new novel, Miss Mathers will | probably be represented by a volume of society essays during the coming season. She is at present holiday making at West- gate on Sea. By the way, Margate and its environs are becoming exceedingly popular nowadays with literary and ar- tistic folk. _Sydney Grundy, the drama- Bulwer treaty. the territory proscribed by the Clayton- As the country most uninhabited, the land could be pur- chased at a low price. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Betting is a fool's argument; but, un- PRESIDENT'S SALARY—-E O. H., Oakland, Cal. When Washington ;was elected President of the United States he did not want any salary. Several amounts were suggested, ranging from $15,000 to $20,000 a year. It was finally fixed at $25,000 and remained so until .during President Grant's seeond term, when, on is al- tist, has a hogge at the Kentish resort, and within half an’hour, besides a goodly number of journalists and publishers, Miss Helen Mathers, Miss Evelyn Mil- lard, Lady Bancroft, Justin McCarthy, his son: Miss Maud Millett and Israel Zangwill. A promising literary career has been cut short by the death in London of George Douglas Brown, the author “.of “The House With the Green Shutters.” December, Brown had been a publisher’s reader, quite unknown to literary fame. His work, however, received quick appre- ciation by critics and@™megright career was prophesied for him. His style was praised by Andrew Lang, last Sunday one might have met Until the publication of this book last| and another leading | the 2d of March, 1873, it was to $50,000. MAIL CARRIERS—M. C. H,, City. This department cannot state if the mail car- riers of New York voted for James G. Blaine for President, because the mail carriers, like other citizens, do not pro- claim to the world at large how they vote. There was a newspaper rumor at the time that the mail carrfers had a grievance against Blalne, but there is no telling if they did vote for him. or not. SECRETARY OF STATE—~ T. W. F., City. The first Secretary of State of Call~ fornia was Willlam Van Vorhies, who was appointed by Governor Burnett December 2, 1849; reappointed by Governor Bigler, February 19, 1852. He resigned fortunately, there are others.—Puck. “How shall T become beautiful?” sighed the plain maid. “Get married or commit a crime, and| then look in the yellow papers.”—Wash- ington Star. Edmonia—Mrs. Topnotch is what I call impertinent, Eudccia—In what way? Edmonia—Why, she is not a Colonial Dame; but when she came to the Colonial reception she had on a more elegant frock than any of the Dames.—Detroit Free Press. | “Would you like to trade your mule for this automobile?’ asked the facetious tourist. critic declared the work worthy of Rob- | ert Louis Stevenson. The success of Douglas, as he preferred to be styled for his pen name, was, in fact, rapid and | N ley. allus depend suh,” answered Mr. Erastus Pink- “Ef a mule gits contrary you kin him to move when he February 19, 1853. Secretaries of Stafe were appoint- ed until 1863, when B. B. Redding was elected and took office December 7 of that year. unmistakable. and only between 30 and 40 years of age. Professor Sully is writing a book deal- ing with laughter and humor; that is to say, ansanalytical study of them. It is said it will deal pretty fully with all He was an Ayrshire man | # ngry. But wheh a automobi glts hongry. obile | o ines stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* galks de case _is- hopeless.”—Washington tar. } Townsend's California Glace frult ang candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace tel building.* City Editor—See here, in your obituary of this prominent club woman you say she “is a good wife.” You mean ‘“was,” lmto a warship on her arrival here. The sides of the subject, including the genesis of the laugh, the early development of mirth in the individual and jn the race, and the function of laughter in social life and art. Dr. Sully is the Grote profes- of course. wanted t the way Reporter—No. I mean “is,” Mr. Hen- peck. Her husband told me that if I be absolutely truthful that was o put it.—Philadelphia Press. : Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Main 1042 * Bureau Telephone sor of mind and logic at University Co; lege, and is already the author of sever: books of psychology. Messrs. Longhmans ‘announce this one. PERSUNAL MENTION. J. O. Hayes of San Jose is at the Pal- ace. Dr. W. §. Taylor of Livermore is at the Palace. Peter Musto, a well known merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. George Haugsted, a hotel proprietor of Ukiah, is a guest at the Lick. C. S. Hardy, a beef buyer for the Ar- mour Packing Company, Is registered at the Palace. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Frank J. Carr, a well known sporting man, is here from Adams Springs and is staying at the Grand. C. 8. Wynn, a mining expert of New York, is here on business and +has made his headquarters at the Grand. George S. Patton, who was chairman of the recent Democratic convention, is at the Palace. He is en route to his home in Southern California, Harry Mosgrove, who conducts a ladies’; tallor store at Los Angéles, is at the’Lick. | B. S. Hirsch and J. Rudee, merchants of Ukiah, are at the Lick. George Hubbard Pepper, an anthropolo- gist and well known lecturer of New York, is'at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. They are touring the coast for pleasure. —_—————— Board Awards Contracts. The Board of Public Works yesterday awarded contracts to the Darby Laydon Company for repiling and planking the wharf at Steuart and Harrison streets for $1406; to the City Street Improvement Company for repaving Bryant street be- tween Main and Beale, for $1687; to New- som & McNeill for making certain alter- ations and addifions to the Hamilton Grammar School building for $4143. —_—————— Alleged Colombian War Vessel. The steamer Jessie Banning left Seattle last Thursday night ostensibly bound for San Francisco, after having taken a large quantity of arms and ammunition on board. It was reported to Collector Strat- foR yesterday that the vessel and arms ‘were intended for the Colombian Govern- ment, and that she was to-be converted Collector will make an investigation when the Banuing arrives. oo > N> It you have nol read this thrilling novel get the back copies of The Sunday Call of Avgust 24th and August 31st oMo 200 Our Next Book, THE MYSTERY BOX By Mrs. C. N. Williamson, The Greal Defective Story of the Day, Begins Sepiember Twenty-One.