The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1903, Page 6

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THE PILOT SCANDAL. i b | EPORTS m Sacramento are to the effect that an effort will be made to exempt William ale from the condemnation to be pro-| s fellow members of the Pilot Com- the attempt be made it will end in ce submitted to sustain the charge been guilty of selling pilot n b 1s against every one of the Commis- clear and convincing as Moreover it is ony ever be, for it is given by ion of one of the Commissioness and | can r evidence. by of ublication has been given of the testimony d the confession of Commis 1, as well as the corroborative from others who are aware of the facts. | 1y of the confessing witness was that Cap- hen paid him $4250 in cash and he then went “I kept the money for a certain time and to Mr. Pratt and Mr. Leale. ed by three—Pratt as president and | got their share and I kept the balance for n Eschen paid me the money in my k he laid it down and said he felt glad = relieved of it and walked out, and I picked it ough. This is the first and last offer I re- ded the money with the other Commis- s because I thought we were ail tarred with the Leale chen corroborated the confession of r as the payment of the money is con- in reply to questions added that while he truction in the matter it is his un- the money was paid for the appoint- Captain Tyson as pilot. Further testimony g to show that it was the practice of the Com- s sell appointments to the position of t was given by Daniel T. Cole and Captain T. H. 1 2le and Pratt denied having received e $4250 paid to Captain Alexander, the tes- | y of Captain Alexander's stenographer is of | She testifies that on one occasion | in Alexander’s office when ; that she was requested | to get some gold changed and did so; that she was | then sted to give Captain Leale a coin sack iid; that there were at the time a large | gold coin on the table and a sheet of paper a number of figures; that when she left the n Leale appeared about to put coin into hich she had brought him. The stenographer further testified that she does not | now what the gold was for, because she was not told, that as a rule she knows of the money transactions | the office because she holds the position of book- keeper. The particular incident impressed her the more because the transaction was carried out behind | closed doors when it was the custom of the three to | meet without having the door closed; and, further- more, this particular sum was the only money that into the office without any information being given to her as to what it was for. Such, in brief, is the testimony which has been pre- sented in the case. Impartial men will perceive that upon the evidence as it stands Captain Alexander was right in saying of his colleagues, “We were all | red with the same stick.” Consequently any at-| st to shicld one of the Commissioners will be a faced injustice to the others, and, indeed, a fail- re of justice all around. It is a significant feature of the investigation that g the examination of the sténographer one of | he investigating committee made such a conspicuous attempt to shield Leale that a fellow committeeman suggested that as Leale had an attorney present the attorney should be left to look after his client. In support of Leale a large number of letters were read commending him for integrity and other virtues, Such letters, of course, do not bear upon the evi dence. It would be easy for any man to bring letters recommendation from obliging friends when charged with wrongdoing. The positive evidence of those who testify to the wrong outweighs the evi- dence of a million who never saw the wrong done. The conclusion therefore is plain. The Commission- ers are tarred with the same stick. They must stand or fall together. ——— Oakland seems to have discovered the most un- e sack I | but the main composition was straight. | settiement that protects every right of Venezuela, but reasonable woman on earth. The lady so distin- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, from exercising our just rights and compel us either IS GREATE ST A NEW DEPARTURE. OMETHING new under the sun has occurred, new in diplomacy, new in the relation of na- tions to each other and novel in its expression of mutual corfidence between governments. It may also.well make a new departure in the methods of some of the Latin-American countries and work as an inducement to them to keep faith and make good faith instead of bad the motive and foundation of all they do in public government. When Venezuela's often broken word brought vengeance in the shape of the blockade her evasions and shifts came to an end. She found thatthough the allies could not impair her sovereignty or territory, after all the blockade was a potent instrument of punishment, and was made so because the instability of her government had made her people dependent on the outside world, even for their bread. So from defiance and folly Castro passed to an abject comdi- tion in which he looked for help and found it in the person of Mr. Bowen, the American Minister. To him Castro gave plenary power to proceed to Wash- ington and make terms. This duty has been discharged with justice toward the allies and Venezuela. Mr. Bowen sometimes tripped a bit, perhaps, in his diplomatic emphasis, He made a which, more important than that, took all the pres- tige of the affair for the United States. Certainly, craven Venezuela has no prestige, and his own press throws it in the teeth of the Kaiser that he started out to fight the Monroe doctrine and comes back compelled to indorse it. England gets no prestige, and perhaps needed none, since the Monroe doctrine | is as necessary to her in her American possessions as to the Latin-American states. But our prestige is enhanced by quite another inci- dent of the affair, one that has no precedent in diplo- matic history. After Mr. Bowen had concluded his European protocols he collaborated with Secretary Hay a protocol between the United States and Vene- zuela for the settlement of the claims of this country! Here was Mr. Bowen, appointed by Secretary Hay | Minister to Venezuela, and still incumbent of that | | office, returning as the Plenipotentiary of Venezuela with plenary power to negotiate a scttlement between the two countries. The compliment to the American character and to American diplomacy is so conspicu- ous as to arrest the attention of the world. Mr. Bowen, holding the commission of the United States, returns to his own country accredited back to nego- tiate for the nation to which he is accredited. It is a lesson that ought to make a deep impression upon those Latin-American countries which govern by intrigue and have lost the world’'s confidence in their good faith. Venezuela, lost in her national tres- passes and sins, crowded to the wall, humiliated and famine en as a just punishment, had to seek character and fidelity, intelligence and honesty, for her extrication. She found none of among her own people and so resorted to Mr. Bowen, who st these is simply and only the incarnation of character that is developed by our institutions, our stable government and our upright purpose and mission the world. The incident is made still more conspicuous by the fact that when Great Britain, Germany and Italy made their demonstration against Veneczuela they all put their subjects and their interest$ in Venezuela in the official keeping of Mr. Bowen. So this gentleman, The | for his country, has been crowned by the confidence | of Venezuela and to an equal extent by that of her enemies, and finally represents Venezuela in making a treaty with his own country. It makes a new record in diplomacy. Anson Burlingame, after being our Min returned as Plenipotentiary of China negotiate treaties with us and with Europe, but that was aiter he had ceased to represent the United States. perience was considered marvrelous, and caused more comment because he was attended by a gorgeous Ori- | ental retinue which supplied a But no glint of color nor ceremonial parade are need- ed to bring out the dignity and high significance of the Bowen incident. It is unique and expands to the | border of all possibilities in diplomacy. o o It is true that er to Peking, to His ex- spectacular feature. An Oakland man, who was arrested the other day for persistently proposing marriage to a young lady, | was released on a promise that he would not propose | again for thirty days. This is considered to be an ex- | ceptionally great act of self-restraint on the part of any Oakland man. | OLNEY'S DENIAL. CTING upon the principle that it is always | A worth while to refute a falsehood, even though | the refutation be not absolutely needed, Mr. Olney, in a recent address before the people of Oak land, gave an emphatic denial to the slanders uttered | against him by the water company and its yellow al- | lies. It is now “up to them” to retract their words and make apology or remain discredited for the rest | of the campaign. It will be remembered by those who give any heed | to campaign slanders and roorbacks that the Exam- | iner charged that Mr. Olney is serving the Contra | Costa Water Company in this campaign and is seek- | ing votes by false pretenses. To that charge, Mr. | Olney, speaking at Cameron Hall, in East Oakland, said: “I have never had any communication, direct or indirect, with the Contra Costa Water Company, except to pay the rates charged. I have not received any employment or benefit from it in any shape or form. I have not exchanged a word, directly or in- directly, with Mr. Dingee inside of five years. I have not exchanged a word, or had any communication whatever, with any of its managers in Oakland for years, and never did a word pass between us about the Contra Costa Water Company. Any statement that 1 have any connection or sympathy with that corpora- tion is absolutely false, and the man who says I do have such connection, or that I am the water com- pany’s candidate, is a liar, and is either a fool or a knave.” To that sharp “saber cut of Saxon speech” we do not expect the libelers of Mr. Olney to reply, but it is to be expected that hereaiter they will be a little less bold in circulating their falschoods. Even the most brazen of slander mongers does not like to be met with a public denunciation as a liar and either a fool or a knave. He likes it all the less when he can- not prove that as a fool he meant well, or that as a knave he was not smart enough to win out. It is in that fix the yellow liar finds himself in this instance. Mr. Olney did not content himself with denounc- ing the falsehood. He went on to point out the mo- tive that prompted it, saying: “Men of sense can put two and two together. They can see that there would not be such a strong effort to put down the man who has advocated this scheme of supplying our- selves with water from the start unless there was a | to submit to the extortions of the Contra Costa Wa- ter Company or buy out the plant of that corporation at its own price? What other object can there be in view in making this attack upon the men and the parties in Oakland who are making the first serious fight to obtain city water, except to divert the atten- tion of the people from the best methods of relief and fasten the chains already around us still more tightly?” The direct appeal to the intelligence of the voters of Oakland is not likely to fail. It is not a new issue that the people have before them, nor is Mr. Olney a new man. Both the cause and the champion are well known to the people znd about the only thing the yel- low journal will gain by its course in the campaign i4 an additional reputation as a false alarm. Russia has been foremost among European nations in an advocacy of a peaceable solution of the serious difficulties in the Balkan states. The Czar probably believes it unwise to set fire to the other fellow’s house when the blaze may ignite his own. s HEN the persistent Mr. Addicks announced ADDICKS' ULTIMATUM. W his retirement from the Senatorial fight in Delaware he must have been in a condition of very unstable equilibrium. His retirement appears to have lasted just about long enough to enable him | to get his second wind and take a new grip on the wires. Before his opponents could get ready to cele- with a jolt and a jar knocking all thoughts of celebra- tion out of their heads and all appetite for it out of their stomachs. ‘ His return to politics was marked by the issue ol an ultimatum that sounds a good deal like a ukase from a czar. Not since the Sultan of Sulu warned us of the wrath of the Panadungan have the Ameri- can people been confronted with a document so auto- i cratic. The opponents of Addicks are expressly no- | tified to come in and surrender or prepare for politi- cal death. The feast of turkey and of buzzard is pre- pared. The turkey is for Addicks, the other bird is for the other fellow. In the ultimatum the terms of union are thus ex- pressed. The ten bolters are to unite with the twen- ty-one Addicks men and two Senators are to be nom- inated by the joint caucus. Should that be accepted | Addicks will retire and his followers will nominate | two of his most faithful supporters. Should the bolt- | ers insist upon a right to name one of the Senators | they must agree to vote for Addicks himself as the | other. | Having stated the terms the ultimatum concludes in language so high and mighty that it must be quoted ! verbatim. It runs thus: | of the Union Republicans, in no event will any more notice be taken of the bolters in New Castle County. © more common primaries will be tolerated which | would be binding on honorable Union Republicans and not binding on bolters. No man who refused to | vote for J. Edward Addicks in the Legislature will [ ever be allowed to hold any office in Delaware, nor will any bolter sympathizers be permitted to come 1o the front. Union Republicans will nominate a straight ticket in Wilmington and throughout the State in the long future. As to the appointments Congressman Ball cannot get a Federal appointment After March 4 the | | | intments. according to custom, ought to go to the chairman of the Union Republican State Committe: and.the National Com teeman, J. €. As an ultimatum, we believe that to be about as nd terrific terse issued in the history of rican parties. Like most ultimatdins. however, it has exploded with a dull thud instead of with “death-dealing effect.” The bolters have received it with the Oriental composure of the Sultan dropping as any ever i®o the waste basker an ultimatum of the powers. in Dela- | There is, of course, to be an end to the crisi are, but we believe it will not come until Mr. Ad- dicks has retired not only from politics but from the world and rests beneath a monument of marble and brass. . 7 DRINKS BETWEEN MEALS. ONDON is not a dog, nor is New York the tail of a dog: nevertheless, when there is a bow- wow in London something wags in the big city on Manhattan Island. A short time ago a movement | was started in the British metropolis to put a stop to excessive treating. It took the form of a league pledged to oppose all drinking between meals. The members are to wear a blue button conspicuously on | the lapels of their coats and they call themselves “semi-teetotallers”—a name which suggests that the promoters had been drinking too much just before | they organized the league, for of course there can be no such thing as a semi-teetotalism. With the name and the button, however, the pub- lic will concern itself little. It is enough to know that the movement has started New York to wag- ging, and in a short time the wag impulse will reach to this coast. It will not come to us, however, with- out meeting opposition on the way and may be sadly distorted when it gets here. Already in Chicago there has arisen a voice of protest against so absolute |a rule as total abstinence from drinking between meals, and a plea for moderation. The Chicago demand is for pe‘rmiseion to take a drink before breakfast. One of the pleaders says: “But why is the distinction made against the morning cocktail? Why is the meal in ‘the cold, gray dawn of the morning after’ to be made so chaste and sinless? Some there are that would willingly forego *any ex- hilaration later in the day if they were well launched in the early morning. The plan of the blue-buttoners seems inconsistent and partisan. The meridian and evening diners have it all their own way. We antici- pate vigorous opposition from the peep-o’-day cock- tail crowd.” So far as we know no answer has been given to that query. It is to be noted, however, that the Boston Transcript says the movement is designed “for service among those who have reached years of discretion, even if they have not manifest- ed that discretion which years are supposed to bring.” It may be assumed, therefore, that dis- cretion will be permitted with respect to the ma- | tutinal cocktail. Indeed, as the vow is to abstain from drinks “between meals,” it may not affect those taken before the first meal of the day. In any event the movement will be helpful and in the expectation of benefit we may forgive even the attachment of the blue button. The cofiquered Moros have made their conqueror, Captain Pershing, a priest. There is nothing in the brate their deliverance he was back at them again | Edward Addicks. We will see where the power will | guished is suing her husband for divorce on the |strong force behind it. What interest in this fight ground, among others, that she doesn’t like the cli- | has this morning paper to which T referred? mate of the city across the bay. dispatches to indicate, however, that the gallant cap- ] Why ! tain intends either to change his vocation in life or to i should it come across the bay and try to prevent us | become more pacific toward the wily Moros. 1903. OF TRAVELING SALESMEN BY JOSEPH R. KATHRENS. Advertising Manager Pabst Brewing Company. The question was once asked me, “Who is the greatest traveling salesman?” and | I had no hesitancy in making reply, | Printer's ink.” A business represented | by printer's ink is one that lasts. Print- er's ink works while you work and while | vou sleep. It 1s a salesman who never tires and never quits; one of whom your competitor cannot rob you. Printer's ink is the one great artery of commercial ac- tivity. It is the medium through which the world is made to know what you know and profess about your individual business. It is even possible, by the aid of printer's ink, to force the sale of an article without merit, but such prosperity necessarily is shortlived. There are two kinds of advertising—the Kind that pays and that which does not. | Still, there are many businesses which | survive In spite of the latter. This tends tc make the subject of- advertising such a complex problem. No great national ccmmerclal success, however, has been achleved without printer's ink. A pre- requisite of good advertising is absolute honesty in every statement. Further- more, to shoot over the heads of your readers is money and space wasted. To. tell all you know In a single announcé- ment is like firing at a grizzly bear with a scattering charge of birdshot, while the | same load In one bullet, properly aimed, will bring down the bear. By this is meant that one cannot advertise effec- | tively overcoats and shoes, for instance, | in the same breath. The argument wlll] be no stronger than its weakest point, no | matter how much time or thought may have been bestowed upon its production. PROFESSIONAL “AD” MEN. The proper person to build a house is | the architect, the proper person to make | a pair of shoes is the shoemaker, and the proper person to make clothes is the tall- or. When it comes to advertising, how- | ever, almost any one about the place is | considered capable of attending to the Job. Sometimes it is the bookkeeper or a clerk; more frequently it is the ‘‘head of the house,” already overburdened with detail work; or it may be the dress pa- rede member of the firm, who may de- | vote a couple of hours a week to the sub- Ject. Advertising is becoming more and more a science, and in order to compete | successfully In the great marts of trade | the bookkeeper, the clerk, the “boss” and | the dress parade partner must give place | to some quiet Individual who has time to think, untrammeled by the care of ac- counts and other duties foreign to the j | one subject—advertising. “As to the future position | | during | | | | | i | Advertising is simply telling the story in the most convincing manner. Some- times an {llustration helps, and, again, by the same token, it detracts from the force of the “ad.” To say the proper thing at the proper time and before the proper audience is the fundamental prin- ciple of all good, successful advertising. But to do this requires an experience more varied than one imagines at first thought. The advertising man must not only have a knowledge of mediums, but must be in thorough touch with every element and detail of the business he proposes to tell others about. He must also have a knowledge of human na- ture, that he may know in what manner to p ent to his prospective clients the 8oods he desires to sell. TIME-TABLE CONSERVATISM. | There are to my mind many fields of ad- | vertising ve iched. The most promi- nent, 1 th » railroad, although a few leading lir eginning to show | promise of If the dry s store a te y not the r: d announcement likely to caus to rush down to the ticket office to commodations? If you go to carnival city of the South it Is becaus something in the c certain scas n of the 1 in the Mardi to make but they time-table the Falls and th i trusted to luck As a e e a financial failur i ity on the part would have resulted in hauling the crowds | in box cars, so great would have been the | desire to e wonderfully advertised | show. 1 was at Madison Sq Garden in New York, April 3, where Sells-Fore- paugh were exhibiting, and although T arrived an_hour before opening time, the | & y of the great building had been | sold and the box office closed. It was ad- | vertising that made it possible for the treasurer to deposit three bushels of sil- | ver in the bank the next day. There will always be a certain how many more people would visit grand canyon of Colorado if they told about it in the enthusiastic manne of the circus manager who filled Madisor Square Garden and turned away good money besides? “IT WAS A DREAM.” I had a dream the other night which it may not be out of place to relate here. I thought I had suddenly been made presi- dent of the New York Central Railroad, and one of the first things that happened was the abolishment of the titie “general | passenger and ticket agent” and the creation of “ticket agent,” whose duty it was to attend to ail matters pertaining | thereto. This place was given to the pres- ent chief clerk in that department, who is really the man doing the work now. But the passing of the title, “general passen- ger agent, created such a fuss that I was almost awakened by the howl which went up all along the line. The friends of George H. Daniels, both in and out of the raflway service, were, however, quickly placated by the announcement that I, too, | considered Danlels four tracks wide and | all wool, and that a new position had been | created for him, with offices on the execu- tive floor. His title would be “Director | of Publicity,” with power to select his | own lleutenant, his only duty being to keep the coaches full of passengers the year around. At this point I met the dawn of a new day and realized that I| was not a railroad president, that Danlels was not the Director of Publicity and that rallroads were still trading advertising mileage books for time-table space. amount of travel, but | the were | MEXICO AND ECUADOR OFFICIALLY ADVISED State Department Wires Concerning the Health Conditions of San Francisco. / Telegraphic correspondence between the merchants of this city and United States Senator Perkins discloses the fact that countries south of the United States have been officially apprised that the health con- ditions of San Francisco are satisfactory. Messages as follows have been wired: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 1003. Hon, George C. Perkins, United States Senate, ‘Washington, D. C.: Please ascertain and wire us if the State De- partment has notified the governments of Ecua- dor and Mexico of the satisfactory heaith con- ditions here, as nw:fli by Wyman, and caused quarantine fo be ralsed, |t e RA Chalrman Mercantile Joint Committee. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 24, 19083. on. Frank J. Symmes, Chairman Mercantile Joint Commiittee, San Franclsco, Cal.: The State Department notified Mexico and ey Balth Sandition: N Tty Sat e condition. No reply yet re- GEORGE C. PERKINS, How Mean.—Mrs. Newrich—Now, here's my latest portrait in oils, and I must say T'm perfectly satisfied with it. I'm sure it does me justice, don’t you think so? Mrs. Cuttings—Yes, indeed; justice tem- pered with mercy!—Brooklyn Life, i CAPITALISTS SEEK CONTROL OF GAS STOCK Two-thirds of the stock of the Equita- ble Gaslight Company was yesterday put in escrow withf Reuben Lloyd and Garret McEnerney as trustees, under an agree- ment to sell within a specified tidfle at the rate of $5 per share, a deposit of ns.rmi being put up as a part of the agreement. Mr. McEnerney represents the prospec- tive buyers, who have a ninety-day option | to purchase, and Reuben Lloyd acted for the sellers. Who Is interested in buying the stock Mr. McEnerney declined last evening to say. He would not say wheth- | er they were local or Eastern people. | President Ackerman of the Equitable Gaslight Company said that he did not know who the prospective purchasers are. He had heard a rumon that they were | Eastern partes, but he had no knowledse on the subject. | Mr. Ackerman also said that under the | KATE CASTLETON JEWELS TO GO UNDER HAMMER Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. . Kate Castleton’s jewels, the prized coi- lection of the famous actress, who mads famous the song, “For Goodness Sake Don’t Say I Told You,” are to be sold un- t der the hammer—knocked down to highest bidder. Brooches, dlamond rings, golden bracelets, rings, jewel naments, all of them, will be parcel to any one having wealth sufficient to for such things. The collection to_be sold b Eliza Freeman, Kate Castleton’s who lives at 1617 Thirteenth avenue, Eas Oakland. It will be put on exhibit few days at Shreve's in San Francis and a day appointed when the auctione will yell his “going, going, gone” over gems that were the envy of all beholders Mrs. Freeman is the administrator 5 pay 14 te and the chief | agreement all holders of stock will have | Kate Castleton’s es an equal chance to sell their stock at the | heritor of her property. Kate Cas rate of $5 per share. All shareholders | willed to her mother all her realt were to be treated alike. The parties back | her jewels In trust for her niece of the proposition to buy agreed to put | Castle Brydges, with the privilege of up $75,000 to bind the sale If the majority of gheir sale for of the stock was deposited. This deposit | support if and nie Th was made yesterday. If the purchase is | of the jewel s been roughly e not completed within ninety days, on pay- | at $20,000, which le: a conserv ment of $75,000 more the option Is to be | tive estimate. There is one brace v A m. | curity | was | Carter and W. continued another ninety days. If the | stock is not taken at the expiration of the | last indicated period the $150,000.will go to | those who placed their shares in escrow. So far, said Mr. Ackerman, the control of the company remains in the sam. hands as before, but the stock can all be purchased as specified. | There was some stir on the market yes- | terday when the Equitable Gaslight stock | made an advance to 34 25 per share. The deal in hand was, responsible for the ad- vance. When the Equitable Gaslight Company was organized it was given out to the public that it would never sell out. To insure this there were pooled §7,500 shares, not to be released until 1%93. The | authorized capital stock of the company | was $5,000,000 fn 250,000 shares of the par | value of $20 per share. Of the 250,000 shares only 138,820 shares were issued in total. The stock in circulation has there- fore been limited to 51,300 shares. ASSOCIATED COMPANY OFFICERS DENY STORY Says There Is No Intention to Sell Out to the Standard Oil Corporation. The officers of the Associated Oil Com- pany deny that there is any truth in a rumor that the company has either sold out or has any idea of selling out to the Standard Ofl Company. Manager Porter said yesterday that there is no reason for any rumor of the sort. The directors have not had any proposition of that kind before them. The Associated Oil Company is going along about its business quietly. Only pure in- vention could account for a report of sell- ing out. Burton E. Green, who is a mem- ber of the executive committee, in which he is associated with J. A. Chanslor and Frank H. Buck, also denied that the com- pany has any idea of selling to the Stan- dard Oil Company or had considered any such proposition. —————— STOCKHOLDER CHARGES DIRECTORS WITH FRAUD Sues to Have Note and Mortgage Made by Them Declared Fraudulent. Harold W. Macloon, a stockholder the Universal Automobile Comg suit against the directors of the cor- roration yesterday to have a note for 5 and a chattel mortgage given as s in v, filed for that amount decla lent. The note i p. is, who & sued last No able December 2. Macloon charges that the directors, W. H. H Hart, W. J. Woolsey, Thomas B. C. Shepard, entered into a conspiracy for the purpose of defrauding the stockholders of the company and that ! in pursuance thereof they gave the note to Merralls without sideration therefor. B CITY'S COMMERCIAL BODIES TO BANQUET receiving any con Consul General Ragsdale of Tientsin Is Complimented by Boards of Directors. This evening the board of directors of the commercial organizations of San Francisco will give a banquet in the con- servatory of the Palace Hotel in honor of W. Ragsdale, United States Consul General at Tientsin. The commercial bodles to be represented are the Chamber of Commerce, Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association, the Merchants’ Association, the Merchants' | Exchange, the San Francisco Board of Trade, the State Beard of Trade and the | Pacific Commercial Museum. e et i 1SS “They have a baron in Parls who be- | lieves in taking no exercise.” “A rich* baron?" suppose s ‘What a lovely vou can afford it."—Cleveland Plaindealer. James ARE YOU LEOPARD’S 4 ring valued that is worth $1060 a of earrings said to apiece. Since Kate Castleton’s death in 1802 M Freeman has been getting along t proceeds of ‘ne real estate oly 1 cuniary difficulties have itly appoir sell the jewels. She was rec ed administrator of the estate after ing ousted Joseph H. Hoadley Kate Castleton named as executor o who i estate. She charged Hoadley in New York, with having r jewels and failing to make : the condition of the estate. ley denied, declaring that Mrs. only wanted to dissipate the est Hoadley did not make any contest ever, and when Mrs. Freeman how wis | awarded letters of administration willing ly withdrew from the office. He read complied with a request to relinquish pos- session of the jewels, which had been in his safe for ten years, and yesterday the reached Mrs. Freeman's hands througn the expruss PERSONAL MENTION. 3. P. Snook, a broker of Sacramento, is in the city. Raleigh Barcar, a publisher of Vaca- ville, is at the Lick. J. E. Rathburn, a stage owner of W lows, is at the Russ. Richard Lauxen furniture man of Stockten, is at the Grand. H. W. R. Macmurdo, an oil man of Bakersfield, is at the Lick. W. H. Nichols, a Courtland fruft grow- er, is registered at the Grand. Charles Davis, a hotel proprietor of N agara Falls, is at the California. 8. Van Syckel, an oil operator of New Jersey, and wife are at the Oceldental. D. W. Alverson, who is engaged in the lumber business in Seattle, s at the Grand. Captain James T. Smith, an old mariner of New Bedford, Conn., Is registered at the Russ. Frederick Cox, a banker of Sacramento, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Grand. F. J. Hamiiton, buyer of the Grangers Union at Hollister, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. Judge W. Austin Whiting and family of Honolulu, who have been visiting South- ern California, are at the Occidental. Among the guests at the Califc T. Summers of Santa Cruz and w returned from Hons of Cleveland, Ohio, s of Colonel Myron P. Herrick, ex-president of the American Bankers' Association, is at the Palace. Henry Chisholm, a former director of the American Steel and Wire Company, arrived several d ago from Cleveland and Is stopping at the Palace. Dr. F. A. Dunsmoor of Minneapolls ar- rived here yes y on a short visit to his brother, Charles Dunsmoor, secretary of the Board of Bank Commissioners. J. C. Stubbs, trafic manager of the Harriman lines, will leave Chicago for San Francisco at the end of this week He is coming here to discuss trafic mat- ters with his subordinates. i Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—8an Francisco— J. S. Hume and wife, at the Gilsey; 8. L. Bernstein, at the Herald Square Los Angeles—H. J. Halppelle, at the Victoria. —_— EX. strong noarnound candy. [ownsend's.® —_—— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 30c a pound. in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel building. * — Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornla street. Telephone Main 1042, e PuinhStutthivi b btheman ine Preaching on Christian Science at N thing to believe in when | wich, England, Dean Lefroy referred to its teachings as * 9 Taving nonsense. READING SPOTS? By THOMAS DIXON JR. RE CONTINUED BEGAN FEBRUARY 22 AND WILL .Nexl -Sunday’s Call... The Tenderest, Most Dramatic Book of the Age. Read the Shorl Story Series. Read The “Colonel Kate” Papers. t—— e |