The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1903, Page 6

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GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- Mlh( ‘qunnh Building, Chicago. ‘entral 2615.”) ESENTATIVE 30 Tribune Bullding NKEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON. .. ....Herald Square | NEW YORK NEWS STANDS Waldort-Astoria A. Brentano, 31 Usienm Sq Hotel; Murrey Hill Hote! s Hotel and Hoffman House. Northern Hotel; BRANCH OFFICES—S27 M 9:30 o'clock. 100 Haye: ister. gomery_ corner cf CM4y. open open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 So- 3 ef ment I ap- losing ority. has m- | nmer The rerous hea doctc prehensive for enforcing the | v 1, have been [ o operation that | eason a for- re labeled, or h ec- they inspection, samp! incement of { surprise that so been ted e by becoming pub- rer bate, eit in the e Washington cor- 1e country refer | The use Congress had notwithstanding that the and an Evidently there | ng legislation at | it scems, can be more things than log-rolling | h the act was passed is, how- a matter of practical interest. The! disclosure.” od law, session i approp: " now is that of enmforcing it. Dr Wiley is quoted as saying to the Therapeutic Society: After 1 you will hardly be able to buy in ountry a y frankfurters imported from Ger- objects to the borax in our meats, nd we will object to the borax in her sausages, for have found that they all contain borax. Then, the French wines that come into the United receive their dues. - There-is probably not sold in this country under the label of ‘pure ine’ that is not 2 mixture or blend of French ian and other light wines. We intend to make ese people tell on the label the truth about what is e bottle.” ¢ benefits of the law to the wine, food and drug | ries of the United States will be enormous. It the prohibition of imports of adulterated, or | beled articles from E rid the legi { | | ! many. Germany we States will & urope, will not wholly | imate producers in this country from the | mpetition of fraudulent and spurious goods, for | such goods produced at home, | but it will relieve the competition to a measurable extent, and will prepare the way for the adoption of | domestic pure-food law in the near future. Ca! will probably profit by the act more than other single State. Our producers of wine and | here are many ior o suffered from the sate in our marke:s of kinds of adulterations sold under the nam ve 0il and pure wines. It is well known by the reports of our Consuls that a large produc- tion of =uch articles is carried on in Europe, espe- cially in France and Germany, and the whole output is exported because the authorities, while permitting | The United States has thus been made the g ground for adulterated and falsely labeled from Europe, to the gross injury of both the | 1 producer and the American consumer. The trade in such imported articles is a large one, gmounting 1o upward of $10,000,000 2 month. About ! one-half of the whole is represented by drugs of va-| kinds, the remainder being divided among wines, beers and foodstuffs prepared as delicacies. A zonsiderable percentage of the whele will be shut off ander the new law. Doubtless we shall hear many srotests from foreign nations, but they will avail | aothing. The law is a good one, and will have public - support, even if it was smuggled through in an ap- sropriation bill, instead of being passed on its merits. | | ———— rious According to reports of the shake-up among spec- slators, the recent flurry in cotton was more like a ‘razy corner than a cezy ofe.. T l tive resistance to public ownership and “adminis- | support | sate l‘E perfor; ,tered unemployed laborer $1 { ewnership T EXPERIENCE IN SOCIALISM. is every day becoming plainer that the conserv- tration of puh.u utilities, in this country, is uut because public ownership is recognized as the stalk- | ing horse of socialism. Just mistaken policy, far as the private owners of public utilities, by create ! .henh(]\c‘ just so far are they the allies of socialism, fnee the majority of men are susceptible to the influ- | of prejudice, andwill always act upon suc h influ- | ‘e in the primary stages of-any public question <t'now New Zealand and the Australian, colonies are holding the center of the stage as examples of sotialist experiments, which began precisely as the The colonies were first and operation of railways,. and immediately plunged into that policy. The Government became a large employer of labor on the failways, and that labof in {its turn, through the ballot, proceeded to dictate its own wages, to provide itseli with pensions and gild f regardless its employer, of the profit gained in the Government. To generally, ading by, travel and colonies charged the' public for their use the giving-a quite .inferior service. that the evils highest rates, while gi T'he labor, concluded of dleness could be averted by compelling the Govern- So laws were: passed, colonial generaily; ment to employ it all. . and cipal, seven <hillings, or $1 75 per day. As the Government is an easy taskmaster, because the overseer depends mut 1pon politics for his place, and the unemployed have votes, the numir of unemployed has continually ‘in- In the city of Sydney alone, recently, 9ooo creased per day.f Next the pendion system, provided for themselves at public expense, by the railway employes, was seen | £ and | h a good thing that everybody wanted i age pensiop was provided, It was expected that this pension law would cost the public treasury $750,000 per year, but .500.000 per year and is The work done by the registered unemployed does t bring any return, any profits, same pension. increasing. ed. The work is usually unnecessary and is de- vised ‘merely as an excuse to pay out to each regis- per Tts per- iormance is inefficient and its benefit to the common- wealth imperceptible Because returns 75 day. it nothing to the treasury, borrowing money A private employer who 'bor- rows m the on “hxc‘\ will pay his loan and leave him But the wages for work that produce y principal s the ac a margin colonies borrow money to s nothing out of which of the and the The public utili- public ownership, while charging the highest rates, pay no profit equal to the task of keening down the debt. The employes take pains to absorb the carnings in wages, exactions and pensitins. Ofir railroads in the United States, enterprise, high or interest loan, resu umulation of debt ties under private have solved the problem with transportation of associating wages low rates but on the Government-owned railroads oi Continen- tal Europe the average daily wage is 50 cents, and the average cost of freight transport: is a cent and a half per ton per mile. In the United States the average wage on railroads is $260 per day, and the average freight rate is about 5 mills per ton per mile. The high rates in Australia do not relieve the pub- lic treasury. The public debts of the colopies, at the begiuning of these socialist experiments, twenty- three years ago, were $141.500.000. Now they are $1,073.000,000, or $205 per head of the inhabitants. | All of the colonies but one reported large deficits | last year, and this year conditions are worse. Yet social enthusiasts, who don't know the differ- ence between borrowing money and earning it, go to the Antipodes and come back with glowing reports of the success of socialism there, and urge that we adopt it here as a panacea for all ills in private life and public administration. But the American people will not rush into the novelty, without looking at the books and studying the balance sheets. P ——— In a flash of Oriental chivalry the Sultan of Turkey has honored Mrs. Ogden Goelet with one of the highest decorations of his kingdom. It is not an- tieipated, however, that this distinction will in way affect the strictly Occidental principles of lady. ion A BACKWARD SEASON. HE season in California is backward. This State has shared the erratic departure from | norrhal weather that has struck the Eastern ‘part | of the United* States and all of Europe. The weather service reports good progress in the growth of field crops and forage up to the last week in April, when the desiccating winds set in and brought on all the effects of our dry season untimely. But, while we share the weather perturbations with the rest of the world in kind, our part of it differs in degree.. The field crops that cannot be cultivated, | the cereals, have suffered from the superficial drying of the ground. Other field crops that may be culti- vated, even in the absence of irrigation, are not in- jured, because the fine tilth of the fields makes avail- able the deep moisture in the ground. The fruit crop of this State is spread- over such a territory, and is | under such a variety of local conditions, as to ther- production, do not pefnit the sale in the home ! market mal infiuences, irrigation, winds and rain, that we will never have a fruit failure involving the whole State. Conditions during April and May that abridged the crop of some varieties, in some sections, promoted in the same localities the crop of other varieties, so that when the whole mosaic of kinds and conditions is considered our fruit crop will be found ready to report with volume and vigor undiminished. A backward spring and dry season do not import what they formerly did in this favored State. The con- servation of water. by our mountains and their for- | ests, and its increasing distribution in irrigation, leave but little impression possible to one or many i , untoward seasons. This year the snow is unusually heavy on the .high mountainsy and the coid weather in those altitudes has put it in admirable storage for delivery during the summer, when it is needed, so that the shortage in the latter rains will be more than made up by the abundance of water forirrigation. While this will not public opinion against | the system high charges were necessary on | | transportation, and the Government roads giving work to the unemployed at| were registered at once and put on the pay-| giving every one | vears of age a pension of $i130 . per, and to all between 6o and 635, who cannot iving by reason of iliness or accident, the | nor does it as a rule | paying out of money normally for the serviee | and | saves no nermal expenditure, it has to be paid for by | ges aims to make a profit on | We have not the wage schedule of Australia, | i Lhelp the wheat and ‘other small grains, where the | superficial drought has shartened the yield, it will | keep up the average supply of forage in the alfalfa | fields, and will bring on all garden and root crops. in this State to prepare early for the harvesting of | all their crop, for it will be needed to meet the de- | Imand which France will have nothing to supply. It i must be remembered that the failure of prunes will | 2ffect our apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears as dried and canned fruits. In the East the only fruit | certainly spared by the frost is the apple, and the jowners of orchards there rightly anticipate that de- | struction of French prunes means an enlarged de- | ‘mand for American dried apples. Then, how much | { more likely is it that all our California dried and | | canned product will bé advanced by the same cause?‘ Our’fruit planters will lose more heavily than ever, under this condition of the market, if they fail to se- cure the labor needed in their harvest | It is agreed that Manechuria is open to the trade of | the world, but af the same time it appears the open- | ing is"of a kind that no people can enter except the | Russians. | i i The total failure of the prune crop and the nearly | = | based upon zny liking for present methods, apparent | total failure of the almond and walnut crop in France |, !in the private administration of such properties, but| wilt make it necessary for our fruit and nut planters! qpo concert to be given by the Co- COLUMBIA PARK BOYS PREPARE FINE CONCERT lumbia Park Boys' Club at Steinway Hall this evening promises to be a financial as well as an artistic success. Thirty- five of the most talented lads will appear in the chorus and eight will sing alone. S, S. Peixotto Is directing the affair. The repertoire includes 100 classical songs by the best composers. The boys have had two and a half years of care- ful training and have had =o much ex- perience before the puplic that they are as good as a professfonal organization. Tickets are selling rapidly at Sherman, | Clay & Co.’s for 50 cents. They can be procured this evening at the box office. The proceeds will be devoted to prepar- ing the boys for thelr summer’'s outing. Sympathetic interest is felt in this boys® club, where the youthful members work earnestly to equip themselves for practi- cal and helpful lives. The following programme will be ren- deredsthis evening: Rondel ixteenth century, ‘“Now Is the Month of Maying'; solo, “"Come Live With Me and Be My Loved (Shakespeare-Bishop), Mas- ter Penaluna; ‘Pallah, Fallah” (Van der Stucken); =olo, “‘Belleve Me If All T! dearipg Young Charms’ (Moore), M pleton; “Die Lerche” (Rubinstein); ‘Early One Morning”” (old ballad), M: SUPREMACY IN THE PACIFIC. | OR reasons that are not apparent to Americans | Rno speech of President Roosevelt during his| \tour has made so much impression upon Eu- yrope as that delivered at Watsonville. The Specch at that point asserted no doctrine new to Americans, | and it is surprising that any portion of it should have | seemed new to Furope. Virtually it was but an- { other declaration of the commanding position which | I the United States occupies on the Pacific Ocean, and} of the resolute intention of the American people to | make full use of the advantage which that position | gives them. Mr. Roosevelt's manner of expressing that determination was of course original with him- self and was infused with the vim and force of his character, but there was nothing in the style an i more than the substance to occasion remark or criti- ism, and accordingly it was passed over by Ameri- ‘cans as a matter of no more note than other speeches | { of the tour. It is therefore with something of sur-| | prise that we hear it reverberated back from Europew | mingled with a roar of defiance from Berlin. The phrase which seems to have roused European | | critics is this: “We need to understand that com- manding position already occupied, and the infinitely | | more commanding position that will be occupied, by | | our nation on the Pacific. This, the greatest of all| the oceans, is one which during the century opening must be under American influence.” Read in the light of American uggderstanding there | is nothing in that statement that is not sufficiently well krown and indisputable to be called trite. Our | position on the Pacific is unquestionably a command- ing one. Britain has no position on the Pacific ex- cept through her colonies, which are widely separ- ated and have but scant populations compared with | ours., Russia fronts the great ocean only in the! frozen north and has access to it only through two | ports of little importance when compared with American ports. Countries other than Britain and Russia hardly count at all in rivalry with the! United States on the Pacific and need not be con- | sidered. It is rlcqr, then, we have a <:commandingi i position, and it is equally clear that as compared with | | that of other nations our prestige on the Pacific will | increase with the years rather than diminjsh.” It would seem then that the Berlin critics who have | | chosen that passage of the President’s speech as a | text upon which to pronounce diatribes . against | [ American aggression must be literally spoiling lor]; something to fight about. | Our inflyence on the Pacific is going to be dur-| | ing this century much greater than our influence on | | the Atlantic, and our increasing prestige is to bei | attained not by war but by commerce. We shall ni; | cotirse need a strong navy, but we shall have much more need of a strong merchant marine. There is | nothihg in American aspiration in that regard nor in | | the speech of the President that gives any just cause for alarm in the minds of the Germans or any one | else. The Pacific i3 to pass under American influence for the simple reason that there is no other power at zll equal to us on any island or continent that | fronts that ocean. D fiany American cities entered with a good i deal of enthusiasm upom the enterprise of | providing work and food for the poorer families of | the community by setting them to the task of culti- | | vating gardens upon the vacant lots that are so | numerous in nearly all American towns. Various de- | | grees of success or failure, attended the efforts, but | the latter appear to have predominated. At any rate. the cultivation of vacant lots ran its course like a fad. and is now rarely heard oi. Only one city, Philadel- | phia, has established it as a permanent industry, on a considerable scale, but the results attained there are sufficiently excellent to encourage a revival of the po':iry elsewhere. The direction of the work in Philadelphia is now in the hands of an organization known as the “Vacant Lots Cultivation Association.” The quality of the cultivation has been gradually improved, until it has reached the fimit attainable by any except “experts, | and it is now the intention of the association to em- ploy trained gardeners to give instruction and super- intendence of gardens cultivated by or for the in- mates of logal charitable and co-operative institutions. | A report on the benefits expected of the new pol- | icy says: “The plan is well adapted to many institu- tions for all ages and both sexes—children, middle- aged ‘and old folks—where it is desirable to impart the impetus-toward bodily health and strength, and the keen interest and pleasure attendant upon simple outdoor employment in gardening. In a specific way, too. the vacant lots idea seems to be taking on the “form of a convenient agricultural training school and school of practice, where the needy matriculants may acquire necessary knowledge of modern scientific methods of farming, as well as being given the desir- able opportunity to edrn some money at the same time. This fact is shown by the frequent call which are received and filled by ‘the association for its trained gardeners to take charge of small estates, es- pecially from places in the South.” As it was no part of the plan of the promoters of the first experiment in the cultivation of vacant lots to train expert gardeners, it will be seen that the idea is capable of growth. There is, therefore, no telling to wh?t proportions it may develop later on in com- munities where it is wisely directed. This is another of the many-institutions which Philadelphia has man- aged tp sustain after the failure of similar enterprises | elsewhere. Evidently there is a largewss:bxhty of jmdm the scheriie, and it would be worth while for other cities to follow thé example =~ VACANT LOT GARDENS. URING the years of the industrial depression { | day at the St. Dunstan’s grillroom. Cov- | ing the cléver speeches. | Eteanor McLennan; | Art League will hold their regular month- i1y | rooms, 1620 California street, on Monday, | will address the ladi | of our bay citles are cordially W. F. George, an attorney of Sacra-| | mento, is at the Grand. Hervey Lindley, a lumberman o Kla- mathon, is st the Palace. cKeon; Nymphs and Shepherds’ (Purcell). Master Norton; (a) ‘‘Momento,” (b) ‘'Night Thous! (Cornelius); solo, ““The Lass With the Delicate Air” (Dr. Arne), Master Prun‘ *Tyrn Ye to Me” (old Scotch (Chaminade), M Summer Night'’ (Van der Stucken); “Should Be Upbrald” (Shakespeare- Bllhnp! aster O'Day; “‘Gute Nacht” (Franz). Members of the Irving Institute Alum- nae held their annual breakfast yester- ers were laid for sixty-one and the ta- bles were decorated with pink roses and white peonies arranged in artistic pro- fusion. Miss Grace E. de Forest 'was toastmaster and presided graclously dur- The programme | was as follows: Piano solo, Mies Ethelwyn Marrack; voeal solo, Miss Juliet Greninger: vocal soio, Miss Elizabeth Price; vocal solo, Miss Merren Gillis; welcome, Mise G. E. DeForest; response, Miss “Irving Club,”” Mrs. L. R. | Our Alumnae Travelers,” Miss Alvira | ‘The Press,” Miss Viola Rogers. | The following committee was in charge | of arrangements: Miss Grace E. de Forest, president Alumnae Mrs” L. R. Tuttle, Miss Amy Gunn, Mrs. Ken nedy, Miss Ethel Hendy, Miss Effié Burns. - The following alumnae officers w!re‘ elected: President, Mrs. Edha Smart Sherman: first | vice president, Mrs. Marie Taylor Bateman; second vice president, Mrs. Maud Vernon San- ford; secretary, Mrs. Amelia Johnson Woh- | lander; treasurer, Mrs. Ella Seaton Tutt o W The ladies of the California Outdoor open meeting at the Sorosis Club May 25, Charles Keeler on “Home-making Around San Francisco Bay.” Mr. Keel- er's name alone is a guarantee for an in- at 3 p. m. structive and enjoyable afternoon. As | naturalist, author and lecturer he s | widely known, his books on “North | American Birds,” “About San Francisco” | and varfous poems being sought by thoughtful readers. All interested in the beautification of home and posSibilities for improvement along this line in the residence portions | invited to be present and hear what Mr. Keeler will have to say. PERSONAL MENTIO? Dr. Merritt Hill of Log Angeles is at the Palace. Judge Hodjins and wife of Toronto are at the Palace. Dr. X. D. Richmond of Kansas Cit is at the Lick. F. A. Hihn, a capitalist of Santa Cruz i« at the Palace. Dr. William F. is at the Palace. Will 8. Green, editor of the Colusa Sun, is a2t the Grand. R. B. Irones, surgeon of the steamship Coptic, is at the Palace. George W. Hoyt. Postmaster of Chey- enne, is at the Palace. ‘Wilken of Terre Haute | | A. J. Romadka, a manufacturer of Mil- | waukee, is at the Palace. R. Rand, proprietor of the Congress “Dodo’’ (song of the Pyrenees): solo, | | a remarkable talent for music and be- ‘:n"g‘ ‘chanson de la flleuse, prim: GIRL PIANIST WILL BE HEARD IN A RECITAL LITTLE GIRL PIANIST WHO WILL GIVE A RECITAL TUESDAY EVENING. Gertrude Fleming to Make Her First Public Ap- pearance. —_— ERTRUDE FLEMING, planist, will give her first plano recital Tuesday evening, May 2, at Steinway Hall, 223 Sutter | street. Miss Fleming will be assisted by Prentis Peters, others. A very elaborate programme has been arranged and the recital should prove very entertaining. Miss Fleming is but 10 years of age and | a pupil of Professor Forster. Since she was 2 vears of age the child has shown Mrs. | Miss Jeanette Finnie and | gan studying musi¢ when but § years of nge The following programme _will be ren- | derea: A Overture, “‘Lustspiel”"; nocturne, Fr. Chopin, p. 9, No. 2; bagatelle, Philipp, Scharwenka, | p. 84, No. 2; gavotte from ‘Mignon,” trans- | ribed, Aug. Bazille; slumber song, berceuse, prima, Leon a’Ourville; caprice, F. Mendels- sohn, op. 16, No. 1; traumerei, R. Schuman, 5, No. 7; tarrentella, prima, A. Loeschour, . 4; capriccletta, caprice, Ph. ‘chlrwtnka op. 45, No. 3: le secret inter- mezzo0, pizzicato, Leonard Gautier; spinning innlied; Spindler, ‘Werk, 204, No. 1: the grasshopper valse ballet, G. C major, W. A. Mo polonaise, Fritz, “La Cigale,” Bachman; ‘sonato No. 1, zart; Loure, Joh, Seb. Bach; soprano solo, “Ave Maria," Bach, Goumed, with violin ob- ligata. ® COMPROMISES CONTEST OF MRS. COGSWELL'S WILL Alexander 0. Bichnrd Nephew of Springs Hotel, is at thd Palace. | Edward A. Beirs, a prominent merchant | of New York, is stopping at the Palace | Hotel. | J. Wentworth, manager of the Pnn-v [ 1and Lnmbering and Manufacturing Com- | pany, is at the Palace. Attorney J. C. Campbeil. who has been | in Washington attending'a session of the United States Supreme Court, has re- turned home. o Philip Crovat, formerly local, represen- | tative of an Eastern railroad in this city | and now agent for California wines in New York, is at the Palace. Emil Jacquet, auditor of the American railroad now in course of construction in China between the cities of Canton and | | Hankow, is registered at the Palace with | his wife. — Californians in New York. | | NEW YORK, May 22—Californians in | ! New York: San Francisco—J. F. Valen- une, J. Anderson, at the Broadway Cen- tral; O, C. Pratt and wife, at the Metro- pohitan; L. Isaacson, Isaacson, S. Iscacson, Mrs. J. Isaacson, at the Beive- dere ; J. B. Marshall, at the Continental; J. E®*Raymond, at the Grand Union; A. P. Redding, at the Park Avenue; R. | Redecker, at the Herald Square. Los Angeles—G. L. Cole, at the Na- varre; T. J. Sullivan, at the Herald Sguare: T. A. Young, at the Astor. Oakland—G. H. Harvey, Miss F. M. Harvey, at the Broadway Central; A. F. Vandeusen, at the Astor. TO CELEBRATE ANNUAL. OUTING AND PICNIC Members of St. ‘Will Spend Decoration Day at El Campo. The members of St. Brendan's parish | will celebrate their annual outing and picnic on -Decoration day, May 0, at El Campo. Boats wiil leave for the grounds at 9 a.m., %:4 a. m, 11:30 a. m. and 1:3 p. m., ¥eturning at 5 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. The following committees are in charge: Gate committee—J. Coughlin, N. Siggins, N. McGilloway, M. R nor, J. 1. Looney. H, Power, P. J. Sheehy, Comisky, J. Lane. ¥ Gomaiitty on nx-es—’r_ Kerrigan, T, Cav- anagh, C. Hay Royal. o Recéption wmmltlefiflc\ I Rey. J. A. Butler, L, Meehan. J’ Murphy, T, J. Bourl B. McGa! M sack, P. Fil E E. Haughy_ Gavi P. Hennessey, P. Gatley_ J. Quinn, G. Scan- tan, J, McGoldrick, P, Carroll ————— Sale of Valuable Volumes. NEW YORK, May 22.—A choice collec- tion of rare books was sold at auction in this city last night. “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” translated into Eng- lish verse by Edward Fitzgerald, a fine copy of the.-rare first edition, London, 1859, brought $250; “The Germ Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art,”” by Dante Gabriel Rosettl, $280, and “The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman,” Ay William ’l'lhek“ the rare mulm first edition, London, 1839, $32 75. | anothér nephew. Brendan’s Parish | Testator, Accepts 310,000 and Dismisses Proceedings. Alexander O. Richirds, nephew of the late Caroline Cogswell, sterday agreed to a dismissal of the contest of his aunt's | will of the payment of $10,000. The tes- tator was the wife of Dr. Henry D. Cogs- well, the philanthropist, and the contest was brought on the ground that she was unduly influenced by Harry E. Skellinger, Though Mrs. Cogswell intended that Richards should receive only $1000 from her estate, the amount devised to him in | her will, he has got $15,000. A short time after her death he gave notice of his intention to contest the will, but gave up the idea in consideration of $4000. Sev- eral menths ago he brought the contest dismissed yesterday, which netted him $10,000. | ma | which is to be given them at t { able to read in his nat the child | 3 WILL ENTERTAIN DISTINGUISHED AGRICULTURISTS Next Monday evening forty-two sclen- tific farmers, the cream of Germany's | agriculturists, who are touring this cou try to gain a knowledge of agricultu | methods in the United States. will | wined and din8d at the Palace Hote Charles Bundschu, representing Ca fornia Promotion Committee, has the co-operation of many prom man-Americans in this eity, wd auspices this banquet is to be give The personnel of the fully on a level with these who panied Prince Henry on his mem c whose visit to this country. They are C Barons, owners of feudal estate ants in the army, directors ¢ « professors of agriculture, ins farming lands and cultivatic ) | ana skiliful and sucecesstul agriculturists The gentlemen arrived in Ame the Hamburg-Ameriean steamship Pre toria on May 2. Their -tour has taken them over the southern route from New York to California and they to New York through the nor of the States. They have visited th stock farms, ranches,.the arld the Southwest, where they e applied t While interested in the reclamation of waste Iz the pfeduction of beet fe State they will be citrus fruits, the vineyards and all remarkable products of this country A prominent member of the d“l?gd is Herr Erich von Fluegge of Pocmerania, o er of 12,000 acres and son- infaw of Commissioner A. Schiutow president of the Vulcan Shipbuflding Company at Stettin, which b the Yy Kaiser Withelm II It is safe to say that never at ome t has San Francisco been visited b: titled foreigners. The reception e Palace Hotel will be tully equal to the hospita ties which they have met elsewhe: Charles Bundschu, who will preside the banquet, has arranged for the ( fornia Promotion Committee a most e orate volume to be presenmted with compliments of the committee. It cox tains a number of articles descrintive Californta in Geérman. The book is we fllustrated and the cover is stamped wi me T the German colors and embossed with most suitable designs. ? Thus every one of the party will be ve tongue of th visiting. The gentle- lané which he is mer will assemble for the bang o'clock in the parlors of the f the Palace Hotel Those who will tenger t E. L. Heuter, C. H. Hilbert Claus Sehilling. Capelle, Volkmann, Hinz, Henry Gutzeit tein, Henry Brune, Col A Giest Hohw iesner. J G Captain K Russ, A H R Ohlandt, Priber, Henry B n—r U. Remensperger, Zimmermann, W John Lackmann Loewy, Ad. H Herman Schussler, F ricks, Adam Heunisch Max Magnus, [ dis, A. Becke: Brunner, J. F. Denicke, Cesar Haas, Henry von Bergen, J Emil Rohte, Isaac Walter, Captain Fred A. K Herzog, Dr. Gustav Claus Spreckels and Char Buc i r R Hus ur Schmidt Bertheau, , Bauer, Henry J. After leaving San Franecisco the party will make a tour of the State, when they will be entertained by the different Beards of Trade and Chambers ¢ merce in the State. On this j will be accompanied by Wickson of the agricultural department of the University of California a Charles Bundschu and Hamilton W ns;‘ of the Promotion Committee, G. F ChLapman, manager of the United Ra roeds, has donated a private car to carry tiie guests to the Cliff House and other points of interest to-morrow. e — Railroad Man Buys a Country Home. SAN JOSE, May 2—H. R. Judah, as- sistant general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, has purchased the News Letter ranch, in the Los Gatos Canyon, two miles south of Alma, for a summer home. It is understood that Judah will make extensive Improvements on the place. The property was formerly owned by Fred Marriott, who sold it to W. R. Sterns of Los Angeles, who in turn sold te Judah. The place contains seventeen acres. Bark Mohican Arrives. 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