The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1903, Page 4

MONDAY.... Call AUGUST 24, 1903 A 7 < ¢ress All Communicctions to W. S. LEAKE. Manager- You With the Department You Wish. :rkel and Third, S. F. PUBLICATION OFFIC to 221 Stevemson St. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. T >ostage (Cash With Order): one year L L 6 months " 8S.80 Per Year Extra 4.15 Per Year Extra . 1.00 Per Year Extra A1l Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. 1 be forwarded when requested. coples W hange of address should be mpliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway Telephon OFFICE. Telephone North 77 Main 1083 IRKEL 2145 Center Street. Manager Foreign Alver- ng, Chicago. RGE KROGNES tising, Marquette Buil Long Distance Telephone *“‘Central 2619.”) WASHING CORRBSPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE ..1406 G Street, N. W. NEW YORK E TIVE 30 Tribune Building HEN B. SMITH NEW YORK CARLTON. ... CORRESPONDENT: . Herald Square o Brentano, S1 Union Square; stel and Hoffman House. A avenue ¥ TANDS: : Great Northern Hotel; Palmer House. tgomery, corner of Clay, open open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 106 Eleventh, open until -second and Kentucky, open open until 9 p. m. 1RADE WELL-KNOWN New Y FROSPECTS BRIGHT. and brokerage c sent out to bank- ents of the West and each for a specific rade in his locality and in stocks had in any way swers to this circular ancial rk T 15€ ¢ were all of the same buoyant trade excellent, y plentiful and well supplied with f continued pros- 1 said that events market produced no effect as stock operations in Wall red as something apart from gen- contains nothing new. It of what has been said all i wvalue as exhibiting the the country. It shows y is more massive even is so solid that Wall it. Stocks go down, go dow gain and general trade Conservatism, not speculation, sting, ner holic ppear, somewhat earlier ys are not yet over f any consequence ne parts of the Cen- are not as good expectations, but comparatively There is more that labor troubles are affecting nd there, but this adverse factor is by as a few months ago, when large idle on account of great strikes, railroad cars are again this is hampering the y important regions. Col- e good, though the usual and transitory conditions, are e bank clearings last week fell behind he corresponding week last year 9.1 per - aggregate clearings below $2,000,000,- lures for the week were 238, against 207 re- e CTOp Prospe ness iz below few are” i steel trade is showing more hesita- s no longer any rush in filling orders. i unfinished products are lower, has been the rule for the The demand for structural wholly due to labor trou- bles, which render capitalists and contractors shy about smbarking in new building enterprises. The boot and shoe factories of New England report ship- ments of their output extremely large, in spite of ed weakness in hides and leather. Lumber is active except in the East, where it has not yet fully | recovered from the effects of recent labor disturb- ances. Provisions continue to drag, though the situa- tion at Chicago was somewhat stronger toward the close of the week. Wheat weakened off a little, as rop prospects in the Northwest were reported better owing to improved weather. The situation on this coast remains about the same. 1f there is anything new it is a certain trend of farm and orchard products toward higher prices, which is not bad news. This applies to most kinds of grain, hay, ' hops, dried fruits, vineyard products, butter, cggs, cheese, etc., and means more money circulating m the country, more business among the general merchandise good collections, good farm es and easy funds at the banks. The cities feel the benefits of these conditighs and business contin- ues active all along the line. As far as can be seen now there is nothing in sight to indicate other than a continued period of prosperity on this coast. res, A Chicago thiei, ironed and chained to his captor on a train that was carrying him back to prison, _ught the detective asleep, rifled the sleuth’s pockets, unchained himself, bound the sleeper and made his own escape. All of which demonstrates that in most of the important affairs of life where a choice of evils must be made it is far safer to deal with a knave than with an idiot. It is unfortunate that the crimi. nal’s punishment cannot be inflicted upon the de tective 1.00 | OLD ADDRESS in order | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 24. 1903. 'DANIEL. COME TO JUDGMENT. | E have had Democratic issues manufac- W tured and handed down by all the eminent prophets, seers and revelators of that party. Mr. Bryan has on the market his well-worn questions of the last two campaigns. Mr. Cleveland has mod- estly offered his tariff message of 1887 as one all-suffi- cient reason for the return of his party to power. Mr. Gorman is in the ring with the race question as the Aaren's rod that will make all the other snakes hunt their holes. Now comes Senator Daniel of Virginia with someth'ng new. This is that Daniel who sup- ported in the Senate a resolution indorsing and com- mending the official conduct of President Cleveland in the strike of 1804, and in the Democratic National Convention of 1896 voted for a resolution censuring and condemning President Cleveland for the same of- ficial act. | With this grip on the confidence of the country in | his statesmanship, Daniel comes to judgment with his issue. He will make it upon the proposed finan- cial legislation. In an official interview the Senator saye: “I was extremely doubtful of the efficacy of the Aldrich bill when it was first introduced. I have not studied the subject, but my reflections have not in- clined my opinion toward that bill.” He has reflected upon a subject that he has not studied, and is there- fore equipped to give an opinion! As to the propo- sition to make the currency flexible, by its enlarge- ment in emergency, to be contracted when the occa- sion passes, he said: “This subject is too great a one for a conclusion to be reached without the closest study. I am therefore not prepared to express an opinion on this phase of the subject. I am of opin- ion, however, that this question will be the leading issue in the next campaign. It is an issue on which the Democracy may successfully appeal to the coun- try in 1904.” Now, that is a very delicatessen in statesmanship. The Senator has not had time to study either phase of an issue on which he thinks his party can win next year. He refrains from stating his own position, or which side of the issue his party will take, but it is a winning issue! He then proceeds to talk about a flexible and emer- gency currency in a way that proves he told the truth in saying that he was ignorant of the whole subject, | though not making a study of it. He is sure that “the holders of trust stocks want a flexible currency in order to prop up sagging trust values, which marks a curious evolution, for only a few years ago the claim was made that we had money enough.” The financial reformers who study the subject and treat it scientifically have not treated the currency condition as a problem of volume, but of distribution. Under the present banking system the centripetal in- fluence of capital congests currency in the great money centers, where the “owners of trust stocks” and others enjoy the use of their icredit at a low rate of interest because of the glut. At the same time, business men of all classes, at a distance from the financial centers, are compelled to use their credit at 2 loss because of the higher rate of interest. Such business men are scattered all over the country. If they were concentrated at one point money would flow to it in answer to a concentrated demand. But the demand is diffused and its attractive effect is lost. It is conceived, then, from a scientific and éxperi- mental standpoint that the remedy lies in permitting local pational banks, under stern official supervision, to issue upon approved assets an emergency cur- | rency which remains out a certain time and then is | subjected to sueh tax as will compel its return to the | issuing bank for cancellation. There may be 2 demand on a country bank for only a few thousand dollars in excess of its currency on hand. If it have assets to an equal amount that pass official inspection it may emit emergency currency, which the borrower gets at a reasonable rate, until he turns his crop or his stock of goods. The circula- | tion will be local only and the issue will be driven | in by the tax which at a fixed time follows it. This ystem long successfully operated in Scotland and Canada. Just how it can prop the sag in trust stocks is invisible to the student of the subject. The Senator does not say how. But declaring that he has not studied the subject, he is prepared to say that | such will be its effect His final benedictory utterance is really delicious. Having said nothing, he closes with this: “What I have said expresses my firm conviction on this great financial subject. I believe I have uttered the true Democratic faith on the subject; at least I know it is the faith of the fathers.” He is like the man who was admiring the construc- tion of a long water ditch in the Sierra Nevada Moun- tains, but said to a listening stranger, “They charge too much for the water.” The stranger asked. “What do they charge?” and the critic -answered, “I don't know, but whatever it is, it is too much.” The Sheriff of San Jose has added a new feature to the trunk-seizing propensities of his craft. He has taken a lion into custody and is holding him as a pledge for the payment of a poor fellow's debt. The debtor doesn’t want the beast, the town won't feed him and it begins to look as if the experiment, like all novelties, will be frowned upon. COMPARATIVE CLIMATES. HEN our ancestors adopted as a provetb W the saying, “Comparisons are odious,” they did an injustice to one of the easiest and pleasantest means known to humanity for find- ing consolation under the most distressful circum- stances. In almost any condition of hard times or rascality a man can find some one worse off than himself and be consoled by the thought of his supe- rior fortune. Even if he be at the lowest of the | human pile, he can compare his position with that of the overdriven donkey and rejoice that he is not an ass. A delicious illustration of the delights of compari- son is furnished by the New York Press in a recent issue. Taking advantage of the occurrence of a dis- astrous hurricane in the West Indies, that cheerful paper asks the people of New York to rejoice be- cause their climate is better and their summers safer than those of Cuba or Jamaica. Cheered by its own words, it goes farther and exults that the New York- ers are better off than the dwellers in other parts of the United States itself. Thus it says of the dwellers in the metropolis: “They may have a rainy June, but the visitations of Kansas floods are un- known. They may have a torrid week in July, yet no Galveston catastrophe has laid their city in ruins. Though they may object to the translation of August mto October, they cannot bemoan a Missouri or a West Indian tornado, and they have known no Mont Pelee cataclysm. Their most reasonable basis for a genuine grievance against the weather gods is an occasional ‘blizzard,’ which is the weekly winter fare of the Dakotas and the Canadian Northwest.” Having in that way built up the pile of argument on behalf of the weather in that city, the Press rises at last to the pitch of a true enthusiasm and, discard- ing the wings of the comparative, ventures upon the lab-ol-te and says, “New York City is oné of the finest summer resorts in the world.” When we recall the stories of sweltering heats, of sunstrokes, of children, old people and sick persons dying of exhaustion from the excessive heat in New York right along, from May to September, we can hardly admire enough the advantages of a compari- son of climates which leads a newspaper to make an assertion like that. It would be harsh and un- seemly to shift the comparison round and compare the climate of New York with that of San Francisco, for that would be to make New York look like Hades. It is better to leave the thing as it stands, and take it as an evidence that by making compar- sons a man can find comfort anywhere. In fact, com- parisons are not odious; they are full of sweet influ- ences, and old Dogberry was right in saying, “Com- parisons are odorous.” A suit involving $75,000,000 has been instituted in the Circuit Court of Delaware. The question in con- troversy is the alleged dishonest issuance of stock in a corporation. The progress of the case should be watched. It would be at least a point gained in the administration of law to determine whether or not the people have any rights which corporations are bound to respect. ) e —— NEW CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY. ANY methods may be found for illustrating M the rapidity with which American industry advances and carries with its growth a change in the existing order of things. In no othey way, however, is the progress noted more interestingly than in the development of new sets of men in the ranks of leadership. Man is always interesting to man, and the personal element involved in the rise tq fortune of one who has been formerly unknown attracts attention and compels admiration even when the means by which success has been attained are not wholly approved. We have just had another illustration of that kind in the career of the men who have just carried through the deal by which the Rock Island Railroad Company has obtained control of the Seaboard sys- tem so that the two are to be operated together. As the Rock Island had already gained control of the St. Louis and San Francisco system, the three are now in combination and constitute what is said to be the largest railway organization in the country. Alto- gether the three systems comprise upward of 18,000 miles of line, or nearly one-tenth of the entire railway mileage of the United States. The men who have achieved this great combination are brothers—W. H. Moore and J. H. Moore. A few years ago they were unknown and now they rank among the foremost of our great railway kings. In reviewing their work the Springfield Republican says: “The 4ttainment of this vast power has been the work of less than half a dozen years, with a beginning in the possession of wealth not large enough to at- tract anybody’s attention. The Moore brothers won their money out of the steel combinations and they have made it go uncommonly far ghrough the employ- ment of various devices for minority control, in build- ing themselves up as one of the three or four dominat- ing groups in the transportation industry. Their rise is one of the wonders of the recent boom period.” The magnitude of their control may be inferred from the following facts recently published by the Atlanta Constitution for the purpose of explaining how that city would be affected by the deal: “The Rock Island system originally began at Chicago and ran out to Rock Island, where it fantailed in all west- ern directions as far northwest as Watertown, S. D, as far west as Denver and as far southwest as EI Paso. The Frisco began at St. Louis, ran to Springfield, Mo., and there spread its fingers to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, far down into Texas and southeast to Birmingham, Ala. The Seaboard line began at Nor- folk, ran southwest, reached up to Richmond, east to Wilmington and southwest to Atlanta and subse- quently secured lines to Savannah, to Montgomery and southward over Florida. It is now building a connecting link between Alabama and Birmingham, which will join it to the Rock Island and Frisco lines at that point.” i By this deal, which one authority declares to be the greatest in twenly-five years, nearly the whole system of Southern railways becomes divided into two great groups, one controlled by the Morgan clique of capi- talists and the other by the Moore interests. The new combination will, of course, affect much more than the South, for the great West is also tributary to the system. We perceive then that new men have arisen to con’pete with the Morgans, just as Morgan came to compete with the Vanderbilts and the Goulds. In fact the accumulation and consolidation of wealth moves so rapidly in this country that hardly have we become accustomed to look uport one set of men as the plutocrats and railway kings of the land before new aspirants arise to compete with them and to a large extent subordinate them. Never in human his- tory were there such sudden leaps from comparative poverty to affluence and power as are now going on in these United States. The simplest statement of the career of quite a number of Americans would if presented artistically make a series of stories as start- ling in the viciseitudes of fortune and the splendors of achievements as any that are to be found in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A San Francisco woman, claiming a divorce, de- clared in court a few days ago, as efforts were being made to effect a reconciliation, that she would rather kiss a Chinese than her husband. The study of woman has always been one of the most difficult problems presented to the students of manners and morals. The fair sex never seems able to understand that the worst of some species are incomparably bet- ter than the best of others. A CHAUTAUQUA QUESTION. NOVELTY of the summer is the discussion A of mobs and lynchings by the Chautauqua As. sembly. Senators Burton and Tillman have been debating it in the various branches of the organ- ization in the West, and the parent assembly has had a free discussion of it at Chautauqua. A Georgia member justified lynching, and gave his reasons in a temperate manner. Others combated his position in an equally temperate spirit, and the discussion seems calculated to do much good in forming public opinion on the subject. ¥ It is gratifying that in expressing their views upon President Roosevelt's letter on lynching, a number of State Governors accept The Call’s suggestion that the criminal laws and judicial procedure be so amended as to secure a more prompt administration of criminal justice. They regard this as the first step to be taken, and it may be expected that many Leg- islatures will take up that branch of the subject at their next sessions. The various bar u;ocia}iom, te and national, can make a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem by discussing that division of it and, for the benefit of the lawmakers, pointing out the steps necessary to be taken, \ 4 | | JAPAN'S NAVY A MODEL IN MATTERS LINESS AND OF DISCIPLINE ~ OF CLEAN —— —_ b g BET SAILED FOR ENGLAND IN JULY. GUICHEN, ONE ‘OF THE NEW FIRST-CLASS FRENCH CRUISERS, WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN 1902, . RATED AS A 23-KNOT CRAFT AND COST $3,089,7%5. IT WAS ON THIS WARSHIP THAT PRESIDENT OU- . | . - LFRED S1EAD was recently permitted to take a cruise in a Japanese war vessel and witnessed the naval man- euvers and review In June last. His observations are those of a trained newspaper man and as Interesting as those of the English naval expert Jane. His letter to the London Mail gives some detailed information regarding the Japanese navy not generally known. The sailors are partly conscripts and partly volunteers, the latter filling all the petty and warrant ranks. The conscripts serve four years; volunteers seven years. There are no marines in the Japanese navy, sailors serving for police duty and landing parties. The vessels are similar in appearance to British ships and may easily be mistaken for the latter. The dis- cipline on the ships s nearly perfect and everything is kept neat and clean. Unlike otner sailors there is no pipe smok- ing, instead of which all hands from admiral down are puf- fing tiny cigarettes. The food of the officers is European in quality, but that of the crew is chiefly Japanese. There are seven service divisions, of which fleet engineers—having the rank and pay of commanders—are given executive con- trol over three divisions, subject, of course, to orders of the captain. ' Plans and specifications for the new ships to be built abroad for Japan .ave been transmitted to the legation in London. during this month to the Admiralty in Japan for approval. The ships to be built include two battleships of 15000 tons and three armored cruisers of %00 tons. The collapse of the United Shipbuilding Company makes it highly improbable that any of these contracts will come to this country. The Newport News and the New York Shipbullding Company at Camden have all the work they can handle for the United States navy; Cramps' yard has also a sufficiency of work and the Unlon Iron Works is at the present time udable to accept any naval contracts. Two paymasters in the Japanese navy were recently pros- ecuted for having accepted 700 yen in war bonds from the manager of the Empress Transport Company and were sen- tenced to four months’ major imprisonment and a fine of 20 yen ($10) each. The war bonds were confiscated. Two serious cases of lax discipline in the French navy are narrated in Ueberall. One is that of the petty officers and sailors of four seagoing torpkdo-boats having published in a newspaper their determination not to serve on board their vessels. The cause of their dissatisfaction is that they object to being under the command of the defense mobile, and an inquiry into this affair has been begun by the law department of the navy. The other, still more remarkable incident, is in nnection with the gruiser Jurien de la Gra- viere. The shi# had been ordered to the West India sta- tion, and was on the point of sailing, when a dispatch ar- rived from the Ministry giving the ship’s company six days’ liberty, during which the Minister of Marine would scrutin- ize the ship’s report of punishments hitherto meted out to the men. It appears that a number of dissatisfled sallors had complained to the Ministry direct instead of forward- ing their grievances through the commanding officer of the ship, and M. Pelletan, Minister of Marine, not alone over- looked this gross breach of discipline, but has put the of- ficers of the ship on the defensiye. These two cases are unheard of in any navy and indicate the demoralizing effect of a well meaning but erratic administrator like M. Pelletan. . B The British cruiser Spartiate consumed 7400 tons of coal on the round voyage to China. Of this amount 3000 tons was used on the voyage out and 4400 tons on the return trip. This difference is said to be due to the fact that the coal consumed on the outward voyage was chiefly from bunkers at the Portsmouth dockyard, while on the return the fuel, although of the same grade of Weish coal, was taken from bunkers in tropical and semi-tropical climates. where 1ts steam generating qualities had diminished. Contracts amounting to about $27,000,000 are to be | placed with responsible firms and bids will be forwarded | difference was 50 per cent in favor of the home yard coal. The experiment of submerging coal in salt water to preserve its qualities will, if successful, be adopted at all British naval stations. Twenty young clerks from the Bank of England have recelved probationary commissions in the British navy as assistant paymasters and are serving in the maneuvering fleets. The Admiralty is said to contemplate future appoint- ments as paymasters from banking institutions. . Experiments with carrier pigeons have proved quite sat- isfactory in the Germany navy and permanent stations ars to be established at Heligoland, Wilhelmshaven and Fried- erichsort, near Kiel. The trials made prove that the birds can fly home over sea a distance of 136 miles, and for greater distances three to five birds will be released, each having a copy of the same message. A minimum speed of about two- thirds of a mile a minute is reckoned upon. In future every war vessel, excepting torpedo-boate, will be required to carry pigeons to be released at varying distances from the land stations. 2avid The battleship Louisiana, building at Newport News, is 19 per cent completed, whereas the Connecticut, at the New York navy yard, is credited with 13 per cent and advanced only 1 per cent during the past month, against 3 per cent for the Louislana. The contract for the Louisiana was signed October 15, 1902, and her keel laid February 7 last. The Connecticut’s keel was laid on March 10, and the con- trast in progress of work is thus quite marked. Both ves- sels were authorized by act of Congress of July 1, 1%2, and the delay in starting the Connecticut was due to the fact that much preliminary work had to be done before the keel could be laid. The Newport News yard was not under a similar disadvantage; its facilities are superior to those of any other yard in the country; the experience gained in building four battleships, its trained office and yard force and better business methods, as compared with those of the navy yard, are distinct advantages. The two ships are sup- posed to be completed by the same time, April 15, 1905, and from present indications, barring accidents, the Louislana will be finished well within the limit and lead the Connecti- cut by ome year. It is, however, yet possible for the navy yard to make up for lost time. To complete the last 20 per cent requires on an average about fourteen months in private yards for this class of ships and if the Navy Department is desirous of establishing a record for navy yard built ships better headway may be made when the Connecticut has passed the 80 per cent stage and the finishing work begins. The July register of the United States navy is, llke that of January last, a remarkable officlal publication because of fts great number of errors, which are due to careless com-~ pilation. It is supposed to give the station, ashore or afloat, of every officer in the navy, with the date of such assign- ment, and is more frequently consulted at the Navy De- partment, shore stations and on board ships than any other book, hence it should be accurate. A cursory examination reveals upward of fifty errors in dates and duties of of- ficers, some of which are quite ridiculous, as a few selections will show. Lieutenant F. N. Freeman is credited to the bat~ tleship Wisconsin under date of August 31, 1897, notwith= standing the fact that the ship did not go into commission until F‘ebruury 4, 191. Lieutenant Commander J. H. L. Hol- comb’s'duty is alleged to be at coaling station Poliok, in the Philippines, sihce December §, 139, which is nearly three years before Americans took possession of the islands, and although such duty is counted as shore service, yet his sea duty record is Increased by six years and four months dur- ing the period up to date. Lieutenant F. Lyon is credited to the Elcano since July 27, 18%, at which time the vessel was still owned by Spain. Lieutenant A. M. Cook is assigned to the monitor Nevada since September 1, 1889, which is threes years and a half prior to the vessel being accepted. Lieu- tenant H. E. Yarnall (Junior grade) is stated to have served on the Berry, a torpedo-boat destroyer, since Junme 19, 1897. which is a palpable error inasmuch as the keel of the vesse! The | was not laid until September 2, 1899 @ sttt fefeefeefde ool el e e O ANSWERS TO QUERIES. WHEN BORN—A,, City. James J. Cor- bett was born in San Francisco, Septem- Grand. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. H. Goodwin of Chicago is at the A CHANCE TO SMILE. If this thing keeps on all the darkies who have béen taken North to taste jus- tice will have to come South to keep out Der 1, 1566, and James J. Jeffries was born in Carroll, O., in 1575. FLOWERS—R. M. K. G., Marysville, Cal. There is what is known as the lan- guage of flowers. In that language a white carnation means ingeniousness, also talent. ; PATTI—A. 8., City. Adelina Patti made her first appearance in San Francisco at the Grand Opera-house, March 13, 1884. She was also here in 1890, her initial per- formance that year being on February 10. RAILROAD RATES—Subscriber, City. Special round-trip rates from San Fran- cisco to St. Louis, Mo., during the expo- sition will not be fixed until the holding of the Transcontinental Association at the quarterly meeting before the opening of the fair. AHWAHNEE—C., City. Herman Rost of Raymend, Cal.; a friend of this de- partment, writes as follows in answer to a request for the meaning of Ahwanee: “According to the Indians living in the vicinity of Ahwahnee the name means ‘deep hollow’ or ‘vAlley.’ The name fits the place.” ASSUMED NAME — Subscriber, City. Parties desiring to get married under as- sumed names may do so if they are will- ing to declare that the names given are the ones that they are known by; but in such cases a great deal of trouble is liable to occur, in case of property rights, for instance. The safest way is to give the true names at the time of obtaining a marriage license and in that way avoid trouble. SALONICA—Constant Reader, City. Salonica (Turkish, Selanik, and Slavo- nian, Saloniki) is the ancient Thessaloni- ca or Therma in Turkey in Europe. It is at the head of the Gulf of Salonica, thirteen miles east-northeast of the mouth of the Vardar. Salonica is second only in importance to Constantinople, and is one of the two heads of the great rail- way which traverses Central Eurfope, passing Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna and of which Paris is the terminus. Its roadstead is one of the deepest and safest on the Aegan Sea and has a quay 505 feet long, but vessels discharge in the roadstead by means of lighters. PINA CLOTH—E. L., City. Pina cloth is a very beautiful fabric of the fibers of the leaves of the pineapple plant and its allied species. The cloth is made only in Manila, and its manufacture resembles horsehair cloth, because the threads, both of warp and weft, are each single fibers, consequently only small pieces can be . The workers have, however, a plan of joining the fibers of the coarser kinds end Senator Chester Rowell of Eresno is at the Palace. Dr. W. A. Cox and wife of Moline, Il are guests at the Lick. Walter . Raymond, proprietor "of the hotel at Pasadena which bears his name, is registered at the Palace. Professor R. A. Penrose Jr. of Arizona, who has been examining mining proper- ties In Alaska returned yesterday and is at the Palace, @ iieiieimifeiinielnieieiejeilminiieil @ threads of considerable length. Pina cloth is very strong and the better sorts far excel the finest lawns in texture. It chiefly is in the form of ladies’ handker- chiefs, which often have their costliness increased by beautiful embroidery. FREIGHT—W. C. F., Georgetown, Cal. For freight rates address a letter of in- quiry to either of the transportation com- panies describing the character of arti- cles to be shipped. THE DONNER PARTY—N. Y., Santa Rosa, Cal. A history of the Donner party ‘was written several years ago by C. F. McGlashan, then and still a resident of Truckee, Cal. VENISON—M. D, City. During the oOpen season venison may be shipped from Lake County to San Francisco, but it must be plainly marked, *“Venison,” and have on the package the name of the sender and the one to whom consigned. TERRAPIN—] Bella Vista, Cal. There is no closed season for terrapin in California. There are several places in the State that supply the San Franeisco market, but as these are private con- cerns this department cannot advertise them. LOTTA FOUNTAIN—E. C., City. fountain known as Lotta Fonnu’h I’-‘: presented to the city of San Francisco by Lotta Crabtree, the California actress. It is erected on city property, the Board of Supervisors having given permission ::‘ b‘\;.lld lI! on the gore where it now nds. It was formally presented to city September 9, 1875, Harry Ednr!::. San Francisco's then favorite actor, rep- Tesenting the’ donor. + “JUST GA » The beautiful J.:"..Effig’.. be given away FREE with next SUNDAY’S CALL, will make a of the way of the Yankee mobs.—Dallas News. De Tanque—Guzzler is a pretty steady drinker, isn't he? O’'Soaque—Yes, up to a certain point, and then he becomes unsteady.—Philadel. phia Record. Dinguss—Where do you invest money? Shadbolt—Well, I generally have $5 or $10 invested somewhere about you.—Chi- cago Tribune. your She—You're so bashful, Mr. Callow. I really belleve that if you ever marry the lady will have to propose. He—W-well, but I might have—er—nerve enough to decline.—Puck. “I never heard Dinsmore acknowledge that he was growing old before to-day.” “How did he acknowledge it?" “He announced that he felt just as young as he ever did."—Detroit Free Press. “Yes, Miss Octave is a very tidy girl. She always keeps her music on the rack ‘when she is not playing.” “And when she is playing?’ “She keeps her hearers on the rack."— Kansas City Journal. st Penman—You say you like my books? Wright—Well, I'm stuck on two of them. “Which two?" “The two I bought.""—Yonkers States- man. “Bridget,” queried Mrs. Scribble, “do you know that I am called a literary ‘woman " “Yissum, Oi t'ink Of do,” responded the menial, with a despairing look at the room.—Houston Post. The mother cat shook her head sadly “You are a disgrace to our family,’ said sternly to the erring son. “Wo you ever lead a different life, Thomas “T have been thinking about it mysel.” replied ' the misguided feline, “and yoU shall have your wish. I've got three mo<® left, and I promise théy shall be zoo'. quiet lives, every ome of them." —Cincin- nati Commercial Tribune. —_———— Look out for §1 Fourth, front of barber grocer. Best ey ., Specs, 15c to #c.* ————l . Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st. above Call bldg. * —_——— Special information suppiied daily to business houses and public men by the