The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1904. e ! | { | 1 “ALL, COVENT Av 8. Poor orough tised for ols—it's dolla ader W ¥ golf! have estab- y to @ pau- anywhere, has r folk who monly gen- requires n food civic on their ing there has day of home the neces destitution the tions £ for ntered workhouses. There freed from the hone Mary! ever since of hustling for A * he ha to the same and there she snary hos- has utior they had who were € r parents’ ex- rylebone's civic of em, Elizabeth, t with her her husband, a man She ed Lawes died in the work- but her fo - v and out of, the v the Guardians' School at where gccomplishments and s in the art of golf playing cons part of the curriculum The second daughter, Kate, now | 30 s old, has never encum- with a husband, finding house renders such un- in the struggle for exist- Her four (illegiti- about ¥ bered he that the w ence = m e surviving chiid, a now on the Shaftsbury training- ed for a sailor, Ms r&¢ meanwhile defray ing the ex > of his maintenance. Most considerate of the family, Jo- hanna, the third daughter, has con- tented herself with only occasionally burdening the workhouse with the cost of heg own keep. is not a guest there. boy, is “I be ; comfortable,” said the grandfather when inquiries were made as to his welfare at the work- house, “fairly comfortable. But he added after 2 moment, thinking that he had conceded too much to the in- stitution which had sheltered and clothed him for thirteen years, “things might be a bit better; yes, they might i bit better.” Ahother equally instructive example »d by a family named Glass. d his wife entered the work- p some twenty years ago and Their son was hou there settled down. sent to the pauper school at Southall and received an education with the addition of such frills as are to become future ornaments In due time young Gla the lazy of society. was turned Joose on the world to shift | tor himself. He got married and then with his wife shifted to ghe workhousé where misguided beneficence solves the problem of existence for him and relieves him of the necessity of work- ing for a living. . Dr. Rayner. the medical officer to the institution, stated that the samples ©f hereditary pauperism cited were hy Do means exceptional. “An intimate acquaintance with the inmner life of workhouses,” he said, “reveals many things which can only be described as grotesque.” The Marylebone workhouse is spot- Jessly clean. All its rooms are com- Jones, who was the original Lord Chan- exist fortably heated by steam. It is equip- ped with all the latest up-to-date im- provements in the matter of ventila- tion and sanitation. It has now near- Iy 2000 inmates. . “We are always full up here,” said cne of the attendants to the writer. “And we shall con as the guardians e the workhouse what it is now—a refuge from work. At the Church Army shelters every applicant for relief who is not physic- ally incapacitated must earn meal before he receives it. If the same s¥stem were introduced here we should immediately get rid of one-half “of our able bodied paupers.” Mcanwhile the Marylebone rate- a living and | born there. Three | At present she | there | deemed necessary to fit the scions of | ue to be as long a payers, groaning under an increase in | the rates of 5 cents on the dollar in| the last seven years, are clamorously | demanding to know where this sort | of thing is going to stop and whether it is not peossible to strike some eco- nomical, commonsense medium be- | tween the hungry Oliver Twist of | Dickens’ workhouse crying for more | 1d the well fed and comfortably clad | ajden of the modern Marylebone in- stitution receiving instruction in golf. Marylebone, by the way, is the bor- ough that rejected Andrew Carnegie’s proffered gift of a free public libr “The man who dies rich dies di aced,” declared the multi-million- aire philanthropist. And the Maryle- e guardians are doing their best to ! make things easy for those who by the and effective process of es- simple | chewing work elect to die poor. | 1‘ American Plays Wanted. : | Special Correspondence, ' | HEADQUARTERS OF THE ('.\LL,‘ 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARD LONDON, April §.—Pla; goers here welcomed the announce- the other day, that the Theater, where “The of New York” ran for 700 nights, ibout to become the permanent home of American musical but probably few who heard scheme were without misgiv-| ings as to its resuit. Theatrical para- pk of course, pretend to see in made ftesbury is London dy it nother step toward the Americanization” of the London stage, but the “Americanization of the London stage” has been promised many times and nothing has come of it. And the unfortunate part of it at the stage here can be “Amer- | ' to a ther large extent if | he thing were gone about in the ght way. It is a fact that Londoners E in the vernacular, “dead anxious” to patronize good American attrac- tions, but they have had no end of sappointments. Heretofore Amer- N mar almest invariably have | invited failure—when a piece from across the water has scored over here —by following it with one or more in- productions. Never was there r chance for continuous meoney- Americans than that which itself after the run of “The Belle of New York.” London was| { eager for “more of the same”—and | got “An American Beauty,” which had | been a frost at home. . “The Casino } " which followed the old Lillian | Russell play at the Shaftesbury, made | partial amends, but “The Belle of Bo- hemia,” next in order, proved a feeble | thing enough. Then came the open-| ing of the new Adelphi, with, it was announced, another “delightful Amer- 1 musical comedy,” and “The Whirl of the Town” was given, bored a first | night audience and lived about a fort- | night. Result, American plays at a| discount. “Dolly Varden” failed in| London and its author went back and | told American interviewers that the | metropolis would have none of grans- | Atlantic musical comedies. But the | company which gave “Dolly Varden” here was not an adequate one, and Americans who saw the piece at the Avenue foresaw its failure. As for Julian Edwards’ statement that Lon- don audiences don’t want American | plays, it need only be pointed out| that “In Dahomey” ran at the Shaftes- | bury for 250 nights after “Dolly Var- | den™ d collapsed. “Sherlock | { Holmes” ran ten or eleven months. | “The Darling of the Gods” has passed | |its hundredth performance at His| Majesty's. | George Musgrave, the proprietor of | the Shaftesbury, says he will begin his | new experiment by producing “The | rince of Pilsen,” and tnat he intends | to give only plays that have been real | successes at home. He promises, too, | that these shall be given by capable | | American actors, and if Mr. Musgrave | lives up t¢f this programme the chances | for sucet are all in his favor. As| | @ matter of fact, there seems no Jimit to the business that can be done by American plays, especially musical ones, here in London, if only the pleces ! have merit and are weil done. Half | the song hits in the London musical | plays at present are “lifted” from | American successes. “Sammy” is the | plece de resistance of both “The Love | | Birds” and “The Earl and the Girl” | in the latter of which “My Cozy Cor- ner Girl” and another American song also are sung. William Jerome’s “Be- delia”—with new words by George Grosmith—is given in “The Orchid” (without credit), and American “busi- ness” is worked into several other | plays. H. V. Esmond, actor and playwright, who wrote “When We Were Twenty- | One” and “Imprudence,” has not aeted | in London since he was seen in Henry Arthur Jones’ play “Chance, the Idol,” | but he is to reappear in “The House of Burnside” when Edward Terry produces that play early in April. Esmond was hailed. as the coming Pinero a while ago, but thus far has not made good. “When We Were Twenty-One” seems to have been a success at home, but | it failed in London. Esmond’s “Senti- mentaiist” had a similar fate, and his comedy, “Billy’s Little Love Affai soon petered out at the Criterion, what- ever William Faversham and Fay Da- | | 1 vis may have made of it in the United States. | By getting itself played for the one thousandth time at the Strand last night “A Chinese Honeymoon” broke all records for long runs in London on the part of musical plays. A touch of pathos was given to the occasion, however, by the death of Ernest cellor of the piece. The comedy was produced first on October 4, 1901, and Boyd Jones played in it nightly up to the nine hundred and eighty-eighth '"THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL cireeennnens e CERESEED ... .ouo.... Third and Market Streets, S, P, WEDNESDAY ceseesavesasessresasnsesaernssdantenseniasenss ousssasonsneansareasssessssss.s APRIL 20, 1904 CARTOON CAMPAIGNING. T is to be regretted that Mr. Hearst does not>enliven his- ®alifornia campaign and put his best and most impressive machinery in motion here, as he does 'in the East. His headquarters in this city are redolent of the incense of nicotine, and the genial influence of gently warming beverages is not unknown there. But otherwise his campaign is pushed more by aggression than persuasion, and there is abroad a suspicion that his manager is a sort of Tarpeyan rock from which traitors are tb be thrown and frightfully mussed, rather than a grotto of greeting and of promise. Now, in the East his progress toward the White House is enlivened by pictorial illamination and the sweet graces of song. Before thfe primaries in Brooklyn, the balmy spring evening was spiced by the efforts of a singer, borrowed from a vaudeville show, who made the welkin ring and wrung applause from our countrymen by this effort: Uncle Sammy needs a man on the bold and fearless plan ‘Who is not afraid of trust or syndicate, ‘Who will prove himself a friend to all union labor men, Who to help the weak will never hesitate. Such a man is in the race, and is trying for the place; Uncle Sammy is a friend of his, I know, And the syndicates are curst if William Randolph Hearst Shkould be the man to run this little show. The rhyme runs on until “burst,” “nursed,” “worst,” ! and ail the words that will rhyme with Hearst are ex- hausted. It is a strong lyric, and well sung, with a banjo accompaniment, is a call to duty not exXcelled by any noise thus far heard in the campaign. But the fertile ! genius of Mr. Hearst, inspired by the ambition to be President, does not stop at the use of one of the arts. Music, heavenly maid, is a good girl among the muses, but there are others. Having invoked Euterpe, Mr. Hearst prevents jealousy in the family of Zeus, who fathered the muse family, by bringing Clio into action, with history, to give his campaign a solid foundation. As a result we find spread upon the vast editorial page of his New York paper a cartoon, legend and text, of an awe-inspiring quality. In the left foreground stands a mammoth, the Elphus primogenius, a tusker at that. It is a front view. Across the head is the word “Trusts,” and this terrible though extinct animal is defying popu- | lar prejudice by tearing into tatters the stars and stripes, for that purpose using his tusks and trunk. In the mid- dle distance is the temple of Justice, falling into ruin. Its columns; tico, pediment, cornice, facade and all of its architectural vitals are out of order. In the left dis- tance is amother temple standing behind three lombardy poplars, that is too far gone to be identified. It is a pic- ture of melancholy decay, and evidently is beyond re- pair, fit only for the lion and the lizard. In the right foreground is a pair of old boots. They | are of the kind seen on the feet of old gentlemen who in their heyday drank too much sherry and got phylloxera knots on their toes, requiring that the leather be cut-in slits. These boots are labeled on a tag tied to one of the straps, “A. Lincoln.” Beneath this stirring histori- cal effort is the legend: “The nation needs for leader a man of mammoth size, to combat the trust mammoth. The man that filled this pair of boots, or one like him, would be able to handle the trust Colossus.” When the beholder looks upon the boots he is seized with despair. It grips him like a mental colic, for he feels that no volunteer will offer to put on those fallen monuments of the cordwainer’s art, and, therefore, EI- phus primogenius will continue to tear the flag and the dilapidation of the temples will go on. But the rest of the page and all of the obverse are filled with text, from which we learn that Mr. Hearst's feet exactly fit those boots! With them on he engages to go fearlessly to combat with the terrible and extinct animal, and do up that companion of the long dead dodo in one round! Incident to this athletic offer, be remarks with great earnestness and in large and audible type: “The ambi- tion to earn the esteem of others leads away from St. Helena, but it opens up a path of true usefulness.” That path he is willing to tread in those boots. The allusion to St. Helena may be obscure, but the boots are there in the picture, and the people are told that, “humbly following in his footsteps, another Lincoln appears, as Abraham Lincoln appeared, at_the moment of greatest need.” So, it is evident that William Randolph Hearst Abra- ham Lincoln is abroad in the land, and if we were the legal advisers of the extinct animal with the curved tusks we would counsel him to pipe all hands to quarters and clear his decks for action, We cannot close this with- out thanking Mr,_Hearst, in the name of an oppressed and about to be down-trodden people, for the pain his ,shy and modest disposition has suffered in being com- pelled to proclaim his equality with Lincoln. Perhaps this explanation is tedious, but it seemed due to the subject, for boots were used also by Bombastes. The five million dollar “Hero Fund,” just established by Andrew Carnegie, certainly possesses the merit of novelty in philanthropic work. While a hero is hardly one who does an act for a promised reward, the feature of Carnegie’s plan to provide for those dependent of one who loses his life in the performance of a heroic act is unquestionably a meritorious one. T pleasant to him by the acclaim of all classes of his countrymen, and by the hearty greeting of a large audience of Americans. Though unskilled in the use of English, he is an up to date Prince, and has about him no superstitious nonsens¢. He seems to belong to the school of Marquis Tseng, Li Zlung Chang and Wu Ting Fang. 3 In the press interviews had with him, per interpreter, the interestiqg fact was learned that fhe art, science, history, politics and economics of the Western nations in ample Chinese translations, for the study of the statesmen of that country: That he had studied them to good purpose was evident in his interviews. His knowi- edge of affairs was shown to be profound, and his views THE CHINESE PRINCE. HE visit of frince Pu Lun to this city was made performance, when he was taken ili| and comments and their intelligence of expression suffer with pleurisy. the thousandth performance,” he re- marked pathetically a few days before his death. Just for an Instant—“Weren't you ever on an automobile?” “Yes, once.” ““Whose was it?” > “I don’t know. I was merely on the front dashboard for the fraction of a second, and before. T pick myself up it got away." Press. : / “I shall not live to see | nothing in comparison with those of Grand Duke Boris of the Romanoffs, Prince Henry of the Hohenzollerns, or any other representatives of the royal houses of Eu- rope who have visited us and talked about us to our faces. 2 Prince Pu was egtirely up in etiguette and good f-;llop- ship, and is an excellent mixer, as was demonstrated to his fellow passengers on the Gaelic. He is hereto | study the world's work and progress at the St. Louis Sed = throne of the empire, it is g{'atifying that he who may rule will have a chance to study this country and get ideas concerning our commercial relations with his, which will work to our advantage when he sways the scepter of Cathay. He manifested the good sense and good taste of a gentleman, a man of the world and a student of its affairs. Those who come in contact with him do not fail to notice many matters of conduct in which he is much superior to the Romanoff Grand Duke. If his tour result in suggesting to other members of his family that they see the world, it will be well. If Tsi An, the Dowager Empress, who is now the real ruler of China, would come here, she would be received as the most remarkable woman in the world’s history, for she governs more millions than any that ever held the reins. It has been intimated that Tsi An, because of her friendship ‘for Mrs. Conger, wife of our Minister at Peking, may be induced to make the tour. If she do the club ladies of this country will capture a star, A farmer near Corvallis, Ore., has lately been bothered by bears. He stood it patiently until he found one of his cows and a calf killed by them. That was too much,’ he got an ax, hunted up the bear family and chopped | up an old bruin and two half-grown cubs. He says his dander is up and if they don’t let him alone he will take a gun to them next time! THE HYDE PARK PROTEST. ONDON newspapers giving detailed reports of the recent mass meeting held in Hyde Park to protest against opening South Africa to Chinese labor show that the occasion was one of much more impor- tance than appeared from the brief accounts given in the cable dispatches. The day was by no means pleasant for such a gathering, being cold and misty, but none the less, according to estimates of the Westminster Gazette, upward of 50,000 workingmen marched in procession to the park from various quarters, while thousands of others joined them there, so that when the bugle calls for order sounded fully 80,000 people were gathered around the fourteen platforms from which addresses were to be made and resolutions moved. Among the notable features of the demonstration were the sentiments emblazoned upon the numerous banners carried in the parade. One bore the words: “Parlia- mentary Committee Trade Unipn Congress, organized to protest against slave labor.” Another was -inscribed: “Slavery abolished 1833, revived 1904, after the sacrifice of 52,000 men, women and children.” A third bore the legend: “We demand work for starving white men in South Africa.” A fourth demanded: “Are the mine- owners to be permitted to paint South Africa all yellow?” Quite a number bore the inscription: “Freedom of la- bor. No slavery under the British flag.” * The words of the banners were significant of the tone of the speeches that were to follow. From first to last, the efforts of all were directed toward arousing antagon- ism to the employment of Chinese in South Africa on the ground that it would mean a revival of slavery. The res- olutions adopted declared: “This meeting, consisting of all classes of citizens of London, emphatically protests against the action of the Government in granting permis- sion to import into South Africa indentured Chinese labor under conditions of slavery, and calls upon them to protect this new colony from the greed of capitalists and the empire from degradation.” The orafors fiercely scored every noted man who had voted in Parliament for the Chinese bill. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury was not spared. A reporter of the Daily News in describing the speech of John Burns, the famous labor leader, who was the bright par- ticular star of the occasion, says of his references to the head of the church: “As 1 come up Mr. Burns is dealing faithfully—very faithfully—with the Archbishop of Canterbury. The crowd is reveling in the enjoyment of his fierce and tell- ing but always just and human strokes. ‘The Archbishop must Take a new title,” says Burns—‘the Chaplain to the Chinese Compounds.” A roar from the crowd. ‘He speaks of it as a “regrettable necessity.” He was an- ticipated in that phrase by another great man—Charles Peace, the burglar-murderer. When' Charles Peace was about to be condemned for his crimes he said to his counsel, “I repeat that I have never taken human life except from regrettable necessity.”’ This time an im- mense roar swept the crowd as the point was accurately and carefully thrust home by quotations from a written paper. The roar was repeated again and again.” The opposition press of course promptly took up the voice of the protest of the workingmen, and proceeded next morning to edit it with all the vigor at their command. It is .quite likely, therefore, that the effect of the meeting will be to ma- terially weaken the prestige of the Government among the workingmen of London and indeed through- out the kingdom. It is a formidable issue for the Min- istry to meet, inasmuch as it enables the opposition to appeal to such varied and potent sentiments as race prejudice against Chinese, the antagonism felt by large numbers of people to the schemes of the big mine- owners of the Rand, and the high sentiment of ind'ig'na‘ tion that exists among all classes against anything that even looks like a revival of slavery. Fire came in suth awful shape at St. Vincent's Hos- pital, Indianapolis, that even a description of its work is almost umbearable. Among many third and fourth story patients an unusual number had recently under- gone surgical operations. Omue unfortunate, just oper- ated on for appendicitis, ran down four flight. of stairs to the street. For the perfection of modern hospitals it might be suggested that the more helpless be housed on the ground floor. —_——— On Friday and Saturday the people of the Modesto and Turlock . irrigation districts will celebrate their ex- penditure of two and a half million dollars in success- fully irrigating over a quarter of a million acres of land. May the celebration be a fitting climax to the splendid energy of those responsible for this great work, which is of inestimable value to the State. An carthquake has just been experienced at Papeete, _Tahiti, which shook all the books out of the shelves. It is well that false teeth are not fashionable with the natives of that place. \ . tion at Washington, who has just arrived here, has a TALK The Reward of Truth. They arrived at the Palace Hotel 6n the late train from the south— father, mother and two youngsters, the smaller of the two being about 5 years of age. The little fellow's drooping eyelids told plainly of his tired feel- ing after a sultry and monotonous trip up through the valley. While the father hurried to the register to in- scribe his name and secure his apart- ments, the mother, her face bearing a serious eXpression that might have been attributed to fatigue, threw her- self into a big chair and stared sol- emnly at the hotel clock, which point- ed the hour of midnight. The little fellow, somewhat awed by his magnifi- cent surroundings, quietly wandered into the crowd of travelers who were waiting th-ir turn at the desk, and | was soon engaged in conversation with : one of the hotel's prospective guests. “You're pretty tired, ain't you?" re- marked the gentleman, as he noticed the boy’s wearied expression. “Y-e-s s-i-r,”” replied the boy, with | a yawn. i “Well, never mind,” suggested the man, patting the youngster assuringly on the head, “yowll soon be in bed and fast asleep.” “No, I won't,” replied the boy, at the same time shooting an inquisitive glance in the direction of his mother. “You won't?” queried the man, “and why not?” “Well, papa and mamma had a row coming to the city, and when they get upstairs they will have a big jaw and brother and me won't get a chance to | | sleep.” i The startling explanation of t.lle' youngster was distinctly heard by the entire assembly, and both father and mother showed signs of embarrass- ment that did not escape the crowd, | which had suddenlv become interested in the parents of the little fellow. Ten minutes later a bellboy, passing along the corridor on the fourth floor, { was attracted by a strange sound THE TOWN OF AHE tured underwear several members of the royal family of Patagonia arrived here yesterday on.the steamship Cel- tic. They did not occupy the royal suite aboard the steamship, but were quartered under an open hatch in the steerage, where they received plenty of fresh air, whichk they meed, But even in their lowly quarters they showed their royal blood by keeping aloof from the other passengers dur- ing the voyage. “In the party are five men, a woman and a little girl. The men are all more than six feet in height, and are built in proportion. Their features are very much like those of the Amer- ican Indian. The woman also looked much like an Indian squaw, but the little girl was a picture. She Is 12 years old, with a bronze colored com- lexion and very red cheeks. Her hair is jet black and hangs in dis- order about her face. Almost every part of her was covered by ornaments and strings of beads, under which she wore a rough dress of guanaco hide, which hung loose from her shoulders. Her feet were incased in shoes which were given her by a passenger on the steamship. “The whole party is en route to the that resembled that attending the beating of a carpet, and accompanying it was the childish ery of “Oh, papa, | I won’t do it again—sure, papa, I'll be : | a good boy,” and then a sterner voice | !uald: “Now, you brat, get into that | bed as fast as you can.” And silence | ensued. Saved by Cigarettes. i “If I should say that cigarette smok- | ing gave me my start you would laugh, | but that is the faet,” declared a suc- | cessful professional man the other day at the Press Club. “It was this wu!-i I had been down on my luck and drift- | ed into a large seaport city on the At- lantic side, ‘broke’ and 3000 miles from home. “For several days I tramped along the water front in search of work, but my ill-fortune followed me. Disgusted, | depressed and disconsolate, 1 drifted down to the end of a large steamship | company pier, sat on a pile of stuff, | pulled out a cigarette and started to smoke, In a few minutes a gruff voice aroused me with: “ ‘What you doing here?’ | “I replied that I was resting. “‘It's against the rules to smoke here. Stop it or leave the pier,’ demanded the voice. “I turped about to see who owned | the chesty toned voice and he looked | at me closely. There seemed to be a responsive glint in his eyes, and I! asked him who he was. He replied | that he was superintendent’of the dock | and had been attracted to me because I had been smoking. Well, to make | a long story short, one word led to another and I told him I was flat ‘broke,” out of work and 3000 miles from San Francisco, my home. Lucky smoke. He was born near the Golden Gate, too, and declared I should have a job at once. True to his word, he put me to work. I earned enough money to get home and to resume my studies that resulted in at last fixing me in first class shape in my profes- sion. And it was all from the cigar- ette.” St. Louis Notes. Hungary has announced her inten- tion of participating in the Olympic games at the World’s Fair. The intramural railway at the World's Fair is finished and a satis- factory test has been made. The sys- tem includes fourteen miles of track, all within the grounds. The visitor may reach any point og the exposition for one fare. Miss Margaret McFarland of New Athens, Ohio, has offered the World's Fair authorities for an exhibit the old school teacher’'s desk from the school- room where General Custer ' taught. Her father bought the desk when the old schoolhouse was torn down. .A model public library is a feature of the Missouri building at the World’s Fair. The library consists of 100,000 | gives volumes, contributed by publishers of current, standard and reference litera- ture. It includes special books writ- ten bv Missourians. v “This Exhibit Will Be Ready on the Opening Day,” is a legend that ap- pears in big red letters above the por- tal of Idaho's pavilion in the Palace of Agricuture at the World's Fair. Su- perintendent Wessels has created a unique and beautiful design that is worked out in an artistic manner with Idaho’s products of the soil. One of the largest and most interest- ing collections of orchids éver seen in America is shown in the Philippine see- tion of forty acres at the World’s Fair. Many of the varieties have be- fore been scen outside the es of the archipelago. A feature of the lddho exhibit which has been installed in the Palace of and Motallurgy at the World's Fair is a splendid collection of gold nuggets found in the placer mines of the State. These nuggets are made into stick pins and criaments and are sold as souvenirs. Severely Plain Garb, mmvmmu”rn.n comments in a lively manner upon St. Louis Exposition, where they will form the population of the Patagonian village. They first went from their homes to Buenos Ayres, then by steamship to Liverpool, where they were placed aboard the Celtic. When they left their homes, according to the | custom of their land, they wore white bands about their heads, and scanty |robes and shées of guanaco skin, but nothing more. Their guide, a young Peruvian who had lived with them for years, and to whom their living piec- ture style of costume did not seem ex- traordinary, led them as they were aboard the Celtic.” i Appreciation. The Alameda Daily Encinal of Mon- day takes appreciative cognizance of The Call's article on Alameda's pro- gress of that date. It says: “The Call this morning devotes the better part of a page to Alameda. It illustrations of some of the leading buildings, including the [library, new churches, etc., and in the accom- panying letter press commences with a brief summary of Alameda’s advan- | tages, and follows it with matter con- cerning the Improvement and Ad- vancement Associations, the Adeiphian Club, etc. Altogether the article is vell calculgted to attract attention to this town as a desirable, live and pro- gressive community. It is such pubii- cations as these that make the best ad- vertisement for this city, and the peo- ple of Alameda are indebted to The Call for the liberal space given and for the admirable tone of the article.” Answers to Queries. TRAIN ROBBERY—A. M. 8, City. Train robbery is not a capital offense in the State of California, but train wrecking may be punished by death or imprisonment for life. PRINTER'S INK—A. B, City. It is said that printer’s ink may be removed from any article by means of ether or oil of turpentine, and that pure ben- zine will have a similar effect. CARNEGIE—Subscriber, City. This department has published the address of Andrew Carnegie a number of times. Correspondents desiring his address or that of other prominent people will re- ceive the same, if with the letter of in- quiry they will inclose a self-addressed and starhped envelope. COMPLICATIONS—Mrs. M. E. D, City. In order to “prevent legal com- plications, in case of two persons car- rying on a business which is in- corporated, in the event of the death of either,” lay the proposition before a reputable attorney and have him draw up the necessary papers. PRINCE ALBERT'S NAME—A. S., City. If Prince Albert, who married Queen Victoria, signed his name Albert August Charles Emanuel Busiel he evidently knew what he was doing and it must be presumed from that act that that was his name. This name taken from “The Life and Reign of Victo- ria” is at variance with an assertion of Theodore Martin, the biographer of the Prince Consort, who was Prinee Al- bert of Saxe-Coburg. It was “Wettin is the family name of the house of Saxony. The King of Saxony and the minor Princes of the house are, there- fore, all Wettins or Géerman Wettiner.” LANDS IN CALIFORNIA—A New Comer, City. At the close of the fiscal are it will be necessary to com- municate with the following land offices in the State: At Eureka, sanville and Visalia. Each office will furnish a plat of the Government land